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Wonderful! Feels like I'm in the room listening to you talk to each other!

fantastic, excellent Vox and sweeps, really had me under. nice one

distortions, inversions of all this chamber made music to replace nightlong shakings between white or red horrors, fermented words; an imperfection being committed, beneath helpless intoxication, searching for a safe side of distance, libera, dreadful mourning. a spark of hope to all, bearing in mind a massive silence to be stopped by cheering from all around. 

when russia invaded ukraine it altered everything. writing music in these troubled days, during these historical events has become more sublimated than it has ever been; habitual leisure has been replaced by volunteering, the territorial defense of hometown, or the front line in the army. despite everything, music remains a significant part of our lives and continues to be the voice of history, communication, time, and memory. 

all revenues go to the ukrainian charities and defense forces.

cover designed by ratx.cc 
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The newest installment on Astral Industries is the "Cardamom & Laudanum" LP by Mystic AM – a new project from Rod Modell and label founder Ario Farahani. Monument premieres the track "Thus Spoke Zarathustra/The Djinn" from the release, which will be out on the 15th of July.

Graphic Design: Theo Ellsworth

@astralindustries
@delsinrecords

Cardamom & Laudanum

MNMT Premiere: Mystic AM - Thus Spoke Zarathustra/The Djinn

KHOST - 'Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us' CD / LP / Ltd LP

The 5th album from Birmingham-based industrial/doom metal band Khost sees the band forging new and at times nightmarish territories, alongside their signature walls of detuned guitar, corroded percussion and VHS atmospherics.

Inspiration for many of the tracks came from countless live shows and even soundcheck experiments in which extreme, harsh electronics evolved, as did punk/early industrial tempos, all of which were then fused into the DNA of ""Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us".

Khost remark: "We hoped that the experience would be something like venturing into an off-limits wing of some gallery after-hours, with each turn more disorientating than where you just were".

Collaborators include AXEBREAKER (aka Terence Hannum of Locrian), acclaimed cellist JO QUAIL, and Berlin-based sound designer MANUEL LIEBESKIND.

The CD and the vinyl are different beasts. The CD is reinforced with 7 extra tracks including ADRIAN STAINBURNER's incredible remix of 'Yellow Light' featuring STEPHEN MALLINDER (Cabaret Voltaire, Wrangler) on vocals, and BERENECES adding his signature deep, dark D&B sound to the track 'Death Threat'. The LP editions feature a different mix by Khost especially for vinyl.

• CD in reverseboard digipak.
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr313cd

• Ltd Ed 200 copies on red heavyweight 180g vinyl in a reverseboard sleeve.
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr313lp-red

• Black heavyweight 180g vinyl in a reverseboard sleeve.
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr313lp

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/many-things-afflict-us-few-things-console-us-csr313cd-lp

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/khost-mtauftcu

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr313cd

OUT: 20th SEPTEMBER 2024

KHOST:

http://khostband.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/khostband
https://www.instagram.com/khost_band
https://coldspring.co.uk/khost

KHOST Death Threat

Tracklist & Info: www.radioflouka.com/shows/the-culling-korrupt-20-11-2024

The Culling: Korrupt - 20/11/2024

The 32nd full length album by Petrified Entity

Monastery + Blok 6174

a three sided record telling the story of a man driven to madness as he navigates a temporal loop of cosmic proportions

C3. Almost drowned

A distinctive piece from the Ballroom Records archive, “From Here to Eternity” by Kostas Maskalides is featured on TEN: The Archive Series, Pt. 4 — a curated collection exploring the label’s most atmospheric and genre-defying Electronica.

TEN: The Archive Series, Pt. 4

From Here to Eternity

Available through the honorable houses of HJ and HW!

DISK13

Sabla - Danzaguida

SABLA - DANZAGUIDA

Garden of Forking Paths (Zoë McPherson Rework)

A track from the album Music for Tomato Plants out now on Constellation Tatsu.

Loris S. Sarid - O Like A Tomato

NORMAN WESTBERG & JACEK MAZURKIEWICZ, First Man in the Moon - LP
Release date - March 12th 2021
Catalogue nr. - HG2101
Format - Vinyl / digital
Hallow Ground
Vinyl / digital, catalogue nr. HG2101

hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
What Is Good For The Goose (09:35)
That Was Then (08:29)
First Man In The Moon (06:45)
Falsely Accused (06:33)
Oxnard (05:47)

Credits:
Recorded at Studio Diamentowy Pies
Damian Pielka, engineering
Piotr Mazurek, engineering assistance
Jacek Mazurkiewicz, mix
Lawrence English, mastering
John Fell, photographs
Greenpointless, design

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An unlikely meeting of two like-minded spirits, »First Man in the Moon« sees the former Swans guitarist and Hallow Ground regular Norman Westberg and the prolific double bass player Jacek Mazurkiewicz collaborate for five evocative tracks. The pair finds common ground beyond the boundaries of atmospheric drone, abstract jazz and experimental music and blurs the lines between the acoustic and the electronic. 

The two first met when the composer Mazurkiewicz supported Swans with his solo project 3FoNIA on their 2014 European tour. »I really enjoyed his approach,« says Westberg about the Polish musician’s blending of the acoustic qualities of his instrument with electronically generated sounds. A decision to collaborate was made and when the US-American musician returned to Eastern Europe to support Michael Gira on his solo tour in late 2019, Mazurkiewicz reached out to him with the idea of booking some studio time before Gira’s two concerts in Warsaw. »Recording was very fun and easy,« remembers Westberg. »It was just two people enjoying hearing and reacting to what the other is doing.«

»First Man in the Moon« is not however a plain document of these improvised sessions, but also shaped by Mazurkiewicz’s approach as a composer. Once the recordings were finished, he selected and edited the recorded material, refining the peculiar dialogue between the guitarist’s meditative drones and bright chords and his own rhythmic yet subtle approach to playing the double bass, sometimes plucking the strings and occasionally using his bow to underscore Westberg’s fleeting melodies, but also using the instrument in unconventional ways to generate sound. 

A feeling of weightlessness prevails throughout the aptly-titled »First Man in the Moon.« Even at their most abstract however, these five improvisations-turned-compositions remain tangible, lively, and joyfully explorative. It is a record that you wouldn’t expect from either of these musicians, but the logical result of two idiosyncratic minds sharing not only space and time, but also their respective visions with each other.

NORMAN WESTBERG & JACEK MAZURKIEWICZ - What Is Good For The Goose (HG2101)

HALLOW GROUND 
is a platform for Music and Art that leads to Visions.

It was established in Lucerne/Switzerland by a group of individualists, idealists and first of all artists. We act as publishers, hosts and performers.

www.hallowground.com

NORMAN WESTBERG & JACEK MAZURKIEWICZ - What Is Good For The Goose (HG2101)

Hallow Ground

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