track taken from the album Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt​, Braghsdn​, Globoscuro​ & Mach feedback​ - Short poems from the diaries of the great migration (Hortus Conclusus Records​ 2015)

"Short Poems from the Diaries of the Great Migration", arose from the inspiration of Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt, Angel Sanchez Cervera, Emiliano Pietrini and Imi Gavin, is a deeply experimental work.... it bears within itself echoes of music, silence, visions, noise, isolationism, theater, poetry .... a marriage of arts, styles and shapes which form an essential and perfectly amalgamated unity!!! Its sound is difficult to describe, but it carves the image of a deserted road through visions os an oneiric universe, with a small sentient transmitting device trapped in the centre, calling out it's lonely meaning to any who will listen, wanting nothing more than an end to it's solitude. Yet, on your discovery of the box, you are taken away, hypnotically entranced into the device's mind. You find yourself flying above the earth's atmosphere on a sound wave, through space, underwater, to unimaginable places, before finally finding yourself away from everything that is know, sailing home on a ghost ship, called by the transmitter..... in a circle of eternity!!!

LINK TO LISTEN AND DOWNLOAD: https://archive.org/details/VVAA_shortpoemsfromthediariesofthegreatmigration_HCR2015

Music Written and Composed by: Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt​, Ángel Sánchez Cervera​ and Emiliano Pietrini​

Acting Voice by: Imi Gavin

Cover art and graphic design by: Emiliano Pietrini

VVAA - Short Poem From The Diaries Of The Great Migration

track taken from the album: 
MoreBLackThenGod - The True Believers / LIVE NOISE RITUALS(Hortus Conclusus Records 2016)

Between his "MoreBlackThenGod" project and his long-running careers in his own name, Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt has become a dazzling guiding star for the universe of experimental music in its more classy and inspiring way of shaping the sand of sound into charming castles of symphonic noise and meaningful scores of poetry.  While noise is abundant with artists whose work could be described as both personal and horrific, Sean has consistently pushed the definitions of both terms to unsettling conclusions.  His sonic milky way is rife with monologues, poems, meditations and disorienting fugues of frantic rhythms that seem to pull directly from the artist’s dreams.  As far as this new enchanting album the title itself "True Believers - Live Noise Rituals" suggests, like a hypnagogic filter, the ritual character of each composition resulting in a noisy embrace that is as unusually uplifting as it is upsetting. The over-the-top imagery conjured through blistering glitches and spoken word is often vague and puzzling, yet disturbingly familiar to anyone who has ever had a really bad - or really good - nightmare.

LINK TO LISTEN AND DOWNLOAD: https://archive.org/details/MoreBLackThenGod_TheTrueBelievers_HCR2016

© 2016
All the tracks are written, played and composed by Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt

Cover Art and graphic design by Emiliano Pietrini.

MoreBlackThenGod - Love Wins

track taken from the album:
Richard Ramirez & MoreBlackThenGod - You can carve your name on my face because at the end of the day it is only you I think about (2016)

The virtual "A" side of this split is comprised of a single track, “Tongue Depravity”, from the great and well known artist Richard Ramirez. The track opens with numerous gusts of classy noise layered over one another, creating an acroamatic fluxion of duality and resounding detonative landscapes. The poetic chaos morphs slowly while the whole track blends in and out of itself until, slowly, it positively degenerates into a no-fi noisy visionary volcano. Mr. Ramirez has carved out a wee concept and asks the listener to move to the music, not in a physical sense but a virtually thought-provoking one by sequencing the thoughts and wishes with or without the help of hallucinations.

MoreBlackThenGod, the musical project bloomed from the charming talent of the artist Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt, take over on the virtual “B” side, which is made up of two pieces heterogeneous enough to present the view of two distant planets yet combined in a perfect cosmic embrace. "Half a century” is a long and varied piece, willfully eccentric and thinned out vestibule to the technicolor world of Sean, letting the listener guess clearly if the name is a caress of philosophical context or, how it intends to be, a reference to the birth of the artist who celebrates this day, simultaneously with the publication of the album, his birthday as well!! In a sense we are in front of a backwards celebration in which the partied honors each guest with his irrational gift. The 3rd track “You can carve your name on my face.......” takes a series of pulsed oscillations and leads them headfirst into chaotic noise manipulation, adamantly minimalistic like a tandem with helixes of hedonism, paradoxically vivacious yet hued in a deep darkness. While interesting, this is a much more shorter and direct piece, with a great sonnic charm and a fascinating stream of choral recitative, but without the dramatic intensity of the former.

All in all, this is an obscure but solid split that pairs two fairly dissimilar styles via their shared fidelity. Despite the two styles that define this release, Richard Ramirez and MoreBlackThenGod are paired well and this release is definitely one that I am glad to have had the opportunity to promote and listen to.

LINK TO DOWNLOAD: https://archive.org/details/R.Ramirez_MoreBlackThenGod_YCCYNOMF_HCR2016

© 2016
Track 1 written, played and composed by Richard Ramirez
Track 2 and 3 written and composed by Sean Derrick Coopera Marquardt

Cover picture by Richard Ramirez
Graphic editing by Emiliano Pietrini


MoreBlackThenGod - You Can Carve your name on my face.... (2016)

track taken from the album:
Peter Wullen, Globoscuro​, Mach feedback​, & Christoph Bruneel - The Mother Stone (Hortus Conclusus Records​ 201t)

"The Mother Stone" is of these oneiric albums that realizes its pure poetic lavishness due to the purposeful intersection of significances, metaphors, instruments, interpretations and wavering ecletic moods. String instruments, mallet instruments, guitars, piano, vocoder, synthesizers, field recordings, and voices which harmonize the acting in 3 distinct languages (english, french, and italian) are the vital ingredients that form this intimate concoction of poetry, music, noise, theater and silence thus creating a pulsating flow of darkness and a driving force that seems capable to generate surrealistic parallel universes. The glitch side of the album is mostly reduced, and if crackles, squeakings or streams of static noise occur, they are by their very nature present yet distant, a voiceover that amalgamates and combines but definitely embraced by the caress of a dis-harmonious improvisational squared structures.

LINK TO LISTEN AND DOWNLOAD: https://archive.org/details/themotherstone_HCR2017

© 2017
All the poems are written by Peter Wullen
Music written and composed by Globoscuro (Emiliano Pietrini)
Acting voice in English: Mach Feedback (Imi Gavin)
Acting voice in French: Christoph Bruneel
Acting voice in Italian: Emiliano Pietrini

French translation of the poems curated by Christoph Bruneel
Italian translation of the poems curated by Emiliano Pietrini
Cover Art by Linda De Luca - graphic editing by Emiliano Pietrini
Model: Annalisa Nava

VVAA - The Mother Stone (french vers.)

© 2016
track taken from the album:
Celidon Frame - Raw Sessions

LINK TO DOWNLOAD THE WHLE ALBUM: https://archive.org/details/chelidonframe_rawsessions_HCR2016

All the tracks are written and composed by Alessio Premoli
Cover art and graphic design by Emiliano Pietrini

Raw Sessions

Chelidon Frame - I'm Getting Radio Moscow

© 2016
track taken from the album "RED COMET"
(Hortus Conclusus Records 2016)

LINK TO DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE ALBUM: https://archive.org/details/7parsecRedComet_HCR2016

Red Comet

7parsec - One way trip to the back of beyond

© 2016
track taken from the album:
Cousin Silas - Lift the Sky (Hortus Conclusus Records 2016)

LINK TO LISTEN AND DOWNLOAD: https://archive.org/details/CousinSilasLiftTheSky_HCR2016

Lift The Sky

Cousin Silas - Delicate Whisper

© 2016
track taken from the album:
Julius Granell - El Hierro Island Dronescapes Vol. 2 (2016)

the whole album can be downloaded at the following link: https://archive.org/details/juliusgranellelhierroislandvol2_HCR2016

El Hierro Island Dronescapes Ambient Vol.2

Julius Granell - Doon

© 2016
track taken from the album:
Mental Escape Pod - Point of No Return

Link to download the whole album: https://archive.org/details/mentalescapepodpointofnoreturn_HCR2016

Point of no return

Mental Escape Pod - Seneson

track taken from the album:
Eisenlager - Astronauten Abenteuer
(Hortus Conclusus Records 2017)

Link to download the whole album:
https://archive.org/details/eisenlagerastronautenabenteuer_HCR2017

Astronauten Abenteuer

Eisenlager - Astronauten Abenteuer 4

© 2017
track taken from the album:
Wolfgang Gsell & Lutz Thuns - Behind the Fog
(Hortus Conclusus Records 2017)

LINK TO LISTEN AND DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE ALBUM: https://archive.org/details/wolfganggselllutzthunsbehindthefog_HCR2017

Behind the Fog

Wolfgang Gsell & Lutz Thuns - Relationships Between Darkness and Light

© 2017
track taken from the album:
Opening Needle Progress - Shock Opera!
(Hortus Conclusus Records 2017)

LINK TO LISTEN AND DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE ALBUM: https://archive.org/details/openingneedleprogressshockopera_HCR2017

Shock Opera!

Opening Needle Progress - Bong

© 2017

track taken from the album:
Humanfobia - Insomnia Zero (2017)

LNK TO DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE ALBUM: https://archive.org/details/humanfobia_insomniazero_HCR2017

Insomnia Zero

Humanfobia - Social Networks Apocalypse

© 2017

track taken from the album:
Julius Granell - FeO2 (2017)

LNK TO DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE ALBUM: https://archive.org/details/juliusgranellFEO2_HCR2017

FeO2

Julius Granell - Vibratreme

Hortus Conclusus Records is an independent netlabel hosted and curated by Emiliano Pietrini and Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt.

The basic directions are: abstract, avant-garde, manipulation, experimental, ambient, musique concrète, noise, tape music, minimalism, acousmatic music, sound sculpture, sound collage, electroacoustic, rhythmic noise, drone, industrial, field recordings, glitch, microsound, montage, psychedelic, soundscape, sound art, spoken art, and other experimental forms.

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