Moscow based quartet Lesa Listvy debuts on Cryo Chamber with Way Home. 
On this highly atmospheric release you get a mix of deep analogue drone, dark beats, ethereal walls of sound and subtle field recordings. 

Years ago the beat of the shaman's drum pulled your tribe out of the motherland. Now as you make your way home everything has changed. The smell of burnt wood linger in the canopy of the forests, clicking machinery reverberate deep within. Trees malformed, technology fused with nature, the prophecy of the shaman was wrong. The ancient land now lies perverted by the swarm, but the tribe is coming home. 

Highly recommended for fans of warm analogue ambient

Way Home

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Lesa Listvy - Sunny Side

Our track that was featured on Kalpamantra's Saur Mass compilation. It was originally cut from Oneironaut in a slightly different form. We felt a special connection to this track, though and decided to rework it and have it serve as our contribution to the Saur Maas collection. Many thanks to Steven @ Kalpamantra for believing in our work.

Psychomanteum - The Existential Collapse & Rebirth

Atrium Carceri - Reliquiae sends the listener careening through the dim mists of time immemorial. There are asylums, prison halls and dark corridors in the twisted nether where our current illusion was created by our former slaves - now transformed to cruel masters by the Council of Twelve. Through the citadels of the Lost God, Where the rejuvenation of the collective soul has become brainwashing of the endless hordes that await his return with bubbling glee. This journey is one not soon forgotten, as the churning cogs of the old city dig ever deeper into humanity's clandestine past. A sickly dull thud of stone on flesh is all that interrupts the ceaseless moanings and burrowings of the old city of our past glories. That and the incessant clamour of machines beyond count. The yearning for a way out of the illusion leads us to the top of the thousand steps of obsidian, where the processing plants never stop the injection of false hope to the masses of divided consciousness. A memory springs unbidden to my wandering mind: A black worm eats at the heart of the sun. 

Reliquiae is a syringe filled with the deepest of sounds, with details so carefully perfected and indeed profound that it will make you listen to the album again and again, falling deeper and deeper into the void of the awakened. Spanning 19 tracks this is one epic release that tells a tale revolving around the relics that are the basis of our enslavement. It truly must be heard to be fathomed 

24 BIT FLAC available at bandcamp.


Atrium Carceri  - 04 Knowledge of the Few

Original composition by Martin Stig Andersen
Sound artist: Katrine Amsler

From 'Wolfenstein: Youngblood', developed by MachineGames and Arkane Studios, 2019

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Brother 3

Original composition by Martin Stig Andersen and Robin Finck

From 'Wolfenstein: Youngblood', developed by MachineGames and Arkane Studios, 2019

All rights reserved

Youngblood (with Robin Finck)

The cowled seers from beyond the frigid void incessantly observe us moving through our daily lives. Manipulating the orders of chance and whimsy they collect our thoughts and steer us through the Illusion. Their goal to collect the few for an expedition deep down into the abyss where the lost god once sought refuge. The weave of "reality" grows thin with this release as it explores what lies beyond even the manifold spires of the ancient city as well as the fractured memories of every swayed traveller. 
Atrium Carceri returns with a stunningly detailed album and yet again propels the genre forward into uncharted territory. 

This album was constructed with a digital release in mind, and was created for a 24 bit experience. 
Headphones and 24bit playback recommended! 
24 bit FLAC download available 

Comes with a 6 page HD booklet

Atrium Carceri - Ancient Past

Original composition by Martin Stig Andersen

From 'Control' developed by Remedy, published by 505 Games, 2019

Sound artists: Nicolas Becker, Katrine Amsler, Daniel Porcelli and Emilie Søgaard

Observer (from Control)

Counterfeit (from Control)

It has been ten years since the last communications were received from the Deep Space Mission for Colonial Expansion led by Executive Director Professor Yannis Tarknassus. The outcome of the mission remains a mystery, its status unknown. A follow up mission of search and recovery is now underway, led by Dr Phoenix Macrae, son of the Chief Science Officer of the previous mission, Dr Hector Macrae.

Interplanetary chronicles the search and recovery mission as it travels through space to its intended destination of Proxima Centauri b in the Alpha Centauri star system.

Deep space travel requires extreme technologies and the specialised deployment of unique scientific principles in order to secure time-bending relative motions though the spacetime continuum. The effects of this on the human cerebrum, as experienced by the space flight crews and their passengers, are both strange and compelling. As part of the scientific remit of the search and recovery mission, a team of scientists are conducting ground-breaking telekinetic thought-rendering experiments, using Phoenix Macrae as their principal subject matter, in an attempt to catalogue the collateral impact of deep space travel on the human psyche.

Interplanetary also documents several radical spacetime shifts where the phantasmagoria of Ruptured World is infiltrated by the explosive cyberpunk energy fusions of In Quantum.

For fans of space ambient, cosmic horror, cyberpunk and spoken word.

CD Comes in a beautiful reverse board print Digipak with a 20 page booklet. Digital booklet included in download.

Interplanetary

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T Minus 20

Phonothek presents us with Styx, their third album on Cryo Chamber, a dark and atonal atmospheric journey.

By following the river that flows between two worlds, all the memories, the fragments of life melts away. The styx is an open door for those ready to gamble with their soul and touch the mysterious waters within the self.

Float downstreams with the ancient ferryman towards the underworld in all its gloom.

Recommended for fans of acoustic ambience, atonal and layered atmospherics.

Styx

Phlegethon

Beyond the Ghost presents his first album in the Europa Series, a futuristic, bleak and moving sound voyage that merges electronics and acoustics.

BERLIN, the year is 2060. The whole of Europe is fraught with sickness and poverty and tensions are arising between the remaining populations.  Resources are low, war is imminent. The streets are cold and lonely.  The shining sun has become a notion of the distant past. Every day feels darker than the next. The people who are left stay locked inside, fearing for their lives. There is nothing left to do but wait out the inevitable doom. An old club called 'The Last Resort' is one of the only places that’s still open. There, a few brave and lonely souls gather together to drink the night away to the woeful tunes of the house band. Between sets, a broken alert system in the streets can still be heard, blasting out remnants of news that don't make sense anymore, like echoes of foreign voices lost in transmission. Against all odds, a few letters of the club's neon light still flicker on and off, illuminating the patrons' faces, their expressions hanging heavy with loss and pain. Few words are exchanged, and yet their devout presence during such times makes us wonder:  will they accept their defeat or will they fight for a better future? But for now, they are only focused on making it safely home after the last call, their heads hung low, their feet shuffling through the darkness, humming to the sounds they just heard, to mourn the loss of one more day during these sorrowful and suspended times.

Recommended for fans of noir, melancholy and molotov cocktails. 


Written, performed, produced, mastered – Pierre Laplace
Trumpet – Christophe « Pher » Motury
Artwork – Simon Heath

The Last Resort

Red Curtains

Martin Stig Andersen is a composer and game audio specialist, with his background in electroacoustic composition influencing his approach to game audio development and implementation.

Martin created and directed the audio for LIMBO and INSIDE, followed by focusing on interactive composition when scoring titles such as Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, Control, and the recent release Back 4 Blood.

He was involved as an ambient music designer on Shadow of the Tomb Raider and has recently remastered the audio for Thekla’s upcoming Braid, Anniversary Edition.

Martin’s work has earned him several international awards, including two D.I.C.E. awards for Original Composition and Sound Design, respectively, and a Game Developers Choice Award for Best Audio.

Brother 3

Martin Stig Andersen

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