New arrivals in the Aural Hypnox / BSAH distribution on-line store
(19.2.2008)


AIDAN BAKER: EXOSKELETON HEART, CD-R
(Crucial Bliss)
Following up his amazing Periodic disc that was issued through Crucial
Bliss two years ago, acclaimed Toronto drone-guitarist Aidan Baker is
back with Exoskeleton Heart, his newest entry into our ongoing Crucial
Bliss series. And this 2-track, hour long excursion into deep feedback
bliss is stunningly beautiful. Split into two halves, "Interior" and
"Anterior", Baker once again taps into his visions of the bodycage using
only his electric guitar, performed and recorded live; the result is an
evocative feedback-heavy dronescape drifting with the gritty hum of the
amplifier, layers of shimmering, chiming feedback, crushing distorted
ambient dirge that borders on Sunn O)))-levels of sonic weight, and
shafts of elegiac melody breaking through the stormclouds of Baker's
cavernous rumbling like rays of sunlight. Aidan Baker is without
question the North American counterpart to the Tuetonic guitar drones of
Troum, and Exoskeleton Heart delivers some of his most massive,
meditative, crushing, and beautiful subterranean drift yet. Hell, the
final 10 minutes of "Anterior" is without questions one of the most
beautiful things we have ever presented through this label, an angelic
glacial melody that builds inexorably into a wall of blissed out fuzz a
la something you'd expect from Aidan's dronesludge band Nadja.
Essential. The disc comes in a full-color signature Crucial Bliss
foldover sleeve with the disc affixed to a plastic hub on the interior
of the sleeve, and has been pressed in a limited edition of 300 copies.

PRICE: 8 €


BARDOSENETICCUBE + NOISES OF RUSSIA: NEW ORTHODOX LINE, CD
(Some Place Else)
New Orthodox Line brings together two of the most notable Russian
post-industrial / experimental groups: Bardoseneticcube and Noises of
Russia. This unique collaboration stirs the best of both artists to
surface, and results in an extremely powerful and intense emotional
experience. The opus travels from sacral soundscapes of orthodox choirs
and church bells to a more punishing end of the sonic spectrum provided
by pounding rhythms and howling feedback. Here, the opposites unite with
passion and compliment each other for the sake of the greater good, the
synergetic New Orthodox Line.

PRICE: 12 €


BEAUFORT: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK BY ISHAI ADAR, CD
(Ak-Duck)
Ak-Duck proudly presents the soundtrack to "Beaufort" - the 2007
Berlinale Film Festival, Silver-Bear winner for best director. The
soundtrack was composed by the pioneer Israeli electronic artist Ishai
Adar which was one of the founders of cult Israeli experimental pop band
"The Top-Hat Carriers". Shortly after leaving the band, Adar launched
various musical collaborations such as: SSP with
artist/musician/choreographer Ohad Pishof and Two Tall Men with
DJ/producer Yoav B (Delsin). In 1997 he released "Her", his debut solo
album under the name Oosh. "Her" fused Dance and Electronics and was a
time defying listening experience – an album which transcends
technological and fashion trends. During that period, Adar began
specializing in sound and music design for video-art, cinema and
television soundtracks. "Beaufort" is Adar's second motion picture
soundtrack. A dark and gloomy affair that hybrids between processed
digital sounds, warm ambient scapes & light touches of 70's Progressive
Rock. For Fans of Philip Jack, Biosphere & William Basinski.

PRICE: 12 €


BRANDKOMMANDO: MC FUCK, CD-R
(Mask of the Slave)
Brandkommando from Poland play anti-political power electronics with
extreme vocals! More than 70 minutes of PE, great mixture between
structured harsh noise & power electronics, new full length album out
now through Mask of the Slave Records, after several releases on Beast
Of Prey. Great song structures, not as harsh like the previous
materials. CD-r in DVD case with pro-cover, limited to 100 copies.

PRICE: 8 €


CHEFKIRK: MEGA CHUFFED, CD-R
(Mask of the Slave)
chefkirk is Roger H. Smith. Working under the inclusive category of
experimental noise, chefkirk creates distinctive compositions of sound
by combining together improvised drone and harsh electronics forced from
a minimal arsenal of glitchy instruments and feedback loops. Being a
socially and politically conscious citizen of the world, chefkirk
illustrates his deep concern and love for all living things through the
artwork, titles, and modest messages on his numerous releases. The whole
of his work will unquestionably carry his personal message loudly:
animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for
entertainment, GO VEGAN!
CD-r in DVD case with pro-cover, limited to 100 copies

PRICE: 8 €


GELSOMINA + NO XIVIC: FURNACE, CD
(Some Place Else)
Furnace is an unlikely yet strangely natural union of no Xivic, renowned
sculptor of dark electro-acoustic soundscapes, and Gelsomina, Finland's
most prolific harsh noise artist. The title track, also the main piece
on the album, is a live collaboration recorded in late 2006, a grand
opus of psychedelic noise with a peculiar 'kraut' flavour! In addition
to this, both artists created exclusive tracks on their own to complete
the album. In total, Furnace is a 44-minute blast of fire, brimstone and
hazardous electric currents, and thus a fine completion of Some Place
Else's tenth year of activity.

PRICE: 12 €


GRIEFER: BRUTE FORCE, CD
(Deterrent Industries)
Network malfeasance takes on physical form with this 8 track release
from Canadian black hats griefer. From compromised military networks to
malware as a service to the automated data mining of social networking
infrastructure, "Brute Force" shines a cold hard light into the darkest
of IP space. 40 minutes of forceful, monolithic frequencies and heavy
death industrial vibes.
TRUE INTERNET POWER ELECTRONICS

"Brute Force" comes in a 3 panel black cardstock case printed with
silver ink. The professionally replicated CD has a total run of under
500 copies.

PRICE: 12 €


HAARE: ELECTRONIC PSYCHOSIS, CD-R
(Mask of the Slave)
Electronic Psychosis part 1 & 2, recorded and mixed at No studio Aug
2006. Power industrial noise project from Finland. Psychedelic ritual
noise with lot of drone touches and lo-fi sound. One of the best Haare
release, recommended! CD-r in DVD case with pro-cover, limited to 150
copies.

PRICE: 8 €


HEAVY WINGED: FEEL INSIDE, CD
(Archivecd)
Brand new three trax release from Portland/ Brooklyn based unit which
comes on the heels of the bands recently re-issue disc, and highly
excellent three lobed release “blacc lust”, comes three long playing
journeys into psych noise dronedom. I’m not a huge fan of the press
release description game where the label goes on to babble and make
absurd quotes like “sounds like every band that has sold a shit load of
records this past month if you combine sunno))) with your mamma then you
know exactly how great this record is”. I’d just like to humbly state to
me it comes off like the Bardo Pond brothers recording in the lo-fi high
fuzz induced kitchen of the Goslings. All label claims aside listen to
the clip!! PACKAGE comes packed in a double cover center opening sleeves
with the outer shell being a vellum overlay wonderfully executed
graphically by Chasse Middaugh. Single pressing of 600 copies.

PRICE: 12 €


KADAVER: THIS TIME... IT'S CANCER, CD
(Topheth Prophet)
This time...it's cancer is the latest release by Israeli death
industrial prodigy KADAVER originaly was supposed to be released by
italian slaughter productions but due to the circumstances changed to
topheth prophet.

"...Death needs time for what it kills to grow in..." (William S.
Burroughs)

500 copies. artwork & design by Ori Drumer

PRICE: 12 €


KENJI SIRATORI: BRAIN FUCKER, CD-R
(Mask of the Slave)
Born March 13, 1975, in Chitose, Hokkaido, Japan, Kenji Siratori is a
cyberpunk author and internet self-promoter. He first gained attention
in 2006 by writing to as many industrial, ambient, EBM and goth bands he
could find, including "reviews" of them in his idiosyncratic style, and
asking to collaborate. His scattergun approach proved successful,
despite his reviews of non-sequitirs and non-sensical cyberspeak being
interchangeable, and a slew of collaborations from flattered musicians
were soon foisted upon the world. Japanese Noise with PE elements, full
length album!
CD-r in DVD case with pro-cover, limited to 100 copies.

PRICE: 8 €


LIGHT OF SHIPWRECK: FROM THE IDLE CYLINDERS, CD-R
(Crucial Bliss)
Light Of Shipwreck is a one-man band operated by Ben Fleury-Steiner, a
Deleware-based drone artist and owner of the excellent Gears of Sand
Recordings imprint, which has released discs from some of our favorite
ambient/drone/drift artists including Encomiast, Cordell Klier, and
Aidan Baker. It was actually through Aidan Baker that we found out about
Ben's Light Of Shipwreck project; knowing that we're fanatics for "heavy
ambient" sound, Light Of Shipwreck was recommended as something we
should check out. At first expecting something more along the lines of
the kind of floating ambient rumble that marks so much of my favorite
Baker solo stuff, I was pleasantly surprised by how percussive the
tracks I heard online from LOS were, the dense, ominous feedback drones
and heavy rumbling ur-riffs floating freely over a mechanistic
tribal-rhythm freakout. We ended up getting in touch with Ben from Light
Of Shipwreck and it turned out that he had a nearly hour-long disc that
he wanted to have released through our Crucial Bliss imprint, and here
we are: a three-track full length of rich, crushing power-ambient,
titled From The Idle Cylinders, a reference to the American Objectivist
poet George Oppen whose work is a consistent influence on Light Of
Shipwreck's imagery, with huge slabs of resonant sheet metal shimmering
in an ocean of heavenly feedback and reverberating guitar drone, and
surges of droning tribal Krautrock percussion floating along with
distorted ambient doom powerchords and washed out vocal cord bliss, each
track running upwards of 20 minutes in length. A totally breathtaking
piece of music, like Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Can, and Earth swirled
together into an austere, hypnotizing heavy-trance masterpiece. This
limited edition CD-R of From The Idle Cylinders comes packaged in the
signature Crucial Bliss foldover card sleeve with the disc itself
attached to the sleeve on a plastic hub and featuring striking photo
design, in a print run of 200 copies.

PRICE: 8 €


LUASA RAELON: INTO THE VOID, CD-R
(Crucial Bliss)
Finally, after a pronounced delay, we're presenting the latest in grim,
Cthulhian ambient death from David Reed, the man behind the Snip-Snip
CD-R label and the ice-drones of Envenomist. With Luasa Raelon, Reed
uses deep-frozen synthesizers and electronics to construct pitch-black
sonic sculptures that evoke lost cities carved from obsidian whose
masterless machines have been left to grind on into eternity, or
descents into stygian pits whose bottoms cannot be gauged. Into The Void
is the newest masterwork from Reed, recorded in 2006 and presented here
as a five-chapter narrative that chronicles a doomed space exploration,
where all that is left are the faint transmissions of apocalyptic dread
drifting back at us through time. Beyond ominous, and gorgeously eerie,
Reed continues to craft some of the blackest, heaviest drift this side
of Gruntsplatter, Troum, Lull, Yen Pox, Melek-Tha, Lustmord, and
Megaptera. Into The Void has been released in an edition of 200 copies,
packaged in the signature Crucial Bliss foldover sleeve with the disc
attached to the interior on a plastic hub, and featuring some of our
best Bliss artwork yet, which David described as looking like 70's
science-fiction art.

PRICE: 8 €


LUMINOUS: LINKS, CD
(Tara Records)
After a decade of activity, the first official CD by Tim Chaplin's
electronic/experimental project Luminous. Links consists of two thirty
minute pieces. For fans of drone, dark ambience and experimentalism. All
CDs are housed in red clam shell cases and feature on body artwork by
Thumbprint Press's WT Nelson.

PRICE: 10 €


MERREL BAKER AND JORDAN: NAGUAL, CD
(Archivecd)
Long playing ambient dronescape pitting the combined efforts of Todd
Merrell on shortwave radio and electronics, Patrick Jordan on shortwave
radio and processing and Aidan Baker (Nadja) on guitar. Recorded live in
04 in Hartford. Comes packed in heavy stock center open sleeve with
environmental mirror image landscape artwork courtesy of Seldon Hunt.
Pressing of 600 copies.

PRICE: 12 €


MOLJEBKA PVLSE / SEVENTEEN MIGS OF SPRING: RAVHA / ELECTRICITY GARDENS, CD
(Topheth Prophet)
Ravha \ Electricity Gardens is an international split\collaboration
between Moljebka pvlse(sweden) and the Seventeen Migs Of Spring(Israel).
both are known for their unique approach to drone ambient sounds.
500 copies. digipac. artwork & design by Niko Skorpio.

PRICE: 12 €


NETHERWORLD: KALL: THE ABYSS WHERE DREAMS FALL, CD
(Angle.Rec)
Always concerned with pushing even further its explorations on the side
of ‘’drone’’ drifts, angleREC adds to its parallel series, that is the
MONDES ELLIPTIQUES label, a new release in the form of the first
official CD production of Italian project NETHERWORLD. This CD has the
rather evocative title of ''KALL - The Abyss Where Dreams Fall''.
Alessandro Tedeschi’s project previously gained a fair share of
attention with CDR or mini-CDR releases on fine labels such as UMBRA,
GEARS OF SAND, TAALEM/KOKESHIDISK! Alessandro also runs the GLACIAL
MOVEMENTS label, which gave us, in 2006, the acclaimed CRYOSPHERE
compilation. In a tradition that is anchored, at the same time, in
avant-garde, ritual soundz and dark-ambient, with a typically Italian
touch, NETHERWORLD gives a peculiarly and elegantly organic and palpable
feel to sounds that, in the hands of others, would maybe fall flat …and
it is as if the sound universe conjured by the magic of NETHERWORLD was
strangely…how could one say? OCCUPIED. Each moment, eac h twist and turn
of this sound adventure bears infinite richness and elasticity, at all
times …those are rather ‘busy’ sound layers but each of the elements has
sufficient breathing space and can differentiate itself from the other
surrounding components. This antagonism represents one of NETHERWORLD’s
greatest strengths. Another noteworthy antagonism: this tendency to
propose us ambiences that are excessively introspective, subdued,
withdrawn into themselves, but which, at the same time, expand, subtly
dilate to occupy an incommensurable space. Upon the first notes (or
pulses??) of the opening track, ‘’KALL’’, this infinite abyss, envelops
us and our dreams sink, dissolve, reinvent themselves…The sound
propositions found on’’KALL’’ have enough movement and density to please
the ones fond of depth in their music, but the overall ‘purified’ feel
will please the most discerning purist. For the occasion, MONDES
ELLIPTIQUES once again used the mastering talents of JOHN SELLEKAERS @
METARC and it is CHRISTIAN SA LETTE who put his savoir-faire in our
service for the design of the sleeve and images. Limited to 441 copies!
Deluxe cardboard sleeve.

PRICE: 12 €


NO XIVIC: YKSITYISYYS, CD
(Onyxia)
After three years of austerity and hard work, "Yksityisyys" finally
cracks the living daylight. H. Kyllönen's second coming is his most
idiosyncratic and convoluted album to date, hence the title "Yksityisyys".
"Yksityisyys" is the quality present in a thing or person that gives
intense pleasure & deep satisfaction to the mind, arising from sensory
manifestations (such as shape, color and sound), a meaningful design and
pattern.

"Yksityisyys" provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, moments of
unpleasant and emotional states that involves a complex combination of
emotions. It may be benevolent at time, but slowly it fills the mind
with oily malignancy and drives the mind to the edge of phobia and nausea.

Containing all cognitive, somatic, emotional and behavioral components,
the manifestations are in balance and one-to-one to the subjective
experience of beauty. Don't fear the mind, take control and let the
turmoil wind it up.

PRICE: 12 €


SUISHOU NO FUNE: THE LIGHT OF DARK NIGHT, CD
(Archivecd)
SUISHOU NO FUNE “the light of dark night” archive39 A wonderfully
dripping in echo single trax live set played during the bands last small
batch of shows from their first trip to Philadelphia. A duo drumless
performance on this given night finds Sishou no fune doing what they do
best bringing the darkness. PACKAGE comes packed in a double cover
center opening sleeves with the outer shell being a vellum overlay all
graphics by Chase Middaugh. Single pressing of 600 released in
conjunction with current US tour dates.

PRICE: 12 €


SVASTI-AYANAM: SANKLESA, CD
(Eternal Pride)
Svasti-ayanam is Peter Andersson's foray into dark, Tibetan-Nepalese
ambience. Andersson is well known for his work as Raison D'etre, Atomine
Elektrine etc. In this incarnation, his signature Raison D'etre sound
has been modified in an incredibly pronounced, and effective way.
Sanklesa is marked by strong tribal rhythms that draw the listener into
distant, foreign, ritual soundscapes. Andersson has released a prolific
catalogue of music, that includes many CD's, limited vinyl and countless
compilation appearances. Album incl. 2 exlusive bonus-tracks.

PRICE: 12 €


TROUM: DARVE SH / AJIN, CD
(Nefryt)
Two rare vinyls as one CD. The ritual face of Troum! “DARVÊ SH” was
released in February 2003 as 10”-vinyl on Beta-Lactam Ring Records
(mt030) as part 10 in the “Lactamase” - series. “AJIN” was released in
December 2005 as a picture-12” vinyl on Equation Records (E=mc11). DARVÊ
SH: etymological persian source for “Dervish”, it means “doorway”
(metaphor for being between this word and the netherworld. AJIN: hebrew
for “Eye”. It also means “Colour” or “Source” and is the 16th letter of
the hebrew alphabet. The right eye that looks into the sky for
transcendence, the left eye that looks to the ground to the worg of god
(one that dances and the other that speaks) -> balance of contradictions.

PRICE: 12 €


WEREWOLF JERUSALEM: THE BEAST BEFORE CHRIST, CD-R
(Mask of the Slave)
Werewolf Jerusalem is a side project of Richard Ramirez that solely
based on dense static noise textures. This project was inspired by the
U.S. noise legend, Chop Shop. After the great reactions and success of
Richard Ramirez - deProgramming Pornographers album released by Mask of
the Slave Records last year, the new Richard Ramirez kind of noise is
out now for his enthusiastic fanatics. CD-r in DVD case with pro-cover,
limited to 100 copies.

PRICE: 8 €



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