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Jeudi 13 Mai 2010 - 11:25:12
Ben, c'est la ruée des topics, ici. Je vous poste une news (en anglais, j'ai la flemme de traduire).

Two new releases out now on Essence Music
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Nadja
Autopergamene
(Essence Music | ESS013) - CD & Ltd.
Boxset

Call it drone-doom-dirge-shoegaze or any other in vogue nomenclature you like. It doesn’t matter. The music is so sublime and superb that we consider a Waste of time trying to further categorize the spiraling sounds exhaling from a Nadja album. They are simply the true originators of this bred of blissful, seriously Intense and ominously Ethereal heavy sounds.

Autopergamene finds the duo at the peak of their sonic language of slow-blooming, heavily nuanced ambient guitar constructions and epic heaviness. From blissful, paced and almost orchestral hymns to lush acoustic guitars and super Distorted, fuzzed out rumbling Sludge riffages. Breathtaking.

Lavishly assembled in a custom 6-panel digisleeve packaging housing a 6 cards set with beautiful watercolor paintings and artwork by the gifted Portuguese artist L Filipe dos Santos. Superb mastering via James Plotkin. Limited to 800 copies.

|| $18 (postpaid worldwide).
PayPal, cash and money orders accepted.

** Also available as a strictly limited handmade boxset edition!
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DRAKH
Bethlehem

(Essence Music | ESS014) - CD & Ltd. Boxset

One third of The Cult post-industrial Swedish legends MZ.412, one half of the amazing experimental ACT Beyond Sensory Experience and Nordvargr’s long running loyal partner on classic endeavors – including the abyssal black ambient duo Nordvargr/Drakh. With such high caliber résumé, we are more than honored to present the first DRAKH solo album!

Slow, quasi-harmonic, subtle, yet thick Drone fields weaving elaborate and unexpected damaged electronic rhythms and harsh, crackling ambient Textures that can become – at the same time – both delicate and haunting, warm and freezing, to finally drown in a sea of reverb, glacial riffing and distortion. Simply perfect.

Presented in our custom 6-panel digisleeve packaging with stunning and Desolate photography by Seldon Hunt. Not coincidentally mastered by no one else than Jouni Ollila (aka Ulvtharm, from the MZ.412 fame) at oLLiLaboratories Studios. Limited to 400 copies.

|| $16 (postpaid worldwide). PayPal, cash and money orders accepted.

** Also available as a strictly limited handmade boxset edition!

Visit our website for more infos, images and audio samples: www.essence-music.com.

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