"Midsummer --
I walk about with my staff.
Old farmers spot me
And call me over for a drink.
We sit in the fields
using leaves for plates.
Pleasantly drunk and so happy
I drift off peacefully
Sprawled out on a paddy bank.
How can I possibly sleep
This moonlit evening?
Come, my friends,
Let’s sing and dance
All night long.
Stretched out,
Tipsy,
Under the vast sky:
Splendid dreams
Beneath the cherry blossoms.
Wild roses,
Plucked from fields
Full of croaking frogs:
Float them in your wine
And enjoy every minute!"
Download Sacred Flowers by Apollo Vermouth for free from Bandcamp.
Dark ambient drone artist Dirty Knobs is set to release a double vinyl album called A Disenchanted Snake but only if it reaches its Kickstarter funded goal of $10,000 in 26 days time. Quite a difficult feat I can ashore you. I urge you to go support it somehow if you can at Kickstarter here.
Dark experimental ambient drone with industrial overtones... this is the new "Heads In Dust" album from Australia's Hollow Press. These guys always create amazing records so dont hestitate to download this one, free from the Wood And Wire Records Bandcamp.
Fuzzed out drone and noise, awash with buzzing, aching, slow grinding mountains of enormous sonic stature. The soundtrack to the grinding of the giant cogs upon which the planets sun and moon rotate around the earth.
"April Larson is the representative of a tribe of nāga located along the coast of Louisiana. She listens to music through customized headphones with speakers placed along the jaw and translates music into sense-data through a collection of three interlaced brains. She continues her research in oneironautic listening and regularly delivers lectures on relevant tone-clusters to beehives and ghosts."
Download from the Bandcamp.
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by Raju Arara, a throbbing drone filled soundscape, glittering with promised beats and inferred melody. It was available to buy on tape from Hare Akedod a home of "Limited Edition Cassettes and Electro-Acoustic Improvisation Rituals" where trades are welcome. But its sold out. You can however download it for free and you really should if you like this kind of thing.
KVLT by KVLT is a fantastic ambient album, 5 tracks of pure perfect minimalised crystal sound, majestic piano inflections and glacial droning dirged out atmospherics to die for. Beautiful like a National Geographic photo of a crocus pushing through newborn snow that has been scruffed up and lost down the back of a dusty Victorian cabinet.
It starts so slow you'll think your speakers aren't working but then it gets going and grinds and howls its way into the room, slow, spiralling and ancient. Caustic ambient drone for late winter afternoons. This is a two part single collaboration between two artists, Fake Blood Universe and Apollo Vermouth and its called Blackwash. Download for free at Bandcamp here.
This is a split EP on the Chapel Yard label out of Yorkshire featuring the bands Paper Dollhouse and Raining Leaf. Atmospheric ambient drone and loose experimental noise. Quiet and beautiful at times and a good remedy from worrying you're not doing enough, stop, listen and envelope the sound. Download for free from Bandcamp.
Tumblr couture beats and deep emotionally rich synth moods conjoined in horror stroking and lapping at each other with gay abandon. Essentially its just one long wicked riff, smoothly dirging along through the 3 minutes 44 seconds, creating a droning majestic wonder of a track that you can download for free from டாண்டலாஸ்o aka Frank A Mente's Soundcloud.
Portlands excellent Troubled By Insects always provide a brilliant doom core noise-scape of throbbing contact mike experiences, Blue Van Meer (part1) is just one such sonic exploration, a four track drone and soundscape EP of vast beauty and boundless interest. Available to download for "name your price" now at Bandcamp.
"Glina is a doom jazz sextet from Northern Palmira. Their free improvisations attempts to combine monotonous drum roar, ognessive drone of the guitars and ominous cust of the spells to tell you a story full of gloom and desperation."
A band on the French record label Steak Au Zoo they have recently released a split Tape EP in collaboration with fellow label mates Arabian Horses. This Split release is a record of tribalistic drones and dark atmospheric noise, guttural and spent, deep, harsh and lavishly rent from the instruments that spawned it. Worth listening to, worth downloading, worth buying.
Cyclical droning worship music, rythm and repeat in occult symbiosis, let go and repent for this is Vision Fortune. Imagine Liars around the Drums Not Dead era taking things more guitar effected. They describe their sound as "Field recordings from some future lost civilisation." Heavy, awesome and effortless.
Go buy a 7" of theirs from the mail order label Mannequin here.
And go buy and download their brilliant five track EP out on cassette from the Italian Beach Babes label here.
Free improvised ambient experimentalism, psychedelic noise, drone and wonder, all colliding in a hugely listen-able form in this seven track album called Nocturnal Reveries by Pigeon Breeders a trio from Canada. This is really beautiful brilliant stuff and should totally go download it from Bandcamp for "name your price".
Experimental neo-gothic post punk from Melbourne Australia the continuing home of Witch House. The band is False Rite and they have a three track EP up for free download on Bandcamp. It's spaced out and nicely druggy down-tempo stuff. Go get it.
One track.. just a Soundcloud page.. Çambodian is the artist.. really nice, really atmospheric, really cool. They say they are from Antactica, its pretty chill so maybe.
Purple Haze by the artist Raffet is an album that puts the occult back into Witch House, you can feel the ancient monoliths rotating in space calling out across the heavens to their long banished masters, dark gods lost in time waiting in the ink black depths of space, lost on planets spun out by dying stars, in the last few moments of its life before they are sucked into black holes they hurl their planetary children off into the night at speeds approaching light speed, these balls of hurtling rock the last remaining haunts of the old ones, their bitter twisted conciousness stuck by ritual to these parent-less planets waiting for their time to come again.
Download this wondrous gem for free from Bandcamp now.
Ritualz just dropped a mix for Vice Italy a week back, it's free to download and it kicks ass! Starting off with a time stretched version of the X Files theme tune and progressing into a chaotic film sountrack of sound and noise, slow beats and wonder.
It's free to download from Soundcloud so go grab it now! Ritualz also has a split EP with Funerals called Hypermotion coming out on the Mishka label in June. Exciting!
The Rebirth of Shapes II by Ellah a.Thaun is a brilliant album of experimental freak folk drone and psychedelic acoustic trance, swirling organ drones hovering over echoing strings, half intoned melodies floating along rivers of pulsing organic space psych and shimmering screaming sun filtered vocals whispers. Greats stuff. Go download it all for free from Bandcamp now.
More drone ambient experimentalism for you, this time from an artist called Weird Ribs. Space music for floating through the cosmos. Similar to Hexagon Sun but more cathedrally.. and with more pulsing. Well nice.You can download from Bandcamp for £5 or order an extremely limited, hand-made and numbered run of 100 CD-rs, each with it's own unique album cover.
