Artist: Halo Manash
Title: Taiwaskivi
Release date: November, 2009
Catalog# [AH12 + AHDVD01]
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As winter hibernation and spring awakening gives way to summer, Halo Manash rises radiant into luminosity, with wings spread into all worlds, and brings forth Taiwaskivi, an opulent work of solar ambience and primordial Ur-music.
Taiwaskivi, a work of sonic flame and aural ash, consists of seven interrelated tracks, utilizing such diverse instrumentation as organ, horns, vocals, drums, gongs, percussions and various string instruments as well as field-recordings captured during the pilgrimage that the creation of the work embodies.
An air of finality abounds, as Taiwaskivi, although a complete work in itself, can also be viewed as the third and final facet of a tripartite series of works that are part of one holistic creation – a treelogy, with seed, root, trunk and finally, branches. Being the culmination of an ascending journey through the aforementioned realms within and without, Taiwaskivi is the celestial crown at the peak, reaching toward Sol, source and beyond; it is the leaves and fruit of the branches and their skybound nectar ever-flowing - the sacred fire, the consummation and conjunction of All.
Comes in a hand finished cardboard booklet.
NOTE: Two different editions are available; regular CD edition and CD + DVD with inserts. Both are limited to 500 copies.
PRICE: 12 € (CD edition) & 15 € (CD + DVD with inserts)
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MP3 EXCERPTS:
Visit Halo Manash Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/halomanash/
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Artist: Arktau Eos
Title: Ai Ma Ra
Release date: August, 2009
Catalog# [AH11]
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Ai Ma Ra is a monumental album containing over 105 minutes of experimental elemental and ambient music, original in the literal sense of the word. More than music, it is 'ethnography of the unknown' in action, providing vistas into rarely glimpsed corners of reality. Created primarily on acoustic instruments, organs and harmonium, carefully mastered on vintage tape, the sound is equally earthy as it is otherworldly – a contradiction in terms maybe, but then Ai Ma Ra is not classified easily in any other respect either. It is a record in which to immerse one’s self over time, containing more than two years' worth of strange experiences and sensations distilled into a curious, potent elixir, the use of which may in its truest sense be determined only by the individual listener.
Ai Ma Ra, pressed in 1.000 copies, comes in a sturdy, deep green cardboard box stamped with the mark of Arktau Eos. Contained within is an 8-page booklet bound in tête-bêche format on high quality paper, a small talismanic print, and two CDs.
PRICE: 15 €
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MP3 EXCERPTS:
Visit Arktau Eos Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/arktaueos/
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Artist: Halo Manash
Title: Am Kha Astrie
Release date: October, 2008
Catalog# [AH10]
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As the apex of Spring heralds awakenings, Halo Manash emerges from Winter and hibernation ~ Treefaced. Horns spiral skyward and antlers ascend. A tripartite trunk arises – a pillar that splits all worlds.
Am Kha Astrie, a work of heliotropic, elemental ambient, is an opening, an awakening, a summoning, a crossing of thresholds. After their previous oneiric and minimal album, Am Kha Astrie sees Halo Manash re-integrate a more diverse instrumentation and a multiplicity of soundsources to create their work, which consists of seven interrelated tracks. Am Kha Astrie is a complete work in itself, but can also be viewed as the second facet of a tripartite series of works that are part of one holistic creation.
Archaic elemental drums, bones and spiraling animal horns merge with various metal percussions, chimes, wind-instruments, voices and a multitude of other instruments to create a deep, earthly and yet celestially-bound opus. Am Kha Astrie is a massive and sometimes ominous work, a primal experience of coming-into-being, with all the terror, ecstasy and divine awe that it implies.
Comes in a hand finished cardboard booklet, in an edition of 1000 copies.
PRICE: 12 €
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MP3 EXCERPTS:
Track II (2:44) - Track IV (2:38) - Track VI (2:54)
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Artist: Halo Manash
Title: Language of Red Goats
Release date: February, 2008
Catalog# [AH09]
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Guided by nether nectars and dream herbs, oneiric visions and the light of lunar tides, Halo Manash Language of Red Goats aims to be a cartography of cavernous elemental realms and regions, sources and springs that run deep and thick with the fluids of life, death and dream. What was seeded at the Thin Veils has been gathered at Harvest time, and is offered to the seeker as a libation and guide into the ever-liminal, shrouded spaces, for dream-vigils and awakenings.
Language of Red Goats is a complete work in itself, but can also be viewed as the first facet of a tripartite series of works that are part of one holistic creation – three faces of the same being. More akin to a primitive fieldrecording in the realm of oneirotropic exploration, than an actual album, the work consists of one lengthy tripartite soundscape. Utilizing only gongs, bells, metal bowls and wind instruments, as well as flocks of birds, the work is in contrast to earlier more refined works that feature a wide multiplicity of instruments and soundsources. Language of Red Goats is a bare, primitive and sometimes raw aural landscape, and yet nonetheless achieves a rare subliminal intensity and an edge of otherwordly luminosity.
Comes in a hand finished cardboard booklet, in an edition of 920 copies.
PRICE: 12 €
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MP3 EXCERPT:
Language of Red Goats - Track II (2:59)
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Artist: Halo Manash
Title: Language of Red Goats - Deluxe Box
Release date: April, 2008
Catalog# [AHB09]
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'Language of Red Goats' limited edition consists of:
Language of Red Goats, CD
Oversized hand-finished cardboard covers
A hand-made booklet, including additional artwork and drawings corresponding to the work
Insert card - "From the Forest of Red Goats"
Limited to 71 copies.
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MP3 EXCERPT:
Language of Red Goats - Track II (2:59)
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Title: Aural Holograms Vol. I
Release date: April, 2007
Catalog# [AH08]
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All of You who have gone before, across the ages we call You, to join us and together reach the unsetting stars of the White Nights, the Horizon of Hollow Earth.
The very first part of the Aural Holograms series incorporates various call and response patterns manifesting vibrating, subtle energies, all of which have been accurately divided into separate rhythmic dimensions and time-shifting aural tapestries.
The overall experience - i.e. the ecstatic effect - is transmitted by the intensity of syncopated rhythms, reed organ lingering on a few tones, self-transforming vocal work accompanied with carefully chosen oscillating tunes and a variety of percussive patterns utilising artefacts crafted according to the methods of traditional metallurgia, as well as real-time tape operations.
{ 61°26'N 21°52'E } The rum is poured on the ground, words are spoken in secrecy: the Dead Men will come to tell their tales.
Comes in six-panel hand finished cardboard booklet, in an edition of 1.000 copies.
PRICE: 12 €
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MP3 EXCERPTS:
Before the Great Stone (2:22) - The Day of Opening the Tomb (2:27) - Beyond the Black Deep (2:29)
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Artist: Zoät·Aon
Title: The Triplex Bestial
Release date: November, 2006
Catalog# [AH07]
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By the careful adjustment and manipulation of both modern and archaic mediums is created a highly dynamic work of aural alchemy depicting the trance and dream of a carnal totem standing between Heaven and Earth, where the unearthly sound of starlight's serpentine arteries winding together with the blackened branches above mingles with the oneiric hisses and crackles of necromantic phantoms and slithering roots below. A barbarous, sonic paradox suggesting the subtle arousal of the ancestry in flesh, a work both soothing and threatening to the intuitive mind. (total time: 61:05)
Comes in an oversized 4 panel cardboard covers. Limited to 1000 copies.
PRICE: 12 €
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MP3 EXCERPTS:
Bestial Waves (2:18) -
The Immediate Body Drama (2:00) -
The Phantom Root (1:52) -
The Copulation of Mirrors (2:10)
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Artist: Arktau Eos
Title: Mirrorion
Release date: June, 2006
Catalog# [AH06]
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Presented in seventeen chapters that can be approached as singular gateways or a slowly unfolding
journey of epic proportions, the debut album of ARKTAU EOS is a challenging, complex work. Born of
intense private musico-magical sessions held in places abandoned by man and further refined in the
temple-laboratory of the duo, it is the distillation of seven arduous months of work.
As the title suggests, 'Mirrorion' is the music of stellar light thrown down from the Heaven's zenith
and its eldritch reflections in the depths below, uniting atavistic elemental noise with serene passages
of crystalline, spectral ambience. Ultimately, 'Mirrorion' seeks to surpass such earthly definitions in
favour of a non-dual vision of reality, hopefully transforming the listener in the process.
For this recording ARKTAU EOS have favoured an organic approach with majority of instrumentation being of
acoustic variety, including the unearthly choral of the kanglings, piercings blasts of windbones,
accelerating steel-plate rolls, singing bowl and various kinds of stringed instruments.
Comes in an six-panel, A5 booklet. Limited to 1000 copies.
PRICE: 12 €
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MP3 EXCERPTS:
The Star-Sower Awakens (1:21) -
Language of Embers (1:39) -
The Vitric Portal (1:10)
Lotus of the Underworld (0:45) -
Nether-Desert Iris (0:48) -
Dissolving the Starlit Mandala (0:57)
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Artist: Arktau Eos
Title: Mirrorion - Deluxe Box
Release date: June, 2006
Catalog# [AH06]
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'Mirrorion' deluxe box consists of:
'Mirrorion' CD
'Scorpion Milk' CD-R
Two exclusive insert cards
A black mirror enriched with unique automatic drawings
The set comes in a white cloth bag, sealed with a metal clip
The box is numbered and limited to 80 copies. Moreover, an extremely limited, undisclosed number of out-of-series editions are distributed secretly.
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Artist: Arktau Eos
Title: Scorpion Milk
Release date: June, 2006
Catalog# [AHCDR02]
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'Scorpion Milk' consists of a single album length
track, which is best apprehended in a meditative state with minimum outside
interference. It is truly a "Mirror Noir" to the album itself - its shadowy
companion, the candle-bearer who responds to no call but silence itself. The
music can be likened to a dark well, the oily surface of which not only
reflects the phantasms of mind recalled through participation in the
"Mirrorion" cycle, but is occasionally broken by scorpionic surges of primal
Power invigorating the act of contemplation.
The effect is equal parts unsettling and soothing; the way forward to the next
ARKTAU EOS outing seen through a spectral kaleidoscope. Performed and mixed
live using mainly obscure ´70s electronica on a real reel tape, it is the
antithesis of the sterile, lifeless sound and attitude of our times; a
connoisseur's choice that stands alone despite its undercurrents flowing from
the heart of 'Mirrorion'.
Comes in a plastic slim case with hand-painted textures and an insert card.
Limited and numbered edition of 222 copies (first 80 copies are included in the 'Mirrorion' -deluxe box).
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MP3 EXCERPTS:
Scorpion Milk (2:39)
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Artist: Aeoga
Title: Zenith Beyond The Helix-Locus
Release date: October, 2005
Catalog# [AH05]
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From beyond the mundane symbolscape, the 2nd album of Aeoga - entitled 'Zenith Beyond the Helix-Locus' -
emits aural phenomena from devouring multi-layered elemental ambience to amorphous and hallucinatory sequences
entrancing one's awareness thoroughly. The fifteen formations manifest themselves in various forms; bright and
luminous helixes intertwine with shadowed and shapeless non-beings. All in all truly overwhelming material where
acoustic instruments and electronic equipment mingle themselves to channel forth the aural elemental current.
(total time: 67:11)
Comes in an oversized 4 panel cardboard covers. Limited to 1000 copies.
PRICE: 10 €
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MP3 EXCERPTS:
Ash-Breath (2:05) -
Reptilevitation (1:56) -
Prism-Mountain (1:47) -
Owleye-Mandalchemy (1:32)-
Lustrous-Kosmolesion (1:42)
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Artist: Aeoga
Title: ZBTHL - Deluxe Box
Release date: October, 2005
Catalog# [AHB03]
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'Zenith Beyond The Helix-Locus' deluxe box consists of:
'Zenith Beyond The Helix-Locus' CD
'Triangle Of Nebula-Devourers' CD-R
'Palace For Vultunales', C-20
3 collage artwork insert cards
Yellow perspex plate with hand-painted drawings
All wrapped in black cloth, bound with cord.
The box is numbered and limited to 42 copies.
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Artist: Aeoga
Title: Triangle Of Nebula-Devourers
Release date: October, 2005
Catalog# [AHCDR01]
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The very first offering from our CD-R section - 'Triangle Of Nebula-Devourers' - presents three exclusive
electro-acoustic soundscapes that will take you straight through the hazy desert toward the non-spatial
zero time. Tempesting, obscure and flowing archaic ambience where meditative rhythms, transcendental resonances
and abstract passages blend together - Sonic alchemy that will permute even the sub-/ non-conscious patterns of
the Self. An incomparable outcome in the field of experimental & abstract ambience.
(total time: 33:33)
Each copy comes in a cardboard sleeve with a unique hand-painted graphics and an insert card.
Limited and numbered edition of 100 copies (first 40 copies are included in the 'Zenith Beyond The Helix-Locus' -deluxe box).
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MP3 EXCERPTS:
Menstrual Skull Consumed (1:51) -
Seize The Flaming Droplets (1:46) -
Let The Sun Become Your Eye (1:41)
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Artist: Aeoga
Title: Palace For Vultunales
Release date: October, 2005
Catalog# [AHMC01]
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'Palace For Vultunales', our first cassette-only release, comes exclusively as a part of Z.B.T.H-L. Deluxe Box. Two dronumental tracks varying from backwards flowing acoustical drones, eerie sample textures and harmonic sound clouds to archaic rhythm patterns. A voyage through the coprophagik cycle into the heart of absolute being - an opus between old school drone ambience and experimental ritual music.
(total time: approx. 19 min.)
Comes in a 2 panel b/w cardboard sleeve - print on both sides.
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MP3 EXCERPTS:
Palace For Vultures (1:56) -
Palace For Vulcanales (1:50)
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Artist: Zoät·Aon
Title: Star Autopsy
Release date: February, 2005
Catalog# [AH04]
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'Star Autopsy' presents nine multi-dimensional dark ambient tracks which range from
radiant textures, mesmerizing / swirling soundscapes to dense / crushing walls of sound and hidden
abstract melodies. By using conventional instruments, various sound generating devices (such as analog synthesizers and samplers),
vocals and other carefully chosen sonic objects Zoät·Aon manages to create an unique, dynamic and truly
enigmatic / expansive atmosphere that continuously spirals further towards the unknown areas of consciousness.
(total time: 66:21).
Comes in an 6 panel cardboard covers with evocative silver-coloured graphics. Limited to 1000 copies.
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MP3 EXCERPTS:
Totem Owl (2:17) -
Exo (1:53) -
Theriomorphic Heralds (1:02) -
Skeletal Sphinx (2:47)
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Artist: Halo Manash
Title: SYoMA
Release date: July, 2004
Catalog# [AH03]
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Halo Manash's third full-lenght album, titled 'SYoMA', offer both minimalistic and complex material mainly created via acoustic instrumentation. The ritualistic / electro-acoustic soundscape is based on dark and hypnotic sample textures, evolving guitar drones, dynamic ritual-percussions & reverberating gongs/chimes/bells, chanting vocalizations, various windbones / experimental instruments and analog synthesizers. "All of the material on this album is dedicated to and inspired by the dynamic subconscious force which gave impulse to visions relating to auto-cannibalism and metempsychosis". (total time: 58:10).
Comes in an 6 panel cardboard covers with astounding silver-coloured drawings. Limited to 1000 copies.
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MP3 EXCERPTS:
putoUSVA (1:47) -
usvaISuusiuTUVA (1:38) -
aLASpaIn sYÖn (1:40) -
Etä-etsijä (1:39) -
irTAUTumInensin (2:02) -
LOi muUtos (1:53)
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Artist: Halo Manash
Title: SYoMA - Deluxe Box
Release date: July, 2004
Catalog# [AHB02]
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'SYoMA' deluxe box consists of:
Wooden / leather covers with special & unique bone-installations
'SYoMA' album
The box is numbered and limited to 30 copies.
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Artist: Aeoga
Title: COAV
Release date: July, 2004
Catalog# [AH02]
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The debut album of Aeoga, titled as 'COAV ', presents very original and haunting material based on spiralling dark drones, eerie guitar feedback textures, archaic drum and cymbal patterns, atonal / tonal vocalizations and distant / peculiar sample layers. The 8 tracks of the album offer material from organic dark ambient / archaic & ascetic horizons to dark and haunting tribal/ritual atmospheres. "To exhaust mind and body in order to obtain a condition of non-consciousness and thus receive, realize and create material based on both primal and absent vision". (total time: 65:52).
Comes in a special octagon shaped cardboard covers including an 6 panel textured cardboard sleeve. Limited to 1000 copies.
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MP3 EXCERPTS:
COAV - I (2:20) -
COAV - II (2:10) -
COAV - IV (2:24) -
COAV - V (2:16) -
COAV - VII (1:48)
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Artist: Aeoga
Title: COAV - Deluxe Box
Release date: July, 2004
Catalog# [AHB01]
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'COAV ' deluxe box consists of:
Special c. 75-years old covers
'COAV ' album
Two unique collage artworks
The box is numbered and limited to ten pairs and each pair share between themselves a unique collage artwork.
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Artist: Halo Manash
Title: Par-Antra I: VIR
Release date: February, 2004
Catalog# [AH01]
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The first part of the Par-Antra trilogy, entitled ’VIR’, consists of 9 very original, intense and multilayered tracks. The soundscape is based on various hypnotic e-bowed guitars, shamanic percussions and cymbals, windbones, chanting vocals, surreal samples and analog synthesizers, thus offering material from organic dark ambient / surreal electro-acoustics to sinister ritualistic atmospheres. (total time: 63:31).
Comes in an 8 page (black/white) A5 booklet with plenty of visual material and information to assist your meditation.
Limited to 1000 copies, first 200 copies include a ’VIR-wallcanvas’ (50cm X 40cm) made by using color-removal technique. Each canvas is unique.
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MP3 EXCERPTS:
ast unTA AKSElin (2:16) -
VARJOutoMAA (2:01) -
kulKU ISKA AJAn alla (2:36) -
siE LUs tO (2:07)
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