 MOLJEBKA PVLSE – Borrowed Scenery (LP/digital) We have been announcing this album for a long time, preceding its premiere with the CDEP “Borrowed Scenery: Appearance” which is both an introduction and a complement to the concept contained on the album. Two long compositions filling both sides of the black vinyl create a very coherent and compact musical material that fits perfectly into the stylistic framework of the ambient / drone aesthetics. Mathias Josefson and his partner attempted to record journeys taking place in the world of our imagination, somewhere on the border of dream and reality, using a specific language that they communicate with their listeners. They consistently develop their previously chosen direction, defining the nature of the latest publications for Reverse Alignment, where the dense, tarry sound material accompanying his work gives way to drone but extremely spatial compositions, based on a whole range of warm and ethereal sounds, emanating from the rich instrumentarium, numerous samples and field recordings. This fragile and volatile substance was used by the duo to form the basis on which they set their suggestive, plastic and strongly influencing music drama on the imagination of the audience.LP released on black 180 g vinyl, limited to 200 copies.  SCHRÖTTERSBURG – Om Shanti Om (LP/CD/digital) Om Shanti Om” – a brand new album from Schröttersburg. The material contained here was created in a very short time from the recording of the previous album “Dalet”. Unable to participate in concerts during the lockdown, the musicians hid in their rehearsal room and began experimenting, using various instruments that hadn’t been used before (including sheet metal, kalimba, oil barrels, djembe, karatala, Aztec whistle death); and by making use of them, they enriched their existing sound, which opened them even more to bolder exploration of new sonic regions, sometimes significantly different from their main previous style. Here, the new wave is only a starting point and an only convention from which the band starts their escape to other regions/genres in a moment, leaving a lot of space for the musical tradition of India or the Middle East. On this album, the marriage of their music with psychedelia, Krautrock is even more clearly felt, and the emphasis was even stronger on building the composition in the spirit of industrial aesthetics. For the band “Om Shanti Om” it is also a journey inside themselves, their spirituality and extrasensory states. The idea behind the creation of this material was to create a specific mantra cleansing the mind and body from bad energy, which consists of 6 consecutive pieces, marked only with numbers I-VI.  |
| VIDNA OBMANA – Memories Compiled : Three Tapes (3CD/digital) This publication is the second Trilogy of this project, released under the banner of Zoharum. This time it collects ambient recordings, recorded in the early period of VIDNA OBMANA’s activity, originally published on 3 different cassettes in 1989-1991: “Gathering In Frozen Beauty”, “Near The Flogging Landscapes”, “Refined On The Gentle Clouds”, and which have never been re-issued in any other form so far. Now fully refreshed, mastered by Dirk Serries and with graphics based on Matrina Verhoeven’s photos, they are collectively an archival album interesting in terms of music, characterized by high quality and incredibly good sound. It is not only a collector’s curiosity for the most loyal fans of the VIDNA OBMANA project, but for all those who are looking for good ambient music.3CD album released in eight-panel digipack, limited to 400 copies. |