Sorc'henn - Gula Guten

Sorc'henn
Gula Guten (Snapped In Half siht22)
CDr edition of 40 hand-numbered copies

Quite different from Silvestrig, Gula Guten is equally impressive. It includes what seems to be dialogs from an old Swedish movie, but it could be anything else for that matter. Once again the overall mood is dark but we have left the woods for more industrial landscapes.

Sorc'henn continues with his obsession for goats on both titles, and the great title for track 2 is 'Drunk With The Old Goat On The Mountain' : Nurse With Wound fans will appreciate! (And they'll surely dig the music too!).

A perfect soundtrack for a movie by David Lynch yet to be made (and probably one of his scariest...)

Released on Snapped In Half, it seems that it is still available at the source : you know what to do...


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Sorc'henn - Silvestrig

Sorc'henn
Silvestrig (Tavarn Keben bes44)
CDr edition of 71

My first in a series of Sorc'henn posts, Silvestrig is one long track (actually not called Silvestrig but Grand Goat-Heads Processing Choir and it makes more sense). It reminds me of some William Basinski's work, quite minimal and repetitive but carrying a lot of feeling and conjuring vivid images. You can easily imagine you're lost in some strange forest and you chance upon a equally strange ritual performed by goat-headed individuals... if you get my meaning.

Plainly said, it's really darn good music, buy a copy if you find one, you won't be disappointed!

Sorc'henn is Laurent B. main project, and Silvestrig was released on his own Tavarn Keben label in 2008. More to follow.


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Ajilvsga / Pine Smoke Lodge - Lighting The Qulliq vol. 2

Ajilvsga / Pine Smoke Lodge
Lighting The Qulliq vol. 2 (Existential Cloth Recordings, 2009)
CDr edition of 25

Did I say that I really don't like split releases...? Well, for a change, this one is great! It just flows nicely from Pine Smoke Lodge titles to Ajilsga : you can make the difference obviously, but everything fits in place and stays in the same mood.
This release sure makes me want to listen to more Pine Smoke Lodge (Lighting The Qulliq Vol. 1 & 3 are available). Nice black digipack with gloomy insert (can't get enough of mummified Indian corpses, or can I?...)

Existential Cloth Recordings only have a myspace page, here it is.


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November is gone...

... and I didn't even post once!

Hopefully December will find me less busy, so I can resume my irregular posting. I still haven't found the time to rip some more cassettes, in fact I have hours of music that I haven't listened to yet!

Next upload should be Lighting The Qulliq Vol. 2, and some time in the not too far future, Purple and Silver Crow by Ajilvsga, and maybe half a dozen Sorc'henn releases...

Soon.


I promise.


Well, I hope.

Ajilvsga - Earth Lodge

Ajilvsga
Earth Lodge (Not Not Fun Records NNF097)
2xCS edition of 100 numbered copies

A two-cassette set on Not Not Fun. Seriously one of the best Ajilvsga releases. Great artwork two with a real dry leave. Nothing more to add, just listen to it!

Not my rip, too lazy to rip my own copy...

Update : there is a gap (about 10 seconds of silence) in the first track. Maybe there are more problems with those files. I prefer to remove the link, it seems I'll have to rip my own cassettes after all...

Ajilvsga - Red Crow

Ajilvsga
Red Crow (Digitalis Limited / Peyote Tapes)
C32 edition of 13

Very, very limited (13 copies!), this tape was a tour only edition sold at a show on November 13th, 2008 at "The Monolith" with Peaking Light & Language Of Light.

First instalment in the 'insert-colour-here' Crow and the most limited of the series, co-released by Digitalis Limited (Brad's label) and Peyote Tapes (Nathan's label).

It was re-released on vinyl in 2009 via the Amethyst Sunset label. Some copies are still available, so run for it!

I haven't managed (yet) to get a copy of the original tape (but I'm waiting for the vinyl) so this isn't my rip. I got the files again from borxes (behind the always excellent akteon blog). Thanks to both borxes and the original poster, whoever he was...


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Ajilvsga - Blue Crow

Ajilvsga
Blue Crow (Digitalis Limited / Peyote Tapes)
C30 edition of 17

Very limited again (17 copies!), this tape was a tour only edition sold at a show on February 23rd at "The Monolith" with Black Guys & Sabertooth Cavity. Some copies were later sold by Brad Rose and I managed to get one...
This is the second instalment in the 'insert-colour-here' Crow after Red and were all co-released by Digitalis Limited (Brad's label) and Peyote Tapes (Nathan's label).

I haven't managed (yet) to get a copy so this isn't my rip. I got the files from borxes (behind the ever excellent akteon blog). Thanks to both borxes and the original poster, whoever he was...


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