Olhava – Frozen Bloom (Avantgarde Music)

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Frozen Bloom is our fourth album where we took some different routes compositionally(sic). Two of four tracks are traditionally storm-like blackgaze passages and another two are leaning towards more meditative drone experience.

It is about unfulfilled dreams. About how we sacrifice everything today for some abstract “tomorrow” which may never come. But tomorrow and yesterday don’t exist – only this very moment of static contemplation.

When winter is just starting to fade and give some space for a spring’s first steps, when first life starts to reappear and the very early flowers peek through the thawing soil a sudden shift in temperature can leave them petrified and frozen back again like being punished by the Queen of Fields. This statuesque dead beauty, being infinitely alive and dead at the same time is Frozen Bloom.

We got a chance to collaborate with A. Lunn (appearing courtesy of Bindrune records) who kindly agreed to record an electric guitar solo as well as acoustic parts and choral parts on Frozen Bloom I

Recording, mixing and mastering by Mihail Kurochkin
Cover art by Daniel Teisakowski (@daniel_tskwsk)
Guest electric guitar, acoustic guitar, square neck resonator guitar and choral vocals – A. Lunn (Appearing courtesy of Bindrune recordings)
Physical release via Avantgarde music
Cassette release by Slowsnow records

Skaldr – Saṃsṛ (Avantgarde Music)

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Continuing with the melodious gloom of their debut album, Scythe of Our Errors, Skaldr beckons from the darkness once more with their sophomore record, Saṃsṛ. A thematic observation of loss, devastation, and change, Saṃsṛ observes the ways in which death and life, formation and demise, are an inextricable cycle – providing an endless and inevitable means to the continuity of each in turn.

Physical copies of the album (CD & Vinyl) and t-shirts are available from the Avantgarde Music Bandcamp page :
avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/sam-sr


HH – Guitars
BD – Guitars
CV – Bass, Vocals, & Violin
Myrdynn & TE – Drums

Saṃsṛ was recorded at Trepan Studios

Mixed and Mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound Studio.

Artwork by Adam Burke

Released by Avantgarde Music