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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

Zi iacchos – Fragments (Self-Released)

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Fragments is a series of short musical pieces conceived as breaths rather than songs.

After the album Ornaments, which was built around text, voice, and symbolic articulation, Fragments moves in the opposite direction:
less language, less structure, less intention.

Each piece is limited in duration (around two minutes), not by constraint, but by necessity.
They are not meant to develop or conclude — they appear, remain briefly, and dissolve.

The voice, when present, is reduced to a single word, a syllable, or a gesture.
Sound is treated as matter: grain, air, erosion, suspension.

Fragments was composed and recorded live, without overdubs, to preserve fragility and immediacy.
It is designed for saturated minds and quiet rooms — a space to breathe, not to explain.

This EP is not a continuation of Ornaments, but its decantation.

Kali Malone + Drew McDowall – Magnetism (Ideologic Organ)

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Kali Malone and Drew McDowall present Magnetism, their first collaborative album born from a decade-long friendship and ignited by a single day of creative synergy. When Malone stepped into McDowall’s Brooklyn home studio, a shared vision immediately took root and set the course for a remarkable collaboration between these two singular artists.
On Magnetism, Malone’s poignant and evocative melodies manifest through McDowall’s signature timbral synthesis, creating a unified voice that soars freely and radiates with vitality. Technically, the duo employs an exquisite blend of Karplus-Strong synthesis, distortion and just intonation. Kali and Drew embrace these tools with refined grace while moving fluidly within their musical framework. Charged by the magnetic pull of repetition, saturation, and resonance, Magnetism pulses as a living music that captivates the senses and lingers long in the mind after the final notes fade.

All music by Kali Malone + Drew McDowall
Recorded at Drew’s house, NYC 2022
Mixed by Randall Dunn at Circular Ruin, NYC 2023
Additional mixing on track 1 & 2 by Kali Malone, Paris 2024
Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC 2025
Artwork by Manon Cavalier, Paris 2025
Portrait by Randall Dunn, NYC 2023
Special thanks to Shane & Zeeke
Ideologic Organ curation & design by Stephen O’Malley
Released in association with Shelter Press
℗+© 2025 Ideologic Organ

Zane Trow – Ibis (Room40)

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A note from Zane

the moon, wisdom, knowledge, writing, hieroglyphs, science, magic, art and

… judgment, so they say

i have got to know a stand of sixteen Ibis quite well over the last few years, never any trouble

we live in times of rising fascism once more, though of course, it has never been far away. the endless war stretches on. the whole system – the onslaught of inhumane competition, the normalisation of cruelty, racism, genocide …

“ni dios, ni estado, ni patrón” …

from the stand there is one Ibis, once or twice every day, to oversee an avocado tree and keep a keen eye, just in case some avos might fall … the tree is forty years old … the bill well skilled.
 
most of the field recordings here are from the same stretch of wetlands and riverside. many birds live there, and they try their best not to offend anyone, but their habitat will soon be scraped out and covered in crude development. there are three recordings of the same lagune at different times of day, one is treated and overlayed on another … and one is annotated with a distant creek at nightfall, in the mountains after a cyclone. there is also a bell, treated, from the ice cream truck that, for the last twenty years or so, has passed up my street every month …
in the evolving electronics, feedback styling and synthesis improvisation there is an abiding interest in the raveling and unraveling of sonic textures .. exploring unresolved tensions between ideas of time and space, the recorded and the live, the analogue and the digital, the real and the unreal …
……………..
analogue, digital and virtual synthesizers, found sounds, sonic devices, analogue echo & digital delay units, percussives.

created, recorded, audiomulched and mixed at Studio Vector in Slacks Creek, January thru June 2025.

I would like to show my respect and acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country and to all Elders past, present and emerging, the Traditional Owners of the lands, winds and waters.
Many thanks to Lawrence English for mastering and support.

Various Artists – Tomb Of Iconoclasts (Cryo Chamber)

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The Tombs series returns with a special roster curated by Apocryphos featuring new and familiar artists, creating atmospheres of dread and existential horror.

The knell of a distant bell fallen can be heard within the decayed houses of the gods. Once standing with grandeur and might, these temples are now their own tombs across a wasteland left by man.

Recommended for fans of oppressive dark ambient, brooding atmospheric and layered texturing


Tomb Series Discography:
Tomb of Empires – cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/tomb-of-empires
Tomb of Seers – cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/tomb-of-seers
Tomb of Druids – cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/tomb-of-druids
Tomb of Ordeals – cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/tomb-of-ordeals
Tomb of Wights – cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/tomb-of-wights
Tomb of Primordials – cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/tomb-of-primordials
Tomb of Iconoclasts – cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/tomb-of-iconoclasts

 

released October 7, 2025

Written, Produced, Performed
Apocryphos
Atrox Pestis
Dødsmaskin
Envenomist
Fractalyst
Gnawed
Infinexhuma
New Risen Throne
Plague Machinery
Pœna Sensus
Phragments

Artwork & Mastering
Simon Heath

Born Erased – I Am The End Of The World (BLWBCK)

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“I Am The End of The World” is the first offering of Born Erased, a new endeavor by Bulgarian musician Angel Simitchiev, who first appeared on BLWBCK in 2013 with his now-defunct alias Mytrip. As both the project name and album title suggest, the music is meant to evoke bleaker, darker, and even dystopian visions. These are parts of a narrative that is simultaneously deeply personal and universal. Muted anger, despise, and hatred for the world collide with hope for freedom, even if it comes at the cost of the total eradication of the reality we are forced to live in. “I Am The End of The World” took nearly three years to be completed. The backbone of the record was written in a breath but then slowly structured and expanded upon. In this album, Simitchiev juxtaposes his nearly two decades’ worth of ambient research with his long involvement in hardcore punk. Severely deformed guitars, cavernous synths, and drastically manipulated recordings of heavy machinery are organically intertwined to become the core of the album.

A big part of why it is so impactful is that the gates were open for several guest musicians who added even more depth and character to a record already highly dense with sound. Moss Harvest (tape manipulation and textures) and V0LAND (cello) are found on two of the more straightforward ambient tracks in the album. Shattering, almost doom-influenced live drums on three of the tracks have been performed by Boris Malevanov (Nocktern, Heptagram) which brings this otherwise fragile and drifting genre to its most extreme form.

blwbck.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-the-end-of-the-world

gaylon : aeon – Distant I & II

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION !
since Bandcamp is forcing us to use ‘Stripe’ (wich involves massive, mandatory and uncontrolled data collection and implicit support to american far right) all my music is now free !

I ask you to support my work by using my Ko-Fi account :
ko-fi.com/aeon_music

NO $ FOR THE PIGS !
thanks.

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see also : aeon7.bandcamp.com/album/distant-i

this album is a transatlantic collab with the talented multi-instrumentalist Alex Gaylon, who has experimented with several bands ranging from noise to jazz.

aeon :
‘after the rich experience of Alex’s guitar improvisations on “Distant I,” I felt the need to rework certain parts in my own ‘style’.

not to please my ego but to tell in more detail the story of this space castaway who slowly loses his mind.

in these troubled times I guess everyone can relate to it and maybe find some peace with our music.’

to enjoy the best experience, please use decent headphones, at high volume 🙂

we know that times are tough for many of you.
so we decided to set the price of this release to ‘pay what you want’ (or can).

for those who wonder what price is ‘fair’ the answer is $8 ($1 per track or 4 minutes). of course, any contribution, big or small, will still be greatly appreciated (remember that $1 is about 300 streams).

Evgeny Bylina – Accidental Meetings (Florina Cassettes)

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“No knowledge of where gone from. Nor of how. Nor of whom. None of whence come to. Partly to. Nor of how. Nor of whom. None of anything. Save dimly of having come to. Partly to. With dread of being again. Partly again. Somewhere again. Somehow again. Someone again”.

From “Ceiling” (1981), by Samuel Beckett

What will you do when confronted with nothingness?
On his sophomore effort “Accidental Meetings”, Evgeny Bylina meditates on this existential question. The album was created by chance while working on another record. Drawing inspiration from the prose of Samuel Beckett, this two-track tape laments the past, echoing the sound of the dance floor with its long, carefully constructed pieces.

These ambient compositions exist only as distant memories of a joyful past. The harsh reality of the morning urges you to look into the abyss hidden in the ceiling or wall. In a way, it’s a hungover record, reflecting an emotional and physical state of decadence: blurry and tranquil, it inverts the surroundings in the liminal space for a while.
However, it’s not just a dream: the heaviness of the environment reminds us that the body is not an abstract concept, but part of the world. Is there any hope? Or are we barely supported by fleeting nostalgia? Listeners must find the answer for themselves.

Words by Artem Makarskiy

Written and produced by Evgeny Bylina
Mastered by James Edward Armstong
Photos by Pier-Luc Tremblay
Layout by Anne-Julie-Dudemaine
Original painting “Circumcision” attributed to Giorgio Vasari (Oil on wood, about mid-16th c.)
©Florina Cassettes 2025