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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).

T.A.G.C. – Iso-Erotic Calibration (Cold Spring)

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Carefully constructed aural rituals from T.A.G.C., this album maps new realms in the area of sensual electronic music. Founder Adi Newton (Clock DVA) uses The Anti Group as an outlet for his research in psycho-acoustic music. “Iso-Erotic Calibration” explores the potent topic of human sexuality. Recorded over a period of three years, this could be considered on of their more “accessible” albums.

Originally released in 1994 (Side Effects, the label of Lustmord, Musica Maxima Magnetica, and Adi’s own Anterior Research Recordings), we are proud to present the album for the first time on vinyl, as well as the first official CD reissue, fleshed out with four bonus tracks: two were bonus digital-only tracks (2013); one track is taken from the soundtrack to the 2011 T.A.G.C. film ‘Given’; one is a remix of the title track.

The Anti Group Communications (T.A.G.C.) was devised by Adi Newton and Steven James Turner as early as 1978 as a multi-dimensional research & development project. TAGC are not affiliated to any one system of philosophy or epistemological paradigm or occult fraternity but are open more to individual systems and innovative thinkers Science, Art, Music Sonology, Visual Arts, Literature, Research & Publication are its main areas.

The artwork is filled with text and illustrations supporting the different songs.

• CD in 6-panel matt-laminate digipak.

• Black LP on 180gm heavyweight vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve.

• Ltd 300 x Brown LP on 180gm heavyweight vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve.

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releases January 17, 2025

All compositions and production by Adi Newton, 1994.
All tracks from original DAT masters recorded in Florence, Italy, 1993, at the Anterior Research Station.

Iso-Erotic Calibration originally released by Anterior Research Recordings (ARR 003), Musica Maxima Magnetica (eee 20) and Side
Effects (DFX 21).

Bonus CD tracks:

Track 8: remix
Track 9: from the soundtrack to the TAGC film ‘Given’ (2011).
Track 10 & 11: from the digital-only edition (2013)

Mastered for Cold Spring by Martin Bowes at The
Cage, Coventry.

Cover image by Leonor Fini, La Toilette Inutile (‘The Useless Dress’), 1964, oil on canvas. One of two paintings of Ophelia by Fini.

New artwork design by Adi Newton.
Layout by Abby Helasdottir.

Iso-Erotic Calibration: photograph of Unica Zurn by Hans Bellmer (used as the cover of Le Surréalisme, Même 4, 1958).

Union with Sirens: collage by Karel Teige, 1942

Mercurius & Neurological Engineering: montages by Adi newton, circa 2010.

Psychophonphilia: La Permutation Des Sens drawing by Hans Bellmer, 1950.

Annals of Sancity: 19th Century painting of Eerie Scene With Incubus Demon, after Johann Heinrich Füssli.

Ethemeral: Engraving by Louis-Jean Allais of a mural painting from Tomb KV9, Valley of the Kings, Egypt.

Cousin Silas & Glove Of Bones – New Runes (Extended Reissue) [The Cousin Silas Emporium]

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New Runes, re-released with two extra tracks, one refigured by Cousin Silas, and the other by GOB.

Original Notes:
Looking at the files for this album, the first sketches appeared around September 2021. That makes it the longest gestation for a collaboration album with Cousin Silas (our sixth, the last in 2020). It’s also the greatest gap in putting out any new ideas since the GoB began.
In the past I’ve started out with a broadly clear narrative to work around. This didn’t start that way. I just had a circling nucleus of undirected rage that occasionally proposed titles and ideas.

The period from March 2020 to September 2021 delivered so much ‘content’ both over the internets and IRL. It was difficult to filter this down to reason. There’s an interview with David Bowie by Jeremy Paxman from 1999 where DB prophesises the impacts both positive & negative of the internet. Look it up (it’s worth noting that the planet has gone to hell since he passed. Studies need to be made).

It was perhaps not surprising that a global pandemic delivered the best of humanity on so many levels (charity, reason, science, benevolence, realisation of the value of workers, a tantalising look at how life could be better valued and lived) and also finally unboxed the absolute worst that had for numerous past decades been side-lined by truth & reason.

Puritanism, righteousness, division, corruption, an imagined ‘culture war’, embedded & extended privilege, a riled & enraged but ill-informed and manipulated electorate, an unimaginably wealthy tiny number of people, all took a deep breath and realised shouting at the marginalised, using punching down rhetoric and waving flags works and might delay their ultimate & deserved extinction.

Welcome to the New Dark Ages (yes, Pere Ubu got there first but I stand on the shoulders of these giants).

Dedicated to the ‘woke’, the SJWs, the non-conformists, the transgressives, the punks, the anarchists, XTR, the lefties & liberals. Every time these terms are used as slurs it means you’re winning.

New Runes is an arthritic index finger raised and ready.

Thank you to those who contributed to this auditory rant.

G.o.B. // October 2022

Originally released October 28, 2022

The Glove of Bones
Concepts, samples, apps, guitar noises & loops, production / construction / mastering, artwork & video.

1: Introrobus
For the warrior Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011)
“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence”

2: The Universal Hum 3:30am
This track includes a section of dialogue by Anton La Vey and a short section from his musical works.

3: I laughed at the Great God Pan
Cousin Silas: Guitars & synths
Title from a short story by Jack ‘King’ Kirby.

4: New Morning Star
Issy: Djembe
GoB: Anxiety Machine

5: Le Livre des Mensonges
Cousin Silas: Guitar
Antonella Porcelluzzi: Voice
Spoken text from ‘The Book of Lies’ by Alistair Crowley from the AEP project ‘Introducing Alistair Crowley’

6: Urban Nargual
Cousin Silas: Guitar and synths
Issy: Bass loops and solo
Greg Nieuwsma: Midi keys

7: Radio Rapture
Cousin Silas: Guitar and synths

8: The War on Saturnalia
Cousin Silas: Guitar and synths

9: Throwing Bones
Cousin Silas: Guitar and synths

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released November 8, 2024

Cousin Silas & Øystein Q Jørgensen – From Another Place (The Cousin Silas Emporium)

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Label Description: Another batch of new stuff with a selection of reworked solo tracks (by each other) as ‘bonus’ material.

EDITORS NOTE: Large list of redeem codes can be found on the release page.

Christian Fiesel – Analogy (Self Released)

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From the archives Part 2

Originally release on Studio4632 Candy Lozier 17th January 2018
What a great time this was being support by the ever helpful Candy. Some of my best albums face the ears of the world over there.

This a different type, even more sinister, somber and dark as my current works with a complete instrumental set-up (to be honest, most of the used synth I don’t even remember anymore).

It was dark, it was ambient and it was experiemental.

Feel free to serve yourself as long as free downloads are available.

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released February 27, 2024

(P)+(C) 2018/2024 Christian Fiesel

Bahia Mansa – patagonia (ep) [Self-Released]

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Bahía Mansa embarks on a new sonic odyssey, where digital textures entwine in a mesmerizing dialogue with intricately processed acoustic sounds. Forged through uninhibited, free-form sessions, the album unveils lush soundscapes adorned with spontaneous melodic nuances and cascading waves of bitcrushed brilliance, crafted through the integration of salvaged field recordings interlaced with on-site explorations, thus, offering a uniquely organic and immersive auditory experience.

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released December 16, 2023

field recordings by ivan aguayo.
all sound design by ivan aguayo.