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NEZNAMO - Seme>Zemlya (2007)

 Archaically winter is a season of gathering, planning, meditation and rebirth, the weather is cold, drizzle, snow and some heat in the air is enchanted, the hibernation of Ritualistic Nature is due to some of these factors. To celebrate this coming I leave you with this new post, reporting now that the next entries will come from cold Russia, a country that gives us interesting and obscure musical projects of high quality and inspiration.

 NEZNAMO is the music project of  Dmitry N. Shilov from Russia, that in 1996 start creating music with the name of "Unknow" the main goal of the project was the exploration of human's "true ego", using sound/melodical patterns as the way to immerse into the Unconscious, later the project change the name to Neznamo.

‘Seme>Zemlya’ is the first release from Russian Moonsun Productions, formed in 2007 on which Neznamo has released two parts of his MY trilogy, this being the first.

 This E.P. is a solemn Ritual that cross drone landscapes with minimal layers of void that transcend the absence of time, the first track is simple amazing, that  makes me feel part of a calm, mysterious and inpired dense fog. Highly Recommend record.

Released in 2007 by Moonsun Productions.

1- Zemlya

2- Seme

Limited edition of 111 copies. 

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Various – RITUAL PERCUSSION OF KERALA - Vol. 1: Kshetram Vadyam (1998)

 Tini Kerala is located in the southwestern tip of India, but its culture differs considerably from those of India subcontinent. Keralan culture drived from ancient tribes of the region, Hinduism in Kerala appears as a generic term with a variety of ancient rituals. The innumerable temple festivals encompassing numerous art forms and attracting huge crowds of devotes, and are enriched with music, performing, elephant processions, special pujas (forms of worship) etc. The major event in the festival series is the annual temple festival Thripunithura, some of the recordings featured on this disc were made in front of the performing artists, in the midst of a cheering crowd. The diversity of Kerala music styles can best be described in terms of a continuum ranging from pure improvisation to pure composition. The drums used in the styles featured here are chenda (Chempata Melam, Kuzhal Pattu), thimila (Panchavadyam), edaykka (Panchavadyam), and maddalam (Panchavadyam and Maddalam Keli). The wind instruments are kuzhal (kuzhal Pattu, Chempata Melam) and kombu (Chempata Melam and Panchavadyam). The cymbals ilathalam also appers in all tracks. All recordings were made by Rolf Killius (1995-96).

Released on 1998 by VDE-Gallo Records

1- Maddalam Keli

2- Panchavadyam

3- Kuzhal Pattu

4- Champata Melam  

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LUNA DOPA & EMME YA - The Hidden Walker / Apotheosis Psychoerotica (split-2011)

LUNA DOPA is handled by the enigmatic shape of Gabriel Luis B,an Italian deconstructionist and artist which has been deveoping its talent through many magickal devices, by his personal interest on esotericism and occult matters. He creates ritualistic ambient pieces,which surely will transports us to such unknown regions of our subconsious, with deep engulfing drones that grow stronger and is swelling like the ocean to take the listener deep into his magic sound world.

EMME YA is the in deep exploration of Edgar Kerval in the fields of sonic mutations and hybrid soundscapes emerging from astral atavisms. Emme Ya is related to a probaly black planet with two suns (256=11x23 E.Q.) in the Sirius binary star-system.The main influences are the ancient mystical cultures,as atlantis,sumerian gods,voodo pantheon,atavisms,and diverse abstract forms which reflects into our mind,more than the perceived reality hidden in ancient stellar wisdom.This enigmatic ritualistic sound structure are filled with dense astral emanations and magickal paradigms.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Released on 2011 by Nihil Art Recs label

1- LUNA DOPA: The Absence

2- LUNA DOPA: The Ninth Walker

3- LUNA DOPA: The First Shadow Over Myself

4- LUNA DOPA: Stellarum

5- EMME YA: Astral Nekrophilia

6- EMME YA: Gate Ov Dreams (Labyrinth 71)

7- EMME YA: The Dance Of Kali Ma

8- EMME YA: Qoph Vel Hekate

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OBOZDUR - Pessima (2009)

 Obozdur is Vitaly Maklakovone and its one of his music projects and comes from Russia. According to author each Obozdur album carries a deeper personality mark and convey musician's emotional state: depression, impulsivity, unsteadiness, satisfaction, retirement into himself or into outward things.

 Pessima its a great journey in the field of Shamanic electronic sounds with mysterious drones, fascinating rhythms, industrial clanks and creaks, ritual loops.

Released in 2009, by Operator Produkzion label.

1- Bdenie

2- Aural'nyi Sdvig

Limited to 61 hand-numbered copies, recorded live in winter 2007. 

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PHURPA - Trowo Phurnag Ceremony (2008)

 Phurpa are a five-man Tibetan monastic choir, they start their activity in the middle of the 1990's in Moscow, led by Alexei Tegin and based at the legendary Fabrique of Cardinal Art commenced their studies of traditional ritual music, drifting away from the field of contemporary electroacoustic and industrial music with the intent to delve deeper into the ancient musical cultures of the ancient Egypt, Iran and Tibet.

 Phurpa takes Tantric rgyud-skad (specific kind of overtone chanting, which is based on the principle of the singer's transmogrification during the so-called "chanting meditation") to the next level, so turn off the light and let you immerse on this deep dark and enlight voyage to the ends of subconscious.

Released in 2008 on Sketis Music label

1-  Fundamental Mantra of Bon

2- Introduction

3- The Visualization

4- Cpnferring Empowerment and Self-Transformation

5- Emanating the Retinue of the Deity

6- The Charge to Action

7- Puja Offering and Praises

p.s. The ritual Tibetan instruments as used by the ensemble include the following:

dunchen, gyaling, silnyen, bub, damaru, kanling, nga, shang.

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PRIMA MATERIA- La Coda Della Tigre (aka The Tail Of The Tiger, 2005/1977)

 Prima Materia was a obscure experimental drone project that took shape in 1973 in San Diego, consisting by Claudio Ricciardi, Gianni Nebbiosi, Roberto Laneri and Susanne Hendricks, they created a amazing sound with the use of the most original and archaic instrument, the human voice. 

 The unusal developed vocal techniques were originally used in Tantric rituals in North India, Mongolia and Tibet, based upon the use of overtones coupled with a special state of inner concentration, which was the essential condition for both the emission and control of long-sustained and complex vocal sounds. You must have a open mind to appreciate this outstanding dense ritual trance inducing drone vocal soundscapes. HIGGLY RECOMMEND record.

Released in 2005 by Die Schachtel label

1- La Coda della Tigre

2- (live) Berlin, October 19th, 1974 Metamusik Festival

3- (live) Roma, January 17, 1976

p.s. "The Tail of the Tiger" was originally released on LP  in 1977. This new version is limited to 500 copies.

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