SOPOR AETERNUS & The Ensemble Of Shadows - Angel of the Golden Fountain

SOPOR AETERNUS & The Ensemble Of Shadows - Angel of the Golden Fountain
EP released December 4, 2015

Sangre de Muérdago - O Camiño Das Mans Valeira

Sangre de Muérdago - O Camiño Das Mans Valeira
Neofolk 2015

Circuncelion - Begotten - Forgotten

Circuncelion - Begotten - Forgotten

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Circuncelion recovers the essence of the legendary label 4AD, Dark Wave Minimal absolutely wonderful, with a voice reminiscent of Brendan Perry or Peter Murphy. Essential!

Weh – Ingenmannsland

Weh – Ingenmannsland
Neofolk from Norway, released 2015

Les Jumeaux Discordants

New album: Les Jumeaux Discordants
Dark gothic ambient electronic neofolk
released December 29, 2015

In Gowan Ring - Visions of Shadows that Shine

Neofolk released 2016

Engelsstaub - The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Mix of Gothic Rock, Darkwave, Neofolk and Industrial. Great album, give it some listenings.

Gothtune Spotify Playlist 2012

This is music we played in Gothtune Podcasts the year of 2012, enjoy.

Gothtune Podcast #26

Gothtune Podcast #26 is up at onairtunes and itunes. You can also hear it over Deadair Radio.

Tracklist:
01 - Gothtune - Jingle
02 - Reptyle - Morning heir
03 - Carnival Star - Velveteen (Rose of Avalanche Cover)
04 - Liquid Grey - Dance Alone
05 - Horror Vacui - 5000
06 - Big Bug - Basement Stairs
07 - The Stompcrash - Love From Hell
08 - Gazar Strips - Sparking
09 - The Lake - Wingless and Earthbound
10 - La Ciencia - Ofelia
11 - The One2s - Any Other Time
12 - Death Party UK - The Cars of Life
13 - Passion Slaves - Mortal Coils (Demo)
14 - Still Patient? - All Is Well
15 - Swans - Screen Shot

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Lakes - Blood of the Grove

A new review is up at Dark Reviews page, it is Lakes album Blood of the Grove, free streaming. Check it out here!

Opera Multi Steel - Mauvais Oeil

Official OMS video clip directed by Alan Cassiano (2013)
Based on paintings and engravings by Etienne Azambre (1859-1933) and other french anonymous sulpician painters.
"Mauvais Oeil" is taken from the forthcoming OPERA MULTI STEEL album "Mélancolie en prose to be released on Wave Records.

Review for Opera Multi Steels album Apparences De L'Invisible:
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Opera Multi Steel – Apparences De L’Invisible (2014)

Opera Multi Steel is a band from France who recently had their 30 year anniversary as a band. Honestly, this is something new for me, first time I heard them was for some months ago when I played one of their track “mauvais Oeil” over Gothtune Podcast #20, taken from their album “Mélancolie En Prose” 2013.


However, I listen to their new album Apparences De L’Invisible, released 31 of mars 2014 and found it very interesting. I gave it some time, and I think I needed it because they are kind of different. They describe themselves as Darkwave / Cold Wave, I think I can find some Neofolk and New Wave inside this too. Sometimes they reminded me as a blend of old Dead Can Dance and Joy Division. The lyrics are on french and they play alot with their voices, like doing canons ect.

My favorite songs are track 3, “A L’Extrême Veille D’Un Novembre Imminent” and track 7, “Infini Sidéral”.



This video "Jardin Botanique" is from 1984,



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Antonius Rex – Hystero Demonopathy

I heard Antonius Rex´s album Hystero Demonopathy by a chance when I was surfing over youtube. However, it felt like I have heard this before. And when I checked them out I found out that behind Antonius Rex is Antonio Bartoccetti, he has another project under the name Jacula. And Jacula released their first album 1969.

I got stuck into this album, I have listen on it with repeat in the past week. It felt like I found the holy grail, a lost treasure. This is fantastic!

Hystero Demonopathy was official released 2012-12-12. This is gothic progressive rock, very dark and evil with a blend of humor. It is mainly instrumental, sometimes there is speaking whispering vocals and sometimes samples, I guess from old movies.

I can find so much things inside this record, I do not know if it is influences or who influence who here. Antonio Bartoccetti have somehow kept his style since the old time Jacula. But I felt much reminding of Devil Doll, even Laibach, Sopor Aeternus and Madre Del Vizio sometimes. There is of course progressive rock, sometimes with a blend of 70´s jazz touch, but also neofolk, metal, classic music ect. Antonius Rex have succeeded here to build up an atmosphere where you can picture a story from the beginning of this record til the end. The story feels very much medieval, and I guess there is a witch hunt by knights. Some moments they really succeeded to build up a hunting atmosphere. I really jumped on my chair when I heard samplings with my Swedish native language. “Du är så snäll mot mig”, that means “You are so kind to me”. I need to figure it out from where Antonius Rex have took this sentences from.

You should give this album a chance, and listen to it in a relaxing moment because this is music that brings a vision of a story, and there is not a happy ending in this one.

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SOPOR AETERNUS & The Ensemble Of Shadows - POETICA - all beauty sleeps

Ett av årets bästa album må jag säga.

Gothtune Podcast #17

Gothtune podcast-17 - 201309 by Gothtune on Mixcloud

01 - Gothtune - Jingle
02 - Masquerade - Play Dead
03 - La Calle Morgue - Frecuencia de las Aves
04 - In Strict Confidence - Tiefer
05 - Ad Inferna - Eternity Regained (Acoustic Version)
06 - Corpus Principium - Languish
07 - Horror Vacui - In darkness you will feel alright
08 - The Rose Phantom - Until
09 - Madness of the Night - Taste the Madness
10 - Katabazija - Divlja Horda ( Borghesia cover )
11 - Evestus - Sleep Forever
12 - ASP - Unverwandt
13 - Daemonia Nymphe - The Great Divinity
14 - Soror Dolorosa - Hologram
15 - Lost Owl Virgin Ever - Heaven Is No Place On Earth

Angels of venice - A Chantar Mer

Neo- folk med kvalité.



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Angels Of Venice was founded by harpist Carol Tatum in 1993 and consists of Carol Tatum (harp/bouzouki), Cathy Biagini (cello) and Christina Linhardt (vocals/soprano/flute).

The group's core sound is harp, cello, vocals, bouzouki and flute and combines Middle Eastern, medieval and neoclassical styles. As of 2011, their newest venture, "Musique Neo-Antique," combines ancient music with modern arrangements of songs from the 13th century to Renaissance, classical, traditional and hymns plus original compositions such as the Christian cross-over song "Surrender."

Harpist and bouzouki player Carol Tatum is an ASCAP member, producer and published songwriter and has released 6 CDs of original Angels Of Venice music with songs on over 20 compilation CDs for Windham Hill Records. She has also co-written with rock vocalist Lenny Wolf of the band Kingdom Come for his CDs "Hands Of Time" (Polygram), "Bad Image" (WEA International) and "Rendered Waters" (released April, 2011). Carol is currently collaborating with vocalist David Swan Montgomery from the tribute band Led Zepagain for a 2011 release of original acoustic music in a style reminiscent of Led Zeppelin III.

Soprano Christina Linhardt sings in archaic French, Galaceo-Portuguese, Latin and Swiss and is most known for her "Classics to Cabaret" musical act which she performed as the headliner for the opening of the Grand Concert Hall Parksalle in Saxony, Germany, as well as the re-opening of the Palace Ligner, Dresden.

Cellist Cathy Biagini is first-chair cellist with Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Santa Barbara Symphony and the Redlands Symphony. Before coming to the Los Angeles area, she was principal cellist for Savannah Symphony for six seasons.

Angels of Venice

Rome - Fester

Rome är ett neofolk/material- band från Luxenburg, som grundades 2005. De har i år släppt ett nytt albumet, Fester med fyra låtar. Deras musik är ganska minimalistisk och mycket akustiskt, oftast gitarr.
Skivan, eller ep´n är helt ok, låten The Beast Pain påminner väldigt mycket om Nick Cave.

1 Fester
2 Silverstream
3 The Beast Pain
4 Le Vertige Du Vide

Det går att provlyssna hos Last.fm

METUS - Dust

Metus släpper en ny skiva i oktober i år. Här är ett smakprov, låten Dust:



www.metus.pl
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Sopor Aeternus - The Urine Song