I guess many of you have heard Telepherique cause of their large discography which among the other features some interesting collaborations with artists such as like Ultra Milkmaid and Maurizio Bianchi. This time what we've is another full record to supplement their eve increasing discography and the guest appearance for the occasion is Hue from Sparkle in Grey's fame, he remixed some original sounds coming from their past releases on Afe and didn't betrayed the original atmospheres. The fact is the whole recording is quite homogeneous in a really good way, there's also a nocturnal feel that's probably what we can consider one of Telepherique's main characteristics together with the fact they've an evolved eighties rhythmical electronics feel and this quasi-ambiental mood pushing underneath. I know many of you into the last trend of the day by reading: "eighties rhythmical electronics" are on the way to surrender to the obvious prejudice this one is the typical passatist release from some old hero unable to move on... the answer is: no fucking way!. Telepherique have evolved, what I mean is that they simply haven't betrayed their original spirit and their genome by adding some glitches or some white noise randomly. Some of these people had to do with Ant Zen and I'm tented to comment somehow that helps a lot to make a picture of how it sound like, sure that's not your average Ant Zen release (If there's an average release by that label) but you will agree with the fact there's a nocturnal, post-experimental, post-early-industrial, nordic feel that's mutual to many of their releases and that's the case too. Simple straight squared rhythmics combined with soft simple crepuscular melodies, it paints a cold but yet human scenario, add to this that despite the one hour length of the cd, it's really far from sounding repetitive, in my book it means thumbs up for me.

Nekyia are a kind of neo-folk / dark wave crossover act with black ambient leanings. The band comes from Lubawa and was formed in 1999. They use the electronics sparingly acting as a device for the music and voices to bloom and flow. What we get is dark ambient with industrial and folk bits. The fourth album from Nekyia finds them producing ritualistic dark ambient in the vein of Coph Nia, Atrium Carceri and Ain Soph, starting from dark ambient, whic dominates, up to neofolk and industrial, skilfully combining numbers of styles in their music. The material is well recorded and produced; it's clear that the band is purposive as far as their sound is concerned. What distinguishes Nekyia from these bands is that the music of SLOWMOTION DOWNHELLS features actual lyrics (in English) and singing, mostly in a world-weary monotone, such as a purely instrumental dark ambient suite. The music is strongly keyboard-based, although "Waters Of The Elysian Fields Are Strongly Caustic" features muted drums and acoustic guitar. The clear, spacious production creates an effective soundstage on which the deep sonic rumblings of the album are presented. Slowmotion Downhells comes done up in a parchment envelope with various inserts. The 100-copy deluxe limited edition of the album (maybe yet available) also come with two reproduction ancient Greek obulus coins. Who do they sound like? Let the music speak for itself!

This' the solo project of Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (current member of Larsen), the label is Important records therefore sit down and relax. Probably many of you have already heard Larsen and you know how skeletal they may sound, on his solo project Fabrizio goes even deeper to the bone, a real "x-ray experience". I've been tempted to label it as a "minimalist work", and probably it describes perfectly how the sound of Larsen here is reduced to its lowest terms (I think Fabrizio's solo projects can give an good idea of the importance he has in the sound of his primary band). On this cd many of his influences gets diluted into an oceanic calm: Swans, Bauhaus, isolationism, industrial music decomposed and melted together into a desolating new shape. Uniformed gray painted all over from the cover to the tracks, this' decadence in slowmotion or austerity in pills, I'm sure the depressed freak inside of everyone you will appreciate it. "Shining camels and rising anacondas" and "I'm with u" are my favorite episodes, I've asked myself how much "Under the cables, into the wind" could have been different if everything would have been equally guitar oriented as these two tracks. This' an unconventional release for Important but at last the label as an incredible rooster (from Merzbow to Noam Chomsky), anyhow there's this "trance-like-trip" not so far from other titles from the same catalogue: Genesis p-Orrige, Muslimgauze, Hafler Trio, John Fahey, are good examples of what I mean. Desolated, sad, obsessive and minimal music: live it or leave it.