Neue CDs von VORTEX und NEW RISEN THRONE

Cyclic Law veröffentlicht die Tage zwei neue Dark Ambient-Scheiben: Die Deutschen VORTEX um :IKONEN:-Herausgeber Marcus Stiglegger beschäftigen sich auf "Rockdrill" mit der Skulpturwelt des britischen Künstlers Jacob Epstein. Auf den Spuren skandinavischer Ambientkünstler wandeln die Italiener NEW RISEN THRONE auf "Loneliness of Hidden Structures".

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VORTEX "Rockdrill" CD / Digital (35th Cycle)
Vortex is a German sound art project from :Golgotha: and Aeterna member Marcus Stiglegger, challenging the boundaries of ritual and dark ambient music. After the critically acclaimed debut album "Phanopoeia" (2008) out on Tesco Organization and the media book/soundtrack "Silence" (:Ikonen: media 2009), the new full length album ‘Rockdrill’ continues on the same path and mobilizes acoustic instruments (guitar, percussion, piano), voice, electronics and samples to create a unique and very epic sound monument in 11 parts. Vortex is named after a modernist British art movement of the 1920s called Vorticism, headed by Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis. The new album ‘Rockdrill’ is especially inspired by a sculpture called ‘Rock Drill’by the Vorticist artist Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959). It was built according to his sketches in 1913-14 to symbolize 'the terrible Frankenstein's monster we have made ourselves into'. The sculpture had a huge influence on the Vorticist movement and inspired several cantos by Ezra Pound (LXXXV–XCV, Section: Rock-Drill, 1956). It was destroyed during the war and cast again in bronze in 1962. Epstein himself did not like the sculpture and decided to "save" only a part of the actual figure - not the rock drill itself. The concept of this album is to reconstruct the history, mood and allegory of this piece of sculptural art as well as its impact on modern art movements. A 12 page booklet adds rare visual documents to the whole.‘Rockdrill’ by Vortex is consciously caught between archaic and modern energies, between history and present. This truly complex album transcends the frontiers of ambient soundscapes in order to awake a nearly forgotten sense of beauty and grace within modernist avant-garde by using twisted rhythm patterns, pounding industrial percussion and fragile organic ambiance.Fans of Northern European post industrial acts will appreciate this album for it sheer power and atmospheric strength while sound art listeners will slowly uncover layer after layer of this many faced composition.

Edition of 500 copies in 4 panel digi sleeve with 12 page booklet.
11 Tracks. Running Time 53:50

NEW RISEN THRONE "Loneliness Of Hidden Structures" CD / Digital (38th Cycle)
New full length album by Italy's New Risen Throne which marks a welcomed return to Cyclic Law. "Loneliness Of Hidden Structures" is the latest chapter of a series that began with "Whispers Of The Approaching Wastefulness" (Cyclic Law 2007) and continued on with "Crossing The Withered Regions" (Cold Meat Industry 2009). The first of this series is explained as the annunciation of the end, while the second part was expressing the advent of this end. Now this third chapter speaks of rebirth. Within the caves and ruins left by the destruction, there begins to form the first foundations and structures of a reconstruction that is in turn in constant evolution. The album's track listing is structurally organized in order to evoke that evolution:

1. The echoes of the end that travel through the empty regions ("Into Lungs declining structures", "Echoes from the loss")
2. New forms listening to the "silence" of a new world ("Loneliness", "New Risen Throne", "Lands filled with silence and grief")
3. Structures evolving and coming out from the shadows ("A vision of the hidden", "Breath of growing structures")
Filled with New Risen Throne's now trademark sound of deep cavernous drones, processed voices and percussive moments, this new album is a superb follow up to his now impressive discography. Features exclusive remixes by Nordvargr and Northaunt.

Edition of 1000 copies. Enhanced CD with a special Video Clip of the track New Risen Throne (I), comes in a 4 panel A5 folder.
9 Tracks. Running Time 60:00

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