HORUS CyclicDaemon (HCD) is an independent Czech record label created in 2000 as a part of the HORUS publishing company (founded in 1990). Focusing on everything that can be described as nova et rara (new and rare), HCD has become known for its quality releases with premium packaging.
NEW RELEASE:
MUSTERION: The Wondrous Journey Through the Catacombs of Life (HCD XI)
... just out!
The Wondrous Journey Through the Catacombs of Life is the second album
of Musterion, following the highly acclaimed debut album The Black Lodge
(2005), built upon complex and obscure composition techniques and musical
innovation, and it drags the listener on a brilliantly imaginative and
frightening journey that combines elements of dark ambient, surrealism,
absurdity, Holyism with the help advanced structural and theoretical
considerations in terms of the composition.
The tale is concerning mind control by psychic, electronic, sexual,
pharmaceutical, subliminal, and other means.
The story stretches into the absurd and surely Simon AA Kölle exorcising some
demons of his own and exploring a musical world where regular music metre is
unimportant, where the rhythm of a piece could be dictated by breathless
inspiration more than moving pictures (as the case with film music) or to fit a
specific genre. Yet he again expands and evolves the genre of dark ambient into
art music.
Due to the dramatic nature of the music, which is shifting pace of both horror
and atmosphere, the only way it would feel real enough included incorporation of
organic instruments and electro-acoustic instruments. Improvisations, twisted
circus music, industrial parts and many atmospheric moments give way for a
highly symbolistic album where all elements are pieces of the broken puzzle.
The album was released on Halloween 2009 as a pressed CD housed in a digipak in
the limited edition of 500 copies. Extra pocket includes 12-pages booklet.
Printed on Paper Couture Specials, BlancBeige, 300 g/m2 and 170 g/m2 beige.
Artwork and design by Niko Skorpio.
Previous release:
SILENCE & STRENGTH: Das Haus zur letzten Latern - A Tribute to Gustav
Meyrink (HCD 10)
The
new album by Silence & Strength has been in the making for almost 5 years, as
some early pieces have been written already in 2004, being composed and recorded
in various locations and conditions. This monumental work realized in an album
of 13 tracks and 77 minutes constitutes an impressive narrative, which opens up
a door to the magical worlds of Gustav Meyrink.
Starting with evocative pieces based on some of Meyrink's short stories
the album takes us through the myriad of states and emotions - the menacing and
liquid "Cardinal Napellus", the moody and unsettling "Four Moon Brothers", the
decadent and poisonous "Ball Macabre", the enchanting "Opal" and so on.
One of the most expressive and dramatic tracks is "Walpurgisnacht". Combining
acoustic and electronic sounds, shrieking pipes and a beat of the devilish drum,
it conjures up the memories of bloody revolts and phantasmagoric affairs.
The longest composition on the album is based upon one of Meyrink's most
acclaimed novels - "Der Golem". Ranging over 18 minutes it takes us on a
fascinating journey through the darkened streets of Old Prague. From the bone-chilling
rain and menacing ambience of the narrow, cobble-stone alleys, through the tiny
rooms of misshapen houses where the early bohemians sing rowdy chansons, to the
attic of Staronova Synagogue, which serves as a secret dwelling place of the
mysterious Golem, and back again into a sleazy tavern with an aged hebrew
harpist wheezing through a long-forgotten song, then finally to the gates of the
House at the Last Light where the alchemical hermaphrodite unites the hero and
his beloved in a magical union.
The journey continues, through the raucous "Green Face", the beautiful and
melodic "White Dominican", to the meditative and conclusive "Angel of West
Window". The album ends there, but it leaves us with a precious aftertaste and a
strong desire to plunge deeper into the majestic realm of Gustav Meyrink, read
his works and share his dreams.
Gustav
Meyrink has long attracted readers for his masterful stories, examining the
supernatural, the macabre, the spiritual, and the occult. With complex and
ambitious novels, such as "The Golem", "The Green Face", "The Angel of the West
Window", and "The White Dominican" Meyrink intertwines past and present, dreams
and visions, myth and reality in a world of the occult, culminating in the
transmutation of physical reality into a higher spiritual existence.
Silence & Strength is a project created by a talented Israeli musician
Stephan Friedman. Interfusing noise, drone, glitch and experimental dark ambient
he creates soundscapes in a highly structured and ritualistic way. Secret
musical spaces of Silence & Strength will enchant those who feel that there is
too little sound magic around them and who want to know it all. After producing
two successful tribute albums to Le Comte de Cagliostro (2005) and Theophrastus
Paracelsus (2006), Silence & Strength has embarked on the most ambitious project
yet: Das Haus zur letzten Latern - A Tribute to Gustav Meyrink. It is the
project's first official release on HORUS CyclicDaemon.
The mastering services were provided by iSoundwave, a highly professional
mastering studio in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
The album was released on All Fool's Day 2009 in limited edition of 500 hand-numbered
copies, on top-notch quality art-paper (green Alezan CRO 300g and recycled grey
Eko 200g), A5 oversized 8-pages booklet with the tradditional A5 envelope, CD
housed in a paper sleeve.
Artwork and design by John Coulthart.
Previous release:
CHAOTICUM: [Psycho] Log: Y (HCD 09)
Weaving madness through electric sound and half-crazed vocals, this first
full-length release from CHAOTICUM unveils the initial peering beyond the shroud
of uncertainty into the gaping night, calling to mind the powerful ritual works
of Coph Nia, and the sublime melodies and haunting atmosphere of The Unquiet
Viod.
Never fearing to experiment with new ideas, CHAOTICUM fuses together a plethora
of dark genres, veering back and forth somewhere between order and chaos, to
craft this first foray out of the curse'd lies of the light and into the black
abyss of awareness. Will you make the journey? Do you hope to return? Then
listen and remember... for destruction is the only true beginning, and
stagnation the only death.
Included in the track list are two songs »The Calling of Cthulhu« and »Esoteric
Order of Dagon«, musickal scenes inspired by the mad writings of H. P. Lovecraft,
in addition to other break-through pieces and favourites such as »Ancient Hollow«
and the neoclassical masterpiece »Tykie-Soo«.
So lie back, put on the headphones, and travel deep into the swirling vortex of
madness and sound, for CHAOTICUM is not to be missed... or taken lightly.
Created to be »cultured« electronica, this first release by masters of »nova et
rara« CHAOTICUM will appeal to listeners of ritualistic dark ambient, voyagers
of haunting psychedelic mindscapes, and chaos practitioners alike.
Comes in a very exclusive 500 limited-edition digipak, with artwork designed by
renowned artist John Coulthart on Rives Tradition 320g/170g papers; includes
extra pocket with poster.
The CHAOTICUM
trailer has been added to Video Section. The track Tykie-Soo
comes from the Chaoticum album entitled [Psycho] Log: Y released by HORUS
CyclicDaemon label in 2007. The trailer was designed by Jerome Nougaillon at
Panopticon
Studio in January 2008.
OSSASERPIA: Music For Solve et Coagula (HCD 08)
Vladimir
Igoshin (Ossaserpia) has created Opus alchymicum, spectacular account of the »work«
of the musickal alchemists who developed a symbolic kind of psychochemistry,
aimed at producing the gold of mystical illumination through celestial musick.
See theories by Robert Fludd and Rosicrucian theories of the monochord.
Very unique melancholy drone chamber musick with some strange industrial
elements. Vladimir Igoshin is known for his contributions to HCD compilations
such as Lust From The Underworld and/or AL: 100th Anniversary.
Special art-works designed by outstanding
Madeline von
Foerster!
The opus consists of pressed CD in paper sleeve with impression;
16-pages A5 hard-bound book with impression on the cover, equipped with flyleafs
at the front and the back including printed alchemical symbols; 6 alchemical
graphics by Madeline von Foerster with an overlays; A3 poster with explanatory
text to each alchemical graphic, and impression again; embossed CD sleeve-jacket.
Packed in PVC sheet.
Top-notch papers used for all items again. Limited edition of oversized hard-bound
book is covered with rustish Quilt 120g paper. The flyleafs and inner pages are
printed on Gmund Kaschmir cream 170g. CD sleeve-jacket and poster are made of
Quilt 120g paper.
Very rare print for all occult fans of musick & alchemy!
Previous releases:
SILENCE & STRENGTH: Das Haus zur letzten Latern - A Tribute to Gustav Meyrink (HCD 10)
CHAOTICUM: [Psycho] Log: Y (HCD 09)
OSSASERPIA: Music For Solve et Coagula (HCD 08)
VARIOUS ARTISTS: AL: 100th Anniversary (HCD XXXI) K. MEIZTER: Travelling Light (HCD 07) MUSTERION: The Black Lodge (HCD 06) RORICAT: Uki Uki (HCD 05) THIS MORN' OMINA: Taiu (HCD 04) THIS MORN' OMINA: Em Sauf Haa-Heru (HCD 03) VARIOUS ARTISTS: Lust From The Underworld (HCD 02) VARIOUS ARTISTS: Chaos (HCD 01)
In Meditarivm “The Great Limbo" CD/ Wrotycz Records
In Meditarivm is a Ukrainian apocalyptic ritual & dark ambient project organized in 2000 by Olegh Kolyada known by his projects First Human Ferro, Ostarbeiter, and Oda Relicta. The albums like “Les Fleurs du Mal” and “Uterus” outlined the old school approach of the project clearly influenced by highlights of Morthound, Ildfrost, ConSono, or Archon Satani. "The Great Limbo" is based on the re-engineered early works selectively crafted anew in summer 2009 at Olegh's Oda Relicta home studio. An elusory history of the project proceeds with a special Wrotycz Records release. The record, accompanied by a talented artwork of Kati Astraeir, comes as a 4-panel UV-varnished digipack with a 357x241-size poster ltd. to 500.
As winter hibernation and spring awakening gives way to summer, Halo Manash rises radiant into luminosity, with wings spread into all worlds, and brings forth Taiwaskivi, an opulent work of solar ambience and primordial Ur-music.
Taiwaskivi, a work of sonic flame and aural ash, consists of seven interrelated tracks, utilizing such diverse instrumentation as organ, horns, vocals, drums, gongs, percussions and various string instruments as well as field-recordings captured during the pilgrimage that the creation of the work embodies.
An air of finality abounds, as Taiwaskivi, although a complete work in itself, can also be viewed as the third and final facet of a tripartite series of works that are part of one holistic creation – a treelogy, with seed, root, trunk and finally, branches. Being the culmination of an ascending journey through the aforementioned realms within and without, Taiwaskivi is the celestial crown at the peak, reaching toward Sol, source and beyond; it is the leaves and fruit of the branches and their skybound nectar ever-flowing - the sacred fire, the consummation and conjunction of All.
Comes in a hand finished cardboard booklet. Two different editions are available; regular CD edition and CD + DVD with inserts. Both are limited to 500 copies.
VETVEI, V07, CD, Ltd.484, November.09 Made in Russia, Yaroslavl
Vetvei label presented its first CD release, a collaboration of two congenial projects dedicated to the Symbols of Creative Roration. A retrospective journey by the bird through smells of melting herb songs and contemplations of the mysteries of Life. They are flowed away by Water, from the Ice to the boundless lakes dancing in mosses. Following to the Forge of Earth, walking the dense forests, winds and marshes, meeting the Heart Guardians. All the cycles of nature follow each other, Fire goes to Water and Earth goes to Heaven. Cosmos swaddle the birds flying toward dawn. All invocations in the name of Life. Many praising voices of people and animals merged into a rhythm that glorify the Natural Order, eternal and endless. Field recorgings, woodwinds, strings, percussions and drums, voices, tape noises and electronics was used in this work.They're all merged into a single timeless canvas. Spirit of every living thing awakening runs through it. An atmosphere of Ritual crossed with cosmic primordial Drone Ambient. One of the important parts of this release is design - 7"EP 6-panel cardboard envelope covered with the signs of Vetvei. Standing in awe of Majesty and experience of true Beauty. Tradition, vibrations for a New Cycle.
Hello. Represent a new album ARX KAELI - Highway. 2009. Cd packed in wooden box with laser engraving, covered a grey varnish. Time 62 min. Best Regards.
The Wondrous Journey Through the Catacombs of Life is the second album
of Musterion, following the highly acclaimed debut album The Black Lodge
(2005), built upon complex and obscure composition techniques and musical
innovation, and it drags the listener on a brilliantly imaginative and
frightening journey that combines elements of dark ambient, surrealism,
absurdity, Holyism with the help advanced structural and theoretical
considerations in terms of the composition. 
The
new album by Silence & Strength has been in the making for almost 5 years, as
some early pieces have been written already in 2004, being composed and recorded
in various locations and conditions. This monumental work realized in an album
of 13 tracks and 77 minutes constitutes an impressive narrative, which opens up
a door to the magical worlds of Gustav Meyrink.
Gustav
Meyrink has long attracted readers for his masterful stories, examining the
supernatural, the macabre, the spiritual, and the occult. With complex and
ambitious novels, such as "The Golem", "The Green Face", "The Angel of the West
Window", and "The White Dominican" Meyrink intertwines past and present, dreams
and visions, myth and reality in a world of the occult, culminating in the
transmutation of physical reality into a higher spiritual existence.
Vladimir
Igoshin (Ossaserpia) has created Opus alchymicum, spectacular account of the »work«
of the musickal alchemists who developed a symbolic kind of psychochemistry,
aimed at producing the gold of mystical illumination through celestial musick.
See theories by Robert Fludd and Rosicrucian theories of the monochord.
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