Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Belgian Vidna Obmana and Polish Zoharum continue their joint effort to unearth rarities and unreleased tracks from the former’s archives. Where the first installment in this series (reviewed here) spanned the years 1990 to 1998, this second … Continue reading VIDNA OBMANA: Twilight Of Perception Redux: Volume Two 1995-2002
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Vidna Obmana, who we’ve covered a number of times, may have been laid to rest about 20 years ago, but the creative mind behind it gets no rest. Testament to this is the sheer volume of releases … Continue reading DIRK SERRIES: Zonal Disturbances II
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Talk about a massive album! Spread over two discs, In The Wake Of The Witch contains a hefty two and a half hours of music. At the same time it’s the long running Belgian project’s first album … Continue reading HYBRYDS: In The Wake Of The Witch
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum Oh no, another one of Zoharum’s extensive – to the point of being excessive! – ambient anthologies! This was my first thought upon getting my hands on this 3 CD compilation, with the Polish label’s recent Rapoon … Continue reading VIDNA OBMANA: Twilight Of Perception Redux: Volume One 1990-1998
Release year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries A couple of years back, we took a stab at pulling apart and reviewing Belgian In Search Of Death’s previous release, simply titled II (see here). It contained material recorded in the early noughties, recently … Continue reading IN SEARCH OF DEATH: I
VIDNA OBMANA: Crossing The Trail Release year: 1998/2023Label: Projekt/Zoharum Polish Zoharum are at it again, digging into the annals of the past and reissuing somewhat obscure older material. This time around it’s Belgian ambient in the form of Vidna Obmana, … Continue reading Crossing trails with Vidna Obmana
SERPENTS OATH: Revelation Release year: 2023Label: Odium Records I’ll let you in on a little secret. Sometimes, the decision of what I pick for review from the promo download queue is made based on a sampling of mere seconds. This … Continue reading Serpentine oaths and revelations
V/A: The Songs Of Townes Van Zandt Vol. III Release year: 2022Label: My Proud Mountain/Neurot Recordings OK, let’s get one thing straight right away: Townes Van Zandt was one of the finest songwriters, lyricists, singers and performers ever. If you’re … Continue reading Singing the songs of Townes Van Zandt
IN SEARCH OF DEATH: II Release year: 2022Label: Steinklang Industries In the wide, amorphous and ambiguous field of all things industrial and post-industrial, it’s often a venture doomed to failure to attempt to pinpoint too exactly what niché an artist … Continue reading Searching for death
GOTMOOR: Zonderlingen Release year: 2021Label: Headbangers Records Belgian Gotmoor are one of those bands with a long history, but little in terms of discography to show for it: originally formed in 1996, they released a bunch demos, a demo compilation … Continue reading Odd men of Gotmoor
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