QUEEN ELEPHANTINE "Scarab" (EYE 005)

Formed in Hong Kong in 2006 and relocated to the United States a few years later, QUEEN ELEPHANTINE has produced some of the finest doom albums and splits (with Sons of Otis, Elder, and Alunah) in recent years, driven by sheer originality and mystical force embodied in resplendent shrines of sound.

Mastered by the omnipotent Billy Anderson (Melvins, Neurosis, Sleep and so many more), “Scarab” is QUEEN ELEPHANTINE's 4th album: A work of grandeur which finds the band digging even deeper into delirious and psychedelic threnodies, abysmal doom observances and mild invocations, offering deep, heavy sounds straight from the soul-realm woven through the geometries of the cosmos. A funerary procession danced by a mighty double-trio of two axes, two drumsets, and two insectoid drones.

Unlike the majority of doom metal music released nowadays, this is not pure Black Sabbath worship but a mournful ride through a room full of mirrors reflecting '60s acid psychedelic rock, shamanic cosmic trance, and creepy, slow doom. Everything here is totally steeped in a damp, pagan / mystical basement atmosphere full of intensely hypnagogic meditation visualizations. “Scarab” is the type of album that takes the listener on an esoteric journey of self-discovery.

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LTD EDT (only 320 copies in gatefold cover)

140 coloured vinyl  € 24.00

180 black vinyl  € 22.00

Release Date: 15 Jun. 2013

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COSMIC DEAD coloured vinyl SOLD-OUT!

Coloured copies of The Exalted King sold-out at the label, in less than 24 hours!!!

You can still find them at our distro Sound Effect Records : yiannis@soundeffect-records.gr

To all you spaceheads out there, thanks for supporting us. We are extremely grateful!

THE COSMIC DEAD "The Exalted King" (EYE 004)

"The Exalted King" is COSMIC DEAD's follow up to their 2011 self-titled debut cassette, which was for many the definitive mind expanding statement of the last 10 years. Now, their 2nd opus sees its reissue on double vinyl format, collecting the whole 70 minutes of the original cassette recording (specifically mastered for vinyl format), including an additional 8 mins track, exclusive to this release.

From the Icarus-like trance ascension of opener "The Exalted King", the band enters to a deeply mindblowing interplay between trip-rock experiments and cosmic ambition. Each album side is uninterrupted, a continuous stream of deep spaced out zones recalling the rich tones and pulse of your early 70s kosmische heroes with latter day stoned-out psychedelia. Sometimes wandering in silently dark semi-acoustic mysteries of the cosmos, and in the next moment orbiting to walls of sound with outer space echoes and alien atmospheres. The COSMIC DEAD know how to ride the edge of groove and gently cut back to spacey atmospherics to superb effect. The record explodes their sound in all directions; spacier, trippier, headier and far more expansive than ever.

Revivalists have attempted to capture and modernize the sound, and retro enthusiasts have grappled in authenticity, but the COSMIC DEAD are beyond: they ARE that sound! It's music floating so naturally that immediately puts the listener into a state where time seems to disappear. They invite you to experience intense flashbacks of tribal british space rock and 70's krautrock bubbled through a psych filter. A cosmic fan's nirvana. Not to be missed!

Julian Dicken: drums / Omar Aborida: bass / James T. McKay: guitar / Lewis Cook: synthesizers

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LTD EDT (only 400)

200 coloured vinyl  € 32.00

200 black vinyl  € 29.00

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Release Date: 25 Apr. 2013
 

FORTHCOMING RELEASES 2nd quarter 2013

COSMIC DEAD "The Exalted King" (2LP)  - Expected the 15th April 2013

QUEEN ELEPHANTINE "Scarab" (LP)    - Expected early May 2013

TEMPLE OF THE SMOKE "The Lost Art Of Twilight" (EYE 003)

"Music may be abstract, just like technology, magic, or nature. Sometimes, it's hard to find a logic even in patterns of our abstractly created universe. Bio-luminescence of fireflies and stellar moths will light through our eyes, melting meadows and skyscrapers in acid-like bliss.

Winds will change and the Crimson dawn is just about to appear to embrace the wildlife of our karmic shells. Birds are singing chants, summoning Mother to re-invoke our primal dreams, like echoing drums from the deep, alien slumber, mankind's eternal sleep... Moon is just a picture, oscillating sound, materialized circle of our astral archetypes.

It was written that were many ways to make a portals. We have seen fractals of mana butterflies creating mountains of love and light, an island in ocean of thresholds on starlight skies, radiating color out of space to shape the dreams of mankind.

It has begone. The floods came, and the astral wave has brought an instant change."


TEMPLE OF THE SMOKE's "The Lost Art of Twilight" is conceptual, mostly instrumental album, and is ontological sequel of firstborn "...Against Human Race". However, the songs are metaphorical fragments of the story, telling a tale of destruction and reinvention of the known world. Imaginary from George Sterling's nightmarish poetry or celestial fiction of Howard P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti and Clark Ashton Smith, endless “pencil and paper” RPG wanderings (Kult, Changeling: The Dreaming and Warhammer), along with ritualistic acid drops on blotter canvases, revealed some of the portals... but there are thousands of them. Start your kaleidoscopic journey through various musical forms, a new age psychedelic space rock opera at the dawn of XXI century...

"The Lost Art of Twilight" was recorded during April 2012 in Digimedia Studio (Belgrade, Serbia).

Marko Ilić: bass / Janko Stojanović: guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals, analog and digital synthesizers, farfisa organ & field recordings / Dušan Žica: guitar, analog and digital synthesizers, melodica, vocoder, e-bow, sampler & dubs / Dragan Mirković: drums, electronic pads & percussions
with:
Danilo Nikodinovski : percussions on A1 and  Jon Mack Marie: vocals on Ω2

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LTD EDT (only 300)

100 coloured vinyl  € 22.00

200 black vinyl  € 20.00

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Release Date: 25 Mar. 2013

FORTHCOMING RELEASES 1st quarter 2013

The next Vinyl project of Cosmic Eye (EYE003) is : Temple Of The Smoke - "The lost art of twilight" & coming in 2013.

Purchase of Cd / Vinyl items : Musicbazz/Cosmic Eye

From now on an e-shop button is activated to : www.musicbazz.com (http://www.musicbazz.com/products) so you can purchase (ass long they are availiable) all wanted items of Musicbazz or Cosmic Eye Records.

The pre-ordered items of the first 2 issues of Cosmic Eye Records (EYE001 & EYE002) will be shipped on 20th Dec. 2012.