Second Solo Album from the Former Member of the Leading French Hip-hop Band I Am.his Previous Solo Project "Meteque Et Mat" Has Sold More Than 250,000 Units in France, Belgiumand Canada.
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Into the Woods
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000SSONVG Release Date: 2007-07-17 |
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Sol Veritas Lux
Manufacturer: Tursa America ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000I9B372 |
Product Description
Even in this modern world, it seems every few years, some new resurgence of "folk music" rises out of nowhere and finds a welcoming following. The latest wave commonly labeled as freak-, psych-, or wyrd-folk has given us such stars as Devendra Banhart, Akron/Family, and Six Organs of Admittance. Just about two decades ago, another curious folk music movement began to emerge. A strain of English "industrial" groups were looking for ways to impart new meaning into their bleak and frightening noise, and a new and highly creative, "post-industrial" folk music came to life, heavily charged with mystical and philosophical themes. "Neofolk" as it would come to be known is largely defined by early releases by Tony Wakeford's Sol Invictus, alongside fellow pioneers Current 93 and Death in June. 2006 now sees the reissue of one of the best and most important releases of neofolk, Sol Veritas Lux by Sol Invictus. Sol Veritas Lux (1988) is likely to rank as one of the most raw listening experiences you can ever find. Playing this album is like calling an arctic blast from Old Pagan Europe. Whatever you think, you are not ready to hear this album. Over the years Sol Invictus would smooth out the rough edges and produce many beautiful albums, yet the potent Sol Veritas Lux has always stood as one of the best regarded and best selling Sol Invictus releases. The 2006 edition of Sol Veritas Lux celebrates nearly 20 years of Sol Invictus, presented in a luxurious package with new liner notes, and freshly remastered to bring out even more of its primitive glory. Sol Veritas Lux is promoted & distributed in North America by Strange Fortune.
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Sol Veritas Lux
Sol Invictus Manufacturer: World ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000272QQ |
Tracks:
- Angels Fall
- Raven Chorus
- Against the Modern World
- Long Live Death
- Ship Is Burning
- Summer Ends
- Wolf-Age, Axe-Age
- Angels Fall
- Rise and Fall
- World It Turns
- Runes
- Gold Is King
- Twa Corbies
- Somewhere in Europe
- Media
- Abattoirs of Love
- Raven Chorus
- Joy of the World
Customer Reviews:
Great classic, occultic Goth!.......2006-11-20
Sol Inviticus, hailing from England, is a project of Death In June's Tony Wakeford. I'm surprised at how many times I've heard the band classified as "apocalyptic neo-folk" or a genre similar. To me, this sounds undeniably classically Goth in all the right ways. Their sound is similar to the Gothic rock artists that helped defined "Goth" as a musical genre throughout the 80s. For occult-friendly fans of artists such as Fields of the Nephilim, The Wake, Corpus Delicti, and Nosferatu, this band may be right up your alley.
The term Sol Invictus means "undefeated sun." It was a title used to refer to the Roman deities Sol, Mithra, and El Gabal, all of whom have solar association. The band Sol Invictus is certainly versed in occultism, and has a particular affinity to European Paganism (as well as Germanic Heathenry) and Mediterranean history. This is apparent in a number of tracks in Sol Veritas Lux. This album is a remastered version of the same release from 1990, and is a combination of the album Against the World and the live-in-Tokyo Jaws of the Serpent.
This album is straight-forward in that it uses little sampling or overlays. It is, for the most part, "raw," especially the live tracks. The songs are dreamy, dark, and leave plenty of room for the imagination. It's never assaulting on the senses; it's definitely astral. I've found this release to be perfect background music for reading, writing, spellcrafting, etc. This is the type of music that allows the listener to choose whether to let it to be a pleasant audile backdrop, or to become immersed in the emotion of the sound.
RAVEN DIGITALIS
Primitive and Raw prelude to a great prolific band........2004-02-04
Those words in the title might make the CD sound bad, but I really enjoy this. If you already have Lex Talionis, imagine that album, but more raw, worse production, more primitive/naïve, and a younger voice of Tony. This album also uses a drum machine for a strange halfway point between electronica/industrial and folk-noir, reminiscent of a few Death in June albums. There are very little symphonic elements compared to their other CDs and it sounds relatively stripped down. There is only a little violin and piano hinted in a couple songs, and the rest is just vocals, drum machine, guitars, and bass.
"Angel's Fall" begins the album with quite catchy acoustic strumming, mysterious synthed-sounding keyboard tones, and an upbeat rhythm. This is probably my favorite song on the cd. "Raven Chorus" has a steady rhythm, a calmer feel, and a nice overlying acoustic melody over the main repeating one. "Against the modern world" is a quite fast (just over 2 minutes) and simple song with female backing vocals. "A Ship is Burning" is a very short and haunting song. "Summer Ends" is a favorite, with what almost sounds like clapping from the drum machine, those mysterious synth-keys, and very catchy, gentle yet straightforward acoustic strumming.
I mostly bought this album for "Against the Modern World," the live recording isn't that great (not that I knew that at the time...). I usually don't listen to the live album, and if it were released by itself, I probably wouldn't even have bought it. (Well, it was released by itself at first, but you can't find it like that anymore)
This also includes "Joy of the World," a somewhat interesting unreleased instrumental, which sounds like it contains the background noises from "Tooth and Claw" from "Lex Talionis"
Many people might not like this album compared to what the band has evolved into today, but it might also be the other way around. I really enjoy everything from their oldest material to their newest material. At least the first part of this album is very worthwhile. Very early music of great artists that now have a huge catalog usually has some special significance and a unique feel.
One of the best Odinist rock bands.......2003-09-06
Hesitantly 4 stars.......2002-07-06
The second part is a live recording which quite frankly is of questionable quality. Yeah, some of the performances are good but the recording just isn't that great in my opinion. If the whole release were like this I would not give it many stars, however te first part is so good and so worth it, that I have to give it 4 stars. The first part is a must have and if the whole cd were like the first half I would have given it 5 stars.
Part studio/part live.......2000-06-15
Part two of the disc is "In the Jaws of the Serpent". This was recorded live in Japan in 1998. While some of the material is available elsewhere in studio version, the less polished result is appealing. Some of the songs sound almost studio quality. "Somewhere in Europe" rises to the top with its faster tempo and militant drums. Because of the live recording, a number of the songs have a very fuzzy bass sound which adds nicely to the undistorted electric guitar.
If you don't own both the albums which comprise this release, I believe this would be the choice format. The unavailability of quality live material from Sol Invictus makes this a good buy as does the slightly different takes on other familliar studio recordings. This clearly shows that the sound Sol Invictus has now was being successfully cultivated over ten years ago.
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Sol Invictus
Akhenaton Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005Y1IZ Release Date: 2002-12-16 |
Tracks:
- Paese/Intro
- Sol Invictus
- L'assasin Au Sm
- Chaque Jour
- Le Fiston
- Entrer Dans La Legende
- Nuits A' Medine
- Quand Ca Se Disperse
- Horizon Vertical
- Il N'est Jamais Trop Tard
- Gemmes
- C'est Ca Mon Frere
- Mes Traits Precis
- Mes Soleil Et Mes Lunes
- Une Impression
- New York City Transit
- Teknishun
- J'ai Vraiment Pas De Face
- Mon texte Le Savon
Album Details
Second Solo Album from the Former Member of the Leading French Hip-hop Band I Am.his Previous Solo Project "Meteque Et Mat" Has Sold More Than 250,000 Units in France, Belgiumand Canada.Customer Reviews:
Not Akh best.......2006-05-10
Who cares if you can't understand it..........2004-01-30
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Holocaust Hymns
Manufacturer: apop records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000F5M0QW |
Product Description
Crisis came into existence in the late '70s amidst the British hardcore punk movement and was often featured in Rock Against Racism live showcases. These political affiliations earned them comparisons to a more focused and truly politicized Clash. Crisis was known for having a decidedly non-peacenik attitude which beget more thrashing off the stage than on. And however much they would contextualize their relation with working-class rights, they bore only slight facsimile to the Oi! working-class sound. Rather, they would take the same energy that came from youthful, raw anger, but lock it down tight with restrained lyrical phrasing and strict rhythms. Resulting in a somewhat harsh poeticism of violent urgency held on leash that had more in common with WARSAW or GANG OF FOUR. Members include Douglas P. and Tony Wakeford who would later expand upon some of the Crisis material for their dark, neo-folk group DEATH IN JUNE. Wakeford later went on to form SOL INVICTUS, and two other band mates, Luke Rendall and Lester Jones, would later find involvement in THEATRE OF HATE and SEX GANG CHILDREN, respectively. Crisis' entire remastered discography from 1978-1980, complete with a 12 page booklet featuring exclusive photos from Douglas P.'s private
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Trees in Winter
Sol Invictus Manufacturer: World ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000271QX Release Date: 1999-06-28 |
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Cut out your heart and throw it to the dogs.......2004-07-10
"English Murder" starts off with a lulling guitar strumming over what sounds like violent waves crashing. Then a child/woman's voice recites some weird poetry that just fades away. It kicks into the track proper after a bit of noizy fidgeting--a simply lovely track..."I wait here by the coast/in the company of ghosts./ I sit and watch the world go by/sometimes I just sit and cry." It pretty much sets the tone for the album. That haunting voice comes back in the end, creating a rather nice, nightmarish effect.
The next track, "Sawney Bean" is about the famous Scottish clan that murdered, ate, and decorated with the remains of travelers who stumbled into their lair. It is a mournfully straightforward song--simple, prominent guitar, some flute, etc.
"Gold is King" features a great anti-usury passage from Ezra Pound reading/reciting from his 'Cantos'. The song is consistent with Pound's sentiments in the piece--"lets get the buggers..."
'Media' is a brilliant song lamenting the celebration of mediocrity as perpetrated by the media. Lyrically, it constitutes quite a sharp diatribe against both the media and the idiots who support it with their blind service. One of the greatest Sol Invictus songs.
"Looking For Europe" has great military drumming and feels like a call to arms. It plays like the hidden poetic history of hungry, suffering Europe. It suggests the great truth that everything we seek exists within us already.
"Here We Stand" is another great misanthropic anthem that alludes to the loss of once great things. Humanity is but a scourge upon the earth.
"Michael" is an old folk tune with a simple string/woodwind arrangement. It is a terribly aching song about love and loss, with a most vicious ironic twist--
"Deceit" is a Tony Wakeford Song about the chicanery of love:
Love like a garland sickly sweet
How soon it fades, how soon it cheats
On all our hearts the worms will feast
For where comes love comes deceit
"Blood of Summer" laments a lost age. It has a mystical feel to it, with the elders coming to meet the keepers of the flame who seem too exhausted to hold on to anything--overall, a bleak picture of man without gods, left to drown in their own blood.
"Trees in Winter" closes this collection of grimly poetic odes to loss and regret:
The future waits with an icy kiss
As we stumble towards our nemesis
A sea of loneliness to engulf us
A noose of regrets to choke us
All in all, a thrilling, somber experience for those to whom the descriptive term "depressing" is not a prohibitive. Personally, I find this album to be spiritually uplifting and I recommend it fiercely to anyone who is transfixed by life but mortified by the tricks of the dogs in charge of this unseemly charade.
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Mythological Prospect of the Citie of Londinium
Sol Invictus , Rose Rovine E Amanti , and Andrew King Manufacturer: Cold Spring ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000LZ6DKA Release Date: 2007-02-19 |
Tracks:
- Old Londinium Weeps
- Down The Road Slowly
- Eve
- Mid Summer's Dream (After W. Shakespeare)(London Version)
- Roma (Fukro Dell'impero) (London Version)
- S. Michele (In Your Sword We Trust!) (London Version)
- When The Bells Justle In The Tower (Live)
- Polly On The Shore
- London
Album Details
A CD with Nine Exclusive Studio Tracks, Three Each from Sol Invictus, Rose Rovine E Amanti and Andrew King, Each in their Own Unique Style. English Artists Sol Invictus and Andrew King Bestow London-inspired Neofolk and Traditional English Folk Music, Evoking Olde Londinium Town, While Rose Rovine E Amanti Offer Romantic Italian Neofolk. The Package Comes Wrapped in the Beautiful Paintings of Andrew King, Representing the City of London.
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Empty City
Tor Lundvall Manufacturer: Strange Fortune ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000FAY9UW Release Date: 2006-05-02 |
Tracks:
- Scrap Yard
- Platform #3
- Running Late
- Night Work
- Early Hours
- Grey Water
- Buildings and Rain
- Wires
- Empty City
- Open Window
- 2: 00 Am
- Clearing Sky
Product Description
In 2005, New York based painter & musician Tor Lundvall (ex-World Serpent UK) unveiled Last Light, his latest album of curiously listenable, ghostly ambient music, and his first to feature proper "songs" with vocals. Last Light proved to be Tor's best seller, and has accumulated critical praise from e/i to Gothic Beauty to Terrorizer. Strange Fortune now opens the gates to what we believe to be the first essential release of 2006, Tor Lundvall's Empty City. Every Tor Lundvall release is distinct, and while Empty City may in some ways be considered a companion to Last Light, sharing its deep resonating sonic character, in other ways it's an opposite release. Where Last Light was about looking inward, Empty City ventures out to a fantastic, frightening new world, a decayed urban setting much different than anything Tor ever explored in the past. Where Last Light was centered around words, on Empty City the music takes over once again. There are vocals but used exclusively in an instrumental manner, no lyrics needed this time. While countless electronic music makers regularly deliver new recordings to fit in the ambient music category, with Tor Lundvall what you get is a new category to discover. The subtle underlying melodic structure of this music means it may be the most listenable "ambient" music you've ever heard, while it's all drenched in a singularly moody, haunted atmosphere that is Tor's real trademark. We believe what Tor is doing is the best and most exciting thing happening in the ambient electronic music world. File under: "ghost ambient."Customer Reviews:
MARK TEPPO's igloomag.com REVIEW :: .......2006-05-18
(05.17.06) There's a progression of events that lead to Tor Lundvall's Empty City. First, we build cities and railways and roads and factories; then, we vanish from them, disappearing into the night. Lundvall, riding the train through these empty landscapes, is struck by their ephemeral nature -- the way they are built and seemingly abandoned. He carries home these images and paints landscapes. These landscapes, rich with lambent skies and intense palettes of grey and charcoal, became the inspiration for the ghostly ambience of Empty City.
There's enough metropolitan drift floating through this record that a comparison to Mark Nelson's work as Pan*American is a starting landmark. But, I think Lundvall's paintings are a filter on the spectral nature of the abandoned -- sorry, "empty"; this distinction is, I think, key to Lundvall's interpretation -- cityscapes. While the music is imbued with phantasmal swirls of melody and the sepulchral echo of mechanical percussion, there is an indelible fingerprint of color and heat still captive within these ghostly sounds. Voices -- acting as instruments sans language -- exhale with moist humanity behind them. "Night Work" reverberates with the steel pulse of a train yard while vents of warm steam jet up into a slate sky. There is work being done beneath the ground, human work.
"Early Hours" ticks with the metronomic pulse of street sweepers smoothing the grit from the gutters, the long tone hush that descends upon the still city and the echoing chord of rarefied sound that seems like the echo of a party that got out an hour ago and is still quietly draining away. It is the sound of that attenuated exhaustion which rides home with the nightlife, whispering that fading echo of the final flush of last call, last kiss, in your ears. A repetitive drip of rainwater provides the rhythm for "Buildings and Rain" while anguished melodies twist into awkward spirals in the puddles running beneath the eaves. Sounds like ravens expiring are stretched across rain-damp skies. "Wires" vibrates with electrical urgency, a organ hymn raised from power lines and transformer stations; while "Empty City" approaches the closet thing to a trip-hop tune, as a torch singer who has lost her words but not her voice lets her lamentation drift across the empty boulevards and still avenues.
Tragically short, Empty City is like a town glimpsed through a break in the mist. Populated by ghosts and rife with echoes, you barely get a chance to hear the whispered litany of the city's hidden inhabitants before the song vanishes. Rhythms you think you understand decay into nothingness just as they worm their way into your brain and melodies are simply phantoms of the daylight hours when the sun stirs up the wind and the voices. It is the closest we city-dwellers get to silence; it is the purest and most uncluttered music we can hear. Lundvall captures this rich tapestry of evocative ambience beautifully with Empty City.
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Sol Veritas Lux
Sol Invictus Manufacturer: Tursa/Cold Spring ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000FS9DQE Release Date: 2006-05-16 |
Tracks:
- Angels Fall
- Raven Chorus
- Against the Modern World
- Long Live Death
- Ship Is Burning
- Summer Ends
- Wolf-Age, Axe-Age
- Angels Fall
- Rise and Fall
- World It Turns
- Runes
- Gold Is King
- Twa Corbies
- Somewhere in Europe
- Media
- Abattoirs of Love
- Raven Chorus
- Joy of the World
Album Description
Reissue of early material from TONY WAKEFORD's (ex-DEATH IN JUNE) legendary neo folk outfit. The Sol Veritas Lux album was released for the first time in 1990 and combines the first Sol Invictus release, the mini-LP Against the Modern World (1987) with the second release, the live-album In the Jaws of the Serpent (1989), assembled onto one CD. Tursa Records. 1987-89.Album Details
Reissue of Early Material from Tony Wakeford''s (Ex-death in June) Legendary Neo Folk Outfit. The Sol Veritas Lux Album was Released for the First Time in 1990 and Combines the First Sol Invictus Release, the MINI-LP Against the Modern World (1987) with the Second Release, the Live-album in the Jaws of the Serpent (1989), Assembled Onto One CD. This Re-release also Comes in Deluxe Digipak with 16 Page Booklet plus Bonus Material ( New Versions of Angels Fall, Against the Modern World and Summer Ends).Customer Reviews:
Great classic, occultic Goth!.......2006-11-20
Sol Inviticus, hailing from England, is a project of Death In June's Tony Wakeford. I'm surprised at how many times I've heard the band classified as "apocalyptic neo-folk" or a genre similar. To me, this sounds undeniably classically Goth in all the right ways. Their sound is similar to the Gothic rock artists that helped defined "Goth" as a musical genre throughout the 80s. For occult-friendly fans of artists such as Fields of the Nephilim, The Wake, Corpus Delicti, and Nosferatu, this band may be right up your alley.
The term Sol Invictus means "undefeated sun." It was a title used to refer to the Roman deities Sol, Mithra, and El Gabal, all of whom have solar association. The band Sol Invictus is certainly versed in occultism, and has a particular affinity to European Paganism (as well as Germanic Heathenry) and Mediterranean history. This is apparent in a number of tracks in Sol Veritas Lux. This album is a remastered version of the same release from 1990, and is a combination of the album Against the World and the live-in-Tokyo Jaws of the Serpent.
This album is straight-forward in that it uses little sampling or overlays. It is, for the most part, "raw," especially the live tracks. The songs are dreamy, dark, and leave plenty of room for the imagination. It's never assaulting on the senses; it's definitely astral. I've found this release to be perfect background music for reading, writing, spellcrafting, etc. This is the type of music that allows the listener to choose whether to let it to be a pleasant audile backdrop, or to become immersed in the emotion of the sound.
RAVEN DIGITALIS
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Brugge - Live
Sol Invictus ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005QFZU |
Tracks:
- Intro
- Amongst The Ruins
- Sheath And Knife
- Media
- English Murder
- The Fool
- Like A Sword
- The Killing Tide
- Fields
- Believe Me
- Down The Years
- The World Shrugged
- In Days To Come
- A Rose In Hell
- Death Of The West
Album Description
Originally available as a Tursa mail order only item this, the first time in a series of classic live releases from Tursa Archive collection catches Sol Invictus live in Brugge,Belgium in February 1996 15 tracks including 'Amongst The Ruins', 'English Murder', 'The Killing Tide' & 'A Rose In Hell'. 2001.World Music:
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