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And Also the Trees - Virus Meadow (1986)
Anouar Brahem - Le pas du chat noir (2002)
Anthony Braxton - 23 Standards (Quartet) (2003)
The Art Ensemble Of Chicago - The Meeting (2003)
Black Ice - Myopia (2007)
Branford Marsalis - Metamorphosen (2009)
Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca (1981)
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge (1983)
Charles Lloyd - Sangram (2006)
Cindytalk - Camoflague Heart (1984)
Cinema Strange - Cinema Strange (2000)
Clair Obscur - Antigone (1996)
Clan of Xymox - Medusa (1986)
Cocteau Twins - Garlands (1982)
The Comsat Angels - Sleep No More (1981)
Comus - First Utterance (1971)
Cranes - Forever (1993)
The Danse Society - Seduction (1982)
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends (1986)
Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987)
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 (2000)
Lowlife - Eternity Road: Reflections of Lowlife 85-95 (Comp)
First Band From Outer Space - The Guitar is Mightier Than the Gun (2009)
Fred Frith - Freedom in Fragments (2002)
Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land (2009)
The Fuzztones - Lysergic Emanations (1984)
Gentle Giant - Octopus (1972)
Gorement - The Ending Quest (1994)
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (2010)
Henry Threadgill - Everybodys Mouth's a Book (2001)
The House of Love - The House of Love (1990)
Loop - Heaven's End (1987)
Love and Rockets - Express (1986)
Madvillain - Madvillainy (2004)
Master's Hammer - Ritual (1991)
maudlin of the Well - My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible (1999)
The Mission - Gods Own Medicine (1986)
Mitochondrion - Archaeaeon (2008)
Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar (2006)
Paysage d'Hiver - Paysage d'Hiver (2000)
Pink Turns Blue - If Two Worlds Kiss (1987)
Rabih Abou-Kalil - Morton's Foot (2003)
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Talk About the Weather (1985)
Renaud Garcia-Fons - Entremundo (2004)
Shub-Niggurath - Les mort von vite (1986)
Sigh - Scenes From Hell (2010)
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin' (1958)
Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages (1991)
The Sound - Jeopardy (1980)
Suicide - Suicide (1977)
The Telescopes - Third Wave (2002)
Tenhi - Salvo (2010)
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears (1984)
Tones on Tail - Pop (1984)
Univers Zéro - Heresie (1979)
Vandermark 5 - The Color of Memory (2005)
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes (1982)
Virgin Prunes - ...If I Die, I Die (1982)
Wayne Shorter - Beyond the Sound Barrier (2005)
The Wolfgang Press - Bird Wood Cage (1988)
Xmal Deutschland - Tocsin (1984)
The Young Gods - L'eau Rouge (1989)

Only about half done, will update again shortly

1966 The Beatles: Revolver
1968 The Beatles: The Beatles
1969 The Beatles: Abbey Road
1973 The Beatles: 1967-1970
1974 Harmonium: Harmonium
1974 Supertramp: Crime of the Century
1975 Harmonium: Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième Saison
1979 The Police: Reggatta De Blanc
1980 The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta
1980 Talking Heads: Remain in Light
1981 The Cure: Faith
1981 Echo and the Bunnymen: Heaven up here
1981 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Architecture And Morality
1981 Simple Minds: Sons and Fascination
1981 Ultravox: Rage in Eden
1982 Duran Duran: Rio
1982 Joe Jackson: Night and Day
1982 Midnight Oil: 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
1982 The Psychedelic Furs: Forever Now
1982 Simple Minds: New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
1982 Soft Cell: Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing
1982 Ultravox: Quartet
1983 The Chameleons: Script of the Bridge
1983 China Crisis: Working With Fire And Steel
1983 Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
1983 A Flock of Seagulls: Listen
1983 Kissing the Pink: Naked
1983 New Order: Power, Corruption And Lies
1983 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Dazzle Ships
1983 Talking Heads: Speaking in Tongues
1983 Tears for Fears: The Hurting
1983 The The: Soul Mining
1983 U2: War
1984 The Church: Remote Luxury
1984 Cocteau Twins: Treasure
1984 Echo and the Bunnymen: Ocean Rain
1984 Everything but the Girl: Eden
1984 The Icicle Works: The Icicle Works
1984 Kissing the Pink: What Noise
1984 The Pale Fountains: Pacific Street
1984 Tones on Tail: Pop
1984 U2: The Unforgettable Fire
1985 The Colourfield: Virgins And Philistines
1985 The Cure: The Head On The Door
1985 Dead Can Dance: Spleen and Ideal
1985 Everything but the Girl: Love Not Money
1985 It's Immaterial: Life's Hard And Then You Die
1985 New Order: Low-Life
1985 Prefab Sprout: Two Wheels Good
1985 The Smiths: Meat Is Murder
1986 Depeche Mode: Black Celebration
1986 R.E.M.: Life's Rich Pageant
1986 This Mortal Coil: Filigree and Shadow
1986 The Woodentops: Giant
1987 Bel Canto: White-Out Conditions
1987 Dead Can Dance: Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
1987 The Housemartins: The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death
1987 The Lilac Time: The Lilac Time
1987 The Smiths: Louder Than Bombs
1988 The Church: Starfish
1989 Bel Canto: Birds of Passage
1989 The Cure: Disintegration
1990 Depeche Mode: Violator
1990 The House of Love: The House of Love II
1990 Prefab Sprout: Jordan: The Comeback
1990 The Waterboys: Room To Roam
1991 Joe Jackson: Laughter And Lust
1991 James: Seven
1991 U2: Achtung Baby
1992 Bel Canto: Shimmering, warm and bright
1993 Dead Can Dance: Into the Labyrinth
1993 James: Laid
1993 Midnight Oil: Earth and Sun and Moon
1994 Portishead: Dummy
1997 Catherine Wheel: Adam and Eve
1997 Marcy Playground: Marcy Playground
1997 Portishead: Portishead
1997 Radiohead: OK Computer
1998 Deep Forest: Comparsa
1998 Garbage: Version 2.0
1998 Lenny Kravitz: 5
1999 Echo and the Bunnymen: What Are You Going To Do With Your Life
1999 Travis: The Man Who
2000 Catherine Wheel: Wishville
2002 Coldplay: A Rush Of Blood To The Head
2003 Muse: Absolution
2004 Interpol: Antics
2004 Keane: Hopes And Fears
2005 Coldplay: X&Y
2005 Doves: Some Cities
2006 The Killers: Sam's Town
2006 Muse: Black Holes and Revelations
2007 Arctic Monkeys: Favourite Worst Nightmare
2007 Band of Horses: Cease to Begin
2007 Klaxons: Myths Of The Near Future
2007 The Shins: Wincing the Night Away
2008 Death Cab for Cutie: Narrow Stairs
2008 Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid
2008 Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
2008 The Stills: Oceans Will Rise
2008 Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
2009 Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!

[Coluna do Caligari publicada no Melancholic Gothic Zine #15]


A partir dessa edição, passarei a falar de uma das vertentes góticas mais produtivas, o ethereal, ou darkwave ethereal como alguns preferem descrever. Mas antes precisamos saber o que é mesmo esse estilo musical e o que o difere das outras vertentes góticas.

Fato interessante é que desde o início dos anos 80 já havia música etérea, no entanto o rótulo de "Ethereal" só apareceu em meados de 1991 com o lançamento pela gravadora Hyperiumda coletânea "Heavenly Voices". Bem Antes disso, Ivo Watts, dono da gravadora 4AD, celeiro de bandas como Cocteau Twins, Pixies, Wolfgang Press, Dead Can Dance e Clan of Xymox, lança aquele que considero o projeto mais ousado em termos musicais: It´ll end in Tears(terminará em lágrimas) é um album onde não podemos dizer se tratar de uma coletânea ou até de uma mesma banda. O disco da banda “This Mortal Coil" tinha uma formação diferente a cada canção, todos artistas do casting da gravadora. O resultado é a união perfeita de vocais angelicais como de Elizabeth Fraser(Cocteau Twins), Tania Donelly(Throwing Muses) e Kim Deal(Pixies)com arranjos marcantes numa sonoridade que nos faz sonhar estando acordado. Ao todo foram 4 discos gravados: It´ll end in Tears(1984), Filligre & Shadow (1986), Lonely is an Eyesore (1987) e Blood(1991), que serviram pra consolidar esse marco na sonoridade musical gótica. Paralelo a esse projeto, já existiam bandas como Cocteau Twins e Dead Can Dance que primoravam no vocal lânguido, por vezes triste quase depressivo, outras vezes magicalmente alegre.

Poderíamos dizer que a característica principal do estilo Ethereal é o vocal lírico extremamente refinado e quase sempre feminino, onde a sonoridade importa mais que a letra. Até hoje não se sabe exatamente o que Elizabeth Fraser cantava nas canções do Cocteau ou o "idioma inventado" por Chako nas canções da banda ethereal japonesa, Jack or Jive. Há uma diferenciação também marcante para os puristas que preferem separar o Ethereal propriamente dito do Neoclássico. Enquanto o primeiro prefere instrumentos eletrônicos, o neoclássico usa instrumentos acústicos próprios de música erudita. Outra diferenciação muito importante se dá do Ethereal/Neoclássico para o chamado "Gothic Metal". Enquanto o Ethereal prima pela erudição e o refinamento melódico completo da canção, o que temos, em via de regra, no "Gothic Metal" nada mais é que um metal melódico, onde se acrescenta um vocal lírico que se contrapôe a uma voz gutural masculina, isso tudo sob acordes instrumentais essencialmente de base do "rock metaleiro".

Como disse antes, a primeira gravadora a promover bandas Ethereal foi a 4AD com os grandes nomes consagrados da década de oitenta. Posteriormente, temos a retomada do estilo no início dos anos 90 com o lançamento dos cinco albuns da coletânea Heavenly Voices pela alemã Hyperium. Hoje, a gravadora americana Projektpromove as principais bandas do estilo Ethereal/Darkwave/Dark Ambient no mundo. Nomes como Autumn´s Grey Solace, Dark Sanctuary, Arcana, Rajna, Love Spirals Downwards, Faith and the Muse, Ordo Equitum Solis, Lycia, entre outros fazem parte do casting da gravadora.

A cada dia nascem novas nesse gênero e felizmente a qualidade tem só melhorado. A riqueza de sonoridade do Ethereal é o fundamental para que esse gênero sempre se renove sem cair na mesmice como ocorre em muitos outros gêneros musicais.

A partir da próxima edição quero apresentar as novas bandas desse cenário sem deixar de mostrar a biografia e discografias das bandas que consagraram o gênero.

A propósito. Retirei o título da coluna de uma declaração de Liz Fraser. Quando perguntada numa entrevista o que era a música dela, respondeu: ”música para induzir a vertigem”.

Por Dr. Caligari

Here are some more stats: Top 20 artists for each year I've been a last.fm member (not calendar years - those stats can be found in earlier journal entries). The first year doesn't have any statistics before February because these stats have been calculated on the basis of weekly charts (@ http://troublewithdreams.com/scrobbler/) which didn't exist before that.

1st Year (Feb 13 2005 - Nov 7 2005)

1. Depeche Mode (666)
2. Nine Inch Nails (625)
3. Icon of Coil (606)
4. Covenant (521)
5. The Legendary Pink Dots (411)
6. Deine Lakaien (402)
7. CMX (359)
8. Death in June (340)
9. Assemblage 23 (316)
10. KMFDM (296)
11. Combichrist (295)
12. Current 93 (266)
13. Siouxsie and the Banshees (266)
14. Mew (251)
15. :wumpscut: (249)
16. VNV Nation (236)
17. Diary of Dreams (234)
18. Front Line Assembly (210)
19. Rammstein (209)
20. System of a Down (200)

2nd Year (Nov 8 2005 - Nov 5 2006)

1. Swans (1267)
2. Current 93 (847)
3. Covenant (612)
4. Depeche Mode (601)
5. Death in June (498)
6. The Legendary Pink Dots (438)
7. Project Pitchfork (399)
8. Icon of Coil (270)
9. Coil (247)
10. KMFDM (244)
11. Mesh (224)
12. Front Line Assembly (218)
13. Nine Inch Nails (208)
14. Einstürzende Neubauten (204)
15. Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio (193)
16. Pet Shop Boys (190)
17. The Angels of Light (184)
18. CMX (183)
19. VAST (176)
20. Heijala (174)

3rd Year (Nov 6 2006 - Nov 4 2007)

1. Swans (1124)
2. Coil (775)
3. Nine Inch Nails (626)
4. Current 93 (496)
5. Depeche Mode (407)
6. The Angels of Light (312)
7. Black Sun Productions (307)
8. CMX (306)
9. The Legendary Pink Dots (300)
10. Woven Hand (260)
11. Coph Nia (251)
12. The Dresden Dolls (248)
13. Covenant (234)
14. Death in June (213)
15. Lustmord (213)
16. Front Line Assembly (199)
17. Sol Invictus (186)
18. KMFDM (180)
19. 16 Horsepower (170)
20. Antony and the Johnsons (166)

4th Year (Nov 5 2007 - Nov 2 2008)

1. Sleep Chamber (577)
2. The Tiger Lillies (440)
3. Coil (323)
4. Swans (317)
5. The Doors (296)
6. The Legendary Pink Dots (261)
7. Nine Inch Nails (245)
8. Einstürzende Neubauten (226)
9. Naevus (217)
10. Current 93 (205)
11. In Slaughter Natives (185)
12. Eleanoora Rosenholm (183)
13. Karjalan Sissit (182)
14. Death in June (167)
15. Sieben (158)
16. Kirlian Camera (149)
17. Ladytron (146)
18. Throbbing Gristle (146)
19. :wumpscut: (141)
20. Dead Can Dance (140)

5th Year (Nov 3 2008 - Nov 9 2009)

1. Depeche Mode (474)
2. The Legendary Pink Dots (294)
3. Swans (292)
4. Sleep Chamber (273)
5. Militia (247)
6. Crash Worship (224)
7. Coil (208)
8. Einstürzende Neubauten (203)
9. KMFDM (200)
10. The Tiger Lillies (190)
11. Die Form (183)
12. Dernière Volonté (182)
13. Vuk (161)
14. Current 93 (159)
15. Nine Inch Nails (154)
16. Foetus (140)
17. Test Dept. (134)
18. The Young Gods (131)
19. Coph Nia (129)
20. Esplendor Geométrico (127)

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Godsmack - Bleeding Me
1000th track: (01 May 2008)
Turbo - Fabryka Keksów
2000th track: (12 Aug 2008)
Fields of the Nephilim - Dead But Dreaming
3000th track: (24 Oct 2008)
Disturbed - Voices
4000th track: (21 Jan 2009)
Led Zeppelin - Thank You
5000th track: (17 Mar 2009)
Dead Can Dance - Spirit
6000th track: (05 May 2009)
William Basinski - Melancholia 3
7000th track: (05 Jun 2009)
Borknagar - The Witching Hour
8000th track: (08 Jul 2009)
Agalloch - In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion
9000th track: (05 Aug 2009)
Eluveitie - Of Fire, Wind & Wisdom
10000th track: (26 Aug 2009)
Wiślanie 69 - Do przerwy 0-1
11000th track: (14 Sep 2009)
Grzegorz Turnau - Melankolija
12000th track: (02 Oct 2009)
Apocalyptica - Stroke
13000th track: (30 Oct 2009)
Yngwie Malmsteen - Heaven Tonight
14000th track: (16 Nov 2009)
The White Birch - Air
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This note to let you know about the Mr. Somnambula (experimental electronic music).
You can have a listen to his music here :
http://www.myspace.com/mrsomnambula
and
http://www.last.fm/music/Mr.+Somnambula
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Discography + download (direct links) - in blog

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(2009) Mr. Somnambula - DEMOS ~ self release/compilation [electronic, ambient techno, darkwave, dark ambient]
total tracks length: 00:17:42
info - liminalrecs.com
download (20 mb / vbr) mirror link

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Influences:
Slowdive, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Piano Magic, Type O Negative, Lycia, Sonic Youth, Bethany Curve, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Lush, The Smiths, Curve, And Also the Trees, The Frozen Autumn, Burial, Asylum Party, Hood, Bowery Electric, Nadja, My Bloody Valentine, The Chameleons, Global Communication, Blind Mr. Jones, dälek, Seefeel, The Gathering, Tears for Fears, SPK, Aphex Twin, Akira Yamaoka, Porcupine Tree, Death in June, Sigur Rós, Sol Seppy, Pet Shop Boys, The Cure, Talk Talk, Winston Tong, Boards of Canada, Autechre, Björk, The Legendary Pink Dots, Radiohead, The Prodigy, Merzbow, etc.
shoegaze, dream pop, post-rock, post-punk, alternative rock, experimental, lo-fi, ethereal, gothic / doom / progressive / metal / drone, psychedelic rock, gothic rock, neoclassical, neofolk, darkwave, new wave, coldwave trip-hop, synthpop, dubstep, industrial, underground hip-hop, idm, chicago / acid house, (dark) ambient, avant-garde

Hope you will enjoy the music
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Sanguine_Sky's top albums (overall)
1. Darzamat - Solfernus' Path (91) 2. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious (90) 3. Stream of Passion - The Flame Within (85) 4. Whyzdom - From the Brink of Infinity (84) 5. Dark Tranquillity - Fiction (80) 6. Echoes of Eternity - As Shadows Burn (75) 7. WitchBreed - Heretic Rapture (66) 8. Macbeth - Superangelic Hate Bringers (61) 9. Catafalque - Unique (60) 10. Beautiful Sin - The Unexpected LTD.Edition (60) 11. Krypteria - My Fatal Kiss (59) 12. Distorted - Voices From Within (59) 13. Anneke van Giersbergen and Danny Cavanagh - In Parallel (56) 14. Enslavement of Beauty - Megalomania (56) 15. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness (56) 16. Pin-Up Went Down - 2 Unlimited (52) 17. Forgotten Tales - All the Sinners (51) 18. Immortal - Battles in the North (50) 19. Catafalque - Dialectique (50) 20. At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (48) 21. Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (48) 22. Arkan - Hilal (48) 23. Dead Can Dance - Aion (48) 24. Theatre of Tragedy - Forever Is the World (47) 25. Dawn of Destiny - Human Fragility (45) 26. Marillion - Marbles (45) 27. Penumbra - Seclusion (45) 28. Death - Symbolic (45) 29. Akphaezya - Anthology II (44) 30. Omega Lithium - Dreams In Formaline (44) 31. Taake - Taake (42) 32. Deströyer 666 - Phoenix Rising (40) 33. Anathema - Alternative 4 (40) 34. The Gathering - Mandylion (40) 35. Ambeon - Fate of a Dreamer (40) 36. Amorphis - Skyforger (40) 37. Octavia Sperati - Grace Submerged (40) 38. Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns (40) 39. Paradise Lost - In Requiem (39) 40. Agua de Annique - Air (39) 41. Imperia - Queen of Light (39) 42. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech (38) 43. Ulver - Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven & Hell (38) 44. Agalloch - The Mantle (37) 45. Distorted - Memorial (36) 46. Stolen Babies - There Be Squabbles Ahead (36) 47. Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy (36) 48. Stream of Passion - Embrace the Storm (36) 49. Behemoth - Evangelion (36) 50. Silent Cry - Darklife (36)