The first 200 copies include the bonus CD ‘Woodland Calling'. Features Edward Ka-Spel on vocals. One of the truest indications of a good record is when it sounds like something is starting to go wrong with the car while listening to it. The latest Silverman sounds at turns like the breaks are going, the belts are slipping, the timing needs adjusting, the drive shaft has a shot bearing and the clutch is failing. Perhaps this is the very nature of illusion bespoke in the title. NOI is a much more amorphous excursion than some of Silverman's previous slow trance explorations, though it does display his trademark fondness for going to very quiet places. Through a polar silence comes a ringing metallic that fades off into contrapuntal, subsonic drones. A brief essay of percussives trails back into the liquid void. The album is a series of such interlocked and subtle sonic, largely non-melodic shape shifts whose darkness is not so much morose as it is simply casting shadows of and off the unknown. Silverman has carved an abstract chasm of distant, organic electronics that is best first opened away from one's car.

Very well known USA neo-medieval band,  new mini album with unreleased songs i n the OEC 10" series .... as usual, beautifull  first quality acoustic  medieval  ballads! One track composed with Francesco Banchini of Ataraxia & Gor! Texts taken from the european tradition by : Pier Della Vigna, Charls D'Orleans, Bertran De Bora, Carmina Burana ...
Brown  vinyl,  artwork printed in brown & gold on quality cardboard! Limited edition of 500

Inspired by Butoh and Kabuki , they are fusing Chinese fiddles and Wagnerian trombones with Death Rock drums and highly complicated bass or percussion rhythms, combining slavish dulcimers, tubas and recorders with the omnipresent death-knells, in order to build the beautifully scaring background for a unique voice, that is sometimes croaking with the malicious falsetto of a dying animal, sometimes reciting suicide-mantras with the sonorous baritone of an old man, only to turn into the screaming lament of a living corpse, bearing witness to the horrible atrocities of nightly visitors.

With Es reiten die Toten so schnell – or: The Vampyre sucking at his own Vein Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows have produced a most powerful and genre-bending classic that should quickly make its arrival into everybody's record-collection!

Two years after the impressive resonance Stoa received on their debut-album Urthona , it seemed almost impossible for Olaf and Conny to top the quality of their debut. But with Porta VIII they surely succeeded to record a more than worthy follow-up. Porta VIII was one of the bestselling Hyperium albums of all times and got overwhelming reviews literally everywhere! This CD is an album with a concept based on the fairy tale "Ariadne et Barbe Bleue" by Maurice Maeterlinck. But Porta VIII is a continuation of the original fairy tale. This album too was selling extremely well in all kind of countries worldwide and even entered the Mexican charts. An even deeper exploration in the world of classically-tinted ethereal music. Very orchestral and massive, their music is realized through lots of instrumentals and Cornelia's beautiful vocals.

One of the classics from the Hyperium-era of Heavenly Voices, finally back in print after a very long absence! “When the female vocalist sings, my heart misses another beat.” - Music From The Empty Quarter.