“Alone In The Hollow Garden was conceived in spring 2013 as a Tanz Ohne Musik side project and represents a stylistic returning point to Dan Serbanescu‘s musical roots, exploring his old school industrial, dark ambient and ritual sides, all wrapped in a fresh skin. Sorrowful strings, doomsday horns and trumpets, massive percussion and snares, bells, dulcimer all interlaced with exquisite male and female voices create a quite singular atmosphere of grandeur and of melancholy for times long gone… ARCANA’s music leaves hardly no one indifferent, it’s able to touch and move in ways very few acts have been able to achieve, it’s music is timeless and rediscovering these albums years later certainly proves this…”Īlone in the Hollow Garden – Babylonian Bliss ARCANA have been pillars and always at the forefront of the so called Neo Classical / Heavenly Voices movement with their poignant, ethereal and medieval inspired music since their very first album, Dark Age Of Reason was released in 1996 on Sweden’s Cold Meat Industry label on which they subsequently released 3 other albums, Cantar De Procella (1997) …The Last Embrace (2000) and Inner Pale Sun (2002) making ARCANA one of the most regarded and praised acts on the label. “Very few bands evoke such awe and inspiration than this Swedish act driven by the now legendary talent of Peter Bjärgö. Like many others, he tries to turn back by immersing himself in the past and the far-away and by creating Middle Ages, mysticism, religion and Orient as his personal private psychological landscapes, only to realise – like we ourselves at the end of the millennium – that it was merely love from afar.”įrom Cyclic Law’s Bandcamp page for the album: Satie experienced the end of a century, during which technological and scientific progress, as well as social upheaval have accelerated to a breathtaking tempo. His vision was dreamlike, and in a single fleeting and furtive passage, there are evocations of the Middle Ages, Ancient Greece and the Orient. “It may seem strange at first to have oriental instruments play the music of a composer who personified the French genius, albeit in a highly personal way, better than most others.īut these instruments throw a new light on Erik Satie’s fine intuitive approach, when he was in the process of creating his personal and utterly personal language. – psalmody, mystery instruments, tape decomposition”Ī Musical Journey into the Imaginary Orient “When profane tongues swagger ungoverned, into vast catacombs retreat in tenebrous repositories consult those wise in silence instead. May those daring to breach its peace find the sophic lamps still alight!”ĭescription of the below track, ‘Stillatory of Umbræ’ from the booklet: “Ai Ma Ra was first conceived within a specifically consecrated cell, closed to prying eyes and sealed shortly afterwards. These are in no particular order, which suits the sensibilities of This Is Darkness perfectly! Enjoy and be sure to stop by Anathema Publishing’s store and various social media accounts ( Facebook, Instagram) to show your love! So with all that said, lets see the list! However, it is without question that these albums should all resonate well with our community. Albums/artists like Sounds of Isha, Ulver, Bohren und der Club of Gore, Ensemble Sarband, and a few others would fall into various different genre categories. Some of these aren’t necessarily dark ambient. So, it is my distinct pleasure to present you with Gabriel’s compiled list of favorite dark ambient albums. He really has an ear-to-the-ground, so to speak, picking up the resonances of everything happening within the genre. Gabriel really impressed/surprised me with his depth of knowledge in relation to the current and past dark ambient landscape. On /store we are able to find some of the best new dark ambient releases from labels such as Cyclic Law, Hypnagoga Press and Zazen Sounds, as well as individual artists” releases like those of Alone in the Hollow Garden. While he’s listened to dark ambient for years, he has only recently begun distributing choice-selected releases through his Anathema Publishing website/distro. In our discussion, Gabriel illuminated how important this genre is to his daily life, as well as Anathema. We recently spoke with Gabriel McCaughry, the man behind Anathema Publishing, on our Twitch channel.
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