Orchis – A Thousand Winters (1997)

Country: England

 

Tracklist

1. The Horseman 00:14
2. Blood Of Bone 05:40
3. Blackwaterside 03:42
4. The Hare / Jennet 02:58
5. Gallows Man 05:00
6. Arcadia 04:28
7. The Horn 00:23
8. He Walks In Winter 06:14
9. Magæra 03:21
10. Winter 01:02
11. Risen 06:13
12. From The Iron Wood 07:49

 

English dark folk project consisting of Tracy Jeffery (who also sings with Cunnan and J Greco's SQE),  

Amanda Prouten and Alan Trench (Cunnan, SQE, Twelve Thousand Days (with Martyn Bates), Temple Music).

The band released four albums starting in 1994 with "The Dancing Sun", 

which was more a collection of formative pieces, then in 1997 the concept album that was "A Thousand Winters".

"Mandragora" (Trisol), an alchemical album based around the themes of life, death and the transmutation of the soul

followed in 1999 and in 2013 the album "A Dream" (Infinite Fog Productions).

Relocation and various tedious problems put Orchis on the back burner while its members involved in other projects.

There also have been numerous compilation album appearances over the years.
"A Thousand Winters" is a сonceptual album, dealing with the story of a thriving pagan culture

that at first laughs in derision at the priests of the desert messiah, and then is slowly submerged

by the rising tide of christianity until all that remains is folk memory and old tales and songs.
Mystical dark folk with an impurity of a classical English psychedelia of the late 60s.

 
Memory

Avoid Catoblépone – Musiques De Chambre Froide (1998)

Country: France

Tracklist

1. Heute 04:17
2. Clash 04:15
3. Prisonnier 03:53
4. End Never Ends 04:47
5. Little Worker 05:45
6. Vertigineuse 07:03
7. Humiliation 04:53
8. Les Tribulations D'un Soldat En Solde 24:54

Avoid Catoblépone was created in 1992 by Stéphane Bot (Stafkhan)

and his brother Sébastien (also member of Dead Souls Rising on their demo and two first albums).
The band started as alternative/gothic rock project but soon moved towards a cold wave style.
Their first self titled 8-track cassette was released in 1994

followed by second, "Déporté Sur Terre..." in 1995 with the singer Delfine.
Their first CD album "Musiques De Chambre Froide" was self released in 1998, this time with the singer Nadège.
A second album followed in 2002 entitled "Décharné De L'âme".
In 2007, the trio recruited two musicians, Julien (guitar) and Tommy (keyboards), now members of the band Mamadjo,

and recorded the demo "Don't Look Now".
They also started working on their third album but it was never released.

 
Memory

Black Tape For A Blue Girl – This Lush Garden Within (1993)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. Left, Unsaid 04:37
2. The Broken Glass 03:38
3. We Exist, Entwined 05:17
4. Overwhelmed, Beneath Me 03:20
5. This Lush Garden Within 01:49
6. The Christ In The Desert 06:29
7. The Turbulence And The Torment 05:44
8. The Flow Of Our Spirit 03:28
9. Into The Garden 04:10
10. Decomposed By The Fire Of The Firmament 04:14
11. Gravity's Angel 01:50
12. On Broken Shells Of Crystal Dreams 06:40
13. Our Future Imagined 03:21

Black Tape For A Blue Girl is an American dark wave band formed in 1986

by keyboardist/songwriter Sam Rosenthal, the founder of Projekt Records.
Their music has elements of dark wave, ethereal, ambient, neoclassical, and dark cabaret.
The band released seven albums in their first 13 years, covering the mid-80s through late-90s.

Their debut album "The Rope" was released in 1986.

The band's line-up consisted of a core of Sam Rosenthal,

Allan Kraut (on multiple instruments, including drums and guitars) and vocalist and guitarist Oscar Herrera.
Their second album, "Mesmerized By The Sirens", was released a year later, followed by "Ashes In The Brittle Air" in 1989,

"A Chaos Of Desire" in 1991 and "This Lush Garden Within" in 1993.

The core members through this period were Rosenthal and Herrera, with a variety of guest musicians.
Recording of "Remnants Of A Deeper Purity" began in 1995 in Los Angeles and was concluded in 1996.

This was the second album to feature Lucian Casselman on vocals and Vicki Richards on violin.
In 1999, the band released "As One Aflame Laid Bare By Desire", with Oscar Herrera singing two songs on the album

as a parting favor to Rosenthal. The album owes some artistic inspiration to Marcel Duchamp.
Julianna Towns returned for female vocals and also provided guitar arrangements.

After a 15 city tour in July 1998 in preparation for the album's release, she was ejected from the band.
Elysabeth Grant joined the band as violist, but she soon became the lead vocalist

for the band's seventh studio album, "The Scavenger Bride".
Male vocal duties were given to Bret Helm (of Audra) and Athan Maroulis (of Spahn Ranch).
"The Scavenger Bride" was released in 2002, with only two live appearances, as Rosenthal's son was born.
Two years later, the album "Halo Star" was released, which shifted the vocal focus to Bret Helm.
This release also marked a change in the band's lush, ethereal sound,

with a dark cabaret musical style, very similar to the Dresden Dolls and Katzenjammer Kabarett.
In 2009 Athan Maroulis, who appeared on two songs on "The Scavenger Bride" album,

as well as on a cover of Dead Can Dance's "Fortune Presents Gifts Not According To The Book", took over as lead vocalist.
On September 22, 2009, the band released their 10th album, "10 Neurotics",

with the lineup of Rosenthal on acoustic guitar, programming and keyboards,

Brian Viglione (The Dresden Dolls) on drums, percussion, bass and guitar,

and vocalists Maroulis (Spahn Ranch), Laurie Reade (ex-Attrition) and Nicki Jaine on additional vocals.
From 2013 to 2021 four more albums were released while their 30th anniversary in 2016 with the release of "These Fleeting Moments", was marked with the return of original vocalist Oscar Herrera after 17 years absence from the music scene.

 
Memory

The Order Of The NCS – Music From The Rituals Of The New Poison (1994)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. The Consumption Of Sin 04:26
2. Dõnum 03:37
3. The Tetrad Rite 02:43
4. Exaltation Of The Ring 02:00
5. Prayer Of The Gift 02:06
6. Rêgrêdîor 02:53
7. The Passion Bath 03:16
8. The Second Lesson 02:28
9. Prayer Of The Physical And Spiritual Hearts United 00:57
10. Enter Me 03:19
11. Truth Is Praised 03:04
12. Hymn Of The United 03:00
13. Evening Low Mass Concerning The Poison 03:30
14. Reflection Rejuvenated 03:12

The Order Of The NCS was a ritual side project of Doc Hammer and his then-wife Lisa Hammer 

mostly known from their other band Mors Syphilitica.
Lisa Hammer (aka Lisa Houle) is an American filmmaker, actress, composer and singer

and is the sister of director James Merendino.
Eric Hammer (aka Doc Hammer) is an American voice actor, musician, writer and artist,

that he performed with Lisa Hammer in the bands Requiem In White (1985 -1995) and Mors Syphilitica (1995 - 2002).

The Order Of The NCS existed between the demise of their band Requiem In White and the creation of Mors Syphilitica.
The project was intended to be a spiritual movement, and had one live performance in Soho, NY in 1994.
Only one album was released in 1994 on Sacrum Torch label entitled "Music From The Rituals Of The New Poison" 

with the music been composed and performed by Lisa Hammer and Eric Hammer.

The album, which Eric Hammer later admitted was "very personal, it had no business being released",

was written solely as music for him to paint to, and recorded on a partially broken 4-track in their home.
The fold-out liner notes of the CD contains several of his paintings, as well as the rituals themselves.

Memory

Ronan Quays – The Ebbing Wings Of Wisdom (1996)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. As The Spinster Spins 03:02
2. Into The Light 03:39
3. The Well, Endless And Full 04:50
4. Land Left By Time 05:58
5. Salt And Bitter Truth 03:41
6. The Saracen 02:20
7. Malady, Sweet Company 03:53
8. The Final Sigh 05:14
9. Benthos, Beneath The Ice 04:43

Rhett Brewer is a British based singer and film composer

best known for his mix of Classical music with music of Non-Western origin and Electronic elements, 

as well as the use of his own original voice as an instrument.
Born in New York City, Brewer was surrounded by Russian, Middle East and Klezmer music,

all blended with jazz and the classical work he studied as a pianist and childhood vocalist in his local Catholic church.
Inspired by all these sound worlds and by the liturgical atmosphere of the church, he began carving out a distinctive sound.
Brewer was plucked from obscurity with the compilation album "These Wings Without Feathers" 

(featuring Lisa Gerrard, Elijah's Mantle and CoEx),  released in 1996 by the De Nova Da Capo label and World Serpent.
Subsequently, Brewer's debut album "The Ebbing Wings Of Wisdom"

was released under the project title Ronan Quays, and later under his own name to critical acclaim.

In 2000 Brewer began working for media with the BBC production "Keeping Τhe Feast".
Since then, he has regularly composed and contributed music for film and television internationally.
His scores have included music for "Crossing Borders" a documentary by German filmmaker Arnd Wächter,

"The Lot" by American director Kevin Watson, music for the Touchstone Television Production "The Path Τo 9/11",

a documentary about the blind Frisian poet Tsjêbbe Hettinga by Dutch Director Pieter Verhoeff,

and the short film "Together" by Eicke Bettinga.
In 2006, Brewer began a new solo project entitled Hotel De Ville.

Recorded by Brewer, the music was inspired by his film work and is focused on a cinematic narrative of music as a place.

Fusing elements of 60's French pop, classical and electronic percussion,

Brewer recorded all the music at 60 BPM, which is the same as that of the human heart.
Tracks from the album have been used for various films, and the song "Full Circle"

was selected in 2006 by the Italian company Fernet Branca for their current television advertising campaign.

In 2018 Brewer recorded his latest album "The Thaw" with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra in Finland.

Memory

Onna-Kodomo – Syuuka (1997)

 

Country: Japan

Tracklist

1. Echo 09:25
2. When She Ascend For Steps 03:50
3. Driftin' 06:41
4. Phantom Pain 04:43
5. Black Forest - I Can't Sleep 05:58
6. Stray Sheep 08:47
7. Syuuka (The Last Song) 20:03

Onna-Kodomo was a Japanese trio that consisted of Yuko Hasegawa (bass, voice),

Shizuo Uchida (bass, guitar, also a member of Nijiumu) and Shinmei Suzuki (violin).
The band released in 1995 the cassette "終歌" and was featured on both the "Tokyo Flashback 4" compilation series

from Japan's P.S.F. Records and on the "Land Of The Rising Noise Vol. 2" compilation by Charnel Music.
In 1997 their debut CD "Syuuka" was released revealing their beautiful dreamy music.
"Syuuka" consists of minimalistic slow etheral/ambient with simple bass lines while

Shinmei Suzuki's electric violin chords blends with Yuko Hasegawa's gorgeously eerie/chanting vocals.
The album "Hypnosis" was Onna-Kodomo's next work in 2003, that is an one-hour solo by Yuko Hasegawa mostly on bass, followed by the album "Oboro" in 2003 featuring Hasegawa and Shinmei Suzuki on violin and sax.
Shizuo Uchida, among his many projects, has also teamed up with another Hasegawa, Hirotomo Hasegawa

 to record under the moniker Hasegawa-Shizuo, while together with Yuko Hasegawa 

joined Masahiro Deguchi to form the project Le Son De L'Os.

Memory

Jocelyn Pook – Flood (1999)

Country: England

Tracklist
1. Requiem Aeternam 04:34
2. Migrations (1999 Mix) 03:48
3. Romeo And Juliet 05:09
4. Oppenheimer 06:46
5. Blow The Wind / Pie Jesu 02:57
6. Masked Ball (1999 Extended Mix) 03:37
7. Forever Without End (Solo Voices) 01:49
8. La Blanche Traversée 03:58
9. Thousand Year Dream 03:20
10. Goya's Nightmare 05:51
11. Forever Without End (1999 Remix) 04:40
12. Flood 03:56

Jocelyn Pook (born 14 February 1960) is an English composer, pianist and violist.
Pook graduated in 1983 from London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she studied the viola and piano.
She took part in ABC's Lexicon Of Love World Tour and appeared in the Julian Temple/ABC movie Mantrap,
continuing with a period of recording and performing with artists including Massive Attack, PJ Harvey, Peter Gabriel
and as a member of The Communards for their three year life.
As a composer her early works were mainly for dance and she wrote scores for DV8 Physical Theatre shows
including Strange Fish which won a Prix Italia Award for Music.
She co-founded neoclassical chamber quartet Electra Strings alongside Australian violinist Sonia Slany.
Electra Strings recorded, arranged and performed with many artists including Jools Holland, Mark Knopfler,
The Stranglers, The Cranberries, This Mortal Coil, Nick Cave, Divine Comedy, Paul Weller, Ryuichi Sakamoto,
Michael Nyman, Laurie Anderson and in 1991 appeared in Derek Jarman’s film Edward II.
Her career as a film composer took off when Stanley Kubrick heard her album Deluge
and asked her to score his film Eyes Wide Shut.
The piece Masked Ball, which incorporates a fragment of an Orthodox Liturgy played backwards
and lyrics sung (or chanted) in Romanian, underscored the masked ball sequence.
Pook's score for Eyes Wide Shut received a Chicago Film Award and a Golden Globe nomination.
Pook's score to Michael Radford's film The Merchant Of Venice with Al Pacino
featured countertenor Andreas Scholl and was nominated for a Classical Brit Award.
Other notable film scores include Brick Lane (by Sarah Gavron), Heidi (by Paul Marcus), Time Out (by Laurent Cantet),
Julio Medem’s Caótica Ana and Room In Rome and a piece for Gangs Of New York directed by Martin Scorsese.
In 2018, she composed the soundtrack for The Wife starring Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater,
which won the 2019 Music & Sound Award for Best Original Composition in a Feature Film.
Pook was nominated for a BAFTA for her score for Channel 4’s The Government Inspector (by Peter Kosminsky)
and in April 2018 she won a BAFTA for her music for the 2017 TV film version of King Charles III (by Rupert Gould).
She also wrote the score for Netflix documentary series The Staircase directed by Jean-Xavier Lestrade.

Memory

Cyclamen Valley – A Mist-Flowers Exhibition (1996)

Country: Belgium

Tracklist

1. First Thema For Antena 02:04
2. Winter's Garden 03:47
3. Flower's Grave 04:17
4. Quarter To Seven 04:25
5. Constance 03:30
6. Roses Of Final Flight 05:11
7. Mist Flowers Exhibition 03:02
8. Libero Stellarum 04:15
9. Aveux Et Anathemes 05:59
10. Caedes Sub Luna 03:15
11. Slowly Sink Into Obsession 03:25
12. Sweet Lust 02:22
13. Myrna's Domain 02:45
14. Selene's Trumpet 03:42
15. Heaven's Bells (Bonus Demo Track) 03:27

Cyclamen Valley was a Belgian project founded by Marc Durant (Nymphea Alba)
with the help of Gaetan Paternot and Heidi Kanters on vocals and lyrics.
In 1994 the band recorded a demo tape and in 1996 they released the CD "A Mist-Flowers Exhibition".
The music can be described as a mix of ethereal, neo-classical with some touches of darkwave.

Memory

Bleeding Like Mine – In The Eyes Of Lovelost (1997)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. Untitled # 5 06:20
2. Shattering A Silver Sky 04:26
3. Red 04:22
4. Like Winter's Rain, Slowly Melting 04:27
5. Willow 03:29
6. Garland 05:30
7. Nothing Seems The Same 07:30
8. Idaho 05:21
9. Castaway 02:24
10. Will This Ever Touch Me Again? 05:09
11. Bleeding Like Mine 05:57
12. Dramatique 03:51
13. Untitled # 8 : Chapter 4 05:36

Bleeding Like Mine was an ethereal darkwave group from Milwaukee, WI, United States,

started in 1994 by multi-instrumentalist Curt Emmer and vocalist Holly Emmer.
Their first album, "In The Eyes Of Lovelost", was released in 1997 on the Italian label Palace Of Worms.
It consists of melancholic and slow darkwave music, where the ghostly ambiences and cyclical piano melodies

created by Curt meet the ethereal vocals of Holly, whose singing is occasionally multi-tracked into an eerie chorus.
Their second album, "Never Again Will I Dream...", was released in 2001, again on Palace Of Worms.
This time the addition of the deep vocals of Hugues Dammarie (O Quam Tristis, Thy Violent Vanities) 

are combined with the heavenly vocals of Holly Emmer and with bolder percussion and rhythm developments.
"In The Eyes Of Lovelost" was re-released in 2002 and contains approx. 12 extra minutes of music

at the end of the track 13 that weren't present on the original release.
The Memory link contains also this track.

Memory

Eden – Fire & Rain (1995)

Country: Australia

Tracklist

1. The Darkness In Me 05:30
2. Snake 03:53
3. Why? 05:17
4. Hooveless Horses 05:12
5. Fire And Rain 04:03
6. Sky Above; Sea Below 03:58
7. Song Slowly Song 02:58
8. Stretched On Your Grave 06:19
9. Rooms Above The Sea 02:08
10. Breath Upon New Eyes 03:39
11. Just Like Water; You Run From My Eyes! 04:20

Eden founding members Sean Bowley and Pieter Bourke began a song writing partnership in Melbourne, Australia in 1988. Eden’s initial 12 inch EP "The Light Between Worlds" was released in 1990 on Nightshift Records, Scotland.
The EP caught the attention of BBC Radio’s John Peel who featured tracks on his show, 

resulting in rapid support of Eden by The Alternative Press Magazine in the USA.
In 1991 Eden moved to London based label Third Mind who continued to grow the band’s profile in Europe and the USA with the release of Eden’s first full length CD "Gateway To The Mysteries" in 1992.
In 1993 Eden joined the roster of Projekt Records, releasing "Healingbow" (1993) and "Fire And Rain" (1995).
The same year Eden released a CD of remixes and rarities titled "Earthbound".
In live performance they have shared the stage in Australia and overseas with Love Spirals Downward, Lycia,  

Rowland S. Howard, These Immortal Souls, Underground Lovers, Attrition, Heligoland, Ostia and countless others. 

Eden undertook a promotional visit to the UK (1990) and an extensive tour of live dates in the USA (1996).
After two decades of silence, in June 2017 Eden went to Germany, 

joining The Mission, Skinny Puppy and She Past Away performing at Wave-Gotik-Treffen Festival in Leipzig.  

Eden's performance was combined with the release of their eighth album "The Edge Of Winter".
The album was recorded by Adam Calaitzis and produced at Melbourne’s Toyland Studios.
"The Edge Of Winter" delivers on the promise of the distinctively diverse, uniquely sumptuous sonic palette  

Eden has long been known for, spanning darkwave, neo-psychedelic and ethereal genres and featuring the reknown sublime eastern-tinged baritone vocals of Sean Bowley.
Their current line up features Sean Bowley (Vocals, 6 & 12 String Guitars, Keyboards),  

Andrew Kutzer (12 String Guitar) and Matthew Sigley (Bass Guitar, Drum Machine and Keyboards).

Memory

Pilori – Feuilles Tombantes (1999)

Country: Germany

Tracklist

1. La Naissance Pour Des Riens 01:18
2. Maple Leaf 04:10
3. Thorns 03:36
4. Talking About Wolves 04:04
5. Morgenwind 01:06
6. Dark Clouds Over Green Meadows 04:16
7. The Burden 04:29
8. Kassiopeia 05:05
9. Deceptive Appearance 04:32
10. 1927 03:11
11. Les Yeux Fermés 03:32
12. Daz Heydenkreutz 05:25
13. Le Soleil Et La Lune 03:41

After the breakup of his metal band Desolated, Gernot Musch was looking for a new musical activity.
What first started for fun in the living room then soon developed into a creative band project 

with Marion who completed Gernot's compositions with her vocals.
In 1998 their demo cd "Soufre" was released and their music rapidly found fans within the gothic scene.
Only few months later Trisol released Pilori's first official album "Feuilles Tombantes".
The band soon played concerts all over Europe together with well-known artists from the scene.
During the years quite a number of musicians contributed to their releases as well as joined them on stage.

Especially Inge and her beautiful viola melodies shaped the music of Pilori.
Th band ended around 2009 with the release of their last album "Until The Day Dawn".
Today Marion and Gernot are still actively into music with several projects and cooperations.

Marion is currently working on a crossover project with Indian and Western experimental music called Zindagi.

Also she is working on the Broken Lines Project.

Gernot is working with Tony Wakeford as Twa Corbies after being part of :Golgatha: for some years.

Memory

Impressions Of Winter ‎– Cantica Lunae - Songs Of The Moon (1996)

Country: Germany

Tracklist

1. Canticum Lunae 05:14
2. Hi Versus 04:22
3. Flores Gelidi 04:23
4. From Dreamworld To Sunrise 04:50
5. Impressions Of Winter 05:16
6. Ignis Ardet In Pluvia 03:52
7. Triviality 04:52
8. Captivitas (Instumental) 04:15
9. My Father's Return 05:02
10. Elegy Of A Swan 03:31
11. Foreboding 05:03

Impressions Of Winter are a German darkwave/neo-classical band 

that began in 1994 as the project of Joe P. (Joachim Proell).

Because of his high demands on his compositions, 

friends of his began to realize that his music was far too good not to include vocals.

So the initial line-up was completed by Andres Waldura and the group's first female singer, Laikha.
Mozart (of Umbra Et Imago) from the German label Spirit Productions 

offered to produce their first album, "Cantica Lunae - Songs Of The Moon",

which was released in the spring of 1997 and received positive notice.
After this release singer Laikha was replaced by Felicia S., and in the summer of 1998 a second CD 

"Deceptive Springs And Fading Landscapes" was released, followed by "Iuturna" in 2000.
Later in 2001 with their CD release "The RemiXperience" the band takes a slightly different retrospect on their work,

as their greatest hits had been re-mixed for this occasion.
Their last release was issued in 2003 entitled "End Of A Summer".

Memory

Die Wappen Des Thodt – Seven (1998)

Country: Germany

Tracklist

1. Doors To Heaven 05:32
2. Seven 05:34
3. The Quiet 11:06
4. Rose Of Delight 05:29
5. Angel II (Sacred Version) 06:44
6. A Mystic Heart 05:48
7. Augen Durch Die Nacht 07:22

Die Wappen Des Thodt was a German band that was formed by Paul Hostia and Thorn Hoedh.
Their first appearance was on one track on the first Ordo Catharis Templi compilation in 1993 

entitled "Hermetisches Rosencreutz: Templum Comparatio" that was released through Unclean Productions 

and later was re-released through Dark Vinyl Records.
The German duo had already many projects and collaborations like Ordo Catharis Templi,  

  Hoedh, Hostia, Delysid, Helix 12, Moksha and Zoomorph.
In 1996 a limited edition 12" picture disc entitled "In Memoriam" was released.
"Seven" was released in 1998 through Dark Vinyl Records and was their first, and last, full length album.
Here the band incorporated operatic chants and stylized neoclassical sounds 
mixed with neofolk and ethereal/dark ambient atmospheres.
Thorn Hoedh passed away in 2003.

Memory

Brendan Perry – Eye Of The Hunter (1999)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. Saturday's Child 04:30
2. Voyage of Bran 05:33
3. Medusa 06:10
4. Sloth 03:32
5. I Must Have Been Blind 05:07
6. The Captive Heart 04:00
7. Death Will Be My Bride 05:46
8. Archangel 07:35

Debut solo album from Brendan Perry, best known for his work as the male half 

of the duo Dead Can Dance with Lisa Gerrard.
The album contained songs written by Perry and a cover of Tim Buckley's song 

"I Must Have Been Blind" from his 1970 album "Blue Afternoon".
Boasting lush production sensibilities and a boundary-defying spirit, Eye Of The Hunter offered
an immediate familiarity to fans of Dead Can Dance’s unique sound world.
But there were difference in the manner the music was made, and also how it was presented.
Eye Of The Hunter’s vignettes were written – crafted – using a more traditional singer / songwriter process.
The music, centered around Brendan’s thoughtful and restrained guitar playing, 

provided a backdrop for his deep, gentle vocals.
And while much of Dead Can Dance’s work eluded categorization, Brendan embraced it, making a folk record
in the truest sense: these songs, each one its own story but each also contributing to an overall theme,

 were rooted in his life experiences.
Dead Can Dance’s music often suggested a search for meaning and sense in the world, 

and Brendan has taken up a similar journey.
But instead of looking at the external world, he has decided to explore the inner world of his own private universe.
“People have multiple personalities which are always evolving,” he says. 

“This record deals with the different facets of my own personality.”
Eye Of The Hunter’s deeply personal songs explore the theme of loss, both of life and love, 

but they are not bereft of hope.
Recorded at Brendan’s Quivvy Church Studio in County Cavan in Ireland and released from 4AD.

Memory

Arcana – Cantar De Procella (1997)

Country: Sweden

Tracklist

1. The Opening Of The Wound 03:32
2. Chant Of The Awakening 04:22
3. The Song Of Solitude (The Cry Of Isolde) 02:57
4. Void Of Silence 03:23
5. Cantar De Procella 06:26
6. Aeterna Doloris 02:55
7. The Song Of Preparation 00:43
8. God Of The Winds 04:45
9. The Dreams Made Of Sand 04:43
10. Gathering Of The Storm 04:15
11. La Salva De Profundis 05:29
12. The Tree Within 03:38

Arcana's follow up to their one year old debut album. 

The band here consisted of founder Peter Bjärgö (then Peter Pettersson) and vocalist Ida Bengtsson.

A great album with a mixture of industrial elements, beautiful female vocals, 

classical power and medieval atmospheres.

Released on Cold Meat Industry.

Memory

sToa – Urthona (1993)

Country: Germany

Tracklist

1. Candide 03:27
2. Autumn 03:28
3. Infant Joy 02:45
4. Spin 03:31
5. In Memoriam 05:04
6. Stoa 05:53
7. Captivity 03:16
8. Dust 03:44
9. (N)Ever 03:57
10. Taumel 05:00
11. Hommage 02:10

sToa was founded in 1991. Olaf Parusel (composition/arrangement) looked at this time 

for a new way to connect his musical and philosophical thoughts. He found a voice in Conny Levrow. 

In the same year the first song "Stoa" was released on the compilation "From Hypnotic ... to Hypersonic".
Both members worked a lot in other projects in the years before. 

Conny played the violin for more than ten years and performed in many orchestras. 

Besides this she sang in some classical choruses and as a soloist. 

She is familiar with barock and romantic compositions like G.F. Handel, E. Grieg or Pergolesi.
Olaf was in his childhood a member of the "Stadtsingechor Halle" the oldest chorus of the world. 

Later he played in many musical projects and bands. He also composed for TV. He studied musicology and philosophy.
The CD "Urthona" (Hyperium) released in 1993. This was one of the most influential albums 

for the (from the label Hyperium so called) heavenly voices style.

Memory

Cocteau Twins – Treasure (1984)

Country: Scotland

Tracklist

1. Ivo 03:53
2. Lorelei 03:42
3. Beatrix 03:11
4. Persephone 04:24
5. Pandora (For Cindy) 05:31
6. Amelia 03:29
7. Aloysius 03:26
8. Cicely 03:27
9. Otterley 03:59
10. Donimo 06:11

"Treasure is to this day cited as the favorite album by many Cocteau Twins fans, 

who sometimes see it as the band's peak record.

It marks a trend in Cocteau Twins music to blur the edges more, 

and further detach the music from any sort of definite structure. 

The songs themselves rely heavily on effects, and often the sounds one hears are reminiscent of the baroque 

or more modern gothic/synthetic music, accompanied by layers of delayed or fuzzed-out guitars, 

and the occasional acoustic-style strumming rhythm (as on "Ivo" and "Cicely").
Simon Raymonde's and Robin Guthrie's lustrous style of bass-playing create a flowing underlay, working well with the much louder and more powerful drums, which sound much less synthetic on Treasure than they had previously. 

Treasure disconnects the listener from reality on many levels, 

creating distinct and non-corporeal atmospheres conducive to free-association.
Elizabeth Fraser's lyrics are the most obscured of the early releases up to the end of 1984. 

There are real words here, even whole phrases, intermixed with old Scottish words or words of unknown origin. 

Elizabeth's voice is also more delicate than ever before, and more subtle.

The album opens with the bright, warm and absorbing melodies of "Ivo", bleeds into the thumping chimes of "Lorelei",

and flows quite naturally from there to the end, where the dark, 

whispered tones of "Otterley" precede the explosive finale of "Donimo".
Treasure will most likely continue to be considered by most fans and enthusiasts as exactly what its name implies, 

as well as continue to stand as a milestone in independent music history."

Memory