The Otherworld with MHLee:
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from June 18, 2026
The Otherworld explores music that seeks to conjure images of distant lands and fantasy ambiance through dreamy dungeon-synth, acid folk, neo-folk, and more. Featuring work primarily from small projects, it's an ambiance to which you can drift off and imagine yourself in another land.
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June 18, 2026: The Otherworld: Episode 47
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Grim Father
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Below the Visceral Realm
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Endless
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2021
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Tales from the Shifting Archives
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Magic Man
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Steppe Grass (Chromakey Dreamcoat)
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Boards of Mongolia
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2026
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Radagast
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Yesta
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HDK 236 † Yesta
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2026
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𝔒𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔞 𝔡𝔯𝔲𝔦𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔡𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔢𝔫, ℌ𝔯𝔢𝔦𝔫’𝔰 𝔟𝔬𝔡𝔶 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔭𝔦𝔢𝔯𝔠𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔰𝔱 𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔅𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔪. 𝔚𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔡, 𝔯𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔡, 𝔬𝔯 𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔢𝔡 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔯𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔛𝔦𝔬𝔫, 𝔥𝔢 𝔢𝔫𝔡𝔲𝔯𝔢𝔡. ℌ𝔦𝔰 𝔪𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔶 𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔯𝔬𝔬𝔱 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔯𝔬𝔱 𝔤𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔥𝔦𝔪 𝔞 𝔫𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔬𝔴 𝔭𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔞𝔤𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥 𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥’𝔰 𝔳𝔢𝔦𝔩, 𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔳𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔰 𝔟𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔡 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔪𝔶𝔠𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔲𝔪, 𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔟𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔰 𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔦𝔫 𝔩𝔦𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔴𝔬𝔬𝔡, 𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔡 𝔰𝔢𝔢𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔰𝔞𝔭 𝔦𝔫𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔬𝔯.
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𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔅𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔪 𝔡𝔦𝔡 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔠𝔩𝔞𝔦𝔪 𝔥𝔦𝔪, 𝔦𝔱 𝔟𝔞𝔯𝔤𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔡. ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔭𝔞𝔠𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔰𝔲𝔯𝔳𝔦𝔳𝔞𝔩, ℌ𝔯𝔢𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔫𝔢𝔡 𝔥𝔞𝔩𝔣 𝔨𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔞𝔩 𝔳𝔢𝔦𝔩. ℌ𝔦𝔰 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔟𝔯𝔲𝔰𝔥𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔳𝔞𝔰𝔱 𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔰𝔠𝔦𝔬𝔲𝔰𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔟𝔢𝔫𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔬𝔦𝔩, 𝔞𝔫 𝔬𝔠𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔥𝔶𝔭𝔥𝔞𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔥𝔞𝔡 𝔫𝔬 𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔤𝔲𝔞𝔤𝔢 𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔤𝔯𝔬𝔴𝔱𝔥, 𝔥𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔡𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔶. ℌ𝔢 𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔫𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔬 𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔫, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥 𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤, 𝔱𝔬 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔡.
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ℌ𝔦𝔰 𝔭𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔣𝔦𝔢𝔩𝔡𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔣𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔦 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔪𝔲𝔰𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔬𝔪𝔰 𝔰𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔩𝔨𝔰, 𝔤𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔣𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔩𝔶, 𝔠𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔫𝔰𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔭𝔬𝔦𝔰𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔡 𝔤𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡. 𝔜𝔢𝔱 𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔭𝔞𝔱𝔥 𝔦𝔰 𝔣𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔢𝔡, 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔪 𝔦𝔰 𝔪𝔬𝔫𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔥𝔞𝔩𝔣 𝔯𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔡, 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔰 𝔦𝔫 𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔟𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥 𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔶 𝔟𝔬𝔱𝔥 𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔢𝔴𝔞𝔩.
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𝔐𝔞𝔫𝔶 𝔴𝔥𝔦𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔯 𝔥𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔫𝔬 𝔩𝔬𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 𝔞 𝔪𝔞𝔫, 𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔞 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔞𝔩𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔅𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔪 𝔦𝔱𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔣, 𝔞 𝔡𝔯𝔲𝔦𝔡 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔡 𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔥𝔲𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔱𝔶 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔰𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔩𝔶 𝔡𝔢𝔣𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔪, 𝔠𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔢𝔫 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔫 𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔲𝔭𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔟𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔬 𝔩𝔦𝔣𝔢. | Welcome to the new Radagast album called "Yesta".
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The notes emerge like murmurs from beneath the earth: ethereal synths pulse like luminous roots, cavernous drones echo the vast fungal unconscious, distant choirs seem to whisper from a vegetal beyond.
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There is no aggression, but a subtle, cyclical restlessness, evoking growth and decay as two faces of the same silent divinity.
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The songs accompany Hrein's journey across the threshold between life and decay, while Bloom does not claim him, but judges him, instructs him, welcomes him. Where others rot, he transforms: veins entwined with mycelium, bones etched into living wood, blood dripping resin. Spores become breath, the body a semi-divine relic.
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In the more meditative passages of the album, one senses the presence of the vast underground ocean, the languageless consciousness of the soil itself—growth, hunger, decay. In the brightest movements, fields of healing mushrooms emerge, rings of luminescent fungi healing the poisoned earth.
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"Yesta" is pure Cosmic Dungeon-synth, the soundtrack to a myth yet to be told: a cosmic druidism bordering on horror, a mystical ecology converting corruption into new life.
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The cassette contains a fantasy RPG setting inspired by the world described by Radagast that can inspire Dungeon Masters for a campaign where weapons and strength are not needed, but only empathy with what surrounds them can guarantee the PCs success in their quest.
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Mistweaver
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Isle of Faces
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Mistweaver
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2026
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Lye The Imprisoned
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An Altar Of Foolish Wishes
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The Tales of The Frog King
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2021
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Menelglîr
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Oraison
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Menelglîr
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2017
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Vulnus
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Butterfly
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Butterfly
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2022
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Arrowwood
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Dreaming Knoll
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Beautiful Grave
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2013
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Sometimes music tells you more about its creator than he himself could ever do. Chelsea Robb, born in Albion, now residing in the mystical north west of the USA already fits well with the image of an incarnated elementary spirit from her whole appearance and has opened the gates to the magical kingdom in a musical way. Gentle, ethereal and sometimes even ghostly haunting sounds, created on all acoustic instruments such as flute, hurdy gurdy, reed organ and several stringed instruments apart from the classic acoustic guitar build the fruitful soil for a mystifying vocal performance by Ms. Robb who also perfectly performs in a duet with an even more powerful male voice courtesy of NOVEMTHREE mastermind Pythagumus Marshall. An enchanting swarm of different rattles, timbers, bells and rainmakers comes buzzing around the melody patterns, only scarcely driven by an occasional hypnotical beat of a hand drum. The surreal beauty of this second full length album by the project under conduction of Chelsea Robb knows to enchant the listener every second and to tickle his senses. This way even soft, calm and dreamy music can be utterly exciting. The spell of the magic kingdom works well into our dimension through the music of ARROWWOOD.
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Nebelung
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Last Night In the Woods
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The Lonely Wood
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2021
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Cascadian recluse NIBELUNG returns after a long silence with what may be the pinnacle of minimalist, naturalist ambient music. Six depressive melodies improvised and recorded live on old bells in wooded places, accompanied only by branches creaking in the wind, meandering streams, and the animals and birds of the forest. Dungeon synth without synthesizers, reduced to its most organic form. Lonely sounds for wandering among the trees and the undergrowth in late summer twilight.
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Meitheal
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Greeting The Solar Storm
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Early In The Spring, Late In The Fall
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2013
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Mike Gangloff is best known as a member of drone improvisers Pelt and Spiral Joy Band, as well as Appalachian old-time outfit The Black Twig Pickers. In March of last year he performed at one of Vicky Langan's Black Sun events in Cork, alongside David Colohan's Raising Holy Sparks, and the Cork Sacred Harp Singers, with which Langan is involved. The three musicians played a short piece together to close the show. The trio, now named Meitheal, reconvened to appear at Newcastle's Tusk Festival in October.
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The material here is largely culled from the Sacred Harp tradition, with vocals backed by Gangloff and Langan's twin fiddles and Colohan's harmonium and shruti box drones. On the Tusk recording, each member sings lead in turn (culminating in what may be Colohan's finest recorded vocal to date). The unadorned, unaffected approach allows the musicians' characters, and the traditions that shaped them, to shine through. In this way the music effortlessly reunites the folk traditions of Ireland and the Southern United States, while being informed by the hillbilly drone of Henry Flynt. Songs that date from as far back as the 19th century are placed in an unusual yet sympathetic context, retaining their directness and emotional power.
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This release consists of both the Cork and Newcastle sets, as well as a rehearsal prior to the latter, and so contains Meitheal's entire recorded work to date.
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SANGRE DE MUERDAGO
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Coma un Bico
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Xuntas
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2020
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The Soil Bleeds Black
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Bite Irena, Wide Feran
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The Kingdom and Its Fey
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1996
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Ritual Dust
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Seeds From The Olive Tree
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LEFT/FOLK VI: The World As It Is
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2024
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Greetings dearest friends and bitterest enemies,
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First, we would like to thank everyone who has contributed their wonderful work to this collection. We have truly found a niche of unique and talented artists, and we are forever grateful for it.
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We welcome you all back with open arms and weary hearts, for the first Left/Folk compilation of the new year. This collection expands on the sound of what makes up our milieu, bringing in some harsher and more martial elements, while exploring themes that may upset and entice, sometimes falling into depths of horror and sorrow… though not without beauty and hope, the fruits of the living and the dying. Such is the reflection of the world as it currently is.
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There are unspeakable things happening, but they must be spoken, for the voiceless scream without being heard. Every day we are exposed to new forms of cruelty, yet so many sit by, idly pretending that this is fine, far too many. We must demand, no, work towards the liberation of all people from State violence, from genocide, from subjugation. So long as this happens, we are complicit.
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With that said, we invite you to join us in this aural space, to linger a while, and hopefully find encouragement or inspiration from this collection. We want to cultivate the flame, so we may cast the spirit of The-World-As-It-Is ablaze with our creativity and joy and sorrow and anger. It must. As is the process of regeneration, of improvement, of justice.
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All funds raised from this compilation will be donated to ANERA (American Near East Refugee Aid) which has a formidable reputation for being effective in getting aid to refugees and vulnerable communities in Palestine and Lebanon. Though we present you with a suggested price, we are appreciative of anything more that you decide to give. Every dollar counts.
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The future is in your hands, stay fera!
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The Hare and the Moon
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The Three Ravens
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The Hare And The Moon
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2019
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Beware, homemade spookfolk of a DIY nature! This was the first The Hare And The Moon album. They are now as ghosts.
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Magpahi
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May Pole
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Ballads Of Seduction, Fertility And Ritual Slaughter (V/a)
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2023
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Seventeen artists cover the Wicker Man soundtrack in support of the Scottish Wildlife Trust.
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Handspan
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Nothing Sinister About Maggie
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The Dark is Rising
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2019
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This album is a soundtrack to the book The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. Some of the tracks actually accompany the text if you read it at just the right speed. Others are simply inspired by moments in the book. I'll leave it to you to decide which are which.
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"The album is marvellously redolent of Kingsland’s work in particular, and the perfect musical realisation of a story steeped in traditional myth... Combining swimmy, retro synths with “early” instrumentation (you have to admire the dedication of a man who can teach himself to play the Finnish kantele), the album is as crisply keen as the sweeping snowdrifts and slate-grey sky that lend the book such an air of forbidding, suffocating stillness." Bob Fischer, Fortean Times
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One of Concrete Islands' 50 Albums of the Year 2019.
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BASIC DUNGEON
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Protection from Evil
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HDK 19 † The Book of Spells
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2018
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This is an expansion set for BASIC DUNGEON "Tunnels & Treasures" series! It contains 12 first-level spells for wizards. They can be useful for dealing with a small dungeon inhabited by mediocre creatures like kobolds, goblins and giant rats. Be ready to cast the right spell!
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Lady Spiderslime
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The devil and the fool
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Chip Show
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2021
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Ashleigh Bridges
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Coil
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Old School RuneScape
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2013
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DIM
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Clandestine
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Compendium I
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2017
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Lost in the uncharted eons of time when creatures of legend shared the earth with men, a peaceable kingdom stretched from the fertile valleys, green and verdant, to the ancient, towering forests and even to the far, blue mountains beyond which no eye had seen. Among the rolling hills and blooming glens, lush with all manner of orchards and gardens, the valley towns thrived with barely a thought for any matters beyond their neatly walled fields.
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Such were the range of a roaming minstrel whose long-told tales and oft-sung songs could be heard in the valley inns and markets. Along the winding roads he occasionally heard whispers from the far countries, intrigues from the king’s household, and murmurs from deep within the tangled forests, deeper even than any of the king’s heroes dared venture. The wonders of such mysteries filled his imagination.
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And so it was that one cool spring afternoon he determined to leave the familiar lanes of the valley towns and venture to the farthest reaches of the kingdom and--should fortune look kindly upon him--farther still, beyond the wilds and wastes, beyond the far countries, and there to learn the peculiar songs and strange stories of those ancient lands.
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magic Lantern
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Gelatinous Skelibite
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Scream In E Minor
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2021
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It has been told countless times before...
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the ever enduring tale of a king, |
newly crowned, |
betrayed by his most trusted confidants, |
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reanimated by a collective of banished sorcerers, |
made immortal by a power hungry vampire, |
vindicated through total eradication of his former friends turned foes |
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forevermore.
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spaceseer
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Crusade Against the Nightlillies
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2025
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On the night of an angry full moon in the year 307 AT, a priestess named Nerva of the Qyo Faith vanished with nary a trace, after being exiled from her monastery by order of Monos Oledias of the Purple Orchids.
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Plague of Insomnia
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The First Ritual
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The First Ritual
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2020
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Andrew Hulshult
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Hell's Maw
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Tome of Power (Official Heretic + Hexen Game Soundtrack)
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2025
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Psychic Hood
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Devastation of Baal
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Era Indomitus
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2023
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Castle Zagyx
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Theology / Civlization
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Theology / Civilization (cover - Conan the Barbarian OST 1982)
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2019
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Gaë Bolg
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Pandaemonium
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Requiem
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2006
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Eric Roger's mass for the dead
After his musical setting of "Aucassin et Nicolette", a classic work of French literature dating back to 1225, Eric Roger's new album "Requiem" is a purely personal work. As the title suggests, it is a mass for the dead in the traditional meaning of the word. It is dedicated to those of Eric's friends and relatives who passed away in the last three years, thus presenting a subject matter that couldn't be of a more intimate nature. In accordance with this conceptional framework, "Requiem" comes across as a very sacral piece of work, finding a middle ground between serene devotion and desperate beseeching, but without ever regressing to kitsch or meaningless pathos.
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