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ARTIST: DEATH IN JUNE TITLE: The Cathedral of Tears LABEL: NEUROPA   DESCRIPTION: EXPECTED TO ARRIVE AROUND FEBRUARY 15. PRE-ORDER TODAY. Any regular in-stock items ordered at the same time (in the same shopping cart) will be held aside and sent with your pre-ordered goods as one shipment. Orders with multiple pre-orders will be sent as one order, when all of the items in the order are available. If you want an order to ship immediately, or want your pre-ordered items to be sent out as soon as they arrive here, rather than in a group, you must order them separately. We won't charge your credit card until we ship the order. Please make sure your card number and expiration date are up to date when before you complete the check-out process. ======================== As a continuing part of the 30th Anniversary Celebrations of the foundation of Death In June, 'The Cathedral Of Tears' compilation album, originally issued in 1991, is now released on vinyl for the first time as a limited edition double 12" LP. This also denotes a double celebration marking 20 years since its initial release! The pressing is limited to 880 various shades of red coloured vinyl copies, coming in a red foil-blocked gatefold sleeve, 400 of which will also come with a bonus 3 track 7 inch picture disc featuring live tracks from the 5 track CD/12" single originally released in 1993. If you order a copy with the bonus 7 inch you get solid red vinyl. If you order a copy without the bonus 7 inch you have a choice of swirled red/gold or swirled red/black vinyl.  Please note that the actual recording of the track 'Cathedral Of Tears' is exclusive to this album and bears no resemblance to the recording of the single version of the track released in 1993 and is also featured on the 'DISCriminate' double CD compilation. Please also note that 'Brown Book (re-read)' and 'Brown Book (Whiphand 6 version)' have never before been released on vinyl. Both tracks were specifically remixed/recorded for the CD version of this album in 1991 and 1998 respectively. As both versions of 'Brown Book' (specifically the 1987 original) are banned in Germany, German customers are advised to buy from mail order firms from elsewhere within the E.U. as this LP will not be directly available from German distributors/shops. Side 1: BROWN BOOK (re-read) BURN AGAIN DEATH OF A MAN Side 2: RULE AGAIN (instrumental) TOUCH DEFILES HIDDEN AMONG THE LEAVES Side 3: RED DOG - BLACK DOG BLOOD VICTORY (instrumental) BROWN BOOK (original Totenkopf 6 version 1987/1991) Side 4: CATHEDRAL OF TEARS BLOOD VICTORY BROWN BOOK (Whiphand 6 version 1998) 7" Bonus Picture Disc Vinyl: Side 1: TO DROWN A ROSE THE FOG OF THE WORLD Side 2: EUROPA: THE GATES OF HELL (These 3 live tracks recorded in Paris, France on the 5th January, 1993 are taken from the 'Cathedral Of Tears' CD Single and 12" Picture Disc issued later that same year.)" ITEM NUMBER: 11558 FORMAT: 2xLP + 7 inch PRICE: $54.99

ARTIST: DEATH IN JUNE TITLE: The Cathedral of Tears LABEL: NEUROPA   DESCRIPTION: EXPECTED TO ARRIVE AROUND FEBRUARY 15. PRE-ORDER TODAY. Any regular in-stock items ordered at the same time (in the same shopping cart) will be held aside and sent with your pre-ordered goods as one shipment. Orders with multiple pre-orders will be sent as one order, when all of the items in the order are available. If you want an order to ship immediately, or want your pre-ordered items to be sent out as soon as they arrive here, rather than in a group, you must order them separately. We won't charge your credit card until we ship the order. Please make sure your card number and expiration date are up to date when before you complete the check-out process. ======================== As a continuing part of the 30th Anniversary Celebrations of the foundation of Death In June, 'The Cathedral Of Tears' compilation album, originally issued in 1991, is now released on vinyl for the first time as a limited edition double 12" LP. This also denotes a double celebration marking 20 years since its initial release! The pressing is limited to 880 various shades of red coloured vinyl copies, coming in a red foil-blocked gatefold sleeve, 400 of which will also come with a bonus 3 track 7 inch picture disc featuring live tracks from the 5 track CD/12" single originally released in 1993. If you order a copy with the bonus 7 inch you get solid red vinyl. If you order a copy without the bonus 7 inch you have a choice of swirled red/gold or swirled red/black vinyl.  Please note that the actual recording of the track 'Cathedral Of Tears' is exclusive to this album and bears no resemblance to the recording of the single version of the track released in 1993 and is also featured on the 'DISCriminate' double CD compilation. Please also note that 'Brown Book (re-read)' and 'Brown Book (Whiphand 6 version)' have never before been released on vinyl. Both tracks were specifically remixed/recorded for the CD version of this album in 1991 and 1998 respectively. As both versions of 'Brown Book' (specifically the 1987 original) are banned in Germany, German customers are advised to buy from mail order firms from elsewhere within the E.U. as this LP will not be directly available from German distributors/shops. Side 1: BROWN BOOK (re-read) BURN AGAIN DEATH OF A MAN Side 2: RULE AGAIN (instrumental) TOUCH DEFILES HIDDEN AMONG THE LEAVES Side 3: RED DOG - BLACK DOG BLOOD VICTORY (instrumental) BROWN BOOK (original Totenkopf 6 version 1987/1991) Side 4: CATHEDRAL OF TEARS BLOOD VICTORY BROWN BOOK (Whiphand 6 version 1998) ITEM NUMBER: 11559 FORMAT: 2xLP (red/black) PRICE: $47.29

ARTIST: DEATH IN JUNE TITLE: The Cathedral of Tears LABEL: NEUROPA   DESCRIPTION: EXPECTED TO ARRIVE AROUND FEBRUARY 15. PRE-ORDER TODAY. Any regular in-stock items ordered at the same time (in the same shopping cart) will be held aside and sent with your pre-ordered goods as one shipment. Orders with multiple pre-orders will be sent as one order, when all of the items in the order are available. If you want an order to ship immediately, or want your pre-ordered items to be sent out as soon as they arrive here, rather than in a group, you must order them separately. We won't charge your credit card until we ship the order. Please make sure your card number and expiration date are up to date when before you complete the check-out process. ======================== As a continuing part of the 30th Anniversary Celebrations of the foundation of Death In June, 'The Cathedral Of Tears' compilation album, originally issued in 1991, is now released on vinyl for the first time as a limited edition double 12" LP. This also denotes a double celebration marking 20 years since its initial release! The pressing is limited to 880 various shades of red coloured vinyl copies, coming in a red foil-blocked gatefold sleeve, 400 of which will also come with a bonus 3 track 7 inch picture disc featuring live tracks from the 5 track CD/12" single originally released in 1993. If you order a copy with the bonus 7 inch you get solid red vinyl. If you order a copy without the bonus 7 inch you have a choice of swirled red/gold or swirled red/black vinyl.  Please note that the actual recording of the track 'Cathedral Of Tears' is exclusive to this album and bears no resemblance to the recording of the single version of the track released in 1993 and is also featured on the 'DISCriminate' double CD compilation. Please also note that 'Brown Book (re-read)' and 'Brown Book (Whiphand 6 version)' have never before been released on vinyl. Both tracks were specifically remixed/recorded for the CD version of this album in 1991 and 1998 respectively. As both versions of 'Brown Book' (specifically the 1987 original) are banned in Germany, German customers are advised to buy from mail order firms from elsewhere within the E.U. as this LP will not be directly available from German distributors/shops. Side 1: BROWN BOOK (re-read) BURN AGAIN DEATH OF A MAN Side 2: RULE AGAIN (instrumental) TOUCH DEFILES HIDDEN AMONG THE LEAVES Side 3: RED DOG - BLACK DOG BLOOD VICTORY (instrumental) BROWN BOOK (original Totenkopf 6 version 1987/1991) Side 4: CATHEDRAL OF TEARS BLOOD VICTORY BROWN BOOK (Whiphand 6 version 1998) ITEM NUMBER: 11557 FORMAT: 2xLP (red/gold) PRICE: $47.29

ARTIST: RAPOON TITLE: Stray LABEL: SOLEILMOON   DESCRIPTION: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- TO BE RELEASED FEBRUARY 27, 2012. PRE-ORDER A COPY TODAY. Any regular in-stock items ordered at the same time (in the same shopping cart) will be held aside and sent with your pre-ordered goods as one shipment. Orders with multiple pre-orders will be sent as one order, when all of the items in the order are available. If you want an order to ship immediately, or want your pre-ordered items to be sent out as soon as they arrive here, rather than in a group, you must order them separately. We won't charge your credit card until we ship the order. Please make sure your card's number and expiration date are up to date when before you complete the check-out process. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= “Stray” is the new album by Robin Storey, otherwise known as Rapoon. His previous release for Soeilmoon was “Melancholic Songs of the Desert”, released in 2009. He has more than 50 albums and singles going back 20 years to his 1992 debut recording,“Dream Circle”. Improvisational, accoustic, electronic, and artfully arranged, the music of Rapoon is the auditory manifestation of impressionism. Robin Storey paints his songs with small details and fleeting impressions that evoke a mood or place in the listener’s imagination. "Stray" opens with a simple recording of a women’s choir, then in the next two tracks Storey transforms and transmutes the voices, adding pastel tones and rough shadows until the original canvas has been completely repainted. The fourth piece sprinkles tropical songbirds over distant drones and off-world rhythms, moving East until again, after two more songs, an entirely different atmosphere has emerged. The last three songs take up half of the album, and include two long pieces that comprise entire worlds unto themselves, from bedrock to mountaintop. Transitory, ephemeral clouds of sound flow down imaginary frozen canyons, pouring across weathered rocks and running to windswept shores, carrying sand, pollen and promises of spring’s renewal. Taken together, the nine songs on “Stray” are as gorgeous as they are oblique and engaging. “Stray” is presented in lavishly printed CD slipcase and folder with vellum overwrap. In a world of generic music sold in dull packaging, the exquisite cover created for this CD makes it an object to treasure, yet it is typical of the high standards of Soleilmoon. This delux first edition of "Stray" is limited 333 copies. ITEM NUMBER: 11561 FORMAT: CD PRICE: $18.99

ARTIST: RAPOON TITLE: In This World - (Standard Edition) LABEL: ULTRA MAIL PRODUCTIONS     DESCRIPTION: EXPECTED TO ARRIVE AROUND MARCH 1. PRE-ORDER TODAY. Any regular in-stock items ordered at the same time (in the same shopping cart) will be held aside and sent with your pre-ordered goods as one shipment. Orders with multiple pre-orders will be sent as one order, when all of the items in the order are available. If you want an order to ship immediately, or want your pre-ordered items to be sent out as soon as they arrive here, rather than in a group, you must order them separately. We won't charge your credit card until we ship the order. Please make sure your card number and expiration date are up to date when before you complete the check-out process. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Black special textured material Box,with silver emboss on front cover. Limited 250 copies This is a multi- medium Project,which contains: In Time Past LP (180 g Color Vinyl): Side A 1. Gaventu 2. This....Bell 3. Deeply Secretive Side B 1. Hand And Eye 2.Looking Back Now 3. When The Chimes End.... Deep In This World CD : 1. What Do You Want Me To Do ? 2. Something.... 3. Deep In Our World 4. You Morning Wake 5. In Choral Dreams 6. And Speak 7. And Set Me Free(Again) In This Moment DVD : 1. Cysak 2. Bysak 3. Dysak 4. Fessak 5. Gyssak 6. Hyussak 7. Essak **Dancer Zuzanna Grzywacz a.k.a. NIYA A postcard set A folded poster. ---------------------------- ITEM NUMBER: 11526 FORMAT: LP/CD/DVD BOX SET PRICE: $106.79

ARTIST: REFORMED FACTION TITLE: The World Awake/11 Stueck LABEL: SOLEILMOON   DESCRIPTION: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- TO BE RELEASED FEBRUARY 27, 2012. PRE-ORDER A COPY TODAY. Any regular in-stock items ordered at the same time (in the same shopping cart) will be held aside and sent with your pre-ordered goods as one shipment. Orders with multiple pre-orders will be sent as one order, when all of the items in the order are available. If you want an order to ship immediately, or want your pre-ordered items to be sent out as soon as they arrive here, rather than in a group, you must order them separately. We won't charge your credit card until we ship the order. Please make sure your card's number and expiration date are up to date when before you complete the check-out process. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The World Awake! / 11 Stueck is a new double album from Reformed Faction, the duo of Robin Storey and Mark Spybey. It follows the triple CD release for Soleilmoon, ‘I am the Source of Light I am not a Mirror,” in 2009.   Robin Storey was born in 1955 in Cumbria, England. He studied fine arts at Sunderland University and took classes in electronic and experimental composition, joining with friends to perform the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen (a key influence, as were the Krautrock bands of the early 1970s). In 1979 Storey formed the pioneering industrial group :zoviet*france:, remaining a member until 1992: The same year Storey issued the first Rapoon album, Dream Circle, its entrancing fusion of Indian ragas, African rhythms and experimental textures anticipating the evocative soundscapes of the many releases to follow. Also a noted visual artist and animator, Storey's work has been exhibited throughout the world and is in the collections of many major galleries.   Mark Spybey was born in North Yorkshire, England in 1961. He has always worked in mental health care. After a long time as a member of :zoviet*france: he moved to Canada and worked under the names Dead Voices on Air and Propeller. He collaborated widely, toured and was vocalist of the acclaimed band Download (ex-Skinny Puppy). He was also a member of Sofortkontakt!, led by the late Michael Karoli of Can, appearing at Can’s 30th anniversary shows. Spybey has worked with a variety of artists who inspired his music, including Damo Suzuki of Can, Faust, Michael Rother (Neu!, Harmonia and Kraftwerk), Dieter Moebius (Cluster and Harmonia), Genesis.P.Orridge (Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV), James Plotkin, Martin Atkins, Mick Harris and The Legendary Pink Dots. He returned to the U.K in 2000.   The World Awake! Was originally intended for a vinyl release and recorded from improvisations made on one day in November of 2009. 11 Stueck was compiled from improvisations made on December 1st 2009, with drummer Christian Alderson and bass player Oscar Ruiz Fernandez.  The Austin Texas based musician Tony D’Oporto, aka Gnome, also appears on one track.   The work references the writing of Henry Miller, in his aptly entitled essay, “With Edgar Varese in the Gobi Desert.”   “The World Awake! Just to repeat that to yourself five times a day is enough to make an anarchist of you. How would you awaken the world – if you were a musician? With a sonata for rusty tin openers? Have you ever thought about it? Or would you rather remain asleep?” “We have been educated to such a fine – or dull – point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it’s all about. We don’t trust our five senses. We rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.”   Varese said, “What should be avoided; tones of propaganda. As well as any journalistic speculation on timely events and doctrines. I want the epic impact of our epoch, stripped of it’s mannerisms and snobberisms…. Imagination is the last word.” This first edition of “The World Awake/11 Stueck” is presented in a high-quality screen printed sleeve with printed slipcases for each disc. It is limited to 444 copies. ITEM NUMBER: 11560 FORMAT: 2xCD PRICE: $20.99

ARTIST: REFORMED FACTION TITLE: I Am The Source Of Light, I Am Not A Mirror" LABEL: SOLEILMOON RECORDINGS   DESCRIPTION: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- TO BE RELEASED FEBRUARY 27, 2012. PRE-ORDER A COPY TODAY. Any regular in-stock items ordered at the same time (in the same shopping cart) will be held aside and sent with your pre-ordered goods as one shipment. Orders with multiple pre-orders will be sent as one order, when all of the items in the order are available. If you want an order to ship immediately, or want your pre-ordered items to be sent out as soon as they arrive here, rather than in a group, you must order them separately. We won't charge your credit card until we ship the order. Please make sure your card's number and expiration date are up to date when before you complete the check-out process. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Reformed Faction are Robin Storey and Mark Spybey. “I Am The Source of Light, I Am Not a Mirror” followed their 2007 Soleilmoon release “The War Against”, and is their third album. Their debut release “Vota” was released in 2005 by Austrian label Klanggalerie. The band has played live in both North America and Europe. Reformed Faction do not talk about making music. They make music. They assemble and record and use improvised material to stimulate the development of composed pieces. The music was assembled in the same way that the CD package was: through active collaboration. “What folks probably don’t realize is that we have always embraced technology. We use technology, we aren’t governed by it. We have to learn how to use equipment in our own way, which means that instruction manuals are never referred to. We make music. We try not to theorise, and we avoid interpretation or analysis of our music like the plague.” This is an homage of sorts, to the last 40 years of music making. Robin began as a guitarist, Mark as a drummer. Throughout their careers they have neither deliberately nor consciously eschewed the use of conventional instruments or traditional compositional techniques. They do not regard themselves as an “experimental” band, preferring to leave the laboratory safe in the hands of physicists and technicians. A long time ago :zoviet-france: declared that they could, if they wished, create the perfect pop record or the archetypal country record. Both Mark and Robin were profoundly influenced by the music of rock bands in the seventies while boldly assimilating ideas from world music in the belief that all musical sources exist to be appropriated. In the same way, over the years, they have embraced technology. This is “anti-restictivist” music. “We realized a long time ago that as soon as we left :zoviet-france: our cover was blown. We could no longer hide under the false mantle of anonymity.” For Reformed Faction, each album is an attempt to develop ideas. The three CDs that comprise “I Am the Source of Light, I am Not a Mirror” are collages, each intended to be listened to in their entirety. The contributions of various friends have been assimilated into the recordings. The East German band Scatology and the American band Not Breathing both contributed to the process. Tommy Grenas of the Los Angeles band Anubian Lights, who Mark met through Damo Suzuki, came to stay with the band and also joined in the recording sessions. The recordings took on a life of their own. Picture the backdrop: the rainy landscape of northern England, the collection of classic seventies albums from the likes of Faust and Can, and the band’s preoccupation with the cultural and political legacy left by the dissolution of the eastern block countries. Reformed Faction spent time in the city of Dresden, where they met the artist Ira Tannheuser, who supplied the images used in the booklet accompanying the CD. The finishing touches were generated by Shaya, an enterprising Afghan trader and fan of Reformed Faction who trekked through the fabled Thar desert in the Sind province of southern Pakistan, and there discovered a long-forgotten depository of hand made metal boxes that had been manufactured 30 years ago in the town of Mithi. They were initially made for storing detonators but had never been used. Shaya had them embossed with the Reformed Faction logo by a local metal worker and then shipped them half-way around the world to Soleilmoon and told us to do something with them. The boxes are still partially encrusted with the sand of the Thar desert. The 2012 edition of “I Am The Source of Light, I Am Not a Mirror” is released as a double CD in a jewelbox, with a 12 page full-color booklet featuring the work of East German artist Ira Tannheuser. The original 2009 editions came in a metal box with three CDs in screen printed slipcases, the 12 page booklet, a screen printed insert describing the editions, a metal badge and a sew-on cloth patch.The first edition was limited to 100 copies, and came with a bonus 3 inch CDR with an unreleased track presented in a hand numbered screen printed slipcase. The second edition, which came with everything included in the first edition except for the 3 inch CDR, was limited to 300 copies.. We are Reformed Fraktion. We are from the North of England. We travel. With open eyes. ITEM NUMBER: 11563 FORMAT: 2xCD PRICE: $12.99

ARTIST: REFORMED FACTION TITLE: The War Against... LABEL: SOLEILMOON RECORDINGS DESCRIPTION: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- TO BE RELEASED FEBRUARY 27, 2012. PRE-ORDER A COPY TODAY. Any regular in-stock items ordered at the same time (in the same shopping cart) will be held aside and sent with your pre-ordered goods as one shipment. Orders with multiple pre-orders will be sent as one order, when all of the items in the order are available. If you want an order to ship immediately, or want your pre-ordered items to be sent out as soon as they arrive here, rather than in a group, you must order them separately. We won't charge your credit card until we ship the order. Please make sure your card's number and expiration date are up to date when before you complete the check-out process. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= It may be difficult for some to acknowledge, but the cold war is over. In its place: PEOPLE. We have chosen to create new folk devils and to instill new, more insidious moral panics as a consequence. The War Against what or who? Reformed Faction is a new band featuring Robin Storey and Mark Spybey. “The War Against...” is their second CD, following “Vota” (KIanggalerie, 2006). This new album was cultivated from hours of improvisations made whilst watching Werner Herzog movies and drinking red wine. Spybey would record Storey and then manipulate the sounds, combining rough mixes of the pieces with sounds of his own. Although the most of the music was recorded over the course of a weekend, it took several months to assemble the album. Themes from the recording sessions were played in live concerts and then reworked for the final version of the album.  This 2012 reissue of “The War Against” is presented in a tastefully printed screenprinted slipcase. Robin Storey was born in 1955 in Cumbria, England. He studied fine arts at Sunderland University and took classes in electronic and experimental composition, joining with friends to perform the works of Karlhinz Stockhausen. In 1979 Storey formed the pioneering industrial group :zoviet*france:, remaining a member until 1992, when he departed to form Rapoon. Recording and touring as a solo artist, he his first release was “Dream Circle”, an entrancing fusion of Indian ragas, African rhythms and experimental textures that anticipated the evocative soundscapes of the many releases to follow. Also a noted visual artist and animator, Storey’s work has been exhibited around the world and is in the collections of many major galleries. Mark Spybey was born in North Yorkshire, England in 1961. He is a therapist in the field of mental health care, but has long had an interest in experimental music, and was a member of :zoviet*france: from 1987 to 1989. After leaving the band he moved to Canada and worked under the names Dead Voices on Air and Propeller. He collaborated widely, toured and was vocalist in the acclaimed band Download (ex-Skinny Puppy). He was also a member of Sofortkontakat!, led by the late Michael Karoli of Can, and participated in Can’s 30th anniversary shows 1999/2000. Spybey has worked with a variety of artists who inspired his music, including Damo Suzuki (Can), Faust, Michael Rother (Neu!, Harmonia and Kraftwerk), Dieter Moebius (Cluster and Harmonia), Genesis P. Orridge (Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV), and The Legendary Pink Dots. He returned to England in 2000. ITEM NUMBER: 11564 FORMAT: CD PRICE: $10.99

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