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The Epicurean . CD . cure.11
Release date: 1 December 2016
packaging: CD comes in full color cardboard sleeve and white offset paper cardboard slipcase with golden typography, including a 4-page booklet. Limited edition of 144 copies, hand-numbered.

La Esencia . Regular edition LP . Special edition LP & CD . LER015/2016
* Regular vinyl edition comes with golden vinyl, full color cover with spine, printed paper inner sleeve and high-quality PVC sleeve with silkscreen printed golden typography. Limited edition of 200 copies.
* Special vinyl edition comes with black vinyl, full color cover with spine, printed paper inner sleeve and high-quality PVC sleeve with silkscreen printed golden typography, additionally incl. CD, a Thai prayer flag to keep away evil spirits and a hand numbered certificate card. Limited edition of 99 copies.

Audio mastering: Hunter Barr
Packaging design & graphic design: The Epicurean
Photography: The Epicurean

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Tracklist:

Golden Temple
1. Anemone Tube - Myth and the Relation to the World 07:39
2. Anemone Tube - Recueillement (Sa Propre Mort) 03:17
3. Anemone Tube - Irruption of the Whore 07:36
4. Post Scriptvm - Buried in Fabula 04:39
5. Post Scriptvm - Dark and Nameless Gods 06:44
6. Post Scriptvm - Laterne D'Horreur 07:22



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PRESS TEXT

Under the headline “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes” Anemone Tube and Post Scriptvm present a collaborative album with a truly unique concept: Originally applied to a particular style of ancient ritual music, in the Classical era the term Litaniae Mortuorum Discordantes attained a negative connotation and was used to criticize those compositions – which, instead of instilling listeners with the desired pious euphoria, incriminated them with a sense of dread, existential anxiety, feelings of death and decay. Finding this aesthetic choice to be most appropriate for the present era, the two post-industrial projects attempted to create their own “Discordant Death Litanies” for the XXI century.

The idea is culled from a semi-fictional biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, written by a 19th century Russian author. In the chapter describing Bach‘s childhood and early education, his older brother – who was also his music teacher and mentor – dissuades him from composing those “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes” as they dangerously steer the Christian liturgy into a “wrong” direction of primordial chaos. In reality Bach never dealt with such dark notions, but created the most versatile and accomplished musical glorifications of the Christian god ever composed.

Yet tempted by the imagination of real “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes”, Anemone Tube and Post Scriptvm stage a linear, gradually unfolding “oratorio” which begins with layers of lush brass synths resounding a time and place enveloped in ancient mythical beauty. The pristine serenity, however, slowly deteriorates through the influx of anguish, social decay and profanity. Raw field recordings, throbbing electronics, metallic tremors, distant voices and chants portrait a life of numbness and confusion, where man – tormented by ignorance, ignoble desires and anger – has become a plaything of insane “Weltanschauungen” and the commercialization plague. In a world where spirituality is reduced to rituals of sadness, the prophetic – and confirmed – certitude that the end of civilization is close at hand prevails.

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REVIEWS

“Gelungenes Split-Release der beiden Post-Industrial-Projekte, die ihre musikalische Diversität hier vorbildlich fruchtbar machen: überzeugender Mix aus Noise-, Drone- und Experimental-Elementen, appetitlich abgeschmeckt mit einer Prise Mystik und einem Schuss Humor.”
(Nonpop Magazine, January 2017)

“The two dark experimental projects, Anemone Tube and Post Scriptvm, join forces to offer us an unprecedented work, "Litaniae Mortuorum Discordant". Hypnotic, engaging and mysterious ... riding between ritual and dark ambient.” Rating: 9,75 of 10
(Mentenebre Magazine, December 2016)

“With Anemone Tube and Post Scriptvm sharing this split, it is a logical pairing as they have quite individual and distinctive sounds within the post-industrial underground and both tend to frame their musical works around specific and interesting concepts. (...) the benefit of having a strong conceptual underpinning, is the ability of a release such as this to be a multifaceted experience which engage on levels of both emotion (i.e. the music) and contemplation (i.e. the concept).”
(Noise Receptor Magazine, December 2016)

“Ein Konzept, zwei Ansätze, ganz nah beeinander und doch ganz unterschiedlich in der Wirkung – so wünsche ich mir ein gutes Split. Nach konzeptionell sehr dichten und von der künstlerischen Aussage her sehr ernsthaften Alben wie Anemone Tubes „Golden Temple“ und Post Scriptvms „Benommenheit“ hat es sogar etwas augenzwinkernd Selbstironisches, scheint mit dem düsteren Outsider-Gestus seiner Macher zu spielen. Trotz allem hat es alles, was ein Release dieser Acts braucht. Das „Oratorium“, so heißt es, sei zur Aufführung in der Kirche bestimmt, und ich denke doch mal, das sich das über kurz oder lang umsetzen lässt.”
(African Paper, November 2016)

“Me myself I didn't feel elevated after hearing all of this, or particular depressed actually, but I found it all most enjoyable. Hopefully that is allowed!”
(Vital Weekly, December 2016)