GTERMA

Artist: Mathias Grassow  
P: 2000 / 2011
The longtime gterma favourite "Sky" was originally released by Mathias as a double album in the year 2000 available through the then Klaus Wiese website. The Sky sessions are longform drones with an enormously uplifting character. For the new edition we condensed the best moments of the original release into a single mix and combined it with more recent drones produced in 2010 and everything was then remastered. The album comes in a jewelcase with a 12-page booklet.

Artist: Parsick + Reuter
P: 2012
Stephen Parsick and Markus Reuter have once again met up to brew their own kind of dronescapes. Perhaps you are already familiar with the collaborations between  ['ramp] and Reuter, already released quite some time ago. Well, the gents have been at it again, and in summer of 2010 they went to work on this remarkable and slightly twisted musical landscape.
As you wander inside the dreamfield that is Lament, you will happen upon a path which leads into sonic hinterlands where processed guitar fuses with experiments of a decidedly electronic nature. Complex structures are erected from out of a mysterious tonal language, and the journey meanders between cold and harrowing audioscapes into the blooming fields of the outer reaches of the psychosphere.

Artist: Solar Ocean
P: 2012
Adrift on an endless ocean, suspended into mellow water gently rocking you to sleep. Each wave carries you further from land and into a twilight existence, the sun warming your face and the water sending a million glittering reflections into your gaze. The result is a 37 minute album of serene ambient soundscapes with a harrowing undertone. Comes in a jewelcase with a 12-page booklet.

Artist: Grassow, Indo, Earth Vibration A.P.
P: 2012
All hail the purity and splendor of the four mighty protectors of our world. Tirelessly their eyes and ears guard the dominion of man and stave off evil intruders, demons and the grasping hand of death. Holding court on the lower slopes of Mount Sumeru, in Caturmaharajika, the mighty four each govern one of the cardinal directions, protecting the dharma and the virtuous.

Artist: Nirmanakaya
P: 2012
The sound is a combination of electronic Post-Industrial/Techno-Industrial with elements of traditional Indian and Tibetan music. Fast and strong rhythms, unusual for the Gterma Label.

Artist: Mathias Grassow  
P: 2010 / 2012  
The long and often dreary winters in the north are characterized by burning nightskies as the cold tears into the skin and the wind torments our eyes. Conversely the short summers with their bright colours and dreamlike nights have a very profound effect on the people and creatures dwelling underneath.Sleeping by an open window the pleasant song of a mad happy Blackbird floats in on the breeze and blends with your dreams, while Swifts race through the moist evening skies and stray unemployed wasps feast upon sweet nectar in the mild August night. Dämmerung, a long flowing epos recorded in 2010, is Grassow's dedication to the Sun and her voyage across the burning evening skies of Northern Europe.

Artist: Parikrama
P: 2012
Long before Buddhism spread into the Himalayas the region was at the mercy of frightening spirits and powerful divinities.Seetyca and Artin Mucht join the bonpo shamans in search for traces of the old faith, now consumed by the benevolent teachings of Lord Buddha. These are stark aural landscapes with a mystic touch, yet clear as crystalline ice. Allow yourself to be lost in the world of Parikrama. The album comes in a jewelcase with a 12-page booklet.
This is a great cd, evoking huge distances and snow-capped elevations. Some synthesizer pads / sweeps are used, and there are acoustic sounds added, such as bells, flutes, various horns and other sounds. As a whole, the disc reminds me of what it must be like to grab a coat and backpack and wander the heights of Tibetan mountains, hearing the wind and the sounds of an occasional village party borne across it.

Artist: Mathias Grassow  
P: 2012
Alchemystery is the first title in a suite dedicated to musical divinations seeking knowledge about the mystery of our origin and what binds our world together. Mathias explores music and its vibrations, both external and internal, as he treads an improvised path into the colourful and enigmatic realms of aural arcanum. Recent scientific theory and particle experiments are now challenging long accepted truths about our perception of the very world we inhabit. As mankind gazes further into space and our past the questions become more urgent and challenging. What is our origin and what is the nature of the universe, the very fabric holding life, matter and time together? Among academic disciplines and dogmatic faiths, our tertöns are striving to find the lost treasures, and among them Mathias has chosen the path of music as an insight into our cosmos. The Aural Alchemy sessions are dedicated to this very purpose. Comes in jewelcase with 16-page booklet.