“Where the Mandrakes Grow” is conceptualized around autoerotic asphyxiation, forming an abstract narrative into a singular autoerotic experience. A singular moment in flux within the body. The sound compositions consist of consciousness cut ups – flashes of memory and anomalies of the moment interweaving. Dark drone and experimental ambience. Mastered by the legendary Robert Rich. Beautiful 6-panal digi-CD designed by Anastasia Sarandou limited to 1,000 copies. Truly a great work of Dark Ambience. 64 minutes.

Released on: Autumn Wind Productions. $11 usd.

Tracklist:
1. Uproot, A Noose of Silk
2. Willows Deep
3. Visceral Monologue
4. Interlude: The Death of Kotzwara
5. Sickly Sweet Fertilizer
6. A Breath, Then It Comes
7. Aural Cavity Obstruction
8. Light Rejection, The Return

Reviews:
Heathen Harvest
Plague Haus
Gothtronic 8/10
Crucial Blast 5/5
Wounds of the Earth 9/10

From the label: Time has come for a fresh collaborative album, released by No Angels Prod. and Beast Of Prey. We would like to present a unique opus, which appears as a co-operation of Inner Vision Laboratory (Poland) and Roto Visage (USA) projects, symbolically entitled “Cinema Stain”. Here, the listener is forced to wale in pathological and “impure” visualizations of human pain, fears and suffering, which are surprisingly seducing with subtle beauty. Some of the soundforms are painted heavily with a brush of rhythm while others flow like the spools of film spinning through a mechanical projector. The aim of both of the composers was to write an original soundtrack to a non-existent horror film – the result is excellent, and by taking vocal samples from other movies, they created also an auditory record of tension and melancholic darkness. For layout of this release, we used modified photographs from the very talented photographer – Karolina Kosowicz.

Packaging is non-typical: professionally printed and professionally duplicated CDR with additional graphical insert are placed in a plastic box (slim dvd box type). Inserts and covers are professionally printed on gloss paper. Edition is limited to 200 hand numbered copies.

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Released on: No Angels Prod. & Beast of Prey.

Available for purchase for 6 €: No Angels Prod. or Beast of Prey.

Samples:
No Further Questions
Where It Sleeps

Reviews:
Gothtronic 9/10
Pan.o.ra.ma

Samvartakalpa.

“Celestial Malaise” is a split between Roto Visage and Worms of the Earth. They have come together to capture the sounds of planets moving, stars being born and dying, galaxies swirling, nebulas whispering and the communication between all celestial bodies. Each track consists of a single abstract long-form glacial drone piece embodying the essence of Samvartakalpa and Vivartakalpa. Pro-printed 4 panel digipak with amazing artwork. Limited to 50 copies | 67 min.

Released on: Disease Foundry Recordings

Available for purchase. $6 usd + shipping sold out!:
Disease Foundry Recordings

Tracklist:
1. Roto Visage – Samvartakalpa
2. Worms of the Earth – Vivartakalpa
3. Worms of the Earth + Roto Visage – Celestial Malaise

Reviews:
Connexion Bizarre 8.5/10

From the label: After a long break Kaos Ex Machina comes back, to present you with our 100th release, titled ‘Strange Attractor’. The album is a compilation of work created especially for this occasion by artists from around the world. None of the tracks were previously published. We would like to invite you to discover how different artists approached the theme of the chaos theory, and the extraordinary sounds they created. Carefully selected and mastered full length cds, available to download completely free.

Released on: Kaos Ex Machina

Available for free download.
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Compilation includes work by:
Darkness And Silence, New Risen Throne, Deadhorsemort, Subinterior, Inner Vision Laboratory, Stereocaine, Svart1, Krzysztof Stanisławski, Roto Visage, Wach, CrepusculaR, TSIMDZ, Dream Of Nothing, Pharmakustik, Luciftias, In Cognitus, Lord Kula, Aurea Hora, Experimental Subjekt.

Memories for your consumption. 

Well it’s official. I am absolutely terrible at promoting myself and others. Here’s a nice free compilation that was released whilst I was in the midst of traveling. I’m sure some of my listeners were able to catch its release despite my minimal efforts to get the word out. Nonetheless, if you don’t have this compilation, you should. 

From the label: To celebrate one year of Twilight Luggage, and wrap it up in a seasonably fitting package we are now releasing our first compilation album, “Winter Solstice”. 9 artists from this years releases, and 3 gifted composers we hope to work more with shortly, contributed exclusive tracks to what ended up as a quite varied and highly engaging album of experimental wonderfulness!

And the best thing about it: It’s totally free! Happy Winter Solstice!

Released on: Twilight Luggage

Available for free download.
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Tracklist:
01 Jarle Nordvik – Live Bait
02 Kallsup – Verkligheten
03 Batcheeba – Dark Rabbit
04 Gróhvrascht – Bulk
05 Horacio Pollard & Peter Gossweiler – V590 Pearl Mucus
06 Boe – VII
07 Andreas Brandal – A Flammable Device
08 Torstein Wjiik – Nitro
09 Continental Fruit – As the Horns Toot
10 E.cho – Why Do They Always Semaphore?
11 Roto Visage – Of the Same Cocoon
12 Jliat – Primes / Pimill

Musically speaking, one can expect the Roto Visage collaboration with I.V.Lab entitled “Cinema Stain” to grace their ears in due time. Mastering is complete and Karol is currently working on the artwork. I must admit that it looks absolutely amazing – a wonderful complement to our intensive work into sound.

A split between Roto Visage and Worms of the Earth entitled “Celestial Malaise” is currently under way. We have come together to capture the sounds of planets moving, stars being born and dying, galaxies swirling, nebulas whispering and the communication between all celestial bodies. Each track consists of a single abstract long-form glacial drone piece embodying the essence of sounds from the heavens.

Roto Visage will also be appearing on a four-way split with the likes of Aymrev Erkroz Prevre, Camisole, and Burial Hex. This will be dedicated to the magnificent literary piece by HP Lovecraft known as “The Dreams in the Witch House.”

Finally, the next Roto Visage full length, “Where the Mandrakes Grow” will be out in the first quarter of 2009 and will be released by our friends at Autumn Wind Productions.

A superb dark ambient split between Roto Visage and Mystified, available inside a special black-painted tea-box package.

Strictly limited to 50 copies

Released on: Bone Structure

Available for purchase via email:
Bone Structure

10 eur/15 $ + shipping.

Tracklist:

01. Mystified – Something Spacey
02. Roto Visage – Open Eyesore
03. Mystified – Hello Again
04. Roto Visage – Dreams of the Ranch
05. Mystified – Fragmented Waves
06. Roto Visage – Le Orme
07. Mystified – Glitchtone Drone
08. Roto Visage – The Sea of Fleas
09. Mystified – Plutonian Pole
10. Roto Viage – A Bloated Blue Corpse
11. Mystified –  Hopalong Accident
12. Roto Visage – Apple Tape
13. Mystified – Bug Whistle Drone
14. Roto Visage – Infinity In Her

A Post-Industrial tribute to the father of Itaian Futurism, Tommaso Filippo Marinetti.

Professionally printed CDR. The boxes are hand packed and sealed with beautiful artwork.  Hand numbered to 100 copies. 

Released on: Creative Fields

Available for purchase: Creative Fields Shop or Old Europa Cafe

Tracklist:
cd1
1. Bleiburg ft. MDMA – The Death of art
2. Roto Visage – Psychic Consonance
3. Mekhate – Guidare l’automobile fumare nervosi
4. N.G. – Arco Iris
5. SnowW.Wwhite – Freedom is Word
6. Post Contemporary Corporation – Manifesto
7. Cropcircle – Fabolous Japanese Monster
8. Seed – Odio
9. STN09 – La nostra Battaglia
10. Menegroth – Zang Tumb Tumb
11. Kenji Siratori – Marinetti

cd2
1. Rose Rovine Amanti – La nostra Patria
2. Von Thornasthal – Stalingrad Golgotha
3. Sala Delle Colonne – Tradizione Futurista
4. L’effet C’est Moi – La Battaglia di Adrianopoli
5. Corpoparassita – Tattilismo
6. Malato – Bombardamento
7. F-Azt – Nightmare Script
8. Arbeit! – Il futuro viene dal passato
9. ZR19.84 – Dune
10. Barbarossa Umtrunk – Futurus Ferrum
11. Deutsch SudOst – Kleiner Abchied

Brothers, Roto Visage and Jugular Notch come together in a collaboration amounting to five atmospheric tracks of epic length to accompany one’s inner dialog. As an incredibly personal endeavor for both artists, “Everything Is Brown” captures and documents moments in time and every area of the psyche, from birth and childhood to death.

“Everything is Brown” spawns from the entanglement of many sources, including field recordings in unsettling environments, home-made analog synthesizers, virtual synthesizers, vocal sampling, unconventional experimentation with vinyl records, improvisation, and an overall mental regurgitation of sound and emotion.

Released on: Kaos ex Machina

Available for free download.
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Tracklist:
1. Air Filled Injection
2. Shot Glass Soil
3. Descaled Misease
4. Phonetiskope
5. How I Miss My Father