Sunday, September 30, 2007

Księżyc-s.t. ,10" LP,1996+Nów,7" e.p.,1993,Poland





Unique ethereal avant ritual folk with female vocals, not to be missed by anyone interested in music of strange & exquisite beauty.Relesed by Poland's Obuh label.
Michael J. Salo wrote in 2005:
Just continuing the description above. I can hardly contain my enthusiasm for this release. I love this music.The best I can try to explain Ksiezyc ("The Moon"), is some blend of the romantic-acoustic-ballad Prikosnovenie school groups such as Fleur, together with the psychedelic experimentalism of the great Polish acts Atman & Magic Carpathians. I'm also getting a Jack or Jive vibe out of this (a Polish Jack or Jive?) Anyone interested in any of the above references should aquire this album without hestitation.The female vocals are higher quality than 90% of music recorded today, and meanwhile there is more careful attention to instrumental sonics than you could ever expect in vocally-oriented music.Available information in English on this group is scant, but this new release is apparently a collection of all their recorded music, which dates back to the early 90's. Who knew?It's tempting to declare, "ahead of their time," but that wouldn't be quite right. Instead this band is completely removed from time. This is timeless.A hand numbered limited edition item, in appropriately unique & beautiful handmade packaging. Talk about a gem.
Great etheral folkish weirdness sometimes reminding Coil,Meredith Monk,Za Siodma Gora.


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23 comments:

  1. Nuzz Prowlin' WolfSeptember 30, 2007 at 11:50 PM

    Le Mat 7" waltz of the fool, posted on my blog, album will follow in next couple of weeks if yer interested.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 1, 2007 at 1:44 AM

    'thurn und taxis'
    it's great music. moon musick. listen at night with all lihghts off

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  3. G*WORKSOctober 1, 2007 at 2:05 AM

    Thx for sharing, it is great! So is the artwork.

    At first glance maybe a little "average", but listen up closely; excellent!

    A reason to learn polish!

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  4. AnonymousOctober 1, 2007 at 4:47 AM

    Hey guys, FANTASTIC blog!!! I'm a bit behind the times and using an archaic computer so I just discovered it. Anyway, I just wanted to mention that the link to the Shub Niggurath 1985 debut seems to be broker. Could you re-upload it? Also here are a couple of requests off the top of my head:

    SAB - Crystallization
    Nord - debut on Vanity
    Osiris - anything (another early 80s Japanese electronic experimental group)

    Thanks!

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  5. AnonymousOctober 1, 2007 at 3:15 PM

    Believe it or not, but I do have this 7' at home. It feels strange to see that someone else must have buy it at the time!
    May I take the liberty to push you towards my baby blog:

    http://continuo.wordpress.com/

    As of today, I posted some hard to find field recordings by the likes of Chris Watson, David Toop & Lawrence English, some french underground: Thomas Fiancette & Philippe Cauvin, and the SoundViews 1990 k7. I plan to post some Illusion Production k7 as well. Some of you guys might be interested.
    Keep on the terrific work.
    Continuo

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  6. ELASTIC ROCKOctober 1, 2007 at 5:26 PM

    Thanks you so much for the link to my blog. I've done the same thing in return in the main text of the page. Go on with your fantastics posts and all the bests. Aroundtheblogs

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  7. AnonymousOctober 1, 2007 at 7:56 PM

    This is haunting and lovely. Here's hoping you'll post some Atman & Magic Carpathians.

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  8. robinOctober 2, 2007 at 6:12 AM

    Thank you for this great find. Totally amazing. If you have anything else like this, you know we'd love to hear it!

    FYI, track 9 is bad -- mp3 encoding error?

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  9. AnonymousOctober 3, 2007 at 8:22 AM

    yeah, weird folk, you make is sound inviting; wondering what it will sound like? "out of time", again, that sounds tantalizing, thanks for putting some unusual polish music up.. zenmaster

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  10. AnonymousOctober 5, 2007 at 9:04 PM

    Why doesn't the entire world know about this astonishing record??!?!?

    You score again, mutants...

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  11. AnonymousOctober 6, 2007 at 1:19 PM

    i have seen them live around 1997! they played very few gigs, went defunct shortly thereafter, and were/are generally nice, decent and modest folks. the term 'ritual' you're using here is out of place - thematically they're somewhat near, say, CocoRosie. songs of little girls alone in a room.
    the 7" was one of the first ever Obuh records' releases and i didn't have it! the lp i have bought in different formats (cassettte, vinyl), but, frankly, i didn't like it after having seen them live.
    speaking of Obuh records, will you put up the ABSOLUTELY TOTALLY F***** GREATEST record they released - "The History Of Alfons Czachor" by Rongwrong? if you don't have it, i'll be able to up it somewhere
    cheers - darek/poland

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  12. AnonymousOctober 7, 2007 at 6:36 AM

    okay, i'm currently uploading flac files of the Rongwrong record to divshare. the thing will be ready in 3-4 hrs
    darek

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  13. AnonymousOctober 7, 2007 at 11:01 AM

    here it is - Rongwrong "The Story of Alfons Czahor", Obuh Records, Poland, 1996.
    very subtle sounding music that
    combines electro-acoustics, pre-war Poland, Orthodox Christianity, swamps, etc.
    10 files here, 260Mbytes.
    believe me, it's worth it.
    the songs:
    DivShare File - Rongwrong_01.fla
    DivShare File - Rongwrong_02.fla
    DivShare File - Rongwrong_03.fla
    DivShare File - Rongwrong_04.fla
    DivShare File - Rongwrong_05.fla
    DivShare File - Rongwrong_06.fla
    DivShare File - Rongwrong_07.fla

    the descritpion in a txt file:
    DivShare File - Rongwrong - The Story of Alfons Czahor 19.txt
    the files themselves are bare, w/out any tags, sorry about that.
    let me know if the whole thing works!
    darek/poland
    ps. sorry, i've had problems uploading the link to artwork - anyway i took it from www.discogs.com

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  14. gusOctober 23, 2007 at 6:35 PM

    This is so beautiful and surreal! I am enjoying this a lot, thank you for posting it!

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  15. AnonymousOctober 26, 2007 at 1:22 PM

    btw Ksiezyc LP made it on CD, i have a burn. anyone interested in a rip? let me know at dardud@wp.pl please.
    and thanks for enjoying the Rongwrong album - it's one of my all-time favourites, really.
    Darek/Poland

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  16. AnonymousNovember 1, 2007 at 6:05 AM

    okay, by request - here are the zipped .fla files of the CD:
    songs 1-6, 100 Mb:
    DivShare File - Ksiezyc _Moon_ - 1996_ Poland.rar
    songs 7-10, 70 Mb:
    DivShare File - ksiezyc2.rar
    songs 11-14, 70 Mb:
    DivShare File - ksiezyc3.rar
    NB on DivShare, 2 simultaneous d/loads are allowed
    cheers - Darek/Poland

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  17. AnonymousMay 28, 2008 at 2:52 PM

    i attempted to download this and i am worried that it has expired? is this dead?

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  18. AnonymousJune 30, 2008 at 6:51 AM

    The Link is wrong - it is http://www.massmirror.com/08da9609e43303b8c0997f8a4f495358.html - so there's just an "s1" instead of the "www"! That's all.

    Cheers

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  19. AnonymousJuly 22, 2008 at 7:41 PM

    Hy!!
    Do u have the second part???

    ::::::

    thaks!!

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  20. SergioDecember 5, 2009 at 12:57 PM

    I don´t understand what link of massmirror are you talking about? the links of this post are not massmirror neither thos from Darek (I must say, better quality, both for being flac and for beinc from cd).
    Anyway, I have a question, in the file from this post there was a song which is not on the Darek cd and it is not present on musicbrainz tags or on winamp autotagger. It was named ChodY, similar to another song of the album. It is very beautiful, but, it is from this band? From which album?

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  21. Bilâl SazakFebruary 26, 2012 at 1:33 AM

    Hey! I'm a pro-listener and I've been looking for this album for FLAC format. Finding it is really important to me. Is there anybody who can help me?

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  22. mietekNovember 16, 2012 at 2:23 PM

    Bilal, have you looked 5 comments up?

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  23. SeanJanuary 11, 2013 at 12:11 PM

    It seems that track 9 "Œmieszki" is corrupted, at least from when I downloaded it. I have the album in FLAC from another source so I'm sure it's wrong. Sounds kind of awesome though!

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