OUT NOW: Sypha Nadon: Our Lady of the Flowers of the Red Night [MZR019]

MZR is pleased to announce the release of Sypha Nadon's fourth official full-length studio album, Our Lady of the Flowers of the Red Night. This album, nearly 8 months in the making, features 13 all-new songs, one of which previously made an appearance on "The Nightmare Factory" greatest hits anthology. This album is dedicated to Saint Jean Genet, Saint William S. Burroughs, Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint Rose of Lima, and also to all those who took part in the Stonewall Riots of 1969.

Tracklisting:
1. Invocation (4:02)
2. Disko of Shadows (4:31)
3. Receiving the Logos (4:00)
4. Obsequies for Charlie Newton (4:04)
5. Choronzon Says (5:41)
6. Midnight in the House of Hurt (7:00)
7. Virus B23 (2:24)
8. Funeral Music for Konstantin Raudive (5:09)
9. Interzone (4:58)
10. Horse Rotorvating (4:15)
11. The Demiurge Descends Through Oceans of Blood and Chaos... (2:50)
12. The Interior Castle (8:03)
13. Epilogue (0:19)

A special director's cut interview with Sypha Nadon related to the creation of this album and an explanation of is themes will also appear in the coming weeks.

As always, the album may be downloaded for free at Mauve Zone Recordings' page at Internet Archive:

http://www.archive.org/details/MZR019

Japanese Alice debut release: Pacific Blush's "Skeletal Gardens"

One of my online friends, Joseph Marcure, has recently started up a virtual label known as "Japanese Alice" with his younger brother, Matt. Their first release is "Skeletal Gardens", by Matt's band Pacific Blush (he does all the guitar, lead vocals, organ, keyboards, drums, and other instrumentation). It can be downloaded from the Japanese Alice blog here:

http://japanesealice.blogspot.com/2009/06/pacific-blush-skeletal-gardens-lp.html

From the website:

Japanese Alice is proud to present the debut album by Pacific Blush, Skeletal Gardens. Recorded between May and late June 2009. Pacific Blush has also released two EPs under the name of International Broadcasting Bureau. Of these two EPs Thomas Moore wrote, "Seriously, this stuff is special. It creeps in this often really unsettling way, it evokes memories I’ve never even had. It makes me think of David Lynch, and a more sombre Animal Collective - both good things, duh." And Dennis Cooper said, "I adore his music."

This album sees Fresno, California native Matt Marcure going further into his own world that somehow is both lush and bleak. Incorporating more instruments and new techniques this is his most accomplished recording yet and definitely something, as has been pointed out, special.

Tracklisting:

1. maples
2. plastic snowman
3. skeletal gardens
4. light diving
5. through lavender
6. can't write
7. skulk trains
8. winters
9. dream collective
10. speak softly
11. listening to mountains
12. fields of alice

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(Thomas Moore might be better known to some of you as Thomas Moronic, another good online friend of mine, and a very talented musician in his own right).

Anyway, give the album a listen, it's really very good!

Coming Soon from MZR: Sypha Nadon's "Our Lady of the Flowers of the Red Night" LP [MZR019]

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Sypha Nadon, MZR decided to release three Sypha Nadon albums this year. First there was "Universe C: Beyond", the third volume in the Sypha Nadon anthology series. This was followed by a greatest hits retrospective entitled "The Nightmare Factory". Now, coming hot on the heels of those two releases, MZR is pleased to announce the third album, "Our Lady of the Flowers of the Red Night" [MZR019]. This album, Sypha's first of all-new studio material since "The Black Omen" soundtrack nearly a year and a half ago, features 13 songs, and will be about an hour in length. We hope to release it this coming MOnday. With material inspired by William S. Burroughs' "Cities of the Red Night," Gnostic mythology, and Christian Mysticism, it sounds unlike any Sypha Nadon album ever before conceived. The tracklisting is as follows:

1. Invocation (4:02)
2. Disko of Shadows (4:31)
3. Receiving the Logos (4:00)
4. Obsequies of Charlie Newton (4:04)
5. Choronzon Says (5:41)
6. Midnight in the House of Hurt (7:00)
7. Virus B23 (2:24)
8. Funeral Music for Konstantin Raudive (5:09)
9. Interzone (4:58)
10. Horse Rotorvating (4:15)
11. The Demiurge Descends Through Oceans of Blood and Chaos... (2:50)
12. The Interior Castle (8:03)
13. Epilogue (0:19)

A special director's cut interview with Sypha Nadon related to the creation of this album and an explanation of is themes will also appear in the coming weeks.

New Release: Sypha Nadon: The Nightmare Factory [MZR018]

This album, a ten year retrospective of Sypha Nadon's musical odyssey, collects many tracks from Sypha's previous albums, along with a track from the new upcoming album (more details on that coming soon) and a new song recorded specifically for this retrospective (entitled "The Nightmare Factory"). Thank you to anyone who has listened to my music over the last ten years, and whether you have enjoyed it or not, I am pleased that you took the time to listen to it in the first place.

This album is dedicated to the Voyetra Digital Orchestrator. And also to the two bands who initially inspired me to begin making music in the first place: Throbbing Gristle and Nine Inch Nails.

Tracklisting:
1. Hyla
2. Sonic Lwa
3. Enter Horus
4. Security Gauntlet
5. Z-Note
6. Threnody for Zumb Zumb (Remix)
7. The Ignored
8. Maggots
9. The Fabulous Mr. Meaningless
10. Kind Hands is the Cure
11. The Glow
12. Stop It!
13. Machine Elves
14. Horse Rotorvating
15. The Mauve Zone
16. Ginen
17. The Nightmare Factory

(running time: 78 minutes)

Trach 14, "Horse Rotorvating," is a demo track of a song off the upcoming, still untitled Sypha Nadon album due to be released this year. The final track, "The Nightmare Factory," is an all-new song created especially for this retrospective collection. With the exception of these two tracks, all of the other tracks on the album have previously appeared elsewhere:

Tracks 3 & 13 off the "Enter Horus" EP (plague002), on the This Plague of Dreaming netlabel (2005)
Tracks 1 & 9 off the "11 Chants For Russolo!" LP (plague 005), on the This Plague of Dreaming netlabel (2005)
Tracks 2, 10 & 16 off the "Threnody for Zumb Zumb" LP (plague007), on the This Plague of Dreaming netlabel (2006)
Tracks 7 & 8 off the "Universe A: Distant" anthology (MZR002), on the Mauve Zone Recordings netlabel (2007)
Track 5 off the "Universe B: Closer" anthology (MZR003), on the Mauve Zone Recordings netlabel (2007)
Tracks 11 & 14 off the "The Black Omen" LP (MZR012), on the Mauve Zone Recordings netlabel (2008)
Track 15 off the "A Dream as White as the Death of a Seagull" LP (MZR014), on the Mauve Zone Recordings netlabel (2008)
Tracks 6 & 12 off the "Universe C: Beyond" anthology (MZR015), on the Mauve Zone Recordings netlabel (2009)

Cover illustration from a 1972 textbook entitled "Biology Today," done by Larry
Sharp, depicting the tracheal tube respiratory system of a generalized insect (as found on the "A Journey Round My Skull" blog: http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/).

Cover design by James Champagne.

All songs recorded in the period from 2000 to 2009.

As always, the album may be downloaded for free from MZR's page at Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/MZR018

Tracklisting for Sypha Nadon: The Nightmare Factory [MZR018]

1. Hyla
2. Sonic Lwa
3. Enter Horus
4. Security Gauntlet
5. Z-Note
6. Threnody for Zumb Zumb (Remix)
7. The Ignored
8. Maggots
9. The Fabulous Mr. Meaningless
10. Kind Hands is the Cure
11. The Glow
12. Stop It!
13. Machine Elves
14. Horse Rotorvating
15. The Mauve Zone
16. Ginen
17. The Nightmare Factory

(running time: 78 minutes)

Trach 14, "Horse Rotorvating," is a demo track of a song off the upcoming, still untitled Sypha Nadon album due to be released this year. The final track, "The Nightmare Factory," is an all-new song created especially for this retrospective collection. With the exception of these two tracks, all of the other tracks on the album have previously appeared elsewhere.