Elegi Discography

Elegi - Sistereis

“Sistereis" is still a singular experience and it's uniqueness should make it an absolute must for anyone interested in modern classical composition, doom, or electronic ambient.

Sistereis

Elegi - Varde

"After his glorious “Sistereis” album from 2007 Tommy Jansen, aka Elegi, returns with his second album for Miasmah. “Varde” is, again, an immensely atmospherical album but this time it’s not about shipwreck but about polar explorers and the sublime environment into which they advance, aspiring to reach the pole first. I don’t think the album narrates any explorer’s particular story. There are documents printed in the booklet (designed, as always with Miasmah releases, by labelhead Erik Skodvin (aka Svarte Greiner)) and there’s what I take to be an authentic historical audio document that features heavily in the final track, “Den Store Hvite Stillhet”. But these seem to be about different journeys, shifting the focus from narrative to stasis, ambience, landscape. And to the melancholy induced by the explorers’ hubris."

Varde

Acoustic Family Creeps - Play Live In The Woods 12"

1.Rain on

2. Twisted Tongue

3. To Clean

4. The Number

Play Live In The Woods 12'' [x]

Acoustic Family Creeps space 

Ilyas Ahmed

Per Flaschenpost sei er von Pakistan an die Küste New Jerseys geschwemmt worden. Inzwischen hat sich Ilyas Ahmed bestens in Portland eingelebt, dem Mekka des experimentellen PsychFolk.Und verdient trotz Aufruf zu innerer Emigration spätestens mit seinem neuen Album die Ehrenbürgerschaft.

Auf “Goner” klingt der Mittdreissiger streckenweise wie Thom Yorke auf Valium, wobei der Tranquilizer hauptsächlich auf die im Hintergrund wimmernde Stimme wirkt. Instrumental bzw. Gitarren-technisch zeigt er sich trotz LoFi-Verzerrungen grooviger denn je. Wenn man dem so sagen kann.  

Dennoch bleibt’s ein düsteres, besinnliches, hypnotisierendes Werk, das in angenehmen Dämmerzustand versetzt. Da passt die Zusammenarbeit mit seinem weiblichen Pendant Liz Harris aka Grouper wie der Vollmond zum Nachthimmel und hilft als letzter Höhepunkt des Albums beim sanften Wiederauftauchen aus faszinierendem Zwielicht.  

Between Two Skies  (2005)

Towards The Night  (2005)

Century Of Moonlight (2006)

Naqi  (2006)

Speaking Of Shadows  (2006)

Yahan Dur Wahan  (2006)

Arroyo  (2008)

Between Two Skies / Towards The Night (2008)

The Vertigo Of Dawn (2008)

Goner (2009)

Infinity Window

Axolotl / Infinity Window - Split (2008)

Tracklisting:
A1 Axolotl - Ur 12:21
A2 Axolotl - Krur 1:54
B1 Infinity Window - Bone Mosaic I 8:23
B2 Infinity Window - Bone Mosaic II 6:29



Infinity Window - Trans Fat (2008)

Tracklisting:
1 Foaming Tusk 6:56
2 Trans Fat 13:52
3 Panama Rose 14:26



Infinity Window - Artificial Midnight (2009)

Tracklisting:
A1 Sheets Of Face 7:56
A2 Internal Compass 7:36
B1 Skull Theft 11:10



Treetops / Infinity Window - Tour Split (2009)

Tracklisting:
A Treetops - The Shape Of The Universe 8:18
B Infinity Window - Field Of Vision 9:11

Topaz Rags - California Ash & Tarot Harem

Topaz Rags - California Ash (2008) cassette on Not Not Fun.


Topaz Rags - Tarot Harem (2009) on Not Not Fun

Mark McGuire

-Mark McGuire is the guitarist of the Cleveland drone outfit Emeralds, but his solo work is prolific to say the least. McGuire utilizes a loop pedal, distortion pedal, and weed (I'm assuming) to create his meditative, psychedelic "Jamz". McGuire's guitar work washes over the listener as you get lost in his chords-

Nate Scheible & Mark McGuire - Untitled (2008)

Amethyst Waves (2008)

An Old Hag's Cackle Pt. II (2008)

Dream Team (2008)

Guitar Meditations (2008)

Let Us Be The Way we Were (2008)

Light Movement (2008)

Off in the Distance (2008)

Open Chords (2008)

Prehistoric Blackout/Mark McGuire - Split (2008)

The Garden of Eternal Life (2008)

A Pocket Full of Rain (2009)

Losing Sleep (2009)

Stranger Than Paradise (2009)

Tidings II (2009)