RAKSHA MANCHAM - Ghazels - (Musica Maxima Magnetica-Italy-1994)

 This Belgian group's music is strongly derived from the music of indigenous peoples worldwide, and is played on native instruments from Tibet, Egypt, Brazil, Morocco, Mali, Nepal and the Cameroon, along with many other acoustic percussion, wind and string instruments.(from Discogs)

The titles "Ghazels" (also "Ghazal" or "Ghzali") refers to beautiful girls" ("beauties") as well as lyrical poems, love poems or love chants and comes from the great Persian lyrical poet Shemseddin Hafiz who described his "ghazels" in such a way : "At the hour of parting, by going away from you, my eyes came emplty of light by dint of weeping".(from their official webpage )  click me

 

RAKSHA MANCHAM - Phyidar - (Musica Maxima Magnetica-Italy-1992)

This Belgian group's music is strongly derived from the music of indigenous peoples worldwide, and is played on native instruments from Tibet, Egypt, Brazil, Morocco, Mali, Nepal and the Cameroon, along with many other acoustic percussion, wind and string instruments. (from Discogs)

"Phyidar" may be defined as the "second broadcasting" of the (Buddhist) "doctrine" in Tibet. It has deep connections with the history of Buddhism - as Buddhism was initiall y introduced in Tibet during the VII th century and was eclipsed during the late IX th, the X th and the early XI th century. There was a second "broadcasting" of the (Buddhist) doctrine in Tibet in the early XI th century.

This first CD of Raksha Mancham is a compilation of the first three vynil albums of the band, plus several new tracks.Recorded between 1987-92 and mixed between 1989-92. Some versions on this cd are different from the original vinyl albums.
Also released as a limited deluxe boxset (108 copies). (from their official webpage)    click me

 

RAKSHA MANCHAM - Chös Khor - (Musica Maxima Magnetica-Italy-1993)

This Belgian group's music is strongly derived from the music of indigenous peoples worldwide, and is played on native instruments from Tibet, Egypt, Brazil, Morocco, Mali, Nepal and the Cameroon, along with many other acoustic percussion, wind and string instruments. (from Discogs)

 "Chös Khor" refers to a Tibetan concept, that can be translated as "the holy circle", "the holy enclosure" or "the holy enclave". "Chös Khor" represents the universe in which the human beings live, the world they inhabit. The musical themes developed in these recordings refer to human populations and their natural environment. "Chös Khor" offers visions of different parts of the World. So by creating that music, the aim of Raksha Mancham is to produce that vision of the World by suggesting images in the mind of the listener.(from their webpage)   click me

 

v.a - Magnetic Submission - (Musica Maxima Magnetica/Sub-Mission Records-Italy-1995)

 

 

Promotional CD enclosed to magazine MUSIC FROM THE EMPTY QUARTER No. 11. It features a bunch of amazing artists performing fantastic tracks. Enjoy it.

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1	Ordo Equitum Solis–	La Flamme Perdue	4:20
2	Thelema–	The Glory Of The Hawk	2:31
3	Glod*–	Black Song For A Dead Sun	6:00
4	Mellonta Tauta–	Chucao	3:23
5	Technogod–	Addiction And Subtraction	4:35
6	Synthetic Zoo–	Surfinblood	4:10
7	Kowp–	B-Reality	4:28
8	Alboth!–	Lüdi	2:58
9	Swamp Terrorists–	Dive-Right Jab	3:26
10	Circus Of Pain–	Dick Smoker	5:19
11	Meathead–	You Owe Me	4:09
12	Cold (3)–	Disgregation	3:59
13	Templebeat–	Heidi S.	3:47
14	T.A.G.C.*–	Iso-Erotic Calibration	6:45
15	Cranioclast–	Our Coming Out	0:45
16	M.J. Harris* & Martyn Bates–	The Bloody Gardener	5:50
17	Raksha Mancham–	Before The White Men Came (Live)	6:34
18	Theatrum Chemicum–	Preghiera Al Grande Architetto Dell'Universo	4:42

GLOD-Gnosis-(Musica Maxima Magnetica-Italy-1995)

Ritual soundscapes mixed with dark melodies recalling some goth rock and industrial sonics tribalism!Glod hypnotize us with their dissonances in this well crafted cd.

Hailing from Detroid(Usa),a discogs page about them is here.

Musica Maxima Magnetica was an italian label created by Luciano Dari.

It released  lots of good productions by industrial,ritual and experimental electronikxs artists.

Enjoy it.
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VASILISK-Liberation And Ecstasy-(cd-Musica Maxima Magnetica-Italy-1990)

In 1985, after the split up of the political unit 'White Hospital', Tomo Kuwabara started up the unit Vasilisk with Yukio Nagoshi (percussions/guitars) and Chiaki (percussions). They made a first album called 'Whirling Dervishes' in 1987, released through Eskimo, which was the label established by Yun 'Grim' Konagaya. In this album they played several and unusual instruments: African skin-drums, African flute, Tibetan percussions, Ancestor's voices. In 1988 they made a second album called 'Mkwaju' with the same line-up and also released by Eskimo. Just after the release of this album, Tomo and Yukio joined Rose Mcdowall's new project Candy Cain. They toured through Japan during most of 1988. Around that time, Luciano Dari invited them to release their next album on his label Musica Maxima Magnetica. After the collaboration with the Rose's project in 1989, they started to record their third album 'Acqua' in London and Naples (Italy) with the same three members. 'Acqua' was released at the end of the same year by Musica Maxima Magnetica. After they came back from Europe, they started to compile and remix their previous material from the three albums in order to release their most intensive tracks on their debut CD release, entitled 'Liberation and Ecstasy'. After that they went into a long silence of 5 years. Tomo traveled around Asian countries for nearly 2 years starting in 1991, in order to search his identity as an Asian.... Most people knowing and expecting a lot from this unique band, were thinking they had stopped all activities, but that was not true! In fact during this time they had recorded two (still) unreleased albums. The first unreleased one was recorded in 1993 and it was called 'Tongue'. At that time the line up was changed as Yayoi (voice), Hidero (guitars) and Tomo (percussions). In 1994 they went to Moscow in order to make their own documentary program on TV and join the Contemporary Music and Art Festival. In 1995 they made a second unreleased album, recorded in Tokyo. Unfortunately they decided not to release these 2 albums as they thought the sound was odd and incomplete. They went further in song-oriented direction including a female vocalist...but they felt that direction was inappropriate for them, because of the lyrics; whereas most artists are using lyrics to express their policy, they felt the lyrics were a constraint, since they tend to define the image of music and imagination of listeners. After those chaos years, Tomo met Tsuyoshi (keyboard) and they started as Vasilisk to create a new sound with another method of musical expression. They were admiring the techno-sound with strong rhythm to create a state of trance like ancient shamans....full of united groove. So they choose the psychedelic trance sound which stimulates their brain directly without any words.
IMHO their best LP with a variety of styles,from dark ambient to strange ballads(one song is written by Suzanne Vega!).[info taken from discogs]

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SLEEP CHAMBER-Satanic Sanction-(flyer/postcard-Musica Maxima Magnetica-Italy-1988)

There is no music in this post but a nice postcard that came out from the Satanic Sanction album by the mighty Sleep Chamber and a letter by Luciano Dari ,owner of the  amazing Musica Maxima Magnetica,the label that released this  album back in 1988-included with this letter there is a deviated review by somebody with a very narrow mind who got really scared at one Sleep Chamber`s gig back in the 80s.
I think this is just hilarious...well worth reading to laugh for such great stupidity.

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