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ROKKRSONG: Originally released on cassette in 1997 as the audio companion to The Rokkrbok, Rokkrsong features just two tracks: a guided pathworking and an hermetic soundscape for shamanic workings. Rokkrsong has now been remastered and made available on CDR format. Two tracks. (rokkr001)
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THE ECHOES FADE EACH SEASON AND RETURN (The Unwoman Remixes): As part of the first annual Unwoman remix competition, Gydja went beyond the call of duty, took more than ten songs from Unwoman's discography and remixed and reinterpreted them. The resulting tracks are a mixture of dark ambient and minimalist abstraction. Ten tracks. CDR release. (rokkr002)
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SENNARI-BYOTAN (THE OSAKA REMIXES): Not a true release but rather an archival record of a series of tracks based on a field recording from an arcade in Osaka, Japan. A combination of dark ambient punctuated with tracks of sometimes harsh and shrill noise. Reinterpretations of the source material was done as part of a remix project initiated by Foton Records. Six tracks. CDR release. (rokkr003)
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LIBER BABALON: A double disc release, pressed on black cdrs, with professionally printed and hand-numbered packaging. Limited to 156 copies, Liber Babalon is a celebration of the dark goddess Babalon through ritual and dark ambient music, with much of the material comprised of sounds derived from readings of texts associated with Babalon. Twenty tracks in all, with almost two and a half hours of music. (rokkr004)
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RIVERS....: A suite of seven electro-acoustic pieces employing granular synthesis, and exploring the idea of rivers as division between worlds. Rivers sees Gydja moving momentatrily away from ritual music and dark ambient, and into the field of computer based composition. Despite the change in musical style, the theme remains one of esoteric significance. (rokkr010)
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COLD SEED (HAGALAZ MEDITATION): Part of the series of ritual music being released by Gydja and Shadowlight that began with Rokkrsong and was followed by Liber Babalon. Cold Seed is a single 79 minute piece of drifting cold and minimalist ambience, created tp assist meditations on Hela's eighth rune of Hagalaz. (rokkr011)
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CONSECRATED SPRING: A 3" CDR release with four tracks that explore the Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky. A combination of neo-classical loops, dark ambient drones and textures, as well as moments of microsound intimacy, that, in part, recalls the pioneering work of Autopsia. (rokkr012)
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CORPUS CALLOSUM: A four track collaboration between Gydja and Aidan Baker, inspired by the cover image of brain activity. Released by Kolorform Records. I am still waiting for my copies.
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MA-MO RBAD GTONG: A collaboration with Austrian musician Marufura Fufunjiru, exploring the four orders of Wrathful Goddesses encountered by the soul in the Bardo Thödol, or Tibetan Book of the Dead. The tracks bear the names of each of these orders: Eight Kerimas, Eight Htamenmas, Four Female Door-keepers, and Twenty-eight Herukas.
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UMBILICUS MARIS: Released on Beligum's Mystery Sea label, this set of five tracks explores the idea of
gurges mirabilis that provide a gateway into the udnerworld. Limited to 100 individually numbered copies with artowork created by Mystery Sea founder
Chalkdc.
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MACHINA MUNDI: Released on the Gears of Sand label, this collection of tracks considers the theory of a deterministic universe and what happens when this paradigmatic clock stops working.
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| COMPILATION/REMIX APPEARANCES: |
| 2001: |
*The Darkness Gathering Promotional CDR (Mediatrix, 2001) |
| 2002: |
*You're All Over The Map: Putting flesh on the bones of the dirty work ( Bai Mei Guei Wang, 2002) |
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*Teddy Bear Remix Project 4-CD Boxset ( AFE Records, 2002) |
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*60" Somewhere/60" Somewhere Else Double 3" CDRS ( Throat.org, 2002) |
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*Cadavres Sonique (Vial/AMR, 2002) |
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*Phonography.org: Compositions Using Field Recordings 2 (Phonography.org, 2002) |
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*Stalking Shekinah (Bai Mei Guei Wang, 2002) |
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*El-Tafkerra: Remixs in Remembrance of Muslimgauze (El-Tafkerra, 2002) |
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*I-Celestial-Insect Double CD (DoctSect Media, 2002) |
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| 2003: |
*CT Percussion (2003) |
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*An Eloquent Mass: Experiments in Sound v1 DCD (Kolorform, 2003) |
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*Tensile: International Experimental Acoustic Guitar Anthology CD (Jim Sande, 2003) |
| 2004: |
*CT Location Volume 2 (Ribosome Music, 2004) |
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*Of Spectres ...and Saints (Else Product, 2004) |
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*Silk Milk Magazine CD/Magazine (Silk Milk, 2004) |
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*Hidden Landscape : Lake Vostok (Dreamland Recordings, 2004) |
| 2005: |
*Sonic Visions of Middle Earth (Foreshadow Productions, 2005) |
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*anotherGIZYA (Liquid Sphere, 2005) |
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*Liber Al vel Legis DCD (HORUS CyclicDaemon, 2005) |
| 2006: |
*CT Poem (CT Collective, 2006) |
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*CT Film (CT Collective, 2006) |
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*The Loneliest Link In A Very Strange Chain CD + CDR (Else Product, 2006) |
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*Aural:Mechanism (Dyschordia) CDR (Else Product, 2006) |
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*Women Take Back The Noise 3 CD (Ubuibi, 2006) |
| 2007: |
*Interbreeding VIII: Kuru DCD (BLC Productions, 2007) |
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The Glimmer Room: 2 Up, 2 Down CD EP (The Glimmer Room Music, 2002), Tomorrow's Tuesday remixed by Gydja. |
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