Alone In The Hollow Garden was conceived in spring 2013 as a Tanz Ohne Musik side project (Romania) and represents a stylistic returning point to Dan Serbanescu's musical roots, exploring his old school industrial, dark ambient and ritual sides, all wrapped in a fresh skin. The present soundscapes reveal themselves into a mixture of both synthetic and organic sounds, where the analogue synthesizers are merging with the microphone captured textures, coming from a gamma of wind instruments, improvised percussion, metal springs, all diluted and softened into the same pool of sound.
Members: Dan Serbanescu: analogue synthesizers, vocals, acoustic instruments
Bandcamp Und wir singen im Atomschutzbunker Hurra, diese Welt geht unter!
Label: Red Cavity Records – RDCVT 013 Format: Cassette Country: Romania Released: 2014 Genre: Electronic Style: Industrial, Ambient, Experimental
Tracklist A1 Ascent To Manifestation 9:22 A2 Stillness Of Stone 9:24 A3 Bones Returning In Wombs 5:48 B1 Self Eating Serpent 6:00 B2 Field Of ∞ Dissolution 8:50 B3 Shiva >|< Shakti 11:03
Notes Limited edition of 50 copies. Black cardboard box with handmade linocut engraving print, black audio cassette printed in silver and 4 pages insert printed on coloured art paper.
Composed and recorded between Summer-Winter 2013-2014 by Dan Serbanescu. Cover linocut engraving print & artwork by Dan Serbanescu. Produced & copyrighted by Red Cavity Records 2014.
Alone In The Hollow Garden:
Dan Serbanescu: analogue synthesizers, vocals, metal percussion, metal springs, singing bowls, ting-sha, balafone, duduk, effects, mixing, mastering.
"Gyalwa Gyamtso", the second full length collaboration between Alone In The Hollow Garden & Nam-Khar manifests itself as a very personal meditation fuelled by the ancestral tibetan & hindu spiritual magic.
The transcendental power of vibration and sound is exalted by the presence of the ancient mantra chanting practice and is meant to transcend the tamasic heaviness of the actual world, hollowed and stripped by the most valuable aspect of all, the awareness and realization of Oneself as a mirror of the Cosmos, Mother Nature and of all living beings.
A large variety of ritual implements like tibetan bells, singing bowls, rol-mo cymbals, damaru drums, kangling are merged together with other traditional acoustic instruments like turkish saz, melodium, flutes, seed shakers and with a few self made piezoelectric devices, analogue synthesizers, drum machines and throat singing to create an unique offering which will transport the listener into the realm of true ritual musick, a meddicine for Body, Speech and Mind.
The secret of understanding the core of these ancient teachings isn't the "religious" approach that is so often confounded with the true spiritual path. All the deities present in the tibetan and hindu sacred texts are not to be seen as external entities which ...
Alone In The Hollow Garden: chanting, mantras, throat singing, kangling, melodium, flutes, gongs, bells, rol-mo cymbals, turkish saz, balafone, bullroarer wand, metal piezo percussions, damaru, amplified strings, analogue synthesizers.
Alone In The Hollow Garden – The Black Cube Ov Saturn (2019)
Label: Red Cavity Records – none Format: CD, Album Country: Romania Released: 04 May 2019 Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental, Dark Ambient, Drone
Tracklist
1. Liber Resh 17:22 2. Shem HaMephorash 14:32 3. The Black Cube Ov Saturn 15:52 4. V.I.A.O.V. 14:00
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"The Black Cube Ov Saturn" consists in four new long meditations channeled as portal openers for the Dawn of the New Aquarian Age to empower and infuse the linear and mundane quality of Matter with the overseeing multidimensional power of Spiritual awareness and True Will. 93 / 93
Tracklist:
I. Liber Resh II. Shem HaMephorash III. The Black Cube Ov Saturn IV. V.I.A.O.V. credits released May 4, 2019
Channeled, performed, recorded & mixed in MMXVIII by A.I.T.H.G. A.I.T.H.G.: modular synthesizers, ribbon controller, vocals, self built metal percussion & string instruments, cover engraving & artwork.
Alone In The Hollow Garden - At The Threshold (2020)
Label: Not On Label (Alone In The Hollow Garden Self-released) Format: Digital Album Country: Romania Released: 21 Mar 2020 Genre: Electronic Style: Dark Ambient, Ritual Ambient, Experimental
Tracklist
1. Sekhem 14:00 2. Aqua Regia 13:11 3. At The Threshold 12:53 4. The Black Mirror 31:54
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"We find ourselves at the threshold of a New Age as we see "The Tower" crumbling, being crushed into dust with each day that passes. We are somehow blessed to experience such difficult times in which we must seek our inner power, reformulate our own system of values and resources, and learn using it in the benefit of life. May you light the Inner Flame and may these sonic transmissions assist you to tune into the sacred vibration of the Great Mother."
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Channelled, recorded & mixed between Winter MMXIX & Spring MMXX by A.I.T.H.G.
A.I.T.H.G.: modular & analogue synthesizers, analogue AF/RF signal generator, light controller, self made egyptian sistrum & piezo esoteric devices, percussion, OM tuning fork, magick, automatic linocut engraving & artwork.
Alone In The Hollow Garden - The Black Hounds Of The Netherworld (2020)
Label: Not On Label (Alone In The Hollow Garden Self-released) Format: Digital Album Country: Romania Released: 21 Jun 2020 Genre: Electronic Style: Dark Ambient, Ritual Ambient, Experimental
Tracklist
1. The Twin Mountains Of Masshu 17:42 2. The First Daughter Of The Moon 14:00 3. A Lyre Song To Tame The Black Hounds Of The Netherworld 11:54 4. A Throne Of Flesh For The Queen Ereshkigal 13:34
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"The Black Hounds Of The Netherworld" consists in four long devotional hymns dedicated to the transformative power of the underworld, deeply inspired at a general level by the universal process of Katabasis found in the mythologies of so many cultures and especially by the descent of the goddess Inanna into the ancient sumerian realm ruled by Ereshkigal.
Released at the magical gate of the Summer Solstice MMXX.
Channelled, performed, recorded & mixed in MMXX by A.I.T.H.G.
Alone In The Hollow Garden - Stellar Dissolution (2020)
Label: Not On Label (Alone In The Hollow Garden Self-released) Format: Digital Album Country: Romania Released: 2 Sep 2020 Genre: Electronic Style: Dark Ambient, Ritual Ambient, Experimental
Tracklist
1. Stellar Dissolution 12:29 2. Ouroboric Chaostrophy 13:41 3. Swirling In Black Matter 11:05 4. Black Hole Eschatology 08:44 5. Endless Ether 28:31
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"Stellar Dissolution" is a new ritual ambient collection in which the electronic and acoustic sides of A.I.T.H.G. are blending together into five meditative compositions themed around eschatology, Vril, black holes, the dissolving of all structures, macrocosm & microcosm.
The central symbol created for the front cover was beautifully transformed by ATMA in a handcrafted silver amulet that can be purchased along with the ltd. ed. CDR or separately, with the digital version of the album included.