Flowers For Bodysnatchers is an Industrial Dark Ambient project formed 2011 by musician/artist Duncan Ritchie (also in The Rosenshoul)
Everybody Dies In Utah (8xFile, FLAC, Album) Not On Label none 2012 Automne (9xFile, FLAC, Album) Not On Label none 2013 S O L A R I S (10xFile, FLAC, Album, 24b) Not On Label none 2014 Aokigahara (CD, Album) Cryo Chamber CRYO 027 2015 Love Like Blood (CD, Album) Cryo Chamber CRYO 044 2016 Randal Collier-Ford, Flowers For Bodysnatchers, Council Of Nine, God Body Disconnect - Locus Arcadia (CD, Album) Cryo Chamber CRYO 041 2016 Fall The Night (3xFile, FLAC, EP, 24b) Not On Label none 2016 Asylum Beyond (9xFile, FLAC, Album) Cryo Chamber none 2017
Label: Cryo Chamber Format: CD, Album Country: US Released: 03 Nov 2015 Genre: Electronic Style: Dark Ambient
Tracklist
1 Prisoner Of Night And Fog 04:32 2 And There Is A Darkness 09:48 3 Field Of Ink 02:44 4 Kuroi Jukai 05:08 5 There Will Be Lies 03:27 6 Night Heroin 11:44 7 Aokigahara 08:20 8 A Rope To End It All 03:30 9 A Man Metallic 06:52 10 The Games Foxes Play 05:50
Aokigahara (青木ヶ原), known as the Suicide Forest is a 35-square-kilometre forest that lies at the northwest base of Mount Fuji in Japan. Aokigahara forest is dense, shutting out all but the natural sounds of the forest itself. The forest has an historic association with demons in Japanese mythology, and it is a notoriously common suicide site.
Duncan Ritchie explores the long journey to Aokigahara through soundscapes ripe with lonely pianos on textural backdrops. Duncan spent countless hours field recording on the voyage between Tokyo to Aokigahara which creates the perfect atmospheric companion to the intricate instrumental approach. This is a beautiful dark ambient soundtrack culminating in the final choice between life and death.
Written, Produced, Mastered - Duncan Ritchie Artwork - Simon Heath
Flowers For Bodysnatchers – Love Like Blood (2016)
Label: Cryo Chamber – CRYO 044 Format: CD, Album Country: US Released: 30 Aug 2016 Genre: Electronic Style: Dark Ambient, Drone
Tracklist
1 The Obscure You Deserve 5:28 2 Sorrow (Silhouette To Void) 2:24 3 A Disease Called Love 7:25 4 Hearken Our Storm 4:23 5 To The Loveless 7:15 6 The Life I Ruin 2:56 7 Tiny Black Tale 7:21 8 Memory (Night To Void) 5:48 9 Time Shall Heal No Wounds 6:42
Credits Artwork – Duncan Ritchie, Simon Heath Mastered By – Duncan Ritchie Written By, Producer, Performer – Duncan Ritchie
Label: Cryo Chamber – none Format: 9 × File, FLAC, Album Country: US Released: 28 Nov 2017 Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental, Ambient
Tracklist
1 Red Ballerina (Oksana's Theme) 2:26 2 Midnight My Dearest Midnight 9:04 3 Ravenfield 7:43 4 Phantasma 11:17 5 Mechanical Pictures 9:57 6 Dear Ernest, You're Dead 8:46 7 A Darker Rebirth 7:26 8 Black Catechism 11:12 9 White Ballerina (Polina's Theme) 3:45
Credits Written-By, Producer, Artwork By, Mastered By – Duncan Ritchie
Flowers for Bodysnatchers is back with his third album on Cryo Chamber.
"On the evening of August 12th, 1968 in Fairhaven, Massachusetts antique store owner Ernest Semenov brutally murdered his wife and two daughters in what police investigators described as bizarre ritualistic killings. Their dismembered bodies had been rearranged to form what appeared to be crudely oblique symbols formed into a circle and connected by blood that he had drawn from his own slit wrists. Ernest Semenov was found slumped upright in the centre of his macabre creation by neighbours who claimed he was mumbling in a language they could not understand. The subsequent investigation revealed an astounding amount of occult literature and objects at the Semenov residence. Belonging not just to Ernest Semenov but apparently to his wife Silvia Semenov also. Alarmingly police discovered various animal bones arranged in the same oblique manner attached to the underside of his daughters bed frames.
Declared criminally insane by the state Ernest Semenov was imprisoned in Ravenfield Asylum for treatment and rehabilitation and, placed under the care of one Dr Richard Lankin. Subsequently on the night of July 1st, 1971 Ravenfield Asylum was consumed by fire. Police discovered the horrifically burnt bodies of 68 of the 70 patients and staff savagely murdered and dismembered in a manner not dissimilar to the 1968 Semenov murders. The bodies of Dr Richard Lankin and Ernest Semenov were not believed to be among the charred remains. "
Label: Not On Label (Flowers For Bodysnatchers Self-released) – none Format: 5 × File, FLAC, Mini-Album Country: Australia Released: 15 Feb 2018 Genre: Electronic, Non-Music Style: Dark Ambient, Field Recording, Experimental
Tracklist
1 Einsatzgruppen 7:22 2 Babi Yar 9:27 3 Hush 2:57 4 Two Miles North-West 9:56 5 Stripped 7:45
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BABI YAR
The largest mass shooting perpetrated by the Einsatzgruppen took place on the 29th and 30th of September 1941 at Babi Yar, a ravine northwest of Kiev, a city in Ukraine that had fallen to the Germans on the 19th of September. The perpetrators included a company of Waffen-SS attached to Einsatzgruppe C under Rasch, members of Sonderkommando 4a under SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, and some Ukrainian auxiliary police. The Jews of Kiev were told to report to a certain street corner on the 29th of September; anyone who disobeyed would be shot. Since word of massacres in other areas had not yet reached Kiev and the assembly point was near the train station, they assumed they were being deported. People showed up at the rendezvous point in large numbers, laden with possessions and food for the journey.
After being marched two miles north-west of the city centre, the victims encountered a barbed wire barrier and numerous Ukrainian police and German troops. Thirty or forty people at a time were told to leave their possessions and were escorted through a narrow passageway lined with soldiers brandishing clubs. Anyone who tried to escape was beaten. Soon the victims reached an open area, where they were forced to strip, and then were herded down into the ravine. People were forced to lie down in rows on top of the bodies of other victims, and they were shot in the back of the head or the neck by members of the execution squads.
The murders continued for two days, claiming a total of 33,771 victims. Sand was shovelled and bulldozed over the bodies and the sides of the ravine were dynamited to bring down more material. Anton Heidborn, a member of Sonderkommando 4a, later testified that three days later that there were still people alive among the corpses. Heidborn spent the next few days helping smooth out the "millions" of banknotes taken from the victims' possessions. The clothing was taken away, destined to be re-used by German citizens. Jeckeln's troops shot more than 100,000 Jews by the end of October. ---------- Available in 24 bit. ---------- credits released February 15, 2018
Flowers for Bodysnatchers - Alive With Scars - Prologue (2018)
Label: Not On Label (Flowers For Bodysnatchers Self-released) – none Format: 4 × File, FLAC, Mini-Album Country: Australia Released: 02 Sep 2018 Genre: Electronic Style: Ambient, Dark Ambient, Drone, Experimental, Industrial
Tracklist
1 Alive With Scars 6:25 2 Boketto 6:16 3 A Place Beyond 9:51 4 Magnetic Radio 5:17
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Alive With Scars is the prologue mini album to the forthcoming full length album Alive With Scars. This album begins to explore the life long struggle of living in a diseased body. A body slowly being destroyed from the inside out by its own central nervous system. A body that with the passing of time will waste and wither to its own unique sonnet of pain and torment.
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credits released September 2, 2018
Written, Produced, Artwork, Mastering - Duncan Ritchie. license all rights reserved
Flowers For Bodysnatchers – Alive With Scars (2019)
Label: Cryo Chamber – CRYO 112 Format: CD, Album Country: US Released: 05 Mar 2019 Genre: Electronic Style: Dark Ambient
Tracklist
1 A Heart Less Darkened 8:18 2 Looking For Bernard Herrmann 8:22 3 Shiraz And Suicide 3:41 4 Vertigo 5:54 5 Blood In Her Mouth - Rain On Her Birthday 4:36 6 Human Demon 7:45 7 The Scar Entombed 5:10 8 And Then, Silence 6:53 9 We Are Like We Never Were 9:55
Credits Written By, Performer, Producer, Artwork By, Mastered By – Duncan Ritchie
"Flowers for Bodysnatchers is back with a versatile dark ambient album blending multiple genre elements.
Alive With Scars is an album that explores the life long struggle of living with Multiple Sclerosis. MS is an autoimmune disease where the body's own immune system attacks and destroys healthy tissue, in the case of MS, the healthy tissue is myelin, the protein that insulates the nerves in the spinal cord, brain and optic nerve gradually destroying the myelin that coats the central nervous system. Your body slowly beings wasting from the inside out by the subversion of its own central nervous system. A body that with the passing of time will waste and wither to its own unique sonnet of pain and torment.
I personally have lived with MS for almost 10 years and, this album has been an on again, off again affair for almost as long. Did I even want to do this? Will people understand it? It has been a difficult subject to approach and express musically. Yet I found I had been subconsciously doing it all along. From the formidably depressing album Aokigahara to the melancholic spitefulness of Love Like Blood. The narratives represented in these albums were backed by the way my MS affected me and the people around me. It's a long journey and Alive With Scars continues both the physical and emotional process of living life, trying to keep one step ahead of it and, trying to say sorry for the times I got things terribly wrong. - Duncan"
Flowers For Bodysnatchers – Alive With Scars - Epilogue (2019)
Label: Not On Label (Flowers For Bodysnatchers Self-released) – none Format: 4 × File, FLAC, Mini-Album Country: Australia Released: 12 Jul 2019 Genre: Electronic Style: Dark Ambient
Tracklist
1. At Least With Sorrow 06:53 2. Lhermitte's Sign 09:35 3. A Knife Now Blackened 02:42 4. The Fine Art Of Tragic Loss 07:23
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Alive With Scars - Epilogue, is the epilogue mini album to the full length album Alive With Scars. This album ends the exploration of the life long struggle of living in a diseased body. A body slowly being destroyed from the inside out by its own central nervous system. A body that with the passing of time has wasted and withered to its own unique sonnet of pain and torment.
Alive With Scars - Prologue, is available to download here. flowersforbodysnatchers.bandcamp.com/album/alive-with-scars-prologue
The full length album Alive With Scars is available as digital download for $7 and to purchase on limited edition CD for $15 from Cryo Chamber Label. cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/alive-with-scars
You can also purchase previous releases from Cryo Chamber Label.
// dark ambient. Australia
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