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The Black Stone – Music For Lovecraftian Summonings

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db8mn
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db8mn Shave a goat and prepare for the rest of eternity.
darkcasey
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darkcasey The Black Stone – Music For Lovecraftian Summonings contains a brilliant dose of Lovecraftian music. I enjoyed the diversity of sounds and the way that some of the tracks came at the subject matter from perspectives that certainly didn’t fit my preconceptions coming into the album. Favorite track: Dead Space Chamber Music - Nocturne For Erich Zann.
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Ada Wong Another compilation of Eighth Tower Records now in the Lovecraft universe and more Dark ambient sounds and very interesting noise. Favorite track: Dēofol - Y'ha-nthlei.
RASputin1917
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RASputin1917 Perfectly and masterfully invokes the spirit of Lovecraft the Dark Scribe with music and sound, and takes you to cosmic realms beyond our understanding. The Old Ones lie in wait for their rule to be reinstated. This album can't help but invoke them. Sister to the upcoming print anthology from Eighth Tower BOOKS! Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nfah Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Favorite track: Mombi Yuleman - Dreaming of Innsmouth.
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Cold Rollins Another top class Lovecraft concept compilation from Eighth Tower - Exclusive tracks to my knowledge,the more Lovecraft Ambient the better as far as i'm concerned! Favorite track: Mombi Yuleman - Dreaming of Innsmouth.
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    The Beyond. Stories Inspired By The Lucio Fulci Death Trilogy
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  • Anthology of 27 Horror tales inspired by the cosmic horror vision in the H.P.Lovecraft's narrative.

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    Featuring: Ramsey Campbell, Brian M Sammons, Glynn Owen Barrass, Lucy A. Snyder, E.A. Black, Chris Kelso, Andrew Coulthard, Stephen Mark Rainey, Kevin Lewis, Richard A. Scott, Russell Smeaton, John Buja, Made in DNA, David Agranoff, Pete Rawlik, Brian C. Short, Michael Housel, John Chadwick, David Voyles, Konstantine Paradias, Edward Morris, Parry Milton, Phil Breach, Garrett Cook, Andrew Freudenberg, Love Kolle, Sarah Walker.

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    The twenty-seven writers whose works appear here mine the rich seams that Lovecraft’s original vision created. However, lest one imagine that this implies that they merely slavishly follow in his footsteps, hewing to well-worn paths with rigid and blinkered preconceptions, think again. It has been nearly 85 years since the Providence, Rhode Island scholar’s death and, just as in the real world we have seen social and technological evolution in those intervening years, the matter of the Lovecraftian tale has itself evolved and expanded. A main thesis originally propounded by HPL, that of the existence of uncaring entities beyond our understanding who neither care about nor acknowledge our being part of the physical universe, still weaves its threads through many of the stories published here, and most of those remain unnamed and out of focus, elusive to both mind and physical senses. This approach is a logical progression – as alluded to above the universe is far vaster and more hostile than was ever imagined in the early decades of the 20th century. Just how do we even begin to delineate the possible monstrosities that might inhabit the corners of the infinity we call space? The tales of Lovecraft touched on primal fears of the dark unknown, with great effect, and now, nearly a century on, the spirit of the Lovecraftian tale is still with us, courtesy of a group of literary explorers willing to forge through the dark matter of our hostile home and write of their experiences and travails in the lightless places. These 27 epistles of horror and weirdness are presented as a testament to the fact that, as much as we’ve discovered since Howard Philips Lovecraft’s time, there are still many more unknowns waiting to be uncovered.

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    1) Anthology of 27 Horror tales inspired by the cosmic horror vision in the H.P.Lovecraft's narrative. Edited by Eighth Tower.

    Paperback: 374 pages
    Dimensions: 6 x 0.85 x 9 inches (15 x 2 x 23 )
    Weight: 1.11 pounds (0,5 Kg)

    Featuring: Ramsey Campbell, Brian M Sammons, Glynn Owen Barrass, Lucy A. Snyder, E.A. Black, Chris Kelso, Andrew Coulthard, Stephen Mark Rainey, Kevin Lewis, Richard A. Scott, Russell Smeaton, John Buja, Made in DNA, David Agranoff, Pete Rawlik, Brian C. Short, Michael Housel, John Chadwick, David Voyles, Konstantine Paradias, Edward Morris, Parry Milton, Phil Breach, Garrett Cook, Andrew Freudenberg, Love Kolle, Sarah Walker.

    Curated by Raffaele Pezzella
    Cover illustration by John Chadwick
    Editing by Parry Milton


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    Music inspired by the cosmic horror vision in the H.P.Lovecraft's narrative. Edited by Eighth Tower records.

    Featuring: Mombi Yuleman, Martyria, Lars Bröndum, Solatipour Reza, Dead Space Chamber Music, Alphaxone, Mario Lino Stancati, M. Cosottini, C. Bocci & D. Barbiero, Kloob, Ashtoreth, New Risen Throne, Moloch Conspiracy, Dēofol, SÍLENÍ.

    Mastering by Sonologyst
    Artwork by John Chadwick

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Someone claims that H.P. Lovecraft did not like music. He may have suffered from undiagnosed musical anhedonia, a disorder where a person gleans no pleasure from music or sound.
The first story that comes to mind when one thinks of music in the “Lovecraft universe” is The Music of Erich Zann (1921). The music in The Music of Erich Zahn, is the kind of frenetic, and frightening music he had always experienced: [...] It would be useless to describe Erich Zann's music on that horrible night. It was the scariest thing I had ever heard, because now I saw it in the face and I knew that his inspiration was fear. He tried to make noise: to keep at bay, or to suffocate, something that was outside [...] [The Music of Erich Zann.

There are many stories in which Lovecraft uses a musical interlude to divert the reader's attention from what is going on. This trick can be found in the story The Rats in the Walls (1923), during which the protagonist listens to chamber music from a gramophone, and he then hears other sounds, other noises. His obsession leads to his inevitable descent into madness. He initially assumes the sounds were coming from rats scratching the walls. Soon thereafter, the protagonist learns Nyarlathotep is the culprit, described as the crazy and faceless god who screams blind in the darkness and is accompanied by two amorphous and idiotic flutists to steal the music scene.

Also, the ruler of the Lovecraftian Universe, Azathoth, known as The Blind Idiot God represents the primordial chaos at the center of the Universe. His presence is always accompanied by “accursed fruits, and drums”:

[...] the last incorporeal fog of the creeping chaos that blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all the infinite, the irrepressible demon, the sultan Azathoth, whose name no mouth dares to utter, who hungry grits his teeth in dark and inconceivable spaces that are found beyond time, between muffled blows of drums that raise reason, and the monotonous lullaby of cursed flutes [...] [The Dream-Quest of the Unknown Kadath]

Whether Lovecraft liked music or not we can’t be sure, but we’re sure that music played an important role in the nihilistic world he created. His stories often evoke an entire universe of “possible musics” - dark ones of course. Eighth Tower Records dedicates a second aural tribute to the Providence Master to be called "Black Stone. Music For Lovecraftian Summonings" (the first one was “In Tenebris Scriptus - A dark aural tribute to H.P.Lovecraft”), This forms part of an ongoing project originally initiated to create a musical Lovecraftian universe.

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released January 8, 2021

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Casey Gouglass blog
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