🎶🔮 I'm thrilled to share that my NEW ALBUM has officially dropped and is now available on ALL platforms! 🔮🎶
🌌🏰 Get ready to dive into the enchanting world of ambient and dark synth! This musical journey draws inspiration from legends like Vangelis and Ennio Morricone and the spine-tingling atmosphere of 70s European horror movies! 🎵🎬
🌈 When you order the album on Bandcamp, you'll receive THREE EXCLUSIVE BONUS TRACKS that aren't available anywhere else! 🤩🎁
🏰🌍 Share the news, spread the vibes, and let the world know that the new Silence & Strength journey has begun! 🌍🏰
✋ My new album, The Lord of the Garden, is now open for pre-order on Bandcamp. The official release is scheduled for September 8, 2023. When ordering on Bandcamp, you will access three exclusive bonus tracks that will not be available anywhere else. Stay tuned for more exciting surprises to come! 🐍
Inspired by a secret Saturnian group on Facebook, I decided to rework and remaster pieces from previous albums, to suit all kinds of magickal work, rituals and meditations. The result is Saturnian Transmissions: an album of 10 tracks published on all streaming platforms today. Since it consists of previously released themes, it is available on Bandcamp at 'name your price'. Meaning you can download it for free (by entering $0) or enter any amount you like. Enjoy!
To celebrate Winter Solstice and the Undying Sun, here is the new album by Silence & Strength. Star Sapphire: A Collection of Rare and Unreleased Tracks features early creations, such as rehearsal pieces for the very first concert in 2004, and tracks that were recorded at various times but never made it into any album. Currently, the album is available to listen and download on Bandcamp. It will apear on all the streaming platforms shortly. I hope you enjoy it. Happy Holidays! 🎄
Limited edition cassettes of our latest album "Saturn Return" are available on Occult Whispers Records. Ambient, ritualistic, esoteric music with hints of industrial. You can order a copy here: http://occultwhispersrecords.bigcartel.com/product/silence-and-strength-saturn-return-cassette
To celebrate the Writing of the Book of the Law, Occult Whispers Records released the latest Silence & Strength album "Saturn Return", which features songs based on "The Eyes of Pharaoh" and "One Star in Sight" poems by Aleister Crowley. #silenceandstrength #saturnreturn #occultwhispersrecords #aleistercrowley #thebookofthelaw #liberalvellegis #darkambient #industrial #ritual
After a six-year break, "Silence & Strength" is back with a new album! "Saturn Return" is a poetic reflection on Saturn Gnosis and the Saturnian path. Featuring original lyrics by Stephan Friedman and poems by Aleister Crowley, dark ambient soundscapes and experimental industrial tunes, the seven-track (plus one hidden track) album is a journey into the realm of the Demiurge Saturn, the Guardian of the Threshold, towards the Higher Self.
I am looking for a label to release this album on CD/vinyl. All suggestions are most welcome!
"And know, my Child, for a Truth, that in the whole vegetable work there is no higher nor greater Secret than in Saturn; for we do not find that perfection in Gold which is in Saturn; for internally it is good Gold, herein all Philosophers agree, and it wants nothing else, but that first you remove what is superfluous in it, that is, it's impurity, and make it clean, and then that you turn it's inside outwards, which is it's redness, then will it be good Gold;
"My Child, lock this up in thy heart and understanding, this Saturn is the Stone which the Philosophers will not name, whose name is concealed unto this day; for if it's name were known, then many would operate, and the Art would be common, because this work is short, and without charge, a small and mean work.
... then is Saturn freed from all it’s Leprousness, Melancholy, Faeces, and blackness, being pure and white as Snow, for it is cleansed from all it’s uncleanness, because it’s coldness stands outwards as Luna doth, and its’ heat is internal, fluxible as wax, and sweet as sugar Candy."
A Work of Saturn - Johann Isaac Hollandus
http://www.rexresearch.com/alchemy/hollandu.htm
On November 13th it will be 5 years since the unfortunate departure of the great John Balance of Coil fame. Balance was one of the most influential music innovators in the last quarter of the 20th century and until his sudden death in 2004. In his memory, Heart&Crossbone, alongside the Topheth Prophet label, will pay their respect to his important body of work with "Circles of Mania", a Coil tribute show with the following acts:
REMESH - A heavy load of multi layered drones and occult Power Electronics
REFUSE TO DIE - An industrial-Dada cabaret chamber torture
SEVEN MORGUES - Somber ambient-drone and industrial agony
SILENCE&STRENGTH - Ritualistic dark ambient and experimental electronics
DILDO TO PLAY IN THE DARK - Cacophonous noise and sloth-doom featuring members of Lietterschpich and Cadaver Eyes
All acts will offer their interpretations of Coil tracks, rest of the details in the flyer.
SILENCE & STRENGTH
Das Haus zur letzten Latern - A Tribute to Gustav Meyrink
HCD 10 (2009)
The new album by Silence & Strength has been in the making for almost 5 years, as some early pieces have been written already in 2004, being composed and recorded in various locations and conditions. This monumental work realized in an album of 13 tracks and 77 minutes constitutes an impressive narrative, which opens up a door to the magical worlds of Gustav Meyrink.
Starting with evocative pieces based on some of Meyrink's short stories the album takes us through the myriad of states and emotions - the menacing and liquid "Cardinal Napellus", the moody and unsettling "Four Moon Brothers", the decadent and poisonous "Ball Macabre", the enchanting "Opal" and so on.
One of the most expressive and dramatic tracks is "Walpurgisnacht". Combining acoustic and electronic sounds, shrieking pipes and a beat of the devilish drum, it conjures up the memories of bloody revolts and phantasmagoric affairs.
The longest composition on the album is based upon one of Meyrink's most acclaimed novels - "Der Golem". Ranging over 18 minutes it takes us on a fascinating journey through the darkened streets of Old Prague. From the bone-chilling rain and menacing ambience of the narrow, cobble-stone alleys, through the tiny rooms of misshapen houses where the early bohemians sing rowdy chansons, to the attic of Staronova Synagogue, which serves as a secret dwelling place of the mysterious Golem, and back again into a sleazy tavern with an aged hebrew harpist wheezing through a long-forgotten song, then finally to the gates of the House at the Last Light where the alchemical hermaphrodite unites the hero and his beloved in a magical union.
The journey continues, through the raucous "Green Face", the beautiful and melodic "White Dominican", to the meditative and conclusive "Angel of West Window". The album ends there, but it leaves us with a precious aftertaste and a strong desire to plunge deeper into the majestic realm of Gustav Meyrink, read his works and share his dreams.
Gustav Meyrink has long attracted readers for his masterful stories, examining the supernatural, the macabre, the spiritual, and the occult. With complex and ambitious novels, such as "The Golem", "The Green Face", "The Angel of the West Window", and "The White Dominican" Meyrink intertwines past and present, dreams and visions, myth and reality in a world of the occult, culminating in the transmutation of physical reality into a higher spiritual existence.
Silence & Strength is a project created by a talented Israeli musician Stephan Friedman. Interfusing noise, drone, glitch and experimental dark ambient he creates soundscapes in a highly structured and ritualistic way. Secret musical spaces of Silence & Strength will enchant those who feel that there is too little sound magic around them and who want to know it all. After producing two successful tribute albums to Le Comte de Cagliostro (2005) and Theophrastus Paracelsus (2006), Silence & Strength has embarked on the most ambitious project yet: Das Haus zur letzten Latern - A Tribute to Gustav Meyrink. It is the project's first official release on HORUS CyclicDaemon.
The mastering services were provided by iSoundwave, a highly professional mastering studio in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
The album was released on April Fool's Day 2009 in limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies, on top-notch quality art-paper (green Alezan CRO 300g and recycled grey Eko 200g), A5 oversized booklet with the traditional A5 envelope. Artwork and design by John Coulthart.
In addition, to illustrate a growing interest in Gustav Meyrink, we should mention that from 21 November 2008 until 29 May 2009 the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in the Netherlands (Amsterdam) presents an exhibition on Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932), his life and works.
