New Release - Ebcidic Charming Hades

Two more releases for you to check out, first up from Ebcidic (previously VCOADSR) aka Phil Bilsby "Charming Hades" - usually his material is straight pounding techno - with his live performances using only modular gear being the highlight of many a synth meet and club gig.

With this new release "Charming Hades" Phil has explored the "extreme limitation forced by composing & performing solely on a single instrument" which in this case is the Soma Laboratory Lyra-8 (see our review), a unique instrument created by Vlad Kriemer (see Meet the Makers interview).

Phil's Bandcamp blurb:

 Nine track industrial ambient drone album develops the dark atmospheres and soundscapes that underpins his previous Techno output and live performances while also introducing a harder more abrasive side with the incorporation of elements of noise...

All nine pieces were recorded as single live takes, using the Lyra-8 and live FX processing namely the Tiptop Audio Z-DSP running the Halls of Valhalla reverb card, with minimal post-production editing.

Its an interesting soundscape of harmonically rich textures, which utilize (by the sound of it) the on board distortion circuit - which incidentally is excellent when processing external inputs too. 

Charming Hades is available now on Bandcamp  priced at a reasonable £7 and also charmingly  as a limited edition C50 Cassette - duplicated professionally.