Winter of Dissonance - out now!

Deadknife Records is proud to release a double compilation featuring 28 artists making a tribute to winter if you're into (industrial/electro/experimental/ambient/metal/noise) well this is for you...

check it out below the compilation...

[Dead052] VA - Winter Of Dissonance (Vol.1 & 2) (2007)

Notice that the 2nd volume has an exclusive Merankorii track, "Storm".


(PS - Link fixed)

In a couple of hours...

...and to celebrate this year's Winter Solistice, "Winter of Dissonance", a 2CD free compilation, is going to be released, including (in the 2nd CD) an exclusive Merankorii track called "Storm"...

Check the artwork in these links (where you'll find out the full track listing), I'll let you know as soon as the album is available to download...

[Cover]
[CD1 backcover]
[CD2 backcover]

Merry Yule!

upcoming...

Melencolia III on Last.fm ...

Wow, I just took this screenshot:

Do you know what it means? It means that Merankorii's third album, "Melencolia III", is at this moment in the top neofolk albums list of Last.fm!

New, unreleased track: Summer Rain

Summer Rain (30 days of art) is the first of three faces of a new Merankorii track, Summer Rain. While the two other will be released in future CD's, Summer Rain (30 days of art) is now public and entering a contest. That being, feel free to go to the usual place and listen or download this new, exclusive track!

New free track - Amnesia

Following the "one free track per month" iniciative, today I've uploaded Merankorii's track Amnesia... This is the second track of Merankorii's latest album Sanguine. Feel free to listen or download it!

New free track - Path

Following the "one free track per month" iniciative, today I've uploaded Merankorii's track Path... This is the first track of Merankorii's latest album Sanguine. Feel free to listen or download it!

LIVRE TRÂNSITO|Outubro'07 - #2

Merankorii has just appeared in a new free compilation CD: LIVRE TRÂNSITO|Outubro'07 - #2!

Here's the tracklist:

01 Aggiornamento | Nikouala | 3:48 | info |
02 Like the Old Times in Brixton | Organic Anagram | 3:05 | info |
03 Space Traveller | Dream Metaphor | 5:30 | info |
04 Face in the Sand | Long Desert Cowboy | 3:42 | info |
05 Casa Viva | Território | 8:49 | info |
06 A Second Vision | Merankorii | 4:28 | info |
07 Hard Lullaby | Violet and the Mutants | 3:20 | info |
08 Dr. Phil | Lobster | 2:29 | info |
09 Lasers Go Through Monkeys | The Allstar Project | 4:47 | info |
10 First | Sizo | 3:08 | info |
11 The Noose | Hanging by a Name | 4:41 | info |
12 Rascunho | Alzheimer | 4:26 | info |
13 Captain of my Will | Caffeine | 4:13 | info |
14 Pontas Soltas | peixe : avião | 3:46 | info |
15 Roma | Rizoma | 4:03 | info |
16 Mera Actriz | Vespa | 4:07 | info |
17 Xadrez da Vida | Contratempos | 4:56 | info |
18 Girls Next Door | The Clits | 3:12 | info |
19 Mudar de Bina | Norberto Lobo | 3:40 | info |
20 Swan Song | Levi | 3:28 | info |
21 Porto Largo | Alexandre Bateiras | 2:51 | info |
22 Mensagem de Guerra | MC Ruze | 5:13 | info |
23 Um Por Todos | Os N'Gapas | 3:43 | info |
24 Soundtrack for a Revolution | Triplet | 3:57 | info |
25 Pain Free Rebirth | Damien's Trail of Blood | 3:42 | info |
26 The Void of Love | KarbonSoul | 4:31 | info |

This doesn't have a physical release. Download (free, of course!) the cover and the album!

Merankorii news

Merankorii is now on the charts for the 7th consecutive week.

Merankorii on the charts!

Merankorii, with its track "Interlude" is in the top charts for indie music for the 6th week in a row on MindViz! The track is at the moment in the 13th place, so help Merankorii take the 12nd position back!

Merankorii @ A Trompa

A Trompa wrote about Merankorii and the iniciative of releasing one track per month on ReverbNation.

Thanks!

Lighthouse - download it free!

Following the promise to release one Merankorii track per month for free in mp3 format, I'm pleased to announce that you can now download "Lighthouse", one of the tracks from Merankorii's latest album "Sanguine".

One new free song per month!

Hi there,

I'm glad to announce that starting today I'm going to release one new free track for download from the previous Merankorii releases. If you like what you're listening, consider buying one album.

For this month the chosen track is Beltane 2006, a track featured in Merankorii's 3rd and 4th albums ("Melencolia III" and "Sanguine"). So, what are you waiting for? Listen or download it here!

Where to buy Crash? - Updated

[Updated: Sold Out.]

Merankorii is now Creative Commons

Merankorii is now Creative Commons. What does this mean? Well, it basicly means that anyone is free, for any track from Merankorii, to download it, rip it, share it, play it or even remix it. If you're interested, check more details here.

If you like Merankorii and want to support it, please still consider buying Merankorii's albums: it's the money I make with each release that helps me work in the next one. Still, this license will simply set you free of all restraints in matters like giving the music to your family or friends, and this surely sets legal the copies of Merankorii that end up in places like Peer to Peer networks.

Merankorii news

Just a quick update:
The CD version of Sanguine, Merankorii's forth release, that was released as a split with Bardic Wisdom, was limited to 50 copies, and there are now only 4 copies left. So, if you want to have a chance to have this release in CD, hurry up and order it! The price for this CD is still 4€.

Sanguine tape available!

Sanguine is a Split album that Merankorii made with Bardic Wisdom, and that has been released on CD-R. Now there's already a Cassete version of the album, already for 4€!

Falésia - Enough Dark Ambient - Merankorii against DRM

So, the "Falésia" release party with "Enough Dark Ambient" set of gigs went quite well.

Remember that, if you didn't went to the party and didn't get the 3CD compilation, you can download it for free.

Also, Merankorii's music "Lacrimae" was chosen to be used in an Anti-DRM movie, that you can see here.

If you're curious on why Merankorii is AGAINST DRM, read this.

Falésia

Falésia is a 3CD Portuguese Dark Ambient compilation, released by enough records.

The album is completely free, download (250 Mb).

Falésia CD1
01. Dream Metaphor - Space Traveller
02. Electrólise - Terminal Sedation
03. Organic Anagram - Mortuary Rituals For The Living Dead
04. Prolepse - De D a G
05. Dedxound - zxxck001
06. e:4c - communication flow
07. Massa Última - Aiche
08. Structura - Paisagem de chuva
09. Arcano Zero - Enophe
10. Sangre Cavallum - Trobo Treba
11. Triarca - Devotos

Falésia CD2
01. tg - click track
02. Morgor - Dark Era
03. ps - 345_070423
04. Stalker Vitki - Disclosure
05. Souls of Nephilims - There's no Light Here
06. Haze Maze - Millions of Dreams Moving us Apart
07. Merankorii - Cry

Falésia CD3
01. Sparagmos - Pentheus phase I
02. VelgeNaturlig - Yedelgeuse
03. NNY - 13
04. The Joy of Nature - Fire Only Rests
05. Nhoin - Suspect Zero
06. Systemic Failure - L'Enfer
07. Vysehrad - Tracks To Nowhere
08. Barcos - Radara

Merankorii @ Falésia

On the 2nd of June at Fábrica de Som (Avenida Rodrigues de Freitas 27, Porto, Portugal), there's this gig comming:

In the same day, Falésia, a 3 cd dark ambient compilation by Portuguese projects, is going to be released by Enough Records, a Portuguese netlabel, and will be, obviously, free for download in their website. But if you attend to this gig, you're going to get it from free in CD-R format! This release will feature one Merankorii track.

See you there!

Sanguine (CD) is OUT NOW!

The album is finaly out there!

Split: Merankorii / Bardic Wisdom (15 May 2007)

Bardic Wisdom - Prose of the Ancient Times
1. By the Tolling of Fate's Bells
2. Prayer of the Acclas
3. Forgotten are the Toltec [listen]
4. Into the void of Illapa
5. The Ruins of Picchu [download]

Merankorii - Sanguine

6. Path
7. Amnesia
8. Lighthouse
9. Lotus
10. Beltane 2006
11. A Second Vision [download]
12. The Alchemist

The CD costs only 4€, the cassete version is going to be released in a couple of days, and its price will be announced by then.

A Second Vision - download!

I've just changed the music player in this website, so it now has the same tracks as before and also "A Second Vision" - just take a look in the side bar and press "play" in the music player in there.

Also, if you can now download "A Second Vision" here, so.. go ahead: download it and share it with your friends!

Sanguine

Nothing is way too complex, and I never found something as complex as the human mind. But one thing is to understand something complex, the other is de-compexing it in order to transmit it - and that's the rational meaning behind Merankorii's minimalism.


As I've told you before, "Sanguine", a split with Bardic Wisdom, is going to be released in both Cassete and CD-R.

This release is limited to 50 Cassete copies and 50 CD-R's, and is going to see the light of day at the 15th of May, in 12 days! Keep updated...

Reviews - Melencolia III on Opuskulo

Opuskulo reviewed Merankorii's latest album, Melencolia III.

I liked the review, even if the result numbers out as a 5/10, since the explanation for that is that this work is of a "not a simple assimilation".

The review is in Portuguese.

Where to buy Crash?

[Update: Sold-out.]

Sanguine

As you know, Merankorii's latest album, Melencolia III, was released under the label of Nekrogoat Heresy Productions, a label that only releases Portuguese bands. NHP is a sub-label of War Flagellation Productions, also a label for obsure and dark sounds, but that words with worldwide bands.

A new release will see the light of day - an effort from those two labels - and that combines the dark ambient sounds of Merankorii and those of Australia's Bardic Wisdom: a split that will have two releases: one in K7 and other in CD.

Merankorii's side is going to be called "Sanguine", and is where the whole concept that begun with "O Monólogo do Mudo" is going to end.

Some answers for questions I already heard:

• Sanguine is going to be the last album of the tetralogy. Yet, it doesn't mean that it will mark the end of Merankorii - it's exactly the oposite. Sanguine will open new doors to be explored in the works that will come after it...
• A split release is basicly a release where two albums coexist in the same media. In this case, you'll be able to get one release (one K7 or one CD) and, in it, you'll find two albums: Sanguine from Merankorii and one other from Bardic Wisdom.

I'll surely give you more news on this matter, as things roll out...

Merankorii - Interview

Paula Simões, a Portuguese blogger and Merankorii fan, after getting her copy of Melencolia III, decided to interview me an publish it on the web. Under the subtitle "The book that turn out to be music", the interview shows you a little more about Merankorii in general and Melencolia III in particular. From talking about the begginings of Merankorii and what led me to creating it, to previsions about the future path of Merankorii, this is an interview that I really consider interesting. So, without further introduction, here is is.

I really want to give a big THANK YOU to Paula for doing this, and a notice for you all: if you're interested in interviewing me or reviewing Melencolia III, feel free to contact me.

Psyche (lyrics)

Psyche

I don't cry
Just because you see I must
I don't feel
Why can you want - want
Not even me
Psyche
There's no escape...
There's no...
no...

- and the is shading black-blue of violet red
- and I don't cry

Stop!

- noise

Noise...
Noise!...
Static Psyche: Static Psyche
Chaos -
Don't make me wake up,
Let me dream,
I don't want to wake up...
...not to death.

"Melencolia III" is OUT NOW!

"Melencolia III", the third Merankorii album is OUT NOW!

With a title that shows the inspiration with Dürer's work, Melencolia III, the third Merankorii album, was released today, and, with all the pre-orders that were made (if you're one of those who pre-ordered it, you're going to recieve your copy soon, probably today), more than twenty are already sold.

Many would deverve a big THANK YOU for being who they are and doing what they do, but all of those that helped me to create this album probably know that they are a part of it, so, instead of telling names, I'm just saying: "Thank You".

I have to make an exception to Nekrogoat Heresy Productions' crew, for believing in my work and, by making this their first release, making all this possible.

New music player

As you can see, there's now a music player on this site...
I hope you enjoy it.