Lustmord - A Document... (1982), Heresy (1990) and Stalker (1995)

Seems like a nice enough fellow! Lustmord aka Hollywood sound designer Brian Williams (Wales, UK) is the man behind the 1990 album Heresy that launched and defined the dark ambient genre. Ironically, Williams himself does not consider his music to be dark ambient. (An inverted Christ figure, therefore.) Three albums this time: I've been a bit lazy and took the descriptions directly from the Soleilmoon label website, as they do their job ("dr-tk-r-dr!") very nicely.

A Document of Early Acoustic & Tactical Experimentation (1982)
Label: Dark Vynil

Material originally released as the first (untitled) Lustmord album on sterile records in 1982. (featuring John Balance of Coil and additional voices by Nigel Ayers of Nocturnal Emissions, and Nigel Dunster); the cd version features longer edits of some of the lp material, along with additional material not on the lp; this release is intended as a document of early activity.

Heresy (1990) This is not the 2004 re-release!
Label: Soleilmoon

It’s not often that an album comes along that both initiates and defines a genre. From the deepest vault at Soleilmoon, precisely such a cherished but long unavailable classic has been remastered, repackaged and re-issued. "Heresy", the album that launched and defined the dark ambient genre when it was first released in 1990, has been hailed by critics and fans as one of the most important works of its time. Nearly 15 years after its release it regularly features on top-ten lists of ambient music. "Heresy" was recorded in various subterranean locations and manipulated in the studio with Andrew Lagowski providing engineering and additional programming. It was the first Lustmord album to feature extensive sampling and computer assisted sound design. Recent improvements in sound technology permitted Lustmord to re-master and significantly improve on the original recordings for this new version.

Stalker - with Robert Rich (1995)
Label: Hearts of Space

Fathom artist Robert Rich joins underground sound design legend B. Lustmord (aka Brian Williams) for an extended journey inspired by the title and the hypnotic minimalism of Andrei Tarkovsky's mesmerizing future/fiction film Stalker. The album slowly reveals a psychoactive soundscape of shape-shifting shadows, dense subharmonic massings, subtle drone textures and ambiguous sound events lurking at the fringes of perception. Online music reviewer David Spalding says, "Unlike the majority of Rich's previous work, this is a consistently dark, troubling vision ... an eerie, unnatural fantasia that borders on the sinister. The various movements flow one into another like a forward march to the center of the unknown, take the listener past scenes of edginess and loss, a haunted landscape punctuated by echoes. Stalker is a poetic trip into another dimension, both macabre and transcendent."

By the way, another project Lustmord worked on is Charlie Deaux's visually stunning film Zoetrope (1999). You can watch a 3min trailer or simply visit its web page.

Lustmord_DEATE_160.rar - RapidShare
Lustmord_Heresy_192.rar - BaDonGo
Lustmord_Stalker_192.rar - RapidShare

posted by Paxjorge @ Tuesday, March 07, 2006