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  Jul 10 2008, 08:32 AM

  Edison's Frankenstein

  The original CD/DVD set with the handmade packaging for the "Edison's Frankenstein" release is now sold out. This set will still be available in a standard edition with the plastic DVD case for a while, though it will still be a limited edition and only available for a brief time. If you're interested in buying this, now is the time to do it. Go to the Bottle Imp Productions store [http://www.bottle-imp.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&cPath=1&products_id=7] to purchase the CD/DVD set.

  
  

  [img:http://www.bottle-imp.com/images/aIMP016-250.jpg] [http://www.bottle-imp.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&cPath=1&products_id=7]

  
  

  The video can be watched on Youtube:
  On Youtube (part1) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DSXmemQsag]
  On Youtube (part2) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oclZKEvsBsQ]

  
  

  The music can be download free from Bottle Imp Productions [http://www.bottle-imp.com/discography/aimp016-life-toward-twilight-edisons-frankenstein/].

  
  

   
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  Jun 07 2008, 07:44 AM

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  Jun 03 2008, 06:20 AM

  "An Eclipse" Reissue

  In the next couple of weeks, I will be re-releasing "An Eclipse" on CD. I originally released this to give away in 2003, limited to 25 copies. There was never an intention to sell this album. I put one track, eclipse ii, on "We Waited For A Subtle Dawn". Of all my releases, "An Eclipse" is my own personal favorite, and I don't see this so much as a re-issue as I see it as a proper release of the material. I originally used some photographs I had taken in a filthy basement as the cover art, and was never quite satisfied with how that matched up with the music. So for this re-issue, I redisigned the cover art completely.

  

  This will no longer be a limited edition, and will be on sale as soon as the CDs arrive from the manufacture. It will be available via the Bottle Imp Productions.
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  May 29 2008, 11:18 AM

  New review on JudasKiss

  
  
  A new review for "We Waited For A Subtle Dawn" posted on JudasKiss:
  
  

  We Waited For A Subtle Dawn contains 15 tracks totalling 67 minutes. ‘A Subtle Dawn’ opens with a passage of a cappella wordless female vocals, which give way to a gloriously uplifting orchestral overture mingled with a confusion of looped crowd noise and staccato violins, which recall the work of modernist composer Steve Reich. Cymbal crashes and snare drum rolls add a bombastic martial flavour, but the track is over all too quickly, giving way to the choppy strings and strange scrabbling noises of ‘In A Chalice Shape’. Again, pizzicato strings and heavy rolls of percussion lend this track a cinematic, neo-classical quality. Life Toward Twilight are operating in the same general area as Shinjuku Thief, Frederik Klingwall or A Challenge Of Honour, at the point where neo-classical, orchestral compositions take on narrative overtones, evoking visions through sound. ‘"Time", She Says’ is very different, though, eschewing orchestral instrumentation in favour of thunder effects rumbling across the stereo channels and a dense, gloopy morass of dripping and whispering, with a steady ticking clock fading in to mark the passage of time, a theme which continues into the following two tracks, ‘"Time", She Points Again’ and ‘Years’, all of which reminded me a little of the recent Eight Studies In Transition collaboration between K. Mietzer and Horologium. All these tracks use cold, bleak dark ambient soundscapes, only occasionally introducing conventional instruments – a brief passage of cello, a lonely, remote piano melody, a dissonant blast of horns. The next few tracks are rather samey and indistinguishable – low, industrial ambient drones and subdued strings punctuated by deep, reverberating percussion and vocal samples, but the tenth track, ‘Eclipse II’ stands out, opening with thin, scraping high frequency tones, and bringing in dense barrages of textural noise and whistling feedback, something like Toroidh or Droin. Elyse Reardon’s vocals float above this uncompromisingly bleak backdrop. ‘Horbehutet’ is the lengthiest track on the album, at nearly nine minutes, and it’s a mesmeric, immersive experience of deep, Ain Soph-like esoteric drones and muffled, distant beats – I’d have been delighted by a whole album sounding like this, but Life Toward Twilight is a very eclectic and diverse-sounding project, ranging far and wide across various musical styles whilst preserving the prevailing dark mood.

  
  
  "We Waited For A Subtle Dawn" is still available on CD, and can be downloaded for free from the Bottle Imp Productions site.
  
  Sorry again to JudasKiss for disc mixup, normally promo packages go out with a lot of material. Will send you a better package soon!
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  May 05 2008, 05:03 PM

  Review for "Edison's Frankenstein"

  A new review has been posted for "Edison's Frankenstein" by Absolute Zero Magazine:

  "Daniel of LTT creates some of the most emotional stirring Dark Ambient/Neo Classical music in North America, if not the world and this release is no different.  "Frankenstein" seems to be a CD and DVD release in one. The packaging is a wonderful hand made digipak with very early 20th century images and feeling to it . From the vibe and feeling I'm getting, this is a film score to the 1st movie version of Frankenstein made by Thomas Edison and his studio in 1910 and its a chilling film and soundtrack all the same. The DVD is the movie with the soundtrack overlay on it. Life Toward Twilight clearly do not fail in the unsettling and un-nerving factor the music plays with the movie. Daniel is one of these fantastic post-industrial music composers that seems to get little fan fare and it's down right sad and aggravating to say the least. Disros and Magazines should focus on this amazing art more. If your a fan of the more Neo Classical or Darker Noisier Ambient side of the Cold Meat or Cold Spring Catalogs this is a release hands down for you."

  Purchase the DVD/CD set at Bottle Imp Productions