Silentes:

About Silentes

SILENTES was born in 2004 from the ashes of AMPLEXUS, the famous Italian cult label that has promoted Ambient music since 1994, giving room to many international artist like Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, Vidna Obmana, Mathias Grassow, Amir Baghiri, Klaus Wiese, Aube - just to name a few – without forgetting about italian acts like Alio Die, Amon, Oöphoi and Nimh.

SILENTES was created by the urgency of a deep and significative change that could cope with the considerable evolution happened to the Ambient / Electronic / Experimental scene during the most recent years.

SILENTES is a new label and a new experience, not just another sublabel. It inherits from AMPLEXUS the original pioneering spirit, and widens its horizons looking forward with renewed energy to a new kind of music, a music that – while keeping a “deep” profile – definitively transcends every stylistic barriers opening the door to the most innovative and affected forms of sonic contamination, proposing a variegated catalogue of artists who are active in different contexts and very distant from each other.

On SILENTES we find a few musicians who previously had some releases on AMPLEXUS: Rod Modell, Michael Mantra, Aube, Amir Baghiri with its newest and eclectic Seele project, Alio Die with a new edition of his CD “Suspended Feathers”, originally released in 1996, Nimh both in solo mode and along with the well-known italian “de-composer” Maurizio Bianchi/M.B. on the magnificent “Together’s Symphony” box-set.

We also find new entries like Opium and Subinterior, both from Italy, Katzo from Japan and many collaborative projects such as Seamus (Amir Baghiri and Stefano Gentile), Waveform Transmission (Rod Modell and Chris Troy), Ontayso (Koen Lybaert and Esther Santoyo), Rod Modell and Kevin Hanton, and other atypical collaborative experiences such as the suggestive “reworks” created by Aube using original music by Maurizio Bianchi, Stefano Gentile and Nimh.
　

Homepage: http://www.silentes.net/
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Artist: UNDER THE SNOW

Title: Delta

Cat. No.：cd 201129

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Abstract

Credits: Field Recordings, Loops, Processing – Gianluca Favaron

Guitar, Objects, Field Recordings – Stefano Gentile

Mastered By – Rafael Anton Irisarri

Notes: Recorded in 2010 at Raum 24 - Treviso (Italy).

Pictures by Stefano Gentile

Artwork by Andrea Marutti / Afe Creative Laboratories

TRACKLISTING:

01. Delta (For Alan Lomax), part.1

02. Adk

03. Distant Memories

04. Delta (For Alan Lomax), part.2

05. (...)

06. Hauptbahnhof

07. Delta (For Alan Lomax), part.3

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Artist: ENRICO CONIGLIO & UNDER THE SNOW

Title: Dialogue One

Cat. No.：cd 201128

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Dark Ambient / Abstract / Minimal

Credits: Artwork – Afe Creative Laboratories, Andrea Marutti

Mastered By – Giuseppe Verticchio

Photography By [Pictures] – Stefano Gentile

Recorded By – Under The Snow (tracks: 5)

Recorded By, Mixed By – Enrico Coniglio (tracks: 1 to 4)

Notes: Tracks 1 - 4 recorded and mixed in December 2010 by Enrico Coniglio at the Tripi H. Studio Venice (Italy).

Under The Snow is Stefano Gentile and Gianluca Favaron.

Recorded in 2010 at Raum 24, Treviso (Italy).

This album is inspired by cold and frost.

TRACKLISTING:

01. Enrico Coniglio – Long Distance 7:30

02. Enrico Coniglio – Calls Of The White (Voice – Rachele) 7:24

03. Enrico Coniglio – Century Dome 7:55

04. Enrico Coniglio – Kingdom Of Her 6:56

05. Under The Snow – Resonant Cuts 27:45

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Artist: FARYUS & VADIM BONDARENKO

Title: Quiet Songs From Misty Places

Cat. No.：201127

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Ambient

Notes: All music composed and produced by Vadim Bondarenko & Faryus

Faryus: electronic manipulations, fields recordings

Vadim Bondarenko : clarinet, piano

"Dancing in Misty Places" directed by Alexander Sveshnikov

Clarinet and piano parts recorded by Aleksei Barashkin at "PRS" studio in St.Petersburg

Photos by Stefano Gentile

Artwork by Andrea Marutti / Afe Creative Laboratories

TRACKLSITING:

01. From Place 1

02. From Place 2

03. From Place 3

04. From Place 4

05. From Place 5

06. From Place 6

07. From Place 7

08. From Place 8

09. Dancing in Misty Places (Bonus Video)

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Artist：DEISON

Title：Night Sessions

Cat. No.：sme 1149

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Abstract

Notes: NIGHT SESSIONS - when sound is amplified by silence

All sounds and tracks assembled, processed and recorded by DEISON at #1st Floor Studio (2010-2011) except where noted.

Tracklisting:

01. Deison – Senza Spazio (4.17 a.m.)

02. Deison – Sleepless Train (2.09 a.m.)

03. Deison & JIm Coleman – Hidden Orchestra (1.54 a.m.)

04. Deison – Speak Low (3.49 a.m.)

05. Deison & Robin RImbaud – Bleeding Silence (1.23 a.m.)

06. Deison – Intermezzo Notturno (0.55 a.m.)

07. Deison & Franck Vigroux – No Suggestions (1.50 a.m.)

08. Deison & Testing Vault – Black Light (2.43 a.m.)

09. Deison & Teho Teardo – Swans Crash Two Die (1.23 a.m.)

10. Deison & Philippe Petit – Empty Dream (0.45 a.m.)

11. Deison & Teho Teardo – Morning Blues (4.19 a.m.)

12. Deison & Under The Snow – Insomnia (0.17 a.m.)

13. Deison – Qualcosa Di Morto (3.25 a.m.)

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Artist: YANNICK FRANCK/PIETRO RIPARBELLI

Title: Whinny Muir

Cat. No.：sme 1148

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Abstract / Ambient

Credits: Artwork By – Andrea Marutti / Afe Creative Laboratories

Mastered By – Giuseppe Verticchio

Pictures By – Yannick Franck

Notes: This work was created using short wave radio signals, feedback, voice, various effects and filters as well as different work of the Italian Baroque composer Alessandro Scarlatti as central sound source. Scarlatti (1660-1725) is especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas and is considered the founder of the "Italian overture" form.

The title of this album refers to the Lyke-Wake Dirge, a 14th-century English funeral chant from north Yorkshire (which chorus is usng by Yannick Franck on the last part). It is a warning about the lack of empathy and generosity and their repercussions within the travel of the soul on its way to heaven.

TRACKLISTING:

01. Whinny Muir 40:12

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Artist: CLAUDIO ROCCHETTI

Title: Every Live Is Problem Solving

Cat. No.：sme 1147

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Abstract / Experimental

Credits: Artwork – Afe Creative Laboratories, Andrea Marutti

Mastered By – Giuseppe Verticchio

Photography By [Photos By] – Christian Balla

Notes: Track 1 previously unreleased.

Track 2 included on the "DavidLeeRoth" tape (Long Long Chaney), with a different mix.

Tracks 3 and 4 originally released by Second Sleep as part of "The Furthest Shore".

Thanks to In Zaire, Matteo Castro and Stefano / Silentes.

TRACKLISTING:

01. Live In Brussels 2010

02. Live In Berlin 2006

03. Live In Bologna 2008

04. Live In Geneva 2008 

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Artist: SCHER PELZ | AMUN CELL

Title: Hibakusha

Cat. No.：sme 1146

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Abstract / Industrial / Experimental

Credits: Artwork – Afe Creative Laboratories, Andrea Marutti

Photography By [Photos By] – Valentina Gentile

TRACKLISTING:

01. 43 Seconds 3:19

02. Devastation 10:26

03. Desolation 7:22

04. Radiation 18:28

05. Hibakusha 8:30

06. Decay 11:19

07. Deceased 9:55

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Artist：GIANLUCA BECUZZI

Title：[In]visible Fields

Cat. No.：sme 1145

Format: 2 x CD

Genre: Electronic / Abstract / Ambient

Credits: Artwork – Afe Creative Laboratories, Andrea Marutti

Composed By, Producer, Mastered By – Gianluca Becuzzi

Photography By – Stefano Gentile

Notes: Invisible Fields composed, produced and mastered at Kinetixlab (2008 - 2010).

Tracklisting:

CD1:

01. For E.A.P.

02. The Cage

03. Radio Trans It (Voice – Achim Wollscheid, Gianluca Becuzzi, Nicoletta Cirillo)

04. Water Memories

05. Breaths

CD2:

01. [In]visibility

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Artist: MAURIZIO BIANCHI / M.B. & JAN-M IVERSEN

Title: Rekviem MB-JMI

Cat. No.：sme 1144

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Abstract / Industrial / Experimental

Credits: Artwork – Afe Creative Laboratories, Andrea Marutti

Electronics [Elegiac Electronics And Mournful Waves] – Maurizio Bianchi/M.B.*

Electronics [Sound Behaviour And Bewailed Electronics], Artwork [Cover Pictures] – Jan-M. Iversen*

Preface: The ultimate celebration for the perpetual rest of the current modern technological decay, in which the liturgical spirituality of Maurizio Bianchi instigates the gloomy inclination of Jan-M. Iversen in order to obtain an environmental celebration of the last days of this convict system of things.

TRACKLISTING:

01. Rekviem MB-JMI 37:12

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Artist: NIMH

Title: Krungthep Archives

Cat. No.：sme 1042

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Abstract / Experimental

Credits: Instruments [Ethnic And Electronic], Composed By, Mixed By, Compiled By, Mastered By – Giuseppe Verticchio

Photography By, Artwork – Giuseppe Verticchio

Notes: Main recordings collected in 2007 at Sukhumvit 77 Studio, Bangkok (Thailand).

Additional stuff recorded between 1994 and 2009 in Chaweng (Kou Samui - Thailand) and Rome.

Field recordings taken between 1994 and 2007 in various places in Thailand.

Final tracks composed, mixed, compiled and mastered in 2009 in Rome.

TRACKLISTING:

01. K. A. 01

02. K. A. 02

03. K. A. 03

04. K. A. 04

05. K. A. 05 

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Artist: OPIUM | SOSTRAH TINNITUS

Title: Stain

Cat. No.：sme 1041

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Ambient

Credits: Artwork – Afe Creative Laboratories, Andrea Marutti

Photography By – Stefano Gentile

TRACKLISTING:

01. Stain I : Cochlea Staircase

02. Stain II : Clogged Rain Box

03. Stain III : South Central Aeolic

04. Stain IV : Pleniluvium

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Artist：LASIK SURGERY

Title：Cyclo

Cat. No.：sme 1039

Format: CD + DVD

Genre: Electronic / Abstract / Experimental

Credits: Credits: Artwork By – Andrea Marutti / Afe Creative Laboratory

Composed By, Performer – GF*, Pierpaolo Zoppo

Notes: Recorded 2009/2010

All music by Pierpaolo Zoppo and GF using each other music as sound sources.

Videos by Enrico Bressan.

Photos by Stefano Gentile.

Tracklisting:

CD:

01. Fragment I (Armed Audio)

02. Fragment II (The Pink Room)

03. Fragment III (Falling)

04. Fragment IV (Vibrant Form)

05. Fragment V (Train Station)

06. Fragment VI (Lady In The Radiator)

DVD:

01. Fragment V (Train Station)

02. Fragment III (Falling)

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Artist: ANTIKATECHON

Title: Privilegium Martyrii

Cat. No.：sme 1038

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Dark Ambient

Credits: Artwork – Afe Creative Laboratories, Andrea Marutti

Composed By, Recorded By – Davide Del Col

Engineer – Giuseppe Verticchio

Mastered By – Andrea Marutti

Photography By – Stefano Gentile

TRACKLISTING:

01. Natura Suscitata 11:13

02. Sepulcrum Dealbatum 8:22

03. Inanitas Hominum Generis 9:17

04. Summa Obnubilatio 8:25

05. Κλίβανος Για Καύση Νεκρών 10:14

06. Privilegium Martyrii 10:37

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Artist：Michael Mantra

Title：Amanita Lake

Cat. No.：cd 200924

Format: 2 x CD + DVD

Genre: Electronic / Ambient / Abstract / Industrial

Notes: Two hours and a half of music collected on a double CD set that also contain a DVD video. Two long tracks of sublime and evocative pseudo-abstract and multicoloured ambient textures, built with “discreet” and repetitive background microstructures layered with continuous and infinite variations worked out from “clusters” of sounds and “sketches” of melodic sequences made of light sonorities, “delicate” and “quiet” as well, but also hypnotic and warm… Fragile harmonies and mild dissonances in a timeless sonic continuum that enwraps and “rocks” the listener, among infinite spirals and floating waves in an everlasting movement… Another new, mind-boggling masterpiece, absolutely unmissable for all the lovers of Michael Mantra’s music.

Tracklisting:
CD1: Amanita Musique (74:43)
CD2: Lake Lophophoria (74:55)
DVD: Amanita Furniture Video (74:43 + credits)
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Artist：Enrico Coniglio Featuring Manuel P. Cecchinato And Massimo Liverani

Title：Sea Cathedrals

Cat. No.：cd 201026

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Dark Ambient / Illbient / Abstract / Drone / Industrial

Notes: 5 superb tracks of deep and evocative ambient music, enriched with echoes of ancient ritual suggestions. The immense spaces and the abyssal deepness of the sea, but also the sound of the bowels of the Earth, the colour of the sand of the desert, the energy of the wind, the strength of all the Elements, the infinite cycle of day and night, of life and death… A long circular journey through interchanging atmospheres that shake and capture, dragging with energy, then leave room for more quiet and soothing introspective “stasis”, and again become dramatic and overwhelming, A great, unmissable album of “classic” ritual ambient music.

Tracklisting:
01. Sea Cathedrals
02. Sandbanks
03. Till
04. The Lost Cargo
05. Sylos

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Artist：Rod Modell

Title：Plays Michael Mantra

Cat. No.：200720

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Dub Techno / Minimal / Ambient

Tracklisting:
01. AbA 30:28
02. BaB 31:32

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Artist：Nosesoul

Title：Ethik Blues / Winterbirds Helped The Passengers

Cat. No.：cd+dvd 200719

Format: CD + DVD

Genre: Electronic / Drone / Ambient

Notes: This is a CD + DVD which contains the movie "Winterbirds Helped The Passengers". "Ethik Blues" is the soundtrack of "Winterbirds Helped The Passengers".

Tracklisting:
CD: Ethik Blues
01. New Shades 8:01
02. Outside Is Light 7:41
03. Vocation In Motion 7:01
04. Wind Harps And Human Shadows 9:38
05. The Ray Fantastic 7:05
06. Groundlessness Resonancies 8:22
07. Gray Tronika 6:42
DVD:
01. Winterbirds Helped The Passengers 52:24
Mixed By - Opium
Music By - Francesco Paladino , Opium, Sean Bradin
Other [Directed By] - Francesco Paladino

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Artist：Ontayso

Title：Magical Tone Tricks

Cat. No.：200508

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Experimental

Notes: Magical Tone Tricks was created during the silent night hours as Ontayso's third full lenght album and their ninth release since their birth in 2002. Ontayso frequently collaborates with several musicians and acts but for this release Ontayso exists mainly by their two core members Koen Lybaert and Esther Santoyo. For this release Ontayso has been mainly focused on electronic manipulations and field recordings. The overall atmosphere spread over the 4 long tracks come close to the well known early Basic Channel sound. Magical Tone Tricks still keeps it's unique experimental Ontayso sound. It is their response to the excellent Rod Modell's releases on Silentes and shows their mutual love for this early 90ties Berlin sound and their joy of working with field recordings and minimal sound manipulations.

Tracklisting:
01. Haunted (14:24)
02. Lost Memories (8:03)
03. Cruel Passion (16:43)
04. Sweet Man (16:38)

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Artist：Templebeat

Title：The Grey Space

Cat. No.：sme 1035

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Industrial / Electro

Notes: Tracks 1-8 taken from "Interzone" tape.
Track 9 & 10 taken from "Treviso Underground" tape.
Track 11 taken from "V.I.T.R.I.O.L #3" tape.

Tracklisting:
01. Escape From The World 6:36
02. The Sound Of The Crowd In The Temple 3:33
03. Interzone 5:21
04. Horrock 5:23
05. Human (The Tears You Cry) 5:52
06. Extreme Exciting 4:43
07. Penetrato Brevis 4:18
08. Fucking Mosquito 5:56
09. Drugs 5:34
10. Refuse It 3:49
11. Der Mussolini 4:46

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Artist：Maurizio Bianchi/M.B. & Maor Appelbaum

Title：Mene Teqel Farsin

Cat. No.：sme 1034

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Abstract / Industrial / Experimental

Notes: Storms of cosmic energy, boiling and gurgling electronic fluxes, sonic masses made of monolithic and impenetrable drones, visions of smoky afterdeath landscapes, scorching and infernal... A neverending tunnel with no way out, a sense of deep anguish, of desolation and resigned impotence that lead the dark journey from the beginning to the end of this hallucinatory path. The sound quality and the sharpness of details are absolutely insuperable, they will offer you a "wrapping" and emotionally all-involving listening experience.

Tracklisting:
01. Numbered The Days
02. Weighed In The Balances
03. Kingdom Divided
04. The Handwriting On The Wall

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Artist：Maurizio Bianchi/M.B. & Craig Hilton

Title：PU 94

Cat. No.：sme 0926

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Abstract / Industrial / Experimental

Notes: Here at last is a deserved and "rightful" CD re-release of this fantastic collaboration created in 2007 by Maurizio Bianchi and Craig Hilton. Until now this recording was only made available in a very limited CD-R edition. Extremely dark atmospheres, restless and dramatic... Sharp masses of metallic noises cleave pulsating substrates of low frequencies, mixed with magmatic agglomerates of more processed sounds of an unrecognizable nature... Moments of stasis and apparent quietness... Handfuls of minutes of an unutterable, hanging and distressing tension... Sudden showers of vibrant frequencies that emerge from nowhere and bury everything under an heavy and devastating sonic mantle... A real masterpiece of incredibly dark and subterranean music.

Tracklisting:
01. PU 34:41
02. 94 21:12

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Artist：Maurizio Bianchi/M.B.

Title：Menstruum Regles

Cat. No.：sme 0716

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Ambient / Experimental

Notes: Notes: This CD was released as part of a trilogy entitled "An Absurd Trilogy", the other titles being "The Self Portrait Of M.B." (sme 0715) and "Dead Colours" (sme 0717).

Tracklisting:
01. Menstruum (Hematogenous Paroxysm) 38:21
02. Regles (Haematopoietic Exacerbation) 38:20

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Artist：Maurizio Bianchi/M.B.

Title：The Self Portrait Of M.B.

Cat. No.：sme 0715

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Ambient / Experimental

Notes: Notes: This CD was released as part of a trilogy entitled "An Absurd Trilogy", the other titles being "Menstruum Regles" (sme 0716) and "Dead Colours" (sme 0717).

Tracklisting:
01. Cyclum I
02. Cyclum II
03. Cyclum III
04. Cyclum IV
05. Cyclum V
06. Cyclum VI
07. Cyclum VII
08. Cyclum VII
09. Cyclum IX

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Artist：Maurizio Bianchi/M.B. + Maor Appelbaum

Title：Electrostatic Deflection

Cat. No.：sme 0714

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Abstract / Industrial / Noise

Tracklisting:
01. Parasitic Oscillation 12:47
02. Magmatic Radiance 28:12
03. Propagation 13:01
04. Flux Density 9:22
05. Macrostriction 10:45

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Artist：Frequency In Cycles Per Second & Maurizio Bianchi/M.B.

Title：Chaotische Fraktale + Letzte Technologie

Cat. No.：sme 0612

Format: 2CD

Genre: Electronic / Abstract / Noise / Industrial / Ambient

Notes: Notes: Disk 1 Original Release: CPS 0403 CD-R 2003 Ltd. 100 Copies.
Disk 2 Original Release: CPS 0404 CD-R 2004 Ltd. 100 Copies.

Tracklisting:
01. Chaotische Fraktale (CD1)
01. Chaotisches Piano 30:45
02. Zerlegen 32:03
03. Untitled 7:52
Letzte Technologie (CD2)
01. Industrielles Habitat 17:24
02. Weltbelastung 22:48
03. Stressor 9:44
04. Neurologisches Klavier 18:13

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Artist：Aube

Title：Reworks Maurizio Bianchi Vol. 2

Cat. No.：sme 0609

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Minimal / Experimental / Ambient

Notes: Aube presents his vision of "The Testamentary Corridor" by Maurizio Bianchi. A totally reworked version of this album.
Original tracks by Maurizio Bianchi, reworked at Studio MECCA, Kyoto, Japan, January 2006

Tracklisting:
01. Chelmno Anguish 12:23
02. Belzec Distress 12:01
03. Birkenau Suffering 11:07
04. Sobibor Restlessness 10:54
05. Majdanek Anxiety 17:26
06. Treblinka Nightmare 16:00

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Artist：I Burn

Title：Infraharmonies, Scald Cavities

Cat. No.：Fuoco Records / Fuoco001

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic / Ambient / Experimental

Notes: Limited to 500 copies. Reissue of the "I Burn" CD R with 5 additional tracks (tracks 3, 9 to 12) and new package/layout, in a transparent yellow jewelcase.
The original tracks are recorded in Feb '98 at the Manteinance Laboratories. The 5 additional tracks recorded in June 1998.

Tracklisting:
01. SHC 5:04
02. Overheating Passage 3:02
03. Branding Jesus 6:28
04. Jumping Eyes On The White-Hot Milkpan 6:23
05. Ignis Deletus 5:08
06. Cremation Sleepiness 4:56
07. Incandescence 2:41
08. The Immediate Environment Of Incendium 6:35
09. Arsonism 5:51
10. Prophesying Non-Motion 6:52
11. I'll Rush To Globe's Charred Bedside 6:46
12. Bodybread, Furnacewine 3:47
13. I Burn 4:18