Zazen Sounds

Almost two years ago (at this moment of posting), Brotherhood Of Sleep released their first album, Devotional Hymns To A Brilliant Flaming Sun (via the mighty Dutch label Winter-Light). I was enormously impressed by the result, which I labeled in my personal files as ‘obscure and hypnotic Deep Trance / Ceremonial Drone / Dark Ritual Ambient’ (I can’t help it that my autistic alter-ego adores making lists of different things, hehe). Earlier this year, this project came up with the sophomore album, called Enter The Nuummite Cosmos.

Quite an unknown (read: underestimated) project, the Belgian act This Morn’Omina will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary later this year. Modestly productive since the end of last century, This Morn’Omina now returns with Insha, a fifty-minutes aural ceremony consisting of eight chapters. This time it’s a ‘major’ release, I mean, it will be available via two ‘bigger’ labels within the scene, i.e.