Gothic Music

Samples of Gothic Music I Love

Presently all samples are in AIFC format at 6x compression which packs ~30 seconds into about 120,000 bytes (~30 seconds download at v.34). The songs in some cases are songs which I particularly enjoy, but some are selected because they give a good approximation to the artist's musical style within the roughly 30-45 seconds I allow per sample. I've been working with mpeg audio but I can't get the file sizes below ~300k.

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Sol Invictus: The Killing Tide
Sol Invictus combines guitar, cello, piano, and flute with the striking voice of Tony Wakeford. The sound is almost folksy, but the minor chords and lyrics evoke a dirge. The cds seem pleasingly under produced, very minimalistic, with sufficient time and space allowing notes to ring. The Man Next Door Is Very Strange 128K
Black Tape For A Blue Girl: The Lush Garden Within
the broken glass 148K
Love Spirals Downwards: Idylls
And the Wood Comes into Leaf 121K
Bel Canto: Birds Of Passage
a shoulder to the wheel 182K
Stoa: Urthona
Stoa is another of the neo-classical gems of the Hyperium label. Employing synthesizers to orchestrate, Porta VIII concludes Maurice Maeterlinck's fairy tale Ariane et Barbe-Bleu with Bluebeard, behind the 8th door, meeting ghosts bearing aspects of his personality, a process which ends in his self-destruction. The soaring latin vocals blur with synthesized horns, chimes, and harpsichord. Urthona, Stoa's first release, offers more assortment with words taken from Blake and Tennyson, and from Anchorage's K.U. Skerra. Spin 151K
Grace Darling (self-titled)
I Bury My Love 120K
Cranes: wings of joy
Beautiful Sadness 127K

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