1944年1月24日Klaus Nomi出生于德国柏林，后学习古典音乐和男高音，1973年从柏林搬到纽约，做点心师，也在夜总会唱歌，同性恋。
他是来自德国的一个歌唱奇才，他在生活中的形象和舞台形象反差强烈，在舞台上染成蓝黑色的头发，化着精致的艺伎妆，武士式的发型和穿着，行为打扮都特例独行，他的音乐包含歌剧、古典、摇滚及舞曲，实验的成分极强，游刃有余得游走于男高音与女高音之间，他是一个大刀霍斧的音乐改革者。 70年代初是PUNK的时代，70年代末New Wave已经成型，David Bowie和一些disco音乐都是当时最IN的音乐元素。
他来到纽约，1979年出现在“Bowie’s Saturday Night Live”节目中，David Bowie唱了The Man Who Sold The World和Boys Keep Swinging，Joey Arias和Klaus充当David Bowie的Background，David Bowie穿着NOMI的衣服学NOMI的唱腔唱他的经典保留曲目The Man Who Sold The World，我们不得不承认Nomi是独一无二的，他可以摆出一个POSE几个小时一动不动甚至不眨一下眼睛。1980年签到了RCA，首支单曲是翻唱 Elvis Presley的“Can’t Help Falling in Love”，逐步被人们认识并接受，经典作品有Cold song，ding dong (the witch is dead)，keys of life等。
1983年8月6日因艾滋病死于纽约，享年39岁。死在他的事业即将灿烂的时刻，他也是第一批死于AIDS的名人之一。生前只发了2张LP：Klaus Nomi和Simple Man，之后陆续由BMG等唱片公司发行了一些选集。

Icelandic composer +"lafur Arnalds releases his first Hollywood film score -- the original motion picture soundtrack for Sam Levinson's feature film debut Another Happy Day, starring Ellen Barkin and Demi Moore. In his own words: "In mid-December 2010, I was on a holiday in China when I received an email from Sam Levinson about the film. We got on the phone at, like, 4 in the morning Beijing-time and ended up talking all through the night, instantly connecting. He told me that they had been listening to my music while making the film, so the film was already very influenced by my music. However, it was not until Ellen Barkin -- the beautiful force that she is -- had pestered the producers for a week, calling them every day about how I am the right one for this film, that they finally gave in. The only catch was that it had to be done two weeks later, in the first week of January. So I ended up scoring non-stop all throughout Christmas, making my mother mad in the process."

Long awaited studio album from 2002 Golden Globe winner (best score for Moulin Rouge). Features collaborations with Bono, Evan dando, Photek, Mogwai, David McAlmont and more.

从10月3日开始，你将可以在“Living Room Songs”网站上，每天免费下载到Ólafur Arnalds当天在自己雷克雅未克公寓客厅中创作的一首歌曲，也可以及时观看演奏视频。Living Room Songs计划总共包含7首歌曲，除了网络免费下载以外，在今年也会发行实体的CD/LP和高质量数字音乐等多种格式。
事实上，Ólafur Arnalds早在09年4月就做过类似的事情。那时他推出了“Found Songs”计划，在一周的时间内，每天推出一首歌歌曲的即时创作，并在twitter上发布免费下载，还邀请网友给每首歌进行插画创作。最终全世界有超过10万网友下载了他的歌曲，也为后来的实体专辑《Found Songs》打下了很好的基础。
这次的“Living Room Songs”计划，则在“Found Songs”的基础上，加入了客厅创作的概念，并且引入了影像的记录。减少了和歌迷之前的隔阂感，少了一些神秘，多了几分互动。

Stoa return with Silmand after seven years with international line-up. The new album of the music philosophers surprises in more than one way. Surprising is the release of Silmand itself if you consider that there was no news around Stoa for the past 7 years!
Fans will be happy that the STOA mastermind stays true to himself with his fourth album. Besides the usual melancholy, unusual pop rhythms found their way on the various albums, but the typical Stoa sound is still distinct. The vocal lines harbour some surprises as well. For once there’s the angelic voice of singer Mandy Bernhardts, known from the live performances of the band; on the other hand, the voices of three guest singers sound on Silmand. The first voice belongs to the Australian multi-instrumentalist Louisa John Krol. The Dutchman Peter Nooten (Ex-Clan of Xymox) could be engaged for Silmand as well as the Leipzig-based Ralf Jehnert (Love is Colder than Death).
With Silmand Stoa created an album for the calmer moments in life, for cuddling, to get lost in thoughts, to philosophize. The sound of Stoa deludes to seek the inner sadness and to fly away with it on angel wings. The dark side of the human soul is unveiled, without falling into clichés. The melancholy gets touched and the soul gets musically caressed.
A foretaste on the new Stoa album is provided with the songs Hanuz Nist and Broken Glass on the bands official MySpace profile
. One of the songs on Silmand was already used as film score. Silmand means soul month. With it the month September is titled in an almost forgotten German dialect. Olaf Parusel says 'Besides the strength and spirit of the summer, the September harbours a shimmer of the autumn’s melancholy. A glimpse of winters implacability all life will retreat to.'
Of course, the album is suitable for all months of the year. How about a glass of red wine while listening to it?

Catalog#: Eis058
Format: CD, Album, Digipak
Country: Germany
Released: Oct 2008
Genre: Electronic
Style: Modern Classical,Neofolk

Nachtreich，来自德国巴伐利亚的一支新古典氛围团体，其作品风格独特且意境唯美，散发着浓郁的古典气质。MA上这支乐团的风格标签为 Neoclassical Folk/Ambient, Black Metal，不过整张作品从头到尾似乎都没有过多的金属的成份，是一张无任何人声的器乐氛围化作品。乐团自2003年成立以来一共发行过六张作品，每一张都贴着Demo的标签，也许是为了召显他们特立独行的风格，乐团并未有出正式专辑的计划。不过就这张专辑而言，它完全可以算是一张意念非常完整的作品，55分钟的长度使其更像是一张悲情与激昂的完美篇章。哀怨的小提琴与忧伤钢琴的组合营造着不安与迷离的氛围，把我们引向一个充满着黑暗与恐惧的世界中。乌鸦的叫声充满着死亡的气息，洗礼着每一颗罪恶的灵魂。我们穿越了痛苦无边的绝望之谷，激情的鼓点似乎预示着光明的到来，最后发现不过只是残延喘息的片刻欢愉而已，我们终将腐朽于无边无际的黑暗之中。

Label: Old Europa Cafe
Catalog#: OECD 120
Format: CD, Album, Digipak
Country: Italy
Released: 2009
Genre: Electronic
Style: Industrial
Notes: Arranged from pieces created between 2005 and 2008
Recorded at the storage-room.sittard.nl

Label: Steinklang Industries
Catalog#: SK-lim. 01
Format: Vinyl, 10", Limited Edition
Country: Austria
Released: 2009
Genre: Electronic
Style: Modern Classical, Neofolk
Notes: This is a new series of ultra-limited and exclusive collectors releases.
This ACOH 10" is 4mm thick and is "filled" with a heavy metal-plate including a large inlay.
The edition comes in 2 versions: the "regular" 10" lim 66 and a edition in a lasered metal-box lim.16 pieces,

Caprice 2010的新专辑，应该是一张精选辑吧我以前没怎么听过，最近听来觉得非常不错。
来自俄罗斯的学院派新古典组合 Caprice 是继 Stoa 之后的天国人声大牌乐队，组合成立于1996年，同年首张专辑《Mirror》录制完成。98年他们自己发行了《The Seasons》，其中包含了组合多年来创作的各种风格的作品。98年11月后，Caprice 确立了自己的音乐方向，他们称之为森林精灵音乐，一种混合仙乐与新古典风格的声响，浓郁的学院气质。2000年7首歌的《Songs of Innocence and Experience》小专辑录制完成并发售，创作灵魂 Anton Brejestovski 将它献给了 William Blake，与莫扎特和贝多芬同时代的预言/幻想诗人。本专辑歌词直接摘选自他的作品。就是这张作品引来了远在法国的黑暗新贵Prikosnovenie 的目光，他们邀请 Caprice 参与厂牌一些主题合辑的创作。
2004年 Caprice 创作了一些单曲，并未整理成专辑发表，其充满灵气的女声，动听的管弦乐。如同初恋少女一般的甜蜜，矜持是任性的，所以他们会选择 Caprice 这样的名字，这样那样的怪癖都是可以理解的，因为荷尔蒙充斥的少女总是喜欢做怪。Caprice 象个鲜活的密桃，水玲玲的小家伙拿在手上，真不忍心去咬他一口。
Caprice 并没有卖弄他们的学院功底，所以炉火纯青的新古典之声背后是鲜嫩活泼的少女情节，荡漾在青春里的活泼，不是缠绵悱恻的恋爱，没有故做可爱，单纯的任性总是很可爱。你可以任意选择一张他们的专集，情绪却是一模一样的，夏天该荡漾在 bossa nova 里的庸懒，这不错，不过陪同 Caprice 一同任性，也是十分奢侈的情感享受啊~（转自See2say.com 看道）

This is a stunning location of hystorical and Artistical value to start with, disregarding the symbol in itself of a church and whatever your religious beliefs.
Have a look to this bunch of shots to get at least a little idea of how this event looked like

Now, December 2009, we are just approaching release date for their new album, s/t "Dark Sanctuary".
This we can define as a 2-Artists project, with world famous Spanish illustrator Victoria Francés doing all he visuals and Dark Sanctuary obviously doing all the music.
"Dark Sanctuary" will be available through Victoria's books publishing company as a 48 pages (colors) 17x24 size book, while Avantgarde Music will handle all the CD physical and audio digital distribution official DARK SANCTUARY website

Ashram
"Shining Silver Skies"
Digipak CD 2006
Equilibrium Music - EQM010
review by:
TekNoir
2006-05-15
Ashram is back after some 4 years with a splendid second album. Shining Silver Skies contains very delicate and beautiful neoclassical music. This music is the ultimate way to get totally relaxed and to enjoy intensively in a way in which everything seems to be very light. In weight, in colour and in sound. The music has just about the exact right balance between light atmospheres and deep emotions without getting all pathetic or bombastic. The ingeniously thought-out and very versatile piano sounds by Luigi Rubino create the base over which the violin of Edo Notarloberti plays it’s arrangements. There can sometimes also be heard a chello sound which adds the necessary depth to the compositions. The whole picture regarding this pure music with a slightly nostalgic character is made complete by the wonderful, sometimes almost crooning, vocals of Sergio Panarella. Sergio’s voice is melodic and has a certain degree of accessibility that borders the popular and which ensures that the music doesn’t come across as too heavy or pompuous yet deliciously balances on that fine thin line. This is truly exceptionally good.

The embryo of the band was formed in June '97 when Sergio Panarella and Luigi Rubino first started collecting ideas for the project that would later be known as Ashram. While undergoing the writing process of their first ever release, the duo invited Alfredo Notarloberti, the notorious napolitan violinist, to take their side in this ambitious project. With the line-up complete, the band recorded eleven songs out of which seven were selected and included on the demo "For My Sun", self-released in May'99. The remarkable energy and empathy between these musicians granted them an appearance as the opening track on Energeia's compilation “Intimations of Immortality Vol. 5” with the song "Spirit of the Rising Moon", and drew some media attention to this emmerging band. Shortly after, Ashram signs with the French label Prikosnovenie.

In 2001, the line-up is expanded as Leonardo Massa joins the group on cello, thus completing the ensemble that would participate in the recording of the critically acclaimed debut self-titled album released in the following year. This new release was followed by intense live activity, as the band performed innumerous shows in Italy and even a couple of tours in Portugal.

After a period of reflexion, Ashram are now presenting their second full-length recording, under the title "Shining Silver Skies", and out via Equilibrium Music in May 2006

The long absence of Stoa from the musical world has been glaring since they left Hyperium Records in 1997. It also does not help that they have not released an album since 1995 with "Porta VIII" (a re-release is expected shortly).
Cut to 2002 and Olaf Parusel has re-emerged under the banner of the brilliant band which is Stoa. This is worth owning more than any number of the so-called "neo-classic" samplers which have exploited this style which creation Stoa was part of in the early nineties. Along with bands such as Ophelia's Dream, Anchorage and Love Is Colder Than Death, Stoa was part of Hyperium's elite in terms of this style. The pairing of synthetic instruments with classical arrangements is what neo-classic is all about and these bands, led by Stoa brought into the world a wonderous new style; truly a classical approach without any of the dreaded world music influences which later derailed pioneers Dead Can Dance.
The classic style of Stoa flourishes beautifully on this new album. Masterful string arrangements abound and are accompanied by some scorchingly astounding vocals by Antje Buchheiser. Add to this some sombre oboe work and crystalline cello playing and you have an album which will reduce you to a torrent of emotional jelly.
There is one thing and one thing only which angers me about this album, of the eleven tracks, only eight are new. The other three have been issued on compilations over the past eight years. It is for that reason they only get a seven.
This disc is a fine return to form for Stoa and I really hope they don't take so bloody long with the next one.

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The songs on "Unearthed" pay homage to ancient cultures with their titles (Cuzco, Pompeii, Harrapa, and Ebia), yet they are as contemporary as Deep Forest and Enigma and attract the same kind of fan. The music is at one moment dark and choral and at another light and airy; one moment you're in Greece and then in Ireland or South America. It's a film score, clearly cinematic, but there's no movie - rather there are the dozens of movies and movie trailers in which the music has appreaed. If you've watched Six Feet Under, the NFL or the US Open, you've heard their music. If you watch CBS's hit series "Cold Case" on Sunday nights, you've heard one of the most extraordinary theme songs ever, and it's the track "Nara". If you are even an occasional filmgoer, you've heard the music on "UNEARTHED"
E.S. Posthumus在2000年组成，是由Helmut和Franz Vonlichten兄弟二人合组的独立组合，音乐揉合交响乐及电子乐，加上鼓乐强劲节奏，气势滂薄，亦具史诗式的古典美。Helmut 和 Franz 自3岁起便跟随母亲学习古典钢琴，自小浸润在古典音乐的环境下长大。Franz中学毕业后在录音室工作。Helmut 在美国洛杉矶加州大学（UCLA）修读考古学毕业。兄弟俩受到Pythagorean Philosophy影响触发灵感，相信 "音乐是使反差变得和谐；把对抗的元素加以调和"。E.S.其实也就是"Experimental Sounds"（实验音乐）的缩写，而"Posthumus"一词代表了"一切已然过去"。 E.S. Posthumus深受电影或电视剧制作人等拥戴，其音乐常成为电影或电视剧前奏，营造出剧力万军的效果，或成为配乐。譬如说，2001年电影《决战猩球/猿人争霸战》用上了Menouthis和Pompeii两首；2002年电影《蜘蛛侠》用上Pompeii和Nineveh，电影《少数派报告/关键报告/未来报告》用上Tikal；2003年侦探电视剧《铁证悬案》（Cold Case）用了Nara，例子多不胜数。而Posthumus Zone这一首更是特别为美国哥伦比亚电视台（CBS）的体育节目制作的音乐。 兄弟俩身份相当神秘，至今只推出过一张专辑 Unearthed（2001年1月）和一张单曲碟 Rise to Glory（2005年9月）。虽然网站的资料显示，E.S. Posthumus计划在2006年推出新专辑，但时至今日仍未见面世。 曾有传言指Helmut和Franz Vonlichten是Robert和Jeffrey Pfeifer兄弟的化名，后者较多产，音乐也常见成为很多大片的电影配乐，其一为《指环王/魔戒》。