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Verloren Schatten

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Verloren Schatten are Petra Brücken and Heike Engels We make musik of the sacred night. We break into churches after dark to play our songs. http://omnempathy.bandcamp.com/album/verloren-schatten

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Somewhere between sirens, time travel, explosives and breaking stain glass windows. Counterpointed by the coda of our song, Stained Glass Before and After, natürlich.

Visual programming by @michaelbegg.studio

05.08.2025 20:13 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Finally starting to get my head around working with a matrix rather than a single procedural timeline of data points to generate sound.

All thanks to @cycling74.bsky.social Jitter, Gen and MC objects

31.07.2025 14:07 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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This morning a close listen to Scotland’s sublime and tragic Lowlife. Diminuendo #nowlistening

31.07.2025 10:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today, with @verlorenschatten.bsky.social working on our appreciation for the colour RED

29.07.2025 11:42 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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This morning’s deep listen is not really deep. At this distance it seems almost quaint. But such impressions were made back then. Current 93 Live at Bar Maldoror
#nowlistening

24.07.2025 09:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The third edition of Adventurous Music's EX! magazine has just been published, and contains a shout out to @verlorenschatten.bsky.social

You can order the magazine from their Bandcamp page: adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ex-zin...

21.07.2025 13:30 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Guerrilla Worship After Hours
YouTube video by Verloren Schatten Guerrilla Worship After Hours

This is a nice new clip. It speaks to our age, ja?
Guerrilla Worship After Hours

youtu.be/EX8DGzSFoEQ

20.07.2025 11:51 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Guerrilla Worship After Hours
YouTube video by Verloren Schatten Guerrilla Worship After Hours

This is a nice new clip. It speaks to our age, ja?
Guerrilla Worship After Hours

youtu.be/EX8DGzSFoEQ

20.07.2025 11:51 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Washing Windows at Oto
YouTube video by Verloren Schatten Washing Windows at Oto

The album’s doing fine, just fine. Easy now. Sshhhhh. Ignore the fires. Eat the grass.

youtu.be/uNXAkKl0jNo?...

16.07.2025 19:18 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Tuesday close listen. The Passage. Pindrop. This has become somewhat crackly over the years, but remains a claustrophobic mysterious beauty. #nowlistening

15.07.2025 09:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ambientblog Reviews Source: Ambientblog. Hler * Polaroid Notes Sadie Powers * Kurt Liedwart Donohoe / Carr * Berger * Ristić Verloren Schatten * Sinius Monogoto * ‘t Geruis

Ambientblog Reviews

Source: Ambientblog. Hler * Polaroid Notes Sadie Powers * Kurt Liedwart Donohoe / Carr * Berger * Ristić Verloren Schatten * Sinius Monogoto * ‘t Geruis

10.07.2025 12:00 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Monday am deep listen, and the warmest, darkest synth sound. Faith, The Cure. #nowlistening

14.07.2025 10:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This morning’s close listen is Leonard Cohen live - and loaded on ALL the drugs - at the Isle of Wight. The only way to tame the beast is to confuse it beyond measure. Natürlich #nowlistening

10.07.2025 08:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gorgeous…..

09.07.2025 12:26 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Image shows the cover of the cd called 'The Decriminalisation of Country Music' by the band, Zoviet France.

Image shows the cover of the cd called 'The Decriminalisation of Country Music' by the band, Zoviet France.

Close listen this am for those who like both kinds of music; zoviet and france. The Decriminalisation of Country Music, themes for Tramway by @zovietfrance.org
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09.07.2025 12:08 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Verloren Schatten by Verloren Schatten on Apple Music Album · 2025 · 12 Songs

Find Verloren Schatten on AppleMusic. Ja!

music.apple.com/gb/album/ver...

09.07.2025 12:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Persistence is everything. Take a bite of this apple now.

09.07.2025 12:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The music is not free. Many pay their subscription to the store of choice in return for thematic playlists that agree with them. The relationship is between listener and vendor. No listener/artist relationship. It is a social and cultural failure.

05.07.2025 16:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Image shows text from a facebook post complaining about ditto Musics handling of an Omnempathy release. Text reads "You may recall that my label, Omnempathy, released a recording by Verloren Schatten.
Ditto Music , the digital distributor I decided to trial for the first time - quietly, without saying anything to me, determined the recording to be ‘generic instrumental music’ and consequently failed to send the recording to Apple for release on the Apple music store.
Frontline support remained unengaged and recycled the same line repeatedly that their agreement with Apple prevented them from submitting generic instrumental music. They remained impervious to my 25 year history of successfully releasing music with a reasonable degree of critical success, and my proposal that I might be better placed to determine if it was 'generic' in any way.
I invited them repeatedly to review the release as they had made a judgement on the recording that was not only insulting to the artist, it was plainly wrong. Not only did they fail to do this, they refused my numerous requests to escalate the matter.
Subsequent mail to the CEO, the press office and chief operating officer have not been responded to.
It seems, therefore, that Ditto failed in their single duty for which they were paid; to distribute the work of the label. They have, however, elected themselves as aesthetic arbiter and artistic critic.
The financial consequence of this is crushingly small, of course. who but the few make any money  with digital sales? But Apple has further reach than the other platforms, and for this reason it is the point of principle that matters. A distributor takes the decision unilaterally to judge a piece of work and determine for themselves what it is, what it constitutes and whether it deserves to be passed on to the store. They do this without telling the label - who has paid for the service - what they have done."

Image shows text from a facebook post complaining about ditto Musics handling of an Omnempathy release. Text reads "You may recall that my label, Omnempathy, released a recording by Verloren Schatten. Ditto Music , the digital distributor I decided to trial for the first time - quietly, without saying anything to me, determined the recording to be ‘generic instrumental music’ and consequently failed to send the recording to Apple for release on the Apple music store. Frontline support remained unengaged and recycled the same line repeatedly that their agreement with Apple prevented them from submitting generic instrumental music. They remained impervious to my 25 year history of successfully releasing music with a reasonable degree of critical success, and my proposal that I might be better placed to determine if it was 'generic' in any way. I invited them repeatedly to review the release as they had made a judgement on the recording that was not only insulting to the artist, it was plainly wrong. Not only did they fail to do this, they refused my numerous requests to escalate the matter. Subsequent mail to the CEO, the press office and chief operating officer have not been responded to. It seems, therefore, that Ditto failed in their single duty for which they were paid; to distribute the work of the label. They have, however, elected themselves as aesthetic arbiter and artistic critic. The financial consequence of this is crushingly small, of course. who but the few make any money with digital sales? But Apple has further reach than the other platforms, and for this reason it is the point of principle that matters. A distributor takes the decision unilaterally to judge a piece of work and determine for themselves what it is, what it constitutes and whether it deserves to be passed on to the store. They do this without telling the label - who has paid for the service - what they have done."

Last word from the Ditto Music fiasco over the @verlorenschatten.bsky.social record. Grabbed from FB where there is a more expansive text limit.

05.07.2025 13:01 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Blonde Redhead - The Shadow of the Guest
Zimoun - Harmonium I-VI
Verloren Schatten - Verloren Schatten
perila - omnis festinatio ex parte diaboli est
Jacaszek - Idylla
Jasmine Guffond - Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity
Giuseppe Ielasi & Riccardo D. Wanke - with time, we learned to ask less
Masayoshi Fujita - Smoking Tigers

Blonde Redhead - The Shadow of the Guest Zimoun - Harmonium I-VI Verloren Schatten - Verloren Schatten perila - omnis festinatio ex parte diaboli est Jacaszek - Idylla Jasmine Guffond - Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity Giuseppe Ielasi & Riccardo D. Wanke - with time, we learned to ask less Masayoshi Fujita - Smoking Tigers

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Blonde Redhead - The Shadow of the Guest
Zimoun - Harmonium I-VI
Verloren Schatten
perila - omnis festinatio ex parte diaboli est
Jacaszek - Idylla
Jasmine Guffond - Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity
Giuseppe Ielasi & Riccardo D. Wanke
Masayoshi Fujita

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30.06.2025 09:33 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Close listen to SWANS. This was the high water mark. Slow, monumental., utterly without precedent #nowplaying

03.07.2025 08:38 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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A very absrakt close listen today. #nowplaying autechre

30.06.2025 10:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It would be nice, wouldn’t it? It is in the hands of the Gods, the label, the media and the marketplace, natürlich

26.06.2025 12:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Close listening resumes with Cabbalism. Nurse With Wound with Blind Cave Salamander. #nowplaying #np

26.06.2025 12:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Verloren Schatten, by Verloren Schatten 12 track album

…and get the album here:
omnempathy.bandcamp.com/album/verlor...

25.06.2025 23:02 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

As true today…

26.06.2025 00:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A Duck in a Tree 2025-06-21 | Star One, Star Two | A Duck in a Tree The 676th of a series of weekly radio programmes created by :zoviet*france: First broadcast 21 June 2025 by Resonance 104.4 FM and CJMP 90.1 FM Thanks to the artists and sound recordist included here ...

The latest edition of A Duck in a Tree, now out as a podcast, features Verloren Schatten's 'The Twelve Caesars' from their new debut album, a track title that echoes Suetonius's 2nd century salacious equivalent to Kenneth Anger's 'Hollywood Babylon'. Empires fall. Get the podcast here bit.ly/444S5sI

25.06.2025 23:01 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Thanks to @zovietfrance.org for playing The Twelve Caesars from the album on this weeks show

24.06.2025 23:01 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A deep and alluring listen. For those that do. Rawfishboys.

23.06.2025 13:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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12-1pm: Flickering Lights

A mix of old and new electronic, experimental and genre defying sounds

@isolatedcommunity.bsky.social | isolatedcommunity.bandcamp.com
#Electronica #DarkAmbient #Cinematic #SoundCollage #Otherworldly

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23.06.2025 09:00 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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