Karma Marata is currently a quintet of semi-anonymous musicians whom are relatively new to the military pop / martial industrial underground, having only previously released a split with Kristian Giorgini entitled …and Still Remain in 2010 as a collaboration between the German SkullLine (featured here as the lucky label to offer up Karma Marata’s debut […]

Aura Noctis is a band that has somehow eluded me throughout my musical journeys above and beyond. Twice before have they been reviewed on The Harvest, and both times I was brooding away on some black metal barbarism or introverted space ambient, but this third time is a charm and now I finally have the […]

I have a habitual tendency to liken music like that created by The Gray Field Recordings to another world that exists within and without our own, something that I consistently seem to refer to as the realm of spirits, as cliché as that may seem.  These artists are very few and far between, but as […]

If Power Asks Why is the new offering from composer Martin Hall, this time joined by pianist Tanja Zapolski, mezzo-soprano vocalist Andrea Pellegrini, and, hidden in the background, arranger Alexander Zapolski.  For many of our readers, Martin Hall may well be a figure whose name has only been mumbled in relative silence amongst friends, and […]

Featuring a revolving door of guest musicians, Art of Empathy is ultimately the solo and primary alias of Limburg, Netherlands-born musician Jef Janssen.  It’s hard to say what fires bore this project into the physical manifestation that we find today, but it appears that it was a simple case of the age-old need to express […]

Once upon a time I came across an album that just by pure accident ended up in my bulk of albums to review. It was a neat little package with a dreamy black cover and eyes both haunted and soothing and now, a year later, Alaedyna Lavin is back with another album to enchant my senses […]

I should have called it ages ago. Miasmah Records are quickly becoming one of the most interesting labels in the small world of dark ambient. And while the genre is slowly edging its way into the foreground of mainstream internet attention through the channels of The Haxan Cloak and Raime, Miasmah are supporting a world, […]

There are so many neoclassically-influenced dark ambient artists in this world.  Hell, I’m one of them.  It doesn’t mean we’re all good.  In most cases, the results of this hyper-used genre title are muddy disasters at best, no more than long-held keys and repetitive, boring drones with shady, indiscernable titles and more conjecture and theater […]

The initial reason behind why I chose to consider this work for review was the nature of the collaboration, a father and son piece. It wasn’t because I knew Matt Howden is a gifted songwriter specifically, because here was a chance to see where that gift came from. Often since my teenage years, searching as […]

Over the years, there have been very few releases that I can admit having fully regretted not picking up as there is more than enough music flowing into our headquarters on a daily basis to keep me busy for more than a few lifetimes; this, on top of the enormous amount of music that I […]