AMBIENT / NEW AGE Archives - Guerssen Records https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product-category/ambient-new-age/ Guerssen Records Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:09:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-isotip-32x32.png AMBIENT / NEW AGE Archives - Guerssen Records https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product-category/ambient-new-age/ 32 32 Season One https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/season-one/ Sun, 17 Nov 2024 23:00:00 +0000 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/season-one/ A sonic portal to a parallel universe where neon-soaked dreamscapes transform the stark realities of a post-pandemic world. Music for a forgotten future, where echoes of the 80s cast long, enigmatic shadows through a rich tapestry of emotion that charts a journey from isolation and fear towards healing and hope. This is the journey of Season One and Season Two, the debut companion albums for the solo project of Italian composer Battaglia, both out this fall on Four Flies Records.

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]]> A sonic portal to a parallel universe where neon-soaked dreamscapes transform the stark realities of a post-pandemic world. Music for a forgotten future, where echoes of the 80s cast long, enigmatic shadows through a rich tapestry of emotion that charts a journey from isolation and fear towards healing and hope. This is the journey of Season One and Season Two, the debut companion albums for the solo project of Italian composer Battaglia, both out this fall on Four Flies Records.

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]]> Season Two https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/season-two/ Sun, 17 Nov 2024 23:00:00 +0000 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/season-two/ A sonic portal to a parallel universe where neon-soaked dreamscapes transform the stark realities of a post-pandemic world. Music for a forgotten future, where echoes of the 80s cast long, enigmatic shadows through a rich tapestry of emotion that charts a journey from isolation and fear towards healing and hope. This is the journey of Season One and Season Two, the debut companion albums for the solo project of Italian composer Battaglia, both out this fall on Four Flies Records.

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]]> A sonic portal to a parallel universe where neon-soaked dreamscapes transform the stark realities of a post-pandemic world. Music for a forgotten future, where echoes of the 80s cast long, enigmatic shadows through a rich tapestry of emotion that charts a journey from isolation and fear towards healing and hope. This is the journey of Season One and Season Two, the debut companion albums for the solo project of Italian composer Battaglia, both out this fall on Four Flies Records.

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]]> Juan Belda https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/juan-belda/ Sun, 08 Jan 2017 23:00:00 +0000 http://guerssen.hl1097.dinaserver.com/product/juan-belda/ Reissue of the first Juan Belda album released in 1986 by Grabaciones Accidentales. with new artwork. Originally part of a multimedia concert, a show involving actors, video, and scenography called "Móviles". The record is a complex world of sounds blending rhythmic experimental electronics, industrial sounds, samplers, ambient-downtempo passages, loops, musique concrete... and everything from a punk-fluxus-existentialist approach. In the vein of other Spanish bands of the era like Randomize, Mecánica Popular or international artists such as Cabaret Voltaire, Chris & Cosey, Thomas Leer, NWW...
The record was produced by the Spanish composer Luis Carlos Esteban at his studio, with one of the largest Synth collections in Europe. Belda squeezed precious synths such as Yamaha cs80, Emulator 2, Linn 9000,Mini moog, DX7, PPG Wave, VCS 3, etc. with the help of Esteban to round his compositions. The result is a very personal and unique record.
Belda is an eclectic composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist from Canary Islands, Spain. He studied structural composition with Zaj founder Juan Hidalgo and jazz with Luis Vecchio. Since the beginning of the 80's, his music has always been one step ahead in the Spanish scene at the time. Both with his new wave projects Arte Moderno (with Javier Segura), África Gráfica or with this debut album. Multidisciplinary artist, he has also been responsible for installations in art galleries and has composed music for ballet, theater, television and cinema.
Includes insert with an extensive interview with the artist. Remastered by Damián Schwartz at Lyrebird.

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]]> Reissue of the first Juan Belda album released in 1986 by Grabaciones Accidentales. with new artwork. Originally part of a multimedia concert, a show involving actors, video, and scenography called “Móviles”. The record is a complex world of sounds blending rhythmic experimental electronics, industrial sounds, samplers, ambient-downtempo passages, loops, musique concrete… and everything from a punk-fluxus-existentialist approach. In the vein of other Spanish bands of the era like Randomize, Mecánica Popular or international artists such as Cabaret Voltaire, Chris & Cosey, Thomas Leer, NWW…
The record was produced by the Spanish composer Luis Carlos Esteban at his studio, with one of the largest Synth collections in Europe. Belda squeezed precious synths such as Yamaha cs80, Emulator 2, Linn 9000,Mini moog, DX7, PPG Wave, VCS 3, etc. with the help of Esteban to round his compositions. The result is a very personal and unique record.
Belda is an eclectic composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist from Canary Islands, Spain. He studied structural composition with Zaj founder Juan Hidalgo and jazz with Luis Vecchio. Since the beginning of the 80’s, his music has always been one step ahead in the Spanish scene at the time. Both with his new wave projects Arte Moderno (with Javier Segura), África Gráfica or with this debut album. Multidisciplinary artist, he has also been responsible for installations in art galleries and has composed music for ballet, theater, television and cinema.
Includes insert with an extensive interview with the artist. Remastered by Damián Schwartz at Lyrebird.

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]]> Live Electronic Music https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/live-electronic-music/ Tue, 31 May 2022 22:00:00 +0000 http://guerssen.hl1097.dinaserver.com/product/live-electronic-music/ Jeff Carney's sophomore effort for audioFile (1989) could not have been criticized were it to have remained in similar territory as the electronic wall of sound he had created on Imperfect Space Journeys. Instead, he created a more sparse, evolving tapestry of analog timbres. Using an exclusively vintage analog arsenal and recording live without overdubbing, Carney pushed forward with new ideas and uniquely developing sweeps of filter madness. The side-long 'Questions (Unanswered)' is immensely innovative: the sounds are at once organic and of the earth, yet futuristic in their skyward drones and hypnotic hooks. Additional layers are gradually added, like a bubbling alien swarm tone that comes in successive falling surges, followed by cosmic whooshing and howling rushes of wind. The effect is simultaneously meditative and intense.

 

And live. As Carney said, "I was quite proud because I managed to essentially perform the entire composition without error. Just about every sound came in at the right level. Every part was performed without mistake. And nothing was adjusted or corrected. This was what happened on the spot." Carney explores different territory on the two B-side tracks: 'ARP 2600 Improvisation' is like a master class of cosmic effects. It feels like the soundtrack to a 1950s sci-fi movie, recalling Forbidden Planet's most electrifying moments, but also at times sounding like sci-fi flick meets battle-in-space video game. 'Pensive Mood' roars out of the starting gate with a high octane electronic arpeggiated pattern, creating a somewhat white-knuckled brand of "pensive" contemplation. This is the most minimal piece of the set, with the incessant, almost imperceptibly evolving arrangement having a somewhat edge-of-your-seat hypnotic effect.

 

The album was completely uninfluenced by the digital trends that were dominating the era, and stands as a landmark example of the uncompromising ethos adopted by many artists of the 1980's underground. Featuring an all new essay and interview with Jeff Carney by Jerry Kranitz (author of the "Cassette Culture" book and publisher for nearly two decades of Aural Innovations), this is the definitive reissue of Live Electronic Music.

 

*24bit/96kHz transfers taken from the original analog tapes

 

*Mastered for vinyl by legendary Krautrock musician and sound engineer Eroc

 

*Recorded live without overdubbing using exclusively vintage analog equipment

 

*Comes with an eight-page LP-sized color insert booklet written by Jerry Kranitz (author of Cassette Culture and publisher for nearly two decades of Aural Innovations)

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]]> Jeff Carney’s sophomore effort for audioFile (1989) could not have been criticized were it to have remained in similar territory as the electronic wall of sound he had created on Imperfect Space Journeys. Instead, he created a more sparse, evolving tapestry of analog timbres. Using an exclusively vintage analog arsenal and recording live without overdubbing, Carney pushed forward with new ideas and uniquely developing sweeps of filter madness. The side-long ‘Questions (Unanswered)’ is immensely innovative: the sounds are at once organic and of the earth, yet futuristic in their skyward drones and hypnotic hooks. Additional layers are gradually added, like a bubbling alien swarm tone that comes in successive falling surges, followed by cosmic whooshing and howling rushes of wind. The effect is simultaneously meditative and intense.

And live. As Carney said, “I was quite proud because I managed to essentially perform the entire composition without error. Just about every sound came in at the right level. Every part was performed without mistake. And nothing was adjusted or corrected. This was what happened on the spot.” Carney explores different territory on the two B-side tracks: ‘ARP 2600 Improvisation’ is like a master class of cosmic effects. It feels like the soundtrack to a 1950s sci-fi movie, recalling Forbidden Planet’s most electrifying moments, but also at times sounding like sci-fi flick meets battle-in-space video game. ‘Pensive Mood’ roars out of the starting gate with a high octane electronic arpeggiated pattern, creating a somewhat white-knuckled brand of “pensive” contemplation. This is the most minimal piece of the set, with the incessant, almost imperceptibly evolving arrangement having a somewhat edge-of-your-seat hypnotic effect.

The album was completely uninfluenced by the digital trends that were dominating the era, and stands as a landmark example of the uncompromising ethos adopted by many artists of the 1980’s underground. Featuring an all new essay and interview with Jeff Carney by Jerry Kranitz (author of the “Cassette Culture” book and publisher for nearly two decades of Aural Innovations), this is the definitive reissue of Live Electronic Music.

*24bit/96kHz transfers taken from the original analog tapes

*Mastered for vinyl by legendary Krautrock musician and sound engineer Eroc

*Recorded live without overdubbing using exclusively vintage analog equipment

*Comes with an eight-page LP-sized color insert booklet written by Jerry Kranitz (author of Cassette Culture and publisher for nearly two decades of Aural Innovations)

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]]> Epitaph for Venus (CD) https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/epitaph-for-venus-cd/ Mon, 19 Jun 2017 22:00:00 +0000 http://guerssen.hl1097.dinaserver.com/product/epitaph-for-venus-cd/ Another shrouded in mystery album from the Pyramid label, produced by Toby Robinson in Cologne circa 1974. Kosmische and Head sounds with plenty of Minimoog, analogue synths / keyboards, effects, loops, tape manipulation, treated percussions, etc., courtesy of Galactic Explorers, an electronic, minimal, ambient krautrock trio featuring Reinhard Karwatky (Dzyan). Take a trip to the inner regions of your mind, see ancient solar systems forming and listen to cosmic winds and vibrations while sine waves of pure bliss will give you total peace of mind...

 

*24-bit domain remaster from the original tapes.

 

*Booklet with liner notes by Alan Freeman (The Crack In The Cosmic Egg)

 

RIYL: TERRY RILEY, POPOL VUH, SAND, PETER MICHAEL HAMEL, TANGERINE DREAM, BABA YAGA, CLUSTER, COZMIC CORRIDORS, BRAINTICKET...

 

"A candidate for being dubbed 'Ambient' before Ambient existed. A work of crystal clear simplicity, 'pure' electronic sounds, and beautiful minimalism." - John Bagnall (The Sound Projector)

 

"Mysterious and enigmatic to the end. 'Sehr Kosmische' as they say!" - Alan Freeman (Ultima Thule, The Crack In The Cosmic Egg).

 

Tracklist: Lunarscape - Ethereal Jazz - Venus Rising

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]]> Another shrouded in mystery album from the Pyramid label, produced by Toby Robinson in Cologne circa 1974. Kosmische and Head sounds with plenty of Minimoog, analogue synths / keyboards, effects, loops, tape manipulation, treated percussions, etc., courtesy of Galactic Explorers, an electronic, minimal, ambient krautrock trio featuring Reinhard Karwatky (Dzyan). Take a trip to the inner regions of your mind, see ancient solar systems forming and listen to cosmic winds and vibrations while sine waves of pure bliss will give you total peace of mind…

*24-bit domain remaster from the original tapes.

*Booklet with liner notes by Alan Freeman (The Crack In The Cosmic Egg)

RIYL: TERRY RILEY, POPOL VUH, SAND, PETER MICHAEL HAMEL, TANGERINE DREAM, BABA YAGA, CLUSTER, COZMIC CORRIDORS, BRAINTICKET…

“A candidate for being dubbed ‘Ambient’ before Ambient existed. A work of crystal clear simplicity, ‘pure’ electronic sounds, and beautiful minimalism.” – John Bagnall (The Sound Projector)

“Mysterious and enigmatic to the end. ‘Sehr Kosmische’ as they say!” – Alan Freeman (Ultima Thule, The Crack In The Cosmic Egg).

Tracklist: Lunarscape – Ethereal Jazz – Venus Rising

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]]> Baila, Claridad! https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/baila-claridad/ Sun, 15 Dec 2019 23:00:00 +0000 http://guerssen.hl1097.dinaserver.com/product/baila-claridad/ Alberto Garralón Spanish guitar player and producer made a cassette 30 years ago ...

 

Large doses of imagination, passion, heart, and with influences of contemporary classical music on the strings, pianos and winds and also a folk touch on the guitars with a mix of ethnic music in his percussions made Baila, Claridad! the first work in his career an unique collector's piece of the famous Spanish movement "Nuevas Músicas"

 

Here is the return remastered in LP format by Discómanos Records.

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]]> Alberto Garralón Spanish guitar player and producer made a cassette 30 years ago …

Large doses of imagination, passion, heart, and with influences of contemporary classical music on the strings, pianos and winds and also a folk touch on the guitars with a mix of ethnic music in his percussions made Baila, Claridad! the first work in his career an unique collector’s piece of the famous Spanish movement “Nuevas Músicas”

Here is the return remastered in LP format by Discómanos Records.

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]]> Humano https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/humano/ Mon, 18 Apr 2022 22:00:00 +0000 http://guerssen.hl1097.dinaserver.com/product/humano/ The Original Soundtrack for the contemporary dance Co. LA SONRISA DE CAÍN's show HU*MANO.

 

"Best known for the acclaimed 'Ibers' album, Jorge Gavaldá (1960) is a composer and performer from Elche. He studied music with the Municipal Band and the Conservatory of the city and in a self-taught way, and has composed symphonic works and nearly a hundred of soundtracks for theatre, dance, cinema, radio and television. Gavaldá has also developed the soundscapes techniques in the processed guitar field, performed at events like Cannes Film Festival and collaborated with artists such as the pianist Agustí Fernàndez or the composer Pep Llopis. There are many awards received over the years.

 

In this new album Jorge has used unprocessed & processed/synthesized guitar, with vocals, rhythm programming, sampling and keyboards. This work received the 'Scenic Arts Prize of the Generalitat Valenciana 1999 for the Best Musical Composition' and now is publised by Discómanos in a 180g vinyl limited edition of 200 copies, numbered and signed by the author, and remastered from the original 1998 recording.

 

Liner notes by Pep Llopis. The album artwork oil paintings by Francis Morell."

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]]> The Original Soundtrack for the contemporary dance Co. LA SONRISA DE CAÍN’s show HU*MANO.

“Best known for the acclaimed ‘Ibers’ album, Jorge Gavaldá (1960) is a composer and performer from Elche. He studied music with the Municipal Band and the Conservatory of the city and in a self-taught way, and has composed symphonic works and nearly a hundred of soundtracks for theatre, dance, cinema, radio and television. Gavaldá has also developed the soundscapes techniques in the processed guitar field, performed at events like Cannes Film Festival and collaborated with artists such as the pianist Agustí Fernàndez or the composer Pep Llopis. There are many awards received over the years.

In this new album Jorge has used unprocessed & processed/synthesized guitar, with vocals, rhythm programming, sampling and keyboards. This work received the ‘Scenic Arts Prize of the Generalitat Valenciana 1999 for the Best Musical Composition’ and now is publised by Discómanos in a 180g vinyl limited edition of 200 copies, numbered and signed by the author, and remastered from the original 1998 recording.

Liner notes by Pep Llopis. The album artwork oil paintings by Francis Morell.”

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]]> Bedroom Album https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/bedroom-album/ Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:00:00 +0000 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/bedroom-album/ Produced and engineered by Jah Wobble at home in his bedroom (hence the title), the album was originally released in spring 1983, showing a different side in the bass player evolution. His proper 2nd album after a major label stint with Virgin - for his debut - and the stratospheric collaborations with Holger Czukay & The Edge. A mystical hybrid of dub fusion, ethereal wave and global beat, still ahead of his time.

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]]> Produced and engineered by Jah Wobble at home in his bedroom (hence the title), the album was originally released in spring 1983, showing a different side in the bass player evolution. His proper 2nd album after a major label stint with Virgin – for his debut – and the stratospheric collaborations with Holger Czukay & The Edge. A mystical hybrid of dub fusion, ethereal wave and global beat, still ahead of his time.

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]]> Música Para El Fin De Los Cantos https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/musica-para-el-fin-de-los-cantos/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 22:00:00 +0000 http://guerssen.hl1097.dinaserver.com/product/musica-para-el-fin-de-los-cantos/ This is a very serene, almost entracing record that seems to inhabit its very own space, between "classical" ambient music (Eno, Budd), "systems music" (Reich, Glass, Riley, Hassell), japanese kankyo ongaku (Hiroshi Yoshimura, Takashi Kokubo), even hinting at what would become 90's ambient electronica (B12, Nuron, SAWII-era Aphex Twin or the Fax +49-69/40464 label). Actually, Lech would be one of the few artists to perform at the first-ever Sonar Festival (Barcelona) back in 1994 (together with Suso Saiz, Esplendor Geometrico, Mixmaster Morris or Laurent Garnier).

 

A key early effort from this musician and A/V artist whose career spans well over thirty years and a miriad of works, performances and instalations: Art Futura, Sonar, ISEA, Ars Electrónica (Austria), Festival Videoformes (France), Festival de Nuevas Músicas (Madrid & Sevilla), Ciclo Experimental LEM (Barcelona), Knitting Factory (New York), The Korner (Taipei), Festival Pop Komm (Cologne-Germany), Festival Experimenta (Madrid), Festival DAFT @ Taipei (Taiwan), ART BEIJING, Festival EXIS @ Seúl (South Korea), JMAF (Tokio, Japan) or Artefact:Chernobil 33 (Kiev-Ukraine).

 

The Wah Wah edition has been mastered from the original tapes, reproduces the original sleeve artwork and and features an insert with photos and info. It is a strictly limited edition of 500 copies only.

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]]> This is a very serene, almost entracing record that seems to inhabit its very own space, between “classical” ambient music (Eno, Budd), “systems music” (Reich, Glass, Riley, Hassell), japanese kankyo ongaku (Hiroshi Yoshimura, Takashi Kokubo), even hinting at what would become 90’s ambient electronica (B12, Nuron, SAWII-era Aphex Twin or the Fax +49-69/40464 label). Actually, Lech would be one of the few artists to perform at the first-ever Sonar Festival (Barcelona) back in 1994 (together with Suso Saiz, Esplendor Geometrico, Mixmaster Morris or Laurent Garnier).

A key early effort from this musician and A/V artist whose career spans well over thirty years and a miriad of works, performances and instalations: Art Futura, Sonar, ISEA, Ars Electrónica (Austria), Festival Videoformes (France), Festival de Nuevas Músicas (Madrid & Sevilla), Ciclo Experimental LEM (Barcelona), Knitting Factory (New York), The Korner (Taipei), Festival Pop Komm (Cologne-Germany), Festival Experimenta (Madrid), Festival DAFT @ Taipei (Taiwan), ART BEIJING, Festival EXIS @ Seúl (South Korea), JMAF (Tokio, Japan) or Artefact:Chernobil 33 (Kiev-Ukraine).

The Wah Wah edition has been mastered from the original tapes, reproduces the original sleeve artwork and and features an insert with photos and info. It is a strictly limited edition of 500 copies only.

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]]> The Nazgûl (CD) https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/the-nazgul-cd/ Tue, 10 Oct 2017 22:00:00 +0000 http://guerssen.hl1097.dinaserver.com/product/the-nazgul-cd/ Shrouded in mystery Kosmische / Kraut / Avant-Garde artefact, produced by Toby Robinson aka The Mad Twiddler circa 1975 for his private Pyramid label.

 

Tolkien inspired dark ambient soundscapes with spooky / ritualistic atmosphere, treated percussions, gongs & guitars, trippy Hammond & Mini-Moog, tape loops, weird noises, drones...File under dark ambient, proto-industrial, kraut, experimental...

 

RIYL: KLUSTER, STOCKHAUSEN, TAJ-MAHAL TRAVELLERS, NURSE WITH WOUND, THROBBING GRISTLE, LUSTMORD, COZMIC CORRIDORS...

 

* 24-bit domain remaster from the original tapes

 

* Insert with detailed liner notes by Alan Freeman (The Crack In The Cosmic Egg)

 

"A major work of electronic avant-garde - high quality deep esoterica of the weird and spooky kind." - Alan Freeman (Ultima Thule, The Crack In The Cosmic Egg)

 

Tracklist: 01: The Tower of Barad-Dûr - 02: Shelob's Lair - 03: The Dead Marshes - 04: Mount Doom

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]]> Shrouded in mystery Kosmische / Kraut / Avant-Garde artefact, produced by Toby Robinson aka The Mad Twiddler circa 1975 for his private Pyramid label.

Tolkien inspired dark ambient soundscapes with spooky / ritualistic atmosphere, treated percussions, gongs & guitars, trippy Hammond & Mini-Moog, tape loops, weird noises, drones…File under dark ambient, proto-industrial, kraut, experimental…

RIYL: KLUSTER, STOCKHAUSEN, TAJ-MAHAL TRAVELLERS, NURSE WITH WOUND, THROBBING GRISTLE, LUSTMORD, COZMIC CORRIDORS…

* 24-bit domain remaster from the original tapes

* Insert with detailed liner notes by Alan Freeman (The Crack In The Cosmic Egg)

“A major work of electronic avant-garde – high quality deep esoterica of the weird and spooky kind.” – Alan Freeman (Ultima Thule, The Crack In The Cosmic Egg)

Tracklist: 01: The Tower of Barad-Dûr – 02: Shelob’s Lair – 03: The Dead Marshes – 04: Mount Doom

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