Sonic Memento: Discography
June 13th, 2025, "Shamanic Faultlines"
13 tracks. Available vinyl, (black & splatter) cd and digital.
Recorded at “Black Obsidian Woodshed” studio by Charles Why assisted by Klaus Karloff
Produced by Klaus Karloff & Charles Why
Mastering at Crystal Mastering (Melbourne) by Joe Carra.
Featuring:
• Inga Liljestrom: lead & backing Vocals (“Introduction_Nevertheless Here's the Golem_”, “Pretty At Dawn”, “[God Is Holding His Breath]” and “Shamanic Fault Lines”)
• Peter Micallef: drums (“Ned Kelly's Arms")
• Jean-Philippe Feiss: Cello (“Pretty At Dawn”)
• Peter Miller: Theremin (“Introduction_Nevertheless Here's the Golem_”)
• Dick Dens: lead and rhythm guitar (“Caveat Emptor” and [God Is Holding His Breath])
• Haydn Walker: lead guitar (“Ned Kelly's Arms”)
• Alex “Zillon” Jean: lead & backing Vocals ("Escher Drawings")
• Boris Boulbil: Organ and Moog (“When in Rome”)
• Loki Lockwood: Synthesizer (“Beach Stroll With Pasolini”)
• Blair Manie: Oud ([God Is Holding His Breath] & “Ned Kelly's Arms”)
• Michael Gonthier: lead guitar (“Soul Searcher”)
• Amelia-Moon: vocal (“Shamanic Fault Lines”)
11 tracks.. Available CD & Digital.
Produced by Klaus Karloff assisted by Charles WhyRecorded and mixed by Charles Why in England (London, Olney, Totnes, Glastonbury); France (Paris, Besancon, Belfort); Iceland (Reykjavik); Australia (Melbourne, Sydney, Byron Bay) and Bali (Ubud). Mastering @ Crystal Mastering Melbourne by Joe Carra assisted by Klaus Karloff. Cover image by Bones Taylor. Pictures by Amelia-Moon. Artwork by Laur
Exclusivity for Golem Dancers-May 2023: La Chanson du Forcat
For this version, the great Australian singer/songwriter, Inga Liljestrom (https://www.ingaliljestrom.com/) lent us her amazing voice and the track has been masterised by the one and only Loki from Spooky Records (a full remix version by Loki will appear on our next album).
This is the only song we ever did in French and strangely enough it led to a different approach in how we -usually- apply sonic tapestries to shape the sound of the song (the “Golemization Process”).
For any band, it seems, there are two ways to approach a cover song: you can be super faithful to the original or make it your own. We cannot say if we succeeded in the later, (Let us know?) but we definitely did not follow the arrangement of the original, only the guitar track (in our version, the bass track) and the lyrics are lifted from the original. As per the lyrics, when we recorded the basic track for the song, we were still feeling pretty “raw” from the C21 lockdown so the lyrics were definitely catching a Zeitgeist
Single released digitally before "Legend of the Bleeding Heart".
Mastering by Joe Carra @ Crystal Mastering.
Mastering different than the album version.
May 25th 2021:
"Grotesque Radio" on CD (limited edition) and all digital platform
6 tracks. Available CD & Digital.
Music by Charles Why/Lyrics by Laur & Charles Why
Laur: lead & backing vocals, percussions.
Charles Why: bass, guitars, cigar box, keyboards, shruti Box, Tibetan bowl, percussions, harmonica, lead and backing vocals, programming and sampling.
Mixed & Produced by Charles Why (@ Gesamtkunstwerk Studio)
Masterised by Klaus Karloff @ G:.A:.D:.L:.U:.
CD (replication with glass master not a duplication) personalised with choice of different colour stamp for the cover:
-Black
-Sepia
-Turquoise
_Red
physical (CD limited edition) or digital version:
Golemdancecult/bandcamp.com