Una Rosa Nel Ciardino D’Inverno: Il Ritorno (A Rose in the Garden of Winter: The Return)

Remixers include Project Gemini, Sean Wolcott, Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band, Ivy Chalice, The Hologram People, Timothy Fife and other key voices from the Library of the Occult roster.

What emerges is less a remix album than a phantasmagoric re-score, a parallel vision of the record, as if recut from alternate film reels. The first half sways with late 60s cinematic psychedelia, tape hiss, and giallo grandeur before slipping into a darker mirror world of Italo-infused electronics and haunted club rhythms Il Ritorno is a dream in two acts: half haunted theatre, half fogged mirrorball. For those who like their horror lush and their disco cursed.

“A Rose in the Garden of Winter first flowered as a synth-drenched love letter to Giallo cinema – its shadows dark, its melodies laced with menace. Now, that rose blooms anew with even sharper thorns. In this collection of fever-dream remixes and cover versions, visionary artists like Nolan Potter, Project Gemini and Sean Wolcott conjure pulsating, decadent spells – psychedelic incantations soaked in shimmer and sleaze. The result is a seductive dance through velvet nightmares, where beauty bleeds and lurid rhythms never stop the chase.” – Thomas Patterson
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released July 25, 2025

Originally written and performed by Tom Mcdowell / Dream Division
Obi notes by Thomas Patterson
Artwork by Hypnotist Design