Alt/Electro-Rockers Deconbrio are back with a Special Edition of their highly acclaimed 2012 release, Voyeur. After a successful digital release, Voyeur is being physically re-released as a Special Edition Digipak on it's 1 year anniversary, available now from Bit Riot Records.
Complete with additional tracks, Voyeur sees a growing artist willing to push the boundaries of electronic rock. With distorted guitars, swirling synths and a lyrical content that will lead you to the darkest depths of erotic fantasy, the album tells a gripping tale of highly charged obsessions, sultry addiction and the twisted games we unwittingly play.
Deconbrio is an alternative/electro-rock band from Knoxville, TN, headed by frontman Danny Rendo. Rendo – who writes, produces and records his own music – originally started in South Florida before moving to San Francisco and now has a new lineup in Knoxville.
The band’s debut album, Obsessions of a False Idol, was released in 2008 and it wasn’t long after that they were picked up by Bit Riot Records out of Chicago, IL. They released an EP, The Vanishing, in 2009. Their latest album, Voyeur, was released in February 2012 and has received much acclaim, including being included in the best of 2012 by Coma Music Magazine and Fixt.
Wanting to not keep Deconbrio as a studio-only project, Rendo put together a live band to help bring the music to the stage. Deconbrio has shared the stage with many talented musicians, including Everything Goes Cold, Cryogen Second, Team Cybergeist and Ego Likeness.
Since the release of The Vanishing, Rendo has lent his remixing skills to a few artists, including Caustic, Celldweller, I Will Never Be The Same and Torrent Vaccine, has recorded a cover of Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” for the Coma Music compilation “Tainted Candy: A Tribute to 80’s New Wave”, and has produced a few tracks for South Florida-based hip hop artist MC Gaps.
With their fourth full-length album to be released in as many years, The Men proudly present the sweeping New Moon, the most intensely personal and immersive installment yet.
Never content to draw on the same methods twice, nor to recline under the heel of expectation, The Men quit the city in early 2012 to head for Big Indian, NY - transforming a remote Catskills locale into a full-fledged stray dog studio home. Entering with only the most skeletal sketches, the house was selected as an incubator for its technical limitations.
Familiar faces remain, the core of guitarists Nick Chiericozzi and Mark Perro, with drummer Rich Samis all returning from last year’s much-acclaimed Open Your Heart. However, inroads have since been made to previously unreachable trails, as close friend and producer Ben Greenberg (Pygmy Shrews, Hubble, Zs) officially joins the ranks as bassist on paper, and full-bore compositional partner in practice. In tandem, wayward brother Kevin Faulkner occupies his most substantial sphere to date, dreaming aloud on lap steel guitar.
New Moon is simultaneously an expansion of palette and a contraction of focus, hedged with as much leaden dirge and ecstatic abandon, as it is genuine saccharine steel-string levity and an ever-tightening, no apologies pop concision. Summarily, it is a love letter devoted in bowed humility to the grand continuum, exposing the hoax of the great divide.
The Men - New Moon
US Release Date: March 5, 2013
International Release Date: March 4 (Euro), 8 (IRE / DE), 20 (Japan)
Bonus Campfire Songs EP Release Date: March 4 (Euro) March 5 (USA)
Electric 7" Release Date: January 22, 2013
"In Between The Opposite", the fourth one of a discography qualitatively in continuing ascent as manifestation of a creative talent that knows no limits.
The electropopish atmospheres built by the Norwegian Spektralized speaks with a direct language but at the same time sophisticated and danceable: their newest chapter reveals the band further matured and and in possession of an admirable ingenious so full of strategies that know how to conquer the listeners offering them artificial sounds created by irresistible, pulsing bpm's, synths vortex and the powerful voice of Richard that sustains the orchestrations.
Into the album nothing is casual: everything is generated by passion and science, by calculation and sentiment, elements that give to "In Between The Opposite" a fascinating aura that deserves to be discovered track after track, for a release that will drag you into an excursion in a technologic universe dedicated to the newest and old electro-generations.
Imagine Films announces that on 17th April 2013 The Imposter will be shown in Belgian theatres.
This docuthriller by Bart Layton tells the true story about a lost son and found imposter Frédéric Bourdin alias le Caméléon.
The film features Adam O'Brian, Frédéric Bourdin and Carey Gibson. The Imposter was hailed by international mags like Total Film.
The movie got these awards:
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer: Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis - BAFTA Film Awards 2013
Best Documentary - British Independant Film Awards 2012
Synopsis
A documentary centered on a young Frenchman who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years.
Almost a year and a half after their latest album 'No More Alive than you Deserve' and live shows across Europe and South America, Severe Illusion are about to follow up on that previous success. First off is the new EP 'Psychosurgery', out now through MedCon / Complete Control Productions. The EP is released as a limited edition, hand numbered CD in beautiful digipack, but also on cassette as well as an unlimited for free version to download. There will be four perfectly new tracks and one live recording from the band's 2007 show in Arkhangelsk, Russia.
The EP is to be followed by the album 'The Legacy of António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz' later in 2013. This, the fifth Severe Illusion album so far, deals with the history of psychosurgery and it's development into even more sinister forms of mind control. Musically the band has not evolved much, rather staying true to a formula of old school EBM, lots and lots of distortion, home made percussion and the same attitude problems that have defined the band since day one.
Also, a small number of live shows are about to take place across Europe beginning with the legendary club Slimelight in London, UK on March 9 with more shows TBA.
Also in March, the new compilation 'Inside the Volcano vol.1' is to be released. This rather impressive 2CD compilation includes preciously unreleased music from Portion Control, Ike Yard, Arzt+Pfusch, The Pain Machinery and a number of others. Also included on the compilation is the exclusive Severe Illusion track 'Hymn to the Airport Paranoids'.
In related news, the Severe Illusion side project Instans has been reanimated. Work on a new album is well under way, aiming for release on Advoxya Records in spring 2013.
