On this day, 32 years ago, MOEV released its fourth album, Head Down (8 August 1990). It was their last album released on Nettwerk Records and the last one featuring singer Dean Russell, who died in 1994 of complications due to AIDS. In an interview Dean Russell once explained what the name of the band meant, he stated that "Mauve - M.A.U.V.E is a pretty purplish pink, and Moev - M.O.E.V. is the colour of insanity". After Dean's passing the band took a 10 years break and returned in 2011 with a new studio album Ventilation. In 2014 they released their, up to today, latest album "One Minute World, albeit only in digital format.
The album features Sarah McLachlan on backing vocals on a few tracks.
MOEV - Head/Down (1990 LP/CD)
1. In and Out 5:43
2. Sadistic Years 4:32
3. No Flash in the Sky 4:23
4. Fear 4:07
5. Noise 4:20
6. Head Down 5:02
7. Smog 3:53
8. Face 4:23
9. Miracle 4:29
CD bonus tracks
10. In and Out (Extended Mix) 7:30
11. Head Down (Extended Mix) 6:24
MOEV
Dean Russell – vocals, production
Tom Ferris – keyboards, programming, production
Kelly Cook – bass, drums, programming, guitar, keyboards, production
Sarah McLachlan – background vocals (4, 5, 7)
Producer
John Fryer – Producer, Drum Programming, Recording
Neo-Fanfare/Darkwave Band, Crooniek Reflects On The Concept Of Time With New Album
Darkwave/'Neo-Fanfare" Band, Crooniek has just unveiled their new full-length release, Trail Of Time. Thematically, this album reflects on the concept of time. In particular, the inspiration for Trail Of Time is the conflict between the known past and the unwritten future. The future remains hidden and we do not yet know it. But we do know the past.
This album is a nostalgic journey through the past of driving force Gerry Croon, his musical projects ('Parade of the 'Funeral Fanfare') and his relationship with his own birthplace Kampenhout, a small village in Belgium, known for his chicory cultivation.
After all, at a certain age, you realize that time is running out and, without realizing it and you ask yourself, "did I do it right ?" "Could I do better or would I do it differently now?" You realize that you have lost friends & acquaintances along the way, because your life path is going in a different direction.
Although this continues to gnaw, you have to accept this. While in the past, time seems to move slowly, humanity now appears to be driving the world into destruction in an express train.
Several partnerships and new inspiration have resulted in the album, Trail Of Time. It contains brand new songs together with new versions of older material. Neo-classical and neo-fanfare styles are combined with a whiff of gothic/ambient.
Trail Of Time is available on CD and digital formats NOW!
Post-Punk Artist Daniel Ouellette Brings Life To A Haunted House With New Album
Post-Punk artist Daniel Ouellette has just unveiled his new full-length LP, El Salon (A Happy Home Is A Haunted Home).
El Salon is a post-punk, synth-pop, new wave concept album that sings of the pleasures and difficulties of life within the setting of a haunted house. The album is also multi-lingual. Daniel will sing to you in Spanish about a werewolf, in English about a Ouija board, in Portuguese about a haunted house and in French about bats at Christmas time.
The title of the album, El Salón has multiple meanings. In Spanish it can reference a classroom, an art studio, a living room and of course, a salon. Daniel Ouellette says, "The best place I have learned to speak is in living rooms with loved ones who speak Spanish and this the title is in honor of my mates, my loved ones to whom I speak Spanish."
The album's subtitle pulls the concept of the album together. Should our protagonist buy a house that may be haunted? Each song tells a tale of joy or horror; what a home can be. Maybe some of us never want to leave our homes and others need to run. Or should we dance around our living room perhaps like a specter?
About the style and process of the album...
"The musical style that I wanted was a bit of a soft, warm synthpop approach. The first song comes in lyrically and musically right at you, but from there I was wanting to entice with softer tones and warmer singing than perhaps in some past recordings.
Almost of these songs were written by recording the percussion patterns and vocals and then adding the synth/keyboard parts after. This is a very back to haunted home for me because I had been working with musical instruments like strings, guitar, bass, accordion, etc. I wanted the beauty of simplicity."
- Daniel Ouellette
Industrial bass artist SINthetik Messiah addresses violence in The Vatican with new single
Louisiana-based industrial bass artist SINthetik Messiah has unleashed a provocative new single. "Assassins That Run On Faith" takes aim at violence and abuse in the Vatican.
"For 1,000s of years inside the Vatican a covenant of nuns exist solely to rid the evil of this world. Through sheer violence, this covenant was able to bring the Vatican to its current day power." - Bug Gigabyte
Included in the recording is an authentic recording of Pope Francis apologizing to nuns for abuse.
The release includes a remix by none other than Tom Shear of Assemblage 23.
"Assassins That Run On Faith" is available on all digital platforms including Bandcamp now!
The unavoidable, staggering and pioneering Bill Leeb of Front Line Assembly fame is back and in full force with industrial project NOISE UNIT. Today, Noise Unit announces the release of stunning full-length offering Cheeba City Blues out 21st October 2022 via powerhouse label Artoffact Records and share first single "Alone Again". The full length is in honour of the late electronic genius Jeremy Inkel (also of FLA fame) whose music is featured throughout.
"Alone Again" is a powerful track featuring candescent vocals from Leeb, sprawling ambience and punchy beats. An ode to growing old and losing our fight against time, the single is one of acceptance and staring into the dark, icy fate of death itself.
The album title, Cheeba City Blues, references William Gibson's novel "Neuromancer" set in Chibi City, Japan. It is considered one of the first in the cyberpunk genre, prompting Noise Unit to explore the various stylistic differences in cyberpunk, industrial and electronic/EBM in-depth. This mechanical miasma is nuanced and multifaceted yet recalls the essence and fluidity of Front Line Assembly. A true masterpiece, the record captures the enthralling soundscapes championed by Leeb and Inkel like no other. With arguably two of the most profound pioneers of the genre, Noise Unit is a force to be reckoned with.
CHEEBA CITY BLUES TRACKLIST:
1. Molecule
2. Alone Again
3. Cheeba City Blues
4. Creepo
5. Dub it Up
6. Orson Welles Was Right
7. Reality is Less Than TV
8. Still Alive
9. Spaceman
10. Heal all Wounds
11. Nervous
12. Slow motion06:09
13. Ether
14. Trentunit
Cheeba City Blues is the follow up to Noise Unit's 2021 record Deviator, also released via Artoffact Records. Deviator was the first full length from Noise Unit in over 15 years and included work by Leeb and Rhys Fulber. An exhilarating piece, the album saw praise from various outlets calling it, "a sweet taste of archetypal electro/EBM as only the pioneers could offer" (ReGen Magazine) and, "in rivethead heaven while Deviator spins", (V13 Media).
