The longstanding and prolific experimentalist project, Controlled Bleeding, will return with its first proper studio album since 2002, entitled Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps, this summer on Artoffact Records. An eclectic mix of industrial, progressive rock, jazz and heavy metal influences, Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps will be released as a 2CD digipak and digital download on August 26, with a 2LP edition, housed in a beautiful gatefold sleeve, to be released on September 23.

Originally formed nearly 40 years ago in 1978, New York-based Controlled Bleeding remains one of the most hard to classify and avant-garde experimental projects. The band's output ranges from brutal noise to eclectic industrial, from avant-jazz to prog rock, and its works have appeared on Tone Casualties, Wax Trax, Broken Flag, Soleilmoon, Sub Rosa and more. Controlled Bleeding today is Paul Lemos, Anthony Meola, Mike Bazini, and Chvad SB.

Stay tuned for more information on Controlled Bleeding and Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps, out this summer on Artoffact Records.

With a first video teaser electro pioneers X-MARKS THE PEDWALK reveal the title of album no. 9 in a long band history since 1988. „SECRETS“ is currently under construction. Sevren Ni-Arb and Estefanìa are working in the studio and they hope to announce a release date soon.

You can leave your bags right here, for you definitely won’t need any of it on your stirring trip with CRAYVEN into the twilight zone of „All The Sordid Details“.

Somewhere between illusion and reality the ugly truth will arise from bittersweet melodies and linger on a skillfully woven fabric of distinctive riffing, powerful cellos and chilly electronic elements.

The band leader of this aspiring group will give you chills with her relentlessy forceful and versatile voice and thrill you just like the excellent drummer, who has been successful for years with the legendary German black metal band MIGHTIEST.

darkTunes is proud to present you the new lyrics video taken from the debut album of this amazing band from Freiburg (Germany).

Psy'Aviah and Kyoko Baertsoen launch a brand new music video for their most recent collaboration "Alcubierre Drive": The song is taken from the most recent Psy'Aviah full length "Seven Sorrows, Seven Stars".
Both the music, atmosphere and lyrics draw from the movie Interstellar's thematics and atmosphere. It's a kind of personal soundtrack to the movie where father and daughter are being seperated. But those events are transposed to the "real world", where to lovers, friends and family sometimes grow apart due to work, differen lifestyles and much more... As the chorus says: "Breaking the wall of sound, chasing the speed of light, we grew apart, we lost each other".

The music video is edited by Yves Schelpe and portrays vocalist Kyoko Baertsoen in a special "magic" almost "outworldy" atmosphere. This to create a link to the movie that inspired both this song and the album "Seven Sorrows, Seven Stars", but also to create a certain distance from the vocalist & the viewer to symbolise the "growing apart".

LYRICS:

time, crusaders of space

moving on the waves

past, present, future

as planets gravity moved us

towards each other

breaking the wall of sound

chasing the speed of light

we grew apart, we lost each other

out of time, out of sync

we grew apart, we lost each other

moving, once we were

on the same speed at the same rate

floating into space

moving on the waves

pulling me away

on a path to forever

breaking the wall of sound

chasing the speed of light

we grew apart, we lost each other

out of time, out of sync

we grew apart, we lost each other

out of time, out of sync

out of time, out of sync

we are chasing the speed

we lost each other

breaking the wall of sound

chasing the speed of light

we grew apart, we lost each other

out of time, out of sync

we grew apart, we lost each other

breaking the wall of sound

chasing the speed of light

we grew apart, we lost each other

out of time, out of sync

we grew apart, we lost each other

Bella Union are thrilled to announce the release of Killer Road, a collaborative project between Soundwalk Collective, Patti Smith and Jesse Smith, on 2nd September. The album's title track is currently premiering on Pitchfork and can be heard by clicking on image above.

A shimmering ambient tone, an electronic underlay to the lulling chatter of crickets, makes way for the unmistakable voice of Patti Smith, quietly intoning, ominously, “The killer road is waiting for you / like a finger, pointing in the night.”

Behind the music and concept of Killer Road is international trio Soundwalk Collective – Stephan Crasneanscki, Simone Merli and Kamran Sadeghi, plus Patti Smith’s daughter Jesse Paris Smith – who conceived an immersive exploration of the tragic death of Christa Päffgen. Better known as Nico, the Velvet Underground chanteuse and solo pioneer, Päffgen died while riding her bike on the island of Ibiza in the summer of 1988. Ironically, she’d recently got her health back, after fifteen years of heroin addiction. It was Nico’s body’s reaction to its new sobriety, and the fact she was cycling at the hottest time of the day, on the hottest day of the year, that was to prove her undoing.

In the years before she died, Nico had not neglected her creative muse, writing poetry that would never be published, or heard, until now, in the form of the opening title track, Killer Road. The tracks that follow are eight interpretations of Nico lyrics, predominantly taken from classic albums such as Desertshore and Drama of Exile, arranged by fellow poet and kindred spirit Patti Smith.

The roots of Killer Road lie in a fortuitous meeting on an airplane bound for New York. One passenger was Smith; the other was Soundwalk Collective founder Crasneanscki. Soundwalk had previously been a collaborative series of walking guides to cities that created an idiosyncratic and evocative understanding for the listener, before evolving into musical frameworks for field recordings and sight specific sound installations and performances using a variety of texts and themes.

Killer Road was initially a live audio-visual experience, at the French Institute Alliance Francaise in New York as part of 2014’s Crossing the Line festival, with subsequent performances taking place in London and Berlin. Finally, we now we have the recorded version, a poignant, profound, imaginative exploration and tribute nearly 30 years after that fateful summer’s day.