Filmed by Mia Kirby and Sierra Swan, the teaser video features “never”, “boom boom” and “he fresh”.
Co-produced by jennylee and Norm Block, the 10 songs on right on! were all written by jennylee, and recorded earlier this spring at Happy Ending Studios in Silverlake, CA.
Joining Jenny on the album are: Norm Block (Plexi, Mark Lanegan), Dan Elkan (Them Hills, Broken Bells) and Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa. Additional players include Tony Bevilacqua, Kris Byerly, Katie Burden, Kirk Hellie, Jonathan Hishcke and Cedric LeMoyne.
While right on! retains some of Jenny’s signature Warpaint groove, she incorporates New Wave and Goth elements into her solo work. Her breathy voice and her meticulous bass playing create a new aura that is hazy and dreamy, and essentially all jennylee.
jennylee and her band will be giving fans an early preview of the album in New York at Baby’s All Right on November 4th.
Tracklisting:
1. blind
2. boom boom
3. never
4. long lonely winter
5. bully
6. riot
7. he fresh
8. offerings
9. white devil
Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm announce Double-CD release ‘Collaborative Works’ – comprising all three vinyl EPs ‘Loon’, ‘Stare’ and ‘Life Story Love And Glory’ as well as 7 new songs from their ‘Trance Frendz’ studio film
‘Stare’ (2012) was the very first collaborative recording made by Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm – a true family effort featuring long-time collaborator and cellist Anne Müller, which took place in 2011 between Reykjavík and Berlin. Originally released as a strictly limited 10-inch vinyl record exclusive on Record Store Day 2012, this long sold-out must-have was re-issued on July 17, 2015 – this time in 12-inch format. Óli and Nils recorded and mixed their first collaborative record between Reykjavík and Berlin as a surprise release for label founder Robert Raths.
‘Loon’ (2015) is a synthesiser-led 5-track EP that was recorded in autumn 2014 across five days at Nils’s Durton Studio in Berlin, and continues with the ambient sounds of ‘Stare’ but with the addition of more percussive elements and dub influences. For ‘Loon’ they wired the Oberheim 4 Voice and a Korg PS3100 to the patch bay/mixing desk and performed live takes. With all four hands on its pots, all mixes were recorded straight onto 2-track ½-inch tape. 'Life Story Love And Glory' (2015) is a 2-track live improve affair on two pianos, also recorded at Nils’s place in October 2012, the day before the two went on the road for the Erased Tapes 5th Anniversary Tour. It was released on August 21, 2015 as a surprise 7” available through record stores only, two weeks ahead of its digital release, and entered the Official UK Vinyl Single Charts at #3, still remaining in the Top 10 after 3 weeks.
‘Trance Frendz’ (2015) is the audio recording of their intimate 45-minute studio film. Originally planned as a short video session of previously released tracks, instead the two ended up recording seven brand new improvisations – showcasing the nature of their musical friendship. It was revealed on September 1, 2015 as part of their joint website www.arnaldsfrahm.com
"The music on this CD is a collection of our studio collaborations from recent years. We would meet in Reykjavik or Berlin with the intention to share some days off work, hiking, swimming or eating pizza. That is great for a couple days, but after a while we would always end up back in the studio, fiddling with synths or pianos. This collection of recordings cannot be an album. It will remain a collage of our studio experiments of the past. It simply is convenient to have them all together here, so you don’t need to look out for some limited 10” somewhere or deal with a nerdy record dealer in Japan to track down this one 7 ̋ which will turn out to sound pretty rough anyways... consider them as moments in space and time where we shared the same room for some days to come down and enjoy making music. After deciding to release the studio collaborations, we planned to do a video session of us performing an improvised duet to promote the release.
On the 28th of July 2015 we met up at Durton Studio in Berlin and invited Alexander Schneider and his camera to document it. But instead of ending the session after the first take we continued improvising throughout the night, ending up with several new pieces written and recorded in 8 hours with no overdubs and no edits.
Teeth Out is the debut album from The Silence Set, released on November 6th via the Scottish, independent label mini50.
Some collaborations start out with a fully formed idea of the end result. The creative process becomes something of a straight line, a mapped out road towards a clearly visible and tangible goal. The Silence Set didn’t begin this way.
It began with total freedom, a tabula rasa in the truest sense. It began from a mutual respect and from an idea of working without limitations or boundaries.
The Silence Set consists of Gothenburg based musicians and composers Dag Rosenqvist and Johan G Winther. The former perhaps best known as the now defunct Jasper TX and for his From the Mouth of the Sun project with Aaron Martin, the latter for his work in angular math rock outfit Scraps of Tape and from his previous solo effort as Tsukimono.
Over the course of three years, the sounds of acoustic guitar, pump organ, piano, banjo and voice were caught on tape, rearranged, processed and, coupled with other sounds and recordings, left waiting for months on end. All the while life changed, relationships ended, new life began and older lives ended. More sounds were recorded, arranged, and left to wait.
Finally tracks started to emerge. Tracks with lyrics and titles, some sort of structure; something resembling actual songs. Slowly an album began to take shape. Kristofer Ström joined in to perform trumpet on one track. Heather Woods Broderick (wonderful musician in her own right and recently part of Sharon Van Etten’s band) played flute, wrote lyrics and sang. Nils Frahm contributed both his mixing skills as well as synthesizer.
Eventually an album was complete, only to be left waiting for months on end. And life changed even more.
First they brought the dark flames to their native country – and then set the rest of the world aflame with milestone records including Irreligious and Night Eternal. Following the successful release of their eleventh studio album Extinct in March 2015, which exploded on the charts worldwide, the dark metal pioneers in MOONSPELL have just released a brand new music video for the track “Domina”!
Catch MOONSPELL live, when they will hit the road for the following extensive European tour in Fall 2015. Then be prepared for many more shows to come!
The Road To Extinction Tour 2015 Part 2:
23.10.2015 AT – Innsbruck / Weekender
24.10.2015 HU – Budapest / Barba Negra
25.10.2015 AT – Graz / PPC
26.10.2015 AT – Vienna / Szene
27.10.2015 SK – Bratislava / Majestic Music Club
28.10.2015 PL – Cracov / Fabryka
29.10.2015 PL – Poznan / Eskulap
30.10.2015 PL – Warsaw / Progresja
31.10.2015 PL – Gdansk / B90
01.11.2015 LT – Vilnius / Forum Palace
02.11.2015 LV – Riga / Melna Piektdiena
03.11.2015 EE – Tallinn / Rockclub Tapper
04.11.2015 FI – Jyväskylä / Lutakko
05.11.2015 FI – Tampere / Klubi
06.11.2015 FI – Helsinki / Tavastia
07.11.2015 FI – Joensuu / Kerubi
09.11.2015 SE – Stockholm / Debaser Strand
10.11.2015 NO – Oslo / John Dee
11.11.2015 SE – Gothenburg / Sticky Fingers
12.11.2015 DK – Copenhagen / Pumpehuset
14.11.2015 DE – Glauchau / Alte Spinnerei
15.11.2015 CZ – Zlin / Winter Masters of Rock
16.11.2015 DE – Nürnberg / Hirsch
17.11.2015 CH – Solothurn / Kulturfabrik Kofmehl
18.11.2015 IT – Brescia / Circo Colony
19.11.2015 DE – Lindau / Club Vaudeville
20.11.2015 FR – Strasbourg / Laiterie
21.11.2015 BE – Huy / Atelier Rock
MERCURY REV announce new studio album, "The Light In You", released 2nd October on Bella Union.
Concert : 08.11.2015 Botanique, Brussels
Bella Union are excited to announce the long-awaited return of US alt-rock legends Mercury Rev whose new album The Light In You will be released 18th September via the label. The band have just unveiled a track from the LP entitled ‘The Queen Of Swans’, which is streaming HERE, and announced an extensive European tour, the dates of which are below.
As Mercury Rev began recording their eighth studio album in autumn 2013, when asked what people could expect, co-pilot Grasshopper responded, “Steel Resonator Mandolin. Timpani. Sleigh Bells. All sorts of electric guitars…..” He subsequently added, “It is the best stuff we have done in a long, long time. Gonna be big sounding!”
Two years on, The Light In You more than lives up to its billing. The record is filled with wondrous and voluminous kaleidoscopic detail, but also intimate moments of calm, and altogether stands up to the very best that this notable band of maverick explorers has ever created. Its ecstatic highs and shivery comedowns also reflect a particularly turbulent era in the lives of Grasshopper and fellow co-founder Jonathan Donahue, of calamities both personal and physical, but also rebirths and real births (Grasshopper became a father for the first time in 2014). There's a reason for the seven-year gap since the band's last album, Snowflake Midnight.
“It was one of those otherworldly life sequences, when everything you think is solid turns molten,” explains Jonathan. “But also, when something is worth saying, it can take a long time to say it, rather than just blurt it out.”
As well as The Light In You being the first Mercury Rev album with Bella Union, it’s also the first with only Jonathan and Grasshopper at the controls, as scheduling conflicts and travel between the Catskills and Dave Fridmann's Tarbox studio became too great to overcome. On The Light In You, Jonathan and Grasshopper decided they were best served being based at home in the Catskills for once. Surrounded by longtime friends such as engineer Scott Petito and bassist Anthony Molina, Jonathan and Grasshopper quickly found their stride recording themselves in their own basement studio as well as venturing out into the daylight to record tracks at some of their old haunts like NRS and White Light Studios. The two even found time to arrange backing vocal harmonies and record with Ken Stringfellow at his studio Son du Blé studios in Paris.
Yet from its title down, the album clearly reflects the core relationship between Jonathan and Grasshopper, best friends since they were teenagers, who accompanied each other through the musical changes, band fractures and exulted breakthroughs that has marked Mercury Rev’s career since they emerged with the extraordinary Yerself Is Steam in 1991.
“You can go as deep as you want with the title, on a metaphorical, spiritual level, or just poetic license,” Jonathan suggests. “It’s the beacon that shines and allows us to see ourselves – and then there’s the music between Grasshopper and I, which is how we reflect each other. The arc of the album, lyrically, is someone who’s gone through an incredible period of turbulence, sadness and uncertainty, and as the album progresses, a light appears on the water.”
The album’s track-listing follows a similar trajectory, from the opening slow-build cascade of ‘The Queen Of Swans’, through the epic lonely beauty of ‘Central Park East’ and the album’s half-way peak between ‘Emotional Freefall’ and ‘Are You Ready’ before the closing sequence, with the exhilarating pop beacons of ‘Sunflower’ and ‘Rainy Day Record’ sandwiching the more tranquil ‘Moth Light’. The light is reflected both by the album’s brilliantine colours and imagery drawn largely from the elements and the seasons, creating a world as only Mercury Rev know how. “It’s like taking a drug, but not actually taking a drug,” Grasshopper reckons. “Just sit back and enter and immerse yourself.”
Since Snowflake Midnight, Jonathan and Grasshopper have stayed productive, for example with their improvised collective, Mercury Rev's Cinematic Sound Tettix BrainWave Concerto Experiment at John Zorn's club in NYC, creating live soundtracks to favourite films at various junctures across Europe (most recently in London as part of Swans’ Mouth To Mouth festival in 2014). There were also occasional festival shows such as headlining 2014’s Green Man festival to celebrate the deluxe version of 1998 opus Deserter’s Songs.
“Playing tracks again from Deserter’s Songs helped us look at where we’ve been, and where we were going,” says Grasshopper. “Though by no means did we want to make Deserter’s Songs Two, we did feel we had some loose ends to tie up.”As Grasshopper once commented about Deserter’s Songs, “It’s special because that was the one that brought us back from the brink.” The Light In You is special for that very same reason.
The Light In You will be released worldwide on 18th September via Bella Union.
