September Mourning Reaches Initial Kickstarter Funding Goal & Announces Stretch Goals
Alternative, Hard Rock Transmedia Project September Mourning, alongside Top Cow Productions, were able to reach their initial Kickstarter funding goal for the first issue of the September Mourning comic book in under 72 hours! The first stretch goal of $20,000 has been announced. When the stretch goal is reached, every person receiving a print or digital copy of September Mourning #1 will now also receive a corresponding digital and/or print copy of September Mourning #2 with a new Summeye Kesgin cover! This is a completely separate comic and continues the story of September Mourning. This exclusive cover edition will only be available through Kickstarter. The #2 issue is not a separate pledge level, it's a stretch goal added to all who receive #1. So you can pledge other levels or spread the word about the campaign to your friends to help push over the $20,000 pledge level. Other added rewards include T-Shirts, Hoodies, Tank Tops, & some amazing deals from Top Cow. You can make a pledge on September Mourning's Kickstarter page HERE.
About September Mourning's Kickstarter Campaign:
September Mourning is a character that was created by Emily Lazar (aka September) with Mark Silvestri, founder & CEO of Top Cow Productions, Inc. The band alongside Top Cow are running a Kickstarter campaign to bring September Mourning's story from the stage to the pages of a comic book. An amazing all female team has been assembled to bring the story to life. The first issue has already been written by Mariah McCourt, illustrated by Summeye Kesgin, and conceptualized by Emily Lazar (September Mourning) & Marc Silvestri. There are many reward tiers for donations with comic and music gifts to be had. You can check out September Mourning's Kickstarter page at this link.
Today the sextet has unveiled more details on their upcoming studio album entitled SOVRAN. The album is set to be released on October, 30th via Napalm Records!
SOVRAN will enthrall with the classic DRACONIAN sound! The formation revolving around Anders Jacobsson and new singer Heike Langhans delivers first-class songs that continue to prove the band's supremacy within the darkly genre!
A Gathering Together is Ron Morelli’s second full-length for Hospital Productions: a 'techno' cacophony brought to its granular detail and reduced to its most elemental tonal depths. A cohesive fusion of surreal and feverish deja vu loops, brittle noise, fucked rhythms, scrap metal percussions, pro-one metal synths, and an injection of near-buried, Drano vocal samples, it’s a fearsome celebration of brokenness, of amplified surroundings.
Stereo-shifting drones and driving rhythms that tell the stories of those now gone, more a soundtrack for a wake than 4/4 crafted for the dancefloor. There’s a naked anxiety at work that doesn't turn away from loss, but runs with an excited melancholy that looks to a future that won’t exist. The boldness of the gestures are not to be confused with exuberance.
With this effort Morelli has shown remarkable restraint and patience most notably highlighted on title track 'A Gathering Together.' An intense cut born from rapid-paced dead-end urban environments that force people together. It's a calling to do more, include more, and celebrate the many forms within those inconspicuous places.
Upon numerous listens, it's clear the sound design is a reflection of heavy compositional themes that suggest a greater whole. This is hard, dirty techno--humid, reduced, bare bones, yet dense and dissolved to its electronic soil.
Heavy without being oppressive, it is the culmination of many elements pulled from all spheres of modern electronics, eaten, digested, and spit back out. Produced at the end of 2014, with final mixdown and additional production in spring 2015 by Krikor Kouchian and Ron Morelli in Paris, Hospital Productions is proud to offer A Gathering Together.
About Ron Morelli:
Quietly kicking around the New York City underground since the late-nineties, Ron Morelli started the L.I.E.S. label in 2010 as an outlet to release the music of a tight knit group of friends who were making tracks around the city. What started as a small project to release his own music and those of local producers, the label slowly evolved as more people came out of the woodwork with their contributions.
As time has progressed, the label continues on to be a highly respected institution and consistent mainstay in the weird world of off center electronic music. Releases have come from the likes of artists as diverse as techno pioneer Adam-X, Dutch synth master Legowelt, Black Dice's Eric Copeland, upstart house producer Delroy Edwards, and Miami native Greg Beato all appeared on L.I.E.S. expansive roster.
2013 and 2014 saw Morelli step a bit further into the production realm, releasing two albums and one 12 inch for New York City's Hospital Productions imprint run by Dominick Fernow. He continues to work closely with Hospital with regards to his production and DJ's on a weekly basis around the globe.
Days after releasing the the film's new poster, The Weinstein Company has debuted the official teaser for Tarantino's latest genre epic, "The Hateful Eight." The Western follows a bounty hunter (Kurt Russell) traveling with a prisoner (a roughed up Jennifer Jason Leigh) to Wyoming. While taking shelter from the winter cold at a trading post lodge, they encounter a group of men who can't be trusted and who all want their hands on the bounty. Samuel Jackson, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Bruce Dern, Walton Goggins and Damian Bechir round out the star-studded cast
Watch below....
Twin Peaks' road to revival has not been without its obstacles. In the year since Showtime announced that the cult drama was coming back after a two-decade hiatus, co-creator David Lynch briefly pulled out due to a contract dispute, and fellow co-creator Mark Frost hinted that the limited series wouldn't be ready until 2017.
Fans may not have to wait that long, after all. Speaking at Thursday's Television Critics Association summer press tour, Showtime president David Nevins confirmed that production would get underway in just a matter of weeks. "Shooting starts in September, thankfully," he said.
There is still no confirmed news about cast additions on top of original lead Kyle MacLachlan, but Nevins said that there would soon be announcements about other favorites who would be returning to the series.
As far as timing goes, Nevins noted that it's still too soon to tell if the series indeed will be ready for 2016 and not 2017, as Frost has implied. "I want it as badly as some of the biggest fans in the world want it, so I'm hoping we make 2016," said Nevins. "It's not clear. It's ultimately going to be in their control. They're going to shoot the whole thing, and then they'll be in post [production]."
Lynch, as of now, indeed is directing every episode and is approaching it as one long movie. No exact episode count was given — Nevins described it as "open-ended" — but it will be more than the original nine episodes planned at the time of last October's order. Conflict over the number of episodes, it turns out, was the reason that Lynch publicly distanced himself from the project.
"I never had any doubts we were going to get him back.... This was a huge priority project for me," admitted Nevins. "It became clear that it was going to take more than [the] nine episodes that we originally planned for and budgeted for. We had to work out the details. I really wanted David to direct the whole thing. It's looking in great shape."
When pushed on who has made deals to return — rumored castmembers include Sherilyn Fenn and Michael Ontkean — Nevins said that not everything had been finalized but that the characters viewers expect to see on the show will make an appearance.
Nevins wrapped up Twin Peaks talk by saying that he had read all of the scripts, but he is letting the creators steer the ship themselves. "I would call them conversations, not notes," he said. "Ultimately, [Lynch] has creative control. He deserves it."
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
