To celebrate the release of ALTERED STATES, the Roach / Schulte collaboration RITUAL GROUND is now available on Bandcamp.
Twenty-five years ago, Solitaire appeared on the German e-music scene with Altered States. Projekt makes this album available for the first time digitally.
Altered States was the 1990 debut CD-release from SOLITAIRE. Founded by the duo Elmar Schulte and Rüdiger Gleisberg in 1989, they performed their first concert in Berlin, two days after the fall of the wall. Several CD productions followed Altered States including Ritual Ground (Elmar Schulte and Steve Roach), Fearless and Nocturnes (Elmar Schulte and Rüdiger Gleisberg). Solitaire created their own style somewhere between electronic, ambient and psychedelic. Solitaire’s music has been used in Hollywood films such as “Heat” and “Blade”.

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We’re delighted to announce that Saint Etienne‘s Sarah Cracknell releases a solo album, Red Kite, on 15th June. The album was recorded with co-producers Carwyn Ellis (Colorama) and Seb Lewsley (Edwyn Collins/The Cribs) in a makeshift studio in the heart of Oxfordshire during the winter of 2014/2015. It includes vocal contributions from Nicky Wire and The Rails (James Walbourne, Kami Thompson).

Red Kite marks Sarah’s first solo release since 1997’s Lipslide and is accompanied by a new single, ‘Nothing Left To Talk About’, which is a duet with Nicky Wire from the Manic Street Preachers.

This album is also available as a Limited Edition 12″ LP

Track List:

1 On The Swings

2 Nothing Left To Talk About (ft. Nicky Wire)

3 In The Dark

4 Ragdoll

5 Underneath The Stars

6 Hearts Are For Breaking

7 Take The Silver (ft. The Rails)

8 The Mutineer

9 I Close My Eyes

10 It’s Never Too Late

11 I Am Not Your Enemy

12 Favourite Chair 

FIDELIO: L'Odyssée d'Alice will be released on 5th August in our theatres.

A film by Lucie BORLETEAU
WithAriane LABED ('The Lobster', 'Before Midnight'), Melvil POUPAUD ('Laurence Anyways') and Anders DANIELSEN LIE ('Oslo, 31. August')

 
Thirty-year-old Alice's occupation is rather unusual for a woman : she works as an engineer on a freighter. She loves her job and does it competently but even in a greasy blue overall a woman will be a woman, with her heart, her desires and her seduction... In such conditions can an all-male crew really remain totally insensitive to her charms? A situation all the more complicated as not only does Alice leave her fiancé Felix behind but she also discovers on board the Fidélio that the captain is Gaël, her first love...

Though known as a touring and recording musician associated with Nine Inch Nails, Alessandro Cortini has really come into his own via his Forse trilogy, and his 2014 Hospital Productions debut, Sonno. For his Hospital follow-up, he maintains the grittiness and intimacy introduced on his debut, but expands upon it, offering a wider spectrum of emotion and depth. 

Like Sonno, Risveglio was written and recorded while on tour. The drive to create intimate works during late-night downtime reveal Cortini to be committed to personal vision beyond the call of duty. While Sonno was created using only a Roland 202 and delay, Risveglio adds a Roland TB303, synced to the 202.

In his own words, "The 303 can be such a haunting instrument used in a certain way, and I felt it completely fit the mood of the previous work I have done on the 202, especially when given a specific location in space....it’s such a living instrument." The addition of Roland TR606 gives one of the pieces a rhythmic pulse that separates it from the preceding synthscapes and renders Risveglio altogether a more dynamic affair than Sonno. 

With Risveglio, Cortini implores and emphasizes the imperfections and visceral textures of electronics vacant from so much contemporary solo synthesizer music. Furthermore Cortini carves out a similar space to what Kevin Drumm's Hospital releases have done for the worlds of Drone and Noise by finding the emotional and ultimately human voice within synthesis. 

Alessandro Cortini will be presenting both Sonno and Risveglio in a live audio-visual performance at this years upcoming Berlin Atonal festival taking place August 19th-23rd. 

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Rob Zombie is ready to expand beyond the horror genre. Zombie and Miranda Bailey have acquired the rights to Steve Stoliar’s memoir Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House. Love & Mercy co-writer Oren Moverman will write the screenplay and Zombie is attached to direct. Cold Iron Pictures’ Miranda Bailey and Amanda Marshall are producing along with Zombie and Andy Gould.

The book tells the bizarre story of the last years in the life of Groucho Marx, told by a young Marx Brothers fan who spent those years as his personal secretary and archivist. In addition to getting to know his hero, the author found himself in the orbit of Groucho’s brothers Zeppo and Gummo, Mae West, George Burns, Bob Hope, Jack Lemmon, S.J. Perelman, Steve Allen, and scores of other luminaries of stage, screen, TV and literature. The downside of this dream-come-true was getting close to his idol as the curtain was coming down, and dealing with Erin Fleming – the mercurial woman in charge of Groucho’s personal and professional life.

There have been proposed projects about the life of Groucho and his Marx Brothers, the most recent from Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the Big Eyes scribes who were going to direct a Marx Brothers movie but just could not get the budget down. This is a different way to tell the story and the choice of director is certainly unexpected.

Zombie, the multi-platinum recording artist-turned film director, made his mark directing small budget profitable genre films like House Of 1000 Corpses, two Halloween films, Lords Of Salem and the currently shooting 31, about five people kidnapped on the eve of Halloween and placed in a lethal funhouse called Murder World. But I’ve seen how meticulous Zombie is in the preparation and design of these fright films, and he could well make the kind of transition that Saw helmer James Wan and others have made from genre to more mainstream fare. He is separately writing to direct Broad Street Bullies, a film about the Philadelphia Flyers hockey teams that brawled their way to prominence. So while he would not be the obvious choice to make a touching film about the last days of iconic Groucho Marx based on his resume, turns out Zombie is a huge fan of the comic and is steeped in Marx Brothers lore.

“I have been a huge Groucho Marx fan ever since I was a child and have read countless book on the comic legend, but after reading the book Raised Eyebrows, a totally new perspective on Groucho’s life emerged,” says Zombie. “I immediately saw this project as Groucho’s Sunset Boulevard and knew I had to bring it to the big screen. It is a sad, funny and very dark tale of a one of Hollywood’s greatest stars final years.”

Bailey’s Cold Iron Pictures produced the upcoming Sony Pictures Classics film The Diary Of A Teenage Girl, which Marielle Heller directed with Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgard, Christopher Meloni and Bel Powley starring. Bailey twice worked with Morverman on Time Out Of Mind and Oppenheimer Strategies, both of which star Richard Gere.

“Steve’s story detailing his experience with one of the most iconic comedians of our time was so poignantly crafted, and such a compelling read, that I immediately knew it was a project I wanted to be involved with. Rob is the perfect visionary to direct Oren’s script to the screen.” ICM Partners is handling sales for the film. Moverman is repped by WME and Zombie is repped by UTA, Spectacle Entertainment and attorney David Fox.

Source: Deadline.com