Editors follow ‘No Harm’, their first new music in two years which “leaked” via a hidden track on a Play It Again Sam label sampler, with the release of a further new song, ‘Marching Orders’ today.

Coming in at just short of 8 minutes ‘Marching Orders’, in all its unexpurgated glory, was recorded by the band in the Western Highlands of Scotland in early 2015 and mixed by Alan Moulder.

In a similar spirit to the ‘release’ of ‘No Harm’ (discovered by and posted to Youtube by an excited fan) Editors will continue their long standing relationship with Oxfam by gifting 300 hand stamped 12” test pressings of Marching Orders. These will be randomly placed and sold in selected Oxfam stores in the UK, Germany and Belgium. The initiative continues a long standing relationship between the charity and the band as Tom Smith explains

"We've been supporters of Oxfam's amazing, vital work for many years, from supporting their Oxfam unwrapped campaign back in Xmas 2007, performing at Oxjam gigs and also hosting Oxfam campaigners on our tours to help raise funds and spread the word about the charity with our fans."

Editors have announced an extensive UK and European tour from October. All dates are as follows

October

Fri 9, UK, Belfast, Limelight

Sat 10, Ireland, Dublin, Olympia Theatre

Mon 12, UK, Bristol, Colston Hall

Tue 13, UK, London, Hammersmith Apollo

Thu 15, UK, Portsmouth, Pyramid Centre

Fri 16, UK, Birmingham, O2 Academy

Sat 17, UK, Leeds, O2 Academy

Sun 18, UK, Glasgow, O2 ABC

Tue 20, UK, Newcastle, O2 Academy

Wed 21, UK, Cambridge, Junction SOLD OUT

Thu 22, UK, Manchester, Manchester Academy SOLD OUT

Wed 28, France, Paris, Le Trianon

Thu 29, France, Lille, Splendide SOLD OUT

Sat 31, Belgium, Brussels, Palais 12

November

Sun 1, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Den Atelier

Mon 2, Germany, Cologne, Koln Palladium

Wed 4, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall SOLD OUT

Thu 5, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall SOLD OUT

Fri 6, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall

Sun 8, Germany, Hamburg, Mehr Theater

Mon 9, Germany, Berlin, Columbiahalle

Tue 10, Germany, Offenbach, Stadthalle

Thu 12, Germany, Munich, Tonhalle

Fri 13, France, Strasbourg, Laiterie

Sun 15, France, Lyon, Radiant

Mon 16, Spain, Barcelona, Razzmatazz

Tue 17, Spain, Madrid, La Riviera

Fri, 27 Switzerland, Lausanne, Les Docks

Sat 28, Italy, Bologna, Paladozza

Sun 29, Austria, Vienna, Gasometer

December

Tue 1, Slovenia, Ljubljana, Kino Siska

Wed 2, Croatia, Zagreb, Culture Factory

Fri 4, Greece, Athens, Gazi Music Hall

Sat 5, Greece, Thessaloniki, Principal Club Theatre

Sun 6, Turkey, Istanbul, Volkswagen Arena

Tue 8, Hungary, Budapest, Barba Negra

Wed 9, Czech Republic, Prague, Roxy

Thu 10, Poland, Warsaw, Progresja Music Zone

Fri 11, Poland, Poznan, MTP2

Sun 13, Switzerland, Zurich, X-tra

Mon 14, France, Marseille, Espace Julien

Tue 15, France, Bordeaux, Le Rocher De Palme

MERCURY REV announce new studio album, "The Light In You", released 18th September on Bella Union, unveil new track "The Queen Of Swans", and play in Brussels 8th November

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.

The Light In You tracklisting:

The Queen Of Swans

Amelie

You've Gone With So Little For So Long

Central Park East

Emotional Freefall

Coming Up For Air

Autumn's In The Air

Are You Ready?

Sunflower

Moth Light 

Rainy Day Record

Mercury Rev Autumn tour:

Friday 18 September – TILBURG – Incubate Festival

Sunday 4 October – LEEDS – Brudenell Social Club

Monday 5 October – BRISTOL – Trinity

Friday 6 November – COPENHAGEN – DR Studio 2

Sunday 8 November – BRUSSELS – Botanique Orangerie

Monday 9 November – KOLN – Studio 672

Wednesday 11 November – BERLIN – Postbahnhof

Friday 13 November – ZAGREB – Lauba

Saturday 14 November – RAVENNA – Bronson

Sunday 15 November – MUNICH – Kranhalle 

Monday 16 November – PARIS – Alhambra 

Tuesday 17 November – BRIGHTON – Komedia

Thursday 19 November – GATESHEAD – The Sage

Friday 20 November – GLASGOW – Art School

Sunday 22 November– DUBLIN – Button Factory

Monday 23 November – MANCHESTER – RNCM

Tuesday 24 November – LONDON – OVAL SPACE

THE COMPLETE SERIES AS SEEN ON SKY ARTS

ARRIVES ON DVD 6th JULY 2015

Following the success of their most recent foreign language TV drama titles, notably Gommorah, The Legacy and 1864, and the upcoming Witnesses and The Saboteurs, Arrow Films will continue to house quality Scandi shows from various European territories under their ‘Nordic Noir’ label. 

These new releases will continue with the arrival of the new Swedish show, 30 Degrees in February which premiered recently on Sky Arts and arrives on DVD from 6th July 2015. Leaving the cold and snow of Scandinavia for the warm, sandy beaches of Thailand in the dead of winter is more than a dream, more than a holiday for a handful of Swedes. It’s the beginning of a life-changing adventure, a fresh start, a new life.

For the long-suffering wife of an abusive ex-pilot, it’s a chance to be treated with dignity and to taste the joys of freedom. For a lonely engineer who always dreamed of a loving family with several children, it’s the absurd plan of marrying a young Thai woman. And for an overambitious single-mother architect recovering from a stroke, it’s a possibility to relive the past with her two daughters on an island called Happiness. As their lives move deftly from one jolting event to another, they realise that while it may be impossible to completely leave their Nordic lives behind, it is possible to transcend their limits and reach satisfying moments of self-fulfilment.

Lumière will release the black comedy TURIST on 23rd June on both DVD and Blu-ray.(Specifications see below in Dutch part)
Director:Ruben Östlund
Writer:Ruben Östlund
Stars:Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren

A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down. With diners fleeing in all directions, mother Ebba calls for her husband Tomas as she tries to protect their children. Tomas, meanwhile, is running for his life... The anticipated disaster failed to occur, and yet the family's world has been shaken to its core, a question mark hanging over their father in particular. Tomas and Ebba's marriage now hangs in the balance as Tomas struggles desperately to reclaim his role as family patriarch.

MELTED SPACE is the creation of French composer Pierre le Pape, who bears a master degree in classical music and movie scores, here creating a modern opera that takes over the classical codes, including numerous characters, scenario, powerful orchestral arrangements and varied ambiances, all set to skilled and catchy songwriting and amazing casting. The new MELTED SPACE album, The Great Lie, features fourteen prestigious and unexpected singers, joined by seven talented guest musicians and The City of Prague Philarmonic Orchestra. Together, this cast has created an epic saga as powerful as moving, and by mixing the tradition of the classic opera with infectious heavy metal, The Great Lie promises to set a new milestone in the genre. The full cast of guests on the album includes David Vincent (Morbid Angel), Attila Csihar (Sunn O))), Mayhem), Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity), Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon), Ailyn Gimenéz (Sirenia), Kobi Fahri (Orphaned Land), Mariangela Demurtas (Tristania), Guillaume Bideau (Mnemic), Niklas Kvarforth (Shining), Sylvain Coudret (Soilwork), Adrien Grousset (Hacride), Christine Rhoades (Jeff Loomis), Manuel Munoz (The Old Dead Tree), Arnaud Strobl (Carnival In Coal), Clémentine Delauney (Visions Of Atlantis), Virginie Goncalves (Kells),
 

Initiated by pianist and composer Pierre Le Pape, MELTED SPACE stands as the first French metal opera boasting the air of a huge choral fresco, bringing together numerous female and male singers and musicians from the international metal scene. Powerful metal meets the refined essence of movie soundtrack-style movements the band has seduced a wide audience. MELTED SPACE's music is inspired by traditional symphonic metal but is also rooted in the black and death metal scenes, each coming to play depending on what action that is taking place within the story that Pierre is telling us.
 

MELTED SPACE began as an instrumental project by Le Pape in 2007, yet under the thumb of his electro-acoustic teacher, he created a universe of its own which can be described as a potential ultimate step in Dante's "Divine Comedy." The first record, 2009's There's A Place, was totally self-produced and while it was a completely instrumental album, it laid the foundations of the band's 2012-releaseed successor, From The Past, which really pushed the name further. Gathering twenty-six musicians, renowned female and male singers, From The Past received rapturous articles and one of the most enthusiastic welcomes. Following this success, Pierre didn't stop there and started to compose a mini-album entitled Between, which was released in May 2013 with Season Of Mist and PlasticHead handling French and European distribution. MELTED SPACE had gone further again as Pierre hired two internationally-known singers to interpret his songs: Liv Kristine (Leaves's Eyes, ex-Theater Of Tragedy) and Ashmedi (Melechesh). Le Pape then hired five talented musicians to go on tour with him as main support act for The Old Dead Tree's last tour in October 2013, and the motivation since has now resulted in additional tour and festival dates, and now, the most ambitious album from the collective yet, with The Great Lie.
 

Laser's Edge division, Sensory Records, will release The Great Lie on October 16th, 2015. Stand by for additional samples from the album and more to be issued in the weeks ahead.

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