Artist: FIELD ROTATION
Album: FATALIST: THE REPETITION OF HISTORY
Format: CD | LP | DIGITAL
Release: 15 February 2013
Label: Denovali/Cargo
FIELD ROTATION was founded 2008 by the electronic music composer and producer Christoph Berg in Kiel, Northern Germany. Experimenting with electronic and classical elements this project combines floating soundscapes with electro- acoustic colours to create minimalistic soundtracks renouncing of visualisation but interacting with the listeners emotions and feelings. As a violinist and pianist Christoph combines the synthetic sound engineering with natural sounds to commu- nicate his short acoustic tales and impressions.
After various EPs, remixes, collaborations, and compilation contributions, his main release so far, the album 'Acoustic Tales', was released in 2011. It is certainly an understatement to say that 'Acoustic Tales' received a positive response from both the general audience and the music press:
With his new album FIELD ROTATION concentrates on the more classically based production, continuing and expanding upon the musical idea of his 'Acoustic Tales' project. 'FATALIST: THE REPETITION OF HISTORY' is marked by a notice- able inner fragility, the contrast between bitter harshness and stirring melancholy. In the fatalist view of history, the ancient Greeks thought that just as the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter repeat themselves every year, history would do the same and follow a cyclic course. This may or may not be true, however, Field Rotation has certainly succeeded once again in composing an album which will ease as many minds as it will thoroughly shake.
Artist: ONEIROGEN
Album: KIASMA
Format: CD | 2xLP | DIGITAL
Release: 22 February 2013
After the debut album "Hypnos" and the "Veni Nox Anima" EP finally new material of this New York based composer. With ONEIROGEN, Mario Diaz de Leon creates his own style of hallucinatory music, merging ethereal synths, brutal distortion, dark ambient and noise. The project was initiated in 2012 with the release of "Hypnos", which garnered widespread acclaim among fans of experimental and heavy music for its varied and cinematic intensity. Steve Smith of the New York Times praised the disc for its "hallucinatory intensity.
While maintaining a strong electronic (and unclassifiable) sound, "Kiasma" offers an intensification of the metal elements present on the debut. Thoughout the album's walls of drumless distortion, melody is a prominent feature, with tracks such as "Numina", "Mutilation", "Pathogen", and "Mortisomnia" exploring revelatory intersections of heavy synths and guitars. The 14-minute "Katabasis" opened nearly every live show of 2012, and is rooted in drone/doom metal, with elements of modern classical and noise. "Gauze" and "Imminence" serve as haunting interludes, and are concise takes on bleak and cold melody. Ranging from melancholic to brutally foreboding, another immersive and visionary album by ONEIROGEN.
The Last Cry were already formed in the late 80s and were existing until the mid 90s, while their line-up changed continously. Almost a decade later, the band reformed and now is consisting of Andrew Birch (Vocals, drums on all the earlier TLC line-ups), Tim Green (Guitar/Keyboard, also keyboarder of the former line-ups) and Chris Carey (Bass, since the very first day).
In 2009 the long-anticipated debut album "Walking to the Edge" was released (re released in 2011) and the band managed to leave a enduring impression on fans and critics of the Gothic Rock/Dark Wave scene. The soundscape that best describes The Last Cry is melodic, edgy, dark and powerful.
The layers of Guitar weave around the Bass Guitar, and add to that the Keyboards and you’ve got a sound that compliments the profound lyrics and the vocals of Andrew, creating something very unique. The lyrics are always honest and heartfelt, which create a roller coaster of emotional ups and downs and lay it on the line to the listener.
Anyone who thought, at this point the band has reached its pinnacle are very much mistaken. With the imminent release of their 2nd Album "Living In Grey" The Last Cry have managed to move on to another a higher level. The many live shows around the UK and Europe, where the debut album was presented, were were met with great praise, and caught a lot of attention mainly du to their extravagant live shows. And this energy is what has driven the making of Living In Grey. The new album is accessible and memorable musically, and this will draw the listener into a lyrical maelstrom of fear, despair and void.
"Living In Grey" is exclusively available since November 30th on Bandcamp as a download and on CD, as well as on live shows. It will be available from January 2013 in every well-known store
In the early 1980s, shortly after the breakup of Throbbing Gristle, Boyd Rice went to London to record a one-off studio session with Jeff Rushton and Peter Christopherson, who had recently started releasing records as Coil.
The trio called themselves The Sickness Of Snakes, and the recordings were released on a split 12", with Current 93 taking the opposite side of the vinyl. Now, more than 25 years after the original release,
Boyd Rice is reissuing the three Sickness Of Snakes tracks as a one-sided 12" record and a CDEP. Comes in a lavish, spot-varnished sleeve featuring gold print.
The pearlescent A3 folded insert includes previously unpublished photos of Boyd Rice and Coil and a new essay written by Boyd Rice.
Linea Aspera, the minimal wave band from London composed of Alison Lewis (Voice/Synths) and Ryan Ambridge (Synths/Programming), have announced that they are calling it quits and that the show at the Grauzone Festval in Amsterdam on February 1st will be their last.
It's very sad to see such a promising young band quit. In just a few months, Linea Aspera (Latin for 'rough line', referring to a part of the femur bone) had managed to create a real buzz. They began the project in November 2011, technically drawing inspiration from electronic music from the early 1980s. For their first (and only) album, released in September 2012, they utilized a small, simple analog synthesizer set up. Lyrically the band incorporated the sciences of osteology, neuroscience, and anthropology, weaving a new medical language around themes of desire, despair and renewal. Linea Aspera serve up an icebox of dark doom riding on Alison’s powerful vocals with a soft but sharp touch.
Don't miss their last gig!
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This year sees the 20th anniversary of solo artistic work of artist-extraordinaire Robin Storey under the moniker Rapoon. Since 1992 and the release of his debut album "Dream Circle", Robin has been exploring the potential of post-industrial ambience enhanced with ethnic sounds of African and Indian origin and using trial-and-error techniques inspired by contemporary experimentalists such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and krautrock giants such as Can and Faust to create elusive soundscapes too enchanting to ignore.
"Seeds in the Tide" collects all the rare tracks released on compilations, small or limited formats. The first disc, "Keepsakes and Oddities", contains tracks recorded between 1993-1999. The second disc is a reissue of the ultra-limited CDR version of "Messianicghosts", which includes the original versions of the tracks, which are significantly different from their later variants.
Comes in a 6-panel digipak with cover painting by Storey.
