Norma Loy, the pioneering Cold Wave act featuring UsherSan (whose latest projects Black Egg and Adan & Ilse were recently featured on this site) and Chelsea Reed, is planning to release a new album in 2016, according to their label Unknown Pleasures Records who just posted this on their Facebook page.
The album will be called Baphomet, but no further details have been announced so far. The inspirational run of UsherSan is likely to continue, thus we are impatiently waiting for the follow up of 2009’s Re/Wind album. In the same page, the label announced the addition of French EBM band Maman Kusters, Factice Factory and Shoegazers Follow Me Not to their roster. Interesting releases to come from the french label.
Source: Post-Punk.com
Concert on March 3, 2016 of GRIMES
Support act: Hana
Location: AB, Brussels
Starts: 19: 00hrs
Organization: AB
Genre: Indie, Electronica, Pop
Price: € 15.00
Presale starts at Fri 09 Oct 2015 10: 00h
Experimenteel synthpop-fenomeen breit vervolg aan ‘Visions’
De excentrieke Canadese Claire Boucher pakte in 2012 uit met het sublieme ‘Visions’ en haar betoverende elektronische mishmash gecombineerd met Boucher’s ijle, ietwat creepy engelenstem sloeg in als een perfect gedropte hipsterbom. Tel daarbij haar uitgesproken persoonlijkheid, licht getormenteerde ziel, gewaagde uitspraken over drugsgebruik en de ‘Best New Music’-stempel van Pitchfork en je snapt meteen waarom Grimes gegeerd goed werd in hipsterland.
Ze verdween even van het synthpop-toneel, keilde een volledig afgewerkt album in de prullenmand en dook in maart 2015 terug op in de blogosfeer met puike single ‘REALiTi’. Daarna volgde een zomertour in de slipstream van Lana Del Rey en het fijne nieuws dat de nieuwe plaat in oktober zou volgen. Opnieuw op 4AD, thuisbasis van onder meer Ariel Pink, Daughter, Efterklang, Sohn en Bon Iver. “The alien love-child of Aphex Twin and ABBA” is terug!
Concert op 3 maart 2016
Voorprogramma: Hana
Locatie: AB Grote Zaal
Aanvang: 19:00u
Organisatie: AB
Genre: Indie, Electronica, Pop
Prijs: €15.00 (€15.00 aan de kassa)
Voorverkoop start op
Vr 09 Okt 2015 10:00u
Taken from the upcoming album "Paint The Devil" out October 16th 2015 (Eternal Sound Records).
Pre-order the whole album here: www.krashkarma.com
Kari Rueslåtten’s forthcoming studio album, “To The North”, is inspired by the dramatic landscapes of northern latitudes and will evoke imagery in listeners’ minds akin to the dark, brooding visual scenes of film and TV’s “Nordic Noir” genre.
“To the North” is a follow up to last year´s successful ”Time to Tell” album, and this time Kari Rueslåtten has brought a darker–edged atmosphere to her acoustic, melancholic Norwegian folk. She has taken inspiration from Norwegian and Celtic folk music, along with artists such as Loreena McKennitt, Tom Waits and Emmylou Harris. ”To The North” is the Trondheim based singer´s 6th studio release and includes her stunning cover version of The Byrds´ hit song, “Turn, Turn, Turn”. The album is due to be released on 22nd October.
On this album, Kari Rueslåtten has created a soundtrack of the North, which bring herself, and her listeners, back “home”. However, as Rueslåtten explained, she also regards the North as a state of mind.
“I´m interested in creating emotions in the listener, and mental resting places that allow people to close their eyes and transcend to a different environment”, she said. “For me, I like music that creates images in my head that unfold into new stories and new worlds, and invariably these are my home, and the landscapes of the North”.
The album was recorded in the UK at Liverpool´s Grammy Award winning Parr Street Studios. All the tracks were recorded live, providing an organic element to the recording, which has produced a more vital sounding result.
Rueslåtten summed up her time in the studio as “a special, magical week”. She added, “Knowing that some really famous bands have made massive albums here, such as Coldplay´s Parachutes, gave me some trepidation, but the studio is so welcoming and homely that I felt relaxed straight away. The musicians really put their heart and soul into my music, and in fact we had quite an emotional last day of recording”.
Rueslåtten, formally lead singer with The 3rd and the Mortal, is also a member of The Sirens, the group formed from her musical collaboration with Anneke van Giersbergen (ex The Gathering) and Liv Kristine (ex Theatre of Tragedy). The Sirens toured Europe and Latin America in 2014/15. Rueslåtten said of her travels, ”I have loved my time travelling to so many places, but Latin America has been very special, visiting for the first time in 2014. In some ways I have felt immediately at home there. There are many differences, of course, but I have certainly felt connected to the fantastic people and marvellous landscapes of the region”.
Rueslåtten is planning a solo-tour in 2015/16 and is very much looking forward to presenting the songs of “To the North” to a live audience and expects to visit several places in Norway, Europe and Latin-America.
All songs on the new album are written by Kari Rueslåtten, except Turn, Turn, Turn written by Pete Seeger/Book of Ecclesiastes. The songs are arranged by and recorded live in Parr Street studios by Kari Rueslåtten with musicians Jostein Ansnes, Richard Turvey, Steve Pilgrim, Martyn Campbell, Frode Flemsæter and Mat Walklate. The album is produced by Jostein Ansnes, and mixed by Jostein Ansnes and Jo Ranheim in Øra Studio.
LIVE DATES:
24/10/2015 NO Trondheim
29/10/2015 NO Oslo
19/11/2015 DE Frankfurt
20/11/2015 DE Marburg
21/11/2015 DE Leipzig
03/12/2015 NL Zoetermeer
04/12/2015 DE Berlin
05/12/2015 DE Küsten - Reitze, Nordlys Musikk
The release of piano-led Alternative Indie/Rock band Pacific's EP 'What Are You Waiting For' follows the huge success of February 2015's single release ‘Time to Forget’. The song reaped Pacific’s first BBC Radio 1 play on the Huw Stephens show, along with airplay on a further eighty UK radio stations. Reviewers were hugely enthusiastic; “I think this is in another league... A wonderfully well-crafted song with a vocal that's nectar for the ears” (Bauer Media News), praising it for its “flavoursome sound and masterful craft” (RingMaster Review) and exclaiming that “it’s got that bit of magic, something undeniable, something brilliant. Never mind a band for the future… Pacific are a band for right now” (The Musical Outcast).
The band have previously received strong backing from BBC 6’s Mark Radcliffe who praises the band’s music as “outstanding”, along with BBC Stoke Introducing’s Rob Adcock, who has invited the band for live interviews and sessions. Additionally, NME have featured the band’s past music videos, with Pacific also being included in Napster’s 'New and Good' Playlist on multiple occasions. On Monday 31st August 2015, Pacific opened the Main Stage of Liverpool International Music Festival, playing alongside headliners Echo and the Bunnymen, Basement Jaxx and Labrinth.
HIghly anticipated follow up single ‘Those Nights’ was released in June 2015. Again reviewers praised the track, affirming that “the band manages to blend commercial appeal with musical integrity and quality in fine style” (The Musical Outcast), stating that “very rarely do you hear a track where every single component fits into place as well as ‘Those Nights’ demonstrates (Radical’s Rising).
The Cheshire based band is made up of brothers/songwriters Anthony Orzel (vocals/piano) and Daniel Orzel (bass/backing vocals), Dave Bithell (lead guitars/backing vocals) and Drew Burns (drums/percussion).
“Up-beat, beautiful pop-rock with the most addictive vocals. Those Orzel brothers sound irresistible!”
Polly James, Capital Radio
“Competent sounding Pop/Rock with a hint of Alt. in there. I must confess the very strength of the melodious Anthony Orzel (singer)… I will be keeping an eye!”
Simon Li of Universal Music
