After Junkyard + The Wings of Desire caught a lot of attention with their debut single "Underground Tapes", the post punks return with the EP "For Distant Friends". Junkyard + The Wings of Desire are a russian-based band, that was formed in Israel and has meanwhile settled over to Berlin.
Influenced by bands such as The Cure, The Birthday Party and Bauhaus, the band rocks through the 5-song download. Vocals far beyond any cliché, within the stress field of Rozz Williams, Peter Murphy and Specimen, accompanied by partly bizarre, partly very straight guitars, a driving bass and a simple drum programming.
The EP continues a re-interpretation of the old school, as the debut single did.
Legendary British rock n’ roll band The Godfathers explode into action in 2013 with the much-anticipated release of a brand new album entitled, Jukebox Fury, their first full-length studio release since 1995 - and a 23 date March UK tour with punk icons, The Stranglers. Jukebox Fury will be released on the band’s own Godfathers’ Recordings label on 25thMarch 2013.
The Godfathers were formed in 1985 by brothers Peter Coyne (vocals) & Chris Coyne (bass) from the ashes of their previous band, The Sid Presley Experience. They toured extensively and earned a reputation for their electrifying brand of primal rock n’ roll and incendiary live shows around the world. The Godfathers unleashed the storming rocker 'Birth School Work Death' as their debut single on Epic Records in late 1987 and scored a US Billboard top 40 hit. The classicBirth School Work Death album released in 1988 followed and was celebrated with extensive tours of the UK, Europe & USA.
The Godfathers reformed in 2008 to promote the re-issue of their seminal debut album Hit By Hit with live shows around the world, and celebrated their 25th anniversary in 2010 with a live CD/DVD compilation entitled, Shot Live At The 100 Club. The Godfathers’ influence has grown steadily in recent years with American stadium rockers Local H and Spoon releasing cover versions of their classics and The Mars Volta citing the band’s trademark primal rock n’ roll sound as a major influence on their recently releasedNoctourniquet album.
The Godfathers will be releasing a digital single, ‘I Can’t Sleep Tonight’ on 12th February 2013.
The Stranglers & The Godfathers ‘Feel It Live’ tour dates:
Friday 1st March - Edinburgh, Picture House
Saturday 2nd March - Glasgow, Academy
Monday 4th March - Aberdeen, Garage
Tuesday 5th March - Dundee, Fat Sams
Thursday 7th March - Liverpool, O2 Academy
Friday 8th March - Lincoln, Engine Shed
Saturday 9th March - Leeds, O2 Academy
Monday 11th March - Leamington Spa, Assembly
Tuesday 12th March - Guildford, G Live
Thursday 14th March - Brighton, Dome
Friday 15th March - London, Roundhouse
Saturday 16th March - Birmingham, O2Academy
Monday 18th March - Oxford, O2 Academy
Tuesday 19th March - Nottingham, Rock City
Thursday 21st March - Folkestone, Leas Cliff Hall
Friday 22nd March - Cambridge, Corn Exchange
Saturday 23rd March - Bristol, O2 Academy
Monday 25th March - Norwich, UEA
Tuesday 26th March - Carlisle, Sands Centre
Friday 29th March - Newcastle, O2 Academy
Saturday 30th March - Manchester, Academy
Sunday 31st March – Croydon, Fairfield Halls
Lumière announces that from 13th March on, Paradise Faith (which got highly acclaimed at the Filmfestival from Ghent) will be released in the cinemas.
Paradise: Faith is a 2012 Austrian drama film directed by Ulrich Seidl.
The film was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival.
o13 creates an evolving texture of music, a piercing electronic post-punk, a future that never manifested itself, spectral, uncompromising portals of electronic dread.
For the better part of the '80s, Mark C was leading legendary New York noise band Live Skull as they were deconstructing the rock song with thick gritty bass and streety guitar. Among their eight releases on Caroline and Homestead, Live Skull's "Bringing Home the Bait" has been deservingly referred to as the "Best Noise Rock Post Punk New Wave No Wave Experimental Indie Emo Goth Album Ever."
Meanwhile, Stuart Argabright was sketching his sonic vision of gothic futurism in Ike Yard, the first NY group on Factory Records America, also one of the first true purveyors of experimental, time-shifting electronic music. It is a torch that they still carry today with a searing pyre. Stuart continued his visionary pursuit as a founding member of Death Comet Crew, Dominatrix, and Black Rain, as well as the galaxy-striding Bi-Conicals of Rammellzee.
After releasing four acclaimed albums with The Holy Ghost, the last on Fargo Records, bassist Kent Heine met up with Stuart and Mark to form o13.
In 2010, o13 produced Vandal Tribes, an audio movie EP with guests Judy Nylon & Jamie Teasdale, aka Vex'd. o13 also began preproduction of a video for a series of events based on author JG Ballard's works. Along with a live score, the band eventually offered o13 Presents: The Atrocity Exhibition to audiences. The video/audio experience was last presented at the Serralves Foundation in Porto, Portugal, and continues to be part of the band's live arsenal. In addition, o13's music was recently featured in BAM150, a documentary celebrating the historic Brooklyn Academy of Music. Following a couple of European tours, o13 has now finished its first album Time Wave Zero to be released on desire. Time Wave Zero glides through time and space like a lucid dreaming dragonfly, settling on songs, scenes, and improvisations from a new post-modern American songbook.
"Though some of the textures that made up Ike Yard and Live Skull are here, the sound is effortlessly contemporary. Minimal, hypnotic bass (courtesy the fantastic Kent Heine) and drum grooves (sometimes live, some times sampled, sometimes a machine) set a rain slicked tone for which the Ballardian sci-fi synths and occasional guitars skitter across like neon reflections of some dystopian city scape. The vocals are ghostly chants wafting through like Doppler from a black sedan with conspiracies plastered on its doors. " Signal Graffiti
"[o13] are an entirely unique hybrid, steeped in NYC lore, a strange alchemical melding of electronic futurism, poignant frazzled and blitzed avant-rock and thick fluid basslines. A glacial, dubby, haunted and dangerous futuristic post-punk." Resonance FM
"layering guitar, bass, and occasional live percussion over laptop loops and electronic clamor, the New York trio painted soundscapes that were part sci-fi, part film noir... fold[ing] flailing guitar and floor-shaking pulses into surprisingly poised songs." Washington Post
Time Wave Zero will be out vinyl, CD and digital.
January, 29, 2013, Salzburg, Austria – In May 2010, Feeding Fingers frontman, Justin Curfman left the United States in favor of a life in Germany, a mere two months after completing a successful tour of Europe with his group, supporting such acts as, Nitzer Ebb, former BAUHAUS, Love & Rockets and Tones on Tail bassist, David J and IAMX (Chris Corner – formerly of Sneaker Pimps). From that spring of 2010 in Cologne, Germany, Curfman began production on what was to become Feeding Fingers’ fourth, full-length album release, “The Occupant”. Production on the album then moved east with Curfman into Ingolstadt (birthplace of The Illuminati and Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster) in 2011 – then, finally settling in Salzburg, Austria (that picturesque city and home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) from early 2012 through the winter of 2013, where the album was completed inside the halls of the University of Salzburg Mozarteum and the Salzburg Musikum with support from listeners through a successful Kickstarter campaign and from the group’s long-time management and production partners, David I. Nunez (Tephramedia) and legendary radio personality, James “Coyote J.” Battan.
“My intention with The Occupant is to expand the musical vocabulary of the group as much as I am able to at this point in my development as an artist and to attempt to stray away from at least some of the conventional trappings that our listeners have come to expect from a Feeding Fingers release, but hopefully doing so in a more natural and non-deliberate manner. No pushing. No shoving. We have all seen time and time again throughout history what happens when an artist starts to bully his or her own work into being something that it simply should not be - failure is more often than not the result. I have tried my best here not to antagonize my own creativity too much with this recording. This is partially why, I believe, that it has taken three years for this album to show itself to me.”
Throughout the production of “The Occupant”, Curfman enlisted assistance not only from his band, but from the Salzburg Boys Choir, a Serbian female violinist, a Cuban female cellist and an American electronic musician – all of which appearing on the album. Additionally, in an effort to “expand the musical vocabulary of the group”, Curfman strayed away from Feeding Fingers’ more familiar guitar, drum and bass-driven pieces (though not entirely) in favor of composing music on a theremin, kalimbas, glockenspiels, a ukulele, an array of pianos and a hand-cranked, punch-card music box. Curfman has also expanded not only the group’s vocabulary, but the group’s language itself with the inclusion of the opening track on the album, “Eine Einladung in Ihr Gesicht mit Liebe geschnitzt” – a song written by Curfman, entirely in German and performed by a soloist member of the Salzburg Boys Choir.
Despite this description of Feeding Fingers’ seemingly much-too divergent latest release, this fourth album will, no doubt, rest well within the group’s catalog. Found easily within each of the album’s eleven tracks are all of the characteristic elements that make a Feeding Fingers release a Feeding Fingers release. Those familiar with the group’s ability to, “resonate with a certain tragic and ethereal beauty” (Don’t Panic, Singapore) and to craft, “specific… authentic… personal… heart-heavy” (LabelLos, Germany) music will not be disappointed. For the uninitiated, be prepared to experience a, “beautiful album that grabs you by the throat from the first note until the last…” (Dark Entries Magazine, Belgium).
An international “Occupant” tour beginning in the spring of 2013 is being organized now. Concert dates and locations will be announced shortly
Contact: tephramedia@gmail.com
