This is the RE-RELEASE of a compilation, that was first out 2 years ago, but sold out extremely fast!
This is one of the nicest compiled Cold Wave/Minimal Electro releases EVER! Put together by New York's Wierd Records founder Pieter Schoolwerth and Angular's Joe Daniel, this album chronicles the secret underground cult genres of cold wave and minimal wave, which mostly originated from continental Europe between the years 1981-1985.
Nowadays the computer has largely replaced traditional analogue machines as the dominant generator of synthetic sounds. This release is to revive the frosty 'cold' sounds of the minimal electronic groups of the early 1980s.
Active largely in small towns and isolated, non-metropolitan areas of France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and The Netherlands, the first wave of minimal electronic groups functioned at the time as a raw, aggressive, affirmative antidote to the superficial excesses of commercial new wave. Usin! g analogue synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines the 'minimal synth' artists successfully combined the sounds of the German electronic bands of the 60s and 70's (Amon Duul, Neu, Faust, Can) with the seminal early industrial bands largely active in the UK (Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Cabaret Voltaire) to produce a new form of electropop that went on to be crucially influential on European and American pop and dance music of the late 80's and early 90's (Italo, New Beat, EBM).
Containing songs that have only been available up to now on ultra rare 7”s, lost radio sessions and MC tapes, as well as never before seen photos and extensive sleeve notes about the genre. ‘Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics Vol.1’ is here to teach us all a thing or two about the history of electronic music the world over
Another classic that will be released by SoNY SPHE is the classic Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Kenneth Branagh.
The film starred Robert De Niro and Branagh. It was produced on a budget of $45 million. It is an adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.[
SYNOPSIS
Dr. Frankenstein creates a simple creature from various body parts. The creature turns into a monster when Dr. Frankenstein rejects him. Sticking close to the original novel, Kenneth Branagh guides us through the story of Frankenstein's quest for knowledge and his creature's search for his "father".
Comes in Profile-pac (a kind of digipak). Don’t fear the silence – discover the difference! - Brand new - and currently 5th – studio album by the Swiss Dark Wave hereos, for the first time in a fully acoustic guise.
It is a compilation of re-interpretations of existing songs and ALL new song material. Unplugged CDs are popular with many bands, the concept is renowned.
And yet there are quite many changes in this one by THE BEAUTY OF GEMINA. In THE MYRRH SESSIONS the band literally reinvents itself and celebrates their music passionately.
Musical boundaries of genre are at times joyfully fathomed and skillfully crossed. Influences from Indie,
Alternative, Goth, Americana, Folk and Blues merge with the innate and typical song structures of THE BEAUTY OF GEMINA to create a surprisingly new entity, convincing and constantly on a high musical level.
Love is colder than death mix rhythms and melodies from the okzident and orient, and archaic with modern electronic sounds in music - earthy, mystical and beseeching to playful, floating and delicate. founded in 1991, always developing its own style.
The band is present on the dark wave scene and particularly within the neoclassical movement. they’ve performed throughout europe and the american continent. 'tempest' presents a wide spectrum of expressiv sounds played on authentic and electronic instruments.
New to the band is the poignant voice of Anja Herrmann. singing catchy melodies alongside the well-known charismatic voice of Ralf Jehnert.
They create vivid soundpictures. the meticulous attention to the production lead to the exceptional sound, once again.
Now they're back with a new album named Tempest.
In February SONY SPHE will release Big Fish on Blu-ray.
Big Fish is a 2003 American fantasy adventure film based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Daniel Wallace. The film was directed by Tim Burton and stars Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, and Marion Cotillard. Other roles are performed by Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew McGrory, and Danny DeVito among others. Finney plays Edward Bloom, a former traveling salesman from the Southern United States with a gift for storytelling, now confined to his deathbed. Bloom's estranged son, a journalist played by Crudup, attempts to mend their relationship as his dying father relates tall tales of his eventful life as a young adult, played by Ewan McGregor.
The film's theme of reconciliation between a dying father and his son had special significance for Burton, as his father had died in 2000 and his mother in 2002, a month before he signed on to direct. Big Fish was shot on location in Alabama in a series of fairy tale vignettes evoking the tone of a Southern Gothic fantasy.
The film received award nominations in multiple film categories, including four Golden Globe Award nominations, seven nominations from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, two Saturn Award nominations, and an Oscar and a Grammy Award nomination for Danny Elfman's original score.
