A successful year 2012 is coming to an end for afmusic, a lot of releases of younger and older bands saw the light of the day this year. Shortly before christmas and so just one day after the predicted end of the word the new free download compilation "Quintessenz 2012", which gives an overview about the released CDs and Vinyls, will be published.
The first part of the collection is hereby programmatic, because the evoken and for years lived by afmusic Gothic Rock Revival has names such as Golden Apes, Red Sun Revival, The Last Cry, Brotherhood or Grooving In Green. Who's rather affectionated to Post Punk, will find somgs with Voyvoda, Dystopian Society, Ending The Vicious Cycle and others and the Indie listener gets his money worth with Emerald Park, The Search and Uni_Form. For friends of electronic music, eventually AlterRed, Sharon Next and (((S))) offer food for the last days of the year
The compilation covers rich 28 tracks and so 2 hours of the darker way of music. The download is available from December 22nd 2012 on at Bandcamp.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music"
This famous broadcast by Orson Wells introduces "Sector Beta" the new video by HALO EFFECT, band from Rome on the electronic scene since 2003. In the video produced by Director Antonio Levita for the first single from the new album "Recoding" (out on December, 7th), the band is travelling through space and time to reach Earth and prepare for "War of the Worlds". Sci-Fi and dark landscapes for a track characterized by cold atmosphere and a hypnotic riff. Next Stop : SECTOR BETA
SaffronKeira is a project established in 2008 by Eugenio Caria from the island of Sardinia, Italy. With SaffronKeira, Eugenio Caria lives out his passion of being a researcher of the possibility of expression offered by currently available technology. Indeed, in his tracks he experiments a lot with electronics and unconventional elements, which sometimes seem meaning- less at first sight, but uncover their significance only on a closer examination. Combining subtle and sometimes even almost invisible rhythms with textures of sound he confidently moves between minimalistic pieces and classic ambient tracks which should please both the analytic ears and the listeners who just want to dive into the music.
After a couple of remixes, live releases and EPs, SaffronKeira's debut album "A New Life" saw the light of the day in July 2012 and the press responded with reviews such as "The evolving tracks take on a hypnotic atmosphere, swirling just below the line of consciousness, where the received and the perceived datum collide, creating a brand new universe, space and dimension. A New Life is an album that will surely grab your attention if you are a fan of digital darkness and analog void by artists such as Murcof, Jasper TX, Hecq, Cindytalk, The Caretaker, Andy Stott, Raime" (Headphone Commute) or "As SaffronKeira, Caria’s music could easily fall into the realms of experimental electronica and dark ambient, frequencies of electronic IDM and minimalistic beats that edge close to techno, but it goes much deeper, and darker, than that." (A Closer Listen).
Only half a year after his impressive debut, SaffronKeira returns with another concept album, entitled "Tourette". While "A New Life" dealt with transition, maturation, the white and black parts of life, the common theme of "Tourette" seem to be neurological diseases. And indeed, it is not difficult to imagine the vast neural network of the human brain while listening to "Tourette", to visualize how electric impulses switch from neuron to neuron, follow various paths in the cerebral cortex, spread and recombine and eventually are lead astray or possible meet a damaged nerve cell. Eugenio Caria manages to capture the complexity, fragility and inscrutability of these processes in his usual mixture of very abstract electronic parts on the one hand and extremly warm layers of sound on the other hand. Finishing with the epic "The Hope", "Tourette" leaves the listener in a puzzled situation, as he soon realises that it poses more questions than answers.
For fans of FENNESZ, MURCOF, MAX RICHTER, ARVO PART, etc.
JUNKSISTA have recorded a special Christmas tune that you will hum along in record time.
You can download the track right now from our Bandcamp page for free (and if you want, you can even pay something).
The Rutted Road" is the the third album by French Neofolk band Pale Roses, following "Fear Of Dawn" (The Eastern Front) and "Unveiled" (Rage in Eden).
Basically, the music remains the same: pastoral guitar arpeggios, melodic bass lines, some piano, but with more percussion and sound effects than in the first two albums.
The lyrics are a tribute to some historical places (Bedlam and Tyburn), to a few favourite authors (Ambrose Bierce, Robert Holdstock, WH Hodgson, ST Coleridge) and to pagan beliefs and various elements of folklore.
Brilliant songwriting in the style of Spirogyra, Pearls Before Swine or Current 93. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
