A free to download 23 track selection of just some of the music from all over the world that
Martin Bowes has produced, remixed or mastered at the Cage Studios during our 23rd year: 2015 - 2016.
Including alternate mixes and recordings remastered specially for this release...
Listen and download at the link below.
Album compiled and remastered by Martin Bowes at the Cage Studios. 2016.
The Cage studios was founded in 1993 as a vehicle for me to produce Martin's own music. Originally used primarily for Attrition works and a few select remix, production and mastering projects, he opened the Cage doors to the world in 2011 and since then have been working with so many inspiring bands and labels in genres as diverse as dark ambient, post punk, noise, folk, industrial, drum n bass, house, neo-classical, rockabilly, punk and metal...
This new collection showcases just some of those artists and his work with them...
The Cage is set in the heart of England: but working with the speed of fibre optic file transfers it really could be anywhere at all.
Nick Cave's new album and concert film One More Time With Feeling will be released in September.
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have confirmed details about their forthcoming new album and concert film. The LP, which is the follow-up to the band’s 2013 record Push The Sky Away, will be titled Skeleton Key and is set for release on September 9 – but the first opportunity fans will have to hear any of the record will be when the film One More Time With Feeling is screened in more than 650 cinemas across the world the day before on September 8.
Directed by Andrew Dominik (whose 2007 film The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford featured a soundtrack composed by Cave and fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis), the film will combine footage of the Bad Seeds performing the album with interviews and narration from Cave himself. According to the press release accompanying the announcement, it will delve into the “tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album”, which will be the first since Cave’s teenage son, Arthur, died after falling from a cliff last year.
The Bad Seeds started work on Skeleton Key, which will be their 16th studio album, in 2014 at Retreat Studios in Brighton before further sessions took place in 2015 at La Frette Studios in France. It was previously revealed that the band would not release any singles from the LP before its theatrical debut to ensure the film is “the first medium through which anyone anywhere will be able to hear & experience the songs”.
Great news if you live in Belgium, or if you are just around in this tiny country.
On 8th July there is a free festival in Leuven (Oude Markt) and the line-up is just gorgeous.
Apart from Arbeid Adelt! (yes, that’s the band with ex-MTV VJ Marcel Vanthilt) you can see the iconic Human League.
Click here for the Facebook-page.
The Italian Alternative/Gothic/Post-punk Date At Midnight released its new album Songs To Fall And Forget on Manic Depression.
The album is both available on CD and digital platform. Let’s waste no words in describing them, just listen to the new song below and you’ll understand why this is a must have.
Let's face facts - in 2016 it is remarkable that there's a new Dinosaur Jr. album to go ape over. After all, the original line-up of the band (J Mascis, Lou Barlow & Murph) only recorded three full albums during their initial run in the 1980s. Everyone was gob-smacked when they reunited in 2005. Even more so when they opted to stay together, as they have for 11 years now. And with the release of Give a Glimpse Of What Yer Not (out August 5th on Jagjaguwar), this trio has released more albums in the 21st Century than they did in the 20th. It's enough to make a person take a long, thoughtful slug of maple-flavoured bourbon and thank some lucky stars.
Last night, Dinosaur Jr. gave the album's first single 'Tiny' an exclusive first performance on Later... with Jools Holland, which you can watch here. Be sure to tune in to BBC2 this Friday, May 27th, at 12.05am for an extended version of the show. Today, you can also stream the album version of 'Tiny' on Spotify, alongside a playlist of the band's greatest moments from across their 30+ year history.
Of the 11 songs presented on Give a Glimpse, nine are J's. Mascis has had so many projects going at various times - from the retro glam of Sweet Apple to the metal dunt of Witch to the ostrich-rock overload of Heavy Blanket - it’s always a little shocking he can compartmentalise well enough to keep his tunes with Dinosaur Jr. sounding so instantly recognisable. Which is not to say they're interchangeable, it's just that he has a very idiosyncratic way of structurally assembling and presenting the songs.The other two songs here were written and sung by Lou, and they're quite great as well. Although Barlow's template and palette are more mercurial and shifting (as they are with his other ongoing projects, like Sebadoh), the two here have a consonant resonance.
