It’s of course the wet dream of every fan and even if it took a while, it’s now certain: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition will be available as an extended edition and this from 13th November on. Of course this is the ideal warming up for the second film of the trilogy: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition will be available as a 5-disc Blu-ray 3D-set that contains the Blu-ray 3D and the Blu-ray version from the Extended Edition ; so that’ll be a 3-disc Blu-ray and a 5-disc DVD.
The Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD all contain an upgraded Digital Copy.
The Extended Edition is also available as digital download from 23rd October on.
This brand new version not only contains 13 extra minutes, there’s also nine (!) hours included from brand new bonus material, so all fans can absolutely use the word 'precious'!
Synopsis: Bilbo Baggins is swept into a quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever... Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities... A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to... (Source: IMDB)
Two years have now passed since Swedish EBM veterans Severe Illusion mounted a massive comeback with their 2011 album 'No More Alive than you Deserve' on Stockholm based Complete Control Productions. After live shows across two continents and the release of their EP 'Psychosurgery', time has come for the anticipated follow up. Before the year 2013 ends, the new album 'Deliberate Prefrontal Leucotomy' is meant to be released.
On November 23, the band will be appearing live on stage at Common Roots 5 in Berlin, Germany together with No Sleep By The Machine and Gubbjävel. Live shows are also being prepared in Sweden and Chile. More European live dates are to be expected next year, before the third disc on the same subject, 'The Legacy of António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz', is to be released.
In related news, the Ambient Noise project of Severe Illusion member Fredrik Djurfeldt, Knös, has started to move once again. After being relatively quiet for a few years, the album 'Face without face' is due for release on Malignant Records. The album is a collaboration between Knös and Negru Voda (ex. Megaptera). Live shows are to be expected in Stockholm, Sweden and Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 9 and December 7 respectively.
Good news are also coming out from the Instans camp. After successfully releasing the album 'Understatement' earlier this year on Hungarian Advoxya Records, the band now welcomes Janina Danes (Severe Illusion, Marsupium Massacre), who has joined the band permanently as live drummer. Expect to see and hear her beating the drums really hard both in Europe and South America beginning early 2014.
Check out the new clip for the re-issue of the 1998 'Subversion' single.
It's available now from the IKON website on 7" vinyl, comes with a bonus CD. 'This Quiet Earth' re-issue CD to follow mid November
Taste Our Voodoo documents the creative partnership between American songstress, poet, writer and actress Lydia Lunch and French experimental sound artist and turntablist Philippe Petit across a double LP. Lunch emerged in the mid-seventies as part of No Wave combo Teenage Jesus And The Jerks, which formed in New York in 1976, and has maintained the same fiercely individual and independent spirit for over thirty years. Her considerable body of work spans countless solo records, collaborations with anyone from Einstürzende Neubauten, Henry Rollins or Sonic Youth to Oxbow and Omar Rodríguez-López, as well as numerous films, books and plays.
A musical travel-agent, journalist, or record label owner , Philippe Petit has been a figure of the underground music scene for30 years, who has delivered a number of essential records on labels such as Aagoo, Southern UK, Monotype, Alrealon Musique, Beta Lactam Ring, Sub Rosa, HomeNormal, Important, HelloSquare, Public Eyesore, Utech, Staubgold, etc… Whether solo, or collaborating with numerous artists and musicians such as Faust, Eugene Robinson, Murcof as well asoften operating as Philippe Petit & Friends. He his also one of the masterminds behind Strings Of Consciousness, a loose collective counting some twenty more or less regular members.
Recorded live over a period of 2,5 years Taste Our Voodoo bring together their respective sonic universe into a bleak and disturbing soundtrack. There is a striking synergy between the two which is feeds of the mutual respect they have for each other and of the propensity they have to listen to each other and react in consequence. They occupy very defined and separate spaces here, Petit crafting sounds, Lunch dispensing stories, but they work extremely closely, never taking advantage of a situation to gain an edge over the other.
Lydia Lunch’s voice is particularly haunting, and her delivery has an urgency which doesn’t transpire quite as clearly on studio recordings, and Petit’s soundscapes appear sharper, noisier and more angular. Collating decaying structures, fragmented sound sources and distressed layers, he continuously balances his compositions between dream and nightmare, bliss and horror, treading a fine line between very diverging moods to exacerbate the tone of these pieces. Taste Our Voodoo is an essential work which complements and should give an urge to go see’ em whenever/if they come perform close to yours…
Xiu, aka Oksana Rodionova, a minimal synth project based in Milan, Italy, will play in Brussels at the "Another Wave II" event on 19th October. Oksana was born in Estonia and studied academic music in Russia. Academic knowledge had a deep impact in the creative process of her musical entity. During several years she also sang in the church’s choir which is undoubtedly had influenced her work. Next to the writting of her first musical effort she contributing appearances for the Italian minimal-synth band Newclear Waves. She is familiar with underground musical scenes which emerged during the 80s, from sonic minimal synth experiments to cold wave and post-punk.
Xiu’s music is a synthesis between retro-pop and futurist synth waves. It delivers spacy looped electronica, groovy rhythms, linear lo-fi synth washes, softly dreamy pop melodies sometimes admitting dramatic tones and mysterious textural ambiences. The conceptual background deals with thematics related to dystopia, occult arts and mystic believes. Xiu is using only analogue equipment (Roland Juno 60, Roland SH101, Korg KR55 etc.). If you like Tropic of Cancer, Cocteau Twins, blablarism or Mushy, you will love Xiu.
In Brussels, Oksana Xiu will present in 'avant-première' the songs from her forthcoming album, which will be released next year by aufnahme+wiedergabe.
Supporting acts: Schonwald (Italy - cold-wave) and Néon Noir (Belgium - dark minimal wave).
Xiu on Soundcloud.
