12 December will see the release of the 1-track single "Imhotep" a track previously available as a bonustrack for fans only.
With this single Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows are attending to a chapter from their 2004 album "La Chambre d'Echo" and use this radical revision to transform an almost entirely electronic song into a dramatic, chamber-music danse macabre.
Reduced to the bare bones, only accompanied by percussion, a death-bell and two string-players, the fabulously eerie Saint-Varney-of-the-Dead is singing a sad lament of suffering and pain, and demonstrates once again that Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows are still entirely beyond comparison.
Available as a 1-track CD-single (limited to 407 copies for shops) and a one-side vinyl 12" (limited to 307 copies for shops) on 16 December.
The vinyl version comes as classy black 12" vinyl (160g) in cardboard box with elaborate (laser-engraved) etching on the B-side, printed inner sleeves and hand-numbered by Anna-Varney Cantodea.
Pre-order it at your favorite (Wool-E) Shop
Following the release of ‘TOTAL: From Joy Division To New Order’ in early 2011 and the
surprise success of “Lost Siren” track ‘Hellbent’, New Order are proud to announce the release
of ‘The Lost Sirens’.
Featuring a truly eclectic mix of electronica and guitars in the way only New Order know how,
‘The Lost Sirens' features eight tracks which were recorded during the sessions for “Waiting
For The Sirens Call” and are all previously unreleased. ‘Hellbent’ features on ‘The Lost
Sirens’ in it’s original non-radio edit form (as per TOTAL) and ‘I Told You So’ is a previously
unreleased mix.
Tracklisting
side A:
01. I’ll Stay with You 02. Sugarcane 03. Recoil 04. Californian Grass
side B:
05.Hellbent 06. Shake It Up 07.I’ve Got A Feeling 8.I Told You So
Featuring Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Philip Cunningham.
The minialbum will be released on 16/12/2011 and will be available as a vinylLP with the CD-version included in the packaging to satisfy both CD- & vinyl-lovers.
UPDATE (12/2011): the album has been postponed - a new release date isn't confirmed so far.
Coming summer all new wavers and goths will hopefully find their way to Shadowplay, the biggest real gothic and new wave festival of Belgium. The first bands are Deine Lakaien, Inkubus Sukkubus, Nosferatu and Sonar.
Deine Lakaien make a combination of synthpop and neo classical music. Goth rock is all what Inkubus Sukkubus and Nosferatu are about. And Sonar will be the first name people into industrial and noise are likely to mark in their agenda.
More information coming soon!
Time to get that incense out folks, or those combat boots... Because Dark Poem, the Belgian faerie electro live sensation will be performing at JH Wommel in Wommelgem. The setting is also very impressive, being part of old military fortifications originally build around 1860. Peekaboo, always ready to inform you about use(less)ful information! And really you should not be missing this concert!
Read more about the concert here.
The second Beverwave festival again has some very nice names for us. The Klinik are the best ebm has to offer, minimal legends Vita Noctis return to the living after 25 odd years. Monolith is also a name we should see more often in Belgium and IC 434 will present his new album "Anhedonia".
A must for every wave fan out there!
