Think it’s quiet on the Isbells front? Well, not only are they working hard on a second album for spring 2012 release but they’re also in the run for international stardom. For instance, they just signed a 2 album deal for the USA...the debutalbum will be released in the autumn by Rollcall Records.
Here are the upcoming tourdates :
12/08 dockville hamburg (ger)
13/08 steinbruch duisburg (ger)
14/08 nuremberg (ger)
16/09 bern (swiss)
17/09 basel (swiss)
19/09 zurich (swiss)
14/10 dortmund (ger) (with agnes obel)
18/10 koln (ger)
19/10 berlin (ger)
20/10 munster (ger)
21/10 munich (ger)
22/10 dresden (ger)
On our website you can see pictures which are taken by our photographer Xavier Marquis.
This is all possible thanks to the people from Indiestyle.
If you’re Dutch speaking then we absolutely recommend you to visit this site as they are following everything which is indie and beyond!
"Live In London 1982" is the Beat Generation revamped.
Recorded in Brixton four years before the death of Beat legend, this live set features Gysin reciting poems from the late '50s and early '60s, accompanied by a makeshift no wave backing band consisting of Slits bassist Tessa Pollitt (also on cello), Rip Rig Panic, drummer Steve Noble, Penguin Cafe Orchestra percussionist Gile and guitarist Ramuntcho Matta.
Most of the texts were written upon meeting Burroughs, at the time of the invention of the cut-up. The influence that Brion Gysin has had on contemporary music may never be taken fully into account. The music is resolutely avant rock: dissonant, provocative, and largely improvised. Gysin called this session "White Funk".
Live in London 1982 is an interesting document, which will appeal to connoisseurs of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin's legacy.
The Belgian label Alfa Matrix was started up exactly 10 years ago.
On this occasion the label decided to started up an own magazine in which they offer interviews and fresh news from the bands signed to our label, plus an extended Q&A with fans and customers from the label.
The magazine can be found on their website.
In Camera & Mass: two early classic 4AD bands, to be reissued on Desire Records
Desire Records will re-release two classic 4-AD recordings.
IN CAMERA
Limited edition of 500 copies on black vinyl.
Comprised of singer/keyboardist David Steiner, guitarist Andrew Gray, bassist Pete Moore and drummer Jeff Wilmott, London post-punkers In Camera came to Ivo's attention when they opened a show for Bauhaus. Displaying a spiky, PiL and Joy Division-influenced sound on their 1980 debut single ‘Die Laughing’ (the first 4AD release engineered by John Fryer) the group had matured considerably by the time of their IV Songs EP at the end of the year.
By 1982 the quartet had fallen apart. The Fin EP was their 4AD epitaph: a Peel session from December 1980 which Ivo licensed from the BBC.
Desire will release this record comprising the very first 7’’ (Final Achievement/Die Laughing) coupled with the first 12’’ (IV Songs). Fully licensed from 4AD it’s the first time in 30 years these recordings are available on vinyl.
MASS
Limited edition of 500 copies on black vinyl with printed inner-sleeve with rare flyers and posters replicas.
After Rema-Rema split, Gary Asquith, Mick Allen, and Mark Cox formed arty post-punk outfit Mass with Danny Briottet. The quartet debuted in 1980 with the single ‘You And I’/’Cabbage’, following it up a year later with their sole album, Labour Of Love.
The group subsequently split into two halves: Asquith and Briottet formed Renegade Soundwave, while Allen and Cox remained with 4AD for their new project, The Wolfgang Press.
Desire is extremely proud to release this long deleted album. Fully licensed from 4AD it’s the first time in 30 years these recordings are available on vinyl.
