After an incredibly successful year, which saw the release of his debut album 'Built On Glass', Chet Faker is set to dominate at this year's ARIA Awards. Already taking home the accolade for Producer Of The Year, Engineer Of The Year and Best Cover Art, he has picked up a total of nine nominations at the Australian ceremony, including Album Of The Year and Best Male Artist. The winners are revealed on 26th November at the award ceremony in Sydney.
'Built On Glass' was released independently through Future Classic and is on track to being one of the year’s highest selling Australian albums. Chet has also released an acclaimed joint EP with label-mate and last year's ARIA hero Flume. The 'Lockjaw' EP saw the pair collaborate in impeccable style and is also in the running for this year's Best Dance Release award.
Chet Faker has also announced a European headline tour for November, including a date at London's Coronet theatre.
CHET FAKER ARIA NOMINATIONS:
Best Male Artist
Album Of The Year
Breakthrough Artist Release
Best Independent Release
Best Video
Best Dance Release
Producer Of The Year - WINNER
Engineer Of The Year - WINNER
Best Cover Art – WINNER
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CHET FAKER EUROPEAN TOUR 2014:
10th November – Berlin – Astra
11th November – Brussels – Botanique/Orangerie
12th November – Amsterdam – Paradiso
15th November – Strasbourg – La Laiterie
16th November – Lille – Le Grand Mix
18th November – Dublin – Academy
20th November – London – The Coronet
21st November - Manchester - The Ritz
22nd November – Glasgow – Art School
Neonsol is a Danish/Canadian project made up of three members: Nina Io and Jesper Io - both handling live synths and vocals, lyrics and melodies, and Frédéric Scarfone, well known for his work with Memmaker, Iszoloscope and Norad handling production, sound design, live drums/effects, and additional song-writing.
Neonsol began life in Copenhagen in 2009 with Nina and Jesper writing and performing the band’s early tracks. The duo made their first stage appearance in Trondheim, Norway in August 2010 being joined in 2012 by Frédéric to complete their lineup. They premiered live as a three-piece in Copenhagen at the Cyberworld XX album release party in October 2012 and in April 2013, the band played their second Danish live show at the prestigious Club Braincorp's 8 Year Anniversary event.
In July 2014, Neonsol debuted with their single release Citadel, entering the German Electronic Web Chart at number 15 and quickly gaining positive reviews and great feedback from fans and peers alike. Featuring Nina and Jesper’s distinctive and hypnotic vocals, thoughtful lyrics and well-crafted production work, the band’s music is best described as dreamy, dark and melodic electro that fuses diverse elements of industrial, synthpop, EBM and numerous other genres to create the Neonsol sound.
In October this year, the band’s debut album Ecliptic is released via AnalogueTrash Records. Containing ten tracks (plus two bonus remixes on the physical version by Iszoloscope and Leaether Strip), Ecliptic perfectly presents Neonsol’s versatile style; shifting seamlessly between dreamy electronic pop and more dancefloor-focussed industrial beats with ease, all the while revealing new complexities and depths with every listen.
Does the idea of passionate thinking leave you startled? Phasenmensch picks up the concept of his earlier work “Begegnungen” (=encounters) on his sophomore release for HANDS, a result of difficult, eventful changes in the social environment, yielding excitingly controversial situations. Musically, “Entschleunigungsprozesse” is an impressively mature, antithetic work: Full of emotional atmospheres, yet strict in composition, decidedly rhythmic, yet avoiding any harshness, highly melancholic, yet fuelled by positivity – a gentle and thoughtful piece of electronic music.
Atomzero was initially a UK-based music project by Peter Godziszewski. A 3-track demo was recorded in 2001 with the track “Metaverse” included on Elektrauma Vol.6 compilation released in 2002.
Relocated to Canada the project continued with remix work for other bands and further compilation contributions, culminating in Gord Clement joining forces with Peter in 2004 and a new phase of Atomzero was born. The new songwriting partnership brought strong vocals, thoughtfully-crafted lyrics and a more melody-driven brand of electronic music, fusing classic electronic influences of early electro-pop, industrial and EBM into a modern mix.
In September 2014, Atomzero signed a European label deal with Manchester-based independent label AnalogueTrash Records to release a special edition of their debut album Symbiosis in December 2014. Their label debut, Surface is released as a free single in October and provides the perfect appetiser to Atomzero’s unique and powerful sound.
The single contains the title track taken from Symbiosis, and also an exclusive b-side in the form of Halo.
From 12th November on you can watch White Bird In A Blizzard in the theatres.
A film by Gregg ARAKI ('Mysterious Skin', 'Kaboom', 'The Doom Generation')
Starring Shailene WOODLEY ('Divergent', 'The Fault in Our Stars', 'The Descendants'), Eva GREEN ('Casino Royale') en Gabourey SIDIBE ('Precious')
Kat Connors is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve, disappears. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, Brock, for the loss. But as time passes, Kat begins to come to grips with how deeply Eve's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, she finds herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it...
DUTCH VERSION
Een film van Gregg ARAKI ('Mysterious Skin', 'Kaboom', 'The Doom Generation')
Met Shailene WOODLEY ('Divergent', 'The Fault in Our Stars', 'The Descendants'), Eva GREEN ('Casino Royale') en Gabourey SIDIBE ('Precious')
Kat Connor is 17 wanneer haar moeder plots spoorloos verdwijnt, net op het moment dat ze zelf volop haar seksualiteit ontdekt. Ze trekt zich dan ook inintieel niet veel aan van de verdwijning en laat haar vader, die helemaal van de kaart is, het allemaal maar uitzoeken.
Maar beetje bij beetje dwingen Kats bizarre dromen haar om zichzelf en de ware redenen voor de verdwijning van haar moeder in vraag te stellen. Terwijl Kat de puzzelstukken in elkaar past, leert ze zaken die haar leven voorgoed zullen veranderen.
Release in België op 12 november 2014
