"Compromise Is Defeat" is the new full length solo album from Mirland and the first since "Mechanic" (released by Raumklang Music in 2017). The ten track is a collection of industrial techno / power noise / dark trance tracks initially composed from 2018 - 2021 while Mirland was mainly composing, remixing or producing for other acts.
Early versions and sketches were tested at various live performances during that period but none were actually produced or mixed as complete tracks. During the fall of 2021 the final tracks were chosen and given the full studio treatment.
"Compromise Is Defeat" is a statement for a time of turmoil. With a focus on hard beats and energy the album is full of complex yet compelling tracks for the dance floor.
And this is what they say about it:
The last couple of years have been a Dead Season for most of us.
We discovered that things we deemed important were, in fact, of no consequence, or things we took for granted, like handshakes, hugs, kisses…were all lost for an unforeseeable long time.
This Dead Season saw us changing the way we lived our music, too: once together, now apart; once playing, listening, dancing in the same room, now entrusting our notes to the Ether, like messages in bottles committed to the seas, in the hope whomever gets them, will understand their secret meaning.
These songs are the cries of our souls staring into the Abyss. The desperation, the frustration, the will not to break under extreme circumstances, but also the love, the hope to get soon back to a life we can look forward to.
We dedicate these feelings to all the brave souls who are still fighting to make it through this Dead Season, and to those who didn’t make it.
Today it's exactly 41 years since Siouxsie and the Banshees, released their Christmas single 'Israel'!
Today it's exactly 41 years since Siouxsie and the Banshees released 'Israel' (28.11.1980 / Polydor Records) as a stand-alone single in between the albums Kaleidoscope (1980) and Juju (1981). The track was written by the band while touring in Europe in the autumn of 1980. The band wanted to write a Christmas song to be released in time for December of that year.
It peaked at No. 41 on the UK Singles Chart and it was the band's first single to also be released on a 12-inch, although the tracks are identical on both releases.
Even though it reached No. 73 on the US National Disco Action Top 100 chart as an import, 'Israel' did not appear on a Siouxsie and the Banshees album until the release of the Once Upon a Time: The Singles compilation (1981).
In 2002 the song was remastered for the The Best of Siouxsie and the Banshees compilation CD album and in 2006 it was also featured as a bonus track on the Kaleidoscope reissue.
Israel (Track listing)
A. Israel
B. Red Over White
DISCOGS
Israel (Lyrics)
Little orphans in the snow
With nowhere to call a home
Start their singing, singing
Waiting through the summertime
To thaw your hearts in wintertime
That's why they're singing, singing
Waiting for a sign to turn blood into wine
The sweet taste in your mouth, turned bitter in its glass
Israel, in Israel
Israel, in Israel
Shattered fragments of the past
Meet in veins on the stained glass
Like the lifeline in your palm
Red and green reflects the scene
Of a long forgotten dream
There were princes and there were kings
Now hidden in disguise, cheap wrappings of lies
Keep your hearts alive with a song from inside
Even though we're all alone
We are never on our own when we're singing, singing
Home, home
There's a man who's looking in
And he smiles a toothless grin
Because he's singing, singing
See some people shine with glee
But their song is jealousy
Their hate is clanging, maddening
In Israel, will they sing Happy Noel
In Israel, in Israel
Israel, in Israel
In Israel, will they sing Happy Noel
Songwriters: Susan Ballion / Steven Severin / Peter Clarke / John McGeoch
© BMG Rights Management, Domino Publishing Company
Difficult things take a long time – impossible things a little longer. It’s been a long time in the making but ‘Touring Skyward’ will eventually see its release on January 2022. The Covid pandemic, technical and manufacturing issues all of that contributed to the frustrations of putting this together but now is your chance to get your hands on the blu-ray. An in-depth behind the scenes view of life on the road with us. A good and honest insight into how it all works and the team of people who make it happen.
“Touring Skyward – A Tour Movie” will be released on January 28, 2022 as 60-page hardcover book edition including the blu-ray with 3 ½ hours playing time and 2 CDs with 23 live-tracks among other items.
Gothic/Post-Punk band CYBORG AMOK has just unveiled their new video for the song, "Burden Away." The song appears on CYBORG AMOK's self-titled album.
Greg Bullock (synths/vocals) says about the song: "Burden Away" was one of those songs that came together start to finish in a few hours one afternoon. I recorded all of the music and vocals. We felt that "Burden Away" best represented the direction CYBORG AMOK is going in. So, it was chosen for the video. We let Nick and Pete at Howl Peak depict the song as they interpreted it for themselves.
As for CYBORG AMOK, we prefer to allow the audience to find their own meaning in our music."
For fans of: goth, industrial, post-punk
