After few months of silence and even more of works Infrastition is proud to introduce a brand new Transmission series release : Wave-West 80-91 - The French Britain cold wave, 18 tracks from the West of France best bands.
Tracklist has been set up by Olivier Lechevestrier and introducing text has been written by Alain Maneval.
Such an exceptional release deserved an exceptional 2LP limited edition, that is only available on pre-orders from the Infrastition website and will be out in September, be fast only 300 copies are made on black and white wax vinyls.
Transmission Wave-West 80-91 CD :
BRUME - Un Visage Sans Vie
BUNTER GUILLAUME - La Victoire Est Obligatoire
CET HYVERS - Contradiction
COMPLOT BRONSWICK - A Chaque Instant
DOMINIC SONIC - When My Tears Run Cold
END OF DATA - Dans Votre Monde
EVENING LEGIONS - Your Dimension
FRAKTURE - Nagasakind - Version 2011
FRANZ KULTUR - Ultime Atome
LES NUS - Joli Tango
MARC SEBERG - Quelque Chose, Noir.
MARQUIS DE SADE - Final Fog (Brouillard Définitif)
OCTOBRE - Acteurs
PRIVATE JOKES - Madrid
SENSO - L'Océan (Ne sera pas la fin) - Démo
THE GRIEF - Dissas
UBIK - Get No B side For Mr Hyde DJ
WARSAW PACT - I Want A Photograph
We have some exclusive news from the Kirlian Camera-front, and it all has to do with Spectra*Paris.
A new album and singles have been produced by Elena Alice Fossi (Kirlian Camera/Alice Neve Fox/Stalingrad Valkyrie)+Angelo Bergamini (Kirlian Camera-Division KPax/Stalingrad Walkyrie/Uranium USSR 1972) + John Fryer (Depeche Mode/Nine Inch Nails/This Mortal Coil-Black Needle Noise producer).
Everything has radically changed in the band as well, which is no longer an all-female team. “STAR BUBBLES” is the single, ready to be launched, while the album, ready as well, is “RETROMACHINE BETTY”.
A possible SPECTRA*paris second single might be “ALICE (GEISTERSTERNE)”. Such works might see the light within 3 months approximately, say on late August 2016. S*P style has changed too, being today massively influenced by electronics, kind of synthetic future-rock showing off retro-nostalgia glamorous taste.
Kraftwerk+Moroder+Blondie+J.M.Jarre+OMD all mixed up with today’s cutting edge music technology and lot of passionate playful attitude might be taken as being the effective ingredients of such a brand new work!
Meantime, Elena Alice’s SPECTRA*paris has released a new single along with John Fryer’s Black Needle Noise, titled “Naughty Girl”.
EAF/S*P once again is releasing a club/radio single as a guest for John Rox’s new single “Social Lovers”.
Release date: May 23rd.
One of Belgium’s most popular electronic music export product Metroland delivered a musical testimonial for their lost friend Louis Zachert (Passenger L – on the right on the photo above) by releasing their album “Things Will Never Sound The Same Again”.
The songs on this album all relate to their friendship and whereas the first single “Under The Roof” was named after the recording studio where they spent loads of time together, their new single “Synthetic Sound” is about their common deep love for synthetic music and sound.
Metroland deliberately opted to remix all the versions themselves, “in order to contain the true spirit of their synthetic sound” so they say. The single (available here on Bandcamp) is also released in an alternative “remixes” version (which is available here on Bandcamp).
The newest single by Black Needed Noise (the project of top producer John Fryer) features Spectra*Paris which is of course the alter ego of Elena Alice Fossi, the front woman of Kirlian Camera.
Click below to hear the result.
Swans have shared an excerpt of ‘When Will I Return?’, taken from the forthcoming album, The Glowing Man, out on Mute / Young God (N America) on 17 June 2016.
‘When Will I Return?’ was written, explains Michael Gira, “… specifically for Jennifer Gira to sing. It’s a tribute to her strength, courage, and resilience.”
The Glowing Man will be available on double CD and deluxe triple gatefold vinyl, with a poster and digital download. In addition, there will be a double CD/DVD format, which features a Swans live performance from 2015.
The Glowing Man, announced as the last album release of Swans’ current incarnation, will be followed by an extensive tour. The tour will unfold with dates beginning in North America in the summer, before returning to Europe in the autumn. Announced tour dates below include UK dates in October that see the band play two shows at London’s Islington Assembly Hall.
Swans, led by Michael Gira, formed in 1982 and, after disbanding in 1997, returned with the critically acclaimed albums My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky (2010), 2012’s The Seer and 2014’s To Be Kind.
A NOTE FROM MICHAEL GIRA OF SWANS:
“In 2009 when I made the decision to restart my musical group, Swans, I had no idea where it would lead. I knew that if I took the road of mining the past or revisiting the catalog, that it would be fruitless and stultifying. After much thought about how to make this an adventure that would instead lead the music forward into unexpected terrain, I chose the five people with whom to work that I believed would most ably provide a sense of surprise, and even uncertainty, while simultaneously embodying the strength and confidence to ride the river of intention that flows from the heart of the sound wherever it would lead us - and what’s the intention? LOVE!
And so finally this LOVE has now led us, with the release of the new and final recording from this configuration of Swans, The Glowing Man, through four albums (three of which contain more complexity, nuance and scope than I would have ever dreamed possible), several live releases, various fundraiser projects, countless and seemingly endless tours and rehearsals, and a generally exhausting regimen that has left us stunned but still invigorated and thrilled to see this thing through to its conclusion. I hereby thank my brothers and collaborators for their commitment to whatever truth lies at the center of the sound. I’m decidedly not a Deist, but on a few occasions – particularly in live performance – it’s been my privilege, through our collective efforts, to just barely grasp something of the infinite in the sound and experience generated by a force that is definitely greater than all of us combined. When talking with audience members after the shows or through later correspondence, it’s also been a true privilege to discover they’ve experienced something like this too. Whatever the force is that has led us through this extended excursion, it’s been worthwhile for many of us, and I’m grateful for what has been the most consistently challenging and fulfilling period of my musical life.
Going forward, post the touring associated with The Glowing Man, I’ll continue to make music under the name Swans, with a revolving cast of collaborators. I have little idea what shape the sound will take, which is a good thing. Touring will definitely be less extensive, I’m certain of that! Whatever the future holds, I’ll miss this particular locus of human and musical potential immensely: Norman Westberg, Kristof Hahn, Phil Puleo, Christopher Pravdica, Thor Harris, and myself mixed in there somewhere, too.”
Swans, led by Michael Gira, formed in 1982 and, after disbanding in 1997, returned with the critically acclaimed albums My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky (2010), 2012’s The Seer and 2014’s To Be Kind.
