Karawane is the new band of multi-instrumentalist, sound artist and songwriter Anne Caesar van Wieren.
After ten years and three albums with his former band LPG, Anne Caesar decided to take a break to work on his new solo album. Two years of writing and recording followed, in which Anne Caesar experimented with a broad range of sounds and instruments. In keeping with his love of experimental music and search for fresh inspiration the album was recorded at many different locations (an old cinema in the centre of Groningen, an abandoned high school, a former military complex in a forest in the Dutch countryside and even a small living room in London at his girlfriend’s house).
All sides of his creative mind meet in Karawane. Alongside playing and creating music Anne Caesar is working as a visual and sound artist too.
Initially, the debut album of Karawane will be released in a unique way: Each track along with a video –made by Anne Caesar himself- will be presented on the first Monday of each month. This is the moment at which the sirens - that are placed all over the Netherlands, to warn people in case of emergency- go off as a test. This all kicks-off with the first song ‘Survive’ in January 2014. The physical album will be released later this year on the well-known Dutch indie label Excelsior Recordings.
Here you can hear some songs.
Only 11 months after the successful "FH4"-album, Faderhead is back once again to release his new CD "Atoms & Emptiness".
This new record chronicles a period of time in the private life of the German producer where almost everything went wrong - which apparently provided endless inspiration and intensified the songwriting process. Musically, "Atoms & Emptiness" must definitely be considered the darkest and most melancholic Faderhead record.
Although the typical Faderhead trademark mix of club electro, popsongs and ballads defines this album, you'll be hard-pressed to find fun-tracks like "Dancers" or "Coke For My Ass" this time around. On "Atoms & Emptiness" Faderhead impressively shows how a mixture of EBM, Industrial, Elektro and Synthpop needs to sound in the year 2014 and once again leaves the competition in the dust, wondering how he did it again!? Clubtracks like "Stand Up", "When The Freaks Come Out" or "You Can't Resist" are fluently mixed with Future Pop songs like "Someone Else's Dream" and "Every Hour Kills" (written in cooperation with Daniel Myer of Haujobb) as well as cinematic sounding Ballads like the title track "Atoms & Emptiness". Writing about music is like discussions on the internet: completely useless - so check out "Atoms & Emptiness"!
Atoms & Emptiness will be released worldwide February 7th.
"4:14 Scream" is the successor of "4:13 Dream" and will be the 14th album of The Cure.
This new album will be released in the next months, followed by a new tour, where, by analogy to the Trilogy Tour, the band will perform 3 albums in their totality. This time, "The top", "The head on the door" and "Kiss me kiss me kiss me" will be played.
Hurray for the Riff Raff release their new album 'Small Town Heroes' through ATO Records on 31st March.
Produced by front-woman Alynda Lee Segarra and engineered by Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes), 'Small Town Heroes' features 12 new, original songs all written or co-written by Segarra with support from a vivid cast of Crescent City musicians, including her longtime right-hand-man on fiddle, Yosi Perlstein, keyboard player Casey McAllister and two members of the Deslondes: Sam Doores on guitar and Dan Cutler on bass.
Homescreen proudly presents their newest releases. Here’s the full list.
CLOUDBURST (available from 13th February).
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Stars: Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker, Kristin Booth
SYNOPSIS :
A lesbian couple escape from their nursing home and head up to Canada to get married. Along the way, they pick up a young, male hitchhiker.
EAT SLEEP DIE (available now)
Director: Gabriela Pichler
Stars: Nermina Lukac, Milan Dragisic, Jonathan Lampinen
SYNOPSIS :
A young Eastern European immigrant, working in Sweden, is faced with a painful choice when she's laid off from her factory in the name of efficiencies.
METEORA (available now)
Director: Spiros Stathoulopoulos
Stars: Theo Alexander, Tamila Koulieva-Karantinaki, Giorgos Karakantas
SYNOPSIS :
Rocks and flesh. Divine perfection and human weakness. The gritty imagery of a digital camera vs the beautiful handiwork of a striking animated sequence. "Meteora" by Spiros Stathoulopoulos is full of contradictions - and that's exactly where its power lies.
WORKERS (available now)
Director: Jose Luis Valle
Stars: Jesus Padilla, Susana Salazar, Barbara Perrin Rivemar
SYNOPSIS :
After a whole life of work at Tijuana, Rafael and Lidia are victims of injustice against their rights and dignity: Rafael learns that due to a paperwork mistake, he will not be entitled to his retirement pension. As for Lidia, she finds out that her employer's will leave the entire heirloom to the dog. In their own way, alone and silently, they'll begin a battle: Rafael against a company, Lidia against a dog. Curiously, these struggles are not visible.
HEARTS AND CRAFTS : THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE HERMES (Available from 27th February)
A documentary that leads the viewers to the heart of the centre of Hermès.
Also now available in the Award Winning Cinema-series.
LA GUERRE DU FEU
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Stars: Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nicholas Kadi
SYNOPSIS :
This story takes place in prehistoric time when three prehistoric tribesmen search for a new fire source.
JU DOU
Directors: Fengliang Yang, Yimou Zhang
Stars: Li Gong, Wei Li, Baotian Li
SYNOPSIS :
A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed in glowing technicolour, this tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.
QUINCEANERA (ECHO PARK L.A.)
Directors: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
Stars: Emily Rios, Jesse Garcia, Chalo González
SYNOPSIS :
As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
DIANA VREELAND : THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL
Directors: Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt
Stars: Diana Vreeland, Richard Avedon, David Bailey
SYNOPSIS:
A look at the life and work of the influential fashion editor of Harpers Bazaar, Diana Vreeland.
