Mick Harvey has announced the details of a new album, out on MUTE on 29th April 2013.
The album’s release follows a series of dates including his first ever solo New Zealand tour in March and two sold out shows in St Kilda paying tribute to Roland S Howard, The Prince of St Kilda. Mick Harvey has also announced a performance of interpretations of the songs of Serge Gainsbourg at ATP’s Yeah Yeah Yeahs curated I’ll Be Your Mirror on 4 May, and recently toured with Einstürzende Neubauten through Australia (Full details below, more European dates in support of the new album to be announced).
FOUR (Acts of Love) is a contemplation on romantic love - it's loss, re-awakening, our ongoing struggles with it and its place in our universe. The album is a song cycle, divided into 3 Acts.
The album features original compositions by Mick Harvey alongside a song by long time collaborator PJ Harvey (‘Glorious’) and interpretations of The Saints’ ‘The Story of Love’, Van Morrison’s ‘The Way Young Lovers Do’, Exuma’s ‘Summertime in New York’ and Roy Orbison’s ‘Wild Hearts (Run Out of Time)’.
FOUR (Acts of Love) is Mick Harvey’s sixth solo studio album, and follows 2011’s Sketches from the Book of the Dead. Harvey, renowned for his career with The Birthday Party and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds is equally known for his soundtrack work (Chopper, To Have And To Hold, Australian Rules) and his production work (Anita Lane, Rowland S Howard and most recently PJ Harvey’s Mercury Prize winning album, Let England Shake).
FOUR (Acts of Love) was recorded at Grace Lane, North Melbourne and Atlantis Sound, Melbourne and features regular collaborators Rosie Westbrook on double bass and JP Shilo on guitar and violin.
LIVE DATES
28 Feb – St Kilda MeMo Theatre – Roland S Howard Tribute – SOLD OUT
1 March – St Kilda MeMo Theatre – Roland S Howard Tribute – SOLD OUT
21 March - Wellington, Mighty Mighty Bar (NZ)
22 March – Auckland, King’s Arms (NZ)
23 March - Leigh, Sawmill (NZ)
4 May – London, Alexandra Palace - ATP’s
Later this year Mick Harvey will release a box set of his songs of Serge Gainsbourg, translated into English featuring the albums Intoxicated Man (1995) and Pink Elephants (1997) and bonus tracks. Further information to follow.
Mechanical Moth about „Unendlichkeit“ ("infinity")
On this record all we do is to concentrate on everything that has no end.
Our agony, our search and quest after perfection, the truth, our aspiration and striving for death and love, the eternal darkness in which nothing of this is even touchable.
We don´t try to explore new paths, we tell storys about the paths that lay behind us. Some of the future ways are already well-known. The world can ! be infintely beautiful but also be shitty as hell. We really don´ ;t tell new storys but these circumstances that happen to everybody including you and me.
We volute us in self-pity because we know exactly that others are in the same situation and hope to bring catharsis and salvation to some of you. We accuse our selves before anyone else can, because we´re just egocetric to show yourself to you.
Selfloved and selfhated. Fresh lyrics from the loony bin, letters written in the shadows. We´ve got our unique moth-sound but we do not define over it, we just use it as a means to an end. If you understand our letters they can heal you in and strange, eerie kind.
It became dark. It is our soul. We relish it.
"Unendlichkeit" will be released on the 28th of March on Scanner - Dark Dimensions Labelgroup
Tracklist:
1. Awake (intro)
2. Eisflügel
3. Universum
4. Knochentanz
5. Station 2.4 Raum 4.0
6. Feuerrosen
7. Sand in meinen Händen
8. Gute Vibration! en
9. Totenwache
10. Reizend
11. Darkness eternal
12. Kalte Asche
13. Frau aus Papier
14. Die Wahrheit
15. Wenn du mich ansiehst
16. Nebelstraße
Eden Synthetic Corps were formed in 2005. Their early songs started getting rave reviews all over the internet and they signed a record deal with Dark Dimensions / Scanner just a couple of months after their formation.
Their debut album Matte (released in 2006) was enthusiastically received all over the Alternative community and the word was all over that there was a finally an Electro-Industrial band from Portugal worth listening. ESC always tried their best to sound unique among hundreds of clones and they achieved a new level of ! identity when they released Enhancer. Enhancer is a concept album that tells the story of a serial killer on a women killing spree. The artwork was widely considered as one of the best among all the bands in the same musical universe and the album followed the path of Matte by getting great reviews from the press and great feedback from listeners. Along with Enhancer came ESC's first international shows and another presence in the DAC (Deutsche Alternative Charts) top ten albums. Their third album, featuring yet another concept, portrayed as comics, on the artwork of a luxurious digipack packaging. "Eight Thousand Square Feet" brought us one of ESC's most intense album to date, featuring guests such as Carsten Jacek from [:SITD:] and Jan L. from X-Fusion. This ESC album stayed on the DAC charts for eight consecutive weeks. They played lots of shows after the release of this album, including countries like Russia, Ukraine and even the prestigious Wave Gotik Treffen in Germany.
2013 will bring us ESC's fourth offering named Breathing! Salt, with lots of new refreshing elements to the songs that will glue the avid electro-industrial music listener to his speakers from the first to the last song. If you enjoy intense beats, a spine-tingling atmosphere and dark harsh vocals, there's no going wrong if you give ESC a try.
"Breathing Salt" will be released on 28th March, 2013 via Scanner – Dark Dimensions Labelgroup
Tracklist :
01 - Breathing Salt
02 - Evaporate
03 - Something is Terribly Wrong
04 - God's Own Miserable Exception
05 - Determinism
06 - Cryptobiosis
07 - The Black Octopus Carousel
08 - FBK
09 - The Sailing Dead
10 - I Cannot Leave You Because You Never Had Me
11 - Commander Cruel
12 - FBK (Saturn Dawn RMX)
Mika Rossi, Anders Olsson and Jesper Nils! son are the three men behind the EBM/Electro band Autodafeh from the South of Sweden. They are back with a brand new 14 track studio album entitled Blackout Scenario. Blackout Scenario will be released on the label Scanner (Dark Dimension Label Group) on March the 28th - 2013.
Since Autodafeh started in late 2007 they have released three studio albums and one EP with seven tracks. The band has done a lot of remixes and also some other cool projects and producing other bands. The band have also had the opportunity to play live together with artists like Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, DAF, Die Krupps, and many many more.
Autodafeh focus on creating electronic tunes with a powerful beat, massive baselines and a great sing-a-long melody. Mika is the lead vocalist of the band and is also very much involved in the production and the creation of the Autodafeh sound. Jesper has a solid background within the EBM scene and live he plays the drums and the percussion el! ements in the songs, Jesper writes most of the lyrics for the songs. A nders plays keyboards and sings backing vocals on stage and in the studio and have occasionally taken the lead vocals on some tracks, Anders and Jesper are also involved in creating the great sound of Autodafeh.
Electronic music for body and mind.
"Blackout Scenario" will be released on the 28th of March on Scanner - Dark Dimensions Labelgroup
Tracklist :
01 EXERCISE YOUR BRAIN (03:50)
02 GETAWAY (04:26)
03 EMERGING SADNESS (03:42)
04 CLAUSTROPHOBIA (04:06)
05 ANATOMIC COCKTAIL (03:54)
06 FLOW (03:50)
07 THE PAIN THAT WE FEEL (03:39)
08 STEP UP (02:58)
09 BLOODY MARY (04:16)
10 LESSONS TO LEARN (03:42)
11 THE SHADOW (03:34)
12 WALK THE LIE (04:15)
13 BEYOND LEFT AND RIGHT (04:25)
14 VIOLENCE (03:59)
The voice of the finest French popwave-band Taxi Girl died at the age of 53. When Taxi Girl broke up in 1986 Daniel had a succesfull career as a soloartist.
RIP Daniel, Nous ne vous oublierons jamais
