Crammed Discs is pleased to present Les Zouzes, the first video for Aquaserge’s upcoming Guerre EP
Experimental pop band Aquaserge has been a subterranean driving force in the international music scene for the last few years, inspiring and influencing countless musicians. Formed in south-western France, the band has moved around, some of its members also becoming part of Tame Impala, Stereolab and Melody's Echo Chamber, as well as working with Japanese band Acid Mothers Temple.
Aquaserge's resolutely polymorphous music draws from sources as diverse as original psych pop, free jazz, noise, vintage French film music, pataphysics, and the most adventurous side of '60s/'70s rock (say, from kraut to Canterbury to cult Gallic bands such as ZNR). All absorbed and playfully transmuted to create their own unique, cinematic sound. Their tracks include instrumental excursions, intriguing harmonies, and pristine pop songs, always ready to joyfully burst at the seams.
Freshly signed to Crammed Discs, the band is about to release the Guerre EP in September ("War EP", which also reads phonetically as "War and Peace" in French), while their new album will come out in early 2017.
There’s nothing that can stop Bill Leeb. He just finished an intense European tour with Front Line Assembly, and now he announces that a new album by his side project Delerium will see the light on 23rd September. Mythologie will be released on Metropolis as a regular CD and double vinyl.
Picture by Xavier Marquis.
Founding member of Bauhaus Kevin Haskins to release coffee table book on the band.
There is one in every band; the band member who right from the inception of the band, decided to collect everything, from early “Local Band Makes Good” articles from their local newspaper, backstage passes, ticket stubs, band artwork, letters, set lists, photographs from his personal collection, contracts, band sketches, fan club material, pins, tour itineraries, hand written lyrics, invoices, bauhaus comic strip, and vintage equipment used on their recordings. That collector is original member of the band; Kevin Haskins. In this carefully curated coffee table book, Kevin will share his personal collection of mostly never seen before ephemera, and also offer up original stories, of poignant and sometimes amusing moments, throughout the bands hallowed career.
The book will take the spectator on a visual journey from the bands inception in 1979 thru their very successful reformation in 1998, and on to their legendary performance at The Coachella Music Festival in 2005. Kevin has teamed up with the formidable design team of Jeff Anderson of Artist In Residence, and Donny Phillips and Kaylee Carrington of KIHL Studio. The unique design reflects the bands ground-breaking aesthetic and art school origins; a fitting tribute and celebration of the legacy created by this revolutionary group.
Bauhaus was formed in the small industrial town of Northampton, England in 1979. Seminal and groundbreaking, the group was too busy following it's own muse to chase after fly-by-night-trends. The pioneering spirit which has fueled all their work, has established Bauhaus as one of the most important and influential artists of the past three decades.
After being together for only five weeks, the band recorded their legendary and timeless first single; "Bela Lugosi's Dead", which remained at number one on the British Independent chart for two years. It would be three years later, that the band performed the song, for the dramatic opening scene, of Tony Scott's Sensual Vampire movie, "The Hunger". The band went on to record four critically acclaimed albums before disbanding in 1984. In 1998 the band reformed to complete an extremely successful World Tour, attracting a much larger audience than they originally enjoyed back in the day. This was an accolade to the timeless quality of their music and their ever growing fan base. During the last decade Bauhaus released a new studio LP entitled "Go Away White", toured with Nine Inch Nails, and played a legendary headlining performance at The Coachella Music Festival in 2005.
Bauhaus is one of the few groups of the post punk era to achieve truly mythic status. Their audience greatly appreciates the legacy of artful, timeless, dark rock and theatrical performances that Bauhaus created. Bauhaus has always been, and continues to pivotal link in the evolution and revolution of contemporary music.
Artists that have name checked Bauhaus include; Radiohead, Bjork, Massive Attack, Sigur Ros, Nine Inch Nails, Tricky, The Flaming Lips, The Horrors, Jello Biafra, Marilyn Manson, Janes Addiction, Tool, Jarvis Cocker, Hole, Interpol, Skinny Puppy, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Nirvana to name just a few.
There's something real nice coming for the fans of Synthpop in November!!!
After K-Bereit and Das Ich in April and the upcoming event on September 10th featuring The Saint Paul and The Invincible Spirit there will be Frozen Plasma and Rroyce playing at the Kultube in Mönchengladbach, Germany on November 19th!
Grab your tickets as soon as possible as there are only 120 of them and be part of this special evening.
Contact dj-bandit@web.de for tickets and further information.
Norwegian artist Jenny Hval will release her new album, Blood Bitch, on September 30th via Sacred Bones. Co-produced with noise producer Lasse Marhaug, Blood Bitch is “an investigation of blood. Blood that is shed naturally. The white and red toilet roll chain which ties together the virgins, the whores, the mothers, the witches, the dreamers, and the lovers.” It is Hval’s most fictional yet most personal album.
Hval now introduces the video for the album’s debut single, ‘Female Vampire.’ Directed by Jenny Berger Myhre, shot an iPhone and starring Hval and her friends, the video nods to the low budget horror sexploitation films of the late 70s and early 80s from which the album was inspired.
As Hval explains, “What does eternity feel like? How do you ‘live’ when there is no death? Usually, the vampire is depicted as a lonesome, all-knowing and ancient creature combining violence, aggressive sexuality and deceitful youth. The pack behind the video for ‘Female Vampire’ wanted to explore vampiric eternity in a different narrative: in a group of romancing friends. The vampire friends move through their hometown of Oslo, partaking in public and private rituals of moving together. We also wanted to combine ideas from old vampire trash movies and modern trashy iPhone videos, resulting in an enigmatic world of time-lapse like slow motion where everything is always moving, or moving on. Not there, or not there yet.”
Jenny Hval Tour Dates:
Fri. July 15 – Chicago, IL @ Constellation w/ Circuit Des Yeux
Sat. July 16 – Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
Fri. Aug. 5 - Katowice, PL @ Off Festival
Sun. Sep. 4 - Larmer Tree Gardens, UK @ End of the Road
Wed. Sep. 14 - Oslo, NO @ Ultima Festival
Thu. Sep. 29 – Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA
Fri. Sep. 30 - New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
Tue. Oct. 4 – Boston, MA @ Great Scott
Wed. Oct. 5 – Montreal, QC @ Casa del Popolo
Fri. Oct. 7 – Toronto, ON @ The Drake
Sat. Oct. 8 – Oberlin, OH @ Oberlin College
Sun. Oct. 9 – Washington, DC @ DC9
Mon. Oct. 17 - Glasgow, UK @ Stereo
Tue. Oct. 18 - Manchester, UK @ Soup Kitchen
Wed. Oct. 19 - London, UK @ Oslo
Fri. Oct. 21 - Brussels, BE @ AB
Sat. Oct. 22 - Paris, FR @ Point Ephemere
Mon. Oct. 24 - Luzern, CH @ Suedpol
Wed. Oct. 26 - Berlin, DE @ Kantine am Berghain
Thu. Oct. 27 - Amsterdam, NL @ De School
Fri. Oct. 28 - Hamburg, DE @ Kampnagel
Sat. Oct. 29 – Copenhagen, DK @ Jazzhouse
Fri. Nov. 11 - Los Angeles, CA @ Resident
Sat. Nov. 12 – Oakland, CA @ Starline Social Club
Mon. Nov. 14 – Portland, OR @ Holocene
Tue. Nov. 15 – Seattle, WA @ Kremwerk
Wed. Nov. 16 – Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabare
