After genre-defining releases in the 90's and 80's the band, which the media tried to categorize as Electro, EBM, Industrial, Crossover and even Metal, DIE KRUPPS returns with brand new material. DIE KRUPPS have opened the gates once again to their factory, after some years of running tests and high maintenance. The machinery has been oiled and greased – first works have already been delivered to an expectant fan base: Both 'Risikofaktor' and 'Industrie-Maedchen' reached the pole position in the German Alternative Chart, where they stayed for several weeks. Now it's back to top form, with the first new prototype leaving the assembly line: THE MACHINISTS OF JOY.
Transformation is the key to the psyche.
It unlocks the hidden domains inside us and finds the paths to inner wisdom. ’Metamorphyses’ is a journey into the deep inner self; a drama of the sublime and trancendental transformation of the psyche through a katabasis ritual presented in six transitional stages slowly moving towards completion.
’Metamorphyses’ is the key to the psyche.
Hypnotic, introspective and yet more difficult.
Being the seventh fullenght album from raison d’être, ’Metamorphyses’ is in many aspects different from previous works by Peter Andersson.
The organic flow and the use of drones has been extended, creating a varied output of both calm/meditative and harsh/intense sound structures.
The transformation in sound is also present in the perceived emotions.
Demanding, tempting and deceptive are only a few elements that characterize the ordeal the listener has to withstand.
The expanded double CD edition of 'Metamorphyses' contains the original album remastered according to the K-14 leevel standard.
Additonally, two previosuly unreleased early sketches from the 'Metamorphyses' session has been added to the first disc.
The second disc contains a selection of previously unreleased live recordings from performances made between 2006-2008 in Sofia, Gent, Salzburg, Alkmaar and Budapest.
Comes in a 6-panel digipak with original art by Kati Astraeir.
The second album from Awen, five years in the making, stands as a sonic dedication to the ties that bind this world to the spectral.
The album is rooted in the concept of the Grim Grey King, which forms a binding tie throughout with interpretations and translations of the opening poem featured in Swedish, German and Italian - cropping up like standing stones along the path of the listener's progress.
The 'King' of the album's namesake encompasses not only the sinister martial aspects of Woden, Gwyn ap Nudd and the endless Wild Hunt, but also the notion of a more abstract and cold custodian of the souls of melancholy lovers lost, their desperate palliations sought through suicide.
From dense percussion evocative of megalithic rites to the Arcadian chords of acoustic strings, the whole is tethered throughout by the howling tension of hungry ghosts and conducted by the commanding voice of Erin Powell.
'Grim King Of The Ghosts' is a synthesis of the ancient and the contemporary, with the heartfelt acoustic cover of "Seeker" by Fire + Ice and modern interpretations of traditional songs from the British Isles such as "Grim King Of The Ghosts", "Cradle Spell", and "Sons Of Exiles" shifting like glimpses through a stygian mist into the tonal terrors of "Grym Grå Kung", "Bitter Augur" and "Il Re Grigio Cupo".
This world and That, Then and Now, are One.
Featuring guests b9 InVid (Et Nihil / Luftwaffe), Gaya Donadio (ANTIchildLEAGUE / Six Comm), and Freya Aswynn (by virtue of a recorded personal rune reading for Erin Powell).
This is a quite uni–que col–la–bo–ra–tion, an unex–pec–ted one bet–ween the ita–lian com–po–ser Teho Tear–do and Blixa Bar–geld, lea–der of Einstürzen–de Neu–bau–ten and for–mer Bad Seeds. They first met du–ring the rea–li–za–tion of In–giu–ria, a thea–tre pièce and right after that they col–la–bo–ra–ted on a song for a sound–track, "A Quite Life".
That song star–ted the whole pro–cess of wri–ting and pro–du–cing an album to–ge–ther where songs and more ex–pe–ri–men–tal pie–ces could find a com–mon ground.
The ori–gi–nal use of strings: cello, vio–lin, gui–tars, a full string quar–tet di–verts the tra–di–tio–nal per–cep–tion of those clas–sic in–stru–men–ts when they deal with elec–tro–nics and the re–sult is emo–tio–nal–ly mo–ving.
The album has been writ–ten and re–cor–ded bet–ween Ber–lin and Rome, it took near–ly two years to be made, Teho and Blixa wor–ked next to each other choo–sing ca–re–ful–ly every sound, every word and si–len–ce.
There are 12 songs on Still Smi–ling, in–clu–ding a new ver–sion of A Quiet Life and a cover of Alone With The Moon by The Tiger Li–lies.
Among–st col–la–bo–ra–tors there are The Ba–la–ne–scu Quar–tet and cel–li–st Mar–ti–na Ber–to–ni.
Ly–rics are vi–sio–na–ry and are sung in en–glish, ger–man and ita–lian, Blixa re–veals a real–ly per–so–nal and in–ti–ma–te side to the li–ste–ner this time.
Still Smi–ling is an album whose spe–cial vi–sion co–vers all the sky bet–ween Rome and Ber–lin, day–ti–me and noc–tur–nal.
Anterior Research Media Comm announce the first NEW ClockDVA studio production material since 1996 with the release of a specially developed format USB smart media object ,
The ClockDVA "Clock 2" USB is a 4 gig aluminium media card containing 8 x 24 bit 48 kHz non compressed audio files and is the highest audio quality possible in a commercially available format , 3 NEW STUDIO TRACKS and 5 remixes by respectively Frank Bretschneider / Uwe Schmitt , / Robin Rimbaud,.
PLUS 4 visual works produced and made for this release , 2 by Panagiotis Tomaras, 1 by Paul Prudence & 1 by Wim Jongedijk / Adi Newton / Panagiotis Tomaras (which is a specially commissioned black & white 16 mm film).
Comes in very high quality both technically and in its Artistic Contributions plus exclusive Films/ Videos and re mixes made exclusively for this limited edition release only so in this sense its a unique collectors item, and also it can not be copied so is very much an Individual item.
AUDIO CONTENT :
01. THE KONSTRUCTOR
02. RAYONNIST
03. KABARET 13
All tracks ADI NEWTON / TeZ MAURIZIO MARTINUCCI RE-MIXES
RE-KONSTRUCTOR - DVA ADI NEWTON / TeZ MAURIZIO MARTINUCCI
DE-KONSTRUCTOR - UWE SCHMIDT
RAYONNIST REFRACTION 1 - ROBIN RIMBAUD
RAYONNIST REFRACTION 2 - ROBIN RIMBAUD
KABARET 13.1 - FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER
VIDEOS
01. THE KONSTRUCTOR - PANAGIOTIS TOMARAS
02. RAYONNIST - PANAGIOTIS TOMARAS
03. THE KONSTRUCTOR - PAUL PRUDENCE
04. KABARET 13 - WIM JONGEDIJK/ADI NEWTON / PANAGIOTIS TOMARAS
PLUS extensive PDF document text / images
