The Chaos All Stars is a Swedish band or rather gathering of musicians and artists combining their skills in order to create modern, danceable and atmospheric music, based on electronic soundscapes. Founders, being OlkK and Nik are the current core of CAS but the band is somewhat like a collective, where various other artists and performers are included at times. Recently, the famous model and ex-singer of Ashbury Heights Kari Berg has joined the collective in parallel with her solo career.
Today the band announces the release of their first CD, entitled “I Need It All”.The CD is scheduled for release in mid-February 2012 and will contain a total of 13 tracks, 7 original tracks along with one cover and 5 remixes.
On the CD the All Stars come forward and this time Kari Berg presents herself with her wide variety of voices, from moody melodic styles to opera. The remix part of the CD include contributions from a wide variety of bands and producers, among which Belgian band Psy'Aviah.
Til Tuesday were a popular new-wave/synth pop band of the 1980s. which brought to us the talents of Grammy award winner Aimee Mann.
Til Tuesday were signed to Epic after winning Bostonís WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble in 1983 and released their debut album VOICES CARRY two years later.
Through signing to Epic they secured the production talents of Mike Thorne (Soft Cell, Soft Machine, John Cale, The The and Bronski Beat). VOICES CARRY was released in 1985 and featured their breakthrough single of the same name which reached #8 in the US Hot 100 and #14 in Billboard Magazines US Rock Tracks Chart.
They followed this up with two more hit singles from the album in the form of Looking Over My Shoulder and Love In A Vacuum.
The latter had been a big college rock hit in its demo form before the band signed to Epic.
Til Tuesday also managed to win the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist with the video for the Voices Carry single in 1985, Hot Shot Records is proud to present VOICES CARRY fully remastered, in a deluxe Super Jewel case with extensive liner notes including exclusive interviews with Robert Hoimes (guitarist) and Mike Thorne as well as three bonus single remixes.
Soon The Arch will be part of this years Bodybeats Festival to present their newest album which has been released on Echozone. Watch out for the forthcoming interview we did with them, but in the meantime Peek-A-Boo proudly presents their newest single Individuals.
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The follow-up to their critically acclaimed Interplay album (2011), was recorded and mixed at Benge's studio in London. Like Interplay, it's the sound of analogue synthesizers and drum machines - and on one track feedbacking guitars played by Foxx himself.
There's a raw, experimental edge to much of the material on the new album, which is linked together by a series of instrumentals.
Although not overtly autobiographical, the tone of the songs is a lot more reflective and emotional than their previous work. Many of the lyrics explore feelings of loss over opportunities and lovers missed - possible futures that remain unlived.
The electronic music created out of machines built 30 or 40 years ago creates an atmospheric, rough-edged accompaniment for this set of feelings and atmospheres. It's both analogue and forward-looking; echoes from the past but also still futuristic - a strange push and pull that mirrors the words perfectly. For the new shows Foxx and Benge will be joined on stage by two performers who are also solo musicians in their own right - Serafina Steer (Keyboards, Bass) and Hannah Peel (Keyboards, Violin).
John Foxx formed Ultravox in the 70s and has worked with a wide range of artists including Brian Eno, Xeno & Oaklander, The Soft Moon, Krautrock producer Conny Plank, Paul Daley from Leftfield, Cocteau Twins guitarist, Robin Guthrie and I, Robot director Alex Proyas. Paul Daley (Leftfield).
Brand new mini-album, released in a beautiful Digipak! It features 2 all new songs, one cover-version and 2 new versions of previously released songs. In October 2011, Dino Molinaro, Chris McCarter and David Burns went into Toyland Studios in Melbourne to record 3 new tracks.
This is the first material featuring David Burns on drums since 2003, and the result was more than satisfying. Chris chose 2 tracks to go on this new mini-album, the third, will be on a future single, some time in 2012. 'Where do I go from here' was written only a short time ago, whilst 'City of Night', was a work in progress since 2010, and completed with the lyrics written just prior to recording the track.
The mini-album also contains a cover of the Big Country track 'Come back to Me' from the bands classic 1984 album 'Steeltown'. Chris wanted to pay tribute to the 10th anniversary of Big Country’s Stuart Adamson's death on December 16 2001.
The CD also includes a new version of 'Distant Memory', originally on 'In the Shadow of the Angel' (1994) and of 'Where do I go from here', both by Toyland Studios’ Adam Calaitzis.
