Excellent news from the Kirlian Camera-front as at the end of October we'll have a brand new album coming out!
"Nightglory", the eagerly awaited new album from Italian cult sound-wizards Kirlian Camera is a mesmerizing experience of epic proportions. Angelo Bergamini and Elena Alice Fossi have fused soundtrack-like, symphonic pomp with electronic arrangements, beats and experiments in ten anthemic compositions.
Charismatic singer Fossi intonates the pieces with just the right balance between fragility and powerful pathos to drive the group’s magnum opus to maximum impact. "Nightglory" is released as a regular album CD as well as a classy limited edition with a bonus disc which contains dramatic and inspired ‘chamber music versions’ of album tracks, as well as two new songs.
"Avulsion" is the 7th studio album by Manufactura. With this new body of work, producer Karloz.M states "the music on this album is intended for prayer, meditation, drug consumption, magick, remote viewing, deep relaxation, astral projection, lucid dreaming, healing and/or other states of consciousness and it is dedicated to the memory of COIL
." Avulsion distinguishes it self from all other Manufactura albums in that the music strictly focuses on intricate and dynamic dark ambient soundscapes and atmospheric arrangements laced with elements of power electronics. It all lies between moments of unending darkness, glimpses of distant torture and vast uneasy calmness.
The album features artwork by Alexander Froebel and it also includes 4 collaborative tracks between Travis Morgan (Rec|use / Black Meat), Shaun Frandsen (Sudden Death Over Time / Glis), Justin Cameron (Lexincript), Jeff Swearemgin (Sleep Clinic) and Karloz.M. Through his latest opus, once again Manufactura surprises and astonishes with yet another release that will surely stir his many fans and critics alike.
Ears, headphones and/or speakers, beware.
Tracklist:
01. Through Sombrous Yearning
02. Industrialistas Sexuales
03. Les Liee Tenebres
04. Besotted with Bloodshed
05. Unchaste Libations
06. Multigravida Garland
07. The Black Widow & The Serpent King
08. They Lust for Lost Love
09. The Forest of Stones
10. Senticous Skin
11. Now We Become Death, the Destroyers of Dreams
12. Self-Mutilated Witchman of Hades
13. To Purge to Cleanse to Be Set Free
Releasedate : 11th November 2011
Three years after "La Bionda" Saal5 delivers a unique blend of disturbing sounds, strange rhythms, epic tunes and some dadaistic lyrics with "Glaube Liebe Hoffnung".
Saal5 takes us on an eight track long journey through the depth of his universe, letting us take a closer look on what he believes in.
"Glaube Liebe Hoffnung" varies from Saal5 typical harsh noise tracks to soundtrackish songs and shows us a new side of Saal5 either.
Faith, Love and Hope in the true essence and with all existing shades.
At the end of the journey you will feel refreshed or you may start your own journey to find out what you believe in.
Releasedate : 10th October 2011
Full of energy, armed with a memorable voice, an adept hand for catchy tunes, minimalist beats and powerful electronics and showing anyone who dares to stand in her way the finger, ex-Ashbury-Heights vocalist Yaz sets out to conquer the world.
With her partners in crime Elle and Johan, she brews up a cocktail of girl power, Pop, Disco, New Wave, Punk and Electroclash that storms head-first through walls while also allowing for some more fragile sides. "Chimaera At Heat" is wild, addictive and irresistible – a perfect balance of Indie and Pop that doesn’t give anything on the conventional. Or to quote Yaz’ own words: "I Just Wanna Be Me!"
Erik Frankel and Johan Hellqvist, better known as Auto-Auto have unleashed their creative machinery again. Their third album, „Dancing Through Dark Times", combines catchy Synth Pop with Club-Sounds, Electroclash, Disco, New Wave and Indie in a most entertaining way.
The Swedes go about their poaching trip through the electronic jungle in a highly groovy way, with their tongues planted firmly in their cheeks and are not afraid of borrowing from unconventional sources (Breakdance-influences and more...)
The result is as they say themselves "Fresh, wild, sometimes strange but always catchy as hell and, to be frank with you: it is quite plainly the hottest shit on this side of the galaxy. We will just leave the boring parts to the others!"
