100 years ago World War I started, the all destroying war that was a shadow over Europe. Between 1914 and 1918 all big wrld powers got involved in the conflict in where 70 million soldiers fought a battle, 9 million of them died. The war ended in trenches and had battles at sea and in the air. These fights were characterized by modernized and deadlier weapons.
History now presents the first chapter from an unique collection that will feature World War I in all is aspects. It’s available now.
Length: 275 minutes.
Folk for the People: a benefit compilation for the victims of repression in Ukraine
This fundraising project has been initiated by the European alternative folk scene after a call from Mich Rozek (drummer of the Belgian Tribal Folk band Rastaban, whose ancestors came from Ukraine) in solidarity with the people in Kiev who were killed and injured while demonstrating for the respect of their basic rights, for a better life, for freedom, for a society without corruption and abuses.
Hundreds were injured, more than a hundred were found dead, shot or tortured. Some were kidnapped. There are still more than 100 people missing. We've all seen and followed what happened in Kiev, and it touched us all very deeply. There's no hate, political motivation or radicality behind our intentions with this project, only compassion and a call for tolerance and diversity as basic values against injustice and the injustifiable suffering of all these people.
In order to help the victims at our level as musicians, every band accepted to donate one of his song for a downloadable compilation available on Bandcamp. 35 bands from all over Europe and even Canada have contributed.
All the benefits of this compilation will go to EuromaidanSOS, a structure who's financially helping the victims and their families. You can read more about this organisation and their work on this page:
euromaidansos.org/en/help-victims
Contains songs from Daemonia Nymphe, Faun, Orfeo, Rastaban, Cesair, Shantalla and many more!
Projekt celebrates its 300th release with a loving homage to Black tape for a blue girl from Italy’s All my faith lost… Redefine my pure faith is extremely limited, with only 134 copies available from Projekt. Don’t miss out on your copy.
Coinciding with the vinyl release of Blacktape’s Remnants of a Deeper purity, the ethereal neo-classical All my faith lost… takes a loving look back as they re-interpret six songs in their particular style: fragile, ethereal, otherwordly, melancholic, innocent, and beautiful. The classical instrumentation of acoustic guitar, violin and cello is graced by heavenly female and earthy male vocals. Slow, emotional progressions that captivate the listener, drawing them into a subtle and hypnotic embrace.
Vocalist/instrumentalist Viola and vocalist/guitarist Federico explain, “Without Blacktape, All my faith lost… music would not have been the same; a sort of tribute to such an influential band was due. All my faith lost… take Blacktape songs and dismantle them, pulling out the heart and the core of each track and redefining them following our own vision.”
Released in a limited edition of 200, Redefine my pure faith is a unique collection of songs that will enthrall fans of both bands. It’s a perfect recording for those late night moments when you are most honest with yourself.
Are you ready to redefine your pure faith?
Release Date: April 15, 2014
It really seems a busy month for Lumière as some days after we announced their newest releases, they already have two new ones coming up.
This time they add two French movies on their catalogue.
AVANT L’HIVER
The excellent new movie by Philippe CLAUDEL ('Il y a longtemps que je t'aime', 'Tous les soleils') with Kristin SCOTT THOMAS ('Il y a longtemps que je t'aime'), Daniel AUTEUIL ('Le huitième jour', 'Caché'), Richard BERRY ('Le petit prince a dit', 'L'Emmerdeur') and Leïla BEKHTI ('La source des femmes', 'Paris je t'aime').
The movie was one of the highlights of last year’s edition of the Filmfestival from Ghent.
Synopsis:
Lucie presumes that her husband Paul - an older neurosurgeon - has an affair. Indeed, Paul behaves strange lately, but the truth behind it is dark and complicated.
BONUS: Interview met regisseur Philippe CLAUDEL (40 min.)
Technical specifications:
France, Luxembourg, 2013 | Length: 103 minutes + 40 minutes (extra)
Language: French | Subtitles: Dutch and French
Format: 16:9 | Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
JE FAIS LE MORT
A movie by Jean-Paul SALOMÉ ('Les femmes de l'ombre') with François DAMIENS ('Rien à déclarer'), Géraldine NAKACHE ('Nous York') en Lucien JEAN-BAPTISTE ('Possessions').
Synopsis:
A has-been actor takes a job playing the victims in a homicide reenactment, where he sparks with the civil officer investigating the real-life crime.
BONUS: Audio commentary, interview with Jean-Paul Salomé, improvisations by François Damiens (20 min.)
Technical specifications:
France,2013 | Length: 104 minutes + 20 minutes (extra)
Language: French | Subtitles: Dutch Format: 16:9 | Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
Bristol's very own electronica export Allflaws have announced that they have already begun work on a new forthcoming album which they are looking to release later this year on UK label Derelict State Records.
Allflaws led by vocalist and producer Gabriel Curran released the somewhat daring, experimental and dystopian LP Versus The Soul back in June of 2013 to wide acclaim. Subsequently the albums release was marred by the banning of the music video Metamorphosis, which was deemed too explicit and controversial for Youtube and other media networks. The follow up will be there 4th official studio album, and will be a very timely and prompt return for Allflaws who have an uncanny knack for producing progressive and leftfield material with influences ranging from industrial, hip hop, trip hop, dance, rock and IDM.
