Nine Inch Nails have just announced they will be touring Europe/UK in 2014 with special guest Cold Cave. The first date announcement is Bologna, Italy on 3 June.
Stay tuned for the other dates via http://tour.nin.com.
Gary Numan, pioneer of synth-pop and electronic music, will be in Belgium on 13th February 2014 to present his new album. 'Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind)'. This album is widely acclaimed: "Numan's finest hour" (Mojo), "If you have enjoyed electronic-oriented music over the last couple of decades then you can feel free to send Gary Numan a thank you note "(Stereogum). Peek-a-boo will of course be present and will publish a comprehensive review the concert!
Check my review of the album here.
Depot | Martelarenplein 12, Leuven
Concert at 22.00u | Price: €28 - €31
Cultuurkaart KU Leuven €26 - €28
Archive, the musical group based in London, England, whose music spans electronic, trip-hop, avant-garde, post-rock and progressive rock, announce details of their most ambitious project to date, a forty minute short film and accompanying album set for release on CD, Vinyl, Download, DVD and in Cinemas May 2014.
See the AXIOM trailer below. The AXIOM album and film will be released worldwide on the band's own Dangervisit label (via [PIAS] Cooperative) in May 2014.
All formats can be pre-ordered now from the band's website.
AXIOM will be shown with 5.1 surround sound in select cinemas across Europe to coincide with the release (cinema details to follow).
The album was co-produced by Archive and long-term collaborator Jerome Devoise who work with the band on their last studio album, 2012's 'With Us Until You're Dead'.
The title track from the AXIOM album can be heard here.
New York's Xeno & Oaklander have been something like a best kept secret within the five boroughs. With their brand of dark wave, synth based electronic music, Xeno & Oaklander have released two LPs on the beloved Wierd Records imprint -- most recently with 2011's Sets & Lights. Now making the jump to Ghostly International, "Par Avion" is a first taste of new material to come from Xeno & Oaklander in front of a new full-length album scheduled for 2014.
The "Par Avion" title alludes to postcards sent by airmail from exotic places - shimmering moments from the present, romantic messages from the past, love mementos for the future.
Recorded live in the all-analogue Xeno & Oaklander studio in Brooklyn New York, Sean McBride’s signature sequenced staccato synth basslines are set against warm arpeggios and a de rigueur snappy and cold snare drum. Liz Wendelbo’s ghostly string synth arrangements and unusual chord progressions abound with analogue delay note bends. Distant strings interweave with winds of noise to produce a perfect balance between Sean’s sequenced stark compositions and Liz’s ethereal and whispery vocal presence.
In conjunction with the release of "Par Avion" on November 12, 2013 Liz Wendelbo, one half of Xeno & Oaklander, has collaborated with NYC based fashion designer Tess Giberson for a remixed take on “ready-mades” and exclusive merchandise -- out on November 13.
The concept behind the collaboration is adn exploration of senses and journey to the series of 'sensual' objects created. Wendelbo explains, “Sound makes me think of a scent, which makes me think of an image, which makes me think of a certain kind of light".
The Tess Giberson store located on Crosby Street in Manhattan will be selling limited edition t-shirts, sweatshirts and bags that feature Xeno artwork. In addition to custom products by Wendelbo, including a perfume, a scented bookmark, original collages, booklet and video presentation. The space will be curated with the merchandise that will be placed around the space, like 'objective poems' to create a lucid atmosphere for the audience.
Stream the new song:
Terry Gilliam fronting a Kickstarter to restore Walerian Borowczyk's 1968 film 'Goto, Island of Love'
Filmmaker Terry Gilliam is fronting a Kickstarter campaign to restore Walerian Borowczyk's classic 1968 film Goto, l'île d'amour (Goto, Island of Love).
Speaking about the Polish artist and filmmaker’s work Gilliam says: “They activate a part of my brain that very few other things do…I haven't seen any of these films in probably thirty or forty years, but they all have stuck with me. He needs to be restored and the world needs to be reminded.”
Until now the majority of Borowczyk's early films have been unavailable. However, earlier this year writer, documentary filmmaker and producer of the box set, Daniel Bird secured the permission of his widow Ligia Borowczyk to restore nine short films and two feature films including Le théâtre de Monsieur & Madame Kabal (The Theatre of Mr and Mrs Kabal, 1967) and Blanche (1971) which will be released by Arrow films in Spring 2014.
Producer Daniel Bird says: ”For fifteen years I have been trying to find a way to restore Borowczyk's early films. Obviously, I am thrilled to be working with Arrow Films on this box-set."
The restorations were completed at Deluxe laboratories, London, under the supervision of leading film restorer, James White. This will be the first time that many of these films will be available in any home video format in any territory.
Born in Poland in 1923, where he studied painting and sculpture before establishing himself as a poster artist during the late 1950s, Borowczyk emigrated to France in 1959 where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. With films such as Renaissance (1963) and Rosalie (1966), Borowczyk played a major part in getting animated film recognised as a serious art form.
According to Amos Vogel, author of Film as a Subversive Art, Borowczyk's harrowing 1964 animation Les jeux des anges (Angels' Games) is simply “a masterpiece of modern art.”
In The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thomson describes Borowczyk as “one of the major artists of modern cinema, arguably the finest talent that East Europe has provided.”
In addition, Arrow Films has collaborated with Argos Films, Paris, to release two other Borowczyk films, Contes immoraux (Immoral Tales, 1974) and La Bête (The Beast, 1975) in newly restored high definition transfers, as well as five more short films. These acquisitions will form the basis of Arrow’s Walerian Borowczyk Blu-ray and DVD box set, which is to be released as part of the Arrow Academy series in Spring 2014.
The co-producer of the box set is Michael Brooke in conjunction with Ligia Borowczyk and the filmmaker's regular assistant and producer, Dominique Segretin.
