Sublime drone music and field recordings by Rutger Zuydervelt. 'Slovensko I & II' are best seen as a travel diary, recorded in Slovakia. RZ made 'sound snapshots' with a small digital recorder. A major influence both while recording and assembling the tracks was Chinese sound artist Yan Jun. 'Rusland' is a sound collage comprising field recordings and sections of live performances made in Russia. An incredible adventure and culture shock with long train journeys, bizarre venues and amazing people.
'The Breaking Water' can be heard as a sonic portrait of Rotterdam's famous Erasmus bridge.
It includes recordings taken from both on and beneath the bridge, along with further sounds from the river that it crosses, the Nieuwe Maas. 'Floor & Radio' is a contrast to the outdoor pieces recorded for the the installation 'Licthung' in Radolfzell, Germany. Contrasted against the outdoor silence was the squeaking floor in the guest house and the distorted signal and static from the radio.
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Stockholm based Thirteenth Exile have just recorded the follow up album to their debut "Assorted Chaos and Broken Machinery". The new album "Into Nothing" is a well produced masterpiece with both dark electronics and memorable lyrics.
On the opening track "The Worm" Svegsjö takes his dark rhythms and frenetic strength in vocals at a new level. The track will also be avilable in remixed versions as single release prior to the album [October 26].
On "Life Eraser" the vocals get even more brutal and the frustration becomes real. Play it loud! "My Legacy" follows with a slower beat just to get back on agony level with up-tempo classic "Pain Receiver". Choirs which encourage to scream out the daily rage.
In "A Perfect World" cinematic hypnotized arranged bombastic soundscapes are accomponied with vocals as crying for help.
Thirteenth Exile also pays a tribute to one of their favourites acts; Portishead with the excellent cover version of "Wandering Star". With monolithic details and massive beat - the album "Into Nothing" is nothing but pure electronic love.
With their debut album “Strange Encounter” Dirk Lakomy (ex Umbra Et Imago, In My Rosary, producer of Derriere Le Miroir) and Tobias Birkenbeil (DNS, Cytron, composer of movie scores) demonstrate that music influenced by electronic new wave in addition to electroclash, punk and EBM is still able to be great fun in times of a musical sensory overload of the genre without sounding too stale.
Music to dance to (“Amygdata”), song-oriented, hypnotic (“Sebastiane”), sometimes dark-melancholic, with a driving beat (“Crimetime”), but also catchy-trendy (“Cairo”) accompanies the listener throughout the ten album songs. In addition to Tobias Birkenbeil’s charismatic vocals, guest vocalist Stella B. rounds off the singing part which combination in certain songs is reminiscent of the best times of “Derriere Le Miroir” (“That’s All”, “Sleeper”).
The album’s musical range is completed by the last track “Push It To The Max” featuring a symbiosis of dark minimal electro and “A Flock Of Seagulls”.
Music art exhibition ft. Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, The Stone Roses
The Movie Poster Art Gallery is pleased to announce a fascinating exhibition of original and rare music posters entitled “The Manchester Connection, a celebration of Manchester's legendary renaissance in musical and design creativity that exploded in the wake of the Sex Pistols' legendary 1976 Free Trade Hall gig.
The exhibition runs from 12th-25th November at the Movie Poster Art Gallery, 1 Colville Place, London, W1T 2BG.
The art exhibition highlights some of the great designs Factory commissioned from Peter Saville, Central Station Design, Ben Kelly and 8vo, along with the equally inspired design concepts of Morrissey for The Smiths, and the Stone Roses' guitarist John Squire.
Highlights include rare original music posters from The Smiths, New Order, A Certain Ratio, Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, The Haçienda, plus an ultra rare poster of Joy Division's debut album Unknown Pleasures, rare sleeve proofs of The Smiths, A Certain Ratio, New Order, and a unique Morrissey hand-annotated sleeve proof for his album "Your Arsenal," plus rare artefacts including the original FAC51 embosser used at the HAÇIENDA, the original "Gay Traitor" bar menu poster from the HAÇIENDA.
DISTORTED MEMORY are going to fulfill the most fervent wish of their fans.
After the great 2011 album "Swallowing the Sun", DISTORTED MEMORY will re-release the early demo EP "Left Alone to Die".
The new CD is called "Archive" and will not only come up with the early tracks created before their debut "Burning Heaven", but will also contain previously unreleased songs.
With a total of 77 minutes and 16 tracks, "Archive" is limited to 500 copies and will be released on 21st October.
