As Sons Of Noel and Adrian get ever closer to the release of Knots, they unleash another video teaser, perhaps the creepiest one yet!
View it now on Broken Sound Records’ YouTube.
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NATE HALL: debut solo LP from founding USX Guitarist out now
9 May
A Great River, the debut solo album from doom/psyche masters USX’s founding guitarist NATE HALL, is out now via Neurot Recordings.
Featuring nearly forty minutes of material over ten original numbers, A Great River even further explores the lush bed of Appalachian heritage and songcraft USX has become widely popular for, yet showcases an even more folk and bluegrass influence as well as more expansive, soundscape passages. Fully envisioned and crafted by HALL himself, the album was recorded at Fahrenheit Studio in Johnson City, Tennessee by Travis Kammeyer. Here the multi-instrumentalist HALL displays his musical abilities by layering multiple styles of guitars, banjo, Theremin and all vocals, outside of keyboards courtesy of Kammeyer on two tracks, resulting in an incredible display of unique, modern Americana. A Great River can be ordered HERE.
“The songs are haunting but finely crafted in their simplicity, engorged with sincerity and emotionally coercive.” – ECHOES AND DUST
“Musically A Great River is on the complete opposite of what I usually listen to, but sometimes you come across an album that really resonates with you, regardless of genre or style. Stunning album! 8.5/10“ – THIS IS NOT A SCENE
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Goldblade release provocative video footage, announce new album and tour dates
9 May“WE’RE ALL IN IT TOGETHER!”
Politics like rock-n-roll is full of glib empty slogans.
“We’re all in it together” is the Tories über slogan, a meaningless “we pretend to care” phrase about us all being in the recession shit-pit at the same time, From a party led by a man from advertising it was as empty as expected.
Goldblade taken the phrase and shove it back down their well-fed throats whilst celebrating the idea of community in a song that sticks it to the bankers and the greed whilst both lamenting and celebrating the UK in a powerhouse punk rock anthem from their forthcoming album which will see the light of day 6 August on Southern Records.
Check out the band’s brand new provocative video now on the Southern Records YouTube channel.
The band will play a number of shows in support of the new record:
June
3 – Strummercamp – Manchester
4 – Last Jubilee Festival – Bath Racecourse
16 – Punk By The Sea Festival – Southsea
23 – Brussels – venue tbc
July
1 – Inkfest – Woolacombe Bay
20 – Wickerman Festival – Scotland
21 – Back On The Streets Festival – Frankfurt
Aug
4/5 – Rebellion Festival – Blackpool – record release show
Sept
1 – Bladefest – Leicestershire
Stay tuned for further details about the album and band activity in the coming weeks and please do help spread the video far and wide.
Mike Patton and the Ictus Ensemble Pay Tribute to Luciano Berio with Laborintus II on July 3
7 May
Mike Patton, joined by the Brussels-based Ictus Ensemble, pay tribute to pioneering composer Luciano Berio with the July 3 release of Laborintus II via Ipecac Recordings.
Berio, a groundbreaking Italian composer whose lengthy list of compositions revel in experimentation and intuitively fuse classical, jazz and electronic music, created Laborintus II in 1965 to mark the 700th anniversary of Dante’s birth. The composition is based on the “Laborintus” poem by Edoardo Sanguineti. Laborintus II highlights the timelessness of love and mourning and is told in three voices. In 1972, Berio performed Laborintus II at the Holland Festival, the Dutch premiere of the piece, with a set that included a giant blow-up doll and old car tires.
In 2010, Mike Patton joined the Ictus Ensemble and Nederlands Kemerkoor at the Holland Festival for a performance of Laborintus II, which is featured on this release. Lieven Bertels, Holland Festival’s former Artistic Director, said of the recital, “Loyal to the historical context of a repertoire piece from the previous century, we were also aware that this project could attract a much younger audience, for whom Laborintus II would be a first-time discovery of Berio’s work. In reintroducing this piece, we added new touches — foremost being the refreshing combination of narrator Mike Patton, regarded as one of the world’s most versatile and astounding vocalists, with the fine vocal filigree of the Nederlands Kamerkoor and the musical volcano that is the Ictus Ensemble.”
Patton, who has continually paid tribute to Italian composers, most recently with his 2011 Mondo Cane album, discussed the differences and similarities between Berio, Morricone and Nono in an interview with Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, ” I can listen to Berio and Nono as easily as I can to Morricone but like all modern music of Italy, it is unfortunately marginalized. Maybe because of the language barrier, maybe because it’s not easily understood. Berio, who was teaching in California when he wrote this piece, was listening to jazz, pop and folk music and incorporated all of it in his works without prejudice.”
To find out more about Luciano Berio: http://composers21.com/compdocs/beriol.htm
UNDERSMILE: Narwhal Pre-Sales begin; Artwork Revealed + New Track ‘Lockjaw’ Streamed Via The Sleeping Shaman
7 May
UNDERSMILE will release their long-awaited debut album Narwhal via Future Noise Recordings on May 28th 2012, the recording, which follows 2010′s A Sea of Dead Snakes EP and last year’s split EP with Caretaker, is a progression into darker, heavier territory for the band and the opening track ‘Lockjaw’ can be streamed exclusively via The Sleeping Shaman.
Clocking in at just under the 80-minute mark, Narwhal was co-produced and mixed by the band and Jimmy “Evil” Hetherington and mastered by the legendary Billy Anderson. The album will be released as a 4-panel digipak CD, as a digital download and Pre-Sales have already begun via the Future Noise webstore. As if that wasn’t enough, the artwork which can be checked out below, was created by the one-and-only Tony Roberts whose distinctive style has adorned the work of Electric Wizard, Conan and many, many more. You can see more of his work at his website.
The album will be launched with a gig at the Unicorn in Camden on Friday 11th May. Support comes from groovy doom lords Serpent Venom and the crushingly heavy, female-fronted Ishmael. Oh, it’s free entry so get on down to the Unicorn for three different shades of doom.
Other live appearances include:
14th May – The Black Heart, Camden w/Dylan Carlson (of Earth)
16th May – The Purple Turtle, Oxford – Oxford Punt
13th June – Brighton w/Witchsorrow
The tracklisting for Narwhal is as follows:
- Lockjaw
- Milk
- Funayurei
- Berk
- Cortege
- Myra
- Mandrill
- Verdigris
- The Unthinkable
- Qaanaaq
Stay tuned for more news!
