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25.04.2024 - A Synth Pop Monk — Janosch Moldau Explores Nature and Tranquility in His Video for “Where I Believe”
Janosch Moldau has made a lasting mark on the electronic dance scene with his dreamy, introspective synth-pop style. This unique artist hails from the Vaterland of electronic music, Germany, and has built a loyal fan base over the years thanks to his unique mix of melancholy, which resonates through addictive hooks and melodies. His sound draws comparisons to iconic groups like Depeche Mode, The Cure, and Red Flag, but such comparison can’t quite capture the particular atmosphere woven from his distinctive sound drawn from the aether of a rich creative mindscape.
His latest single, the lovely Where I Believe, acts as a heartfelt plea for tranquility and solace under the watchful eye of a higher power, paired with a cinema verité-style DIY video. Glitchy, raw, and sincere, the video illustrates this profound spiritual hymn amidst global turmoil and unrest. It underscores our collective need for spaces of comfort and joy – be they Franciscan frolics in gardens of contemplation with a hot cup of tea in hand, or a trip through the innermost workings of the subconscious. It is all connected.
‘If I continue like this, I will become a synthpop monk,” he quips.
Watch the video for “Where I Believe” below:
Within the last 15 years, the musician has published five studio albums, two remix albums, many singles, and remix EPs and has toured throughout Europe, the US, and in Russia with numerous stars of the electronic-pop scene. His third album, ‘Lovestar,’ expanded his committed fan base. The music clip with the same name as the album was presented exclusively on the music channel MTV/VIVA.
Where I Believe is taken from Janosch Moldau’s new EP, Where I Believe, slated for release via The Orchard/New York. The album was recorded in the idyllic setting of Lake Lugano in Italy, a place where the musician has made his creative sanctuary.
Stream the single here.
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25.04.2024 - Listen to UK Avant Pop Artist Nick Hudson’s New Album “Kanda Teenage Honey”
In 2008, the Russo-Georgian War over South Ossetia led to Russian advances into Georgia, intensifying geopolitical tensions. This conflict resulted in many displacements and some Russians moving to Tbilisi. Despite being Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi faces internal conflicts over its pro-Russian government stance, contrasting with many citizens who oppose Russian influence and advocate for greater national independence and alignment with Western policies. This dynamic fuels ongoing political and social challenges.
Now, UK avant-pop artist Nick Hudson delves into the complex geopolitical landscape of the Russo-Georgian conflict in his album Kanda Teenage Honey. This expansive 16-track collection was recorded in a vast former Soviet movie studio in Georgia, under the looming presence of the Ukraine war. Hudson’s album emerges from a blend of geographical and musical explorations, venturing into territories rarely explored in music, reflecting a deep, resonant response to the tumultuous backdrop.
Kanda Teenage Honey was recorded at Leno Studio and Sano Studio in Tbilisi, working alongside Ilya Lukashev, and mastered to analogue tape by Paul Pascoe (Barry Adamson, Sleaford Mods) at Church Road Studios in Hove. In crafting this project, Hudson not only teamed up with remarkable Georgian musicians but also with his friend Seva, a Russian dissident and former associate of Navalny, who escaped the clutches of the FSB.
Kanda Teenage Honey delves into themes of protecting what is sacred from the corrupting grip of church and state, both spiritually and materially. Throughout the album, Hudson articulates a storyline that challenges kleptocratic power structures. He provides insightful reflections on several tracks, unraveling the stories embedded within his music.
“He contributes a poem narrating his thoughts on exile, through which I’ve layered field recordings of the recent Tbilisi and Paris protests, where many of us got tear-gassed,” Hudson remembers. “This geopolitical tension has inevitably made its way into the lyrical and musical texture of the record via the songs Hollow Man and Sky Burial While Alive. It also contains oligarch-hexing magic realism and a tribute to that vastly-neglected demographic – the old-school homosexual….Musically it encompasses art rock, black metal, ambient music, agitprop folk, charred goth rock, symphonic vastness and piano ballads -all infused with the energies and landscape of Georgia.”
“(Kanda Teenage Honey) itself refers to a very real preservation of innocence derived from a story I heard of a local villager whose teenage son was shot and killed,” says Hudson. “The father had his son’s body preserved in honey. As such, there are secular hymns for peace and lucid stillness, tales of saints de-martyring themselves and falling in love free of judgement from anachronistic scrutiny – a thinly veiled parable of queer love.”
“Two very close friends died within six months of each other during my first year in Georgia – there are requiems in the songs Archipelago and Bardo, plus an acappella tribute to the Siberian husky that helped me grieve them during a retreat to the sublime mountainous region of Khevsureti by the Chechen border, where despite being an ostensibly Orthodox country, pagan traditions are still passionately observed. I dreamed eighty-percent of ‘Bardo’ in the energised serenity of this beautiful region while mourning my friend Jesse. Patrick, honoured in ‘Archipelago’, was one of my earliest mentors and a dynamically brilliant pianist. They are much missed,” explains Nick Hudson.
“Ortolan references the summer of 2021, when I fled to the same Isle Of Wight monastery at which Scott Walker had sought refuge in the sixties, as my mental and physical health hit a nadir and I was forced to leave the city I’d called home for twenty years. This Heat refers to a return journey from a plague necropolis at the Chechen border, where giddily drunken park rangers piloting a 4X4 hurtled us passengers down a treacherous mountain pass and I briefly thought it might be the last song I’d ever write. Since then, I’ve come to learn that Georgians are some of the virtuosic drivers in the world, even drunk, and I need not have feared.”
Kanda Teenage Honey is out now, available everywhere, along with his new book The Land Exists So The Seas Don’t Argue, showcasing a decade of lyrical output in five albums, plus ephemera with a foreword by renowned Scottish author Chris Kelso.
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Kanda Teenage Honey by Nick Hudson
Mixed by Toby Driver of Kayo Dot, who also features on the album, this record boasts an impressive lineup of guest artists. These include Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai), Stuart Dahlquist of Asva, Burning Witch, and Sunn O))), Lizzy Carey (Bat For Lashes), Robert Wyatt’s collaborator Alfreda Benge, legendary German performer Christopher Nell (known for his work with theatre visionary Robert Wilson), and soprano prodigy Poppy Efemey.
In 2021, Nick Hudson released his album Font Of Human Fractures and the K69996ROMA: EP. A year earlier, his band The Academy of Sun dropped The Quiet Earth. Throughout his career, Hudson has worked with icons like Wayne Hussey of The Mission, Matthew Seligman (David Bowie, Tori Amos), Shara Nelson (Massive Attack), and queercore pioneer GB Jones. Beyond music, Hudson’s creative scope extends to painting, filmmaking, and novel writing.
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25.04.2024 - News: Insect Ark, featuring members of Swans and Khanate, reveals second song from forthcoming album
Raw Blood Singing marks the latest full-length studio offering from the Berlin-based Insect Ark, with “The Frozen Lake” providing hints of what the album has in store. Essentially a murder ballad, founder Dana Schechter explains the darkly romantic tale to be about a spurned lover who tells of his sacrifice by her hand, resulting […]
Source: EBM.gr
25.04.2024 - DUFT: zweiter Track vom neuen Metalcore / Hardcore Album “Altar Of Instant Gratification” aus Island
Mit “Altar Of Instant Gratification” wird in wenigenWochen das neue Album der Metalcore / Hardcore-Band DUFT erscheinen. Es ist das erste Album der Isländer und wird am 17. Mai 2024 via Scarlet Records erscheinen. Produziert wurde das Album von Leifur Örn Kaldal und Þorsteinn Gunnar Friðriksson im Veldið Studio, während das Cover-Artwork von David Demaret stammt.
“Altar Of Instant Gratification” handelt vom allgegenwärtige Gefühl, dass der Planet Erde in sich zusammenfällt. Vorab gibt es nach dem Video-Clip zu “Instant Gratification” nun auch den Song “Caved In” zu hören.
DUFT “Altar Of Instant Gratification” Tracklist
Intro
Caved In (Audio bei YouTube)
Dragged Across Concrete
Instant Gratification (Video bei YouTube)
Waste From Birth
Scarfaced Blues
Doctrine
20th Century Doom
Anomic Suicide
Open Casket
Only Dead Fish Follow The Stream
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25.04.2024 - THE VISION BLEAK: Conceptual new paths?
Nachdem „The Unknown“ von The Vision Bleak im Jahr 2016 erschienen ist, sind die Arbeiten für das siebte Album „Weird Tales“ abgeschlossen. Markus „Schwadorf“ Stock nahm sich Zeit, um konzeptionell neue Wege einzuschlagen. Entstanden ist ein One-Track-Album, das in interne Kapitel unterteilt ist. Diese sind jeweils von schaurigen, tiefgründigen Geschichten namhafter Schriftsteller aus der Vergangenheit […]
Source: Orkus