• Distribution,  Vinyl

    Sol Invictus – Death Of The West

    abril 5, 2018

    Sol Invictus – Death Of The West

    Label: Auerbach Tonträger – AB 042 LP
    Format: LP , Album, Reissue, Limited Edition
    Country: Germany
    Released: 03 Feb 2012
    Style: Modern Classical, Neofolk

    Gatefold LP (180g vinyl, black) incl. poster, printed inner sleeve and PVC protection sleeve but WITHOUT bonus tracks (500 copies available)

    Not only by virtue of its well-known title track can “Death Of The West” be considered a true classic of the Sol Invictus back catalogue. This album, originally released in 1994, was supposed to be a mini CD only, but Tony Wakeford got carried away by the recordings and cut a few old classics with a new livery.
    As always, this re-release is limited to 700 copies and comes in a portrait-format Digipak with revised artwork and liner notes. It includes bonus material in the shape of the songs from the mini CD “Above Us The Sun” that was also released back in 1994.

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  • Distribution,  Vinyl

    Opera Multi Steel ‎– Réminiscences

    marzo 28, 2018

    Opera Multi Steel ‎– Réminiscences (Vinyl, LP, Picture Disc)
    Label: Wave Records ‎– W067
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Picture Disc
    Country: Brazil
    Released: 27 Dec 2017
    Style: Darkwave, Coldwave, New Wave, Minimal, Synthwave, Synth-pop

    Réminiscences is a selection of 8 standards of the band revisited in a more punchy and electro style compared to the original versions but preserving what made the specificity of the Opera Multi Steel sound. Indeed, on boosted rhythms and fully re-recorded vocals, those new versions use sounds and “historical” instruments cherished by the band since its beginnings: TR 808, TR 606, TB 303, Elex, Casio VL-1, recorders, medieval choirs and various samples. The texts have been preserved in their entirety. The tracks are taken from albums such as Cathedral (Un Froid seul, Du Son des Cloches…) A Contresens (Les Sens, Las), Les Douleurs de l’Ennui, La Légende dorée (Fureur en Asie) and even from the very first vinyl EP of the band (Massabielle).
    The artworks of the disc and sleeve, as well as the video clip coming together, have been realized by Alan Cassiano, who based his graphic work on visual atmospheres inherited from the very first vinyl EP of the band, using images taken from the Encyclopedia (XVIIIth century) and Perspectives by Jan Vredeman de Vries (XVIth century).

    Finally, Reminiscences is not a simple compilation of tracks, but rather a kind of travel through the different ages of Opéra Multi Steel’s music rearranging/revisiting classic songs and images through nowadays eyes and ears.

    Picture vinyl + incard with credits and copy number

    LTD EDITION 250 COPIES

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  • Distribution,  Vinyl

    Lucie Cries ‎– Auctor Terminat Opus (2 × Vinyl)

    febrero 23, 2018

    Lucie Cries ‎– Auctor Terminat Opus (2 × Vinyl)
    Label: Brouillard Définitif ‎– BD LP 010
    Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Limited Edition, Green Marbled
    Country: France
    Released: 2014
    Style: Goth Rock, Post-Punk, New Wave

    SOLD OUT

    When contrasted against the background of the end of the uneasy decade that the French 80s’ cold-wave scene had gone through, Olivier Pacaud stands as a benchmark. Echoing its agony in a barely perceptible moaning, cold-wave sounded to slowly die out…. His strong independence, his integrity in art and his unsensible pugnacity must be praised. With his band LUCIE CRIES, but also through his label ALEA JACTA EST – that stands nearly alone as an islet of resistance and promotion of a scene scorned and despised (or ignored at best) by most of the media, and consequently of an audience that had shrunk more and more, he proved he was determined. Against all expectations he chose to carry on the torch of a declining and clinically dead movement.

    For a few years and despite their noble fight was doomed to failure, Olivier Pacaud and his band resisted and kept up the flame and rage as much as they could. They released their own productions that were real a commercial suicide, for a “dark” sparse audience that was soon to lose its interest for “old-school” tunes (all the heritage left behind by the venerable Joy Division, Sisters of Mercy, The Chameleons or others such as Play Dead) and eager to turn to the awakening German “dark wave” that promoted nothing more than a fashionable vampire outlook.
    At last! More than 25 years after her birth, the cute Lucie is released on vinyl and definitely engraved into memory for the first time ever! We must say we are extremely proud and deeply touched to allow it. The tears of Lucie will keep running down and touching our hearts… Our friend Olivier -against all expectations and thanks to his talent and his refusing giving up- took the best out of his desperate bet and left his print in our lives and in the history of a movement that is true because its heroes are!
    Let’s the neverending echoing and ravishing call of the muse take over!

    Limited to 300 copies
    Double LP on green marbled vinyl

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