Larrnakh – Now Will You Believe? Label: Steinklang Industries – SKD 27 Format: CD, Album, Digipak Country: Europe Released: 2010 Style: Industrial, Ambient, Experimental, Neofolk
Great NeoFolk album featuring (ex)members of CAWATANA, STURMAST and SCIVIAS! “Now will you believe?” is a brilliant mix of classical guitar-based NeoFolk with electronic elements, varied and assembled with droning Ritual/Dark-Ambient tracks. The mix of two completely different styles in music makes this album to a outstanding new “crossover”. Dark and sometimes frightening soundscapes with samples, trumpets and haunting drums are compiled with beautiful harps, piano, violin and narrating vocals, rounded by fine NeoClassical elements.
Joy Before The Storm – Silence Ever After Label: Atemporal– AT-005 Format: Vinyl, LP, Remastered, Reissue, Limited Edition Country: Spain Released: 2014 Style: Synth-pop, Minimal
Joy Before the Storm formed in Madison (Wisconsin) in 1984 by Matt Anderson (Voice and Synths) , Kevin Kaulson (Synths) and Dan Mckay (Drum Programming-Rhythm Box), Silence Ever After was written, recorded and mixed during the summer of 1984.
Synths: Arp Solus, Roland SH09, Korg KR-55B and Roland CR78. Recorded and Mixed at High Noon Studios. Originally released by Neptune records in 1985. Producers, Matt Anderson and Dan Mckay Photos by Gerard Ryan, Winter 2013-14, Ithaca, New York. Remastered by Mariano Lozano-p at SND Studios
T.V. Sovietica was an exploratory sound project from Valencia (Spain) developed in 1983 in the postpunk era of the early 80’s which built on the work of “Neonada y Atentados”. From these beginnings evolved a brief, dark and unsettled trajectory based on sound effects inspired by electronic German music with influences from the artistic vanguard analogy (Satie, “Musique Concrete” and minimalism) The darkest, most introspective postpunk, radicalising with its’ experimentation, moving towards “industrial”, “anti-music” styles. The essence of its’ sound combines the use of guitars and electric bass with electronic instruments (Yamaha CS-15, Korg MS-10, Boss DR-55 , etc) , acoustic percussion, mechanical elements and vocals. Confronting frequencies elaborated from improvised riffs with vocal expression. Of the same generation as bands such as Esplendor Geometrico and Aviador Dro. The lost model, now recovered in this work demonstrates the beginnings of Spanish synthpop with “Contacto Telepatico”. The influence of New Wave in “La matanza de los bebes foca”, moving towards the conceptual project “Islandia” to which the majority of the themes belong, “ Oxido en tus ojos” (1984) draws to a close a period of work for the band, probably in its’ most corrosive moment.
D.Martinez (Guitarra, Voz, Yamaha CS-15) P.Botella (Bajo electrico, Guitarra Melodica y Farfisa Compact) M.Alvarez (Korg MS-10, Boss DR-55 y Efectos Acusticos) Remasterizado por Mariano Lozano-P
