Changes – Psychonautika Label: Hau Ruck! – HR!125 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Picture Disc Country: Austria Released: Oct 2017 Style: Neofolk
The picture LP comes in gatefold sleeve with 12″ booklet and 3-D glasses. Gatefold, booklet & LP designed in 3-D.
the new studio album from Changes has now become a reality. Though known for their apocalyptic folk music, Changes’ oeuvre consists of other facets, love and love-lost songs, and songs of legends and legendary heroes. This album explores a further subgroup, the lyrical and musical journey into the universe and terra incognita of the human mind. Consisting of thirteen musical tracks, the album, a gatefold, 12 inch LP, contains a picture disc and a 16-page full-color, liner booklet containing all lyrics with illustrations by Taylor and Tesluk set against the background of fractal digital imagery. Included with each copy are a pair of 3D ChromaDepth glasses with which to make the images amazingly emerge into the third-dimension. Join Changes on a journey into this multi-colored universe. A digital download code of the album’s music will accompany the purchase of each LP. Remember, if you only have the music, you are missing half of the experience!
Kraschau – Travail, Famille, Patrie Label: Gradual Hate Records – GH 157 TAPE Format: Cassette, Album, Limited Edition 50 Copies Style: Neofolk, Military, Industrial, Ambient, Martial Industrial
PRE – ORDER: OUT → SPRING 2025
After 10 years, here’s the new EP and sound from Kraschau which tries to define 20’s martial industrial music. Fits well to this decade of madness and degradation of the remnats of European culture: it’s dark, chaotic and mechanic. Following the path started on the last, 2014 album, it’s now completely sample-based, presenting new techinques backed by tousands of short samples and loops, creating a very dense, multi-layered, massive sound going back to the roots of the martial industrial genre, inspired by bands like Der Blutharsch or Les Joyaux de la Princesse. Yet it still presents glorius, neoclassical and calm ambient passages as a slight glimmer of hope. Originally started as a tribute EP to LJDLP, by recreating tracks from ‘Aux petits Enfants de France’, but going deeper into the history and audio documents of Vichy France, and being astonished by that era, enough inspiration gained for an original work (but keeping references to LJDLP).
And so, this EP is a tribute to 1940-1944 France and Marshal Philipe Pétain. While the everyday politics of his government was described by the commotion of either accepting or opposing the german regime, the ideology of Pétain, a devout catholic was spectacular. He wanted to overthrow modernism, and the ideology of the French Revolution and republicanism, he replaced the infamous masonic slogan to «Labor, Family and Fatherland» and wanted to restore the position of the Catholic Church and the aristocracy. Gaining power from his spirit, we try to fight against modernism and nowadays madness with this short release.
Kaschau – Travail, Famille, Patrie, will soon be available in only three versions: Digital, Cassette version and Special Edition (contents still to be specified)
Digital version:
Tracklist: 1. Maréchal, nous voilà 2. Denlightenment 3. Jours Sombres 2024 4. Destroy/Restore 5. Révolte contre le Monde Moderne 6. Im Memoriam H.P.Pétain
The limited cassette edition with an alternate tracklist is a real collectors gem for the most devout followers. This edition is almost twice as long as the web version, as almost all tracks are presented as an extended mix. Furthermore, two studio outtakes were added from the recording sessions, which were not used on the final EP (including a Les Joyaux de la Princesse cover), and two ultra rare, remastered early Kraschau tracks.
Tracklist: A1. Maréchal, nous voilà A2. Denlightenment A3. Révolte contre le Monde Moderne A4. Retour à la terre A5. Im Memoriam H.P.Pétain
B1. Jours Sombres 2024 B2. Destroy/Restore B3. Dernier Éditorial (tribute to LJDLP) B4. Lux Mundi III. (bonus track from 2011) B5. Lux Mundi IV. (bonus track from 2011)
Kaschau – Travail, Famille, Patrie, Special Edition:
Naevus – Truffles Of Love Label: Old Europa Cafe – OECD 105 Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Digipak Country: Italy Released: Apr 2008 Style: Abstract, Neofolk
Inspired by seminal punk and new wave innovators (The Stooges, The Buzzcocks, Public Image Limited, The Birthday Party, Joy Division, Magazine, The Slits) Naevus was formed in London in 1998 by Lloyd James and Joanne Owen.
Naevus’ playful self-released debut, «Truffles of Love» came out in 1999. Unavailable for several years, and much sought after by collectors, Naevus’ debut album is now reissued by Old Europa Cafe in newly re-mastered form, with significant sonic improvement on the original 1999 release. This re-issue also includes six bonus tracks dating from the same period. These tracks were previously only available on obscure compilations which were released in very limited quantities and are long-since deleted. The inclusion of this bonus material brings the running time of the CD to over 74 minutes and gives a complete picture of the early development of Naevus. The original artwork has been extensively overhauled and this edition is presented in digipak format and includes a 16 page booklet with lyrics to all tracks plus an essay on the band’s beginnings.
