Sello: Wave Records Formato: Album CD + Bonus Tracks País: Germany Fecha: 11 May 2015 Estilo: Darkwave, Post-Punk, Shoegaze
Bleib Modern, once a solo project founded by Philipp, now became a band consisting of 5 members. Everything changed in the last months. There is almost nothing left of the Depeche Mode sound. From electric instruments to guitars, bass guitars and smooth drum beats. The vocals are psychedelic, sad, but beautiful. Philipps lyrics are very well written, it’s all about •no love‘, depression and hate. On their new and also first album, we will enjoy 10 songs that will take you on a trip into an awesome atmosphere. I can say, that this band knows how to use reverb and delay effects!
We can look forward a great future of this new coldwave / postpunk band, and maybe we will be surprised by more and more changes, too. On the CD, there will be 8 bonus tracks, for example the LOWS EP, Philipp released in August 2014.
Deleyaman – Fourth, Part One Label: Equilibrium Music – EQM026 Format: CD, Album, Digipak Country: Portugal Released: 2009 Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country Style: Modern Classical, Darkwave, Ethereal, Folk, Ambient
DELEYAMAN translate a sense of timeless spirituality into a contemporary and universal language. Hardly classifiable into a single genre, “Fourth, Part One” combines Darkwave with ethnic and ethereal elements.
Following the release of the album “3”, in 2006, over 25 titles were written and composed by DELEYAMAN. 11 of these compositions, entirely recorded, mixed and mastered in the band’s studio in Normandy, France, were presented as “Fourth, Part One”. The remaining material is set to appear later as “Fourth, Part Two”, a complimentary yet contrasting sister-release which followed in early 2011.
The overall mood of this album is different from their prior releases, yet the sincerity with which they continue to explore their art is a constant in DELEYAMAN’s work. Inspiration for the lyrics comes partially from the works of American poets E.A. Robinson, A. Hecht, R.W. Emerson, E.A. Poe, H. Crane and T. Stickney, but also from the Lebanese mystic poet Khalil Gibran. Most of the titles are sung in English, except for two tracks sung in Armenian and the track “Jardin”, sung in French, the words taken from the poem “Nous n’irons plus au bois”, by T. de Banville. The use of several languages by Beatrice Valantin and Aret Madilian, the two vocalists, has always been a distinct characteristic of the band, whose members all come from different backgrounds.
DELEYAMAN’s style, which to this day remains difficult to classify into a single genre, is further defined by the inclusion of the duduk, an Armenian wind instrument. More than simply adding an ethnic reference to their compositions, the duduk grants them a unique tone, emphasizing the ethereal and exotic qualities that allow the album to reach beyond the darker specter of alternative music from which the band originally derived. Through their art, DELEYAMAN translate a sense of timeless spirituality into a contemporary and universal language, carrying the listener into a mesmerizing world which still sounds comfortably familiar and close at heart. “Fourth, Part One” is presented in Digipak format, accompanied by a 32-page booklet.
Under exclusive license from TTO Records, U.S.A., for Europe.
Turnavel – Unbewusste Label: Gradual Hate Records – GH 118 CD Format: CD Country: Spain Released: Mar 2013 Style: Neo-Classical, Dark Ambient
Maurice Maeterlinck compared the unconscious to an unfathomable ocean scarcely illuminated by a dim phosphorescence. Unbewusste is a kind of promenade through it, along a series of diverse soundscapes that could serve as scenery for an ecstatic duel between the Muse and the inexorable scythe of Saturn. Turnavel is a project born in 2003, after its existence in some latent mental form while his founder played in bands with different styles during the previous years. It develops a wide range of mainly neoclassical soundscapes which sometimes draw inspiration from other media, such as films, painting or literature, usually related to oneiric or symbolic subjects and addressed to the imagination of the listener. CD cover design of Max Hierro.
