• CD,  Distribution

    Attrition ‎– The Truth In Dark Corners…


    Attrition ‎– The Truth In Dark Corners…
    Label: Other Voices Records ‎– VOX8CD
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Russia
    Released: May 2011
    Style: New Wave, Industrial, Minimal

    Recorded live on the april 1985 tour of The Netherlands the set comprised many embryonic versions of tracks that were later recorded for the «Smiling, at the hypogonder club» album…with 2 unreleased songs!
    Originally released on Other Voices records.

    The truth in dark corners – Chain DLK review

    «The Truth In Dark Corners» is a recording of live tracks coming from the band’s 1985 Holland tour plus a closing track coming from a London gig.
    Back then Attrition were releasing their second album «Smiling, At The Hypogonder Club» on Third Mind and this release contains many tracks coming from that one plus «Shrinkwrap» (which was a single) and two unreleased tracks «In The Attic» and «The Aftermath».
    Formed on those days by Martin Bowes, Marianne Teunissen and Alex Novak, the band was creating their distinctive darkwave electronic sound which was capable to mix danceable rhythms and electronic experimental attitude.
    «The Truth In Dark Corners» contains good recordings of classic Attrition’s tracks (or at least they are what I consider their classics) like «Mind Drop» or «Pendulum Turns» and here you can listen them sounding direct and powerful.
    These recordings represent quite well the essence of the band on those days so I don’t consider this album only a release for hard core fans. And sleeve notes you’ll find by Justin Mitchell back then. I’m quite sure that if you a long time reader of our magazine you know this guy, because when he knew Attrition he was an electronic music enthusiast who became their friend but soon after he founded Cold Spring Records.

  • Distribution,  Vinyl

    Chameleons – Edge Sessions (Live From The Edge)


    Chameleons – Edge Sessions (Live From The Edge)
    Label: Metropolis ‎– MET 1275
    Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition
    Country: US
    Released: 17 Jun 2022
    Style: Indie Rock, New Wave, Post-Punk

    Chameleons (UK) has long been cited as a hugely influential act, having inspired the likes of Moby, The Verve, The Flaming Lips, Interpol, The Killers, Editors and Oasis.

    The Chameleons (UK) was formed in Manchester, England, in 1981, with vocalist/bassist Mark Burgess, guitarists Reg Smithies and Dave Fielding, and drummer John Lever (who quickly replaced founding member Brian Schofield). The band released three classic albums: «Script of the Bridge» (1983), «What Does Anything Mean? Basically?» (1985) and «Strange Times» (1986) before breaking up.

    The years passed; the members of The Chameleons (UK) continued to work on their own musical projects, then as the ’90s came and went, the idea of a reunion seemed practically inevitable. The Chameleons (UK) reconnected in January of 2000 to prepare for three dates in May of that year in England. The acoustic-based «Strip» was self-released by the band as a limited edition release to coincide with these shows. European dates followed throughout the summer, by fall The Chameleons (UK) played their first American shows in nearly 15 years. The fruit of this reunion, «Why Call It Anything?» (2001) marked The Chameleons (UK) first studio album since 1986’s «Strange Times.» The Encyclopedia of Popular Music wrote, «Why Call It Anything proved to be a stunning reaffirmation of the brilliance of this unsung band.»

    «This Never Ending Now,» a release that featured acoustic arrangements of songs from their early albums and singles as well as featuring a cover of David Bowie’s «Moonage Daydream» appeared two years later. The band once again disbanded in 2003. In 2009, Burgess reunited with Lever as ChameleonsVox, performing and touring Chameleons material. ChameleonsVox toured the United States and Europe from 2009 to 2014, and issued an EP, M+D=1(8), in November 2013, prior to Lever’s departure. Sadly, Lever died in 201edge»>Edge Sessions (Live From The Edge) de Chameleons UK

    A ChameleonsVox line-up featuring Burgess with Yves Altana, Neil Dwerryhouse and Chris Oliver on guitars embarked on tour of the US in 2015. Prior to the Covid pandemic placing everything on hold, Burgess had been touring more vastly than at any point in his career, with shows across the United States, China, Australia and practically every country across Europe.

    As things begin to open up and the world finds some sense of a new normal, Chameleons (UK) have joined with Metropolis Records to release «Edge Sessions (Live From The Edge)» a collection of seven classic Chameleons songs performed live in May of 2021 by founding members Mark Burgess and Reg Smithies, joined by more recent members Chris Oliver on guitar, and Stephen Rice on drums. Three additional bonus tracks of ChameleonsVox era live recordings round out this stunning release.


  • Distribution,  Vinyl

    Lisa Gerrard & Jules Maxwell – Burn (Vinyl, LP)


    Lisa Gerrard & Jules Maxwell – Burn (Vinyl, LP)
    Label: Atlantic Curve – AC003-1
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, White
    Country: Europe
    Released: May 7, 2021
    Style: Darkwave, New Wave, Experimental, Neo-Classical

    La enigmática Lisa Gerrard en colaboración con Jules Maxwell, ambos implicados en Dead Can Dance, llevan trabajando en este proyecto desde hace más de 7 años. Esta colaboración lleva el nombre de “Burn” y cuenta con la producción de James Chapman de Maps.

    Tracklist

    Heleali (The Sea Will Rise)
    Noyalain (Burn)
    Deshta (Forever)
    Aldavyeem (A Time To Dance)
    Orion (The Weary Huntsman)
    Keson (Until My Strength Returns)
    Do So Yol (Gather The Wind)

    Lisa Germaine Gerrard (/dʒəˈrɑːrd/; born 12 April 1961) is an Australian musician, singer and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with music partner Brendan Perry. She is known for her unique singing style technique (glossolalia), influenced by her childhood spent in multicultural areas of Melbourne. She has a dramatic contralto voice and has a vocal range of three octaves.

    Born and raised in Melbourne, Gerrard played a pivotal role in the city’s Little Band scene and fronted post-punk group Microfilm before co-founding Dead Can Dance in 1981. With Perry, she explored numerous traditional and modern styles, laying the foundations for what became known as neoclassical dark wave. She sings sometimes in English and often in a unique language that she invented. In addition to singing, she is an instrumentalist for much of her work, most prolifically using the yangqin (a Chinese hammered dulcimer). Gerrard’s first solo album, The Mirror Pool, was released in 1995. She has been involved in a wide range of projects, starting her first collaborative album in 1998 with Pieter Bourke, and then with various artists throughout her career, who comprised Patrick Cassidy, Klaus Schulze, Hans Zimmer, among others. She has scored numerous award-winning motion picture soundtracks.

    As of 2020, Gerrard has released four solo albums and collaborated on sixteen albums. She composed and contributed the scores to more than 48 movies. She received a Golden Globe Award for the music score to the 2000 film Gladiator, on which she collaborated with Hans Zimmer. She wrote the score of Balibo which went on to win an ARIA award for Best Original Soundtrack and an APRA Screen music award for Best feature film score. Overall she has won 11 awards receiving 23 nominations. Gerrard has been nominated for a Grammy Award twice…


  • CD,  Distribution

    Death In June – The Phoenix Has Risen


    Death In June ‎– The Phoenix Has Risen
    Label: Nerus ‎– NERUS 2
    Format: CD, Compilation
    Country: US
    Released: 2006
    Style: New Wave, Post-Punk

    Feature a rehearsal studio recording in 1981of nine songs, some of which were never named or released.
    These are coupled with eight live songs from the seminal performance at Alan McGee’s ‘The Living Room’ club in London, 9th September, 1983.
    DIJ for this album was : Douglas P, Tony Wakeford, Patrick Leagas .

    Silver printed digifile includes a mini double-sided poster.
    Personnel : Douglas P, Tony Wakeford, Patrick Leagas

    Tracklist :

    1.We Drive East
    2. Knives
    3. Nation
    4. In The Night Time
    5. Himmel Strasse
    6. Nothing Changes
    7. Untitled
    8. All Alone In Her Nirvana
    9. Intermission
    10. Intro
    11. Till The Living Flesh Is Burned
    12. All Alone In Her Nirvana
    13. Fields
    14.We Drive East
    15. Nothing Changes
    16. In The Night Tim


  • Cassette,  GH Records

    The Wyrm – Muertos


    The Wyrm – Muertos
    Label: GH Records – GH 152 K7
    Format: Cassette, Album
    Country: Spain
    Released: Mar 25, 2022
    Style: Darkwave, Electro, EBM, New Wave, Synthwave, Minimal

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    The Wyrm brings this post-pandemic year 2022 its latest work entitled Muertos. Dark, cold and minimalist tints very much in the vein of bands like Cabaret Nocturne or Boy Harsher to stand out from a scene that died in the pandemic. Muertos is a song to the dead who have not been. Those that we have seen only on television and that are just figures. Virtual and nameless. So are the songs of this new work. without titles and direct from the sewers.

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    The Wyrm apporte cette année post-pandémique 2022 son dernier ouvrage intitulé Muertos. Des teintes sombres, froides et minimalistes très dans la veine de groupes comme Cabaret Nocturne ou Boy Harsher pour se démarquer d’une scène morte dans la pandémie. Muertos est une chanson aux morts qui n’ont pas été. Celles que nous n’avons vues qu’à la télévision et qui ne sont que des chiffres. Virtuel et sans nom. Ainsi sont les chansons de ce nouveau travail. sans titres et direct des égouts

  • GH Records

    Tiramist – For Your Ears Only


    Tiramist – For Your Ears Only
    Label: Wave Records – W052
    Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
    Country: Brazil
    Released: 15 Feb 2016
    Style: New Wave, Medieval, Darkwave

    TIRAMIST was formed in 2012 by musicians of amongst others HIDE&SEEK and OPERA MULTI STEEL. Their music can be situated at the edge of different styles gathering the four protagonists of this project: Pop, Cold-Wave, Ambient, Heavenly, Electro… The compositions of TIRAMIST give a central place to female vocals. The atmospheres change from one song to another and follow the main thread of electro-organic arrangements and touching melodies. The surrealistic tinged English texts propose various readings and invite to an immobile and imaginary journey in the land of dreams and nightmares.