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NYHETER UKE 11 - 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Sub Pop
SPCD 850
http://www.myspace.com/brattleborohousecartoon
CD
0098787085020
Indierock-gruppen Happy Birthday bestående av sjefslåtskriver (og
ROBERT SCHNEIDER-sound-a-liken) Kyle Thomas (aka King Tuff),
Ruth Garbus, og Chris Weisman ble dannet ifjor, og etter bare fem
konserter, hvorav fire var i hjembyen Brattleboro, VT, ble bandet signet til
Sub Pop, alt i løpet av et virvelvind av et år. En grunn til den umiddelbare
fremgangen skyldtes nok mye deres bånd til gruppene Witch (hvor
Thomas spiller med J. Mascis bl.a.) og Feathers (hvor Thomas og
Garbus er medlemmer), men det klart største salgspunktet for bandet er
definitivt umiddelbarheten i musikken deres. Fylt med livlige poplåter, er
Happy Birthdays selvtitulerte debutalbum klart for release. Les mer her:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/12/happy_birthday_3.html
DROPKICK MURPHYS
LIVE ON LANSDOWNE, BOSTON, MA
Cooking Vinyl
www.dropkickmurphys.com
COOKCD 518
CD+DVD
0711297491821
Dobbelt livealbum, innspilt på hjemmebane, med alltid glimrende DROPKICK MURPHYS! Etter 14 år har de rukket å bli et av verdens mest elskede
rockeband, takket være sin særegne (om enn ofte kopierte) irske punkrock,
sine ekstremt fengende låter og, ikke minst, sine forrykende liveopptredener.
Alle som har opplevd bandet på scenen, vet at de overgår det aller meste
hva angår energi, allsangrefrenger og publikumskontroll. Alt dette er behørig
dokumentert på denne CD+Hi-Def DVD-pakken som slippes perfekt timet
til St. Patrick’s Day (17. mars), med DkM-slagere som Shipping Up To Boston
(kjent fra filmen The Departed, her med MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES
som gjester), Tessie, The State Of Massachusetts, Forever og Kiss Me I’m
Sh*tfaced. Dette kan regnes som en Greatest Hits fra et band som aldri
skuffer – totalt 20 låter!
PETER MORÉN
I SPÅREN AV TÅREN
Morén Pop
MPCD 01
http://www.myspace.com/petermorn
7332334002324
CD
PETER MORÉN er for de fleste mest kjent som en tredjedel av PETER
BJORN & JOHN (Young Folks). Han slipper nå sitt første album på svensk,
og her er det Lyckliga Gatan hele veien for alle elskere av nabolandets
popmusikk gjennom tidene! I Spåren Av Tåren er produsert i episk 60-tallsånd sammen med TOBIAS FRÖBERG, og de 10 låtene her er fylt av
svensk kjærlighet, pompøst og fengende, ikke ulikt landsfrender som
PER GESSLE, ANNA JÄRVINEN, MARKUS KRUNEGÅRD (som gjester
på et par av låtene) eller en lofi-versjon av ORUP.
”Inte minst detta tilltalar också 60-talsfoten å det grövsta...” 5/5 SYDSVENSKA
ALLEHANDA ”... allt som Peter Morén rör vid blir till pop.” 4/5 AFTONBLADET
”… både intressantare och mer personligt än nåt han gjort med Peter Bjorn
and John...” 4/5 GÖTEBORGS-POSTEN
Tuba Records AS - Karl Johansgt. 6 - 0154 Oslo - Norway
Tlf: +47 2201 0000 Fax: +47 2201 0001 tuba@tubarec.com www.tubarec.com
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WHITE HINTERLAND
http://www.myspace.com/whitehinterland
KAIROS
Dead Oceans
DOC 034
0656605133423
CD
På Kairos finner vi White Hinterland utforske ytterkantene av
minimal pop, oppnå en delikat, men livlig forførelse gjennom dype,
tålmodige bassganger, prismatiske synthteksturer, og direkte, intime låter
sunget med en myndiggjort dybde. Casey Dienel syr akrobatisk konturer
av sin tidligere låtskriving inn i et slankere fokus og de dypere groovesene
kler hennes klare stemme på en utmerket måte. Puh.
”…spectral arrangements that sit somewhere between Kate
Bush and Arthur Russell at their most accessible. A heady triumph” MOJO
“Kairos represents a bold step for Dienel and White Hinterland” 7.5 PITCHFORK
ORTOLAN
TIME ON A STRING
Sounds Familyre
SF 024
0656605552422
CD
Utmerket indiefolkpop med klare spor fra den uskyldige lyden av the golden
age of American rock n’ roll fra søstre/svigerinne-kvartetten ORTOLAN.
Vokalist/låtskriver STEPHANIE COTTINGHAM begynte å skrive låter
allerede som trettenåring, har nå fylt sytten og med backing av søstrene
og den stødige produksjonen til DANIEL ”DANIELSON” SMITH låter de
kanskje omtrent som KIMYA DAWSON møter THE SHIRELLES møter
WELCOME WAGON?
Ortolan spilte på Egersund Visefestival i fjor sommer, la oss håpe
noen booker dem til landet igjen snart.
http://www.myspace.com/ortolansong
GOLDEN TRIANGLE
DOUBLE JOINTER
Hardly Art
HAR 011CD
http://www.myspace.com/goldentriangle
CD
0098787301120
Golden Triangle er et Brooklyn-band på Sub Pop-underbruket
Hardly Art bestående av tre jenter og tre gutter som spiller musikk som
er høy, skummel, og som vil gjøre deg opphisset og ambisiøs når du hører den. Double Jointer er deres debutalbum. Spilt inn over en to ukers
periode på Key Club Recording Company med produsent Chris Coady
(Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beach House, Blonde Redhead), har Double
Jointer farten og catchinessen til dagens garasje/weird-punk/lo-fi-scene
med enkelte goth-understrømmer og no wave-gitarer. De spektrale damestemmene er sjefende, krevende, allvitende enheter fra førstesporet Cinco
de Mayo til huset brenner ned med en skingrende gitarlinje på den episke
albumavslutterem Arson Wells.
II
THEATRE OF TRAGEDY
FOREVER IS THE WORLD – TOUR EDITION
AFM
AFMCD 212-3
0884860019125
2CD
Goth-legendenes nyeste album nå tilgjengelig i ny limitert Tour Edition.
Inkluderer en 10-spors bonusdisc, Addenda, som inneholder bonuslåter
og remikser, og som vil selges separat når denne versjonen er utsolgt.
http://www.myspace.com/pagesoftragedy
THOMAS WHITE
THE MAXIMALIST
Cooking Vinyl
COOKCD 503
http://www.myspace.com/thethomaswhite
CD
0711297490329
Den engelske musikeren THOMAS WHITE, med bakgrunn fra ELECTRIC SOFT
PARADE, BRAKES SPARKS, SEA POWER og PATRICK WOLF m.fl. slipper nå
sitt andre soloalbum. WHITE spiller så godt som alt selv, og resultatet er bisarr,
men fabelaktig postmoderne pop! ”As far removed from the melodic pop of his band
Electric Soft Parade as Mercury is from Morecambe, The Maximalist opens the dam
of ostensibly conflicting styles and releases the deluge in all its crazily self-confident,
so-wrong-it’s-right glory. White fuses elements of THE WHO, CHICAGO, MBV, QOTSA,
BADALAMENTI and BADFINGER, which is not just a feat of cut-and-paste engineering,
but also proof of his verve, vivid imagination and fervent love of music.” 4/5 UNCUT
NEW FREQUENCY
IMPULSES EP
The Perfect Hoax
HOAX 004CD
CDEP
0793573992765
Seks-manns sterkt Trondheimsband med utgangspunkt i Narvik.
Spør dem hva de låter som, og du får sannsynligvis seks forskjellige svar.
De står med beina godt plantet i den hardere delen av rocken. Det vil si hardcore/
rock med energiske gitarer, allsangvennlige refrenger og inkludert saksofon,
beats og analoge synther. Debut-EP med fem spor. Flotte saker.
http://www.myspace.com/newfrequencymusic
MATS ÖBERG TRIO
SO VERY MATS
Moserobie
MMPCD 068
CD
7320470128138
Et av årets mest personlige jazz-album hittil, med et sound og en musikalitet som
bare kan sammenlignes med de aller største innen genren på verdensbasis. Blinde
MATS ÖBERG startet sin karriere i et FRANK ZAPPA-tributeband, og i 1988 opplevde
han den ære å få spille sammen med mesteren selv da ZAPPA besøkte Stockholm.
I 2006 mottok MATS hyllester fra jazz-verden for sitt soloalbum In The Moment fra
2006, og med sitt første trio-album kommer han garantert til å motta enda flere og
mer nesegruse hyllester. I tillegg til MATS selv på piano, består trioen av SEBASTIAN
VOEGLER på trommer og FILIP AUGUSTSON på bass.
III
BRIAN HOWE
CIRCUS BAR
Frontiers
FRCD 450
http://www.brianhowe.com/
CD
8024391045022
En av rockhistoriens mest legendariske sangere, BRIAN HOWE, begynte sin
karriere i bandet WHITE SPIRIT sammen med gitarist JANICK GERS (IRON
MAIDEN). Han fikk så jobben som sanger for TED NUGENT i 1984, og begynte siden
i BAD COMPANY, der han sang i over 10 år. Etter over 19 millioner solgte album
med BadCo, satset han på en solokarriere. Det er nå 13 år siden solodebuten, og på
Circus Bar leverer han et knippe strålende låter som viser at stemmen fortsatt står til
gull. PAT TRAVERS og WAYNE NELSON fra LITTLE RIVER BAND gjester på skiva.
10/10 ROCK UNITED 5/5 CHAMBERS OF ROCK 90/100 MELODIC ROCK
VASAELETH
CRYPT BORN AND TETHERED TO RUIN
Profound Lore
PFL 054CD
0880270314522
CD
I den amerikanske undergrunnen finnes det fortsatt band som står for ren og
ekte death metal. VASAELETH er en del av denne eliten. En mørkere, ondere,
styggere og mer brutal side av dødmetallen, som mange kanskje oppfatter som
borte fra den amerikanske scenen. Men neida, VASAELETH leverer ekte vare.
For fans av INCANTATION, AUTOPSY, MORTICIAN, PORTAL.
http://www.myspace.com/vasaeleth
WOLD
WORKING TOGETHER FOR OUR PRIVACY
Profound Lore
PFL 055CD
0880270314720
WOLD regnes som det mest bisarre, unike, og mest ekstreme bandet Kanada noen
sinne har fostret. Vi kan vel si at de er noe av det mest bisarre innen black metal
også. En hypnotisk, intens og sonisk reise i tortur, støy og galskap.
CD
http://www.myspace.com/woldsongs
XASTHUR
2005 DEMO
Hydra Head
HH 666205
0634457523920
CDEP
To lange låter, ikke utgitt før, og spilt inn i tiden rundt Subliminal Genocide (2005).
Hydra Head har nå fått demoen mastret, til glede for fans av en av de mest
spennende undergrunnsartistene i USA. Lo-fi black metal.
“It’s so unnerving at times that it’s easy to forget that this is just one Californian,
one human like any other... except he hates everything he sees with a Nietzschean
passion.” DECIBEL MAGAZINE
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GALLHAMMER
GLOOMY LIGHTS
Peaceville
CDVILEF 278
0801056827821
CD
Dette er faktisk debutalbumet til GALLHAMMER, som Peaceville nå gjør
tilgjengelig. Et album som har vært temmelig vanskelig å få tak i kommer
nå i en deluxe digibok-versjon med to bonuslåter.
“…We’d say there’s a 66.6 per cent chance that Gallhammer
are the greatest metal band of all time.” METAL HAMMER
http://www.myspace.com/ghammercrust
DAUGHTERS
DAUGHTERS
Hydra Head
HH 666195
0634457521728
CD
Det nye selvtitulerte albumet til Rhode Island-bandet DAUGHTERS, rocker
rett og slett noe sinnsykt. Vi snakker om et band som i sin tid ga ut et 11
minutter langt debutalbum som inneholdt låter som Pants, Meet Shit.
Liker du THE JESUS LIZARD og BIRTHDAY PARTY, kjøp denne!
9/10 ROCK SOUND
http://www.myspace.com/daughters1
EXCALION
HIGH TIME
Limb Music
LMP 1001118
0884860018722
Melodisk, progressiv powermetal fra Finland. Dette er bandets tredje album,
og fans av sjangeren kan trygt gå til innkjøp.
For fans av SONATA ARCTICA, STRATOVARIUS etc.
CD
http://www.myspace.com/excalion
N.O.W.
FORCE OF NATURE
Escape
ESM 204
5031281002044
Storslagen hardrock blandet med ypperlig AOR, frontet av vokalist PHILIP
BARDOWELL (PETER CRISS, UNRULY CHILD, BEACH BOYS)
CD
4/5 MELODIC.NET
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KASEY ANDERSON
NOWHERE NIGHTS
Blue Rose
BLUDP 0510
CD
4028466325105
Klassisk alt.country fra KASEY ANDERSON på hans femte album. Anderson har ofte blitt
sammenlignet med STEVE EARLE, og fans av slikt vil neppe kjede seg et sekund under
Eric “Roscoe” Ambel-produserte Nowhere Nights.
http://www.myspace.com/kaseyanderson
KING KHAN & PAT METEOR
THE FIERY TEARS OF ST. LAURENT
Sub Pop
SP 861
7”
0098787086171
Syvtommer hvor King Khan og PAT METEOR minnes historien om St. Laurent, som ble brent på bål for
å nekte å fornekte Jesus Kristus foran den lokale kongen. Mens hans kjød brant sa han: ”I am crisp on
this side, it is time to turn me over”, en handling som skaffet ham helgenstatus. Tro på det den som vil.
Stjerneskudd (tradisjonelt kalt Fiery Tears of St. Laurent) kan ofte sees over King Khans hjemby Montreal.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Sub Pop
SP 850
0098787085013
LP
HAPPY BIRTHDAY selvsagt også på vinyl.
PETER MORÉN
I SPÅREN AV TÅREN
Morén Pop
MPLP 01
7332700000657
LP
Jäkla bra skiva, jättebra format!
WHITE HINTERLAND
KAIROS
Dead Oceans
DOC 034LP
0656605133416
LP
WHITE HINTERLAND selvsagt også på vinyl.
GOLDEN TRIANGLE
DOUBLE JOINTER
Hardly Art
HAR 011
0098787301113
LP
GOLDEN TRIANGLE selvsagt også på vinyl.
VI
FORHÅND 22. MARS
LOVE IS ALL
TWO THOUSAND AND TEN INJURIES
Polyvinyl
PRC 194-2 / PRC 194-1
CD/LP
0644110019424 / 0644110019417
Tracklist
1. Bigger Bolder
2. Repetition
3. Never Now
4. Less Than Thrilled
5. Early Warnings
6. False Pretense
7. The Birds Were Singing
With All Their Might
8. Again, Again
9. Kungen
10. A Side in a Bed
11. Dust
12. Take Your Time
After releasing two critically acclaimed full-lengths (Nine Times That Same Song, A Hundred
Things Keep Me Up at Night) and several EPs on New York-based What’s Your Rupture?,
Love Is All returned home to Gothenburg, Sweden after their spring 2009 tour with no record
deal in place (and accordingly, no demands) to produce a new album. And so, the band members decided to take their time writing and recording and — gasp! — actually have a good
time collaborating on the songs that would eventually comprise their third record:
Two Thousand And Ten Injuries.
The result is an eclectic collection of pop melodies, anchored by New Wave and punk rock
rhythms, that are as refined as they are unpredictable. All told, Two Thousand And Ten Injuries
successfully manages to be Love Is All’s most adventurous, and dare we say, accessible,
album yet.
PRESS MENTIONS
Love Is All’s boisterous clamor is the real draw here. The band skips over cerebral tricks and
hep posturing, instead going straight for adrenalized kicks, and it’s a rush that lasts long after
the record ends. ~ The Village Voice
Love Is All are a Swedish outfit and it was their last single, “Make Out Fall Out Make Up” that
first caught my ear… An exciting, three-minute dead, slab of pure pop noise, dominated by
Josephine Olausson’s enthusiastic vocal and a wall of vibratoless sax, the best kind.
~ David Bowie
FORHÅND 22. MARS
MOSE ALLISON
THE WAY OF THE WORLD
Anti
EPIT 70592
CD
8714092705928
Tracklist
01. My Brain
02. I Know You Didn’t Mean It
03. Everybody Thinks You’re An
Angel
04. Let It Come Down
05. Modest Proposal
06. Crush
07. Some Right, Some Wrong
08. The Way Of The World
09. Ask Me Nice
10. Once In A While
11. I’m Alright
12. The New Situation
MOSE ALLISON’s new album and ANTI- debut The Way of the World arrives March
23rd, 2010, marking his return to the recording studio after a 12 year absence. Working with maverick producer JOE HENRY, ALLISON has found his most sympathetic setting in years, surrounded by young, vibrant players, who add surprising slide guitar and
some sinewy saxophone to the classic MOSE sound; The Way of the World also features
MOSE’s first-ever duet with his daughter, singer AMY ALLISON. Yet this album is all MOSE,
from the solo song Modest Proposal, a sly scalpel taken to organized religion, to the
modernist, Monkish changes he takes the band through on the lone instrumental, Crush.
ALLISON occupies a hallowed place in blues songwriting, sitting alongside DIXON and PERCY
MAYFIELD in bringing a witty, urbane sensibility to the modern blues. Also well documented
is his sway over a generation of British rockers – most rock fans know THE WHO’s blistering
run-through of Young Man’s Blues on Live at Leeds, but are less aware of MOSE’s influence on
JOHN MAYALL, VAN MORRISON, RAY DAVIES, and THE YARDBIRDS, all the way through
to THE CLASH, who covered Look Here on Sandinista. Then there is that subtle, indefinable
fact of MOSE’s voice, that laconic, laid-back singing style without which we would have no
NORAH JONES, DIANA KRALL, BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, and SCHOOLHOUSE ROC. Not
to mention ALLISON the respected pianist, with his nods to MONK and GARNER, and a slew
of five-star Downbeat reviews in his piano bench. The Way of the World finds MOSE playing
and writing with a new looseness, a playfulness and verve that belies his years, while behind
the offhand swing lies the weight of those years, in the slowburn vitriol of MOSE’s mind in full
gear. That canny blend of easy swing and lyrical incision makes The Way of the World an
instant classic, in MOSE’s or anyone else’s repertoire.
VII
FORHÅND 22. MARS
JOHNNY HIDE
AN HONEST TRY
Certain Snært
CER 001
7090001912160
CD
Den særdeles likandes artisten JOHNNY HIDE slipper 22. mars sitt andre soloalbum,
An Honest Try. Den tidligere NUMBER SEVEN DELI-vokalisten leverer 10 nydelige og
varme låter som får snøen til å smelte! Plata har blitt spilt inn i diverse studioer de siste to
og et halvt årene, og er produsert av JOHNNY selv, men med viktige innspill fra folk som
RUNE BERG (THE MARGARETS, ROBERT POST, DYLAN MONDEGREEN m.fl.),
HERJULV ”THE SOFT REBEL” ARNKVÆRN og MARTIN HAGFORS (HGH, HOME GROAN).
I tillegg gjester musikere som CHRISTER KNUTSEN, HÅKON GEBHARDT og PÅL HAUSKEN
(THOMAS DYBDAHL, KAADA m.fl.)
Tracklist
Mer informasjon kommer.
http://www.myspace.com/johnnyhide
FORHÅND 29. MARS
ALOHA
HOME ACRES
Polyvinyl
PRC 189-2 / PRC 189-1
CD/LP
0644110018922 / 0644110018915
Tracklist
1. Building a Fire
2. Moonless March
3. Microviolence
4. Searchlight
5. Everything Goes My Way
6. White Wind
7. Cold Storage
8. Blackout
9. Waterwheel
10. I’m in Trouble
11. Ruins
Aloha follows the acclaimed LP Some Echoes (2006) and acoustic EP Light Works (2007)
with a powerful record that shows the band unbound by past influences and boldly stepping
out of the shadows.
Home Acres pushes the tempos and dials up the guitars, with the band’s slow-burn intensity
sometimes overflowing into huge moments. But even as the energy surges, Aloha casts an
otherworldy glow, serving up ambience and attack with equal measure. Lyrically, Home Acres
tries to sort through the wreckage of the Great Lakes region and a way of life. Left abandoned
“waiting for a getaway car that never came” in the record’s arena-rock-by-way-of-Silver
Apples closer “Ruins,” we’re left to think that maybe we ought to have dreamt bigger and
fought the urge to disengage.
A suggestion that Aloha has taken to heart for its biggest, brightest record to date.
Promotional Support
• Beautiful artwork by acclaimed artist Dan Danger.
• CD includes lyric book and digital Polyvinyl sampler.
• LP deluxe packaging includes gatefold cover and poster.
• Publicity by Motormouthmedia (Animal Collective, Bon Iver, Deerhunter).
• Radio by AAM (Japandroids, of Montreal, No Age).
• National touring by Flowerbooking (Boris, Frightened Rabbit, Obits).
• Video promotion by HIP Video (Yeasayer, HEALTH, Dinosaur Jr.).
VIII
BARREN EARTH
CURSE OF THE RED RIVER
Peaceville
CDVILEF 279
FORHÅND 29. MARS
www.peaceville.com/barrenearth
CD
0801056827920
“If you like your metal passionate, heaving with ideas and rich in substance,
then Barren Earth are a band you need in your life.” Zero Tolerance
“Potent, aristocratic and utterly beautiful.” Terrorizer
With a wealth of experience from internationally renowned acts, from former members of
Finnish metallers Amorphis, to current members of Swallow the Sun, Moonsorrow, and
Kreator, Barren Earth presents progressive and folk textured death/doom metal of the highest
order on their hotly anticipated debut album on Peaceville Records. Titled ‘Curse of the Red
River’, the album combines the best elements of metal, prog, and more obscure psychedelic
rock – from Opeth to Pink Floyd, and Paradise Lost to Jethro Tull.
The ‘Curse of the Red River’ recording session took place at Seawolf Studios, Helsinki (Ghost
Brigade), in Summer 2009 with mixing carried out by the prolific Dan Swanö at Unisound in
Sweden (Katatonia, Opeth, etc) who commented: “One of the best albums I have ever had
the privilege to mix. The album is THAT good!!”
Artwork comes courtesy of Travis Smith (Opeth, Katatonia, Bloodbath).
Barren Earth recently conducted their debut live gig in Helsinki, and plan to embark upon
a series of shows throughout 2010, with a performance at the renowned Summer Breeze
festival already confirmed.
“The debut album will be huge!” Rock Hard “I can already predict a lot of
success for Barren Earth. You’ll hear a lot about this band in 2010” Metalstorm
“This collective has the talent of Opeth and they are not ashamed to show this
influence… a new super band has been born” Lords of Metal “Barren Earth challenged
themselves and the metal scene. They created a masterpiece, earthshaking for every
progressive and technical metal fan. With such an entrance, you are rarely forgotten!”
Reflections of Darkness
Tracklist
Curse Of The Red River
Our Twilight (album mix)
Forlorn Waves
Flicker
The Leer
The Ritual Of Dawn
Ere All Perish
Cold Earth Chamber
Deserted Morrows
FORHÅND 29. MARS
DARKTHRONE
CIRCLE THE WAGONS
Peaceville
VILELP 276
0801056827616
LP
Vinylutgaven av det kommende DARKTHRONE-albumet er egentlig kun til salgs på
Peacevilles hjemmeside. Men vi har greid å grine oss til ca 200 eksemplarer.
De er nummererte og kommer til og med en uke før CD-versjonene!
Førstemann til mølla!
Tracklist
Those Treasures Will Never
Befall You
Running For Borders
I Am The Graves Of The 80s
Stylized Corpse
Circle The Wagons
Black Mountain Totem
I Am The Working Class
Eyes Burst At Dawn
Bränn Inte Slottet
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FORHÅND 29. MARS
BALKAN BEAT BOX
BLACK EYED BLUE BOY
Crammed
CRAW 55
0876623005964
CD
They’ve been wowing festival and club audiences around the world non-stop for the last couple of years
with their wild, powerful show, and now they are back with their strongest album so far.
Balkan Beat Box - the three-headed, dancefloor-conquering powerhouse principally comprising Tamir
Muskat, Ori Kaplan and Tomer Yosef - have been busy since the release of 2007’s devastating debut
for Crammed < Nu-Med > (not forgetting last year’s fine remix collection < Nu-Made >) honing a sound
that mixes musical gene pools more effectively than ever : they have arrived at < Blue Eyed Black Boy
> - as loud, proud and politically-engaged a statement as you could hope for from this most 21st century of bands. Recorded across a suitably diverse range of European locations - Ori’s adopted city of
Vienna, Austria, the Serbian capital of Belgrade and the band’s mutual hometown Tel-Aviv in Israel were
all bases covered on this album’s journey - < Blue Eyed Black Boy > finds BBB going that bit deeper,
finding striking melodies, rock-solid song structure and an ever-sharper political awareness alongside
their typically artful sonic collision of global musical styles and thundering danceloor beats.
First full track < Move It > is a trademark BBB block-rocker, with duelling brass blowing a minor-scale
middle eastern wind across chunky tabla-assisted rhythms as MC Tomer spouts lyrical, cheekily referencing the band’s past glories (‘the digital monkeys on a move’) as well as dropping the immortal lines
of roots-reggae legend Max Romeo, with an individualist twist (< we can show u how to send u to outer
space/to fly on your ownŠ >). Yet with the title track that follows we are shown a new, more measured side
to BBB : the pace slows to a loping groove, guitars shimmer and Tomer delivers a thoughtful paean to
struggles of the racial, social and political kind, seen through the ‘blue eyes’ of the ‘black boy’ in question.
In general the mood throughout < Blue Eyed Black Boy > remains buoyant and empowered, with
< Marcha de la Vida >, < Balkumbia > and incendiary closer < War Again > destined to be new live
anthems, and the contagiously poppy hip hop bump of < Look Them Act > coming off like some classic Timbaland production given a Mediterranean coast makeover. This unique trio of musicians have
successfully nailed the communal spirit and energy of their live shows down to tape, and the result is
the brightest, most confident and adventurous model of BBB to date. All this, and they haven’t even
hit the road yet.
Tracklist
Intro
Move It
Blue Eyed Black Boy
Marcha de la Vida
Dancing With The Moon
Kabulectro
My Baby
Balcumbia
Look Them Act
Smatron
Ljepa Mare
Why
Buhala
War Again
FORHÅND 29. MARS
DUM DUM GIRLS
I WILL BE
Sub Pop
SPCD 840 / SP 840
0098787084023 / 0098787084016
CD/LP
I Will Be is the debut full-length by the Dum Dum Girls. Recorded at home by Dee Dee and
mixed with the help of Richard Gottehrer (Strangeloves, Voidoids, Blondie, The Go-Gos and,
more recently, The Raveonettes), I Will Be is a decidedly medium-fi record. Just under thirty
minutes with eleven songs, it’s a short tribute to love, fun and the classic pop form of the ‘60s
girl groups and early punk rockers.
Tracklist
1. It Only Takes One Night
2. Bhang, Bhang, I’m a Burnout
3. O Mein M
4. Jail La La
5. Rest of Our Lives
6. Yours Alone
7. Blank Girl
8. I Will Be
9. Lines Her Eyes
10. Everybody’s Out
11. Baby Don’t Go
http://www.myspace.com/dumdumgirls
X
FORHÅND 6. APRIL
DARKTHRONE
CIRCLE THE WAGONS
Peaceville
CDVILEF 276X / CDVILEF 276
0801056828026 / 0801056827623
CD
Darkthrone’s all-new sonic attack of metal & punk, a fist in the face of the overground.
Tracklist
Those Treasures Will Never Befall You
Running For Borders
I Am The Graves Of The 80s
Stylized Corpse
Circle The Wagons
Black Mountain Totem
I Am The Working Class
Eyes Burst At Dawn
Bränn Inte Slottet
Darkthrone are a legendary name in metal, inspiring countless bands throughout the years
as one of the leaders of the scandinavian black metal movement in the early 90’s,
alongside other greats such as Burzum, Immortal and Mayhem.
Now, to welcome a new decade, the unrelenting Norwegian duo deliver a new feast of
metal and punk. from their thrash and death beginnings to their ascension to the pantheon
of black metal greats, Darkthrone have always refused to stand still. They continue to
embrace and explore their roots and capture the real spirit of sonic greatness on
CIRCLE THE WAGONS; recorded by the band themselves at Necrohell II studios.
Artwork for the album comes once again courtesy of Dennis Dread, notable for his talents
on previous Darkthrone albums, ‘F.O.A.D’ and 2008’s ‘Dark Thrones and Black Flags’,
as well as for US greats, Abscess.
“Die hard! I hate, therefore I am” Fenriz, January 2010
• The limited special edition CD version of the album is packaged in a slip cased
natural rough board digipack
• With a 24 page booklet including an additional band history by Fenriz.
• This deluxe edition also features an exclusive 12 minute video of the bands
inspirations for the album, shot at the mastering house in Oslo.
FORHÅND 6. APRIL
RED SPAROWES
THE FEAR IS EXCRUCIATING, AND THEREIN LIES THE ANSWER
Conspiracy
CORE 088 / CORE 088LP
CD/LP
5425015710976 / 5425015710983
Tracklist
1) Truths Arise
2) In Illusions Of Order
3) A Hail Of Bombs
4) Giving Birth To Imagined Saviors
5) A Swarm
6) In Every Mind
7) A Mutiny
8) As Each End Looms And Subsides
Red Sparowes is a Los Angeles based instrumental group known for its epic, heavy and
sprawling sounds heard over the course of two full length albums -- At The Soundless Dawn
(2005) and Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun (2006) both on Neurot Recordings
-- three split discs and the recently released Aphorisms (2008) digital EP. The band consists
of current and former members of Isis, Halifax Pier, Pleasure Forever, Angel Hair, Made Out
of Babies and The VSS.
The band toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe following the release of At The
Soundless Dawn. A split EP release with Gregor Samsa was released in 2005 on
Robotic Empire and the Black Tar Prophecies Vol. 1 split EP with Grails followed in 2006 on
the same label.
Red Sparowes second full-length release, Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun,
was recorded at Prairie Sun and Louder Studios in San Francisco with producer Tim Green
(Comets On Fire, The Fucking Champs, The Melvins). The album was released in September
2006 and the band toured even more extensively throughout 2006-2007.
Red Sparowes went into the studio with engineer Toshi Kasai (Melvins, Big Business, Tool) in
May 2008 and the resulting 3-song EP Aphorisms was released digitally that July via Sargent
House. A physical release consisting of 12” vinyl will be out in November of 2009. The band
has just finished recording their third full-length album, with their new permanent guitarist
Emma Ruth Rundle and returning again to producer, engineer Toshi Kasai.
XI
FORHÅND 6. APRIL
BLACK FRANCIS
NONSTOPEROTICA
Cooking Vinyl
COOKCD 513
CD
0711297491326
Tracklist
1. Lake of Sin
2. O My Tidy Sum
3. Rabbits
4. Wheels
5. Dead Man’s Curve
6. Corrina
7. Six Legged Man
8. Wild Son
9. When I Go Down On You
10. Nonstoperotik
11. Cinema Star
I finally came into possession of an old guitar someone had given me at a nightclub in San Francisco
awhile back; Eric Drew Feldman had been holding it for me there on Haight Street. He convinced
me that it looked cool (it was black) and had been given in the spirit of benevolence. Every time I
picked it up a nice chord came out and so I lovingly cleaned it with red wine in the dressing room
the following night and began to write. I told the tour manager that we would drive in my Cadillac
directly to a recording studio in Los Angeles (and could he book one, oh, and a rhythm section,
too?) from the gig in San Luis Obispo which would put us at the studio at about 4am. It all happened according to plan and we cut the initial tracks there in the wee hours over a few days, and
then moved on to an equally haunted studio in London and Eric Drew Feldman joined us there and
we finished the record in St. John’s Wood. Like I said the studio was haunted and I wrote many a
couplet by candlelight in the studio accommodation, slept very little, and only felt the need to get
the fuck out of there fast on the last night. The spirits had not ever bothered me, other than low
drama moral support, but I was informed that they had heard enough and it was time to move on;
plus I had a gig in Ireland.
When I was a boy the plant we boys called a fern was code for vagina, and to this day I love fern
plants. In my heart the vagina is almost everything, and almost everything else could be summed
up in what cock and seed have to offer; and everything else? The love of the father, dead or alive,
the pain of too much pleasure, till death do us part, the voice of another song man from the other
side, with or without God, Teri and the Possibilities, where ever you may be, the smell of sex in the
air, seduced, slain, on my knees in prayer, sucking at the only thing that matters, my own personal
Meret Oppenheim, I am Man Ray and I want you and to be all the way inside you, the cameras whirring as we put some elbow grease into the scene, the audience watching us in the dark.Recorded in
Los Angeles, London and Brooklyn, NonStopErotik was produced by Eric Drew Feldman and Black
Francis, and features 10 original songs, plus a cover of the Flying Burrito Brothers track “Wheels”.
FORHÅND 6. APRIL
JACKIE LEVEN
GOTHIC ROAD
Cooking Vinyl
COOKCD 519
CD
711297491920
THE SCENE: - A large meeting at Cooking Vinyl (CV) to discuss GOTHIC ROAD – JACKIE LEVEN’S
first new studio album since 2008’s LOVERS AT THE GUN CLUB. STUART (new CV label manager,
his first meeting with JL) – “Er, can I start by asking Jackie what the album title, GOTHIC ROAD
actually means, if anything?” JACKIE – “Well, we all walk two roads – the Royal Road, and the Road of
Poverty and Death, however we imagine these roads to be. When these two roads meet, then we are
walking on the GOTHIC ROAD.” STUART (doubtfully) – “Does it make any difference which direction
you walk on the GOTHIC ROAD?” JACKIE – “None at all”. STUART (still doubtfully) – “Is this all true?”
MARTIN GOLDSCHMIDT (CV supremo, without looking up from doodling) – “It is now ...”
GOTHIC ROAD opens with the choral sound of GHOST VOICES OF THE KURSK – three young Russian men
from the northern seaboard city of Murmansk, all of whose brothers died in that Russian submarine tragedy. This
is closely followed by the sound of a German sat nav lady guiding JACKIE’s tour bus out of the city of Hamburg
last year. And so the stage is set for twelve strong tales from the GOTHIC ROAD – powerful stories from one who
has walked the road for nearly sixty years. Many of the songs are at once mystical but also locked in the daily grind
of emotional survival. In keeping with his longstanding creative association with mavericks and outlaws, (David
Thomas, Johnny Dowd etc) JACKIE collaborates here with fabled English renegade RALPH McTELL. RALPH
supplies the yearning second lead vocal, plus Gibson acoustic guitars on CORNELIUS WHALEN, a song about
the man who was the last of the Jarrow marchers left alive when JACKIE wrote the song – the Jarrow March**
being a superb example of the reality of the GOTHIC ROAD. Elsewhere on the album, JACKIE fantasises about
the creative dynamo that is actress TILDA SWINTON, hides in his hotel mini bar from the tyranny of endless touring, sings a song written by the original punk poet PATRIK FITZGERALD, (SHADOW OF A MAN) and welcomes
on board a guest recording by his co-producer, the great Welsh singer DAVID WRENCH (ISLAND). The album
abounds with GOTHIC ROAD-ness, as in the coda of the song GOTHIC ROAD itself, where the royal road pomp
of HENRY PRIESTMAN’s massed plucked cellos is counter-pointed by JOHN ROBERT’S skeletal spoons playing,
casting a cold eye on the poverty-stricken end of the street. Or in the lush celestial choir voices on LAST OF THE
BADMEN as the anti hero at the end of his personal road pleads in a PARTON-esque refrain – ‘please don’t kill
me just because you can’. The music on GOTHIC ROAD provides cast iron proof that the creative phenomenon
that is JACKIE LEVEN is not simply continuing to go from strength to strength, but is close to passing out of sight
on a road that others fear to tread.
XII
FORHÅND 12. APRIL
ZANUSSI FIVE
GHOST DANCE
Moserobie
MMPCD 071
7320470128169
CD
Nytt album fra den norske jazz-favoritten PER ZANUSSI og hans kvintett!
Mer info kommer.
Tracklist
1. Body and Zeuhl
2. Arabesque
3. The Afreet
4. Hidden People
5. Aeriform
6. Beglomoi
7. Ghost Dance
8. Aimless Day
9. Id Machine
FORHÅND 19. APRIL
CARIBOU
SWIM
City Slang
SLANG 733419
CD
0602527334196
Tracklist
Odessa
Sun
Kaili
Found Out
Bowls
Leave House
Hannibal
Lalibela
Jamelia
Et av vårens mest etterspurte album!
If you think you know Caribou, think again. Dan Snaith’s new album, Swim is the sound of
the musical glass ceiling being blown away.
If there is a link to previous album Andorra, it would be in the ravishing explosions of sound
pulsing through album closer ‘Niobe’. A continuum of sorts leads us to 2010, but that finale
gives mere hints as to the future Caribou. From the opening effervescent gambol of ‘Odessa’
to the glorious odyssey of ‘Jamelia’, it’s crystal clear that Caribou has made a massive leap
forwards, upwards and sideways.
Dan’s latest recording sees him getting busy in the basement with some expertly
constructed, rave-tinged sounds that sing with soul. But that’s not all. As a songwriter
of considerable standing, Dan has not subsumed his uniquely recognisable touch in
an orgy of technical bliss – although, there is plenty of euphoria in the musical alchemy on offer. From Dan’s perspective, he says, “The most important thing for me with
this record was finding my own sonic vocabulary. That’s why I’m proud of this record.”
Swim is full of brightly textured, rapturous gems that gleam with astonishing production – and then wrenches at your heart with soulful, thoughtful reveries on the passing of time, family history and the breakdown of relationships. “There are songs about
growing old in a relationship, about divorce and loneliness in old age but the lyrics
are generally pretty abstract sketches of what’s going on in the situation in my head.”
Ready for the new Caribou future?
XIII
FORHÅND 19. APRIL
THE APPLES IN STEREO
TRAVELLERS IN SPACE AND TIME
Yep Roc
YEP 2201 / YEP 2201LP
CD/LP
0634457221222 / 0634457221215
Tracklist
1. The Code
2. Dream About the Future
3. Hey Elevator
4. Strange Solar System
5. Dance Floor
6. C.P.U.
7. No One in the World
8. Dignified Dignitary
9. No Vacation
10. Told You Once
11. It’s All Right
12. Next Year at About the Same Time
13. Floating in Space
14. Nobody But You
15. Wings Away
16. Time Pilot “I wanted to make a futuristic pop record, to reach out to the kids of the future. It is what I
imagine their more highly-evolved pop might sound like: shiny soul music with robots and
humans singing together. We are sending a pop music message through time.”
So says The Apples in stereo / Elephant 6 collective mastermind Robert Schneider.
The Apples’ new album and seventh studio effort, Travellers in Space and Time is the
follow-up to their critically acclaimed hit album New Magnetic Wonder and their second
release in association with Elijah Wood’s Simian Records.
Travellers finds the studio-obsessed indie rockers continuing the hook-heavy pop mastery they
achieved on New Magnetic Wonder, an album that spawned performances on Conan O’Brien
and Stephen Colbert, along with numerous commercial placements (Pepsi, Samsung, New
Balance) and even a performance of hit single “Energy” by the contestants of American Idol.
Well over a year in the making, the new material recasts the Apples’ signature pop sounds
in chrome-plated futurism, all while adding a dance-driven vibe channeling ELO, Barry Gibb,
Wild Honey-era Beach Boys and Off The Wall-era Michael Jackson.
FORHÅND 19. APRIL
DIVERSE ARTISTER
NICK DRAKE’S JUKEBOX
Chrome Dreams
CDCD 5036
CD
0823564614724
One of contemporary musics true originals, the inimitable songs of Nick Drake are often difficult to
imagine having been influenced by anyone but himself. But as with all true musical giants, Drakes
compositions and style were informed by a diverse range of musicians, songwriters and performers who
came before. From the sublime finger-picking and glorious tunes of the wholly under-rated Bert Jansch
to the country blues styles of Big Bill Broonzy and Reverend Gary Davis - via Donovan, The Yardbirds
and Miles Davis, he listened to all of them and many others besides. The inspiration these mavericks
provided motivated the often manically depressed Nick Drake into writing , recording and, on the very
rare occasion, performing some of the most beautiful music ever written albeit, tragically, the process
would contribute in no small way to his untimely death at the age of just 26. This compilation traces
the roots of Nick Drakes astonishing music and features all of the above mentioned artists and many
others with 24 superb and moving tracks in all. 24 tracks which now can be appreciated all together on
this collection ,enabling the appreciation of where this mysterious and legendary figure found much of
his musical muse and hopefully, for a man often tortured by his own existence, at least a little comfort.
TRACKLIST
1 St James Infirmary Louis Armstrong (Primrose) 3:23 2 Heart Full Of Soul The Yardbirds (Gouldman) 2:21 3
Parchman Farm Bukka White (White) 2:40 4 Gallows Tree Odetta (Trad, Arr Gordon) 2:51 5 Blue In Green Miles
Davis (Davis) 5:33 6 Careless Love Josh White (Trad, Arr Handy, Williams, Koenig) 3:19 7 Betty and Dupree
Brownie McGhee (Trad, Arr McGhee) 4:00 8 Chega de Saudade Jo Gilberto (Jobim, De Moraes) 1:55 9 Summertime Billie Holiday (Gershwin, Heyward) 2:55 10 If You Leave Me Pretty Mama Dave Van Ronk (Trad) 3:07
11 Black Mountain Blues Dave Van Ronk (Johnson) 4:02 12 Little Woman Your So Sweet Blind Boy Fuller (Allen) 2:46 13 Cocaine Blues Ramblin Jack Elliott (Tard, Arr Davis) 2:11 14 Samson and Delilah Reverend Gary
Davis (Tard, Arr Davis) 4:05 15 Guinevere Donovan (Leitch) 2:55 16 Girl From The North Country Bob Dylan
3:13 17 Gypsy Davey Woody Guthrie (Trad) 2:51 18 Black Girl Pete Seeger (Ledbetter) 2:31 19 I Aint Marching
Anymore Phil Ochs (Ochs) 2:48 20 I Wish I Was a Mole In The Ground Bascom Lamar Lunsford (Trad, Lunsford)
3:21 21 Blackwaterside Bert Jansch (Trad, Arr Jansch) 4:44 22 Wedding Dress Pentangle (Trad, Arr Jansch,
Renbourn, McShee, Thompson, Cox) 2:24 23 When Do I Get To Be Called a Man Big Bill Broonzy (Broonzy)
3:19 24 Hellhound On My Trail Robert Johnson (Johnson) 2:38
XIV
FORHÅND 19. APRIL
JOHN GRANT
THE QUEEN OF DENMARK
Bella Union
BELLACD 235
CD
0602527338583
Everyone has a favorite band or singer they reckon is subject to criminal neglect. That John Grant’s effortlessly
rich, expansive baritone, couched in typically heartbreaking, lush melody, hasn’t found a wider audience indeed
drives his fans to consider a crime. But no longer. Because Grant’s first solo album, following three undervalued
studio albums (and one similar covers compilation) fronting The Czars, is so undeniably great that the world
will surely listen. It’s a record of gravitas and grace, of FM melody magic laced with raw emotional bleeding. It
asks why relationships are roulette and love is hell in a last-ditch attempt at self-improvement and atonement
after a decade of alcohol and cocaine dependency. It’s not overstating the case to say – as John has himself in
a recent issue of MOJO - that he’s contemplated suicide. And yet there is redemption in its exquisite grooves.
And on top, to further the album’s brilliance, Grant’s backing band on the album are Denton, Texas’ mightiest –
MIDLAKE - contributing their most empathic ‘70s-style soft-rock know-how. Put simply, Queen Of Denmark is
the record Grant’s been waiting his whole life to make. Queen Of Denmark was recorded in Denton in two fourmonth stints – July-October 2008 and May-July 2009 - in the studio downtime while Midlake were painstakingly
recording their own album (The Courage Of Others). Every Midlake member chipped in but Paul Alexander
and guitarist Eric Pulido, who co-produced the album with John, are on every track alongside drummer McKenzie Smith. John reserves special mention for Paul’s basslines. “They were outrageous, off the fuckin’ hook.
Some evenings, we couldn’t stop smiling and laughing because I was so excited about his work.” The whole
Denton experience, he adds, “was really uplifting. It was emotional and painful too but Midlake believed in me
and told me, ‘people need to hear you, and we’re going to make it happen.” Queen Of Denmark moves through
simple piano settings (the lovestruck ballad ‘Caramel’ and the intriguing Scott Joplin-meets-Beatles ragtime of
‘Silver Platter’), via an infusion of period-perfect synths (the rockier ‘Sigourney’, a sultry ‘It’s Easier’) that epitomise the lonely mood. There’s flute from Midlake frontman Tim Smith on the dreamiest cut (and there is stiff
competition) ‘Marz’, and velvet strings (‘Dreams’, which imagines Scott Walker influenced by Patsy Cline, and
the darker drama ‘Leopard’). There are allusions to higher beings (‘Outer Space’) and to human weaknesses
(‘JC’). There is pure longing regret in the opening ‘TC And Honeybear’ and bitterly sarcastic, amped-up anger
in the magnificent title track finale. Pain, hope, fear, regret, anger, self-flagellation and self-discovery - Queen
of Denmark has it all.
FORHÅND 19. APRIL
ASIA
OMEGA
Frontiers
FRCD 455
www.originalasia.com
CD
8024391045527
ASIA, rock’s first important super-group of the 80s - featuring members from Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer,
King Crimson and The Buggles – will release Omega, its highly anticipated new album of original material.
The record is due in the spring of 2010 on Frontiers Records. Geoffrey Downes, Steve Howe, Carl
Palmer and John Wetton, the four original Asia members, reunited in 2006, twenty-three years after
all four had last played together. The much publicised reunion resulted in highly successful world tours,
a double live LP and DVD (entitled Fantasia: Live In Tokyo) and an acclaimed studio album Phoenix in
2008 which debuted at number 73 in the Billboard charts in the USA and entered the top 100 in several
European countries. The reunion came to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the band, but morphed itself
into an ongoing endeavour. In 2008, they returned with the first new studio album, Phoenix, which had
been strongly influenced by the fusion of talents and heritages that the band excited the music world with
back in 1982. Omega shows a new renaissance for this amazing group of musicians, which seem to live
up to a joie-de-vivre that stands the test of time. Begun during the summer 2009, the writing and recording sessions of Omega, immediately showed inspiration and good feelings. “We were looking to create
something different with Omega,” says keyboardist Geoff Downes. “Of course, the sound of the 4 band
members of Asia will always have a certain hallmark when we play together. That’s a given. But we approached the song writing with a mind to getting a degree of variety into these compositions. Hence, you
will hear areas of textures where arguably we have never gone before.” Adds lead vocalist/bassist/guitarist
John Wetton: “Asia is an English prog-rock band with a pop edge, always has been, and hopefully always
will be. Accessible, melodic, anthemic songs with great playing, luxuriating in a bed of lush orchestration,
with lyrics that strike a sympathetic chord in even the most cynical heart. There you have it, Omega is
a themed album in Asia’s fine tradition, without the millstone of a concept.” As with the most popular of
ASIA releases, the cover art specifically designed for the project by acclaimed artist Roger Dean. The
concept of the title (Omega), and the ‘Year of the Tiger’ referencing of the cover art underline the fact that
this is real Asia. John Wetton explains: “The title ‘Omega’, as any fan of the band will tell you, is ‘very
Asia’ (as is the album, by the way). It no more means ‘final’ than ‘Alpha’ means ‘the first’ (which it wasn’t).
It’s a great sounding/looking word, and a bookend to ‘Alpha’. In many ways, musically and conceptually,
the two albums share commonality.”
XV
FORHÅND 26. APRIL
MANTRIC
THE DESCENT
Prosthetic
10081CD
0656191008129
CD
Prosthetic Records is proud to unveil the debut album ‘The Descent’ from Norway’s MANTRIC.
Formed in 2007 in Oslo, Norway from the ashes of metal visionaries, EXTOL, MANTRIC takes
this pioneering songwriting approach to new, epic heights.
Tracklist
1. Asylum 2013
2. Tower Of Silence
3. Symptoms
4. The Invasion
5. Spear Of Heaven
6. Cognitive Cocaine
7. Alihorn
8. Choice
9. Exorcism - In A Treacherous Kiss
10. Water Through Fire
11. Dark Passenger
12. Uro
Fusing a unique, distinctly Scandinavian take on rich, challenging metal and modern punk with
a powerful progressive edge, MANTRIC recorded “The Descent” in Norway, with studio guru
Tue Madsen handling mixing and mastering duties. Prosthetic Records quickly recognized
that something rather special was developing and are now very happy to have MANTRIC
as part of their diverse roster.
MANTRIC are the first worldwide signing of a European band to Prosthetic Records and
vocalist and guitarist Ole Sveen commented, “Our first album using the Mantric-name does to
our ears deserve to get out to lovers of hard music all over the world, and Prosthetic makes
this possible.
Our music embraces creativity and originality outside the limits of narrow genres, so it suits
us fine to deal with a label that also values this. This is a release that is both accessible and
original, catchy and complex at the same time, and we can’t wait to get it out!”.
MANTRIC will showcase “The Descent” with a selection of gigs across Norway around the
release date before embarking on UK, European and North American tours to support
the album throughout 2010.
“The Descent” is truly urgent music - just as great, challenging heavy music should be. Enjoy.
FORHÅND 26. APRIL
TESLA
LIVE IN EUROPE 2009
Frontiers
FRCD 457
CD
8024391045725
Tracklist
1. Forever More
2. I Wanna Live
3. Modern Day Cowboy
4. Heaven’s Trail
5. What a Shame
6. Shine Away
7. Love Song
8. What You Give
9. The Way It Is
10. Breakin’ Free
11. Hang Tough
12. So What!
13. Signs
14. Lil’ Suzie
15. Into the Now.
After 25 years, 12 albums, over 2,500 shows, over 16 million albums sold worldwide, Tesla
is stronger than ever, on the heels of the release of one of the band’s most successful studio
releases to date Forever More.
Continuing the momentum, Tesla: Jeff Keith (vocals), Frank Hannon (guitars), Brian Wheat
(bass), Troy Luccketta (drums) and Dave Rude (guitar) have toured Europe after the successful release of their latest studio opus Forever More on Frontiers Records.
As a testament to a very creative and productive chapter in the history of the band, Tesla
release what can be considered their first “proper” and “electric” live album recorded at various locations during the European shows in the summer of 2009.
Alive In Europe! is filled with sweltering live songs including all the band’s classics such as
“Modern Day Cowboy”, “Signs”, “What You Give”, “Little Suzi” and songs from the latest release such as the single “I Wanna Live”, the album title track and more.
A sincere and truly live sounding album which closes a chapter in the band’s history and
shows a vibrant band ready for the next step.
www.myspace.com/teslatheband
XVI
FORHÅND 26. APRIL
THE RADIO DEPT.
CLINGING TO A SCHEME
Labrador
LAB 105
CD
733223300105
Tracklist
1. Domestic Scene
2. Heaven’s On Fire
3. This Time Around
4. Never Follow Suit
5. A Token Of Gratitude
6. The Video Dept.
7. Memory Loss
8. David
9. Four Months In The Shade
10. You Stopped Making Sense
The long wait is finally over! The Radio Department’s ”Clining to a scheme” is without doubt
this year’s most eagerly anticipated Swedish indie pop album. It’s been four long years, but
a simple press on Play and you’ll know it’s been worth every second. “Clinging to a scheme”
combines the best components from their previous albums “Lesser matters” and “Pet grief”
with soul guitars, P-funk, cut/paste-beats and 70’s futuristic orchestra. Breathtaking!
The Radio Dept. arrived with their album “Lesser matters” in 2003 which is commonly referred
to as the most important Swedish indie pop album of the 21st century. It was embraced by
press and fans all over the world. They had no less than two “Single of the week” in the NME
and it, not surprisingly, ended up Top10 on the NME’s “Album of the year”-list. In 2006 Sophia
Coppola chose to feature three of their songs in the film Marie Antoinette that further helped
them to achieve worldwide recognition and the same year the chart-topping and critically
acclaimed album “Pet grief” was released. In the end of 2009 “Lesser matters” came to be
one out two Swedish albums to appear on NMEs Greatest Albums of the Decade-list.
“This album is a miniature classic - here’s hoping indie snobbery doesn’t condemn it to the mists
of time (The Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade)” NME
The Radio Department’s releases have been referred to as The perfect mix between Saint
Etienne and early The Jesus and Mary Chain and The best songs Pet Shop Boys never
wrote and the album you’d hoped My Bloody Valentine did after ”Loveless”. And perhaps
both comparisons makes sense. In a way. But the truth is that Sweden’s No. 1 alternative
pop geniuses only sound like one band - themselves.
The band will do a handful of gig in May this year and a longer tour is expected in the fall of
2010.
FORHÅND 26. APRIL
JESSE MALIN & THE ST. MARKS SOCIAL
LOVE IT TO LIFE
SideOneDummy
SD 1415 / SD 1415-1
CD/LP
0603967141528 / 0603967141511
Tracklist
Burning The Bowery
All The Way From Moscow
Disco Ghetto
The Archer
St. Marks Sunset
Lowlife In A Highrise
Burn The Bridge
Revelations
Black Boombox
Lonely At Heart
After three critically acclaimed solo records, dozens of world tours and TV appearances, Jesse Malin found himself back in
New York City questioning his next move. From his days fronting seminal hardcore trio Heart Attack and glam punks D Generation, then seven years on the road as a solo artist, Malin had cultivated a devout fan base. He’d shared stages with everyone from The White Stripes to Counting Crows, The Hold Steady to Lucinda Williams, but felt like he was losing the plot.
Malin contemplated going back to school, becoming a standup comedian or a Las Vegas wedding DJ, and even
started work on a documentary film about DC hardcore Rastafarians The Bad Brains. For over a year he didn’t play
or record. When asked by a Hollywood screenwriter to pen songs for a film about author J.D. Salinger, Malin — a fan
of Catcher in the Rye and other Salinger works — traveled to Cornish, NH hoping to speak to the famous recluse.
In typical punk-rock fashion, instead of getting the interview, Malin landed at the local precinct for trespassing and
was released only after the cops watched his video duet with Bruce Springsteen for “Broken Radio” on YouTube
and were convinced he was just a writer doing research. Though he never met Salinger (who passed away this past
January), Malin made the most of the experience by writing “The Archer” and “Lonely at Heart”—two songs that
would make him want to work again and become the basis for his new album.
Over the summer of 2009, in the basement of Avenue A watering hole Hi-Fi, the songs came forth. Malin, with
impresario Don DiLego, drummer Randy Schrager, guitarist Matt Hogan, and bassist/DJ Tommy USA, worked with
his newly formed band to bash out an album’s worth of gritty anthems, and The St. Marks Social was born. A solid
band, but one with an open door to Malin’s community of musician friends - longtime partner in crime Ryan Adams,
pop singer Mandy Moore, fellow label mate Brian Fallon, and former bandmates from D Generation Howie Pyro
and Danny Sage - the Social is a group effort to keep the P.M.A. Says Malin, “To me, rock ‘n’ roll is an exorcism that
begins every night when the sun goes down, the music starts playing, and the spirits start flowing. It helps to say
things in public over dirty microphones. It’s a way to spit out the poison.”
When Jesse met producer Ted Hutt (Lucero, Flogging Molly, The Gaslight Anthem) one drunken night at a local bar,
their talk of making a record fast, loose, and raw, was the beginning of Hutt’s quest to create a record that would
encompass Malin’s roots and evolution—from hardcore thrasher to punk/folk singer-songwriter. The album’s basic
tracks were laid in three days at Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s Mission Studios, and the rest at Sonic Youth’s Think Tank
Studios in Hoboken, NJ. Filled with the characters Malin does best—messengers and misanthropes, hipsters and
hypocrites—and as always, his constant themes of redemption, nightlife, heartbreak, and survival, LOVE IT TO
LIFE—a sentiment taken from a ticket stub Joe Strummer autographed for Jesse—was built with desperate optimism
that shouts in gang vocals that no matter how bad it gets, you’re never alone.
XVII
FORHÅND 3. MAI
BOOKA SHADE
MORE!
Get Physical/Cooperative
KMCD 001
CD
0602527356389
Tracklist
1/ Havanna Sex Dwarf
2/ Donut (interpretation)
3/ Regenerate
4/ The Door
5/ Teenage Spaceman
6/ Divine (feat. Yello)
7/ Scaramanga
8/ L.A. tely
9/ Bad Love (feat. Chelonis R. Jones)
10/ No Difference
11/ This Is Not The Time
Booka Shade will release their fourth artist album More! this May in a joint venture between Get
Physical Music and Cooperative Music. Regarded by many as the best live electronic act in the
world, Booka Shade have enjoyed a meteoric rise since establishing themselves with their breakthrough album ‘Memento’ in 2005. Worldwide club hits such as ‘Body Language’, ‘In The White
Rooms’ and ‘Charlotte’ followed, as well as their second album ‘Movements’, which is regarded as
one of the last decade’s classic electronic albums. 5 years on and with the release of their fourth LP,
the duo prove they are still hungry for More! “The album is called More!. More refined production,
more multi-layered atmospheres, more emotion.” Explains Arno Kammermeier (one half of Booka
Shade), “We wanted this album to be more energetic with strong grooves and of course the typical
Booka Shade melodies and atmospheres that we love. The album takes you through every stage
of the night out; the excitement before you go out, the party, the late, late night, a bit of paranoia....
and then the sunny morning of a new day.” Across the album, Arno, and the other half of Booka
Shade, Walter Merziger delve deeper than ever before, delivering what has to be their most dynamic
and accomplished album to date, which is saying something for Booka Shade! For the first time on
any of their albums they’ve collaborated with guest vocalists, sharing the limelight with electronic
pioneers Yello and Get Physical favourite Chelonis R. Jones. “We’re so excited about 2010 and
taking the new album on the road. We’ve been working on these songs in the studio for the last 18
months and now is the time to hear them loud!” Arno continues, “The world tour will start in February with us headlining the Future Music Festival in Australia, followed by club shows in key cities
throughout Europe and a short trip to the U.S. to introduce the album Stateside. I can safely say we
have a big summer of festivals in front of us too!”. Indeed they do, with the full live schedule to be announced very soon, including (for the first time ever) a fully live UK tour, taking in all the major cities
across the country (see below for a preview of confirmed dates). Until then, please log on to Booka
Shade’s website to download Regenerate, one of the stand-out tracks from the album that will not
only delight fans but also give the world a clear sign of what’s to come with More!
FORHÅND 18. MAI
HARVEY MILK
A SMALL TURN OF HUMAN KINDNESS
Hydra Head
HH 666206
CD
0634457525627
Tracklist
1. *
2. I Just Want To Go Home
3. I Am Sick of All This Too
4. I Know This Is No Place For You
5. I Alone Got Up and Left
6. I Know This Is All My Fault
7. I Did Not Call Out
Harvey Milk’s “A Small Turn of Human Kindness,” is the difference between watching a movie
like Irreversible vs. watching a movie like Independence Day. Both good films, however the first
stimulates a foreign mixture of emotions that require you to sleep it off, whereas the latter
concludes with you feeling comfortable with the fact that you’re a lazy, wasteful, culturally
sequestered American who has sat through this fucking movie way too many times in his/her
life! So, I think you get the idea, “A Small Turn of Human Kindness,” is as dense and as heavy
temperamentally as it is musically. The seven songs so subtly bleed together that the listener
has no choice, but to view the entire album as a linear orchestration with a singular ebb and
flow. A rising and falling action, refined to hell and back. And so, all of these things lead me to
believe that any and all true Harvey Milk fans will eventually argue this record as the band’s
finest work. Or at least the vinyl version will become the quintessential mantle-piece for a
generation of suburban children slumming it in the inner city you know who you are!
BIO:
Harvey Milk is a sludge/noise rock outfit formed in the early 1990’s from savannah,
Georgia. Harvey Milk disbanded around 1997. Due to increased popularity while the group was
no longer active, the band reformed (around 2008). Hydra Head released the bands first new
record after the hiatus, “Life the Best Game in Town....” “A Small Turn of Human Kindness” is
title of the first track on the band’s first proper release... and their seventh proper full-length
release
XVIII
SJEKKLISTE
ARTIST
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1349
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Absu
All That Remains
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Benea Reach
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Clutch
<code>
Converge
Darkthrone
Devil’s Blood
Doro
Dødheimsgard
El Caco
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Emperor
Enslaved
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Ghost Of A Thousand
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Illusion Suite
Insomnium
Isis
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Keep Of Kalessin
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Krallice
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Madder Mortem
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Melvins
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Neurosis
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Pelican
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She Said Destroy
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Sunn O)))
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Taake
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W.A.SP.
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Wolves In The Throne...
Zeromancer
ARTIST
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TITTEL
BEST.NR
ARTIST
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AC4
Absu (Special Edition)
Overcome
In The Constellation Of The...
Hades Rise
The Metal Opera Pt 1&2
Alleviat
Cheat The Gallows
Grand Feast For Vultures
Belus
Strange Cousins From The West
Resplendent Grotesque
Axe To Fall
Dark Thrones & Black Flags
The Time Of No Time Evermore
Fear No Evil
Supervillain Outcast
Heat
Witchcult Today
Live Inferno Box
Ruun
Mechanize
Til Alle Heimsens Endar
Hymns Of Blood And Thunder
New Hopes, New Demonstrations
After
Final Hour
Across The Dark
Wavering Radiant
Festival
Dukebox
Night Is The New Day
Armada
Hundre År Gammal
Dimensional Bleedthrough
Static Tensions
Eight Ways
MK II
Nude With Boots
Attende
Bring Me Victory EP
Assassins
Given To The Rising
Darkest Day
Still Life - Special Edition
Orcustus
Worlds I Create
What We All Come To Need
The Art Of War
This City Speaks In Tongues
Shrinebuilder
Monoliths & Dimensions
Attitude
Svölk
Taake
Forever Is The World
Ignored By Fear
Dominator
Shadows Of The Sun
Babylon
Valfar, Ein Windir
Black Cascade
The Death Of Romance
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Are The Roaring Night
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After Robots
SC 197
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DEMCDDVD 01
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There Is No Enemy
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Somewhere
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I Told You I Was Freaky
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Get Well Soon
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Blood From Stars
EPIT 70262
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LAB 123
[ingenting]
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SPCD 808
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PRC 184-2
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LFRCD 01
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By This Time Last Year…
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WEBB 212CD
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Destruction
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Live In Bergen DVD - Return TO
Enslaved
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Farewell to The Kings Of Rock
Gluecifer
Clearing The Eye
Isis
Never Surrender
Jackson Michael
Live In America
Jorn
Live
Kaada/Patton
Adios…Putas Madres
Ministry
The Misanthrope
Nocturno Culto
The Roundhouse Tapes
Opeth
The Voice of Melodic Metal - Live
Rock Rob
If All Goes Wrong
Smashing Pumpkins
Live - In The Still Of The Night
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Axe To Fall
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