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MIEN – ” Earth Moon “

Posted: March 14, 2018 in MUSIC
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Newly formed psych project Mien is a supergroup as meeting of the minds. It brings together the talents of Elephant Stone sitar player Rishi Dhir, Black Angels vocalist Alex Maas, The Horrors keyboardist Tom Furse, and electronic manipulator John-Mark Lapham of The Earlies. The members are separated by geography and much of the album was written and recorded long distance, but they’re united by a love of classic psychedelia and cutting-edge studio voodoo.

“Earth Moon,” the second single off their forthcoming self-titled debut, is a baroque testimony to what can happen when heads like these get together. Cascading sitar and billowing layers of Krauty keyboards ride a driving, motorik beat to a peak of eerie elation. The hyperreal production is made possible by technology, not to say drugs, that they just didn’t have in the ’60s. Listen close and you can hear a bit of each musician’s signature in the song’s psilocybin swirl – and plenty of what the future holds for mind-expanding music.

Mien incarnates on this plane April 6th via Rocket Recordings. The band makes their live debut in April at Levitation Festival.

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Band Members
Alex Maas
John Mark Lapham
Rishi Dhir
Tom Furse

MIEN – ” Earth Moon “

Posted: February 8, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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As reported before Rocket Recordings are extremely excited to be releasing the self-titled debut album by MIEN, the new four piece band comprised of The Black Angels’ Alex Maas, The Horrors’ Tom Furse, Elephant Stone’s Rishi Dhir and The Earlies’ John-Mark Lapham.
After revealing the video for their debut track Black Habit we are pleased to share with you the second track from the album which is called ‘Earth Moon’.
The single will be released on 6th March and will feature a killer remix of MIEN’s first single Black Habit by the ever great $hit and $hine. We will reveal this mighty slab of industrial psych shortly!

The press reactions to the band’s first single “Black Habit” has been overwhelming:
“Apocalyptic psych rock.” Pitchfork–
“MIEN is the line-up of your dreams.” Clash–
“Kaleidoscopic series of atmospheres and excursions.” Self Titled Mag

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GOAT – ” Goatfuzz/Goatfizz ” Record Store Day Release 2017

Posted: April 20, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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A1. Goatfuzz (Single Version) B1. Goatfizz. Goat release an unreleased edit of the track Goatfuzz – one of the stand out tracks off their latest album ‘Requiem’ as a special ltd edition 7″ for Record Store Day. The Bside of the 7″ is a brand new track, entitled Goatfizz which once again shows another side to the bands take on ‘world music’. The 2 colour ‘splatter vinyl’ 7″ is ltd to 2,000 copies and will only be available on Record Store Day – these tracks will not be made available on digital formats.

RECORD STORE DAY IS THIS SATURDAY!

GNOOMES – ” Myriads Of Bees “

Posted: March 3, 2017 in MUSIC
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Gnoomes started in February of 2014 and released their debut EP “It’s Moonbow-Time, Boy” in July of the same year. Gnoomes initially didn’t want to tie band’s music to existing tags and made their own – stargaze.

First LP “Ngan!” was released via Rocket Recordings (UK) on October 16th in 2015 and it got positive reviews from such media as Clash Magazine, NME, Getintothis. Songs from “Ngan!” were played on BBC6 by Guy Garvey, Lauren Laverne, Gideon Coe. In June the track ‘Myriads’ was picked up to be a part of the neopsychedelic music compilation of MOJO magazine devoted to the Syd Barrett’s legacy.
On May 20th last year the split single with label-mates Swedish band Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation was released. It’s called “Repetitions” and it consists of 2 tracks by two bands and also remixes of each other.
In September 2016 Gnoomes played its first UK tour and played at Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia.
Gnoomes are expected to present their new material in the first decade of 2017.

Gnoomes – Myriads of Bees

This is a unique live version of the track that is featured on the split EP with Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation called Repetitions

JOSEFIN ÖHRN + The LIBERATION – ” The State (Im In) / Rushing Through My Mind (Al Lover Remix) “

Posted: February 23, 2017 in MUSIC
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‘The State (I’m In)’ is Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation’s second single from their new album ‘Mirage’.

After an amazing 2016 which saw the release of the bands 2nd album ‘Mirage’, the seductive splendour of these ten songs were jubilantly received across UK Radio’s BBC6 Music, climaxing in a Lauren Laverne BBC6 Live session and a full tour support with fellow Swedes ‘Goat’.

The State (I’m In) has a sense of disorientation that marries a kaleidoscopic aesthetic with a panoramic sensibility, it’s overdriven organ motif radiance is offset by hypnotic rhythmic drive that steadily pulsates throughout.

The track encircles as if the The Doors were jettisoned in a floatian tank with Spacemen 3/ Suicide, Josefin’s luscious vocals fluctuating like an enchanted mantra until every single atom has fallen into perfect alignment and formed perfect shape.

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The B side features a Remix by Al Lover of the bands classic ‘Rushing Through My Mind’, this time forging the ethereal sound of the original layered with strings and some really funky Kraut-Disco basslined grooves.

‘Mirage’ is currently available worldwide & the single ‘The State (I’m In) / Rushing Through My Mind (Al Lover Remix)’ is released digitally on 16th December, both are released via Rocket Recordings.

Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation will be embarking on a UK tour throughout March 2017.

JOSEFIN OHRN and the LIBERATION – ” Sister Green Eyes “

Posted: January 27, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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To coincide with their upcoming tour (see dates below), Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation will be releasing a gorgeous, reworked version of their sultry album track, Sister Green Eyes, this will be the band’s third single from last year’s excellent album Mirage.

Sister Green Eyes sensuously throbs to a more Eastern drive, with an sedated Velvet’s droned melody, and a fluctuating groove straight out of the CAN little black book.

Part tribal, part gothic groove and richly hypnotic, the track was inspired by the Japanese word “Shinrinyoku” which is sometimes translated and often described as “Forest Bathing”, where submersing oneself so deeply into the atmosphere of the forest or in the band’s case, the Swedish ‘Ocean and Mountains’, that the experience is rejuvenating and restorative so showing you a way that can often seem lost or out of reach and Josefin’s breathless, broken vocals encapsulate that.

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The single will be released on Rocket Recordings on 24th February (digital only).

Tour Dates 

24 Feb / Nottingham / Nottingham Contemporary
25 Feb / Liverpool / Liverpool Central Library
26 Feb / Newcastle / The Cluny
28 Feb / Glasgow / Broadcast
1 March / Manchester / The Soup Kitchen
2 March / Leeds / The Brudenell Social Club
3 March / Bristol / Louisiana
4 March / London / Moth Club
5 March / Brighton / Haunt
6 March / Oxford / The Bullingdon
7 March / Birmingham / Hare & Hounds

JOSEFIN ÖHRN & The LIBERATION – ” Mirage ” Best Albums of 2016

Posted: December 10, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Having already been nominated for a Swedish Grammy with their debut EP, Diamond Waves, their debut full-length 2015 on Rocket Recordings, “Horse Dance”, marked out a territory in which beguiling repetition could sashay with sweet pop sounds, melodic flourishes with experimental intensity, and it was summarily rapturously received on arrival, making new fans and earning them appearances at Roskilde Festival and Eindhoven Psych Lab.

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This their second full lenth effort “Mirage”, which follows a mere year after its predecessor, sees the band sculpting sprawling, hypnotic jams into elegant nocturnal serenades. “We agree on not remembering very much about how these tracks came about, that all of them were written on the road and that most of them came fully formed” note the band. “Most were really long to begin with, but we found it relieving to break away a bit from the mandatory psych jams a little bit.

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We also just realised that none of them were written in daylight, which might be why memory is so elusive.” Indeed, this approach seems to fit well with the primary inspiration for the five-piece band, which centred on ‘the state where dreams, visions and the present are entwined’ .“Mirage” sees the band taking a chic tradition of avant-pop that extends all the way from Serge Gainsbourg and Françoise Hardy to Broadcast and Saint Etienne, and warping it mercilessly to their own darker ends. Whilst the brooding yet sultry ‘Sister Green Eyes’ is no less than a sharp slice of motorik-pop and ‘Looking For You’ reinvents three-chord garage-rock attack with mighty finesse, The Liberation are just as comfortable dealing out the heavy-lidded and electronically-driven ‘In Madrid’ or the dive in the hallucinatory deep end of ‘Circular Motion’, on which they’re aided and abetted by the Lay Llamas’ Nicola Guinta. The seductive splendour of these ten songs å make manifest a parallel world of disorientation and deliverance in which one would be a fool not to want to languish adrift . Fresh excitement for the band lies in wait, courtesy of a UK tour with Goat and an appearance at Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia.

JOSEFIN ÖHRN + The LIBERATION – ” Rushing Through My Mind “

Posted: October 16, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The latest offering from impending second album ‘Mirage’, released today via Rocket Recordings. Josefin’s sultry voice intoxicates over a realm of seductive instrumentation. On tour in Europe now, they head to UK for five dates kicking off on October 17th at Brighton’s All Saints Church.

Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation – Rushing Through My Mind

ARMS – ” Keep It Light “

Posted: April 3, 2016 in MUSIC
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The first thing said during Arms first rehearsal was that there were to be no rules. That was not a licence for abandon or shoddiness, rather a removal of restrictions.
Arms consists of six people of five different nationalities with varying tastes and influences. None of them shall be ignored or belittled.
This is a band with an intention of gently entering your hearts and souls. In fact they will only do so with an invitation.
Devised as a concept in 2013 by Andy Potter and former Special Needs frontman Zachery Stephenson, they recruited French singer & guitarist Elian Dalmasso, Irish chanteuse Amy Fox (all three accomplished solo performers in their own right) as well as Italian lead guitarist Davide Ragazzo and Portugese drummer Nelson Costa to create the basic line-up, although that in itself is also malleable.

At any Arms gig you may see any of the members taking lead vocal duties and the songs may have been written by anyone.

RAW POWER – Festival 27th-29th May 2016

Posted: February 17, 2016 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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The intimate and unassuming Dome in Tufnell Park is once again set to host Raw Power Festival; an event during which the expansive and experimental bands that lie within transform this small London venue into a conduit for the world of avant-garde music. From the 27th-29th May; Baba Yaga’s Hut will curate a festival that boasts a Rube Goldberg Techno Machine, the first UK show in twenty years from industrial legends Test Dept. (a band known for trading in instruments for factory scrap metal and machinery) and more art noise bands than can be found within Brian Eno’s reasonably-priced shed.

But as with Raw Power’s spiritual cousin, Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival, the festival is less about the bands you know and more about your new favourite band you’ve never heard of. Sporting the biggest bill they’ve had yet, and an expansion into the Boston Arms pub, it’s hard to recommend missing any bands…so instead here’s a selection of bands you should be getting excited for in an adventurous festival for adventurous people.

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