16.10.2021 :: Finnish gothic rock act Two Witches launch 'The Last Day' single feat. Inkubus...   | console.debug('TRINITY_WP', 'Skip player from rendering', 'is single: , is main loop: 1, is main query: 1');console.debug('TRINITY_WP', 'trinity_content_filter'); Out now is "The Last Day", a new Two Witches song featuring the legendary Inkubus Sukkubus. "The Last Day" is taken from the band's latest album "The Undead" out via the Brazilian label Deepland Records.
"The Undead" is the first new studio album for the band in seven years. The album features various guest musicians, such legendary gothic icons as Inkubus Sukkubus and Vlad Janicek (The Nosferatu), and some new talents like Ariel Maniki (The Black Halos), Sanna Keltaniemi (Chaos Research) and Lisa Miles (Jesucrisis).
The cover art was created by Jan "Örkki" Yrlund (Darkgrove Design, wellknown for his works for Manowar, Korpiklaani, Battle Beast and others, also known as a musician for Imperia and ex-member of Lacrimosa and Two Witches).
Two Witches is a pioneer of Finnish gothic rock since 1987, formed by Jyrki Witch and Anne Nurmi (1987-1993, nowadays known as a keyboardist of Lacrimosa). Two Witches anno 2021 consists of frontman Jyrki Witch and musicians Marko Hautamäki and Miss Blueberry.
Check out the song below.
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16.10.2021 :: Testube launches charity single 'Themself' to support True Colors United and i... | console.debug('TRINITY_WP', 'Skip player from rendering', 'is single: , is main loop: 1, is main query: 1');console.debug('TRINITY_WP', 'trinity_content_filter'); The experimental industrial act Testube has just released a brand new single + music video titled "Themself" as a fundraiser for True Colors United, an organization that works hard to improve the lives of homeless LGBTIQ+ youth. Jeff Danos (Testube) describes the sound as follows: "The new song is a dark and gritty composition with post-punk undertones, raw bass guitar, harsh stuttering percussion, haunting synths, and heart-wrenching vocals."
Jeff Danos tells us this about the song and video: "When our daughter came out to us as a teen, we wanted to surround her with our most unconditional love and acceptance, to ensure that she felt the confidence and support she needed, to truly be herself. While I certainly know what it feels like to be rejected for being different, I can't imagine how terrifying it can be for a young LGBTIQ person striving to become their true, authentic self. Some of these youth are treated with disgust and hatred by those around them, even by their own families. It is also common for some LGBTIQ youth to be forced from their home, with nowhere to go. With that in mind, this video was produced as a fundraiser for True Colors United, an organization founded by the one and only Cyndi Lauper, that is implementing innovative solutions to youth homelessness that focus on the unique experiences of LGBTIQ young people."
Donations can be made here.
Testube is trying to raise $2,021 for this year. Listeners can also download the new Testube single titled "Themself" via Bandcamp as a pay-what-you-can release, where all proceeds from the sales of this single will also be donated to True Colors United.
Themself by Testube Why you should support this cause In the United States, 4.2 million youth experience homelessness each year, with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth 120% more likely to experience homelessness than their non-LGBTQ peers. In fact, up to 40% of youth experiencing homelessness identify as LGBTQ. True Colors United works tirelessly to improve the lives of these teens and give them the dignity and respect they deserve during this difficult time in their lives.
View the video for the song below.
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16.10.2021 :: Swedish dreampop duo Astral Brain debut video 'A Dream' off their new album 'T... | console.debug('TRINITY_WP', 'Skip player from rendering', 'is single: , is main loop: 1, is main query: 1');console.debug('TRINITY_WP', 'trinity_content_filter'); Out now is the newest video for the single "A Dream" by the Swedish dreampop duo Astral Brain. The track is taken from Astral Brain's newest album "The Bewildered Mind" which is out now.
Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, Astral Brain is the outcome of Einar Ekström's music production and Siri af Buren's vocal work. After Einar's previous band Le Futur Pompiste (Siesta/Shelflife) parted ways he started writing new music with the hopes of eventually teaming up with a new singer. In 2015 he was introduced to Siri who is a member of the Malmö based Testbild! to which Einar had been listening for years.
In 2019 and 2020 the band released a couple of singles meanwhile they focused on producing songs for an upcoming full length album.
Here's the band's newest video for "A Dream".
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16.10.2021 :: Detroit based synthpop act Shoestrings back after 24 years of total silence wi... | console.debug('TRINITY_WP', 'Skip player from rendering', 'is single: , is main loop: 1, is main query: 1');console.debug('TRINITY_WP', 'trinity_content_filter'); The Detroit based synthpop duo Shoestrings finally return after a very long break (24 years!) and launch the all new synthpop single "Gone". The duo has also announced a new album, "Expectations", to be released via the Shelflife label. The first single, "Gone", is also the opening track to the album.
The band's second album will be available from November 5th on, on CD and digital formats. The LP vinyl will be co-released with Discos de Kirlian (Europe) and Fastcut Records (Asia), and will be available in early 2022.
Check out the video for "Gone" right below.
About Shoestrings Shoestrings is Mario and Rose Suau. In the early 90s, both played supporting roles in a mutual friend's somber, 4AD-leaning band. The duo debuted with a 7" single "Some Things Never Change" in 1994, several contributions to indie compilation albums, and a full-length debut album, "Wishing On Planes" (1997), on Le Grand Magistery (US) and Flavour of Sound (Japan).
In the early 2000s, the band wanted to evolve their naïve, homespun sound to feel more consistent and sophisticated overall. Rather than immediately release a pastiche follow-up album, the pair shifted focus to progressing their engineering and production skills as they had reached the limit with their analog 8-track.
By 2011, under the moniker Invisible Twin, they started remixing tracks for Acid House Kings, Alpaca Sports, Red Sleeping Beauty, and Dylan Mondegreen. In 2015, longtime friend, Johan Angergård (Acid House Kings, Club 8, The Legends), asked Rose to contribute lyrics and vocals for the synthpop project, Djustin. From Stockholm, Johan composed and offered up tracks. From Detroit, Rose wrote lyrics and sang vocals, while Mario engineered the recordings. And it seems that collaboration ignited the spark to restart Shoestrings. As soon as the production of Djustin was wrapped, Mario and Rose began writing new material.
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16.10.2021 :: 'Click Interview' with Cubic: 'It Was Time To Pull The Plug And Leave Ebm To T... | console.debug('TRINITY_WP', 'Skip player from rendering', 'is single: , is main loop: 1, is main query: 1');console.debug('TRINITY_WP', 'trinity_content_filter'); Franky Deblomme got some recognition with his EBM-project Darkmen. After having stopped the project we didn't hear new stuff from this musician till he started working under the CUBIC moniker. After the excellent "Alphabet Hymn"-EP and having revisited the 808 Dot.Pop-album "Cubic Temperature", Franky unleashed CUBIC's debut album "The Cubic Alphabet". The work has been released by Alfa Matrix, which in a way is a kind of consecration for the artist and a promising start for Cubic. The sound has a clear connection with 808 Dot.Pop and Metroland; a kind of Kraftwerk-Pop with a personal and more diversified touch on top. "The Cubic Alphabet" is a refreshing opus, which brings something extra to traditional Electro-Pop.
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Q: Franky, I think you started experimenting with music in 1981! What kind of musician are you and how did you see yourself evolving throughout the years?
Franky: The fascination for synthesizer started in '81 (seeing Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran behind a prophet 5 synth); the experimenting followed a few years later .
At first with toy machines: a casio SK5 and some cassette players, as the years passed I was able to buy the real stuff. I've always been a collector of hardware synths, samplers and sequencers (even now). Getting to know these machines inside out is something that drives me.
I'm not a trained musician, but with 30 years of knob twiddling and a trained ear, I dare to say that I know what I'm doing. Even now I'm still eager to learn, especially in the mixing and mastering process where there's still room for improvement .
Q: EBM fans for sure remind you from your involvement with Darkmen. How do you look back at this project and how did you finally come to set up CUBIC, which is still Electronic although quite different -and your first new music experience in years?
Franky: I did the Darkmen-thing for 10 years together with one of my best friends, Thomas Vrambout. We managed to meet or play live with bands we admired ( like DAF, Nitzer Ebb, Orange Sector, SA42, Terrence Fixmer...) and we travelled the world for free to do something we liked to do. So you can say It was a wonderful experience.
The downside, EBM is a quite restricted genre in terms of artistic freedom. EBM is almost like a mathematical formula (in sound, structure, artwork and lyrics ). In the end I felt too restricted. So when we both turned 40, It was time to pull the plug and leave EBM to the 'Jügend'.
With CUBIC I wanted to incorporate a lot of my other musical influences and preferences .
Q: I experienced a kind of duality in the sound of Cubic; pretty old-school driven and yet a pretty refreshing sound. Tell us a bit more about Cubic-sound and the different sources of inspiration?
Franky: Like most of us I was influenced by Synth-Pop (Duran Duran, Depeche Mode), the dark Belgian sounds (Front 242, Neon Judgement, New-Wave).
But the Electronic sounds and bands that emerged in the early 90's, were the ones that had the most impact on me; think Orbital, Leftfield, System 7, The Orb or labels like Warp or R&S Records .
In that period I also was a 'Techno'-DJ, playing in clubs and parties so the whole 90s club sound is something that I still like .
Not that I'm into EDM or the current Techno sounds, but bands like Der Dritte Raum, Steven Rutter or Extrawelt can inspire me.
All those influences I wanted to incorporate in the Cubic sound. With the first album I still had to find my musical direction, but the new demo's will be a 100 % Cubic.
Q: Behind your debut album "The Cubic Alphabet" is a kind of concept, but what is it really all about? And how did the writing and production of the album happen?
Franky: Well, the alphabet has 26 letters so I've intended to write 26 letters/songs , each one referring to one letter of the alphabet.
So the first full album (with 13 letters / songs on it ) is the first part . In a later stage a second full length album with 13 letters will be released, forming the whole alphabet .
The album was written/mixed and mastered in my 'Bong 13' studio over a period of 12 months. All songs are based on hardware synths, drum machines and effects, recorded to a digital platform. Half of the songs already existed in demo form, and were rearranged for the album, others were newly written .
Q: I think you've always been pretty close with Sven Lauwers aka 'Passenger S' from Metroland and 808 Dot.Pop (and formerly Ionic Vision). You even reworked all songs from his 808 Dot.Pop-album "The Colour Temperature" into a new work entitled "The Cubic Temperature". What can you reveal about this 'musical friendship' and how did "The Cubic Temperature" see the daylight? Any plans to set up a common project?
Franky: It must have been 16 years ago now I got in touch with Sven (he was running the EBM sublabel Machineries Of Joy). From the beginning It was clear that we had the same taste (in music, humor and beer). So many years later, he's one of my closest friends. His musical ear for details in his music and the way he translates concepts into sounds and songs both are a real inspiration. We both push each other to a higher level.
I have made a lot of remixes for all of his projects, and "The Cubic Temperature" is to my opinion the highlight of our collaboration over all the years. That album is not a remix album. I wanted to keep a lot of the original 808 signature sounds and add layers of Cubic on top. It started out with one song (cf. "Placnk's H") and the result was so exciting the idea grew to do the whole album.
I still think it's a great concept, one artist doing an interpretation of another artist without losing the soul of the original songs (and remixing it to death). It took almost 6 months to finish, but it was worth it.
Other plans? Yes and now: we have to be careful not to overdo this collaboration. When we get together it often results in crazy ideas or concepts, maybe some of those will see the light of day.
Q: What brings the future? Do you've concrete plans to go with Cubic on stage? How do you expect Cubic evolving after the debut album?
Franky:Playing live is for sure something I want to do in the future, full live or a mixture of DJing and live, everything could be possible.
The fist focus is now releasing some more music, and creating the real 'cubic'-signature sound and creating something of a following.
Let's hope to get some live action in 2022 .
Some remixes I've done for fellow Alfa Matrix bands will probably be released soon... and some more Cubic sounds.
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