If CALL ME LORETTA’s previous album, Crosswind, conveyed the impression that the band was eager to leave far away and stay aside, their new album, entitled Mountains and Rivers Between Us, seems to be guided by distance and geographical separation. An appealing melancholy emanates from its songs which alternate between tense crescendos, delicate arpeggios and desperate distortions, all in all disclosing a feeling of repressed violence.
After having garnered critical praise for Scars (debut self-released mini-lp, now sold out), a collection of teen pains, and for the Tarnished Angels 7’, CALL ME LORETTA forsook home-recording and recorded Crosswind, their first full-length in which melodies are submitted to emotional peaks and valleys, an album manned by an endearing voice and introspective lyrics that greatly participate to create a dark, idiosyncratic universe.
Since then, CALL ME LORETTA has been carrying on between Toulouse and Paris, taking part in various projects : Kay Bozich Owens et Lynn Owens’ Lost in the Supermarkert, an indie rock cookbook, split 7’ with Nuit Noire, unreleased songs on Dead Bees’ samplers, other bands such as Die! Die! My Darling!, Sleep Talker, My Imaginary Loves.
Mountains and Rivers Between Us was recorded by Stephan Krieger at Amanita studio and mixed by Julien Trimoreau (The National, B Balthazar…). The american artist Anna Venezia has perfectly illustrated the band’s anxieties with her cryptic sketches. 

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Call Me Loretta - Sunday Games

Bonus Track - Jungle Strut - By Dr. John

Septuagenarian Brazilian music icon Elza Soares teams up with the cream of São Paulo's avant-garde musicians for an album of apocalyptic, experimental samba sujo (‘dirty samba’) that tackles the burning issues of 21st century Brazil: racism, domestic violence, sex and drug addiction.

The Woman at the end of the world is Elza’s 34th studio album and her first to feature previously unrecorded material, exclusively composed for her. Voted ‘Best Album of 2015’ by Rolling Stone Brazil it will now be released worldwide by UK based label Mais Um Discos on May 20.

Over a sprawl of distorted guitars, squalling horns, taught strings and electronic shards, samba is savaged by rock ‘n’ roll, free-jazz, noise and other experimental music forms as Elza sings, spits and screams tales of a life in Brazil that is anything but a tropical paradise. A true legend of Brazilian music Elza has an incredible musical oeuvre that stretches back over seven decades mixing samba with jazz, soul, funk, hip hop and electronica, whilst her life-story is a rags-to-riches-to-rags rollercoaster of triumphs and tragedies that has made her a voice for Brazil’s repressed female, black, gay and working class populations.

Firmeza

Julie's Haircut - Gathering Light

Taken from the album:
INVOCATION AND RITUAL DANCE OF MY DEMON TWIN
LAUNCH104
LP/CD/DL
17 FEBRUARY 2017

Album Itunes:
http://apple.co/2fyZlU3

Rocket Store:
https://rocketrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/invocation-and-ritual-dance-of-my-demon-twin

“Being from Italy and doing what we do - we are outsiders” says Luca
Giovanardi, a founder member of Julie’s Haircut, whose always incendiary
yet increasingly outlandish sound has found itself with few parallels in their
homeland since their inception towards the end of the last century. “We have
always been outsiders.”

Yet in following their own singular pathway, the band have arrived at the
deep-end approach to sonic innovation audible on their debut release for
Rocket Recordings, Invocation And Ritual Dance Of My Demon Twin.
Seven albums into a mission initially inspired by the likes of Sonic Youth,
My Bloody Valentine and Spacemen 3, the band now find themselves at a
new plateau of small-hours elucidation and revelation that may summon the
spectres of the wayward squall of early Mercury Rev, the shamanic allure of
Dead Skeletons or the wild soundscapes of Amon Duul II to some,
yet essentially sounds like no-one but themselves.

It was in around 2005 that the band decided to pursue a more experimental
mindset, and central to this reinvention has been the evolution of an alchemic
compositional method which sees them triumph via intuitive processes to arrive
beyond notions of classicism, genre and contemporary reference, somewhere
in motion along the pathways of the consciousness-expanding psychedelic
continuum without paying lip-service to its well-worn signifiers.

“In fact we don’t ‘write’ songs anymore, not in the usual sense” he explains
“It’s more similar to what Teo Macero was doing on Miles Davis’s records:
improvising freely and then ‘finding’ the song, refining it until it comes out in its
final form. Can - whose former singer Damo Suzuki is now a very close friend
of ours and we’ve been performing with him many times - used a similar method.
And of course both Can and Davis have been two huge influences on our work
in the last ten years.”

The result is a record built on trance-like repetition that grows to mantric intensity to summon atmospheric plateaus redolent of the psychic and surreal
transgressions of its title - a double-helix tribute to both Frank Zappa and
Kenneth Anger. Coruscating guitar overload and jazz-tinged blowout collide
amidst hypnotic soundscapes like the shamanically inclined ‘The Fire Sermon’
and the eleven-minute motorik magnificence of the curtain-raiser ‘Zukunft’.
Yet atmospheric restraint, glacial texture and immersive groove play as large
a part in this blinding and beatific soundworld as droning darkness or
overheated amp tubes.

As the band elaborates, “Psychedelic music has always been about adventure
and loss of any safety net”. True to form, central to the succor provided whilst
lost within the grooves and headspace of Invocation And Ritual Dance Of
My Demon Twin is that it offers no security at all.

UK press: rachel.silver@silverpr.co.uk
Italian press: sandro@promorama.it
Label: rocketrecordingshq@gmail.com

Invocation and Ritual Dance of My Demon Twin

Julie's Haircut - Gathering Light

Rosaire LP1 (Digital Master)

Louis Hamon: Chant, Guitares électrique et acoustique
Simon Denoual: Guitares, Claviers
Guirec Feuvrier: Basse, guitare acoustique
Lucas Abgrall: Batterie, Percussions

Réalisé par Christophe Chavanon
Enregistré et mixé à Studio Kerwax, Loguivy-Plougras (22)
Produit par Rosaire

Management: Erick Lauer

Crystal Eyes

A Gate To Heaven

From Kaia Kater's album Grenades (Smithsonian Folkways/acronym Records) on 10/26/2018 and 1/11/2019 (UK & Europe).

Kaia Kater: https://www.kaiakater.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kaiakatermusic/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kaiakater
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaiakater/
On Tour: https://www.kaiakater.com/shows
 
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Grenades

Taken from the Omaha, NE musician's fourth proper album, "Peaced and Slightly Pulverized", out October 5th, 2018 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Omaha, NE musician David Nance is nothing if not prolific. Over the course of the past six years, he has released three full-length albums for labels Grapefruit and Ba Da Bing, a 7-inch, numerous cassettes, CDRs and unlicensed "cover albums" of artists like Lou Reed, The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Doug Sahm. His latest full-length is credited to the "David Nance Group" and features Nance alongside his recent hot-shit live band of fellow Omaha musicians; guitarist Jim Schroeder, bassist Tom May and drummer Kevin Donahue.

David Nance Group "Poison" (Trouble In Mind Records)

It Makes You Forget (Itgehane) (Dicky Trisco & Peter Herbert Dub) M

Miss Universe

In Your Head

The first single from the forthcoming Younghusband album entitled Swimmers out on Opposite Number 07/06/2019.

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Written by Sarah Negahdari
Produced and mixed by Lewis Pesacov

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