Electronic/Darkwave/Industrial/Dark Ambient

Attrition

Two Gods Records

[The Girl who loves Halloween]

from the "Dante's Kitchen" album. 2005
https://attritionuk.bandcamp.com/album/dantes-kitchen

Two Gods

From "All mine enemys whispers -  the story of mary ann cotton"  2008.
https://attritionuk.bandcamp.com/album/all-mine-enemys-whispers-the-story-of-mary-ann-cotton

What shall i sing?

The Funeral March of a Marionette (Marche funèbre d'une marionnette) is a short piece by Charles Gounod. It was written in 1872 for solo piano and orchestrated in 1879. It is perhaps best known as the theme music for the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which originally aired from 1955 to 1965.
Arranged for wind quintet from the orchestral version.

Gounod:Funeral March of a Marionette

Film - Adult's Prelude (Nico Vs The Cure) By Marklovesdeafrobots

Just Us

The new single from our side project ENGRAM...

ENGRAM – Karl Marx c/w Highgate (Part I)

Released officially worldwide on the date of the UK General Election, May 7th 2015, 
and available on bandcamp as "Name your price" until that date.

After 17 years between formation and the What Am I? EP of 2013, 
ENGRAM follow up with the single from the forthcoming album.
'Stalinism, Leninism, Revolution.'
An 80's influenced political marriage of minimal synth wave and dark electronic rhythms and textures.

Karl Marx has a new platform on the electro dancefloor.

Performed by Martin Bowes & John Costello
Mixed and Mastered at The Cage, Coventry, England by Martin Bowes
https://engrammusik.bandcamp.com/album/karl-marx

ENGRAM - Karl Marx

taken from the upcoming album:  "Millions of The Mouthless Dead"
Released August 4th 2015
listen to the full album here: https://attritionuk.bandcamp.com/album/millions-of-the-mouthless-dead

ATTRITION founder Martin Bowes has joined forces with Anni Hogan and together created a world of sombre moods reflected in dark ambient soundscapes inhabited by pianos, strings, organ, found sounds and shifting atmospheres. With original war poetry and spoken word in English, French and German, with special guests including Wolfgang Flur (ex-Kraftwerk), Peter Rainman, Karla Aelswitha and Alexander Nym

“June 1917. Ypres. Flanders. Belgium. 
Private William Bowes of the West Yorks Regiment, 
British Expeditionary Force, was hit by a German shell 
while out working on trench defences. 
He suffered a severe stomach wound. 
Rescued by stretcher-bearers, his life was saved by 
Canadian army medics in a front line field hospital. 
He was repatriated to England where he stayed 
and recuperated for the remainder of the Great War...”

William Bowes was my Grandfather.

A video of the title track can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udPuZ83NytU 
A poem by Charles Hamilton Sorley. 1915.




The Mouthless Dead

Bernard Herrmann - Psycho Suite

an attrition classic from the 1991 album A Tricky business
https://attritionuk.bandcamp.com/album/a-tricky-business

A Girl Called Harmony

Taken from the full length film score for US horror film "G.H.O..ST". 2012. 
Listen to the full album here: https://attritionuk.bandcamp.com/album/invocation

Invocation  V

A shortened cover of the Goblin classic Suspiria from the Dario Argento film of the same name.

Suspiria (Goblin Cover)

O 16º Festival Cultura Inglesa acontece entre os dias 25 de maio a 30 de junho nas cidades de São Paulo, Campinas, Santos, São José dos Campos e Sorocaba.
Para quem vai no show de São Paulo dia 27/07, no Parque da Independência, criamos uma playlist especial que traz um pouco de cada uma das bandas internacionais do festival.


The Horrors - Jack The Ripper (Hovefestivalen 30-06-07 - Arendal, Noruega)

Taken from the new album - The Unraveller of Angels....
http://attritionuk.bandcamp.com/album/the-unraveller-of-angels


Introducing the all new and long awaited album from legendary dark industrial pioneers ATTRITION.

Founder Martin Bowes has teamed up with US singer Tylean on vocals and created 10 new tracks varying in style from industrial to gothic to dark ambient soundscapes...
a step on in direction from any of the previous albums this one has a host of special guest appearances:
Mona Mur (Einsturzende Neubauten, En Esch etc), Matt Howden (Seiben etc), Annie Hogan (Marc and the Mambas, Nick Cave etc) Erica Mulkey (Unwoman) Ian Arkely (My Silent Wake, Seventh Angel)
Jyri Glynn, Joanna Dalin and more..
Featuring album artwork by renowned German photographer Holger Karas.
Produced in the bands own commercial studio, The Cage.
 
Martin is currently working with film makers on videos to accompany the album and planning tours for 2013 in Europe, North and South America and more...
  
all the best
 
Martin Bowes, Coventry, England. 2012
 
 
www.attrition.co.uk
www.facebook.com/attritionmusic
http://attritionuk.bandcamp.com/
www.youtube.com/user/attrition
 
www.thecagestudios.co.uk
 
"Inside a cage of sound,  Cold waves of electronics are juxtaposed against voices that seep through cracks in the walls of machinery and wires. Lyrics dart out in bullets from soundscapes peppered in sharp vocals and sound bites. A viola plays in the distance, giving life to this inorganic mass... 
Such is the imagery that spawns Attrition, who, with its marriage of the classic and modern, has brought to music the equivalent of a surrealist painting. From its earlier sparse and stark soundscapes, to a more expansive palette of orchestral work, Attrition has successfully melded several genres into one. The music flows - from gothic to industrial to experimental to classical - so smoothly, they might as well be making their own category. 
With more than twenty albums of constant variety, and an ever-expanding sound, they remain one of music's darker and fascinating lights."  

 
ATTRITION
 
Album Discography
 
1982. This Death House- a soundtrack
1983. Action and reaction
1984. The Attrition Of Reason
1985. Smiling, At The Hypogonder Club
1986. In The Realm Of The Hungry Ghosts
1988. At The Fiftieth Gate
1991. A Tricky Business
1993. The Hidden Agenda
1995. Ephemera a soundtrack
1996. Three Arms & A Dead Cert
1997. Etude - classical interpretations
1999. The Jeopardy Maze
1999. Esoteria - a collection of ambient works
2000. Heretic Angels - live in the USA
2000. The Hand that Feeds the remixes
2001. Keepsakes & Reflections rarities
2003. The Eternity LP - a collection of classical remixes and rarities
2004. Dante’s Kitchen
2006. Something Stirs. The beginning. 1981 – 83
2008. All mine enemy’s whispers. The story of Mary Ann Cotton
2009. Kill the Buddha! - Live in Europe & the USA
2010. Wrapped in the guise of my friend. Covers. 17 songs re-interpreted.
2010. Dreamtime Collectors. 1980 - 2010. A best of
2011. Demonstro. 1981 - 86. double vinyl LP of rarities
2011. The truth in dark corners: Live in Holland. 1985
2012. Invocation. film soundtrack.
2013. The Unraveller of Angels....
 

 "Attrition is experimentation of the highest order... orbiting some strange star with an atmosphere of fear to breathe.  Attrition is extraordinary music for connoisseurs of challenge" Musictap.net 
 
" ,,,the name Attrition is universally lauded and accepted as an innovator, a dark and creative force unparalleled by modern musicians " Darktwincities.com 
 
"an entrancing blend of insistent electronics and beautiful orchestration...Bowes is without doubt one of the greatest living composers..." Industrial Nation
 
" Creating and exploring rich shadowy electronic soundscapes...interweaving the ephemeral with the operatic, the sound can at once calm your soul and chill your bones..." The Hatchet/USA 

Narcissist - from The Unraveller of Angels

The first single from the forthcoming ATTRITION album, The Black Maria... released on the car crash that is Brexit day.... January 31st.
On CD, Download and Streaming...
https://attritionuk.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-derailer

The Great Derailer

Dark industrial music since 1980.
http://www.attrition.co.uk
Production and mastering in The Cage since 1993.
http://www.thecagestudios.co.uk

"Inside a cage of sound,  Cold waves of electronics are juxtaposed against voices that seep through cracks in the walls of machinery and wires. Lyrics dart out in bullets from soundscapes peppered in sharp vocals and sound bites. A viola plays in the distance, giving life to this inorganic mass... 
Such is the imagery that spawns Attrition, who, with its marriage of the classic and modern, has brought to music the equivalent of a surrealist painting. From its earlier sparse and stark soundscapes, to a more expansive palette of orchestral work, Attrition has successfully melded several genres into one. The music flows - from gothic to industrial to experimental to classical - so smoothly, they might as well be making their own category. 
With more than twenty albums of constant variety, and an ever-expanding sound, they remain one of music's darker and fascinating lights."  
Akane

ATTRITION

Album Discography

1982. This Death House- a soundtrack
1983. Action and reaction
1984. The Attrition Of Reason
1985. Smiling, At The Hypogonder Club
1986. In The Realm Of The Hungry Ghosts
1988. At The Fiftieth Gate
1991. A Tricky Business
1993. The Hidden Agenda
1995. Ephemera a soundtrack
1996. Three Arms & A Dead Cert
1997. Etude - classical interpretations
1999. The Jeopardy Maze
1999. Esoteria - a collection of ambient works
2000. Heretic Angels - live in the USA
2000. The Hand that Feeds the remixes
2001. Keepsakes & Reflections rarities
2003. The Eternity LP - a collection of classical remixes and rarities
2004. Dante’s Kitchen
2006. Something Stirs. The beginning. 1981 – 83
2008. All mine enemy’s whispers. The story of Mary Ann Cotton
2009. Kill the Buddha! - Live in Europe & the USA
2010. Wrapped in the guise of my friend. Covers. 17 songs re-interpreted.
2010. Dreamtime Collectors. 1980 - 2010. A best of
2011. Demonstro. 1981 - 86. double vinyl LP of rarities
2011. The truth in dark corners: Live in Holland. 1985
2012. Invocation. film soundtrack.
2013. The Unraveller of Angels....
2015. Millions of the Mouthless Dead