Rekmusik

2020 RELEASES :: Post Punk :: Darkwave :: Goth :: Shoegaze :: Coldwave :: Industrial :: Synthpop... - part 5

mix-tape # 304
Painting by  Matías Valenzuela Fuentealba: Umbral, 2014

Umbra   (a duct-ape mix-tape)

Amelia Rivas and Christian Pinchbeck don't just sing about feverish, frayed and  fractured romances – in the three years since forming  Elephant, they've been living one.

Their first recordings, recorded in the strung out early mornings after the night before, were delirious and light-headed. Rivas’ stream of conscious lyricism combined with Pinchbeck’s innate melodic nous to create vignettes of delight and wonder.  A debut single followed, 2011’s woozy Ants, followed by the Assembly EP.   But before they had a chance to capitalise on the growing acclaim around them the duo’s relationship broke down, almost to the point of no return.

That seemed to be Elephant’s graveyard.  Yet an unexpected rapprochement in late 2012, and a renewed musical hunger saw Rivas and Pinchbeck reconcile.  The first fruit was this year’s gauzy single Skyscraper, which announced their return in spectacular fashion, with Rivas’ swooping vocals allied to a spectral chorus creating an eerie, lens-flared 3 minute wonder of song.

Now, new release Shapeshifter provides confirmation that Elephant are truly back as a force to be reckoned with. “I flew to the moon to mirror you and I saw the future” sings Rivas, with a raw melancholy and nostalgic longing. A sumptuous missive of love lost and lessons learned, that sparkles with charm, optimism, and the sort of lush swoonsome string arrangements that reach into your chest and wring your heart dry. 

Backed by the sparse and stretched out Snowday, as icily cool as it sounds, full of chiaroscuro contrasts and flickering atmospherics, it’s a release that suggests their debut album is set to be one of the standout albums of 2014.

ELEPHANT LINKS: 
 
Facebook - www.facebook.com/elephanttheband    
Twitter – www.twitter.com/ElephantTwit  
Label -  www.memphis-industries.com


Elephant - Shapeshifter

"Stupid" is the first single from Gomina's upcoming album "Prints".
It's available on a 7" blue vinyl here : http://gomina.bigcartel.com
Check the video on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZuO2HbODxw

Stupid

The Grand Design

Extimidad

Conducta Errática

Barbarossa Imager - out 11th May

Download from www.barbarossamusic.com 

Barbarossa - Imager

Hyper vite

Vie de vaisseau

the second single release from M/A/T (2022)

Das Fundament

Broke (2015 Single)



BC: detritirecords.bandcamp.com
info(@)detritirecords.com
FB: www.facebook.com/wordsandactions
FB: www.facebook.com/detritirecords

Artist: Words and actions
Album: All the joy, all the pain
Cdr DR007 (Detriti Records)


Win the war

LOUISE ROAM - Vera Rubin's Journey

Mestre - Education Of Broken Dreams

Mestre - The New Beat

Over

This is a Fire

Sex and Desire

From the 4 track vinyl ep:  LÄRM UND STAHL 2
 Θʀ⊿cu⌊⊕ ʀ⋵cøʀɖs 
with 89s†, S.A.D., Palamriello

Jump In The Water

Can't Explain

Get Off

Electronic musician, sound designer and performer since early '90 with roots in the '80s new wave and ebm scene.

IN bands: SENSORIA-FRANZ & SHAPE...

IN LABELS: International deejay gigolo, Unknown pleasure rec.,Relish, Turbo, Nova Mute, Southern fried, Citizen, Prolifica-Emi, Steel Weel, Red Alert....

COLLABORATED with: Blind Delon, IV Horsemen, Romance Disaster, 2 Many Djs, Tiga, Jagz Kooner, Motor (Bryan Black), GD Luxxe, David Carretta, The Hacker, Gesaffelstein, Thomas Barfod (Who made
who), Julien K, Perspects, Dirk Dadavo (Neon Judgement)...

IN CLUBS: 
Cocoricò Riccione Italy as resident
Everywhere in Italy and lots of gigs around the world such as: 
Trailer trash, The End and The Egg.. (London);The Arches (Glasgow),Social club and Nouveau Casinò (Paris); Tresor, Week End... (Berlin),Hive (Zurigo)
Zoo (Ginevra);Strardust, Low club (Madrid);Razzmatazz (Barcellona); Club Europa (NY);Her Zimmerman (Rotterdam),Chicago, Detroit, Kiev, Prague, 2 Australian tour and more

After Franz & Shape dissolution he decided to start a solo project as Chris Shape producing simply what he like: techno..elettro..ebm..

Jump In The Water

CHRIS SHAPE