R V R B

Long Boarding

in the darkroom

p*dis sampler 2017.9

Let the sparks fly on this Labor Day long weekend with the Weekend Showcase 3.34, which features 52 fantastic new songs from artists in 12 countries. There are several song-of-the-year candidates in this week's mega-playlist.

Learn more about the artists here: 
http://therevue.ca/2017/09/03/weekend-showcase-3-34/

Weekend Showcase 3.34

sun madness

10-20-17-release-preview

Electro/Postpunk

We Move Lightly

First time recording a bass cover, so this isn't perfect, but why the hell not

Metallica - Whiplash (Bass Cover)

Fragile N.4

Metallica - Hit The Lights (No Life Til Leather Remastered)

From the remastered edition of Kill 'Em All, available on April 15, 2016.

Remastered by Howie Weinberg at Howie Weinberg Mastering, Los Angeles, CA

The Four Horsemen (Remastered)

Crackle - Best of Bauhaus

Bela Lugosi's Dead (Tomb Raider Mix)

Onwards to the Wall

Onwards To The Wall

Drill It Up

Exploding Head

Keep Slipping Away

Dead Beat

Lost Cause

The second single off Widowspeak's 4th album, Expect The Best, out August 25th, 2017 on Captured Tracks.

Pre-Order: https://Widowspeak.lnk.to/ExpectTheBest

Tour Dates:
09/08 - Boston, MA - Great Scott
09/09 - Burlington, VT - ArtsRiot
09/11 - Toronto, ON - Garrison
09/12 - Detroit, MI - El Club
09/13 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
09/15 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St. Entry
09/16 - Madison, WI - High Noon
09/17 - Des Moines, IA - Des Moines Social Club
09/19 - Denver, CO - Hi Dive
09/20 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
09/21 - Boise, ID - Neurolux
09/22 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
09/23 - Seattle, WA - Barboza
09/24 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret
09/26 - San Francisco, CA - Swedish American Hall
09/27 - Visalia, CA - Cellar Door
09/28 - Los Angeles, CA - Pico Union
09/29 - San Diego, CA - The Hideout
09/30 - Phoenix, AZ - Rebel Lounge
10/01 - Santa Fe, NM - Meow Wolf
10/03 - Austin, TX - Sidewinder
10/04 - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
10/05 - Birmingham, AL - Syndicate Lounge
10/06 - Nashville, TN - The High Watt
10/07 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
10/08 - Asheville, NC - The Mothlight
10/10 - Washington, DC - DC9
10/11 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot and Saddle
10/12 - Kingston, NY - BSP Kingston
10/13 - Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade

Widowspeak // The Dream

From Chicago to San Francisco: The Best of Tony Bennett

As Time Goes By (Casablanca)

Cover of Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al," by Haute Mobile Disco and Dyllan

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3mFJNJFipuFQRpNeyPpfeC

Bodyguard (HMD Re - Edit)

'Nylon' out now via Ghostly International (North America), Different Recordings (Europe, Japan) & Good Manners Records (AU/NZ, ROW)

Stream/Purchase via Kllo.lnk.to/nylon

Pre-order debut album 'Backwater' (out October 20) via; 
Good Manners Records -- Kllo.lnk.to/backwater
Ghostly International -- www.theghostlystore.com/products/backwater
Different Recordings -- different.tmstor.es/

Nylon

Pre-order 'Two Trains' on LP/CD/DL: http://phonofile.link/two-trains

Introducing Icelandic composer and singer Högni, better known as the front man of indie rock band Hjaltalín and previous member of electronic group GusGus, as the newest addition to Erased Tapes with his solo debut album Two Trains – available worldwide on October 20th 2017.

Amidst destruction on the mainland, the two locomotives Minør and Pionér transported wagons full of rock and gravel to the Icelandic seaside during the construction of the Reykjavík harbour in 1913-1917. The two metallic giants ushered in a new age in Iceland. However, soon after construction ceased the two trains were parked and have never driven since. Now they only serve to remind us of the grandeur of a bygone future. They are the only trains ever to have graced the Icelandic landscape. 

The music in Two Trains embraces the spirit of the original European avant-garde and invokes these concepts in its chugging rhythms, metallic clangs and brooding choral arrangements (men's choruses are a distinctly Icelandic phenomena related to the national/romantic politics of the 19th and 20th century) while the lyrics speak of ominous clouds on the war-ridden eastern horizon and freight cars filled with gravel and dreams.

Words from Högni, July 2017:

“The music on Two Trains is a blue-print of a period in my life where I collided with my own self, and at that point I felt the indifference between the personal and the universal, the absolute consciousness of life’s unconsciousness. Perhaps it’s a feeling that cannot be conveyed, like watercolours that just seem to wash off into the sea. But also a flashing mirage that you can enjoy before you arrive at your last destination."

As time went on, the two trains also began to bear a psychological implication to Högni and came to represent the different incarnations of his persona during a difficult period in his life. As a society we are also quite often faced with a fork in the road and a decision to make, and most importantly the acceptance of one’s self.

Today, the real Minør and Pionér are unemployed, mere relics. Minør is on display near the Reykjavík waterfront and Pionér is parked in an outdoor museum on a hill. But for Högni, with this release, the two trains have ushered in a new chapter in his own life.

The cover art incorporates a distorted portrait photograph taken by Anna Maggy with the help of Sigurður Oddsson’s art direction, using projected features to reflect the idea of duality.

TRACK LISTING

1. Andaðu		
2. Shed Your Skin
3. Komdu með 		
4. Crash
5. Dragðu mig		
6. Óveðursský
7. Break Up		
8. Moon Pitcher
9. Parallel		
10. Enn næða orð

WEBSITE: www.hogni.net

Two Trains

Högni - Komdu með

The Districts new album "Popular Manipulations" is available on August 11 worldwide.  Pre-Order here: http://smarturl.it/PopularManipulations

The Districts - Violet

"I started working on “Desert Stilts” as I was looking into odd metric changes and Baroque rhythms. At the same time I was reading a passage of Gurdjieff’s book ‘Meetings With Remarkable Men’, in which himself and a group of friends are crossing a desert. There is suddenly a terrible sandstorm and the team of adventurers are stopped in their track. After a while they decide, as one does, to walk on stilts. High from the ground, the air is clear and windless and they can walk without any problem across the desert whilst the storm is raging below.
I love this fable for its beautiful metaphoric meaning but also because it is totally absurd and told with great wit and humour. Peace is achieved through determination, light-heartedness and absurdity. I love this combination of the serious and the absurd and I wanted to translate that into music." 
- Angèle David-Guillou

"En Mouvement" is out on LP, CD and download on October 13th 2017.

https://VillageGreen.lnk.to/DHEHh

Buy on iTunes

Angèle David-Guillou - Desert Stilts

Artist: Odonis Odonis
Track: Check My Profile
Album: No Pop
label: felte 
Order: http://bit.ly/1lhkzoR

No Pop

Order

Odonis Odonis - Check My Profile

In the Mouth of Madness

発売日：2017年9月17日（日）
商品番号：IPM-8077
アーティスト：渡邊琢磨
タイトル：ブランク
フォーマット：国内CD
本体定価：2,300円+税
バーコード：4532813730776
レーベル :  Inpartmaint Inc.
ジャンル : AMBIENT / MODERN CLASSICAL / NEW AGE

映画「美しい星」（吉田大八監督）、TVドラマ「ディアスポリス」など、近年、話題作の音楽を数多く手掛ける天才音楽家・渡邊琢磨が、俳優・染谷将太監督の短編映画３作品のためのサウンドトラックを解体・再構築して作り上げた、奇想天外な”アンビエント・アルバム”。

本作『ブランク』は、渡邊琢磨が手掛けた、俳優・染谷将太監督による短編映画３作品『シミラーバットディファレント』（2013年）、『清澄』（2015年）、『ブランク』（2017年8月公開予定）のためのサウンドトラックを解体・再構築し、アーティストアルバムとして作り上げられた作品。
 
染谷監督作品の音楽を制作時、図らずも“持続音が主題の穏慢なもの”が出来上がったため、「映画の雰囲気を音で演出すること」＝「アンビエント・ミュージック（環境音楽）の生成」という着想に興味を持ち、とてもユニークで奇想天外なアンビエント・ミュージックが展開される本作が誕生した。前作『Ansiktet』の延長線上にある、ピアノとストリングスによる幽玄でクラシカルなオーケストレーションを基調に、ジャズ、民族音楽、フィールドレコーディング、ダンスミュージックまでを飲み込んだ、渡邊にしか作り出せない調和と混沌が複雑に入り交じった、イマジネイティブな音の世界が広がる。
 
マスタリングはオーストラリアを代表するサウンドアーティストLawrence English（ローレンス・イングリッシュ）が担当し、渡邊の音楽の世界観により一層の深みを与えている。

2. Walk

From the self-titled debut by Lean Year.  Available October 20, 2017 on Western Vinyl

Pre-Order the album:
Bandcamp https://leanyear.bandcamp.com/album/lean-year
iTunes http://hyperurl.co/q612za
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv152

Lean Year is the debut, self-titled record by Richmond, Virginia based singer Emilie Rex and filmmaker/musician Rick Alverson. What for Rex was a departure from the structured life of academia toward the uncertain contours of a creative field, for Alverson was a return to form. Having released 5 albums with his previous band Spokane, Alverson took a 10-year hiatus from music to write and direct feature films. These departures and approaches bring a transience and listlessness to the album, like a walk interrupted by both curiosity and caution. 

Equally informed by the minimalist folk music of Elizabeth Cotton, Karen Dalton, and Fred Neil; the tenuous, ambient, and orchestral works of Harold Budd, Brian Eno, and John Cale; the quietly pointed but tender songs of Nina Simone and Bessie Smith; and the baroque pop subversions of Love and The Left Banke—the inspirations for Lean Year are as varied as Rex and Alverson’s biographies. Their childhoods—framed respectively by New-Age ideology and antiquated Catholic Catechism; anarchist Montessori and cold, cloistered ice arenas; the chaotic, upheaval of divorce and the strange, obligatory qualities of life-long marriage—provide footing on uneven ground for the record’s dream-like, oblique observations. In the wake of these dynamic histories, the two leaned on music as a kind of secular spirituality. 

Rex and Alverson co-wrote the album over the course of a year at their home in Richmond, VA and recorded it in three sessions at the home studio of Chicago musician/engineer Erik Hall (In Tall Buildings, NOMO), who also performs on the record. Alverson and Hall co-produced the album’s ten tracks, drawing on both Hall's and Elliot Bergman’s (NOMO) arsenal of instruments. For Hall and Rex, this project was a reunion of sorts, the two having met as undergraduates in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan over a decade before. Hall’s extensive vocabulary—ranging from jazz and pop to rock and afrobeat—informs his contributions to the record.

Alverson’s films [Entertainment (2015) and the cult-drama The Comedy (2012)] have premiered at Sundance, Locarno, Rotterdam and the Film Society of Lincoln Center among others venues and festivals worldwide. Rex left academia and her position as Indiana University's Assistant Director of Sustainability in 2014 to focus on music and pursue resilience writing and analysis as a consultant. This is her first record.

Lean Year - "Come and See"

amanda cheng: vocals, bass 
peter ruddell: organ, bass
tom leggett: drums 

recorded and produced by jonathan pearce 
artwork by amanda cheng

Gillian

Musik

Untitled Improvisation FD 1.10

❥ ❥ ❥ Written & Recorded by Other States.
Artwork by Luna Black - www.instagram.com/thelunablack/

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COME BACK TO ME (SINGLE)

New single ’Backyard’ out 01.09.2017: https://slotface.lnk.to/Backyard

Debut album 'Try Not To Freak Out' out September 15th via Propeller Recordings

Pre-order 'Try Not To Freak Out': SLOTFACE.NO

Backyard

NONN - Beyond

NONN - Distracted

Leave Me Alone

Recorded 1 October 2012, Milani Gallery Brisbane

The Inbetween

multiple meanings with existence born in 2012.