Artist: Gene
Album title: The wheel of need
Label: Geograph records 010
Length: 30' 21''
release date: May 28th 2014

01 – Believe now 
02 – Hustle blues
03 – Her long dress
04 - The keys
05 - The wheel of need
06 - The christmas is down
07 - It's lonely
08 - Don't
09 - Sinterlude
10 – Last chance
11 – I remember
12 - In this part of town

Music & lyrics: Gene

Cover Art: Francesca Grossi
http://geographissues.blogspot.it/
(for the lyrics go to: www.geographissues.blogspot.com)

Gene (aka 'Urge') born Jevgenij Turovskiy in Karaganda in 1981, is an avant-garde song-writer and a musician from Berlin. 
Spending his teens in Budapest and moving to Germany in 2001 he went through a various phases of musical development. Form electro-acoustic pop tunes to post-modern avant-garde experimentalism.
Having moved to Berlin in 2008, he has been active in the blooming underground scene under the moniker ''Urge'' or ''Urged''. 
His pieces vary from bright-psychotic piano-loaded ballads to sinister-psychedelic guitar-driven pop-songs. Gene's live performances are known for their emotional intensity. 
After a couple of self-releases and a multiple collaborations, including artists like Delmore Fx & Mela Zeta (D.A.S.), Sean Derrick Cooper Marquand (Saggitarius Records), Fabio Besomi (Il Domani) or NYX (Shockingfilm) he is finally releasing his first official debut on our label.

Intriguingly titled ''The Wheel of Need'' this album is haunting, witty and vicious. Filled with sharp electronics guided by the seemingly simple, but effective guitar-riffs with a deeply emotional and otherworldly vocals, this record does deliver a unique sound that is hard to put into any category. ( It already sounds, like it doesn't want to be categorised. Perhaps Avant-Pop with a healthy touch of Psychedelia would be the closest way to describe it.). The songs will induce a sort of a hypnosis at the same time providing a strong lyrical content. It is a journey, an incredible story about alienation and despair, but full of dark humor and neo-romantic naivité. (Like any story it has its prologue, its climax and a resolution at the end.) It is definitely a work in its own right.

Gene - The Wheel of Need - 2014 - Geograph010

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