DESERT SHIPS ANNOUNCE NEW SINGLE ‘HEAVY SOUP’

Following the BBC Radio 6 Music played singles ‘Neon’, ’Fire On The Moon’, and ‘Watching The World Stop’, London’s Desert Ships announce the release of new single ‘Heavy Soup’ on Friday 27th January 2023.

‘Heavy Soup’ is an infectious and uptempo fuzz blast through the cosmos and tells the story of a star gazer who despite copious warnings often finds themselves in sticky situations. A desire to escape the day to day grind, and the lure of temptation - the doing something we know we shouldn’t - leads our character to being “…stuck in heavy soup again”. It's about learning from mistakes, or maybe not in this case.

It was produced by vocalist/guitarist Mikey Buckley and recorded & mixed at his home studio. Desert Ships - completed by Daniel McLean (bass/synth) and Claude Trejonis (drums/vocals) - demonstrate once again the quality of their craft and an astute ear for an entrancing arrangement. These lifelong friends blend garage rock, dream pop and neo-psychedelia to create their own sci-fi blues.

A recent and scintillating live session for Act Cool Records confirmed that “Desert Ships are a fantastic band that deliver groovy, hypnotic tunes” (Music Is To Blame).

Director Gil De Ray brings his wizardry to the accompanying video and deliver the ultimate visual experience.

Mastered by Tim Turan (Supergrass, Killing Joke), ‘Heavy Soup’ is available to stream/download on Friday 27th January 2023.

“Totally stoked to have the world’s first radio play for that one” - Cerys Matthews, BBC Radio 6 Music
“Feels like it’d be well suited to appearing on an arthouse soundtrack” - Charlie Ashcroft, Amazing Radio
“Great fucking songs!” - Alan McGee
“The vocals float effortlessly across a wonderfully layered tune” - Shindig Magazine
“Simply breathtaking” - Drowned in Sound
“A super-driven psychedelic trip into space” - Written In Music
“A retro vision of the future” - Donut Records

HEAVY SOUP

Recorded in Marzahn - Berlin 05.03.2020 
Out soon on CD for New Approach Records
Collage artwork by P. Van Trigt

Venta Protesix & Jugendwerkhof Sterilitätszelotismus IV (Excerpt)

Winter Comet

Enäjärvi is a small lake near town Pori only one mile from the Sea. The lake is tightly between a highway and a railway and the traffic noise is apparent even night time. This was the first place for an inland colony of Great Cormorants in Finland. Today there’s hundred of nests in two small islets in the middle of the lake. 

 I made an over night recording and this starts from 04.40 in the morning, half an hour before sun rise with the Cormorants just being active, though not as most. Though the lake was still mostly frozen the Cormorants have been more than two weeks there. This is the most silent moment of the night of traffic, still there’s a train passing.

The train is carrying coal (or anthracite) from Novosibirsk in Russia, a distance of 4000 km.  Each train is making two weeks or longer time on the rails to Tahkoluoto Port on the Finnish West Coast.  From there the coal is shipped rounding Cape Hope to Bangladesh. Normally there's  2-3 trains passing daily in spite of the sanction policy against Russia. 

Listen with headphones.

 http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/220421/

(AT4022 ab60cm MixPre2 32>24/48 no processing Flac)

Cormorant Night - 21/4/2022 - Enajarvi Finland

Sourai

omamori piano fantasy [ft. conrad tao]

Darker Night

The English-speaking alter ego of Jimmy Polioudis, The Vagina Lips, returns with the album Negative Feelings after a 2.5-year recording absence, which actually wasn't an absence at all as he was active all this time with his Greek-language project MAZOHA.

The creative process of the album was adventurous. The audio files for two albums, including the eight tracks of "Negative Feelings", were lost from Jimmy's computer under unknown circumstances and he had to start again from scratch. At a time when he was immersed in negative thoughts and feelings (hence the title of the album) through the recordings he managed to find his inner balance and move on.

Negative Feelings is a pure indie album, faithful to the post punk, shoegaze and 90s American rock influences of The Vagina Lips. The mellowest moments (Intentions, Sad B4 It Was Cool) and the more up-tempo tracks (Get Off The Train, It's Alright, Another Hit, Modern World) are both characterized by intense sadness, but without "blackening" the listener, but instead they take us on a positive, almost dreamlike pattern. There is no shortage of loud and rough sounding moments with tracks like Braindead and Tombstone that grab you by the throat from the first note.

Out on LP and Digital album on December 2nd via Ιnner Ear.

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To αγγλόφωνο alter ego του Τζίμη Πολιούδη, The Vagina Lips, επιστρέφει με το album “Negative Feelings” μετά από 2,5 χρόνια δισκογραφικής απουσίας, που ουσιαστικά δεν ήταν απουσία καθώς όλο αυτό το διάστημα ήταν ενεργό το ελληνόφωνο project του MAZOHA.

Η δημιουργική διαδικασία του album ήταν περιπετειώδης. Τα ηχητικά αρχεία για δύο albums, μέσα σε αυτά και τα οκτώ κομμάτια του “Negative Feelings”, χάθηκαν από τον υπολογιστή του Τζίμη  κάτω από άγνωστες συνθήκες και χρειάστηκε να τα ξαναγράψει όλα από την αρχή. Σε μια εποχή που είχε βυθιστεί σε αρνητικές σκέψεις και συναισθήματα (εξ ου και ο τίτλος του δίσκου) μέσα από τις ηχογραφήσεις κατάφερε να βρει την εσωτερική του ισορροπία και να πάει παρακάτω.

Το Negative Feelings είναι ένα καθαρόαιμο indie album, πιστό στις post punk, shoegaze και 90s American rock επιρροές του Vagina Lips.  Τόσο οι πιο mellow στιγμές (Intentions, Sad B4 It Was Cool) όσο και τα πιο up-tempo  κομμάτια (Get Off The Train, It’s Alright, Another Hit, Modern World) χαρακτηρίζονται από έντονη χαρμολύπη, χωρίς όμως να «μαυρίζουν» τον ακροατή, αλλά αντίθετα μας ταξιδεύουν σε ένα θετικό, σχεδόν ονειρικό μοτίβο. Δεν λείπουν οι  δυνατές και τραχιές ηχητικά στιγμές με κομμάτια όπως το Braindead και το Tombstone που σε πιάνουν από το λαιμό από την πρώτη νότα.

Κυκλοφορεί σε LP και Digital album στις 2 Δεκεμβρίου από την Ιnner Ear.

Negative Feelings

The Vagina Lips - Get off the Train

Recorded in 2021-2022 in Louisville, KY by Nick Roeder. Produced by Andrew Rinehart. Mixed by Nick Roeder and Andrew Rinehart, with guidance from Steve Albini. Drum programming & additional production by Matia Simovich at his Infinite Power Studios in Los Angeles.

Charm School is: Andrew Rinehart, Drew English, Matt Filip & Jason Bemis Lawrence.

Simulacra

In conversation on the anniversary of Drive-in-Concert. (via DUBLAB)
My memo(-ries), 2020 - 2021.
https://x.gd/X14Fo

https://takakominekawa.bandcamp.com/track/hourglass-in-the-dunes
https://takakominekawa.bandcamp.com/album/plants-resonance

Mix for the anniversary of Drive-in-Concert 03.16.2021

Till Eulenspiegel

Micro-cimetière

Micro-Cimetière

Inner Ear is an independent record label, that was established in 2007. It is located in Patras, Greece. 
Throughout these years, Inner Ear has released a wide array of albums by local independent forward-thinking bands and artists. 
For more information about the artists and releases, please visit our website.

The Vagina Lips - Get off the Train

Inner Ear Records

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