Good Vibes

Taken from the album "Stars Are Our Home."
Out now on Slumberland Records (US) and Sonic Cathedral (UK)

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It was Alfred Bester, if I recall correctly, who called 'the stars my destination', in his brilliant novel of the same name from 1956. Long considered a libertarian science fiction classic, it's also notable for featuring one of the very first accounts of synaesthesia in English-language fiction. This might be drawing a particularly long bow, but the title of Black Hearted Brother's debut, "Stars Are Our Home", immediately brought Bester's book to mind – and there's definitely something of the synaesthesic experience about this album, overflowing with enraptured, glowing textures, flaring white light like magnesium, in consort with brilliant red-blue waves of psychedelia.

Of course, the first thing that might crane your head towards "Stars Are Our Home" is the group's membership: Neil Halstead, the éminence grise behind Slowdive and Mojave 3; Mark Van Hoen, an original member of Seefeel, subsequently working solo and as Locust; and Nick Holton, the main mover behind Holton's Opulent Oog, and member of Coley Park, who have released albums on Halstead's Shady Lane label. They had previously converged on Halstead's 2001 solo album, "Sleeping On Roads," though Van Hoen also co-produced Mojave 3's "Out Of Tune" (1998), "Excuses For Travelers" (2000) and "Spoon & Rafter" (2003), while Holton took up production duties for Halstead's "Palindrome Hunches" (2012). Van Hoen and Halstead go back much further still, to 1992, when they were in Seefeel and Slowdive respectively: 'Mark taught Neil much that was electronic and ambient music.'

You could hear that education bearing fruit with Slowdive's late-period masterpiece, 1995's "Pygmalion." In some ways, "Stars Are Our Home" echoes that album's experimental process, if not the outcome, as Black Hearted Brother are a very different, distinctive beast, often indulging in what Halstead, self-deprecatingly, describes as 'a lot of very long and indulgent space rawk.' And indeed, that space-rock drive is writ loud and clear on the album's opening title track, an instrumental bliss-out that navigates through ocean-tides of FX-drenched guitar. But there's a lot more to it: 'The idea was to just make a record that was in some ways "unedited",' Halstead continues. 'To not worry about a particular sound or style, but to just go with the flow. We all make quite focused records individually so, as Mark says, it's our "guilty pleasures" album.' That seems about right, except with "Stars Are Our Home," the outcome is no guilt, all pleasure.

'Neil and Nick had, I think, started a few months before they asked me to join the party,' Van Hoen recalls. 'I think they had a few songs on the go, and needed an extra hand to add a few funny noises and generally add to the chaos – or maybe bring some order to the chaos.' Van Hoen has picked up on the dialectical nature of "Stars Are Our Home" here, its "order" and its "chaos": it's a rich, compelling album full of unexpected twists and turns, at times overloading the sensorium with so much material you're drenched in noise, but it'll just as quickly flip back on itself and drift through a glazed-eye, agrarian moment of acoustic melancholy (see the start of "Time In The Machine", which, as if to prove my point, takes less than a minute to build into a clangorous, droning monster).

So, there's a whole lot going on in these grooves, and plenty of it's unexpected, or from unexpected sources. The trio plays fast and loose with what listeners might consider their pre-ordained 'roles'. 'Primarily the songs themselves were started either by Nick or Neil individually,' Van Hoen explains, 'but then edited, developed and generally messed around with and rendered almost unlistenable by either myself or the others. The roles were not always clear cut. Sometimes Nick would be playing keyboards and synths, and myself guitars.' Lyrics on the record feel like another texture, another layer: sometimes they're invocatory chants, sometimes Halstead's and Holton's voices are ghosted by electronic manipulation, as on "Oh Crust". Often there's more going on than at first glance, and an index of the album's lyrical concerns runs to 'romance, sci-fi, places to go on holiday, real UFO abduction, the duality in the meaning of words, lament for the loss of psychedelic freedoms by the masses…'

"Stars Are Our Home" is brave and beautiful, mysterious and resonant. Its experimental edges never forget the importance of the pop moment; the best way to bring people around to your way of hearing is to seduce their ears, and there's seduction plenty here, pure pop like "Take Heart", the Other Green World of "I'm Back", the closing driftwork that is "Look Out Here They Come". A real head-wrecker of an album. And what does the future hold? The trio speaks as one: 'Black Hearted Brother will grow and mature into something very sophisticated in the coming years. A kind of comedic-space-rock-dancehall outfit to define a zeitgeist for the 22nd century, if you like.' Ha, yeah – amen, brothers!

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PAIN OF SALVATION - Holy Diver. Taken from the album "Falling Home". Inside Out Music 2014.
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PAIN OF SALVATION - Holy Diver

B-sides, covers, and remixes from Faded Paper Figures's critically acclaimed fourth album, "RELICS".  

Hand In Glove - The Smiths

Never Been Before - prod. Hills

No The End Is Not Near

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Artiste : FAUVE / chanson : KANÉ

OK, d'accord
T'es pas un modèle de vertu
Et puis c'est vrai que t'es pas non plus
Un coup en or

D'ailleurs, si on regarde ton corps
Quand tu te mets à poil
Faut bien avoue que tout nu
T'es pas vraiment l'homme idéal

J'ai aussi appris que tu rêvais
D'être Lennon ou McCartney
Qu'est-ce que tu veux, mon vieux ?
T'as fait de mon mieux, ça s'est pas fait

Et puis on m'a dit que la nuit
Tu cherchais à revendre ton âme au Diable
Pour qu'il te rende moins laid
Plus fort, aimable et stable

Pourtant t'es beau, comme une comète
Je t'ai dans la peau, je t'ai dans la tête
Et quand bien même
Y aurait que moi
Tu peux pas t'en aller comme ça

Parce que t'es beau
Comme une planète
Je t'ai dans la peau, je t'ai dans la tête
Je te le répèterai
Tant qu'il faudra
Tu peux pas t'en aller comme ça

Et puis tu feras quoi, cané, dis-moi ?
T'auras l'air fin
Ça sert à quoi, caner, dis-moi ?
Ça sert à rien

Je sais, je sais
Tu fais parfois du mal aux gens
Parce que t'es pas toujours le mec
Le plus loyal
Ni le plus franc

Déjà qu'en temps normal,
T'es un peu pas normal, justement
Mais en plus, quand tu bois
Tu deviens rapidement assez sale
Limite flippant

Ça t'arrive aussi d'être un peu
Libidineux
Quand t'es pas carrément insistant
De faire des trucs pas très élégants
Pour t'excuser le lendemain
Piteusement

Et puis tes coups de sang, tiens
On pourrait en parler aussi
Quand tu sors les crocs
Sans grier gare
Pour un rien
Et contre n'importe qui

Pourtant t'es beau, comme une comète
Je t'ai dans la peau, je t'ai dans la tête
Et quand bien même
Y aurait que moi
Tu peux pas t'en aller comme ça

Parce que t'es beau
Comme une planète
Je t'ai dans la peau, je t'ai dans la tête
Je te le répèterai
Tant qu'il faudra
Tu peux pas t'en aller comme ça

Et puis tu feras quoi, cané, dis-moi ?
T'auras l'air fin
Ça sert à quoi, caner, dis-moi ?
Ça sert à rien

T'as peur de tout
C'est à peine croyable
Tu bloques sur un nombre de choses
Absolument incalculable

Ça dure depuis tellement longtemps
Je sais pas comment tu fais
Pour dérouiller autant
Même si je crois quand même
Qu'à la longue, ça t'a un peu abîmé
En dedans

D'ailleurs on t'entend parfois dire
Des choses étranges
Des trucs pas nets
De parler à l'envers Et de raconter des histoires
Sans queue ni tête

T'es devenu bizarre
Imprévisible
Déconcertant
Branque
Cryptique
Certains disent même
Qu'ils t'ont vu à ta fenêtre le soir
Parler aux satellites

Pourtant t'es beau, comme une comète
Je t'ai dans la peau, je t'ai dans la tête
Et quand bien même
Y aurait que moi
Tu peux pas t'en aller comme ça

Parce que t'es beau
Comme une planète
Je t'ai dans la peau, je t'ai dans la tête
Je te le répèterai
Tant qu'il faudra
Tu peux pas t'en aller comme ça

Et puis tu feras quoi, cané, dis-moi ?
T'auras l'air fin
Ça sert à quoi, caner, dis-moi ?
Ça sert à rien.

FAUVE ≠ KANÉ

From scratch cover of Radiohead's "Burn the witch".

Radiohead - Burn the witch Cover

Linda melodia, uma canção para refletir.

Pink Floyd   If   [HQ]

'From Nowhere' Debut Single from Dan Croll

Out NOW via Racquet Records on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/from-nowhere-remixes-ep/id562480455 

Available on 7" from our online shop: http://dancroll.bigcartel.com and the following stores:
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Written and Performed by Dan Croll
Produced and Mixed by Joe Wills
Drums by Fabian Prynn
Mastered by 2496 Mastering, Robin Schmidt
Artwork by Leif Podhajsk

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From Nowhere EP

From Nowhere

07 I Might Be Wrong - Radiohead - Bonnaroo 2012

18 You And Whose Army - Radiohead - Bonnaroo 2012

From the album Victim of Love. Out now on Dunham/Daptone Records.  

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Charles Bradley - Strictly Reserved For You

Sweet Baboo's new single, taken from his forthcoming album Ships - available on CD and download on 22nd April. 

Followed by a full UK tour in April/May. 

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Sweet Baboo - If I Died...

I don't really make music but I want people to hear those Radiohead songs.

18 You And Whose Army - Radiohead - Bonnaroo 2012

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