Taken from the Winter EP, Storming is the first preview from the Seasons EP series; a 4 part series to be released over the coming months each inspired by a corresponding season.
The Winter EP features contributions from Kane Ikin, Tuff Sherm, Scissor Lock and Panoptique Electrical and will be released on August 19th http://feralmedia.bandcamp.com/album/winter-ep

Kane Ikin - Storming

Three Islands

Three Islands (Live)

Creaks: Bonus, Live & Remixes

Tangle (Poppy Ackroyd Rework)

Deaf Center - White Lake

Today, Penguin Cafe announce their fifth studio album, Rain Before Seven… due for release on July 7. They also share the video and single In Re Budd. Watch: https://youtu.be/Jgo0vj8OkOQ

Discussing the track, band leader Arthur Jeffes explains; "This was the first piece I ever wrote on the balafon — and the day I was recording it I heard about Harold Budd's passing away. I never met him but I’ve always loved his work and I felt that the incongruity of the track wouldn’t be at all inappropriate for a dedication."

The In Re Budd video is a sublime performance with visuals and backdrop inspired by the cafe in Simon Jeffes’ infamous fever dream hallucinations, which led to the creation of the original Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

The group will be headlining the Erased Tapes label festival at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on May 20, as well as appear at this year's Wilderness Festival, followed by a UK/Europe tour in November, with plans to tour Japan and North America in early 2024.

A sense of optimism infuses Rain Before Seven… not the braggadocious, overconfident kind, but more a blithe, self-effacing optimism in keeping with the national character. Even when all signs point to the contrary, it operates within the certainty that things are going to be alright. Probably.

Penguin Cafe - In Re Budd (Radio Edit)

Whispering Wednesday

Aguirre I (L'Acrime Di Rei)

ATN037 - Radiante Pourpre - I

from 'Facades' [CD|10''|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den290
available on all formats at [http://www.denovali.com/orsonhentschel]

Only six months after his sophomore album, which has showcased a "tense repetition of short phrases, often building big, dramatic pieces starting with a single stuck-in-the-machine sound" (Decoder) and an "analogue cyber trip-hop of an impressive depth of focus as an acoustic furniture for an apocalypse lounge" (Groove), Hentschel returns with a two-piece EP showcasing yet another aspect of his musical spectrum. While the first two albums featured only instrumental tracks, "Facades" are the first two pieces in which Orson Hentschel works with text as a main musical element for his composition, although he approaches vocals from a rather particular perspective.

For Hentschel, the spoken word is always music and thus not different than any other instrumental input or sound layer. Consequently, he is only interested in the sound of the spoken words on Facades, but not in any content they convey. The idea for Facades was born at a time when Hentschel was struggling with a writer's block for several days in a row. He realised that just writing about nothing was the only honest way for him to express himself through text as a medium. After doing some research on the subject he found John Cage's "Lecture on nothing" which has appeared in the book "Silence" (1961). This encouraged him to work out his idea and he wrote a German text which then Danhee Joe, an accidental acquaintance of his, translated into Korean and spoke with her warm voice. Thus Orson Hentschel used the text in the same way as he uses any sound material - it is transformed into something else, it is being alienated. The spoken words are embedded in repetitive and minimal-minded electronic sound layers which even penetrate primordial technoid territories. However, sticking to his trademark long arcs of suspense, the listener has to wait until the last two minutes of the second track for the first, cathartic beat.

Facades

Orson Hentschel - Facade I

From the album "Tea Notes". All music by Jatinder Singh Durhailay & David Edren. Recorded january to march 2018 in Antwerpen and London. Mixed and edited by David Edren at ll150. Mastered & cut by Anne Taegert at Dubplates & Mastering Berlin.  Artwork by Victor Robyn. Vinyl + digital release on Ekster: 12th of September 2019: https://eksterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/tea-notes

Tea Notes

Jatinder Singh Durhailay & David Edren: "Shincha"

Popol Vuh are considered as an influential German 70s Progressive Rock avant-garde act and are known as a pioneering band in Ambient-Electronica and Progressive Rock Music. Their records "Affenstunde" (1971) and "In den Gärten Pharaos" (1972), played with the Moog III Synthesizer, are claimed to be fundamentally influencing works in Electronica. They went down in the annals of German film music history with their soundtracks for legendary cinema classics like "Aguirre", "Fitzcarraldo", "Nosfeartu" and "Cobra Verde" by German film director Werner Herzog. 

In the light of a current rediscovery of the 1970s Ambient- Electronica and German Progressive Rock movement featuring bands like Kraftwerk, Can, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze or Harmonia, Popol Vuh is now the 2nd band, being remixed by today´s Electronica avant-garde, including treats by Stereolab, Mouse on Mars, Peter Kruder (Kruder & Dorfmeister), Thomas Fehlmann (The Orb), Moritz von Oswald, A Critical Mass, Alex Barck (Jazzanova), Roland Appel, Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic), and Haswell & Hecker. 

 Many thanks to the great interest and the great mixes by all of the above. 

Remixes uploaded to SoundCloud can become a part of this page, feel free to contact us on the SoundCloud forum. 

Aguirre I (L'Acrime Di Rei)

popolvuh