Sally Dige

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SALLY DIGE

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A collection of tracks showcasing the 4th annual Kalabalik på Tyrolen festival in Alvesta, Sweden. A progressive synth fest held in a unique scandinavian surrounding.

http://klubbkalabalik.se

Kalabalik på Tyrolen 2014

7" is Limited to 300. With Download Card and Insert. 
http://nightschoolrecords.bigcartel.com/product/lssn019-sally-dige-forget-me-losing-you

Statuesque Vancouverite Sally Dige is emblematic of a restless spirit flitting in and out of view, an apparition just out of reach. 

On "Forget Me"the idea of self is brought into focus then blurred  as Dige intones a gothically-enhanced hymn to self-erasing. Over an emotionally wrought 4 mins, post-punk bass lines and moody synth-leads edge the author into willed obscurity from view. On the edges of the song are hints at a fractured, fragile character: "I'd rather go alone / and not be missed by anyone." Is it auto-biographical? Or a character impeccably acted? On the other side "Losing You" proves that Sally Dige never gives too much away. Here she wears the mask of a jaded lover watching the physical and moral collapse of someone once loved, confronted with something unrecognisable. Melding an Italo Disco skeleton with dark analogue synths, in many ways the music is similarly an eroded form once recognised, now perverted into a propulsive, strange new language.

Forget Me (From LSSN019)

Sixth June - Back For a Day


Dark Entries is proud to release the sophomore EP "Occupations" from San Francisco based synth trio INHALT. Consisting of European and East Coast natives-- Matia Simovich, Bryan Gibbs, and Philip Winiger-- INHALT's core operative strategy is of sonic fidelity and integrity rather than nostalgia. 
Living through the rise of a surveillance society, neo-liberal agendas, and the permeation of the ephemeral into popular culture, INHALT return with a focused commentary in the form of the "Occupations" EP. The record was produced over a year and a half, and mixed in both Austria and California, employing the best of modern and vintage techniques and technology. The sound is INHALT's interpretation of the border between the voice driven song form and the expansive, extended 12" arrangement. It is informed equally by the soundtracks of John Carpenter, as much as the vastness and sheen of Trevor Horn. 
All tracks were written, produced and mixed by the band at The Bunker Studio in San Francisco. Additionally the tracks on SIde B were mixed with the help of Werner Freistätter in Türnitz, Austria. The tracks were then mastered by Paul Lavigne in London, England at Walls of Sound Mastering. The final EQ curve for vinyl by was done by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley.  Each LP is housed in a specially designed jacket by Leo Merz and includes an insert with lyrics.

1 Panopticon

"In Fact" was the very first cassette demo recorded and released by Swedish synth-pop combo Art Fact. This cassette was finished in 1989.

Whom Are You Dancing For

Previously Unavailable, Re cut
Watch The Video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpWWeIEt3_0

Sally Dige - DoppelGanger  (Polymammals 2020 Remaster/ Punk Rock Kick Video Soundtrack)

Die World

Vitreum

Consolidating 2 years of solo work, “Hard To Please” is the debut album by Canadian polymath Sally Dige. First coming to prominence in the synth-wave scene with an elusive, meta-persona in a blur of homemade costumes, Dige’s world has grown to encompass visual art, theatre and design elements. Most surprising on her long-awaited debut however is the occasional removal of the various masks and characters Dige has played to date, revealing something more tangible and fragile underneath. 

“Hard To Please” still revels in a darkly thrilling, Italo-disco pop music, awash with dry ice and hidden in shadow, most personified on the instant classic Immaculate Deception. However, on the long, nocturnal walk home Dige begins to sing of loneliness, being lost, the transience of our relationships. Attention to detail is paramount. On the title-track the crisp early-80s, swooning bass line duets with Dige’s desperate plea to a lover fading into the distance, a presence lamented with even more pathos on the towering, early-4AD-esque, slow-burner Your Girl. It’s a new fragility that effortlessly manages to convey a luxurious, inescapable sensuality at the same time.

Indeed, Hard To Please portrays a clear narrative, with electronic body movers like Doppelganger portraying an out-of control, self-obsessed persona at the beginning of the record. Breaking down into the foggy murk, the more hopelessly romantic album closers “A Certain Beauty” and “Dance Of Delusion” burn a ghostly image into the listener’s mind, as Dige, or someone like her, over Cure-like swooning reverberations entreaties the powers that be to let her dance. Dige never fully reveals her hand, but the game is worth playing endlessly.


SALLY DIGE - Hard To Please (from Hard To Please LSSN032)

Sixth June: Come Closer
released June 2011 "Back for a day" EP
Mannequin MNQ016
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Sixth June - Come Closer

"Holding On" single part of the upcoming album "Holding On" out in the US on DKA (Sept 8th): https://dkarecords.bandcamp.com/album... and in Europe on Avant! (Sept 13th): http://avantrecs.bigcartel.com/produc...

Bandcamp: https://sallydige.bandcamp.com/
Stream on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5kAg97
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B072Z5T7WQ 
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/a...

Connect with Sally Dige:
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Instagram: www.instagram.com/sally_dige

Holding On

taken from IN DEATH IT ENDS - "Forgotten Knowledge" C-60 Tape [a+w 006]

coming soon...

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[a+w 006] IN DEATH IT ENDS - Follow

This is the way the world ends: Not with a bang but a whimper. 
T.S. Eliot

A whimper

Recorded on an old computer in a friend's apartment. All the instruments are from a toy keyboard and a friend's borrowed synth.

Immaculate Deception

Yet another recording done on an old computer with another borrowed synth. 

Doppelgänger

This is only a teaser of a track that was a collaboration between Sally Dige &amp; William Winslow-Hansen. It is still to be mixed and mastered but here is a wee treat. Not a single instrument was used on this track EXCEPT synths! How glorious!

Losing You

Avalanche

Schadenfreude (2012 UK tour demo tape)

Dawn of Human's "Tote.Plode.Blurst." off of their third EP on Toxic State.

Dawn of Humans - Tort.Plode.Blurst.

Sally Dige (pronounced “Dee-Ah”) is a Danish-Canadian independent solo artist based in Berlin, Germany, who writes, records, produces and arranges her own music; in addition to creating and managing all aspects of her visual work. She has released two albums, a handful of singles, and has featured in numerous collaborations. 

Sally Dige began her solo project in Vancouver, Canada in 2012, after being invited to write and record musical accompaniment for her friend’s poetry project. Within a few short hours in the studio, Dige already had the backbone to her songs “Immaculate Deception” and “Doppelgänger”. A sudden change of circumstances in the studio led her friend to convince Dige to finish those songs and release them for her own solo project.

In 2013, Dige relocated to Berlin in order to focus on music and the creative arts. Over the years, her sound has changed organically from italo disco-inspired electro, to post-punk, to ethereal new romantic. Her current sound combines elements of folk, new wave and art-rock. Her recent endeavour towards acoustic instruments was the need for change from her last album, “Holding On” (2017), which was entirely programmed and recorded on one synthesiser that she hauled back and forth between Denmark and Berlin on a bus. “The natural form of self-rebellion was to pick up instruments that didn't need electricity to function, and play with strings and the hands again,” says Dige.