Once upon a darktime

DARK//RAVE//WAVE

Septembre 2021

Best Of The Seance

Para Lia - Kassandra
from the album ‘Gone With The Flow’
paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow

Visit the 3D virtual art exhibition with the great work of Louis Renzoni and the music of Para Lia here:
https://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/

words and music by René Methner
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin
cover artwork based on Louis Renzonis 'Light From A Candle' 

Follow Para Lia on:
www.facebook.com/paraliamusic/
www.instagram.com/paralia.music/
twitter.com/para_lia_band

The background for the inspiration of course is Homer and the tales on the Trojan war. But Kassandra does not tell a story – it’s a kind of a painting with an ancient scenery or maybe just a sketch: Kassandra in front of the burning city. And it could be a modern painting. We are in a distance of more than 3.000 years to the plot of the ancient tales – and still mankind has Kassandras and tears in front of burning cities.

Working on Kassandra i had in mind from the beginning that Cindy will take the main voc in this song. So i wrote the harmonies and the song structure with that in mind and i love how she sings the song. Kassandra also includes a few notes played with a Greek Baglamas and helps the song to get a special note. This string instrument is the small sister of a Bouzouki. 

lyrics:
on sungod days in the morning dew
the tears of kings are just a few
meaningless rain drops

we keep that fire burning
until the tide is turning
and the ships are grounded

in the golden light of the afternoon
she is dancing like the queen of doom
she blinks into the sunlight

we keep that fire burning
until the tide is turning
we watch the flames rise higher
we keep that fire burning
until the tide is turning
we watch the flames rise higher
into the sky
into the sky

Gone With The Flow

Bandcamp

Kassandra

You Are Not Alone
© Simon St John Chamberlain 2021
Artwork: Harutmovsisyan

Lyrics:
You are not alone

You Are Not Alone

Off CLAPS upcoming "Lies/White Lies" 12" EP from Forward Records

White Lies

Years have passed and I will never forget my one regret. A friend of mine jumped off of the Tobin Bridge in Boston because of the pressure his family put on him to send money back to them in his native country - They should all be crucified. This is my recollection. I should have been there for him that day - instead I was looking to be seen "AGAIN" - always craved attention... Full lyrics below
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who was I to you guess I was just a ghost reached out to everyone and played the clown but it turned out you needed me the most I wish i never ever let you down - but I was just a kid and i was oh so blind blinded by the selfishness that swallowed up my time craving the attention I missed out on as a child and made you feel alone that day in your darkest hour please forgive me cause I cant forgive myself so many days go by when I wish I was someone else I was just a kid wasn't there for you I know it wasn't what I did it was what I didn't do.
Was in the lunchroom making a cup of Joe - when you walked in trying to compose yourself - I felt like there was something I should know - but i bit my tongue cause I didn't want to pry - saw it in your eyes you were alone but carried on as if I didn't care truth was I was having a bad day consumed with all the problems of my own - but I was just a kid and I was oh so blind blinded by the selfishness that swallowed up my time craving the attention I missed out on as a child and made you feel alone that day in your darkest hour please forgive me cause I cant forgive myself so many days go by when I wish I was someone else I was just a kid wasn't there for you I know it wasn't what I did it was what I didn't do.
The next morning state police had questioned me they said that you had jumped the night before and even though they placed no blame on me - my aura showed that I was ugly
but I was just a kid and I was oh so blind blinded by the selfishness that swallowed up my time craving the attention I missed out on as a child and made you feel alone that day in your darkest hour please forgive me cause I cant forgive myself so many days go by when I wish I was someone else I was just a kid wasn't there for you I know it wasn't what I did it was what I didn't do.
please forgive me cause I cant forgive myself so many days go by when I wish I was someone else I was just a kid wasn't there for you I know it wasn't what I did it was what I didn't d----

One regret (for Diego)

https://youtu.be/4Hs191EaDyM?si=E1hiY14QpPmb1vTn
Musique composée par O#D Composer le 6 août 2023 de 22h20 à 22h22 (n° 2432).
Arrangements par O#D Composer
Photo par O#D Composer
Tous droits réservés

Composé au mois d'août 2023, je souhaitais quelque chose de romantique, de joyeux et  de léger. J'espère que la mission a été accomplie :) Bonne écoûte
Philippe

Romance d'Eté

https://youtu.be/MAR_j0CNSzQ
Musique composée par O#D Composer, le 22 juin 2024 de 21h35 à 21h37
Arrangements par O#D Composer
Production par O#D Composer
Photo par O#D Composer
Composition N° 2960
https://youtu.be/kUdUkMT2E4s
Copyright 2024

Je voulais quelque chose qui change de mon style habituel, en utilisant uniquement des synthétiseurs. Et puis, au mois d'août, le goût du Rock est revenu : j'ai sorti cette version sous YouTube (lien dans mon profil Soundcloud)

Quoi Ma Gueule

"TRAUMAZONE" EP is out now // Stream and buy here https://linktr.ee/willbleak

Vermin

Sixth June: Come Closer
released June 2011 "Back for a day" EP
Mannequin MNQ016
order the vinyl here: http://www.mannequinmailorder.com/label

Sixth June - Come Closer

http://bowchurch.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/bowchurchmusic

Vision

Para Lia
Fire (My Chemical Imbalance)- with Fady on synth
from the album ‘Gone With The Flow’
paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow
Vinyl / CD / Digital

What's the story behind this  song and the album as a unit? Find it out: Visit the 3D virtual art exhibition, realized by SophisticatedApe, with the great work of Louis Renzoni and the music of Para Lia with a lot of background information here:
https://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/
It is like an interactive visit in a gallery: Use your mouse and the left button to walk around, use the arrow keys on your keyboard or the W-A-S-D keys (forward, left, back, right, respectively). On mobile devices, touch and drag in the direction you would like to move. 


words and music by René Methner
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin
cover artwork based on Louis Renzonis '6th floor walk up'

Follow Para Lia on:
www.facebook.com/paraliamusic/
www.instagram.com/paralia.music/
twitter.com/para_lia_band

Head over to the awesome @fadysporz to listen to some wonderful indie gems! 

i don't know
where to go
where to flow
where myself has been

if i was
here with me
'now!' i'd say,
'now i'm free'
but i am somewhere else and out of reach

sometimes my mind games
keep me under control
there's nothing i could do
my chemical imbalance turns into
fire

i know the fire
it keeps me under control
it's never far away
it never takes too long, you know
one, two, here it comes
fire

everything is an up and down
everything is an up and down
all my me's are running up and down
everything is an up and down
everything is an up and down
i'm trapped by this
fire

get the album

Fire (My Chemical Imbalance)- with Fady

Jeff Clark's - Welcome To The Night - 135+140

Jeff Clark's - Coming War (Official) - 137+140

Jeff Clark's ~ Romeo And Juliet - 135+140

Jeff Clark's - Man Watching - 137+140

Jeff Clark's ►From Earth To Mars - 137+140

Rites of Macabre

Are You Human? (Simply A Machine)

Omen Of Umbra

MNQ 038 LIGHT HOUSE - IN THEIR IMAGE 12'' EP

 
Mannequin Records is simply elated to present the debut 12'' EP from Light House. 

Light House have been kicking around Portland for two years. The band contains Chris Relyea, an ex member from The Rapture, Dawn Sharp and Brooks Blackhawk from Atriarch. Excellent dark wave with spacious mixes, minimal synths, reverb drenched guitars and eerie malevolent vocals that either pierces your heart or your spinal cord.

Originally released in United States by Freee record label in 2012 and recorded on pure analog tape, ‘In Their Image’ EP illuminates the romantic and elemental nature of Light House's dreamlike sound, a moody, theatrical dirge which brings to mind classic 4AD acts such as Dead Can Dance and This Mortal Coil. 

To celebrate this relaunch Light House will be touring America and Europe, hitting the West Coast in mid June to coincide with Warm Leatherette in San Francisco, then onto New York and making their way along the East Coast. 

Light House is music that lulls the Etheric body awake, in a hypotetical world where Tropic Of Cancer meets Soft Metals. 

- 12’’ EP on black vinyl 
- Limited edition of 300 copies 
- Artwork by Giandomenico Carpentieri 

Strongly recommended to fans of Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance, 4AD, Factory Records, Minimal Wave. 

Tracks: 
In Their Image 
Watchword 
The Walls Want Communion 
Seven Seas You Sent

BUY 12'' EP OR DIGITAL

Light House - Walls Want Communion

The single off our next album 'Last Dance', which will be out this summer. Check out the music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpVdTeRR-3E

Memory Void

Haunted synthpop/post-punk duo. Debut album is now out. Download for free on bandcamp! 

New album LAST DANCE coming Summer 2022!

Check out our music videos on Youtube :-)