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!

Black Hearted Brother - My Baby Just Sailed Away

Following extensive recent touring with Black Sabbath and other worldly ventures the UK’s best rock band, the legendary Uncle Acid are very pleased to announce the release of their new 7” single ‘Runaway Girls,’ quite possibly his catchiest tune yet. 

Uncle Acid 'RUNAWAY GIRLS'

Small Yellow Dots

From our 4th studio album called Inside your Head on the Sulatron Record label. 

Aqueduct of Sylvius

✱ telephones - perfectly slowed ✱

This is a cover I did a little while ago of Bruce Springsteen's song State Trooper from the 100% perfect album, Nebraska.

King Dude - State Trooper

Sprawling space sounds tell stories of far galaxies - the music fuses single instruments into each other and the sound gets a swirly acid madness… This is psychedelic music without being bound to certain stylistic directions: What matters is the flow. A wonderful soundtrack for a journey to the far out vastnesses of the inner cosmos.
Interkosmos were founded in 2008 by Sula Bassana (Electric Moon, Zone Six, Krautzone) on bass, Pablo Carneval (formerly Electric Moon, The Blowing Lewinsky) on drums und Sergio Ceballos (RIP KC) on guitar.
They recorded the complete album „Hypnotizer“ incessantly. After a tour through Spain and several gigs in Austria, Sergio went back to his home in Spain, so the line-up of Interkosmos got changed. One livetrack with the second line-up you will find as bonus on this album.
„Hypnotizer“ got released initially as „Interkosmos - same title“ (in it’s archetype, without the bonus track) as a tiny CD-R edition and as free download on the platform „Clinical Archives“ (where it got downloaded more than 30.000 times!).
Now, after 8 years, it is certain: there must be a proper release of this stuff!
After some reflecting, Sulatron Records decided to release „Hypnotizer“ as a proper CD issue (even if it is available on bandcamp now), limited to 500 copies in Jewelcase.
Mastered by Krautrock-legend Eroc. Coverdesign by Lulu Artwork!.
The norwegean label Pancromatic will release it as double vinyl (lim. to 300 on marbled wax and 300 on black wax) in April.
Tracklist:
1. Lift Off 11:27
2. Hypnotizer 10:56
3. Edentrip 7:29
4. Kosmos Amigos 10:51
5. Floatboat 10:17
6. Rockit 12:30
7. Samphonic Trip 13:53 (Live Bonustrack)
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INTERKOSMOS - hypnotizer

3 - 16 Scream

Energy

SLIFT • UMMON 
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From SLIFT’s upcoming double album ‘UMMON’ (Feb. 28th 2020, Vicious Circle Records / Stolen Body Records)
Recorded by Olivier Cussac at Condorcet, Toulouse
Artwork by CAZA

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••••• Lyrics ••••• 
Set the controls to the earth’s surface
From the night we have waited

Bring the fire to your sleeping brothers,
From the night we have waited

Now we’re climbing through the ancestral stones,
All the night we have waited

From the center to the earth’s surface!

A blade, a sword coming from the void,
Titans, Gods, they’re coming from the void,
A blade, a sword, it's coming from the void

FROM THE CENTER TO SURFACE!

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UMMON

Ummon

SLIFT - Ummon

Dry 
Dirt
Demise
Despise
Deranged
Dementia
Deconstructed
Defiance
Direction
Dope
Destiny
Driven
GODOWN RECORDS
Recorded at Godown Studio at Savignano sul Rubicone by Alfredo EPI Gentili

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