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Monthly playlist- Favourite albums March 2024
Posted: 21st April 2024 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: A Place To Bury Strangers Chasing Colors/I Can Never Be As Good As you, A Place To Bury Strangers new EP 2024, albums you must hear 2024, Alison Cotton new album 2024, Artoffact Records album releases 2024, ATTRITION new album 2024, ATTRITION The Black Maria, BAT-CAVE Productions album releases 2024, BEANS Boots n cats, BEANS new album 2024, Beige Banquet new album 2024, Beige Banquet Ornamental Hermit 2024, best dark ambient albums 2024, best dream pop albums 2024, best experimental albums 2024, best gothic rock albums 2024, best IDM albums 2024, best neoclassical releases 2024, best post-punk albums 2024, best psych rock albums 2024, best punk albums 2024, Blaine Reininger Ghost Festival, Blaine Reininger new album 2024, Blue Orchids new EP 2024, Blue orchids Overreactor, Byronic Sex & Exile libertas, Byronic Sex & Exile new album 2024, COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC album releases 2024, Consouling Sounds album releases 2024, DAIS Records album releases 2024, dark ambient music, Dead Tahiti Fala, Dead Tahiti new album 2024, Dedstrange album releases 2024, dream pop music, DUCTAPE Echo Drama, DUCTAPE new album 2024, Einstuerzende Neubauten Ist Ist, Einstuerzende Neubauten new single 2024, Embassy One album releases 2024, Empusae & Peter Bjargo new album 2024, Empusae & Peter Bjargo ONUS, Engelchen 2024, ethereal music, experimental music, FUZZ Club album releases 2024, Goth City Records album releases 2024, gothic music, hard rock albums 2024, IDM music, independent music, industrial albums 2024, Intervision new compilation 2024, Intervision Regarde le monde bruler, KALEIDA In Arms, KALEIDA new album 2024, Kalte Nacht new single 2024, Kalte Nacht The Last Breath, Klanggalerie album releases 2024, KONTRAVOID Detachment, KONTRAVOID new album 2024, MILA MAR KORE, MILA MAR new single 2024, MINISTRY HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES 2024, MINISTRY new album 2024, Mouchoir Etanche Le jazz homme, Mouchoir Etanche new album 2024, MUERAN HUMANOS new album 2024, MUERAN HUMANOS Reemplazante, new music, Nuclear Blast Records album releases 2024, Perilyph new album 2024, Perilyph Progressions Imaginaires, post-punk music, Propter Hoc new album 2024, Propter Hoc Zodiac Carousel, psych rock music, punk music, Rocket Recordings album releases 2024, Schrodinger MORNINGSTAR, Schrondinger new single 2024, self-released music 2024, Six Tonnes de Chair Records album releases 2024, Sukie Smith new album 2024, Sukie Smith The glass dress and a ringing bell, Swish Swash album releases 2024, SWISSDARKNIGHTS album releases 2024, Tears for the Dying In The Shadow Of The Midnight Sun, Tears for the Dying new album 2024, The Jesus and Mary Chain Glasgow Eyes 2024, The Jesus and Mary Chain new album 2024, Thrill Jockey album releases 2024, TWO GODS album releases 2024, underground music, VR SEX Hard Copy, VR SEX new album 2024
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Photo Review: Vera Sola live at Chats Palace 2024
Posted: 15th April 2024 by blaue-rosen in Concert photosTags: Chats Palace gigs 2024, Chats Palace London, live photographs, London gigs, stage photography, Vera Sola live in London 2024, Vera Sola Peacemaker tour 2024
Monthly playlist-Favourite albums February 2024
Posted: 30th March 2024 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: albums you must hear, and also the trees mother-of-pearl moon 2024, and also the trees new album 2024, ant-zen album releases 2024, ASSASSUN new album 2024, ASSASSUN POST-CLIMAX 2024, best albums 2024, best industrial albums 2024, best post-punk albums 2024, best punk albums 2024, Blackjack Illuminist Records album releases 2024, BLVCK CEILING Galvanic Corrosion 2024, BLVCK CEILING new album 2024, Chelsea Wolfe new album 2024, Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She, City Slang Album Releases 2024, Cold Transmission Music releases 2024, Cracked Ankles album releases 2024, Dark Entries Records album releases 2024, dark folk music, darkwave albums 2024, darkwave music, debut albums, downtempo music, electro music, Evil Blizzard new EP 2024, Evil Blizzard The Buried Believers, experimental music 2024, gothic music 2024, IDM music 2024, IM NAMEN DES VOLKES new album 2024, IM NAMEN DES VOLKES WELT IST KAPUTT, Imminent Mythrality, Imminent new album 2024, independent music, James Jonathan Clancy new album 2024, James Jonathan Clancy Sprecato 2024, Kojoohar & Frank Ursus Frost Drought, Kojoohar & Frank Ursus new album 2024, La Mécanique Déja Vu 2024, La Mécanique new album 2024, Loma Vista album releases 2024, Maple Death Records album releases 2024, META MEAT new album 2024, META MEAT voices, new music, new music 2024, Noromakina Dismal, Noromakina new single 2024, Nürnberg adkaz 2024, Nürnberg new album 2024, PET NEEDS Intermittent Fast Living, PET NEEDS new album 2024, Polycoffin Records album releases 2024, post-punk music, punk music, raubbau album releases 2024, Rocket Recordings album releases 2024, self-released album, teatre new album 2024, teatre scenes, templegardens new album 2024, templegardens pornografia, The Black Flamingo AN-NUR 2024, The Black Flamingo new album 2024, The Ire Bacchic Dance, The Ire new single 2024, Thee Alcoholics Feedback, Thee Alcoholics new album 2024, topographies Interior Spring 2024, topographies new album 2024, TORCH debut album 2024, TORCH Leaving Me Behind 2024, underground music, Vera Sola new album 2024, Vera Sola Peacemaker, Wave Records album releases 2024, Whispering Sons new album 2024, Whispering Sons The Great Calm, Xtra Mile Recordings album releases 2024, [PIAS] album releases 2024
A month whose soundtrack includes new albums by and also the trees, PET NEEDS and Whispering Sons is not one to pass by!
We might have had terrible cold, dark days here in London last month but great music kept us good company. With a few exceptions, most releases in February, explored existential themes as highlighted through their lyrics.
PET NEEDS have come back with yet another powerful, socially perceptive punk album that encompasses within its lyrics, everyday life scenes and thoughts of a reality consumed by existential fear. A similar path is followed by the lyrics of Whispering Sons, albeit one that has a stronger theatrical element. During February, we were delighted to listen to the debut post-punk/darkwave album by TORCH, a new band from Aarhus. and also the trees, offered us yet another beautiful album, an elegy to known and unknown sides of a city. Finally, a special mention is due, to Vera Sola , whose dark folk album ‘Peacemaker’ draws inspiration from her personal experiences and presents them using poetic, melancholic vignettes.
The psychedelic side of this month’s soundtrack is represented by the incredibly powerful album by Thee Alcoholics, whose cover is evidently inspired by pop art and some of its guitar riffs bring to mind those of Black Sabbath.
We hope you like this playlist as much as we enjoyed making it!
Blaue Rosen
Album Review: and also the trees – Mother-Of-Pearl Moon
Posted: 16th March 2024 by blaue-rosen in Album reviewsTags: albums you must hear, and also the trees mother-of-pearl moon 2024, and also the trees new album 2024, best albums 2024, experimental music, gothic, independent music 2024, neoclassical music, new music 2024, post-punk
1.Intro /2. The Whaler /3. Town Square /4. Mother-Of-Pearl Moon /5.This Path Through The Meadow/6.Valdrada /7. No Mountains, No Horizon /8. Visions of A Stray /9. Field After Field /10. Ypsilon /11. Away From Me
Release date: February 23, 2024
There is the world, and then there is the world seen through the sonic poems of And Also The Trees. The latter is the world that I prefer.
‘Mother-Of-Pearl Moon‘ comes two years after ‘THE BONE CARVER’, to mesmerise, seduce, and take our gaze away from this close-up-view of life, towards that less observed one. Like its title, its energy is lighter compared to its predecessor and looks away from Balkan and Eastern music tradition when it comes to its sources of inspiration.
Monthly playlist-Favourite albums January 2024
Posted: 25th February 2024 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: albums you must hear 2024, ant-zen releases 2024, Artoffact Records album releases 2024, Auerbach Tonträger album releases 2024, AUS new EP 2024, AUS Shein 2024, Bella Union album releases 2024, best black metal albums 2024, best dark folk albums 2024, best darkwave albums 2024, best experimental albums 2024, best IDM albums 2024, best indie pop albums 2024, best metal albums 2024, best new wave albums 2024, best post-punk albums 2024, best punk albums 2024, best songs 2024, best synthwave songs 2024, black metal music, Blackjack Illuminist Records releases 2024, ceremonial music, City Slang Album Releases 2024, Conchur White new album 2024, Conchur White Swirling Violets 2024, Darja Kazimira with Zura Makharadje Anima I&II, Darja Kazimira with Zura Makharadje new EP 2024, dark electro albums 2024, dark electro music, dark folk music, darkwave music, DATA FRAGMENTS new album 2024, DATA FRAGMENTS Total Absence of Light 2024, Dead Astronauts Erase Me, Dead Astronauts new single 2024, debut albums 2024, defrag Lost Seas, defrag new album 2024, Dermabrasion new album 2024, Dermabrasion Pain Behaviour 2024, Djane Ki and Innocent But Guilty new album 2024, Djane Ki and Innocent But Guilty Remote Explorations 2024, earMusic album releases 2024, electronica 2024, EMPUSAE new album 2024, EMPUSAE Pilgrimage to Ganriki, experimental music, Foolish Records album releases 2024, frett end beginning, frett new single 2024, garage rock music, Geheimnis Records album releases 2024, God Unknown Records album releases 2024, Hand Drawn Dracula album releases 2024, hard rock albums 2024, hard rock music, Hymen Records album releases 2024, IDM music, Incunabulum album releases 2024, indie pop music, Island Apes 2024, Island Apes debut album 2024, Jozef van Wissem new album 2024, Jozef van Wissem the Night Dwells In The Day 2024, Kalt Vindur Magna Mater 2024, Kalt Vindur new album 2024, Kinit Her Ending Without 2024, Kinit Her new EP 2024, krautrock albums 2024, krautrock music, LINDUSTRIA Anger, LINDUSTRIA new single 2024, Maple Death Records album releases 2024, Melodien Morii 2024, Melodien new album 2024, metal music, NEW MODEL ARMY new album 2024, NEW MODEL ARMY unbroken 2024, new music 2024, new wave music, post-folk albums 2024, post-folk music, post-punk music, psych rock albums 2024, psych rock music, punk music, self-released music 2024, SLIFT ILION, SLIFT new album 2024, Smash Records album releases 2024, SPRINTS debut album 2024, SPRINTS Letter To Self 2024, Static Age Musik releases 2024, Sub Pop Records album releases 2024, synthwave music 2024, The Circle Music album releases 2024, The Violent Youth Na Igle, The Violent Youth new album 2024, Trans Upper Egypt new album 2024, Trans Upper Egypt No Dub 2024, underground music 2024, Venalism releases 2024, Vlimmer Mauerkipp b/w California, Vlimmer new EP 2024, we be echo 2024, we be echo new album 2024
Unlike others, we love winter and its darkness, and we look forward to the releases of the season. The soundtrack of the first long month of the year had everything from post-folk, to metal and heavy psych. We enjoyed impressive debut releases and promising self-released music and once again we were amazed by the paths that sonic experimentation is able to open in our consciousness.
Photo Review: ‘Nine Earths’ by D-Fuse, and Scanner live at Iklectik
Posted: 28th December 2023 by blaue-rosen in Concert photosTags: D-Fuse live in London 2023, D-Fuse Nine Earths 2023, experimental electronic music, Iklectik gigs 2023, live photos 2023, Nine Earths project live in London, Scanner live in London 2023, stage photography
Monthly playlist-Favourite albums November 2023
Posted: 27th December 2023 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: albums you must hear 2023, ant-zen album releases 2023, Ash International album releases 2023, Atrium Carceri Forgotten Gods, Atrium Carceri new album 2023, best albums 2023, best coldwave albums 2023, best dark ambient albums 2023, best darkwave albums 2023, best electronic albums 2023, best experimental albums 2023, best IDM albums 2023, best industrial music albums 2023, best minimal electronic albums 2023, best new wave albums 2023, best post-punk albums 2023, best psych rock albums 2023, Blackjack Illvminist Records album releases 2023, BREAK ON BEACONS An uninterrupted flow of images, BREAK ON BEACONS new album 2023, ceremonial music, coldwave music, Croix Noire 10 Minut du Switu, Croix Noire new album 2023, Cryo Chamber album releases 2023, dark ambient music, darkwave music, DUCTAPE new album 2023, DUCTAPE Veil of Lies, Edward Ka-Spel new album 2023, Edward Ka-Spel Tease, electronic music, experimental music 2023, Fabrika Records releases 2023, FOOLISH Records album releases 2023, frank riggio Lo, frank riggio new album 2023, FUZZ Club album releases 2023, Girls In Synthesis Die Leere, Girls In Synthesis new EP 2023, Hedloff Records album releases 2023, Hospital Productions album releases 2023, Hound Gawd!Records releases 2023, Hymen Records album releases 2023, IDM music, industrial music 2023, Itako Muted Patterns, Itako new album 2023, Japan Review new album 2023, Japan Review The Slow Down, Lebanon Hanover Better Than Going Away, Lebanon Hanover new EP 2023, Love In Cage new album 2023, Love In Cage Trans-Reality 2023, Meidosem Records album releases 2023, minimal electronic music, new album 2023, new industrial music, new synthwave albums 2023, new wave music, Nick Carlisle Bloody Saturnalia, Nick Carlisle solo album 2023, Nikita von Tiraspol Iki Pasimatymo! 2023, Nikita von Tiraspol new album 2023, noise music, noorden new releases 2023, Ortrotasce Image Farewell, Ortrotasce new single 2023, post-punk music, psych rock music, Riotmiloo blackout, Riotmiloo new album 2023, Sad Garden 2023, Sad new album 2023, Seize...Apply, self-released music 2023, shapes and colors, Sonic Groove new albums 2023, spoken-word, strom|morts new album 2023, strom|morts The Most Dangerous Machine in the World 2023, SWISSDARKNIGHTS album releases 2023, synthwave music, The Black Delta Movement new EP 2023, The Black Delts Movement In Acetate, The Colour inverted records album releases 2023, The Cult of One new album 2023, THE CULT OF ONE THE SICK FUCK UNTO DEATH 2023, The Man & His Failures Lethe, The Man& His Failures new EP 2023, thorofon angor 2023, thorofon new album 2023, Wounded Son new album 2023, Wounded Son Pain Is All I Have For You
One month before the end of the year, our favourite albums covered all the colours of the industrial/noise music spectrum offering a lot of room for self-reflection. There were some very memorable come backs during this month and the first was the new album by Riotmiloo, probably the conceptually darkest release of the band so far. Taking inspiration from bands like Haus Arafna and Monolith, and developing their sound in such a way so that it reached the depths of their existence, the band has created an almost autobiographical album that has a very strong grip around one’s heart.
Another surprising come back, was that of Lebanon Hanover, who released the EP ‘Better Than Going Away’ and seem to have altered their sound in such a way that the neofolk/militaristic references have become very prominent.
The synthwave music spectrum was covered fully with the trippy and very memorable release by Nick Carlisle ‘Bloody Saturnalia’ while the album ‘The Most Dangerous Machine In The World’ by strom|morts can clearly be characterised as the weirdest, experimental release of this month. Next to this, sits the mesmerising storytelling album of Edward Ka-Spel, ‘Tease, Seize…Apply’. We can never get enough of sonic wizard Edward Ka-Spel’s otherworldly stories who always manages to make everything feel lighter and manageable!
Lastly we would like to draw your attention to the forceful ceremonial atmosphere created within the latest dark ambient gem released by Atrium Carceri. This is an album that will immediately transfer you into the dimly lit, mystic corridors of some far away castle and it should not go unnoticed.
We hope you enjoy this playlist as much as we did while preparing it.
Blaue Rosen
Album Review: Nick Carlisle-Bloody Saturnalia
Posted: 14th December 2023 by blaue-rosen in Album reviewsTags: albums you must hear, best albums 2023, electronic music, experimental pop, independent music, indie rock music, new albums 2023, new music 2023, Nick Carlisle Bloody Saturnalia, Nick Carlisle solo album 2023, synthwave music, The Colour inverted records album releases 2023, underground music
For some reason, we have always thought that reviewing a personal album, like this one, would never do it justice. We overcame these hesitations, and this had everything to do with the album’s particular atmosphere created by the music.
We have been trying to think of another album we have come across that had so much light amidst so much darkness…nothing comes to mind and, with every new listening session, we are getting more and more reassured about this. But let’s take things from the beginning.
‘Bloody Saturnalia‘ comes after the release of a haunting soundtrack to celebrate 100 years from the release of the movie ‘Hӓxan’. It is an album inspired by and dedicated to Nick Carlisle’s father, who sadly passed away on New Year’s Eve 2023. The title of this album and the subjects of its lyrics also relate to the book ‘Defying Hitler: A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner’ whose theme, the rise of Nazism in Germany, is a timely one as we see the rise of populism around the world today. Kenneth Clarke’s documentary series ‘Civilisation’ also fed into the themes of various songs on this album (e.g. ‘Another Level Down‘, ‘Life in A Major Key‘, ‘Bloody Saturnalia‘).
Photo Review: Byronic Sex& Exile ‘Stage Fright’ tour-Live in London 2023
Posted: 11th December 2023 by blaue-rosen in Concert photosTags: Aces & Eights live gigs 2023, band photographs, Byronic Sex& Exile stage photographs 2023, Down from Above stage photographs 2023, gigs, Last July stage photographs 2023, live photogrraphy, London gigs 2023, stage photos
Live Review: Byronic Sex & Exile ‘Stage Fright’ tour live in London
Posted: 10th December 2023 by blaue-rosen in Live reviews,InterviewsTags: Aces & Eights live gigs 2023, Byronic Sex & Exile live in London 2023, Byronic Sex & Exile Stage Fright tour 2023, darkwave music, electro music, gothic rock music, live music, London gigs 2023
An evening of haunting tales from a count, a witch and a siren
We’ve gone down the steps to the basement of Aces& Eights countless times but the vibe that was generated that night, a few days ago cast a dark veil over the space and made it feel much darker than usual. From the first second, the feeling was that of stepping into a post-ceremonial macabre celebration. The intimate arrangement of tables and chairs set the tone for something austere and measured, requiring a composed ‘aristocratic’ behaviour. At that moment, we had the feeling that we were not just attening a gig but that rather, we had been summoned there.
A waltz macabre loupe came from the speakers, playing games with our concentration, creating a sonic labyrinth whose exit was only visible once Down From Above appeared on stage.