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Concert photos: Sex Swing, Grey Hairs, Agathe Max live at Paper Dress Vintage 2019
Posted: 3rd September 2019 by blaue-rosen in Concert photosTags: Agathe Max 2019, Agathe Max live in London 2019, Agathe Max live photo, Agathe Max on stage, Agathe Max Paper Dress Vintage, experimental gigs London, experimental music live phots, Grey Hairs live in London 2019, Grey Hairs live photo, Grey Hairs on stage, live music 2019, live photos, Paper Dress Vintage gigs 2019, psych rock gigs 2019, psych rock live photos, punk gigs 2019, Sex Swing live in London, Sex Swing live photos, Sex Swing on stage
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Sex Swing, Grey Hairs, Agathe Max live at Paper Dress Vintage 2019
Posted: 3rd September 2019 by blaue-rosen in
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Monthly playlist-Favourite albums July 2019
Posted: 12th August 2019 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: 3TEETH Metawar, 3TEETH new album 2019, alternative music 2019, Astari Nite Dearly Beloved 2019, Astari Nite new single 2019, Black To Comm Before After 2019, Black to Comm new album 2019, Body of Light new album 2019, Body of Light Time to Kill, Carlo Onda debut album 2019, Carlo Onda Geister, Century Media album releases 2019, Cocktail Party Effect new EP 2019, Cocktail Party Effect Shattered Retina, coldwave albums 2019, coldwave music, dark albums 2019, dark folk albums 2019, dark folk music, Dead Tape Demo, Dead Tape demo 2019, deathrock albums deathrock music 2019, debut albums 2019, Detritus new EP 2019, Detritus Ruin 2019, Drab Majesty Modern Mirror, Drab Majesty new album 2019, dream rock albums 2019, dream rock music 2019, electronic albums 2019, electronic music, experimental albums 2019, experimental music, garage rock albums 2019, garage rock music, Generationals new album 2019, Generationals Reader As Detective, Glaring Decay, Glaring new album 2019, Glasszone Garden of Glass, Glasszone new album 2019, heavy music albums 2019, IDM albums, IDM music 2019, independent music 2019, Lingua Ignota Caligula, Lingua Ignota new album 2019, Media Data Gracefulness, Media Data new album 2019, Medusa Stare, Medusa Stare debut album 2019, MINIMA 2019, MINIMA debut album 2019, Mortal Boy a la lone 2019, Mortal Boy new album 2019, Mueran Humanos Hospital Lullabies, Mueran Humanos new album 2019, new wave albums 2019, new wave music, Noche tras Noche Caer y Caer, Noche Tras Noche demo 2019, Normal Man City Livin', Normal Man new album 2019, Oceans of the Moon 2019, Oceans of the Moon debut album 2019, Panstarrs ?? ????? 2019, Panstarrs new album 2019, Perry Blake new album 2019, Perry Blake Songs of Praise 2019, Polyvinyl Record Company album releases 2019, Profound Lore album releases 2019, Profound Lore albums 2019, punk albums 2019, punk music, Rainbow Grave 2019, Rainbow Grave debut EP 2019, Rainbow Grave No You EP, Restive Plaggona new album 2019, Restive Plaggona Trouble Sociale, self released albums 2019, Silent EM new album 2019, Silent EM The Absence, synthpop albums 2019, synthpop music, The Golden Filter Autonomy, The Golden Filter new album 2019, The Great Park A Day 2019, The Great Park new album 2019, Thom Yorke Anima, Thom Yorke new album 2019, Virvon Varvon debut album 2019, Virvon Varvon Mind Cancer
“Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it”-Jello Biafra
July (!) is not typically a very dynamic month in terms of both album releases and gigs. It is a month during which a lot of festivals are being carried out worldwide, 
offering the chance to enjoy the releases of the previous months. One could argue that the soundtrack of the month should always be just the sound of the cheers of the crowds who enjoy outdoor festivals. This month’s independent music releases create quite a melancholic and dark atmosphere that sometimes feels impenetrable and other times otherworldly and menacing. We have listened to 55 albums and we picked those ones that had the strongest impact on us. This time, they can take you to a coldwave, deathrock, experimental, industrial, synthpop, garage rock, IDM, dream pop sonic trip. Enjoy it here:
Thom Yorke, is the ultimate guide of this soundtrack, as he has unveiled the next chapter of his solo work, entitled ‘Anima‘. This album is the epitome of experimentation into sonic abstraction and minimalism and thus it creates the perfect artistic portal for us to enjoy all the other albums that have been included in this month’s soundtrack. Its title and perhaps its whole style has been inspired by Carl Jung’s concept of ‘Animus and Anima’ which is part of his theory about the collective unconscious. Anima, according to Carl Jung was the unconscious feminine side of a man who, like animus, transcends the personal psyche. The album’s title, as Thom Yorke has explained is also a critique of the way technology has allowed us to be distanced from the things we say and do by ‘hiding’ behind an avatar or a digital persona. This album follows the release of ‘Suspiria’ in 2018, an album that was used as a soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino’ s film of the same title, that was inspired by Dario Argento’s 1977 film of the same title. ‘Anima‘ is also the soundtrack of a musical film directed by Paul Anderson. Thom Yorke performs the songs and stars in the film, while the music is multidimensional with a deep, reverberating sound. Listening to this album feels as if reading a book with many chapters; each track has a different energy and a different performing style and Thom Yorke’s signature timbre, is making sure that we are kept in a dreamy, almost hallucinatory state where the sound of the voice is echoing and the meaning of the words is unclear. Thom Yorke has said that ‘…if you don’t dream enough, you don’t process enough…‘ and this cannot describe better, the effect his music and his performing style have been having throughout his career but especially through this new album. As far as ‘Anima’ is concerned, in a recent interview he has said that: ‘…on a musical and technical level i was deliberately trying to find something as ‘cold’ as possible to go with it…‘ while its sound, has been inspired by styles that challenge the traditional songwriting ways, such as noise and music concrete.
Monthly Playlist-Favourite Albums June 2019
Posted: 11th July 2019 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: 1035718 Records DK album releases 2019, album reviews 2019, Ant-Zen album releases 2019, Armalyte Industries album releases 2019, Bad Breeding Exiled, Bad Breeding new album 2019, Band f Holy Joy Neon Primitives, Band of Holy Joy new album 2019, Blackjack Illuminist Records album releases 2019, BLVCK CEILING new single 2019, BLVCK CEILING under the stares, Candy, Castle Face album releases 2019, Cherry Red Records album releases 2019, Cold Spring Records album releases 2019, coldwave albums 2019, coldwave music 2019, Common Eider King Eider Egregore, Common Eider King Eider new album 2019, Constant Mongrel Experts in Skin, Constant Mongrel new EP 2019, Cubanate Kolossus, Cubanate new album 2019, darkwave albums 2019, darkwave music 2019, Death's Head debut album 2019, Death's Head Dysmorfia, debut albums 2019, Egyptian Blue Collateral Damage, Egyptian Blue debut EP 2019, Epitaph Records album releases 2019, ethereal folk albums 2019, ethereal music 2019, experimental albums, experimental music 2019, favourite albums June 2019, Gutenberg new album 2019, Gutenberg Uneccessary bronze, HAPAX Monade, HAPAX new album 2019, Houndstooth album releases 2019, independent music 2019, industrial albums 2019, industrial music 2019, Mad on the Moon album releases 2019, music reviews 2019, new album 2019, new albums 2019, new music 2019, One Little Indian Records album releases 2019, Penelope Trappes new album 2019, Penelope Trappes Penelope Redeux, Plague Vendor By Night, Plague Vendor new album 2019, PLAID new album 2019, PLAID Polymer, Polytechnic Youth album releases 2019, post punk albums 2019, post punk music 2019, post rock albums, post rock music 2019, Prettiest Eyes new album 2019, Prettiest Eyes Vol.3, Projekt Records album releases 2019, punk albums 2019, punk music 2019, Red Velvet Deception debut album 2019, Red Velvet Deception Like Rain, Saint Abdullah Mechanical Flirtations, Saint Abdullah new album 2019, self released albums 2019, Such Beautiful Flowers debut EP 2019, Such Beautiful Flowers Neon Gloom, SwissDarkNights album releases 2019, Tamburi Neri debut EP 2019, Tamburi Neri Dolce Veleno, The Man &His Failures Nothing, The Man&His Failures new single 2019, The Membranes new album 2019, The Membranes What Nature Gives Nature takes away, Tiny Global Productions releases 2019, True Aether album releases 2019, Unto Ashes new album 2019, Unto Ashes Pretty Haunted Things 2019, Upset The Rhythm album releases 2019, Vlimmer new album 2019, Vlimmer XIIII, VOID//GIST new album 2019, VOID//GIST sophisma, War Records album releases 2019, YALA!Music album releases 2019
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”-Albert Einstein
June was a particularly interesting month in terms of its album releases, the most favourite of which, make a journey from ethereal folk towards doom post-rock.
During this month, I found myself delving more into the condition of ‘post‘ both in music and in art in general. It was actually a definition of ‘the post’, that was provided in one of the numerous student projects at the Architectural Association, combined with a memorable variété/architectural event inside the Hippodrome Casino about post-modern architecture, that enlightened me in such a way that I can now ‘see’ post music with new eyes.
One of the multiple definitions was: ‘A post is a position or a state that defines where or how something or someone has to be, as it was meant to be’. Another one said ‘…a post is a node, a meeting point, a gathering spot. A post is where people converge towards…’.
The releases of Band of Holy Joy, The Membranes, Red Velvet Deception, Vlimmer, The Man&His Failures, BLVCK CEILING, Death’s Head, VOID//GIST, Constant Mongrel, PLAID and Such Beautiful Flowers all tap into different aspects of post music by stressing its ‘heavier’ industrial side, the more emotional coldwave side or even its more vindictive punk side.
Monthly playlist-Favourite albums May 2019
Posted: 1st July 2019 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: A.A Bondy new album 2019, A.A. Bondy Enderness, albums 2019, AMATERASU new album 2019, AMATERASU XVII:The Star, Anatoly Grinberg Mark Spybey 123m, Anatoly Grinberg Mark Spybey new album, Ant-Zen album releases 2019, Bella Union album releases 2019, Black Lung new album 2019, Black Lung The Great Manipulator 2019, Carpark Records album releases 2019, Clinic new album 2019, Clinic Wheeltappers and Shunters, Cold Showers Motionless 2019, Cold Showers new album 2019, Cold Transmission Music album releases 2019, coldwave albums 2019, coldwave music 2019, Constellation album releases 2019, Daddy Long Legs Lowdown Ways, Daddy Long Legs new album 2019, Dais Records album releases 2019, DAMSELFLY In Southern Darkness, DAMSELFLY new album 2019, Death and Vanilla Are You A Dreamer?, Death and Vanilla new album 2019, debut albums 2019, DIAGRAM debut album 2019, DIAGRAM Transmission Response, Dog Tunnel Records album releases 2019, Domino Recordings album releases 2019, Dommengang new album 2019, Dommengang No Keys, dream pop albums 2019, dream rock albums 2019, electronic music releases 2019, experimental albums 2019, experimental music 2019, Fabrika Records album releases 2019, Fat Possum Records album releases 2019, Fire Records album releases 2019, Fire!Orchestra Arrival, Fire!Orchestra new album 2019, Francesco Tristano new album 2019, Francesco Tristano Tokyo Stories 2019, Fujiya&Miyagi Flashback 2019, Fujiya&Miyagi new album 2019, Fury Failed Entertainment 2019, Fury new album 2019, Fuzz Club Records album releases 2019, garage rock albums 2019, GLOVE debut EP 2019, GLOVE No Blades No Bones, GLUME debut album 2019, GLUME Vacant Eyes Can't Dream 2019, Goner Records album releases 2019, GREYS Age Hasn't Spoiled You 2019, GREYS new album 2019, Hassle Records album releases 2019, Holy Magick 2019, Holy Magick debut album 2019, IDM albums 2019, Impossible objects of Desire album releases 2019, independent albums 2019, independent music 2019, industrial albums 2019, institute new album 2019, Institute Readjusting The Locks 2019, Japan Suicide Ki, Japan Suicide new album 2019, Johny Brown new album 2019, Johny Brown Slurred Words, La Mécanique Dernier Voyage 2019, La Mécanique new album 2019, Lost Room Records album releases 2019, Louder Than War releases 2019, Metropolis Records album releases 2019, Minuit Machine Infrarouge 2019, Minuit Machine new album 2019, new wave albums 2019, NOTS 3, NOTS new album 2019, Palais Ideal new album 2019, Palais Ideal Pressure Points, Patti Smith Soundwalk Collective, Petrol Girls Cut&Stitch 2019, Petrol Girls new album 2019, post punk albums 2019, post punk music 2019, post rock albums 2019, psych rock albums 2019, punk albums 2019, Red Cavity Records album releases 2019, Run for cover records album releases 2019, Rune Grammofon album releases 2019, Sacred Bones Records album releases 2019, Second Still new album 2019, Second Still Violet Phase 2019, self released albums 2019, She Past Away Disko Anksiyete, She Past Away new album 2019, SING SINCK SING, SING SINCK SING 2019, Sony album releases 2019, Soundwalk Collective new album 2019, Soundwalk Collective The Peyote Dance, Squall Recordings album releases 2019, Synth Religion album releases 2019, synth wave albums 2019, The Mystery Lights new album 2019, The Mystery Lights Too Much Tension 2019, Thrill Jockey album releases 2019, VR Sex 2019, VR Sex debut album 2019, Wick records album releases 2019, Yep Roc Records album releases 2019
“In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom”-J.G Ballard
May 2019 was a very rich month in terms of the album releases that saw the light of day, and our monthly playlist is reflecting the polyphony and the many sides of sonic experimentation that we encountered in these albums. Clearly, all the musicians have been inspired by different concepts, places, emotions, and worldwide developments and channeled their responses to all these using creativity and the kind of ‘madness’ J.G Ballard is talking about…
Concert photos-94 Gunships, LOCKS, Bite The Buffalo live in London 2019
Posted: 2nd June 2019 by blaue-rosen in Concert photosTags: 94 Gunships live in London 2019, 94 Gunships live photos, Bite The Buffalo live 2019, Bite The Buffalo live in London, Bite The Buffalo live photos, folk gigs 2019, live music photos, LOCKS live at Servant Jazz Quarters, LOCKS live in London 2019, LOCKS live photos, rock n roll gigs 2019, Servant Jazz Quarters gigs 2019
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94 Gunships, LOCKS, Bite The Buffalo live at Servant Jazz Quarters 2019
Posted: 2nd June 2019 by blaue-rosen inComments Off on 94 Gunships, LOCKS, Bite The Buffalo live at Servant Jazz Quarters 2019
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28th WGT-The highlights
Posted: 14th May 2019 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: Arhai gigs 2019, Arhai Wave Gotik Treffen, Arhai WGT 2019, Ashram gigs 2019, Ashram WGT 2019, Autumn gigs 2019, Autumn WGT 2019, Bragolin gigs 2019, Bragolin Wave Gotik Treffen, bragolin WGT 2019, Camerata Mediolanense gigs 2019, Camerata Mediolanense WGT 2019, Cat Rapes Dog gigs 2019, Cat Rapes Dog Wave Gotik Treffen, Cat Rapes Dog WGT 2019, Christine Owman gigs 2019, Christine Owman WGT 2019, Coph Nia gigs 2019, Coph Nia WGT 2019, Creux Lies gigs 2019, Creux Lies WGT 2019, dark alternative music festivals, Das Ich gigs 2019, Das Ich Wave Gotik Treffen, Das Ich WGT 2019, Die Nerven gigs 2019, Die Nerven WGT 2019, Double Echo gigs 2019, Double Echo Wave Gotik Treffen, Double Echo WGT 2019, Faelder gigs 2019, Faelder WGT 2019, FAUN gigs 2019, FAUN WGT 2019, festivals 2019, Friends of Gas gigs 2019, Friends of Gas WGT 2019, Geometric Vision gigs 2019, Geometric Vision WGT 2019, hackedepicciotto gigs 2019, hackedepicciotto WGT 2019, Hante gigs 2019, HANTE Wave Gotik Treffen, Hante WGT 2019, Human Tetris gigs 2019, Human Tteris WGT 2019, Imperial Black Unit gigs 2019, Imperial Black Unit WGT 2019, Inade gigs 2019, Inade WGT 2019, Jungstötter GIGS 2019, Jungstötter Wave Gotik Treffen, Jungstötter wgt 2019, Kaelan Mikla gigs 2019, Kaelan Mikla Wave Gotik Treffen, Kaelan Mikla WGT 2019, Karies gigs 2019, Karies WGT 2019, London After Midnight gigs 2019, London After Midnight Wave Gotik Treffen, London After Midnight WGT 2019, Mila Mar gigs 2019, Mila Mar WGT 2019, music festival 2019, music festivals in Germany 2019, New Model Army gigs 2019, New Model Army WGT 2019, Nitzer Ebb gigs 2019, Nitzer Ebb WGT 2019, Radioaktivists gigs 2019, Radioaktivists WGT 2019, Sad Lovers and Giants gigs 2019, Sad Lovers and Giants WGT 2019, She Pleasures Herself gigs 2019, She Pleasures Herself WGT 2019, Spit Mask gigs 2019, Spit Mask WGT 2019, The Adicts gigs 2019, The Adicts WGT 2019, The Lust Syndicate gigs 2019, The Lust Syndicate WGT 2019, The Moon and The Nightspirit gigs 2019, The Moon and The Nightspirit WGT 2019, The Soft Moon gigs 2019, The Soft Moon Wave Gotik Treffen, The Soft Moon WGT 2019, UK Decay gigs 2019, UK Decay WGT 2019, Unto Ashes gigs 2019, Unto ashes WGT 2019, Urze de Lume gigs 2019, Urze de Lume WGT 2019, Waldträne gigs 2019, Waldträne WGT 2019, Wave Gotik Treffen 2019, Wave Gotik Treffen 2019 line up, Wave Gotik Treffen bands, Wave Gotik Treffen Leipzig 2019
May is usually the time of year when we start preparing ourselves for our annual visit to the beautiful city of Leipzig. The 28th WGT is less than a month away and we’d just thought to give you a summary of the highlights of the festival for this year.
The festival’s line up accommodates once again, every taste from power electronics to dark ambient and rock. There are 20 bands from the UK (Alien Vampires, Am Not, Arhai, Cradle of Filth, Cubanate, Darkher, Double Echo, Empathy Test, Empirion, Evi Vine, Inkubus Sukkubus, Lene Lovich band, New Model Army, Nitzer Ebb, October Burns Black, Sad Lovers and Giants, The Adicts, New Model Army, UK Decay, White Lies), that will perform in the festival this year and several bands which have been in a hiatus for many years but will reunite and perform exclusively for the festival. Let’s not forget the famous after parties, which will feature favourite UK-based DJs behind the decks as well.
Monthly playlist- Favourite albums April 2019
Posted: 13th May 2019 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: Arcaide new album 2019, Arcaide Solve&Coagula, Artoffact Records album releases 2019, Backmask Records album releases 2019, Ben Osborn debut album 2019, Ben Osborn Letters from the border, Brass box debut album 2019, Brass Box The Cathedral, Burger Records album releases 2019, Chicago Research album releases 2019, Chlorof0rm debut album 2019, Chlorof0rm Ketamine 202, Civic Center Even a worm will turn 2019, Civic Center new album 2019, Clan Destine Records album releases 2019, Clivage Music album releases 2019, Damage Limitation Records album releases 2019, Danse Macabre Records album releases 2019, dark folk albums 2019, Dead To A Dying World Elegy, Dead To A Dying World new album 2019, deathrock albums 2019, Dionysian Rituals debut album 2019, Dionysian Rituals Theatre of Tragedy, Dune Altar album releases 2019, electronic music albums 2019, experimental albums 2019, experimental music album 2019, Fontaines D.C. debut album 2019, Fontaines D.C. Dogrel, Gold Aren't You Laughing?, Gold new album 2019, Hash Redaktor debut album 2019, Hash Redaktor Drecksound 2019, heavy music 2019, Homemade Weapons Gravity, Homemade Weapons new album 2019, Hyberdub album releases 2019, Independent music albums 2019, industrial albums 2019, INVA//ID Masochism in D Minor, INVA//ID new album 2019, Ioanna Gika debut album 2019, Ioanna Gika Thalassa 2019, Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation new album 2019, Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation Sacred Dreams, Kompromat debut album 2019, Kompromat Traum und existenz 2019, Low Blows new single 2019, Low Blows Stranger, MANA new album 2019, MANA Seven Steps Behind, Marissa Nadler&Stephen Brodsky Droneflower 2019, Marissa Nadler&Stephen Brodsky new album 2019, MAYa&Tolga Baklacioglu KINA, MAYa&Tolga Baklacioglu new album 2019, metal albums 2019, metal music 2019, noise albums 2019, NONE Heat 2019, NONE new album 2019, Nonostar Records album releases 2019, Partisan records album releases 2019, post punk albums 2019, Product KF debut album 2019, Product KF Songs of the Groves, Profound Lore Records album releases 2019, Rocket Recordings album releases 2019, Sacred Bones album releases 2019, Samurai Music album releases 2019, Sargent House album releases 2019, Sombre Soniks album releases 2019, Southern Lord album releases 2019, Spirit Goth music releases 2019, Squall Recordings album releases 2019, Sunn O))) Life Metal 2019, Sunn O))) new album 2019, The Arno debut album 2019, The Arno Ways of Perfection 2019, The Briefs new album 2019, The Briefs Platinum Rats 2019, The Secret French Postcards Contradictions, The Secret French Postcards new album 2019, Those Amongst Us Are Wolves Decode.Decay, Those Amongst Us Are Wolves new album 2019, Understudy new album 2019, Understudy Tibor Serly, Upset The Rhythm album releases 2019, Ván music releases 2019, VEDA new EP 2019, VEDA Sweetheart, Vent album releases 2019, Virgin In Veil new album 2019, Virgin In Veil Permanent Funeral 2019, Whine new album 2019, Whiner You Never Have to Feel This Way Ever Again, Wolvennest new EP 2019, Wolvennest Vortex
“Art is restoration.The idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented -which is what fear and anxiety do to a person-into something whole”-Louise Bourgeois
The soundtrack of April 2019, made up of our favourite releases of the month, is making a trip that starts in a mind-numbing, spiritually freeing atmosphere and ends in a similar but more lyrical sonic environment. We loved this month’s releases because they included albums whose sound cannot be really described or categorised. We are talking about the albums ‘Kina‘ by MAYa&Tolga Baklacioglu and ‘Seven Steps Behind‘ by MANA. In the latter, Daniele Mana has managed to create a sound that achieves an enviable balance between electronic and neoclassical experimentation. Fascinating rhythms which are rich in texture, bring to the foreground instruments that challenge the limitations of their nature and create a kaleidoscopic, disquieting yet ethereal soundscape. It is inspiring to realize that even though the rhythms give the illusion of being static, the flow they encompass is unique and very unusual. After a point, the sound and the atmosphere becomes more mystifying and cryptic compared to the beginning. Sonic snippets of passing choral vocals discreetly ‘interrupt’ the Burton-like atmosphere that is created.
‘Kina’, is differently experimental compared to MANA’s album. Through its seven tracks, you will be guided into a time-altering space filled with distorted techno rhythms, dreamy vocals, industrial textures, tribal percussion and noisy moments. If we were to characterize the sound of this album we would say that it is a sort of ‘deconstructive minimal tribalism’. We read: “It makes total sense that MAYa and Tolga should have made an album together…There is however one unusual element to their collaboration: they have never met. Tolga lives in Eskisehir (Turkey) and MAYa lives in New York City…”. The production of this album is commendable as it provides volume and space to each element of this challenging arrangement so that each one can freely transfer us into its complex dimensions. The vocals, equally multidimensional, are sometimes reduced to expressive hums and other times, they reveal their more ethereal qualities and somehow bind this whole album together.
Live review: Whispering Sons ‘Image’ tour 2019,London
Posted: 18th April 2019 by blaue-rosen in Live reviews,InterviewsTags: Baba Yaga's Hut gigs 2019, experimental music gigs 2019, Ilia Gorovitz live at The Lexington 2019, Ilia Gorovitz live in London 2019, live review, post punk gigs 2019, post punk gigs in London 2019, Whispering Sons Image tour 2019, Whispering Sons live at The Lexington 2019, Whispering Sons live in London 2019
We had been waiting for this gig ever since the debut album of Whispering Sons was released in October 2018. The initial line up for this gig included Ice Baths, the debut album of which we also loved and were looking forward to listen to it live. Ice Baths were not included in the line up after all but this meant that we got to know the music of Ilia Gorovitz instead. Humble and without engaging too much with the people that had already arrived early at The Lexington, Ilia took his place at the 
front of the stage behind the drums and for the next 30’or so, created an improvised industrial sound which became more dynamic through the live drums that he had incorporated. The set did not have any vocals and Ilia often had to reprogram the pitch of the drums in between songs which became a bit distracting. His debut album entitled ‘The Noble Rot‘ was self released a few days after the gig and it is the first recording of an improvisational set. His EP entitled ‘A Dose of Uncertainty’ also contained recordings of improvisational sets and we had the unique chance to enjoy glimpses from both during this gig. Despite the fact that the sound in this debut album is very ‘dry’, during Ilia’s live set, his sound had much more depth, giving a captivating power to the beats. This is a promising musician and we will definitely have more chances to enjoy his music in the future.