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MONUMENTAL: Animals of Distinction-Godspeed You!Black Emperor live at The Barbican 2018
Posted: 27th July 2018 by blaue-rosen inMonthly playlist-June 2018
Posted: 9th July 2018 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: ????????? '????? ?????????' 2018, ????????? debut album 2018, Contre Soirée 2018, Contre Soirée debut album 2018, Dancedall debut album 2018, Dancehall 'The Band' 2018, Evil Blizzard 'The Worst Show on Earth' 2018, Evil Blizzard new album 2018, Gruff Rhys Babelsberg, Gruff Rhys new album 2018, Immersion 'Sleepless' 2018, Immersion new album 2018, Jaye Jayle 'No Trail and other unholy paths' 2018, Jaye Jayle new album 2018, John Parish 'Bird Dog Dante' 2018, John Parish new album 2018, Johnny Marr 'Call The Comet' 2018, Johnny Marr new album 2018, Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch 2018, Nine Inch Nails new album 2018, Protomartyr Consolation EP 2018, Protomartyr new EP 2018, Saint Ballantine All Saint's Day 2018, Saint Ballantine debut album 2018, Sink Ya Teeth debut album 2018, The Filaments 'Look to the skies' 2018, The Filaments new album 2018, The Lay Llamas 'Thuban' 2018, The Lay Llamas new album 2018, The Wave Pictures Brushes With Happiness 2018, The Wave Pictures new album 2018, Warmduscher 'Whale City' 2018, Warmduscher new album 2018, Werther Effekt 'Anomalia' 2018, Werther Effekt new album 2018
‘An artist wears his work in place of wounds’ (Patti Smith)
June turned out to be mostly a punk month, simply because of all the 60 releases that we listened to and which covered everything from noise/techno to soul, it was the various ‘faces’ of punk that fascinated us the most. So let me tell you why…
Daemonia Nymphe live at O2 Academy Islington
Posted: 19th June 2018 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: Daemonia Nymphe interview, Daemonia Nymphe live at O2 Academy Islington, Daemonia Nymphe live in London 2018
You might have picked up that this week is very rich in terms of gigs. There are many well established bands as well as new projects that will offer memorable shows in different venues around London but we wanted to talk about one in particular in more detail. This is no other, than the special show that Daemonia Nymphe are preparing for us on Saturday 23rd June at the largest venue the band has performed so far in London, the O2 Academy in Islington.
The band has come a long way and is heading towards even greater things by constantly enriching their sound with new elements, new instruments and new ideas. Daemonia Nymphe have started their career in Greece in 1998, having been inspired by the mystery surrounding ancient Greek music and the aesthetics associated with ancient Greek theatre. At the very beginning they revealed their influences from the sound of 4AD and Dead Can Dance in particular, but very quickly they enriched their original sound and the lightness of the ethereal female vocals, with ceremonial male vocals and aesthetically psychedelic elements in the performance, making reference to characters like nymphs, oracles and even witches and demons. Their stage appearance has also evolved and enriched with different and more theatrical elements over the years. This was until the release of their album ‘Psychostasia‘ where the idea for a music/theatre performance materialized. ‘Pyschostastia II:The Ritual‘ was not the first time the band had been involved in theatre but it was the first time they transformed one of their music albums into a play. Daemonia Nymphe have provided live scores in numerous theatrical productions both in London and in Greece.
Echo and The Bunnymen,ENATION live in London 2018, ‘The Stars,The Oceans and The Moon’ UK tour
Posted: 10th June 2018 by blaue-rosen in Concert photosTags: Echo and The Bunnymen 'The Stars The Oceans and The Moon' UK tour 2018, Echo and the Bunnymen live at Royal Albert Hall 2018, Echo and the Bunnymen live in London 2018, ENATION live at Royal Albert Hall 2018, ENATION live in London 2018
Echo and The Bunnymen live at Royal Albert Hall 2018
Posted: 10th June 2018 by blaue-rosen inMonthly playlist-May 2018
Posted: 7th June 2018 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: Arctic Monkeys new album 2018, Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel&Casino 2018, Beach House 7, Beach House new album 2018, Carla Bozulich new album 2018, Carla Bozulich Quieter 2018, Cecilia Adoration, Cecilia debut album 2018, Girls In Synthesis new EP 2018, Girls In Synthesis We Might Not Make It Tomorrow 2018, GNO new album 2018, GNOD Chapel Perilous 2018, Ice Baths 2018, Ice Baths debut album 2018, LOCKS debut album 2018, LOCKS Skeletal Blues 2018, Mayflower Madame new EP 2018, Mayflower Madame Premonition 2018, Mt Desolation new album 2018, Mt Desolation When The Night Calls 2018, Palace Winter new album 2018, Palace Winter Nowadays 2018, Pat Moon new album 2018, Pat Moon Romantic Era 2018, Rabia Sorda new album 2018, Rabia Sorda The World Ends Today 2018, Stereopolina new single 2018, The Body I Have Fought Against It But I Can't Any Longer 2018, The Body new album 2018, The Buttertones Midnight In A Moonless Dream 2018, The Buttertones new album 2018, The Fierce And The Dead new album 2018, The Fierce And The Dead The Euphoric 2018, Vive La Void 2018, Vive La Void debut album 2018, Wax Chattels 2018, Wax Chattels debut album 2018, Wooden Shjips new album 2018, Wooden Shjips V 2018
“Deconstruction seeks neither to reframe art with some perfect, apt and truthful new frame, nor simply to maintain the illusion of some pure and simple absence of a frame. Rather it shows that the frame is, in a sense, also inside the painting. For the frame is what “produces” the object of art, is what sets it off as an object of art—an aesthetic object…” James N.Powell
May 2018, was a month that glorified music experimentation in the most obvious way. Our initial impression that ‘traditional’ music genres are being gradually and creatively deconstructed or reconstructed by the bands these days, was confirmed by the releases of this month.
The Fierce And The Dead-The Euphoric
Posted: 6th June 2018 by blaue-rosen in Album reviewsTags: Bad Elephant Music album releases 2018, The Fierce And The Dead new album 2018, The Fierce And The Dead The Euphoric 2018
“It’s heavier and more psychedelic, bit more spacey, more synths, more downtuned guitars. Some of the riffs are a bit more straightforward and it’s got one tune on it that is the most complex rhythmically that we’ve done…“(Matt Stevens)
I first became aware of The Fierce And The Dead when I saw them perform live, opening for Evil Blizzard last year.That performance placed the first piece in an invisible ‘puzzle’ which I then started to complete by going back and listening to their very first album entitled ‘If It Carries On Like That I am Moving to Morecambe‘ (what a title!).
Siglo XX-Interview
Posted: 24th May 2018 by blaue-rosen in Live reviews,InterviewsTags: belgian coldwave band, music interview, Siglo XX 2018, Siglo XX interview 2018
“We liked to provoke at the time and we still like to do so now…“
Just a few hours before Siglo XX were about to perform live for the first time since 1991, exclusively for the audience of WGT, Blaue Rosen had the enormous pleasure to talk with Klaas (Hoogerwaard) and Antonio (Palermo) about what Siglo XX used to be, what inspired them then, what inspires them now, what matters and what does not. The band gave a memorable headlining show at Felsenkeller that evening, to which the audience responded warmly by dancing from the moment the first note of ‘ Until A Day‘ was heard until the last note of ‘Dreams Of Pleasure ‘ resonated in the space.This is a band with a humble yet very powerful stage presence, a quality which is difficult to describe and replicate and which derives from the whole philosophy that traverses its existence. Siglo XX has always had an almost noble worldview, which informed the way they composed music and the way they approached art in general.It is extremely rare to meet a band with such a level of self awareness and even though they would probably not accept this, the only thing that can explain the impact their music has had, is talent. We must understand, that not every musician that experiments can produce a result of quality and not every person who is involved in art, is simultaneously concerned to that degree, with the things that happen around the world.