A new video came out from Mooncake’s recording sessions from Sound Division Studios (Riga, Latvia) where they record the guitars of their upcoming LP. We have shared the photos from these recording sessions. Now we are sharing the video ; )
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signalsundertests debut Nascent will be released on May, 26 by Fluttery Records. The album launch will take place in Belfast (UK).
signalsundertests is a collaborative music project established by Ricky Graham and John King in late 2008 as a means to explore new interactive performance systems for live electronic music. signalsundertests have toured throughout the UK and mainland Europe, sharing a stage with the likes of German electronica legend, Ulrich Schnauss. signalsundertests productions have featured on national TV (Ch. 5) and radio (BBC Radio 1). The concert will present a series of multi-channel (surround sound) musical works composed by Graham in a series of performance scenarios, including musical collaborations with electro-acoustic composer, Michael Andrews (SARC). Free admission.
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Iranian ambient / post-rock / modern classical project Inner Trip about to finish his new record. According to the e-mail we have received from Saman N. (the man behind Inner Trip) the songs are almost finished and he is doing the final mastering.
The album will be entitled “Initiate “. The album will contains 9 Songs with 47:09 total time. We are waiting him to finish the record as much as you do.
Before the new album comes out, enjoy his magnificent debut, Somewhere Near The Pulse.
Here is the possible cover of upcoming album:
This May you will be hearing two great releases: Heinali – Air ; signalsundertests – nascent. Pre-orders have been started. Enjoy!
Heinali – Air
Heinali airs his ambient mood classics. Oleg Shpudeiko (the man behind Heinali) creates a gloomy atmospheric environment with the piano, strings, ambient / glitch structures. “Air” is his 6 song album: cinematic sad music, strings moving around the central piano motifs which are minimalistic. Power of light touches, the ambience, the echo and the sense.
signalsundertests – nascent
signalsundertests is Richard Graham’s sonic playground, beginning life as a collaborative project with fellow artisan, John King. Since 2008, Graham has developed the signalsundertestsproject to attend to the effects of interactive music technology on music performance, resulting in a series of collaborations with a conglomeration of contrasting artists. “Nascent” features a series of ambient guitar-based musical works.
Sleepstream is a great post-rock / post-metal band. If you haven’t heard their breathtaking debut album “A Waltz With The Seventh Crane” have a listen here.
These are photos from their tour in their homeland. Photographed by Anthony Black.
How Comes The Constellations Shine is a post-rock project from Portugal with ambient and modern classical references. Belongs To Mafra, the 38th release of Fluttery Records is a sorrowful peace with trembling guitars, pianos and glitchy tapes.
This time How Comes The Constellations Shine comes as a solo act. Originally called Purfect, How Comes The Constellations Shine was formed in Lisbon, Portugal in 2005. Constellations was founded by guitarist Gonçalo Pereira. Working by himself, he completed most of the Constellations future songs. By late 2005 Pereira began the search for band members. The first to join was fellow drummer and long time friend André Abreu. Soon afterwards the two musicians linked up with bassist Nuno Mendonça and guitarist Tito Silva. In 2007 the band announced the departure of Mendonça in January. In 2008 Nuno Fragoso was recruited for Mub Festival concert and stays in the band. The group disbanded in early 2010.
Currently How Comes The Constellations Shine returned to the original form just with Gonçalo Pereira. He also has releases on Fluttery Records under the monniker Diamond Gloss. Diamond Gloss’ debut album Bears received great reviews all around the world.
Belongs To Mafra brings some changes to How Comes The Constellations Shine’s sound. While song structures on this album are the same as the ones that can be found on previous works, the sound has been toned down a little bit, and the piano takes further action on the whole album, allowing the guitars to work like strings ensemble.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada’s trio Seven Nines and Tens‘ debut album “Habitat 67” alerts the listener by way of sound that the time is upon them to leave their mortal body for 45 minutes of calculated guitar driven space aged motifs and thoroughly enveloping tides of melodic grandiosity.
It wasn’t long after songwriter / guitarist David Cotton transplanted himself to western Canada from his home in Ontario, that he began writing music that would become Seven Nines and Tens songs. Cotton didn’t have a definite vision for the actual music he was writing in 2006 but after playing in a small handful of on the verge acts in his native province that disbanded prematurely, he had a rough idea of how much work creative realization was going to demand. Although Cotton hadn’t yet fully committed to an exact audio aesthetic for the music he was feverishly writing, in the back of his mind there were no question that 4 friends from Methuen Mass., a once dreadlocked Oxford native with a tendency to write about fast cars, and a prolific tastemaker who enjoys referencing deities in his band names were going to be often referenced in his songwriting.
He spent the next two years writing and recording as much music as he could. In 2008, after auditioning many potential members to try and flesh out a live band, Cotton met drummer Earl Heath. It quickly became apparent that there was undeniable musical chemistry between the two, with Heath’s technical and fluid playing complimenting Cotton’s songs. The pair spent countless hours assembling and re assembling their music with Heath not only creating exceptional and calculated drum parts but also writing dense and shape shifting arrangements on 6 string fretted and 6 fretless bass’s.
The pair performed extensively for the next year and a half and were told a couple of times that they had to meet a local drummer and were introduced to Riley Roukema on St.Patricks day 2010. Roukema joined the line up as drummer with Heath shifting to Bass for a majority of Their songs. A couple of months and an amateur rehearsal video of their music on Youtube later, Top 5 Metal site Metalunderground.com advised that “Seven Nines and Tens is one of the most underrated progressive/experimental acts in the city and is still looking for it’s big break. With a strong live performance and exceptional song writing ability, it is without doubt that Seven Nines and Tens will become one of Vancouver’s top experimental acts.”
In February 2011 the band recorded their debut album “Habitat 67” with engineer Hayz Fisher at the Factory studios. The reception to the record has been exceptional with Discorder.ca saying “The amount of innovation and talent that this trio brings to their compositions is simply staggering. Habitat 67 is eclectic, challenging, and at times strikingly beautiful. With this latest effort, Seven Nines and Tens prove without a doubt, that they are a force to be reckoned with, in this, or any other galaxy.”
Seven Nines and Tens‘ music offers multiple approaches for the listener to enjoy. The band, not content on drawing influence from one or even a few genres, explores the obvious hallmarks of Post Rock, Post Metal, Shoegaze and Indie Rock, but also dabbles in the sounds of Math Rock, Sludge rock, Doom Rock, Hardcore, Pop Punk, Jazz, Classical, and Black Metal.
Recommended if you like Mogwai, Red Sparowes, Isis, Jesu, Alchest, Rosetta, Russian Circles, Kayo Dot, Cult of Luna, Neurosis, Nadja, Pelican, Explosions In The Sky, Hammock, Saxon Shore, This Will Destroy You, World’s End Girlfriend, Port-Royal, God Is an Astronaut, Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
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After their sold out tour in China, Mooncake has strarted a new tour with Ukraine and Russia dates. The tour has started at the end of the March and they will stop to have a rest at their home town in the middle of May. Don’t miss the shows!
If you haven’t got all Mooncake releases in your archive, you find them all here 
Here are dates:
2012-03-30 Harkov – Churchill
2012-03-31 Dnepropetrovsk – Art Kvartira
2012-04-01 Kiev – Underground Music Hall
2012-04-13 Voronezh – Tarantul
2012-04-14 Rostov-on-Don – Pod3emka
2012-04-15 Krasnodar – SU-27
2012-04-17 Volgograd – White Horse
2012-04-18 Saratov – Shpigel
2012-04-19 Samara – Krater
2012-04-20 Riazan’ – DK
2012-04-21 Kolomna – Hummer
2012-04-22 Moscow – Astral Fest
2012-05-13 Saint-Petersburg – GlavClub
2012-05-19 Moscow – 16 tons
“Glow in the Gloom” is the production of talented Japanese duo Gargle. They offer instrumental music combining mixed emotions as if which is trying to express a gleam of light in the darkness.
Gargle create cinematic music using huge range of dynamics based on the sounds of guitar, accordion and piano mixed with the layers of ambient sounds. Their music is commonly categorized as ambient, post-rock, experimental and modern classical music, however, as the lines between each genre have been becoming blurred nowadays, their music is differing from typical music of each category.
The sounds are sometimes cinematic and dynamic, and the sensitive and pathetic melodies are running through the sounds as if looking for literally a glow in the gloom. The sentiments of the songs are enhanced by the emotional sounds of strings coming in the middle of the songs.
The opening track “Presage” is a fine example; It’s not just post-rock or ambient. It’s not a classical music composition. It might be not correct to see it as a mixture of all three. The track has its own structure and its own beauty. While the album contains diverse aspects of sound, it has a consistent uniformity that will appeal to people’s emotions.
Gargle are Jun Minowa and Satoshi Ikeda. All you hear is performed by Gargle and Kei Sunayama on contrabass and Yoko Ikeda on violins. The label owner of Fluttery Records, Taner Torun tells that the number of people involved in the recording process is small but what Gargle achieves in this album is very remarkable. After the recording sessions, the album is mastered by Chihei Hatakeyama.
The album is highly recommended if you like Eluvium, Mono, Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros,World’s End Girlfriend, Our Sleepless Forest, Bosques de mi Mente, Yndi Halda, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mum, Rachel’s, My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai, Brian Eno, Grouper.
Besides releasing an EP through a net label in 2009, Gargle took part in two collaboration albums of Draff Krimmy from Norway and Void’s Anatomy from Canada. Gargle has played shows around in Tokyo, and also went on a short tour in Europe in the autumn of 2011. They intend to keep playing shows to interact and share time and space with people everywhere. The guitarist Jun is also doing his solo project under the name of Yawning and has released an EP on Fluttery Records.
Clint Listings’s latest album “In The Minds of Madness” brings together 9 noise drone artists including himself.
Clint Listing creates music as a solo artist in post industrial landscape mix elements of noise, ambient, drone and avant sounds. He has been producing music for twenty-three years. He also writes about music on his website called “Absolute Zero Media”
“That’s how we know each other” tells the label owner Taner Torun who also made the artworks and the graphic design of the album. “We send our press letters to Clint as well. He sometimes reviews them. One day, he asked us if we could release his upcoming work. After listening to the album and reading about the people who collaborated, I definitely said yes.”
Clint Listing’s In The Minds Of Madness is a collaboration with some of the favorite artists he has performed with on tour, live events or just impressed him. Projects like Terrorfakt, Dream into Dust, Steel Hook Prostheses, Murderous Visions, Encomiast & Lopeholt. This album spans many genres of the post industrial and experimental landscapes from harsh noise, electronica to post-rock.
The Collaborations:
The opening track, The Dawn of Sorrow is a collaboration with Stephen Petrus of “Murderous Visions“. Murderous Vision’s style ranges from dark ambient to death industrial to martial industrial and neoclassical music. The Cleveland project was founded in 2004 as a duo, later became Petrus’ solo action.
Track 2, Love is Pain is a collaboration with “Lopeholt” which is a industrial & experimental project from Scotland.
The third one, Under the Frozen Moon of Tomorrow is a collaboration with John Stillings of “Steel Hook Prostheses” which was founded in 1999 by John Stillings then L. Kerr was soon recruited into the project and the project became a duo. Stillings says “I can best describe our sound as heavy electronics, a combination of power electronics, death industrial, dark ambient, and harsh noise.”
The fourth child, Your God is So Proud is credited as “4yrs of Suffering” which is a project between Clint Listing and Aries both ex As All Die. They released several works together in which Clint Listing does the vocals, guitar, synthesizer, bass, electronics, samples; and Aries on vocals, samples, percussion.
The fifth track is Passion Through Conflict and it’s a collaboration with Dana Duffey of “Demonic Christ” which is a black / death metal band formed in 1992.
Riders of the Final Dawn (the sixth track) is a collaboration with DJ Hell Raver of “Terrorfakt” which is an industrial / power noise project from New York City. Having been influenced by bands such as Controlled Bleeding, Monolith, Neurosis, Merzbow, Manufactura and Synascape, Terrorfakt describes their sound as ranging from “powerful dancefloor anthems to ambient sound-scapes and pure experimental noise structures.”
The seventh track is We’ve Been Forgotten, which is created with Derek Rush who is known from the projects like “Dream into Dust” “A Murderer of Angels” The projects are between Derek Rush and Bryin Dall whose music is called “ambient and electronic art-fusion is laced with inspiring and intuitive musical pieces designed to create an atmosphere and experience” by Smother.
Peace Breeds War, the final track is a collaboration with Ross Hagen of “Encomiast” which is a dark ambient / noise project came into being around 1999 in Colorado, USA.
“In The Minds Of Madness” has taken two years of blood , sweat and creativity for the people involved in this project. Clint Listing tells that this is the most expansive release of his twenty-three year music career.
