Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 12:28 CET:

PacificUV "Weekends":

pacificUV was formed in the late 1990’s in Athens, Georgia. Half the band wanted to sound like a psychedelic Jesus and Mary Chain tripping on Nyquil, while the other half wanted to play one chord for 45 minutes to determine its color. Somehow, what emerged from these disparate goals was their critically acclaimed, 4 years in the making, self-titled debut album that Rolling Stone called a “masterpiece”. The perfect mixture of noise and melody, the first L.P. was a sprawling ambient landscape that revealed a myriad of influences, from shoegaze to 60’s rock, to slow core to post-rock.

Following a move to Portland, Oregon and the release of their second L.P. - Longplay 2 - in 2008, the band moved back to its native Athens, Georgia and spent the last two years recording its third, and best, record, WEEKENDS. Featuring guest appearances by such Athens luminaries as B.P. Helium (of Montreal) and John Fernandez (Olivia Tremor Control), WEEKENDS is the sound of a band diversifying: the Magnetic Fields electro pop of "funny girl" or the vocoder rush of "ballerina" finds pacificUV embracing a more melodic direction while still maintaining the lush, ethereal, production aesthetic for which they are known.

The lyrical inspiration for WEEKENDS is the disintegration of a relationship. What does one do on the weekends once love has disappeared? The pill case inspired album art suggests one answer. From “funny girl” and “ballerina” to the hangover ballads of “going home” and “baby blue”, WEEKENDS is sequenced to suggest the highs and lows one might experience on any given weekend when attempting to forget the past.


Release date: April 10, 2012
Label: www.mazarinerecords.com
Band page: http://www.facebook.com/pacificUV?v=wall

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Monday, February 13, 2012, 10:27 CET:

THE MOUNT FUJI DOOMJAZZ CORPORATION "Egor":

The new record of the experimental alter ego of THE KILIMANJARO DARKJAZZ ENSEMBLE.

After they delivered the 60 minutes session “Anthropomorphic” in 2011 THE MOUNT FUJI DOOMJAZZ CORPORATION now is back with the 4th full length called EGOR. This four track monster (again almost 70 minutes long) was recorded live at the DOM theater in Moscow as part of a mini trip to Russia in April 2011.

For the connoisseurs of the THE MOUNT FUJI DOOMJAZZ CORPORATION sound this album combines the atmo- sphere of 'Succubus' mixed with 'Anthropomorphic', more structural improvs mixed with ambient drones. the band still builds mesmerizing, deep and otherworldly atmospheres. Undescribable if you didn’t listen to it yet.

This live session the Corporation consisted of the following line up :
Charlotte Cegarra (vocals), Eelco Bosman (guitar), Ron Goris (drums), Sarah Anderson (violin), Hilary Jeffery (trombone), Jason Kohnen (bass), Gideon Kiers (electronics).


Release date: March 23, 2012
Band page: http://www.facebook.com/darkjazz
Stream: http://www.denovali.com/mountfuji/

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Monday, February 13, 2012, 10:24 CET:

BROTHER SUN, SISTER MOON "s/t":

The new second project of Alicia Merz (aka BIRDS OF PASSAGE).

Brother Sun, Sister Moon is the collaborative project of Alicia Merz (BIRDS OF PASSAGE) and Gareth Munday (ROOF LIGHT). Together the duo explore a landscape of sounds that depart from Alicia’s classic wintery minimalism and Gareth’s post-dubstep styling’s, creating a record consisting of beautifully elegant vignettes and genre-bending sounds that captivate the listener at will.

The self-titled album is a trip through sun-dappled pop music, glistening with Alicia’s vibrant vocals reminiscent of FRAN- COISE HARDY and JULEE CRUISE and neatly complimented by a haze of lo-fi instrumentation akin to the distorted experimentation of SLOWDIVE and MY BLOODY VALENTINE. Unafraid to extend their musical reach beyond this, the record ventures into the futuristic beat world channeling influences such as FLYING LOTUS and MADLIB, while traversing vast technicolour electronic sounds that call to mind BOARDS OF CANADA and the ambient tape manipulation of MATTHEW DAVID.

The CD edition of this stunning debut album comes with an exclusive remix by LISTENING MIRROR, while the DALE COOPER QUARTET lends a remix exclusive to the vinyl edition. With their debut record BROTHER SUN, SISTER MOON take all preconceived notions of what an album should be and break them down right in front of you, presenting a record that runs the gamut of genre defying boundaries, boldly reimagining pop music for the ‘post-genre’ generation.

Release date: March 16, 2012
Band page: http://www.facebook.com/brothersunsistermoon
Stream: www.denovali.com/brothersunsistermoon

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Monday, February 13, 2012, 10:21 CET:

LENTO "Live Recording 08.10.2011":

LENTO is an instrumental musical venture commenced in Rome in fall 2004, whose main purpose is to give shape to an introspective approach with relentless efforts. It took 3 years to develop as an artistic issue and to give birth to the debut album EARTHEN in 2007.

EARTHEN has received great attention and rave reviews, so their long-awaited second album had to be confronted with high expectations - these expectations are easily met and exceeded by ICON. The foundations for ICON had been laid during two years of intense touring in Europe. In this time, LENTO have started to develop a more chaotic and restruc- tured songwriting. This new level of sound has then been perfected during numerous hard rehearsels in the touring period, and has been deepened in a period of one year, which LENTO spent isolated in their home-based studio. In that year, LENTO managed to cast the molten outcome of their creative process into ten new songs.

On ICON, LENTO explore a new range of emotions and feelings, and build up a very deep and dark universe driven by their usual postcore fury. Already with EARTHEN, LENTO convinced their listeners by being one of the most overwhelm- ing and mind-blowing bands of today. On ICON, the song structures have been particularly developed to repeat and strongly strengthen this impression.

The "Live Recording 08.10.2011" record compiles tracks of both successful records and transports the energy of a LENTO live gig on wax. It is meant to be a snapshot of LENTO's activity in 2011, a year full of occurrences.


Release date: March 23, 2012
Band page: http://it-it.facebook.com/lento.icon
Stream: www.denovali.com/lento

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Monday, February 06, 2012, 09:46 CET:

LOCKERBIE "Ólgusjór":

Sometimes there’s a the little coincidence needed to kick-off a bands future: the Icelandic band LOCKERBIE was in fact already done the summer of 2009 before even getting started.

In 2008 Davíð Arnar Sigurðsson (keyboards), Guðmundur Hólm (bass), Rúnar Steinn Rúnarsson (drums) and Þórður Páll Pálsson (guitar and vocals) got together, played a few gigs, recorded 2 demos, called it a day and decided to move on with other projects. If Davíð would have listened to music instead of radio on his way home, LOCKERBIE wouldn’t exist any more.

The Icelandic radio station reported of a song contest and without the knowledge of his bandmates he sent in a demo. What to say? They won! Awarded with a professional recording session, their drive came back and everything suddenly fell into place. They got the attention of the Icelandic Label RECREC and released their debut album “Ólgusjór” autumn of 2011, which now is released for the European market on Vinyl and CD by KAPITÄN PLATTE from Bielefeld, Germany.

Being cross referenced with SIGUR ROS is not only caused by coming from the same island. But LOCKERBIE went from a pure post-rock Band to being an indie-pop band. Song is king, not just an emotion or sound. Big part of their music are the string- and horn-arrangements by Davíð, remind- ing of SUFJAN STEVENS, while Þórður states Johnny Greenwood from RADIOHEAD as a guide for his guitar style.

Just the COLDPLAY analogy makes them smirk again and again, since they see themselves, if at all, as the LoFi version of said band.

Most of all they agree on this statement: “Best friends making music together.”


Release date: March 9, 2012
Label: http://kapitaen-platte.de
Band page: www.facebook.com/lockerbiemusic
Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/lockerbiemusic

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 17:40 CET:

THE EYE OF TIME "s/t":

Writing critical music without using platitudes...

.. that’s already a difficult undertaking if you’re doing music supported by words. THE EYE OF TIME realizes a critical approach without any lyrics. Why did he choose this way of expression?

The man behind EYE OF TIME – Marc Euvrie – grew up in and was part of the French diy punk and hardcore scene for years. After playing with several bands THE EYE OF TIME is his first solo project – just for the live gigs he invites different friends to perform with him. The song writing process itself wouldn’t work out together with other people –THE EYE OF TIME is Marc Euvrie’s personal reflection of the world - illustrated with his sounds and specific artworks Thomas from Denovali Records worked out together with him.

After six years of writing song fragments and two additional years of creating the artwork elements he now presents his self titled debut record consisting of the three parts AFTER US, JAIL and LILY ON THE VALLEY. All tracks on the record are telling you a specific story dealing with Marc’s life – every picture in the booklet gives you a little hint concerning his view to the world. The stories behind the tracks are dealing with problems of our today’s society just as with his personal fight against depression and hopelessness.

He doesn’t present his art with pathos – it’s a clear, minimal mixture of samples, cello elements written and performed by himself, electronic programming, loops, drones, piano parts and field recordings. It’s an honest soundtrack of life garnished with hope, resignation and death.

Comfort, design and graves: we are corpses; walking dead; we sold our humanity and dreams against consumption; Dreams are gone; nobody takes any risks to change something; even the poor guy has something to loose (His cellphone, tv, car?); we are ghosts in the supermarkets of life;

After us : humanity is running against a wall - crashing..... even if the human race dies off from one day to another the earth will still have our stupidity as a memory; even if something is changing, we can't go back; a second of human reign, for an eternal life of earth.

What am I less? What took the road? : Hope? I've been thinking about it so much; being depressed, trying to have hope again, and always get down for some reason; Hope brings you high to give you a better letdown;. Hope is a bitch; I'm not depressed - but sometimes you just think that some situations would end better without having hope.

"L'être humain a été dépossédé de ses possibilités d'aventure et d'expérimentation que l'existence est censée lui donner. Nous laissons l'humanité s' obscurcir et s'éteindre car nous ne prenons pas de risques."

"Man hat den Menschen seiner Möglichkeiten zu Abenteuern und Experimenten beraubt, welche ihm die Existenz geben soll. Wir lassen die Menschheit verdunkeln und erlöschen, denn wir gehen keine Risiken ein."

"Man has been depossessed of his possibilities for adventure and experimentation that life should give him. We let mankind become obscure and extinct, because we don't take any risks."


Release date: February 24, 2012
Band page: http://fr-fr.facebook.com/pages/The-eye-of-time/284744803063
Stream: www.denovali.com/theeyeoftime/

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 17:32 CET:

CONDRE SCR "You Are Genius":

The instrumental music of Condre Scr is a fusion of contoured rock music, rich textured ambient sounds and crystal clear noise. Their latest album 'You Are Genius' lets its dense atmosphere seep out slowly, alternating between hopeful and dark moods. Haunting harmonies, delicate melodies, fibrous drumming and a sense for subtle drones weave multi-layered soundscapes of gloomy sublimeness.

In 2006 Condre Scr self released their debut 'Jar Marsen', which sold out in a snap at several gigs throughout mainland Europe. In 2010, after a period of creative drought and reorganisation, the Berlin five piece eventually recorded a few new tracks with the help of Tobias Siebert (who has previously worked with artists such as Kettcar, Sometree, Phillip Boa, Delbo etc.). The outcome of these sessions is the band's sophomore album 'You Are Genius', which will be released by Oxide Tones in February 2012.


Release date: February 24, 2012
Label: http://oxide-tones.com/
Band page: www.condrescr.net/
Teaser: www.you-are-genius.com/

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 17:29 CET:

PAN+ME "Paal":

PAN & ME is the solo project of Christophe Mevel (THE DALE COOPER QUARTET).

On PAAL Christophe Mevel continues the intelligent song writing of the Dale Cooper Quartet with a different approach - the arrangements are not jazz-orientated like those he sets up with the other Dale musicians on the two classics 'Parole de Navarre' and 'Metamanoir'. But although the solo work is rather piano- and electronic-driven and contains field recordings, choir sounds and string elements, the experimental and detail orientated method of operation stays the same.

The first track “The Lighthouse at Two Lights” for example combines viola melodies in the stlye of Badalamenti with the hypnotic rhythm of crackles we loved on Oval's "Systemisch". “Unalaska” on the other hand evokes through a melodic piano motif reminescent of some abstract works in the series Made To Measure (Hector Zazou, Wim Mertens and Peter Principle). The usage of different other instrumental mix syncopated rhythms and repetitive melodies ends in a ghostly soundtrack for your imaginary film.

« A week ago we left Dutch Harbor after spending nine days. This music was recorded between the Makushin Bay & Kashega Bay in February 2010. Our first stop, Makushin Bay, is an old village site. Only some grey wood, a wooden cross and a fallen roof was left of it. We tried to catch crabs with a self-made pot. July brought some summer weather: 12-15 deg C (upper 50s) and a glimpse of sun. However, clouds didn't lift so much that we could have seen the mountain tops. The next anchorage, Kashega Bay was a former village as well. Over there was more junk left, fallen houses, rusty steel and grey logs. An eagle was sitting on a rusty bed. The next day was even more foggy. The white moist surrounded everything and the landscape vanished. » Pan & Me.

For fans of: MAX RICHTER, FENNESZ, THE DALE COOPER QUARTET


Release date: February 24, 2012
Band page: http://fr-fr.facebook.com/pages/Pan-Me/118955054856269
Stream: www.denovali.com/panme/

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Sunday, January 08, 2012, 18:30 CET:

ALKERDEEL "Morinde":

No better way to start off the apocalyptical year 2012 than with the unleashing of Alkerdeel's debut full album 'Morinde' upon this world. After a few successful demo's/EP'S, these Belgians are pushing up the ante. It's clear Alkerdeel has progressed quite a bit since the release of 'Luizig'. Although the familiar elements are still present - raw sludge/doom infused with filthy black metal - the compositions have matured and gained more depth. The lo-fi approach of the previous albums made room for a more thoughtful recording process, making it sound perhaps more accessible but also allows the sound to reveal all its sluggish nuances. But rest assured, Alkerdeel remains Alkerdeel: a mean putrid steamroller that takes no prisoners.

For fans of Darkthrone, Burning Witch, Wolves In The Throne Room, Beherit, Mount Eerie.


Release date: February 24, 2012
Band page: www.alkerdeel.be/
Label: www.consouling.be/

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Wednesday, January 04, 2012, 11:12 CET:

THE LAST 3 LINES "Visions from Oniria":

The Last 3 Lines were discovered in 2006 by a NY guy that makes a label for them (SinLovers, 2006-2008) and were rescued by Aloud Music to the edition of "Crows EP". The biography of The Last 3 Lines said that they are a group of talented and fair dose of luck that all the big bands required. After passing through many big festivals in Spain (BAM Polifonik, Donostikluba, FIVECC, etc), the edition of “Crows” and their videoclip "Fish Tank", awarded and issued by many European channels, TL3L received a good opportunity: they opened the tour of Placebo in 2010. With them, especially in Barcelona (to 5000 people), gave their best concerts and gained the confidence to tackle this "Visions from Oniria" (Aloud Music, 2012).

To do so, they've been more than 1 year locked in his recording studio (which used as rehearsal) to write the record to be confirmed as a real band. From the opening chords of "Introlude" to the acoustics of "Revelation", the TL3L new record goes between psychedelia, seventies rock and strong and danceable modern rhythms, but especially captivated by the quality of the songs, impeccable compositions, worked endlessly and meticulously produced. Coreables choruses like "Andromeda" and "Lonely Parade"; undisputed hits as "Your bruising charm "," Visions from Oniria "or" Black Sea " and folkies air experiments as "Slepwalker", form a network of tracks that give encouragement to press play again and smile. “Visions from Oniria" has exceeded our expectations.

The Last 3 Lines are placed at the head of a Spanish indie-rock scene lack of personal proposals, without losing sight of good songs and dance floor. A bet that from Aloud Music are proud to support!


Release date: February 28, 2012
Band page: http://facebook.com/thelast3lines
Label: http://aloudmusic.com/eng_thelast3lines/

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