www.the-stone-circle.com/store
UPCOMING RELEASES at Alone Records/The Stone Circle:
- BIG SEXY NOISE: "Big Sexy Noise" (Feat. Lydia Lunch w/ Gallon Drunk) LP (Febr. 22nd)
- EYEHATEGOD: "Preaching the End-Time Message" LP Gatefold (late May)
- EYEHATEGOD: "Dopesick" (co-release with Burning World Records) LP Gatefold (late March)
- WARDRUNA: "Gap Var Ginnunga" (co-release with Burning World Records) 2LP Gatefold w/ 24 pages booklet (April 11th)
ORTHODOX. Ba'al CD/LP
The new ORTHODOX album. Available for pre-orders.
Release date: March 14th, 2011
CD - 11,90 eur (12 pages booklet, jewel box release)
LP Gatefold - 14,90 eur (180 gr vinyl black) ltd. 300 copies.
LP Gatefold - 15,90 eur (180gr vinyl colour) ltd. 200 copies.
Right in time for their March 2011 spanish tour supporting SCOTT KELLY, sevillian avant-doom metal trio ORTHODOX presents their 4th full lenght worldwide.
Nowadays Extreme Music tends to the repetition and copy of previous works from the bands that are referential inside the Metal scene. Bands with more than 20 years of career are commonly on the cover of the specialized Magazines. On this situation it is great to sometimes find that there are still bands that show personality, honesty and authenticity these days. This is the case of ORTHODOX, a band with a career of over 10 years and 3 albums released that now presents their latest called "Ba'al".
Orthodox have became a worldwide reference in the scene although, as the prestigious British magazine The Wire wrote:
"ORTHODOX were a metal band once, but they have become much bigger. At this point, everything they have in common with doom music or any other style of metal music is the sense of spirituality and their search of catharsis through rites" The Wire did not go wrong on their assessment. The new ORTHODOX album it moves again towards a search of spirituality and the sense of innovation that is part of their music. The album is composed by 5 tracks in which the band shows the improvements of the experience gained in their previous recordings. In order to reinterpret their own language one more time, the band adds more details and persevering in the intensity that makes them genuine and inimitable.
This time the band has concentrated all its strength and sound imagery into pieces that last in three of the five songs no more than six minutes. This means a new twist on to their particular way of presenting their work. Submitting their indomitable sound to this format has provided a metal accent to each track that, in a certain way, separates this album from their recent works on which they focused their efforts in the musical research.
The first song is an introduction that brings us back to the essence of the band, so that we can quickly identify their personal sound, while in the second track we go back to the days of "Gran Poder" -their first album-, and thereafter the band explores its roots to leave behind the search for alterations in their musical language and the emerging psychedelic and progressive atmospheres that appeared in their previous work "Sentencia". In "Ba´al", the band joins the best of their two facets, the most intense and metal and the one that flirts with free-jazz along tracks that last more than 20 minutes and that gave the band textures and a musical density that seems incredible for a trio.
Without any doubt this work sums up all the attributes picked by the band during their career, places them in a new starting point and give them a spectacular projection because their sound and musical ideas have yet to travel far beyond. ORTHODOX stills a long way on the path of musical experimentation and research.
DAMO SUZUKI & CUZO. Puedo ver tu Mente. CD/LP
The new CUZO album live collaboration with ex-CAN kraut legend DAMO SUZUKI. Available for pre-orders.
Release date: March 28th, 2011
CD - 11,90 eur (12 pages booklet, jewel box release)
LP Gatefold - 14,90 eur (180 gr vinyl black) ltd. 300 copies.
LP Gatefold - 15,90 eur (180gr vinyl colour) ltd. 200 copies.
DAMO SUZUKI, the legendary vocalist of the German band CAN, (with whom he recorded four of his most important records, Tago Mago, Future Days, Soundtracks and Bamyasi Ege), and the Spanish band CUZO are releasing in Alone Records, a live album recorded in one of their dates together last year.
The title of the album, ”Puedo ver Tu Mente” (I Can See Your Mind), reflects the experience of see live these two acts. Ahead of what usually it can be found on a standard live album, here there are songs that have less recognizable structure.
”Puedo ver Tu Mente” is the recording of a gig that took place on November the 4th 2009 in the small town of Huesca, where DAMO SUZUKI and CUZO met for the first time on stage. From here, the band and DAMO started a Spanish tour of 7 dates.
On the album we have a single piece divided in three movements from where many songs could emerge but that dilutes any trace of structure and links the musical passages with undeniable perfection to other states of mind, sometimes more relaxed and other times more electric. The pause between tracks is no more than the required oxygen intake before making another dive on the listening experience.
It seems quite obvious that is very difficult to fit compositional brilliance, technical virtuosity and creative talent in songs that last no more than 4 o 5 minutes, but what if those three components were released from the limitations of time and format?
This concept which is so close to the “free-jazz” definition, is the glue where the music of DAMO SUZUKI and CUZO mix together and sculpt a sound speech that is constantly mutating and fed back with bites of progressive-rock, stoner, psych, kraut, improvisation and many similar styles. Throughout the length of the album the peaks of intensity and changes of humor are happening continuously in response to the 2exposure of the mutual influence, the sum of both entities. This is precisely the purpose of the Damo Suzuki's Network through its "Never-ending Tour", where he plays with other musicians from the different countries. This keeps his discourse alive and dynamic, being reinterpreted every night, without egos among the artists who are really at the service of the music they are playing at that time.
This is what CAN and DAMO SUZUKI called “Instant Composition”; each concert is unique and therefore is a unique opportunity to create a new sound work.
That is what DAMO SUZUKI and CUZO made in their first gig together. Listen the album is to feel sorry for not having being present the day the album was recorded and an aware state for staying tune in order to know when and where will tour to introduce the album to the audience. Until then, ”Puedo ver Tu Mente” is also a notch in the gun of DAMO SUZUKI, and a great opportunity to enjoy the best weapon of CUZO, their live performance.
YOU CAN (PRE) ORDER AT:
www.the-stone-circle.com/store
gracias!
Alone Records/TSC
UPCOMING RELEASES at Alone Records/The Stone Circle:
- BIG SEXY NOISE: "Big Sexy Noise" (Feat. Lydia Lunch w/ Gallon Drunk) LP (Febr. 22nd)
- EYEHATEGOD: "Preaching the End-Time Message" LP Gatefold (late May)
- EYEHATEGOD: "Dopesick" (co-release with Burning World Records) LP Gatefold (late March)
- WARDRUNA: "Gap Var Ginnunga" (co-release with Burning World Records) 2LP Gatefold w/ 24 pages booklet (April 11th)
ORTHODOX. Ba'al CD/LP
The new ORTHODOX album. Available for pre-orders.
Release date: March 14th, 2011
CD - 11,90 eur (12 pages booklet, jewel box release)
LP Gatefold - 14,90 eur (180 gr vinyl black) ltd. 300 copies.
LP Gatefold - 15,90 eur (180gr vinyl colour) ltd. 200 copies.
Right in time for their March 2011 spanish tour supporting SCOTT KELLY, sevillian avant-doom metal trio ORTHODOX presents their 4th full lenght worldwide.
Nowadays Extreme Music tends to the repetition and copy of previous works from the bands that are referential inside the Metal scene. Bands with more than 20 years of career are commonly on the cover of the specialized Magazines. On this situation it is great to sometimes find that there are still bands that show personality, honesty and authenticity these days. This is the case of ORTHODOX, a band with a career of over 10 years and 3 albums released that now presents their latest called "Ba'al".
Orthodox have became a worldwide reference in the scene although, as the prestigious British magazine The Wire wrote:
"ORTHODOX were a metal band once, but they have become much bigger. At this point, everything they have in common with doom music or any other style of metal music is the sense of spirituality and their search of catharsis through rites" The Wire did not go wrong on their assessment. The new ORTHODOX album it moves again towards a search of spirituality and the sense of innovation that is part of their music. The album is composed by 5 tracks in which the band shows the improvements of the experience gained in their previous recordings. In order to reinterpret their own language one more time, the band adds more details and persevering in the intensity that makes them genuine and inimitable.
This time the band has concentrated all its strength and sound imagery into pieces that last in three of the five songs no more than six minutes. This means a new twist on to their particular way of presenting their work. Submitting their indomitable sound to this format has provided a metal accent to each track that, in a certain way, separates this album from their recent works on which they focused their efforts in the musical research.
The first song is an introduction that brings us back to the essence of the band, so that we can quickly identify their personal sound, while in the second track we go back to the days of "Gran Poder" -their first album-, and thereafter the band explores its roots to leave behind the search for alterations in their musical language and the emerging psychedelic and progressive atmospheres that appeared in their previous work "Sentencia". In "Ba´al", the band joins the best of their two facets, the most intense and metal and the one that flirts with free-jazz along tracks that last more than 20 minutes and that gave the band textures and a musical density that seems incredible for a trio.
Without any doubt this work sums up all the attributes picked by the band during their career, places them in a new starting point and give them a spectacular projection because their sound and musical ideas have yet to travel far beyond. ORTHODOX stills a long way on the path of musical experimentation and research.
DAMO SUZUKI & CUZO. Puedo ver tu Mente. CD/LP
The new CUZO album live collaboration with ex-CAN kraut legend DAMO SUZUKI. Available for pre-orders.
Release date: March 28th, 2011
CD - 11,90 eur (12 pages booklet, jewel box release)
LP Gatefold - 14,90 eur (180 gr vinyl black) ltd. 300 copies.
LP Gatefold - 15,90 eur (180gr vinyl colour) ltd. 200 copies.
DAMO SUZUKI, the legendary vocalist of the German band CAN, (with whom he recorded four of his most important records, Tago Mago, Future Days, Soundtracks and Bamyasi Ege), and the Spanish band CUZO are releasing in Alone Records, a live album recorded in one of their dates together last year.
The title of the album, ”Puedo ver Tu Mente” (I Can See Your Mind), reflects the experience of see live these two acts. Ahead of what usually it can be found on a standard live album, here there are songs that have less recognizable structure.
”Puedo ver Tu Mente” is the recording of a gig that took place on November the 4th 2009 in the small town of Huesca, where DAMO SUZUKI and CUZO met for the first time on stage. From here, the band and DAMO started a Spanish tour of 7 dates.
On the album we have a single piece divided in three movements from where many songs could emerge but that dilutes any trace of structure and links the musical passages with undeniable perfection to other states of mind, sometimes more relaxed and other times more electric. The pause between tracks is no more than the required oxygen intake before making another dive on the listening experience.
It seems quite obvious that is very difficult to fit compositional brilliance, technical virtuosity and creative talent in songs that last no more than 4 o 5 minutes, but what if those three components were released from the limitations of time and format?
This concept which is so close to the “free-jazz” definition, is the glue where the music of DAMO SUZUKI and CUZO mix together and sculpt a sound speech that is constantly mutating and fed back with bites of progressive-rock, stoner, psych, kraut, improvisation and many similar styles. Throughout the length of the album the peaks of intensity and changes of humor are happening continuously in response to the 2exposure of the mutual influence, the sum of both entities. This is precisely the purpose of the Damo Suzuki's Network through its "Never-ending Tour", where he plays with other musicians from the different countries. This keeps his discourse alive and dynamic, being reinterpreted every night, without egos among the artists who are really at the service of the music they are playing at that time.
This is what CAN and DAMO SUZUKI called “Instant Composition”; each concert is unique and therefore is a unique opportunity to create a new sound work.
That is what DAMO SUZUKI and CUZO made in their first gig together. Listen the album is to feel sorry for not having being present the day the album was recorded and an aware state for staying tune in order to know when and where will tour to introduce the album to the audience. Until then, ”Puedo ver Tu Mente” is also a notch in the gun of DAMO SUZUKI, and a great opportunity to enjoy the best weapon of CUZO, their live performance.
YOU CAN (PRE) ORDER AT:
www.the-stone-circle.com/store
gracias!
Alone Records/TSC
