Month: June 2024

Yomi Ship “Feast Eternal”

Artist: Yomi Ship
Title: Feast Eternal
Format: LP, CD, Digital
Label: self-released
Genre: Experimental, Art-Rock/ Psych
Release Date: 12/07/2024

Yomi Ship are an instrumental psychedelic/progressive rock trio from Perth, Western Australia.

Drawing influences from experimental rock giants The Mars Volta and King Crimson, as well as the sounds of psychedelic space rock from early Pink Floyd, Yomi Ship have forged their own blend of experimental art rock, delivering soundscapes filled with unorthodox structures and rhythms, anchoring bass and dreamy melodies that are full of surprises.

Introducing Feast Eternal by Yomi Ship: a transcendent journey through ethereal landscapes and intricate soundscapes. Hailing from the vibrant music scene of Perth, Western Australia, Yomi Ship emerges with their debut album, a sonic odyssey that defies conventional boundaries.

Comprising Jarred Osborne on guitar, Jade Champion on bass, and Nick Osborne on drums, Yomi Ship crafts an ethereal blend of instrumental prog rock infused with elements of psychedelic, math, and post-rock. Their music weaves a tapestry of complexity, offering listeners an immersive experience from start to finish.

Feast Eternal is the culmination of Yomi Ship‘s evolution since their inception in 2016. From ambient and melodic passages to powerful prog rock sections filled with unusual time signatures and polyrhythms, each track invites exploration into realms both familiar and otherworldly.

Inspired by Japanese folklore, the album delves into the theme of transitioning to the afterlife, drawing parallels to the mythical realm of Yomi. Here, spirits linger after partaking in the feast of Yomi‘s hearth, unable to return to the land they came from.

With Feast Eternal, Yomi Ship invites you on a journey, intended to be consumed from start to finish as they traverse through the land of Yomi and encounter the inhabitants that live within.

Tracklist
1. Intro   
2. The Izoku   
3. Watch Out For The Water   
4. Oni   
5. Interlude I; Feast   
6. Ronin’s Lament
7. Of Agartha   
8. Premonitions   
9. Interlude II; Eternal   
10. Obakes Grotto   
11. Too Many Have Vanished Into These Woods (feat Chip Hazard)   
12. Night Parade

Yomi Ship to Join Plini on “Mirage Summer Tour 2024” across Europe
Thursday, August 1, 2024 – Petit Bain (Paris, France)
Saturday, August 3, 2024 – LA RAYONNE (Villeurbanne, France)
Monday, August 5, 2024 – Wizemann Club (Stuttgart, Germany)
Tuesday, August 6, 2024 – Das Bett (Frankfurt, Germany)
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 – Dynamo (Zurich, Switzerland)
Friday, August 9, 2024 – Hype Park (Krakow, Poland)
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 – Musikzentrum (Hannover, Germany)
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 – Kulttempel (Oberhausen, Germany)
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Friday, August 16, 2024 – ArcTanGent (Fernhill Farm, Bristol, UK)

Links
Official: https://yomiship.com
Bandcamp: https://yomiship.bandcamp.com   
Instagram: https://instagram.com/yomiship
Facebook: https://facebook.com/yomiship
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/15tGSRQIcaaUae1tuZsuL5
Label: https://birdsrobe.com  

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Vibravoid “We Cannot Awake”

Artist: Vibravoid 
Title: We Cannot Awake
Format: LP, Digital
Label: Tonzonen Records
Distribution: Believe International
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Release Date: 23/08/2024

Vibravoid are the big bang of German neo-kraut and psychedelic rock. 

Vibravoid has released 22 studio albums, countless live albums, singles and EPs over the last 35 years that reached top positions. Live At Finkenbach 2015 made it to No. 2 on the official vinyl sales charts, Live At Rheinkaut Festival stayed for several weeks in the Top 20 of the CD sales charts and climbed into the top 10.

Psych activist Dr. Koch founded the Light Show Society Düsseldorf back in 1988. Since the only thing missing was a suitable band for the light shows, the Vibravoid collective was founded in 1990. Already in the early 1990s, Vibravoid emerged as the most influential new group from Düsseldorf. For example, in the early phase of stoner metal and the resulting misuse of the term “psychedelic”, Vibravoid was invited to many stoner festivals. To the astonishment of the audience, Vibravoid presented songs by Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd, Silver Apples, CAN or the Beatles, interpreted as songs by Vibravoid because the style hardly differed. Likewise, the guests had never seen a “psychedelic light show” in the style of the 1960s to match the music – today all a standard in this genre.

As children of the flower power generation, Vibravoid only learned from the first wave of psychedelic and kraut rock, because what is marketed today as “psych and kraut rock” didn’t exist back then and had to be invented by bands like Vibravoid.

New album We Cannot Awake is the perfect soundtrack for THC legalization and Vibravoid is the essence of Düsseldorf genetics. They create musical fever dreamscapes that are stronger than LSD. We Cannot Awake is the In A Gadda Da Vida of Generation X. Vibravoid haven’t released a real longtrack for several records, but now the band is making up for this and adding a few more hits.

With Get To You, Vibravoid deliver the psychedelic earworm for every large-space disco. Grooving pop music with hymenic hooks meets the effects wall of the 1960s. The ideal music for any highway.

The band’s love of The Byrds is obvious from tracks like Nothing Is Wrong or A Comment On The Current Times – but the combination with Düsseldorf’s “Motorik Sound” is a completely new level on which psychedelic music can work. The End Of The Game still shows Vibravoid as the German masters of the fuzz effect. Ultra psychedelic guitar sounds and echo effects create a maelstrom that pulls the listener into the spell of the complex rhythm. Vibravoidare not stingy with creative ideas, but still shake themselves out of their sleeves after 35!

Side A closes with On Empty Streets and paints a dystopian picture, yet Vibravoid manage to crank up the pop factor so high that the riffs almost burn themselves into your consciousness… expanding it. All the sound effects are perfectly embedded, you hardly notice that this is actually highly experimental music in the sense of the Düsseldorf school.

We Cannot Awake completely fills side B with over 20 minutes. Musically, the listener is in for a very special experience. Vibravoid fuse their Düsseldorf sound with the year 2024 at the highest level. We Cannot Awake is a journey into the abysses of human existence and other depths of the outer cosmos. Driving beats and interstellar frequencies channel the primal fear of the unknown, because this music is dangerous. Sonic carpets of strychnine and psylocibin. Magical mushrooms. Time is running out. We cannot awaken!

Tracklist
1. Get To You   
2. Nothing Is Wrong   
3. The End Of The Game   
4. A Comment Of The Current Times
5. On Empty Streets   
6. We Cannot Awake 

Links
Facebook: https://facebook.com/vibravoidofficial
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@VibravoidOfficial
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5qXFseejEDd3JvZqap38os?si=p80o7SP4ReKjHnvYIl9YPw
Label: https://www.tonzonen.de

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Lars Bech Pilgaard “Folklórica”

Artist: Lars Bech Pilgaard
Title: Folklórica
Format: 2xLP (w/ Pantone + Obi-strip), Digital
Label: Momeatdad Records
Genre: Experimental/ Folk
Release Date: 30/08/2024

On August 30, 2024, Lars Bech Pilgaard will release the solo album Folklórica on momeatdad records. The release is celebrated with a tour with performances across the country. At the concerts, Lars Bech Pilgaard is accompanied by the visual designer Piotr Winievicz, who will design the concert space in a new format every night and create the framework for a sensual, intimate experience for the ears and eyes.

Folklórica will release on double vinyl with artwork by Andreas Korsgaard. The record will also be released digitally and is flanked by a documentary film created by Pilgaard‘s long-term visual collaborator Mathias Winther Kjeldsen. The film depicts the work with the music in the vulnerable creation process, where the string instruments are presented as soulful soulmates who tell the story.

Documentation from the studio and staging of improvisations in nature create magical bonds between the instruments, the music and the spirit. The poetic images document a sensuality from music’s embryonic stage, where the camera’s gaze for the creative artist’s inner world becomes part of the narrative of the work.

The album falls into four chapters on the vinyl’s four sides and consists of bowed guitar, prepared guitar, banjo and electric guitar. The music flows seamlessly between delicate bow strokes, acoustic, prepared guitars in polyrhythmic whirlwinds, primitive blues drone and ritualistic banjo serenades. Organ-sounding ambient electric guitar and bagpipe-inspired fuzz eruptions also fill the grooves with sound.

On Folklórica, Bech Pilgaard‘s fascination and attraction to folk music is staged, which, like a vein, becomes a crossroad for the meeting between the album’s abstract expression and concrete flow, and creates an ambitious masterpiece where the potential of string instruments is transformed through dialogue with deep folk musical traditions. The album will be an archive of experienced communication between people, nature and spirituality and an investigation of the power of music as a catalyst for the common human. As a reflection on the poetic abilities of music and folklore as a medium for new encounters between people, traditions and experiences.

Lars Bech Pilgaard has made a name for himself for a decade with his energetic and always sonically challenging guitar playing. Whether it’s as a sideman with Bisse, Anja Jacobsen, Marcela Lucatelli, Maria Faust, Mija Milovic or in some of Pilgaard‘s own ensembles SVIN, Klimaforandringer, or Slowburn, you’re never in doubt about the guitar’s owner. Lars Bech PIlgaard‘s music is in the borderland between noise, sacral nerve and organic improvisation, but Pilgaard‘s musical expression is in its basic form changeable and he cultivates unconditional space with room for the absolutely abstract and the perversely concrete. In December 2023, Pilgaard received two DMA jazz awards and in 2019 was nominated for a Danish Music Critics awards as musician of the year.

Tracklist
A1: Savn   
A2: K   
A3: Ek kveð    
A4: La Luz   
B1: Dancers   
B2: Varia   
B3: Dwellings   
B4: Ancestralism
B5: 11°11′N 4°17′W   
C1: Source of Life   
D1: Land of Fire, Winds of Smoke

Live
16/9: Release concert at Metronomen, Copenhagen (DK)
19/9: Radar, Aarhus, (DK)
20/9: TBA, Flensburg (DE)
21/9: Generator, Ringkøbing (DK)
24/9: Store Sal, Southern Danish Music Conservatory, Esbjerg (DK)

Links  
Instagram: https://instagram.com/lars_bech_pilgaard
Order: https://momeatdadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/folkl-rica
Facebook: https://facebook.com/momeatdadrecords

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Collapse Under The Empire “Non-Album Singles & Bonus Tracks”

Artist: Collapse Under The Empire
Title: Non-Album Singles & Bonus Tracks
Format: CD, Digital
Label: Finaltune Records
Distribution: Broken Silence
Genre: Post-Rock
Release Date: 09/08/2024

Collapse Under The Empire releases Non-Album Singles & Bonus Tracks on August 9th, 2024 from their massive 12x LP Box Set WORKS.

For the past 15 years Chris Burda and Martin Grimm have been presenting a genre mix of post-rock, soundtrack, shoegazing, ambient to ice-cold electronica. Since 2008 they have released an impressive number of studio albums, EPs and various singles to date.

Their music is now used in Hollywood trailers, such as Brightburn by James Gunn and in many documentaries. It’s also the perfect music to get better focus – whether being creative, working, or doing sports. That’s why they have been popular in the post-rock scene and other genres for so many years.

The previously unreleased tracks on Non-Album Singles & Bonus Tracks will be available on CD on August 9, 2024. Physically, it can only be purchased on the band website at https://collapseundertheempire.com as part of the ultimate 11x CD Bundle or 12x LP Box Set titled WORKS. 

WORKS is a very unique vinyl 12x LP Box Set, limited to just 200 copies. It has 12 vinyls with their complete discography including 114 songs and bonus features. Their largest LP box set ever. WORKS is also available on CD, including all releases from 2008 to 2024 on 11 CDs.

Tracklist
1. Anthem of 44   
2. Low   
3. Anomaly   
4. Abstracted   
5. Beyond Us   
6. Sacrifice (single version)   
7. Section I   
8. Drowning   
9. Diving into Deep   
10. Dragonfly   
11. Everything Disappears   
12. Arise (unreleased)
13. Echos (unreleased)   
14. Lost in Space (unreleased)   
15. In Amber (unreleased)

Links 
12x LP Box Set WORKS: https://collapseundertheempire.com/works
11x CD Bundle WORKS: https://collapseundertheempire.com/shop/-p590274229
Video “Making of WORKS”: https://youtu.be/KQWFMc6eEto
Offical: https://collapseundertheempire.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/collapseundertheempire
Youtube: https://youtube.com/user/collapseempire
Label: https://finaltune.com

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MEER “Wheels Within Wheels”

Artist: MEER
Title: Wheels Within Wheels
Format: 2xLP, CD, Digital
Label: Karisma Records
Distribution: Plastic Head Distribution
Genre: Symphonic Pop Prog
Release Date: 23/08/2024

Fronted by the captivating brother and sister duo Knut and Johanne Nesdal, MEER returns with their highly anticipated third album, Wheels Within Wheels. This new release is a masterclass in blending symphonic prog and intelligent pop, showcasing the band’s exceptional musicianship, intricate vocal harmonies, and grandiose melodies.

Following the critical success of their sophomore album, Playing House, released three years ago, MEER‘s latest effort expands their artistic horizons. While Playing House explored the intricacies of personal relationships, Wheels Within Wheels offers a broader perspective, delving into the complex interplay between individuals and the wider world. The band captures the electrifying energy of their live performances, creating songs that are both expansive and deeply personal, all while maintaining their distinctive sound.

Wheels Within Wheels represents a significant evolution for MEER. The album features tracks that reach soaring heights and moments of intimate reflection, resulting in their most dynamic and immersive work to date. With a runtime of just over an hour, it stands as their most ambitious project yet. Reuniting with producer Lars Gärtner Fremmerlid, MEER recorded the album at Ocean Sound Recordings in 2023, bringing their vision to vivid life.

The album’s title Wheels Within Wheels symbolises the hidden complexities beneath the surface, inviting listeners on a journey of discovery. This release promises to be an essential listen for fans of both symphonic prog and sophisticated pop music, solidifying MEER‘s place as a band of remarkable talent and creativity.

Tracklist
01. Chains of Changes
02. Behave
03. Take Me to the River
04. Come to Light
05. Golden Circle
06. Today Tonight Tomorrow
07. World of Wonder
09. Mother
10. Something in the Water
11. This is the End

Live
– 07 July: Havlystparken (No)
– 21 July: Night of the Prog Festival, Loreley Amphitheater, Bornich (Ger)
– 08 Sept: Two Days Prog +1 Festival, Campo Sportivo, Novara (IT)
– 20/21 Sept: Pulterkammer Festival (No)
– 27 Sept. Hunsfos Rock Festival (No)

Links
Official:  www.meerband.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/meermusic
Facebook: https://facebook.com/MEERmusikk
Label: https://karismarecords.no

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Ritual “The Story of Mr. Bogd – Part 1”

Artist: Ritual
Title: The Story of Mr. Bogd Part 1
Format: LP, CD, Digital
Label: Karisma Records
Distribution: Plastic Head Distribution
Genre: Progressive Rock
Release Date: 16/08/2024

One of the most legendary bands from the 90s Swedish progressive scene is finally back with a new album, 17 years since the last full-length. Ritual has often been a band with a concept, and their music has often been inspired by Tove Jansson’s novels about the Moomins. On their return, we’re invited into the strange story of the mysterious Mr. Bogd. And this fifth studio album is only part 1 of the story!

Since the formation in 1993, the band soon established a distinct progressive style of their own influenced by progressive rock and hardrock of the ‘70s as well as contemporary bands. They’ve always been song based, melodic and intense, with a great stylistic variation, and plenty of folk music influences seeping in. The latter feature is not least due to the band’s frequent use of acoustic instruments like bouzouki, mandola, whistles and the Swedish nyckelharpa (a keyed fiddle). On the epic The Story of Mr. Bogd – Part 1, Ritual is definitely continuing on this musical journey, and the new songs will hit old fans right in the heart. 

We’re extremely thrilled to have Ritual back with a new album, that will both charm and surprise both old and new fans.

Tracklist
01. A Hasty Departure
02. The Inn of the Haunted Owl
03. Dreams in a Brougham
04. Chichikov Bogd
05. Mr. Tilly and his Gang
06. Through a Rural Landscape
07. The Feline Companion
08. Read all about it!
09. Forgotten Qualities
10. The Three Heads of the Well

Links
Official: https://ritual.se
Facebook: https://facebook.com/ritual.se
Label: https://karismarecords.no

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