Category: Live Dates

Artist: Bjørn Riis
Title: Fimbulvinter
Format: LP, CD, Digital
Label: Karisma Records
Distribution: Plastic Head Distribution
Genre: Progressive Rock
Release Date: 11/04/2025

Fimbulvinter by Bjørn Riis: A Journey Through Darkness and Light

Named after the legendary long winter that heralds Ragnarok—a time of both destruction and rebirth—Bjørn Riis’ new album, Fimbulvinter, is a profound and deeply personal work. Drawing from his own experiences with anxiety, Bjørn explores themes of hopelessness, paranoia, and despair, ultimately finding a spark of hope and gratitude in the darkness. “This isn’t an autobiographical album,” Bjørn explains, “but I wanted to share parts of my own journey and address a subject that I feel is both deeply important and still somewhat taboo.“

Musically, Fimbulvinter reflects Bjørn’s diverse influences, blending the atmospheric and introspective tones of progressive rock with the energy and swagger of the hard rock bands he grew up with in the early ’80s. Fans of Kiss, Black Sabbath, and classic progressive acts will find much to love in the album’s rich soundscapes. From the driving, anthemic energy of Gone —a track made for blasting on the open road—to moments of introspection and monumental heaviness, Fimbulvinter is a dynamic journey through darkness and light.

Bjørn takes center stage on the album, performing all instruments and vocals, while also enlisting contributions from talented collaborators, including Henrik Bergan Fossum (Airbag), Arild Brøter (Pymlico), and Kai Christoffersen on drums. Longtime partner and co-producer Vegard Kleftås Sleipnes also returns, ensuring the album’s production is as impeccable as its compositions.

With Fimbulvinter, Bjørn Riis once again demonstrates why he is a cornerstone of the progressive rock scene, delivering music that is as emotionally resonant as it is sonically captivating.

Tracklist
1. Illhug
2. Gone
3. Panic Attack
4. She
5. Fimbulvinter
6. Fear of Abandoned

Airbag live
25.04 – Winter’s End Festival, Chepstow (UK)
26.04 – The Dome, London (UK)
27.04 – Club Academy, Manchester (UK)
14.06 – Sentrum Scene, Oslo (NO)

Bjørn Riis live
17.10 – Cacaofabriek, Helmond (NL)
18.10 – DeBoerdrij, Zoetermeer (NL)

Links
Official: https://bjornriis.com 
Bandcamp: https://bjornriis.bandcamp.com 
Instagram: https://instagram.com/bjornriis
Facebook: https://facebook.com/BjornRiisArtistPage
YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/BjornRiisMusic
Label: https://karismarecords.no

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Artist: Moonya
Title: Faces
Format: CD, Digital 
Label: Atypeek Music
Genre: Dream Pop
Release Date: 08/11/2024

Surrounded by her machines, French one-woman phenomenon Moonya delivers dark electronic music that’s both fragile and powerful. The multi-instrumentalist singer gracefully blends vocals, guitars, keyboards, and live-looping into a dark poetic universe from which catchy melodies, organic arrangements, and a seldom-found scenic presence emerge.

After three EPs (Heaven, Eye and Golden Tree), Moonya will release her debut album Faces on Atypeek Music. On Faces she goes from darkness to the light. With english and french lyrics, each song makes us travel in a dream world, with melancholy and nostalgia, always takes us to hope. Ten songs for different images, different landscapes, different faces.

She shared the stage with AaRon, Kid Francescoli, The Handsome Family, Viagra Boys, Fatoumata Diawara, The Offspring and others. She has been likened to Grimes in the music press, but she’s very much her own creation, a unique artist using technology to replace the conventional band and present great performances entirely solo.

Tracklist
1. Ma nuit
2. Silence 
3. Shining 
4. I Am Somewhere Else
5. Emportée
6. Le cercle 
7. Pensées
8. Emergency
9. Save Me
10. La face du jour

Live
November 8, 2024: Provisorium – Nürtingen: https://fb.me/e/4Q68SPQQw
November 9, 2024: Halunkenburg – Hof: https://fb.me/e/1W37xsH44

Links 
Official: www.moonya-zik.com
Bandcamp: https://moonya.bandcamp.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/moonya.zik
Instagram: https://instagram.com/moonya.zik
Facebook: https://facebook.com/moonya.zik
Label: https://atypeekmusic.com/moonya

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Artist: Bissesvinet
Title: Blodager
Format: LP, Digital
Label: self-released
Genre: Experimental Rock
Release Date: 08/11/2024

Welcome to Blodager! Out of Gothenburg’s rocky Kungsten Studios, the four prophets from the plains of Denmark step down and prepare to preach to the people! In their colourful chasubles, the middle-aged cavemen confess to their god Bissesvinet. With them, the preachers bring a vinyl record with ten exalted visions, in the form of songs, about human folly and the futile desire for love. 

Bissevinet is a brand new encounter between two of the Danish music scene’s most unruly offspring: songwriter and singer Bisse and the experimental rock band Svin. Together they have created an expression that is electric and biting – like a blow to the chest – like a prophet’s divine revelation!

The collaboration was based on two simple dogmas: Svin composed the music and Bisse put words to it, alternately shouting and singing them as he pleased. This forced Svin to diverge from their typical instrumental soundscape, to allow space for screams and narrative elements. On the other hand, Bisse was forced to rely solely on his voice and lyrics within a musical realm he was unfamiliar with and unable to control. This artistic encounter, where everyone in their own way pulled up the anchor and surrendered to the rebellious sea of music, resulted in the ten revelations of songs that make up the album Blodager.

Bissesvinet comment: “Blodager is a place for the outcasts. In this bloody field, we stick our snouts in the mud and stir up all the cursed emotions of mankind. Join us for the outcasts, the unforgiven sins, the unholy and uncircumcised, the daughters and sons of perdition! We sing death laments for the strangers buried beneath our bloody ground and roar our anger, fear, scorn, envy, contempt, lust and hatred. We give vent to our shameful longing for violence, death and destruction. Let Blodager become a place of pilgrimage for those who weep. Those who are bad yet wanted it well. Come to us! Let us unite! Come to Blodager!“

In painter Joakim Drescher‘s disturbing vision of an album cover, we are introduced to the landscape of Blodager. We find ourselves on a plain at night where ghostly, overgrown lizards flutter around in the sky. The red earth is soaked in blood, the Danes’ detached houses are left looted and dilapidated, and hordes of mutated domestic pigs have broken out of the production halls and are now preying. Together with the harassed survivors of an unknown disaster, they are on a journey. As a small, peculiar entourage, they advance in this godforsaken night. In their glittering, colourful robes – purple as the sunrise, blue as the sky’s lapis lazuli, emerald green and topaz yellow – they are not helpless. They have seen the light. They have heard the angels! They are bringing an album. They are Bissesvinet!

Tracklist
1. Blodpenge   
2. Bud   
3. Dødsklage   
4. Shulamit   
5. Judasevangeliet   
6. Veråb   
7. Svinehyrden   
8. Grædemuren
9. Samson   
10. Harmageddon

Blodagerturen 2025
07. Feb. RAV • Brøndby, Dk
08. Feb. GIMLE • Roskilde, Dk
13. Feb. HUSET • Aalborg, Dk
14. Feb. RADAR • Aarhus, Dk
15. Feb. HARDERS • Svendborg Dk
20. Feb. GENERATOR • Ringkøbing, Dk
21. Feb. MOMENTUM • Odense, Dk
22. Feb. HOTEL CECIL • København, Dk

Links  
Bisse Instagram: https://instagram.com/showbisse
Bisse Facebook: https://facebook.com/bisseminven
Svin Facebook: https://facebook.com/SVINmusic
Svin Instagram: https://instagram.com/svinmusic
Svin Bandcamp: https://svin.bandcamp.com

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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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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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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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Artist: sleepmakeswaves
Title: It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It
Format: LP, CD, Digital
Label: Bird’s Robe Records
Distribution: MGM
Genre: Post-Rock
Release Date: 12/04/2024

Australian instrumental post-rockers sleepmakeswaves have announced they will tour Australia, Europe and the USA in support of their new album It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It, due out April 12, 2024 on Bird’s Robe Records/ MGM.

The new album was produced by the band themselves, at Golden Retriever Studios in Sydney, Australia. Written during the pandemic, it was originally recorded during 2022 just before the band embarked on a 3 month tour for their previous EP trilogy These Are Not Your Dreams. Further recording was completed in 2023, including string arrangements by Simeon Bartholomew (SEIMS). The record was then mixed by Andrei Eremin (Closure In Moscow, Tash Sultana, G Flip, Luca Brasi) in Philadelphia USA and mastered by Jeff Lipton and Maria Rice at Peerless Mastering in Boston USA.

The first single Super Realm Park, prefiguring the record as a whole, is a majestic return to the classic hallmarks of the band’s melodic post-rock sound, whilst introducing new production and arrangement elements. Fans of the band’s heavy bombastic aggression will resonate with tracks such as All Hail Skull and Ritual Control. They also shine with invigorated melodic and emotive performances and arrangements on tracks like Black Paradise and Terror Future. Retaining their signature approach to heavy dynamics and crescendos the band are still at their unmatched peak when they turn their hand to cataclysmic emotional epics such as the title track and the album closer This Close Forever. The band released a statement to fans, saying:

“The instrumental band sleepmakeswaves

Decided rock music they must save
In the year twenty twenty four
Fans were clamouring for more
So they dropped a new record
It’s a rave!”

The mysterious phase of nothingness, crucial to the smw creative process, is over: our new album is finally done. Thank you so much to all our listeners for your patience. It has been a slow but intense labor of love and we are proud of the songs on this record, and grateful for the many people who helped bring it to life. Hope to see you on the road in 2024, more show announcements to come, and we truly hope the new music we’re about to release resonates with you in the same way it does with us. – Love smw“

The band will kick off their world tour in Australia in April, playing shows in Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane with support from Taiwanese math rock legends Elephant Gym and fellow Australian post-rock veterans Meniscus.

sleepmakeswaves will then return to Europe in May to headline Belgium’s Dunk Festival, and North America to co-headline PostFest in Indianapolis in July. Further shows will be added.

Tracklist
1. All Hail Skull   
2. Super Realm Park   
3. Ritual Control   
4. Black Paradise   
5. Verdigris   
6. Terror Future
7. It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It   
8. This Close Forever

sleepmakeswaves Australian tour 2024
w/Elephant Gym (Taiwan) & Meniscus
Fri 26 April – Max Watts, Melbourne VIC
Sat 27 April – Manning Bar, Sydney NSW
Sun 28 April – The Triffid, Brisbane QLD
+ more to be announced

sleepmakeswaves UK/EU tour 2024
Sat 11 May – Dunk Festival, Zottegem BELGIUM
+ more to be announced

sleepmakeswaves USA tour 2024
25-27 July – PostFest, Indianapolis INDIANA
+ more to be announced

Links
Order: https://sleepmakeswaves.bandcamp.com 
Instagram: https://instagram.com/sleepmakeswavesaus
Facebook: https://facebook.com/sleepmakeswaves  
Label: https://birdsrobe.com 

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Artist: Manus Louis
Title: Club Copy
Format: LP, CD, Digital
Label: Igloo Records
Distribution: Broken Silence (GAS), Socadisc (France)
Genre: Experimental Pop
Release Date: 29/09/2023

Club Copy brings us a futuristic world dominated by standardisation, in which, your place on earth no longer matters. In Paris, Bangkok or Hanoi everything is the same. Visitors are doomed to find the same street, the same shops, playing the same music, frequented by people wearing the same clothes, made in the same places… 

However in one of these towns, a small oasis of resistance is emerging in spite of itself.

Club Copy, a small, outdated photocopying centre has been converted into an alternative venue.

Here, each photocopy generates new variations. Because of the obsolescence of the equipment and the technical incompetence of its managers, it is impossible to make a photocopy without deviating from the original. 

Initially on the verge of bankruptcy, the shop soon becomes a new place of resistance for the freaks….

Built on the ashes of Manu Louis‘ latest release (Front de Cadeaux’s remix of Internet), Club Copy bounces again to the sexy BPM of the slowed-down clubs. 

Manu is joined by an impressive cast of collaborators: Spanish singer from Las Victimas Civiles, Héctor Arnau; Brussels experimental jazz vocalist, Lynn Cassiers; and performer Vicente Arlandis offer their voices. Mastering by the cult Rashad Becker sculpts the bass and widens the space, and Spanish artist Escif’s hijacked covers plunge us into the heart of the beauty of the photocopy shop. Club Copy is undoubtedly the Berlin singer/producer’s most accomplished, touching and disturbing work to date.

Tracklist
1. Flou
2. Flu
3. Clone
4. Full
5. Peu
6. Economy
7. Winter
8. Encore 1x
9. Winner
10. Ecology

Club Copy Tour
14oct – Brussels (B) – Festival Francofaune @Un Peu
21oct – Dusseldorf (Deu) – TBA
22oct – Berlin (Deu) – Lark
26oct – Amiens (Fr) – L’accueil froid
27oct – Paris (Fr) – Café de Paris
28oct – Caen (Fr) – La demeurée
02nov – Valencia (Esp) – Centro Excursionista
03nov – Barcelona (Esp) – El Pumarejo
10nov – Charleroi (B) – Rockhrill
14nov – Birmingham (UK) – Centrala
15nov – Manchester (UK) – The Peer Hat
16nov – Newcastle (UK) – Cobalt Studio
17nov – London (UK) – Iklektik
19nov – Glasgow (Sco) – The Old Toll Bar
23nov – Chemnitz (Deu) Odradek
24nov – Dresden (Deu) – Hanse03
25nov – Leipzig (Deu) – Handstand &, Moral
09dec – Madrid (Esp) – El Juglar

Links  
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/manulouis
Official: www.louislouis.org
Instagram: https://instagram.com/manu_louis_music
Facebook: https://facebook.com/louislouis.org
Label: https://igloorecords.be

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