Dalston Power Lunches – 8pm
Launch party for Maria & the Mirrors – Gemini Enjoy My Life
Archive for 04/03/2012
TONIGHT in Dalston!
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post Caribbean holocaust of disco
“That awesome cyberdog bass charging through your chest like a viagra rhino whilst little cocktails of voice trickle the ears in some post Caribbean holocaust of disco…”
Rotten Meats does Maria & the Mirrors right here.
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EP08 Wyrd Beautiful Thyme
EP08 Band of Holy Joy – Wyrd Beautiful Thyme
Limited edition 7” Vinyl & download – May 14th 2012
“Stand and watch lives disappear / Are these the days to be austere?”
Spring brings rebirth and with it the possibility of hope… May Day sees the emergence of Band of Holy Joy’s first new songs since their How to Kill a Butterfly album was released to universal acclaim at the close of 2011 (including album of the year at Beat Surrender)! And whilst that album moved through some dark places, Wyrd Beautiful Thyme finds love and life in chaos embracing the pockets of joy that can still be found even as the world spirals into hell. This beautifully illustrated 7” (their first since 1992) finds Johny and the band in ebullient mind and body – the title track is energised and gleeful with loose percussion, fuzzy synth, woody wah wah and enchanting backing vocals whilst the flip, A Clean White Shirt, is reflective and triumphant as they emerge sweetly out of “a terminally bad existence” and away from the mire. Wyrd Beautiful Thyme sees Band of Holy Joy continue to burn a path brighter than at any other time since they first formed.
How to Kill a Butterfly is still very much in rotation having received a full retail release on April 2nd (via Cargo) and the band are playing live on Saturday April 28th at 229 Venue in London as a pre-release party for the single.
Band Of Holy Joy
Andy Astle played guitars
Christopher Brierley played violin
Johny Brown sang vocals
William J. Lewington played drums
James Stephen Finn played bass and synths
Inga Tillere created visuals
special guests
Jen and Lucy from the band Something Beginning With L did backing vocals
Jon Clayton played cello
Peter Rollinson played trumpet
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Maria & the Mirrors
SERIOUSLY, i’m hemorrhaging joy on this one!
DROPS: 21st May 2012: Pre-order here.
Maria & the Mirrors are a London-based FFM trio who subvert the frantic overload of power electronics, dancehall and noise by injecting it with a luridly wasted shot of exotic glamour.
Collaborating with Mark Rutherford (one half of Kodiak, the Numbers-signed future-flash electronic duo who scored a hit with the celebrated Spreo Superbus earlier this year) Gemini Enjoy My Life is the follow-up to last year’s acclaimed Travel Sex EP and significantly up’s the production value of that raw blast whilst simultaneously pushing their noise to the point of rupture. It’s pure bliss-panic, sirens and sub-bass – an extreme carnivalesque collapse that will take your head off. Mudchute on the flip is, frankly, fucking terrifying – a possible nervous breakdown in the dancehall, a relentless pulverising captivating explosion of gabba gamelan and banshee anguish. In stark and surprising contrast Vindicatrix turns out a beautifully understated acid-house remix of the A-side as an exclusive download with the 12”.
Single Launch Party: 27th April 2012 – London, Dalston – Power Lunches
LIVE: Cut Hands, Maria & the Mirrors, The Lowest Form, Peepholes
DJ: Kodiak, Vindicatrix, Todd Hart, Jamie Upton, Brood Ma, No
Tickets: Here
HERE are some videos – 2 clips of the band live and the crazed orgiastic overload of a video for Travel Sex.
Notes:
2011 saw Maria & the Mirrors release their EP ‘Travel Sex’ to favourable hysterics from NME, Wire & the Quietus, tour Europe, play at Ray Davies’ Meltdown Festival, open the Postmodernism exhibition at London’s V&A Museum & get nominated for Best Electro Act 2011 in the inaugural Artrocker Awards. Their eclectic sound has been influenced by acts such as Throbbing Gristle, DAF & Lady Saw & likened to contemporaries such as Gang Gang Dance & OOIOO. Pending 2012 performances include Faust’s Avantgarde Festival (June) and Holland’s Incubate Festival (September).
Maria & the Mirrors feature:
Relentless double drum kit set up
Shards of piercing taped found sounds hanging off a Diwali riddim
Strikingly transportative fem vox
Harsh Industrial textures harnessed to an whirlwind mix of danceable styles – always banging.
PVC
Category: EP07 - Maria & the Mirrors /
Norman Juzzle
On the subject of Ronny Juzzle… this could only have come from the brilliant nut jobs at Norman Records:
Oh no! The toys have come to life and have taken over the factory, sealing all the workers in wooden crates suspended over a massive vat of glue, but wait…here comes Ronny Juzzle to save the day. They’ve not got to him yet, I guess…but they don’t seem to notice him at all and just carry on their reign of miniature destruction regardless. Hang on…is that…has he got a remote control? He’s flying up a tiny helicopter to the crates. He’s cutting through the ropes suspending them with his helicopter’s on-board laser cannon! Oh shit! The end.
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stream Warehouse Music in full…
For a limited period only, get your earholes round the future soundz of Infinite Livez and buy the album from here…
Category: EP04 - Infinite Livez /
Gentleforce at Norman Records
Here from Brian at the incomparable Norman Records - thank you 
A lovely tape from Eli Murray AKA Gentleforce here. I know nothing about the chap as my hotwired laptop is not intereneted up in any fashion so I’m sat here hungover and bewildered on my bed confronted with some seriously radiant and eerie dawntime drone and shimmering majestic scree which would suit an early morning’s investigating of unspoiled woodland glades. The digitized sound of nature unfurling around a sweet discreet techno pulse creates some delectable patterns in my mind, an enchanting aura iof hopeful and reflective moodscapery. There’s such a lush thought-provoking tapestry of rich peaceful sound being woven here as this live piece gradually encompasses smatterings of discreet chamber strings and eventually succumbs to a wall of grainy looming fuzzy swells as the beat ebbs away leaving just a flurry of singing bowls and eventually stately dark cosmic ponderings entice you into eerier realms. Later the piece evolves into a stumbling chiming folk-noir style thing with a fresh convergence of more implicit beats and some almost operatic vocals emerging from the ether. I’ve tried to convey here what a magical piece of work this is but as always words will never describe the sonic beauty of what I’m hearing here, a spiritual aural love letter to the light and dark of our hidden surroundings
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Ronny Juzzle shuzzle
you gotta dig this – plundertronically cut-up capers like some KeystoneSchaeffer – excellent review of Spaz-tec National Diploma in Horseriding over at the essential Rotten Meats blog…
it plays out in full like this:
This is a single tracked sluice bucket of digital debris from Ronny Juzzle. Chaos theoretics for the lugholes, as if wired chimps have broken into a radiophonic workshop and run amok only for the resulting fractals to be further mangled by an absent minded Stockhausen …
It’s incredible how much is crammed into this tiny offering… Two minutes in and it’s already exhausted most bands stock of ideas…… Further on, Juzzle shows no let up in the creativity stacks, zapping all over the place, dishing out the plundertronically cut-up capers like some KeystoneSchaeffer …
Bombarding your head with varying amounts of comical and sinister hues, causing plenty of joyous bewilderment for your grey matter to grapple with… This is seriously good derailment that you should definitely try (at least once).
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