Carnival Star – Era Sessions EP

Era Sessions EP is Carnival Stars second release, and behind this project or band is ProducerMark from Scottland. The idea behind Carnival Star is to cooperate with other bands and musicians around the world. ProducerMark is the person, like the spider in the web who produce and write the music and connect the songs with the people out there. Some of the guitars on this album is played by Liquid Grey and bas Cruel Britannia.

Era Sessions EP is a tribute to bands from the past, it is a record filled with five different covers and finally a remix by Cruel Britannia of Union City Blue (Blondie). On this EP we can find ProducerMark and five different personalities around the world, contribute by singing and playing.



Union City Blue by Blondie, now vocals by Allegra Lusini from Italy.
Velveteen by Rose Of Avalanche, ProducerMark sings on this one.
Walk Away by Sisters Of Mercy, now vocals by Liquid Grey from Norway.
The Drowning Man by The Cure, now vocals by Zach Wiser who is a member of The Secret Post.
What Difference Does It Make by The Smiths, now vocals by Captain T from The Sovran.




It is a nice production of classical songs in a new package. I think this is something that everyone should check out. My favorite songs here are Velveteen and The Drowning Man.

And, don´t forget to check out Carnival Stars single, with My Coreen and Black Rain Down. Released in the end of 2013.
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Opera Multi Steel - Mauvais Oeil

Official OMS video clip directed by Alan Cassiano (2013)
Based on paintings and engravings by Etienne Azambre (1859-1933) and other french anonymous sulpician painters.
"Mauvais Oeil" is taken from the forthcoming OPERA MULTI STEEL album "Mélancolie en prose to be released on Wave Records.

Review for Opera Multi Steels album Apparences De L'Invisible:
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Ascetic: - I Burn

Director/Editing - Jamie Helmer.
D.O.P - Shaun Thatcher
Concept/Art Direction - August Skipper, Saxon Jörgensen, Vijay Sing, Jamie Helmer
Special thanks to Jenny Atwood for her immaculate performance.

Exploring themes of union and dissociation, impossibly forgotten moments, process become form, ASCETIC:

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Drawn from a collective obsession with fringe philosophy and post-new-age consciousness, Self Initiation evokes the moods & spaces of 4AD's early roster (Swans, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins), with a nod to contemporaries The Soft Moon, Factory Floor & Portishead's 'Third'. Thick pulsing rhythms erupt into glorious, cascading conclusion; from narcissistic rants, to sickly crooned anthems; from the outer regions of reality to the depths of the subconscious, a white shadow emerging from the process: ASCETIC.
Recorded, mixed & mastered at Birdland by Lindsay Gravina & Rob Long (HTRK, New War, Rowland S. Howard, Hungry Ghosts).
Ascetic: - Self Initiation will be released worldwide through OSCL Records on March 4th, 2013.

Opera Multi Steel – Apparences De L’Invisible (2014)

Opera Multi Steel is a band from France who recently had their 30 year anniversary as a band. Honestly, this is something new for me, first time I heard them was for some months ago when I played one of their track “mauvais Oeil” over Gothtune Podcast #20, taken from their album “Mélancolie En Prose” 2013.


However, I listen to their new album Apparences De L’Invisible, released 31 of mars 2014 and found it very interesting. I gave it some time, and I think I needed it because they are kind of different. They describe themselves as Darkwave / Cold Wave, I think I can find some Neofolk and New Wave inside this too. Sometimes they reminded me as a blend of old Dead Can Dance and Joy Division. The lyrics are on french and they play alot with their voices, like doing canons ect.

My favorite songs are track 3, “A L’Extrême Veille D’Un Novembre Imminent” and track 7, “Infini Sidéral”.



This video "Jardin Botanique" is from 1984,



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Interview with Astari Nite

We made a great interview with the band Astari Nite that can be found at onairtunes.com
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Astari Nite - Pyramids (video)

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Astari Nite is a band with a collage of New Wave, Darkwave, and Indie sounds from Miami FL.

Formed in 2008, the group consists of Mychael Ghost (lead vocals), Illia Tulloch (Drums), Michael Setton (Guitar), and M. Sallons (Bass).

Astari Nite has headlined numerous shows, as well as opened up for many national acts such as ColdCave, Stars, Assemblage 23, Modern English, Andy Rourke of The Smiths, Apoptygma Berzerk and Surfer Blood among many others.

Since forming they have put out three releases; their self titled Astari Nite (2010), Requiem Mass (2011) and their latest release Stereo Waltz featuring the singles Pyramids and I.O. 1987. Both of which can be downloaded at officialastarinite.bandcamp.com.

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The Nine Tears - Black Heart (Gothtune TV)

Black Heart is a Koure Nero cover of Gerardo Konte
The Nine Tears are:
Michele Perrella - Vocals and keyboards
Gerardo Konte - Cyber manipulator, backing vocals
Carlo Baldini - Bass
Gene Crazed - Guitars

Mix and mastering by Carlo Baldini
The Holy Hour Records 2012

Background:
The musical project The Nine Tears was born in June 2011 from the mind of Michele Perrella, who decided to give shape and substance to his solo compositions. Great friend and manager of Gene Crazed, the first one-man band Italian rockabilly, he offers to him to play the guitars in their songs, confident in his musical experience, result of years spent on Italian and international stages and of a remarkable musical culture. The agreement turns out to be good when their first song, Killing Time, realized as The Nine Tears, immediately gets many positive responses from fans of the genre, experts in the field and another one-man band, Carlo Baldini, creator of the darkwave project My Terminal And The Trip. Impressed by the creativity and flexibility demonstrated by his compositional and instrumental solo project, Michael invites him to play bass in the Nine Tears. Carlo accepts and the arrangement proves successful with him, his bass lines matches perfectly with the sound path taken by the duo, which from that point officially became a trio. The band starts immediately to work to make his first EP to be released within the month of October for The Holy Hour Records. The band, in early 2012, it instantly goes to work to record his first full length and "engages" the musician and remixer Gerardo Konte. With his support participate at the Gothic Room 2012 and start to realize the single ERMOY anticipating the release of Candid shade of pleasure.

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Interview with The Nine Tears (by Dj Valhalla, Gothtune)
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ODOKURO by Aurelio Voltaire ( Full Movie -OFFICIAL )

Läcker animation, värd att se.



The skeleton of a rat-monkey comes to life in a room full of cursed objects in this Gothic tale with a sci-fi twist. This is the 5th film in the award winning 'Chimerascope' series by MTV and SY FY channel station ID veteran, Aurelio Voltaire. Narrated by electro-Goth, New Wave icon, Gary Numan.

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VANITY - UNDER BLACK ICE

VANITY is an Italian based band including members from Switzerland, Palestine and Italy. Their first full lenght OCCULT YOU is an album inspired by European culture and a challenging combination of Doom, Black Metal, Indie, New Wave and Gothic with fascinating vocals and shades of electronic. Facebook

THE BEAUTY OF GEMINA - PROPHECY (OFFICIAL CLIP)

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Agent Side Grinder - Releasefest - 9 mars

Synthpunkarna Agent Side Grinder släpper den 22:e februari sitt nya album "Hardware” och passar på att fira detta med en releasefest på Debaser Slussen.

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