Frank Film, Frank MOURIS, 1973by shortanimatedworld Hills – Live at Daemonens Port (Hills live double LP... what more you need to know) Hills Landing - Across the sky (Gnoomes remix) (The mighty Gnoomes remix a track by US space dronesters 'Landing') Gnoomes
David Bowie - Blackstar (Some great track on this album to leave us with...true genius) David Bowie Guilhem Desq – Omen (This is stunning...now that is a nice FUZZ sound) Guilhem Desq
Kebnekajse - Resa Mot Okant Mal (Bass player from Goat turned us on to this 70s Swedish psych rock album) Kebnekajse
Julia Holter – Have you in my wilderness (Late to the game with this great album...musically it reminds us of Robert Wyatt and bits of Broadcast plus a whole load more) Julia Holter
This Heat - Reissues (Nice to have these lovely packaged reissues (saves the wear on the originals)...essential records that every home must not be without) This Heat Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – Cognition / Observation (The great Robert Lowe returns with another great slice of modular synth and african drum patterns) Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
Flowers Must Die – HÖGA NORD (We are huge fans of FMD as you know, and this picture disc from last year is still on heavy rotation in mission control...and they have just put up a ltd few more copies up on their site, BUY ONE QUICK!) Flowers Must Die Count Ossie – Man from Higher Heights (Simon Price from the Heads turned us on to this back in the mid nineties...minimal tribal dub with fuzz guitar...still a Rocket fave!) Count Ossie
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation first show of the year takes them to Vega in Copenhagen. So don't miss this great show tonight!!! More info can be found here: Live Europe ---
It is only two weeks away until Teeth of the Sea take the stage for the first time in 2016 with an incredible support in the likes of Ramleh. According to Baba Yagas Hut 3/4 of the tickets are gone so another sellout is on its way. If you don't have a ticket yet then you can get one here: Baba Yaga Hut ---
Danish site Ekstra Bladet asked Josefin Öhrn what are the five records that changed your life, her answers were (roughly translated): Josefin Öhrn : Five records that changed my life The concert current Swedish singer of a handful of albums that made a crucial difference Stockholm Josefine Öhrn + The Liberation played in the aftermath of the Grammy-nominated debut EP 'Diamond Wave' at last year's Roskilde Festival. Since it is acclaimed debut album 'Horse Dance' come, and now guests the back country with their psychedelic stoner-pop that sounds a bit like Hope Sandoval in front of The War On Drugs. On this occasion we have asked Josefin find five personal landmark plates out from the rack. Catherine Ribeiro + 2BIS: 'Catherine Ribeiro + 2BIS' (1969) I was crazy about this album, because I had never heard anything like it before. Catherine Ribeiro is a French / Portuguese artist. The music is hypnotic and very powerful. Catherine Ribeiro wrote with Patrice Moullet, who built his own instrument, called a 'kosmofon', which is a combination of a synthesizer and percussion, making music is very atmospheric. Her vote is totally incredible. She tells so many stories just by the sound of his voice. And so the way the songs are created on the events is very interesting, it is very avant-garde. I first heard a song in a playlist and wanted to hear more, but could not... Read the rest of the interview here: Ekstra Bladet ---
Fuzz Club have announced a new Monthly event at London Fields Brewery called Under the Arches. The event is label market by day and great live bands by night and the first night features Rocket fave Gum takes Tooth! So, we will have a stall selling our releases (+ exclusives at some events) and expect the odd Rocket band or two performing live. What Fuzz Club say: Under The Arches brings together a selection of like-minded independent record labels from the UK, US and Europe alongside the best local and touring bands that will take to the stage from 4pm for a full day of music, vinyl and good times. We'll also have streetfood vendors on site and craft beer tastings from London Fields Brewery, because hey, it's Hackney afterall. More info here: Under the Arches ---
After the success of Hey Colossus's last trip to Shipley the lovely people of Golden Cabinet have invited them back. They are playing with Diagonal Records Not Waving and Drmcnt, Rhys from Hey Colossus Acid solo project. More info from here: Golden Cabinet ---
It reads: It’s safe to say that it’s been an exciting year for Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation. Despite still being in their relatively early infancy, the Stockholm-based group have already been nominated for a Swedish Grammy award – which came as a result of their excellent debut EP Diamond Wave – and performed at the coveted Roskilde Festival, featuring on the Rising stage alongside other hotly-tipped Scandinavian artists such as Broen, Yung and De Underjordiske. Add to that repeated plays on BBC 6 Music, positive coverage from The Guardian, Noisey and Q, and the honour of being one of Lauren Laverne’s “headphone moments”, and you can see why they are currently one of Sweden’s most talked about rock bands. With a name that references the Bardo Thodol, their debut full-length was always going to be a psychedelic and deeply conscious offering, and it is one through which band leader Josefin Öhrn has attempted to pursue her interest in “mind-altering psychedelic music”, which she believes is a “powerful way to unveil those deeper oceans of being that are our true home”.... Read the rest of this great review here: Artefact ---
Once again Primavera has the festival line-up to beat all others!! And we are chuffed to say that Goat are part of it... More info from here: Primavera ---
This is what they say: In the haze of long festival nights there are moments in which sleep deprivation, booze, music and the general vibe all melt into something like a tunnel of vision. It’s been on of these moments in which we stumbled into the set of JOSEFIN ÖHRN + THE LIBERATION. What a match! The Swede’s hazey, hypnotic set slowly dragged us into her world of contemporary psychedelic music. It’s been one of those gigs that leaves you wondering at the end how the whole thing actually started out – a nice and gentle trip. After we already featured the music of Josefin Öhrn & The Liberations, especially recommended their splendid debut record Horse Dance, we now also strongly suggest to visit one of their gigs. You won’t regret it. See the full run down here: NBHAP Photo by @JanSchwarzkamp ---
It reads: HEY COLOSSUS Charlatan, Ghent, Belgium – 14 January 2016 These six-piece strong British underground noisemakers who are testing people’s ears for some time now hit my hometown last week and left us all with a memorable exorcistic hangover afterwards. Last August the band released their second album RADIO STATIC HIGH in only 7 months after sharing IN BLACK AND GOLD with the world earlier on. Their ninth LP in 12 years. Take notes, bloody Radioheads of this world, you lazy rich bastards. Now, first something you really should now about frontman Paul Sykes. He’s dressed like a modern middle class employee. Nice black shirt & matching trousers. An average young married father of three with a clean haircut sipping politely – from the glass! – wine during the whole set. Beware. The tall man’s looks and behaviour are only a clever camouflage to avoid being arrested by the merciless Secret Demons Haunting Police at midnight when he goes out for another walk to howl like a hurt wolf somewhere in a scary slum, between the dustbins and the garbage. He also wants his wife to believe he’s at an overseas management congress with his boss when he actually is barking madly in a venue in Belgium while his friends generate nasty knockout riffs and turning them into heavy, restless drones… Read the rest here: Turn up the Volume ---
After the amazing sets by Anthroprophh and Shit & Shine (+ Bong) on The Quietus's stage at last years Desert Fest, The Quietus have announced that Teeth of the Sea will be playing their stage this year. Buy tickets from here: Desert Fest (don't let the awful poster put you off!) ---
They say: 21st Century ‘indie’ labels increasingly make feeble assaults on the mainstream by being brattish digital marketers, hawking opaque, hollow copies of the dregs of whatever retro-Spotify playlists they think will give them the best Google analytics that month. So it is refreshing that we have Rocket Recordings – a truly independent label on a simple mission to bore a hole through our collective craniums by bringing the most experimental, expansive slabs of unique music from around the world. You’ll probably know them from Goat, the be-masked Swedish voodoo freaks (or collective of astute musicians having an almighty laugh at the Music Industry) who took Funkadelica as a starting point and took it off into the shamanic psychedelic dance beast which can be seen at festivals across the globe. And invariably their releases are as much earworms as they are statements of art. Here, on these three lovingly presented EPs (all in black and white, maze sleeve designs with printed cards in the inlay) they showcase that quality control by introducing three distinct bands who, in equal measure, make your hair stand up and empty your bowels to a blizzard of aural delights. Sound good? Of course it does... Read the rest of the glowing review here: Artrocker ---
Ahead of Fridays performance at Eurosonic Festival, Nordic Vibes has reviewed Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation album 'Horse Dance': – The cosmic otherworldliness of Swedish psyche troupe Josefin Öhrn and The Liberation is about to be unleashed on audiences in the Netherlands, with the band’s appearance at Eurosonic this Friday in Groningen. The gig at Minerva Art Academy is one that is not to be missed if you’re in town, as anyone who has been caught by the spell of the band’s debut album will no doubt concur. Released in November 2015 on Rocket Recordings, the LP Horse Dance is jam-packed with kaleidoscopic dreamy compositions. From the very outset with the first track of the album ‘Dunes’, a rhythmic pulsating sound drives forward, with Josefin’s captivating vocals making a hypnotic combination. Following on from this is the first single that was released from the album ‘Sunny Afternoon’, where a stronger, slightly more ferocious and dark sounding Josefin greets us which gives the feeling that the sun in question isn’t in the bright blue sky but deep inside us (‘golden halo round around your heart feels that you are strong, but you don’t know who you are, right here you belong’ / ‘the power of the sun lived in your heart, let it burn you alive right from the start’)... Read the rest of the review here: Nordic Vibes ---
It reads: It’s safe to say that it’s been an exciting year for Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation. Despite still being in their relatively early infancy, the Stockholm-based group have already been nominated for a Swedish Grammy award – which came as a result of their excellent debut EP Diamond Wave – and performed at the coveted Roskilde Festival, featuring on the Rising stage alongside other hotly-tipped Scandinavian artists such as Broen, Yung and De Underjordiske. Add to that repeated plays on BBC 6 Music, positive coverage from The Guardian, Noisey and Q, and the honour of being one of Lauren Laverne’s “headphone moments”, and you can see why they are currently one of Sweden’s most talked about rock bands. With a name that references the Bardo Thodol (also known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead), their debut full-length was always going to be a psychedelic and deeply conscious offering, and it is one through which band leader Josefin Öhrn has attempted to pursue her interest in “mind-altering psychedelic music”, which she believes is a “powerful way to unveil those deeper oceans of being that are our true home”... Read the rest of the great review here: Joyzone ---
Teeth of the Sea offshoot Hirvikolari have announced two new shows... They are supporting: Orlando Sunday 24 January Shacklewell Arms – London – Esben and the Witch Friday 11 March Green Store Door – Brighton Tickets ---
Hey Colossus share five things they love and five that really piss them off with Artrocker magazine and it is a really good read:. Read what they say here: Artrocker ---
Next week Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation will play the Eurosonic Festival. The band play the Minerva Art Academy on the 15th January, find out more here: Eurosonic You can buy the bands debut album Horse Dance here: Rocket Shop ---
Here's some great footage of Gnod live at Maximum Circus Festival in Berlin last year. And don't forget you can buy tickets for the amazing Gnod weekender on 9/10 April at The Lexington in London here: Baba Yaga Hut ---
It reads: 2015 was a prolific year for Hey Colossus, one in which the sextet have emerged as unlikely radio botherers on BBC 6 Music and – most impressively – have bucked contemporary trends by being a guitar band by releasing two killer albums (their eighth and ninth) in a single year. The band formed back in 2003, and have since become favourites of the UK’s underground scene with their records veering from drone metal to noise to – most recently – something closer than ever to classic psychedelic rock. Before their sold out show at Islington’s Electrowerkz, DiS spoke to guitarist Jonathan Richards and drummer Rhys Llewellyn about the band’s stellar year, and its history to date. DiS: So I guess we should start with the fact that Radio Static High has just come out, and it’s your second excellent album of the year. Is it a companion release to its predecessor, In Black and Gold? Did the two records emerge around the same time? Jonathan Richards: Pretty much… we did In Black and Gold last summer… Rhys Llewellyn: Then we went back into the studio and finished it up around Christmas, but then before Christmas we went in as well and recorded a couple of tunes from the new one… Read the rest here: Drowned in Sound ---
The great Baba Yaga Hut have another fantastic show lined up...this time a GNOD weekender, details are: Baba Yaga's Hut Presents: Gnod Weekender at The Lexington Gnod + Support Saturday 9 April (8:00 - 11:00) – Gnod Side projects & friends Sunday 10 April (3:00 - 11:00) Featuring: Negra Branca Dwellings Arkh Wagner Futuro Herrero Ayn Sof & more to be announced. –
Saturday £9 Sunday £8 Weekend Ticket: £15 Buy tickets here: Baba Yaga Hut – And don't forget these two other great Baba Yaga Hut Shows: Teeth of the Sea Electrowerkz 13th February Tickets Hey Colossus London Fields Brewery 10th March Tickets ---
To celebrate the start of the New Year Gnoomes are giving away an exclusive remix of the track 'Across the Sky' by the great Connecticut band Landing. This is what the band say: Celebrate the New Year with our remix of the song 'Across The Sky' by Landing! You can download it for free! Cheers! Released January 1, 2016 Originally from 'Circuit' by Landing, 2001. Mastered at Octopus Studio by Ruslan Tagirov Listen here:
Get Into This have published their Musical Round-up of 2015 and have said this: Label of 2015 Another close run affair in the label stakes as 2015 saw regular favourites 4AD, Temporary Residence, Sacred Bones and Bella Union all excelling. But in the end it was a two horse race between Heavenly and Rocket Recordings with the latter just pipping it with an interstellar twelve months with the likes of Gnoomes‘ Ngan!, Josefin Ohrn and The Liberation‘s Horse Dance, Hills‘ Frid, Teeth Of The Sea‘s Highly Deadly Black Tarantula, Gnod‘s Infinity Machines and the mighty Hey Colossus racking up with two beasts in a wild array of explosive albums which you couldn’t help get utterly lost in. For more jewels in Rockets’ crown, check out Patrick Clarke‘s label of love feature. Read Get into This full year round-up here: Get into This ---
