Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation – Mirage (Second album for Rocket from these amazing band from Sweden) Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation
Various – For Nepal (Charity double LP compilation featuring Gnod, Hey Colossus, The Myrrors and many other great bands) For Nepal Goat – Words (live in Stockholm) (Split single on the great God Unknown records, backed up with Bonnacons of Doom..only 300 copies!) Goat Tomaga – The Shape of the Dance (One of our fave London bands creates a brilliant second album...if you get teh chance to see them live, take it, you won't be disappointed) Tomaga
Horseback – Dead Ringers (A fantastic album that has not left the turntable...The Quietus described it as 'sounding like Ian Curtis fronting Amon Düül II in the Mos Eisley Cantina'...it doesn't at all but we can't beat that as adescription) Horseback
Kungens Män – Poppa utan lock (Nice live track by this new Stolkholm psych band…turned onto us by Hills) Kungens Män Folke Rabe – Was?? (Amazing minimal Swedish electronic drone) Folke Rabe Michael Sena – Under Ripples (Nice synth grooves 70s psych surf movie) Michael Sena The Oh Sees – The Dream (Their albums have been getting a lot of plays this month - great stuff) The Oh Sees Günter Schickert - Überfällig (Great album that has had several appearances on our playlist..essential) Günter Schickert Hair and Skin Trading Company – Jo in Nine G Hell (We still love this post 'Loop' project..all their releases are well worth tracking down) Hair and Skin Trading Company Burl - Mona (Great drone/noise grooves from this Bristol band...well worth checking out) Burl Goram – Ashes (Another band from Bristol, this time some stonerdoom featuring Hugo from The Heads) Goram Kandodo/Mcbain - Lost Chants/Last Chance (Talking of the Heads (no pun intended), some of this new Kandodo/Mcbain album is pretty good) Kandodo/Mcbain
- You can also listen to a selection of these tracks added to our Rocket Recordings Probes Spotify playlist from Jan 2016 to now:
Thanks to everyone who applied to be in the audience for next Sunday's Goat performance that is bring filmed for a motion picture. The response for the ltd places was immense and the movie's production team were overwhelmed with the amount of people they had to choose from. So, we are sorry to say if you haven't received an email from us today, then it means you were unsuccessful but we thank you so much for applying. The band have lot's of shows lined up, so make sure you come and see them at one of the following venues: 02 Sep / Aarhus festival / Denmark 03 Sep / End of the Road Festival / UK 07 Oct / Babel / Malmö / Sweden 08 Oct / Den grå hal / Köpenhamn / Denmark 10 Oct / Stadtgarten / Köln / Germany 11 Oct / Ampere / München / Germany 12 Oct / Berghain / Berlin / Germany 13 Oct / Karlstorbahnhof EnjoyJazz / Heidelberg / Germany 14 Oct / Cabaret Sauvage / Paris / France 16 Oct / Desertfest / Antwerp / Belgium 17 Oct / All Saints Church / Brighton / UK 18 Oct / Coronet / London / UK 19 Oct / SWX / Bristol / UK 20 Oct / Riverside / Newcastle / UK 21 Oct / 02 ABC / Glasgow / UK 22 Oct / Albert Hall / Manchester / UK 11-12 Nov / Oslo Psych Fest / Norway 23 Nov / Stockholm / Debaser Medis / Sweden 24 Nov / Gothenburg / Pustervik / Sweden ---
Flowers Must Die played their first UK shows at the beginning of the month...and here, you can watch their full set at the great Supernormal Festival. Enjoy...then watch other sets from the festival by Gum Takes Tooth, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and others here. IMPATV ---
Lauren Laverne gave new Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation track 'The State (I'm In)' it's first public airing today on here BBC6 Music morning show. You can listen to the track here: Lauren Laverne The track is taken from Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation new album Mirage which is released on 14 October. See the band live: 23 Sep / Liverpool Psych Festival / UK Autumn tour (Supporting Goat): 07 Oct / Babel / Malmö / Sweden 08 Oct / Den grå hal / Köpenhamn / Denmark 10 Oct / Stadtgarten / Köln / Germany 11 Oct / Ampere / München / Germany 12 Oct / Berghain / Berlin / Germany 13 Oct / Karlstorbahnhof EnjoyJazz / Heidelberg / Germany 14 Oct / Cabaret Sauvage / Paris / France 17 Oct / All Saints Church / Brighton / UK 18 Oct / Coronet / London / UK 19 Oct / SWX / Bristol / UK 20 Oct / Riverside / Newcastle / UK 21 Oct / 02 ABC / Glasgow / UK 22 Oct / Albert Hall / Manchester / UK (w/ Hookworms, Jane Weaver, Mugstar) ---
Ahead of Goat's performance at this weekends Today's Festival the band have been interviewed by Beat & Style magazine. If you read Italian you can read the interview here: Beat & Style ---
They say: Gnoomes Defining themselves as ‘stargaze’ – a state in which you lie on the grass, tell funny stories to your friends, and watch the shooting stars – it is here that the Russian trio dislocate themselves from genre tags designed for the associative algorithms of digital space. Instead they enter the organic waves of an open mind that celebrates authentic connection and release. In the constellation of sound they would appear as a new configuration of (as yet unnamed) lonely angels; while the oracle would map them on Friday, September 23 as having Euphoria rising in the sky just above Camp and Furnace. Gnoomes‘ relationship with their isolated Russian location in Perm has enabled them to build a creative ethos that values the power of the imagination, and the promise of new beginnings. See them at Psych Fest for a lucid dream and that uncanny feeling you’re hearing myths that haven’t reached our solar system yet. Josefin Ohrn and the Liberation Josefin Ohrn and the Liberation’s electro beats look set to provide the pulse to this year’s festival. The imminent release of their forthcoming album Mirage will enjoy an already established fan-base of the Stockholm band. They have described this new experimental offering as capturing ‘the power of being completely lost and thriving on it’. Josefin Ohrn and the Liberation are the dreamy journeymen of the half-state; the band’s name references the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the limbo-like state that occurs before a soul reaches full liberation. It is fraught with approaching delusions that one must resist. In the case of Mirage the hypnogogic is something to be identified with. They request your presence for these ‘elegant nocturnal serenades’ at Psych Fest. See the full list here: Get into This And don't forget, we also have the great FLOWERS MUST DIE playing!!
Gnod are playing a great alldayer in Sheffield this Saturday as show on the poster above. More info here: TAAE Rare Synergy LAN Gathering And don't forget, also this weekend... Teeth of the Sea play Seachange festival in Totnes More info here: Seachange Goat play Today's festival in Torino, Italy. More info here: Today's ---
To celebrate this weekends Rocket Recordings All-dayer, we have put together a Spotify playlist featuring classic rocket tracks from the back catalogue, featuring one track from each release that is available. Enjoy!!
And don't forget to buy a ticket for this weekend's Rocket All-dayer: Rocket Recordings All-dayer: Teeth of the Sea Gum Takes Tooth Necro Deathmort Housewives Anthroprophh Kuro Coldnose Plus launch or Rocket Intergalactic Pale Ale (image above), large merch area and BBQ Saturday 20 August / Corsica Studios
Magazine 'Loud and Quiet' asked us to create an 'Apple' playlist for them for their 'Mates with taste' series You can listen to the mix that contains some fave tracks that are and have been big influences on Rocket here: Loud and Quiet ---
Ahead of Anthroprophh's show at the Rocket All-dayer this Saturday, here is a full show they played recently at the Star and Garter in Manchester. Tickets for the Rocket All-dayer here: Baba Yaga Hut ---
Goat are playing a very special performance on Sunday 4th September in a warehouse space near Stratford in East London. The show is being filmed as part of scene from a motion picture being made and we need 100 Goat fans to be in the audience. All you have to do is send us your: - Name - Email address - Age (must be over 18) - Sex If more than one of you want to apply then please send us both persons details in the same email. Max of two per application. The 100 lucky Goat fans will be selected by the film's production team. Only requisites are: - you need to be at the warehouse in the Stratford area by 11:00am (actual time tbc) - you are happy to be filmed and to sign a simple release form - you are more than willing to 'lose your shit' when they play All filming will be finished by 2pm. If this interests you, please send the required details to: goatinmovie@gmail.com All applications have to be sent to us by midnight Wednesday 24th August, any applications after this will be ignored. The lucky 100 will be notified on Monday 29 August. However if you don't hear from us, it unfortunately means you aren't successful but you can still see Goat in full flight and playing tracks from their highly anticipated new album 'Requiem' at the following shows: 28 Aug / Todays / Torino / Italy 02 Sep / Aarhus festival / Denmark 03 Sep / End of the Road Festival / UK 07 Oct / Babel / Malmö / Sweden 08 Oct / Den grå hal / Köpenhamn / Denmark 10 Oct / Stadtgarten / Köln / Germany 11 Oct / Ampere / München / Germany 12 Oct / Berghain / Berlin / Germany 13 Oct / Karlstorbahnhof EnjoyJazz / Heidelberg / Germany 14 Oct / Cabaret Sauvage / Paris / France 16 Oct / Desertfest / Antwerp / Belgium 17 Oct / All Saints Church / Brighton / UK 18 Oct / Coronet / London / UK 19 Oct / SWX / Bristol / UK 20 Oct / Riverside / Newcastle / UK 21 Oct / 02 ABC / Glasgow / UK 22 Oct / Albert Hall / Manchester 11-12 Nov / Oslo Psych Fest / Norways ---
Times have been revealed for Saturday's Rocket All-dayer at Corsica Studios Go here to find out more: Rocket All-dayer Rocket Recordings All-dayer
Teeth of the Sea Gum Takes Tooth Necro Deathmort Housewives Anthroprophh Kuro Coldnose Plus launch or Rocket Intergalactic Pale Ale, large merch area and BBQ Advanced tickets £12 from here: Baba Yaga Hut ---
We’re pleased to share “Alarms,” the latest offering from GOAT’s forthcoming longplayer, Requiem, which is out October 7th. – listen to the track above “Alarms” highlights the folk influence that runs through Requiem, with acoustic guitars and hand-percussion instruments driving the song, while retaining the hypnotic vocals and fuzz-drenched guitar leads the band is known for. Requiem finds GOAT focusing more on their subdued, bucolic ritualism than psilocybin freakouts, with a pronounced folk-rock influence pervading the album. But GOAT hasn’t foregone their fiery charms—tracks like “All-Seeing Eye” and “Goatfuzz” conjure the sultry pulsations that ensnared us on 2012’s World Music and 2014’s Commune. The band will be playing tracks from the album at the following shows: Aug. 28 - Torino, IT - Todays Sep. 02 - Aarhus, DK - Aarhus Festival Sep. 03 - Wiltshire, United Kingdom - End of the Road Festival Oct. 07 - Malmö, SE - Babel Oct. 08 - Köpenhamn, DK - Den grå hal Oct. 10 - Köln, DE - Stadtgarten Oct. 11 - München, DE - Ampere Oct. 12 - Berlin, DE - Berghain Oct. 13 - Heidelberg, DE - Karlstorbahnhof EnjoyJazz Oct. 14 - Paris, FR - Cabaret Sauvage Oct. 16 - Antwerp, BE - Desertfest Oct. 17 - Brighton, UK - All Saints Church Oct. 18 - London, UK - Coronet Oct. 19 - Bristol, UK - SWX Oct. 20 - Newcastle, UK - Riverside Oct. 21 - Glasgow, UK - 02 ABC Oct. 22 - Manchester, UK - Albert Hall Nov. 11-12 - Oslo, NO - Oslo Psych Fest Here is a short trailer the band made for the track: ---
They say: Teeth Of The Sea (Saturday 27th, SDAC, 18:45) Another band who've been confounding expectations since their first release Orphaned By The Ocean dropped way back in 2009, they're also one of the few bands under the current psych-rock umbrella that actually embrace the original mantra of psychedelia in constantly experimenting and pushing things forward. What's more, their live show is a spectacle that demands to be witnessed in all its indefatigable glory. Read the full piece here: Drowned in Sound ---
Tickets from here: The Exchange And don't forget Anthroprophh are also playing the Exchange on 22nd September with other Rocket bands Gnoomes (Russia) and Flowers Must Die (Sweden): Tickets for that show you can get here: Rocket Party at The Exchange ---
Dom Thomas from Finders Keepers and Whyte Horses put together a mix for Stuart Maconies Freak Zone and it was aired last night. The mix contained the amazing new Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation tracks 'In Madrid/Radio Lollipop' which are from teh bands forthcoming second album Mirage Listen to the mix in full here: 6Music And then preorder your copy of Mirage here: Rocket shop ---
Here is our 11th instalment of Multiple Exposures, the series where we ask people to give us a list of their 15 favourite pieces of repetitive music. This time we have a great list from Alessio Gastaldello from the Italian psych band Mamuthones. Alessio's List consists of: CAN – Yoodooright First krautrock track I loved. That first listening was so important to me that my e-mail address is still yoodooright@XXXXXX.com . CAN were capable to mix effortlessly the sheer physicality of funk and a more intellectual approach to music that is still unparalleled: James Brown meets Stockhausen indeed (without the boring bits). CAN Velvet Underground – Some kinda love Neither my favourite Velvet song nor their most repetitive one (what about the “What goes on” version out of the “1969” live album?). But when I saw them in 1993 (and I was a still very impressionable kid), their version of this song just floored me. Moe Tucker stood behind her kit, like a worker at his desk, and started mercilessly hammering the bass drum with the right hand while holding herself up with the left one. She just did this “tum-tum-tum” thing for 10 minutes straight. I think she is the best drummer of the world. Velvet Underground Neu! – Hallogallo Because it must be present in such a list! Neu! Giusto Pio – Motore Immobile Giusto Pio was a long-standing collaborator of Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato. “Motore Immobile” is the side-long title track of an album released by Cramps Records (Area, Arti & Mestieri etc): when I had the chance to listen to it with Makoto Kawabata, he just dryly commented: “Very minimalistic!”. Giusto Pio Pink Floyd – Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun Pink Floyd are the first band I loved when I was fourteen. I think I lost part of my QI listening to the “At Pompeii” version too many times… generally chanting to myself “Set the controls for the heart of the sun… ahahaha Set the controls for the heart of the sun” (I still do this!). Pink Floyd Manuel Goettsching – E2E4 I don’t like going to disco but I can appreciate some club music… especially if it is made by a great musician like Manuel Goettsching (I was tempted to put Ash Ra temple’s “Flowers must die” in the list but there’s already enough mind-damaging krautrock on it so I went for some krautsynth). Manuel Goettsching Adriano Celentano – Prisencolinensinainciusol Adriano Celentano is one of the most popular Italian singers. In 1972 he recorded this “Prisencolinensinainciusol”. The song finds Adriano at the best of his idiot savant persona: hilarious fake English rapping, killer groove, great horn arrangement: to get the full experience just watch him dance here Adriano Celentano Talking Heads – The Great Curve It’s very difficult to pick only a track from the “Remain in light” album. Each song is a perfect repetitive song. I chose this one because I love the way they are able to add layer after layer of intensity while keeping everything under control (and yes, Andrew Belew is one of my favorite guitarists: check also King Crimson’s “Sleepless”, especially the Kevorkian club remix, for some truly trance-like NY disco). Talking Heads 23 SKIDOO – The gospel goes to New Guinea I discovered 23 Skidoo only some years ago, but what a discovery! Dark, tribalistic wave dance that today sounds even fresher than in the early Eighties. 23 SKIDOO Einstuerzende Neubauten – Interimsliebenden I love them. I chose this because it is the first EN track I heard and it reminds me of my first visit to Berlin. Good singing by Blixa, great percussion work. Einstuerzende Neubauten The Cure – A Forest Grey, water-coloured psychedelia from another of my favourite bands. The hypnotic bassline is of course ultra-classic, Tolhurst’s less than “less is more” drumming gives a new meaning to the word “minimalism”. When we were kids, we used to challenge each other in singing “again and again etc” without taking breath. The Cure Miles Davis – On the Corner The long suite on the first side of this album is a completely stunning tour de force of two-note bass funkiness paired with some of the most distorted guitar-playing this side of Funkadelic’s “Maggot brain”. I guess at the time it sounded like a crazy jump into the unknown: today, it sounds even more futuristic than in 1972. Miles Davis Popol Vuh – Aguirre Another krautrock track? Yes… however it’s amazing! Popol Vuh The Stooges – We will fall The “Oh gi ran ja ran” chant is like a hellish version of the “Nam myoho renge kyo” buddhist invocation. This song manages the trick to be absolutely mesmerizing and at the same time totally stupid, in a bored-teenager-stoned-on-his-sofa way: basically the unholy marriage of avant-gardish pretentions and wild American garage rock that made the Stooges so special. John Cale’s viola is just the icing on the cake. The Stooges Ramones – Now I wanna sniff some glue Another slab of teenage American boredom at its best/ worst: “Now I wanna sniff some glue/ Now I wanna have somethin’ to do” (ad libitum). Nevermind Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti, this is real poetry (especially if combined with Johnny Ramone’s chainsaw guitar noise). Ramones Image by Joe McHugh and East Totem West ---
Gnoomes first show of their UK tour will be at The Purple Turtle in Reading: BE NICE FOREVER Presents: Gnoomes La Trappistine Vinyl Staircase
The Purple Turtle / Reading 20 September (Free Entry) Details here: FacebookPurple Turtle
- The full list of tour dates so far are: 20 Reading - Purple Turtle 21 London - Birthdays (w/ Flowers must die) 22 Bristol - Exchange (w/ Anthroprophh/Flowers must die) 23/24 Liverpool Psych Fest 25 Glasgow – Broadcast 27 Norwich – Arts Centre 30 London - Flashback Records + more still TBA ---
As things in Turkey appear to be going from bad to worse, website Bantmag approached wesetern artists to create a 'mixtape for Turkey', as bands won't travel there, at least it shows that western bands are still thinking of their Turkish sisters and brothers. Goat put together the following mixtape: A Mixtape For You #20: Goat 1- Özdemir Erdoğan – Gurbet 2- Karelia – Peltoniemen Hintriikan Surumarssi 3- Arbete & Fritid – Dorisk Dron 4- Skäggmanslaget – Polska Efter Nils Hägg 5- Ustad Vilayat Khan, Bismillah Khan – Mishra Bhairavi 6- Folke Rabe – What?? 7- Byard Lancaster – It’s not up to us 8- Folque – Ravnene 9- Pandit Pran Nath – Raga Shudh Sarang 10- Merrel Fankhauser and HMS Bounty – A Visit With Ashiya And you can listen to it here: Bantmag ---
Goat have announced they are playing The Riverside venue in Newcastle on 20th October as part of their european tour
Purchase your tickets here: See Goats full tour now reads like this (support on all shows is Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation): 07 Oct / Babel / Malmö / Sweden 08 Oct / Den grå hal / Köpenhamn / Denmark 10 Oct / Stadtgarten / Köln / Germany 11 Oct / Ampere / München / Germany 12 Oct / Berghain / Berlin / Germany 13 Oct / Karlstorbahnhof EnjoyJazz / Heidelberg / Germany 14 Oct / Cabaret Sauvage / Paris / France 16 Oct / Desertfest / Antwerp / Belgium 17 Oct / All Saints Church / Brighton / UK 18 Oct / Coronet / London / UK 19 Oct / SWX / Bristol / UK 20 Oct / Riverside / Newcastle / UK 21 Oct / 02 ABC / Glasgow / UK 22 Oct / Albert Hall / Manchester / UK (w/ Hookworms, Jane Weaver, Mugstar) 11-12 Nov / Oslo Psych Fest / Norway ---
We are extremely excited toannouncethatJosefinÖhrn + The Liberation are to release a new album called 'Mirage' on 14th October.
You can listen to the first track to be revealed from the album called 'In Madrid / Rainbow Lollipop' at the bottom of this post . Pre-order the ltd edition LP on 'Holographic Mirrorboard vinyl' plus CD here:Rocket
Pre-order download of album via iTunes and get an instant grat of Rainbow Lollipop: iTunes - JOSEFINÖHRN + THE LIBERATION - MIRAGE Taking their moniker from the notion of ‘Liberation Upon Hearing In The Between’ from the Tibetan Book Of The Dead,JosefinÖhrn + The Liberation’ took little time to make their mark on the wider world, brandishing a radiant sound that stands effortlessly apart from the increasingly staid and often paradoxically predictable world of modern psychedelia. Having already been nominated for a Swedish Grammy with their debut EP, Diamond Waves, their full-length 2015 debut on Rocket Recordings, Horse Dance marked out a territory in which beguiling repetition could sashay with sweet pop suss, melodic flourishes with experimental intensity, and it was summarily rapturously received on arrival, making new fans like 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne and earning them appearances at Roskilde Festival and Eindhoven Psych Lab. Yet clearly this was only the beginning of a journey of discovery ,and few would have guessed how the band’s sound would quickly evolve into still more enchanting and enlightening strains. Their second effort Mirage, which follows a mere year after its predecessor, sees the band sculpting sprawling, hypnotic jams into elegant nocturnal serenades with such serendipity that their actual creation remains a little hazy even to themselves. “We agree on not remembering very much about how these tracks came about, that all of them were written on the road and that most of them came fully formed” note the band. “Most were really long to begin with, but we found it relieving to break away a bit from the mandatory psych jams a little bit. We also just realised that none of them were written in daylight, which might be why memory is so elusive.” Indeed, this hypnagogic approach seems to fit well with the primary inspiration for the five-piece, which centred on ‘the state where dreams, visions and the present are entwined’ - the domain of surrealists and mystics, not to mention cinematic epiphanies such as Morgiana, Daisies and Tarkovsky’s Solaris. True to form, Mirage see the band taking a chic tradition of avant-pop that extends all the way from Serge Gainsbourg and Françoise Hardy to Broadcast and Saint Etienne, and warping it mercilessly to their own darker ends. Whilst the brooding yet sultry ‘Sister Green Eyes’ is no less than a sharp slice of velveteen motorik-pop and ‘Looking For You’ reinvents three-chord garage-rock attack with mighty finesse, The Liberation are just as comfortable dealing out the heavy-lidded and electronically-driven ‘In Madrid’ or the dive in the hallucinatory deep end of ‘Circular Motion’, on which they’re aided and abetted by Lay Llamas’ Nicola Guinta. Fresh excitement for the band lies in wait, courtesy of a UK tour with Goat and an appearance at Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia, yet amidst the psychic forces responsible for this kaleidoscopic effort who can say what will follow. “Horse Dance was very much about conjuring the strength needed to cut ties” the band elucidate. “Mirage may be about having left but having no clue what's next - the power in being completely lost and thriving on it” Yet the seductive splendour of these ten songs make manifest a parallel world of disorientation and deliverance in which one would be a fool not to want to languish adrift. - See the band perform tracks from 'Mirage' on tour with Goat here: Autumn tour with Goat: 07 Oct / Babel / Malmö / Sweden 08 Oct / Den grå hal / Köpenhamn / Denmark 10 Oct / Stadtgarten / Köln / Germany 11 Oct / Ampere / München / Germany 12 Oct / Berghain / Berlin / Germany 13 Oct / Karlstorbahnhof EnjoyJazz / Heidelberg / Germany 14 Oct / Cabaret Sauvage / Paris / France 17 Oct / All Saints Church / Brighton / UK 18 Oct / Coronet / London / UK 19 Oct / SWX / Bristol / UK 21 Oct / 02 ABC / Glasgow / UK 22 Oct / Albert Hall / Manchester / UK
