GNOD announce Manchester show

GNOD have announced a show at YES in Manchester on 15 November.

Info and tickets can be found here: Beauty Witch

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Terrascope reviews latest Athroprophh, GNOD, Kooba Tercu, J. Zunz and Och releases

Our good friend Ian Fraser at Terrascope has written a mammoth piece on some of the latest Rocket releases from Athroprophh, GNOD, Kooba Tercu, J. Zunz and Och.

Read them all here: Terrascope

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Crackle Feedback say some words about J. Zunz new single 'Y'

They say:

J. Zunz is the solo moniker of Lorena Quintanilla from Mexican duo Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, who has just announced the details of her second solo album Hibiscus (a follow up to 2017's Silente). "Y" is the first preview of the new record and sees Quintanilla moving away from the psychedelic drone of her main band and focusing on a darker, more ambient sound. "Y" starts off slow and sedate and gradually becomes more unsettling. If this was soundtrack music (which it could well be) the action would have shifted from home comforts to a post-apocalypse wasteland by the end of the song, not bad for a sub four minute track. 

Read the rest here: Crackle Feedback

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Echoes and Dust interview GNOD & João Pais Filipe

They say:

Ahead of the release of Faca De Fogo, the new collaboration from Gnod & João Pais Filipe, in the process of reviewing the album for Echoes And Dust, I’ve mulled over some queries for the artists involved to share with you all as the album is prepared for its various methods of release. Gnod co-founder Chris Haslam (CH) and João Pais Filipe (JPP) were the interviewees for this extraction.

(((o))): The most obvious question to ask is how did this collaboration come about? Was it a remote recording process or were you physically together in the studio? I’m also interested to know about the writing process, whether this was a case of sending each other layers or working to written parts or if it pure improvisation. The sound of the album and my experience of having been lucky enough to play a set with Gnod R&D, makes me wonder if this was a kind of directed approach of peaks and troughs with forecasted moments but, how cohesive it sounds overall, really makes me wonder.


CH: We met Joao through our Porto friends at Lovers & Lollypops who also run Milhoes De Festa. He plays a style we’ve always admired so it made sense to collaborate on a recording. Lovers & Lollypops set up a week in Porto for us to jam, record and play a show and the formation of the tracks on the album all came about during that week...

Read the rest here: E&D

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Listen to J. Zunz radio show for CAMP

Lore from J. Zunz (and  Lorelle Meets the Obsolete) has started a regrlar radio show for CAMP radio and you can listen to the first episode here:

CAMP Radio

This is what they say about it:
Lorena Quintanilla presenting music she digs mainly from the contemporary underground scene in México. Selection with extra focus on womxn. 

Broadcast on 09th July 2020 at CAMP || http://listen.camp

Tracklist:

Track list:
Osday – Decreation
Grave – Grito (a las hermanas)
Nima Ikki – Agua -sangre
RSNNC - Heaviness
Adiós Mundo Cruel – Tempo Pool
Microhm – El Eco de Todas las Cosas
Mabe Fratti – Todo Lo Que Querías Saber
Hidhawk – ms1
Concepción Huerta – Accepting a Lost Cause
AAAA – True Peak

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Rocket to take part in Supersonic Fest's Sofasonic

Rocket and some of the artists who planned to play have been invited to join Supersonic's Sofasonic Festival.

Artists involved are:

GNOD & João Pais Filipe

J.Zunz

Iggor Cavalera

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs


Plus there is a special Panel Talk that includes:

Marcus Macdonald - Decolonise Fes
Lisa Meyer - Supersonic Festival
Cathy Pellow -  Sargent House
Chris Reeder - Rocket Recordings
Hosted by Luke Turner The Quietus

It will all happen on 17- 19 July, via here: Supersonic Youtube

See www.supersonicfestival.com for the full programme and schedule

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Info about the Fest:

Sofasonic Festival 17-19 July
A weekend of online events bought to you by the team behind Supersonic Festival, the “UK’s best small festival” The Guardian, 2019

Cancelling this year’s festival was a heart breaking but necessary decision. However, we think it is important, despite the year’s unprecedented events, to mark what should have been this year’s Supersonic Festival 2020 weekend in a big way. 

We've lovingly crafted, a weekend of unique and exclusive online performances, panel talks, DJ sets and more oddities from a plethora of Supersonic artists and its wider community. The programme is free but we are asking for donations to help support the festival, artists & freelancers, with 25% being donated to the Trussell Trust Food Banks.

See www.supersonicfestival.com for the full programme and schedule and  subscribe to our Youtube channel in advance, so you don't miss a thing! www.youtube.com/user/SupersonicFestival 

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Mic.gr reviews Kooba Tercu

They say:

Nice thing to see domestic bands advance. Kooba Tercu had made it clear from the beginning that they were made for separate musical paths. With their new album in the special and eclectic Rocket Recordings, they simply confirmed the original case and handed us a powerful album full of flares, dirty deformed riffs and equal paranoia. Charismatic composers-craftsmen of motorik-proto-techno-rock manage to make a seemingly catchy and accessible record for all ears but with difficult individual musical elements, sounds and surrounding fuzz-excellent atmosphere. Strong achievement for loud auditions, a necessary rock discography for your collection.

Read the rest here: Mic.gr

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Gnoomes in Paste Magazine's '20 Shoegaze Bands You Should Know in 2020'

They say:

Gnoomes

Gnoomes may lurk in dark electronic shadows, but their shoegaze guitar chops shouldn’t be questioned. The Russian quartet’s most recent album, MU!, merges the experimental sides of Stereolab, Wand and Neu! with furiously gyrating guitars. The LP shifts between states of matter, and getting sucked into their dynamic compositions is easy. “Glasgow Coma State” is positively gleaming and vigorous while “Ursa Major” is wispy and discombobulating. Their color schemes change too—songs like “Progulka” are filled with bright hues, while others like “Sword in the Stone” and “Irma” have a distinctly monochrome smog. Like many albums of heady hypnotics, you know the finale is going to melt your psyche, and the two-track curtain close (“How Do You” and “Feel Now”) is a shoegaze-tinted psych-pop hurrah for the ages. MU! is so memorable because it brushes the same pleasure centers as the genre’s titans without retracing the steps of their predecessors or peers. With MU!, they’ve cleared a space for themselves in electro-shoegaze heaven. —Lizzie Manno


Read the rest here: Paste Magazine

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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs say some words about Brixton Windmill part of the Save your Music Campaign

They say:

Hi, I’m Adam from Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs.

In March 2014 we played our first London show at The Windmill in Brixton.

The Windmill is a dive. Not a 21st century, bespoke lighting, extensive burger menu, £15,000 pinball machine kind of dive, but a real, don’t shit-in-the-cubicle sort of place. 

And it’s all the better for it. 

We were booked by Rich Collins of Cosmic Carnage, who now promotes shows at The Moon in Cardiff, another small, brilliant venue. 

The show ended up being the most fun we’d had playing music in a long time. Nothing particularly exciting happened; other than a small fire in the back of my guitar amp and a lost kaftan, there’s no exciting story to tell of the night. 


But we ended up playing at the Windmill every 6 months or so for a few years after that and it was an absolute pleasure to play there every single time.


Hopefully, when the world returns to what we considered normality, we’ll have to chance to play there again and hopefully the landlord doesn’t mind his venue being called a dive.

See the piece here: Save your Music 

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Raven Sings The Blues reviews GNOD & João Pais Filipe album

They say:

I’ve long been a proponent of the works of GNOD. The UK psych unit skims the line between pulsing, rhythmic psychedelia and noise so easily that they’ve let the colors run into one another over the years. On their latest they skirt into avant impulses fraught with a clangorous din and hypnotic polyrhythms. The band members are nothing if not consummate collaborators, having worked cross genre with everyone from Anthony Child (Surgeon), White Hills, and John Doran. Now they hook up with experimental percussionist Joăo Pais Filipe (Paisel), whom they met at Milhoes De Festa event in Barcelos, Portugal. The set was hammered out a short while after over four days at Joăo’s metal shop.


Like any other GNOD album it swerves away from its predecessors. The connection with Pais Filipe proves to center the album in hypnotic rhythms, a side that’s found its way into the band’s work plenty of times prior, but what the Portuguese artist brings to the set is a sense of foreboding atmosphere — haunting ripples, the ominous air of gongs. Guitars still scrape at the senses, but they too tend to ride the fluctuation of rhythm. As the air crackles with dissonant tension, scraping with feedback and woodwind howl, GNOD do their own part to match Pais Filipe’s calamitous atmospheres...

Read the rest here: Raven Sings The Blues

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