10 Aug 2011

Supernormal Festival Preview - Radio Broadcast (Resonance FM)



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Supernormal Festival Preview
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Resonance 104.4fm - Clear Spot Radio Broadcast in support for SUPERNORMAL festival.

Broadcast on the 5th of August and featuring unreleased and exclusive tracks by Gnod, Teeth of the Sea, Big Naturals and Thought Forms.

Plus an interview with Jimmy from Teeth of the Sea.

Branchage Festival 2011: Teeth of the Sea - Present 'REAPER' - Live Soundtrack


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Branchage Festival 2011
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Teeth of the Sea presents REAPER
[a re-imagining of Neil Marshall’s DOOMSDAY]

Saturday, 24th September
Jersey Arts Centre
20:30 - 21:30

Teeth Of The Sea, London's most intrepid and adventurous psychedelic rock band, have always looked to the extraordinary and outlandish for inspiration, and been as influenced by books and films as by music. With this in mind, some of their biggest influences include the films of Neil Marshall: Dog Soldiers and The Descent have both made their marks on the band's psyche, but by far the closest to the band's collective heart is Doomsday, the hyperreal, volatile and audacious 2008 Frankenstein's monster of a movie that follows a perilous journey to the maws of Armageddon via a killer virus, a retro-futurist medieval society ruled by gangs of marauding punks and/or Malcolm McDowell, and no small amount of blood and gore, putting the viewer in mind of the very best classic 2000AD scripts.

One of the most attractive facets of Doomsday for Teeth Of The Sea has always been its freewheeling approach, not to mention its disregard for conventional notions of narrative structure and a disregard for genre. With this in mind, the band have decided to offer a re-imagining of the movie, taking the most visceral, dramatic and colourful debacles and denouements and turning them into a riot of disorientation that they could then match with a soundtrack that would do its damnedest to challenge it for sheer chutzpah and otherworldly allure. The result, Reaper (named after the movie's killer virus) is a kind of psychedelic reconfiguration that the band will interact with musically to create something truly original and nightmarishly thrilling. Indeed, if there is such a thing as hell on earth, this will hopefully be it.

For full programme line up and further details visit:

9 Aug 2011

Tonight’s Teeth of the Sea show postponed




Tonight’s Quietus promoted show with Teeth of the Sea, Gum takes tooth and Maria and the Mirrors at Madame Jo Jo’s has been show postponed due to the current situation in London.

As soon as a new date has been decided, we will let you know.

On the subject of the rioting aftermath, just want to send our utmost regards to all labels who have lost all their stock in the PIAS warehouse fire...it is shocking!!!

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Supersonic Q&A: TEETH OF THE SEA


Supersonic Q&A: TEETH OF THE SEA

From London, Teeth of the Sea play a wild, mixed-up strain of what sounds like semi-improvised jams. Structures are amorphous, reference points are redundant as they switch modes from song-to-song – noise-rock, electronics and dubbed-out trumpet all get a look-in. As DROWNED IN SOUND said in their review of current album ‘Your Mercury’ (Rocket Recordings, 2010), the band create “a steamy, light-starved jungle of tangled electronics and feral distortion occasionally punctuated by startlingly lucid bottom end. For the most part Teeth of the Sea’s second record defies any worries about genre categorisation, a hermetically sealed unit with such a strong sense of self that comparisons to other music seem perverse.”

Read the Supersonic interview:

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4 Aug 2011

Annapurna Illusion - Life Is An Illusion





The super limited Annapurna Illusion - Life Is An Illusion LP's have just landed at Rocket Recordings Mission Control.

AI's pyramidal mediation will be available on limited edition purple vinyl as of the 19th of September.

Proceed from the dream outward and encounter the Annapurna cinerama in its full illusion.

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Catch Annapurna Illusion alter ego 'High Wolf' on tour soon: facebook.com/High-Wolf

Brighton: komediabrighton
Cambridge: bad-timing


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Supernormal - Number 17 in The Best Festival Guide By The Independent



Supernormal has been voted no.17 out 50 in the best festival guide by The Independent newspaper.

Supernormal is a non profit festival, it is run by people who are doing it for the love and to get the chance to host an amazing event like they did last year, which Rocket Recordings attended and had the best festival experience of our lives, think Glastonbury '71 but less hippies!!!

View the article here:

Don’t forget, all these amazing bands are playing, with still a couple real special guests, still to be announced:

Live:
Skullflower
Teeth Of The Sea
Thought Forms
Gnod
Black Abba (Alexander Tucker, Moss, Sunday Mourning collaboration)
Primordial Undermind
Gum Takes Tooth
Mugstar (DJ)
Cindytalk
Fuzzy Lights
Pink Reason
Big Naturals
Black Tempest
Drunk In Hell
Bad Guys
Maria and the Mirrors
The Rent boys
The Nuns
Proxy Music
A Band
David Davant an his Spirit Wife
And many, many more

Plus art by Geraldine Swayne, Juneau Projects, Dirty Electronics, Chicks on Speed, Lucienne Cole, Tai Shani and many more.

So, if you are thinking of coming, please buy a ticket from here before 7th August...

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3 Aug 2011

Head Heritage review Annapurna Illusion - Life is an illusion



Mr Cope has once again sang the praises of a Rocket release in his monthly address. On this occasion the forthcoming album by High Wolf's alter ego Annapurna Illusion.

Annapurna Illusion - Life Is An Illusion (Launch043) will be launched on 19th September 2011.

Read the review here:

Introducing: Annapurna Illusion


Annapurna Illusion - Life Is An Illusion (Launch043)

Release Date: 19th September 2011

In the highs of the Nepalese mountains, the spirits of the dead
are alive and well, their mantra’s chant atop mossy ruined
temples to the Kosmische jams brewed by the melted soul
of the mysterious Annapurna illusion.

Rocket Recordings are proud to introduce the pyramidal
meditationist ‘Life is an Illusion’ album by France’s
Annapurna Illusion, the evil twin of Not Not Fun’s High Wolf.

Annapurna Illusion's dark Krautrock aesthetic reveal itself in
tracks showered in shamanic dust and rolled tight in a soupy,
psychedelic batter. Life is an Illusion is scattered with fizzing
electric guitars and ambient ragas which unfurl with the might
of a psychedelic blizzard, fogging the sponges of the brain and
eyeballs with a wash of hallucinations where Ash Ra Temple
jam for hours on end with Loop.

Tropical repetitive rhythms drone and drift, guided by a swarm
of breezy effects and celestial layered synths that engulf the
base of the mountain in hypnotic swirls of colourful head
spinning rituals before zipping airborne to glide in a state
of tranced euphoria.

Escapism is bottled and prescribed with each dose of these
6 entrancing mysteries, Life is an Illusion draws from the
same smoke filled breath as fellow explorers Emeralds,
Stellar Om Space, Dylan Ettinger as well as those great
Kosmische artists, AR Machines, Klaus Schulze
and Harmonia.

Proceed from the dream outward and encounter the
Annapurna cinerama in its full illusion.

For more information e-mail:

2 Aug 2011

Rocket to play records on Supernormals show on Resonance FM



We have been invited to play records by the bands we have curated at this years Supernormal festival this Friday on a dedicated Supernormal hour on Resonance FM at 8pm.

Expect to hear an exclusive new Gnod track which sounds amazing, plus a chance to hear the brand new Teeth of the Sea track/remix which we mentioned in last months Rocket Probes. Also there may be an interview with Jimmy from Teeth of the Sea.

So tune into Resonance at 8pm this Friday...

Also, if you are unaware, for this week only there are discounted tickets for sale for the festival... so to get to see three days of great bands for only £55, get your tickets here before Monday 7th.

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Mugstar and Part Chimp announced as Oneida supports




We are extremely excited to announce that two of our fave British bands have been asked to support the amazing Oneida at their London show at the Scala in a couple of weeks. You can get tickets and info here.

Also there is this downloadable Oneida comp that goes through their back cat here.

See you down the front!

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