Goat reveal design for Italian tour poster/shirt

Here is the poster created for the up-and-coming Goat tour of Italy. 

These posters will be available as a ltd edition screen print, the design will also be printed on a ltd run of tour tshirts. Both these will only available at the following shows:

6 May - Roma @ Orion Club 
7 May - Milano @ Magnolia Club (w/ Mamuthones)
8 May - Ravenna @ Bronson Club (w/ Mamuthones)
9 May - Brescia @ Latteria Molloy  (w/ Mamuthones)

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Anthroprophh live at Roadburn

Here's some footage of Anthroprophhs recent performance at Roadburn Festival.

Enjoy

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Echoes and Dust reviews Gnod's Infinity Machines

Gnod - Infinity Machines

You never quite know what to expect with Gnod...or is that gnever gnow? One of the most mysterious and innovative bands of the last few years, they’ve covered the gamut of the music spectrum from dark techno, twisted psych and pretty much everything in between. Now, with their new triple album, Infinity Machines they once again reinvent the wheel and take everything you have ever known and spin it into something completely different.

At first list it’s all a bit disconcerting. Gone are the extreme bouts of noise and in its place is a much more measured, ambient sound. Seemingly taking its cue from a jazz viewpoint, the shades of Miles Davis (in particular Bitches Brew) and Sun Ra poke through the ethereal, industrial music, opening up new realms of possibilities within the songs. In fact scratch that, these aren’t songs in any sense we know, these are more collages of sound cobbled together to create a quite disturbing whole.

As a triple album the whole thing can seem quite disconcerting and with a number of tracks stretching out over the seventeen minute mark you really do need to set some time aside for it. Once you do you will find yourself adrift on a journey unlike any other and may even question reality itself by the end of it. This is psychedelic jamming on an extreme scale although the word psychedelic here is not in any way meant to link itself in with a psych genre. This is genre-less stuff and belongs in a room by itself…

Read the rest of the review here: Echoes and Dust

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Gnod 'Infinity Machines' Tour

Gnod are heading out on the road in support of their new 3LP on Rocket called Infinity Machines.

The dates are:

18.04.15 London (uk) Cafe Oto (Album launch)
29.04.15 Bristol (uk) The Old Malt House (w/ Shit &Shine / Anthroprophh)
30.04.15 Brighton (uk) Sticky Mike's
01.05.15 Antwerp (be) Het Bos
02.05.15 Den Haag (hol) REWIRE Festival
03.05.15 Kassel (ger) Secret Show 
04.05.15 Zurich (swiss) Bosch Bar 
05.05.15 Torino (ita) BLAH BLAH
06.05.15 Ferrara (ita) Zuni 
07.05.15 Milano (ita) Macao
08.05.15 Yverdon (swi) SWISS PSYCH FEST
09.05.15 Olten (swi) Le Coq D´Or
10.05.15 Tubingen (ger) Epfelhaus
11.05.15 Wien (aut) ARENA WIEN
12.05.15 Prague (cz) 007 Klub 
13.05.15 Leipzig (ger) Ose
14.05.15 Hamburg (ger) Molotow 
15.05.15 Copenhagen (dk) KB18 kødboderne
16.05.15 Berlin (de) Maximim Circus Festival 
17.05.15 Eindhoven (hol) Stroomhuis
18.05.15 Amsterdam (hol) OCCII
19.05.15 Bruxelles (bel) Magasin 4 
20.05.15 Liege (bel) L´ Escalier 
21.05.15 Rouen (fra) Le 3 Pièces
22.05.15 London (uk) Raw Power Festival 
23.05.15 Rugby (uk) The West Indian Club 

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The Skinny interviews Gnod

This is a great and revealing read:

From Here To Infinity
Gnod Interviewed

Killing off psych rock, Gnod have returned with their boldest statement to date. 
The Skinny taps into the infinity machine

FEATURE BY SIMON JAY CATLING.
PUBLISHED 09 APRIL 2015

It would’ve been hard to guess amidst 1000 or so revellers trading off slithers of their cerebrum at the altar of Gnod last September at Liverpool Psych Fest, but on the stage at least, a funeral was taking place. Joined by White Hills’ Dave W on guitar, the Salford collective tore through four cuts from their 2009 collaboration with the LA psych-rockers for what was to be the last time.

“We agreed that this would be the last time we’d do it. It was a lot of fun, really cathartic,” says Paddy Shine, coming to after a late night in Merseyside as part of This Heat drummer Charles Hayward’s Anonymous Bash live band. “But it felt like the end of a chapter for us.”

Along with Gnod co-founder Chris Haslam, we’re in Shine’s living space-cum-workshop for Gnod label Tesla Tapes, deep inside Salford venue and studio space Islington Mill. Records are stacked high behind us, analogue odds and ends scattered around the furniture, while a cat scuttles around the bare pipework; our conversation is punctuated by the hum of a fish tank and the outré jazz entanglements of Rocket Recordings labelmates Shit & Shine’s latest record. The Victorian-era Mill, with its Situationist-inspired aim to create an open-source environment for artists to practice away from conventional spaces, has recently held more influence over Gnod than anything else. “You just become part of the place,” Shine says. “We can invite whoever we want to come and stay, and 90% of the time these people will put some work on here or collaborate with an artist. It’s inspiring.”…

Read the rest of this great interview here: The Skinny

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The Quietus Roadburn preview featuring Anthroprophh

With Roadburn starting today, The Quietus have listed their must see bands of the weekend, including this little write up about Anthroprophh:

Anthroprophh
With The Heads acting as this years 'artists in residence' (and of course playing a set themselves… more on that later), it's perhaps little surprise to see Heads man Paul Allen's Anthroprophh also on the bill. Perhaps more exploratory that The Heads – and that's saying something – the trio exist as a sort of garage rock Monster Magnet on kosmisch overdrive channelling Sun Ra's Hawkwind-stra; and if that sounds like the sort of pretentious twaddle you'd hate, then catching this lot is absolutely essential. (And also, why are you at Roadburn in the first place?!)

The band hit the stage tonight
Don't miss it if you are going!!!!

See the full write-up here: The Quietus

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"Goat's Mega Cosmic Happening"

Ahead of Goat's Bristol show, Redbull Academy interviewed the band and asked them some questions about their lives in Sweden. The band talked about some rural traditions and RBA got famed artist Kent Able to illustrate these traditions into the picture that is above. RBA have then turned the image into a 'Where's Wally' type of game??? Can it get any weirder??

Anyway, you can read more about it and play the game here: Red Bull Academy

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The Fix gives Goat's Bristol show a 5/5 review

Goat
Circomedia / Bristol
4 April

Surreality is the name of the game for Goat, a band that revel in the mysterious. Masked and enigmatic, the experimental rock outfit from Gothenburg in Sweden take on the magisterial venue of Circomedia as part of the Red Bull Music Academy tour, but for this gig the mystery is not confined to the band. Upon entering the reclaimed church in St Paul’s, punters are requested to ‘Surrender Yourself’ and are provided with blank tasselled masks and african-ish smocks.

So far so bizarre, then, the resulting crowd resembling the characters from Eyes Wide Shut in a reasonably horrifying way – it is an uneasy, if innovative, foundation for an event considering The Fix’s paranoia regarding masks. Even to reach the external toilets one has to walk over dusky graves. When Goat emerge from the alter to begin proceedings with, quite naturally, ‘Talk to God’, the scene is quite spectacular, and goes far beyond your normal gig fare. The jangling guitar that is so present on record becomes more of a Deliverance-style banjo-esque riff for this opener...

Read the rest of the review here: The Fix

Photo by @SteveStills @AthenaAnastasiou

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See Rebecca Cleal's photos of Goat's recent show in Bristol

Here are a couple of photo's of Goats mesmerising show in Bristol last Saturday taken by the outstanding photographer Rebecca Cleal

See all the photos here: Rebecca Cleal

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Zam Zam / Tesla Tapes all dayer

What better way to deal with the hangover  from Gnod's Infinity Machines album launch at Cafe Oto but to spend the day in the company of Gnod's Tesla Tapes and Zam Zam records:

This is what they say:

ZamZamrec and Tesla tapes present....
All Dayer featuring Gnod + H.U.M. solo All stars...

+ workshop / conference on DIY art spaces featuring members / founders of Apiary studios, The Mill, ZamZamZone….

Apiary Studios / Hackney
19 April


RUNNING ORDER:

10:00 : Cememtimental

9:15 : Raikes Parade

8:30 : Uiutna

7:45 : Dwellings & Druss

7:00 : H

6:15 : Negra Branca

5:30 : MW

4:45 : AHRKH

4:00 : Sam Weaver


+++ Tape market, Drink, Snax and more…

More info here: Apiary Studios

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