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6 Jun 2019
Soundblab review Gnoomes MU!
They say:
Sitting here, listening to a few of my favourite artists of the last few years like Goat, Flowers Must Die, White Manna, Follakzoid, I realise that these bands, apart from the obvious broad church of psychedelia they inhabit, also have an experimental reach going well beyond the folk music of their respective countries. They make me think a lot about the music that laid the foundation for my own musical tastes. They strive to make their music multicultural rather than cultural. They pay no deference to musical fads. They revel in patchworking sounds into something new and vibrant, and even if the results are sometimes perplexing, they’re always fresh, always stimulating.
Gnoomes is another such band. ‘Utro’ is as strong an opener as I’ve heard in a while. A suffusion of fuzzed up guitar and unearthly synthesiser backfilled with monstrous bass and served up as rave music for psych fans. It’s as cool as it sounds. ‘Sword in the Stone’ is a motoric rocker which sounds like something that might have resulted should Alan Vega have written a song for Tears for Fears......
Read the full review here: Soundblab
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Gnod R&D NTS Radio Special
Loads of new sounds, gigs, rehearsal jams collaborations and inspirations packed into a 2 hour show:
Listen here: NTS Radio
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5 Jun 2019
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs collaborate with NORTHERN MONK to create 7 Beers:
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs have the pleasure of becoming part of a NORTHERN MONK patron project.
They’ll be brewing and releasing 7 ‘Pigs beers’ over the next year or so. They ask the band what we want to drink, they tell them, they brew it and we all have a lovely time!!!
The first beer is ‘Sweet Relief’, a 7% Grape Soda IPA. It’s real nice.
They celebrating by having a little party this Friday at one of their favourite bars, Mean Eyed Cat NCL.
Join them: Facebook
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Norwich Music City Review Gnoomes / Wooden Shjips’ Gig
When Wooden Shjips’ name appeared on the Norwich Arts Centre listings I was quite excited to spot it and immediately marked it on the calendar, I was even more excited when it was recently announced that regular visitors to Norwich, Gnoomes were added to the bill, making it more like a double-header gig for me.....
.....So, having arrived just in time I quickly made my way to the front and was immediately impressed by their huge and impressive sound, so powerful with the expanded line-up and the Norwich Arts Centre acoustics. A full 45 minute set absolutely flew by in a mesmeric storm of what many called shoegaze but Gnoomes afficionados know it to be their own brand of what they call stargaze, which is a much better name, mixed with some strong and insistent krautrock creating a lucid dreaming feel. This waking life. The guitars are loud and exciting, mixed with effects, synths and incredibly precise drumming. The set flowed brilliantly with songs often merging into one another before they closed with a blistering, re-arranged and shortened version of the 16 minute epic Roadhouse, the song that first brought them to my attention. They’ve got a really exciting live edge and the crowd loved it. Established Gnoomes fans and first-timers alike.
Read the full review: Norwich
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3 Jun 2019
NARC say some words about Teeth of the Sea's up-and-coming Newcastle show
They say:
THE KALEIDOSCOPICALLY DIVERSE AND INVENTIVE BAND PLAY IN NEWCASTLE
Back in the nineties, a certain strain of British music journalist seemed to devote their attention to coming up with increasingly unwieldly, implausible and obscure sub-genres and scenes that they could claim to have ‘discovered’: the Camden lurch or Romo, anyone? (I mean, who would ever take a genre called Britpop seriously? It’ll never catch on.)
While the hyperbole and incestuousness of that clique isn’t missed, when writing about a band as kaleidoscopically diverse and inventive as Teeth Of The Sea, it’s hard not to conclude they need a whole new tag all of their own. Anything from intense rave breakdowns, dramatic heavy metal solos, sinister music concrete, melodious Miles Davis horn melodies, glacial ambient pop and much more can be found in the toolkit for their ever-restless and always impressive post-everything work.
Having released their brilliant, audacious fifth album Wraith earlier in the year, the band now bring their stellar live show to Newcastle’s Star & Shadow Cinema on Saturday 8th June for a very welcome Tyneside return. If that’s not enough for you, support on the night comes from local post-rock dons Parastatic. On the back of some sporadic but exhilarating live shows previewing new material last year, expect fireworks. There’s also the matter of new duo Beanotown Secret Police, who open the show with their minimal synth punk.
See the rest here: NARC
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Bonnacons of Doom announces dates with The Cosmic Dead
Bonnacons of Doom are heading out for some shows with friends The Cosmic Dead:
17 Sep / UK / Huddersfield / The Parish
18 Sep / UK London / The Lexington info
19 Sep / BE / Brussels / Magasin 4 Info
We have found some copies of the Ltd edition yellow/black splatter vinyls of Bonnacons of Dooms S/T debut album and they are on sale here, when gone they are gone: Bandcamp
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The New Noise interviews DJINN
They say:
Let's start with the company name. Jinn, or djinn in Arabic, would be roughly translatable as a goblin. A supernatural entity, cited in the Koran and entered into the mythological / folkloristic imagination, halfway between the angelic world of divinities and the diabolical world of human beings. More precisely, they are "spiritual spirits" who infested deserts and inspired poets. Mysterious creatures perhaps portrayed in black and white on the cover artwork. Equally mysterious is the formation of the present duo, composed by members of the Swedish bands Goat and Hills, both not by chance in the catalog of the psychedelic Rocket Recordings, which gives this instrumental debut to the press. Rocket, who has recently released Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation's third album and is about to release the new work by the Russians Gnoomes, even though the British label's 2019 has been branded for now especially by the sensational Wraith of Teeth Of The Sea , between noise, electronics and free-jazz.
The DJINN project moves even more in a free-jazz perspective, so much so that it is considered - according to the press notes - "the first properly jazz record" by Rocket, with the ghosts of Alice and John Coltrane moving in the background. In this sense the first track in the lineup is clear, entitled "Jazz Financed" and gradually more and more cacophonous. The "Algäbbanem" and "My Bankaccount" are in the back, well in line with avant-afro-rock astral trends. The most fascinating and basically peculiar episodes, however, are those in which one turns towards obscure metaphysical dimensions, as in the luxuriant and pacifying first extract “Le Jardin De La Morte”, a step away from the new age, or in the graceful melancholy in point of sheets of "Ghostdance", which with its delicate armory of wood, keys and percussion would not mind Angelo Badalamenti. "Fiskehamn Blues" keeps an ear turned to the East, while "Rertland Bussels" anagrams the name of the philosopher Bertrand Russell paying homage to the words as in a transcendent voodoo rite. Until the closing by the ironic assonances of "Djinn And Djuice". Neo-monks of worship.
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Nevolume previews Teeth of the Sea's show in Newcastle this weekend
They say:
Gig Preview: Teeth of the Sea at The Star and Shadow Cinema,
When London-born band Teeth of the Sea make their way to Newcastle this month expect nothing short of a mystical encounter.
The unique trait of this band is their innate ability to merge sounds of different genres into an entrancing, musical tapestry.
The outfit are contemporary psychedelic alchemists with genre-bending powers. Their latest album, ‘Wraith’, captures this essence as it incorporates the progressive rock styles of Goblin with the dream-inducing, minimalistic techno of Tangerine Dream, finally coated with a smooth, but haunting, layer of jazz.
So head to The Cluny this month and allow Teeth of the Sea to drift you through their magical soundscapes.
Teeth of the Sea will head to The Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle on Saturday 8th June. Tickets, priced at £9.35 in advance, are available from seetickets.com
See the post here: Nevolume
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