David Lynch shares new track, 12" single out tomorrow

DAVID LYNCH SHARES NEW TRACK VIA PITCHFORK BAD THE JOHN BOY 12" OUT TOMORROW

Photo courtesy of Dean Hurley   As previously announced, David Lynch's 12" single entitled Bad The John Boy is out tomorrow on Sacred Bones Records and today we are proud to share the title track with you. Lynch and his producer Dean Hurley conceived this harrowing track while in the process of creating The Big Dream. Lynch's vocal approach alongside the track's throbbing pulse provides an unsettling & thrilling listen. Find the stream & order links below!  LISTEN: "Bad The John Boy" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh89Xd8dOWc BUY: Bad The John Boy - http://sacredbonesrecords.com/releases/sbr110/ About Bad The John Boy: On the heels of David Lynch’s hugely successful sophomore full length, The Big Dream, comes a very limited edition 12-inch, “Bad the John Boy.” While technically this track qualifies as a non-album or bonus track, Dean Hurley, Lynch’s producer had this to say about the song: “it wasn’t really recorded with the LP in mind, but it was done around the end of last year when the bulk of the album was being made. It was earmarked for something else entirely, but that thing didn’t happen in a way that required the song... so up until now, it was ‘a song with no home.’ ”   Complimenting Lynch’s left-of-center A-side, the B-side proudly features a Venetian Snares remix of the album’s title track. Despite the fact that Canadian electronic musician Aaron Funk has been known for reinventing breakcore, with this remix he breathes a completely new approach into the song, turning it into something far from your typical dance remix. Hurley describes this track as, “music for the end crawl of a bootlegged sci-fi/horror film that you borrowed from your friend’s older brother and caused you to realize for the first time that you were actually scared in broad daylight.”   DAVID LYNCH BAD THE JOHN BOY SACRED BONES RECORDS 11/12/13 1. Bad The John Boy 2. The Big Dream (Venetian Snares remix)

Cerebral Ballzy Sign To Cult Records; Listen to New Track

Cerebral Ballzy Sign To Cult Records

Listen to New Track "Better In Leather"

Zane Lowe's Newest 'Hottest Record In The World' Right Now

Band To Headline NME Radar Tour

  

Brooklyn-based punk band Cerebral Ballzy announce they have signed to Cult Records. The label's owner, Julian Casablancas, says Cerebral Ballzy are "probably the coolest band in the world at the moment, a truly legit modern hardcore/punk band, and by far my favorite. It's beyond exciting to try and help them in any and all ways we can and we're honored to put their deliriously great new record out on Cult Records." The band's new album, produced by TV on The Radio's Dave Sitek will be out in early 2014, with more details to follow.

Cerebral Ballzy's album is highly anticipated after the band's new track "Better In Leather" premiered as Zane Lowe's 'Hottest Record In The World' yesterday on his show on BBC Radio 1. Listen to "Better In Leather" here:

Cerebral Ballzy - "Better In Leather" 

This is the second time the band have received Hottest Record In The World. The first time was for their track "Be Your Toy," before the band played the Reading/Leeds festival earlier this year. "Better In Leather" and "Be Your Toy" will both be included on Cerebral Ballzy's debut album.

The band are set to headline the NME Radar Tour beginning next week in Cambridge. The tour goes across the UK, including shows in London, Brighton, and ending up in Bristol on November 24. Check out the itinerary below.

Nov 15 - Cambridge @ Portland Arms

Nov 16 - Coventry @ Kasbah

Nov 17 - Liverpool @ East Village Arts Club

Nov 18 - Sheffield @ Leadmill

Nov 19 - Edinburgh @ Electric Circus

Nov 20 - Manchester @ Deaf Institute

Nov 21 - London @ Hoxton B&K

Nov 22 - Brighton @ Bermuda Triangle

Nov 23 - Nottingham @ Rock City Basement

Nov 24 - Bristol @ Exchange

www.cerebralballzy.com 

www.facebook.com/cerebralballzy 

twitter.com/CerebralBallzy 

Sean Lennon's Mystical Weapons 'Crotesque' Out

Mystical Weapons Crotesque Northern Spy Records 29 November 2013

Sean Lennon & Greg Saunier (Mystical Weapons) are joined by multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire Shahzad Ismaily for this one-sided art LP with an original illustration by Sean Lennon screen-printed on the B side. The session was originally broadcast on WNYC's "Spinning on Air" with David Garland in early January 2013, and is now released exclusively for Record Store Day Black Friday 2013 in a one time pressing of 1,500 units. The improvisational collaboration Mystical Weapons is primarily a duo of Sean Lennon and Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier. Here, the duo is expanded with the addition of animator and projectionist Martha Colburn (her projector can be heard on the recording) and multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily. This version of Mystical Weapons has only performed about three times together and never released a recording.  As WNYC's Garland, "Both Sean and Shahzad share electric guitars, basses, and keyboards. Martha Colburn handles her films the way a performing DJ handles records: using the projectors like turntables, the images are mixed and manipulated live, with visuals forming an essential component of the Mystical Weapons experience." RECORD RELEASE SHOW: Mystical Weapons at Union Pool (Brooklyn, NY) on December 5th, 2013 INFO:   Sean Lennon: bass, guitar, synthesizer Shahzad Ismaily: bass, guitar, synthesizer Greg Saunier: drums Martha Colburn: 16mm projector Recorded January 31, 2013 for broadcast on WNYC's Spinning On Air with David Garland Engineered by Irene Trudel Mixed by Greg Saunier One Time Pressing of 1,500 Units Original Artwork by Sean Lennon Photo by Devendra Banhart  www.wnyc.com www.mysticalweapons.com www.northernspyrecords.com

Watch Ty Segall's "The Man Man" Video

WATCH "THE MAN MAN" BEFORE HE WATCHES YOU! 

DEBUT VIDEO FROM TY SEGALL'S SLEEPER

http://youtu.be/kkzEBdF_3_c

 

The first video transmission from Ty Segall's new solo album, Sleeper, released a few months ago onDrag City Records, takes the form of "The Man Man." This film broadcasts the song's edgy paranoia all across the little big screen, and not even Ty Segall himself is spared by this monster vision. Truly, surveillance is a bitch! We want to be seen and heard, but at what cost? Look out - "The Man Man" is looking at you too.

WATCH TY SEGALL'S "THE MAN MAN" VIDEO (DIR. LEAF) -

http://youtu.be/kkzEBdF_3_c

http://www.fangoria.com/new/video-premiere-ty-segalls-the-man-man/

Ty Segall KEXP Sleeper session from Pickathon - http://n.pr/1bSPUFh

TY SEGALL TOUR DATES:

Fri. Nov. 29 - Utrecht, NL @ Le Guess Who Festival

Sun. Dec. 1 - Pontins, Chamber Sands, UK @ ATP Festival (End Of An Era Pt. 2)

Mon. Dec. 2 - London, UK @ Scala

Tue. Dec. 3 - Paris, FR @ La Maroquinerie

Wed. Dec. 4 - Brussels, BE @ VK

David Lynch announces new 12" for Sacred Bones

DAVID LYNCH ANNOUNCES BAD THE JOHN BOY 12" OUT 11.12.13 ON SACRED BONES FEAT. REMIX BY VENETIAN SNARES

Photo courtesy of Dean Hurley   On the heels of David Lynch’s sophomore full length, The Big Dream, comes the very limited edition 12" single for “Bad the John Boy." Lynch and his producer Dean Hurley conceived this harrowing track while in the process of creating The Big Dream. Lynch's vocal approach alongside the track's throbbing pulse provides an unsettling & thrilling listen.    Complimenting Lynch’s left-of-center A-side, the B-side proudly features a Venetian Snares remix of The Big Dream's title track. Despite the fact that Canadian electronic musician Aaron Funk has been known for reinventing breakcore, with this remix he breathes a completely new approach into the song, turning it into something far from your typical dance remix. Dean Hurley, Lynch's producer describes this track as “music for the end crawl of a bootlegged sci-fi/horror film that you borrowed from your friend’s older brother and caused you to realize for the first time that you were actually scared in broad daylight.”   The 12" includes a 24x24" poster of an original painting by David Lynch.    One time pressing of 1,500 copies. PRE-ORDER: Bad The John Boy 12" - http://sacredbonesrecords.com/releases/sbr110/   DAVID LYNCH BAD THE JOHN BOY SACRED BONES RECORDS 11/12/13 1. Bad The John Boy 2. The Big Dream (Venetian Snares remix)

Foetus SOAK and JG Thirlwell The Blue Eyes Original Soundtrack

Ectopic Ents is proud to announce the release of two new albums from JG Thirlwell:

Foetus SOAK and JG Thirlwell The Blue Eyes Original Soundtrack Recording

 

The long awaited Foetus album, SOAK is a companion to 2010's acclaimed epic HIDE. The 11 track album contains a ton of new material as well as the Foetus cover of "Warm Leatherette", a remix of "Cosmetics" by Secret Chiefs 3 and much more. It continues and expands on some of the themes explored in HIDE and features guest appearances opera singers Abby Fischer and Natalie Galpern. 

 

JG Thirlwell's chamber soundtrack to the film "The Blue Eyes" is also released. The original score was created for Eva Aridjis' Mexican-lensed thriller, and is performed with an ensemble which includes violin, viola, cello, french horn, contrabass, tuba and bass trombone, with JG on all other instruments and production duties.

 

 

The albums are available from www.foetus.org. 

 

What is SOAK?

 

The highly anticipated new Foetus album, SOAK contains an exhausting barrage of ideas and atmospheres, and confounding neo-mythologies that will have audio archaeologists trying to dissect and interpret it for years to come. Though a mighty standalone statement, SOAK is also a companion, or sequel if you will, to the last Foetus album HIDE : some of the tracks on SOAK were begun at the same time as the HIDE sessions, or were recorded since but provide a conceptual progression or expansion on some of the themes and ideas of HIDE. 

 

 

The album kicks off with the beat-heavy "Red and Black and Gray and White", a celebration of the color scheme of Foetus album covers and an opportunity to proclaim them in the patriotic  style of cheerleading and military cadence. The track employs the drumming of Jeff Davidson, where exuberant paramiltary rhythms collide with chain gangs, big band brass stabs and call-and -response vocals kick off the album in a blistering breathless blast, echoing JG's intense action-packed scores for the Adult Swim cartoon Venture Bros. "Pratheism" continues JG's voyage into opera which began with HIDE's "Cosmetics", this time abetted by mezzo soprano Valerie Galpern. In the multi-movement composition, which will also appear in Thirlwell's forthcoming opera, heavy drums drive the bombastic orchestrations, propelled by urgent choral vocals and pulsing analog synthesizer. Singer Abby Fischer joins JG on the lilting seductive piece "Alabastar", also written for the forthcoming opera, the track being a paean to the singer's inanimate partner. JG's version of The Normal's electronic post-punk classic "Warm Leatherette" originally appeared in the 7" box set collection Recovery along with the likes of Johann Johannsson, Fennesz and Alva Noto.  JG was commissioned to record a cover version of John Carpenter's "Halloween" whlle creating the sound design for the website of the remake of the classic horror film. JG decided to resurrect it, merging it with an original piece "Turbulence". In the same way that Wendy Carlos' "Switched on Bach" took classical music and re-cast it in the electronic musical idiom, with his versions of "Halloween" and "Warm Leatherette", JG is taking classics of electronic music and recasting them in a symphonic idiom, reconfiguring them from the minimalism that made them distinctive at the time into a bombastic maximalism. "Kamikaze" is a post-milennial psychedelic meditation on Japanese suicide pilots, evoking a classic romanticism in it's Beatle-esque refrain. JG's eccentric interpretation "La Rua Madureira" follows, complete with balkanized mid-section and dream sequence, summoning the author of the song,  tragic french chanteur Nino Ferrer, who shot himself in the heart in 1998. Following the twisting cinematic opus of "Spat", Secret Chiefs 3 remix the Foetus track "Cosmetics" , turning it on it's head and infusing it with some of their style while retaining the mad collision of opera and prog. The album closes gently with the meditation-cum-lullabye "Mesmerin", blurring the line between anti-depressants and religious awakening.

 

What is THE BLUE EYES original soundtrack?

 

JG Thirlwell's chamber soundtrack to the film "The Blue Eyes" is also released on the same day. The original score was created for Eva Aridjis' Mexican-lensed supernatural thriller, and is performed with an ensemble which includes Manorexia almuni Karen Waltuch on violin & viola and Isabel Castelvi on cello plus Nathan Koci (Ensemble Modern, Bang On A Can etc) on french horn, James Ilgenfritz (Lukas Ligeti, Anthony Braxton ) on contrabass and Marcus Rojas (David Byrne, Steven Bernstein) on tuba and bass trombone, with JG on everything else, including piano, electronics and percussion. The film, set in Chiapas, Mexico, stars Allison Case (Hair, Mamma Mia, Nurse Jackie) and Zachary Booth (Taking Woodstock, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Darkhorse) and was released theatrically in Mexico.

 

 

What has JG Thirlwell been doing?

• Collaborated with Zola Jesus on the Versions album, where he rearranged her songs for string quartet and vocals. The album was released in August 2013 on Sacred Bones and they just completed a successful tour of the US and Europe supporting it.
• JG Thirlwell once again created the musical score of the hit Adult Swim series Venture Bros, season five of which premiered in 2013. Season 6 goes into production in early 2014.
• Toured the world with his chamber ensemble Manorexia
• Instigated new solo project Cholera Nocebo
• Collaborated with Melvins on a cover of David Bowie's "Station to Station" for their new album "Everybody Loves Sausages"
• Produced Karen O song "Strange Love" for the Tim Burton film Frankenweenie
• Created on sound installations with the collective freq_out in Amsterdam, Stockholm and Budapest
• Released the renowned Manorexia album "Dinoflagellate Blooms", in stereo and 5.1 surround sound
• Created a 53 channel, 38 minute composition for the Matthew Ritchie sculpture "The Morning Line" in Vienna for TBA 21 and much more

White Fence - Live In San Francisco

White Fence - Live In San Francisco

Street Date, November 5th, 2013, Castle Face

Everyone with any degree of hearing loss knows that, at its best, the loose and shaggy beast of a band balancing on the crest of their capabilities is the ideal, the firefly that all records aspire to capture in a jar for your repetitive pleasures. The live record promises better, but somehow most fall flatter than the painstakingly refined and honed tones of a studio creation. Who better to try to right this wrong than a bunch of home friers, 4 track freaks, and DIY gear-cookers? John Dwyer had the idea of recording our friends live with his Tascam 388 and it rapidly galvanized into a real crew of heavy hitters and voila, we come bearing the fruit of that unholy union...

WHITE FENCE throw a fork in the light socket with their blistering live set, captured in all it's ragged glory to tape on Thee Tascam 388 under the sternly masterful yet tender care of low-budget luminaries Eric Bauer, Chris Woodhouse, Bob Marshall, and of course, our own John Dwyer. They were screaming out of the speakers that night and we kept it safe in a jar for you, undiluted and unsullied. This and the whole series will be packaged in handsome but simple trappings - a thick gloss jacket featuring black and white photos of the evening (shot to film!) that you can marvel to in envy as the jams pour out of your speaks and into infinity. However, this being the first of (we hope) a long and fruitful series, we're offering a limited colored vinyl edition that will feature an alternate lenticular cover, catching the band eternally between two instants of an amazing night at a tiny club full of sweaty, lucky souls.

THRILL - as your old favorites are paid muscular tribute
CHILL - at the mellow vibes interspersed strategically
LISTEN - to jokes and banter, immortalized in wax
WAIT - there's going to be more where this came from

Tim Presley - vocals, guitar, songs
Jack Adams - Guitar
Sean Presley - Guitar
Jared Everett - Bass
Nick Murray - Drums

WHITE FENCE - Live In San Francisco, available from Castle Face November 5th on LP & digital.

Track List:

01. Backwards
02. Swagger Vets And Double Moon
03. Mr Adams/Who Feels Right?
04. Baxter Corner
05. The Pool
06. Harness
07. Lizards First
08. Chairs In The Dark
09. Tame
10. Pink Gorilla
11. Enthusiasm
12. Be Right Too
13. Breathe Again