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Verbian Release New Album “Irrupção” via Antigony Records!

Portuguese post-rock act Verbian has released the new album “Irrupção”, available now in physical and digital version via Antigony Records. About the new stuff, band says: “Irrupção’ is our second album and we see it as a consolidation of all our experimentation since the beginning of the band. As a band and also as individuals we try to be always in constant evolution and this album is the consequence of the hard work we invested, not only in our music, but in our own lives. ‘Irrupção’ is a portuguese word that stands for eruption, but unlike ‘erupção’, we see this word with a slightly different meaning. It’s an internal eruption. Imagine if a volcano would erupt within itself. This is how we see this album, like an internal explosion that has nowhere else to boil over, like a black hole, like everything we do not understand but that has its meaning and consequence somewhere else, in another plane. It was a very intense process in which we gladly consumed ourselves, like we always do while making art. In the end, it becomes a catharsis and we could not be much proud with the outcome. We want the listener to face this album as a journey through their own unknown corners, with the objective of helping them, in the end, becoming purified, like we purposely did to ourselves during this process. We have incorporated different tones and textures to this album, in comparison with the previous one ‘Jaez’, like synths and samples throughout, with a more electronic component to it, without losing its human ‘rawness’ and organic component. In fact, to add to that raw component, we also added some vocals in some tracks like ‘Nem A Luz Escapa’ and ‘A Cada Inverno’ and tried to use them as instruments, as additional layers, but also with the purpose of adding some meaning and emotion to the track itself. We tried not to force things and to see all tracks as part of a whole. The rest is up to you to imagine whatever you want from it, don’t let us influence you. Enjoy your trip. The album is just one component of the whole experience we try to convey with Verbian. To truly understand and assimilate the entire message it is necessary to also see our videos and, specially, watch us play live. We promise you some big surprises in our live shows. Only then, you can really say you understand our band or our music. Nonetheless, everyone is invited and whether you are white, black, orange, gay, retro, square or round, the door is open for all you. You are us and we are you. Forever”. 

TRACKLIST:
01 Nem A Luz Escapa
02 Criado Por Lobos
03 Terra Maldita
04 O Ermita
05 Vesuvio
06 Mae
07 Lume
08 A Cada Inverno

Verbian is a quasi-instrumental trio born in the city of Porto, Portugal. They are characterized by their unique and layered progressive sound, imbued with the influence of various musical languages including prog-rock, post-metal and even some doom, doing this in a very fresh and original way, not worrying about genre. Throughout their repertoire they alternate between a myriad of sonic landscapes, resorting to heavy and epic riffage to bang your head to, electronics, samples and synthesizers, to lift you up from the ground, but also catchy rhythms and danceable grooves. 

Spacebomb House Band & Deau Eyes reimagine Send Me No Roses with new single!

The latest release in the Spacebomb House Band collaboration series brings Richmond-based artist Deau Eyes into the fold with a cover of “Send Me No Roses,” a song first recorded in 1965 by Wanda Jackson and made famous by Tammy Wynette two years later.

 “It’s unabashedly a straight up nod to Sly Stone’s ‘Just Like A Baby,'” says Spacebomb House Band’s bassist and producer Cameron Ralston about the new version. “Kind of a spaced cowboy thing where we took this classic old country song and just kinda stoned it out a little, dirtied it up a bit. Very un-precious, raw, and off the cuff. Minimalist in instrumentation yet maximalist in sound and groove.”

Deau Eyes is Ali Thibodeau, a Richmond, Virginia-born and raised singer and songwriter. Her debut album Let It Leave was recorded at Trace Horse Studios in Nashville with longtime friends and co-producers Jacob Blizard and Collin Pastore, whose creative efforts show up on records by Lucy Dacus and illuminati hotties, among others.

 Thibodeau says of the collaboration: “Right around the time Spacebomb sent me this studio magic, I’d received flowers from an ex I’d been longing over for four years. It was as if the ghost of Tammy Wynette was giving me a little nudge to feel my feelings in order to move forward. Classic country music has always felt like home to me and being asked to perform a new take on it with these guys is a real honor.”

 This new release follows last month’s release of the Erin Rae and Spacebomb House Band collaboration, “Back in Baby’s Arms,” which you can listen to here.

Dunja Knebl i Roko Margeta  izašli s prvim singlom i video spotom za pjesmu Slavuj, tico mala!

Pjesmom “Slavuj, tico mala”, iz prebogate slavonske baštine, Dunja i Roko najavljuju svoj drugi zajednički album (Dunjin 21.). Mističnom i egzotičnom ugođaju pjesme (osim Dunjine gitare i pjeva) doprinosi Rokovo umijeće sviranja na fruli bansuri i kalimbi, a sve je to dočarao Dinko Čvorić Doringo odličnom snimkom i produkcijom.

Prethodni album ovog dvojca s obradom pjesama iz hrvatske baštine (“Svilarica svilu prede”) bio je zapažen i na međunarodnoj sceni (uvršten na prestižnu ljestvicu Transglobal World Music Chart). Premda se čini da nastavljaju sa sličnim repertoarom jer je “Slavuj” stara pjesma iz Hrvatske, tijekom srpnja i kolovoza ove godine snimili su bajkovito glazbeno putovanje po raznim zemljama svijeta uz čitav niz zanimljivih egzotičnih  instrumenata.

“Songbook Songs” (“Pjesme iz knjiga-pjesmarica”) sastoji se od 14 tradicijskih pjesama iz Hrvatske, Engleske, S.A.D.-a, Rusije, Bjelorusije, Ukrajine, Slovačke, Indonezije. No, to je samo dio projekta kojim Dunja želi naglasiti važnost knjiga-pjesmarica u kojima su narodne pjesme koje nikad nisu snimljene i kojima prijeti zaborav.

Više o projektu –> https://dunjaknebl.com/w2/songbook-songs-project

Album je snimio, miksao i producirao Dinko Čvorić Doringo koji je i autor video spota i fotografija, a Biljana Knebl autorica je oblikovanja albuma. Materijal će biti objavljen početkom studenog u izdanju Geenger Recordsa.

Video Stream –> https://youtu.be/RjUEUS5AmTw