NEW MUSIC TUESDAY

Here is a bunch of new music for you to check out.

First Up. Melatonin Daydream by The Offering.
This is off of the Veneficus Infractus EP which has had some limited availability but will be available through our site and Tonevendors in the coming weeks.





Second up. Ceremony "I Heard You Call My Name" off of their upcoming full length.
(The title is still be discussed or straws are still being drawn on this)





And, another new Ceremony track "Nothing Inside" though i think this is or was on their Myspace page for a while and definitely worth checking out.




Finally, an Alcian Blue track from the new Years Too Late EP.
This one is called "Spiral" and it's one of the band's favorites.

THIS WEEKEND!

FIRST OFF... Alcian Blue Years Too Late EP is now available for purchasing on the purchase page. (tonevendor will be selling this very soon). This is the final EP from Alcian Blue and features all five members and 4 all new songs. These songs have been around for a long time and this is the first official release of them on record. (demos exist around the net)

And, if you are in DC or near DC this weekend. 2 safranin bands are kicking a house party at maximum volume w others.

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Alcian Blue Years Too Late & New Ceremony

Alcian Blue Years Too Late should be in our hands VERY SOON! It will be available through us and Tonevendor. 200 copies and that be that folks. We'll have a full write-up for this soon, you can head on over to Alcian Blue Myspace and download a song and listen to the rest of the EP.

NEW CEREMONY. Title is still be worked out, but art work is done and Screen Vinyl Image are mastering the album this week. It's an album that will destroy your speakers and you'll still be hitting repeat once you climb out of the wreckage. Stay tuned for more information.

More news to come. Upcoming Shows & Photo/Video blog of Screen Vinyl Image's tour through the mid-west. (it was a blast)

cheers! j. sequential

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Safranin Shows!

Screen Vinyl Image tour:



AND! IF you are in D.C. next Monday (July 16) you can catch TWO Safranin Bands.

The Antiques (Washington DC black jangle post-funk)
The Offering (VA shoegaze)
Echolalia (solo theremin)

Monday July 16
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
$6

Our good friend Echolalia will be playing:
Influenced by Found recordings, random thoughts while daydreaming, things around the apartment, walking down the street, and "ideas or phrases I hear on tv, the radio, or in everyday conversation.," Echolalia is "sometimes quiet, sometimes noisy, sometimes spooky, sometimes funny, sometimes sad or other times a mix of everything." A member of DC's legendary freak champions Alzo Boszormenyi and the Acid Achievers.

Antiques Reviewed in German Blog

The Last Pop Song

We're doing a rough translation here so bare with us if it's not completely correct!

After last year when Alcian Blue unfortunately dissolved itself, remaining members have not been idle but running under "Safranin Sound & Design" a small label established in Washington. They have published a young volume out of the atmosphere of Alcian Blue. Next to Screen Vinyl Image (former Alcian Blue members), Ceremony, The Offering, Safe As Home, are also The Antiques. A class portfolio! I would like to introduce for the Label The Antiques that have now the recordings of 2004 until now with their new CD "Sewn With Stitches" together vicinity: Grow psychedelic Dreampop with atmospheric songs that are very "melodieorientiert unaufgeregt daherkommen". On The Antiques website are a row of songs to download including a 15 minute live recording of Awake. RECOMMENDED.

Also on the Alcian Blue website, there are another row of songs to download.

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Screen Vinyl Image Review

Safranin had some awesome shows this week with more to come next week! The Offering tour went smashingly well and the Screen Vinyl / We Are Hex / Teething Veils show was wicked as well.

Screen Vinyl just got a review on Tunes Consumed, we will post below and include a link.

Of Screens, Vinyl & Images

Screen Vinyl Image is a self-proclaimed “electronic psychedelic” duo, comprised of j. sequential & electra blue. They like to layer sounds - whether they be guitar-based or sampled. And they like to make music that, while just released, makes me feel nostalgic for the late 80’s/early 90’s, in probably one of the best ways possible.
screen vinyl image

So, imagine. It is May, 1980 and, instead of killing himself, Ian Curtis decides to buck up and follow his band-mates into the new age that is New Order. Their music becomes more upbeat, more electronic… but Ian’s voice does it’s very best to negate that. The dynamic of the band changes… they add in more fuzz and, somewhere along the way, decide that the futuristic portrayal in The Crow was right - all the kids want is some Jesus & Mary Chain and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. This is what the opening track on Screen Vinyl Image’s first release, The Midnight Sun, reminds me of. It is dark, but powerful.

That sort of montage lasts for the duration of the EP. It is highly steeped in the recipe of take drums, add swirls (guitar and electronic), sprinkle some vocals on top & add lots of echo… which, basically, was the crème de la crème of the underground in the late 80’s.

Among their influences, the band cites everything from Phil Spector productions, garage, psych rock & funk, to sequential circuits, strobes, John Carpenter & moogs, all the way to John Romero, reverb units, projections, space, desolate beaches & old drum machines. In doing so, their music takes on the task of reproducing the sounds of the future, as understood from the perspective of the 1980’s - synth-heavy and cool, but goofy. Overly serious but seriously tongue-in-cheek. Nostalgic, but new.

Plus, it sounds fucking great turned up loud.
The Midnight Sun.

the future is yesterday:
Screen Vinyl Image - Roaming Spirit Freedom.
Screen Vinyl Image - Black Leather Jacket.

The Midnight Sun can be purchased direct from the Washington DC based Safranin Sounds over here for a mere $8.00, with shipping included to anywhere in Canada or the States.

It is recommended that you do so.

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