Mala Herba - Demonologia

Mala Herba is a solo project of a sound artist and queer music activist Zosia Hołubowska. Based on traditional music, magic and demonology of Eastern Europe, Mala Herba explores queerness and sex-positivity. Powerful, witchy vocals are weaved into hypnotic beats, cold base lines and romantic synthesizer melodies. There’s something gothic and dramatic to it but nevertheless “this” makes you dance. Sometimes the melody cracks, the voice becomes a magic spell and the song transforms into a noise soundscape. But then the arppegio kicks back in and your bones resonate with the italo-disco inspired bass and rhythm.

LP / Digital Album

Posted on January 19th, 2021 under Releases, ,

Carlo Onda - Souleater

Souleater is some kind of a revisit of a very dense period of time. The Lyrics go back to decembre 2017 and have not been changed at all. The sounds on the other hand are completely new and have all been composed in Juli 2020. With the help of a clone of an Ensoniq ESQ-1 plugin. The Ensoniq how I see it, is a bridge between old fashioned values and the rapidly evolving modern life. There’s a ghost in that machine and finding it floating in the digital non-world is unsettling and wonderfull at once.

I’m really in love with the cover. It’s shot in the attic of the house I’m living. There’s tons of tombstones and other highly symbolic stuff. The now old and stubborn landlord was a sculptor.

The mask you see, I got from ebay, astonished to find a mask an uncle of mine has made, randomly in the internet. Somehow it’s a devil’s mask. But there’s something really naive and primitive in it.

For me, Souleater, as presented here, contains multiple timelines. My own and others. It’s about change, about expression and about our shock, that things will never stay the same.

Cassette / CD / Digital Album

Posted on January 17th, 2021 under Releases, ,

Ductape - Labirent

Ductape is a darkwave/post-punk duo based in Istanbul. After releasing their first EP Little Monsters in June 2020, the duo went back to studio to record a new album. Wooden Girl serves as the first single of the new LP “LABIRENT”.

CD / Digital Album

Posted on January 15th, 2021 under Releases, ,

Kurs - Muter

Here’s the first album by Kurs, an Italian industrial / electronic / cyberpunk band with Valerio Rivieccio, the guitarist, keyboardist and producer of darkwave band The Coventry.

CD / Digital Album

Posted on January 15th, 2021 under Releases, ,

Broken Nails - Overcome

Inspired by Darkwave, Minimal Synth and EBM sounds. Primarily composed from analogue synthesizers and drum machines. Presenting strong, dance worthy percussion, a mixture of dark, cold and melancholy synth layers.

12″ / CD / Digital Album

Posted on January 15th, 2021 under Releases, ,