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Would anyone manage to describe the sound of Adam Usi? The German is alone on stage with his keyboards. He can’t choose between clean vocals which strangely enough tend to sound like Richard Ashcroft, or screaming. Adam Usi impresses especially during the latter. A man who cries out his demons to the sound of minimal electro. Nice, not? It was so beautiful that we were dancing for an hour, far away from everyday problems.
After years of appearing in adapted context or under various guises (Narrow, Umrijeti za strojem, I/II, Split Personalities), Iv/An decided to step out of his own shadows and continue apace under his (sort-of) real name.
Welcome to the late night bedroom horror disco anthology. Every track is an episode of a series where the listener is taken through ghost stories, science fiction adventures, and creepy, unexplained events…
Here’s the first release from Dancing Plague, a Darkwave/Post-Punk solo project of Conor Knowles from Spokane, WA.
Dark Entries is proud to release the debut album from Bézier titled ‘Parler Musique’. Bézier is Taiwanese-American musician Robert Yang who is also part of the Honey Soundsystem crew. A multi-instrumentalist, Robert grew up in Southern California then planted his roots in San Francisco in 2005. Over the years in SF he has built an impressive analog synth-based studio, which also serves as the creative hub for his riveting live performances. Parler Musique clocks in at over 52 minutes with 8 tracks are spread across four sides for maximum loudness. The album title is a French transliteration on the phrase “Parlor Music” and is evening music for a meeting of minds in a drawing room or a literary salon. To ‘talk about music’, the actual translation of the title, the album is a hotbed of ideas. Different genres are crisscrossed: punk, synthpop, jungle, new romantic, industrial and new wave. Airy melodies, surging arpeggios and symphonic breakdowns counterpoint cold digital drum sounds to convey beauty within inescapable and impending daily processes. The track titles for ‘Parler Musique’ zoom in on Romantic preoccupations with mystery, unknowns, depths–where themes combine to form an occult revelatory experience. |
