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The Shyness of Strangers is Vadim Kristopher, a Polish born Canadian who spends most of his life adrift, but comfortable alone. Exploring sonic landscapes with repetitive themes through corridors of human emotion, loudly. Drawing inspiration from life’s more melancholy moments, but deafening the sadness as his music turns the sorrow into celebration.
Miljenko Rajakovic aka Dj Mary (co-founder of Implant Code project on Minus Habens Records & electronic-industrial DJ in various European clubs, and only surviving member today of dark ambient project TeHÔM, and real oldschool electro side project Marythmetic) and Siniša Očuršćak (founder of the TeHÔM project on NER/World Serpent, Professor of philosophy at Jezuit University for Philosophy in Zagreb, editor of the book “The mind-body problem in contemporary philosophy”) were active minds behind the PRINCIPIA AUDIOMATICA electronic experimental project. They were together creating frozen at parts lost, minimalistic electronic structures and soundscapes, they also have managed to infuse them with the mind-absorbing electro rhythms, thus creating 1st album which is a truly effective and impressive audio experience. Unfortunately after “Systematic Sonority”, their first CD album work 1995 for the Italian label Minus Habens Records. fate has chosen another path. Siniša died of cancer in the 1997. and much later on, after recovering from the tragic loss of his longtime friend and collaborator, Miljenko has reactivated Principia Audiomatica project in the year 2010 with some remixes and new tracks. Beginning of 2012 PRINCIPIA AUDIOMATICA made a new remix for Die-6- spanish artist on his 1st Album with some other interesting international legendary electronic artists and acts like: Lagowski, Absolute Body Control, Esplendor Geometrico, Geistform, Plastic Noise Experience, HIV+… In 2012-2104 Principia Audiomatica start working also on a new materials for incoming second album release in twenty years! This new release sounds like Kraftwerk, Clock DVA, Drexciya or early Anthony Rother.
Der Himmel Über Berlin are a band coming from extreme north-east of Italy whose name explicitly reveals their attraction to middle-european sonority and atmosphere even though their lyrics are in english. Their sound takes us to postpunk based on the likes of early Bauhaus, Christian Death, Joy Division and Sisters Of Mercy, but with a contemporary twist, which makes them easily placed on the musical map and keeps them original nevertheless. In 2012 Der Himmel release their first studio album “Memories Never Fade”. After a radical change in their line up they record a live album in Milano’s historical Shelter Club in November of 2013, a natural consequence of extensive touring in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Czech Republic.
Ono Scream, the solo project of Apparaat – frontman Bart Willems (Anvers/Belgium), has one foot proudly in the past but with the other one he takes a step forward. He eagerly uses the sounds of the gloomy eighties. You’ll hear references to his childhood heroes (Fad Gadget, early Simple Minds, Bauhaus …) which are glued to modern influences like The Soft Moon, the KVB and Tropic Of Cancer. But with a sharp, Ono Scream – like twist to them. Ono Scream is Willems’ very personal way of dealing with the past, while looking to the future. There is a light at the end of this tunnel. He’s tried his hand at a myriad of musical styles, to wind up back at his true passion: synth-driven rock music, both old and new. With mesmerizing keys, pounding bass-loops, wintry voice and a sporadic feminine touch, he immerses the listener in a melancholy but also riveting world. All songs resound with both the grandeur in a minor key and the anxious hope for the future of, say, The Cure, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Siglo XX and Killing Joke. Elsewhere we hear the fuzz of The Jesus & Mary Chain or the drones of Gary Numan. The familiarity of these retro sounds grabs you by the scruff of the neck and shows you exciting new places. This is true COLD WAVE somewhere in the darkest hole of human emotion between The Cure, Joy Division an early New Order. |
