Month: May 2022
THE CHRONICLES OF MANIMAL AND SAMARA Launched Spectacular Video For Newest Single ‘SHAMAN’
For your eyes
30 May 2022
Band: THE CHRONICLES OF MANIMAL AND SAMARA
Who: London-based duo – Daphne Ang (Singapore) and
Andrea Papi (Italy) – that fills a gap in music by bringing
literature, art, and history together into a space where
rock and metal meet electronica.
New album: TRUST NO LEADERS
Out: 1st July 2022
Pre-order: here
Last week Samara and Manimal released a new piece from their forthcoming LP.
“Shaman’ narrates a journey of self-discovery into the depths of one’s psyche. Guided
by Jungian psychoanalytic theory, the song captures a personal confrontation with the unconscious in which one experiences the infinite and the energy of the universe. The song introduces the idea of attaining wholeness by uniting our inner and outer worlds.”
Turn Up The Volume wrote: Shaman progresses like a vicious viper working its way to a grandiose finale. Determined, but always wary of sudden danger. Shaman dumbfounds and flummoxes while the song’s tension intensifies and sends shivers down your spine.
They just launched a spectacularly animated video clip. As I said before
the duo has an ingenious vision when it comes to visualizing their hellraisers.
Roll the tape and get dazzled…
ANGEL OLSEN Covers BOB DYLAN
30 May 2022
Crystal voice ANGEL OLSEN releases her
new album Big Time at the end of next week.
But first her spellbinding cover of ONE TOO MANY MORNINGS,
one of the top tracks of Bob Dylan‘s breakthrough 1964 longplayer
The Times They Are A-Changin’.
She recorded it for the Apple+ TV Series Shining Stars
Just lovely…
The original
ANGEL OLSEN: Website
Gif Of The Day – FRANK ZAPPA
Smoke it, Frank
Album Of The Month May – WOLF VANWYMEERSCH With His Solo Debut ‘THE EARLY YEARS’
30 May 2022
Artist: WOLF VAN WYMEERSCH
Who: The maestro of Belgian post-punk
crusaders Elefant and the guitarist of former
power-pop rockers The Van Jets
Debut album: THE EARLY EARS
Released: 5 May 2022 – Buy here
Wolf: “It has become a retrospective record with songs that muse about childhood,
love or life or songs that were effectively written in my youth. In terms of sound, it is a combination of acoustic, electric and electronic sounds.”
(photo by Julian Hills)
Turn Up The Volume said: Damon Albarn was the first name that popped up in my head when The Early Years impressed my ears on first hearing. At times I thought he was a guest singer on Vanwymeersch‘s debut longplayer, with his pondering voice and his reflective songs . Check Drama I, Who Can Tell, I’m Wide Awake and you’ll find out why.
Vanwymeersh also, like Albarn, is a song architect. All lullabies, reveries, and tunes at
play here stick quickly. But with every listen you discover how rich and subtly layered the musical arrangements and feel-good orchestrations (hear that playful banjo sound on Part Of Me ) are. Then again he invites you into his sonic labyrinth where he goes left, right, and back in one and the same song (When You’re Old And Grey And Full
Of Sleep / Fall From Grace).
The easy-listing construction of his classy compositions transfers you to a place where reality fades away and makes room for melancholic memories. As I said before (several times) Wolf is a romantic at heart with a soul-stirring singer/songwriter gift (did I already mention, Father John Misty?) and a heartwarming voice. Magnific achievement.
Singles/clips: The Hog / On A Sunday Afternoon / Friendly Is Better
– THE HOG –
– ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON (IN EVERYDAY LIFE) –
– FRIENDLY IS BETTER –
Stream/buy The Early Years here…
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WOLF VANWYMEERSCH: Facebook – Spotify
Waking Up With… KIM GORDON In My Head
Works faster then caffeine
(Photo by Turn Up The Volume)
30 May 2022
Natural born rock icon KIM GORODN played in Brussels last night.
And Turn Up The Volume was there just in front of her. She looks
still cool as fuck and this was the best concert I saw this year (so far).
Just flabbergasting. A phenomenal noise fest. No wonder that Kim‘s
most recent single GRASS JEANS was still ramming in my head
this morning.
Kim Gordon rules…
PERFUME GENIUS – Tour 2022
5 Reasons Why Manchester’s Motorik-Dance Machine W.H. LUNG Should Be Your New Favourite Band
29 May 2022
Electro-driven pop/rock team W.H. LUNG (named after a Chinese supermarket
in their native Manchester) are reaching for the stars with their ecstatic exuberance.
Check their two LPs released so far: Incidental Music (2019) and Vanities (2021)
I saw the band play last Wednesday (25 May) in the basement of the historic building Botanique in Brussels. They made my head spin, out of control, made my heart beats
in overdrive, and made ME a fan just after a couple of firecrackers.
5 reasons why W.H. Lung should be your new favorite band!
1. The band’s hypnotic Krautrock/pop inspired waves of overwhelming electronic ravishment energize every single muscle, every single nerve, and every single limb
on the spot.
2. To get an audience going bonkers you need titanic tunes and W.H. Lung
have plenty. No, not one dull moment with these Manucians.
3. A charismatic frontman/woman is always handy to whip up the crowd even more.
And, yes, with Joseph Evans they have a non-stop dancing showman, singing and
swinging without breaks.
4. Mind you, W.H. Lung is not only about electronic fuzz and buzz. The bouncing drums/bass tandem takes care of the groovy continuance and their guitarist is a bit
of a sound wizard.
5. Synth stimulator Hannah Peace is totally focused on her work, provides
vocals now and then, and gives the band an extra glamorous touch.
Get up, stand up, and jump up and down like
crazy to their fabulous album Incidental Music…
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W. H. LUNG: Facebook – Instagram – Spotify
(All photos by Turn Up The Volume)
Poster This! THE STONE ROSES 1989
Great concert posters from the past
THE STONE ROSES (Manchester, UK)
Seattle, Washington, US – 1989
I guess we all want to be adored.
This is euphoria in motion…
DAVIE MUDIE Aka L.A. MOOD Catches The Sun For Everyone Of Us
New striking strokes
29 May 2022
Artist: L. A. MOOD
Who: The solo project of Melbourne-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Dave Mudie. He’s the full-time drummer for Courtney Barnett, and has played in upwards of 40 other bands and counting – for him, touring down-time means burying himself in studio projects and playing local gigs.
New single: CATCH THE SUN
First single from the forthcoming album
A Print Out Of The Sun via Cheersquad
L.A. Mood: “The first sample you hear on this song is my daughter’s heartbeat when she was in the womb, and that’s how the beat came about. Everything was then layered over the top. The lyric which I had for a few years became a bit of mantra to me during recording, long tours and lockdown, trying to find the light at the end of the tunnel, really. ‘We’ll try and catch the sun for you and everyone.’ I also really like how the piano and harmonies work together on this one.”
Turn Up The Volume: I love amplified psych-pop bangers with a 60s blissful injection
like this. Its dazzling drive stimulates your adrenaline production and accelerates your bloodstream. Its hopped-up glee makes you forget the messed-up reality for 207 seconds. And more on repeat, of course.
We’ll try and catch the sun
For you and everyone
We’ll try and catch the sun
For you and everyone
Press play and enjoy the sun…
Buy the track here via Bandcamp
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L. A. MOOD: Facebook – Instagram