Imagine gathering the dream-team of your most cherished musicians to re/record your preferred songs. PETER HOOK, DAVID TIBET, ANNABELLA LWIN and DAVE BARBAROSSA, ANDREW LILES, MASSIMO PUPILLO and many others, getting them together to record a novel, psychedelic, ultimate version of Love Will Tear Us Apart; or ROGER O DONNEL of The Cure and JULIA KENT performing their personal interpretation of the Shéhérazade story. This is THE POST ROMANTIC EMPIRE ALBUM: a dream (that many more dreams contains) embedded in a record. This album contains the story of an idea told by voices far apart: four composers (ROGER O DONNELL, BABY DEE, MATT HOWDEN, and MAJA ELLIOTT) have been invited to re/write songs selected as potential archetypes of contemporary music. Each of them invited other musicians, and all the materials produced for each track has been harmonized and tuned, each by a producer (ROGER O DONNELL, ANDREW W.K., ANDREW LILES e MATTEO SPINAZZE ). PRE has been an organization for festivals and a concept label active between 2003 and 2012, whose aim was to explore the influence of Romanticism on music vanguards. By studying the cultural (continuous) revolution that saved the soul of the western world, by searching its footprints in the subcultures surrounding us, PRE has been able to propose a synthetic and open definition of Romanticism: here and now everything is romantic, even what pretends not to be so. Confused and confusing. The languages are the same of the neo/classic music, of blues, of psychedelics, of the post-punk and, more in general, of contamination and of experimentation. A polyphonic document composed by a double lp and one ep, along with a dedicated webspace where to plunge in what has been. THE POST ROMANTIC EMPIRE ALBUM has been imagined to reveal the common matrix binding Nikolaj Rimsky Korsakov to Joy Division. Because what remains after almost ten years of activities are mostly the connections among artists coming from different music scenarios. Making THE POST ROMANTIC EMPIRE ALBUM real entailed becoming a meeting point, a shared liminal space, for 26 artists (and a children choir) spread all over the world, each with his own, different, specific rhythm and working method. Featuring Roger O Donnell (The Cure), Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons), Maja Elliot (ex Current 93), Gitane Demone (ex Christian Death), John Contreras (ex Current 93), Pueri Cantores Regina Nivis choir, Matt Howden (Sieben), Peter Hook (Joy Division e New Order), Nat Wason (New Order, The Light), David Tibet (Current 93), Annabella Lwin (Bow Wow Wow), Dave Barbarossa (ex Bow Wow Wow), Vin Cassidy and Larry Cassidy (Section 25), Massimo Pupillo (ZU), Andrew Liles (Nurse With Wound), Baby Dee (Current 93), Little Annie Bandez (ex Crass), Matt Sweeney, Matthew Robinson, Skip Shirley, Sarah Alden, Robbie Lee, Sarah Nowicki, Andrew W.K.
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composed by Baby Dee in 2011 • Cleveland, US
produced and mixed by Andrew W K at his studio in November 2012 • New York, USA
Baby Dee ~ piano and vocals
Little Annie Bandez ~ vocals
Matt Sweeney ~ electric guitar
Andrew W K ~ bass guitar
Skip Shirley ~ bells, whistle, toys and electronics
Sarah Alden ~ violin
Robbie Lee ~ guitar woodwinds and portatif organ
Sarah Nowicki ~ vocals
Matthew Robinson ~ cello
all the musicians recorded live togheter at Trout Recording Studio in June 2011 • New York, USA
lyrics
There is a house in New Orleans, They call the Rising Sun
And you know that house had been the ruin, the wrecked ruin of many a poor boy, And Good Lord I'm one
My mother she was a tailor woman, Sewed my old blue jeans
And my father was many things but he also liked to gamble our whole luck, Down South in New Orleans
Now the only thing a gambler needs, Is a suitcase, a gun, a trunk full of junk,
And the only time that he made me satisfied, Is when he's drunk and got some pills and some junk
Oh mother please tell your children, Not to do what I have done,
You don't want to spend your lives in sin and misery, In the House of the Rising Sun.
supported by 10 fans who also own “B The House of the Rising Sun”
Amazing,amazing and amazing! Every track on this album is a masterpeice!So much Balance poetry beautiful interpreteted...and what a music omg, almost classical but always deep,dark as Coil always were. Both of This Immortal Coil records warmly recommended!!! Bonnie und das Kleid
supported by 8 fans who also own “B The House of the Rising Sun”
Finally got to listen to these. I'm probably in the minority, but these early C93 albums still resonate decades on, much more so than the folky drek that came later. Liles fashions eerie new shapes and shadows from a crucial part of the England's Hidden Reverse canon, whilst paying due respect to the original works.
Vividly queasy lights off listening and excellent VFM. kickingmachine
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