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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re-arranged by Maja Elliott in 2011 • Galway, IRL
produced by Matteo Spinazzè in October 2012 • Ostia, IT
Maja Elliott ~ piano
John Contreras ~ cello
Gitane Demone ~ voice
Maja Elliot recorded in 2011 at Shay's Studio • Galway, IRL
Gitane Demone recorded in 2012 at Studio Abstractise • Los Angeles, US
John Contreras recorded in 2012 at home • Los Angeles, US
lyrics
My promise could be your fiend, A given end to your dreams
A simple movement or rhyme, Could be the smallest of signs
We'll never know what they are or care in it's escapable view
There's no escape so few in fear, Give in a changing value
To be given your sight, Hid in a long peaceful night
A nervous bride for your eyes, A fractured smile that soon dies
A love that's wrong from your life and soul, A savage mine had begun
Hello, farewell to your love and soul, Hello, farewell to your soul
Now I know what those hands would do,
No looking back now, we're pushing through
We'll change these feelings, we'll taste and see
But never guess how the him would scream
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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
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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