As we've already announced some months ago, the post-metal gods from DIRGE will release a brand new ep just before Christmas. Called "Alma | Baltica", this brand new record displays the more ambient & atmospheric side of the band.
By working on spaces, resonances, repetitions as well
as textures and effects, DIRGE shows here its ghostly avatar made of analogic
keys, rippling guitars, enfolding electronics, mesmerizing loops and echoing
rhythms.
Voiceless journey between ethereal lines and
industrial soundscapes piercing a laid bare wall of sound, “Alma | Baltica” is a real distinct
experiment in the band's discography.
Here is a teaser:
Here is the beautiful cover:
The ep will be released exclusively on black vinyl on December the 15th. A release party is already scheduled @ Le Romandie in Lausanne with the black metallers from NEIGE MORTE.
Dear music lovers, For now some years, one of our main concern has been to develop our roster by including more diversity in the bands that we chose to collaborate with. We've been going in a more heavy rock/grunge way with THEM STONES, in a truly rock universe with CHARLES IN THE KITCHEN and the power-pop/turbo-punk of PAPERTANK was also something new for us. Now the time has come to push things further with a brand new adjonction to our catalogue. This band has immediately reached our hearts as well as enchanted our ears. Their unique blend of trip-hop, dark-folk and drone-pop was so fresh, so captivating that taking them on our label was only too evident. Ladies & Gentlemen, please welcome dIVA in the ever growing Division family! This Swiss band's first album, named "SOL", will be released on vinyl on November the 24th. A huge release party is already planned in Neuchâtel's Queen Kong Club right on the release date.
The project dIVA is realized in 2013 when the guitarist Pierre-Emmanuel and
the singer Lisa-Marie first meet and discover a common will to express
themselves artistically in a formation that can grant total freedom and a true
evolutionary vision. In the first months, the whole of the composition takes
place in total symbiosis between the two protagonists who choose, as a
conceptual framework, the relation of man to space, and more precisely to the
planets of the solar system. Each note is weighed, measured and executed hundreds
of times before being finally retained. The lyrics develop like metaphors on
the ambiguous relations that the human beings have always maintained with the
cosmogony.
The style that finally emerges from the alliance of the subtle
sounds of Pierre-Emmanuel and the sublime voice of Lisa-Marie surpasses the sum
of its parts, so, if one swims sometimes in the turbid waters of an elegiac
dream-pop , one often plunges into the abyss of an inspired trip-hop while a
certain form of haunted dark-folk is never far away ... One thing remains
constant, the quality of the compositions which all deploy like so many
definitive weird tales.
However, despite of the osmosis which unites the two
musicians, something was still missing so that the formation can really
flourish and assume its perfect completeness. The element that was lacking
materializes at the end of 2015 by the adjonction of Marc, brilliant sound
designer and producer with multiple talents. With such a musician behind the
machines, the group can finally consider the recording of its first album in
the winter of 2016. With the addition of a 3rd member, the ideas expand so much
that the concept album originally envisaged is divided into two distinct parts,
which will be released separately at a distance of one year.
So yeah, "SOL" is only the first part of a gigantic conceptual work!! So you can already expect another release for the fall of 2018!
To make you wait until the release of their first album on beautiful black vinyl, here is a teaser of what is to come:
The time
has now come to announce our two next releases for the unholy year of 2015. For
this two winter albums, we stay right next to our hometown, proving once again
that real talent doesn’t have to be looked for in foreign areas!
So, we’re
extremely proud and terribly excited to introduce the bluesy, dirty &
grungy stoner rock actTHEM STONES based in la Chaux-de-Fonds and the groovy,
addictive & noisy heavy rock band JONBAR HINGE from Biel.
Two albums, two
universes but one common goal: Make you headbang ‘til death!
The debut
albums from both bands will be out on November 20th 2015.
Release
details, preorder, fresh tunes and many more surprises soon to be revealed!
But if you want a hint of what is to come, please take a look at JONBAR HINGE first TEASER, it's awesome!
