The psychedelic southern rock band DeWolff presents on February 5 next year their latest album Roux-Ga-Roux. The album appears on the own Electrosaurus Records in collaboration with Suburban Records. It is the sixth studio album by the band. DeWolff are a psychedelic rock band from the Netherlands’ deep south, formed in 2007 by brothers Pablo & Luka van de Poel and Robin Piso. When their psychedelic yet hard rocking, self-titled EP was released in 2008 it immediately conquered the hearts of rock music lovers all across the country and in December 2008 the band played their first show at Paradiso, a legendary venue in Amsterdam. The release of their 2009 debut album “Strange Fruits and Undiscovered Plants” was followed by a successful tour through the Netherlands and Germany.
Future is the ninth studio album of the music project Schiller created by the German electronic musician Christopher von Deylen. The album was released on February 26, 2016. On this album Schiller has collaborated with the singers Kêta, Arlissa, Emma Hewitt, Samu Haber, Sheppard Solomon, Maggie Szabo, Cristina Scabbia and Tawgs Salter and with Sharon Stone, who wrote the lyrics of "For You". The album reached in its first week number 1 of the German albums chart. This is Schiller's fifth number-1-album in Germany.
This 5xCD box set from Cherry Red offers a compelling look at shoegaze's prime era. Still in a Dream takes a wide trawl approach to its genre, which has upsides and downsides. As with Rhino’s goth box A Life Less Lived, shoegaze is generously interpreted to include antecedents and formative influences, which bulks up the quality.
I love the idea of Gearbox records, especially the Tubby Hayes & Don Rendell items, but have been put off in the past by the high vinyl retail price for what is often cassette sourced material (but do ensure you check out the Binker and Moses issue, they are sublime). This one, Lateef with Stan Tracey, Laird & Eyden, effectively the house rhythm section for Ronnie's, is a reel to reel tape made by Les Tomkins with the nod from Ronnie, but not the band. We are still nowhere near audiophile territory, but it is good enough to enjoy. Generally a laid back affair, it is nevertheless musically satisfying, with Stan Tracey a little receded in the mix, if you can apply the term, as this is pretty much a raw transfer by the sound of it. Lateef being front and centre though, on a combination of Flute, Shehnai, Xun and Tenor Sax, definitely helps.