Sunday, August 31, 2014

AMPLIFIER launch lyric video for "Open Up"

AMPLIFIER are set to release their new album Mystoria on the September 8 in Europe and September 30 in the US, and with just a couple of weeks left till it drops the band have launched a lyric video for the track “Open Up.”


 


The band had this to say about the song: “Open Up is a song about surprise.  And that’s a handy word to use when we talk about “Mystoria”


 


You can view the video here:


progreport.com/exclusive-premiere-new-amplifier-video-open/  



 


Early last week the band invited fans further into the world of Mystoria by taking an 8-bit ‘Magic Carpet’ ride complete with super, high-definition retro soundtrack. You can check that out here:


www.superballmusic.com/specials/amplifier/


 


Pre-orders for the album are also now available, with formats including a Mediabook CD including 2 bonus tracks and extended artwork & a gatefold vinyl LP version including the album on CD. You can pre-order the album physically and digitally at the links below:




Superball Music store: smarturl.it/amplifierSBM

OMerch: www.omerch.eu/shop/Amplifier

Burning Shed: www.smarturl.it/mystoria_bshed

iTunes: smarturl.it/Amplifier-iTunes

Amazon: smarturl.it/mystoriaAMAZON



Saturday, August 30, 2014

CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM

Argentian producer Pedro Canale aka Chancha Via Circuito returns from a three-year sojourn with his long awaited third album, Amansara.  Originally coming out of Buenos Aires’s famed digital cumbia scene, Chancha has notoriously broken way outside those boundaries to forge unprecedented mergers between Brazilian rhythms, Paraguayan harp, Andean mysticism and the solitude of Argentinian folklore – all processed through his own futuristic style of post-dubstep.  Chancha’s sound is without question truly unique and instantly recognizable to the point he has become a key reference point for an entire crop of artists that have begun to carry his genes.


Hailed by the Washington Post, The New York Times, Pitchfork, NPR and countless others, Chancha Via Circuito defies even the shrewdest of marketing geniuses.  On one hand, he is something of a cult artist within micro-circles of electronic music, having been invited to perform at Montreal’s MUTEK as well as the Roskilde and Vive Latino Festivals. At the same time, Chancha’s music has found broad appeal outside of the avant-garde, most notably his magnificent remix of José Larralde’s “Quimey Neuquén” which was heavily featured in 2013 as part of the final season of the critically acclaimed television series Breaking Bad. Fans of the show undoubtedly remember Walter White burying his millions in the desert, soundtracked by the wide and gentle grooves of Chancha Via Circuito.


Amansara is a natural progressing of Chancha’s special strain of electronic South America. Lead single “Coplita” features the haunting vocals of previous collaborator Miram Garcia, while “Sueno En Paraguay” merges Andean folklore sounds with bleeps and blips and pounding drums in a way that sounds completely natural and ordained. “Jardines” features the driving vocals of Lido Pimienta merging with heavy synths, percussion and bells into an unforgettable track, while both “Tarocchi” and “Guajaca” ramp things up into deep, electronic dancefloor inna rainforest territory.


Art for Amansara comes from Argentinian psychedelic folklore painter Paula Duro who has crafted the look of all of Chancha’s previous releases.


Amansara is out on September 23rd CD, digital and LP in North America and Australasia through Wonderwheel Recordings.