The avant-garde trio comprising Jac Berrocal (Nurse With Wound), David Fenech, and Vincent Epplay has unveiled their fifth LP, “Broken Allures” to be released on Cold Spring on the 30th of August. This latest release continues their approach to musique concrète, blending the sounds and techniques of each member.

The album is available in several formats via Cold Spring:

• CD in a matt-laminate flood-printed digipak.
• Limited edition of 150 copies on transparent yellow vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve with a full-color insert.
• Black vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve with a full-color insert.

French musician Jac Berrocal is renowned for his collaborations with Nurse With Wound, Vince Taylor, Jaki Liebezeit, Pascal Comelade, and Sunny Murray. For this project, the trio further enlisted the talents of two musicians: Cosey Fanni Tutti and Jah Wobble.

Cosey Fanni Tutti, known for her work with Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey, and COUM Transmissions contributes vocals, cornet, and electric guitar, and has written lyrics for two tracks.

Jah Wobble, a founding member of Public Image Limited and a collaborator with a diverse array of artists including African Head Charge, Brian Eno, Björk, and Sinéad O’Connor, lends his industrial dub sound to the album.

“Broken Allures” includes the track “Outspoken Caress” featuring Cosey Fanni Tutti, with a video directed by Vincent Epplay.

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(Photo by Jaeger Kotos) Out on 1 May 2020, is the reissue of the debut album by American avant-garde artist Diamanda Galás, “The Litanies of Satan, on Intravenous Sound Operations”. The re-release comes in a completely remastered version (by by Galás and engineer Heba Kadry) and will be released via Intravenous Sound Operations. The album was released in the United Kingdom by Y Records in 1982 and was only released in 1989 in her home country.

The A-side, “The Litanies of Satan”, was recorded in 1982 in Stoke Newington, London, and was the result of six weeks of work with UK producer Dave Hunt, a composer of electronic music. Known for his work in experimental music, reggae, and post punk, he has worked on records by Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars, Prince Far I, Adrian Sherwood, The Pop Group, Evan Parker, and Derek Bailey to name a few.

The B-side, “Wild Women with Steak-knives”, was also recorded in 1982, but by Richard Zvonar, also a composer of electronic music, in a San Diego studio. Many performances of this work were performed in quadrophonic sound with five microphones, one assigned to all speakers, and the other four assigned to individual speakers.

First in a reissue series

This is the first release in a reissue series of Galás work since she regained ownership and control of her entire back catalogue last year. The self-titled Metalanguage album “Diamanda Galás” (1984) has also been remastered and will be given its first reissue in autumn 2020.

New music on the way as well

Galás will also release new music in July 2020 in the form of a 21-minute solo piano piece entitled “Deformation”.

It is described by Galás – try to read slowly to ingest correctly – as “a march and delivery of maimed and infected soldiers to hospitals and industrial warehouses throughout Germany during and after the First World War. In the hospitals the maimed would receive experimental operations and the infected would be confined to protect the mental well-being and physical health of the citizens of the State.”

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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