Eomac is coming back with a brand new album. Ian Mc Donnell appears to be an endless source of creativity and inspiration. This time he releases on his own label Eotrax the album Reconnect. Each track is a statement against the fast impersonal rhythms we pray for and against the consumerism which governs us. Each track is a spiritual exorcism of the subordination of our own intuition to the materialistic world we live in. It is a desperate cry for help, a prayer for our salvation. The regression to our roots and the cathartic ecstasy, deriving from this voodoo-like dance, will bring us closer to our lost human senses and insight. The sound is deep and primitive flowing from our collective subconscious, embraced by heavy beats, dressed up with animistic melodies. Eomac’s forthcoming release is the internal scream of our nature: RECONNECT with our own real self.
Release date: April 27th, 2018
The album contains the below tracks:
A1 Lower Your Gaze A2 Ready To Die A3 Language Has Failed Us A4 Fall, Rise A5 Other People’s Fears A6 Resist All Dogma
B1 Cry Of The Planet B2 Denounce Everything B3 Transmutation, Redemption, Forgiveness B4 Being, Not Object B5 Earth And Sky
She first enchanted us with her Mouthed EP on Halcyon Veil, released in 2016. Now the Greek dark artist/performer comes back with a forthcoming emotive album on the Swiss Danse Noire. A lyrical journey full of emotions and abyssal, chaotic waves. Her Lyrical Waxing is something like a manifestation of archetypes and deep rooted human expressions. An exploration of the psyche. This is an interview with Abyss X for Tales of Psychofonia.
T.O.P. : Why Abyss?
Abyss X: Abyss is like a vacuum and a doorway at the same time. I believe there’s also a lack of Abyss as a Goddess in ancient Greek mythology, a fact that proves its fierce nature.
T.O.P.: How would you describe your journey into the music?
Abyss X: It feels like an accidental encounter.
T.O.P.: What are these elements that most influence your work? Is there anything particular that fires your creativity and imagination?
Cyclothymia, intense emotional states, beauty and nature.
T.O.P.: Who is your favourite artist for this period?
Abyss X: My favourite artists have been the same ever since I remember exploring the vast sea of music. I would say Velvet Acid Christ really expanded my sonic perception ever since I was in my early teens.
T.O.P.: What’s the story behind the “Lyrical Waxing album and the Danse Noire collaboration?
Abyss X: The label initially reached out to inquire for a remix for one of their artists’ forthcoming release. As I don’t really do remixes, they suggested we collaborated on a release. I so happened to have the material so we initiated the process right away.
T.O.P.: Do you have any plans for the near future?
Abyss X: I’d like to bring back my performance, theatre and dance work so I will try to focus a bit more on developping projects of this nature.
T.O.P.: Which record/tune would you recommend as a tale of psychofonia, a tale to heal the mind?
Abyss X: I think my EP ‘Mouthed’ is very much about that.
Tales of Psychofonia asks 5 artists about their top 5 favourite records of 2017 and the result is quality. We wish you Happy New Year!
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Dimette (Thrènes, CH) has a particularly special approach to her blend of electronic music. As a music collector, she has always been passionate about analog warmth and great fidelity sounds, which she contributes to not only as a performer but also as a record label co-founder with Threnes records. Dimette’s music bridges the gaps between various underground currents, including techno, dark, abstract, experimental techno and more. The result is a lush, organic and textural blend of atmospheres and beats with a rhythmic melancholic feel. Her top 5 beauties for 2017 are:
Mora/Beyond/ (Urban Legend, ES) is an artist from Seville with a long career as a DJ and producer, with a special presence in the Barcelona, London and Berlin underground scenes. By 2012, he started his personal project under his new AKA /beyond/, which consolidates after his debut “Now I See There’s Light /beyond / Darkness”, a vinyl 12 “ EP released by his own label Urban Legend Record Label. Mora shares with us his 5-star records for this year:
Fonemi ( Blackwater, IT) is Vito Santoro, an Italian writer, novelist and producer. Santoro juxtaposes the passion for crime stories with electronic music, thinking his music as a soundtrack for his novels. His style blends ambient music, experimentalism and ethnic suggestions. Earlier in the year, T.O.P. had published a wicked mix by him which shows the quality of his music and selection. Fonemi’s favourite records for 2017 are:
Gas – Narkopop- Kompakt
Caterina Barbieri – Patterns of Consciousness- Important Records
Catoune (DE) is the collaboration between Cathy Daniëls and Andrea Cichecki. Cathy and Andrea have been soul sisters for many years and shared the same dedication to music. Catoune consists of performing DJ sets as a duo, always responding to and embracing each other’s music and vibe while playing B2B. This drives their performance to very energetic and diverse heights, never shying away from the very depths of their record bags. And this collaboration is only the start of more goodness to come.
As 2018 will see the birth of a new connoisseur’s record label… so stay tuned. They picked up for us their top 5 records for 2017, in no specific order:
Jan Jelinek – Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records -Faitiche
Various artist – Thoughts from Chicago Volume 4. -Eargasmic
FP-Oner – Arigato- Mule music
Vakula – B – Bandura
Galsher Lustwerk – Tape 22- White Material repress
Helena Markos (Tales of Psychofonia, UK) is the woman behind Tales of Psychofonia, our Bristol based music web. More about Helena on talesofpsychofonia.com. For this year she highlighted:
Ashtrejinkins – Fruit In Failure EP (APRON34)
Reeko- La Mala Educacion- Avian
Midori Takada-Through the Looking Glass- We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records
This was the debut of Rhyw aka Alex Tsiridis of Cassegrain on Shifted’s Avian. The record has been released in July 2017.
The EP consists of 5 tunes and it is a complete concept of electronic landscapes. From drony sounds and stretched experimental noise patterns to powerful slow/ driving techno beats. The record justifies its title “Cave Walls” through its last track” Aversion Two” which gradually cultivates an audio sensation of a claustrophobic cave.
1.Aversion to Memory
2.Vixen for Society
3.Iroquois
4.Sylvan
5.Aversion Two 03:49
Model 500 aka Juan Atkins is back on Metroplex with the reissue of his No UFO’s featuring exclusive Moodymann and Luciano remixes. A dancefloor smasher for passionate dancers. The album in its original form was first released in 1985 by the master of Detroit Techno. Pure Detroit waves driving us to a sexy body/mindblowing state. A teasing atmosphere for classy tech-warriors. T.O.P. recommended.
“Clean Slate is the first release from Addremove on Swiss label Thrènes. There isn’t a lot to say about Addremove himself or herself as he/she prefers to keep their identity unrevealed, at least for the moment, so let’s concentrate on the music.”
We have been waiting for this release since the debut Thrènes album “Atheos” by Rotkeller. With their second release, Addremove, a mysterious dynamic and polymorphic project is landing on our turntables and it is definitely one of our T.O.P. records for 2017.
The special guest JK Flesh presents his own version of the Addremove’s “Crie“, managing to enchant the most demanding listeners, leading them to a daring mind dance and wandering.
An EP soundtrack for a dystopic reality curated by the super promising, sophisticated Swiss label. Not to be missed.
Tracks featured on the EP:
A1. Letter From Police A2. When They Fall From The Sky A3. Postal B1. Crie B2. Lurk B3. Crie (JK FLESH Remix)
One of our favourite musicians is Susumu Yokota aka Ebi and today we recommend his album “Zen”. A blending of ambient and acid aesthetics and rhythms turning into a masterpiece released on the German Space Teddy label, in 1994. This is an exceptional example of his genius, talent and progressive mind. Zen stands proudly alongside other little diamonds that Susumu Yokota has left behind, all scattered across the world of good electronic music.
