Fear Falls Burning - Cd Reissues; Serries Microphonics Tour 2010
Date: Monday, February 01 @ 06:00:00 UTC
Topic: Album Release News


The first batch of FFB-reissues was gratefully welcomed by Fear Falls Burning's growing legion of fans as a second chance to catch up with the very first releases of this guitar drone project. Tonefloat now proudly presents the second installment of the ongoing effort of making these long-gone vinyl-classics available again.

Making full use of the additional storage space of a CD, even owners of the originals will find plenty of intriguing new details in tracks they thought they knew by heart: live-track Woes Of The Desolate Mourner, originally the only 7inch in the FFB catalogue, for example, will finally be presented in the full 20-minute version.



And both sides of Serries' 2006-album The Rainbow Mirrors A Burning Heart have been delicately tweaked and and extended. Needless to say, both CDs will additionally include bonus tracks from the same period, including a rare performance at the Sju Jazz Club and a studio cut. The drone legacy continues - again wrapped in elegant digipacks and a stylish obistrip.

Both CDs are now available as pre-order from Tonefloat. Officially out on February 16th 2010.

Dirk Serries' Microphonics will embark on a very nice and extensive tour throughout 2010. The tour [scheduling] is now complete and this is the official list. We'll [the vidnaObmana newsletter] continue to shed more information on this tour in the upcoming months. Hope to see you all there!

X. CD Presentation, Sjaak Overgaauw/Premonition Factory, Cultural Centre, Wijnegem, Belgium, 20.02.10
XI. 2nd European Live Looping Festival, Antwerp, Belgium, 06.03.10

XII. Microphonics European Tour:
Oude Sint-Martinus Pastorij, Westmalle, Belgium, 10.04.10
living room concert, Goor, The Netherlands, 17.04.10
Planearihomegigs, Habarcq, France, 18.04.10
Honey bar, Antwerp, Belgium, 19.04.10
Anthony's, Ghent, Belgium, 20.04.10
Audio Unit, Germany, Hamburg, 21.04.10
Nordkraft, Aalborg, Denmark, 22.04.10
Flowering, Stockholm, Sweden, 23.04.10
Drone Bar, Copenhagen, Denmark, 24.04.10
Bis Aufs Messer, Berlin, Germany, 25.04.10
Wendel, Berlin, Germany, 26.04.10
Werkhaus, Krefeld, Germany, 27.04.10
Tonefloating, Paradox, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 28.04.10

To celebrate the European tour, a limited (300 copies) tour edition 10inch (Microphonics XII) with new music will be on sale from April 10th at the concerts. Remaining copies (if any) will be on sale from Tonefloat only after the tour.

Microphonics I-V CD reissue: This is the CD reissue the vidnaObmana fans have been waiting for. Dirk Serries' re?ncarnation into the minimal and harmonic, although this time around with guitar, effects and a tube amplifier. The most essential and ethereal of his oeuvre for sure.

A CD edition of the debut album Microphonics I-V, with extended versions, will be on sale from 16 of February in deluxe mini album cardboard sleeve with obi. Connecting the mid-period ambient-moods of Dirk Serries' former outfit vidnaObmana with the more melancholic side of his current guitar drones, Microphonics I-V was, at the time of its release, welcomed as a congenial addition to his catalogue - with Belgian monthly Gonzo Circus considering the album a logical successor to vidnaObmana classic The River Of Appearance.

Coinciding with the extensive European tour later this year, Tonefloat is now offering Microphonics I-V as a luxuriously packaged CD. All tracks included on the disc are slightly longer than the original versions, approximating the atmospheric Microphonics live-sets and allowing for an even more immersive journey into what Canadian magazine Textura called "a glimpse into the meditative heart beating at the center of Serries' music."

Now available as pre-order from tonefloat. Officially out on February 16th 2010.

Final + Fear Falls Burning - s/t (LP): Dirk Serries (Fear Falls Burning) and Justin Broadrick (Final) are both musicians with an impressive discography that spans over 2 decades. They both emerged from the same underground scene in the early eighties, releasing small print tape releases, often on the same labels. When they finaly met for the first time in 2007 on a Jesu / Fear Falls Burning European tour they hit it on straight away Their common love and interest in the avant garde drone, experimental music scene resulted in Final's stunning contribution to the epic Once We All Walk Through Solid Objects 5LP set by Fear Falls Burning. A full-length collaborative album was only a matter of time. About a year in the making this collaborative album showcases Final and Fear Falls Burning's ability to expand the drone genre with allowing power chords, figurative plucking and electronic-esque soundscapes to lead the 4 songs on this album. The collaboration is much more than just a sum of both their projec ts together but it realizes an entity on its own. In your face, metal-esque and avant-garde at the same time, Final and Fear Falls Burning took the leap forward in creating a intriguing variation on drone music. The album, ltd in total to 500 copies, will be released in a very special cover with a cutout and print in spotvarnish and on 2 colors (ltd to 75 and 125) & regular black vinyl. Clear is sold out! Now available from Conspiracy Records.

Forthcoming in 2010:
The Continuum Recyclings, Volume 2 (2LP, Tonefloat)
vidnaObmana - 1987-2007 Chasing The Odyssee (8LP box-set, Tonefloat)

[Source: vidnaObmana newsletter]







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