[LISTEN] Figure Section // Another Sun

Figure Section was created in 2018 in Brussels after the duo worked together many years together in the Belgian contemporary theatre scene. 

As their conversations always led to find out about convergent tastes in music and matching sensibilities, they decided to do their own band.

Figure section sums up cold wave, batcave and synthpop influences into a unique syncretic style. 

Another Sun is their only love ballad to date, a bittersweet song inspired by the acceptation of loss and longing for new beginnings. 

Bright modern melancholia. 

Follow Figure Section to be posted about their upcoming EP.

https://www.instagram.com/figure_section/

https://soundcloud.com/figuresection

[PREMIERE) Wilshire Corridor // The Fig and the Wasp

This is the first solo release from Cameron Carlin (GLAARE, Black Mare). Combining black metal delivery with obsidian electronics and lush ambient soundscapes, The Fig & the Wasp is a unique and incredibly engaging surrealistic nightmare. 

[LISTEN] An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil // Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch

The latest collaboration between the experimental lute player and acclaimed director is another thematically heavy work of powerful minimalism. Van Wissem’s lute traces the outlines of subdued electronics and ominous guitar drones laid down by Jarmusch. It’s an album that sees two formidable collaborators complement each other brilliantly. Listen to the first single, “Concerning the White Horse,” and preorder the album. It’s out February 8.

'An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil,' out Feb. 8. Preorder: https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/pr... The 'Only Lovers Left Alive' director and composer reunite for their fourth collaborative studio album together. Jozef Van Wissem: http://www.jozefvanwissem.com/ https://www.facebook.com/jozef-van-wi... https://www.instagram.com/jozefvanwis... Jim Jarmusch: https://twitter.com/jimjarmusch

[PREMIERE] FJERSTAD // 8​-​Circuit Neurorgasmic Trigger

"8-CIRCUIT NEURORGASMIC TRIGGER" IS THE DEBUT FULL-LENGTH UNDER THE SURNAME OF MULTI-DISCIPLINARY L.A. ARTIST (CHAD) FJERSTAD. THE ELECTRONICA LP IS A FULLY DIGITAL EXCURSION PRIMARILY INSPIRED BY SOME OF THE FINEST STALWARTS OF THE UK 90'S (LFO, ORBITAL, THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, ETC), WHILE ALSO PULLING INFLUENCE FROM A FULL TIMELINE OF TECHNO, ELECTRO, AND JAPANESE SYNTH MUSIC SUCH AS YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA AND 16-BIT VIDEO GAME SOUNDTRACKS.

AFTER EXPERIMENTING WITH THE FUSION OF DIGITAL AND ANALOG SYNTHS ON HIS 2015 MORE EPHEMEROL LP, FJERSTAD MADE A DECISION TO SEPARATE THE TWO, OUTPUTTING FULL DIGITAL WORKS UNDER HIS SURNAME, WHILE ALL FUTURE MORE EPHEMEROL WORKS WOULD BECOME ANALOG-CENTRIC.

FJERSTAD HAS BEEN MOSTLY RECOGNIZED AS THE BASSIST FOR HEAVY GUITAR-DRIVEN BANDS SUCH AS DEAD TO FALL AND THE PRIMALS BUT AIMS TO PRODUCE A CONTINUOUS STREAM OF SYNTH-BASED OUTPUT AS LONG AS LIFE ALLOWS HIM. HE RUNS HIS OWN IMPRINT, EPHEMEROL NIGHT TERRORS, WHICH HE RELEASES A GREAT QUANTITY OF HIS MUSICAL WORKS THROUGH, AS WELL AS HIS BOOKS, WHICH HE HAS PUBLISHED THREE OF TO THIS DAY (12-20-2018).

"8-CIRCUIT NEURORGASMIC TRIGGER" RELEASES DIGITALLY TODAY AND VINYL RELEASES MID FEB. 2019.

ALL MUSIC BY CHAD FJERSTAD

THE RECORD WAS MIXED BY MATIA SIMOVICH (INHALT, SRSQ, ETC) AND MASTERED BY HUNTLEY MILLER. AND FEATURES A GUEST GUITAR SPOT BY MICHAEL KEENE (THE FACELESS).

ARTWORK BY MATT FISHER + COLIN STRANDBERG

https://fjerstad.bandcamp.com/

https://www.ephemerolnightterrors.com

PSYCHIC GRAVEYARD // DEAD IN DIFFERENT PLACES (INCLUDING MSTRKRFT REMIX B-SIDE)

Noise Rock pioneers, Eric Paul (Arab On Radar, Chinese Stars, Doomsday Student), Paul Vieira (Chinese Stars, Doomsday Student), and Nathan Joyner (Some Girls, All Leather, Hot Nerds) venture through uncharted territory with their new band, Psychic Graveyard. The band’s debut single, Dead In Different Places- set to be released November 30th, 2018 through SKiN GRAFT Records- exemplifies the raw tapestry of sounds that characterize the new endeavor. Nathan Joyner’s grinding synths and “found sound” buries the seed of each song deep into the fertile ground - while Paul Vieira’s manic, fuzzed-out guitars and Eric Paul’s obsessive lyrics shower the proceedings with equal parts sunshine and rain.

Dead In Different Places is the first single to be released off their debut album, Loud As Laughter, which is due out Spring 2019. According to the band, the process of writing the album was unusual for them. Throughout 2018, San Diego-based Joyner would send files filled with the skeletons of songs to Vieira and Paul in Providence, Rhode Island. The two would add their parts, and then the songs would undergo an arduous, back and forth until all of the members agreed on the final version. The distance of the members and the anomalous approach to writing resulted in a diverse, yet coherent album that picks-up and drops-off the listener at dramatically different places. Like nerve endings spliced and sewn back together, the process spawned a whole new auditory system - which serves as the infrastructure for Psychic Graveyard.

http://www.skingraftrecords.com
http://www.psychicgraveyard.com

[LISTEN] Burial Hex // Thaw

Burial Hex - Thaw 
I Adorations 
II Golden Ordeal 
III Gementes et Flentes 
IV The Survival of Memory 

["So close to the end that we can see the beginning. 

Burial Hex is a chthonic composition cycle of Post-Industrial musical dowsing, since 2005. Coining the term "Horror Electronics"; with influences as disparate as Horror film scores, Black Metal, Death Industrial and Medieval music. Burial Hex music is an animistic Theatre of Cruelty, each encounter very personal, immersive and unpredictable. "]

Mastered by Nathaniel Ritter 
Originally released as a split with Anji Cheung for Aurora Borealis' 2018 Winter Solstice Tape 

https://burialhex.bandcamp.com/

72 hours in André Balazs’ Chateau Marmont with Kenneth Anger // A Film by Floria Sigismondi

A film by Floria Sigismondi, accompanying System Magazine Issue 12's special print supplement, brought to life by Gucci.

All photos © Floria Sigismondi