Future Noise News Blog
Wino & Conny Ochs UK Tour In The Making!!!
21st January 2012
Future Noise in association with The Sleeping Shaman are extremely chuffed to be working on a UK tour for WINO & CONNY OCHS in March 2012. Due to a last minute change in the touring schedule we are currently awaiting confirmation for some of the dates, but we still have other dates that need filling, so if you think you can help, please get in touch via our Contact page, the tour is also sponsored by Rock-A-Rolla Magazine.
Paul Catten Featured In The Sleeping Shaman’s Top 10 Albums Of 2011
21st December 2011
We’re really chuffed that our buddies over at The Sleeping Shaman have put Paul Catten’s ‘Themes And Variations For Strings And Electronics’ in their Top 10 albums of 2011, you can check out what they had to say about the album and the full list here.
We Are Proud To Announce JUCIFER In The UK! 9th – 12th April 2012!
7th December 2011
The brutal sludge duo JUCIFER (Nomadic Fortress/Relapse) will play four dates in the UK, teaming up with the crushing BASTARD OF THE SKIES, they will play Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester and London, with another date in Europe before their appearance at the legendary Roadburn Festival on Saturday 14th April.
Confirmed dates and venues will be announced very soon!
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www.facebook.com/pages/Bastard-of-the-Skies/150192848376922
New Releases Now Available At The Future Noise Store
25th November 2011
We’d just like to say a massive thanks to everybody who paid us a visit on our stalls at the recent Supersonic & Damnation Festivals, your continued support is much needed, and with plenty of plans being laid down for 2012 we’ve added even more goodies to the Future Noise Store to help raise some funds.
Most items are in very limited stock, including a box of Unearthly Trance/Ramesses 10″ vinyl’s, a few Roadburn Records releases from Wino, Bong, Church of Misery, A Storm of Light along with Privileged To Fail releases from the likes of Generic, 21 Gramms, Nasdaq, Winters in Osaka. Plus we also have copies of the latest Snowblood album on CD & LP, along with Pombagira’s epic ‘Iconoclast Dream’ on CD, more items will also be added in the coming weeks.
That’s all for now and who knows we might have just solved your xmas present dilemma!!!! (well, we live in hope!) so head over to our stall at http://futurenoise.bigcartel.com.
Bastard Of The Skies and Undersmile to be released on Future Noise in April 2012
21st November 2011
We are very pleased to announce a dual assault to your senses next April, from Blackburn’s Bastard Of The Skies and Oxford’s Undersmile.
Bastard Of The Skies are currently putting together their third album to date at Full Stack Studio which is now at the mixing stage, and finally being handed over to James Plotkin (Khanate, OLD, Phantomsmasher, Scorn) for mastering, whilst Undersmile‘s debut album entitled “Narwhal” recorded at Studio 101 in Kidlington by Jimmy Hetherington and due to be mastered by Billy Anderson (Eyehategod, Sleep, Neurosis, The Melvins) both are pencilled in to be released on the 9th April 2012, plans are currently in the making for both bands to tour the UK.
Themes And Variations… Review Over At The Sleeping Shaman
16th November 2011
Praise for Paul Catten’s ‘Themes And Variations For Strings And Electronics’ over at The Sleeping Shaman…
“In another life, Paul Catten would perhaps have been horribly disfgured during the explosion of a machine to communicate with the dead, brought about by his own flawed calculations, rescued by mysterious Tibetan monks and perpetually encased within a suit of armour in order that the world not see his scarred visage. He may then, perhaps, go on to terrorise the world from within the borders of his homeland of Latveria, his terrifying armour-clad steel visage being a recognisable symbol of universal fear and dread, holding humanity in contempt whilst wishing to crush and rule them with an iron fist…” Continue reading HERE!
Pombagira Join Future Noise Roster
11th November 2011
We are extremely pleased to announce the altra heavy UK duo Pombagira have joined Future Noise, plans have already been started to book a UK Tour in early March, with support coming from Bastard Of The Skies, get in touch if you’re interested in taking on a show.
You can check out their roster page HERE along with some video footage of a recent gig in Oslo.
Paul Catten ‘Themes And Variations For Strings And Electronics’ CD 2011 Now On Sale!
9th November 2011
Future Noise are proud to announce that Paul Catten‘s latest opus entitled ‘Themes And Variations For Strings And Electronics’. For this release Catten has surrounded himself with his instruments of choice and morphed into the typical hermit (de)composer and has written his most haunting yet most beautiful music to date.
The album was written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Catten himself over the course of late 2010 to early 2011 resulting in a disturbingly dark amalgam of experimental noise and sumptuous classical compositions, recalling the likes of Ben Frost’s acclaimed By The Throat album and Brian Reitzell’s soundtrack for 30 Days Of Night.
Limited to 200 copies, hand printed on an original Victorian letterpress in a gatefold sleeve and is available now for £7 + shipping from our Big Cartel Store.
Here’s some initial comments from the press.
“Powerful and provoking.” ALTERNATIVE MATTER
“Demands repeated listens.” ONE METAL
“An eclectic mix of subdued beauty mixed with feedback and distorted noise. The mix works well, and the whole idea and presentation of the album gives the idea as this being a labour of love. An album that could easily be misunderstood as just noise, but when you take the time to listen to it fully (and through headphones), it is half an hour well spent, and you seem to discover something new on every listen.” THIS IS NOT A SCENE
“What Paul Catten is doing here is using over twenty years of experience in making music to take us on a musical trip.” FLUID RADIO
“Genius song titles (“The Jedi And The Selective Mute”) and bursts of Theremin created static that would burst a dogs eyeballs (“An Army Of Narcoleptics Swa! rm Among Us”)…A Jolly good record.” SITTING NOW
“A dark, isolating and yet exciting experimental record.” SONIC SHOCKS
“It’s an album of ranging textures and moods, making effortless transitions between delicate minimalism, sweeping orchestral majesty and punishing noise.” WHISPERIN AND HOLLERIN
“It is at times brutal, egotistical and wilfully obtuse. Even where it is outstandingly beautiful, it is a fragile beauty, hard-won and constantly threatened. That is why it is so inspiring and rewarding, and why the juxtaposition of strings/piano and electronic future noise is so apt. You can’t dance to it, but it may well inspire you.” TREBUCHET