TERMINAL TWILIGHT - 'BLACK AND BLUE'

Formats

• IS001 - 12"

  N/A

Details

Great new addition to our catalogue / roster (list even..) NEW label to Forte: This first of several upcoming recordings from Los Angeles-based male/female duo Terminal Twilight is a four song 12" 45 of heavy disco beats, stardust synths, and ice-queen vocals that skews towards the dark corner of the dance floor. Taking their name from a track on Martha and the Muffins classic new wave album Metro Music, Terminal Twilight draws from the deep legacy of both minimal synth and leftfield disco, making music for post-midnight dance floors and the come-down ride home. Vintage synthesizers, processed guitars, and dubby analog effects lay an ever-shifting ground for vocalist Molly Frances' worldweary reflections. The Black and Blue 12" is a 20-minute narrative EP and DJ single mastered for maximum bass. It is packaged in graphically bold 2-color jackets. Lead track Black and Blue is a 7-and-a-half minute disco noir with a thundering kick drum, swelling string synths, and cavernous vocals that maps our current psycho-cultural malaise. The minimalist A side closer The Sea II drops out the beat to make room for a spacious vocal mix that segues into B side opener The Sea on a bed of warping organ, electric piano, and washy synth drones. The Sea returns the beat to the foreground with accents of girlgroup finger snaps, ghostly organs, and staccato synth stabs. The Lovers closes the record with a haunting vocal spliced over arpeggiated synths and subcutaneous guitars that recall a lost soundtrack mined from the early '80s italian horror movie archives. Black and Blue was recorded throughout 2009 in Terminal Twilight's Sound&Vision studio on the east side of Los Angeles, mastered by John Golden, and all keyboards were played in real time. They are currently working on their full length LP, which includes a cover of Rockabilly pioneer Jody Reynolds' teardrop rock masterpiece The Fire of Love, filming a video, and preparing for a series of live performances. FANS OF ITALIANS DO IT BETTER / NITE JEWEL etc will be fighting for this...we only have 200 copies.

SIDE A: BLACK AND BLUE (12? VERSION) 7:27 120 BPM Dark zeitgeist disco, built for the dance floor THE SEA II (VOCAL MIX) 2:25 0 BPM Minimal, ambient vocal with droney analogue synths SIDE B: THE SEA 5:32 115 BPM Heavy 4/4 beat with funky staccato synths and a touch of early ?60s girlgroup THE LOVERS 4:34 90 BPM Italo horror soundtrack with arpeggiated synths, chopped vocals and subliminal guitar

Tracks

SIDE A:
BLACK AND BLUE (12? VERSION) 7:27 120 BPM

THE SEA II (VOCAL MIX) 2:25 0 BPM

SIDE B:
THE SEA 5:32 115 BPM
THE LOVERS 4:34 90 BPM

Press

?Terminal Twilight are so happening.? - 20 Jazz Funk Greats

Audio & Video

CRAZY DREAMS BAND - 'WAR DREAM'

Formats

• HOLY1978 - LP

  655035697819

• HOLY1978CD - CD

  655035697826

Details

War Dream, the second album from Baltimore's Crazy Dreams Band, is saturated with heaviness, psychedelia, pomp and grit, and noticeably lacking any nostalgia hangups. This rock music is refractory and satisfyingly off; put on a slide, manipulated and projected on a screen, or felt through a chain-link fence. Lost love, genocide and forgotten histories collide with raw-dog vocal thundering, slippe ry bass frequencies, adventurous percussion and seductive guitar ripples. Opener "Feels So Good" is a swirling dirge that could be a half-figured-out version of "Carouselambra"; "Awkward for Everyone" showcases recent addition Jorge Martins of Lisbon duo Fish & Sheep playing what sounds like a deflating blow-up Les Paul copy that actually has strings-you've got to hear the killer solo! The sidelong "Life Is the Knife" is like a secret ritual from an unreleased Billy Jack sequel where he went back to Vietnam and built a temple that bled the purest opium. Here, Jake Freeman's adventurous sub-frequencies and Nick Becker's saucy space wanderings shine on to break the dawn in half. War Dream was recorded in three days at Beat Babies in Woodstock, MD, by Chris Freeland (OXES, Frenemies, Long Live Death, Baltimore Rowdies Collective) with heaping platefuls of assistance from his brother Mickey (Bow 'n' Arrow, Height with Friends) and a cat that looked like a dirty snowman.

Tracks

1. Feels So Good
2. Awkward for Everyone
3. Melanie
4. Life Is the Knife

Press

TBC

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