In advance of tomorrow’s release of the new album from re*me*di*a*tion, we thought we’d go nuts and give away a free download of the song “Cataclysmic.”
The album is a giddy mix of post-rock, dub and prog styles, performed with precision abandon. We think you’ll love it.
re*me*di*a*tion
re*me*di*a*tion
LUX ETERNA RECORDS, 2011
Who says post-rock is dead? Or no fun?
re*me*di*a*tion is Mark G. Cooley, a musician and multimedia professor who crafts bracing and effervescent instrumentals that sound like Fred Frith, Robert Fripp and Brian Eno snorting crushed sunflowers.
Lively, layered and inventive, re*me*di*a*tion sidesteps the dour crescendos common to modern instrumental music with crisp and clever six-string collages, peppered with thrumming percussion and aural accoutrements.
Available in gorgeous digipak CD with artwork based on the work of German painter Otto Dix, re*me*di*a*tion is the perfect soundtrack to your trippy, blissed-out spring.
Cooley’s previous work has been commended for its deft recombination of John Fahey-esque guitars and electro-acoustic treatments. re*me*di*a*tion finds the composer rekindling a long-lost love for the electric guitar, delivering agile and evocative lines that dart between friskily hypnotic rhythms and immersive soundscapes. Frivolity meets focus; globalism meets generativity.
Physical release and extras available at in our Shop; digital version at all major online retailers.
www.RemediationMusic.com
www.FlawedArt.net
More pics after the jump!
Check out the new video from re*me*di*a*tion, the one-man post-rock juggernaut arriving on LUX ETERNA on Tuesday, February 24.
“Cataclysmic”:
From our text-based wing, The Contrarian Media, comes this article called “Arcade Who? The Monoculture and Political Paranoia“:
Although it is amusing that anyone sees the Grammys as a bellwether of musical culture (or even record sales), the controversy underscores a broader trend in American life — namely, the emotionally unsettling effects of cultural fragmentation. And this phenomenon cannot be separated from contemporary politics.
The reason for this fragmentation is due to the saturation of information channels. No longer does commercial radio — or the Grammys, for that matter — shape the tastes of the masses. We’ve got a million outlets, and there’s an ass for every seat. This can be very discomfiting to the herd mentality.
Many Americans, still sucking on the Big Media teet, view this fracturing as suspicious, if not dangerous. It’s as if NPR and the Kenyan in the White House are conspiring to make culture something they just can’t comprehend. In actuality, Obama is more conservative than Nixon, and Arcade Fire closer to Bruce Springsteen than G.G. Allin (Google him.)
But that doesn’t matter. America’s heebie-jeebies are being played out on both the political and pop culture stages.
Maybe LUX ETERNA will emerge victorious from the Culture Wars and unite the surviving tribes…
2011 is gonna be a big year for LUX ETERNA. We’ve got a batch of releases on the calendar that run the gamut from lofty art-pop to instrumental post-rock to enveloping organic drone. And there will surely be some surprises along the way!
Our ’11 roster includes:
re*me*di*a*tion
The Ten Thousand Things
SpeLL C▲s†††r
Strange Angels
The Contrarian
Much of the music from these acts — catalog and upcoming releases — can be listened to here.
Just today, we sent off the master disc for re*me*di*a*tion, which drops this month in physical and digital. Exciting!
SpeLL C▲s†††r is an enigmatic witch-house act that we know very little about (and we may be better off for it). Here’s what we do know: ethereal female vocals, trance-inducing beats and psych guitar contribute to an utterly ominous — if uncannily sexy — sound. Check out these two videos and look for a FREE EP in February 2011…
“Enter the Gorgon”:
“John Dee’s Diary”:
