{"id":11187,"date":"2012-01-02T14:59:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T03:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/?post_type=portfolio&p=11187"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:20:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:20:53","slug":"strange-forces-strange-forces-new-editions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2012\/01\/02\/strange-forces-strange-forces-new-editions\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Forces 'Strange Forces' (New Editions)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFour years ago, the members of Strange Forces<\/strong> left the balmy climes of Brisbane for the dead centre of Europe, carrying a head-full of ideas and aspirations, seeking a pathway to enlightenment in the metropolis of Berlin.
\nTaking their cues from a montage of inspirational devices \u2013 from Spacerock to obscure New-Age Prophecies \u2013 Strange Forces\u2019 diligence and determination has paid off in unpredictable ways. They have carefully eschewed the usual tropes found in Australia\u2019s revered guitar-bass-drums set-up and, remarkably, found something altogether new and dynamic within such confines, delivering a washed out lo-fi psychedelic experience that bristles with ancient power.
\nTheir northern exposure has given them the opportunity to support spiritual kinsmen Mogwai<\/strong> in 2011 and to take their multi-dimensional tableau to the good people of Eastern Europe in a unique Ukranian tour (documented via their \u2018Hypervisions\u2019 online video series).
\nFor this New Editions release, their self-released debut EP has been augmented with additional tracks originally found on a limited cassette \u2018Spores\u2019, released by Los Angeles tape label, Living Tapes.
\n\u201cRattling, monstrous invocations of acid-rock breakdowns both mental and musical\u2026 Reverb soaked guitar flutters in the shadows of a tree lined clearing, shadows constantly profaned by the flames of some awful, ancient ritual at the clearing\u2019s centre. Unimaginable colour shooting up into space from a cyclopean obelisk. The Old Ones would be proud.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2014\u00a020jazzfunkgreats.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nTracklisting.<\/strong>
\n1. Intro 02:17
\n2. Soul Window 06:01
\n3. Love Rust 04:37
\n4. Hungry Ghost Nation 07:15
\n5. Drugs And Powers 04:15
\n6. Liquid Sunlight 04:26
\n7. Shizer In The Shadows 04:47
\n8. Midnight Plumage 11:14
\nWritten and performed by Strange Forces<\/a>.
\nAll songs recorded at Studio East, Berlin, mixed by Ed East and mastered by Jaike Stambach; except for Intro, Love Rust, Midnight Plumage all recorded, mixed and mastered by desfontane.
\nCatalogue.\u00a0<\/strong>NWAED10
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Press:<\/strong>
\nFeature Album, \u2018Out To Lunch\u2019
\nRTR Perth, February 2012<\/strong><\/a>
\n\u201cRattling, monstrous invocations of acid-rock breakdowns both mental and musical. If 20JFG required a gateway back into the murky swamps of a guitar drenched adolescence the slow build of Soul Window proffers one. Reverb soaked guitar flutters in the shadows of a tree lined clearing, shadows constantly profaned by the flames of some awful, ancient ritual at the clearing\u2019s centre. Unimaginable colour shooting up into space from a cyclopean obelisk. The Old Ones would be proud.\u201d
\n20 Jazz Funk Greats, July 2010<\/strong> (on \u2018Soul Window\u2019, pre-release)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Berlin-via-Brisbane’s Strange Forces feature as the tenth and final release for New Weird Australia’s New Edition imprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451],"tags":[1152],"class_list":["post-11187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-weird-australia","tag-new-editions","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15882,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions\/15882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}