Well folks here’s an unusual one for you! Those lovely people at Melting Vinyl and Lewes Psychedelic Festival have put their heads together and come up with the marvellous idea of hosting a memorable evening at the quaint Westgate Chapel in Lewes. The evening will feature the swirling synth sounds from Swedish cult atmospheric trio Death And Vanilla accompanied by psychedelic visuals courtesy of Innerstrings. It will take place on Thursday 30th May from 7:30pm at 92a High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1XH.
Death and Vanilla create organic sounding electronic pop music, using an array of vintage musical equipment to emulate the sounds of 60’s/70’s soundtracks, library music, German Krautrock, French Ye-ye pop and 60’s psych.
Formed in Malmö, Sweden by Marleen Nilsson and Anders Hansson and joined by Magnus Bodin, the trio revel in the warmth of older analogue instruments to create a more organic sound, each loose wire and off-kilter noise adding to the rich atmosphere.
Their love of all things “old” is well known – they’ve tinkled ivories, played vibraphone, recorded with a Sennheiser microphone and a nod to everything from Fun Boy Three to Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou, while still roaming somewhere between an ambient Eno and Cocteau Twins at a late-night soiree.
Prior to recording their new album ‘Are You A Dreamer?’, they played a string of dates including Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia and Levitation Psych Fest and scored several soundtracks, a process that undoubtedly influenced the new album’s dreamlike euphoria. Expanded with bass and drums in their quest for the grail, the album’s songs are longer; more plush and pampered; more hypnotic and haunting.
‘Are You A Dreamer?’ is released 10th May, on Fire Records and is available to purchase on Transparent Pink vinyl edition and Crystal Clear vinyl edition as well as CD and download.
“Their music variously recalls the eerie, haunted ambience of Angelo Badalamenti/Julee Cruise’s Twin Peaks soundtrack, Stereolab/Broadcast’s experimental vision of 50s lounge muzak/exotica and French 60’s pop, or the narcotic country-noir of Mazzy Star.” The Guardian
“Swedish exponents of dreamily lovely psych and lush, late-60’s-style baroque pop.” The Guardian
“Lush and enveloping, reminiscent of Curt Boettcher and Margo Guryan.” The Wire
“Fantastically eerie.” Clash
The Brighton & Hove News music team reported on Death And Vanilla’s previous Sussex concert at The Rialto in Brighton. Read the review HERE.
Purchase your Death And Vanilla Lewes concert tickets HERE.
For more information on Death and Vanilla, visit HERE and to hear what they sound like and purchase some songs, visit Bandcamp.
