1476 - Smoke In The Sky - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

DIG CD with 16-pages booklet. There seems to be something sinister lurking beneath the beautiful landscapes of New England. Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King, those American masters of the horror genre have been born and raised there, where they have also created their dark writings. It is hardly surprising that a band hailing from the infamous town of Salem, Massachusetts such as 1476 have created an album, which is heading down a dark road. Yet InchIn ExileInch is not telling stories about witches, ghouls, or tentacled beings emerging from the depths. It is we, the people, who are on this path. On InchIn ExileInch, each song represents a world of it's own. It all started, when singer and multi-instrumentalist Robb Kavjian pondered upon that ancient question of where do people go when they die. In his mind, he started to imagine real persons and imaginary characters as mystical beings or deities. These avatars served as spiritual guides to their personal worlds during meditations that used visualisation techniques. This concept of individual worlds in the afterlife led to a stylistically quite diverse album, which does not make it easier to describe the band's sound. InchIn ExileInch contains elements of folk, rock, metal, punk, and also a healthy pinch of post-punk, which can be summed up loosely as 'wayward occult rock'. 1476 were founded by Robb Kavjian and percussionist and drummer Neil DeRosa in Salem, Massachusetts. The 'first' album, which is still found being mentioned about everywhere, is officially no longer a part of the discography as the core duo discontinued InchA Wolf's AgeInch (2009). This attributes the role of the official debut to InchWildwoodInch (2012). The album was widely circulated in the underground of several scenes. The sophomore full-length was designed as a soundtrack for an exhibition in Salem, MA tellingly entitled Inch

Digipak edition. 2017 . New England's 1476 creates isolationist sound stories musically and attitudinally coming from a punk/DIY background, they arguably absorbed all genres of guitar-heavy and atmospheric music there ever was since-including sub-genres of metal, neofolk, and ambient. Their DIY development has freed it from any and all genre restrictions, allowing the duo to boundlessly delve into conceptual worlds. From their viewpoint, they did not stick to an anarchic attitude, but delved into esotericism, occultism, Nordic mythology, and runology. What does this lead to? Some unparalleled boundless music-energetic, emotional, and always atmospheric with strong conceptual themes outside of the ordinary, often capturing the energy and mood of the old, haunting landscapes of New England's coastal regions. On their third album, the winter-themed Our Season Draws Near, 1476 strips away the dense layers and production from past albums and delivers it's most raw, intimate and urgent record to date. Far more guitar and drum-driven than anything the band has created before, Our Season Draws Near showcases 1476 at both maximum aggressiveness and it's most delicate, using minimalism, space and the power of dynamics to create massive, heavy sound.

Edgar Allan Poe A Life Of Hope & Despair is our first work in the realm of soundtracks. As opposed to his literary works, this music aims to explore the melancholic & quaint life, love, and death of Poe. The mood and ambience that usually lives on the periphery of our work takes center stage here. Each song draws upon neoclassical and experimental influences to weave piano & string sections with analogue synthesizers, samples, glitch, and drone into an atmospheric, yet engaging, album.