No Return - Requiem - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

D/P/I (Alex Gray) is a musician, DJ and visual artist from USA; he has made music under the alias of Deep Magic and as a part of various Sun Araw Trios, Duos and Quartets. Now, most of the time, he plays drums, guitar, or saxophone at home for his other half & two cats. Here he presents Composer. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D+M.InchComposer is an album of rhythms that, once started, eventually completed themselves without much input from the composer. The character of a rhythm can develop very simply/unconsciously with just a slightly different part of the hand hitting a drum, or the wrist getting tired, causing trembling and stuttering that further magnifies the rhythmic stability of the pattern and/or player. With electronics, it's different physically, as you are not 'hitting' anything, but the link to the subconscious/unconscious, remains analogous. Every adjustment to a single sound/pattern can reveal complexities that were not apparent when the sound/pattern started. A natural flow begins, similar to the development of complex accents via 'human error' of using an ordinary djembe or conga as the composer begins to be entranced by the sound/pattern, with a midi-mapped set of physical knobs, controlling complex processes/effects - each effect/process assumes it's own character for that, almost quantum-like, layer of improvisation - layer by layer, until the simple layers of sound/patterns have naturally developed into compositions that reflect the seeming-instability, excitement, and sadness in time, here referred to as a fixed, unmoving element in the 'universe', that our human software is intrinsically dependent on to interpret these rhythms and the rest of the material world. This album was fun, exciting and unpredictable until the day it was 'finished'. I hope this album encourages people to think for themselves. This isn't a 'techno', 'experimental'

Rue / Ens Officium / Rombach - Requiem [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/29/2014

After three decades of career, it's time for NO RETURN to show their live prowess on the record. Thus, webring you, InchLive XXXInch, which is much more than a InchsimpleInch live record. With a chronological setlist, which traces the career of the French band from the debut album InchPsychological TormentInch (released back in 1990) to the latest InchThe Curse WithinInch, InchLive XXXInch was recorded in La Manufacture, in the French city of St. Quentin, in December 2019. InchLive XXXInch is the first live album in the history of the band. People have been asking us for it for a long time and we are very happy to finally be able to itInch, guitar player Alain Clément comments. InchWe are very excited by the of this live concert because it really shows the energy and aggressiveness of No Return on stageInch. Ever since, No Return has kept on sharing it's passion for metal music, performing alongside bands such as ArchEnemy, Samael, Napalm Death, Sepultura, Coroner, Motorhead and many others, all while regularly releasing new albums. In 2019, underlining 30 years as a band, the French collective played several dates of an exceptional set-list of his career. The year 2020 brought vocalist Steeve's comeback (InchSelf MutilationInch, InchMachineryInch). In addition to the of InchLive XXXInch, the band is working on their new studio album.