Palace of Swords

 The spectre enters the scene-ah......

http://quiteinterestingaberdeen.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/inspecting-castle-spectre.html ;

'The Castle Spectre' is featured on today's 'This is the Modern World with Trouble', WFMU, New Jersey.

Listen here:  http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/45211

 Nice review of the new ep from the Mr Atavist site:

http://mratavist.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/palace-of-swords-ii/ ;

Hey, thanks for the compliments - I try!! :)

Best wishes, 

QC 

 Just passing by, listening to some Palace Of Swords. :) I'm looking forward to 'Athlete Cured.'

The Palace of Swords track 'The Black Lodge Will Rise Again' is featured on the new Container Drivers Radio podcast/online program.

Here's a link:  http://www.containerdriversradio.com/ ;

 Our track 'Echoes From a Distant Star' was featured on Blue Fred's Radio Rheinwelle session tonight. Thanks Fred, another great show!

http://www.radio-rheinwelle.de/index.php?id=johnpeel ;

 Another 'Head Music' review, from Freq this time:

http://freq.org.uk/reviews/various-artists-head-music/ ;

From this month's Prog Magazine:

Hamburg's Brain label is second only to Ohr when it comes to the emergence of influential German bands in the 70s., once providing a home for Neu!, Cluster, Harmonia, Klaus Schulze, Popol Vuh and various others. This engrossing double-CD, launched to celebrate Brain's 40th anniversay, sees a grand spread of international bands tackle a bundle of the era's landmark recordings. Lancashire pagans Earthling Society take a tabla to the tripped-out weirdings of Amon Duul's Paramechanical World, the Dead Sea Apes rip out the innards of obscure early Kraftwerk number Ruckstoss Gondoliero and Black Tempest take the shredder to Schulze's Bayreuth Return. The real boon of all this is how faithless and constantly surprising these new covers are. Vert:x soup up the sliding synthetics of Harmonia's Dino with heavy guitars. And radical interpretations of two Can classics are hard not to love. Language of Light turn Mushroom into a subterranean folk ditty that sounds like it was played on instruments rescued from a bonfire, while Saturn's Ambush discard the disco threads of I Want More for a slo-mo stoner shuffle 

 http://www.progrockmag.com/

 Review from the new edition of Shindig:

"Fruits de Mer marks the 40th anniversary of seminal krautrock label, Brain, with this four-sided homage. Brain coaxed an amazing variety of material out of their artists, so there's a nice mix of spaced-out floaters (Black Tempest's spiritual exploration of Klaus Schulze's 'Beyreuth Return' , Zenith: Unto The Stars' compemplative navel-gazer, Popol Vuh's 'Mantra II', and Frobisher Neck's dreamy take on Ash Ra Tempel's 'Schizo') and more unrestricted acid-jaqmming (Vibravoid's hallucinogenic mindwarping of Kalacakra's 'Nearby Shiras', Temple Music's synth-meets-guitar-shredding of Neu!'s 'Negativland' and an excerpt from Bevis Frond's 25 minute acid jam on Electric Sandwich's 'China').
Add a bit of Amon Duul I's communal hippie vibe (Earthling Society's impressively Floydian 'Paramecahnical World') and electro-synth pioneers Kraftwerk (Dead Sea Apes' outerspace floater 'Ruckstoss Gondoliero') and Tangerine Dream (Electric Moon's headswirling 'Madrigal Moon') and you have some of the finest space grooves you'll hear all year. Brain-frying, indeed!" (Jeff Penczak) 

http://www.shindig-magazine.com/ ;