Free downloads from RAIG artists and friends: out-of-prints, archival recordings, live albums, collections of out-takes, special promos, etc. LPs and EPs which are not available and might never come available on real CDs.
C O M I N G - N E X T . W E E K E N D
RAIG's Accessory Takes presents (AT038) Mystic Morrison Visions "Fuzzy Set", an official debut album by a brand new instrumental progressive-fusion band MYSTIC MORRISON VISIONS from from Volzhsky, the Volgograd region. The whole set was recorded live in Astrakhan in June '10 and engineered by Alexander Kuzovlev and Alexei Klabukov of VESPERO fame. The trio perform all instrumental, keyboard driven, colorful music straddling a border between avant-garde improvisation and funky-jazz groove. STAY TUNED!
Live Shots
September - October – The Grand Astoria - EAST & WEST EUROPEAN TOUR: Tallinn, Estonia (09.17) | Tartu, Estonia (09.18) | Riga, Latvia (09.19) | Kaunas, Lithuania (09.20) | Gdyna, Poland (09.21) | Warsaw, Poland (09.22) | Berlin, Germany (09.23) | Wroclaw, Poland (09.24) | Usti-Nad-Labem, Czech (09.25) | Nuremberg, Germany (09.26) | Osnabruck, Germany (09.27) | Munich, Germany (09.28) | Hall In Tirol, Austria (09.30) | Riva Del Garda, Italy (10.01) | Viareggio, Italy (10.02) | Seville, Spain (10.07) | Malaga, Spain (10.08) | Moita, Portugal (10.09) | Lisbon, Portugal (10.10) | Ilawa, Poland (10.13) | Preili, Latvia (10.14) | Liepaja, Latvia (10.16).
October 08 – Won James Won - Bordeaux, France @ "Russie Mon Amour" Festival. 23:00.
November - December – The Grand Astoria - 2nd EUROPEAN TOUR: Berlin, Germany (11.18 w/ Blackscreen, Hamada) | Bayreuth, Germany (11.19 - w/ Blackscreen) | Wurzburg, Germany (11.20 - w/ Blackscreen, Hamada) | Tarragona, Spain (11.28) | Uppsala, Sweden (12.03 w/ Ponamero Sundown) | Stockholm, Sweden (12.04) | Pedaasaar Island, Estonia (12.12 @ Guru Jubilee Fest).
Junuary 2011 – Sendelica - RUSSIAN TOUR w/ The Grand Astoria: Saint-Petersburg @ Mod Club (01.08 - 20:00) | Moscow @ Xo Club (01.14 - 19.00) | Ryazan @ Dom Kultury (01.15 - 19.00).
Junuary 2011 – The Grand Astoria - UK TOUR w/ Sendelica: Cardigan @ Cellar Bar (01.22 - 19:30) | Tenby @ Lifeboat Tavern (01.23 - 19:30).
Pen Slipped Things
List of recent reviews by Raigor. Come in Russian to represent distributed artists and their works to local audience. For review-archives please browse mail-order alphabetical catalog.
"For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence; and things mean and splendid exist alike." – Francis Bacon (1561-1626). Upcoming RAIG's Takes
August 01 : O U T - N O W
The Re-Stoned "Revealed Gravitation" (R055, CD) - The Moscow-based instrumental power-trio THE RE-STONED is usually associated with the local “stoner rock” scene, because of its heavily fuzzed sound and reliance on muscular riffing in golden 70’s style. Ilya Lipkin, Vladimir Nikulin and Andrei Pankratov leans on a combination of bluesy guitar-drenched textures and spacy, almost psychedelic jam-meandering trips, but the most important thing is their great skill at creating melodies so that you get really caught without any vocal hooks. Classic rock, blues-rock, traditional doom and stoner enthusiasts, and everyone else who appreciates original and challenging hard-rock music will like this offering. Click the covers to learn more. Listen to the new tracks at THE RE-STONED MyspaceMusic. "Keeping up the tradition of all-intrumental bands such as Karma To Burn, The Re-Stoned satisfy the listener with a ton of meaty stoner rock riffage, enough to appease your appetite until their next blue plate special is served." (by Reg Rykaczewski of Heavy Planet).
Psi Corps "All Roads Lead to Amber. Parts I&II" (R056, CD) - A new studio album by PSI CORPS is inspired by Roger Zelazny's first two books from “The Amber Chronicles” and continues Alisa Coral’s original “soundtrack-to-book” concept. Each track relates to certain events of the book, and the music tends to reflect what’s going on in the book. All Roads Lead To Amber was recorded by Alisa Coral and Charles Van de Kree of JET JAGUAR with a little help from Arkady Fedotov of VESPERO. The result is far from conventional rock-metal or electronic-tinged albums. With the sonic ocean of cryptic, discrete and weird sounds, swirling vintage synthesizers, heavily processed on the edge of sanity guitars, fluid melodic patterns, stumbling organic and machine-made beats… the music sounds like a cold and brain-expanding excursion of dark-psychedelic-industrial-space-acid rock collisions. Alisa Coral unleashed another modern psychedelic-nightmare masterpiece! Click the covers to learn more. Listen to the new tracks at PSI CORPS MyspaceMusic.
(AT035) Without God "Without God", an official debut EP-release by WITHOUT GOD is available now as a limited pro-duplicated CD-R. Disc is packaged in a rough oversized thick cardboard case with silkscreened, handassembled printing (100-ltd copies, 5 tracks - 29 min.). This is a collectable pressing for the band's fans, and general lovers of a raw blend of traditional doom and sludge metal. Still can be downloaded-for-free from the RAIG's Accessory Takes Catalog.
Connoisseur's Corner
VESPERO's "Liventure #21" is due October 2010 in 12"LP format from Golden Pavilion Records (Portugal)
"VESPERO- Liventure #21- (RUSSIA- 2010) GPS001LP- First release in Golden Pavilion’s new “Silver line”. A southern Russian wonder band formed in Astrakhan, playing a blend of dark psychedelic and prog textures with delightful spacey sounding instrumental passages and an underlying krautrock feel. This is the new official live album that features the instrumental highlights of the band's various stage performances in the course of 2009. This collector’s vinyl edition includes an extra track not available anywhere else. Especially mastered for this edition by Alisa Coral (a brain-master of SPACE MIRRORS and PSI CORPS) Limited vinyl release of 300 copies in stunning original artwork by ZonderZond, with mouth-watering gold foil & textured cover. Available in mid October 2010. Comes with newly designed color labels." (Golden Pavilion Records' official statement).
To pre-oder your copy please write to: goldenpav@gmail.com. The album's promo-trailer (5 tracks - 40 min.; non-mastered working versions) is available through FMA.
Camera Eye
THE RE-STONED : "Eternal Search" (Live, August 19, 2010 - Album Launch Party)
