Hot on the heels of his latest Amari EP for A Tribe Called Kotori, Niko Schwind turns up on the Stil vor Talent mother ship with his next effort, Inner Sky - a shape-shifting three-track venture into the deeper end of our bespoke club music niche, featuring an array of studio collaborators, including Beacon Bloom, Deer Jade and Xique-Xique. A correspondingly ambitious and inspired closer to a new master stroke from an artist in full possession of his art. Topping it off, "Sopra il Mondo (featuring Francesca Siano)" is a straightforward roller tinged with Shure's broad palette of jazzy inflections, Latin neo-classicism and oriental harmonics. Going the dubbier way, this one finds Shure boasting the width of his skills and ever-sharp knack for cutting riveting slabs of pared-down psychedelia. Not one to crank it down one inch for real, "Attenuator" does the very opposite of its name, except perhaps for its more understated, deep-end-friendly approach. Doped on fly, chiselled breaks and a fractalised sound design rife with fractured vocal samples, "Permutation" flings us in a furnace of flash-flowing, mangled synth ellipses and bone-bruising bass moves that'll have you hard-pressed to find your way back to the surface. Merging middle-eastern melodic tropes with the most cutting-edge arsenal of circuit-driven chatter, the title-track pulls out an infectious metronomic swagger adorned with EBM-friendly cascades of shimmering bleeps and raging drums that keep on swelling as bars fly by. Using his background in traditional music to take club music into unheard directions, Sam keeps carving out a lane of his own, and his newest four-track delivery for Stil vor Talent - "Malfunction" - proves a new tour de force in his quest for time and space-transcending material. He seems to be running on twenty cylinders at the moment.A true driving force of the Stil vor Talent fold since the landing of his debut EP "Nandoo" in 2018, Sam Shure has cemented his position as one of today's finest names when it comes to shape shifting, polyamorous soundscapes. I know that all it would take is one drink. "I love red wine and this bottle went right past me, and I immediately thought, 'Give me that bottle,' but I let it go. "I was at dinner last night with some friends and everyone was getting a bit drunk," he recalled. I'm not saying I'll never have another but something had to change."Īccording to McBrain, staying sober is a daily struggle for him, especially when he is attending social functions at which alcohol is present. I realized that is not good situation to be in. I don't remember doing the interview at all. "My eyes were red and bloodshot, I was slurring words and not making any sense. "I'd probably been drinking for about four days straight," he said. McBrain, who is a dedicated Christian, revealed that he knew his drinking was getting bad when he saw footage of an interview he had done when he was inebriated. I took a lot of inspiration from Bruce it made me realize how stupid I was being." He continued: "When he got the 'all clear,' I looked at Bruce and thought, 'Here's my mate, he's been through hell, beaten cancer, and none of it was his fault.' And there I was, putting myself through hell too, except I was doing it to myself with drink. Plus it made me think about my own situation, my own health." When the news came back that he had cancer, I was just concerned for a friend. "It was only after we finished recording that he went to the doctors. "We recorded that album with Bruce knowing that something wasn't right," Nicko told The Drummer's Journal. McBrain recently said that Dickinson's cancer battle inspired him to get sober, explaining that "it made me realize how stupid I was being."īruce's diagnosis came in early 2015, shortly after MAIDEN completed work on "The Book Of Souls". The trek marks the first run of dates since MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson was declared cancer-free after months of chemotherapy and treatment for a cancerous tumor on the back of his tongue. IRON MAIDEN's world tour, in support of "The Book Of Souls", kicked off on February 24 in Sunrise, Florida (a suburb of Fort Lauderdale). IRON MAIDEN drummer Nicko McBrain recently spoke to The Drummer's Journal about the fight that broke his nose.
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