Jules and Pete - two Brits hide behind The Infinite Trip. Already in the 60's the two school friends got to know and love the psychedelic. But it should take until 2014, almost half a century, until the duo released their first psychedelic album as The Infinite Trip with "We Are Like Dream Children". After that, there was no stopping. Eight albums in total were released until the end of 2017, all full of the psychedelic sounds of the late 60s and early 70s. With "Trips Volume 1", the German Clostridium label has now released an exhibition of works from the albums 6 ("All About The Mothership", Dec. 2016) and 8 ("Brain Blossom", Nov. 2017). In the e-mail interview, Jules (vocals, drums, bass, rhythm guitar, songwriting, arrangements) and Pete (guitar, keyboards, samples, programming, production, artwork) give the answers together.

The German psychedelic/neokrautrock duo Sounds Of New Soma presents their fourth album "Live At The Green Festival". After the acclaimed "La Grande Bellezza", which indulges in beauty and quirkiness, the new work goes in a new straight-line direction. eclipsed spoke with the two protagonists Dirk Raupach (also owner of the independent label Tonzonen Records) and Alex Djelassi.

eclipsed: The title of the new album is a fake. The album is neither recorded live nor is there a Green Mushroom Festival. Nice gag, huh?

Alex Djelassi: The recordings of the base tracks are actually from a live situation. This time it's about creating a feeling in the listener how a "Green Mushroom Festival" would feel and sound with our participation.

KINO - I Won't Break So Easily Any More (5:26)
Album: Radio Voltaire (2018)
Label/Distribution: InsideOut/Sony
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There is no sign on "Radio Voltaire" that 13 years have passed since the KINO debut "Picture" was released. John Mitchell and Pete Trewavas have managed to preserve the special spirit of their little "Supergroup" and now let it out of the bottle again. And with a lot of verve.

"Noite", the fourth album of this Galician Neofolk SANGRE DE MUERDAGOband, will be released on April 20th via SickManGettingSick Records / Broken Silence. Originally based in the Spanish punk subculture, the band has pitched their tents in Leipzig. Their Neofolk belongs to the kind that use archaic instruments to sound modern again in very old garb...

Tusmørke is a psychedelic, progressive folk rock band from Skien, Norway. Fjernsyn i Farver ("Colour TV") is their sixth album, which is loosely based on two concepts of light, time and reality. All we see is a reflection made by light from the sun hitting an object. The reflected light is registered by our eyes, but the reflection is also emitted in all other possible directions, travelling at the speed of light. The unhindered reflections travel forever through space. If we could develop a means to move faster than light, we could overtake these reflections and see them again, that is, look back at history. The second idea is that light is not seen as something that hits something and is then reflected back, creating a color image for the human eye. If there were no physical objects that could reflect the light, there would be an eternal totality, a kind of darkness, because light would not be seen...

On March 9, 2018 Rhino will release the "Brave: Deluxe Edition" in a 4CD/Blu-ray or 5LP version. The audio tracks will also be digitally available. Both formats include a version of the studio album remastered by Steven Wilson and, for the first time, the complete recording of a March 1994 concert in Paris, which has been extended by 9 previously unreleased tracks for the Deluxe Edition.

The CD/Blu-ray configuration also includes the original mix of Producer Dave Meegan's album as well as the high-definition 96/24 audio in Steven Wilson's remix as stereo and 5.1. Also included are promotional videos for the album's singles and a documentary about the album featuring concert footage and interviews with the band: vocalist Steve Hogarth, guitarist Steve Rothery, keyboardist Mark Kelly, bassist Pete Trewavas and drummer Ian Mosley. Both the CD/Blu-ray and vinyl editions come with an illustrated booklet telling the stories behind the songs.

Fifty years ago the Rolling Stones started one of the most amazing comebacks in rock history. By the end of 1967 the British had reached an artistic dead end with "Their Satanic Majesties Request", and their last big hits were a while back. Consequently, at the beginning of 1968 Jagger & Co. were regarded as a discontinued model - nonsense, as soon became apparent. In the following, we trace the process of creating "Beggars Banquet", the album with which the group regained their manginess.

Anna von Hausswolff is one of Scandinavia's most unconventional songwriters. Her instrument is the church organ, the sacred instrument forms the anchor between delicate and brute spheres. On her fourth album "Dead Magic" the Swede also uses her clear soprano more expressively than before. Some songs literally explode: They reflect a time when Hausswolff was faced with total exhaustion.

When Anna von Hausswolff receives journalists in the office of her Berlin record company, they meet a very friendly person who speaks in thoughtful, printable sentences. With fine long hair, porcelain ink and a black wool stole around her shoulders, she looks as if she had escaped a bourgeois tragedy of Strindberg or Ibsen. The 31-year-old looks at the plate cover that has just arrived from the print. "It should be blacker," she judges after inspecting the cover, which shows a mummy-like face in red and black. Abysmal. Welcome to the world of Anna von Hausswolff!