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ESA




Saturday, 23-OKT-2010 - Sturm Industrial gathering relocated to Dirty Deal Cafe, Maskavas 12, k-2.

live acts:

ESA [electronic substance abuse/UK]
LENORAS SAPŅI [biopunk elektroise]

Ments-Satanists [satan disco]
Skaidbetons [beton beat]

video: mute psycho drama

Start: 20:00

Trauma: 4 Ls

Age limit: 18+


 

Man behind ESA (Electronic Substance Abuse) is Jamie Blacker!

ESA was born at the beginning in 2002 in order to cross the threshold from one form of independent extreme music to another. Jamie Blacker up until this point had been writing music semi-professionally for years in various Black and Death Metal bands, working alongside and touring with acts throughout the UK.

Having decided to experiment in Dark Electronica in order to experience a different genre. ESA began to gain European and US notoriety for powerful live shows complete with live guitars, live beats and various surprise guest vocalist appearances. Coupled with a venomous and violent debut album 'Devotion Discipline and Denial' on premier American label 'Hive Records', slowly ESA had begun to claim it's own territory.

ESA's sound is always a hard one to pin down. Taking influences initially from predominantly European Rhythmical noise acts, the overall structures have developed and integrated countless influences from the broad spectrum of alternative and extreme music. The tone of ESA is harsh and oppressive, dripping with destructive and corroded grooves whilst still emanating sub conscious melodies and a strong sense of Spirituality. ESA's compositions are undoubtedly threatening and offensive floor stomping club tunes but also twist and churn enough to warrant more attentive listening.

Now on Tympanik Audio based in Chicago, the 3rd ESA album has just been released and confidently promises to cause a stir in scene and crosses new boundries. Managing to somehow bridge the gap between the lovingly lapped up industrial anthems of today and the jet black opressiveness of ESA's new forward thinking sound. 'The Sea & the Silence' is out now via the Tympanik website and many other respected distribution sites.

 

Man behind LENORAS SAPŅI is audio visual artist Arturs Berzinsh (a.k.a. Christian).

Arturs began his musical activity in 1998 with a metal band „Angel’s Tears”. The first publicly issued single was called „In The Circle Of Black Fire” - included in metal music compilation „Beneath The Gravestone Vol. 1”. In 1999 synths and programming gradually emerged in between vocals and guitars and in 2000 the project came forward with a new single „Heresy” („Nine Inch Nails” cover version) Between 2002-2004 during one-man-band period, Arturs recorded new singles – “Funeral For My Baby”, “Lauskas”, “Your Light” and shot videos for these singles. Afterwards he recorded 3 EPs – “Your Light”, “Pelni” and “Lenore’s Dreams”. In the beginning of 2005 an experimental song “Zem Sarkanam Debesim”.

In 2005 Arturs decided to rename the project as “Diadema” - and moved further on in gothic industrial and e.b.m. direction with additives of industrial rock and metal designating the outcome as „decaDance rock”. In collaboration with "Neglectad Fields" guitarists Herman and Sergej, they recorded several tracks and shot several videos. After years of silence in 2006 Arturs resumed his musical activities under another project name.

LENORAS SAPŅI (Lenore's Dreams) is a harsher continuation of Arturs' musical idiom that has now evolved into a dark electronic fusion of aggrotech and rhythmic noise designated as 'biopunk'. The project  name has been inspired from E. A. Poe's poem, character Lenore - "the queenliest dead that ever died so young."  The musical material in has in fact been mutated and redeveloped out of his above listed sonic heritage, some even way back from 1999. As for  the beginnings of the project, according to the author, it has been arround  for years, however as his private audio exploration that has been named and disintered only recently due a multi-artist poetic audio visual project 'Neona Varti' which Arturs participated in with his own videos and music in 2004, for the first time giving this necromantic denomination to his output.

Arturs Berzinsh is also a remarkable painter and digital artist. Due to elaborate and gloomy character of his art, among all, Arturs is often requested to draw CD covers by many death, black, doom and industrial bands. You might want to attend his present painting and photoart exhibition on 12-31 october in gallery 'Pegazs' Rupniecibas iela 18 in Riga. Exhibition titled: 'Iekšas' (Entrails). www.berzinsh.lv www.galerijapegazs.lv

The event is supported by Europa City Hotel Riga, TVNET, ORB, Radio 2 (ee) and Radio Naba.


Comments  

 
+1 #1 SKD 2010-09-06 17:54
Prieks redzēt, ka šurp brauc arī jaunās ritm-blices, ne vien mūžvecās bandas. ESA nav no sliktākajiem piemēriem, kā nekā, nav pakļāvies pārmērīgam distōršenam un populārai tendencei visu ritm-elektroniku dubstepizēt :D Vietām gan tie ritmi varēja būt mazāk lineāri, taču caurmērā - neslikts powernoiza un tehno hibrīds ar jaunā viļņa metāla ifluenci. Autoķūnings, sātans un elektro-industrija!
Relīzē nav pieminēts, ka viņš ir arī Unter Null dalībnieks, kas vienubrīd te disenēs baigi rullēja.
Jācer, ka nākotnē varētu atceļot arī Empusae, Flint Glass, vai abi 2 + kopprojekts Tzolk'in.
 
 
+2 #2 ogriite 2010-09-08 14:12
''HOW PURE YOUR UTOPIA CAN BE''
 
 
+2 #3 kaps 2010-09-09 15:28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjatWItXMwM&feature=related
 
 
+2 #4 masque242 2010-09-09 17:44
Quoting SKD:

Jācer, ka nākotnē varētu atceļot arī Empusae, Flint Glass, vai abi 2 + kopprojekts Tzolk'in.


Ou, kā es priecātos par šiem projektiem, ja atceļotu :D
 
 
+4 #5 blah 2010-09-09 20:37
yess uz šito token jāiet
 
 
-2 #6 Fluffy 2010-09-12 14:28
Tā kā sen jau bija laiks mīkstinātāja(s) sapņiem!
 
 
#7 Lemon 2010-09-16 18:02
Artūra Bērziņa (LENORAS SAPŅI) personālizstāde „Iekšās”
http://easyget.lv/kultura/read/29934/
 
 
+1 #8 kaps 2010-09-16 22:29
projektu apraksts latviski: http://www.sturmmandat.com/forums/index.php?topic=180.msg1453#msg1453
 
 
+3 #9 SKD 2010-09-16 23:09
Quoting Fluffy:
Tā kā sen jau bija laiks mīkstinātāja(s) sapņiem!


a par ko kāds mīnusiņu šim komentam pielicis? es neredzu tam jēgu, tadēļ arī pielikšu
 
 
#10 SKD 2010-09-16 23:10
aaaaa, jā, stulbs joks :(
 
 
#11 kaps 2010-09-19 17:22
Noteiki drukaajiet ieluugumus!! Lai turpmak izvairiitos no iemaldiijushos neveelamu sveshinieku apmekleejuma, kuri beigu beigaas saak betoneet un negatiivi izpildiities, luudzu noteikti drukaajiet un njemat liidz. Iespeejams tas ir zinaams apgruutinaajums , tachu taa buus privaataaka vide kuraa atpuusties un baudiit muzonu. Ja kaadam nav printeris, suuti man epastu uz vai PM, un piesakies ka naaksi, ielikshu viesu sarakstaa.
 
 
#12 kaps 2010-09-22 13:54
Sturm Inform: http://www.sturmmandat.com/images/data/radio/esa_radio_0201.mp3
 
 
#13 sick_root 2010-09-27 21:45
Quoting SKD:
Quoting Fluffy:
Tā kā sen jau bija laiks mīkstinātāja(s) sapņiem!


a par ko kāds mīnusiņu šim komentam pielicis? es neredzu tam jēgu, tadēļ arī pielikšu


a par ko kāds plusiņu šim komentam pielicis? es neredzu tam jēgu, tamdēļ arī pielikšu :)
 
 
#14 lenorad 2010-10-03 19:42
hmm, hmmmm...
 
 
#15 agony 2010-10-04 21:33
shis pasaakums arii atcelts?
 
 
+5 #16 kaps 2010-10-05 02:00
nav atcelts
 
 
-4 #17 Pseudo 2010-10-05 18:38
Полиция обнаружила в центре Риги нелегальный клуб

rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/criminal/policiya-obnaruzhila-v-centre-rigi-nelegalnyj-klub.d?id=34459503
 
 
+7 #18 kaps 2010-10-05 18:43
tici aviizei, tici televizoram! pasaakums bus tik un taa - paarcelts uz Dirty Deal
 
 
#19 lenorad 2010-10-20 11:58
līdz cikiem būs pasākums?
 
 
#20 kaps 2010-10-20 12:43
lidz seshiem vareetu buut.