NEWS
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Alibis", DERRIERE LE MIROIR's debut album, Ralf, Nicole and Kai will actually play some few concerts this year.
The current status is:
01.07.2023, Karlsruhe (DE), KOHI (tbc)
22.07.2023, Meschede (DE), Live am See Festival
14.10.2023, Cottbus (DE), Bunte Welt
28.10.2023, Brussels (BE), Le Lac
??.12.2023, Barcelona (ES) (tbc)
Yes, the pandemic has also slowed us down... both in our schedule and in our drive. On top of that, our label had to change its distributor, which made things a bit uncertain. But at least there are now 16 songs for the upcoming album... :) And we hope for a release towards the end of the year - so that it still comes out within our 10th anniversary (Yippee!)...
BTW, Ralf has finished the artwork for the new TORS OF DARTMOOR album. So Goth Rock fans have something to look forward to... musically, not in terms of the artwork... I mean, not only...
A little "secret" of Ralf ;) ...
http://www.vakentimmar.com/2020/04/musikminne-fran-i-m-r.html
"Follow The Ruins EP" is finally available!! ...
Here's a petite preview of the upcoming EP in almost authentic "radio style"...:
So, we've got a title ("Follow The Ruins EP") and the artwork... the parts come together - sloooooowly...
Just a short update:
Yes, Syborgmusic gave us a "Go!"! So now we can take the next 3 steps: choosing the songs (6, 7, 8?), thinking about the artwork (a digifile sleeve would fit an EP perfectly, wouldn't it?) and waiting for Martin to do some backing vocals. We suppose that the latter will take the longest...
Yes, we have to admit it: the album we had planned for the end of 2019 will not be finished in time. The work on it became more time consuming than we actually thought - mainly because we are still not quite sure about the "main direction" of the album... there is still a lot to be tried out. But on the other hand, "2020" looks pretty chic as a release year ;)
In order to bridge the time until then, we decided to release at least an EP. It will contain a small selection (probably 8) of those songs we have recorded as potential musical interludes for a planned audiobook. Unfortunately, this project could not be realized until today, because the temporal and creative coordination between author and narrator is a bit, let's say, difficult. That's why we decided to release the songs in their current state without the literary framework. That means, if our label agrees with our idea... we hope for the best...
So sad... Rüdiger Frank, friend, actor and singer of the band The Tors Of Dartmoor, has passed away unexpectedly last weekend. We are still shocked...
The closed season is over... chasing ideas...
On the 23rd of March we will visit Cottbus! And perform together with STEIN some "Rock at the block" ;)
We are happy to play the "Nocturnal Culture Night"-Festival again! We just say: 07th of September, "Kulturbuehne"...
More information about the festival:
http://www.nocturnal-culture-night.de
Spring-cleaning? We uploaded two outtakes from "25.20.15" to Soundcloud...
- "Little Nothing"
- "Boomerang"
Unfortunately we came to know that Bernhard Schmitt, the photographer who made our last promo photos, has passed away this month. A really sad beginning of the new year...
"25.20.15": Song for song, briefly commented by us: www.vakentimmar.com...
Now it's on-record on the amazon page: www.amazon.de...
We hope that "25.20.15" will see the light of day before 2017 is gone. In any case, our label told us a scheduled release date: 16th of December.
The album itself will contain 16 tracks and we were supported by the Greek musician KRIISTAL ANN, the Russian Darkwave heroes STILLIFE, NICOLE RELLUM and KAI KAMPMANN of DERRIÈRE LE MIROIR as well as the accordeon player ANNETTE KOSAKOWSKI.
And the weird album title? Yes, the album title... ;)
Besides the recordings for the new album, Ralf just finished a remix for the Russian band STILLIFE...
Within the next weeks Syborgmusic will release the remaining 5 session tracks of T-HE as a digital EP!
The first selection is made: 20 songs have found their way into the intersection. And we will hopefully start to think about their realizations as soon as possible...
For the upcoming Paul Roland tribute album "Alice's Curiosities" we did a cover of "Cairo". We hope you'll like it a bit, old bean ;)
Ralf has used the last 8 weeks to record 40(!) demo songs for a possible new album. Now it is up to the others (poor ones...) to listen to them and find 12-15 songs which could deserve a further treatment.
... a litte preview of the upcoming DERRIÈRE LE MIROIR album "In Flux"
Well, after Ralf has finally "left" the new DERRIÈRE LE MIROIR album "In Flux", we actually start thinking about a new I-M-R album - especially because we can celebrate some anniversaries next year... It is not sure yet (of course not!), but we will start demoing some ideas in November - just in case ;)
Our song "Night" will be part of the upcoming compilation "Indie Pop, Vol.1". Which also features a track by MOUSSE T. :) ... strange world...
Here's a little session track from T-HE... just for fun: https://youtu.be/sBN8leyr7G0
Under the moniker of their former school project T-HE, Ralf and Kai Kampmann (DERRIÈRE LE MIROIR) afforded a short journey "into their youth" and will put out three results of their occasional sessions from 2015 on the 3rd of June as a 3-track mp3 download single called "Believe" - released by Syborgmusic...
www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.com
"Drowned In You" is part of the upcoming "Dark Wave Sensation - A Transmission Into Post Punk Coldwave Movement" compilation...
Our "Back & Forth" mixtapes... https://www.mixcloud.com/i-m-r... At irregular intervals (at least that is the plan) we will upload some songs, which we listened and/or danced to in our "almost" wild youth... Vinyl clicks cannot be ruled out... Enjoy... :)
We have the honour to open the upcoming download compilation "Snowflakes IV" with our song "Blind"... :)
... quite dark, but blue... ;) "Poisoned Eyes" in Merzdorf, 3.10.2015...
"InOutSide": Song for song, briefly commented by us: www.vakentimmar.com...
Just told: "Shattered" on place 6 in the "Dunkles Leben" community charts... :)
... and another "dance" video... ;) "Shattered"...
On the 30th of January we are guests at Darkradio. Start: 8 p.m.
"InOutSide" is number 92 on the "grooves-inc.de" best seller list? And number 15 on the "amazon.de" Alternative->Darkwave list? Thankyou! :)
Our song "Night" is featured on the download compilation "Twist The Past 2".
You can download it here for free:
http://at-sea-compilations.de/?page_id=955
Here's a remix of "Night", produced by the Italian electro project INTO NOWHERE. A big thankyou to Alless :)
https://soundcloud.com/i-m-r/night-into-nowhere-remix
Here's a track that surely isn't particularly characteristic for the album, but with which we had a lot of fun ... and still have... ;) The song is called "Night".
WGT 2014 - Thanks to Oleg :)
A nice finding from Brazil :) SCARLET LEAVES perform "Just Like You"...
