アイルランドの Distro-y から Easpa Measa / Divisions Ruin - split LP 入荷しました。
ひととおりレコードを聴いて印象に残ったのは、Easpa Measa の4曲目 "Vargold" (Wolfage)。歌詞の解説によれば、アイルランドはかつて "Wolf Land" (オオカミの地) として知られていたそうだ。だが、イギリスの植民地化とともに先進国の撲滅風習が起こり、18世紀後半には最後のアイルランド・オオカミが虐殺された。解説の最後にその曲の真意が述べられている: 「この曲は社会の破滅と破壊、そして野生が最終的に人類を巻き込む時間にかんするものだ。」──｢オオカミを復活させろ、オオカミの時代を起こせ」。また、アイルランド北西部はメイヨー州・ミュリスク (Co Mayo) のエリス共同体 (Erris community) の反シェル闘争 "Shell to Sea" (www.corribsos.com) にインスパイアされた反戦歌の3曲目 "Black Blood" にも胸打たれる。
両バンドにかんしてはこのブログで幾度となく紹介しています。タグ "Easpa Measa" 及び "Divisions Ruin" も参照ください。
EASPA
MEASA / DIVISIONS RUIN - split LP (Distro-y) ￥1,100
" Two of Ireland's finest offer up a fine split of emotionally charged crust-tinged political hardcore. EASPA MEASA should be well known after their crazy 5-month-Euro-Tour back in 2005. It has been a little quiet around them since then, but now they are back with new recording. As this band has always been really important for me, i am totally happy about beeing part in this release. DIVISIONS RUIN on the flipside have gone through some line-up changes after their debut-EP, but managed to delevop their sound further and you`ll find a handful of new songs as well as some older ones from their demo on this split LP. " - Contraszt!
Distro-y: www.medistro.webs.com
Acclaim Distribution is here
Divisions Ruin / Easpa Measa - split LP がリリース！ Easpa Measa のメンバーが送ってくれたマスターですでに聴いていたが､両バンドともベスト・レコーディング。リリース元の一つであるアイルランドの Distro-y がインフォを送ってくれたので転載紹介。もちろん Acclaim にもちかじか入荷します。
Divi
sions Ruin/Easpa Measa split LP
Both bands hail from Dublin which may explain the complimenting sound of each. Divisions Ruin play hard hitting dark hardcore crust with battling female/male vocals creating a neo-crustal sound that breaks into eerie haunting breakdowns before breaking back into their emotive doomy hardcore once again. EASPA MEASA are a political hardcore 5 piece, with both dualing female/male vocals they play amazing crusty melodic hardcore with passion and fury great fluidity with in the songs and melodies through out.
(in coop- w/ Suburban Mayhem, Contraszt!, Holy Shit – Feb. 2010 – 500 copies)
http://www.myspace.com/easpameasaband
http://www.myspace.com/divisionsruin
- Distro-y
DIVISIONS RUIN - s/t 7" (ACM020)
" POLITICAL CRUST HARDCORE FROM DUBLIN IRELAND! DARK AND MELODIC RAW GRINDING CRUST WITH FEMALE AND MALE VOCALS! AWESOME!!!!!! "
- Anti-Commerce
This release in "Acclaim Releases" is here
Easpa Measa & Divisions Ruin
両バンド共に当レーベルからリリースしているということもあり、個人的に非常に楽しみにしているアイルランドの Easpa Measa と Divisions Ruin の split LP が遂にこの秋リリースされる。
おそらく何レーベルかによる共同リリースになる予定だが、今のところ、ドイツの Contraszt! Records、アイルランドの Distro-y が参加することしか分からない。
Divisions Ruin: www.myspace.com/divisionsruin
追記: 先月来日したスウェーデンの Fy Fan のベーシストである Ian が、アイリッシュで、元 Easpa Measa のギタリストだったことには驚いた。Fy Fan ジャパン・ツアーの最終日・北浦和Kyara に、かれらを見に行ったときのこと、Too Circle Records の Mくんにそのことを教えられ、Ian ともそのことについて話すことができた。かれもまさか日本で私と会えるなんてと驚いていた。ちなみに、かれが Easpa Measa に在籍していたのは、 "Renounce & Dethrone" demo CD-R までで (そういえば、この時期はツイン・ギターだった)、次に当レーベルからリリースされた split 7" with Nemetona のころには既に脱退していたようだ。かれも Easpa Measa は怒りに満ちたバンドだと言っていたので、いずれ日本に呼びたい。かれは今デンマークに住んでいる。世界は狭い。
*The band photo was taken from their myspace.
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ACM024 : KHATARINA - Roaaaaarrrrr! CD ￥900
Finnish feminist d-beat punk. This CD is their discography including demo, "s/t" 7" and "Ala Eparoi, Vaan Aparoi / Don't Hesitate, Be A Bastard" 12". All songs mastered by Noise Room.
More InfoKhatarina : www.khatarina.tk
ACM021 : GUTS PIE EARSHOT - Revolt Against 7"/MCD ￥400/￥400German BreakBeatPunk - Live! with Cello. This is their new single with 2 songs. co-release with Tofu Guerrilla (Germany). More InfoGuts Pie Earshot : www.gutspieearshot.de
ACM020 : DIVISIONS RUIN - s/t 7" ￥400" DR from Ireland deliver slow and dark "crusty" HC on their debut-EP. Very emotive without being too much Emo. Great melodies and fe/male vocals. something like Ballast / Unhinged / Easpa Measa to give you a hint. " - Ruin Nation Records More Info
Divisions Ruin : www.divisionsruin.bravehost.com
ACM018 : CHICKEN'S CALL - Maintenant ou Jamais 10" ￥700" This must be one of the coolest records I've ever seen. A one-sided dark pink 10" with a two-color screen print on the blank side. Screen printed cover and a small but thick booklet with all the lyrics, translations etc. Worth getting for the time and effort put into this alone. If that don't excite you the music might as that's no bad shit either. French anarchopunk that's catchy and raw in a way only punk can be, and also incorporate some d-beat and thrash tendencies. " - Attackfanzine.net More InfoChicken's Call : www.lustucrust.org
ACM016 : TUNGUSKA / KARAKTERMOORD - split 7" ￥400TUNGUSKA are a Irish dark modern powerful hardcore/punk. Their new songs for the split 7" are 2 songs in total including amazing RUDIMENTARY PENI "Rotten To The Core" cover. These are more aggressive d-beat neocrust than their previous releases! They have former/current members of such bands as SILENCE, EASPA MEASA, ANTICHRIST, DENOVISSIMIS, JULIETTE and THE SKIES COLLIDE. KARAKTERMOORD are a Holland brooding political hardcore/crust. Like Born Against meets His Hero Is Gone (De Graanrepubliek said. Just so). The artwork by Glyn / SCRAWLED DESIGN (ex-The Dagda). co-release with De Graanrepubliek (Holland), Hollow Soul Records (UK) and Incompalable Ninja Records (Ireland). More InfoTunguska : www.myspace.com/tunguskapunkKaraktermoord : www.myspace.com/karaktermoord
ACM013 : VUUR - Vuurviolence CD ￥900Belgian political hardcore-punk screamo violence terror. This CD is their discography including split 7" w/Seein'Red, Amen Ra, 4 way split CD, compilation tracks and unreleased Born Against cover!More InfoVuur : www.myspace.com/vuurviolence
ACM012 : EASPA MEASA / SILENCE - split LP ￥900Irish M/F vocaled amazing political crusty melodic hardcore vs Polish powerful dark and emotional punk/hardcore with well-thought lyrics. co-release with Sadness Of Noise (Ireland) More InfoEaspa Measa : www.easpameasa.cjb.netSilence : www.myspace.com/silencelublin
ACM011 : KOBAYASHI - Neuanstrich CD ￥900This 2nd album of Germany's KOBAYASHI that used Japanese for the band name (it is a popular family name in Japan) is just their best staff as extolled by all DIY punk/hardcore labels which is intimate with them in Germany. They play very outstanding melodic punk/hardcore that is not able to be compared to any band, and all the songs are powerful truly. Although each of the songs are abundant also in variations, there is their consistent color. Intelligent, unique and deep personal-political lyrics are filled with passion for our unknown, and the consideration/dissident's mind for all the lies in this society, although a prospect is not bright. Moreover, it is amazing that the contents of the lyrics and the style of the songs fit exquisiteness. The lyrics are translated into English, Spanish, and Japanese (the Japanese translations were translated by Acclaim. By the way, their lyrics became the factor to which we love them more and more in process in which we translate the lyrics into Japanese. It mean the connection of more than music for us). Laura of Disface participates by guest vocals (on "La valla"). LP is gatefold sleeve, and CD is digipack (There are plus 20 pages booklet). Personally, the artwork which feels familiarity is also expressing Kobayashi of this very well. This is a super record truly! More Info
Kobayashi : www.kobayashi-disko.org
ACM005 : BURN AGAIN - Excuses For Apologies CD ￥900BURN AGAIN, hailing from Oulu, Finland. This intense band play dark, melodic and pure crust / thrash. I think the d-beat to be emphasized more though they are the sounds influenced by the Tragedy / From Ashes Rise types. Exactly, it is a sound that "BURN" as shown in the band name. And I was heated to the thoughtful angry political lyrics. This special Japanese edition is their discography so far including split 12" LP with "Lahdon Aika" (Finland) and 1st demo CDR. Therefore, it will be able to be said that it is CD version of the split 12" LP. Co-released with 3 Japanese DIY labels (including we "Acclaim"). They are band that acts aggressively in Finland now. They insist : " D-BEAT RULES THE WORLD! "
More Info
ACM004 : DOWN TO AGONY - Requiem Por Un Mundo Enfermo 7" ￥400The brand new 4 songs 7" from the Spanish powerful & crushing Neo-Crust hardcore-punk band who recorded after the first LP "No-Vida". This band is a sound that mixed His Hero Is Gone, Tragedy and Fear Is The Path To The Darkside but they've their own "darkness". And, the vocalist who does scream in tragic voice expresses misery and death of ourselves invented by this sick world. But in their words, there's a conviction to the reality of our own desires to the last. That is, this one is a just "Requiem por un mundo enfermo (Requiem for a sick world)" as told by the record's title. We (A)cclaim Collective didn't know this band at all until there's contact from them. But we felt that our and their standpoint and purpose were the same, so we decided to participate in this co-release. because they have said like thisー"we still live, we still burn, we still love". Great artwork. More Info
Down To Agony : www.myspace.com/downtoagony
ACM003 : EASPA MEASA / NEMETONA - split 7" ￥400EASPA MEASA from Dublin, Ireland are super female / male vocaled political hardcore 5 piece, and they play amazing crusty melodic hardcore fury. If their sounds are described, it is a sound like Disaffect meets Submission Hold based on Tragedy! (but this is a comparison not significant at all. It will be understood if you touch this band). The 2 songs of this split 7" is re-recording of "Dead Inside" & "Maggots and Worms" from their "Renounce & Dethrone" demo, and these are faster and louder than the demo. their unrelenting lyrics are in English and speak about the police that increase control, our struggle in this world based on greed, violence and power. With Japanese translations of their lyrics of course. An excellent artwork by Glyn of THE DAGDA. By the way, this band's name is traditional Irish language (not spoken by many people any more in Ireland), it is translates as "Lack Of Respect" in English, and pronounced "Ah-spa Mah-sa". NEMETONA is a Japanese female fronted raging crustcore attack. Female vocalist named the "Ascum"-- her insane powerful shout is a charm of this band. Their 3 songs are first recording after the bassist joins, and it becomes a new line up. Moreover, it is a first real recording as for the band. When I saw this band for the first time in "Crust Night 2004" that "Tribal War Asia" organized, and I decided to do release of them in the mind. Their show was awesome. I'm very excited because I achieved the release of this 7" that becomes release of Acclaim's first Japanese band also.More Info
Easpa Measa : www.easpameasa.cjb.netNemetona : hp.kutikomi.net/rooster
ACM002 : REACCION PROPIA - Inercia Somatica CD ￥900REACCION PROPIA are passionate powerful hardcore from Bogota, Colombia. They're not the sounds of a so-called "South American type HC" but are very emotional, melodic and metallic. And, they have great anarchist social/political lyrics filled with love and anger. In additon, there's a very considered view to this exact, cruel capitalist system in their lyrics. This CD is Japanese version of their 1st album (2004), and the English translations of lyrics and its Japanese translations that do not exist on the original Colombian version released from their own "PERSISTENSIA RECORDS" is newly added to this CD. So to speak, it will be able to be said that this CD is an "International version". The artwork is also another new version. 10 songs in all. They're very important band that can know another wonderful South American hardcore.
More InfoReaccion Propia : www.reaccionpropia.8m.com
DIVISIONS RUIN - s/t 7" (ACM020)
" Here's an EP that holds four tracks of loud and howling raw crusty-styled hardcore. The A side contains two tracks that are executed in a slower manner with pounding rhythms and roaring vocals, where the B side, although not being without doom-laden riffs, have two faster tunes with more of an aggressive approach. There can be possible neo-crust comparisons to the music, but the delivery are a lot rougher than that, and not as polished, not quite placing this EP within said category.
This is in fact hard to place within any category as the music refuses to be labelled. There are parts with haunting crust which explodes into grindcore in the next second, before they bring out the metal. They pour a little bit of everything into it and the result is quite a diverse brand of doomy crustcore. "
[Krogh - March 5, 2009]
- Attackfanzine.net
Divisions Ruin: www.divisionsruin.bravehost.com
Acclaim Releases Page → Here
MEASA / DIVISIONS RUIN - split LP (Distro-y) ￥1,100
