"ILLUSION" on "GOTH is what you make it VOL.6"

get great news today...
martin sprissler (mastermind of the german GOTHIC-MAGAZINE) mailed me today
he want to add "the silent flame"-track "illusion" on the forthcoming gothic compilation
"GOTH is what you make it VOL.6"

Mit bereits fünf erfolgreichen Vorgängern hat sich die Sampler-Reihe "Goth Is What You Make It" die Treue der Szene erspielt. Wie keine andere Songsammlung kommt "Goth Is What You Make It" ausschließlich mit Newcomern aus. Bands ohne Plattenvertrag, die ununterbrochen ihre Demos an Gothic-Magazine senden - so mancher Act bekam nach seinem Beitrag auf einer "Goth Is What You Make It" Compilation ein Angebot von einem Label oder von Veranstaltern! Für die quantitativ zur Auswahl stehenden Bands und Songs zeigt sich das jahrelange Bemühen des Gothic-Magazines um Newcomer hierbei als Bringer. Für die qualitative Auswahl zeichnet sich das jahrelange und weltweite DJ-tum des Compilers Martin Sprissler von Nutzen.

16-01-2007

so let's see what's up in 2007...

a lot of things are planned:
a) finish the work at the TYVES' BLACK CHRISTMAS project
b) working on a new cooperation track with sean bowley
c) release a new PLACE4TEARS album

"THE SILENT FLAME" review

here's the translation from the "the silent flame" review from this website
http://www.gutsofdarkness.com/god/objet.php?objet=8753

the reviewer called the music as "cold heavenly goth" sounds nice :o) thank you...


this album is quite disconcerting: we encounter in their universe the ghosts of Cocteau Twins, Trance to the Sun and a touch of Slowdive, The Cure and this is spiced up with some ambient experimentations. We seek a comforting feeling through all these bare orchestrations where spirals of guitars sometimes close to My Bloody Valentine shoegaze whirl between slow beats od the drum programming, these alternances between the easing female voices and the sometimes sad or dandy-like male ones... and we don't it really. We let ourselves be ravished by the voluptuous trance of the marvellous "riding the waves home", "love sick" or " be a queen"voluntarily disbalanced by the insane feeling we hardly recognize, caused by the cold keyboards on "who knows" or by hars attacks on "dream sequence" nothing is harsh or ironic in my description and this is the quality of this album that caresses, push back, pinches, goes from the soft and almost naive "the syn might come up" to th wrongly cold heavenly on "toedliche frieheit", and all this shapes a coherent album. This little game can only be perceptible to the only ones who will listen to it with a very careful ear as it is an ethereal progression that is going to melt with the fog before the spleen on "september's breath" (that is neat to Trance to the Sun) comes to give back more dynamism to the numb dreams. Imagine Black tape for a blue girl's spirit captured in a body of sounds inspired by Cocteau Twins, Trance to the Sun and My Bloody Valentine, the all gbeen through coldwave and then you will get a very vague idea of the ambiances of this album that rocks and drowns us at the same time. Very disconcerting but very enticing album!!

"THE SILENT FLAME" reviewed by Pak (Hongkong)

VERY nice mail again...
a friend from myspace wrote a very nice mail to me after i sent him our "the silent flame" album to hongkong... his name is pak & he wrote the following lines:

Hello Tyves! How's going. I have been quite busy this week and so I only have little time to pay full attention to the CD. Anyway, it has been in my cd player for this whole week, which means I love what I have heard. I like the packaging and the arwork inside. The music is very well produced and the music is ethereal, deep, atmospheric and beautiful. I think this is a piece of work with many elements like Gothic, Darkwave, Heavenly Voices, Shoegazermixed harmoniously."Silent Flame" reminds me work from Trance to The Sun, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, bands from Projekt..etc.. But I think it's still unique because the atmosphere, emotion, cohesion and profoundity stands on its own. I enjoy the whole experience. My favorite tracks go to "Riding the waves home", "princess valium", "Septembers breah". i think i hope some of the songs can be devloped further, because they stop when I find them very interesting. Maybe I'm asking too much :-). The Cd length is a bit too long, and i 'm a bit lost in the middle if I don't pay attention to the music. But it's just a minor thing. "Tears of avalon" sounds a bit "unnatural" to me. Maybe it's because of the mixing? I don't know. They are just some minor mistakes. I'm actually more than happy to have this CD in my CD collection. If I have received this CD in 2006, i will put it as my top 10 CD. But i guess it's my top 2007 anyway. Very nice. Keep working! I hope to listen more from place4tears :-). I have 2 questions. There is a german song on "the silent flame". What 's it about and why did you write the lyrics in German? And are you guys going to tour or something? Lastly, Thank you soooooooooooooooooooooooo much for the good music. I like your music embracing me and keep me moving. Pak

THANK YOU PAK!

"Tears of Avalon - feat. Sean Bowley" on DARK-SPY compilation

PLACE4TEARS feat. SEAN BOWLEY
is part of the new issue of the
DARK-SPY MAGAZINE
here in germany... will be released on 10th of january 2007 & is available in germany on 12th of january 2007 in papershops & some german supermarkets as "toom" or "real"...

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also included is
TYVES' BLACK CHRISTMAS project