MORE SOUND ON MYSPACE AT GREGG ANTHE PAGE NEW Listen here the ultimate inedit song recorded in february 2007 by MVA called "Uncertain Days" + 3 inedit remixes by Syrob and Scott Greiner . ENJOY!
UNCERTAIN DAYS release date: MARCH 30th 2007!..........................UNCERTAIN DAYS release date: MARCH 30th 2007!.......................... It was someday last year when MORTHEM VLADE ART decided to end their career. It wasn't only us who had been shocked...the moment they announced their end officially thousand of mails were sent...begging not to stop. As it seems now, they might return on stage for some shows, and as soon as we have news we'll share them with you. NEW is for sure their coming Best Of Album "Uncertain Days" which features their best recordings between 1997 and 2005. A bonus CD with remixes and edits will make this release a worthfully package. Once again - we are sorry to see such an outstanding band leaving. Click the i-tunes icon below to get the CDs ALBUMSFormed in 1995, MVA first carves out a substantial place for itself within the Dark movement to set soon with its first album "Herbo Dou Diable" (1998) a baroque style, original and trenchant, alternation of neo-classical atmospheres, industrial percussions and strong death-rock songs with staggered rythmics.The whole perfect cohesion wants to be suited to the story and convey the different narrator's feelings or moods. But the band, who likes to surprise and try out new perceptions, doesn't want to be caught in a static musical label trap. Without disowning its roots, MVA lets itself be carried along by its many musical, literary or films inspirations though."Organic But Not Mental" (2000) demonstrates this point very well in the way that it turns over a new leaf and gives up the first death-rock influences. Just like its title, it is punctuated with sounds reminding the human body's dull and tubular universe, electronic atmospheres of symphonic overtones, weird samples linked to the bodily phobias and distructured industrial songs.Then, 2001 sees the birth of "Antechamber", a brand new project from MVA which takes advantage of this loophole. This album is certainly the most intimist; made of an aerial electronic's minimalism carried by more pared down and raw voices, it becomes fixed in a surrealist and oneiric landscape. The production, which sounded colors have been outlined in the precedent Lp, finds here a more visible feature not to say different.February 2003 marked the release of their current album "Photography In Things" which had been described by the majority as a wonderful piece of musical art. They reached a point beyond any comparisms, a point where only the word "unique" comes in mind. Thoughtful stuctered songs about life in general and tiny little events.This willingness to depicte through the sound a visual atmosphere reminds there again the predominant influence of a certain cinema genre in Morthem Vlade Arts work.Not a long time passed since the release of their previous album "Photography In Things" : "it really depends but as we are completely involved in music / creation and nothing else say Morthem Vlade Art, "we have a lot of time to think about what we want to do exactly in an album and being organized. For Absente Terebenthine, we had more time again as we didn't go much on stage for "Photography In Things", so we decided to go back to the studio for several months. We always live in the emergency of doing something, to express the more we could and being closer to the thoughts we have to express, work on it, understand and synthesise it. Always working, we need and love that. Step by step, we build an universe, this is a way to feel life inside us".Contrary to their previous albums, whose almost seemed to be a big break in their musical carreer, Absente Terebenthine is quite closed to "Photography In Things": "Yes, says Gregg, also close to Antechamber, not really in the music that is more rock in Antechamber, but for us it's a kind of trilogy that's ending. The last three albums were different from our very first works more dark, I mean visibly dark. Then we started to be more and more direct, less metaphorical. With Antechamber we become to free ourselves from art clichés, and now it seems we're a bit detached from things, still fighting against ourselves but more introspective. The funny thing is that we never felt so wild and alive".Absente Terebenthine quite of a philosophical touched title, and yes, behind the translation: "turpentine absent" in English or "no turpentine" if you prefer, no thinner in the colour - a story is hidden: The whole idea is to get something clear and rough, direct, even if the songs could be soft sometimes, it has nothing to do with that but only with the album entity. Something linked to the emergency of acting and feel things without losing any time. This choice is clearly linked to our own lives, our evolution, as if we were a bit tired of talking, as if the only thing important was to create a metaphorical universe, a bridge between us and the world as a "tube", no talks but thoughts throwing.But lets talk about the music for a change: Absente Terebenthine is a mix between pop, electronica, eighties-like songs but always modern. Some atmospheres without sing complete the album but only one is really quiet and soft, the others contains some electricity flashes, rough. It's not as cold as Photography In Things, Absente Terebenthine is less melancholic, more "rock feeling" but synthetic and also more like a block. And, before some reviewers might complain about a certain parallelity to a certain well known artist: "I like the crooner voices as Bowie, says Gregg, Scott Walker or Ferry. I like distortion between the atmosphere of a voice and the atmosphere in the music, smooth voice, harsh sounds, strong voice, smooth rhythms, I like clashes, non-evident relationships. I can sing in different ways but it's true, it is often related to Bowie. I can't do anything about it". And why should he?Musically spoken the later MORTHEM VLADE ART sound less harsh, less aggressive, but that feeling just stepped a bit behind: "Now, says the band, only the way to tell things has changed. The violence can be red and evident but also cold as it is now. Not a physical violence but a burning one in veins. Only the language has changed in fact. Today we're more and more naked, far from the body. We've never been a band with a message. We only talk about what we know and feel. We're not talking for a part of the population, always about introspection and really personal feelings. So the kind of aggression you talk about was into the music itself, now the violence is against us and turned into different modes, a violence for living, a search. Human nature is ambivalent and we always try to reflect trough the sounds what comes in mind so we use different elements to depict our moods. We have also a lot of influences mixed in our music, we're made of all of this, what we listen to, what we have listened to, what we physically feel and what sound could fit to this feeling. It's a bit like a sound designer in a movie using anything else except the sound itself". By Stephan Thiemann Pandaimonium Records / Pandaimonium Mailorder'BEST OF' ALBUMS Released on MARCH 30th 2007 There are bands where it's hard to compile a Best Of. Morthem Vlade Art are one of those bands, as for their fans a "Best Of" would simply be a boxset of all their albums. "Uncertain Days" is quite sure their last release and we make sure it's a worthfully one...a bonus CD with unreleased mixes and edits and as usual a wonderful designed booklet is the least we can do for this outstanding band. In 1998 the french duo Morthem Vlade Art released their official debut called Herbo Dou Diable. And without any exaggeration we can say: the album gained ravenous reviews and they were classified immediately as one of the big things to come. Yet, Morthem Vlade Art werent unknown to a few deeply involved in the scene. Some had the french pressing of Herbo Dou Diable in their collection, and even less people had copies of the audio tapes Order Of The Fly, Azazel and / or Allegory Of Putrefaction, which had been recorded and released between 1995 and 1998. Songs - to innovative to be pushed into a certain category...an emotional fireworks of styles between far too many genres to name them all. Rough guitars, creative orchestration and unheard percussion works. Many reviewers credited Morthem Vlade Art as a symbiosis of Christian Death and Dead Can Dance at their best times. And now, almost ten years after their very first output, its finally time to present their early works to a wide audience - and here it is: Autopsy - Morthem Vlade Art in its purest form! And the ones who know their musical philosophy are not surprised that the band didnt remaster the recordings digitally - for the sake of keeping them authentic. Being aware that each diamond shines in the end."Slow-Wave Sleep"presents a collection of songs from the bands first three full length releases. This compilation was exclusively released by Luminal Records for the North American market.During the years with MVA, Gregg Anthe has also remixed songs for Trisomie 21 (Personnal Feelings), Clan Of Xymox (Farewell) and Indochine (Marilyn).Gregg Anthe is now involved in his new project IN BROKEN ENGLISH . More infos, samples, photos, videos etc, at MORTHEM VLADE ART