" Zerkalo is the latest project of french composer Victoria Lukas, also known through her musical projets The OP, Weltgeist or her musical appearances under the name of Talithaa. After exploring various electronic universes and a meeting with Heinrich Mueller ( Dopplereffekt, Arpanet, Drexciya, ... ), now co-producer of Zerkalo, Victoria Lukas auscultates the sphere of soulful electronic music, radical and pure, evoquing the pionneers of techno music, both from Germany and Detroit.Through tracks like Invisible, Watch it burning again and Warning you, Zerkalo sows the atoms of a new approach to electronic music, that oscillates between a cold and reasoned scientism passioned by technology, and a complete immersion in a philosophical and poetic conception of sound.The deep emotion in Talithaa's voice may recall Kate Bush's, while her inspiration can be understood as a rhizome that feeds both Russian poetry and cinema, and English modern litterature. Appealed by Virginia Woolf, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova writings and the cinema of Andreï Tarkovsky, Zerkalo's works is marked by the conflict between the spiritual and the material, which runs through the thoughts of these two main references.Zerkalo is accompanied on stage by the visuals of New-Yorker video-artists Julia Pello, Darlene Lin, Diane Lapeyre and Victoria Lukas herself , Andreï Tarkovsky works on "mirror" or "sacrifice" are often included in this special universe in an introspetive and purely contemplative way. "
Mount Sims is an artist collective started by Matthew Sims in Los Angeles, U.S. Transgression, taboo, archetypical behavior and image, eros, death, technology, perception and mental illness are some of the subjects that he deals with his music. These subjects all range from referencing historical images (mythical/non-mythical) , present and personal biographical experiences, and future occurrences. "Music and visual art are types of incantations in that they, by making references to known archetypes, to a small (or large) group of people, in a specific order or lack there of, can have an effect on the future." Sims stresses the mixing of medium in his work both musically and during performances. Stage shows have been described as "debauch sex shows"and "grossly ritual events", Sometimes involving a band and/or performance artists . Sims believes that "in order to really connect past an emotional level on any particular subject, visual and audio symbols must be used in correlation to one another." Hence the name of his latest release "WIld Light", which dives into a particular sonic alchemy while recalling visual images of poems from wordsmiths like Rimbaud, Octavio Paz and Goethe. Mount Sims gathers it's wide range of influences from early dark wave bands such as the Mini Pops, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siglo XX and early Human League to experimentalist such as Throbbing Gristle, Chris and Cosey to dark folk such as Nico ("Marble Index" and after ). However, Sims's music is much more influenced by visual artist than anything. Included in this list would be Austin Osman Spare, Peter Wu, Andy Warhol, Paul Laffoley, William Blake and a long list of surrealists. For those who want to see it, music is no longer invisible !"Nous avons foi au poison. Nous savons donner notre vie tout entiere tous les jours.....Voici le temps des Assassins." " We have faith in the poison. We know how to give our whole life every day.....Now is the time of the Assassins" .......RIMBAUD.............................................. ............ MOUNT SIMS DJ SET EXCLUSIVE NIGHT IN BRUSSELS !!!"
Mount Sims Discography