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SYMMETRY "THEMES FOR AN IMAGINARY FILM"

Three years in the making, Symmetry - the project that began as a conceptual tangent between Glass Candy, Chromatics, Mirage, & Desire's more abstract sides - finally sees its release this month. Themes For An Imaginary Film is two hours of claustrophobic cinematic bliss compiled for Painters, Writers, Photographers, Designers, Cruisers, Night Walkers, & Dreamers. Adrenaline drips thick like syrup across a horizon where memories become blurred scenes behind the windshield & yesterday's faces fade as the road strobes to aggressive rhythms. Romantic melodies linger in the rearview mirror as chimera bells saturate the electric fog that's slowly rolling in.

Over the span of thirty-seven tracks, Symmetry embraces the elegance of European noir, cut with a lean & violent American razor. Directly in your face & breathing down your neck one minute, & escaping beyond the night sky the next. The attention given to color & detail on these recordings is more graphic than musical. More visual than aural. With no flashy virtuosity to clutter the mood, the album's pulse thrives on the empty pockets of space left in the wake of throbbing bass & the faint flicker of electro candlelight. Minimal, strict, & always in motion, there's an oppressive overtone throughout the record that winds itself tight as a clock. Johnny Jewel & Nat Walker (Chromatics & Desire) give us propulsive moments that are more rhythm based than Pop, & less reliant on a lyrical presence than their other projects.

A lot of computer screens this year have flashed rumors of Jewel's synthesized score for Nicolas Refn's Drive. Symmetry isn't Jewel’s score for Drive. These tracks date back to 2008 when Jewel was working on Farah's Into Eternity album. Some of the other tracks are the first things Jewel & Walker worked on in Montreal before Desire was up & running, & while Chromatics was in hiding after the success of Night Drive. As Jewel says: "We were just spending all night in a trance with not enough sleep, exploring space, rhythm & tone."

With repetitions in theme like hi hats dressed as stopwatches, and bass lines mimicking the pumping of blood, the statement of Symmetry is in the understatement. Dueling themes permeate & mirror the entire album. Feminine / Masculine. Space / Density. Bass / Treble. Tension / Release. Love / Isolation. Taking cues in texture & ambiance from American composers John Cage, Morton Feldman, & Glenn Branca, while applying the more cascading & visual concepts of European composers Maurice Ravel, Gyorgy Ligeti, Erik Satie, & Karlheinz Stockhausen. We hear all of these elements through the veil & color of analog synthesizers & rhythm machines from the early 1970s, resulting in the suspenseful & patient territory pioneered by the hands of John Carpenter, Claudio Simonetti, Wendy Carlos, Klaus Schulze, & Krzysztof Komeda. Symmetry is not Pop. Stripped to its most primitive & visceral core, this is music written for picture. Your life is the film & this is the soundtrack.

Themes For An Imaginary Film Recorded April 2008 Through May 2011



Musicians

Johnny Jewel / Piano, Synthesizer, Treatments, & Rhythm Machine

Nat Walker / Sequencer, Synthesizer, & Drum

Adam Miller / Guitar

Ruth Radelet / Voice

Achille Vettessi / Orchestral Percussion

Simone Adonai / Bassoon

Petrovka Makarow / Cello

Adriana Esposito / Viola

OUT NOW ON ITUNES.

HARD COPY DOUBLE CD & TRIPLE LP WILL BE OUT IN THE NEW YEAR.

LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE ALBUM HERE ON JOHNNY'S SOUND CLOUD

YOU KEEP ME UNDER YOUR SPELL

DOUBLE FANTASY

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Back by popular demand... Two of our favorite records of all time are temporarily repressed & back in our online store. Desire's breathtaking debut Lp & the fantastic Chromatics' reissue of their "In The City" Mini Lp. Both have been out of print for awhile due to the recent cinema buzz the bands are getting. Repress is not available in stores. You can get them indivdually, or pick up both for $15. As usual...there are not very many to go around...so order fast!

GLASS CANDY & CHROMATICS TOUR FOOTAGE

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Shot on location from the West Coast.
The end of Summer 2011.
If you were there...you know how insane it was.
It's all a blurred dream now...

Las Vegas.
Palm Springs.
San Diego.
Los Angeles.
San Francisco.
Portland.
Seattle.
Vancouver.
Victoria.
Mars.

Thank you for staying sunny on the inside.
We Love You!!!
Yeah You!!!

XO

IDA NO
JOHNNY JEWEL
NAT WALKER
RUTH RADELET
ADAM MILLER
JEAN SEBASTIEN GAGNON
ALBERTO ROSSINI

TRICK OR TREAT

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HALLOWEEN
Directed By Alberto Rossini Exclusively For Italians Do It Better Films

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Glass Candy's sinister homage to the John Carpenter classic. A Candy coated gift for all the Ghouls & Goblins in Candyland. Trick Or Treat? Another teaser from ///BODY WORK///. Disorienting walls of synthesizers grasping for their last breath accompanied by Rossini's most disturbing work to date. Unforgiving arpeggios slash at us like tiny knives in the darkest night, while Ida channels messages from a ouija board...
"It's Halloween For The Last Time"

Trick Or Treat
Chickadee
It's Halloween For The Last Time
Bitter Sweet
In The Street
Call On Me But Not This Time
Caramel Corn
So Forlorn
All I Want Is My Bed
Candy Cruise
So Confused
It All Went To My Head
Can't Get By
Sugar High
Oh Say What's The Meaning
Have To Try
Don't Ask Why
Is The Way That It's Seeming
Deja Vu
Nothing's New
Yes It's True What They Say
I Love You
Lone & Blue
If They Take You Away
Had To Steal
Beg Borrow
Feel For The Last Fight
Trick Or Treat
It's Just Me
A White Sheet In The Dark Night
Bitter Sweet
In The Street
All I Want Is My Bed
Candy Cruise
So Confused
It All Went To My Head
Trick Or Treat
Chickadee
It's Halloween For The Last Time

XO
IDA & JOHNNY

CHROMATICS "KILL FOR LOVE"

VIDEO
Chromatics' new album Kill For Love is finished & will be out in January! Between now & then, we'll be leaking videos & singles from it. The first single "Kill For Love" is out now on iTunes, & Alberto Rossini's beautiful video for the single is up on YouTube. The 12" version with exclusive trax on the b side coming soon. 2012 is going to be insane! Kicking it off right with a huge Italians Do It Better party in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve! Live sets from Glass Candy, Desire, & Chromatics. Plus DJ sets from Mike Simonetti & friends all night long. See you there!

CHROMATICS - Kill For Love
67 Minutes 37 Seconds
Track Listing

Into The Black
Kill For Love
Back From The Grave
These Streets Will Never Look The Same
At Your Door
Lady
Flashback
Running From The Sun
Dust To Dust
Birds Of Paradise
Electricity
Baby
The River

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WARM IN THE WINTER RECORD RELEASE PARTY

Tonight at Los Globos in Los Angeles is the official release party for Glass Candy's new double single. Two killer tracks that finally give us a peak at BODY WORK. They'll have the cd version with them tonight. Chromatics is going to be there too. So get there early because it's going to be insane. The bands have sick new shirts and traveling with the entire Italians Do It Better store. As usual everything's cheap. For everyone who isn't on the west coast...we'll have the cds & colored vinyl 12"s next week here in the store.

CAN COSMIC

mysterious mix consisting of quirky re-edits from a totally "unknown"
dj duo from Spain called CAN COSMIC. ENJOY the mysteries of life..



Can Cosmic 1 by cancosmic

ITALIANS DO IT BETTER WEST COAST TOUR

San Francisco / August 27th
Glass Candy At The Factory / 18+

Las Vegas / August 30th
Glass Candy & Chromatics At The Artifice / 21+

Palm Springs / September 1st
Glass Candy & Chromatics / Amigo Room / The Ace / 21+

Los Angeles / September 2nd
Glass Candy & Chromatics At Los Globos / 21+

Los Angeles / September 3rd
Glass Candy & Chromatics At FYF Fest / All Ages

Santa Barbara / September 4th
Glass Candy & Chromatics At Soho / All Ages

San Diego / September 5th
Glass Candy & Chromatics At The Casbah / 21+

San Francisco / September 7th
Chromatics At DNA Lounge / 18+

Portland / September 8th
Chromatics Free Show At Rotture / 21 +

Portland / September 9th
Glass Candy At Branx For Music Fest Northwest / 18 +

Seattle / September 10th
Glass Candy & Chromatics Live On KEXP Radio

Seattle / September 11th
Glass Candy & Chromatics At Nuemos

Vancouver, B.C. / September 22nd
Glass Candy & Chromatics Olio Festival

Victoria / Septmber 24th
Glass Candy At Rifflandia Festival

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

Last week when Glass Candy came to NYC...Johnny
brought down the last copies of "Black & White" from
Montreal. We only have 50 copies... So order fast. 30
posters in black & white from Chromatics & Desire.
He also brought 25 copies of each of the Perseo 12
inches. We restocked in the store in a bundle. These
are back by popular demand & won't last long...The
Art Books & Perseo bundles are out of print. This is
it. You can check out all 30 posters on Primitive Desire.

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THE THIRD OF THE STORMS video

Filmed by Mike Simonetti
Edited and Produced by Generatto
http://www.generatto.com

Mike Simonetti - Third of the Storms [ft Sam Sparro] from Daniele Barbarosa on Vimeo.

NEW RELEASES

We've got our three new vinyl releases in the mail order store now. Ready to be shipped worldwide. Mike Simonetti "Capricorn Rising" EP Fred Ventura "The Years (Go By)" 12" EP Hollywood 7 12" To celebrate we've got a triple release bundle of all three records for $20. The first 100 orders get Mike Simonetti's "Capricorn Rising" on Opaque Raspberry Ice Cream. Mike Simonetti & Fred Ventura are already up on iTunes as of yesterday. Since "Hollywood 7"is a Perseo release & Perseo Records is always unauthorized you can't buy it on iTunes. But they are generously giving away full quality wavs at their killer Soundcloud PERSEO SOUNDCLOUD For a preview of Mike & Fred's new records check out Italians page we just started, there's a ton of free stuff on there too! IDIB SOUNDCLOUD get them while they're hot ITALIANS STORE Friday, February 25, 2011 Tiedye remix the Bag Raiders in anticipation of the forthcoming Tiedye record on IDIB we bring you a new remix of the Bag Raiders. enjoy............. Wednesday, February 16, 2011 GLASS CANDY IN LOS ANGELES THIS WEEKEND Glass Candy is taking a break from the studio this weekend to throw a party in Los Angeles. Should be killer as usual. Adam from Chromatics is flying down too, & stuffing his suitcases with as much merch as the TSA will allow. The usual $5 & $10 prices at the table...so you know their going to run out fast. If you haven't gotten your tickets yet, you can get them here : TICKETS Wish we could be there, the last party was bananas! & to all our under 21 homeys who couldn't get in last time...This one is all ages! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) LINKS STORE MUSIC VIDEOS HI RES PHOTOS & ART RELEASES PRIMITIVE DESIRE MANAGEMENT BOOKING - AMERICAS BOOKING - REST OF WORLD GLASS CANDY CHROMATICS DESIRE MIKE SIMONETTI ITALIANS DO IT BETTER ALL FOR THIS IN THE PAST October 2012 (3) September 2012 (5) August 2012 (7) July 2012 (3) June 2012 (3) May 2012 (1) April 2012 (1) March 2012 (5) February 2012 (4) January 2012 (1) December 2011 (2) November 2011 (2) October 2011 (4) September 2011 (4) August 2011 (4) July 2011 (1) February 2011 (2) January 2011 (8) December 2010 (6) November 2010 (6) October 2010 (3) September 2010 (6) August 2010 (2) July 2010 (2) June 2010 (4) May 2010 (4) April 2010 (6) March 2010 (4) February 2010 (4) January 2010 (8) December 2009 (10) November 2009 (7) October 2009 (9) September 2009 (7) August 2009 (9) July 2009 (8) June 2009 (9) May 2009 (9) April 2009 (8) March 2009 (14) February 2009 (7) January 2009 (9) December 2008 (14) November 2008 (3) October 2008 (5) September 2008 (6) August 2008 (12) July 2008 (10) June 2008 (11) May 2008 (6) April 2008 (9) March 2008 (5) February 2008 (7) January 2008 (7) December 2007 (7) November 2007 (11) October 2007 (10) September 2007 (4) August 2007 (5) July 2007 (5) June 2007 (4) March 2007 (3) February 2007 (3) January 2007 (4) December 2006 (9) November 2006 (11) October 2006 (13) September 2006 (14) August 2006 (8) July 2006 (8) Do It Better Films MMXI. Awesome Inc. theme. Theme images by Ollustrator. Powered by Blogger.