#memory flashes

[deadrosesuggestion]

“Shall I show you who is in charge, fledgling?” She asked, claws digging into my neck.

“Shall I show you all the ways I don’t give a damn, bitch?” I spit, showing bloodied fangs in an act of defiance.

[superchocomin]

Lucid Memory Flashes

Recently I've been getting really haphazard moments of memory flashes.  I can recall having several of them today.  Not only were they vivid, but sudden rushes of emotions flushed my entire body.  I cannot explain the reason behind them, but boy am I ever so intrigued.  I've been getting flashes of being in a kind of Gothic-romanesque city, with cobble-stone pathways.  It's raining, and I have on what seems like a dark mauve colored hooded cloak with a mantle and a aged gilded brooch.  On the brooch was an etching of what looked like a tree.  I remember waking up from sitting in an alley back against the wall feeling exhausted and then smiling when an amicable black kitten approaches me. After feeding the kitten some kind of treat, I remember getting up and running into the cold rainy night with a small sack of some-sort and then blank.  After that I've been getting this image, over and over,  of a stain-glassed window with a mother holding her child in her arms, sitting propped up against the trunk of a tree and beside her a winged figure..an angel?....  I also recently have been getting flashes of what looks like a rough green amethyst on a silver chain.  I don't know what this all correlates to, but I'm sure it must mean something.

[rawrampmag]

Anison Release Free Download - 'Fluidity'

The debut album from Kingston town indie-rockers ANISON is released on the 30th April. With influences ranging from Radiohead, to the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s and The Maccabees, the album Memory Flashes is set to soar!

We took a listen to the lead single ‘Fluidity’ (available from their site as a free download) and this is what we thought:

Cocky bass with snake-like notes squeezed out at intervals. Strident sounds of crushed glass lay dangerously underfoot, and an abundance of the kind of honeyed vocals that leave a slightly menacing and fateful threat lingering in the air. Moody, mystifying and moreish. – © Neil_Mach 2012 –

Catch the fellas at their album launch next Friday (20th April) at the Tooting Tram & Social with XFM’s John Kennedy and Ex-Libras.

http://www.facebook.com/anisonuk

[rawrampmag]

Anison - Debut Album Release

Shimmering and glimmering they come, a cascade of synth and guitar heavy magic that -on one hand dazzles you with its depth- and on the other makes you swoon over its simplicity.

Having already enjoyed slots on Radio 1 and the XFM play-list, the Kingston (UK) based quartet Anison have set themselves apart from the bands they list as influences ( including Radiohead and Blur ) through true originality. It’s musicians making the stuff according to how they feel it should be, rather than how they are used to hearing it. Their music is a rush of melancholy that engrossed through its many layers, ignited by a set of delicate intros that came as a calm before the proverbial storm.

Memory Flashes is the new Anison offering, produced by Steve Lyon (Depeche Mode, The Cure and Paul McCartney) it is a cascade of vocal, synth and guitar-heavy magic, on one hand dazzling with its depth and on the other instantly accessible in its simplicity.

Completed in the autumn of 2011 Memory Flashes draws repeatedly on the theme of time for it’s lyrical content. Reflective and considerate, Anison’s music is a rush of melancholy that engrosses through its many layers, ignited by the delicate intro that comes as a calm before the proverbial emotional and sonic storm.

Here’s what we thought of the tracks ‘Fluidity’ and ‘Sail Back to Sleep’ :

‘Fluidity’ - This track has chug-chug beats and coils of whimpering notes that wrap around the high vocals like a basket cobra. First, abrasive notes screech and rumble-tumble, then harmonies evoke a feeling of warmth and joy. The slightly discordant guitars fizz and bubble - creating a sense of growing unease. Drawn out and tortuously groaning pulses adorn the extraordinary vocal acrobatics whilst racking percussion trips and cobbles along. The fuzzy profusion of sounds completes this fallen angel symphony. Stunning.

‘Sail Back to Sleep’ is set to be the single from the Anison album. Imagine meeting Depeche Mode outside a nightmarish nightclub in a war torn city ... to get something like the idea of what is going on here. Darkly enunciated vocals are set against chaffs of chords, stitched together with some powerful harmonic imagery. Soaring, seething guitars rake and rail against the darkling sky. Native drums echo in the background and then the horizons are lit up by blazes of screaming and dizzying high notes. Awesome stuff!

-- © Neil Mach. March 2012 --

Link: http://www.anison.co.uk