AUTHOR & PUNISHER
AUTHOR & PUNISHER
Women & Children
Seventh Rule Recordings
11 June 2013
West Coast-based AUTHOR & PUNISHER, the long-running, one-man industrial doom project propagated by iconic sound contortionist Tristan Shone, is pleased to announce his fifth and latest creation of audio rebellion. Titled Women & Children, the follow up to last year’s critically lauded Ursus Americanus full-length further challenges the traditional confines of extreme music with eight tracks of audio exploration and mechanical decomposition.
Shone elaborates: “AUTHOR & PUNISHER’s newest sonic endeavor combines elements of both machines and more traditional apparati to stretch and blur the dynamic palette from doom to industrial, to heavy bass music, and back again.”
Gushes Pitchfork of Shone's recent work: “…what’s most striking is Shone’s aggressive and agile blend of styles. Traces of doom, dubstep, industrial, noise, and honest-to-goodness pop show up within Shone’s best songs. His music is immediate but mysterious, a chimera that’s recognizable but strange.”
Following a successful US journey with A Life Once Lost earlier this Spring, Shone will ship his machinery overseas next month for a short run of European live dates. Scheduled to commence on May 4, Shone will ravage his way through the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, Belgium and Slovenia before bringing the proceedings to a ceremonial close in Czech Republic. Notes Pitchfork of the AUTHOR & PUNISHER live experience: “…seeing Shone play his music is a much different experience: He renders these songs using massive devices he builds himself to control an onstage laptop. A bit like a cyborg, Shone grapples with and writhes among his machines, making music that’s not necessarily alien with tools that are.”
AUTHOR & PUNISHER European Tour 2013:
5/04/2013 MU Design Center – Eindhoven, Netherlands
5/05/2013 Jugendclub 19 – Berlin, Germany w/ Grime
5/06/2013 Piatto Forte (Lecture) – Berlin, Germany
5/08/2013 Milk and Lead Gallery – London, UK
5/09/2013 The RoadhousE – Manchester, UK w/ Gnod
5/10/2013 13th Note – Glasgow, Scotland w/ Gnod
5/11/2013 The Wagon and Horses – Birmingham, UK w/ Gnod
5/12/2013 Birthdays - London, UK w/ Necro Dearthmort
5/18/2013 Scheld’apen – Antwerpen, Belgium
5/19/2013 Kunstlerhaus – Nuremburg, Germany
5/21/2013 Klub Gromka – Ljubljana, Slovenia
5/22/2013 CP Cross Club – Prague, Czech Republic
Iconoclastic in the truest sense of the word, Tristan Shone inverts the tenets of doom metal completely, relying on cold steel and soulless machinery to sonically replicate the despondency of life. Described most succinctly as “industrial doom,” this one-man project utilizes primarily custom designed and fabricated machines and speakers, devices that draw heavily on aspects of industrial automation and robotics and focus upon the eroticism of interaction with machine. The machines are designed to require significant force from the performer, aligning he/she with the plodding doom-influenced sounds that are created. AUTHOR & PUNISHER has performed with and shown these machines extensively at festivals and exhibitions in the United States and abroad.
http://www.tristanshone.com
http://authorandpunisher.bandcamp.com
A&P Facebook
http://www.seventhrule.com
Quelle: Earsplitter PR