{"id":2683,"date":"2013-08-15T14:22:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T14:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/?post_type=product&p=2683"},"modified":"2018-06-05T03:52:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T03:52:02","slug":"met00892","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/product\/met00892\/","title":{"rendered":"Noir: Darkly Near (CD)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n1. My Dear
\n2. The Bells
\n3. The Grifter
\n4. A Forest
\n5. The Voyeurs
\n6. The Tragics
\n7. Timephase
\n8. When The Rains Came
\n9. The Satin Box
\n10. In Every Dream Home A Heartache<\/p>\n

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Starring Athan Maroulis of Black Tape For A Blue Girl and Spahn Ranch<\/h2>\n

New York City is a world of shadows, thieves and con men, its chilling concrete landscapes are a fitting filmic backdrop for the aural futuristic pleasures of NOIR, a band whose deep electronic rhythms fuel darkened beats that conjure stark cinematic images from yesteryear merged with the cold machinery of the future. Conceptualized by vocalist Athan Maroulis, veteran of the pioneering electronic industrial act Spahn Ranch, NOIR is a sensuous electronic release form for Maroulis, who also fronts dark cabaret legends Black Tape For a Blue Girl. NOIR combines the bleak irony of Weegee photos, fleshly lyrics, empty subway stations and the dark sarcasm of Rod Serling into a collection of throbbing dance floor interludes. Surreal and sensual, Darkly Near is a brilliant merger of Maroulis\u2019 past with a contemporary yet moody present.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Longer Bio:<\/h2>\n

The voice of Athan Maroulis will always be linked to the seminal Los Angeles based trio Spahn Ranch, a band that pounded the \u201990s Industrial scene with a daring mix of electro-flavored Synth Pop fused with a menacing pall of atmospheric Goth. To this day, a number of Spahn Ranch songs like \u201cVortex\u201d and \u201cHeretic\u2019s Fork\u201d still pack dark dance floors around the globe. In the aftermath of Spahn Ranch, Athan returned to his native New York City where he took a decade-long break from performing, and instead produced countless reissues of 1930s and 1940s jazz and blues music while working behind the scenes advising a number of varied Darkwave bands. In those years, Athan occasionally appeared as a guest on albums by Razed in Black and Black Tape for a Blue Girl. He joined the latter officially in 2009, cutting an album while also completing tours both here and abroad, highlighted by a packed show at the Leipzig Opera House during the 2011 Wave-Gotik-Treffen Festival.<\/p>\n

While on hiatus from Blacktape, Athan conceptualized NOIR as a project where his Industrial and Gothic past would walk the wire between retro and futuristic sounds, brought into a moody electronic present by synth-laced hooks meshed with elements of dance, dark ambient and touches of glitch-induced EBM. The result is Darkly Near, an album influenced by an idealized black-and-white perception of New York City, where yesteryear\u2019s views of tomorrow are pressed against the machinery of today. Lyrically, Darkly Near is an album of endings, a montage that travels through a dreamy death trip of sensuality littered with faded film stars, Rod Serling scripts, Weegee snapshots, con artists, replicants, and the layered recollections of a solitary man waiting for a train.<\/p>\n

Released on the heels of 2012\u2019s successful digital single \u201cMy Dear\u201d (that featured an exclusive Assemblage 23 remix), NOIR\u2019s mature yet strikingly refreshing Darkly Near album will be supported by a select string of exclusive live dates.<\/p>\n

Read an interview at Regenmag.com<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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