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At first I also kinda felt that a rating system (like it's present in most other music reviews) was missing ... but after some time I realized, that all is good and that you don't need a rating system. Ratings are subjective, you can be misled by them ... everybody has a different rating scheme and such, you know? When it's a good review then a rating doesn't matter anyway, with the support of some samples from Saikosounds and the review everybody can pretty easily judge if the music is good for him or not.
I mean, of course I won't have anything against the optional adding of a line, saying "I rate the album 80%" or whatever. But the manner of the reviews should stay the same...
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Well, I saw Tegma live last night and they played several tracks from the new album and what I can say is that live the stuff sounded pretty good!
I agree though, on the samples it doesn't come across so well.
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Okay. No, he isn't saying it, I admit that.Bullshit. You're totally putting words in his mouth there. He's not saying "well, if you want a signed copy, then show me what you would pay for it". All he's saying there is "if you want to buy a signed copy of the album from my own collection, you can do so here". I bet if you wrote him a nice letter and sent him your own copy of the album he'd sign it no problem. Or if you asked him politely at a party.
But to me it appears that he kinda says like that, you know? I as a fan feel mocked at with this action. Kinda. When he does sign stuff anyway then why is he selling the signed copy then, wouldn't make much sense, would it? Or are the people that bid so much for it a bunch of complete idiots?
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That in itself is the point.
By having a laugh with that he's arsing his fans. Kinda.
I find it very arrogant and elitist of him to say like "well, if you want a signed copy, then show me what you would pay for it" in this way. The ones who have the money get signed copies ... and those who have nothing don't get anything.
I don't matter if it was out of fun or if he was just experimenting or if he needed the money, I think this was a lame move and he deserves no respect at all for this one.
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So this thing is for real? Simon Posford was selling a Shpongle CD signed by himself? He was SELLING it?It is his signature.
If you check the For Sale/Trade Section there's a thread about this auction (found here) that pretty much validates the authenticity.
Excuse moi, but I find that pretty lame, making money of your own "status" if I may say so (he obviously made quite a nice amount of money, the CD itself wouldn't have been worth 20 pounds). Just because he signed the damn thing he made it worth a lot and then he sold it to get money for himself? Is that dude really so desperate to get some money or what?
If I were an artist, no matter how famous, I'd sign everything for free - either everything or I'd not sign anything at all ... come on, making money with my signature if I was an artist would just be a lame move.
I'd not pay any money for any artist sigs ... a sig of an artist is what a fan normally gets for free (from the artist himself), always, I thought that's some kind of unwritten law. That is the spirit, encountering the artist you love and kindly asking him shyly and with a ponding heart to sign something for you! I'd never support artists signing their own stuff and then selling it for much money. That's really not what it is about.
If that really was Simon's own thing and not some hippie kid arsing everybody then he just lost a lot of respect from me.
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oh ... yeah ... that's what I meant ... hehe ... lol, I'm unexperienced with ebayI'm not sure you know how eBay bidding works. Right now there is an item with initial price of 3$. There was no bids and I placed my bid there, being in fact my max bid but if I was the only bidder, I'd won the CD at 3$. When you bid, eBay takes of your bid just as much as it is needed to beat other bidders...
Anyway, I'd probably enter my bid at whenever time, even way before, if somebody would place a bid above my max amount then I'd just shrug. I might be unwise to bid early and experienced ebayers wouln't do it, but still. I mean, even if I lose, it's just an auction. Even if the items are totally stunning and such, I wouldn't be that hardcore and sit in front of the screen just because I need to bid a second before the end (although that bidding program thing sounds neat)! And if I lose a bid war with one other user I'd at least have made the winner pay a lot more than what the item would have cost without me bidding, harhar!
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Indeed ... they released stuff from Haldolium, Space Safari, Feuerhake, Klangstrahler Projekt, Cybersnack, Earth and other good artists.
But don't bother answering the question anymore, I have found it out myself:
Man ... so 2002 they went down already?Name: Free Form Records
Homepage: http://www.freeform-network.com/
Country: Germany
Span: 1998 - 2002 <--
That's strange. In 2002 I was getting into it all, it can't be such a long time that this label is already down ... but maybe their website existed longer, that would be possible...
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Their website www.freeform.de is now the website of a saddle shop???
What happened?
Do they have a new website? If so, why can't I find it on Google? Why can I not find any recent label info about them on Google? On Discogs there is no info either, just their releases.
Or are they really ... *makes slit-throat movement with index finger* ... ???
Please no.
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I don't buy stuff from ebay.
But if I would, my bidding technique would be just to bid 1 Euro higher than the previous bid, but I'd type in a max amount below - the highest price I would be willing to pay for the item - up to which the script shall bid up automatically if anybody bids more than my actual bid. I'd never type in the max amount as actual bid itself initially, because if in the end it turns out I could have had the item for less I'd want to punch myself in the face.
Furthermore I think it's better not to bid at home: psychological tests have shown that people tend to bid higher than they might want to at home, because the comfort of being at home lets take them greater risks ... so I'd place my bids while I'd be at school at the comp or somewhere else. And in addition to that I'd also teach myself to never ever get upset because somebody else has won the item for 1 Euro more than me!
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Absolutely agreed. The 4 character limit is pretty dumb.
What shall I do when I wanna find a thread about goa gil? I can't find it, too few letters! What a bummer.
Advanced options? They aren't very useful in this case.
Please, how would you search when you wanna find a thread about goa gil?
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Okay. The reason why I am posting this review now before the release date is because I am SO fed up now with the methods of Arabesque Distribution not releasing this piece! Initially it was said it was coming in early December ... and what do we have now? They say it's coming in April!
I was very disappointed already in the beginning of it all that it got not released. The first announcements for this album have been made more than TWO YEARS ago already! "S-Range Another Theory new album out in late autumn 2003" ... or was it "early autumn"? Anybody remembers? Old S-Range site? Does that ring a bell? Now I have no clue why this thing does not get released, had several discussions about that which only left me more startled ("It's lying around ready mastered") and such. I got fed up with it all, more and more. Now I am at the point where I can just shake my head anymore. It has reached the level of ridiculousness, I, being a great fan of S-Range, am feeling arsed, you know. You just can't do that with me! I do fully understand that release dates can get delayed once ... or even twice. Everybody can make mistakes and such, it's okay. But what is going on here is nothing okay anymore. On Saikosounds they said the album was coming March 10th. On March 10th they said it was coming March 17th. Today is March 17th and they say it's coming April 7th! What is that? A joke? I myself feel arsed. And I am tired of those escapades, so tired. I have been fed up a long time ago already. Now here it goes: my review. To water your mouthes and to give Arabesque a wakeup kick in the ass so that they finally get up and do something to release the album!
Goddamn!
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S-Range - Another Theory
01: Super Signal (Liquid Remix)
02: Stand By
03: Technical Support
04: Another Theory
05: Dream Program
06: Bigger Picture
07: Electric Forces (Album Mix)
08: Blue Sky
09: Sirius Vacation
INTRODUCTION:
S-Range, also known as Anthony Silfors, does not need a real introduction to people anymore. Having released two albums already on Spiral Trax and some LPs and a load of compilation tracks on various labels the man has made himself a name in the scene. The thing what makes S-Range so original is the characteristic spacy and playful sound which is kept all the way through his musical evolving from early dark stuff over progressive up to faster, almost fullonish territory - the point where he stands now. This said, let's proceed with a voyage through the album:
01: Super Signal (Liquid Remix) : The Liquid Remix of Super Signal is the kickstart of the new S-Range album. I didn't expect much of this track to be honest ... I knew Super Signal - and I didn't like it too much, it was too freaky for me. Well, to make it short, this one isn't
It begins soft and with a warm synth ... this is actually one of the tracks where you already start to smile at the beginning - well, at least I did. It's this peculiar synth, somewhat. The track then starts off very pushing with a fat and fast beat and pounding, almost fullon-ish bassline. That's the point where the last lovers of the former progressive S-Range which didn't get his new style yet - because they neither listened to the newer compilation tracks nor to the previously released Remixes single - will fall out of their dreams of a new progressive album. However, for the open mided ones among them this first impression doesn't last long - luckily the S-Range-typical effects and synths don't come too short in any way already just a minute later in the track. Lots of playful things done here - melodies, synths, samples, changes, evolvings, more changes - lively and energetic as the original, but with a more spacey, softer sound and a little different arrangement - and with wonderful sunny synths! Also notice the twinkling melody in the background. The (IMHO) sour and not well tasting somewhat in-your-face freakiness of the middle part of the original is gone and room was made for clear pushing spacey and happy melodies. The passage before the ending phase is the most similar to the original Super Signal with the almost exact same effects melody (however, that was the best passage in the original, hehe), but still it comes with the wonderful synths in the background. And the ending lets the synths come through even more. I love those! Wonderful track, one of the best here - this is what Super Signal should sound like! Good job, mister Anthony (and didn't Liquid Ross himself have his fingers in this mix too?)!
02: Stand By : Okay, people, stand by, because again we have one of the best tracks on the album here! In fact this was the best for me until it got dethroned by another wonderful piece! After a beginning phase with samples that somehow could come from his previous album Space it comes as pushing as the first track (maybe a bit less in the first phase) and evolves into a very nice part with a very cool and funky melody and then again those wonderful synths in the background. Seriously, these synths are one of the main reasons why I love S-Range so much, nobody else does have them in this way - spheric, yet still warm and happy! The track then keeps a continuous middle-part line with quite nice effects and melody to about two and a half minutes to the end. And then you're in for a surprise: the track makes a total change! And this change totally kicks .. as I heard two different samples from different parts of this song some months ago I thought somebody messed up and it's a different song! You hear an upwards pull, some samples and then the best razor-sharp somewhat a bit guitar sounding like synth passage I have heard so far! Simple arrangement, but the sharpness of the sound is totally kicking! This will kick your lazy ass off from the sofa ... well, actually this is a wrong saying as I don't know how one could sit still on the sofa when this track is playing, but anyway. Totally awesome! Also the melody that the guitar-sound is blended into then is awesome! And also the (unfortunately a bit short) ending phase of the track is genious, it contains my most beloved synthie effects of the whole album (the little fragments of the remaining guitar-like sound
).03: Technical Support : In this track I expected the sample from the Vanilla Sky film where he screams "Technical Suppooort!" through the hall. Well, the track doesn't contain it.
Anyway, it's a quite okay track. That is, except the first half - those telephone samples in the latter first half, I don't quite like those ... so because of them and because of not too great synth effects the impression of the first half of the track is not a very good one (despite there being a nice melody), leaving a somewhat mediocre feeling about this whole first part at best. But fortunately we are in for a change again! In the second half Anthony cleans the mess up again, the telephone samples and effects are gone and leave the stage for a very nice fast and playful passage with a very simple but totally nice synth (actually just three tones, but very wisely put!) over it all. That puts the good mood back! So overall that makes it a quite okay track - spacy, pushing and a bit freaky
04: Another Theory : This baby is the somewhat "black" sheep among the white ones. Not because it's a bad track, oh no, not at all, but because this is the only track that does not fit to a sunny day with blue skies and smiles in the faces of people (as the rest of the album does in a way). A night track, as other people may put it.
Well, but it's not a very pleasant and comfortable thought anyway that the whole universe could possibly disappear in an instant or is it? Well, you wouldn't feel it anyway, because also your brain that could have the feeling would be gone, but still ... oh, sorry, I forgot, this is not a philosophy lesson
So, "back on track", what we get here is a pounding track with good, calm and somewhat disturbing and dark (I said somewhat, okay? Don't expect the mirroring of your dark desires now
... I just mean that it's no sunny sound like in the other tracks) synthies and not much playing around with effects - at least not in the first half. I like the samples, especially the one with which the track starts off ... Anthony must be quite a fan of the Hitchhiker's Guide, this is the second track using samples from the book! Yeah, nice ... and it's actually very danceable, that baby. The whole first half passes by without any major changes, in the second half of it then there are changes in the effects, other synth melody parts come and change again, once more pounding and sharply insisting, then almost alarming, then out-sounding and resonating in the background towards the end. Pounding beat all the way through. A very nice track although it's not happy and all that as the others.05: Dream Program : "Hello and welcome to Dream Program..." ... well, hmmm. Despite the warm welcome I honestly don't quite like the dreams this program generates. The track begins twinkling and I can feel there is the attempt to sound nice (especially the following synth melody) ... but it doesn't sound that nice to me. Do you know the word Kitsch? Well, that's what it sounds like. I feel like I'm in a pink doll house surrouded by twinkling Barbie Fairytopia dolls. Somewhat cheesy. The very short part right in the middle is acceptable, I quite like the melody although it gives me the imagination that somebody ate five glasses of bean salad and then farted into a vocoder and pitched the sound up in an almost cruel way. Know the Fartsient tune? Record it and pitch it up and modify it a bit and I bet a somewhat similar sound comes out! But it's a nice melody nonetheless (I don't want to rip it off with the fart comment, seriously, I just got reminded of it somehow) ... although that is the only pretty nice thing I can find in this track. Because what follows doesn't rise my spirits very much - a sample passage that begins quite acceptable, but then comes with this horrible twinkling effect again and such a crappy voice sample that it makes me wanna press the skip button. At least then the track continues in an acceptable manner with also good melody, but it's just an okay passage, you know, it doesn't make me wanna forget the stuff done before like in the manner of Technical Support. And in the end ... twinkling again ... arrrgh! This track gives me a headache. Mediocre track at best. But maybe the kids will like it...
06: Bigger Picture : Hui, people, fasten your seat belts, I guarantee you, here's something that will kick those escapades into mediocreness from the track before out of your mind! Listen up everybody, also you grumpy ones in the last row that think the new S-Range is a disappointment, because this is the best track of the album! A practical kickstart awaits us with just a synth at the beginning that's soon blending into a pushing, lively, fast and playful passage with very driving yet bright melody that will make you smile. Many changes follow, one passage after another, sometimes good melody, once a "WTF"-expression on your face, then a pushing driving beat, then other melodies. All going towards the middle of the track where the beat disappears and makes room to a very uplifting and happy synth melody underlined with cool samples. After that there follows a long lasting upwards drag phase with acceleration then blended into a very pushing and lively part with a funky melodic passage. And then afterwards we are in the final, which has the same synth that you heard in the very beginning that made you smile, but arpeggiated into a melody itself again! But that's not all - after several listens you will notice an extremely intelligent and beautifully placed hidden "melody" where suddenly the whole over-layed melodies make somewhat perfect sense, a state of bliss! And this is the element that makes the track to the best one on the album for me. In the beginning it was a race between this one and Stand By, but this one won after more listenings!
07: Electric Forces (Album Mix) : Okay, what we have here is an quite nice track, nothing special, nothing bad. The start off with the tones is what I don't like very much - however, little detail: the very last two tones are cool, hehe
Other than that there's nothing too special about this track. Steady progression, not so fat and pushing bassline and clear non-freaky effects with not very much playing around. Kind of a "relaxation", a somewhat welcomed change after all the pushing tracks before. Also the samples are not bad. The manner of the track reminds me of Looking In, it has a somewhat same manner of pushing, only some more effects. And it gets somewhat accelerated by synth melodies in the second half, but the progression stays kinda the same. Solid from start to finish. A track to sit on the sofa and tap your feet.
08: Blue Sky : With this track I somehow sense that it probably has been made to provide one last very good track before the end. The only point is, it does not deserve the attribute "very good".
Hum. What shall I do with this track? The beginning synths create a smile in my face, which is good, but then it slowly drifts off into mediocre regions. I mean, the first third of the track is stillquite nice ... but then these synths come that I don't like so much. I don't wanna use that line with the vocoder and certain human nastynesses again, but it somehow subtly offers itself, you know. And the freaky melody that comes afterwards is not contributing to my comfort very much. And again Anthony attempts a change in the second half. Meanwhile it gets somewhat generic, many tracks before had that pattern too. But it doesn't go too well, I don't like the synths. Melodies are freaky and there are also changes and stuff, but it somewhat is not quite my cup of chai. Then suddenly a short attempt for a good melody is audible - and good it is indeed, very good, drifting, nice - but the part lasts far, faaar too short and your ears feel kinda raped by the freaky synths once more. But this one melody there could have saved the whole track ... and not the somewhat freaky kinda-cramped-funnyness. A sour aftertaste here. Hum. Now, don't get me wrong, the track is not awful, it's just somewhat too freaky for my taste, synth-wise. So I'd rate it mediocre. In the upper middle part of the "mediocre" range.
09: Sirius Vacation : And oh, how sad, we are already at the last track of the album here. And it also begins ... somewhat sad. You could get the impression that this is a very chilly track at the beginning. But you are wrong. Anthony delivers a dance album from start to finish. With this one you get a quite nice closing track, a little bit freaky, but in a rather good and playful way. Slow beginning, then with a sample going into a quite danceable piece with freakish synth frequencies leading into a part where this same synth base sound is used, but in a much more funky way. The short middle part is playful and with good samples that fit with the sound in a nice way - this can make you rise an eyebrow
... even the twinkling here I find not cheesy. The track then proceeds through a part with more and a bit faster synths with a funky layer in it too, then going in the same way towards the end. Yeah, the end ... which brings us to the only point I don't like here: the end is too short. From that part before to silence in like 48 seconds, that's far too short if you plan to take the listener down nicely and this was planned here obviously, since it's the last track. Well, down it brings us, but IMHO not smoothly, rather roughly like the landing of a military fighter jet on an air craft carrier. Almost looks like Anthony was in some kind of hurry to finish the piece. On the other hand, after that album you probably want to listen to some chill music anyway. So ... last track nice track. Nothing extraordinary though ... and with the ending it loses some points as well.SUMMARY:
With this piece you get a pretty good album, the S-Range sound of today. Nice, happy, energetic and playful. Half of the tracks are from perfect to very good (yes, exactly four and the second half of Technical Support
), the rest is not really bad either, but I'd say that some stuff might not be everybody's cup of chai. Also depends on the mood and stuff ... when I have a headache I can't even stand Bigger Picture and on the other hand there are periods where I can kinda enjoy Blue Sky too. In fact I recommend listening to the album in various settings and moods, there are some things to discover in it - hidden melodies and such, different perspectives can help a lot. Also because of this the piece doesn't get boring, the listening experience stays quite fresh and happy even months later!However, people who don't know the new S-Range sound so well and are now not sure if they would want to buy this album should check out the Another Theory Remixes CD-single, which is out already for some weeks. You get a very good introduction into the new sound with that one for a fair price (6 tracks and the price of a single!), so also not-fans and unsure ones can see if it's something for them! Go get it
Favourite Tracks: 6 (!!!), 1 (!!), 2(!!), 4
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I don't appreciate Beethoven.
Respect to his composition skills, but ... I just don't get classical music. Most oldschool is also too intense for me. All too much. I guess I might be a little bit of a musical autist in some way...
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hahaha, another smack in the face for us
I can only laugh anymore at what's going on in the scene...
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yeah, the old stuff is good indeed
but the new stuff is "
"Anyway, Skyrise, if I'd have the need to "avenge" it that my gf dragged me to a punk party I'd certainly not pick an IM gig that I'd take her to ... I'd pick something different. Something harder and more psychedelic. Something that I like. You know?
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To me that looks like somebody cracked his way in to that server and does want to leave a kind of official message, but doesn't want to be the bastard to wholly replace the page with a big banner that says "h4xx0red by whoeva"...
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VOOV : 11. - 13- August : GERMANY : http://www.voov-experience.com
SONNENKLANG : 24 - 28. May : AUSTRIA : http://www.sonnenklang.at
SPIRIT BASE : 14. - 18- June : AUSTRIA
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The second menu point from the upper left will bring you to the party announcements. However, they haven't organised very far into the future ... but anyway
You should also check the scene in poland!
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absolutely same here ... saw them at the end of 2003!
It probably was one of the last opportunities to catch a really good, not supervisor-infected gig! It was in fact a pretty cool gig ... nice music, hardly any singing or "pop", very nice ... but then soon afterwards they went such a lame musical path with their Supervisor album that I lost interest. I would not go see them again, they can never top that gig where I saw them ... besides I don't think I can see them again for cheap ordinary psy party price again, they seem to bathe in the money-ocean now and take only good offers and that means high entry fees...
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Okay, here is my opinion on this:
Cinos was probably getting something from being all negative here (you know, there are people that feel good when they think they're special and Cinos was here in his way by being negative ... so in a way because of him being so asocial in normal life he had the psychological urge to gain attention - which he got here by pretending to be the negative one, get what I mean?). Thus all what he said is true to only a third or so. He himself admitted that once. However, since such behaviour is indeed childish and immature and because all the constant negativity was getting boring and predictable and just not making this place a better one in any way I would certainly not have disagreed to ban him another time. Indeed, who wants an always negative person around - me not. You need a bigger picture and light things also from the positive side! Cinos lacked balance. And he was also kinda arsing us ... because in his posts I could read that some of it was not really honest and just put in to frantically keep his oh so negative image ... and thus a certain slap in the face would do him good. Maybe some time off the computer will do him good indeed!
But I'd never ever have banned him for a full year. I'd have probably agreed for three months. Three months is a nice time. Much can happen in three months. Cinos would make some time off and then the summer would be coming anyway. That would be quite nice. If he would be an asshole again when he came back then I'd agree to ban him for a year, because you see it's nothing good and that he will not change, so next chance he'd have in another year. But not now. Three months ban would be justified in my eyes all the way - but not more! If anybody would ban me here for one year I'd never come back, I'd find so much other things and other forums. And I also think Cinos wouldn't come back. I strongly disagree with one year. I would not have been for it - if somebody would have asked *rolling eyes*
But I can't change it. So I just sigh and move out of this thread.
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Kindzadza might be what you are looking for!
He's also only one person
Also check out other Parvati Records stuff! I for example went to see Para Halu yesterday, pretty insane stuff ... Parvati stuff will kick
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minimal?
euh ... Atmos - Headcleaner (Spiral Trax, Feb. 2000) always was minimal (yeah, in the very sense of having just few layers/effects and still being totally cool music) to me ... but it's different to the stuff you mentioned...
Shiva Chandra (everything after the first two albums) is minimal too - to me.
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Oh DAMN!
Sounds like that party will be an absolute blast. 12 Euro for four acts I'd like to see. Man...
Too bad it's not in the middle of April ... because then I'll be not more than a half day train ride away from there
... so I can only wish you happy partying -
New Etnoscope came to my mind.
But that dream could apparently be reality in some time:
And YES we are working hard on new tracks for the album..
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cbl
in General Psytrance
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No clue where the sample comes from ... but the sample in the middle of Padmasana - Universal Consciousness has the same female voice...
About the new album, it will be out in September ... no exact date yet though.