[photos by The Full Tilt]
Following the release of their sprawling fifth album, Transmission, Baltimore, Maryland’s audiovisual progressive/psychedelic duo DARSOMBRA has digitally released a film, to accompany the entire record. In addition, the band is expanding their upcoming tour itinerary with new North American and European dates booked in support of the record.
Released independently by the band last summer, Transmission consists of one continuous forty-one-minute flood of DARSOMBRA‘s sprawling, mind-expanding, musical exploration. Ranging from relentless, charged, and cinematic, to ephemeral, transcendent, and delicate, the song embraces its many qualities as it wraps itself into a thematic, uncompromising saga with a million different interpretations available to the listener. The band’s filmmaker, Ann Everton, directed, shot, and edited the new film accompanying the album, backing the entire song with a visual experience as vivid, vast, and harrowingly psychedelic as the music itself.
Engulf yourself in DARSOMBRA’s film,Transmission, at THIS LOCATION.
DARSOMBRA embarked on a two-month North American tour in conjunction with Transmission‘s release last summer, playing music venues, dive bars, coffee shops, DIY spots, junk shops, German clubs, record stores, and their local park in Baltimore, in addition to a generator show in the wilds of far Eastern Oregon, and another on a table mesa in the Badlands–broadcasted online, and to a live audience! Following a run of gigs in North Carolina in December, DARSOMBRA now charges into 2020 with a new stack of tour dates on several continents.
DARSOMBRA has booked a duo of shows in Upstate New York, playing Ithaca and Buffalo on January 17th and 18th, directly followed by a run of West Coast shows, including the band’s first show in Mexico, the stint running from January 23rd through 26th. February 22nd sees DARSOMBRA playing the inaugural Shadow Frost Music & Arts Festival in Frederick, Maryland alongside Vastum, Deceased, Magic Circle, and many others, and after that, they return to the European continent this spring.
DARSOMBRA will make their maiden Roadburn performance in April, but not before touring across the UK with Conny Ochs from April 2nd through 14th. Following Roadburn, they will tour across Europe alongside Kristian Harting into the second week of May.
See all confirmed shows below and watch for additional tour dates to be posted over the coming weeks.
Transmission is out now on LP, CD, cassette, and digital download directly through DARSOMBRA. Each format of the album bears slightly different artwork and design elements than the others.
Find a wide array of options at the band’s webshop HERE and Bandcamp where the entire album is streaming HERE.
DARSOMBRA Tour Dates:
1/17/2020 Sacred Root – Ithaca, NY w/ Ruckzuck, Dead Nettles, Shaawano
1/18/2020 Honey Room – Buffalo, NY w/ Circular Logic, Pam Swarts, Different Planets, Cacklmancy, Lala Funstar, Magisole, Isometrics, God Hates This Band, Djinn, American Raga
1/23/2020 Lyncanthro Pub – Tijuana, BC w/ Astral Azif
1/24/2020 Til-Two Club – San Diego, CA w/ Amerikan Bear, Soul Juice, Infinity Eyes
1/25/2020 The Paramount – Los Angeles, CA w/ All Souls, CFM, Biblical Proof of UFOs, DJ Dale Crover
1/26/2020 Golden Heart Space – Santa Barbara, CA
2/22/2020 Shadow Frost Music & Arts Festival – Frederick, MD [info]
4/02/2020 West Street Live – Sheffield, UK w/ Conny Ochs
4/03/2020 Conroy’s Basement – Dundee, UK w/ Conny Ochs
4/04/2020 Tooth & Claw – Inverness, UK w/ Conny Ochs
4/07/2020 The Cellar – Aberdeen, UK w/ Conny Ochs
4/08/2020 BLOC+ – Glasgow, UK w/ Conny Ochs
4/09/2020 Henry’s Cellar – Edinburgh. UK w/ Conny Ochs
4/10/2020 Cluny 2 – Newcastle, UK w/ Conny Ochs
4/11/2020 The Exchange Basement – Bristol, UK w/ Conny Ochs
4/14/2020 The Underdog – London, UK w/ Conny Ochs
4/18/2020 Roadurn Festival – Tilburg, NL [info]
4/22/2020 VEB – Siegen, DE w/ Kristian Harting
4/23/2020 UT Connewitz – Leipzig, DE w/ Kristian Harting
4/24/2020 Zukunft am Ostkreuz – Berlin, DE w/ Kristian Harting
4/25/2020 Chemiefabrik – Dresden, DE w/ Kristian Harting
4/30/2020 Punctum – Prague, CZ w/ Kristian Harting
5/02/2020 Soul Kostel – VernéÅ™ovice, CZ w/ Kristian Harting
5/03/2020 Kapu – Linz, AT w/ Jarboe, Kristian Harting
5/04/2020 Grillx – Vienna, AT w/ Kristian Harting
5/06/2020 Galerie Kur – Zürich, CH w/ Kristian Harting
5/10/2020 MCP Apache РFontaine-lՃv̻que, BE w/ Kristian Harting
Since forming in 2006, DARSOMBRA has released an extensive catalog of albums and smaller releases through a vast network of underground labels including At A Loss, Public Guilt, Exile On Mainstream, Translation Loss, and Noise Bombing, Transmission is being funded and released independently by the band. Uniting Brian Daniloski on guitar, vocals, and effects, and Ann Everton on synthesizer, vocals, gong, and visuals, DARSOMBRA is a transcendental and emotive experience. Live, they create a symbiotic audio-video involvement that creates a temporary reality, woven by sight, sound, and movement. These psychedelic and transcendental characteristics are transferred to record as closely as possible. . . and live, it’s a truly cinematic rock ‘n’ roll show.
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