The Night Terrors ‘Hypnotica’ LP launch
Friday 21 June – The Tote
w/ Quell, Full Fleshed & Vacuum DJs
Melbourne electrogoth legends The Night Terrors return to the Tote to launch their fourth album Hypnotica: Composition for Theremin and Electronic Music Synthesizer.
Featuring the haunting theremin melodies of Miles Brown and Sarah Lim’s vintage horror synthesisers, The Night Terrors have earned a reputation as one of Australia’s most unique and original musical acts. They are also one of the only bands in the world to compose and release original music albums featuring theremin as a lead instrument.
Following the success of their celebrated 2014 pipe organ record “Pavor Nocturnus”, the band went on hiatus, with Brown releasing two solo albums on legendary UK movie soundtrack label Death Waltz. Now, HYPNOTICA sees The Night Terrors return with a deeply cinematic album of haunting emotional electronics.
HYPNOTICA focuses on the interplay between the theremin – the world’s oldest and most mysterious electronic instrument – and the gorgeous tones of the analogue synthesizer. The result is a breakthrough album which establishes the theremin as a transcendent musical medium for the processing of universal heartbreak and the expression of contemporary existential terror.
See the band play selections from Hypnotica plus tracks from all their classic albums with special guest drummer Mitch McGregor (Split System / No Zu).
Support comes from industrial electronic powerhouse Quell and future darkwave phenomenon Full Fleshed, with Melbourne electropunk legends Vacuum DJs bringing the dark afterparty ’til late.
“HYPNOTICA spotlights the unique expressive capacities of the theremin, materialising as a transfixing dramatic lead in an extraordinary otherworld of gothic operatics, dark mesmeric melody and euphoric spectral electro.” Post Punk
Hypnotica LP is out now on Disdain Records.
https://thenightterrors.bandcamp.com/album/hypnotica-composition-for-theremin-and-electronic-music-synthesizer-2
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