IAN - THE INGÉNIEUR Vocals, guitars, synth programming, excessive sarcasm...the whole nine yards.
RYAN - BASS Bass, snarky comments, À Rebours PR, and other useful roles.
NATE - DRUMS Excellent drums, backing vox, and unsettling tempo accuracy.
HONKUS - MINIATURE AUTOMATIC PHONOGRAPH Live backing synth and additional percussion.
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Influences
Musicians:
Abney Park, Bauhaus, Bethany Curve, The Birthday Massacre, The Blackheart Procession, David Bowie, Nick Cave, Frédéric Chopin, Covenant, Clan of Xymox, The Crüxshadows, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Diabolique, Dream Theater, Duran Duran, The Faint, Fates Warning, The Gathering, Gazpacho, Hednoize, Jean Michel Jarre, Johnny Hollow, Joy Division, Orgy, Psykosonik, Queen, Queensrÿche, R.A.M., Rosetta Stone, The Sisters of Mercy, Slowdive, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Switchblade Symphony, Steve Vai, Voltaire, The Wake, and anything else I've ever heard and liked.
Artists:
Banksy, Jean Béraud, Mahlon Blaine, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Edgar Degas, Tommy Genest, Edward Gorey, Edward Hopper, Victor Horta, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Albert Maignan, Edouard Manet, Vincent Marcone, Henri Matisse, Junko Mizuno, Alphonse Mucha, Jean-Francois Raffaëlli, Odilon Redon, Pierre-August Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent Van Gogh, Arthur Zaidenburg.
Writers:
Clive Barker, Charles Baudelaire, John Berger, Mahmoud Darwish, Robert Desnos, T.S. Eliot, Michel Foucault, William Gibson, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Jean Kilbourne, H.P. Lovecraft, Chuck Palahniuk, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, William Shakespeare, Kurt Vonnegut, Oscar Wilde.
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Sounds Like
Phantoms from the æther haunting Nikola Tesla's workshop, whereupon their EVP were captured on phonograph cylinders that turned up over a century later in a trunk in the back of an opium den, discovered therein by a goth rock band who just happened to own a machine of alien design that played, of all things, those cylinders.
À Rebours is a musical dream-machine fueled by a combination of several different genres--goth, shoegaze, darkwave, electro, and hard rock--all colliding under a dark, melancholy umbrella. Aiming to extend beyond the borders of genre, this pastiche of many elements creates something familiar, but creatively unique for the listener. À Rebours is a message from outer space, a Victorian Romance, a walk through 20's Berlin, a haunting, a dark rock epic, a Tesla experiment, and an overcast day all in one.
The creative mind behind À Rebours is Ian Stone, a lifelong artist and musician. Having bounced from one band to another throughout the nineties, all populated with flaky musicians, aimless ideas and nonexistent goals, Ian struck out on his own in 2003 and formed À Rebours (French for "Against the Grain"). Signed to Final Joy Records out of Phoenix, AZ in 2006, À Rebours' debut album, "Vanish" was released in Sept. of 2007 and has received critical acclaim in both goth and rock circles for its mix of spooky, dreamlike ambience, progressive songwriting, creative lyrics and fresh guitar playing. Songs from Vanish have received airplay all over the world. Have you "Vanished" yet?
À Rebours' lineup is rounded out by accomplished jazz/prog-rock bassist Ryan Holmes, and drum guru Nathan McDowell. Their technical dexterity, musical training and repertoire of tasteful technique bring the music up to another level altogether. À Rebours simply MUST be seen live...hope to see you there!
Your VANISHing isn't complete until you've enveloped yourself in À REBOURS' SWAG:
À Rebours 4"x4" Vinyl Sticker $1.00
À Rebours 1.5" Vanish Button $1.00
À Rebours 1.5" Machine Button $1.00
À Rebours 1.25" Logo Button $1.00
À Rebours Logo T-Shirt $15.00
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Sticker & Button Shipping to U.S. and Canada is $2
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Just dropping in to say hello. The page looks great here. Hope all is well. Give me a shout if you need anything on the calendar. To do some new tracking.
THANX FOR BEING A FRIEND OF CRISS KARVER AND THE LUNACY MACHINE. ALSO, WANTED TO WISH YOU A FABULOUS DARK AND TWISTED WEEK!!! HOPE THE HOLIDAYS ARE GOOD TO YOU! IF YOU'RE UP TO SOME NEW TWISTED TALES IN RHYME, STOP BY AND CHECK OUT MY BLOG: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=124955625
-TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK AND LOOK FOR THE LUNACY MACHINE TO HIT THE BOOK SHELVES SOON!
Hey! Pash here :) Just wanted to say thanks for accepting! If you have five miniutes, maybe you could check out our stuff and leave us a comment on what you think :) We've got new merch over at our big cartel store aswell!
Were booking gigs up and down the UK at the moment for a 2010 tour so if you can help us get a show where you live! get in touch and we'll love you forever!
All the best! Hope all is well! Pash Fatalfourway oxoxox
Hey, thanks for the add and checkout all Metal Bras and other stuff in MyPhotos. If you like what you see you can purchase most of them by going to http://brooksbot75.etsy.com and for the rest of the year you get a FREE ACCESSORY with any of the bras or purses. I have a lot of these wire cage visors for gifts as well as the metal cuffs and necklaces. I lowered the price on the METAL SKULL PURSES and the ROBOT HEAD PURSES but so if you want one get them now. I've also added GIFT CERTIFICATES to the store so you can give the gift of metal fashions and not have to worry about what size you should get.
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Yngwie Malmsteen will release a new album called "High Impact" on December 8 (one day earlier internationally). The set is described as "a mind-boggling, high-paced instrumental compilation record" featuring a "surprise" bonus track — Yngwie's never-before-released interpretation of the MICHAEL JACKSON mega-hit classic "Beat It", which contains Malmsteen's own magical touch and Tim Ripper Owens on Vocals...
yeah you too man.. seems like eons since we've last kept contanct.. whoa.. that sounds pretty F'd up Ian.. im just getting over a two year span of F'd up to say the least..
a) newly single? <-- di che cosa state parlando? b) phoenix again? <-- perhaps, possibly, maybe? c) its the future, but honestly ian,conosciamo mai che cosa stiamo andando fare con la nostra vita in avvenire?
riposi nella pace alla vecchia vita ed accolga favorevolmente la nuova vita. thats pretty much what can help move things on.
DROPPING BY TO SAY THANX FOR BEING A FRIEND OF CRISS KARVER AND THE LUNACY MACHINE. ALSO, WANTED TO WISH YOU A FABULOUS DARK AND TWISTED WEEK!!!
HERE IS A PREVIEW FOR THE UPCOMING STORY 'OUIJA' WHICH IS ONE OF MANY TWISTED RHYMES INSIDE THE NEW LUNACY MACHINE.
OUIJA
Is there someone there? Is there someone there? Come talk to us tonight. We’re asking for the dead to speak, It’s only us . . .my wife and me. Come tell us how you died.
The oracle moved about the board A figure-eight reply. The oracle started slowing down, then stopped . . . above the Y.
Tell us more, tell us more, what brought you here to me? Tell us how you died tonight. Tell us when you died tonight. Tell us what brings you here tonight. Keep spelling it for me.
The figure eight continues and around the board it moves. It’s slowing down, it’s slowing down. Come, spirit, talk to me right now, Tell us tonight, because we want to know . . Then the oracle stopped on the letter O.
You’re coming in so very clear, Now tell us why you’re roaming here, on this dark and stormy night. Speak to me, speak to me, Travel through this board to me. Tell us why you sleep tonight beneath your resting tomb. Speak to me, speak to me, speak to me now. Then the oracle stopped on the U.
Y-O-U, Y-O-U, this isn’t making sense. You spelled out, YOU is this what you meant to do? Then the oracle stopped on YES.
*SEE MORE OF THIS STORY (since space here is limited) BY COMING BY AND VISITING ME AND PREVIEW SOME OTHER STORIES FROM THE LUNACY MACHINE, TWISTED TALES OF UNFORTUNATE TIMES 'R' in my blog section HAVE A GOOD 1 SEE YA!! -CRISS KARVER
£leTriKa sounds completely different from any Metal band you have ever heard. The Brazilian rhythms and the Portuguese language added to the songs makes its style unique, giving birth to a new kind of Metal. If you are really looking for something new about Metal, you should check £leTriKa out!
Hugs from Brazil, Claudio David
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Valeu demais a força! Quando rolaumtempinho, me fala o que achou da £leTriKa. Agente junta Metal com umasparada Brasileira. Tamutendumbom feed nas rádios gringas nos quatrocontos. Mantenha contato, blz?
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