Max Ernst, David Sylvian, Air, Nina Simone, Andre Breton, Tortoise, Jhelisa, To Rococo Rot, Swans, Theo Doesburg, Beck, David Bowie, Nicholas Roeg, Roxy Music, Billy Holiday, Yo La Tengo, Brian Eno, Orson Welles, Van der Graaf Generator, Felicien Rops, Joy Division, Radiohead, Gary Numan, Paul Eluard, New Order, Gerrit Rietveld, Jethro Tull, Aleister Crowley, Virgin Prunes, Gavin Friday, Isidore Ducasse, Salvador Dali, Depeche Mode, Coil, Gentle Giant, Marcel Duchamp, Pink Floyd, Albert Camus, David Lynch, Rozz Williams, King Crimson, Portishead, Art of Noise, Autechre, Massive Attack, Attica Blues, UNKLE, The Meters, Bauhaus, Amoeba, Kraftwerk, Yazoo, Tuxedomoon, Wire, Dome, He Said, Duet Emmo, Naked City, This Mortal Coil, Mogwai, Alas No Axis, Flanger, Bohren and der Club of Gore, Arthur Honegger, Talking Heads, Vincent van Gogh, Triosk, Plaid, Moloko, Robert Wyatt, Soft Machine, Robert Fripp, Japan, Jaga Jazzist, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Soft Cell, Scott Walker, Cinematic Orchestra, John Lurie, Tom Waits, Jan Toorop, Captain Beefheart, Kurt Schwitters, Killing Joke, Philip Glass, William Burroughs, Beasty Boys, Herbert, Ennio Morricone, Painkiller, Diamanda Galas, Bill Laswell, Miles Davis, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sigur Ros, Franz Kafka, Can, Antonin Artaud, Arthur Rimbaud, Eberhard Weber, Mark Hollis, Talk Talk, George Bataille, Serge Gainsbourg, Andrej Tarkovsky, Hector Zazou, Leonard Cohen, Harold Budd, Jon Hassell, Sigur Ros, Anja Garbarek, Wim Mertens...
photography:
Gregorz Oldi (Warsaw)
Karel Jakubka (Prague)
Lisette Sutherland & Richard (behind the scenes)
(photo by Fons van Bindsbergen)
STRANGE ATTRACTOR (Niels van Hoorn and Richard van Kruysdijk) presents it's second album: 'Mettle'.
It features some legendary vocalists;
David J (Bauhaus) laments the decline of ‘sleaze’, Winston Tong (Tuxedomoon) speaks his translation of a text by Charles Baudelaire, Graham Lewis (Wire) delivers another one of his enigmatic lyrics, while Richard Sinclair (Hatfield & the North) and Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson (Coil, Throbbing Gristle) both add some abstract choirs. The only female vocalist is Marie-Claudine, known from Sonar Lodge. She is also part of the live trio and her beautiful voice features on 4 tracks.
01. Anything (ft. Marie-Claudine)
02. The Best Things Are Left Unspoken (ft. Graham Lewis)
03. Evaporate (ft. Marie-Claudine)
04. Loneliness Is A Crowded Room (ft. Richard Sinclair)
05. Sleaze (ft. David J)
06. Plain Gold Ring (ft. Marie-Claudine)
07. Sound Generation
08. Quietude (ft. Winston Tong)
09. Snail (ft. Peter Christopherson)
10. Heaven (ft. Marie-Claudine)
STRANGE ATTRACTOR images from the 2007 European Tour.
(Click "view all images" to view as gallery.)
Photography:
Alexander Lyubin (Dreadnought, Kaliningrad, RUS)
Lukasz Pepol (Bohema Jazz Club, Olsztyn, POL)
STRANGE ATTRACTOR slideshow of the 2006 European Tours.
STRANGE ATTRACTOR item in Notes, Polish art programme, 11-2006:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW59oFbwm5U
STRANGE ATTRACTOR live in Kaliningrad, Russia, 04-2006:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVcbcdxb_4c
NIELS VAN HOORN is a longstanding member of the English / Dutch cult group The Legendary Pink Dots. Their unusual mixture of electronic psychedelic whimsy and lush textures straight out of Alice In Wonderland have kept them on top of the underground cult music scene for already a quarter of a century. Niels, who always coloured outside the dotted line, reached an important milestone with his first solo album Colours (out in autumn 2002 on Soleilmoon USA). Over the years, Niels has also worked with a wide range of performers: drum & bass outfit Voltage, Dead Voices On Air (Mark Spybey of Zoviet France & Download), The Tear Garden (Edward Ka-Spel and Skinny Puppys Cevin Key), Lydia Lunch, Anubian Lights, Szense a.m.m. Niels plays soprano-, tenor-, bariton- and bass saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, Steiner wind synth and electronics.
RICHARD VAN KRUYSDIJK, a.k.a. Sonar Lodge (with MARIE-CLAUDINE VANVLEMEN), has been sound mining ever deeper since his first drum & bass influenced releases to the jazz-infused trip noir approach on Sonar Lodges recent 12s and CDs. They are both also involved in the new M4S group Music For Speakers Amplified (with Sandor Caron, Raphael Vanoli, Jeroen Kimman (Roomtone), Edward Capel). Various projects brought Richard on stage and in the studio with some influential musicians. Future & current collaborations include BEAM and krautrock impro group Szense. Since 1993, he is also a member of the German industrial band Phallus Dei and it's ambient offspring PHD2. Richard plays drums, keys, laptop and electronics.
Greetings. I just wanted to thank you for your continued support and invite you to have a first listen on myspace to the tracks off the new EP "Monster & Minstrel" due out later this month. Bright stars to you! Ahmond
Just wanted to thank for the performance in Warsaw and for the Youth, it was best show EVER, and a great experience, worth traveling every kilometer. Hope to see you next year.
Just discovered your music as was on Legendary Pink Dots site, who Ive enjoyed for over 30 years almost now. Strange attraction is fantastic music. Thanks for the friendship n I happily cheer u onto great success internationally...
Hi from Fruits de Mer Hope you're enjoying our new versions of Caravan's 'Love Song With Flute' plus The Zombies' 'Care of Cell 44' - out now on ludicrously-limited psychedelically-swirly colour vinyl...
