NEW ALBUM DUE IN MARCH !
Anniversary Circle will release their second album in march
titled " Woe Betide. " it promises to be a much darker event than the previous album and will include the single Forgotten Inventions and the albumversion of don't close those glass eyes .
Er ich wedde suche a wif• wo me by-tyde -quote -William Langland.
Woe betide the drink
Woe betide the tide
Woe betide the woman
there is no where left to hide
(c) Anniversary Circle 2012
ANNIVERSARY CIRCLE Forgotten Inventions - subtle but commanding Gothic EP review by Mick Mecer
Estelline has departed, replaced by Ruth Atkinson, who joins Martin Johnson and Jerry Boucher as they plan another album, which astute readers will be looking forward to, as they do audacious Goth atmospherics so well.
‘Forgotten Inventions’ has that wonderfully bustling rhythmic force, with frosted, thorny guitar providing the elegant threat, over which vocals casually cascade, in a song rich in restrained drama. Then Ruth easily dominates a haunting, wavering ‘Don’t Close Those Glass Eyes’ and it’s a sign of their quality that they make these weirder tracks resonate with a hint of an important story rather than a moody idea being spun out for the sake of it. ‘Anniversary Circle’ is revisited, with Ruth insinuating herself into the reassuring ghostly doominess by means of her slippery, stylish timing.
A tidy reminder, a superb pointer.
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Anniversary Circle : Forgotten Inventions EP
The Forgotten inventions EP will be released on the 5th of november (05/11/2011) and available to download from Itunes.
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New Vocalist For Anniversary Circle
Please welcome Ruth to the Anniversary Circle line up. Ruth also brings her guitar playing skills to AC which will feature on the forth coming album. To hear Ruth sing copy and paste the link below into your browser or go to the music and video page and player the MP3 of Anniversary Circle the Ruth Mix. It will also be available to download form Itunes
on the "Forgotten Inventions EP" due in Early November.
http://www.myspace.com/anniversarycircle/music/songs/anniversary-circle-40-ruth-vocal-mix-41-84395020
Anniversary Circle Part Company with Estelliane
After much deliberation discussion it became obvious it was time to change and the only way forward was to introduce another vocalist. As A result various issues arose and we felt it better to progress without Estelliane. I would like to take the opportunity to thank Estelliane for her contribution and wish her good luck for the future.
The Mick Mercer Review
They’re quite open about their influences are Martin Johnson, Estelliane Kermagoret and Keith Young. Of their ancestral catalysts I think the Banshees, Joy Division and The Danse Society make most sense, but as the creep atmosphere of this fine debut album sweeps over and around you it would make more sense to cast your mind back to the early 90’s and imagine a band in Twin Peaks forming. That same brooding sense of mystery, the same ghostly lightness of touch.
‘Anniversary Circle’ has supple bass, slivers of hovering guitar, bruised vocals and a morose but fluid synth pattern and I might have a whinge it’s that I can’t find lyrics anywhere online when there’s a story hinted at which I’d quite like to follow. Arse! ‘Saturated Feathers’ has more of that Julee Cruse with a shotgun ambience, male and female vocals caught momentarily in the light as the murky sounds seep. ‘Understand’ has more spirit caught in its nagging grooves and undulates strangely to its unexpected end.
‘See Me’ gets the creepy guitar sagging, the vocals grumbling enigmatically as the rhythm flexes and guitar builds in a trenchant, wiry manner close to a spectral Danse Society, with some brutish intentions. ‘Take’ has a more demure introspective charm with Estelliane cooing softly over burbling bass and occasional gnashing synth, and there’s grim sing-songery about the dour, loping ‘Loving Cup.’ It’s a bit of a shock when they crash into the frizzier, rousing ‘Too Tired’, then they slump in a crestfallen ‘Facing Julia’, a sour serenade which reeks of rupture dignity and floats in a fetid fashion. By contrast there is a poppiness about the strangely truncated ‘Winters Children’ before ‘Bent Out Of Shape’ skimps gamely around like lightly grilled Ethereal given a Goth pacemaker.
They’re all up and fierce during a pouncing ‘Make It Look Like Suicide’, the guitar and/or violin on a fast fleck drip-feed, the dark vocals treated and sandwiched between the stern beat on a seething rhythm, with a foully frolicking bass,escalating into a brick wall of no return.
A great record, and you owe it to yourself to find out more.
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Anniversary Circle “ Saturated Feathers” now on CD from Sun and Moon records released 5rd November 2010
Many said we shouldn’t, many said we wouldn’t, some said we couldn’t, but we did………
On the 15th of August 2010 we released our debut album “Saturated Feathers”. through Emubands. Everything was great, the reviews came in and the downloads were happening, then everything changed….. For the better!
We have signed an exclusive a deal with Sun & Moon Records to release and distribute “Saturated Feathers” on CD. It will be available 5/11/2010 from http://www.sunandmoonrecords.com look for the links on this site and our MySpace page.
We will still continue to work with Emubands for our digital self release as they do an excellent job.
All downloads are available on iTunes, Spotify, and various other download sites.
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dark entries review
There are British The Beatles loyal dog but luckily there are who can not get enough of the old gothic sound. Really hgood luck this group, although this does not give up but luckily Anniversary Circle, there was a label, please note that specialized in obscure metal releases, the CD ready to bring these people out.
Anniversary of the Music Circle has been praised by Mick Mercer, and he actually had names like Siouxsie & The Banshees and The Danse Society fall.
Well, Mick Mercer may be the so-called goth pope, here we hear many different sounds even though they are no less: Cindy Talk, the early days of Christian Death or Sex Gang Children.
Most songs are sung by Estelliane Kermagoret (remember doing that) whose voice reminds us of Monica Richards.
Readers who goth know immediately know what a release it and even dare you to certain songs ever to sleep did you again on other tracks the traditional death-rock guitars that you do justice springs, just listen to the sublime "Make It Look Like Suicide".
The nice thing about this release is that it just sounds like a Batcave-release with guitars that seem plucked as "Song And Legend" ... terribly old fashioned, but good!
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Dutch to English translation
Didier Becu
15/11/2010
defiance magazine review
Anniversary Circle "Saturated Feathers" review
Anniversary Circle are a Gothic alternative rock outfit hailing from the UK, listening to "Saturated Feathers" takes me back to the past in many different ways.
It's very late 80's in sound it takes you back to the time of prominent bass lines and screeching guitars with the deep based vocals on top.
The only thing I feel about this album so far is it lacks variety, some of the tracks are almost static and don't seem to progress forward into anything such as "Loving Cup" and "Winter's Children" where I feel the tracks although are good, lack contract and changes but then this is what the Gothic genre is about. It's all about personal tastes.
Then we have the gems on this album like "Bent Out of Shape" and "Make it Look Like Suicide" which have the contrast that I love as a listener. It has variety that I myself look for. This album almost has a post punk sense to it but I'm torn in my views of the album. I love some of the tracks but then I'm not keen on the rest, it feels very mono tone for my personal taste but I can appreciate the effort that has been put into this album in my personal opinion I think the hardcore, die hard fans of this genre will love this album.
It's atmospheric it has that deep style vocals taking centre stage with melodic bass lines and it's dark and deep. I know people who would love this album as they love this genre but maybe I'm not open enough to appreciate it and I'm sure some will disagree but it's definitely one for the fans of the Gothic/Post Punk genre to decide upon.
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aristocrazia webzin review
You hear often of underground music and niche genres that were elite, surely the dark punk and post punk bands like Bauhaus do not have a full-bodied as a result many of the bands that revel in other shores sound.
The England of the late seventies, early eighties was flourishing with the sad reality that made a dark place to escape and express their feelings, beautiful flowers sprang from the shadows as night or hidden Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Cure, Joy Division, Killing Joke while you were living in Italy and overseas took Kirlian Camera foot Christian Death, a movement was thriving and full of personality that gave voice to the emotions more poignant and melancholic, the Anniversary Circle from the land of Albion is at that and at that time to settle that point in their album "Saturated Feathers."
The atmosphere is ritualistic, ethereal, dilated expands as wide concentric circles made by a stone thrown on the water, the lesson of the past have been learned and assimilated, the sound brings out the shiny dark lines that spring up at times of low singsong , the guitars grinding and soaked in gray while the voices make it even more lively and intense sensations that the turbid concatenations.
The pieces possess specific characteristics that distinguish them, the title track is similar to a succession of presences, ghosts that send signals between light and darkness, "Understand" is a continuous axle where the groove in the background keeps the soul in the grip of turmoil, "Take" shows the softer side and persuasive, the femininity of Estelliane Kermagoret become introspective and even more fascinating as songs like "See Me" and "Too Tired" liven up the situation by implementing appropriate choices and enthralling even more disruptive to the dance floor ( and I do not talk to Truzzi).
It is somewhat past the middle of the disc and the many ideas, synth grafts and changes of mood I was given a share of a road which, although carried out at the highway feels the need to have their own shortcuts and unexpected crossroads in which pigs accept a direction that would identify only the defining homogeneous simply not listen to the sounds and facets of a world that is, note by note evolving and branching.
"Facing Julia" is a strange meeting, a sort of ballad, but the bitter aftertaste, strongly acidic, dark, quiet but very evocative of that spending, leaving behind a dirty, the perception of something unfinished bent and corrupt its moral interrupting the proceedings.
The couple of songs that made up the matter with "Winters" and "Bent Out Of Shape", with the presence of acoustics in the first and the marked development of the second ethereal, bringing to mind the work of one of the pivotal act of the last two decades the Lycia, nothing better to represent a sound so dreamy and enterprising in creating a real trip, you can not say the same of "Make It Look Suicide" distorted and malicious button that seethes with glossy black with that bass pump and a rampant drumming, apt and unexpected like a dose of adrenaline to wake a heart that had slowed down the beat and can now regain its natural flow.
Listen "Saturated Feathers" was instructive and constructive, he gave me the opportunity to move up in the drawers did not open for some 'inspired my desire to return to putting on this kind of work.
It 's a fantastic record of this Anniversary Circle, one of those who felt for years, if the eighties and the musical tradition in question is your daily bread, you have to bring it into the collection, is worth a purchase.
http://aristocraziawebzine.blogspot.com/2010/12/anniversary-circle-saturated-feathers.html
zware metalen review
Dutch to English translation
Anniversary Circle is a British band that plays a mixture of 80's new wave, post punk, gothic rock, industrial and ethereal music. It's a mouthful, I from the publications of the band get, but it really is the best description of the whole. With rock or metal has little to do, so let's scissors in related articles.
This band has been active in various forms and manifestations since the eighties of the last century (...). That the music of the band is not really well in the market is, shown by the fact that they only now Saturated Feathers, the debut CD below. Themselves, they find that it sounds like Killing Joke jamming with Lycia in the early nineties in a town called Twin Peaks. I believe it immediately, because I have myself little comparison. The enthusiast for whom it is intended, that will certainly have.
After the violent resistance that constituted the first listening, I began a part of what is offered after a few listens to appreciate anyway. If I should describe in their own words is a big fog bank of electronic sound, distorted sound and sound effects. Emerges from the depths of vanalles. Sometimes the instruments that spicy interludes, it is a fragile, some sterile female voice singing or wearing emerges. Sometimes it's a male voice that pops up grumpy and distorted. Partly because of echo and distortion creates a beautiful image of the ambience.
Where the voices emerge, I am particularly impressed by the lady in question. Dreamy, fragile and beautiful it sounds, and where the instruments get some space sounds all very good. The entire electronic fog, I'm still not like. I still believe that for connoisseurs and lovers may be an interesting release. For me it was a journey through a musical world unknown to me, who liked not that bad.
http://www.zwaremetalen.com/recensie/17748/Anniversary-Circle-Saturated-Feathers.html
rockpolis media review
Hungarian to English translation
Not much bothered so far in the waters of goth music for several reasons, among which the Paradise Lost legnyomatékosabb often stolen from bus ran a completely different description of music, the other is the unnecessary and often ridiculous maskarák are fictitious, and the goth metal is more or less organic Others.
So the modern goth music in the goth subculture, and with regard to összehasonlítgatásokra, I'm pretty weak, but never-felt indítatást rétegzenének this kind of deeper knowledge, understanding. However, in this case a very pleasant stay in AC I hangfelvételének interrogation. Sympathy for causes and reasons for somewhere in the nineties, Tiamat Lucyfire Indeed, His Majesty and music rooted in the fruits of his work.
Interestingly enough, they change the songs dallamvilágból one another completely separate from the environment. Of course, there are also electronic accompaniment throughout, but most are so strong in the bass, guitar, drums and vocals aura that can hardly notice the room-filling tunes and melancholic mood effects presence, even if they are well balanced with the total of those instruments. The only forty-minute audio, all eleven can make something unique, something your own custom made. Sometimes the melody and rhythm even cruel (Take, lush vibrant parts of the body, breast circling bőgőjáték foaming), and sometimes the tone (Loving Cup, nárciszos Tiamat), when there is a benefit táncolós adventurous mindset among the gloomy kottadarabok.
If you are longing ceiling power pitcher, which will pluck your head, then certainly one of the worst choice would be the Anniversary Circle, the three musicians is something that leads into the mood with Saturated Feathers, which senses intoxicated Estelliane csábjától sirens and head outside leszáradnak thoughts. Great work and great imagination, which is the final clincher Make It Look Like Suicide, where the rhythm and bass playing punk edge blade balanced mix of gothic metal wires nyöszörögtető melody.
After repeated listening to what you do not understand: what is the relationship between music and masquerade, and of course the sex life of dolphins, and this album