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To Blacken the Pages - new video

To Blacken the Pages have a new video on Youtube, an edit of 'Night Drive' off the CD 'North'. The full length will also be available on other sites and on TBTP's website.

 YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/toblackenthepages

Is it dark enough for you yet – new To Blacken the Pages 30 minute track to be released soon

New 30 minute track commissioned by Wereju at Idrone Park records for a cassette box set compilation. To be released summer 2010. Check out Wereju’s MySpace page for details to be announced shortly.

This features To Blacken the Pages most recent work, and witnesses a departure of sorts from previous releases. Based on layers of clean but impossibly loud layers of guitar, at various stages of echo and delay, Is It Dark Enough for You Yet also sees a strong vocal presence from McAree, which steers the track into new territory.

To Blacken the Pages - free stuff

To Blacken the Pages free music downloads from a few different sites, including Bandcamp, Last FM, Myspace. Check out Bandcamp for the latest freebies - more added every month. Most of these freebies will be available from now on via this Bandcamp page. Just added: 'Night Drive' off the CD 'North', 'Trek In' off off 'A Semblance of Something Appertaining to Destruction', and 'Shallow', off TBTP's and Korperschwache's 'A Way Dark'. Check back regularly for more freebies and exclusives. Also at Bandcamp right now: a new track off Korperschwache's 'Black Dust' cd and more collaborative tracks from To Blacken the Pages & Korperschwache's 'A Way Dark'.

 Bandcamp

Colony Records - now ALL To Blacken the Pages releases on sale!!! See Webstore on this site or over at Colony Records web store for details.

Most recent CDs now only €10 inc postage to anywhere, Korperschwache's 'Black Dust' is only €9 inc postage to anywhere, and earlier TBTP releases as low as €7. 'NONE' now only €7, A Semblance €8, The Urgency and 'And we started...' both €8 each. TBTP & Korperschwache's 'A Way Dark' now only €10.

The Black Hole Series

To Blacken the Pages and Colony Records announce the 'Black Hole' series of releases. These will be a new series of limited, mini-cd releases to feature 10 different artists. Names to be announced shortly. First to kick off the series will be To Blacken the Pages on Monday 4 October  2010. 

 The format of the mini cd asks each each performer to think of something new within the confines of the 20 minute disc. The series aims to showcase some of the most engaging music being made today by solo guitar performers. Each CD in the series will be priced at €5 including postage anywhere.

 Stay tuned for previews and free downloads. Pre-orders available from 20 September. 

To Blacken the Pages & Korperschwache, plus other projects

To Blacken the Pages and Korperschwache are working together again on the follow-up to their successful double CD, A Way Dark. They had so much of blast on their first outing, they're doing it again. Recording beginning now, expect a release in 2011.

 To Blacken the Pages is also working with several other musicians on a soon-to-be-released album. We're keeping this one a surprise for the moment, but its a project bringing together musicians from across the US, Ireland, Canada and Norway. Expect an announcement late 2010. 

TBTP & Korperschwache free track on CD with Dutch magazine Gonzo (Circus) now!

Abandoned Car at the White Cliffs of Dover is one of the new tracks from the now available double collaborative album between TPTP & Korperschwache, and is also featured on the latest issue of the CD free with Gonzo (Circus). Check it out here:

Gonzo (Circus)

To Blacken the Pages & Korperschwache: A Way Dark

Album orders + FREE track download

Download Inside the Mariana Trench for FREE right now.

Inside the Mariana Trench is one of the new tracks from the now available double collaborative album between TBTP & Korperschwache. Get it completely free over at our Bandcamp page.

Click HERE for the free download.

Album orders

Over at the Store page you can now order K&TBTP's 'A WAY DARK' album.

iTunes, emusic, Rough Trade, Aquarius, Crucial Blast

A WAY DARK is also currently available on iTunes and emusic, with copies also available in Rough Trade London and Crucial Blast. Aquarius will be selling copies soon.

Press

Press for A Way Dark - Rock Sound and Rock-a-Rolla. More soon.

A WAY DARK

9 November will see the release of a collaborative double album between Austin Texas-based Korperschwache and Dublin's To Blacken the Pages. Recording began in late 2008 and saw the two artists work in directions neither have previously explored - from lighter, shoegaze inspired tracks, to harder, more abstract compositions, and of course exploring the juxtaposition of each artist's extreme guitar work. The final track is a 38 minute opus called 'Stranded in the Hertzsprung Crater'. Colony Records (Dublin) will release the 10 tracks over 2 CDs on 9 November 2009. Album is called 'A Way Dark'

KORPERSCHWACHE & TO BLACKEN THE PAGES: A WAY DARK

2 x CDs

Track Listing:

CD1

Lovecraft (10:45)

Sonic Kingdom (11:20)

Black Dawn (9:51)

The Fall of Popolac (8:18)

A New Seat in Hell (11:58)

Shallow (12:48)

CD2

Abandoned Car at the White Cliffs of Dover (8:23)

Inside the Mariana Trench (5:20)

Absent Friends (7:53)

Stranded in the Hertzsprung Crater (38:33)
 
A WAY DARK is a bold work from two of the most pioneering blackened noise guitar musicians working today. While pushing the sonic boundary as expected with intense, challenging tracks like Lovecraft and Shallow, equally challenging are the album’s lighter moments. The musicians set themselves – and their audience – challenges by working with difficult tracks, from the cutting The Fall of Popolac to the surreal Inside the Mariana Trench. The album’s finale, the mighty Stranded in the Hertzsprung Crater, constantly teases with the listener at precisely the moment you may expect the track to head into an over the top sonic splurge. But instead, the track constantly edges closer to a descent into psychedelic nirvana, only to retreat and tease once again. The album was a chance for both musicians to challenge other – each taking turns to suggest themes and ideas, for example each working with drum patterns and guitar structures, RKF (Korperschwache) often providing a sonic wall of drone while Paul McAree (To Blacken the Pages) would blaze guitar solos over the top.

Pre-order direct from this site from 1 November - all orders sent out early and include an exclusive postcard.

Hear the complete track 'Abandoned Car at the White Cliffs of Dover' from A WAY DARK on TBTP's MySpace page.

26 SEPTEMBER 2009 : :

Download Crow's Nest for FREE right now.

The vinyl version is available to buy direct from here at the store page - a lush heavy duty vinyl, complete with handmade oversized obi strip, and bundled CDR containing an alternate version of the second track. This longer version comes with the vinyl only.

Click HERE for the free download.

More freebies to come really really soon.