Alternative Matter release dates

Release date Germany/Austria: November 26, 2010

Release date Europe: November 29, 2010

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Ten years after the recordings of their debut album "Saviour", ANTIMATTER release "Alternative Matter", a retrospective of another kind. This is not a standard best of album, but a compilation of exclusively unreleased recordings and alternative versions from the archives of the band, compiled by ANTIMATTER mastermind Mick Moss with care and passion. "Alternative Matter" features demo and acoustic versions of well-known ANTIMATTER songs, live recordings, remixes, and also new recordings which have been conceived especially for this compilation. And in their entirety all these songs tell a yet unknown ANTIMATTER story.

After months of intense work on his anniversary compilation, Mick Moss himself is very pleased with its outcome: "The amazing thing about this compilation is that these pieces were set to tape in many different places during a period of over ten years, yet collected together they form a coherent and united new listening experience, a fascinating alternate history that sounds unlike any prior Antimatter album. I would love to be able to hear this collection in its entirety with fresh ears for the first time, but that’s now for the listener to do."

"Alternative Matter" will be released in two versions: as a digipack double CD with 22 unreleased recordings and a total playing time of more than 100 minutes and as a premium artbook with more than 100(!) pages, three audio CDs and one DVD. The artbook features a comprehensive introduction and in-depth liner notes by Mick Moss as well as a vast amount of photographs illustrating ANTIMATTER's career from 2000 up to now. The DVD features a documentary about ANTIMATTER's history and two video clips. Without a doubt, this retrospetive will draw an impressive line under ANTIMATTER's first decade of existence!

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After a well deserved lengthy break in sunny Latin America and Portugal it's time to get back into action. The long awaited Antimatter 'Alternative Matter' boxset will be unleashed during the coming weeks, as will the promotional activities that'll go with it.
January 2011 will see the North American release of the latest Íon album 'Immaculada'. Following that will be some live dates in Latin America. Meanwhile this week I have began work on a new album together with Argentinian flautist Augusto Reinhold. This will contain a mix of traditional and medieval songs plus reworkings of some of my own instrumental tracks. We're looking for a release around Easter time 2011. Updates as they come.
And last, but not least, I've recently finished the composition of an album that I've kept quiet about till now, which tips a hat to some of my older influences and instrumentation. This is a one-off album which the project is titled Alternative 4 (after a song that I wrote 13 years ago) and the album is called The Brink. More news on that when a deal is finalised and I have the studio dates.

www.alternative4.co.uk





Augusto Reinhold & Duncan Patterson live radio session.
Buenos Aires, Argentina 2010




Immaculada digipacks, and Madre, Protegenos t-shirts are still available for a short time.
Email sales@duncanpatterson.com for details.

Antimatter - Alternative Matter

2010 will see the release of 'Alternative Matter', a 10th anniversary collection of rare and unreleased acoustic versions, demos, live versions, remixes and new recordings of Antimatter (my former band) material.

The tracklisting is as follows

DISC ONE
Black Sun (Dead Can Dance Tribute)
The Art Of A Soft Landing (Acoustic, Enhanced)
Far Away (Live)
Saviour (Reel To Reel Demo)
Landlocked (Mick Moss Remix)
In Stone (Acoustic, Enhanced)
Epitaph (New Version)
Terminal (Duncan Patterson Remix)
Mr White (Live)
Flowers (New Version)
Expire (Lackluster Remix)

DISC TWO

God Is Coming (Duncan Patterson Remix)
Everything You Know Is Wrong (Acoustic, Enhanced)
A Portrait Of The Young Man (Enhanced)
Flowers (Acoustic)
Holocaust (Reel To Reel Demo)
The Art Of A Soft Landing (4 Track Demo)
Expire (Atrabilis Sunrise Remix)
Over Your Shoulder (Acoustic)
Dream (4 Track Demo)
Lost Control (Acoustic, Enhanced)
Epitaph (Orchestral Mix)

The 22 track double album will be released in two versions - a deluxe digipack and a strictly limited edition 4-disc premium artbook containing a bonus DVD and 7 track E.P.

ARTBOOK EDITION BONUS MATERIALS -

100 PAGE ARTBOOK

DISC THREE - 'FORBIDDEN MATTER E.P.'

Fighting For A Lost Cause (Demo)
Enjoy The Silence (Live)
Angelic (Mick Moss Remix)
Over Your Shoulder (Reel To Reel Demo)
Holocaust (FreeDoom Remix)
The Summer Effect (Instrumental Demo)
Angelic (Reel To Reel Demo)

DISC FOUR - DVD

Antimatter ' The Small Yesterdays' Documentary
Epitaph Promo
Conspire Promo

More details to follow.

Immaculada digipak now available from www.duncanpatterson.com

You can now order the Immaculada album directly from here. £12 including P&P anywhere, or the euro/dollar equivalant. Use the Paypal button below, or mail sales@duncanpatterson.com for any queries.

Also check out the video clip for 'Adoration' which is taken from the album. Directed by Tim Fromont-Placenti, and featuring the lovely Vic Anselmo, Earl Meneses, and me good auld self.

Pre-order Immaculada

The new Íon album “Immaculada” is now available to order from Equilibrium Music. Just click on the link below.
Click here to order!

More album info and some MP3 links here.

IMMACULADA - album release date and news

ÍON (Ireland)
Immaculada, Digipak CD - May 10th, 2010

Four years past since "Madre, Protégenos", Duncan Patterson returns, leading the entity known as Íon. On “Immaculada”, the lone travelling musician has again collected instrumental and vocal souvenirs from his numerous destinations to illustrate the memoirs of his quest.

“Immaculada” was written in a period I was travelling back and forth between Ireland and Greece. The album documents personal experiences of that time, set to introspective and reflective ballads.

Hypnotic and alluring, the album balances both the freshness of Irish landscapes and the warmth of Mediterranean sunbathed seashores, as its haunting Celtic vibe thrives and builds upon tribal rhythmic patterns. Much like its predecessor, the straightforward and minimalistic overall tone of the album is misleading, as its layered complexity and resonant harmonies reveal themselves at each listen, one mystery at a time, and one step closer to the end of this spiritual quest.

Íon has gathered around it an enormous amount of talent, both in the many musicians that have taken part in “Immaculada” and in the group of singers that bring words to life, this time lead by the Irish Lisa Cuthbert. Her heartfelt performances are occasionally accompanied by her sister Aoife Cuthbert, with Mark Kelson (of The Eternal) and gothic/alternative muse Vic Anselmo, providing additional outstanding contributions to the album, among other voices from Argentina, Mexico, Romania or Brazil.

Mostly recorded in the Portuguese countryside and in Dublin city, the intricate instrumental backbone is mainly constructed out of traditional instruments. With the mandolin family taking center stage, the tracks have been arranged to incorporate ethnic instrumentation (flutes, uillean pipes) which contrast with the sparse orchestration supplied by cello, violin, acoustic guitars, keyboard pads and piano, supported by the earthbound pulse of the percussion.

“Immaculada” is a collection of slow motion mysterious ballads, balancing light and shade, salvation and loss, beautifully crafted by gifted artists scattered over the world. Available next May 2010 in deluxe Digipak CD on Equilibrium Music.

Duncan Patterson en Santiago: nueva fecha

Duncan Patterson en Santiago: nueva fecha

Duncan Patterson, ex miembro de Anathema y actual integrante de agrupaciones como Antimatter, e Íon, ha reagendado su presentación en nuestro país para el 3 de abril, a las 19 horas, en la Batuta. Esto luego de que el show primeramente programado para marzo tuviera que posponerse debido a la situación que se generó a raíz del terremoto que afectara la zona centro sur de Chile.

El músico mostrará las diversas facetas musicales de su carrera, desde sus inicios con Anathema, donde participó en grandes álbumes como Alternative IV; su paso por Antimatter, banda de atmósferas melancólicas, hasta llegar a su nuevo proyecto personal Íon, una propuesta más folk y experimental, sin dejar de lado la oscuridad y belleza que siempre ha caracterizado su música.

La banda encargada de abrir el show será la nacional Budasses, agrupación de sonidos Doom Stoner.

Las entradas se encuentran a la venta a través del sistema Feriaticket, a $7.000 preventa más cargo por servicio y $10.000 el día del evento.

Taken from: http://rocknvivo.com/2010/03/08/duncan-patterson-en-santiago-nueva-fecha/