Dream Landscape by Anemone Tube

All music recorded, edited and mixed by Anemone Tube between September 2007 and December 2009. Mastered by James Plotkin, January/February 2010.

Typography and package design by Anemone Tube 2010.
Painting by Alex Tennigkeit 2009, www.alextennigkeit.com.
Photo by Hans Rubingh, Rotterdam 2009.

Label: Silken Tofu, www.silkentofu.org
Ltd. edition: 500 copies: 300 CD edition / 200 CD+DVD edition
Packaging: luxurious 5 panel folder with metallic/black print, 21 x 14 cm, packaged in transparent bag

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PRESS REVIEWS

“Only one year after the magnificent ‘Dream Landscape’ the new Anemone Tube album ‘Death over China’ is released and exceeds all expectations.”
(Ikonen Magazin, Patrick Kilian, June 2011)

"... Effectively Anemone Tube achieves a sound that spans the divide between ‘academic’ experimental material and ‘underground’ industrial territory. Likewise within this context Anemone Tube have achieved a particularly unique sound, which these days can be a challenge to say the least within ambient/ industrial spheres."
(Noise Receptor, Richard Stevenson, February 2013)

"... an ambitious artistic statement realised in sound and images from Anemone Tube. (...) I’d be tempted to align this with many other noise records that push the “apocalypse culture” buttons, but Anemone Tube’s distinctive sound-art here is dramatic and powerful and very creative too. (...) An exceptionally strong and unsettling work."
(The Sound Projector, Ed Pinsent, January 2012)

“Anemone Tube uses field recordings masterfully (...) A combination of brutal, grim noise, recorded sounds, spoken word and machinery turned into heavy, slow rhythms (...) ‘Death Over China’ is painfully alive, bursting with an agonizing tension. It grips the listener with admirable force, never letting go until the 45 minutes of the recording are over. Rating: 5/5"
(Heathen Harvest, VITRIOL, November 2011)

“Excellent work of noise art."
(Vital Weekly, NM, June 2011)

“I played this album 5 times without removing it from my CD player. And it still makes me want to listen to it again. I'm a sucker for loops and physical sounds."
(Special Interests #6, M.A., July 2011)

“Individuals who look for a soundtrack for the creeping end of the world must not miss this masterpiece."
(Kulturterrorismus, R. Feldmann, June 2011)

“To say it in one word: BUY! Rating: 9/10"
(Connexion Bizarre, August 2011)

“A masterpiece of its kind."
(Art Abscons, July 2012)

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PRESS RELEASE

‘Dream Landscape’ is the first official solo release by ANEMONE TUBE after 9 years of silence. Originally founded in 1996 in Southern Germany, ANEMONE TUBE has quite made a name for himself in the industrial/noise genre especially due to the psychogenic nature of his music. On this new release ANEMONE TUBE creates massive ambient/noise soundscapes. The sounds are pulsating, drowning and floating, tormenting and caressing – all culminating in a haunting sonic experience.

‘Dream Landscape’ is the first part of “The Suicide Series”, for which field recordings provide a conceptional basis. ‘Dream Landscape’ is a concept album of fierce malignant power. In a poetic way ANEMONE TUBE combines analytical realism of the phenomenal world with buddhist psychology and nihilist rhetoric influenced by the visionary authors H.P. Lovecraft and Yukio Mishima.

Mastering by JAMES PLOTKIN, January/February 2010.

The special edition bonus DVD is a collaborative work between the brazilian video artist GUSTAVO DE LACERDA and ANEMONE TUBE. The work, entitled 1515, is a conceptual experimental film made in Rotterdam. The soundtrack is based on real-time field recordings made in in Nanjing and Shanghai.

The Epicurean

Label website: www.transformed.de