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À Rebours
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Latest Journal Entry: Interview in NecroMag November 11, 2008, 11:25am
Profile: À Rebours (pronounced AH reu BOOR) is French for "against the grain."
À Rebours' debut album, "VANISH" is OUT NOW through Final Joy records. À Rebours is a musical dream-machine fueled by a combination of several different genres--goth, shoegaze, darkwave, electro, and hard rock--all colliding under a dark, melancholy umbrella. Aiming to extend beyond the borders of genre, this pastiche of many elements creates something familiar, but creatively unique for the listener. À Rebours is a message from outer space, a Victorian Romance, a walk through 20's Berlin, a haunting, a dark rock epic, a Tesla experiment, and an overcast day all in one. The creative mind behind À Rebours is Ian Stone, a lifelong artist and musician. Having bounced from one band to another throughout the nineties, all populated with flaky musicians, aimless ideas and nonexistent goals, Ian struck out on his own in 2003 and formed À Rebours (French for "Against the Grain"). Signed to Final Joy Records out of Phoenix, AZ in 2006, À Rebours' debut album, "Vanish" was released in Sept. of 2007 and has received critical acclaim in both goth and rock circles for its mix of spooky, dreamlike ambience, progressive songwriting, creative lyrics and fresh guitar playing. Songs from Vanish have received airplay all over the world. Have you "Vanished" yet? À Rebours has recently joined forces with Ryan Holmes, an accomplished jazz/prog rock bassist. His techincal dexterity, musical training and tasteful technique has brought the music up to another level altogether. À Rebours simply MUST be seen live...hope to see you there! Don't ever miss a show in your area! Click HERE to see our up-to-date show schedule! Join our street team by clicking HERE. Check out some À Rebours swag at: You can also find À Rebours online at: Sounds Like: Signals from outer space, received by Victorian explorers, recorded on programme punch-cards for use on steam-driven musical engines in Vienna, stored in mahogany cases in a warehouse in France, then rediscovered over a century later by a modern-day goth band whereupon they were finally reinterpreted through a series of séances and absinthe-fueled band rehearsals. Influences: Musicians:Abney Park, Emilie Autumn, Bauhaus, Bella Morte, Bethany Curve, The Birthday Massacre, The Blackheart Procession, David Bowie, Nick Cave, Covenant, Clan of Xymox, The Crüxshadows, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Diabolique, Duran Duran, The Faint, Fates Warning, The Gathering, Gazpacho, Hednoize, Jean Michel Jarre, Johnny Hollow, Joy Division, Orgy, Queen, Queensrÿche, R.A.M., Rosetta Stone, The Sisters of Mercy, Slowdive, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Switchblade Symphony, Steve Vai, Voltaire, The Wake, Zeromancer, and anything else I've ever heard and liked.
Artists:Jean Béraud, Mahlon Blaine, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Edgar Degas, Tommy Genest, Edward Gorey, Edward Hopper, Victor Horta, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Albert Maignan, Edouard Manet, Vincent Marcone, Henri Matisse, Junko Mizuno, Alphonse Mucha, Jean-Francois Raffaëlli, Odilon Redon, Pierre-August Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent Van Gogh, Arthur Zaidenburg. Writers:Clive Barker, Charles Baudelaire, John Berger, Mahmoud Darwish, Robert Desnos, T.S. Eliot, Michel Foucault, William Gibson, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Jean Kilbourne, H.P. Lovecraft, Chuck Palahniuk, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, William Shakespeare, Kurt Vonnegut, Oscar Wilde. Homepage: http://www.maurautius.com Link 1: http://www.myspace.com/arebours Link 2: http://www.reverbnation.com/arebours Link 3: http://www.finaljoyrecords.com
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