Dark Grave

The Paranoid Foundation can now be found in the band directory at www.darkgrave.com - the gothic music ezine. Of course, we would hardly consider ourselves as goths or a part of any definitive scene for that matter. However, that said, we certainly do have a certain attraction to the darker side of life/music/art...

August Podcast

Since i'm going to be away for much of the summer, August comes early for Paranoid fans. The August podcast is now online and can be found in the usual places i.e. in iTunes or by clicking HERE.

It's another exclusive piece... this time a 25-minute instrumental outtake from the Paranoid 404 'Anew Design' sessions back in 2007. This project saw Cris experiment with minimal synth and electronic textures and the podcast features a brooding trip into his distinctive haunted audio atmospherics.

The August podcast is the 11th of the series. This is the penultimate edition for the time being... expect another great episode in September and then a little more infrequently from then onwards. However we are keeping ourselves very busy in other areas... expect to hear more about our ongoing activities very soon!

No Pigeonholes>European Edition

More airplay for the Paranoid Entity CD! This time Don Campau will be playing the track 'Don't Tell' on his eclectic radio show 'No Pigeonholes' on Radio Marabu, Germany, via European FM, Shortwave and Internet broadcast. www.radiomarabu.de

You can find out more about Don Campau and his radio shows and the various projects that he is involved with HERE

Don has been playing the best in independent and experimental music since the 80's, so it's certainly worth checking out his broadcasts.

Recession Era

It's podcast time, and for the month of July, we have another of my solo pieces. This one is entitled 'Recession Era' and the concept is to portray the mood of the current economic downturn and its social consequences via a 30 minute audio piece. Like the rest of the series, you can download it/listen for free.

To create the music, I used only a selection of instruments and audio devices that were lying unused around my home. Most of them were budget, lo-fi instruments chosen to give the desired gritty sound I was looking for. They included... electric guitar, harmonium, viola, theremin, drum machine and buddha machine. The piece was created and mixed in a single session and is thus full of glitches, errors and suchlike that I feel give character and are in keeping with the general theme of recession and the need for audio thriftyness!

See what you think by listening... HERE.

You can also subscribe to the series in iTunes - just search for Paranoid Podcast in the iTunes store.

On the airwaves

The first radio play for the Paranoid Entity disc is happening, courtesy of two of our favourite shows...

Firstly the excellent 'Le Vestibule' show hosted by Jean-Francois Fecteau on CFOU 89,1 FM, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada has already played the second track from the album, 'Don't Tell'. Even if you missed this show, you can listen again and will find the archives HERE

Secondly, another of our favourite broadcasters, Gordon Taylor will be playing material from the disc for the first time on his Infectious Unease show, tomorrow 23rd June. The show is on from 11pm–1am Tuesdays on 96.5 Inner FM Melbourne, Australia (Eastern Standard Daylight saving time). For more information on this show, click HERE

We hope you manage to tune in and enjoy what you hear, both shows are an excellent resource for the best in dark alternative music and we highly recommend that you check them out...

New Review

...this time for the Paranoid Entity disc. The first review (that we know about) to roll in for the 4Closure release.

It comes courtesy of Frans de Waard at the Dutch Vital Weekly web/e-mail magazine. Frans has never been our greatest fan, but we are our course grateful that he takes the time to review our material.

CLICK HERE to see the review (scroll down and find the piece towards the end of the page).

Here's hoping he'll like the next one better!

Psychotropic Zone Review

We have had a late review for our last Paranoid Foundation album 'Life Death Indifference' roll in from the excellent Psychotropic Zone. This Finnish ezine run by Santtu Laakso predominantly covers the best in psychedelic music so we are honoured that he gave our disc a listen since it somewhat falls between the cracks of many genres. Anyhow, the review is a good one, and you can find it HERE

If that whets your appetite and you'd like to hear more then the disc can be found for sale on CDBaby (along with several of our other releases HERE or just search for Paranoid Foundation on iTunes if downloads are more your thing!

More links to reviews of our material coming up soon...