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Colin H. van Eeckhout Announces European Tour with Scott Kelly

Posted in Whathaveyou on December 10th, 2015 by JJ Koczan

As Amenra vocalist Colin H. van Eeckhout gears up for the Dec. 18 release of his solo debut, Rasa, on Consouling Sounds, the first tour dates have been announced in support of the album. Van Eeckhout will join his Neurot Recordings labelmate Scott Kelly (NeurosisCorrections House) for a European run set to begin Jan. 13 that will carry both players through the end of the month. No word on whether Kelly and van Eeckhout will collaborate on-stage in a similar fashion to Kelly‘s recent touring with his Corrections House bandmate Bruce Lamont (review here), but it’s easy enough to imagine they’ll get together for a song or two somewhere along the line, particularly if van Eeckhout has been brushing up on his Townes van Zandt.

The PR wire brings news of the tour and more:

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Amenra’s Colin H. van Eeckhout Announces European Tour With Neurosis’ Scott Kelly

Amenra’s vocalist Colin H. van Eeckhout has announced a string of dates in Europe with label mate and kindred spirit Scott Kelly from Neurosis.

The tour starts in mid-January and will see the Belgian musician presenting their solo project CVHE and the forthcoming debut album “Rasa” live to more than twenty cities across Europe. The complete tour dates can be found below.

“Rasa” will be released on December 18th on CD & LP through Consouling Sounds, pre-orders are available at this location.

CHVE started to build his album out of an empty void. He built layer upon layer, and rebuilt and reconstructed to complete his universe called RASA. The album ended up somewhere between folk, drone and ritual. But above all, the album is a conquest, a meditation and it offers an inward journey, between grief and tears.

AMENRA shall be performing twice at the 2016 edition of the renowned Roadburn Festival, playing an acoustic set, with an expanded band of musicians, immediately before Neurosis on the Saturday, and again will take to the main stage on Sunday night to play an electric set. The performances at Roadburn are currently the only planned live outings for AMENRA in 2016, as they intend to dedicate much of the year to simultaneously writing both a second acoustic offering – this time a full-length release – and the follow up to latest album, Mass V.

CHVE European tour dates with Scott Kelly:
13.01. NL-Leiden, Gebroeders de Nobel
14.01. BE-Antwerp, Het Bos
15.01. NL-Tilburg, Pauluskerk
16.01. BE-Aalst, Netwerk w/ Tine Guns
17.01. BE-Arlon, l’Entrepot
18.01. GER-Karlsruhe, Jubez
19.01. GER-Berlin, Grüner Salon
20.01. CZ-Prague, Klub V. Kolona
21.01. GER-Leipzig, UT Connewitz
22.01. AT-Vienna, Arena
23.01. AT-Bregenz, Between
24.01. CH-Fribourg, Nouveau Monde
25.01. IT-Torino, Spazio 211
26.01. CH-Olten, Coq d’Or
27.01. CH-Geneva, L’Usine
28.01. FR-Lille, La Peniche
29.01. FR-Bordeaux, Iboat
30.01. FR-Cannes, MJC Picaud
31.01. IT-Milano, Lo Fi Club
1.02. CH-Zurich, Dynamo

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Colin H. Van Eeckhout of Amenra Releasing Solo Album Rasa Next Month

Posted in Whathaveyou on November 19th, 2015 by JJ Koczan

colin-h.-van-eeckhout-(Photo-by-Stefaan-Temmerman)

Just going by what I can tell from “Rasa,” the video for which is posted below, it seems like the upcoming solo debut of the same name from Amenra vocalist Colin H. van Eeckhout is perhaps a bit more textured than one generally thinks of in the guy-and-guitar context of solo albums. This works to the benefit of “Rasa” itself, though I wouldn’t bet on the title-cut to speak for the entirety of Rasa itself, which is likely varied in its approach. It’ll be an interesting one to hear when it hits via Consouling Sounds on Dec. 18 — just in time for the holidays! — and as noted below, Amenra will play Roadburn 2016 twice, once acoustic and once electric.

Maybe a solo performance gets added as well? Who said you could only have one artist-in-residence?

The PR wire has album details:

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AMENRA’s Colin H. van Eeckhout to release debut solo album, RASA, on December 18th; Pre-orders now available

Colin H. van Eeckhout is best known when he is surrounded by kindred his spirits AMENRA, but now he steps into the limelight on his own. This first solo album, RASA, was preluded by a split 7” he released together with Nate Hall. In the meantime however, CHVE crafted his music and transformed it into a whole unique entity, now solely using a hurdy gurdy and his voice as instruments to dig deep within his own self.

This is CHVE at his most vulnerable. Just a man, his thoughts, scars and memories, with his voice and his instrument. The album is magnificently produced by Dehn Sora (Treha Sektori, Sembler Deah), and brings long soundscapes capturing in ambient and droning sounds, what lies beyond what can be grasped by words.

CHVE started to build his album out of an empty void. He built layer upon layer, and rebuilt and reconstructed to complete his universe called RASA. The album ended up somewhere between folk, drone and ritual. But above all, the album is a conquest, a meditation and it offers an inward journey, between grief and tears.

AMENRA shall be performing twice at the 2016 edition of the renowned Roadburn Festival, playing an acoustic set, with an expanded band of musicians, immediately before Neurosis on the Saturday, and again will take to the main stage on Sunday night to play an electric set. The performances at Roadburn are currently the only planned live outings for AMENRA in 2016, as they intend to dedicate much of the year to simultaneously writing both a second acoustic offering – this time a full-length release – and the follow up to latest album, Mass V.

CHVE’S debut solo album, RASA, will see light on December 18th via Consouling Sounds, where you can pre-order on both CD and LP formats. The album release show will take place on 13th December at the AB Club, with Innerwoud as support. There will be more CHVE live shows in the new year as support of Scott Kelly during his EU winter tour.

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http://www.churchofra.com
http://www.ritualofra.com
http://www.facebook.com/churchofra
http://consouling.be/
http://www.neurotrecordings.com
http://www.facebook.com/neurotrecordings

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