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Stray Dogs’ ‘Wasteland’ is the fourth release for the Ghent-based partnership between Icarus Records & Vynilla Vinyl. The album will be available from September 16th 2013, and the band will present the album on the same date at the Icarus Night @ DOK Ghent, with Greg Haines, Poppy Ackroyd and Sankt Otten completing the line up.



Icarus Records is a platform for music that defies musical boundaries. ‘Wasteland’ is the label’s fourth release, following Echo Beatty’s highly acclaimed debut album ‘Tidal Motions’ and Record Store Day 2013 single ‘Dirty Beaches-Ravel Ravel’ and Ecila’s full album ‘The Sofa Managements’. Once again Icarus Records releases the album in cooperation with Vynilla Vinyl, the label of Ghent-based record store Vynilla Records.



Stray Dogs

Stray Dogs aka Koenraad Ecker (cello, guitar, electronics) and Frederik Meulyzer (percussion, electronics) have been on an exciting musical journey ever since their debut album ‘Intangible States’ (2010). Balancing between electronica, dub and experimental music, they’ve constructed their own sound universe, in which attention for detail and texture is combined with a physical intensity that you not only need to hear but feel as well. Stray Dogs take you along on a menacing post-apocalyptic trip through a disintegrating no man’s land.



‘Wasteland’

‘Wasteland’ was recorded in a desacralised church in Antwerp (Belgium), making it more strippeddown, industrial and ritualistic than ‘Intangible States’. The acoustics of this space were exploited to a maximum, after which all elements were merged in the recording studio. Percussion, cello, guitars and analogue hardware lead to a sonic result situated at the crossroads of ritual drums, dubby reverberating echoes and disintegrating orchestras. ‘Wasteland’ will be released on a limited edition of 250 vinyl copies.Later on in 2013 other work by members of Stray Dogs (also involved in Lumisokea) will be released on the Digitalis, Opal Tapes and Eat Concrete labels.