 À Rebours's Profile |
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If E.A. Poe had a rock band...this would be it. |
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| Location: | Elmira, New York |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Aug 6, 2008 (508 days back) |
About Me |
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À Rebours (pronounced AH reu BOOR) is French for "against the grain." À Rebours' debut album is available NOW
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!
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My Interests |
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Music:Member Since: 2/28/2005Band Website: maurautius.com Band Members:
Influences: Musicians:Abney Park, Bauhaus, Bethany Curve, The Birthday Massacre, The Blackheart Procession, David Bowie, Nick Cave, Frédéric Chopin, Covenant, Clan of Xymox, The Crüxshadows, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Diabolique, Dream Theater, Duran Duran, The Faint, Fates Warning, The Gathering, Gazpacho, Hednoize, Jean Michel Jarre, Johnny Hollow, Joy Division, Orgy, Psykosonik, Queen, Queensrÿche, R.A.M., Rosetta Stone, The Sisters of Mercy, Slowdive, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Switchblade Symphony, Steve Vai, Voltaire, The Wake, and anything else I've ever heard and liked.Artists:Banksy, 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.
Sounds Like: Phantoms from the æther haunting Nikola Tesla's workshop, whereupon their EVP were captured on phonograph cylinders that turned up over a century later in a trunk in the back of an opium den, discovered therein by a goth rock band who just happened to own a machine of alien design that played, of all things, those cylinders. Record Label: Final Joy Records www.finaljoyrecords.com Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Gothic / Rock / Shoegaze) |
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My Blog |
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Interview at Gearwire.com |
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| GEARWIRE.COM just published an interview with Ian about À Rebours' instruments and live set-up. For those of you that have asked (or have at least wondered) about how we create our sonic haunting... Posted by À Rebours on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:51:00 PST |
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What’s up, Duck? |
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| HELLO! We've been comparitively quiet of late, but it hasn't been for a lack of activity! Here's the latest scoop in a nutshell:
SHOWS! I've been working hard to book some shows this Summer and Fall. ... Posted by À Rebours on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:49:00 PST |
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À Rebours on Crawling Tunes Compilation |
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| Guten Tag, boys and girls!
À Rebours is featured on the compilation CD included with the current issue of Crawling Tunes, a fantastic goth/deathrock/darkwave/industrial/shoegaze magazine out... Posted by À Rebours on Wed, 07 May 2008 04:53:00 PST |
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Dark Realms review and digital love |
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| The preeminent US magazine for all things gothy, gloomy and decadent, Dark Realms, has published a stellar review of VANISHsandwiched somewhat appropriately right in between HIM and Joy Division, I m... Posted by À Rebours on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:15:00 PST |
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Grave Concerns reviews VANISH |
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| DJ Du Nord has graciously reviewed "VANISH" for "Grave Concerns" EZine. Check it out ladies and gents:
À Rebours- VanishGrave Concerns Ezine- Goth & Industrial Music News, Reviews , Interviews, Ra... Posted by À Rebours on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:01:00 PST |
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Mick Mercer reviews "VANISH" |
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| Mick Mercer, the Grand Poobah of all things goth music has reviewed--and liked--the album. Read it here:
http://mickmercer.livejournal.com/754916.html
Thank you Mr. Mercer!!... Posted by À Rebours on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:29:00 PST |
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DJ Deathwish reviews "VANISH" |
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| DJ Deathwish, venerable music-meister in Tucson has written a stellar review of "VANISH." Check it out:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&f
riendID=61713430&blogID=3201892... Posted by À Rebours on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:56:00 PST |
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À Rebours on the RADIO |
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| Hallo!! Several fine and wonderful radio stations, both over the airwaves and through the internet, have kindly added À Rebours to their playlists. Please be sure to visit/tune to the following and te... Posted by À Rebours on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:08:00 PST |
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Live Band Members Wanted! |
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| Live Band Members Wanted!
I am in the process of putting together a band for live support. I am looking for a keyboard player and a drummer to learn the songs and help me perform them.
Keyboards:
Lu... Posted by À Rebours on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:09:00 PST |
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The Accented À: HOW TO DO IT! |
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| Hello friends!
Thanks to all of you who have been so kind as to post things about the music, either as a comment on my profile or as a generous nod on your own profiles. Although, I feel I need to cle... Posted by À Rebours on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:33:00 PST |
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