Another preview of The Brink (video)

December tour

In December we embark on a short European tour, starting in Liverpool just around the corner from where The Beatles first played and ending in Istanbul. There are more dates in-between to announce and confirm during the next week, but lets get the ball rolling with these for now.


Dec 8th - The Zanzibar, Liverpool - U.K.


more dates to be announced


Dec 16th - Party Centre 4km, Sofia - Bulgaria
Dec 17th - Old School Rock Bar, Istanbul - Turkey

The Brink album preview

Finally you can hear clips from the new Alternative 4 album 'The Brink' here. I'll have some December tourdates to post soon but for starters we will play The Zanzibar, Liverpool on the 8th December.

The brink of The Brink

I'm in TDA Studios - Lisbon, Portugal, finishing off the album mixes with engineer Paulo Basilio. Long days, late nights, and cabin fever have paid off and the album is sounding like it deserves to. Everything is bang on time for an October release. So ordering info and release date info will be posted as it comes in.
Cheers!


- Duncan Patterson

Alternative 4/MonumentuM split 7″ ep release

"Duncan Patterson’s new project band will unleash the song ‘False Light’ in late September, as a warm-up to their full length album ‘The Brink’, to be released one month after the EP.
Quoting Duncan’s description, “False Light is probably the heaviest thing I have written in the last decade, at least in its portant riff. It is actually about (music) media control paralleled with religious control, the sheeple and the victims of circumstance.”

It will be presented in a slightly different and edited mix than the album version will be.

Following up the release of the Shape of Despair/Before the Rain split 7″, Avantgarde Music will also release ‘False Light’ as an artists joint venture that will feature on Side B italian dark/doom pioneers MonumentuM, officially at their come back after a few years hiatus. MonumentuM’s contribution will be an interpretation of Pj Harvey’s dramatically beautiful ‘The River’ and will remain exclusive to this EP release, not to be included in their next coming album.

The 7″ will also be optionally offered in bundle with two exclusive (50 ex limited) T-shirts, one per each band and including a cd-listening copy too (mailorder orders only) for those who don’t own a turntable or the lazy owners"

Avantgarde Music

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Recording for 'The Brink' completed

We finally wrapped up the bulk of the recording for The Brink yesterday. There may be minor alterations prior to the mix but we have an album here all ready to level out and make sound even better. The last few weeks have been really productive down here in Melbourne, we've hardly left the studio (only really to eat and sleep). Mark really pushed himself vocally and worked his arse off on the engineering side of things, while I have been overlooking everything and getting the right combination of instruments and sounds playing the right parts in the right places. We're now going to take a well deserved break from it until I return to the studio in August to mix it with a clear head. As soon as we know a release date it'll be posted everywhere, along with preview clips building up to the release.

I've really enjoyed the process with this record, pure creation without any sense of competition or fear that its a bit 'outside the box' in parts from anyone involved. We've also been helped out by some decent people who are eager to see us have a bit of luck with this one. Lending us equipment and that, and an awful lot of folk who have simply showed goodwill, much appreciated like. Good vibes all round (for such a dark album). Looking forward to having the finished product ready for everyone interested.

All the best,

Duncan Patterson

Studio 3, Melbourne Australia

Take 2