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Whether you're a long-time fan or new to their music, experiencing Caliban's electrifying shows is an unforgettable experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"acts-of-love-songs-to-our-other-selves","title":"Acts of Love \/ Songs to Our Other Selves","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaliban Sounds in association with One Little Independent Records are delighted to present a 180g heavy weight double vinyl, in a gatefold sleeve; Penny Rimbaud’s \u003ci\u003eActs of Love\u003c\/i\u003e (1984) accompanied by Mikado Koko’s \u003ci\u003eSongs To Our Other Selves\u003c\/i\u003e (2022). It’s presented with the ‘Acts of Love’ 32-page booklet and ‘Songs To Our Other Selves’ insert. The latter available on vinyl for the first time, these collector’s items are limited to only 1000 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Having in 1977 co-founded the anarchist band Crass, by 1984 Rimbaud felt he needed to explain both the political and personal roots of what increasingly was being seen by press and public alike as the band’s “violent anger”.  However, in this respect Rimbaud had always concurred with Che Guevara who had stated that “the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love”. What better, then, than to return to \u003ci\u003eActs of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, to be presented this time as a 12” vinyl.  Rimbaud would compose the music to feature Eve Libertine on vocals and Paul Ellis on keyboards. Meanwhile, Vaucher set about creating a new set of illustrations to accompany the poems. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In 2021, avant-garde musician and artist, Mikado Koko, being a keen admirer of Libertine’s vocals, and having a great fondness for \u003ci\u003eActs of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, contacted Rimbaud with the idea of creating cut-ups of twenty tracks from the album to create a sister release entitled \u003ci\u003eSongs To Our Other Selves\u003c\/i\u003e. When finally he heard the result, he was overjoyed and the album was released in 2022 on Caliban Sounds. Sean Worrall wrote in The Organ, “Mikado Koko has taken Penny Rimbaud’s album ‘Acts of Love’, originally a fifty track album of short poems on love, and cut it up, deconstructed it, reconstructed it, pulled it apart and put it all back together (a lot more than just remixed it) to make a twenty track album of her own. ‘Songs To Our Other Selves’ is an entirely new album, that we’re told that, and rightly so, we should view as a continuation of the original. What we have here are bites, stabs, thrusts of Crass-like noise, art, the art of noise. It is hard-boiled, it is challenging, it might be madness or maybe maddening, the whole thing is glorious actually. 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With fans hungry for the Essen-borne quintet to record an album exclusively in German, the band simply said: “Why not?” and \u003ci\u003eZeitgeister\u003c\/i\u003e was born. 11 genre-defining LPs deep into their career, the band’s vision for the album came naturally – a career retrospective and deep-dive into Caliban favorites that haven’t had a live airing in some time. “It wasn’t an easy decision, but once we allowed us to make them as different from the originals as we felt it was needed it came fairly naturally”, explains guitarist and main songwriter Marc Görtz. Of course, some updating was necessary when it came to translating the songs to German. “It turned out to be surprisingly tricky,” says Dörner. “While I feel more at home with my native German it made it a lot more complicated, as I had more options to phrase something.” Formed in 1997, their legacy has been a tireless one, touring the globe and sharing stages with the likes of Slayer, Kreator, Killswitch Engage and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Century Media","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50474735108427,"sku":"1122038","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50474735305035,"sku":"1122037","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a1995b62-130b-4c11-913b-3c1444097d00_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727437667"},{"product_id":"back-from-hell-kk","title":"Back From Hell","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor over two decades, CALIBAN has stood as one of the defining forces in metalcore. 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