Nikki Louder & Cynicism Management & Mothermound

Nikki Louder & Cynicism Management & Mothermound, Mostovna, Nova Gorica. 23 March 2012 @ 21:00

Holy crap - Tits for free!

We've decided to release our first album, Tit, on Jamendo, where you can download it absolutely free! It's in the 192kbps mp3 format. Feel free to drop a review at Jamendo while you're at it.

 

However, in the miraculous and highly unlikely case that you'd like to support the band financially, you can still grab a lossless .flac or high-quality 320kbps mp3 package complete with full-color graphics (1000px jpgs, 16-page booklet, inlay and CD design) at our bandcamp page, or you could even look for a release by AMAdea Music in your favourite digital store.

Enjoy!

Royalty Free Music - Stock Music Library | Jamendo PRO

A three-part update

Ouch, haven't posted anything here for a while... Been busy. I mean it, I'm not just making up excuses - had to work a lot (I actually have a day job that pays the bills and funds the arty farty stuff), rehearse with the bands, kill a bunch dragons in Skyrim, and dig a heap o' mines in Minecraft... You know how it goes. And, woe is me, I intend to become a sith inquisitor in February, when I'm back from a little vacation I have planned. Hope we don't make it big until then, so I have the time to hit level 17 in about a month (considering the pace I'm usually able to play computer games at :))

Anyway, here's a bit of an update on stuff related to Cynicism Management.

1) GIG - METELKOVA, Ljubljana

The first gig with the new sound engineer, so no problems in that area this time. All in all it was great, although in terms of numbers the audience was rather... erm, less than considerable :) Unfortunately we played quite early and there was another concert next door. The gig got a very cool review in Profanity webzine, though.

A couple o' pics:

More pics over here.

2) GIG - FIGA ROCK BAR, Koper

A video says a thousand words:

The concert was recorded with a Zoom H2n in mid-side mode, and later processed a bit. So nothing fancy, but quite bearable.

Head to YouTube for three more videos (Four-Circle Penile Substitute, Another Place Another Time and Tit). A bunch of pics are over here.

3) EPIC TALES OF CYNICISM MANAGEMENT

Finally found a native speaker willing to read the Epic Tales of Cynicism Management novel and give feedback. A writer, at that. Hope he doesn't hate it :D

Dead Dildo Drome & Cynicism Management @ Figa rock bar, Koper

A FREE CONCERT: Dead Dildo Drome & Cynicism Management, Figa rock bar, Koper (Šalara). 16 December 2011 @ 22:00

DEAD DILDO DROME

(hardcore/metal)

CYNICISM MANAGEMENT

(progressive rock)

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Holy fuck! A free concert!

Yay, a free concert! Voluntary contributions accepted. Klub Gromka - AKC Metelkova - Ljubljana, 28 November at 21:00.

THE NEBULAE ENSEMBLE

(rock/fusion/blues)

+

CYNICISM MANAGEMENT

(progressive rock/experimental)

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Gig: Bellevue, Pohorje

The expedition to the summit of the Pohorje hill was highly entertaining. Listened to Ian Dury and the Blockheads all the way up there. Yep, 'twas a bit cold at the top, especially relatively speaking – since most of us are used to the far more pleasant climates of the coastal area, and as far as I know not a single soul among us is into mountaineering much. The concert went fine. The guys and gal got courteously drunk. I drove. Bummer.

RPP 2011

On 12 November we're attending the release of the Rockers Sing the Poets 2011 compilation (Rokerji pojejo pesnike) with a bunch of other bands. We'll play an acoustic version (huh?! :)) of the following track, recorded especially for this compilation... Lyrics by Ervin Fritz:

Opus 0 by Cynicism Management

Gig: Orto bar, Ljubljana

The gig in Orto bar, Ljubljana, on 21 October 2011, would have been great, if our sound guy didn't arrive two hours late, and a total nervous wreck at that. Hell, we don't blame him or anything. He'd had a terrible day, he said.

Well, what can you do - consequently the sound sucked donkey balls, of course (especially the vocals were nowhere to be heard). The drums were supposedly very loud but sounded very good, probably because the Orto bar's "resident" sound engineer did a good job taking care of that (thanks a heap, Boban!) while our own sound guy was still busy being horrendously late. OK, so some people thought drums were far too loud. Ah, well, can't please 'em all...

Fortunately we all use in-ear monitoring, so we'd been blissfully unaware of the technical problems for a while. However, once we found out that the sound below the stage was quite bad, we couldn't help but showing that on our faces, and the problem was probably also hinted at by our slightly annoyed demeanour. So, yeah, after the concert some people thought we'd had a bit of a "negative" attitude: well, I say, a good ole "screw you guys" to you – you haven't seen anything yet. I think we were even far too laid-back, nice and polite – not nearly negative enough!

Furthermore, I'd also like to send a firm "fuck off" to all the people who thought my drumming was too loud – fucking hell, how am I supposed to turn the volume down on the acoustic drums and cymbals?! What the hell, you pensioners want to enjoy some kind of a pleasantly unobtrusive lounge music easy jazz progressive rock metal, while chatting with your pals and sipping on cocktails? How the hell does that compute? Besides, once again: I'm not the fucking sound guy, so I can't change the fucking volumes, especially not while playing! I apologise profusely for not also taking care of the sound below the stage while sweating my ass off pounding on the drums!

Tit - the digital release

Our debut album Tit has trickled into digital stores all over the Net, including Amazon, iTunes, 7digital, etc. Digital distribution has been taken care of by AMAdea Music.

OK, cool, now all we have to figure out is which tropical tax haven we'll use to optimise our tax burden after all these heaps o' cash start rolling in :))

New guitarist... again :)

Looks like we haven't been very fortunate with our guitarists... After Jan Urbanc got pregnant last year and was replaced by Enej Demirović, we can now also confirm that our (now already former) guitarist-in-chief Aljaž Tulimirović has retired from plucking strings and soloing over rather unorthodox odd-time chord progressions. He wishes to focus on his highly complex (as well as incredibly complicated) personal life, and we will, by no means, attempt to stand in the way of such a thing :)

However, we're very happy to report we won't even postpone any of the gigs already announced, since, fortunately, the work with our new lead guitarist Andrej Babič is already well underway. So it looks like we're still playing in Ljubljana (Orto bar) on 21 October and in Koper (MKSC) on 5 November.

We certainly hope we have a solid team now, as constant crew changes tend to put a dent in the unbridled optimism we're so famous for... :D