Black Fortress of Opium
by Black Fortress of Opium
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Digital Album
Immediate download of 10-track album in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.Buy Now $10 USD
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CD
Original copies of debut album, featuring original artwork by Paola Savarino, Thom Martin, and Derek Kouyoumjian. Only a few remaining!
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T shirt
Ladies' t-shirts with original design by Thom Martin; screened by Dave Tree of House of Ill. Sorry fellas, but we ran out of men's. We only have a handful left, so order now! All shirts are red ink on black material. B&W pic shows design detail only.
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House of Edward Devotion
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Black Rope Burns
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Ari
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Crack + Pool
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Twelve Gross
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Your Past
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Model Cafe
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Crack + Pool [reprise]
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From a Woman to a Man
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Dulcet TV
09:44
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about
New album "Stratospherical" for release March 6th, 2012!!!
Black Fortress of Opium's 2008 self-titled debut was produced and recorded in NYC by Martin Bisi (The Dresden Dolls, Sonic Youth, Live Skull, Lydia Lunch, CopShootCop, Foetus, John Zorn, Brian Eno, Bill Laswell, and more).
"Black Fortress of Opium are a brawling, dark monster of a band that seems like it should be playing shows with, say, Nicki Jaine or the Dresden Dolls rather than Gogol Bordello." – Ned Raggett, All Music Guide
"Treading a darker almost gothic path, probably through a Victorian cemetery at dusk, Black Fortress of Opium, are moody and magnificent on their self-titled album...a beautiful collection of brooding and melancholy songs" - Terrascope UK
"Intensity and dark regality… dominant feelings of haunting, other-worldliness and mystique…Black Fortress of Opium truly makes you believe that you just may be listening to something highly monumental." – Northeast Performer Magazine
"You needn't be a visitor to a drug den to be carried far, far away by this album's potent blend...a truly interesting new band…coming through loud and clear on this amazing debut, and if its exotic stylings were any stronger, they might induce hallucinations...or at least permanent rejection of conformity" – Playback STL
Black Fortress of Opium's 2008 self-titled debut was produced and recorded in NYC by Martin Bisi (The Dresden Dolls, Sonic Youth, Live Skull, Lydia Lunch, CopShootCop, Foetus, John Zorn, Brian Eno, Bill Laswell, and more).
"Black Fortress of Opium are a brawling, dark monster of a band that seems like it should be playing shows with, say, Nicki Jaine or the Dresden Dolls rather than Gogol Bordello." – Ned Raggett, All Music Guide
"Treading a darker almost gothic path, probably through a Victorian cemetery at dusk, Black Fortress of Opium, are moody and magnificent on their self-titled album...a beautiful collection of brooding and melancholy songs" - Terrascope UK
"Intensity and dark regality… dominant feelings of haunting, other-worldliness and mystique…Black Fortress of Opium truly makes you believe that you just may be listening to something highly monumental." – Northeast Performer Magazine
"You needn't be a visitor to a drug den to be carried far, far away by this album's potent blend...a truly interesting new band…coming through loud and clear on this amazing debut, and if its exotic stylings were any stronger, they might induce hallucinations...or at least permanent rejection of conformity" – Playback STL
credits
released 18 March 2008
Ajda the Turkish Queen: vocals, mandolin, tenor banjo, acoustic/classical guitars, percussion, flute, keyboards, melodica, field recordings
Tony Savarino: electric guitars, electric sitar, theremin, percussion
Joel Simches, bass, backing vocals, percussion, keyboards
Joe Turner: drums
Recorded on 2" tape February-July 2007
Produced, engineered, & mixed by Martin Bisi at BC Studios, Brooklyn
Mastered by Fred Kevorkian at Absolute Audio, NYC
Cover painting: "Black Fortress of Opium" © 2007 Paola Savarino
Cover photo: Carolyn Corella
Graphic design: Thom Martin
All songs © 2008 Black Fortress of Opium (ASCAP)
Ajda the Turkish Queen: vocals, mandolin, tenor banjo, acoustic/classical guitars, percussion, flute, keyboards, melodica, field recordings
Tony Savarino: electric guitars, electric sitar, theremin, percussion
Joel Simches, bass, backing vocals, percussion, keyboards
Joe Turner: drums
Recorded on 2" tape February-July 2007
Produced, engineered, & mixed by Martin Bisi at BC Studios, Brooklyn
Mastered by Fred Kevorkian at Absolute Audio, NYC
Cover painting: "Black Fortress of Opium" © 2007 Paola Savarino
Cover photo: Carolyn Corella
Graphic design: Thom Martin
All songs © 2008 Black Fortress of Opium (ASCAP)
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Currently working on a new EP!!! With a name inspired by the English translation of the name of a little town in Turkey –Afyonkarahisar- and the mysterious lore surrounding the locale, Ajda the Turkish Queen, a half-Turkish Texan transplant, hometown guitar hero Tony Savarino, and their band have found Boston to be fertile ground for a unique brand of music they call gothicana since 2006. ... more
discography
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Mar 2012 -
Mar 2008
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