New Urban Gothic review by European Industrial and Gothic culture magazine LD-50:
"I definitely had to throw my preconceptions away when dealing with the material of Weep, O' Mine Eyes. The keywords of New Urban Gothic (which appears as the title of this seven-track album) automatically evoked something electronic, moody and introspective [the kissing couple statue on the cover deepened this pre-first impression even more].
"Nah, I don't believe this is gonna be some oldschool Cyberaktif-like EBM"., then later, "Uh, dark noisy synth-pop in the vein of Benestrophe?", and a minute later, "Wait, did I feel a bit of Front 242 there?".
And that's just the first track. The moody, gothic feeling evades the later part of the album with occasional pumping and heaving of beats, tracks Where be Now?, From Here I Stand and iami are showing some decent 4/4 beat structure to shake your tentacles to. Still, extra kudos go to Michael Welcker for the pro ordering of the tracks.
Deep, rumbling synth layers absorb pounding beats, spiced with extra percussive noise samples, a great mixture of Raison d'Etre and Zen Paradox, tuned to a late-night black-and-white documentary TV channel with hi-speed amok run courses through crowded streets of European megalopoli. Sort of in the vein of older Front 242 video clips. All in all, definitely something you would want to invest your money in. Highly innovative, highly visionary, highly urban. "
Review by Da Mage at LD-50
music from...a plastique environ has been reviewed by the European Industrial and Gothic culture magazine LD50.
"Michael Weicker's solo project shakes the ground with his second album, Music from.. a Plastique Environ...A masterpiece amongst albums"
Read the entire review here:
"Music from...a plastique environ" features a tribute to the late Industrial music pioneer Robert Rental who passed away from cancer in London in 2000.
Entitled "Remembering Robert Rental" this song is a rendition of a portion of the live album "Robert Rental & The Normal: LP, "Live at West Runton Pavillion 6.3.79", Rough Trade, 1980 (ROUGH 17) " recorded with Daniel Miller.
This tribute is presented with the kind permission of Daniel Miller of Mute Records.
Weep, O' Mine Eyes has had music featured on the Canadian national arts television show ZED . Background music was featured for a Halifax Gothic nightclub.
A new project has been undertaken with Richard Reynolds for a new Wings+Heaven cd . Wings+Heaven is a collaboration between Richard of broken paws and Michael weicker of Weep, O' Mine Eyes
Past music from Wings +Heaven can be found here:
Weep, O' Mine Eyes CD "music from...a plastique environ" was reviewed by Future Music Magazine in March 2004. "Weep O' Mine Eyes Embodiment of Fiction is hypnotic progressive techno and is definately a break away from the norm of the genre."
Weep, O' Mine Eyes has released a new CD entitled " Hymns for Chill". This CD focuses on prayers from around the world set amidst vivid downtempo electronic soundscapes.
Now available on CD Baby and itunes
Released in February 2015, "The Feminin" explores the power of the female spirit
