Sara Goodman Video for Cooperate

Cooperate is taken from The Colour of Terrible Crystal, the new album from Alka and the third album release to come from Vince Clarke's VeryRecords label.

This video was created by glitch artist Sara Goodman and you can find out more about her work on her Instagram feed at instagram.com/sci_fi_mascara/.

 The Colour of Terrible Crystal is out now on limited-edition CD and via Digital Download.

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ALKA - Cooperate (Official Video) from VeryRecords on Vimeo.

Sara Goodman Video for We are Free Forms

proud to link an original Sara Goodman video creation for our track We Are Free Forms. crystal // worship. From the Vince Clarke VeryRecords release: The Colour of Terrible Crystal.

ALKA - We Are Free Forms (Official Video) from VeryRecords on Vimeo.

Oddtronica #29 NYE 2017 Special on Bloop radio London

2 hours of brand new and forthcoming Oddtronic releases from around the globe feat. guest selections via Coldcut.

Incl:

Bernhard Fleischmann, Deft, TYOMA, Crewdson, zillagramwiches, Pye Corner Audio, Boca 45 feat Mohawkestra, Joe Goddard, ZA'ED NA'ES زائد ناقص, Maii Waleed, Foram, Alka, Vince Clarke, Amandra, Sxriptures, Nabihah Iqbal, Detroit Swindle, On-U Sound Records, Bibio, Maya Jane Coles, Jordan Rakei, Tontario, ULTRAMAJIC, Jimmy Edgar, Four Tet, Esem, Aleksi Perala

videos from the terrible crystal

promo videos from the 'Terrible Crystal' release. All videos compiled by Vince Clarke, except 'Melancholy Lasts' by Nicole Antebi

Buy the full length album for these tracks at the purchase links to the right (top of page).

Thee Colour of Terrible Crystal

Our new album is released onto the unwitting world on this day, Friday the 13th in the Gregorian calendar cycle of 2017 years. Featuring loads of analog and digital synthesizers, additional programming from thee Vince Clarke (Depeche Mode, Yaz, Erasure), ethereal vocals, and a spectral array of emotions.

“… and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. They move through the firmament which is the colour of a ‘terrible crystal’, and around a throne like sapphire, on which sits Metatron, suffused in the radiance of the rainbow.” - Peter Lamborn Wilson, Angels (1980)/Ezekiel's Vision.

Preview snippets of the entire album:

Buy/Stream in full:

Limited Edition CD - www.veryrecords.com/shop

Amazon - tinyurl.com/y86dy883
Spotify - open.spotify.com/album/4pISgHM3kbrflag2397QAw
Google Play - tinyurl.com/y85prjut
Tidal - listen.tidal.com/album/77638041
YouTube - tinyurl.com/ybsahqtm
and other outlets of your choice.

The Colour of Terrible Crystal :: 13.10.17

New full-length release :: The Colour of Terrible Crystal

out Friday the 13th, October 2017 on Vince Clarke's VeryRecords

"Here you will find the same melodic sensibilities that coloured the two earlier Alka albums, but you’ll also hear the sound of a restless, mercurial musician unafraid of crashing together diffuse elements – faltering stop-start rhythms, glitches, drifting ambience, near-pop and crisp beats inflected with the boldness of early electro...

‘The Colour Of Terrible Crystal’ is an exercise in electronic eclecticism; dark and moody, at times broodingly cinematic, at times carrying subtle layers of delicate optimism alongside edgier, experimental moments. Few can make albums where so many apparently incompatible stylistic switches appear so coherent, or make music whose clashing juxtapositions continually reveal themselves with successive listens." - Mat Smith

“... and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. They move through the  firmament which is the colour of a ‘terrible crystal’, and around a throne like sapphire, on which sits Metatron, suffused in the radiance of the rainbow.” – Peter Lamborn Wilson