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New releases: March 08, 2022

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    First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War Let us work together as mankind, for a free Ukraine, for a free Russia! __________________________________________________________ 12 new releases that are worth checking out. If available on Spotify, one track of the release will be added to the MangoRotation ( MR ) playlist for 14 days. Want to advertise on MangoWave? Send a request to rmangowave@gmail.com Isoscope - Ten Pieces  ( MR ) Album - 04/03/2022 Post Punk / Math Rock / Noise - Berlin, Germany Ten Pieces by isoscope Midnight Bullet - Hostile Resistance  ( MR ) Album - 04/03/2022 Heavy Metal Punk - Finland Hostile Resistance by Midnight Bullet MONO - Scarlet Holliday  ( MR ) EP - 04/03/2022 Post Rock / Ambient - Tokyo, Japan Scarlet Holliday by MONO Unru - Die Wiederkehr des Verdrängten  ( MR ) EP - 04/03/2022 Black Metal / Blackened Crust - Germany Die Wiederkehr des Verdrängten by UNRU Wicked Envy...

Album Review: Hotel California - Orange (2021)

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Picture Credit: Hotel California   Hotel California - Orange Release Date: June 04, 2021 Label: Timezone Records Format: CD / Digital Length: 35:45 Genre: Americana / Folk Origin: Hamburg , Germany In the new millenium's first decade, Daniel Bewernick-Green  toured the United States and Europe together with Carl Albrecht . It took until 2009 until the first album by Hotel California "The New Sound of Folk" was released. And the approach by which Hotel California rethink Folk and Americana is indeed a fresh and uncommon one, as we can still hear a dozen years later on the latest release "Orange". The creatuve process in which the album was born can be located between lockdowns and constant uncertainty about the future - it was the beginning of the coronacene. Thus, Hotel California have put a COVID track on "Orange"; but it is not a song about life with the virus, or about the new reality that was brought to us by the virus. On the contrary, it is a so...