Camella Lobo‘s solo project Tropic of Cancer returns to the Blackest Ever Black label to release her debut LP Restless Idylls on September 23rd. Lobo creates haunted Bleak Wave using layers of synth, guitar, and narcotic vocals for a music that is at once absorbing and impenetrable.
The LA-based artist began the project in 2009 collaborating with Juan Mendez (Silent Servant). Since then, Tropic of Cancer has gone on to release the The Dull Age/Victims 10″ single on Downwards, as well as Be Brave for the label, which was remixed by Cabaret Voltaire’s Richard H. Kirk. Tropic of Cancer’s follow-up 3-song EP, The Sorrow Of Two Blooms, was Blackest Ever Black’s third release, and since then ToC has put out a series of 12″‘s on Mannequin, Sleeperhold Publications and Ghostly International, as well as the limited edition compilation, The End Of All Things on Downwards.
Lobo has written and performed all the tracks on the up-coming LP Restless Idylls, and it was produced by Karl O’Connor (Regis/Downwards). The above version of “More Alone” is a remix of the track that will appear on the album. Look for the cut to come out this August as a single-sided 7″, as well as a limited edition re-press of The Sorrow Of Two Blooms on clear vinyl!
Tropic of Cancer will tour Europe with Dva Damas’s Taylor Burch on guitar. Here are the dates…
19.09 Boiler Room London
20.09 Fuzz club Athens
21.09 Berns Stockholm
24.09 Urban Spree Berlin
25.09 UT Connewitz Leipzig
26.09 Tsunami Club Cologne
27.09 Catclub Brussels
28.09 Trouw Amsterdam (without Dva Damas)
29.09 Merleyn club Njimegen
01.10 Rhiz Vienna
03.10 Stereo live Torino
04.10 RoBOt Festival Bologna (without Dva Damas)
05.10 Milan TBA
06.10 Teatro Lo Spazio Rome
07.10 Pulse Padua
08.10 La Machine du Mouline Rouge Paris
10.10 Moog Barcelona
11.10 Siroco Madrid
12.10 Blackest Ever Black at Corsica Studios London
13.10 Unsound Festival Krakow (without Dva Damas)
