02. Heavy Rainfall (Mark Reeder’s Dripping Wet Remix)
03. Heavy Rainfall (Extended Weather Front Mix)
Press Info:
Heavy Rainfall is the outstanding third outtake from the highly acclaimed Children of Nature album on MFS, by Alanas Chosnau & Mark Reeder, and although the title suggests otherwise, this song is not only about the environment, or any other form of natural weather condition.
Yet, it is about the climate – the political climate.
Heavy Rainfall delivers a message of hope.
For no matter how dark it gets, if we don’t give up, we will survive.
Alanas Chosnau grew up in the Soviet Union, so he knows how his life could have turned out if the Communist regime had not collapsed.
He would never have been able to live his dream to be a singer.
Mark Reeder has lived in walled-in Berlin since the late 70s, and has had first-hand experience with the mind-controlling East German authorities.
Heavy Rainfall is about the unfortunate re-emergence of totalitarian regimes and how they can easily creep upon you and change your life, in an instant.
It’s about how they can use uncertainty to gain strengthened social control over the minds of the population, so it is also about how your thoughts are manipulated.
It’s about how your attention is diverted by trivia.
It’s about how unsustainable humanity is today.
It is an echo and a mirror of ourselves.
It’s a storm warning – and yet the message is positive.
That no matter how much Heavy Rainfall we get, we just have to wait and ride out the storm.
02. Children Of Nature (Mark Reeder’s Dance Non-Stop Mix)
03. Children Of Nature (Mark Reeder’s FKK Remix)
Press Info:
After the impressive response to their lockdown love song All Alone Mark Reeder and Alanas Chosnau follow up with their second outtake, the title track from their album, Children of Nature.
This song highlights the challenges the coming generations will face in the not too distant future. It warns of ruthless, totalitarian regimes, Police brutality, climate change and the possibility of a dystopian future, if we don’t react now. The cover of both the album, and single shows the accusational look of a post nuclear child. Is that the future we want to leave to the next generation?
Alanas was born to a Lithuanian mother and Iraqi-Kurdish father and grew up in Baghdad. He returned to Lithuania in the 80s to be raised by his grandparents. He grew up in the Soviet Union, but thankfully, the fall of communism saved him from a life in the factories and he became the singer of what would become the most successful Lithuanian pop group of the 90s, Naktinės Personos, after which, he embarked upon a solo career in 2001. Alanas meanwhile has achieved huge popularity and has become the most successful artist in Lithuania.
Mark Reeder first met Alanas at a film festival, and they decided to work together. Over the past few months, Mark and Alanas have crafted together an album of retro-modern sounding love songs, which almost feel prophetic when the current Coronacrisis is considered.
“We had no idea what was to come, but it seems we touched on a frequency from the future and the song appears to have been derived from a deep, inner-feeling we both had at the time” said Alanas.
Children of Nature, a song dedicated to all Children of Nature, everywhere.
Children of Nature was produced by Mark Reeder and Micha Adam in Berlin, and is released on MFS. It is digitally distributed Worldwide by Believe Digital and is available on all digital and streaming platforms.
B1. Why We Chose To Die In Berlin (Mark Reeder’s Dying To Be Dancing Mix)
B2. Turn Black (Mark Reeder’s Back To Black Mix)
C1. Frozen Song
C2. Copy Shop (Mark Reeder’s Copycat Mix)
C3. Vampire Lovers
D1. The Loop Sin
D2. From The Future
Tracklist CD Japan: 01. Chaos
02. Neutral Life
03. Why We Chose To Die In Berlin (Mark Reeder’s Dying To Be Dancing Mix)
04. Enter The Gap
05. Copy Shop (Mark Reeder’s Copycat Mix)
06. Vampire lovers
07. Frozen Song
08. Turn Black (Mark Reeder’s Back To Black Mix)
09. From The Future
10. The Loop Sin
11. Chaos (Takkyu Ishino’s Denki an Dis Remix)
12. Chaos (A-Bee’s Tokyo FAQTORY Remix)
13. Chaos (Mark Reeder’s Downtown in Chinatown Remix)
Press Info:
Fragment is the new album by STOLEN. It is a mystical ride through Oriental time and space. Seriously psychedelic sci-fi themes are wrapped around post-punk rock, while the energetic, driving techno club sounds will keep you on your dancing feet. It will absorb you.
04. Alanas Chosnau & Mark Reeder Children Of nature
05. Alanas Chosnau & Mark Reeder Drowning In You
06. Alanas Chosnau & Mark Reeder Stand Up
07. Alanas Chosnau & Mark Reeder Tonight
08. Alanas Chosnau & Shark Vegas I Can’t Share This Feeling
09. Alanas Chosnau & Mark Reeder It’s who you are
10. Alanas Chosnau & Mark Reeder Love Of My Life
11. Alanas Chosnau & Mark Reeder Heavy Rainfall
12. Alanas Chosnau & Mark Reeder Losing My Mind
13. Alanas Chosnau & Mark Reeder A Loving Touch
14. Alanas Chosnau & Mark Reeder Heartburn
Press Info:
Mark Reeder first met Alanas Chosnau at the Lithuanian International Film festival in 2015, where Mark was screening his documentary film about his life during the 80s in B-Movie (Lust & Sound in West Berlin).
Alanas liked the movie and the sound of Marks previous work, and voiced his ambition to make an album in English. They decided to work together.
Mark Reeder’s international career is well documented, he moved from Manchester to West-Berlin in the late 70s and has lived and worked there ever since. Throughout the 80s he was Factory Records German representative, manager of Malaria! and he played in darkwave synth bands Die Unbekannten and Shark Vegas. Today he is a sought-after music producer and remixer. Alanas, although currently unknown in the West, is quite an enigma, with a very interesting background story.
Alanas Chosnau was born to a Lithuanian mother and Iraqi-Kurdish father in Vilnius, the Capital of Lithuania, when it was still part of the Soviet Union, but he grew up in Baghdad, Iraq until his mother died in 1983. It is a historical fact, that during the long-lasting Iran-Iraq war of the 1980’s, Saddam Hussein started gassing his own Kurdish villagers, and it was under such circumstances that his parents decided to send Alanas to safety.
As an 8-year-old child, Alanas returned to Lithuania to be raised by his grandparents. Initially, he only spoke Arabic, but later learned Lithuanian, Russian and eventually, English. Sadly, the war separated Alanas from his father and sister for almost a decade, and if that wasn’t traumatic enough, the political upheaval resulting in the collapse of communism in the late 80s and early 90s presented further unparalleled uncertainty. Alanas however, was optimistic and he saw Lithuania’s newly found independence as an opportunity to fulfil his dreams and wishes, to be a performer.
Alanas became interested in music at an early age and only the fall of the Soviet Union probably prevented him from spending his life slaving in a Fabrik and listening to Soviet pop songs, but despite all the personal difficulties, Alanas eventually managed to establish what would become the most successful Lithuanian pop group Naktinės Personos, together with Aras Vėberis in 1992, a musical project that lasted until 2001, after which he embarked upon a solo career.
During this early solo period, Alanas achieved huge popularity and he has meanwhile become the most successful artist in Lithuania and his continued presence on National Television has catapulted him to celebrity status. However, that is not the only goal of his career. The driving force is to push his own boundaries and the decision to work with Mark Reeder was just one of those opportunities to go one step beyond.
Over the months, Mark and Alanas discussed the sound, style and topics they wished to present with Children of Nature. Their idea was to make a retro-modern sounding album, that evokes an illusion of a creative music era that was initially denied to so many Soviet citizens, while at the same time, presenting an album which still sounds fresh for today’s listeners. Children of Nature is a reflection of their personal experiences and hopes for the future. Their first release is All Alone, a song dedicated to all those currently isolated at home.
Children of Nature was produced by Mark Reeder andMicha Adam in Berlin, and is released on MFS. It is digitally distributedWorldwide by Believe Digital and is available on all digital platforms from 26 May 2020.
Full Track Streaming:
Videos:
“Love Of My Life”
“All Alone (Single Mix)”
Special:
Mark Reeder – “Music & Interview [NovaFuture Blog Exclusive Mix]”
Press Info:
All Alone, is the first outtake from our forthcoming album together : Children of Nature.
Alanas Chosnau was born to a Lithuanian mother and Iraqi-Kurdish father and grew up in Baghdad. He returned to Lithuania in the 80s to be raised by his grandparents. He grew up during the Soviet era, but thankfully, the fall of communism saved him from a life in the factories and he became the singer of what would become the most successful Lithuanian pop group of the 90s, Naktinės Personos.
Mark Reeder says:
“Alanas has meanwhile achieved huge popularity and has become the most successful artist in Lithuania. I first met Alanas at the Lithuanian International film festival, and we decided to work together. Over the past few months, we have crafted together an album of retro-modern sounding love songs, which almost feel prophetic when the current Coronacrisis is considered.
All Alone is just one of those songs. We had no idea what was to come, but it seems we touched on a frequency from the future and the song appears to have been derived from a deep, inner-feeling we both had at the time. That feeling of being stuck at home, All Alone, in what is seemingly an empty apartment. The song recalls the memory of a better time, but dwells on the mental frustration of someone who is currently feeling lost and lonely, and reaching out to anyone who is in the same situation. All Alone, is dedicated to all those currently isolated at home. I produced it together with Micha Adam in Berlin.”
The full length version appears on the album “Children of Nature”.
Video:
“All Alone (Single Mix)”
Special:
Mark Reeder – “Music & Interview [NovaFuture Blog Exclusive Mix]”
