Katalog
Tipps
- 01. Passe Par Le Detour
02. Un Jour Qui Traine
03. Je Ne T'ai Jamais Aime
04. Trace En Ville
05. Juste Derriere Chez Moi
06. Demain Est Annule
07. Un Autre Temps
08. Touche, Le Fond
09. Rien N'est Acquis
10. Dans La Peau
11. Tout Est FermeCONTRACTIONS
Demain Est Annule
[engl] Demain Est Annulé (tomorrow is canceled) is the first album from indie rockers Contractions. Written in Lyon, arranged in Besançon, Demain Est Annulé makes an intimate link between the future and the past of its creators. It sums up their previous experiences with their previous bands (Baton Rouge, Hawaii Samurai, The Irradiates) and brings into the light the massive musical knowledge / experiences they acquired through the years thanks to their involvement in the local indie / punk scene of their hometowns This album has been recorded and mixed by Bruno Germain at L'Epicerie Moderne in Lyon, France in the beginning of 2019, then mastered by Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Total Control) in Melbourne, Australia in may 2019. It got inspired by melodies coming from Kiwi Pop bands + contemporary indie garage bands such as Parquet Courts, The Babies or Reigning Sound, mixed with raw energy inherited from their DIY punk background and a common worship for Hot Snakes and 60s UK/US garage bands. Contractions though know they won't bring anything new. Because novelty is not really the point here… behind its obvious simplicity, the songwriting is very subtle. Every song has a hook. Arrangements are precise. The melodic vocals are often on the edge of being in tune. Every element of the songs and their recording actually point in the unique direction of looking for the genuine emotion. There also is in Julien's lyrics this disturbing and familiar sense of realism in the abstraction. They go through personal / intimate topics (Juste Derrière Chez Moi, Un autre Temps, Dans la peau), to this will of staying far from the dominant mass and praising the underground cultures (Passe Par le Detour, Un jour qui traîne). There is also social reflexions about the last riots / social movements in France (Trace En Ville, Demain Est Annulé) and last but not least about sexual assaults in the punk community (Rien n'est Acquis), which is a painful topic to deal with.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 14.09.2019
- 01. Initiation
02. L'oiseau
03. Moustache
04. Qu'il est bete ce garcon
05. J'ai trouvé un journal dans le Hall de l'aeroport
06. Mange pas les bras
07. Pierre bats ta femme
08. Spiderman
09. Fais moi savoir
10. Noix de Cola
11. Viens ma belle
12. Ca va, ca va
VASSILIU, PIERRE
Voyage
[engl] "Voyage", to Pierre Vassiliu, was not only the title of an album of his, but also a philosophy of life. Travels were not for vacation or rest. They were synonyms of meetings, new music and sometimes, simply, life. These experiences around the world nourished his work, and his career allowed him to set foot on every continent. But his most beautiful travels took place in recording studios. "My parents showed up on a beach, with a camper. They landed there and we stayed for years." Sitting by a lake in Sète, Lena Vassiliu recounts how her parents Pierre and Laura chose an empty spot in the Casamance region to enjoy a few years loving each other under the sun. The legitimate child of this trip, she was conceived in Senegal. At the time, her mother said: "I want to give birth standing on my feet, holding a tree, in the sacred wood where only women can enter!" Today her mother adds: "Pierre was reluctant, so we ended up in a private hospital in Dakar." Laura Vassiliu still lives in the same apartment in Sète. Folon's original drawing for the artwork of the ‘Voyage’ LP is framed in the living room, making Pierre’s ghost more present. Laura remembers well the beautiful moments, and travels were a part of them. "Not only the moments were beautiful. On trips, he was more beautiful as well." Pierre felt good turning his back on France – which was probably already ugly –, turning his back on the fickle, mercantile record industry, as well as on an entourage that recognized his mustache but not his talent. A traveler out of obligation in his youth (Algeria and its war), he became a traveler by taste and acquired an interest in people, an essential for anyone willing to travel the Globe. He also traveled out of necessity. When smiles faded, a boat, a plane, and bye bye idiots. And he brought all those trips back into his songs. "Anytime we traveled anywhere, music attracted us. Pierre sensed the rhythm of the country we were in and he found a song." Laura Vassiliu- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 08.12.2019
- EAN
- EAN 3521381557138
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 08.12.2019
- EAN
- EAN 3521353457121
- 01. La treve internationale
02. Maracabela
03. Les flots
04. libertas et firegarasc
05. Passer laisser
06. L’appel de la foret
07. We »re so in love
08. Pagode
09. Giles and Jones
10. Undying eyesGASC, JULIEN
L'Appel de la Foret
[engl] Confession, fiction, and observation. This is how the trajectory drawn by Julien Gasc seems to evolve from one album to the next. While Cerf, Biche et Faon took the form of a diary and Kiss Me, You Fool! that of a collection of stories, L'Appel de la Forêt concludes this trilogy in a tender and spontaneous dialogue, broaching the present with clairvoyance through melodies with bright glimmers. More adventurous than its predecessors, which respectively took root in the south of France and in London, this third chapter offers a kaleidoscopic vision, multiplying geographies and temporalities to ingrain itself in the moment all the better. Through a collection of dances of diverse origins, Julien places himself at the heart of the everyday – embracing it, sublimating it, and calling for a transfiguration to escape its imminent disaster. His voice circulate through this fragmented horizon; it is raw and immediate, sometimes so stark that it disappears, making way for its interlocutor, like an invitation to occupy the space shaped by his ritornello. Emancipated from his dandy’s costume, the rare moments where he puts it on again are to more effectively elude it. The address is deliberately frank and above all benevolent. Beyond an amorous chant d’amour, it is an ode to freedom and to the full awareness of our human condition that unfolds before us. An invitation, devoid of cynicism, to take off of our ‘social animal’ mask and decolonise the world around us – to stop wanting to possess at all costs and let those we love be free. This album is a roadside companion, with no dogma or precepts, and a simple motto: Stay joyful.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 31.01.2020
- EAN
- EAN 3521381558593
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 31.01.2020
- EAN
- EAN 3521383458587
CRASS
Stations of the Crass
[engl] Stations of the Crass is the second album by Crass, released in 1979. The record, originally released as a double 12", includes live tracks from a gig recorded at the Pied Bull pub in Islington, London, on August 7, 1979. The first three sides contain the studio tracks and play at 45 rpm, while the final side comprises the live material and plays at 33 rpm. The album's title is not only a pun on the Catholic rite of the Stations of the Cross (such jibes against the religious establishment were typical of Crass), but is also a reference to the graffiti campaign that the band had been conducting around London's underground railway system, the cover artwork depicting a wall at Bond Street tube station that had allegedly been 'decorated' by them. Although the album met mixed critical reception at first, it managed to sell at least 20,000 copies within two weeks.- Format
- DoLP
- Release-Datum
- 03.05.2019
- EAN
- EAN 5016958088293
- 01. See Your Friends About It
02. Tripping Away
03. All I Could Think Of Was You
04. To Run For
05. Let Your Hair Down
06. The Antlers
07. Straight Into My Eye
08. Hold On To What You’ve Got
09. Naive
10. Had A Place
11. Shout
12. Good CompanyGLOW KIT
Naive Antlers
[engl] GLOW KIT has been the best kept garage pop secret in Northern Europe for nearly a decade now. We had a buzzing head about debut single & album on the sadly missed P.Trash Records and instanly put this on our top ten list. The danish duo knew how knock out power pop songs in times when Burger Records just started to reissue garage pop records on tape.Together with their punk alter egos COLA FREAKS and dosed usage of wave elements you could surround JAY REATARDS Matador days with less force for perfection. GLOW KIT songs stick to your ear and it was sad to see them going into a hiatus. They´re back since a while and like NANCY or DANGUS TARKUS it´s way too rough, square, energy-laden for the pop music industry and and too sunny for the frozen crusties genre. On "Naive Antlers" Kasper & Kristoffer rise that pop monster to godzilla size and let it bumble around till turning a north sea beach cabin mojo, shakin´of lo-fi accoustic pop gusts of wind. The super catchy vocals range from shout-out direct mic-to-speaker blasts reminding of the modern DWARVES occasional gems. Next are wavy fireplace heart breakers with arranged intro & outro parts. Years after we asked the band and P.Trash about a record we had recordings in the house! It took one listen to bow in humble adoration of these pop creators. On any later listen we always wonder how they did it, and how on LP length - here are twelve songs of evidence. The best collection of songs "close to be a garage hit" you can imagine, purpose? Record released together with bands orbit record label KANEL in a edition of 300 copies total, 200 black and 100 clear pink, double sleeved in uncoated carboard, artwork from Gert Hoberg. Half the pressing available here only. If its gone just get their other records!- Format
- LP 180gr
- Release-Datum
- 01.11.2019
- EAN
- EAN 4260119670969
- 01. J'attends la bombe
02. Dernier homme
03. #1
04. Venera 16
05. La jungle
06. The Pleasure Principle
07. Mariposa
08. A l'ombre du Coolangata géant
09. #2
10. The Fur
11. Videolife
12. Les Adieux au plaisir
13. The Drowning (Bonus)PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
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[engl] I’m going to say “I” because I think I can’t write about my music other than in the first person. I’ve been playing drums since I was fifteen years old and I’ve always had bands since. Even if I always contribute artistically, to different degrees, my latitude of action, from a creative point of view, has always been limited by the fact that I am a drummer. Like many people, I learned to play very approximately the guitar and keyboard, and I spent years going over obsessions and recurring patterns, in my room and in my head, without doing any of that, and knowing that even though I was and still am extremely involved in my past and present bands (Skategang, La Secte du Futur, Marietta to a lesser extent, and ), the music we were making was only partially representative of me. I’ve always listened to a lot of reggae, dancehall, music from Ghana, Nigeria, Congo, and overall music that is based more on repetition and intention than composition, and that’s something I could never really develop in there. In 2015 my brother and friend Benjamin Dupont, the human behind Bryan’s Magic Tears, moved into my flat share / Noah’s Ark at 35 rue Clignancourt, in the 18th arrondissement, and it was him who unlocked everything by showing me how to record music by myself ; and one September morning, lying on my back, I saw the light. It’s really a new world that’s opened up to me, I started recording at a pretty intensive pace, just letting myself be carried away by what I’ve had in my head and fingers for years; I’ve accumulated a lot of material, including a lot of unfinished pieces, and I’ve tried – I’m still trying – to understand for myself what my point really is and to learn how to systematize and channel my obsessions to make it something personal. Recording a lot, without any constraints of format, group or expectations, by letting myself be totally carried away by what was coming out in the moment, it allowed me to give myself a certain insight into myself; I am not one of the people who compose music by having an idea of where they want to go, but by repeating the exercise, something coherent ends up taking shape. I would say that it oscillates, for the music, between synthetic krautrock, dancehall lo-fi, Manchester sound recorded with toys, rock à la Velvet and Memphis rap for children; and between Les Négresses Vertes and Julien Gracq for the texts. I still write the basis of my lyrics without music, and I attach a lot of importance to it; French has become obvious because I want to say something true and I would not be able to do it otherwise – even if the text of “The Fur” is in English, but it was to seduce a girl (it didn’t work), and it won’t happen again. This is my friend Paula from J.C. Satan and Succhiamo, who sings on “Mariposa” and “Venera 16”, because I had no idea what to do about it; I sent her the songs and she sang on her phone, it was great so we recorded it. This first album is a kind of best-of from 2015 to 2018, the songs that held up best, the ones I had lyrics on, the best finished drafts, basically. I owe its existence to my friends at the Megattera micro-label who, after hearing my songs at home at night, decided to release them confidentially on tape first; without them, they would still be on my hard drive. Under the spell, Born Bad Records then entrusted Olivier Demeaux de Cheveu/ Heimat with the mission of mixing the “best” tracks to give them the lustre they deserve and make these few crazy and scattered tracks a full-fledged album. I asked Adam Karakos, from Villejuif Underground, Guillaume Rottier, from Rendez-Vous, Nikolaj Boursniev, from Quetzal Snakes, and Milia Colombani, who plays in half the bands in Paris, to play live with me. Pleasure Principle is located somewhere within a triangle formed by Francis Bebey, Add (n) To X and Ludwig Von 88; it is a solitary race to the outside, an ode to the forward flight, a way to escape in the peaceful expectation of the great liberating flash. I often find myself dancing like a monkey who forgets the world when I record at night in my room, and I hope to provoke the same reaction in people. Paul Speedy Ramon- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 25.11.2019
- EAN
- EAN 3521381557985
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 26.11.2019
- EAN
- EAN 3521383457979
- 01. Fast Trash
02. New York's Alright (If You Like Sex & Phones)
03. Wasted On Youth-Melted Candle
04. To & Fromme
05. Wimpy Garcia (Brotherfucker)
06. Ipso Facto (It's All Happening)
07. New Dress (Debutante)
08. Jenna Rations
09. Affection
10. Secs TapeGOTOBEDS
Poor People Are Revolting
[engl] The Gotobeds' members come from Pittsburgh, Penn., a place notorious for keeping great local bands to itself. But the racket these guys kick up on their first album, Poor People Are Revolting, might be too strong for the city to contain. Guitarists Eli Kasan and Tom Payne spent the last few years as part of the local hardcore band Kim Phuc. Joined by bassist Gavin Jensen and drummer Cary Belbeck, they bring that energy to The Gotobeds, a rowdy, ramshackle party house of a band, built on the intersecting bedrock of post-punk and indie rock. On Poor People Are Revolting, there's something crazy going on in every room, the front porch and the backyard: a party that never dies down or seems to stop, even as the neighbors complain and the cops drive past. Working from the spirit and fundamentals of a small handful of influences — the design sense and intellectual rowdiness of The Fall; the constant evolution and masterful poker faces of Wire, from whose drummer these guys borrowed their name; the sturdy, heroic melodic sense and layered tape-loop production of Mission of Burma — The Gotobeds' members paint a dirty, driven, vulgar portrait of Rust Belt restlessness. Poor People rockets out of the gate with "Fast Trash," a great intro to The Gotobeds' boundless energy. Two-parter "Wasted on Youth/Melted Candle" starts out with a tuneful riff that ratchets past pandemonium. Every song here is an honest-to-goodness anthem, ready to sweep you up in the throttling, last-call anxiety that permeates the band's work — even through all 10 minutes of the single repetitive riff that makes up "Secs Tape." Were these guys from New York City, they'd probably be too tired and broke to play with this level of fevered, feral inspiration. With no fear of being priced out, they launch one of the greatest arguments against Big Apple living with their single "NY's Alright." Like the album's title, the song is a double-edged sword, couching the relative excitement of New York (and hearing all about it from everyone who's moved there) against the reality of people staring into their cellphones on crowded sidewalks, constantly trying to maintain a standard of living that The Gotobeds can enjoy for next to nothing. The sentiment is hammered home in the video for the track, as the band drops a Parquet Courts LP out of its sleeve, only to see it shatter on the floor. One of the strongest American rock debuts in years, Poor People Are Revolting is an obscene gesture hoisted toward anyone who'd claim that the genre is dead.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 14.10.2014
- EAN
- EAN 4260016924387
- 01. Safe Word
02. Who Comes Next
03. Ill Nature
04. Pressure TestARSE
Safe Word
[engl] Hailing from dystopian Sydney, the punk rock trio known as ARSE arrived at the end of 2017 with their acerbic debut Primitive Species on a cassette tape, sounding like the bastard lineage of Feedtime and Black Flag with an uber-modern spin. Equal parts dumb, terrifying and fitting for the times, Species copped the full vinyl treatment six months later courtesy of German punk label Erste Theke Tontraeger. By years end it had crash-landed on The Quietus’ best of 2018 punk round-up alongside Hank Wood and The Hammerheads, Geld and Amyl and The Sniffers. Never content, as their music attests, ARSE have since opened for Cosmic Psychos (AU), No Age (US) and released a split seven-inch record with Sydney noise-assassins Party Dozen. The forthcoming Safe Word EP, a stop-gap on the road to long player glory, is four tracks of future-fried punk the world truly deserves. I like bands that fall on the dividing line between noise rock and hardcore, and Arse are right in that pocket, using pogo beats, wild and noisy guitar solos, and a nihilistic vocal bark that will appeal to fans of Geld, Gay Kiss, Walls, and other bands that trace their lineage back to Black Flag’s My War. Far from just a copycat band, though, Arse strike me as more artsy and ambitious than any of the aforementioned groups. I hear this in the guitar solos (which are particularly unhinged, like Ginn and Hendrix on a bunch of bad drugs), but even more on the two songs that end each side of the EP. These aren’t so much songs as abstract noise / electronic pieces that flesh out the world hinted at in those guitar leads into a full-on post-apocalyptic soundscape. Far beyond your typical “dude stringing together a bunch of guitar pedals and hitting them at random,” these intricately composed pieces scratch the same itch as Klaus Schulze or Tangerine Dream.- Format
- 7''
- Release-Datum
- 01.10.2019
- 01. Rubber
02. Color Kill
03. Look At My List
04. Apple T
05. American HD
06. Fully Foam Ending
07. Unlike (ft. Jazz Adam)
08. Vestido!
09. Love Today
10. In Some Ways Yes
11. Actor Is
12. Is Ours Not Yes
13. Being Where It Shouldn't Be
14. Canada
15. Dr. Squeamish
16. MaxinePATTI
Good Big
[engl] Debut LP from this band out of Oakland now based in New York, though I'd forgive you for thinking they’re from Minneapolis as they sound strikingly similar to Uranium Club. Like society as a whole, punk rock seems to go through eras of conservatism and progressivism, and despite (or maybe because of?) the fact that the right-wingers seem to be ascendant in the United States’ and Europes' wilder culture, we seem to be experiencing a moment in the punk scene when nothing is cooler than letting your freak flag fly. Rhythmically, Patti have more of a Minutemen / Suburban Lawns-type white funk swing to them, but the deadpan vocals and Krautrock-ish way of riding simple, repetitive riffs will do any Uranium Club fan right. The bass lines, guitar lines, and vocal patterns are uniformly interesting, but one place Patti excel is in writing cool bridge parts. Most of the songs on Good Big have a middle section about 3/4 of the way through where the song goes to some strange, unexpected place. The transitions are fluid, so you find yourself thinking, “wait, is this the same song?” until they drop back into one of the familiar parts from earlier in the song. Having that sense of movement and development to the song takes what would have been an interesting collection of riffs and makes them into something more than that, a set of musical stories that unfold in front of you. This is top-notch egg punk, so even if you only mess with the hits like Uranium Club and Coneheads this is worth checking out.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 01.10.2019
- 01. Von der Freunde am Fahren
02. Kalle (komm aus'm Arsch)
03. Roboti
04. Eingeplant
05. Alles klar im Wurstbasar
06. Kettenfett
07. Krampfstern Neurotica
08. Eiertanz im Sackbahnhof
09. Der Fensterputzer
10. Preußisches BlutKETTENFETT
Raumpatrouille Kettenfett
Seit 3 Jahren hat sich das Duo Kettenfett mit ausschweifenden Konzerttouren einen Namen gemacht. Jetzt endlich erscheint mit dem programmatischen Titel „Raumpatrouille Kettenfett“ auf dem noch jungen Label Rockers Records ihr Debüt-Album mit 10 mächtigen Songs, die mit viel Wut im Bauch losballern und im Gedächtnis bleiben. Musikalisch schaffen es Kettenfett, die Karten noch einmal komplett neu zu mischen. Wer hätte gedacht, dass sturer fast schon stoisch zu nennender Stoner Rock gepaart mit einem Schuss kühler 80er Attitüde und einer ordentlichen Kelle aggressiven Deutschpunks eine derartig explosive Mischung ergeben würde? Hier wird geackert und geprügelt, dass die Schwarte kracht. Trotzdem verbreiten Songs wie „Kalle“ eine schwingende Leichtigkeit, die dem Hörer ein Lächeln ins Gesicht zaubert. Auch textlich wird hier kein Einheitsbrei aus Parolen, Selbstmitleid, Kalendersprüchen oder anderem folkloristischen Kitsch serviert. Kettenfett klingt bissig und ist dabei wohltuend ironisch und bösartig.- Format
- LP + CD
- Release-Datum
- 17.10.2019
- EAN
- EAN 4270000705601
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 17.10.2019
- EAN
- EAN 4270000705625
- Format
- LP yellow
- Release-Datum
- 17.10.2019
- EAN
- EAN 4270000705618
- 01. Like Ashes, Like Millions
02. Manoeuvres
03. Numb Boys
04. Anticipation
05. Damaged
06. Such Verve
07. Rival Trial
08. Just Pornography
09. Dull MilesCUT CITY
Exit Decades
[engl] Sweden's Cut City turns a respectful eye towards the gods of '80s post-punk on its debut album. Official reissue limited to 500 copies- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 27.10.2019
- 01. Insane
02. Pulse
03. Slave Markets feat Jason Williamson
04. When does a banknote starts to burn
05. Brume
06. Some friends
07. Lil' white sister
08. Pepper spray
09. Le grand soirFRUSTRATION
So cold streams
[engl] During the 1990s, wherever you lived in France, you could see certain groups between 5 and 10 times a year - sometimes even without really wanting to. Guys who played so much, all the time, everywhere, that it was impossible to spend more than three months without being at one of their concerts. Right down to the depths of the Var or Jura, they pushed tons of kids to start their own band or fanzine, to access something different. It was more than just music. It was a spirit, an idea. A way of looking at the world. Rules are no longer the same. Music no longer has the same weight, the bands we come across between 5 and 10 times a year - sometimes even without really wanting to - are rarely the right ones, and the kids from the far reaches of the Var or the Jura have something else to do than formig bands or fanzines. But the spirit and the idea are still there. And in the last 10 years, in France, no group has played them better than Frustration. Like all these groups, Frustration we have seen them 5, 10, 100 times - sometimes without really wanting to. And because we're not quite the same either - more informed, more busy, more jaded, less easily impressionable - we always said to ourselves that we've gone around it, that their whole comedy is getting old. But with each new concert, each new record, we go back to the roots. Because the fire is still burning, because the passion is still intact, because they are not trying to pass for what they are not. Because somewhere in the heart of the Var or Jura, some kids still need to see the world differently. However, we were not expecting a record like So Cold Streams. At this stage of the championship, Frustration could have been satisfied with releasing a record that was essentially identical to the previous one, intense, abrasive, honest but without risk, and could have continued to fill the rooms without anyone having to complain about it by slowly moving towards an exit as dignified as it was inevitable. But from the first bars of "Insane", an insane electro-punk pounding that you'd think you'd just come out of a 1988 EBM EP, you realize that the scenario isn't going to go as planned. Instead of setting up a comfortable routine, Frustration recorded his fifth album as if it were the first, like a band formed 6 months ago that would have nothing to lose and a serious desire to fight it. If the post-punk cavalry is still present (martial drums, elastic bass, hit-and-run guitars), So Cold Streams surprises with its energy, the virulence of certain lyrics and the many risk-taking, "Brume", a nightmare with industrial sounds screamed in French, to the very pop "Lil' White Sister" which looks surprisingly at the Smiths and Echo & The Bunnymen, as well as the sinuous and melancholic "Slave Markets" on which the band invited Jason Williamson, the singer of Sleaford Mods - a band that played a lot in Frustration's new youth. "Sleaford Mods is a band that, musically and humanly, gave us a real boost," explains Fabrice Gilbert (vocals). It gave us a real sense of freedom, it allowed me to really say everything I wanted to say in my words, to talk about extremely intimate subjects as well as much more general things, whether it be political or social. So Cold Streams is, paradoxically perhaps, our most disillusioned, energetic and free record. This observation is perfectly summarized by the cover of the disc, signed like all the others by the painter Baldo, and which represents a machine tarring a road through a field of wheat. A painting made more than 15 years ago and which was originally intended to be the cover of Full Of Sorrow, Frustration's first album. For such a renaissance, the best choice could not be better. Especially since the image alone contains the whole disc: space, strength, light, rage and disgust too. The desire to destroy everything. To make a clean slate. To propose something different. A little more than music. A spirit, an idea. A way of looking at the world.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 18.10.2019
- EAN
- EAN 3521381557749
- Format
- CD
- Release-Datum
- 18.10.2019
- EAN
- EAN 3521383457733
- 01. Black Cat
02. Boo SongDURUL GENCE
Black Cat
[engl] Untameable Anatolian feline fuzzy folk funk finally uncaged. A spontaneous Turkish-Norwegian-Dutch expedition, where seafaring jazz cats entangled with fugitive roadies and Tee-Set mods, makes the story of Durul Gence’s highly anticipated/ill-fated Asia Minor Mission group the stuff of lost-rock legend and remains one of Turkish music’s great “what ifs?” The black cat is finally out of the bag. Having forged a celebrity status as one of Turkey’s premier percussionists and bandleaders, Durul Gence assembled the underground fusion group known as Asia Minor Mission (AMM) in early 1972 (with ?rfan Sumer, O?uz Durukan and U?ur Dikmen) while trying to escape the constant daze of paparazzi camera flashes that followed him across Turkey. During a far-fetched post-gig brainstorm the group pondered relocating to Norway (based on fact that none of them had ever visited the country) when a local seaman who claimed to have recording studio connections in Oslo overheard them. Enlisting the roadie services of a streetwise Istanbul taxi driver friend on the run from the police AMM took the plunge, accepting the sailor’s offer of passage on his next sailing. In these new idyllic surroundings, the same region that played host to fellow Turkish percussionist Okay Temiz, Durul found the peace he desired discovering a muse in Norway’s welcoming creative climate. Much like Bar?? Manço and Mo?ollar in France, Cem Karaca and Gökçen Kaynatan in Germany, Gence’s relationship with Norway rekindled a passion for composition in ways he couldn’t have imagined in his homeland, opening doors thought previously unreachable. As a potential prodigal son for Anadolu pop Durul joined a wider pop-cultural diaspora alongside electronic pioneer Ilhan Mimaroglu, Tülay German (aka Tuly Sand) Karda?lar’s “Alex” Wiska (collaborator with Krautrockers Can) and Maffy Falay from the band Sevda. Despite a blooming fan base and original repertoire the Nordic dream was not to be and after two years without a studio session, AMM called it quits during a tour of Holland after which Durukan and Dikmen went home to join Cem Karaca’s band Dervi?an – Dikmen’s keyboards feature on Finders Keepers releases by Turkish singer Selda (FKR011). Retreating to the city of Delft to ponder his next move, Durul met Peter Tetteroo, former vocalist from successful Dutch psych-pop combo Tee-Set, who also found himself in a lonely boat after the demise of his long-running group. As an AMM fan, Tetteroo suggested they record two Gence penned AMM demos for Dutch Philips signed exotic songbird Sasi Naz at Peter’s home studio. A session was hastily arranged and a talented, yet unconfirmed, guitarist was enlisted. Durul maintains it was the work of Ferry Lever from Tee-Set/After Tea, something Ferry has denied, and with Tetteroo having died in 2002 the question remains. Upon entering the humble studio Durul stumbled upon a skeletal drum kit. Lacking hi-hat, toms or even a snare he cobbled together a bongo and a tambourine and set to work. Together, under the watchful eye of Tetteroo, the pair jammed stripped back versions of the AMM live staples Black Cat and Boo Song, with an added freak factor otherwise missing from their jazzier approach. Laid down in just 30 minutes, with Gence’s accomplished guide vocals and fuzzy overdubs, the rudimentary but professional recordings never made it to Philips execs and the tapes returned to Turkey under Durul’s arm as one of only two documented AMM recordings (the other being a live performance in Oslo’s Hennie-Onstad Art Centre in May 1973). Unintended for commercial release, curiouser and curiouser, Finders Keepers proudly present these previously unheard tracks sourced directly from original tapes, which stand as a testament to the inimitable talent of Gence and the only studio document of the mythical AMM Turk jazz funk troubadours, representing a pop-psych Hollandaise holiday postcard which has taken five decades to be delivered. 45 revolutions later… The cat’s got the cream.- Format
- 7''
- Release-Datum
- 09.09.2019
- EAN
- EAN 5060099507137
- 01. Unbroken Hearts
02. Monroe County Nights
03. Four Wheels
04. Let Me In
05. Somebody Loves You
06. Immortal Americans
07. Ain’t We Free
08. Gift and a Gamble
09. Thunder Rail
10. Alone in MemphisAUSTIN LUCAS
No One Is Immortal
Am 18. Oktober kommt "No One is Immortal!" Von Austin Lucas & the Bold Party in den Handel. Erhältlich auf Vinyl und als CD/DVD Kombo Paket, kann man die Aufnahme gut und gerne als Herzensprojekt bezeichnen. Gefilmt wurde in der Stammkneipe und Lieblingsbar von Austin Lucas, The Blockhouse Bar, in Bloomington, Indiana, ein Heimspiel quasi. Neue und alte Songs vereint in einer einzigartigen live Performance, zur Perfektion gereift während der monatelangen Touren kreuz und quer durch die USA, näher an ein Live Erlebnis kommt wohl nichts heran.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 18.10.2019
- EAN
- EAN 769498675861
- Format
- CD + DVD
- Release-Datum
- 18.10.2019
- EAN
- EAN 769498675878
- 01. Silver Machine
02. Was Warst Du
03. Baby Alone In Babylone/Japanese Double Suicide
04. DeliriumABSTRACT NYMPHO
Static
[engl] Abstract Nympho is a dream-noise outfit from Berlin consisting of Rahel Preisser (Vocals/Trumpet/Noise-interventions) and Ghazi Barakat aka Pharoah Chromium (Rauschpfeif /Electric Wind Instrument). Abstract Nympho was formed spontaneously on the occasion of a Pharoah Chromium gig at the Haperende Mens festival in Rotterdam in January 2018. At first using a poem by the Berlin poet Scardanelli (who also happens to be Rahel’s father) over improvised layers of noise and psychedelia, the pair’s sound quickly evolved into unusual live interpretations of songs by Jane Birkin and Hawkwind and free form improvisations on electronics, trumpet, rauschpfeife and vocals. After playing a series of shows in small underground venues in Berlin and a legendary performance in Jean Tinguely’s Cyclop sculpture in the woods of Milly-la-Forêt they decided to shape and record their live performances into a more structured song format. The result was heard by Christian Iffland, owner of the record store Static Record and its adjacent label Static Age, who offered to release the four tracks as an EP. Using wind instruments, synths, feedbacks, an electronic tempura and the skills of Gordon W. on tablas to achieve their vision of an almost beat-free, at times dreamy, at others somber mixture of experimental pop and spoken word.- Format
- 12''
- Release-Datum
- 15.08.2019
- 01. manifest
02. jetzt
03. dr. s
04. stehaufmännchen
05. reflection
06. lass los
07. backdoor boogie
08. new life
09. der letzte kuss
10. again
11. r.i.t.a.l.i.n.
12. the end
13. vielen dank & auf wiedersehnURBAN JUNIOR
the truth about dr.s & mr.p one man synthony in E-minor
spielt Synth & Guitar & Drums & eine 80s Beatmachine & singt durch ein abgefucktes Megafon...GLEICHZEITIG! „Dr.S & Mr.P" - a One Man Electro Trash Synthony in E minor Das erste One Man Band Konzept Album der Musikgeschichte?! Geburt - Schmerz – Pubertät – Lust – Verführung – Hoffnung – Hass - Leidenschaft - Versuchung – Vergebung – Exzess – Laster - Frustration - Wut – Abstinenz – Widerstand - Resignation – Liebe – Tod Hier ist die Geschichte: Mr. P(rimitive), hyperaktiv, apathisch, egomanisch, Sex- und Drogenabhängig wird von seiner inneren Stimme Dr. S(ensitive) in den Tod getrieben. Natürlich ist Mrs. L(ove) involviert in Mr. P's Höllenritt ins Verderben.Urban Junior ist zurück mit seinem zweiten Voodoo Rhythm Release.. Dr.S & Mr.P...13 Songs, ein Mann, eine Geschichte, eine Botschaft...EINE OFFENBARUNG!! „What if what you see is not what you'll get, what if what you'll get is not what you want?" Urban Junior ist ein irrwitziger Entertainner, der seine verschiedenen Persönlichkeiten auf die Bühne bringt. Sensationell! Verwegen! Überraschend! Der Mix ist einzigartig und 111% Ohrenkrebs! The Screamers meets Hasil Adkins! THEE Minimal Electro Trash Garage Boogie Death Disco Synth Punk One Man Band!- Format
- LP + CD
- Release-Datum
- 14.11.2014
- EAN
- EAN 764014890470
- 01. black moose
02. there's always someone that you owe
03. dark night
04. good luck
05. i'm so lonesome i could cry
06. black train
07. st dymphna
08. la mauvaise réputation
09. heart of stone
10. femme fatale
11. so wars, so ists und so wirds bleiben
12. ship of fools
13. appenzeller tanzDEAD BROTHERS
Black Moose
Nach der Gründung 1989 und dem Kommerziellen Durchbruch mit 'WUNDERKAMMER' (2006) und der Neuerfindung ihres Seins (5th SIN-PHONIE) 2010 zusammen mit dem wohl Dunkelsten und Tödlichstem Streicher Orchester die Welt je gesehen hat, versammelten sich die Toten Brüder um den Meister Des Chaos und Nr1 Schweiz-Armenischem Enfant Terrible Alain Croubalian und machen einen erneuten Grossen Schritt in Eine Exotisch von Dunkler Country Musik Blues und Schweizer Folklore mit Dudelsack und Rock'n'roll geprägter Musik in Richtung Niemands Land wo der BLACK MOOSE ( Schwarzer Elch) haust, einer mysischen Figur die noch vor Morgengrauen der menschheit da war, die der zusammenbruch der zivilisation mit erlebt hat und sich in den dunkelsten Winkel des menschlichen bewusstsein aufhält. Das Album Black Moose ist ein Romantisches Album, Romantisch im Dunkelstem Sinne des Wortes mit einem Tödlichen Ende es Verbindet den Amerikanischen mit dem Afrikanischen Blues lässt Schweizer Volksmusik zusammen mit Dudelsäcken in tiefste Ambründe Stürzen und bringt dich dort hin wo sich Friedrich Nietzsche mit den Revolutionären Führern der Central Amerikanern Revolution in einer Hafen Bar zu einem Pisco Sour mit Kerosin an einem Tisch mit dem Teufel trifft.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 26.09.2014
- EAN
- EAN 7640148980449
- 01. El Aguajal
02. Tu Boda
03. Esperanza De Amor
04. Volveras Mi Niño
05. Mal Amigo
06. En La Selva
07. Borrachito Borrachon
08. Mi Tallercito
09. Angelita
10. Como Un Errante
11. Si No Regresa
12. PerdidosLOS SHAPIS
Los Auténticos Shapis
[engl] Los Shapis, a legendary group of tropical Peruvian music, will be relaunching their first LP ’Los auténticos’ (1981) on the 23rd of December. The revival of this album, which was one of the pioneers of Andean Cumbia, will commemorate the 36th anniversary of the band led by Julio Simeón ("Chapulín el Dulce") and Jaime Moreyra and will include emblematic songs such as ’El Aguajal’ and ’Como un errante’. The relaunching of ’Los auténticos’ forms part of a project to rescue and revive Discos Horóscopo, a record label founded 40 years ago by Juan Campos Muñoz, and which boasts one of the most important catalogues of chicha music from the 70s and 80s. The label was created and can be recognized as the main driving force of Andean cumbia in Lima, as it took on producing albums of artists that gambled on not only creating a new sound, but also molding a new type of aesthetic, led by Chacalón y La Nueva Crema, Los Shapis, Pintura Roja and Los Ovnis. Formed in the city of Huancayo on February 14, 1981, Los Shapis – whose name was inspired by a traditional dance, "Los Shapis de Chupaca" – were hailed as ambassadors of chicha when they toured throughout different countries, which gave birth to the internationalization of Peruvian cumbia in the early 1980s By 1983, the band was based out of Lima. Its members composed iconic songs about the provincial and profound identity of Peru, in a time marked by racism and classism from the most privileged sectors. A rhythmic tradition that would accompany the two most conflictive phenomena of the era: terrorism and economic debacle, reasons that motivated the massive migration from the countryside to the city. "It is a culture that alludes to disorder and popular excess, drunkenness and chaos, but also a way of appropriating while simultaneously mocking the west, " says researcher Alfredo Villar, collaborator of the project to revalorize Peruvian cumbia.- Format
- DoLP
- Release-Datum
- 22.03.2019
- 01. Roman
02. Vamos Farrear
03. Todo Pasa - Para Chachita
04. Rulers Style
05. Rumpelstillskin
06. Black Dragon
07. Big Chief
08. Stack-A-Lee
09. Dark Eyes
10. Mussieu O Tet A Poisson La
11. Jet - Jet Biguine
12. Smiling
13. PlayaBanderaOKAWA AND THE RULERS
Oshirononakade
[engl] Okawa 78 is a skilled saxophonist also knows as one of a very few DJs specialised in 1920-50’s world roots music who only plays out on 78 RPM records. Under his wing a whole bunch of Japanese musicians gathered to form The Rulers, experimenting with the authentic music from Africa, South America and blending into ska and soul funk creating a new groove of their own. Musicians include members from The Netandars, Sly Mongoose, Oi-Skall Mates, Rub-A-Dub Market, The 69 Yobsters, and Soil & Pimp Sessions.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 27.04.2018
- 01. I Like Woman
02. Afro Super-Feelings In DiscoSEGUN OKEJI
I like woman
[engl] Soul Patrol Records present a reissue of I Like Woman. This is an album comprised of two super-rare Afro-beat disco/funk tracks from Lagos by the band Afro Super-Feelings, led the by artist/musician Segun Okeji. Segun Okeji was the tenor sax player in Fela Kuti's Koola Lobitos band in Nigeria in the late 1960s before changing their name to Africa 70, and this record, originally released in the late 1970s, uses that first-hand experience and influence to maximum effect with a pair of devastating sidelong saxophone-led jams. Up-tempo, chugging drums and a crack horn section, bass, guitar, organ, and backing vocals coordinate to achieve the hypnotic call/refrain/chant crescendo that was Fela's hallmark in his peak years. Players include Tunde Daudu on drums (The Benders), E. Ngomalloh on organ (Fela Kuti), Tutu Shoronmu on guitar (Fela Kuti), and others that played on releases by the C.S. Crew, Sonny Okosun, Orlando Julius, and Tony Allen. Edition of 500.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 01.01.2001
- 01. Win And Go
02. She's Dynamite
03. If Boogie Is A Sin, You Gotta Sell Your Soul
04. Sorcery
05. River Mud
06. Sweet Whiskey
07. Heavy Load
08. Red RiverBIG SWAMP, THE
The Big Swamp
Der Südosten der Vereinigten Staaten. Wiege des Blues. Man trägt Trucker Hats, karierte Flanellhemden und verschlissene Boots mit Stolz, die moskitogeschwängerte Luft flirrt. Genau diese Luft atmet The Big Swamp. Slide-Gitarre, Blues-Harp, Bass schaffen einen unverwechselbaren Stil. Delta Blues. Southern Rock. Swamp Rock. Erdig, pulsierend, ursprünglich. Ehrlich und authentisch.- Format
- LP
- Release-Datum
- 01.12.2018