Release date: May 1, 2020.
Huddersfield: Mass for Aphrodite Nikêphoros
1 – Bristophe’s Passion (B)
2 – Κύρια ἐλέησον (B + AA)
3 – Agni Deae (B + AA + PAT)
4 – The Judgment of Paris (B + AA + PAT + DB)
B = Bristophe = Brice Catherin + Christophe Schweizer
AA = Alessia Anastassopulos
PAT = Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
DB = David Birchall
B + AA + PAT + DB played the following instruments: cello, trombone, euphonium, flugelhorn, tuba, clavichord, two harpsichords, electric guitar, violin, bass drum, timpani, electric bass, glockenspiel, xylophone, tubular bells, tam tam, celesta, three pianos, two pipe organs, bawu, recorders, bird calls, walls and radiators, etc.
They were kindly recorded by Simon Reynell in St Paul’s Hall in Huddersfield.
They were brutally mixed by Brice Catherin.
Hull: Mass for Baubo
1 – Overture: Demeter’s tears (B)
2 – Iakchos’s Passion, part 1 (B + BN)
3 – Demeter watches (B + BN + MF)
4 – Baubo’s dance, part 1 (B + BN + MF + MS)
5 – Baubo’s dance, part 2 (B + BN + MF + MS)
6 – Iakchos’s Passion, part 2 (B + MS)
7 – Demeter’s laughters (B + MF)
8 – Coda: Persephone’s Passion (B)
B = Bristophe = Brice Catherin + Christophe Schweizer
BN = Bethany Nicholson
MF = Moss Freed
MS = Mark Slater
B + BN + MF + MS played the following instruments: two cellos, two trombones, double bass, harpsichord, electric guitar, Fender Rhodes, tam tam, gong, piano, pipe organ, recorders, bird calls, mandolin, bawu, etc.
They were kindly recorded by Daniel Spooner, Leo Withers, Daniel Johns and Liam Harrison in the chapel of the University of Hull.
They were brutally mixed by Brice Catherin.
released February 16, 2020
feat Hugin at the guitar
“This album is the first work I’ve done in 2019 and also part of a series of instrumental works that reflect upon absence in different ways, in a pentalogy. All of them expresses what I felt after the latest political misfortunes in my country (Brazil) and overall social-political state of mind in the world. In “Insomniac Dreams” – the absence of rest and sleep to convey life in its existence. In “Antimanicomial” – the absence of sanity in its helplessness in a political system that doesn’t give a care. In “Duets for Balogh” – the absence of a friend, despite his presence in sound conversations. In “Cinzas” – the absence of care on nature, a mourn for dead rivers. And this, “Longes” is about absence of faith. However, there is no particular order, nor any sound similarities for this pentalogy, despite being linked thematically. “Insomniac Dreams” was the first published one, but “Longes” was the one recorded first, with later-on finalizations.
”Longes” is my second work in which I play electric guitar (a Telecaster) as a main instrument (first one was “Electric Ramblings” (2014) in most of the tracks). It was conceived as a series of variations on the final motif from the coda of the song “Muito Mais Longe do que o Bastante”, which was originally recorded for the album “La Géographie sans Regret” (2012), made in collaboration with Mehata Sentimental Legend. In this album, I explore on electric guitar both timbral and electronic experimentations whereas the themes are extended without regard on time and space, despite having their own implicit structure. Apart from the last track (X), the pieces were all improvised in their performances. Somehow, it’s a spiritual manifesto on struggling for survival, in electric mantras; against all odds, a life-affirming statement.”
東京在住のストーリーテリング：シンガーソングライターShinnosuke Sugataの驚異の23曲入アルバム 「光目眩ませずとも、あれ (Let There Be Light, Even If It Doesn’t Dazzle The Eyes)
In Japan, like Sufyan StevensI don’t see storytelling unique folk singers.shinnosuke sugata is one of the few honest & unique japanese singer-songwriters.You are witnessing it now.
We are very pleased and grateful to share Huesos Secos (Dry Bones), by Mariano Rodríguez through Carbono Proyecto Records. The idea has been brewing for a long time now, but as we know, in our sound, musical and self-managed projects, if we have anything, it is the freedom to let the processes flow until the ideas and personal planets align.
It’s been already four years since we last published a disc by this guitar artist-craftsman-monk based in Bariloche for a couple of decades. It was Praise the Road, first edited by the American label Grass-Tops Recordings and currently available through his own bandcamp. Anyway, he frequently participates in various compilations that range from the experimental to specific tributes such as the recent one to Jack Rose, another of Mariano’s acoustic guitarists of reference.
In many ways inspired by the logic of the “American primitive guitar” (a term that designates a “transitional” genre according to Wikipedia, to which a legion of guitarists from pioneer John Fahey in the 50-60s, through Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho and the aforementioned Jack Rose until today), Mariano Rodríguez’s music does not focus on the technical deployment of the guitarist, but on the more spiritual or meditative dimension of it. And in connection with all this, although not as conditioning, of course, his deep Christian faith intervenes since his adherence to the theology of Third World liberation. Listen for example to Liberation Theology for beginners, described by him as a Christmas album.
Somehow the tracks that make up Huesos Secos synthesize the mental and sound journey that Mariano started with his family in southern Argentina. This experience was also rooted in half of his life living in Buenos Aires, forming part of different rock and punk bands, and projects with the excellent singer-songwriter Adrián Paoletti among others. But without a doubt his current music is an inseparable part of a Patagonia that he has made his own, resignifying a whole set of influences, which finally act as tools to establish a back and forth movement with his perception of those places of the Argentine interior and its story.
“This album is a long-standing exploration of the juxtaposition between physical presence and mental boundaries that emerged during the creative process. Our bodies are matter physically present in the present reality, but our psychic capacities can be distanced, reaching parallel inter-temporal spaces. They aim at creating internal and external associative representations between presence – happening – reflection directed at the senses. The immediate primal feeling in one present is lost or renewed, disappears or reappears after nothing is the same again.”
released December 25, 2019
also available as limited edition digipak CD
Artwork painting: Tanyo Pavlov
Artwork and digipak design: Angel Draganov
The music you are listening to was recorded in the last week of August 2012 in Bralitz/Brandenburg, Germany. That year, there wasn’t a Braaahhlitz Festival yet, just a small concert at the end of the week. So there was plenty of time to play music.
The basic tracks with guitars, drums and bass were mostly recorded live, on a stage in the old railway station’s former waiting hall. After that, the musicians from the aaahh-records family contributed their parts. No boundaries – there is soul infused pop, folky acoustic songs, quirky raps, and beautiful melodies.
Formed 16 years ago, Lavoura is a reference in future jazz made in Brazil. The group debuted two more songs, after a series of singles started in 2018. “Ayizan” is the first single. Climatic, the track brings in its DNA the Brazilian rhythm and the psychedelia, amplified by the arrangements and the accurate production, that confer a certain epic tone to the sonority, without losing the characteristic groove. The other single, “Bossa Exploitation”, refers to the anthropophagic research involving African music. It is the result of impromptu sessions that the group held between 2017 and 2018. Integrated by composers, producers, arrangers, beatmakers, musicians, visual artists and inventors, Lavoura makes a cinematic sound, referenced by the rhythm science and inspired by the concepts of phusion (fusion of the 21st century) and psychogeography, transform spaces in sensory experiences).
Caleb Mascarenhas (synths, beats)
Fabiano Alcântara (bass)
Fernando TRZ Falcoski (synths, electric piano, beats)
Junião (percussion, beats)
Marcelo Monteiro (sax, flute)
Thiago Duar (guitar, beats)
Paulo Pires (drums, drum machine, beats)
Carlos Pedreanez and Rodrigo ZoomB (visual artists)
All songs composed and arranged by Diego Lorenzini, but “Valparaisito”, composed by Diego Lorenzini and arranged by Javier Bobbert.
All the lyrics written by Diego Lorenzini but “Introduction to Viva Chillán, Una Crueldad Unnecesaria” written by Diego Lorenzini along with Cristóbal León, and “Viva Chillán, Una Crueldad Unnecesaria”, compiled from different fragments written by anonymous authors and reorganized by Diego Lorenzini.
“Soy Un Corpóreo y Dentro De Mí Hay Una Actriz Recién Titulada Llorando” is based on a true story of the actrees and theater director Nicole Waak.
Diego Lorenzini: Vocals, guitars, ukulele, bass, keyboards, percussions, drums, “trumpets” and programming.
Guest musicians:
Erlend Øye: vocals and “trumpets” in “Me Voy a Valparaíso”
Tiare Galaz (Storm Girl): vocals in “Chao Mi Niño”, “Billete de Luca” and “Pony”
Chini Ayarza (Chini.png): voices in “Mierda”, “Pony”, “Billete de Luca”
Rosario Alfonso: vocals in “Sin Otro particular Se Despide”, “Me Voy a Valparaíso”, “Pony” and “Billete de Luca”
Simón Campusano (Niños del Cerro): vocals in “Estamos Fritos”, “Sí Po'”, “Billete de Luca” and “Pony”
Nicolás Lorenzini (The Rapin Brothers): vocals in “Pony” and “Billete de Luca”
Martín Perez Roa (Merci): keyboard in “Me Voy a Valparaíso” and vocals in “Billete de Luca”
Javier Bobbert: guitar solo in “Valparaisito” and in “Me Voy a Valparaíso”
Juan Celofán: vocals in “Billete de Luca”
Juan Manuel Daza: vocals in “Billete de Luca”
Maite Pizarro: vocals in “Billete de Luca”
Alejandro Pino: Flugelhorn in “Spoiler”, “Mierda” and “Soy Un Corpóreo y Dentro De Mí Hay Una Actriz Recién Titulada Llorando”
Produced by Diego Lorenzini along with Martín Perez Roa (a.k.a. Merci) in Estudios Niebla.
Mastered on analog tape by Arturo Zegers in Estudios Triana
Bilal Kurtäin with a master class of snippity snaps and cuts.
Beats the way god intended them to be.
Project made by polish, Warsaw based anonymous artist.
The sound of юродивый is closely related to the emotional side of everyday life in a modern world. Acoustic piano recordings combined with electronic instruments and samples are the main components of the atmosphere of this project.
The name юродивый means the fool for Christ which was one of the main models of the sanctity in the Russian orthodox catholic church. Foolishness, emotions and disappointment are the three elements which gave life to the “Fallen expectations” – debut release of this project.
The three productions were recorded during one night studio session in winter 2018/19.
released September 16, 2019
εκεί was the first album of yosoyunotrotú
Recorded in Poland and Mexico, September 2010 to April 2011
Originally published by circlesandlines recordings on May 23, 2011
All music by
Krzysztof Polaczenko (guitar, flute, trumpet, voice, piano, electronics)
Quetzal Contla (synths, piano, glitchs, electronics)
Before Black and White is a song exclusively written for drumset, which definitely provoke usual listening habits kindly. His percussion instrument becomes a storyteller. No longer convinient drumbeat, but sounding drums. Dave causes the drumheads to oscillate, so that you inevitably start to pause and pay attention.
The inspiration for single spawns from the thought, that black and white photography was the first real step in the direction of mass documentation of humans to where we have gone to today and reminds one that those things that we hold so dear are not permanent. Like us. Humans focused more on life and living it back then and less on documenting it like we constantly do today.
