Artist Title: Francisco Mela and Zoh Amba
Album Title:  Causa y Efecto Vol. 1
Label: 577 Records
File Under: Experimental / Avantgarde / Free Jazz
Release Date: 9/30/22
Cat#: 5878-1
Format: LP (first pressing)
Format: CD (first pressing)
LP-577R-5878-1
Barcode LP: 806102123360
CD-577R-5878-1
Barcode CD: 755491242162

The world is more elusive than simple cause and effect imply, more typically, life circumvents causation in favor of an unknowable correlation. It seems like the more we know, the less we know. On this first volume from Zoh Amba and Francisco Mela, the duo brings their regional traditions, from Tennessee and Cuba respectively, and musical inclinations to the cause and effect behind their own life stories. Causa y Efecto, Vol. 1 is an ode to the unknown, transporting audiences between the New York studio where it was recorded and the mist-shrouded mountains where each musician grew up. On tracks like “Dos Vidas'' and “Serenata,” Mela builds a textured, percussive foundation that Amba interrupts with breathy tenor saxophone and her distinctive flute. On “Maria,” dedicated to Mela’s mother, simple hand drumming provides a gentle rhythm, overlaid by Amba’s delicate flute and Mela’s full baritone voice, delivered in the unassuming style of the campesino. Causa y Efecto, Vol. 1 is an ode to the countrysides that both musicians came from, decades apart, and the experimental, improvisational pursuit for which they've joined in New York.

Zoh Amba: Tenor saxophone, flute
Francisco Mela: Drums, voice

Recorded April 12, 2021
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jeremy Loucas at Sear Sound, New York City

Photography by Sergio Vezzali
Graphic design by Sergio Vezzali
Graphic files preparation by Mark Smith

Compositions by Francisco Mela (1, 2, 4, 5) and Francisco Mela / Zoh Amba (3)

577 Records is an independent record label 
based in Brooklyn, New York 
operating since 2001

577 Records
Brooklyn, New York
www.577records.com
©+℗ 2022

Causa y Efecto Vol. 1

Francisco Mela and Zoh Amba: 'Maria from album 'Causa y Efecto Vol. 1' (577 Records)

Leo Genovese - Keyboards
Brandon Lopez - Bass
Federico Ughi - Drums

Artist Title: Federico Ughi
Album Title: Infinite Cosmos Calling You You You, Vol. 1 (feat. Leo Genovese and Brandon Lopez)
Label: 577 Records
File Under: Avant-garde / Experimental / Cosmic
Release Date: 3/15/24
Cat#: 5930-1
Format: LP (first pressing, 200 copies) Classic Black Vinyl
Format: LP/CD (first pressing)
LP-577R-5930-1
Barcode LP: 736952027030
CD-577R-5930-1
Barcode CD: 755491288856

Recorded April 24, 2022
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jeremy Loucas at Sear Sound, New York City

Illustration by Robert Mirolo
Graphic design by Mark Smith 

Music by Federico Ughi (Five Seven Seven Records Music, ASCAP)

577 Records is an independent record label based in Brooklyn, New York operating since 2001

577 Records
Brooklyn, New York
www.577records.com
©+℗ 2024

Infinite Cosmos Calling You You You, Vol. 1 (feat. Leo Genovese and Brandon Lopez)

The Door of The Cosmos Is Opening

Federico Ughi: 'The Door of The Cosmos...' from 'Infinite Cosmos Calling You You You, Vol. 1 (577)

This is a series of interviews with musicians and interesting folks from NYC and other parts of the world. Hosted by drummer Federico Ughi. Episode 25 is All the Talking with saxophone player and composer James Brandon Lewis. Recorded during the SOF Music Residency in Tangier, Morocco, 2023.

Check out James Brandon Lewis’ website:
https://jblewis.com/

SOF MUSIC RESIDENCIES
https://www.577records.com/soundsoffreedom

577 Records is an independent record label based in Brooklyn, New York operating since 2001
577 Records Brooklyn, New York www.577records.com ©+℗ 2024

Episode 25 - All the Talking with James Brandon Lewis

Resonating quarantine moods with voice(s), electronics and a selection of found kitchen objects.

Video is available here: https://youtu.be/uLT7A0vgRQQ

Live-streamed on IKLECTIK OFF-SITE ART RESISTANCE, April 20th 2020.
http://iklectikoffsite.org/

InQuarantine Sessions #1

Laika

For this rare solo audio release, multi-disciplinary artist Phoebe Collings-James lays out, overlaps and tangles a curious and often contradictory selection of material over a bed of slowly tumbling electronics. Like picking up someone's phone and briefly eavesdropping on their photos, diary notes, recordings & what they've been watching or listening to ‘Can You Move Towards Yourself Without Flinching?' renders an aural tapestry with a bracing question .

Like her compelling collaborative work 'Sound as Weapon, Sounds 4 Survival' with Last Yearz Interesting Negro, Phoebe's placement and arrangement of audio is masterful in its sleight of hand, inviting numerous interpretations, without losing its ability to beguile.

TR080 - Phoebe Collings-James - 'Can You Move Towards Yourself Without Flinching' [excerpt]

Distant Duo -Gerry Gibbs , Cheryl  Pyle 
from the cd Distant Duos
 -Cheryl Pyle and  Friends -11th street Music 2020

Distant  Duo -Gerry Gibbs  & Cheryl Pyle

Recorded by Mike Figgis in Terry’s attic at Lyonsdown Manor House, London 1969.

This session is one of the few times Figgis and Day played as a duo. Personnel of the CME & PB regularly played on TD’s drums during gigs & “jams” - Mike particularly had a ‘jazzy’ feel. They were, with others, co-founders of the Continuous Music Ensemble and People Band, whilst also plus collaborating in other configurations. 

Mixed and Mastered by Mike Figgis. 

Artwork Terry Day (2018)

TDA001 "Duets 69" [sample]

sounding out fernworth forest
extracts from an improvisation recorded on location, 10 sept 2020.

four locations in fernworthy forest, each with its own acoustic quality, its atmosphere. four locations inspire very different improvisations

hervé perez, alto saxophone, ©2020

sounding out – is the practice of deep listening, a connection with the spirit of a place.
these recordings are explorations of outdoor acoustics and sacred sites, investigating the nature of space and architecture, natural topography.

find more recordings of sounding out:
https://nexttimestudio.wordpress.com/

Sounding Out

bridge

bridge [Fernworthy Forest sept 2020]

STREAM / BUY NOW: https://rse.lnk.to/AskAnyone

ASK ANYONE

One for MF DOOM from LICE with love. 

Vocals - Aesop Rock and Homeboy Sandman
Beat - MF DOOM
Photo - Owen Brozman
Layout - Alex Everson
Vocal Mix and Master - Joey Raia

VILLAIN 
VILLAIN
VILLAIN

LYRICS:
Aesop Rock

Roses for the OG MF, where were you when Bob dropped the OG Deadbent?
I was over Tony’s on some “Whoa is that? No, is that...?
Yes it’s Zev Love X, sounding reckless”
I took it to the head and heart
You were back as Metal Face and threatening my pearl white Acura from the 2nd barBarfing up a master class in charismatic disrespect 
And trash talk, mask on, mac and cheese Timberlands
Sold the first Apple Seed cd's at your Brownies show
While you were saying "something to remember like the Alamo”
I was yelling every word and never late
And when you finally played “Hey!” I felt the venue levitate
Ask anyone, L.I. to upstate
Come to learn it’s only phase 1 of the flood gates
DOOM stay gluing true grit to the bass line
And made himself a hero and a villain at the same time
Back in ‘94 you had that line about the Nikes on the wire  
I’d always see these Nikes on the wire when I was driving through a neighborhood somebody said you stayed in
Convinced I’d found the actual inspiration 
For the record I was not even close to the right neighborhood
Even when the heart is pure, the brain is mush
Thank you for the stories, and the fuck you to the normies
Brewin said we lost our Jordan, I would sprinkle in some Vorhees and agree
Breeze I have this memory of me and you
Rapping Meat Grinder to each other at a BBQ in BK 
Got the same memory with a couple other people too
Trading DOOM lines, that’s what people do
You were always kind to me in person
I tried to play it cool but I was always kinda nervous
30 summers a guide in the muddy waters
To the man with many names: I hope you’re somewhere with your brother, yea


Homeboy Sandman

Supervillain tho
Illin tho
Chopping records that my parents listened to
DOOM was on a mission to remind you that the magic is what matters
But where’d he find that banter?
Where’d he find them patterns?
He ain’t had no manners
My favorite villain is The Drop off Viktor Vaughn
But every time I hear the Great Day intro I’ma sing along
And cats be sleeping on the GMO's them lessons on point
We share a brother in Kuri from the ? joint
Supervillain in the function then his peoples never far
Thanks for introducing us to John Robinson and Stahhr
And a era full of rarified jewels
And making use of airtime for making bad hairlines cool
Being crazy takes guts
Monsta Island Czars had a rep for being nuts
Extra special words
Scent of special herbs still lingers
My pantheon is Bird and Mingus, Prince and Metal Fingers
Larger than life, he had his own Nikes
I’m a Clearweather brand dude but dag DOOM
MM FOOD was the anagram
Fresh put me on I proceed to put on anyone that was famalam
And
Every particle genuine article
Okay you stiffed a few promoters
Who thought they booked the man under the mask but they could never tell for certain
Walking the walk, while talking in third person
He wore a mask so the charge won’t grab
On a rooftop with a large stone slab
Seen where the industry was going and
Had the gonads
To go “nah”
Thanks
A bar is not a measure
Of music DOOM was doing it’s a unit a buried treasure
No one ever done it better
So I’ma keep my computer on caps lock forever.

Lice (Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman) - Ask Anyone

577 Records is proud to be celebrating its 23 year anniversary.  The legendary music master Daniel Carter was one of the first people 577 cofounder Federico Ughi met soon after arriving in New York from Italy in 2000, after a brief stint in London. 

It was a meeting of like minds and shortly thereafter the two started a series of house concerts at 577 Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, the apartment where Federico was living at the time. The spontaneous nature of the concerts along with the incredible caliber of the deep downtown underground music they were able to present inspired them to bring the unique nature of what they were doing to a wider audience and they founded the label 577 Records to further that mission. 

577 Records started the Forward Festival in 2015 to mark the momentous occasion of Daniel Carter’s 70th birthday. The festival has become an annual tradition and continues to delight audiences year after year with its surprising and eclectic lineup. 

100% of profit from the sale of most of these albums goes to the musicians.

Francisco Mela and Zoh Amba: 'Maria from album 'Causa y Efecto Vol. 1' (577 Records)

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