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April 1st will see Peter Broderick’s classic Erased Tapes debut Music For Falling From Trees reissued on vinyl and CD.

Through relentless touring and multiple album recordings, Portland-based Peter Broderick has established himself as a contemporary composer, known for his innate gift as a musical medium to picking up any instrument, turning his musings into poignant songs.  The scope of Peter’s work is vast – his recordings and original score work currently feature in dance arrangements, art installations, films and documentaries. He collaborated with many like-minded contemporaries such as Nils Frahm and Greg Haines, and featured on Clint Mansell’s Last Night soundtrack. Peter’s signature emotional depth cuts through any instrument to create stirring, personal music that is full of artistic detail. Currently an artist in residence at Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, Ireland, 2016 has much in store for Peter.

2009’s Music for Falling From Trees, a 30-minute piece in seven sections, was created for a contemporary dance by London-based choreographer Adrienne Hart at Neon Dance. Adrienne was looking for a score of piano and strings, so Peter left the guitar and his voice aside and focused entirely on those two timbres. 

The dance tells the story of a man in a psychiatric hospital, and his struggle to maintain his identity. The music is sometimes melancholic, sometimes playful, sometimes chaotic, but with the combination of piano and strings, full of beauty, reverence and awe. 

IN HIS OWN WORDS: “In late 2008, Adrienne Hart contacted me about scoring her new work, Falling From Trees. In Adrienne's words, ‘the piece is set in a psychiatric hospital and centered around one man's struggle to retain his identity in the most extreme of circumstances.’ There are four dancers in the piece. One male playing the patient, and three female hospital workers. 

I had been making music for a variety of film projects, but the thought of scoring a dance was very exciting to me. I was on tour at the time, so I wasn't able to start writing the music until I had a break in early January. The dance premiered on January 21st, so I had about three weeks to create the score. I camped out up in the top of my father's barn with some minimal recording equipment, my violin and viola, and an old broken piano. 

Given the time constraints, I approached the music in a very open way. Rather than sit down and try to compose something, I just set up a microphone and started playing. After coming up with a couple of themes on the piano, I started recording, using those small themes and improvising around them. Most of the sections have a small core that is composed, and then the rest is improvised. Luckily for me this method seemed to work. I would work all day and then send a sketch over to Adrienne, and every time her response was positive. So in this way we worked very well together. I give my hugest thanks to Adrienne for trusting me to create the music for her wonderful work. 

Adrienne told me from the beginning she was looking for a score of piano and strings. So I decided to take this literally and make a rule not to use any other instruments. In the script it called for the sound of a ticking clock. I made this sound by tapping on the body of the violin with my fingernails. The sound of an electric shock given to the patient is depicted by a quick, distorted piano chord. And all other droning and bass tones were made by extending and processing violin and/or piano tones, etc. Thank you very much for listening.” – Peter Broderick, March 2009

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Peter Broderick – Part 4: The Dream

For the past eight years the duo of Rob Lowe and Michael Muller have nurtured and refined their creative partnership as the core members of the band Balmorhea.  Though their first album on Western Vinyl Rivers Arms (2008) garnered some remarkable press, their self-titled debut, recorded in 2006 and released in 2007 best captures the duo's unique magic as it first blossomed.  With no label, distributor, manager, publicist, or booking agent the duo quietly self-released their first recordings and started playing live shows. 

For these two Texans the release of their self-titled album was the beginning of a new trajectory in their lives.  They were young enough that their prefrontal cortexes were still developing, but old enough to tap into the ancient stories that coursed through their veins.  Though crudely recorded at home, those early songs display all of the key characteristics and emotional scope that continue to define the duo's sound.  Now, seven years later Western Vinyl is honored to have the opportunity reissue the band's self-titled album, and make it available on vinyl for the first time ever.

In honor of this special reissue, the audio has been lovingly remastered, drawing out even more of the nuances…magnifying the sounds of Muller and Lowe's fingers on the instruments, and teasing out the textures that set these recordings apart from the rest of their catalog.  Simple and sincere, these songs and ambient sounds the duo captured in these recordings are strangely inviting.  Throughout the album the distant sounds of Texas grackles, the warm summer rain, the steady rhythm of crickets chirping, and creaking wooden stools, all seeping in to cradle the notes in a restrained din of primordial wonder. 

Attesa (Nils Frahm Rework)

'Entanglement' is out on Erased Tapes.
Order the album on CD/LP/DL: http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP067
Or via iTunes: http://geni.us/entanglementitunes

“No click tracks, no headphones, and no film. Just the spontaneity of performance and the sound of musicians hearing, connecting and responding.” 

‘Entanglement’, the debut album by Michael Price fulfils his long-term desire to explore new musical territories, featuring Michael on the piano, with the addition of cello, soprano voice, string orchestra, modular synth, tape effects and electronics.

Throughout the record you will hear street sounds from 'Budapest' captured and processed on Michael’s mobile phone, as well as chamber music recorded direct to tape with vintage microphones in single takes. Album track ‘The Attachment’ was partly recorded onto a 1940s magnetic disc recorder, which immediately connected the piece back to a pre-digital musical age.

The cello and soprano vocal parts throughout the album were written specifically and directly for cellist Peter Gregson and vocalist Ashley Knight, whose expressive voice features on tracks ‘Maitri‘ and ‘The Uncertainly Principle‘. The lyrics for both songs are Japanese poetry sung in English, dealing with age, loss and the inevitable fading of beauty.

‘Entanglement’ was written over a period of two years on paper and by hand with Michael exploring oldest and newest technology at Abbey Road Studios and Snap Studios in London, before most of the recording and mixing took place at Vox-Ton in Berlin.

“I wanted to make an album that sounded like a dark, Berlin record store discovery from the 30s. Something that had timeless emotive power, and pre-digital rawness. Something that I hope would make a deeper connection in superficially networked times. I think there is a duty for artists to be honest, and vulnerable. Because then there is a possibility of real connection. Entanglement is both honest and vulnerable and to go through the two year process of writing, refining and recording an album has been more intense and more beautiful than I could have possibly imagined.

Entanglement is a very personal expression of my obsessions: music, love, physics and the inter-connectedness of things. There is structure and freedom, chaos and control, and the beauty of ancient instruments set against impassive machines." – Michael Price

ABOUT THE ARTWORK: Resembling the inter-connecting parts, the cover art for ‘Entanglement’ was created by South London artist Supermundane, with the packaging’s layout done by long-term Erased Tapes-collaborator Torsten Posselt at FELD in Berlin.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Tape Overture 2. Easter  3. Little Warm Thing 4. Budapest  5. The Attachment  6. Maitri  7. Digital Birds  8. The Uncertainty Principle 9. Entanglement

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Entanglement

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Michael Price – Easter

To celebrate Piano Day I recorded a cover version of a piece from one of my favorite piano composers/performers, Michael Nyman.  This piece is titled "Molly" off of the wonderful score to the Michael Winterbottom film "Wonderland". 

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Molly - (Goldmund Cover)

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Here is the first teaser track from something LTS has planned for one of the most overlooked and bad ass albums in our catalog, 2014's Graveyard Tapes - White Rooms.  

Keep your eyes peeled for more remixes coming soon.  Until then, this Mute Forest remix and the original version of "Sometimes the Sun Doesn't Want To Be Photographed" can be listen to and purchased here: https://gtapes.bandcamp.com/album/white-rooms

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Graveyard Tapes - Sometimes The Sun...(Mute Forest Remix)

Waiting figures,
Dark outfits in the dim light,
Silence holds their plea.


Waiting figures in dark outfits

Lights of Dawn

New Linear Music
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BACK OF BEYOND

behind your shadow - romain deschamps - octobre 2025

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Anne Garner - Wherever You Go (Tom Adams Remix)

The spellbinding closing track from @blommamusic's eponymous debut record. 

Album out now : https://orcd.co/blomma

BLOMMA is @philipdanielpiano and @jacob-pavek

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Finale

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BLOMMA - Finale

Sharing a lovely rework of Daigo Hanada's piece 'Under the Starry Sky' by UK composer @mattemery. It's almost a year since the release of Hanada's gorgeous solo EP Ouka, and it's quite special to have the record's closing track reimagined around the cello and violin. We're offering it up as a free download on Bandcamp, and it's also available to stream on all platforms. Here's one of those fancy links to let you choose your own listening adventure: orcd.co/hanada-emery

Original composition by @daigohanada

Performed by: 
Matt Emery - Piano / Synths / Bass 
Fraser Bowles - Cello 
Laci Olah - Violin 
Daniel Thorne - Saxophone 

Produced by James Kenosha and Matt Emery

Under the Starry Sky (Matt Emery Rework)

Daigo Hanada - Under the Starry Sky (Matt Emery Rework)

...buckle up and hit the open road, taking in vast fields evoked by slowly evolving open harmonies. Hit the accelerator and the mountains appear suddenly in the distance, their stunning presence captured by a driving beat, a riveting piano melody and sequenced synths...

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Tobias Svensson - Aerials

Industrial rock / Cinematic music 

Composer / Multi-instrument player / Singer / Mixing Engineer

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