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The Quiet Village: Library Jazz, Big Band & Orchestral Werks

Thrash??

pioneer:(?:)?

Live from Floridita, Soho (2013).

The Denmark Street Big Band
www.denmarkstreetbigband.co.uk

Recording Engineer: Alex Pareas
Mix Engineer: Chris Kalcov

Baby Elephant Walk

The Lost Tapes Record Club
EP-1
RSEP01
Cassette

Folklore Tapes Present a new Radiolore Series, The Lost Tapes Record Club

A series of four EPs curated by members of the band Clinic  and presented by the Lost Tapes Record Club.  Containing tracks pertaining to a unique project based around ethnographic radiolore and  surrounding the Dorset town of Symonsbury.

Panhandle - Click Clap

Bruno Nicolai
Marquis De Sade
FKR069LP (vinyl only)

De Sade 70? La Isla De La Muerte? Decameron Francese? Wildkatzen? Philosophy In The Boudoir? Les Inassouvies? Eugenie And The Story Of Her Journey Into Perversion?... De Sade, De Sade.. The film so odd they named it fifteen times!

Represented here on this special commemorative format you will find some of the finest fruits from an infamous fertile creative relationship between two of the most dedicated and productive bastions of the 1960/70s Eurotica genre - Spanish born director Jess Franco (Vampyros Lesbos) and Bruno Nicolai (The Good The Bad And The Ugly/All The Colours Of The Dark). Thrown into a long-running partnership following a rare/lost 1969 Italian/Spanish co-production with the emblematic title Sex Charade (which also marked the debut collaboration between Franco and actress Soledad Miranda), the unison of shocking image and rocking sound provided an inspirational exchange of new experimental and uninhabited avenues for both of these workaholic European artists. In the late 60s, as the rise of Italian horror directors, such as a young Dario Argento, test- ed the boundaries of censorship and common decency, the Giallo comic book adaptation movies had began to open new channels for established symphonic composers such as Ennio Morricone, who was able to exercise his off-menu interests in the free jazz (exemplified by his non-soundtrack work with Gruppo di improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza) as budget restrictions were exchanged for creative freedom thus creating an important niche in European cinema which came to typify the burgeoning movement. The boom in the Horrotica/exploitation industry that rapidly sprawled across central Europe to Germany and Spain virtually overnight made extensive work for a long line of established Italian composers such as Alessandroni, Sorgini, Piccioni, Nicolai, and Cipriani - all of whom spread their spaghetti western roots (often under multiple pseudonyms) and took tight hold of the sonic aesthetic of European thriller cinema. While working in the organised ranks of production houses and library labels Like Deneb, CAM, Octopus, Beat and Liuto, the syndication of Italian music in Spanish horror cinema became synonymous. 

When Jess Franco began to work on Italian co-productions he forged a consistent relationship with conductor and arranger Bruno Nicolai, who had already worked very closely with Morricone on some of his greatest feature films while remaining tightly committed to arthouse cinema such as Pasolini’s Theorem and Pontecorvo’s The Battle Of Algiers. As a one-time professional jazz musician himself, Franco always had a good ear for emotive music, an integral facet that has ulti- mately given wider wings to his films and longevity for future generations of film/music enthusiasts. Where many directors would employ musical supervisors or license library recordings, Franco would often synchronise his own compositions alongside tracks from LPs that he sourced in record shops on his travels, as typified by the economic use of the German Sexadelic and Vampire Sound Incorporated LPs by Sigi Scwhab and Manfred Huber (which became the soundtrack for a film trilogy starting with Vampyros Lesbos in 1970) or the Blue Phantom LP as used on his film Sinner in 1975. 

What originally began as a one-off relationship of convenience for the production company became a fruitful and habitual unison of choice and Nicolai would spend much of the early 70s balancing his time as a conductor for Morricone with repeat commissions for two notable horror directors - Sergio Martino in Italy and Franco in Spain. Forming a faithful relationship similar to that of Argento/Goblin and Fellini/Rota, the Franco/Nicolai partnership is arguably best illustrated on the soundtrack to this version of De Sade, presented here for the first time with a sharper focus on the free avant garde elements and the previously unpressed heavier psychedelic music that was prevalent and integral to Franco’s tastes. Including titles such as Drug Party, this set of full-length instrumental songs (as opposed to short cues) benefit from the extra collaborative energies of Italian studio luminaries Edda Dell’Orso (breathy onomatopoeic vocals) and Alessandro Allesandroni (sitar), striking comparisons with the aforementioned work under The Pawnshop moniker or the music from the Sergio Martino film All The Colours Of The Dark which enhance the displaced hallucinogenic and inebriated subtext of the film’s exploitative and counter cultural tenuous source of inspiration.

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Bruno Nicolai - De Sade 70/Circle (edit)

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings cover of "Goldfinger" as heard on the 'Wolf Of Wall Street" soundtrack.

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Goldfinger

From the mixtape Drunken Babble on Datpiff 

@KALIUCHIS

T.Y.W.I.G

Weezer - surf wax America

Taken from the forthcoming "I Had Grown Wild" EP
Out May 18, 2015

Pre-order here:
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My Brighest Diamond, "This is My Hand" (Groundlift Remix)

Blue Hotel (Chris Isaak)

Taken from the forthcoming "I Had Grown Wild" EP

Buy the I Had Grown Wild EP here:
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My Brightest Diamond - "Lover Killer" (The Hood Internet Remix)

Meredith Brook - Bitch

Remixed from "Blue Bucket of Gold" from the album CARRIE & LOWELL
Buy it: http://akrec.co/akr099-buy / 
Album stream: http://akrec.co/1xuiuN0

More info: http://carrieandlowell.com

Sufjan Stevens, "Blue Bucket of Gold (Remix)"

Berlin Brides' introverted, pared down version of Nirvana's 'Breed'.
From 'Nirvana's Nevermind revisited by Greek Bands'.
Exclusively for SONIK mag.

Breed (Nirvana cover)

From Psychic Temple III
http://akrec.co/pt-iii

When I Know
(Music by Chris Schlarb / Lyrics by Tabor Allen & Chris Schlarb)

When the sun goes behind the trees
When I know all the names of the birds that sing

When I learn to forget the past
I've carried all this time
Can I make every good thing last
Or will I lose my mind?

When the moon goes behind the clouds,
When I know why the dogs bark at every sound

When I learn to forget the past
I've carried all this time
Can I make every good thing last
Or will I lose my mind?

Call me out
Don't let me go
Teach me truth
I'll never know

Tabor Allen - acoustic drums, percussion
Dave Easley - banjo, pedal steel guitar
Philip Glenn - mandolin
Sheridan Riley - acoustic drums
Aaron Roche - acoustic guitar
Chris Schlarb - 6- & 12- string acoustic guitar, lead vocal
Anthony Shadduck - double bass
Nedelle Torrisi - backing vocals

Produced by Chris Schlarb

Psychic Temple, "When I Know" (Album Version)

The Matrimony Remixes takes Julianna Barwick’s acclaimed early 2011 release, The Magic Place, and puts two of its tracks into the hands of good friends. Previously having crossed paths with Julianna while both working on remixes of Radiohead’s “Reckoner,” Philadelphia-based Diplo teams up with producer Lunice to provide some deep sea beats to “Vow.” Brooklyn neighbor to Barwick, “dear friend,” and label-mate Roberto Lange takes “Vow” into the inner space of clouds. Long-time Barwick friend Bryan Doring of Alias Pail drumbreaks “Prizewinning.” Brooklyn/Boston-based sisters of the cosmos Prince Rama closes out the EP by escorting the same song into an aural Eden.

Julianna Barwick, "Prizewinning (Prince Rama Remix)"

Plastic Beach

Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach (feat. Snoop Dogg and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)

"The Storm" is the new single from the Finnish-Swedish pop duo Pepe Deluxé. Featuring a choir, a harp, a modular synthesizer, a Fisher Price –style drum kit played by Finland's most respected jazz drummer and a full orchestra, "The Storm" sounds like the theme from “Thunderbirds” meets a Samurai playing surf music.


Pepe Deluxé, "The Storm"

My Brightest Diamond, "High Low Middle"

Fol Chen has joined forces with Monome and Machine Project to bring you the Tetrafol.

The Tetrafol is a hand-held tangible electronic sound toy. Circuits enclosed by a wooden tetrahedron detect orientation and motion-gestures to modify the playback of a collection of Fol Chen's micro-compositions, allowing the user to explore sound through physical manipulation.

The battery-powered device has its own internal speaker but can additionally be hooked up to a headphone or amplifier.

The circuit and firmware are based on open-source hardware and is itself published as open-source, allowing anyone interested to learn about its deepest inner-workings.

Buy one here: 
http://machineproject.com/archive/other/2011/11/07/announcing-the-tetrafol/

Fol Chen, "So Good"

Black Label Society - Concrete Jungle

Ghosting - Mother Mother (Nightcore)

Free Download:  https://hypeddit.com/track/n2htqu

Free Download

Cat Power - Troubled Waters (Bootleg By UCP Berlin) Free Download

The Drums - Let's Go Surfing (The Raveonettes Remix)

Buy it now: http://smarturl.it/AnAwesomeWave

An Awesome Wave

Bloodflood

321 Chile melody

Asthmatic Kitty Records is an independent record label that was co-founded by Lowell Brams and his stepson, singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens, in 1999. Since its founding, AKR has released albums by a variety of artists, including Lily & Madeleine, My Brightest Diamond and Helado Negro, and is currently home to Sufjan Stevens, Angelo De Augustine, Denison Witmer and The Welcome Wagon. 

Asthmatic Kitty was named after Sara, an orange and white tabby who wandered out of the woods pregnant and starving near Holland, Michigan in 1994. For fourteen years she brought joy as a beloved friend to Lowell, enjoying a happy life despite her initial hardships. Her asthma improved after moving west to New Mexico and Wyoming, where she lived out her days as an asthmatic kitty in name only.