[p*dis] distribution sampler for March 2016

p*dis sampler 2016.03

City Electrique

Electronic groove 5

Música Concreta - Som I

Jakob Skøtt: Synthemesc

Musica Concreta

Robotic Mutation - Musica

Pierre Schaeffer - Etude Aux Chemins De Fer

Siren's Dawn

Buried On Jupiter

From the album EARS out April 1st on Western Vinyl

Order EARS
iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/gz5pqt
Bandcamp: http://hyperurl.co/vo3n6n
Amazon: http://hyperurl.co/qypau1
WV: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv145

Artist Page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith
Website http://kaitlynaureliasmith.com/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kaitlynaurelia/
Twitter https://twitter.com/kaitlynaurelia
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kaitlynaurelia/

TOUR DATES
March 	18 - London - Convergence Festival
March 	22 - Dublin - Button Factory w/ Battles
March 	24 - London - Electric Brixton w/ Battles
March 	25 - Paris - La Cigale w/ Battles
March 	26 - Reims - La Cartonnerie w/ Battles
March 	27 - Brussels - BRDCST Festival
March 	29 - Milan - Magazzini Generali w/ Battles
March 	30 - Rome - Spring Attitude Festival w/ Battles
March 	31 - Roncade - New Age Roncade w/ Battles
April 	01 - The Hague - Rewire Festival
April 	05 - Lausanne - Les Docks w/ Battles
April 	06 - Zurich - Rote Fabrik w/ Battles
April 	07 - Berlin - Kantine am Berghain
April 	12 - Belgrade - Resonate Festival
April 	13 - Berlin - Ableton User Group Meeting
April 	15 - Linz - Stadtwerkstatt / Kirchengasse 7
April 	28 - Fayetteville, AR - George’s Majestic Lounge w/ Animal Collective
April 	29 - Austin, TX - Levitation
May 	01 - Tulsa, OK - Cains Ballroom w/ Animal Collective
May 	03 - St. Louis, MO - Pageant - St Louis, MO w/ Animal Collective
May 	04 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	06 - Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works w/ Animal Collective
May 	07 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	08 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel w/ Animal Collective
May 	10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club w/ Animal Collective
May 	13 - Wilmington, DE - World Café Live at The Queen w/ Animal Collective
May 	14 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom - w/ Animal Collective

Listeners familiar with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's previous album Euclid (an album that prompted Dazed to call her "…one of the most pioneering musicians in the world.") will no doubt notice her heavier use of vocals on her new album EARS.  On all but one song, her gently ecstatic swells of vocals emerge to soar over a dense jungle of synths and woodwinds.

After initially composing on a Buchla analog synth, she wrote arrangements for a woodwind quintet, added vocals, and further refined the pieces with granular synthesis techniques she developed in her sound design work (she contributed sound design to Panda Bear's "Boys Latin" video, and handled sound design and original compositions for Brasilia co-written by and starring Reggie Watts).   

Kinetic arpeggios of synths pulse, often buoying her graceful vocal mantras, while woodwinds breathe and flutter, emulating the wildlife Smith observed while growing up on the West Coast (she even studied recordings of slowed down bird calls prior to composing these pieces).   Though some of her gestures echo the musical tropes used by early minimalist composers, the world she creates on EARS is uniquely hypnotic and full of life, not unlike Miyzaki's film Nausicaä, which she cites as an inspiration.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "Arthropoda"

Jürgen Karg’s career in music began in the 1960s as bass player for German jazz legend Wolfgang Dauner. It was not until the 1970s that he switched his attention to electronic music, launching himself wholeheartedly into exploring the genre and building up an extensive collection of synthesizers over a five year period. His efforts culminated in the “Elektronische Mythen” LP, a mighty opus of experimental music which reveals new aspects every time it is played.

Jürgen Karg "Elektronische Mythen" (1977) snippets - reissue out June 17, 2016

From the album EARS released April 1st 2016 on Western Vinyl

iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/gz5pqt
Bandcamp: http://hyperurl.co/vo3n6n
Amazon: http://hyperurl.co/qypau1
WV: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv145

Artist Page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith
Website http://kaitlynaureliasmith.com/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kaitlynaurelia/
Twitter https://twitter.com/kaitlynaurelia
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kaitlynaurelia/

TOUR DATES
April 	28 - Fayetteville, AR - George’s Majestic Lounge w/ Animal Collective
April 	29 - Austin, TX - Levitation
May 	01 - Tulsa, OK - Cains Ballroom w/ Animal Collective
May 	03 - St. Louis, MO - Pageant - St Louis, MO w/ Animal Collective
May 	04 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	06 - Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works w/ Animal Collective
May 	07 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	08 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel w/ Animal Collective
May 	10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club w/ Animal Collective
May 	13 - Wilmington, DE - World Café Live at The Queen w/ Animal Collective
May 	14 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom - w/ Animal Collective

Listeners familiar with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's previous album Euclid (an album that prompted Dazed to call her "…one of the most pioneering musicians in the world.") will no doubt notice her heavier use of vocals on her new album EARS.  On all but one song, her gently ecstatic swells of vocals emerge to soar over a dense jungle of synths and woodwinds.

After initially composing on a Buchla analog synth, she wrote arrangements for a woodwind quintet, added vocals, and further refined the pieces with granular synthesis techniques she developed in her sound design work (she contributed sound design to Panda Bear's "Boys Latin" video, and handled sound design and original compositions for Brasilia co-written by and starring Reggie Watts).   

Kinetic arpeggios of synths pulse, often buoying her graceful vocal mantras, while woodwinds breathe and flutter, emulating the wildlife Smith observed while growing up on the West Coast (she even studied recordings of slowed down bird calls prior to composing these pieces).   Though some of her gestures echo the musical tropes used by early minimalist composers, the world she creates on EARS is uniquely hypnotic and full of life, not unlike Miyzaki's film Nausicaä, which she cites as an inspiration.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "Existence In The Unfurling"

In 1981 the Düsseldorf band Die Krupps (Jürgen Engler, Bernward Malaka, Ralf Dörper) released a seminal album which wrote its own chapter in the history of music: the “Stahlwerksinfonie” (Steelworks Symphony) was a near thirty-minute musical monolith of metal and guitar sounds with scattergun saxophone and shouts, held together by a monotonic bass line and stoic beat. The “Stahlwerksinfonie” proved a worldwide sensation, a nucleus of EBM and industrial rock. It stood as a direct descendent of Cluster's early works, although Krupps mastermind Jürgen Engler was as yet unfamiliar with the output of his purported antescedents. 
35 years later, a new version is upon us: the “Stahlwerkrequiem”, recorded with Engler's kindred spirits Mani Neumeier (Guru Guru), Jean-Hervé Peron and Zappi Diermaier (Faust), Pyrolator (Der Plan) and US postrock musician Scott Telles. 
Out June 24, 2016. CD/vinyl/digital
http://www.bureau-b.com/Krupps.php

Die Krupps – Stahlwerkrequiem (snippets) Out June 24, 2016

2007-2008 / hakobune (SRCD055)

the straight road *sense of place (u-cover records)
pastoral 463 *sense of place (u-cover records)
waiting offshore *sense of place (u-cover records)
the july skies followed us here *wandering toward what was unsaid (u-cover records)
and the sunlight transcends *wandering toward what was unsaid (u-cover records)
realization at dusk *wandering toward what was unsaid (u-cover records)
melting reminiscence *melting reminiscence (waterscape records)
yukidaruma *melting reminiscence (waterscape records)
fleeting reference *we left the window open sometimes (symbolic interaction)
nullity and rumination *we left the window open sometimes (symbolic interaction)
sothis *split with david tagg (install)

produce : Takahiro Yorifuji
mastering : Ken'ichi Itoi
photo : Fábio Petry
art direction : Ken'ichi Itoi

the july skies followed us here / hakobune

Taken from the album Transliaciya, released on Preserved Sound April 1, 2016. Check out the album at: https://preservedsound.bandcamp.com/album/transliaciya

Twenty-six – Ales Tsurko

Rolf Trostel is a protagonist of the so-called Berliner Schule / Berlin School (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze). On his first album “Inselmusik” (1981) he explores the sonic possibilities of the recently introduced PPG wavetable synthesizer. The music is based on live performances from the late 1970s by Trostel and the legendary Krautrock guitarist Günter Schickert. CD/vinyl/digital. Out Aug 5, 2016

Rolf Trostel - Inselmusik (1981) (snippets). Reissue out Aug 5, 2016

Rolf  Trostel's second album "Two Faces" was released in 1982, only a year after his debut, "Inselmusik". While "Inselmusik" was intended as a basis for live perfor­mance, Trostel composed and produced the five instrumental tracks on "Two Faces" exclusively for this album. The music is clearly a product of the Berlin School, yet is more sophisticated and varied than its predecessor. Out Aug 5, 2016. CD/vinyl/digital

Rolf Trostel — Two Faces (snippets) Reissue from 1982. Out Aug 5, 2016

brutalism in music

KARAMIKA

release date: june

TON 13

Rolf Trostel is a protagonist of the so-called Berliner Schule / Berlin School (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze). Electronic Pop was the musical goal on Trostel's third album, which was released in the same year as its predecessor "Two Faces". "Der Prophet" is the culmination of this phase of Trostel's oeuvre, which was tightly coupled to the PPG Wave Computer. Out Aug 5, 2016. CD, vinyl, digital 

Rolf Trostel - Der Prophet (1982)(snippets). Reissue out Aug 5, 2016

Having played his way through the 1970s in various rock combos (Medusa, Nine Days' Wonder), Michael Bundt embarked on a solo career in the latter part of the decade, going on to release three albums which saw him explore the vast potential of electronic music. Delightfullly varied and typical of his willingness to experiment, his music orbits around Krautrock, Berlin School electronica, space-futurism and synth pop. "Electri City" was his last album. Reissue out Sep 16, 2016. CD, vinyl, digital

Michael Bundt – Electri City. Reissue from 1980. Snippets. Out Sep 16, 2016

Taken from the album 'Le Trièdre Fertile' released as LP.
Recorded in 1978.

Pierre Schaeffer 'Strette (excerpt)' (REGRM 001)

Inquiries: ✉ info@bureau-b.com ✉

Bureau B is a Hamburg based label which releases past and future classics unearthed from genres including (but not limited to) electronica, avant-garde, Kraut(rock) – a colourful spectrum of diverse, yet contigiuous musical genres. Applying the expertise deployed in trawling the archives, Bureau B has gone on to champion new and contemporary acts with similar musical sensibilities to their pioneering antecedents.