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Nicolas Jaar - Ishmael

!!! These are stripped-down 128mp3 snippets of the original tracks!!!

Artist: Felix Laband
Title: Deaf Safari
Cat No: CPT 470-1 / -2
Format: 2LP incl. cardboard CD / CD / digital
Release: 29th May 2015

TRACKLISTING:

1. The Savage Bush Hotel (6:25)
2. Im So High. I Swear I Could (4:55)
3. Ding Dong Thing (11:59)
4. Righteous Red Berets (9:12)
5. Squeeze The Trigger (9:09)
6. The Devil Threatens Me (12:55)
7. Down The Garden Path (12:28)
8. Getting Old (5:05)
9. Pietermaritzburg (4:47)

ARTIST STATEMENT

Deaf Safari is an audio collage of subjects that interest me and speak of the world I live in.
It is an album composed of sampled recordings from the media landscape that has been the soundtrack to my life over the last ten years.

The most important development in my current music and as can be heard on Deaf Safari has been my understanding of the beauty and power of the spoken word. I have experienced severe indifference to contemporary pop and electronic music as a whole over the last many years, as I have felt that social comment of any relevance has been ignored by music in general.
Deaf Safari attempts to bring sociopolitical comment into my music without taking any specific stand.
Sampled outside of musical influence directly from the news; from preacher sermons or from contemporary African documentaries.
I have finally created a story with sound that I feel accurately conveys my personal experience with the African world I live in.

My musical influences on this album lie mostly with local Kwaito house. Deaf Safari is an experiment within certain boundaries of the 4/4 genre, to create my own South African "house" album.
I am proud and inspired about the South African Kwaito house scene.
However, as with my first three albums, "Thin Shoes In June“ (2001) - "4/4 Down The Stairs“ (2002) and "Dark Days Exit“ (2005), I am still interested in making strange and evocative music.

American Roots music from the earlier periods of the 20th century has deeply resonated with me during the making of this album.
The incredible field recordings by Alan Lomax of Negro prison and chain gang work songs, and the
beautiful early recordings of artists such as Leadbelly have had a major influence on Deaf Safari.

I am truly excited to release this album and to start performing in the music world again. It has been ten years since I released "Dark Days Exit , and although I have been purposefully absent from the music world, I have none the less never stopped making music.
I feel that I have finally arrived at a mature and challenging stage in my pursuit of making emotional music of relevance .

Felix Laband 13=02=2015

Links:

facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Felix-Laband/18041251748
soundcloud: @felix-laband
resident advisor: www.residentadvisor.net/dj/felixlaband

Felix Laband live @ Cape Town Electronic Music Festival 2015:
new.livestream.com/accounts/128788…videos/76528193

Felix Laband live @ Festival au bord de l’eau (Sierre, 2012):
Aubordeleau – Festival-weekend-au-bord-de-10

Deaf Safari

Righteous Red Berets

Felix Laband - Righteous Red Berets

LOWLIGHT - Slowed

Kamro - Nurlana

Scissor and Thread is proud to present "Leland" the debut album by Francis Harris. This long anticipated LP is a requiem to the artist's father, released to coincide with the second anniversary of his passing. 

The album, Harris' most expansive work to date, features Danish vocalist Gry on three tracks including "lostfound," the first single and video which was remixed by Mathew Herbert. Also featured throughout are Emil Abramyan, whose poignant performance on cello evokes comparison to Arthur Russell, and Greg Paulus (No Regular Play/Matthew Dear Band), whose improvisational free jazz inspired trumpet accents converse thoughtfully with Harris' own tonal melodies performed on piano and guitar.

Leland will be available February 28th in a limited edition triple LP set which includes a free mp3 download of the album, as well as from iTunes, Beatport, halcyondigi.com and other select digital retailers. 

Leland

Francis Harris - Living Lips [clip]

via @dischi autunno
https://open.spotify.com/album/4BXyGme0ZWFXDeQ763cH7r

Alysha

Love you gotta lose again /// Nicolas Jaar (Double Standard Records)

Kurabiye, the messenger of Netam’s full-length album “Yabani” that is to be released from Kanto Records on June 26th, is a time capsule of childhood; waking up with the first daylight, hundreds of games to be discovered, a whole day to be lived, the unlimited excitement and inexhaustible energy, pancakes for breakfast, a big cookie that bakes in the oven, a new riddle and an invented fairytale. Kurabiye that translates as a cookie, was composed by Netam with the longing for childhood and the curiosity for a child’s perception of the world.

Netam'ın 26 Haziran’da Kanto Records etiketiyle çıkacak albümü “Yabani'nin” habercisi "Kurabiye", çocukluğa dair bir zaman kapsülü. Günün ilk ışığıyla uyanmak, keşfedilmek için bekleyen yüzlerce oyun, yaşanmak için bekleyen koca bir gün, yerlere göklere sığmayan bir heyecan ve bitmek tükenmek bilmeyen bir enerji, kahvaltıdaki pankek, fırında pişen kurabiye, yeni bir tekerleme, uydurma bir masal… “Kurabiye” Netam tarafından çocukluğa özlemle ve çocukların algıladığı dünyaya duyulan merakla bestelendi. 

Artist: Netam @utkutml
Mastering: @cagantunali
Cover art: @oceanvsorientalis
Label: @kanto_records

Kurabiye

Netam - Kurabiye

Here is a dub version of my original track CINEMA :) Hope you'll enjoy it !

Doctor Flake - Cinema Dub Version

valentin stip - hiathaikm (hugo bocca remix)

More than 30 years in business, over 800 catalogue releases, over 8000 songs + remixes and still going strong!! Compost is one of the most prolific, highly acclaimed and in demand indie labels in Europe. Compost and its sublabels Compost Black Label, Compost Disco, Drumpoet Community, Derwin Recordings and rumpelmusig standing for quality music, a sophisticated mixture of electrifying disco, house, techno, soul, jazz and a little bit of pop. XLR8R wrote: "...top address where electronica meets musicality". Besides internationally respected artist like Robert Owens, Trüby Trio, Koop, Beanfield, Christian Prommer, Felix Laband, Karma, Ben Mono, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Marsmobil, Eddy Meets Yannah, Sepalot, Alif Tree, Shahrokh, Wigald Boning a.o. the label is also well known for its praised compilation series V.A. "Elaste" (Vol.1-4), "Future Sounds Of Jazz" (Vol.1-14), "Partykeller" (Vol.1-3) or "Glücklich" (Vol.1-5). Like Gilles Peterson once said: “With great pleasure I pronounce Compost the most consistent and forward thinking record label of continental Europe.“

Felix Laband - Righteous Red Berets

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