Artist: Groupshow
Title: Greatest Hits
Cat#: faitiche 29
Release: Jan 27th 2023 (digital single: Nov 25th 2022)
Format: LP/DL

Faitiche presents Groupshow’s Greatest Hits: The ten tracks on this first vinyl album by Groupshow (Hanno Leichtmann, Andrew Pekler, Jan Jelinek), recorded between 2005 and 2018, document concert recordings and studio improvisations by the trio.
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In improvisation there are no mistakes, only missed opportunities. Groupshow found their first opportunity in the routines of live performance and they used this opportunity to break with these routines. The trio consisting of Jan Jelinek, Hanno Leichtmann and Andrew Pekler came together in the context of Kosmischer Pitch, playing live versions of the music from Jelinek’s 2005 studio album of that name. During this project, the musical interaction between the three participants quickly emancipated itself from the original programme, departing from fixed roles and finding a distinct form in constant change.
Groupshow sessions – rehearsal, concert or recording – are always improvised. The interplay of the various sound sources, converging from the directions of “electronics”, “percussion” and “guitar”, does not follow the Krautrock wave logic of crescendo and morendo. Jelinek, Leichtmann and Pekler have established a method of transparent density in which links and breaks are not concealed but remain audible. The music works through attraction and repulsion, with a loosely organized structure that always leaves enough room for the next intervention.
The principle here, repeated even in the smallest units, is that of duration. Groupshow think of their music in terms of an installation: no starting point, no dramaturgy, and ideally no end. Concerts take place not raised up on a podium, but in the middle of the room on a level with the audience, who only enter the space with the musicians and instruments once their interaction is already underway. In 2008, Groupshow used this approach to create a live soundtrack for Andy Warhol’s film Empire, over the full length of eight hours and five minutes.
Recordings in general and the “Greatest Hits” format in particular are another key aspect of this ongoing work on a collectively modulated continuum. The ten tracks on this first vinyl album by Groupshow, recorded between 2005 and 2018, document the ephemeral capturing of opportunities that were not missed. Extracts and essences of an endless movement of searching. The sprawling form of the whole, suspended in succinct, separate units.
To paraphrase Lao Tzu and Roland Barthes, one might say: Once their work is done, they are no longer attached to it. And because they’re not attached to it, it will remain. (Arno Raffeiner, 2022)

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Artist: Frunk29 / @frunk29
Title: "The Fifth Season"
Label: Not Not Fun / @not-not-fun-1
Release date: 2 December 2022
Format: cassette/digital
Buy: https://frunk29.bandcamp.com/album/the-fifth-season

Label's words: "Moscow producer Marat Shainsky aka Frunk29’s newest opus of bedroom Balearica birthed in a room with a view: trees, rolling hills, and a mountainous, majestic landfill (“It looks like Fujiyama in winter – or how I imagine it”). Stirred by a muse he describes as “magical and foggy,” he began crafting soft-focus fusions of 4th world electronica and sunrise shoegaze with synthesizers, 5-string bass, and a thrifted Phil Pro electric guitar. The Fifth Season floats between warm and wavy, hang gliding above windswept fields and glittering harbors. It’s music of vistas both seen and felt, looming in the distance and hidden in the heart".

PREMIERE: Frunk29 — Aprll2 (NOT NOT FUN, 2022)

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Pre-order: https://digmoscow.bandcamp.com/album/1691

Mårble is the alias of musician and multi-instrumentalist Anton Glebov. "1691" is his first solo long-playing album after quite a long break, and this is a great comeback! The album is filled with spiritual and spaced-out jazz-inspired music, recorded mainly by Mårble all by himself in his former studio in Saint Petersburg during the years 2021 and 2022. The studio was a big inspiration for Anton. He and his friends made a really special place, where instead of their home studios, they finally had no limits and could play and record music with ease. Even the name of the album is an homage to the studio; the number of the studio's door was 1691.

At the time when the album was in the process of making, Mårble was listening to a lot of Afro-Cuban music and Latin jazz. You start to hear it from the first seconds, and it's such a unique blend of these genres and his rich musical experience and vision. "1691" is full of different moods and echoes, and yet it is a really complete work. The album starts with the track "Unified Force" and ends with "Magic", those are two "new-agy", spiritual tracks where your mind just wants to drift on the soundwaves peacefully, but in-between you get a huge variety of compositions. Each one has its own unique story that needs to be heard. Some of the tracks on the album are more intense, like "Chomga", "3th of December" or "Pedritto", where suddenly you get sounds of slightly distorted trumpet or singing in Portuguese/gibberish, and other tracks with a more relaxed atmosphere, like "Jr. Pomidor" you can almost call Balearic. Also, can't forget to mention the great work of saxophone and flute player Slavik Ipatov who has recorded parts for tracks "Boss Latinoss", "Yog Cave" and "Pedritto".

The artwork for this record was made by an artist Alisa Gvozdeva, who's been working on previous Mårble releases a lot. On the back of the "1691" vinyl record cover, you will be able to see the drawing of the studio, thanks to which the recording of this album became possible.

"1691" is a truly great and unique album from start to finish, and we hope you'll enjoy it just like we do.

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All tracks were written and produced by Mårble at the "1691" studio in 2021 & 2022 in Saint-Petersburg.
Saxophone and flute on "Boss Latinoss", "Yog Cave" & "Pedritto" by Slavik Ipatov
Artwork by Alisa Gvozdeva
Mastering by Sergey Luginin
Executive Producer: Ivan Smekalin

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Muscut Show on @lyl_radio 1 June 23

Latest finds, favorites and unreleased material of the label and its friends and colleagues:

Roméo Poirier - Haut Lieu (forthcoming on Muscut Test Pressing IV)
Mads Emil Nielsen - Untitled (Branches)
Jan Jelinek - On the quay (version)
Magnétophonique - Moist Jungle Mist II / Driftwood
Roma Vjazemski - Horses of Uhum
You Can Can - Infinity of Loose Ends
Nikolaienko - Ambianta VII
Woo - Love on Other Planets / Spaces We Breathe
Martyna Basta - Lullaby (for Iwo)
Natela Svanidze - Epitaphium (Live Performance)
4th World Magazine - Exact Sensorial Fantasy in Tempio D'Iside
Les Halles - Thresholds
Loto Retina - Leçon De Spéléologie
Mondoriviera - Compax
Tapes - Circulation Desk / Geo Print / Spiral Catalog (forthcoming on Mida)
Fruit Express - No Secret

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120 - 130 BPM Podcast #54 - Obi Uto

The fourth episode of the Test Pressing series compilations includes tracks from such artists as Memotone, Giuseppe Ielasi, Andrew Pekler, Roméo Poirier, Nikolaienko, Felix Kubin, Jake Muir, Felicity Mangan, Star Searchers, and Tarotplane. 
The first episode was released in 2012 as a debut Muscut record named so and intended to become a label trial, a test of the audience to check whether the world needs one more label with the following episodes in 2018 (Test Pressing II) and 2020 (Test Pressing III). 

Format: 12” LP / DL
Cat. No.: Muscut 30
Series: Test Pressing
Edition: 300 (hand-stamped, hand-numbered)
File under: Ambient, Experimental, Electronic
Release date: August 4, 2023

Tracklist:

(Side A)
01 Memotone - False Cobra
02 Giuseppe Ielasi - Untitled, February 2023
03 Andrew Pekler - Neon Nocturne 
04 Roméo Poirier - Haut Lieu
05 Nikolaienko - Ambianta VI
06 Felix Kubin - Spukflattern

(Side B)
07 Jake Muir - Spindle
08 Felicity Mangan - Wings
09 Star Searchers - Previsual Stingray Motion FX
10 Tarotplane - We Stutter Between


Mastering by: Giuseppe Ielasi 
Graphic design by: (DN) daynight.info
Distribution by: N.E.W.S. (BE) 
Website: www.muscut.org

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Koyil's mix for East East Radio 

1. Youmna Saba - i saw you, collaborating with Moisés Martín Flores - 1.2 seconds ago (EL CAMPO DE CEBADA - SEPT 12)
2. Karkhana - Nafas
3. Jerusalem In My Heart - Wa Ta'atalat Loughat Al Kalam, Pt. III
4. Rabih Abou-Khalil, Selim Kusur, Glen Velez, Setrak Sarkissian - Incantation
5. Mohammad Reza Mortazavi - Exploring
6. Morteza Hannaneh - Track 07
7. Bachir Attar with Elliott Sharp - El M'Dahi
8. Âouniyat Ladies of Safi Disque - Wa Lalla Fatima Aw ya L-Hajj
9. Shimshon Miel - Amsterdam Experience
10. Saba Alizadeh - Scattered Memories
11. Steve Shehan, Baly Othmani - Taré (awalin almad saras)
12. Maurice Louca - The Palm of a Ghost
13. Najat Aatabou نجاة اعتابو - Ândak Tkoun Boudina
14. Cheikha Donna Khaldiphone 2066 - Side A

Lost Tapes, Moroccan Chanson, and Cairene Avantgarde — Mix by Koyil

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