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Inspelad 2017 på Skithålans Fritidsgård

Papier Maché

Written by Nation of Language
Produced by Abe Seiferth
Mastered by Heba Kadry

On Division St

“It’s not easy to be free, but it’s harder not to be”.These are the first words to Bad Woman, Céline Gillain’s debut LP on DRAMA.

I’ve never had that many difficulties writing a text for a release. There were easy ways of dealing with it actually, like isolating some of the lyrics and making aphorisms out of them that would have punctuated the text. I could have also wrote about her music with hackneyed words and glamorous comparisons with the likes of Laurie Anderson or Leslie Winer.

Maybe is it because it summons the influence of artists that have been crucial in our lives, maybe is it because of the ambition and the absolute sincerity emanating from this record, maybe is it also because of the utter contemporaneity of the record… but I feel stuck.

So I will only say a couple of things. If the idea of an LP following her debut 7″ on Lexi Disques gets you as excited as we were and still are, you won’t be disappointed by Bad Woman. The music on the upcoming album definitely is pop music, but in a disturbing, beyond « good » and « bad » taste kind of way.

It sometimes feel as if Bad Woman has been written by a former Pop diva that saw her expectations being shattered by life and now tries to make her come-back with a new album, influenced by what she believes to be contemporary pop music. The thing is, the result is a mutant blend of everything and anything that has been produced by the music industry these last 30 years, from Cher’s delirious come-back in the 1990’s to the most embarrassing moments in Dance music, and it rather sounds like a record that would have been written in a parallel universe.

That being said, Bad Woman tackles painful issues about our lives as individuals and society but with absolute elegance. After months of being the only one able to listen to it, no need to say that Zaltan & I are now extremely proud and happy to see this record coming to life. Thank you Céline for untrusting with taking care of your album.

OUT DECEMBER 2018 via DRAMA

Bandcamp

CÉLINE GILLAIN - FIGHT OR FLIGHT (DRAMA2)

PYRAMIDS (CHIARANO - TV)

Nascono come Skazz nell’inverno del ’79 con l’intento di fare punk. Dopo vari avvicendamenti e cambi di ruolo, si costituisce la formazione definitiva, che cambia il nome in Pyramids. In seguito vengono introdotti synth polifonici e sequencer che danno alla band un taglio più elettronico, mentre la cura del sound e degli aspetti tecnici dei live viene affidata all’amico Mario. Numerose le collaborazioni con musicisti dell’area veneta e nazionale, come molti i concerti e i brani incisi, due dei quali per le compilation “St. Anthony’s Fire” (Grillo Rekords, 1983) e “Rockgarage Compilation Vol.4” (MASO, 1984). Nel 1986 lo scioglimento, Ivano continua come solista, mentre gli altri proseguono fino al 2000 come Pyramids, con due nuovi elementi e con testi in italiano.

Marco Boraso: chitarra | Paolo Lazzarotto: batteria | Daniele Parro: basso
Ivano Vidali: tastiere, voce

https://www.facebook.com/391Veneto/

https://www.facebook.com/391Veneto/photos/a.167198374225053/167189584225932/?type=1&theater

http://beta.goodfellas.it/spittle_records/releases/8033706211557-391-vol-6-veneto-voyage-through-the-deep-80s-underground.html

PYRAMIDS  (CHIARANO - TV) '' A Way Out '' 1980 ITALY

All rights reserved > Agogo Records  c+p
MOP MOP - info -----> www.agogo-records.com/artists/mop-mop/
Just heard this song yesterday during La Fête Des Lumières (Lyon) - This one was the last! 
An insane selection of jazz was diffused... Extracted from a 4 hours long playlist.
& we shared a dance on ! Was truely sympathic ! 
Just before a 24 humans-orchestra played tons of fanfare compositions including a reprise of La Femme hit "Sur La Plage". enjoy!

MopMop - Let I Go (ft. Anthony Joseph) (Agogo Records, 2013)

Following on from the deranged machine mulch of the Cru Servers we proudly announce the second record on the label to emerge from our native south side of Glasgow. Lo Kindre is the solo project of Irish/Luxembourgish bedroom producer, amateur footballer and award-winning bartender Daniel Magee. Crawling out from the undergrowth at the speed of a snail with dreadlocks this six track EP builds upon his previous venture for Optimo Music and manages to enchant in many of the same ways. Chlorophytum ticks all of the right boxes, sitting somewhere between a budding sci-fi homage, drum machine escapism and a fascination with the motorik styles of West Germany and the wider On-U continuum. Lo Kindre's sound has recently developed by way of countless hours spent twiddling with delay units alongside vintage Italian football commentary and murky casks of Tennents. It culminates here in the following six tracks. The seventh 12th Isle now ecstatically morphs from our galaxy into yours.

Pre-order

Lo Kindre - Chlorophytum (ISLE007)

NO WEAPON IS ABSOLUTE is I'm a Cliche's radio show on NTS.
You can check it live on www.nts.live and a few days after on I'm a Cliché's Soundcloud

DJ Sundae played the 1 hour on this one.

Playlist:

Silver Leaf ‎- Can We Rebuild Our City?
Brannten Schnüre - Der Kuckuck Sprach Das Kann Ich
Elodie Lauten - Sunrise
Lo Kindre - Sounder
Seti - Pryaer
Rosa Mundi - The Snow Man
Enno Velthuys - Back To Catherine
John Talabot - Les Ultimes Estacions Intermitges
Maxx Bass - Untitled
Partly Cloudy - Sunlight
Bulbous Creation - End Of The Page
Golden Ivy - Söndagsmålare
Paraf - Napunjeno Vrijeme
Brannten Schnüre - Die Stadt Als Garten
Aphex Twin - avril 14th reversed music not audio [re recorded 2009 Nagra]

No Weapon Is Absolute:
www.facebook.com/noweaponisabsolute

I’m a Cliche:
www.imacliche.com
www.facebook.com/imacliche
@imaClicheLabel

Dj Sundae:
www.facebook.com/djsundae
@djsundae

Cosmo Vitelli:
www.facebook.com/cosmovitelli
@ilcosmovitelli

NO WEAPON IS ABSOLUTE - DJ Sundae - 13-02-2019 - NTS 2

Various Lurkers (SR003) 

4 premium underwater trippers from another planet featuring Konsistent, Second Life, Jack Pattern & Andy Rantzen.

300 Copies

Various Lurkers (SR003)

Recorded from the record for sale. This was pressed privately by a spiritual sect / gang in China 1986. About a 100 copies and god knows where they ended. It's a bizarre one of a kind record with a monster ambient / balearic bliss of a tune that runs for almost 6 minutes. It also sports a slow boogie instrumental and some weirder cosmic tunes. Don't sleep, you won't see this anymore.

"高妮妮, 程进" By 七色火 on 中国唱片 Cina, 1986 - VG(+)  👋

Winner of a song contest run by a German underwear and bathing suit company in 1984. The prize was the production of a song with professional musicians - namely this very song. Judging by her rapping skills, the competition must have been a little on the weak side of things... 😆 It needed some seriously cheesy Schlager bits removed and more of the electronic good stuff. Enjoy!

Tanz Ohne Planeten (Tom Bolas Edit)

Eiger Drums Propaganda strikes back on Macadam Mambo with a second opus!
After a well remarked start last year, half-Pilotwings, Louis Ebola’s project, returns with a more dancefloor tribal oriented album than the previous one which was a bit more experimental, incorporating again flutes, weird voices and dreamy elements on down beats tempos, revivaling the early New Age/Trance era to modernise it with genius…



TRACKLIST : 
A1. LA QUÊTE 1:36 
A2. THE SUN 4:30
A3. THROAT COMPLAIN 4:25 
A4. THUNDERSTRIKE 3:01
A5. ASTRAL LIGHTS 5:25
B1. INSIDE THE ISCHEMIC SYNAPSE 4:37 
B2. DISCO SOUND TO DEATH 4:09
B3. EXOTIC ABDUCTION 2:57
B4. THE MOON 5:23
B5. EIGER HAS TO DIE 2:14

MMLP4004 - "Eiger Drums Propaganda II" [PREVIEWS] OUT!

Following the comprehensive introduction Le Raccourci, Julien Dechery delves further into Sebastian Gandera’s seemingly endless archive to present Contre-Sens. Culling from various cassette albums, rehearsal tapes, demos and answering machine recordings, the two part mix collages some of the French composer’s earliest work, when the sampler was a core component of his apparatus; tender passages disrupted by moments of lunacy. Returning the source material to it’s intended form, the physical release is limited to 100 metallic silver C60s, with sleeve design from Steele Bonus.

Exclusive to Efficient Space, Commend (New York), Balades Sonores (Paris) and Skydiver (Melbourne)

SEBASTIAN GANDERA - Contre Sens (Excerpt) (ES008.5) OUT NOW

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-ce-raid-solitaire-american-sun

Last found dishing out a batch of hazed-out dubs and flavourful summer goodies on Steffi's imprint Dolly, French producer Nicolas Olier aka @conidj resurfaces this year with some big news as he will kick off his own imprint Firecamp early June with 'Transperce' - his debut instalment under the new alias of Ce Raid Solitaire.

Ce Raid Solitaire - American Sun [Firecamp]

Wilson Tanner (Andras and Eleventeen Eston) return to shore with II - a new album of floating melodies, lightly salted. The 12 min odyssey Killcord Pts I-III battens down the hatches as these sailors eye merciless waves and blinding ocean spray, channelling Berlin-school electronics and sea legs.

Wilson Tanner - Killcord Pts I-III (ES013)

Read more: https://electrocorp.fr/2019/06/18/wilson-tanner-ii/ 

"These eight compositions pull in a by-catch of maritime folklore; of Siren and Selkie, Seagull and engine oil slick". This is how we got introduced to the new album of Wilson Tanner. 

Wilson Tanner is the mutual project of Australian artists Andras (Andrew Wilson) and Eleventeen Eston (John Tanner). Here they release "II", a follow up to their debut full-length published in 2016. 

Through the 8 tracks, Andrew and John captured Ambient and Electronica landscapes, all recorded in 3 days, on September 2017, aboard a 1950s riverboat with weatherproof instruments. 

While listening to the LP, we instantly felt in love with the whole aesthetic and the peaceful feeling that spead throughout the tracks. "All Hands Bury the Dead" is our pickup from the release with its early 70s / late 60s electronic sound that brings back a lot of music and visual memories.

Premiere: Wilson Tanner - All Hands Bury the Dead [Efficient Space]

From way of Berlin we are very pleased to welcome the 6 piece psychedelic outfit of 2Morph.

Perhaps unknown to many, this group of friends (father & son included) have spent the past two Summer’s travelling the wilderness of Europe in their bus - winding through the hillsides & mountain tops, beaming out their live band freak-outs for select village goers.

This 50 minute cassette of 100% OG material, hauled back from their recent trip to the mystical land of Panaceum (a hidden valley in Germany rumoured to house the elixir of life's ails) is naturally well soaked on a Krautrock tip - with psychedelic hymns & hypnotic percussion, detaching from the linear plane. 

Float down stream & let your mind wander outwards to the healing sounds of 2Morph.

Available now via the Online Store & select stores worldwide.

Big thanks to Corey from Sleep D for the mastering & Max Graef for opening the door.

GMT25 2Morph - Panaceum (Snippets)

Wilson Tanner come to shore with a new album of floating melodies, lightly salted. Throwing electroacoustic conventions overboard, Andrew Wilson (Andras) and John Tanner (Eleventeen Eston) recorded this new work aboard a 1950s riverboat with a resourceful array of weatherproof electronic instruments and a long extension lead. These eight compositions pull in a by-catch of maritime folklore; of Siren and Selkie, Seagull and engine oil slick. A change of course from their debut album 69 (Growing Bin Records, 2016), the ambient temperature drops as II casts out to sea in uncertain weather and returns to the safe harbours of Port Phillip Bay. 

The seafarers head out to My Gull’s poised optimism. The birds watch but do they listen? By the arrival of Loch and Key, the shoreline has dissolved completely, the boat floating in serene infinity as the rest of the world spins. Conditions soon take a treacherous turn on Killcord Pts I-III - a 12 minute odyssey that battens down the hatches as these sailors eye merciless waves and blinding ocean spray, jointly channelling Berlin-school electronics and sea legs. In the aftermath, the waterlogged bleeps of Idle survey the damage as our parched crew sound the distress signal and ultimately descend into delirium. 

Known for navigating individual courses as solo musicians, Wilson and Tanner’s collective storytelling is saturated in detail, buoying between tension and harmony. II modestly stands as some of both artists’ most accomplished material.

07 Wilson Tanner - Safe. Bird. 5:21 (ES013)

03 Wilson Tanner - Perishable 3:35 (ES013)

01 Wilson Tanner - My Gull 2:11 (ES013)

Three emotional years in the making, Be With and Efficient Space finally present Steve Hiett’s Girls In The Grass. Pressed alongside the long awaited reissue of his one-shot masterpiece Down On The Road By The Beach, these ten balearic soul instrumentals are of equal necessity; unrivalled beauty rescued from the fashion photographer-guitarist’s Paris Tapes (1986-1997). 

While recordings unintended for release should often be approached with caution, this is a rare case of unheard material being assembled as an indispensable and coherent piece. Girls In The Grass is something super special. The light and shadow that defines Hiett’s music is arguably more compelling here. It speaks to us in a language that feels profound, yet entirely comforting and familiar. 

Girls In The Grass reintroduces Hiett’s languid electric blues boogie, crafted on Saturday afternoons with fellow art director Simon Kentish. Kentish would cook, pour some wine and then utilise his arsenal of technology. He’d dial up a chugging rhythm, together with some ambient pads or keyboard textures, and anchor the weightless gauze of Hiett’s six-stringed touch. 

Hiett’s guitar sings with the same clean, crisp tone as Down On The Road, animated by a carefree weekend groove. Unlike his defining album which was boiled under pressure, these subsequent sessions have all the time in the world. The naïve melodies chart a missing link between Vini Reilly’s ventures into electronica and Booker T, sounding like sun-warped takes on wordless, fractured non-hits from his heroes The Beach Boys. 

Remastered for public pleasure by Simon Francis, these private moments are adorned with Hiett’s singular photography and feature typically idiosyncratic liner notes from Mikey IQ Jones.

Steve Hiett - Are These My Memories? (ES011/BEWITH062LP)

Plafond 4 — Ulla Straus / Oceanic [LP]

Vinyl: https://clone.nl/item57897.html
Digital: bakk.bandcamp.com/album/plafond-4

A1 Ulla Straus — I Forgot to Take a Picture (12:03)
A2 Ulla Straus — Becoming Warm (6:24)
B Oceanic — Three Sides Of A Shell (19:21)
 ↳ 1. Aperture 
 ↳ 2. Columella
 ↳ 3. Sea If You Can Hear

The fourth Plafond sees fine-crafted contrasting pieces complement each other in courtesy of Ulla Straus and Oceanic. Along the wide arbitrary landscape of listening or 'ambient' music, it is a delight to have two artists, separated by the vast Atlantic, contributing quite opposite interpretations of such to the series. Perceptual time feels as a recurrent theme which binds them, albeit in a whole different modus operandi.

In her iconic tactile productions, Straus excavates levels of advanced musical complexity in the seemingly most simple. Throughout two tracks her crude and beautiful technique riffles, compositions that remain prone to the transient, combining field recordings with morphing saxophone and guitar. This is deeply evocative music that turns its recipient into a mode of contemplation. ‘I Forgot to Take a Picture’ breathes melancholic romanticism, ‘Becoming Warm’ feels lorn yet hopeful. Pastoral haze over a rouge-tainted barren, the crackling insides of a wooden forest house. Picturesque and minimalist, Pennsylvania’s Straus manages to temporarily stop the sand from gravitating downwards.

Oceanic antagonises Straus with the triptych ‘Three Sides of a Shell’, recalling different emotions adhering to the fourth dimension. As a performing artist, Oceanic masters the element of suspense. Here, over the course of nineteen minutes, a three-note sequence is explored within the producers imaginatory, chapterised, providing moments to navigate through his fictitious galaxy. Stuttering melodies across azure waters, synthesised bleeps as flickering stars over a moonlit mountain pass. Oceanic’s music feels advanced through actively incorporating contemporary futurism, whilst never losing the glacial glance that is so familiar to its early nineties foregoers. It is as if listening to ‘Three Sides...’ heightens the senses, towards possibility, innovation even, triggering illusions of time dilation, shattering the hourglass.

Comes in hand printed dreamy, pink sleeve, including Obi-strip, by the BAKK Innerspace Ink Station.

Music: @ullastraus / @oceanicocean
Design: Mike Kokken and Heer Badoux
Words: Luke Cohlen (@lukecohlen)

Plafond 5

BAKKPlafond4 | Ulla Straus / Oceanic (LP)

Limited compilation disco 12" - https://12thisle.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-inkosi

Out worldwide early October. Distribution by Rubadub

A1. Nikolaienko - April Echo
A2. Grim Lusk - The Man Is Out
A3. Cru Servers - Henge Salt Phrasal 
B1. Robert Bergman - Dream About You (Almost Every Night)
B2. Luar Domatrix - Koppa D

V/A - Inkosi (ISLE007.5)

Label run by @noise-in-my-head

Distribution queries:

Australia | info@noiseinmyhead.com.au
Rest of the World | www.wordandsound.de