GRANATO

Francesco Bianco, Alessandro Cicala

skull:axis formed by accident in 1998 in brighton, england [ known as a hotbed of creative + alternative culture ], when two like-minded individuals [ who happened to be neighbours ]. with a love of old-school industrial and experimental music, skull:axis was propelled into life. 

several live performances followed, accompanied by live visuals an array of effects, high-pitched noise generators and random metal objects [ often drilled into and beaten with chains ]. this created a mercilessly dark and disorientating atmosphere. this original incarnation culminated in a support slot for darkwave / industrial veterans 'attrition' in 1999. 

after a prolonged hiatus and with the original members parting ways [ amicably ] skull:axis was reborn in 2011... the rest will be history in the making.

skull:axis a.k.a. jason b bernard is a conceptual artist and owner of peripheral minimal records.

www.peripheralminimal.com
www.facebook.com/Skullaxis
www.jasonbbernard.com

DIY Lofi Experimental Cassette label focusing on reuse.
Breathing new life into unwanted ephemera 
All cassettes are salvaged from thrift stores and gracious neighbors
All J-cards are hand cut from unwanted coffee table books

I'm currently no longer accepting demos. Check back summer of 2019

577 Records is proud to be celebrating its 24 year anniversary.  The legendary music master Daniel Carter was one of the first people 577 cofounder Federico Ughi met soon after arriving in New York from Italy in 2000, after a brief stint in London.  It was a meeting of like minds and shortly thereafter the two started a series of house concerts at 577 Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, the apartment where Federico was living at the time. The spontaneous nature of the concerts along with the incredible caliber of the deep downtown underground music they were able to present inspired them to bring the unique nature of what they were doing to a wider audience and they founded the label 577 Records to further that mission. 

577 Records started the New York Forward Festival in 2015 to mark the momentous occasion of Daniel Carter’s 70th birthday, now with festival editions happening in Morocco and Italy as well, and the international residency program Sounds of Freedom, in which active musicians are awarded the opportunity to develop their own sound, skills, and improvisation concept.

100% of profit from the sale of most of these albums goes to the musicians.

 

 “Guided by a mission to capture the ephemeral, to keep jazz relevant, and to foster a collaborative community of artists, the music 577 releases is timeless, masterful, and mystical.” - Bandcamp

“the music of new possibilities, full of spirituality and introspection, an alternative that did not need volume or screaming at the top of your lungs to position itself, and coupled with a deep sense of pulse and the blues.” - Free Jazz Blog

“577 Records, the musical home of the daring and the brave” - All About Jazz


577 Records
Brooklyn, New York
www.577records.com
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handmade, homemade, modified, bent, loud, quiet, raw, processed, designed, destroyed. distort poughkeepsie. diy or die.

/// a solo electronic music project by Scott A. Johnson 

////  U P C O M I N G 

//////// “Night-Timing EP”(early spring ‘21)

this is an ambient musical walkabout set about in but one odd, isolated night — wherein soundscapes move along and with a sleeplessly anonymous travel guide — we go thru this singular evening, moving into the deepened and darkened populated places — an odd night, in an unnamed city — composed of life’s sounds, environmental moment forming thru sounds signaling musicality, voicings, synths, samples and the like.  what matters herein is not some romantically devised ending to so prize — it Is but that night, any single night, has a interesting beauty all of its own.  such is this expression — this is but night-timing.  it is another truly wonderful thing of the night that inspires this project:  night is much more than just a time... night is especially wonderful because it is a “place” — it’s a space we may inhabit that’s unique to any other we can find here in this lifetime.

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