Resina is the alias of Karolina Rec, a cellist/ composer based in Warsaw, who signed to 130701 having sent in this album as a hugely impressive demo late last year. A very accomplished performer with a background in Polish underground music, this eponymous album is her solo debut and sees a rich, atmospheric re-imagining of a Polish music rooted in a feeling for indigenous nature / landscape and realised via an intuitive, experimental approach to playing.

A fantastic debut release, ‘Resina’ is an immersive and deeply enchanting album, which unveils a unique and striking new talent. 

more info at 130701.com

Resina - Resina - CD13-23

Taken from Dmitry's forthcoming 'Comprehension Of Light' album, which will be released on FatCat's 130701 imprint on October 6th.

The stunning ‘Comprehension Of Light’ marks a sizeable step forward for Dmitry. A must-hear for fans of fellow 130701 alumni Max Richter, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka, the LP is Dmitry’s first ever vinyl release and is a wonderfully conceived and realised work. Where ‘Collage’ was heavily augmented with an expansive use of electronics and virtual instrumentation, the new album sees Dmitry upgrade to real strings / orchestral instrumentation with a more limited use of software. ISKRA String Quartet (The XX, Radiohead, Jóhann Jóhannsson) contributed strings. Other contributors include William Yates (Memotone), Abul Mogard and Benoit Pîoulard. It was mixed by Addi 800 (Ólafur Arnalds) and mastered by Martyn Heyne (Nils Frahm, Peter Broderick, The National and others).

In places recalling Jóhann Jóhannsson and Hauschka, in others the work of Leyland Kirby / The Caretaker, or Eduard Artemiev's score for Tarkovsky’s ‘Stalker’, 'Comprehension' is a stunning album which traces a redemptive narrative arc and bears witness to a rising young talent in the field of modern composition.

LP includes dig download card (inc. 2 dig-only tracks which don't appear on the vinyl)

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Dmitry Evgrafov - Comprehension Of Light - preview clips

Download this FREE 8-track sampler featuring artists performing at the showcase curated by FatCat Records (UK) and Õunaviks (EST) at Mustpeade Maja on 27th March as part of Tallinn Music Week 2015.

Artwork by Dave Howell, using a photo by Jüri Arrak of Vaike Lubi's self-built forest structure.


FatCat + Õunaviks - FREE 8-track sampler - Tallinn Music Week 2015

Reimagining Mihály Vig's score to Bela Tarr’s film 'The Turin Horse', Yorkshire-based artist Keeley Forsyth returns with a first track from new LP, 'The Hollow', due out on FatCat's 130701 imprint on May 10th. Produced with Ross Downes, the album also features Matthew Bourne and Colin Stetson.

After a standing ovation at November's Unsound festival, Keeley plays Spring shows at Bristol New Music, Rewire, LEV festival and London ICA.

Keeley Forsyth - Horse

The second instalment of the FatCat Record radio show includes sonic delights from Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Bug, Golden Filter, Toulouse Low Tracks and Wino-D amongst a plethora of other ear tingling wonders. We also venture into abstract landscapes, dub reggae and psychedelic garage rock.

Tracklisting:

1. Pancake Lizard - Aphex Twin	
2. In a beautiful place out in the country - Boards Of Canada	
3. Void - Bug	
4. Music Mission - Babe Roots	
5. Never - The Golden Filter	
6. Vineland - Toulouse Low Trax	
7. The Games We Play - New World Aquarium	
8. Untitled - Wino-D	
9. All I Need - Radiohead	
10. Catch, Loot, Steal - Mutabaruka	
11. March Down Babylon - The Chosen Brothers	
12. Simple Customers - SPDSG	
13. Victory Verse 4 - Digistep and Stryda	
14. Saw the damp - 10,000 Russos	
15. paranoize - thee o sees	
16. Super Inertia - 10,000 Russos	
17. Can I get the real Dub - Guerilla Toss with J Glass Dubs	
18. Recovery Idea - Vladislav Delay	
19. Freak - Death in vegas

FatCat Records - Slack City Radio Show - 7 10 2024

Northern Meadow, taken from the debut LP of Kyoto born Rikuto Fujimoto, is a pastoral that aims to paint a picture of a morning breeze blowing through an Irish meadow. Ireland being somewhere that Rikuto would summer with his brother. The melody is haunting but light, and accompanied by the intimate hum of the room where it was recorded. The effect like the crackle of old vinyl, or a shellac 78. The music of Ethiopian nun, Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, is a good reference point.

Rikuto Fujimoto - Northern Meadow

Ava Rasti is an Iranian-born artist, creating and composing out of the country’s capital Tehran. Both a pianist and bass guitarist, in her late teens Rasti founded the post- punk girl group ‘The Finches’. However, since 2020 she has worked solo, experimenting on the interface between ambient, modern classical and drone. Rasti’s interest in storytelling led her to soundtrack the movie, “Double Life”. In 2023, following a series of sonically evolving singles, she self-released the long-players, “Ginestra” and “The Living Room”. FatCat Records’ 130701 post-classical imprint has signed Rasti’s latest set, the forthcoming LP named “The River”.

Ava Rasti - Wound

The Berlin-based band Lawns were formed in the fall of 2020 by three ex-Londoners, Ben Lubin, Joe Green, and Tobias Humble. While influenced by UK post-punk, the bulk of the listening material that they cite consists of US “post-hardcore”. Listing artists like as Blonde Redhead, Death Grips, Deerhoof, Unwound, and Yo La Tengo as key sources of inspiration. Ben confirms, “We like good noisy stuff… I think that’s in our blood.” They all grew up watching videos of Fugazi, Jesus Lizard, Shellac and The Minutemen, and these forces of nature certainly inform Lawns’ incendiary live shows.

The Worrier is a pummelling, pounding paean to paranoia, and the absolute shit, which unchecked, fills our heads. From unpaid bills to imagined physical ills. Fuelled by mainstream and social media. Something like a sonic taser shock it’s the soundtrack to a potential nervous breakdown. Like the rest of the album it expresses, externalises an internal darkness, in a ritual of frenzied release. Its arrangement is like a series of seizures.

LAWNS - The Worrier

Music, arrangement and lyrics by Vashti Bunyan

Now based in Edinburgh, Vashti’s story tells of the thwarted promise of early fame, disenchantment, long-term exile and eventual rediscovery. In the mid-‘60s, she was discovered by The Rolling Stones’ guru, Andrew Loog Oldham, signed to Decca and recorded a single written by Jagger / Richards. Reviews touted her as ‘the new Marianne Faithful’ or the ‘female Bob Dylan’ (though Vashti claimed to be neither), yet further singles remained unreleased, leading to a sense of despair and a rejection of the music industry. She bought a horse and cart and set off in 1968 for the dream of a creative colony that the singer Donovan was setting up on the Scottish Isle of Skye. It took them two long years to get there, by which time Donovan had left, but the experience formed the songs for ‘Just Another Diamond Day’, the album recorded by Joe Boyd (and featuring members of The Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention). 
The record slipped out in a tiny pressing and was rapidly forgotten, yet gradually over the years accrued a cultish currency as a lost English classic. In the late ‘90s, ‘JADD’ was re-released – almost thirty years after she had “abandoned it and music forever” - to huge critical acclaim (The Observer Music Monthly placed it at 53 in their ‘Top 100 British albums’). A host of young, new admirers emerged citing her influence, and Vashti has since recorded with Piano Magic, The Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde, Devendra Banhart, and Animal Collective. 
A brand new album, ‘Lookaftering’ was released in October 2005 to huge acclaim. In October 2008 a world premiere screening of a new feature-length documentary about Vashti’s life was screened at the prestigious British Film Institute, as part of The London Film Festival, by BAFTA winning director Kieran Evans. 
Following another hiatus in her song-writing and recording, a new album 'Heartleap', recorded mostly by Vashti herself in her own studio, was released on FatCat in October 2014.
Links:
www.fat-cat.co.uk/site/artists/vashti-bunyan

Vashti Bunyan - Across The Water

Music, arrangement and lyrics by Laura Vunk

Spice Mouse is a bedroom recording project that started in 2008 in an Estonian small town Rakvere. Laura's material is framed by recording with minimal possibilities like a phone or a mp3 player, some sorrow and a lot of fantasies, dreamworlds, and pastel colors. In 2011 she released two albums of her earlier material under record label Trash Can Dance: EP "Kivi mu rinnataskus on sinu" and LP "About the First Bee Stings". The same year, her song "Kevadtants" was released on Õunaviks' compilation "Toatuur 2". She is currently working on her new record, to be released also by Õunaviks.
Links:
facebook.com/spicemouse 
@spice-mouse

Spice Mouse - Teenage Crimes

Music and arrangement by Mirjam Tally, additional musicians: Jaak Lutsoja (accordion), Tõnu Jõesaar (cello) and Kersti Ala-Murr (mixed with electronics)

Mirjam Tally has graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music as a student of Lepo Sumera in 2000. Since 2006, Tally lives on the island of Gotland, Sweden. Her work Turbulence (2006) for symphony orchestra and electric guitar, has received some international recognition. In 2008, Turbulence was performed at the ISCM’s World New Music Days (later at the Venice Biennale and was selected as a recommended work at international Rostrum of composers). For Turbulence, she was awarded the Little Christ Johnson Prize in 2008. In 2009-2010, she was Composer in Residence at Swedish Radio P2 channel. Since 2012, her orchestral works are published by Gehrmans Musikförlag.
Sound is central in Tally’s creations. Her music is a flow of playful contrasts where a sense of humour and poetic use of sound are blended to mix. Beside writing works for contemporary music scene, she is active as a composer of experimental films. Her earlier works are mainly for chamber ensembles and electronics. In recent years, importance of orchestral music has increased in her oeuvre.
Links:
www.mirjamtally.com
@mirjamtally
facebook.com/mirjamtallycomposer

Mirjam Tally - Intro - Main Theme From Ülo Pikkov's Film Body Memory

Music and arrangement by Mari Kalkun, lyrics by Marie Heinberg (from the compilation “Songs of a Troubled Child“, 1906)

Mari Kalkun is a musician, singer and a composer relying on her Southern Estonian roots. The songs are largely her own compositions, inspired by nature, Estonian poetry and folk music. Many of the lyrics are written around 1920s – 60s by local poets carrying the feeling of rural life, the forests, the landscape. The flowing sound of Estonian language and its dialects create a meditative atmosphere in her music intertwined with the traditional singing –regilaul - and folkore. For making music and accompaning herself she uses kannel, piano, accordion, guitar but sometimes also pipes, whistles, melodica.
Her first solo album named “Üü tulõk” (“Arrival of the Night”, record label Õunaviks, 2007) gained remarkable recognition among Estonian music audience and critics. Since then concerts have brought her to France, Hungary, England, Scotland, Germany, Finland, Russia, Armenia and Japan. “Vihmakõnõ” (“Dear Rain”, Õunaviks 2010) is her second album, dedicated to grandparents. Being personal and keeping connection with the roots “Dear Rain” continues what was started with the first album but moves closer towards minimalism and experimenting with sound/sounds. The album is recorded at various locations in home environments. Mari Kalkun has got a master degree in traditional singing from Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Part of the study time she spent in exchange in Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. She received Estonian Ethno Music Award 2013 as the Best Singer.
Links:
www.marikalkun.com/
facebook.com/MariKalkunMusic
@marikalkun 
vimeo.com/15664006

Mari Kalkun - Kevadel metsas

Music and arrangement by Lauri Sommer; lyrics Seto folklore

Kago was the second level travelling character from Kurt Vonnegut's Book "Breakfast Of Champions". Kago's music shares some absurdly psychedelic sadness and empathy with Vonnegut's novels and Brautigan's poetry. It also means "travelling chair" in older japanese. The only member of Kago, writer Lauri Sommer began as a musician somewhere in beginning of 90s and has played punk, folk, indie, made dadaistic electro, sang in church choir and learned something about English folk songs. Since 2003 Lauri had made music as Kago. Never being a full-time musician, he performs rarely (mostly in literary of village singing context) and has released 4 albums under record label Õunaviks. Kago's music is a mix of folk-blues singer-songwriter material, renditions of Southern-Estonian runic songs, dictaphone rhythms and home electronica, quiet piano pieces, stretched-out ambient, occasional sounds and radio dramas.
Links:
ounaviks.ee/kago 
vimeo.com/47809273

Kago - Taivaminek

Singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan today announces Lookaftering - Expanded Edition, a reissue of her legendary second album, out on 7 February 2025 via Fat Cat Records. 

Marking the occasion of 20 years since the original release, and coinciding with Vashti’s 80th birthday, the new expanded edition features the original studio album along with a second LP / disc of demos, an alternate take, and a live performance version. This edition also comes with reflective sleeve notes from Vashti, producer Max Richter and Devendra Banhart, as well as a 16-page lyric booklet featuring a collection of paintings by Vashti's daughter Whyn Lewis  – paintings that they both say have closely, and coincidentally, reflected the lyrics of the album. 

Originally recorded between 2001 and 2005, the unreleased demos were created at Vashti’s home on her accompanying electric and acoustic guitar along with a host of experimental instrumentation from synths, accordion, piano, strings, pipe organ, harmonium and recorders. The collection of demos offers a more stripped back sound compared to the finished album, and the live version of Lately recorded at an early “comeback” gig in LA in 2006, orchestrated as on the record, is absolutely pitch perfect.
 
Listening to the demos and the final versions side-by-side while reading the sleeve notes is a wonderful experience, learning and hearing how the songs and the long-player evolved, with Vashti and Max Richter (who produced and played on the album), explaining how all of the artists involved (Devendra Banhart, Johanna Newson, Adem Ilhan, Robert Kirby and members of the band Vetiver), touched by Vashti’s original 1970 album, Just Another Diamond Day, jumped at the opportunity to be there. Max Richter recalls, “It felt like a community project; a family of people coming together”.

Devendra Banhart said: “Lookaftering is a quiet prayer for a world left behind, a remembrance of a world that could have been but never was, a Lookforwarding to a world that may yet still be... As ethereal and haunted as these eleven songs may be, they are also rooted in the earthly magic of wisdom born from experience. Something so rare and honest it’s nearly otherworldly in its total human-ness.”

Speaking of the reissue, Vashti said: “the beautiful photograph of Max in the studio playing wine glasses with his young daughter’s violin bow, brings it all back to me - how very fortunate I have been.” 

Vashti Bunyan-If I Were (Demo, 2001)

The FatCat team are back with their last playlist of 2024 on Slack City Radio. It's another two hour deep dive into a whole world of music currently playing through the office speakers. 
Expect new music from Sinner DC and Sonic Boom, Ava Rasti, Kandodo, Astrid Sonne, GOAT, Abdomen and steadfast classics from Carl Craig, Chis and Cosey, Colin Potter, Panda Bear, Joy Division, and more... 

Full tracklisting below:

1. Sonic Boom & Sinner DC - Ambient no drums mix
2. Princess Diana Of Wales - Fragments of Blue
3. Emil Friis and Patricio Fraile - Minor Music
4. O Yuki Conjugate - RetroGrade
5. Ava Rasti - The Dead Horse
6. Mary Lattimore - We Just Found Out She Died
7. Sebastien Gandera - Le Chienne De Vie
8. Kandodo - San Berdeeno
9. Sinner DC and Sonic Boom - Maps
10. Chris and Cosey - Talk To Me
11. Violet Eves - Listen Over The Ocean
12. Carl Craig - C Beams Glitter
13. Astrid Sonne - Do you Wanna
14. Colin Potter - Yoursmine
15. Miko & Mubare - Komoma Ya Ya Ya
16. Can - ...And Move
17. Goat - Goatbrain
18. Imperial Tiger Orchestra - 
19. Panada Bear - Everything has been leading to this (Sherwood dub)
20. In Aertenam Vale - Money
21. Geneva Jacuzzi - The Sleep Room
22. Moebius & Beerbohm - Glucose
23. Abdomen - Dazed
24. Notorische Refluxe - The Wisp
25. Joy Division - Disorder
26. 11th Hour - Breathe
27. Dean and Britta - Merry Xmas (War is Over)

FatCat Records - Slack City  - Dec 2024

First day back in the trenches? Fear not, slip on your headphones, turn up the volume and let us ease you into the New Year with the first FatCat radio show of the year.
Expect to hear music from ‘Roy of the Ravers’, ‘Kelly Lee Owens’, ’36 & Zake’,’Rhythm is Rhythm’, ‘BFC’, ‘Dangerman’, ‘Suicide’, ‘Liquid Liquid’, and ‘Patrick Cowley’ amongst others.

full tracklisting below:

1. Roy Of the Ravers - Sada Lost Theme
2. Roy Of the Ravers - CS (6X8)
3. Kelly Lee Owens - Anadlu
4. 36 & Zake - Stage 1
5. Hampshire and Foat - The Fly and I
6. Sunda Arc - Mirai
7. Roy Of The Ravers - Bounce Erec
8. Rhythm is Rhythm - Kaotic Harmony
9. BFC - Galaxy
10. Insync - Storm
11. F.S. Bluum and Nils Frahm - Sara and Eve
12. Dangerman - Calling for Peace (Version)
13. Willi Williams - Armageddon Time
14. Diggory Kendrick and the Aggrovators - Bandulu Dub
15. Liquid Liquid - Lock Groove (in)
16. Patrick Cowley - Thief of Love
17. Mode IQ - Competition
18. Suicide - Ghost Rider
19. Pale Blue - Breathe (Olive T Remix)
20. Gerald VDF - Broken Teeth and a Heart of Gold
21. Hacker and Miss Kittin - 26

FatCat Records - Slack City - Jan 2025

FatCat Records - Slack City - 27 Jan 2025 -

FatCats February show features a plethora of deep, dark, dub vibes and features new tracks from Denis Bovell, Midnight Mirage, Vin Gordon, Vivek, Danny T,alongside classics from Prince Far I, Chris and Cosey, Larhon 26, Markus Mixx, Omar S, Levon Vincent and more...

Slack City - Feb 2025

Resina

Resina - Tatry I

Resina - Flock

Resina - Tatry II

Resina - Nightjar

Resina - Dark Sky, White Water

Taken from Dmitry's forthcoming 'Comprehension Of Light' album, which will be released on FatCat's 130701 imprint on October 6th.

The stunning ‘Comprehension Of Light’ marks a sizeable step forward for Dmitry. A must-hear for fans of fellow 130701 alumni Max Richter, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka, the LP is Dmitry’s first ever vinyl release and is a wonderfully conceived and realised work. Where ‘Collage’ was  heavily augmented with an expansive use of electronics and virtual instrumentation, the new album sees Dmitry upgrade to real strings / orchestral instrumentation with a more limited use of software. ISKRA String Quartet (The XX, Radiohead, Jóhann Jóhannsson) contributed strings. Other contributors include William Yates (Memotone), Abul Mogard and Benoit Pîoulard. It was mixed by Addi 800 (Ólafur Arnalds) and mastered by Martyn Heyne (Nils Frahm, Peter Broderick, The National and others).

In places recalling Jóhann Jóhannsson and Hauschka, in others the work of Leyland Kirby / The Caretaker, or Eduard Artemiev's score for Tarkovsky’s ‘Stalker’, 'Comprehension' is a stunning album which traces a redemptive narrative arc and bears witness to a rising young talent in the field of modern composition.

LP includes dig download card (inc. 2 dig-only tracks which don't appear on the vinyl)

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Dmitry Evgrafov - Rajas

Taken from Dmitry's forthcoming 'Comprehension Of Light' album, which will be released on FatCat's 130701 imprint on October 6th.

The stunning ‘Comprehension Of Light’ marks a sizeable step forward for Dmitry. A must-hear for fans of fellow 130701 alumni Max Richter, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka, the LP is Dmitry’s first ever vinyl release and is a wonderfully conceived and realised work. Where ‘Collage’ was heavily augmented with an expansive use of electronics and virtual instrumentation, the new album sees Dmitry upgrade to real strings / orchestral instrumentation with a more limited use of software. ISKRA String Quartet (The XX, Radiohead, Jóhann Jóhannsson) contributed strings. Other contributors include William Yates (Memotone), Abul Mogard and Benoit Pîoulard. It was mixed by Addi 800 (Ólafur Arnalds) and mastered by Martyn Heyne (Nils Frahm, Peter Broderick, The National and others).

In places recalling Jóhann Jóhannsson and Hauschka, in others the work of Leyland Kirby / The Caretaker, or Eduard Artemiev's score for Tarkovsky’s ‘Stalker’, 'Comprehension' is a stunning album which traces a redemptive narrative arc and bears witness to a rising young talent in the field of modern composition.

LP includes dig download card (inc. 2 dig-only tracks which don't appear on the vinyl)

Comprehension Of Light

Dmitry Evgrafov - Znanie (feat. Abul Mogard)

Dmitry Evgrafov - Rootedness

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