Compost Records

Black Label #36

The Way Back

Solomun - The Way Back (Out now on Compost Records!)

Somebody's Story

Solomun - Somebody's Story (Out now on Compost Records!)

!!! 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

Ding Dong Thing

Felix Laband - Ding Dong Thing

Endless Smile

Betty

Just Who Is That Kat?

!!! These are stripped-down 160mp3 snippets of the original tracks!!!

Artist: Marbert Rocel
Title: In The Beginning
Cat No: CPT 474-1 / -2
Format: 2LP incl. cardboard CD / CD / digital

The fourth studio album „In The Beginning“ by the critically acclaimed live band MARBERT ROCEL from Leipzig.

TRACKLISTING:

1. 80 Horses (5:22)
2. Make Me Walk (4:24)
3. Always On My Mind (5:51)
4. Up To You (3:43)
5. Velvet (4:33)
6. Dawn Of The Day (4:21)
7. Unwillingly Close (3:46)
8. Dance Slow (3:54)
9. Bird Of Passage (4:05)
10. Hold On (3:44)
11. Me, Myself And I (4:26) 
12. With Your Love (4:54)

INFO:
A place far away from everything, yet right around the corner. A vision close enough to touch, yet so far away. Surrounded by keys, hatches, pots and small fragmented parts, Marbert Rocel lie down, discuss and dance through the winter of 2015. In this environment, in their studio in Leipzig, the band ties together the songs, which first saw the light of day in a small spot enclosed by woods in the summer of 2014.  Each decision goes through every head, each chord is listened to a hundred times, from font to back and in reverse, each compromise: a triumph for the common cause. Not pompoous string arrangements fuel this album with grandeur, but rather the notion of a consensual nod, which has evolved within Marbert Rocel over the years.  “In the Beginning” is the fourth album by Marbert Rocel, a living utopia and a tart kiss for every purist genre lover. Nothing is hewn raw on here, rather sculptured delicately. Percussion is tickling from synth pads like dew, and the songs welcome you like good friends. Like Tinkerbell, Spunks voice guides through this strange familiar world, moving past big feelings and small gestures, to finally lead to where it all started: “In The Beginning”.

www.marbertrocel.com
facebook: www.facebook.com/marbertrocel 
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/marbertrocel
booking: www.buki-good.de | info@buki-good.de

In The Beginning

Always On My Mind

Buy @ Compost Shop

Marbert Rocel - Always On My Mind (snippet)

Felix Laband - Falling Off A Horse

El Dorado

Paraiso

01. 'My Bones' by Tom Williams & The Boat [taken from the new album 'Teenage Blood', out now via The Young And Lost Club]
02. 'Song For You' by Marbert Rocel [taken from the new album 'Small Hours', out now via Compost]


02.  Song For You - Marbert Rocel

Felix Laband - Falling Off A Horse

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