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LiStening Now // June 20th 2016

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The Quiet Village: Library Jazz, Big Band & Orchestral Werks

Acoustic / JAZZish / Neue Classica / Experimental

The Lost Tapes Record Club
EP-1
RSEP01
Cassette

Folklore Tapes Present a new Radiolore Series, The Lost Tapes Record Club

A series of four EPs curated by members of the band Clinic  and presented by the Lost Tapes Record Club.  Containing tracks pertaining to a unique project based around ethnographic radiolore and  surrounding the Dorset town of Symonsbury.

Panhandle - Click Clap

Bruno Nicolai
Marquis De Sade
FKR069LP (vinyl only)

De Sade 70? La Isla De La Muerte? Decameron Francese? Wildkatzen? Philosophy In The Boudoir? Les Inassouvies? Eugenie And The Story Of Her Journey Into Perversion?... De Sade, De Sade.. The film so odd they named it fifteen times!

Represented here on this special commemorative format you will find some of the finest fruits from an infamous fertile creative relationship between two of the most dedicated and productive bastions of the 1960/70s Eurotica genre - Spanish born director Jess Franco (Vampyros Lesbos) and Bruno Nicolai (The Good The Bad And The Ugly/All The Colours Of The Dark). Thrown into a long-running partnership following a rare/lost 1969 Italian/Spanish co-production with the emblematic title Sex Charade (which also marked the debut collaboration between Franco and actress Soledad Miranda), the unison of shocking image and rocking sound provided an inspirational exchange of new experimental and uninhabited avenues for both of these workaholic European artists. In the late 60s, as the rise of Italian horror directors, such as a young Dario Argento, test- ed the boundaries of censorship and common decency, the Giallo comic book adaptation movies had began to open new channels for established symphonic composers such as Ennio Morricone, who was able to exercise his off-menu interests in the free jazz (exemplified by his non-soundtrack work with Gruppo di improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza) as budget restrictions were exchanged for creative freedom thus creating an important niche in European cinema which came to typify the burgeoning movement. The boom in the Horrotica/exploitation industry that rapidly sprawled across central Europe to Germany and Spain virtually overnight made extensive work for a long line of established Italian composers such as Alessandroni, Sorgini, Piccioni, Nicolai, and Cipriani - all of whom spread their spaghetti western roots (often under multiple pseudonyms) and took tight hold of the sonic aesthetic of European thriller cinema. While working in the organised ranks of production houses and library labels Like Deneb, CAM, Octopus, Beat and Liuto, the syndication of Italian music in Spanish horror cinema became synonymous. 

When Jess Franco began to work on Italian co-productions he forged a consistent relationship with conductor and arranger Bruno Nicolai, who had already worked very closely with Morricone on some of his greatest feature films while remaining tightly committed to arthouse cinema such as Pasolini’s Theorem and Pontecorvo’s The Battle Of Algiers. As a one-time professional jazz musician himself, Franco always had a good ear for emotive music, an integral facet that has ulti- mately given wider wings to his films and longevity for future generations of film/music enthusiasts. Where many directors would employ musical supervisors or license library recordings, Franco would often synchronise his own compositions alongside tracks from LPs that he sourced in record shops on his travels, as typified by the economic use of the German Sexadelic and Vampire Sound Incorporated LPs by Sigi Scwhab and Manfred Huber (which became the soundtrack for a film trilogy starting with Vampyros Lesbos in 1970) or the Blue Phantom LP as used on his film Sinner in 1975. 

What originally began as a one-off relationship of convenience for the production company became a fruitful and habitual unison of choice and Nicolai would spend much of the early 70s balancing his time as a conductor for Morricone with repeat commissions for two notable horror directors - Sergio Martino in Italy and Franco in Spain. Forming a faithful relationship similar to that of Argento/Goblin and Fellini/Rota, the Franco/Nicolai partnership is arguably best illustrated on the soundtrack to this version of De Sade, presented here for the first time with a sharper focus on the free avant garde elements and the previously unpressed heavier psychedelic music that was prevalent and integral to Franco’s tastes. Including titles such as Drug Party, this set of full-length instrumental songs (as opposed to short cues) benefit from the extra collaborative energies of Italian studio luminaries Edda Dell’Orso (breathy onomatopoeic vocals) and Alessandro Allesandroni (sitar), striking comparisons with the aforementioned work under The Pawnshop moniker or the music from the Sergio Martino film All The Colours Of The Dark which enhance the displaced hallucinogenic and inebriated subtext of the film’s exploitative and counter cultural tenuous source of inspiration.

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Bruno Nicolai - De Sade 70/Circle (edit)

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings cover of "Goldfinger" as heard on the 'Wolf Of Wall Street" soundtrack.

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Goldfinger

From the mixtape Drunken Babble on Datpiff 

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Taken from the album 'Spaces' out now on CD/2xLP/Digital via Erased Tapes.

EU order link: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP055
US order link: www.midheaven.com/item/spaces-by-frahm-nils-cd
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After releasing his critically acclaimed album Spaces in late 2013, and a completely sold out North American Tour in spring, Nils Frahm will return for the autumn run of his Spaces Tour with a special gift to his fans: an exclusive stream of album track 'Said And Done'.

'Touring the US again? I hope my folks at home wont get jelous but it is just starting to become some serious fun! Expect me to return with more crazy ideas about how to wreck an old New York Steinway and more tips: how to manage travelling UNITED AIRLINES. There will be more half broken tape delays, overclocked synths and hopefully I can score another silly drum computer. I am very much looking forward! Plus, if you want me back, I am coming. See you soon!' – Nils Frahm

His feverish playing is so stimulating that it's slightly nerve-wracking' – Pitchfork

'If you've ever caught Nils Frahm live, you can attest to what a powerful experience it can be' – Exclaim!

'It’s a powerfully moving experience watching him create all manner of sounds with his fingertips' – KEXP

'He had the audience laughing, at the point of tears and ultimately on their feet with a standing ovation' – Resident Advisor

www.nilsfrahm.com · www.erasedtapes.com

Spaces

Said and Done

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I T O E  0001

Sourced Out 02 Grandbrothers

"Your Best American Girl" from 'Puberty 2' by Mitski, out on Dead Oceans on June 17th, 2016

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Your Best American Girl

Mitski - Your Best American Girl

Australia’s Gallery of Modern Art commissioned Xiu Xiu to reinterpret the music from Twin Peaks for their David Lynch: Between Two Worlds exhibition. Since then, the band has performed select concerts all over the globe culminating in a proper studio album of the compositions - "Plays The Music of Twin Peaks." The album features Xiu Xiu's reinterpretation of David Lynch's iconic theme, "Falling." 

-Available Record Store Day 2016 on 180-gram 2xLP red/blue vinyl (limited to 2,000). 
-Mixed by Deerhoof's Greg Saunier.
-Produced by Jherek Bischoff (Amanda Palmer, Ariel Pink).



Falling

"Garden Blues (Niro Love Mum Remix)" by Gigi Masin, @elia-perrone and Niro Perrone will be released through @unclear-records on March 25th. Info: bit.ly/PerMaNi

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Elia Perrone & Gigi Masin - Garden Blues (Niro Love Mum Remix) - Unclear Records

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Sounds were recorded live in Berengo Studio Furnace (Murano, Venice) 
All rhythms are made with sound elements from the glass processing 
No preset rhythm or drum machine has been used

Detail of Pharrell Williams "Inside Out" (2011, glass & stones) 
Photo by Francesco Allegretto 
Courtesy of Berengo Studio 
Art direction and graphic design: BRH+ 

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Max Casacci & Daniele Mana - Like A Glass Angel

Shades

"Anyone Else" off of 'Big Sparks' by Few Bits, out 2016 on PIAS

Anyone Else

Alright is taken from Keanton Henson's new album 'Kindly Now'. Released September 16th.

Pre-order
Digital: http://found.ee/kindlynowdigital
Physical: http://found.ee/keatonhensonstore

Alright

Closer To Closure is a song from Jherek Bischoff's forthcoming album Cistern, out July 15th on The Leaf Label. 
Cistern is an album inspired by time Bischoff spent improvising in an empty, two-million-gallon, underground water tank, with a 45-second reverb decay. The unique acoustics of the space forced Bischoff to slow down and adapt his compositional approach - something which, unexpectedly, brought him back to his childhood, and the slow-pace of life he experienced growing up on a sailboat.

Pre-order now: bit.ly/CisternBC

CREDITS
Composed, Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Jherek Bischoff
Recorded by Patrick Higgins at Future-­Past Studios, NY
Photography by Alex Stoddard
Art Direction by Jan Lankisch

MUSICIANS
Jherek Bischoff - Percussion 
Contemporaneous 
David Bloom - Conductor 
Vicente Alexim - Clarinet 
John Gattis - Horn 
Evan Honse - Flugelhorn 
Daniel Linden - Trombone 
Matt Evans - Percussion 
Kate Dreyfuss - Violin 
Marina Kifferstein - Violin 
Josh Henderson - Violin 
Nikita Morozov - Violin 
Nicole Parks - Violin 
Finnegan Shanahan - Violin 
Kallie Chieckhomski - Viola 
Sarah Haines - Viola 
Dylan Mattingly - Cello 
Matthew Smith - Cello 
Pat Swoboda - Contrabass 
Additional Musicians 
Serena McKinney - Violin 
Lauren Baba - Viola 
Aniela Marie Perry - Cello 

(c) 2014 Jherek Bischoff, worldwide administration by Nettwerk One Music (Canada) limited, on behalf of Brassland Projects Inc (BMI) 
(p) 2016 Jherek Bischoff under licence to The Leaf Label Ltd 
(c) 2016 The Leaf Label Ltd