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This year we've put together the most beastly and insanely beautiful releases in the history of our label.  The Prelude to the Decline Subscription Series includes up to 9 full-length albums, the largest amount of releases for us ever in one year!   All subscribers will get big discounts on the releases, behind the scene access to coming premieres, exclusive content and releases, and more. Normally we keep it a secret what we have planned for the year, but this year we need your help bringing this amazing collection of music to light. So we are about to show our plans in a way that we rarely have before. 

A rundown of artist’s lined up for this year include: William Ryan Fritch, Seabuckthorn, From The Mouth Of The Sun (aka Aaron Martin and Dag Rosengvist), The Green Kingdom, Alder and Ash, and kj.  The year we'll introduce 4 vinyl, 7 CDs, and 2 cassettes, plus at least 1 incredible Subscriber Exclusive album, but really that's just the tip of the iceberg for those who subscribe.  

For the full details and how to subscribe visit:
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Prelude To The Decline Track List:
1. William Ryan Fritch - Qusbegi (http://williamryanfritch.bandcamp.com)
2. Seabuckthorn - The Trail Already In My Mind (http://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com)
3. William Ryan Fritch - The Letdown
4. The Green Kingdom - Aventurine (http://thegreenkingdom.bandcamp.com)
5. Alder & Ash - Seen Through the Cedar Smoke (http://alderandashmusic.bandcamp.com)
6. William Ryan Fritch - Depths of Our Minds
7. From The Mouth Of The Sun - Light Blooms in Hollow Space - (http://ftmots.bandcamp.com)
8. kj - angels  - (http://ownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wake)

Albums in the Series (More Subscriber Benefits on Order Page):
• WILLIAM RYAN FRITCH - Eagle Hunters (VINYL & CD)
• SEABUCKTHORN - Turns (VINYL & CD) 
• THE GREEN KINGDOM - Title: TBA (CASSETTE) 
• WILLIAM RYAN FRITCH - Zen Dog OST (CASSETTE) 
• ALDER & ASH - Psalms for the Sunder (CD) 
• ALDER & ASH - Title: TBA (CD) 
• WILLIAM RYAN FRITCH - Title: TBA (VINYL & CD) 
• FROM THE MOUTH OF THE SUN - Title: TBA (VINYL & CD) 
• KJ - Title: TBA (CD) 
• SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE ALBUM - Title: TBA (DIGITAL) 
• Instant download of the 8 songs in this preview set

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Prelude to the Decline - LTS Subscription Series

Three new William Ryan Fritch albums are coming out in July and August.  All three are simply gorgeous.  The albums are titled: 'A History, in Boxes', 'The Old Believers (Extended Edition)', and 'The Sum of its Parts'.  Preview more songs from the albums here: https://losttribesound.bandcamp.com/music

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William Ryan Fritch - 3 New Albums (Out Now)

sense

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dream on

No Clear Mind - Dream is Destiny

Snowflakes

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/47rMHeMxrO55Pf0Qg0MZXq


www.lightsandmotion.com

Snowflakes

Music for solo piano.

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Musicbed: https://www.musicbed.com/artists/steven-gutheinz/4360

Web: https://stevengutheinz.com

Vision

Sierra

A piece I wrote and recorded for Piano Day. Enjoy.(:

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The Illusion Of Motion

Order 7"/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP073
or via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/lifestoryloveandglory

Erased Tapes artists and friends Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm have separately carved out a musical career that defies genres both with their unique live shows and a loyal fan base that’s always eager to hear what their prolific output will bring. 

Their latest collaborative 2-track release ‘Life Story Love and Glory’ is a live improv affair on two pianos, recorded in 2012 at Nils’s Durton Studio in Berlin. Fans may wonder why they have waited until 2015 to release these tracks, but having revealed a new website www.arnaldsfrahm.com you may think this may not be the end to their musical story this year. 

“We would meet in Reykjavik or Berlin with the intention to share some days off work, hiking, swimming or eating pizza. That is great for a couple days, but after a while we would always end up back in the studio, fiddling with synths or pianos.” – Nils Frahm 
“You can hear in the beginning of ‘Life Story’ how I have already started playing the piano whilst Nils is still moving microphones around and preparing everything. It was all kept in!“ – Ólafur Arnalds 

‘Life Story Love and Glory’ will be released as a 7” on Erased Tapes – exclusively through record stores only on August 21, 2015 ahead of its digital release later on – as an ode to this classic and beloved format. 

More info: www.arnaldsfrahm.com · www.erasedtapes.com

Life Story Love And Glory

Life Story

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Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – Life Story

Black Sands

You can PRE-ORDER Living Room Songs on CD/LP/Download or Special Edition CD&amp;DVD here: 
http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP037

ABOUT LIVING ROOM SONGS:

Icelandic contemporary composer Ólafur Arnalds created and released a new song, one per day for one for one whole week during the month of October 2011. The songs were recorded and filmed live in the living room of his Reykjavik apartment and released instantly for free as streamed videos and mp3 downloads.

Thousands of fans followed this exciting project online at: livingroomsongs.olafurarnalds.com

Living Room Songs will now also be released on CD, Vinyl, Ltd. Special Edition CD &amp; DVD and as High Quality Downloads on December 5th via Erased Tapes.


Following in the spirit of Ólafur Arnalds’ critically acclaimed Found Songs (2009) now comes Living Room Songs. This time Ólafur takes the idea further and invites the audience into the comfort of his living room, where the songs were recorded live and the whole process filmed. The songs were instantly released in form of a free mp3 download and video stream- straight from Ólafur's Reykjavik apartment.

IN HIS OWN WORDS: ‘One night I was just playing my piano here in this apartment and I was writing a new song and I didn't have my phone on me which I usually use to record ideas. So I actually took out my MacBook and I didn't want to open like a proper recording program, so I just opened Photo Booth and recorded a video of myself playing the song so that I would remember the song. And I really liked the atmosphere of that video and that's when I thought I should do a series of songs in my living room...’             – Ólafur Arnalds


Born in the suburban Icelandic town of Mosfellsbær, a few kilometers outside of Reykjavík, the 24-year old composer has always enjoyed pushing boundaries with both his studio work and his live-shows. Through relentless touring and determination this young artist has steadily gained recognition worldwide since his 2007 debut Eulogy for Evolution. Ólafur Arnalds’ second full-length album ...and they have escaped the weight of darkness, continues his mission to lure an indie-generation of pop and rock fans into an emotive world of beguiling electronic chamber music and delicate classical arrangements. Ólafur is currently touring with Ryuichi Sakamoto on his Trio Tour throughout Europe.

'The indie kid who knows the score’ – Guardian’s Observer

'Timeless and sublime’ **** – Uncut

'An artist of immense maturity' (9/10) – Drowned In Sound

'Hotwired to the soul. ...will reduce you to wordless tears'  – The Quietus


 
TRACK LISTING: 

I. Fyrsta 
II. Near Light 
III. Film Credits 
IV. Tomorrow's Song 
V. Ágúst 
VI. Lag Fyrir Ömmu 
VII. This Place Is A Shelter


Near Light

Ólafur Arnalds - Near Light

Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds set to release his first Hollywood film score.

Ólafur Arnalds’ original motion picture soundtrack for Sam Levinson’s feature film debut ‘Another Happy Day’, starring Ellen Barkin and Demi Moore, will see a worldwide release via UK modern classical label Erased Tapes Records on February 27, 2012.

PRE-ORDER it on CD/Vinyl/Digital now from: http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP038

IN HIS OWN WORDS: 

‘In mid-December 2010 I was on a holiday in China when I received an email from Sam Levinson about the film. We got on the phone at like 4 in the morning Beijing time and ended up talking all through the night, instantly connecting. He told me that they had been listening to my music while making the film, so the film was already very influenced by my music. However, it was not until Ellen Barkin – the beautiful force that she is – had pestered the producers for a week, calling them every day about how I am the right one for this film, that they finally gave in. The only catch was that it had to be done two weeks later, in the first week of January. So I ended up scoring nonstop all throughout Christmas, making my mother mad in the process.’ - Ólafur Arnalds

CONTEXT:

Born in the suburban Icelandic town of Mosfellsbær, a few kilometres outside of Reykjavík, the 24-year old composer has always enjoyed pushing boundaries with both his studio work and his live-shows. Through relentless touring and determination this young artist has steadily gained recognition worldwide and continues his mission to lure an indie-generation of pop and rock fans into an emotive world of beguiling electronic chamber music and delicate classical arrangements.

'The indie kid who knows the score’ – Guardian’s Observer

'An artist who can exert power with the lightest of touches’ – BBC Music


TRACK LISTING:  

1. The Land Of Nod  2. Through The Screen  3. Before The Calm  4. Lynn's Theme  5. Alice Enters  6. The Wait  7. A Family Stroll  8. Poland  9. Out To Sea  10. Autumn Day  11. Everything Must Change

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:

OLAFURARNALDS.COM
ERASEDTAPES.COM

Erased Tapes Collection IV

Ólafur Arnalds - Poland

Buy Album: http://smarturl.it/inboxesbc

Exclusively through our Bandcamp store, all purchases of 'A History, in Boxes' come with an instrumental version of the album. 

'A History, in Boxes' is a brand new collaboration between spoken word artist Matt Finney and multi-instrumentalist William Ryan Fritch. Much of 'A History, in Boxes' will no doubt recall the triumphant and explosively charged moments of Fritch's work with Jon Mueller on the Death Blues Ensemble album. Lost Tribe Sound is thrilled to welcome Matt Finney and his twisted wry wit to the label.

Cover photo courtesy of Simpleinsomnia 
Cover photo modified by Ryan Keane 
Cover photo licensed under "Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)"

A History, In Boxes

Honeysuckle

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William Ryan Fritch & Matt Finney - Honeysuckle (from A History, in Boxes)

Buy Album: http://smarturl.it/oldbc

In 2014, William Ryan Fritch and Lost Tribe Sound embarked on a massive undertaking to release a series of 12 albums from Fritch over a two year period. Known as the ‘Leave Me Series,’ it covered a wide spectrum of sound, including two soundtracks offered as series exclusives from Fritch’s work for film during that period. For the subscribers who had the chance to hear these original soundtracks for the films, ‘The Old Believers’ and ‘The Sum Of Its Parts,’ they were heralded as two of the most prized and cohesive scores in Fritch’s vast catalog. 

Knowing how loved these works became, LTS has decided to open the musical vaults and make these albums available to the public for the first time. In addition, ‘The Old Believers’ album has received quite the facelift since it first appeared in the series. Along with the new cover artwork, Fritch has rearranged and incorporated 8 new compositions.The additional music was taken from two other recent films that also center around the plight of those that are displaced and seeking refuge (including 2016’s academy award nominated documentary ‘4.1 Miles’).These new pieces offer engrossing textures and beautiful themes that unlock new depths to the solemn meditations of its previous iteration.

As for ‘The Sum Of Its Parts,’ the feature film from award winning filmmaker/editor Fiona Otway’s introduces some of the world’s foremost robot researchers alongside tomorrow’s future leaders in robotics. This film explores the messy front lines of the crusade to make robots part of our everyday experience. From initial sketches, to soldering wires, to programming actions and performing experiments “in the wild”, scientists, high school students, and artists obsessed with bringing robots to life are shaping a new era in our relationship with technology. Yet, by observing their successes and failures along the way, what becomes clear is that robots actually have a lot to teach us about what it means to be human. ‘The Sum of Its Parts’ is a celebration of hands-on human creativity, and a contemplation of our deep need for connection and community as a source of meaning in our lives.

‘The Sum of Its Parts’ soundtrack, composed and performed entirely by William Ryan Fritch, is a dynamic counterpart to the film’s central themes and philosophical inquiries. The score’s markedly organic instrumentation (string ensemble, french horn, vibraphone and prepared piano), is wrought into circuitous rhythms and patterns that hum, churn and grind with a mechanical steadiness that belies the achingly human and expressive compositions they propel.

It should be noted, that calling ‘The Old Believers’ and ‘Sum Of Its Parts’ soundtracks paints an incomplete picture. Too often the genre or classification of “soundtrack” brings to mind sloppily arranged carbon copies of a film’s cues; often just a few main themes and a collection of one minute tracks that, when not set to picture, fall short of an overall worthy listen.  

This is where Fritch’s soundtracks truly separate themselves. For LTS released soundtracks (such as 2013’s ‘The Waiting Room’ or 2016’s ‘Birkitshi’) Fritch spends a great deal of time after the film is finished making the soundtrack experience stand on its own, making sure it tells an incredibly strong story even without the visuals. This attention to detail becomes evident when listening to masterful ebb and flow of an album like ‘The Old Believers.’ While it’s just semantics, Fritch’s “soundtracks” could easily sit right along side the most cohesive LP’s out there.

Cover Photo courtesy of Grayeme (www.flickr.com/photos/_____graeme/) 
Cover photo modified by Ryan Keane

The Old Believers (Extended Edition)

Feeble Dreams

William Ryan Fritch - Feeble Dreams (from The Old Believers - Extended Edition)

Buy Album: http://smarturl.it/sumbc

In 2014, William Ryan Fritch and Lost Tribe Sound embarked on a massive undertaking to release a series of 12 albums from Fritch over a two year period. Known as the ‘Leave Me Series,’ it covered a wide spectrum of sound, including two series exclusive soundtracks from Fritch’s work for film during that period. For the one-hundred or so subscribers who had the chance to hear these original soundtracks for the films ‘The Old Believers’ and ‘Sum Of Its Parts,’ they were heralded as two of the most prized and cohesive scores in Fritch’s vast catalog. 

Knowing how loved these works became, LTS has decided to open the musical vaults on these two albums to the public. Neither one has ever been available to buy individually or stream before now. 

Award winning filmmaker/editor Fiona Otway's feature film 'The Sum Of Its Parts' introduces some of the world’s foremost robot researchers alongside tomorrow’s future leaders in robotics. This film explores the messy front lines of the crusade to make robots part of our everyday experience. From initial sketches, to soldering wires, to programming actions and performing experiments “in the wild”, scientists, high school students, and artists obsessed with bringing robots to life are shaping a new era in our relationship with technology. Yet, by observing their successes and failures along the way, what becomes clear is that robots actually have a lot to teach us about what it means to be human. 'The Sum of Its Parts' is a celebration of hands-on human creativity, and a contemplation of our deep need for connection and community as a source of meaning in our lives. 

Its soundtrack, composed and performed by William Ryan Fritch, is a dynamic counterpart to the film's central themes and philosophical inquiries. The score's markedly organic instrumentation (string ensemble, french horn, vibraphone and prepared piano), is wrought into circuitous rhythms and patterns that hum, churn and grind with a mechanical steadiness that belies the achingly human and expressive compositions they propel.

The Sum Of Its Parts

Subconsciously

William Ryan Fritch - Subconsciously (from The Sum of its Parts)

Buy Album: https://williamryanfritch.bandcamp.com/album/the-old-believers-extended-edition

In 2014, William Ryan Fritch and Lost Tribe Sound embarked on a massive undertaking to release a series of 12 albums from Fritch over a two year period. Known as the ‘Leave Me Series,’ it covered a wide spectrum of sound, including two soundtracks offered as series exclusives from Fritch’s work for film during that period. For the subscribers who had the chance to hear these original soundtracks for the films, ‘The Old Believers’ and ‘The Sum Of Its Parts,’ they were heralded as two of the most prized and cohesive scores in Fritch’s vast catalog. 

Knowing how loved these works became, LTS has decided to open the musical vaults and make these albums available to the public for the first time. In addition, ‘The Old Believers’ album has received quite the facelift since it first appeared in the series. Along with the new cover artwork, Fritch has rearranged and incorporated 8 new compositions.The additional music was taken from two other recent films that also center around the plight of those that are displaced and seeking refuge (including 2016’s academy award nominated documentary ‘4.1 Miles’).These new pieces offer engrossing textures and beautiful themes that unlock new depths to the solemn meditations of its previous iteration.

As for ‘The Sum Of Its Parts,’ the feature film from award winning filmmaker/editor Fiona Otway’s introduces some of the world’s foremost robot researchers alongside tomorrow’s future leaders in robotics. This film explores the messy front lines of the crusade to make robots part of our everyday experience. From initial sketches, to soldering wires, to programming actions and performing experiments “in the wild”, scientists, high school students, and artists obsessed with bringing robots to life are shaping a new era in our relationship with technology. Yet, by observing their successes and failures along the way, what becomes clear is that robots actually have a lot to teach us about what it means to be human. ‘The Sum of Its Parts’ is a celebration of hands-on human creativity, and a contemplation of our deep need for connection and community as a source of meaning in our lives.

‘The Sum of Its Parts’ soundtrack, composed and performed entirely by William Ryan Fritch, is a dynamic counterpart to the film’s central themes and philosophical inquiries. The score’s markedly organic instrumentation (string ensemble, french horn, vibraphone and prepared piano), is wrought into circuitous rhythms and patterns that hum, churn and grind with a mechanical steadiness that belies the achingly human and expressive compositions they propel.

It should be noted, that calling ‘The Old Believers’ and ‘Sum Of Its Parts’ soundtracks paints an incomplete picture. Too often the genre or classification of “soundtrack” brings to mind sloppily arranged carbon copies of a film’s cues; often just a few main themes and a collection of one minute tracks that, when not set to picture, fall short of an overall worthy listen.  

This is where Fritch’s soundtracks truly separate themselves. For LTS released soundtracks (such as 2013’s ‘The Waiting Room’ or 2016’s ‘Birkitshi’) Fritch spends a great deal of time after the film is finished making the soundtrack experience stand on its own, making sure it tells an incredibly strong story even without the visuals. This attention to detail becomes evident when listening to masterful ebb and flow of an album like ‘The Old Believers.’ While it’s just semantics, Fritch’s “soundtracks” could easily sit right along side the most cohesive LP’s out there.

Left To Wander

William Ryan Fritch - Left to Wander (from The Old Believers - Extended Edition)

Buy Album: http://smarturl.it/inboxesbc

Exclusively through our Bandcamp store, all purchases of 'A History, in Boxes' come with an instrumental version of the album. 

A History, in Boxes’ is a brand new collaboration between spoken word artist and writer Matt Finney and multi-instrumentalist William Ryan Fritch.  Much of ‘A History, in Boxes’ will no doubt recall Fritch’s more triumphant and explosively charged works such as 2014’s ‘Heavy EP’ and his work with drummer Jon Mueller on the Death Blues Ensemble album. Lost Tribe Sound is thrilled to welcome Matt Finney and his tragically heartfelt storytelling and wry sense of humor to the label. We’ll let Finney take it from here in his own words. 

WORDS FROM MATT FINNEY:

I don’t think I’ve ever written a love song. I’ve been lucky enough to have worked with several extremely talented composers over the years but I never felt like I was capable of doing that. That changed when I heard William’s album ‘Her Warmth’ and it left me a bawling mess. I knew I found my partner in crime. I’m honored to have made this album with him.

This album is about two women who changed my life. I loved them and lost them both. I was young and stupid and not ready for either of them but they taught me a lot. The details about them are blurred to where they became one character in this. I like to think I did them justice. I was inspired by the movies Blue Valentine and Two for the Road. Cutting the story up. One song leading to heartbreak, another about finding each other. All of this set to William’s banjo picking... it was the easiest album I’ve ever had to write despite the subject matter.

Here are a bunch of songs about those tiny moments that mean everything. Sunday morning with only sunlight waking you up. The smell of bacon frying in the kitchen. The sound of a soft voice singing along to a song on the radio. It’s out of tune, it’s not perfect but you’d think it was heaven. I hope you’ve had the chance to experience those as well.

Cover photo courtesy of Simpleinsomnia 
Cover photo modified by Ryan Keane 
Cover photo licensed under "Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)"

A History, in Boxes

See Rock City

William Ryan Fritch & Matt Finney - See Rock City (from A History, in Boxes)

BUY ALBUM: http://smarturl.it/palebc

William Ryan Fritch returns with his brand new full-length album on Lost Tribe Sound, a hard-fought and highly personal one, entitled, ’Behind The Pale.’ It is a stirring and profoundly beautiful rendering of a very trying time in Fritch’s life, one filled with uncertainty, vulnerability, hope and strained resolve. It’s the kind of narrative that outside explanations often make light of, become too superfluous with, or fall short of giving true meaning to.  Like all good art, it does its best to translate complex, abstract emotions into palpable and compelling expression. This album, given Fritch's vast and varied musical talents, evades easy stylistic and genre classification; so we’d prefer to set the scene with words from Fritch himself.

"It was early November, I had Behind The Pale all but finished. Ryan (the owner of Lost Tribe Sound) was pressing me to hurry and finish before the baby was born. I had time... I really didn’t want to rush it out after the craziness of the subscription series we had just run, that saw me release 13 albums in just under 18 months and the end of February was still months away. However, my daughter couldn’t wait until then. Three months before her due date she arrived.

When uncertainty is most dense, all your awareness and energy go to simply navigating along a freshly obscured path. When my daughter was born more than three months early, My wife and I did just that for countless days and weeks until we could finally bring our child home. All the time we’d envisioned to prepare for life as parents and finish our laundry list of passion projects etc. was a mirage. The ecstatic and cataclysmic personal event of having a child was thrust upon us sooner than we could have imagined. Blinded by the radiance of the limitless love and the enveloping clouds of abject fear there are no senses that are attuned to guide you but the ones that say simply “Onward!”

Behind the Pale was written across the two most transformative events in my life (and not nearly as adjacent as I would have hoped); my daughter being born and finally bringing her home.

On side A of the record, the disorientation and worry is palpable. The simple, plaintive thrum of these song’s rhythms weather flurries and swells of irrepressible intensity.  These euphoric bursts and  undiluted emotional swells offer transient flashes of light and clarity before settling back into the soft-focus of doubt. Tape saturation blurs and warps the edges of clear confident sounds and gives unnatural weight and musicality to the whispers and creaks of barely functioning instruments. So many colors cancelling each other out. They pool together into hauntingly beautiful grey abstractions.

On side B, songs of wounded but assured hopefulness peak through the fog of unknowing. Intimacy takes hold of the words and the instrumentation is closer now than before. Light permeates many obscured things. Much remains uncertain, but in the small moments basking in the untainted love and goodness of your child, the future for the first time seems undimmed."

VINYL & CD DETAILS
Behind The Pale was given the deluxe vinyl treatment. The edition arrives as a lacquer cut 180 gram 12" audiophile black vinyl, housed in a matte finished gatefold tip-on jacket (Limited to 300). Plated at RTI, pressed at Gotta Groove, the vinyl edition also comes with a download card offering a choice of formats including WAV, FLAC, 320K MP3, etc. Mastering for vinyl, CD and digital was performed by Samur Khouja at Seahorse Sound Studios. The CD edition is housed in a heavy stock, handcrafted 7" x 5" book-style case with glass mastered CD and a download of the album in high quality format (Limited to 150).

Behind the Pale

Depths of Our Minds

William Ryan Fritch - Depths of Our Minds (from Behind The Pale)

Listen / Purchase: https://lnk.to/northwind

If one is searching for a beacon of light in Lost Tribe Sound’s undeniably dark roster of releases this year, look no further.  The Green Kingdom’s new full-length album ’The North Wind and the Sun’ is like a cool breeze on a heated summer day.  Perhaps music this gentle feels out of place, even glutinous, given the currently harsh climate of the world, yet the truth may be that we need it now more than ever.  Music like this offers an opportunity to pause, to regain our center, to shift focus towards bettering our surroundings versus cursing them.

Of course, here at headquarters we pondered what would happen if Cottone abandoned the majority of his electronic equipment and limited his arsenal to nearly all acoustic instrumentation? It’s a similar question to the one we proposed to Cock & Swan back in the day, with their exceptional album ‘Stash’. Asking Cottone kindly, he obliged. After a number of months of trial and error TGK delivered us this experiment, titled 'The North Wind and The Sun.' We were floored, not only is the music still undeniably that of The Green Kingdom, it seems to exude a new sense of wonder and confidence. 

'The North Wind and the Sun' is the aural equivalent of the fondest, hazy memories gleamed from childhood days past. The melodies are playful and comforting like womb-filtered lullabies. While this new delivery may shock some familiar with TGK’s previous outings, Cottone seems quite comfortable with this new primarily acoustic set of sounds, inventing his own heart-warming brand of Americana. 

That said, the music pays respects to its roots, no doubt recalling the more pastoral, primitive works of William Ryan Fritch and Western Skies Motel, the woozy mechanically-inclined folk of Boards of Canada or Part Timer, the bright, sincere melodies of Amiina or mbira virtuoso Richard Crandell. Throughout the thirteen song album, 'The North Wind and the Sun,' The Green Kingdom gives us a very intimate look behind the curtain, one brimming with personality, a tender collection of homespun reveries one can tell has been building in Cottone’s mind for years. This is a rare and sublime new direction for TGK, one we hope he continues to develop upon for years to come.

Artwork by Joe Borreson (http://dustclouddesign.com)

The North Wind and the Sun

Rusted Relic III

The Green Kingdom - Rusted Relic III (from The North Wind and The Sun)

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Exclusively through our Bandcamp store, all purchases of 'A History, in Boxes' come with an instrumental version of the album. Plus, it’s now included in our ‘Prelude to the Decline’ 11 album series, going on HERE: smarturl.it/ltsseries.

'A History, in Boxes' is a brand new collaboration between spoken word artist Matt Finney and multi-instrumentalist William Ryan Fritch. Much of 'A History, in Boxes' will no doubt recall the triumphant and explosively charged moments of Fritch's work with Jon Mueller on the Death Blues Ensemble album. Lost Tribe Sound is thrilled to welcome Matt Finney and his twisted wry wit to the label.

Cover photo courtesy of Simpleinsomnia 
Cover photo modified by Ryan Keane 
Cover photo licensed under "Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)"

All That Lives Will Sour

William Ryan Fritch & Matt Finney - All That Lives Will Sour (from A History, In Boxes)

Buy album: https://ftmots.bandcamp.com/album/hymn-binding

LTS mix: https://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2017/08/22/lost-tribe-sound-the-wounded-healer/

Music and Arrangements by Dag Rosenqvist & Aaron Martin
Mastering by Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering
Artwork by Gregory Euclide
Layout and Design by Ryan Keane

A Breath to Retrieve Your Body

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SUBSCRIBE to Lost Tribe Sound's 11 Album 'Prelude to the Decline' Series and receive 'Behind The Pale' on vinyl, cd and digital at a discounted rate, here: http://smarturl.it/ltsseries

On October 20th, 2017, William Ryan Fritch returns with his brand new full-length album on Lost Tribe Sound, a hard-fought and highly personal one, entitled, ’Behind The Pale.’ It is a stirring and profoundly beautiful rendering of a very trying time in Fritch’s life, one filled with uncertainty, vulnerability, hope and strained resolve. It’s the kind of narrative that outside explanations often make light of, become too superfluous with, or fall short of giving true meaning to.  Like all good art, it does its best to translate complex, abstract emotions into palpable and compelling expression. This album, given Fritch's vast and varied musical talents, evades easy stylistic and genre classification; so we’d prefer to set the scene with words from Fritch himself.

"It was early November, I had Behind The Pale all but finished. Ryan (the owner of Lost Tribe Sound) was pressing me to hurry and finish before the baby was born. I had time... I really didn’t want to rush it out after the craziness of the subscription series we had just run, that saw me release 13 albums in just under 18 months and the end of February was still months away. However, my daughter couldn’t wait until then. Three months before her due date she arrived.

When uncertainty is most dense, all your awareness and energy go to simply navigating along a freshly obscured path. When my daughter was born more than three months early, My wife and I did just that for countless days and weeks until we could finally bring our child home. All the time we’d envisioned to prepare for life as parents and finish our laundry list of passion projects etc. was a mirage. The ecstatic and cataclysmic personal event of having a child was thrust upon us sooner than we could have imagined. Blinded by the radiance of the limitless love and the enveloping clouds of abject fear there are no senses that are attuned to guide you but the ones that say simply “Onward!”

Behind the Pale was written across the two most transformative events in my life (and not nearly as adjacent as I would have hoped); my daughter being born and finally bringing her home.

On side A of the record, the disorientation and worry is palpable. The simple, plaintive thrum of these song’s rhythms weather flurries and swells of irrepressible intensity.  These euphoric bursts and  undiluted emotional swells offer transient flashes of light and clarity before settling back into the soft-focus of doubt. Tape saturation blurs and warps the edges of clear confident sounds and gives unnatural weight and musicality to the whispers and creaks of barely functioning instruments. So many colors cancelling each other out. They pool together into hauntingly beautiful grey abstractions.

On side B, songs of wounded but assured hopefulness peak through the fog of unknowing. Intimacy takes hold of the words and the instrumentation is closer now than before. Light permeates many obscured things. Much remains uncertain, but in the small moments basking in the untainted love and goodness of your child, the future for the first time seems undimmed."

VINYL & CD DETAILS
Behind The Pale was given the deluxe vinyl treatment. The edition arrives as a lacquer cut 180 gram 12" audiophile black vinyl, housed in a matte finished gatefold tip-on jacket (Limited to 300). Plated at RTI, pressed at Gotta Groove, the vinyl edition also comes with a download card offering a choice of formats including WAV, FLAC, 320K MP3, etc. Mastering for vinyl, CD and digital was performed by Samur Khouja at Seahorse Sound Studios. The CD edition is housed in a heavy stock, handcrafted 7" x 5" book-style case with glass mastered CD and a download of the album in high quality format (Limited to 150).

Behind the Pale (Master Pass 2) MP3

In Our Blood

William Ryan Fritch -  In Our Blood (from Behind The Pale)

Listen / Purchase: https://lnk.to/hymnb

Aaron Martin and Dag Rosenqvist and their musical collaboration as From The Mouth Of The Sun seems to elicit immediate excitement from an ever-growing number of modern classical, post-rock and experimental music fans from around the world. The duo appears to be on a mission to bring their dynamic breed of electro-acoustic classical to the masses this year. From composer David Wingo selecting three From the Mouth of the Sun songs to appear in the critically acclaimed sci-fi thriller ‘Midnight Special,’ to their first original score for A24’s feature film ‘Menashe,’ praised at Sundance and in theaters this summer, Rosenqvist and Martin are well on their way to receiving the recognition they deserve.

‘Hymn Binding’ is the pair’s third album as From the Mouth of the Sun, and their first for US label, Lost Tribe Sound. The album is teeming with all the soul-stirring character one has come to expect from their work together. The long form crescendos built from Martin’s mournful strings and vast array of acoustic instrumentation are a perfect compliment to Rosenqvist’s delicate piano melodies, humming electronics, and waves of warm static.  

‘Hymn Binding’ was given the deluxe vinyl treatment. The edition arrives as a lacquer cut vinyl pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl, housed in a matte finished gatefold tip-on jacket with artwork throughout from Gregory Euclide (Limited to 300). The deluxe edition also comes with a download card offering a choice of formats including FLAC, 320K MP3, etc. Mastering for vinyl and digital was performed by Taylor Deupree. The CD edition is also a work of art, housed in a heavy stock, handcrafted 7" x 5" book-style case with glass mastered CD and a download card for the album in high quality format (Limited to 150). The first 50 editions of both the vinyl and CD will come with a 6.5"x 5" print of the cover art by Gregory Euclide when purchased directly through LTS.

Artwork by Gregory Euclide

LINKS:
https://ftmots.bandcamp.com
https://aaronmartin.bandcamp.com
https://dagrosenqvist.bandcamp.com

Hymn Binding

Roads

From The Mouth Of The Sun - Roads (from Hymn Binding)

A Juicy Intro - The XX Feat Biggie Smalls

September 20th marks the 30th birthday of Berlin pianist Nils Frahm, but also the day he has chosen to give his fans a special gift in the form of 9 songs he recorded with 9 fingers, entitled 'Screws'.

Nils experienced an unfortunate accident which saw him fall from his bunk bed located directly above his studio, which resulted in a broken thumb. But through inspiration from his fans and after a gentle walk and talk through the park with a close friend, he decided to deal with the situation in the only way he knew – playing his piano.

With four screws surgically placed inside his thumb, he started recording with his remaining 9 fingers, what later resulted in 9 intimate piano recordings.

Fans can download 'Screws' as mp3s or in full 24-bit 44.100 kHz audio quality here (http://screws.durtonstudio.com), and pre-order a Vinyl/CD edition from the Erased Tapes online store (http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP046), which will be released later this year.

'I am sitting in front of a sheet of paper. My right hand is bending over my left thumb. The first day I got out of my cast I could bend it by 15°. Now I am already at 50° and that makes me happy. Things are going uphill...

As you can imagine, it is really bad news for a pianist when he gets diagnosed with a broken thumb. That day I was sitting in the emergency room, feeling rather dizzy while thinking of a zillion shows coming up and all the people involved around it. I realised in that moment how busy things have become. It is hard to turn down interesting projects and opportunities, since I surely love my work. It actually never felt like work. Playing piano and playing it for wonderful people is the greatest joy I can imagine.

For a couple of days I felt like this all could be over. How pathetic. But hey – also feeling sorry for yourself has its place somewhere. All of a sudden I had so much time, an unexpected holiday. I cancelled most of my schedule and found myself being a little bored. Even though my doctor told me not to touch a piano for a while, I just couldn't resist. I started playing a silent song with 4 fingers on my left and the remaining 5 on my right hand. I set up one microphone and recorded another tune every other night before falling asleep.

The day I got rid of my cast I had recorded 9 little tunes. They have helped me feel less annoyed about my accident and reminded me that any good is something I can only achieve, when I am making the most out of what I've got.

Thank you all for listening!

With lots of love,

Nils


9FINGERS North American Tour 2012

09/16 New York (US) – West Park Presbyterian Church 
09/21 Boulder (US) – Cherryvale Studios
09/22 Colorado Springs (US) – The Mesa
09/23 Santa Fe (US) – O'Shaughnessy Performance Space @ Santa Fe Uni
09/24 San Fransisco (US) – private show (RSVP only)
09/29 Seattle (US) – Decibel Festival @ Broadway Performance Hall
09/30 Portland (US) – Classic Pianos
10/03 Mexico City (MX) – Mutek

ERASED TAPES 5th Anniversary Tour w/ Ólafur Arnalds & A Winged Victory For The Sullen

10/08 HAMBURG (DE) – Fliegende Bauten
10/09 PRAGUE (CZ) – Palac Akropolis
10/10 BUDAPEST (HU) – Trafo
10/11 MANNHEIM (DE) – Alte Feuerwache
10/13-14 BERLIN (DE) – Radialsystem
10/15 AMSTERDAM (NL) – Paradiso
10/16-17 LEUVEN (BE) – Stuk
10/18 LONDON (UK) – Hackney Empire
10/19-20 ISTANBUL (TR) – Salon IKSV

PREVIOUS PRESS:

'No. 42 Best Albums Of 2011' -The Guardian
'Felt is a transportative album, a balm for troubled minds.' BBC Music
'Frahm’s hyper-intimate recording technique for the album makes Felt a captivating listen' (9/10) DIS

★ ★ ★ ★ – Popmatters ★ ★ ★ ★ – Uncut ★ ★ ★ ★ – Clash ★ ★ ★ ★ – Mojo

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: screws.durtonstudio.com · facebook.com/nilsfrahm · twitter.com/nilsfrahm · erasedtapes.com

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Agaetis byrjun (sigur ros cover)

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Another Happy Day, by Sam Levinson (featuring Ellen Barkin, Ellen Burstyn, Demi Moore...) is premiering at Sundance Festival this weekend! This is a little sample of the music I did for the film. This song is from what is in my opinion one of the strongest moments in the film.
http://sundance.slated.com/2011/films/untitledsamlevinsonproject_sundance2011
Gotta pack my boots and hat now. I hear it's cold out there in Utah...


Lynn's Theme

Lost Tribe Sound is a record label that specializes in organic and exploratory sound. Lost Tribe Sound admires music that leaves its tattered edges proudly in place, acoustic instrumentation blended seamlessly with dirty mechanics, timeworn sound worlds rooted in the muck and the mire of the present. The sound generally falls along the lines of bizarrely rhythmic, beautifully decayed electro-acoustic music, often with a reverence for low-end. LTS focuses on full-length albums, with a strong commitment to well-made packaging. The aim is to unearth timeless music that pushes the envelope of modern composition while paying homage to the ancient.