Colors of History

Dreaming

Seapony - Dreaming

Go With Me

Blue Star

Seapony - Blue Star

Download the 1st single off the forthcoming Frikstailers EP Crop Circles!

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Frikstailers - Crop Circles

The internet. It brings people together. And sometimes, just sometimes, magic happens.  

El Buho aka Robin Perkins, an Englishman living in Amsterdam, and Barrio Lindo real name Agustin Rivaldo, an Argentine living in the southern suburbs of Buenos Aires, have never met in real life. But through the power of the internet, they’ve teamed up to create, collaborate and file swap, birthing the 6 track EP, History of Colour. ZZK Records is proud to be at the intersection of these two emerging and exciting new artists and release their music to the world.

Go Buy History of Colour:
➜ http://zzkrecords.com/historyofcolour/
➜ http://zzkrecords.com/album/History_of_Colour
➜ Bandcamp: https://zzkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/history-of-colour
➜ iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/2tr2qg

 Watch it on YouTube too:
➜ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMHxfZWLMy4&list=PL97ISVilOoYA-IzVqd2VzdzHIijlWenpS



Synesthesia

Orinoco

History Of Colour

The first new material from Carissa's Wierd in over seven years. Recorded in Seattle at Mysterious Red X by Ben Kersten.


Tucson

Meredith & Iris

Carissa's Wierd - Meredith & Iris

'Remembering Mountains : Unheard Songs by Karen Dalton'  LP/CD/DL out now on Tompkins Square

Karen Dalton (1937-1993) recorded two studio albums during her lifetime, neither of which contain any songs she wrote. By the good graces of legendary guitarist Peter Walker, who oversees Karen's estate, we are gifted with these lost lyrics, now given voice by other great women of song.

TRACK LIST :

1) REMEMBERING MOUNTAINS - SHARON VAN ETTEN
2) ALL THAT SHINES IS NOT TRUTH - PATTY GRIFFIN
3) THIS IS OUR LOVE - DIANE CLUCK
4) MY LOVE, MY LOVE - JULIA HOLTER
5) MET AN OLD FRIEND - LUCINDA WILLIAMS
6) SO LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY - MARISSA NADLER
7) BLUE NOTION - LAUREL HALO
8) FOR THE LOVE I'M IN - LARKIN GRIMM
9) DON'T MAKE IT EASY - ISOBEL CAMPBELL
10) AT LAST THE NIGHT HAS ENDED - TARA JANE O'NEIL
11) MET AN OLD FRIEND - JOSEPHINE FOSTER

This Is Our Love - Diane Cluck

 	                  Don Bikoff - Celestial Explosion

Don Bikoff released one lone, rare solo album, 'Celestial Explosion', on Keyboard Records in 1968, now reissued on LP/CD/DL by Tompkins Square. Watch the YouTube video of Bikoff playing on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour, taped May 12, 1968. You'll see the sheepish, long-haired, mustachioed musician spinning gold in a style (still?) so foreign to the mainstream listener. The befuddled host concludes after Don's performance, "That's unusual to say the least." A kid from Oyster Bay, LI, Bikoff got his start in Greenwich Village, annoying Dave Van Ronk and playing the folk/blues circuit where he met Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Jesse Fuller and Mississippi John Hurt. The comparisons to John Fahey's and Robbie Basho's work stated in the LP liner notes touched a nerve with Fahey himself at the time. Today, those comparisons are still inevitable, however they are for lazy ears. Bikoff has his own approach. 

Celestial Explosion

Tompkins Square will release Opus III by John Hulburt on August 28th, 2015.

Guitarist and singer-songwriter Ryley Walker discovered the 1972 private press LP in a Chicago record store, loved what he heard, and teamed with Tompkins Square to produce the reissue.

John Hulburt (1947-2012) was a member of legendary mid-60's Chicago garage rock band The Knaves, whose records were recently reissued by Sundazed. Opus III showcases his exceptional talent on the acoustic guitar, proving somewhat of an anomaly in a city not known for its solo guitar recordings during this era.

Walker writes in his liner notes, "Solo acoustic guitar music was adopted by several in the Berkeley school and the ever expansive roots fanatics in the South, but here in the middle of the country with harsh winters and the landlocked prison of corn fields, it was almost destiny that the amplifier assault of electric blues and controlled chaos of dance music came from the South Side."

Opus III has another notable Chicago connection : It's one of the earliest studio credits for Styx and Ohio Players engineer / producer Barry Mraz. Styx's debut album would be also be released in 1972.

The reissue of Opus III includes illuminating liner notes by John Hulburt's sister, Cynthia Fritz; The Knaves' Gene Lubin; and Ryley Walker, as well as vintage photographs.

‘Opus III’ Originally Released as Clarence Records CR-003, 1972
Recorded at Plynth Studios, Chicago February/March 1972
Engineer : Barry Mraz

PRODUCED FOR REISSUE BY RYLEY WALKER & JOSH ROSENTHAL

CD : TSQ 5159 / LP : TSQ 5166
INgrooves in NA, Cargo UK for Europe

The Freak On The Black Harley - John Hulburt

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Lyrics:

V1
There's magic all around me 
so much that I can't speak
I wonder where we are
perhaps it's really far
Baby we are free

that's none of your business
You can't sit with us
There's only room for love in this chariot 
So wait a minute 
I keep on living
You know I'm livin' right in this gypsy life

V2
I'm feeding off your energy 
so much that I can't speak 
I wonder where we are 
perhaps it's really far
Baby we are free

that's none of my business
You can't sit with us
There's only room for love in this chariot 
So wait a minute
I keep on livin'
You know Im living right in this gypsy life

Through Time And Space...

Gypsy (feat. Kaleena Zanders)

Artwork: Fractured Fractals
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Smoke Patterns is available for free download here:
fieldsofmigraine.bandcamp.com/album/smoke-patterns



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Tensor- Follow Me (Album: Smoke Patterns)

At a time of gathering momentum, ALPHA is rereleasing 14 seminal recordings in a collection called, quite simply, ALPHA
COLLECTION.
This series brings together the finest Baroque recordings from the Alpha and ZZT catalogues: discs singled out for honours,
emblematic artists of music from that period, recordings that marked the discography...
This is also the occasion to discover or rediscover universally known works as well as world premiere recordings of rarities.
In the framework of these rereleases, the performers have been interviewed and bear witness to their view of the work and
their recording several years later, and their fascinating remarks are taken up in the booklets (all trilingual: French, English,
German).

Love is strange - Green Sleeves by Le Poème Harmonique & Vincent Dumestre

RAMEAU - Pièces De Clavecin, 1724 - Le Rappel Des Oiseaux by Blandine Rannou

VALENTINI - Concerto For 4 Violins In A Minor, Op.7 No.11 - Allegro E Solo by Ens. 415 & C. Banchini

Two brand new tracks from Seapony - the first to follow their debut Go With Me LP - exclusive to this 7".

Sailing

Seapony - Sailing

Sees the Light is the second full-length record from La Sera.

Sees the Light

Please Be My Third Eye

La Sera - Please Be My Third Eye

Become a fan! http://www.facebook.com/futuresoundsbuenosaires
Buy the album! http://bit.ly/J4RRns
Watch the video! http://youtu.be/lGH4D0v6JTI

In one of the more intriguing pairing of labels, Los Angeles based Waxploitation, and Buenos Aires based ZZK have assembled some of the most compelling eclectic artists emerging from the Argentine underground and formed the project they call FUTURE SOUNDS OF BUENOS AIRES.

The project includes Chancha Via Circuito, Mati Zundel, Frikstailers, Super Guachin, La Yegros, El Remolon, and King Coya to name a few…all coming together under one name.
The album is a mix of hyper-rhythmic, classic rural South American style meets Sci Fi Futurism.

"ZZK is the first label to push the sound of Argentina from the villa (ghettos) to the uptown”, says Diplo, “ZZK is a big part in bringing this to the attention of the people.”

Released by: Waxploitation / ZZK 

Future Sounds of Buenos Aires (Teaser)

Since joining all-female punk trio Vivian Girls during the spring of 2007 Katy Goodman's DIY-style bass playing and drifty-faded vocals have sent waves of adoration rippling throughout Brooklyn's pop punk circuit. Her newest band La Sera showcases her signature style, bringing her talent for creating dreamy pop songs even more to the forefront.  

After touring the world with Vivian Girls, releasing a handful of well-received records, and starting record label Wild World with her band mates, Goodman started exploring other outlets. She played in the short-lived dream-pop band All Saints Day in the spring of 2010, and a self-titled limited-edition 7" of spectral tunes was released on indie label Art Fag earlier this year.
In February 2010 Goodman started working on some fresh material that inspired the formation of her brand new band, La Sera. Her inspiration sprung from an attraction to early pop hits from the 1950's and ethereal choral vocals. Her new songs contain warm celestial-pop melodies that echo with the dreamlike effect of a church choir and effuse a softer, less aggressive sound than the Vivian Girls.

Recording with a tambourine, guitar, and layers upon layers of heavenly vocals, she started sending her songs to filmmaker/music producer Brady Hall (the director of Vivian Girls videos "Moped Girls" and "When I'm Gone"), who immediately wanted to collaborate and dove into re-recording her rough material himself. After hearing his finished work, Katy flew to Seattle and the two recorded all the vocals, mixed the songs and filmed two La Sera music videos at Brady's home studio.

The eponymous La Sera is the result of these sessions. With a dozen fresh tracks, La Sera muses on death, love, and love lost within the span of two minute choiral pop blisters. The phantasmic quality of Goodman’s voice takes hold of the contradictorily upbeat “You’re Going to Cry,” while “Dove Into Love” seems to send time into drifting slow motion, enveloped by a wave of guitar strums. The lilting and delicate “Hold,” meanwhile, tells the story of two people hugging each other to death. Hardly Art will release the full-length in early 2011, preceded by a limited 7” for “Never Come Around” in November 2010.     



Colors of History

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