Sunday 05.01.16

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SKIP&DIE - "La Cumbia Dictadura (Frikstailers Remix)"

A 2nd excerpt from "Ex-Futur Album", the avant-pop LP recorded & unfinished in 1980-83 by [Honeymoon Killers vocalist] Véronique Vincent and [Crammed Discs founder] Marc Hollander (mixed/edited in 2014 from demos & rough versions, the album finally came out... with a slight delay of 30 years).

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Un 2e extrait de "Ex-Futur Album", l'album avant-pop précurseur, enregistré et inachevé en 1980-83 par Véronique Vincent (chanteuse des Honeymoon Killers) et Marc Hollander (fondateur de Crammed Discs).

Mixé/monté en 2014 à partir de maquettes et versions provisoires, l'album paraît en octobre, avec un léger retard de 30 ans.


Véronique Vincent & Aksak Maboul - "Afflux de Luxe"

Tuxedomoon - "Triumphant Procession" (from the album "Pink Narcissus")

Los Destellos - Constelación (from "The Roots of Chicha 2")

Axel Krygier - "Lo Tendré Que Adivinar"

Kocani Orkestar - "But Katili"

Don Cherry & Jon Appleton
Don & Jon
Cacophonic

Released 29th January 2016

Rare outtakes from early pioneering and controversial electronic jazz experiments presented on vinyl for the first time.  This previously unpressed music provides and absolutely essential insight into Zen master experimental jazz outrider Don Cherry on the eve of his fertile Holy Mountain period which saw the composer combine all his well-travelled influences – such as the free music incubation of France and Germany with the traditional instrumentation of India, north and west Africa – then return to New York with a technicolor dream team and a healthy appetite for emerging synthesisers and electronic music. This project between electro-acoustic pioneer and Synclavier developer Jon Appleton coincided with his own history defining years at Dartmouth College where he played an integral part in the formation of one of Americas first electronic music institutions.  Recording benchmark LPs for Folkways Records and Flying Dutchman Jon collaborated with Cherry to create the album Human Music which tested the boundaries of electronic sound, jazz and ethnological disciplines in a series of melodic and rhythmical interfaces that would polarise both musical tastes, pop politics and potential spiritual beliefs in the process.

Recorded in the exact same sessions at Bregman Electronic Music Studio, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire the two tracks Don and Jon did not appear on the Human Music LP and now show a glimpse of what future unisons might have bequeathed before both artists coincidentally re-located to Sweden to pursue their individual and very specific journeys into contemporary music. Released with the blessing and encouragement of Appleton himself this record is quite simply a treasure of a dream-combination from the early doors of genuine alternative popular music. These rare sides combine the creative technology that directly coincided with the dawn of Bob Moog’s and Don Buchla’s synthesiser revolution with the homecoming of outernational free jazz which, in tandem, spearheaded America’s most radical music developments in the subsequent two decades and beyond. Don/Jon and The Human Music sessions also prelude Cherry’s further imminent electronic positioning alongside Carla Bley and Don Preston (on Escalator Over The Hill) and in film soundtracks for Jean Rollin collaborator Jean-Noël Delamare and Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain (with Walter Sear) before a hiatus from the for almost a decade. This extra glimpse of that important era, at the hands of these two pioneers, is now available in this very special package.

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Don Cherry & Jon Appleton - Don

Suzanne Ciani
Buchla Concerts 1975
FKR082LP
Finders Keepers Records

Finders Keepers invite you to witness the incredible first ever Buchla synthesiser concerts/demonstrations providing a distinctive feminine alternative to The Silver Apples Of The Moon if they had ever been presented in phonographic form. This is history in the remaking.

This spring Finders Keepers Records are proud to release an archival project that not only redefines musical history but boasts genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we’ve come to understand it. To describe this records as a game-changer is an understatement. This record represents a musical revolution, a scientific benchmark and a trophy in the cabinet of counter culture creativity. This record is a triumphant yardstick in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial moon. While pondering the early accolades of this record it’s daunting to learn that this record was in fact not a record at all… It was a manifesto and a gateway to a new world, that somehow never quite opened. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic, pulses, tones and harmonics found on this 1975 live presentation/grant application/educational demonstration had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the promoted work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita then the name Suzanne Ciani and her influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of our record collections. Hopefully there is still chance.

In short, Suzanne was a self-imposed twenty-year-old employee of the Buchla modular synthesiser company, San Francisco’s neck and neck contender to New York’s Moog. Buchla was run by a community of festival freaks and academic acid eaters whose roots in new age lifestyles and the reinvention of art and music replaced the business acumen enjoyed by its likeminded East Coasters. In the eyes of the consumer the creative refusal to adopt rudimentary facets like a piano keyboard controller rendered the Buchla synthesiser the more obscure stubborn sister of the synth marathon, steering these incredible units away from the mainstream into the homes and studios of free music aficionados, art house composers and die-hard revolutionaries. Championed and semi-showcased by composer Morton Subotnick on his albums The Bull and Silver Apples Of The Moon, Buchla’s versatility began to open the minds of a new generation, but the high-end design features and no-compromise modus operandi was often confused with incompatibility and, in the pulsating shadow of Moog’s marketing, the revolution would not be televised nor patronised. Suzanne Ciani, as one of the very few female composers on the frontline (and also providing the back line) did not lose faith.

These “concerts” are the epitome of rare music technology historic documents, performed by a real musician whose skills and academic education in classical composition already outweighed her male synthesiser contemporaries of twice her age. At the very start of her fragile career these recordings are nothing short of sacrificial ode to her mentor and machine, sonic pickets of the revolution and love letters to an absolutely genuine vision of and ‘alternative’ musical future. In denouncing her own precocious polymathmatic past in a bid to persuade the world to sing from a new hymn sheet, Suzanne Ciani created a bi-product of never before heard music that would render the pigeon holes “ambient” and “futuristic” utterly inadequate. Providing nothing short of an entirely different feminine take on the experimental “records” of Morton Subotnick and proving to a small, judgmental audience and jury the true versatility of one of the most radical and idiosyncratic musical instruments of the 20th century. These recordings have not been heard since then.

Suzanne Ciani - Buchla Concerts 1975 (Excerpts)

Blue Velvet Revisited

Tuxedomoon / Cult With No Name - "So Fucking Suave"

Jean-Claude Vannier
L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches
FKR001LPX

Jean-Claude Vannier - L'Enfant La Mouche Et Les Allumettes

Jane Weaver discusses are maiden visit to Texas/SXSW

Having unexpectedly garnered unanimous "Best LP" accolades for both 2014 and 2015 amongst some of Europe's most credible radio stations, retailers and fellow musicians, the self-propelled synth-driven space rock of Jane Weaver has seen her exploded readership go from strength to strength galvanising a loyal core fan-base and a tightly packed diary for the last 18 months. Without pausing to re-enter her homely Mancunian atmosphere Jane will break her studio and tour schedules to visit Texas' South By South West festival on 16th March 2016 her unique brand of science fiction folklore and astro femme funk in this rare US visitation. In this interview Jane discusses the inner workings of The Silver Globe with psych psychiatrist Pete Mitchell who probes the independent producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist about Polish cinema, French pop, Australian prog, Atari video games and late period Hawkwind!  Stream here, then gravitate towards SXSW to be inducted to The Silver Globe liberation commune.

Jane Weaver - Inside The Silver Globe

Jean Claude Vannier
L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches Alternate Takes
FKSP008
Record Store Day 2016 Exclusive

Late in 2015, exactly ten years since Finders Keepers Records first liberated Jean Claude Vannier’s 1973 French Holy Grail concept LP L’Enfant Assassin Des Mouches, the label was handed a very unexpected anniversary gift in the form of a small clutch of lost Vannier studio master tapes.  Having worked closely with Jean Claude to leave no stone unturned both label and artist were shocked and delighted to be given what turned out to be further insights in to the musical ideas and ambitions of the 29-year-old composer during those mythical studio sessions which occurred a few months after the release of his seminal work on Histoire De Melody Nelson.

The original L’Enfant Assassin Des Mouches LP has been the source of inspiration and awe for artists of all disciplines, critics and connoisseurs alike while retaining a firm fixture in many a tome and top ten, accounting for indispensable moments in avant-garde pop and experimental rock music and (with FKs repressing schedule as testimony) continues to gain momentum. The fact that these masters were dubbed to a separate master tape as a proposed aborted major label single indicates that they were the first (and most exciting) tracks to emerge from the flamboyant visionary sessions which eventually trickled out on small independent French label stimulating record collector nirvana in the process.

Including new unheard instrumentation, alternative arrangements and mix board levels, this special limited release comes packaged in authentic 1970’s promo bag artwork and marks the first in a series of new vintage Vannier projects extracted from a new vault of genuinely, previously “lost” materials.

Jean Claude Vannier - L'Enfant Au Royaume Des Mouche (alt version)

Tuxedomoon / Cult With No Name - "Do It For Van Gogh"

From the Hydra EP, out on vinyl soon : crammed.greedbag.com/buy/the-hydra-ep/
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Sunday 05.01.16

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