Tuesday June 22, 2021...

Sankofa

Amaro Freitas - Ayeye

Happy Easter 2021 from all at Finders Keepers Records.

Andy Votel's Jesus Christ Superstar Overdose Mixtape

1. Elderbrook - Bird Song
2. Elderbrook - Hey Maria
3. shallou - You and Me 
4. Tobias Bergson - Sunset
5. Elderbrook - Back To My Bed
6. Elderbrook - My House
7. Black Coffee & Diplo -Never Gonna Forget feat. Elderbrook 
8. Claptone - Before I Lose My Mind feat. Say Yes Dog
9. Novo Amor - Anchor

#CottageChill #1

Rita Lee & Roberto – Classix Remix Vol. l

℗ 2021 Universal Music Ltda

Released on: 2021-04-09

Producer: João Lee
Associated  Performer, Vocalist: Rita Lee
Composer: Rita Lee
Composer: Roberto De Carvalho

Rita Lee & Roberto - Classic Remix Vol. 1

RECORD STORE DAY JUNE 12TH 2021 EXCLUSIVE

Masahiko Sato
Belladonna EP
FKSP021

Not content with liberating what many consider the rarest soundtrack on BOTH the cut-throat Italian and Japanese collectors markets (with the repress of the music to Eiichi Yamamoto’s erotic-historic Pinky anime psych cinematic feature Belladonna Of Sadness), Finders Keepers Records return to the composer Masahiko Sato’s bottomless well in an attempt to retrieve the elixir which enticed us in the first place. From a clutch of thirteen lost cues which never appeared on the mythical Italian-only soundtrack album, this limited 45rpm single finally combines the two elusive freak fuzz tracks that aficionados unanimously agree to be the finest themes to feature on the film.

Encompassing virtually all of the free jazz and screaming psych signatures found on Masahiko’s own albums and collaborations, such as Amalgamation, Yamataifu and Rumour (all recorded around the same era), these two tracks also hear Sato experimenting with hard rock rhythms and afro rock aesthetics devised to enhance the flamboyant and erratic folkloric storyboard of the film. Not scared to deploy radical 1970’s studio devices like guitar fuzz pedals and keyboard ring modulators Masahiko literally pulls out all the stops with his organs, synths and pianos to deeply coat artist Kuni Fukai’s most eye-popping scenes with his own sonic equivalent of hallucinogenic face melting mayhem. Complete with rhythm players and soloists from his associated bands The New Herd and The Soundbreakers these two tracks alone draw comparisons with the likes of Wolfgang Dauner (with whom Sato was a firm friend during the recording of albums like Output and Fur) and will certainly strike similarities to Miles Davis’ Filmore/ Bitches Brew period, but never without his own distinct Japanese jazz flavour, thus placing these tracks alongside other rare and unreleased psychedelic recordings such as J. A. Caesars music for the films of Shuji Terayama and Toshi Ichiyanagi and April Fools music for Yoshishige Yoshida’s Eros Plus Massacre.

Continued comparisons to Alain Goraguer’s animation soundtrack for La Planete Sauvage can be attributed to Sato’s use of Rhodes electric pianos, but as one of the first three people to import a Moog synthesiser to Japan (a key player on the collectable Electro Keyboard Orchestra), Sato’s tracks on this 45 successfully convey his wash of electro enhanced layered noise that illustrates the films pivotal plague scene in which Fukai paints an unforgiving black sea over the world to avenge the honour of the films traumatised leading protagonist. Complete with the obligatory chase scene which provides a backdrop for the films frenzied witch hunt segment Sato successfully turns his hand to a unique blend of Japanese afro rock (which in its deft execution shares unlikely similarities with Finders Keepers’ Iranian anthem Helelyos by Zia) proving the composer to be a versatile and forward-thinking musician who in the case of this genuinely mythical (in all senses of the work) soundtrack has arguably created his unrivalled cinematic masterpiece.

Belladonna EP

The Plague Reins

Masahiko Sato - The Plague Reins

RECORD STORE DAY JUNE 12TH 2021 EXCLUSIVE

Suzanne Ciani
Xenon
FKSP020

Greg Kmiec’s Xenon pinball machine was released in 1980 and marked a significant milestone in pinball technology and design. The expansion of microchip technology would provide new opportunities for sound designer and synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani, allowing for basic oscillator control and a wider scope for sampling capacity which could facilitate the higher frequencies of a female human voice and entirely reshape the concept of the machine in the process. By using state of the art Synclavier synthesiser technology and an invaluable experience in film scoring and record production Suzanne would devise a complete minimal music score for the machine, then dissect the piece into separate fragments that would be triggered throughout the game play adding an extra creative dimension in player inter-activity (potentially turning the participant into their own musical arranger). By incorporating her own infamous voice box (which had been the focus of a seminal David Letterman Show feature) Suzanne’s combination of a harmoniser and a vocoder also provided the first-ever female identity to a pinball machine which in conjunction with the games ergonomic design and Paul Faris’ figurative graphics (echoing the aesthetic of Rene Laloux and Roland Topor’s La Planète Sauvage) Xenon was able to add a degree of subconscious sensuality to its performance, a feature previously unchartered in arcade development.

This disc presents the full extent of Suzanne Ciani’s groundbreaking musical effects for Xenon, in their isolated form, for the first time ever heard outside of the confines of the machine which recently earned the composer her own induction to the Pinball Expo Hall Of Fame.

LIMITED EDITION 1000 COPIES ON BLUE VINYL

Xenon

Xenon (Long Effects)

Suzanne Ciani - Xenon (Long Effects)

Written and performed by Stevie Wonder for Roberta Flack. Strictly from the session including Stevie's unreleased lead vocal.
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Stevie Wonder - Don't Make Me Wait Too Long [The Reflex Revision]

my vandalized cover of Work....enjoy & ↻ 

Free download for all you beautiful people

NOTE: This is a cover. None of the samples/vocals are by Rihanna

Piano by: Anan den boer
Composition: Ellroy Uyleman, Anan den boer
production: Ellroy Uyleman

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Rihanna - Work (Vandalized Cover)

King Tubby Meet New Order...

You can download it on my bandcamp...

Blue Tubby Monday

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George Benson - Love X Love [The Reflex Revision]

Ceremony (New Order cover)

Heatwave - Boogie Nights [The Reflex Revision]

MORE FREE LOCKDOWN MIXTAPES FROM THE ANDY VOTEL / FINDERS KEEPERS ARCHIVE. THE EYE IN THE SKY SAYS WE CANT TRAVEL UNTIL AUGUST 2020 AT THE EARLIEST... BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOUR EARS AND YOUR IMAGINATION CAN'T GO ON A TRIPPPP! //// A SOLID HOUR OF ALL VINYL PSYCHEDELIC SWEDISH MEATBALLS AND UNPRONOUNCEABLE PROGG (WITH TWO G'S) FROM THE DEEPEST CORNERS OF ANDY VOTEL'S BENDING EXPEDITS.... "Jag älskar Swedish Progg"

Andy Votel - Kaptain Zoom V's The T - Doja Twins (Swedish Mixtape)

A bit of a special mix for me, Donny’s words resonate today more than ever... Not often that I bump the tempo from 77 to 115 bpm but I thought there was a great hook to be used with the strings and brass riff. The opportunity to bring Donny’s words onto the dance floors ! (When they reopen obviously).

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Donny Hathaway - Someday We'll All Be Free [The Reflex Revision]

Suzanne Ciani
Music For Denali
Finders Keepers Records (FKR106)

Buy Music For Denali: https://smarturl.it/SCmusicfordenali

Finders Keepers Records' continued and unwaning commitment to preserving the archives of composer Suzanne Ciani pays off in an avalanche of dividends with this latest master tape discovery, placing further markers in the historical development of electronic music and cinematic composition. Developed at a lesser-documented axis combining Ciani's key disciplines as a revolutionary synthesist and an accomplished pianist, these early works from 1973 capture a rare glimpse of one of the world's most important electronic music figures embarking on the early throes of a fruitful career as a film composer and sound designer with this rare and previously unheard documentary music illustrating the first-ever skiers' decent from the peak of the tallest mountain in Alaska. Capturing innocence and optimism in its composition, but never less than masterful in its realisation, Denali takes what would later become the yin and yang in Ciani's versatile musical personality and provides unrivalled vistas from both side of the mountain, scaling a treacherous and fine creative line. 

As mountaineering history denotes the first-ever skier to descend from the tip of Denali was indeed in 1972, in dates that correlate directly to Suzanne's meticulously kept tape library and studio diaries. The explorer's name was French speaking Swiss skier Sylvain Saudan, a celebrated household name amongst enthusiasts to this day. Like Suzanne, like Saudan, neither artist have diverted from their path, turned their back on a challenge, nor lost their footing in the face of adversity.

Music For Denali

Denali

Suzanne Ciani - Denali

Feed Your Head is http://soundcloud.com/nickymason & http://soundcloud.com/CMNHTN
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An homage to the days when rave was king. A mix of old and new school bangers to keep the people moving.

Feed Your Head - Vol. 2

Andy Votel Mix Nº47 (La Planète Sauvage)

Frozen in time over four decades this 1984 “cyclic incantation” combines electroacoustics, grazed euphoria, industrial aesthetics, sampled salvage and recycled mechanic folk to score a widely revered dystopian physical theatre performance from the UK’s hugely influential Impact Theatre Co-Operative. From a seminal post-punk art-action faction (formed in a Leeds warehouse space alongside Gang Of Four and The Mekons), this apocalyptic prophecy not only cracked avant-garde stage boundaries but provided a captive audience with stunning set design and an incredible broken-music soundtrack before its swan song amidst Poland’s 1986 power plant panic. From the sonic workbench of the very same bedsit-Situationists that created the haunting 1983 music to The Moomins TV animation comes the eventual isolated music release to this pioneering theatrical spectacle of truly mythical status.

The Carrier Frequency (1984) was a legendary stage work that emerged from the collaboration between the influential performance company Impact Theatre Co-Operative and cult novelist Russel Hoban. The incantation of Hoban’s text voiced in the broken verbiage of a post-apocalyptic broken language and the entranced physicality of Impact’s ritualistic performance in a pool of cold dark water printed deeply on those who witnessed it. It reached an impassioned crescendo on the rising score by Graeme Miller and Steve Shill who also performed in the work. The music exploited samples from Hoban’s own recordings of the shortwave radio broadcasts which he tuned in as he wrote, helping him order the green phosphorescent letters on the screen of his Apple computer. Shill and Miller mirrored Hoban’s channelling in their approach to making the score, following the notion that this was the broadcast of some Central Eurasian radio station doomed forever to circulate fragments of static interlaced with desultory public information broadcasts and “The Record”, its only surviving fragment of a lost culture. The score was forged on an 8-track tape recorder sandwiching harmonium and accordion with the output of a digital delay machine that could trap and fragments of audio to be triggered and manually pitched. It is a knowingly crude montage where samples denote fragmentation itself and their reassembly, like Frankenstein’s monster, shows the stitches that join the stolen body parts.

More info: https://smarturl.it/thecarrierfrequency

The Carrier Frequency

Graeme Miller & Steve Shill - A Long Paleness

Acanthus
Le Frisson Des Vampires (The Shiver Of The Vampires)
Finders Keepers Records (FKR038X)

The entire unreleased soundtrack for Jean Rollins 1971 ultimate French vampire hippy flick Le Frisson Des Vampires. Embryonic psych funk recordings from Parisian teenage psych combo (including members of French No-No mod rockers Unity.

Imagine an early Gong/Ame Son/Soft Machine session fuelled by a 1000 year old acid infused blood transfusion.

With origins in the Parisian underground, the Free Press revolution, New Wave cinema, The Letterist movement, French Surrealism, sexual liberation and the European progressive rock explosion Jean Rollin’s 1972 film ‘Le Frisson De Vampires’ still stands up as one of the most original European poetic erotic horror films after almost 40 since it’s cosmic inauguration. This summer Finders Keepers Records finally release the complete freak-rock soundtrack to the most phantasmagoric celluloid moment from “The First French Vampire Director” which has been shrouded in mystery, secrecy and red wine addled memories for four decades.

Originally rumoured to be played by a disbanded group of teenagers and lost in the edit suite the unabridged soundtrack of improvised freak-funk, commune rock and acidik folk could have easily been recorded by an early line-up of Gong or Ame Son and released on a label like BYG or ESP. The true origins of this rare psychedelic score and it’s unspoken legacy via private pressed free jazz albums and collectible mod rock 45s adds to the twisted tails that unfolds via our extensive liner notes making this release yet another counter-cultural pop milestone courtesy of Finders Keepers Records.

Made on a shoestring in rural Northern France with a cast and crew that draws a blood red line between the avant-garde and The pre-cert video cassette the behind the scenes story of Les Frisson De Vampires engulfs a rampant river of cultural phenomenon such as Japanese Pinky films, X-rated comic books, The Mai 68 riots and the forward thinking No-No generation. Complete with classic and highly collectible artwork by French illustrator Phillipe Druliet and music that will appeal to fans of J.P.Massiera, Amon Duul 1, Jean-Claude Vannier, Igor Whakevitch, Fifty Foot Hose, early Pink Floyd and Acid Mothers Temple.

Originally released in 2010 as the inaugeral release in our dedicated Rollinade series, documenting some of the finest musical moments of the director’s career as an avant-gardener, counter-culture vulture and Gallic vamp-tramp, Finders Keepers once again presents the entire unreleased soundtrack from the ultimate French vampire hippy flick Le Frisson Des Vampires on vinyl. Also available in the series is Jeunes Filles Impudiques’ a veritable limited edition 5 track EP of drum heavy Gallic hard-bop and risque acidic folk.

Tuesday June 22, 2021...

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