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ORDER Bye Bye Berta LP here - www.wharfcatrecords.com/
ORDER on Bandcamp here - wharfcatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bye-bye-berta
ORDER on Apple Music here - itunes.apple.com/us/album/bye-bye…rta/id1173685980

In an industry that favors niche branding and subgenre packaging, Palberta is a difficult band to place. Their music is free and uninhibited in a way that makes it all their own. Often, Palberta songs are marked with a child-like communication -- chants and lullabies are met with snarling tantrums, while their instruments coo and careen towards an often abrupt finish. Their playful approach to writing produces work that is hyper-emotional -- as jarring as it is soothing and as loopy as it is sinister. 
 
Palberta was formed when Lily Konigsberg, Anina Ivry-Block, and Nina Ryser met while attending Bard College. They honed their sound in basements across the Hudson valley, and quickly gained a reputation for their brazen and feverish live shows. Through prolific touring and recording, they have developed a dedicated nation-wide following without the aid of a major label. Outside of the band, the three of them actively pursue solo endeavors, with Palberta serving as a culminating force - a band driven by uncompromising personality. 
 
Bye Bye Berta is their seventh release and their most sonicly expansive release yet. Recorded by frequent collaborator Paco Cathcart at a library in Roxbury, Connecticut, the record features contributions from artists in their community. 

PRESS
Premiere of “Ode to Honey” on Impose – http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/new-music/palberta-ode-to-honey
PAST PRESS   
Band Interview on The Media -  http://www.fvckthemedia.com/issue35/fan-club

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Palberta - She Feels That Way (Electric) - from the Bye Bye Berta LP

Palberta - Why Didn't I? (from the Bye Bye Berta LP)

Martin Küchen: Lieber Heiland, laß uns sterben

Double cassette. Recorded (one take, no overdubs) in old 
church of Kemiö, Finland 23.9.2015. Edition of 100 copies.

buy here: http://ikuisuuslabel.blogspot.fi/
digital version: https://anttitolvi.bandcamp.com/album/church-organ

Antti Tolvi - Church Organ (double cassette * snippets)

from Rock With Pont à Mousson (SL07) out in november 2016 on tape.
cover: Nicolas Guine
http://nicolas-guine.tumblr.com/

woodprinting: Eric Kinny

order: https://santeloisirs.bandcamp.com/album/rock-with-pont-mousson-sl07

Pont à Mousson - You Care About Me (SL07)

The Salt Doll Went to Measure the Depth of the Sea

Drowsy Dowsing Dolls

Wax Chattels debut is out on Captured Tracks and Flying Nun Records May 18th, 2018.

Order: https://WaxChattels.lnk.to/Wax

Wax Chattels // Career

Tendher Acid Side A

DIRTY AND HIS FISTS 2016 demo 7''

RELEASE DATE: JUNE !st 2018

dirty and his fists 2016 demo 7''

2016 demo

DIRTY AND HIS FISTS - L PILL

'6 Nomads' cassette available @ www.strangerules.com

Yosuke Tokunaga - N Omads

'A Poem' cassette available @ www.strangerules.com

Emily Berregaard - A Poem [Excerpt]

Originally released in 2013 and long sold out, Psicomagia is now back in print on red swirl vinyl! Only 300 copies made. Get it from: https://elparaisorecords.com/

Psicomagia: "Simplõn"

Leisure

"Peripheral Visions" from the new Outer Spacist LP - Illness Is A-Creepin' On A Come-Up.

Emerging in Spring 2018 from Heel Turn Records.

Illness Is A-Creepin' On a Come-Up

Outer Spacist - "Peripheral Visions"

Midnight Tequila

Success

Freschard & Stanley Brinks - Success

Der Duschvorhang klebt

FLACCID KNOB - DER DUSCHVORHANG KLEBT

Who knew that some of the most exciting Afro-funk records of all time were actually made in the small West African country of Benin? Once Analog Africa released the first African Scream Contest in 2008, the proof was there for all to hear; gut-busting yelps, lethally well-drilled horn sections and irresistibly insistent rhythms added up to a record that took you into its own space with the same electrifying sureness as any favourite blues or soul or funk or punk sampler you might care to mention.

Ten years on, intrepid crate-digger Samy Ben Rejeb unveils a new treasure-trove of Vodoun-inspired Afrobeat heavy funk crossover greatness. Right from the laceratingly raw guitar fanfare which kicks off Les Sympathics’ pile-driving opener, it’s clear that African Scream Contest II is going to be every bit as joyous a voyage of discovery as its predecessor. And just as you’re trying to get off the canvas after this one-punch knock out, an irresistible Afro-ska romp with a more than subliminal echo of the Batman theme puts you right back there. Ignace De Souza and the Melody Aces’ “Asaw Fofor" would’ve been a killer instrumental but once you’ve factored in the improbably-rich-to-the-point-of-being-Nat-King-Cole-influenced lead vocal, it’s a total revelation. 

The screaming does not stop there, in fact it’s only just beginning. But the strange thing about African Scream Contest II’s celebration of unfettered Beninese creativity is that it would not have been possible without the assistance of a musician who had been trained by the Russian secret services to "find and destroy" enemies of the country’s (then) Marxist-Leninist president Mathieu Kerekou.
Already familiar to fans of the first African Scream Contest as a mainstay of ruthlessly disciplined police band Les Volcans de la Capitale, Lokonon Andre vanished in a cloud of dust at Ben Redjeb’s behest with a list of names and some petrol money, only to return a few days later having miraculously tracked down every single name he’d been given. The source of this Afrobeat bounty-hunter’s impressive people-finding skills - his training with the KGB - highlights the tension between encroaching authoritarian politics and fearless expressions of personal creative freedom which is the back-story of so much great African music of the 60s and 70s. Happily, in this instance, Lokonon was tracking the artists down to offer them licensing deals, rather than to arrest them.
Where some purveyors of vintage African sounds seem to be strip-mining the continent’s musical heritage with no less rapacious intent than the mining companies and colonial authorities who previously extracted its mineral wealth, Samy Ben Redjeb’s determination to track this amazing music to its human sources pays huge karmic dividends. Like every other Analog Africa release, African Scream Contest II is illuminated by meticulously researched text and effortlessly fashion-forward photography supplied by the artists themselves. Looming large - alongside Lokonon Andre - in the cast of biopic-worthy characters to emerge from this seductive tropical miasma is visionary space-nerd Bernard Dohounso, who laid the foundations for Benin’s vinyl predominance by importing and assembling the record players that would play the products of his Bond villain-acronymed pressing plant SATEL, a company that would revolutionise the music industry in the whole region.

The scene documented here couldn’t have been born anywhere else but in Benin, and the prime reason for that was Vodoun. It’s one of the world’s most complex religions, involving the worship of some 250 divinities, where each divinity has its own specific set of rhythms, and the bands introduced on the African Scream Contest series and other compilations from the region were no less diverse than that army of different Gods.

African Scream Contest 2

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Glenon Ho Akue - Les Volcans de la Capitale

Frente Bolivarista is proud to present the new EP - A Macaca & Gama - J'écris.

"J’écris" and "Break the Circle" were born out of a series of travels and meetings, connecting far away lands like Brasil, France, Tunisia, Greece, Uganda and Sudan.
 
In the hot summer of 2016 Gama and A Macaca visit Agartha in his small studio in Paris to record some ney flute and drums played by Agartha himself. He introduces them to Marianne Catzaras's poem "J’ecris" (literally “I write”), an alert, a reminder, a call, a message of hope also, for the people living wars, conflicts and exile. 

One year later in the middle of Kampala's rainy season A Macaca meets Winnie Lado and hears her poem “don’t call me a refugee”. She invites her to sing on Gama's production, the collaboration ending with the song “Break the Circle”, another message of hope.

Follow the artists @ https://soundcloud.com/amacaca and https://soundcloud.com/gvmv

Credits:
Track 1  - J’écris - A Macaca, Gama & Yassin V  
Poem by Marianne Catzaras edited and told by A Macaca, music by Gama and A Macaca, Ney (flutte) and concept by Yassin V  
    
Track 2 - Break the Circle  
music by Gama, voice and text by Winnie Lado recorded by A Macaca at Boutiq Studio Kampala  

Coverart by Stella Ismene Ištar 

Final design by Jonas Moraes 
(www.jonasmoraes.com) 

Mastering by Einstmann Mastering 
(www.einstmannmastering.com)

J'écris EP

Buy on Bandcamp!

A Macaca, Gama & Winnie Lado - Break the circle

Frente Bolivarista is proud to present the new EP - A Macaca & Gama - J'écris.

"J’écris" and "Break the Circle" were born out of a series of travels and meetings, connecting far away lands like Brasil, France, Tunisia, Greece, Uganda and Sudan.
 
In the hot summer of 2016 Gama and A Macaca visit Agartha in his small studio in Paris to record some ney flute and drums played by Agartha himself. He introduces them to Marianne Catzaras's poem "J’ecris" (literally “I write”), an alert, a reminder, a call, a message of hope also, for the people living wars, conflicts and exile. 

One year later in the middle of Kampala's rainy season A Macaca meets Winnie Lado and hears her poem “don’t call me a refugee”. She invites her to sing on Gama's production, the collaboration ending with the song “Break the Circle”, another message of hope.

Follow the artists @ https://soundcloud.com/amacaca and https://soundcloud.com/gvmv

Credits:
Track 1  - J’écris - A Macaca, Gama & Agartha 
Poem by Marianne Catzaras edited and told by A Macaca, music by Gama and A Macaca, Ney (flutte) and concept by Agartha
    
Track 2 - Break the Circle  
music by Gama, voice and text by Winnie Lado recorded by A Macaca at Boutiq Studio Kampala  

Coverart by Stella Ismene Ištar 

Final design by Jonas Moraes 
(www.jonasmoraes.com) 

Mastering by Einstmann Mastering 
(www.einstmannmastering.com)

A Macaca, Gama & Agartha - J'écris

One track preview from vinyl reissue of Monopoly Child Star Searchers' Make Mine, Macaw.

More info go to: www.discrepant.net

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