fresa-exp

from the album "waltz in march" 
by Takeo Toyama

WINDBELL wb28
2010

Takeo Toyama "waltz in march"

from long awaited new album "tobanaihi"
release date 
September 20th 2013
WINDBELL four 121

Takeo Toyama "Good Day Sunshine"

from the album "Fragrance of Notes" (WINDBELL wb21)

mama!milk "The Moon"

© 2013 Secret Stash Records (uploaded with permission)

While Secret Stash has been in the business for several years releasing a number of gems ranging from the soul of America to reggae takes on Miles Davis and acoustic Peruvian folk music, they are now focusing some effort on new music as well. Longtime Secret Stash fans rest easy, though. They are still going to continue to mine the vaults the world over to find long-forgotten but essential music.

One of their first new music releases is coming out this September courtesy of Black Market Brass. The band and label both hail from Minneapolis. Secret Stash, which has a very DIY approach to their label, often hosts record-release assembly parties where the local community is invited to come to their offices and assemble the records and album sleeves in return for pizza and beer. It was through several of these that Eric Foss, VP of Marketing and Sales for Secret Stash, met Mitch Sigurdson, one of the founding members of the band.

Sigurdson assembled some friends and local talent to play a variety of styles, often Ghanian highlife and funk. Per Foss, “I think it took a little while for them to realize that they play Afrobeat as well or better than most of the bands out there doing it today. I watched as they transitioned from playing spot-on covers of Fela and Tony Allen to writing their own material.”

This past April, the band headed to the studio to record some original material. Coincidentally, the band picked up a new baritone sax player, Cole Pulice, who was already working with Sonny Knight & the Lakers and Dérobé Dance Band, bands whose original material also will be seeing releases from the label. In a single afternoon, they cut the two tracks heard on the upcoming 45.

“Snake Oil Man” is heavy Nigerian madness. You can bet that it’s no beginners luck. Check out the flip side, “Big Muffler," on Secret Stash’s SoundCloud page (https://soundcloud.com/secretstashrecords/black-market-brass-big-muffler). If this is their first swing at the genre, you can expect some exciting material in the future from Black Market Brass who has enough original material already for a full LP.

We reached out to Pierre Chrétien from Souljazz Orchestra, who knows his way around an Afrobeat tune, to hear his thoughts on the band’s sound. Says Chrétien, “It sounds amazing. Definitely no lack of sweat and stink here!” No disagreements here.


Black Market Brass "Snake Oil Man"

From Woven Songs, out Feb 2022 on LP and digital

Rosales - Loom

Muscut Show on @lyl_radio 1 June 23

Latest finds, favorites and unreleased material of the label and its friends and colleagues:

Roméo Poirier - Haut Lieu (forthcoming on Muscut Test Pressing IV)
Mads Emil Nielsen - Untitled (Branches)
Jan Jelinek - On the quay (version)
Magnétophonique - Moist Jungle Mist II / Driftwood
Roma Vjazemski - Horses of Uhum
You Can Can - Infinity of Loose Ends
Nikolaienko - Ambianta VII
Woo - Love on Other Planets / Spaces We Breathe
Martyna Basta - Lullaby (for Iwo)
Natela Svanidze - Epitaphium (Live Performance)
4th World Magazine - Exact Sensorial Fantasy in Tempio D'Iside
Les Halles - Thresholds
Loto Retina - Leçon De Spéléologie
Mondoriviera - Compax
Tapes - Circulation Desk / Geo Print / Spiral Catalog (forthcoming on Mida)
Fruit Express - No Secret

Show Lyl 1 June 23

Mikael Lind is a Swedish composer based in Reykjavik, Iceland who has released on labels including Archives, Time Released Sound, Dronarivm and Polar Seas. In 2020 we released his solo album Give Shape To Space and also a collaborative EP called RAMMI, with Sævar Johannsson. Johanna Sjunnesson is a cellist based in Sweden, who performs as part of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and as a soloist too, with shows at Konserthuset and Berwaldhallen in Stockholm, the Grammy Gala, the Polar Music Prize Banquet, and more. In 2021 she released the EP Celistial, a collection of her interpretations of works by Bach, Purcell, Marais, Vivaldi, and Dowland, creatively mixed with electronic effects by Mikael Lind to create classical music for the 21st century.

Their collaboration began in Reykjavik, as Mikael established a bedrock of sound through piano, synths, electronics and effect treatments, before Johanna added the cellos from Sweden, through several remote file sharing exchanges. They intended to create a balance of slow, majestic beauty in their work, alongside more upbeat, rhythmically interesting parts, all the while underpinned by their shared love for modern classical music. The themes they explored and felt attached to were waves, flow and parallels; weaving linguistic metaphors into their music, without ever resting on anything clear and tangible. This allows the music to express itself, with the artwork and track titles serving only to enhance its impact.

This short album is named Wave Cycles and is in part inspired by the Swedish naturalist Daniel Solander, an apostle of Carl Linnaeus who travelled to Iceland in 1772 to investigate the botanical specimens of the island. The delicate textures and timbres of Lind and Sjunesson’s music reflect the finely-balanced natural world; there is an inter-dependence between each sound, allowed to thrive in its own eco-system and building to be greater than the sum of its parts. There is a dynamism and wealth of expression in these pieces, which will bring about stirring, life-affirming waves of emotion within its listener.

Wave Cycles

wlr146 Mikael Lind & Johanna Sjunnesson - Wave Cycles

7 inch VINYL release ONLY (LIMITED EDITION)
release date : 18 APRIL 2015
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mama!milk  Vanilla / Gara de Caras Trailer

イグアナ ツイギー ポップ

Inspired by the haiku:

Mount Asama
amidst its fumes and ash
fresh young leaves!

by: Yosa Buson

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku579-mount-asama/

from the ashes (naviarhaiku579)

Track taken from the upcoming album 'The Castle and The Garden' released through Fluid Audio on 31.05.18...

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

The Castle and The Garden

Cameron Day - My Body And My Blood

Yukon

Motorway 20121224

these pieces are my personal memo and practical recording by myself.
all pieces have been played by trombone and flute, recorded in my bedroom studio.

Blackorpheus

Home of sweet experimental slow music, sound and art practice by Nukumori Eugene / Nx -日本の街音収集家 (always welcome demo & collabo for release from Living Room Tapes)　　 

Nukumori Eugene / Nx ﾇｸﾓﾘ ﾕｰｼﾞﾝ / ぬくもりゆーじん is a Hong Kong - Japan Base Sound Artist, Researcher and  Architect. He is joining the sound & art projects around the world beside run his own label  "Living Room Tapes" - the sound & art collective. 

The project often highlights the sounds and arts placed between the nature and city's folklore - deconstructive city street culture and urban suburbia - related to the urban observation research project ~ Research and Practice of Alternative Art Space / Micro-Art Space  

featured projects :  Strange Ordinary Necessities不思議な日用品 / Urban Observational Studies 都市観察学会 / Skmtt /  / HONG KONG SUBURBIA / 3am / Soundscape Saitama 100 / 100音夜行 / Edition 1/f / A TALE OF OUR CITIES / MEIV

Blackorpheus

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