The New Dawn’s “There’s A New Dawn” has been hailed as one of the rarest and best psych albums to come out of the late 60s and early 70s. Fuzz guitar, minor-chord organ dirges, tender vocals and monumental bass are the calling cards of this private press gem. Maybe it’s all the rain, but like their Northwest counterparts, the New Tweedy Brothers and the Sonics, The New Dawn helped to establish a regional musical perspective that is hauntingly addictive.

Initially released in July of 1970, five hundred copies were pressed, but it’s estimated that only around 200 may still exist. Subsequently, auctions on Ebay for an original vinyl LP go for $2000.

After being highly sought after by collectors, we are proud to release this definitive CD reissue which was produced in close collaboration with Dan Bazzy, singer, songwriter, and founder of The New Dawn. Also included are three previously unreleased 1971 demos and a live track from a 2008 band reunion. 

Track 1. (There's A) New Dawn

MK, Pesto Billionaire & pals (18/9/22)

HELENA CELLE is the synth work and multi-dimensional audio practise of Glasgow-based musician Kay Logan. A dedicated 21st century polymath, Logan’s interests lie in the power relationships inherent in technology, how to harness aleatoric practise in a discipline that is often rigid and in exploring the interface between computer science (Logan is also a computer programmer) and sound. Originally recorded in 2014, "If I Can't Handle.." is the first step on the wander, a deliriously sun-burnt foray into abstract techno and a very personal take on an electronic music language that remains obscure to outsiders but here rendered a unique form of emotional communication.

While Logan’s interests are powered by academic exploration, what’s most striking about Helena Celle’s approach to electronic music is how effortlessly she deconstructs it: the results are emotive without being explicit, raw and engaging, a true outsider music. The taking apart of norms can be heard on the squelched solo on "I'm Done With 666", governed by love of noise, the wave is eviscerated, smothering the track in a glorious disregard for convention. The crashing, ultra-compressed chords that flatten opener "Streaming Music for Biometrics" re-wire the listener to appreciate chance, to break the loop. Recorded exclusively using a faltering MC303,  live in a room straight to consumer dictaphones, the breadth of texture and depth of ideas on these tracks is truly astonishing. "Miming Swinging Baseball Bat" manages to submerge a bass-line straight into the tape heads, grounding a celestial synth arpeggio.

Informed by limit yet sounding limitless, If I Can't Handle Me... evokes a personal space, a rewired take on electronic music, convention seen through the prism of anti-tradition. A lovingly careless disregard for electronic music dogma before Logan's next phase as Helena Celle. After several releases under various other pseudonyms (Rick Ross, Larks) Helena Celle sees Logan focusing her ideas into a coherent whole, questioning the hegemony of neo-liberal ideas and their intersection with capital, culture and social practises, how these ideas inform the music we make, the choices we buy. Indeed, while Logan's current practise is moving further into the field of an open-source musical programming language, developing a truly democratic music practise set adrift from capital, here Logan's intent is to make sense of the nonsense we take for granted.

HELENA CELLE:  Distributed Denial Of Reality

excerpt from :: https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/hallowed

Emily Berregaard - Yucca (ENM01)

quiet hour wreckage

Tana Emmolo-Smith + Factrix / Cazazza - Prescient Dreams (Subterranean Records, 1983)
Million Brazilians - Red Rose & Obsidian (Lullabies for Insomniacs, 2017)
Fith - Speed (Wanda, 2016)
Orior - Larbico (DDS, 2016)
Hiroshi Yoshimura - View From My Window (Sound Process, 1982)
Grouper - Children (Self-Released, 2017)
Ai Aso - Most Children Do (Pedal Records, 2004)
The Kiwi Animal - Flesh & Time (Massage Records, 1985)
Virginia Astley - So Like Dorian (WEA, 1986)
CS + Kreme - Roast Ghost (Ultra Lavender Mix) (Wichelroede, 2017)
Född Död - IV (Total Black, 2016)
Vanishing - The Forger (Tombed Visions, 2017)
Russian Tsarlag - Three Colours (Goaty Tapes / House Rules, 2017)
The Bomber Jackets - Death of A Bargain Hunter (Alter, 2017)
Five or Six - Another Reason (Cherry Red, 1981)
Jah Wobble - Fading (Long Version) (Lago Records, 1981 / Emotional Rescue, 2017)
Steve Beresford / David Toop / John Zorn / Tonie Marshall ‎- Dumb Boxer / Lady Whirlwind / Shadow Boxer (Nato, 1986)
Damon Edge - Why Not Give Me Your Next Trance? (New Rose Records, 1985)
SPK - Post-Mortem (Thermidor, 1982)
Ectoplasm Girls - Future Is (iDEAL Recordings, 2016)
Parrish Smith - Designed LIFE (Knekelhuis, 2017)
Assel - Fitness Talk (Where To Now, 2017)
The Modern Institute - Destroy Logic (Night School, 2017)
Clarence G - Cause I Said It Right (Flourescent Forest Rec, 1991)
German Army - Pirouges (Wounded Knife, 2016)
Heavy Metal - Heavy Metal for Sex People (Static Shock, 2017)
Jeanette Landray - Leo (Survival Records, 1987)

30/08/17 - Savage Serenity

"We stumbled across Cucina Povera when putting together the first Glasgow based ‘Clyde Built’ compilations. She featured on the first one as one half of Luxos and then offered some of her own material for the next one and we’ve been enchanted ever since. ‘Ethereal’ is maybe the closest description to reach for. One to keep an eye on for sure."

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10 Years of Huntleys & Palmers: Cucina Povera - 14th October 2017

The Brvtalist is proud to present a new work from Maŕa. The Brooklyn based artist delivers an improvised long form composition featuring all new and original material from beginning to end. The result is a spellbinding fever dream of deep introspection, crushing romance and hypnotic rhythms. A special offering which is not selection but cinematic opus. Read more at: www.thebrvtalist.com/newbrvtalism145/ 

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@cultivated-sound

New Brvtalism No. 145 - Maŕa

For full track listing click here: https://bleep.com/features/bleep-mix-106--cucina-povera

Cucina Povera’s third LP Tyyni is a set of spectral, warped pieces that hover on the edge of torch-song and some more abstract style of songwriting. In this mix, we see her select various works from artists operating in much the same vein. Starting with an enchanting cello piece from American Canadian Abenaki filmmaker, singer, artist and activist Alanis Obomsawin we see her avant-garde approach to songwriting and production reflected throughout. Demonstrated also in Jan Eerala’s incredible track Stairway to The Windmill constructed of recordings of an isolated windmill in Takholutoto, Finland “playing organ” as the southeasterly wind rushes within. Some of Pan Sonic’s more sparse, minimal material features later on amongst work by @cucinapovera herself as well as her collaboration with ELS.

HELENA CELLE: Distributed Denial Of Reality

Night School Records

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