[p*dis] distribution sampler for February 2015


p*dis sampler 2015.02

SETH WALKER
"Trouble"
Sky Still Blue

Revered roots music troubadour Seth Walker recently took up residency in New Orleans. Upon his relocation the Big Easy, the North Carolina-native completed a trifecta for time spent living in hallowed southern music cities. His journey began in Austin where he fast became a staple of the Texas blues scene. He’d later relocate to Nashville to absorb its rich songwriting history. Clearly, however, it is the influence of his current home in NOLA that inspired the gospel-soaked fervor and gritty guitar burn at the core of his latest album, Sky Still Blue. Abetted by producer Oliver Wood (The Wood Brothers), Walker revels in the devil-on-my-trail gristle and longing blue notes that make songs like “Trouble,” “High Wire” and “Easy Come, Easy Go” resonate so convincingly. Yet, as Walker’s fans have come to expect, there’s always a sweet melody, a turn of phrase wrapped in a wink-and-a-smile or an undeniable pop hook close at hand. Sky Still Blue is a masterful work conveyed through Walker's expressive, soul-burnished voice, agile guitar artistry and impeccable southern songwriting, all of which have garnered him a reputation as one of the most acclaimed modern roots artists in the country over the last decade.

Trouble (Don't Want No):: Seth Walker

I Don't Really Wanna Go

"this is Cassie's first record. she used to sing and play guitar in the vivian girls. she recorded these songs by herself over the last year or so. she hopes you like the record. goodbye." - Ariel Pink

Cassie Ramone - Hangin On

Debut LP by Cassie Ramone - "The Time Has Come" available on Loglady Records on August 26th, 2014.

"this is Cassie's first record. she used to sing and play guitar in the vivian girls. she recorded these songs by herself over the last year or so. she hopes you like the record. goodbye." - Ariel Pink

Buy on Vinyl

Cassie Ramone -  I Send My Love To You

Since 18 years now electronic duo Klangwart occupy self-confidently their very own niche between Avantgarde and Pop. Markus Detmer and Timo Reuber, the two 'elder statesmen' of neo-Krautrock, are since regarded as the most authentic heirs to the psychedelic sound gurus of the '70s.

Titled 'Transit' their new album after 'Sommer' (2010) is a real masterpiece: Nine tracks of otherworldly beauty – energetic, organic, unpredictable. Thousands of sound snippets are assembled to a kind of vegetative music. Pulsing beats interact with weightless floating sounds. Everything is in a constant flow – sometimes in slow motion, other times at a tearing pace.

'Transit' stays at any time highly concentrated and dense. The longest track clocks in at only five minutes – unusual for Klangwart. The production by sound guru Joseph Suchy appears almost three-dimensional whereupon space is an equal element of composition. That's cosmic music for the 21st century.

Klangwart: Passage II

Order FR & Wrld :itunes.apple.com/album/id955893478
Order UK: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/mirage/id961055206

Saycet is a name that’s been on an increasing number of lips over the last few years, like a secret too precious to keep to oneself. With just a few releases to his name, the project by Parisian producer Pierre Lefeuvre has elegantly evolved in a resolutely modern fashion, attracting attention more or less everywhere around the world from people who like their music electronic and heavy with organic emotion. Using electronic music as his original inspiration, and influenced by the hypnotising, minimal sounds of both Germany and Iceland, Saycet has matured his sound thanks to intensive touring of Europe, Russia and Asia, gaining international fans at every stop. His new (third) album, due for release in early 2015, was nourished by this experience of travelling and playing live over the past few years. More directly, the new Saycet has taken inspiration from images and forms (a certain interest for design, architecture, and visits to Le Corbusier’s ‘Cité radieuse’), widening his style to include pop and radiant sonic mirages in which one can get deeply, deeply lost. The aim is no longer to choose between black and white and spirals of colours, but to stimulate emotion and take you on a journey, without or without a return ticket.
He has worked in close collaboration with vocalist & lyricist Phoene Somsavath on several songs from his upcoming album, adding a complementary dimension to his craft.

On stage, Pierre is accompanied by Louise Roam (vocals, violin, keyboards) and Zita Cochet (stage design, video projection)

https://facebook.com/saycet
https://twitter.com/saycet
https://youtube.com/saycet

VOLCANO (feat. Phoene Somsavath)

Order FR & Wrld :itunes.apple.com/album/id955893478
Order UK: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/mirage/id961055206

Saycet is a name that’s been on an increasing number of lips over the last few years, like a secret too precious to keep to oneself. With just a few releases to his name, the project by Parisian producer Pierre Lefeuvre has elegantly evolved in a resolutely modern fashion, attracting attention more or less everywhere around the world from people who like their music electronic and heavy with organic emotion. Using electronic music as his original inspiration, and influenced by the hypnotising, minimal sounds of both Germany and Iceland, Saycet has matured his sound thanks to intensive touring of Europe, Russia and Asia, gaining international fans at every stop. His new (third) album, due for release in early 2015, was nourished by this experience of travelling and playing live over the past few years. More directly, the new Saycet has taken inspiration from images and forms (a certain interest for design, architecture, and visits to Le Corbusier’s ‘Cité radieuse’), widening his style to include pop and radiant sonic mirages in which one can get deeply, deeply lost. The aim is no longer to choose between black and white and spirals of colours, but to stimulate emotion and take you on a journey, without or without a return ticket.
He has worked in close collaboration with vocalist & lyricist Phoene Somsavath on several songs from his upcoming album, adding a complementary dimension to his craft.

On stage, Pierre is accompanied by Louise Roam (vocals, violin, keyboards) and Zita Cochet (stage design, video projection)

https://facebook.com/saycet
https://twitter.com/saycet
https://youtube.com/saycet


CITE RADIEUSE

'A Year With 13 Moons' is out in Feb via Mexican Summer: http://www.mexicansummer.com/shop/jefre-cantu-ledesma-a-year-with-13-moons/

Pale Flower

Parallel Landscapes is the first solo full-length album from Swiss artist Steinbrüchel on 12k, despite his relationship with the label and apperances on compilations, collaborations (Status, with Frank Bretschneider (12k1033)) and EP releases (Mit Ohne, (12k2010)). It seems that Steinbrüchel was waiting for the right moment to release such an illustrious album that is not only a release of music but of visual art as well.

Parallel Landscapes consists of a compact disc in a cd wallet and a beautifully printed sixty page colour printed booklet with a laser stenciled wrap-around cover conceptualized and designed by Steinbrüchel featuring photographs from Taylor Deupree and an essay by Lawrence English. The booklet and cd wallet are housed in a slipcase printed inside and out in black and white on contrasting paperstocks.

The music on Parallel Landscapes was created with the design process in mind. Steinbrüchel engaged himself with ideas of «designing» music instead of making or writing music and about the importance of music existing with (or without) visual enhancement.

The ideas of landscape, while not new in the musical world, were prevalent throughout the creative process. Music vs. landscape, music as horizontal layers, drawing new curves (landscapes) over sound files, imposing one landscape onto another and hearing/seeing the results. However, the album isn¹t just about horizontal combinations but vertical inbetweens as well. What happens from one event to the next? What happens when events are combined? How does the addition of one object (audio, visual) redefine another object next to it? What happens to a table when a chair is placed in front of it? ... And how does all of this coalesce into sonic and visual space?

There¹s an incredible amount of exploratory thought behind Parallel Landscapes that make this one of Steinbrüchel¹s most ambitious projects to date. His music has become increasingly refined but always retaining his signature sound. Still using the ideas of sine waves and pure tones but now softened with time, his palette stretches across electronics into a variety of found and acoustic sources. Bell tones are in the forefront, interspersed with the soft crackles of noise and static. Tones are stretched across the visual plane like a bell being carried across the land forever duplicating itself. Parallel Landscapes is engaging and reflective and sets a new standard in Steinbrüchel¹s creative output.

Parallel Landscapes

Coming in early January 2014, is this beautifully minimalist and pastoral full length release from Masaya Kato. Entitled "Trace Of Voices", it comes in two versions. The deluxe, limited version, in an edition of just 65 copies, comes in the form of a Japanese calendar/scroll....featuring the photographs of Barcelona based photographer, Irina Urumova...

This release is also available in a digipak version of 150 copies.

Masaya Kato   "Trace Of Voices"  Ⅷ

Out March 3 worldwide on Awesome Tapes From Africa LP/CD/Digital/Tape https://atakak.bandcamp.com

OUT NOW

Ata Kak — Bome Nnwom

In the wet heat of a Japanese summer, legendary musician Ryuichi Sakamoto was joined on stage by Taylor Deupree and the duo of Corey Fuller and Tomoyoshi Date, known as Illuha. The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media hosted the event as part of their 10 year anniversary which also included a captivating installation by Sakamoto called Forest Symphony. The days surrounding the concert brought the artists together for food, talk and exploration. Informal but meaningful moods that prepared them for performing together.

The performance, an improvised set for piano, guitar, pump organ, and synthesizers, ended up affecting the artists in a deep way. The four, having never played all together before, were taken aback by the level of listening and restraint that flowed between them. The audience sat in a breathless silence, the music offering a respite from the thick July air. As the last hushed note faded into blackness the artists knew right away it had been a deep journey.

It is a fortunate event when a moment like this is captured, as this concert was ( recorded in high quality DSD). Perpetual, named for the eternal and ageless quality of the music, is presented in three movements that traverse from soft layers of synthesizer and processed guitar, to open, airy sections of prepared piano and silence, to finally coming to rest in a most hauntingly delicate lullaby of lonely piano, crackling found objects and field recordings and tones suspended like mists.

Perpetual not only surrounds us and stretches through time but collects that expanse into a single memory, a record of a brief moment where time stood still and four musicians merged into one.

Perpetual

Movement, 3

Second song released from Irreal - out 1.19.15

Halcyon Days

/// D/P/I JAPAN TOUR 2015 //////////////////

2.6 FRI Fukuoka at KIETH FLACK w/ mew×duenn
2.7 SAT Osaka at CIRCUS w/INTEL
2.8 SUN Tokyo at KATA LIQUIDROOM 2F w/ BONDAID

More Info : http://meltingbot.net/event/dpi-japan-tour-2015

/// Release Info ////////////////////////////////


品番：MBIP-5553
アーティスト：Genesis Hull (D/P/I) (ジェネシス・ハル)
タイトル：Who Feels It, Knows It Dub / Instrumentals (フー・フィールズ・イット、ノーズ・イット・ダブ / インストルゥーメンタルズ)
発売日：2015年2月12日 (木） 
フォーマット：国内盤CD
定価：1380円 + 税
発売元：melting bot / Duppy Gun
ジャンル: Bass / Juke / Riddim
バーコード： 4532813635538

【Track List】

Dub : 

01. Intro
02. Verga
03. Seeking
04. Arrowhead 
05. Neva Seen 
06. Flesh
07. Trim
08. Hard
09. Export
10. Stem

Instrumentals : 

11. Arrowhead Riddim (Sing Version) *
12. Export Riddim (Sing Version) *
13. Flesh Riddim (Sing Version) *
14. Neva Seen Riddim *
15. Seeking Riddim (Dance Edit) *
16. Seeking Riddim (Sing Version) *
17. Si-cchi Riddim (Dance Edit) *
18. Si-cchi (Sing Version) *
19. Stems (Sing Version) *
20. Verga (Dance Edit) *
21. Verga (Sing Version) *

*CD Only

"ジューク / フットワークによって加速する未来のリディム"

初来日も決定したオンライン・アンダーグランドの新星D/P/Iの新名義Genesis HullがCDとなって緊急投下！艶やかなアーバンの高揚感と鋭利なデジタル・サウンドがプリミティブなゲットー・スタイルと溶け合わさったハイブリッド・リディム 2k15！！

Cameron Stallones (Sun Araw)とM. Geddes Gengrasによって結成されたプロダクション・ユニット〈Duppy Gun〉から生まれた目下爆進中のD/P/Iによる新名義Genesis Hullのミックステープ『Who Feels It, Knows It』の未発表ダブ&インスト・バージョ全21曲。シカゴ・ジュークとジャマイカン・ラガがD/P/Iの硬質なサウンド・プロセスと異空間に流し込まれた逸脱のミニマル・ダンスホール・ジューク。CDのみインスト版を収録した300枚限定の来日記念盤。

Duppy Gun Productions : 

Duppy Founders : Big Flite & Velkro a.k.a. Cameron Stallones (Sun Araw) & M. Geddes Gengras
DJ Highwasteline a.k.a. Matthewdavid
Nice-A-Bunks a.k.a. Aaron Coyes (Peaking Lights)
DJ Talus Glider a.k.a. Butchy Fuego (San Gabriel)
Genesis Hull a.k.a. Alex Gray (D/P/I)

2011年にジャマイカのポートモアでCameron Stallones (Sun Araw)とM. Geddes Gengrasによって結成されたプロダクション・ユニット。2012年に〈RVNG Intl.〉のコラボレーション・シリーズ『FRKWYS』の第9弾で念願のThe Congosとセッションを果たし、翌年レーベルとしても活動を始め奇妙なエレクトリック・ダンスホールを立て続けにリリース。最近では〈Stones Throw〉流通で初のコンピレーション『Multiply: Duppy Gun Productions, Vol. 1』をリリースし、現在では２人の近しい友人でもある〈Leaving Records〉主宰、〈Brainfeeder〉所属のMatthew David、Peaking LightsのAaron Coyes、Boredomsのドラマー、San Gabrielとしても知られるButchy Fuego、そしてAlex Gray (D/P/I)も参加するコレクティブ・ユニットへと発展している。

D/P/I バイオグラフィー :

LAのプロデューサーAlex Grayによるソロ・プロジェクトDJ Purple ImageことD/P/I。 Deep Magic名義で2009年に〈Not Not Fun〉よりデビューし、 アンビエント / ドローンを主体とした作品を〈Preservation〉や〈Moon Glyph〉といったレーベルから連発、一方のD/P/I名義は自身のレーベル〈CHANCEIMAG.es〉立ち上げと共に2012年に始動、 アブストラクトなベース / ビート・ミュージックへアプローチをした作品を矢継ぎ早にリリース。勢いは加速され〈Brainfeeder〉所属のMatthew David 主宰〈Leaving〉からのEP『RICO』、そしてアルバム『08.DD.15』と『MN.ROY』ではそのアブストラクなビートは更にデジタルなプロセスを経て細切れとなり、Oneohtrix Point Neverの『R Plus 7』へも通じるシャープでグリッチーな音像のコラージュを主体としたミュージック・コンクレートへと発展。別名儀Heat WaveではR&B / ヒップホップをスクリューしたミックステープ、最近ではSun ArawとM. Geddes Gengrasの電子ダブ・レーベル〈Duppy Gunn〉よりGenesis Hullなる新名義でジューク / フットワークの影響下にあるリディムを披露。また同じくLAの盟友Sun ArawやDreamcolorのメンバーでもあり、映像やアートワークも自身で作る、流動する現在のジャンルを縦横無尽に駆け巡り加速を続けるマルチ多作家。

_____________________________________________

Released by melting bot
http://meltingbot.net

Manufactured & Distributed by Inpartmaint inc.
http://www.inpartmaint.com

(P)&(C) 2015 Alex Gray
Under exclusive license from Alex Gray


Genesis Hull - Verga *promo

Genesis Hull - Arrowhead *promo

Genesis Hull - Neva Seen *promo

品番：ZIQ351
アーティスト：John T. Gast (ジョン・ティー・ガスト)
タイトル：Excerpts（エキサープツ)
レーベル：Planet Mu
発売日予定日：2015年2月26日 (木)
フォーマット：輸入CD / 2LP
流通元：melting bot / Inpartmaint Inc.
ジャンル :  Indie / Electronic / Techno

【Track List】

01. Shanti-ites
02. Infection
03. Congress
04. £
05. Ceremony
06. Green
07. White Noise_Dys
08. Claim Your Limbs
09. Sedna
10. White Noise (reprise)
11. Torch

Dean BluntとInga Copeland周辺で謎を呼ぶ、正体不明の不気味な存在John T. Gastがまさかのアルバム発表！オンライン地下のキワ物が登場！！

変名儀S. BronzeやHenny MoanでDean Bluntの『The Redeemer』、Hype Willimasの『Black Is Beautiful』 ではプロデュースに関わり、Inga Copleadと共作を発表するも未だ多くの謎に包まれるJohn T. Gastが〈Planet Mu〉よりデビュー・アルバムを発表。アシッドとドローンで溶かした現行エレクトロニックの暗黒境。

昨年には自主CDRでアルバム『Submerge』を発表し、人を食ったようなアートワークやイメージでHype Willimas周辺の作家として謎を呼ぶ奇異な存在。解像度の荒く引き延ばされたスクリューやローファイ・サウンドを下地とし、サンプリング、フィールド・レコーディング、エレクトロニクスを織り交ぜ、ドゥームなドローン～ラウンジ、ミドル・スクールなデトロイト～アシッド・ハウスやブレイクビーツを展開。ダンス・ミュージックとオンライン地下のダークなフェティッシュさを醸し出した逸脱の作品。

John T. Gast: https://soundcloud.com/hethathathearstohear

Planet Mu: http://www.planet.mu

___________________________________________

Distributed by melting bot / Inpartmaint inc.
https://meltingbot.net

£ *promo

「情動と精妙の響き。」 京都在住の電子音楽家、糸魚健一が掲げるサウンドデザインフィロソフィー、PsysEx(サイセクス)。 

PはPolyrhythm(ポリリズム)=世界各国の民族音楽にもみられる拍の一致しないリズムが同時に演奏されることによる独特のリズム感。 sysEx(システム・エクスクルーシブ・メッセージ)=80年代初頭発案されたメーカーを超えた共通の通信プロトコルMIDIにおいてシステムセッ ティングをコントロールする為のパラメータ。PsysExとは感性や直感からの身体入力と、コンピュータから得るランダムを自然現象と解釈し、融 合させることで偶然性を重んじたインプロヴァイズされたポリリズムを生むことを意味している。 感覚や情緒に重きを置き精妙な技術で描き出した作品、それが「Apex」である。思想・技術を優先して表現してきたが、今作品では進化から深 化へ洗練された深みを合わせもつ「情動と精妙の響」を3年ぶり6thアルバム作品としてアンベールされる。独創的なサウンドデザインへの探 求はディテールからシルエットまでに及び、電子音楽が魅力としてもつユニークとスリリングをミニマルでバランスの取れた音分布が効果的に 印象づけ、結果として艶をさらに輝かせるラグジュアリーで新感覚オーサムなサウンドへと昇華させている。
<糸魚健一(PsysEx) プロフィール> エレクトロニカファンクネスを再定義しつづける日本におけるマイクロスコピックの雄。 PsysEx(サイセクス)名義でのアルバムリリース(*1,*2)、コンピレーション作品への参加、リミックス、プロデュースや、積極的なライブ活動(*3)を 経て、国内外で高い評価を得ている電子音楽家。更に関わるユニットも多岐にわたり、トラックメーカーDJ iToy、ノイズユニットavant-gals、ドローンラップトップデュオattic plan、空間系ジャムバンドplan+e等がある。京都にて電子音楽パーティpodを主催し、現在の京都電子音 楽シーンにつながる礎を築いた。 '97年発足の電子音響実験音楽レーベルshrine.jp <http://shrine.jp/> を主宰し、'11~'13年にかけて月刊でCDをリリースし、京都の新鋭 アーティストの窓口となった。現在も不定期にCDをリリースすると同時に'14年iTunes Storeを使った新シリーズが始動させ日本の新しい実 験音楽の一端を世界に向けて月刊で紹介している。老舗でありながら今最も動向を注目されるレーベルである。 そして「、電子文化の茶と禅」をコンセプトに活動する電子音楽レーベル涼音堂茶舗を星憲一朗氏と共に主宰し、新たな空間のための音楽、郷 土文化との融合を構想している。

*1)主なレーベル 細野晴臣氏率いるdaisyworld ,涼音堂茶舗 ,shrine.jp <http://shrine.jp> *2)主なリミキサー、コラボレーション AOKI takamasa ,atomTM ,alva noto ,So Takahashi

Ken'ichi Itoi a.k.a. PsysEx 『Apex』(SRCD040)
発売日:2015年3月26日 定価:¥2,400 + 税JAN:4562293380840
発売元:shrine.jp 
流通:p*dis / 株式会社インパートメント

Ken'ichi Itoi a.k.a. PsysEx - 1013_2

»sleepstep« is the first collaboration between raster-noton and dasha rush. the record‘s subtitle »sonar poems for my sleepless friends« describes its underlying concept – »sleepstep« is a trip through electronically alienated microcompositions and sound collages that, interwoven with text passages, aim at creating a dream-like atmosphere.

the stations of this journey are striving for oblivion of time, an immersion, a drifting in universal states – death, life, birth, grief, desire. the titles often appear to be raw sketches, fugitive, surreal short stories that rather want to break open than execute.

the musical arrangement, in this context, can be described as rather subtle and fragile. though electronically manipulated, no production technique is pushing itself to the fore. and though clichés are not dreaded, »sleepstep«, as a result, stays away from being cliché. the sonar poems for her sleepless friends are feminine, subtle and personal reports. a musical dream journey in the form of a classical concept record – an album that also stands in the tradition of ambient music.

dasha rush is already known as a techno dj and producer. here on »sleepstep«, she celebrates her alter ego. the cd version comes with a 32-pages booklet that also shows her photographic interest and includes the aforementioned poems written by her. furthermore there is 2 x 12" vinyl version. 

dasha rush. sleep ballade (excerpt). taken from dasha rush.  sleepstep

Express Yourself

Express Yourself (feat. Nicky Da B)

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