[p*dis] distribution sampler for May 2015

p*dis sampler 2015.05

4. No Real Men

1. Ode To Louis Thomas Hardin

Taken from the album I Did That Tomorrow: https://preservedsound.bandcamp.com/album/i-did-that-tomorrow

Tess Said So - Intervention

Taken from the new album PAUSE:
https://indianwells.lnk.to/Pause

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Heart on Hypem : 
http://hypem.com/track/28pp5/Indian+Wells+-+Alcantara


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Indian Wells - Alcantara

Taken from the album: Gesture & Texture https://preservedsound.bandcamp.com/album/gesture-texture

Signalling - K. Novotny

Pre-Order: http://www.serein.co.uk/releases/strie-struktura

Short preview of forthcoming album 'Struktura' by Strië. Out soon on Serein. Her dense and provocative avant-garde electronics share the same spirit as some of our most beloved early experimental sound designers.

Strië - Struktura (Album Preview) [SERE006]

Preview of upcoming album Cloudscapes by Yui Onodera & Vadim Bondarenko. Onodera's unique approach to sound processing and electronic composition is augmented by performances from multi-instrumentalist and classically trained musician Vadim Bondarenko. 

Yui Onodera & Vadim Bondarenko - Cloudscapes (Album Preview) [SERE007]

"Comfort Me" is taken from "Prism", the forthcoming album on Preserved Sound by Western Skies Motel.

Comfort Me - Western Skies Motel

Leave is the third album from Rasmus Rasmussen's ethereal electronic project Aerosol. Through the nearly six years that has past since it’s predecessor “Airborne”, Rasmussen has spent his musical efforts in acid rock outfit Causa Sui and as part of various constellations, playing alongside musicians from Sunburned Hand of the Man and legendary krautbands Can and Faust. These free-form psychedelic influences seep into the already recognizable style of hazy electronics, known from his own previous work as well as from the music of his colleagues in former band Limp (Manual/Syntaks). Cosmic sounds and psychedelic effects mingle with cascading guitars and kraut-infused beats on a collection of tracks that sends obvious nods to the German synth pioneers of the seventies, but is still unmistakably an Aerosol-album - an album set on beating emotions, moods and melodies out of old synthesizers, cheap drum machines and Rasmus’ trusty white Stratocaster.  RIYL: Ash Ra, Ulrich Schnauss, Manual, Vangelis, Boards of Canada, Emeralds, Cluster, Brian Eno.

Aerosol - Reach

Artist: Rachel Grimes
Title: The Air In Time
Album: The Clearing
Release Date: May 26, 2015

Rachel Grimes is a pianist, composer, and arranger based in Kentucky – most renowned for her work in Rachel's, the groundbreaking chamber-rock ensemble that introduced an entire generation of underground rock fans to the unexpected similarities and appeal of neoclassical music. Grimes has toured the world as a solo pianist, and as a collaborator with chamber ensembles such as Portland Cello Project, astrïd, Cicada, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta trio, and Orchestra Kandinskij.

Unhurried, at times fleeting, and stretching into the sky, The Clearing is a winding path of transient moments exploring personal memory, relationships, and mystery from a deeply internal place. The music is a wide spectrum of textures in strings, harp, piano, woodwinds, and percussion. Following Book of Leaves (2009), the Marion County 1938 DVD/EP (2011), the Compound Leaves EP (2013), and an album with King’s Daughters & Sons (2011), this new full-length album reveals a broad new chapter for Rachel Grimes.

Several composed pieces evolved from improvisation, such as “In the Vapor”, “The Clearing”, and “Further Foundation”. Others include captured improvisation: album highlight “The Herald”, recorded live with Jacob Duncan on saxophone and Helen Money on cello, and “The Air at Night”, a late-night meditation at a recording session in Antwerp.

The title track, “The Clearing”, was recorded with members of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta following a series of performances for CrossLinx Festival in spring of 2013. After the joy of working together, Grimes proposed a long-distance recording session. Evolving from a single repeated piano note, “The Clearing” begins tense and dissonant with the string trio and piano eventually arriving at a moment of relief and grace – a light in the forest – and then returning again to the material of the opening.

“Transverse Plane” was designed for SITI Company of New York for an actor training stage exercise. In two sections, the piece uses a pre-existing architecture of tempo and underlying compositional structure. The first part – “Vertical” – is a driving, orchestral texture of strings, harp, piano, oboe and saxophone with Kyle Crabtree (Shipping News) on mixed percussion. The second half – “Horizontal” – unfolds from a mist of strings with slow-moving chords and features Christian Frederickson (Rachel's) in an angular and expressive viola solo.

Inspired by the wind and sky, “The Airs” feature violinist Scott Moore. Written with a single theme and mode, the suite becomes a connective tissue for the album’s various textures. In perhaps the album's most vital collaboration, Scott Morgan (aka LOSCIL) provides the delicate processing and additional depth of field that invites outsiders to enter this fluid space for their own experience.

© 2015 Temporary Residence Ltd.

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Rachel Grimes – The Air In Time

01 Wezwanie

04 Psalmodia

▶ LP / CD / Digital
▶ LP available in-store: 18th April 2015 (List of stores TBA)
▶ Official release for all formats: 24th May
▶ Album Launch Event: 29th-30th May (Details TBA) 

PRE-ORDER NOW:
http://www.kitchen-label.com/ki016-hanging-up-the-moon-immaterial/

Sean: Vox, Guitar
Leslie: Vox, Guitar
Alexius: Guitar, Vox
Victor: Bass, Effects, Vox
Dean: Drums, Vox

Karen Lee: Violin
Zhong Ren: Cello

Written by Hanging Up The Moon
Mixed by Victor Low at Affixen
Produced by Victor Low & Hanging Up The Moon
Mastered by James Plotkin

Released & distributed by Kitchen. Label
Ⓟ & © 2015 Kitchen. Label
© 2015 Hanging Up The Moon

Hanging Up The Moon : http://www.hangingupthemoon.com
Kitchen. Label : http://www.kitchen-label.com

Hanging up the moon - The Divers (Immaterial, 2015)

Will Samson & Heimer - Sunbeamer Pt.II

Music & Producktion: AGF
Voice: Tujiko Noriko & AGF

This is a video edit for this video:
https://vimeo.com/poemproducer/newwoman

The words are inspired by Hiratsuka Raicho which published Japan’s first all-women literary magazine, Seitō (Bluestocking) in 1911. It opened with the words “In the beginning, woman was the sun…” Her words could be referring back to the Japanese foundation myth of Amaterasu, the goddess of the sun who emerged out of a cave and brought sunlight back to the universe.

The track is a collaboration between AGF and Tujiko Noriko for the album: A Deep Mysterious Tone, a work about Japanese poetry, language, identity and feminism. The album CD contains a deeper examination on these subjects.
PREVIEW: press.morrmusic.com/distribution/release/press/id/2630
PREORDER: agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com/album/a-deep-mysterious-tone
PROJECT: adeepmysterioustone.poemproducer.com/



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#newwoman [video edit] feat. Tujiko Noriko

Taken from the album 'Taking The Veil', released worldwide on May 24, 2015 on Kitchen. Label

Pre-order on CD + Art Book here: 
http://www.kitchen-label.com/ki015-hior-chronik-taking-the-veil/

Tracklist: 
1 - London Bridges (Feat. Amber Ortolano)
2 - Nest of Autumn (Feat. Sophie Hutchings)
3 - Twice (Feat. Amber Ortolano)
4 - Small Wonders (Feat. Yasushi Yoshida)
5 - Cold Winter Morning (Feat. Lüüp)
6 - Simple is Beautiful (Feat. Field Rotation)
7 - Sailing Away (Feat. Amber Ortolano)
8 - We Are All Snowflakes (Feat. Yoshinori Takezawa) 
9 - Oblivion (Feat. Field Rotation)
10 - Can You Hear (Feat. Familiar Trees)
11 - When The Night Comes (Feat. Daphne Farazi)
12 - Between Two Rooms (Feat. Seiji Takahashi)
13 - The Sense We Make (Feat. Halo)
14 - Quiet Inside Your Chest (Feat. Aaron Martin)
15 - The Ghost You Left Behind

“Shadows surrounding, this lucid veil that will not conceal.”

‘Taking the Veil’ is the debut solo album on Kitchen. Label by Berlin-based musician Hior Chronik. Originally from Athens, the new album is a follow-up to his previous work on the label as the duo Pill-Oh in ‘Vanishing Mirror’. The established foundation are intact on ‘Taking the Veil’: the bitterly romantic strings and gentle electronics whisper melting over plaintive piano scores. Hior Chronik has a penchant of producing subtly immense and cinematic compositions which are remarkably chilling in its beauty.

The latest release follows Hior Chronik’s distinctive compositional path with the pairing of a collaborator on each track. This time the instrumental colors are most intimate, honed to evocative perfection with each collaboration bringing its own nuances to a permeable set of motives. Through the contemplative moments, what give it life is the varied scoring which goes from solo piano to string orchestra, opening up a space that shimmers with stirring melancholy. Featuring classically aligned contemporaries such as Field Rotation (Denovali Records), Sophie Hutchings (Preservation), Luup (Experimedia) and Japanese composers Yasushi Yoshida (noble), Yoshinori Takezawa (Schole Records) among many others. The biggest change in this new album is the addition of vocals by Amber Ortolano and Fabiola Sanchez (Familiar Trees) on four songs. Figured centrally in the soundtrack as recurring lyrical voicing, the Amber Ortolano and Hior Chronik pairing also produced a rearranged version of ‘Twice’ originally written by Swedish electronic band Little Dragon.

‘Taking the Veil’ is presented in a 16-page art book format, also featuring the New York based Amber Ortolano as a photographer. The subject in the visual narrative of ‘Taking the Veil’ is of young women imprisoned by their flow of thoughts and their dark imagination. The delicate beauty and ambiguous gestures of feminine protagonists serve as powerful metaphors of the veil as the title of the album reflects – They reveal and conceal all at once, reviving emotions conjured by a sense of mystery. The album underlines this atmosphere that probe the consciousness imbued with burnished hues of something half-remembered and half-dreamed. ‘Taking the Veil’ is the best company for late hours and memory searching in a world of mist and shadows.

Released & distributed by Kitchen. Label
 Ⓟ & © 2015 Kitchen. Label

MORE INFO:
http://www.kitchen-label.com

Hior Chronik - Simple is Beautiful (Feat. Field Rotation) (Taking The Veil, 2015)

Taken from the album 'Taking The Veil', released worldwide on May 24, 2015 on Kitchen. Label

Pre-order on CD + Art Book here: 
http://www.kitchen-label.com/ki015-hior-chronik-taking-the-veil/

Tracklist: 
1 - London Bridges (Feat. Amber Ortolano)
2 - Nest of Autumn (Feat. Sophie Hutchings)
3 - Twice (Feat. Amber Ortolano)
4 - Small Wonders (Feat. Yasushi Yoshida)
5 - Cold Winter Morning (Feat. Lüüp)
6 - Simple is Beautiful (Feat. Field Rotation)
7 - Sailing Away (Feat. Amber Ortolano)
8 - We Are All Snowflakes (Feat. Yoshinori Takezawa) 
9 - Oblivion (Feat. Field Rotation)
10 - Can You Hear (Feat. Familiar Trees)
11 - When The Night Comes (Feat. Daphne Farazi)
12 - Between Two Rooms (Feat. Seiji Takahashi)
13 - The Sense We Make (Feat. Halo)
14 - Quiet Inside Your Chest (Feat. Aaron Martin)
15 - The Ghost You Left Behind

“Shadows surrounding, this lucid veil that will not conceal.”

‘Taking the Veil’ is the debut solo album on Kitchen. Label by Berlin-based musician Hior Chronik. Originally from Athens, the new album is a follow-up to his previous work on the label as the duo Pill-Oh in ‘Vanishing Mirror’. The established foundation are intact on ‘Taking the Veil’: the bitterly romantic strings and gentle electronics whisper melting over plaintive piano scores. Hior Chronik has a penchant of producing subtly immense and cinematic compositions which are remarkably chilling in its beauty.

The latest release follows Hior Chronik’s distinctive compositional path with the pairing of a collaborator on each track. This time the instrumental colors are most intimate, honed to evocative perfection with each collaboration bringing its own nuances to a permeable set of motives. Through the contemplative moments, what give it life is the varied scoring which goes from solo piano to string orchestra, opening up a space that shimmers with stirring melancholy. Featuring classically aligned contemporaries such as Field Rotation (Denovali Records), Sophie Hutchings (Preservation), Lüüp (Experimedia) and Japanese composers Yasushi Yoshida (noble), Yoshinori Takezawa (Schole Records) among many others. The biggest change in this new album is the addition of vocals by Amber Ortolano and Fabiola Sanchez (Familiar Trees) on four songs. Figured centrally in the soundtrack as recurring lyrical voicing, the Amber Ortolano and Hior Chronik pairing also produced a rearranged version of ‘Twice’ originally written by Swedish electronic band Little Dragon.

‘Taking the Veil’ is presented in a 16-page art book format, also featuring the New York based Amber Ortolano as a photographer. The subject in the visual narrative of ‘Taking the Veil’ is of young women imprisoned by their flow of thoughts and their dark imagination. The delicate beauty and ambiguous gestures of feminine protagonists serve as powerful metaphors of the veil as the title of the album reflects – They reveal and conceal all at once, reviving emotions conjured by a sense of mystery. The album underlines this atmosphere that probe the consciousness imbued with burnished hues of something half-remembered and half-dreamed. ‘Taking the Veil’ is the best company for late hours and memory searching in a world of mist and shadows.

Released & distributed by Kitchen. Label
Ⓟ & © 2015 Kitchen. Label

MORE INFO:
www.kitchen-label.com

Hior Chronik - When the night comes (Feat. Daphne Farazi) (Taking The Veil, 2015)

C418 - Minecraft - Volume Alpha - 07 Haggstrom

From the album "Stranger to my room", Kitchen. Label (KI-013, 25th July 2013) 

▶ Preorder (World): http://www.kitchen-label.com/catalogue/ki013-sonicbrat-stranger-to-my-room
▶ Preorder (Japan): http://www.inpartmaint.com/shop/sonicbrat-stranger-to-my-room/
▶ iTunes: Available 25th July 2013

Release Info (ENG): http://www.kitchen-label.com/catalogue/ki013-sonicbrat-stranger-to-my-room
Release Info (JP): http://www.inpartmaint.com/shop/sonicbrat-stranger-to-my-room/

Ⓟ & © 2013 Kitchen. Label 
Released by Kitchen. Label 
Distributed in Japan by p*dis / Inpartmaint Inc.

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http://www.kitchen-label.com/artists/sonicbrat
http://www.sonicbrat.com
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sonicbrat - Caesura (Stranger to my room, 2013)

Taken from the album "Stranger To My Room" released 23 July, 2013.

Available via KITCHEN. LABEL 
http://www.kitchen-label.com/catalogue/ki013-sonicbrat-stranger-to-my-room

Available on iTunes
http://smarturl.it/strangertomyroom

Tracklist:
01 Geometry
02 The Listening Room
03 Refraction
04 Wake Up To Sleep
05 Caesura
06 Being Air
07 Window-framed Clouds
08 Stranger To My Room
09 Adjacent Room
10 Temporal
11 A Matter Of Time

“Temporary signatures of time sweep across the house. They shift and morph across the day, creeping slowly, almost still.”

“Stranger to my room”, sonicbrat’s (also known as Darren Ng) latest and debut release on Kitchen. Label, is a beautifully crafted album of 11 instrumental tracks consisting of solo piano and pure acoustic recordings. Recorded entirely in his own house where he has been living alone for the past 8 years, “Stranger to my room” is an album exploring the personal relationship of time, space and being, reflecting upon a familiar yet alienating loneliness. The atmosphere of “Stranger to my room” is suitably intimate and warmly affecting – the track titles are reflective of small fleeting wonders observed at home that Darren has used as theme to base his compositions on, eliciting profound emotions from the simplest of metaphors.

Darren’s approach to producing is that of a classically-trained composer’s, which makes “Stranger to my room” not unlike a composition with 11 movements. The record opens with sparse piano improvisation played in the dark of the night, providing the listeners with nocturnal reverie and setting the mood for the album. As the record progresses, the arrangement shines and become fuller as cellos, violins, acoustic guitar and an array of acoustic instruments come into play. In parts, the album’s intimacy and textural quality is created by his recording techniques – from a closely mic’d upright piano to capture hammered hits of the piano, to microphones placed at various parts of his house where even the tiniest details and sounds are brought to the surface. The result creates a rich and natural environment recorded with the purest and most microscopic process. “Stranger to my room” is a deeply personal work which invites the listener to rediscover the forgotten in the familiar within the living space.

“Stranger to my room” is presented in a 16-page art book format featuring a collaboration with Helsinki-based artist Aiwei Foo. In a place where alienation and familiarity both become parts of existing within a space, Aiwei mirrors time shifts and one’s personal backdrop against changes and the environment in her parallel imagery. The album is mastered by label curator Ricks Ang (also one-half of ASPIDISTRAFLY), “Stranger to my room” is an album destined to pique the interest of listeners of classically aligned contemporaries such as Olafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, Akira Kosemura and haruka nakamura.

Released & distributed by Kitchen. Label
Ⓟ & © 2013 Kitchen. Label

MORE INFO:
www.kitchen-label.com


sonicbrat - Stranger To My Room (Stranger To My Room, 2013)

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p*dis sampler 2015.05

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