p*dis] distribution sampler for December 2015


p*dis sampler 2015.12

Order The Line / Stay With Us 7" Vinyl
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FALL USA + CANADA TOUR DATES
ticket links: http://seoulmtl.tumblr.com/post/125853562870/the-bad-news-is-the-font-is-so-small-the-good

9/6 - Rouyn-Noranda, QC -Agora des Arts
9/9 - Winnipeg, MB - The Goodwill
9/10 -Saskatoon, SK - Amigo's
9/11 - Edmonton, AB - The Mercury
9/12 - Calgary, AB - Palomino
9/17 - Vancouver, BC - Fortune
9/18 - Victoria, BC - Rifflandia Festival
9/20 - Seattle, WA - The Vera Project
9/21 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios ^
9/23 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom Of The Hill ^
9/24 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
9/25 - La Jolla, CA - UC San Diego - The Loft ^ 
9/26 - Phoenix, AZ - The Rebel Lounge ^
9/29 - Dallas, TX - DADA ^
9/30 - Austin, TX - North Door ^
10/3 - Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn ^
10/4 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 ^
10/5 - Washington, DC - U Street Music Hall ^ 
10/7 - Pittsburgh, PA - Spirit ^
10/8 - Philadelphia, PA - The Barbary ^
10/9 - Allston, MA - Great Scott ^
10/10 - Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade ^
10/12 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern ^
10/13 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle ^
10/16 - Windsor, ON - Grand Ball Room @ Water’s Edge *
10/17 - Hamilton, ON - Dundas Montessori *
10/18 - Waterloo, ON - Starlight *
10/19 - London, ON - Music Hall *
10/23 - Halifax, NS - Halifax Pop Explosion *
10/24 - Halifax, NS - Halifax Pop Explosion *
10/25 - St. John’s, NL - Mighty Pop * SOLD OUT
10/26 - St. John’s, NL - Mighty Pop *
10/28 - Quebec City, QC - Le Cercle #
10/29 - Montreal, QC - Bar Le Ritz
10/30 - Toronto, ON - Adelaide Hall^
^ With Young Ejecta  
* With STARS
# With Rich Aucoin

Stay With Us

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All tracks written by Jón Ólafsson and Árni Grétar
Mixed by Árni Grétar and Jón Ólafsson

Jón Ólafsson: Piano
Árni Grétar: Synthesizer, effects, field recordings

Mastered by Finnur Hákonarson 
Artwork & photography by Sig Vicious 


Jón Ólafsson & Futuregrapher - Nærvera

Single from Tiny Fireflies' album "The Space Between."
Available 11.11.15

tinyfireflies.com

Ghost

First single from Tiny Fireflies' debut album, The Space Between

Taken

Release date: October 23. 2015

The A Frames second album – appropriately titled 2 – is the classic follow-up to their stellar debut. Influenced by their heroes Wire, the A Frames were not content to make their second album a copycat of their first. Instead, they took their sound and expanded it, making fifteen songs that twisted their post-punk cum KBD /garage style. Recorded in a weekend by Chris Woodhouse, the A Frames created one of the best albums of the ‘00s.

“Finally, someone has released a worthy follow up to Gang of 4’s Entertainment” wrote Go Metric. “You can throw all the Gang of Four/Fall/Wire references you want at this band, but all I can say is that the A-Frames are quite simply creating some of the most captivating sounds around. Their second full-length is even weirder than the first, adhering to the robot-wave construction of their first record, but tinkering with the formula enough to keep it sounding new…These guys have put themselves yet another step or two ahead of the crowd with a record that may even be better than their first” countered Blank Generation.

Maximum RockandRoll said “this sucker is flat out classic…[Woodhouse] is starting to look like the Trademark of Quality for raw art-garage.” Roctober cooed “Though it seems impossible for robots to have souls this is basically the lost, brilliant, organic Kraftwerk LP (where they added guitars). This is so futuristic it makes my vision hurt.”

The original year-2003 vinyl pressing of A Frames’ 2 sold out in three months. Ss let it go out of print, but, like the A Frames’ first album, the label has often been asked the question “Are you ever going to release it again?” The answer is Yes!

Recorded by Chris Woodhouse (Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Hospitals). Produced by Woodhouse, Scott Soriano (Ss Records), & the A Frames. Mastered by John Golden and pressed by RTI on premium vinyl, A Frames s/t is back in print in lux sleeves custom printed by Stumptown.

A Frames - Nuclear

Mark McGuire - "Earth: 2015" from 'Beyond Belief' out November 13, 2015 on Dead Oceans

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Mark McGuire - "Earth: 2015" from 'Beyond Belief' out November 13, 2015 on Dead Oceans

Beyond Belief

Mark Mcguire - "Earth: 2015"

Enjoy Nive & The Deer Children - "Are You Ready" - taken from the new album "Feet First" coming Nov 27th at Glitterhouse Records.

Preorder:
CD @ Glitterhouse: http://goo.gl/kzIxhc
Vinyl @ Glitterhouse: http://goo.gl/eVJDRc
CD @ Amazon: http://goo.gl/8nm4AC
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CD @ JPC: https://goo.gl/zri4NZ
Vinyl @ JPC: https://goo.gl/C5rFYz

Filmed by Ujâvaaq Pictures
Edited by Tess Z Griffin
Music mixed by David Stearns and John Weston at Futura Productions in Roslindale, MA
Special thanks to the Uummannaq Polar Institute in Uummannaq, Greenland

In what turned out to be the coldest winter in 30 years, Are You Ready was filmed in 37C weather, way up north in Uummannaq, Greenland. Nive had the crazy idea to turn an old blubber house into an indoor skating rink with the help of the children in this video. With no insulation in the building and holes in the walls, the improvised rink lasted all winter long and didn't melt until June.

This video was made in partnership with the Uummannaq Polar Institute and with Ujâvaaq Pictures. A very special thank you to Ann Andreasen for inviting us up and allowing us to create such magical moments!

"Feet First” the new album by Greenlandic folk pop singer Nive & The Deer Children was recorded between 2012 and 2015 all over the world: Greenland, Denmark, Belgium and England. Also all over the United States in Tucson Arizona, Athens Georgia, Lexington Kentucky, Nashville Tennessee andAshevilleNorth Carolina. “I thought it was anamazing experience to travel while making this record. I feel that if you constantly change your surroundings and not get stuck in one place you will constantly change your perception and not get stuck with just one idea. I just wanted these songs to grow with me on my travels and they did just that.” Nive says.

“The first track on the album "Still the Same" for example would have never had that cumbiarhythmat the end without going to southern Arizonaand playing with Howe Gelb and his Tucson crew in the comfort of their own homes. Also, the same goes for songs like "Tulugaq", track four. I wrote that song along with a set of twelve year old twin girls from a foster care far up north in Uummannaq, Greenland. It was the very last song recorded for the album and would have never happened if I recorded this album traditionally in one place.”

Also, appearing on “Feet First” are artist and friends such as Howe Gelb, Ralph Carney, Teitur, and John Parish. The album will include 12 songs and be released on November 20th at Glitterhouse Records.

Facts about Nive:
- the first concert she ever played was for the queen of Denmark on national television
- she acted in the Hollywood movie The New World starring Colin Farrell
- She won an IMA independent music award in the US
- the new video “Are You Ready” was filmed in -37C weather way up north in Uummannaq, in what turned out to be the coldest winter in 30 years
- “Feet First” is her second album for Glitterhouse Records

NIVE NIELSEN & THE DEER CHILDREN - ARE YOU READY

"Steady Waves" off Cross Record's Wabi-Sabi, out January 29th, 2016 on Ba Da Bing Records. Pre-order info here:  http://www.badabingrecords.com/store/cross-record-wabi-sabi-pre-order

Cross Record "Steady Waves"

Honestly…we don’t even know who this guy is, he's so mysterious!! But what we do know we loved when we first heard this somewhat dark and mysterious excursion through a spooky forest fire ridden landscape…woodland creatures purring, these crackling and harsh yet melodic and soothing atmospheres bring to mind both immolation and rebirth, and we are all wrapped up in these electronically treated wanderings of the cloud walker…who is not like us…

Gypsy Eyes, "Nefelibata"... In Bloom

"Songs Of The Serpent" off of 'Beyond Belief' by Mark Mcguire, Out November 13th, 2015 on Dead Oceans

LP, CD & cassette bundles: http://smarturl.it/markmcguire
Stream or download 'Earth: 2015' on Apple Music: http://smarturl.it/markmcguire_apple
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"Songs Of The Serpent" off of 'Beyond Belief' by Mark Mcguire, Out November 13th, 2015 on Dead Oceans

Mark Mcguire - "Sons Of The Serpent"

PEREGRINUS UBIQUE
Photozine + CD
To be released on Gazzar(r)a & VoxxoV - Nov 16th 2015

ORDER: 
https://fredericdoberland.bandcamp.com/album/peregrinus-ubique

Scene I -> Scene VI: 40:04

// All tracks composed, performed & realized by Frédéric D. Oberland at Magnum Diva during Summer 2015: field recordings, harmonic pipe, electric guitar & bass, dark energy doepfer, percussion, Altagor's pantophone, error noise box, critter&guitarri pocket piano, vocals, mellotron, soprano sax, bouzouki, Gaveau piano, signal generator, fender rhodes, drum machine
// Mastered by Vincent Villuis
// Photographs by Frédéric D. Oberland
// Graphic design by Max Paskine

//  This opus is the sonic companion of the photozine 'Peregrinus Ubique'. May I recommend you listen to it in the half-light. To open the window and let the world participate.
// Thanks & love to the stunning teams at Gazzar®a (Pamela & Léa), VoxxoV (Mourad & Vincent) and Balades Sonores (Toma & Esther), to my family of friends for their daily support, to Fanny, Stéphane, Andrea, Nicol, to all my bandmates from Oiseaux-Tempête, FOUDRE!, Le Réveil des Tropiques, FareWell Poetry, The Rustle of the Stars, et aux désarçonnés. Cheers to all the people I've met these last years crossing roads and wandering, playing music and taking photographs, and a warm hug to Mother Nature. 

www.fredericdoberland.com

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Peregrinus Ubique - Scene VI

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Taken from 'Texture Like Sun', the follow up to the much-loved self-titled debut by Anglo-Mauritian producer, singer and percussionist Joseph Deenmamode aka Mo Kolours. The Guardian described ‘Mo Kolours’ as “the best album Curtis Mayfield never made with A Tribe Called Quest and Lee Perry”.

Mo Kolours - Paradise

Following on from the release of their self-titled album last year, Smoke Fairies release ‘Wild Winter’ an album of songs about Christmas and the darkness of the winter months. It is released worldwide on 20th of November on Full Time Hobby as a CD, digital download and on limited edition white vinyl.

This is the lead track from the record which is available to buy now from the Full Time Hobby store - http://fulltimehobby.sandbaghq.com/smoke-fairies-wild-winter.html

Smoke Fairies - Wild Winter

An absolutely beautiful track from the upcoming early December release from Polish composer and violinist, Olga Wojciechowska. From an album of music composed for various theater and film productions.

Olga Wojciechowska,  "Maps And Mazes",   Lazy Indifference

Olga Wojciechowska,  "Maps And Mazes",   I'm Never Not Thinking About You

Full stream of 'Overveen,' taken from HOWES' debut LP scheduled for January 15 release via Melodic. 


Premiere: HOWES - Overveen

Taken from the album 'niji', to be released worldwide on December 24, 2015 on Kitchen. Label

Order on 3CD here: 
http://www.kitchen-label.com/ki017-ironomi-niji/

Tracklist: 
1-1 風草 (Feat. 沢田穣治)
1-2 茜空 (Feat.今西玲子)
1-3 水藻 (Feat. hofli)
1-4 紫陽花 (Feat. ASPIDISTRAFLY) 
2-1 光旅 (Feat. haruka nakamura) 
2-2 舟月 (Feat. ARAKI Shin)
2-3 睡蓮 (Feat. Rie Nemoto) 
2-4 楓 (Feat. Coupie)
3-1 朝靄 (Feat. 中島ノブユキ) 
3-2 碧空 (Feat. 内田輝)
3-3 箒星 (Feat. 沢田穣治)
3-4 日向 (Feat. haruka nakamura)

Following 2010’s release of the Kitchen. Label classic “sketch”, ironomi returns with their long awaited seventh album, a 3CD 164 minutes collection entitled ‘niji’ (English Translation: Rainbow). Joining pianist Junya Yanagidaira and programmer Yu Isobe are a stellar line-up of their most loved collaborators and contemporaries. In ‘niji’, the record is marked by the same tranquility and fleetingness of their sound but also offers a slight departure from the traditions of ironomi’s previous recordings with the addition of other instruments (Saxophone, Contrabass, Koto, Violins etc) contributed by the guest musicians on each of the 12 tracks - Featuring Nobuyuki Nakajima, Jyoji Sawada (Choro Club) as well as members of the Kitchen. Label family ASPIDISTRAFLY, haruka nakamura, ARAKI Shin, Akira Uchida, Rie Nemoto among many others.

ironomi has a sound which is almost enigmatic to describe. One could listen to their albums on an ambient level and just let the music flow through. Or one could listen closer and find a detail in the sound that is intricate and palatable. ironomi’s impressionistic ripples of piano fragments generate the cumulative feel of a gently flowing river or the shifting play of light through the leaves of trees. ironomi is like nature, a sound of nature that has existed from the beginning and free from any judgement.

The duo’s music is distinctively less about conventional compositional structure than it is about the creating and sustain of mood. For each of the recordings in ‘niji’, improvised sessions were recorded and the best takes were kept intact with very minimal post production. The works showcase ironomi’s capacity to construct compelling music in real-time, their melodic-harmonic imagination as an improviser and ability to consistently find and shape new forms with each of their collaborators also sharing the same strong sense for the dialectics of sound and silence. A wishful charm imbues this entire recording of pieces which, though not written together, seem to have been predestined for each other in this album.

The latest album is highlighted by almost 40 minutes worth of music recorded together with haruka nakamura on classical guitar, whom he had spent his early formative years touring and collaborating with the duo on numerous occasions. In the collaboration with April Lee and Ricks Ang of ASPIDISTRAFLY, voices are striving to be heard and a song was unexpectedly born from the improvisational session. The result is perhaps the most strongly lyrical piece of ironomi’s releases to date.

“niji” is available on 3CD and digital formats on 24th December 2015. The physical CD copy comes in a customised letter-pressed folio. The cover is designed with a unique holographic foil which cause a refraction that creates constantly changing light reflections and prismatic colors. All linking back to the symbolic representation of the miraculous hues of ironomi’s sound world, trapping the listeners in a peaceful space of pure sound and sonic allusions.

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

MORE INFO:
www.kitchen-label.com

KI-017 ironomi - niji (Album Excerpts)

The White Birch ~ Breathe

September 20th marks the 30th birthday of Berlin pianist Nils Frahm, but also the day he has chosen to give his fans a special gift in the form of 9 songs he recorded with 9 fingers, entitled 'Screws'.

Nils experienced an unfortunate accident which saw him fall from his bunk bed located directly above his studio, which resulted in a broken thumb. But through inspiration from his fans and after a gentle walk and talk through the park with a close friend, he decided to deal with the situation in the only way he knew – playing his piano.

With four screws surgically placed inside his thumb, he started recording with his remaining 9 fingers, what later resulted in 9 intimate piano recordings.

Fans can download 'Screws' as mp3s or in full 24-bit 44.100 kHz audio quality here (http://screws.durtonstudio.com), and pre-order a Vinyl/CD edition from the Erased Tapes online store (http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP046), which will be released later this year.

'I am sitting in front of a sheet of paper. My right hand is bending over my left thumb. The first day I got out of my cast I could bend it by 15°. Now I am already at 50° and that makes me happy. Things are going uphill...

As you can imagine, it is really bad news for a pianist when he gets diagnosed with a broken thumb. That day I was sitting in the emergency room, feeling rather dizzy while thinking of a zillion shows coming up and all the people involved around it. I realised in that moment how busy things have become. It is hard to turn down interesting projects and opportunities, since I surely love my work. It actually never felt like work. Playing piano and playing it for wonderful people is the greatest joy I can imagine.

For a couple of days I felt like this all could be over. How pathetic. But hey – also feeling sorry for yourself has its place somewhere. All of a sudden I had so much time, an unexpected holiday. I cancelled most of my schedule and found myself being a little bored. Even though my doctor told me not to touch a piano for a while, I just couldn't resist. I started playing a silent song with 4 fingers on my left and the remaining 5 on my right hand. I set up one microphone and recorded another tune every other night before falling asleep.

The day I got rid of my cast I had recorded 9 little tunes. They have helped me feel less annoyed about my accident and reminded me that any good is something I can only achieve, when I am making the most out of what I've got.

Thank you all for listening!

With lots of love,

Nils


9FINGERS North American Tour 2012

09/16 New York (US) – West Park Presbyterian Church 
09/21 Boulder (US) – Cherryvale Studios
09/22 Colorado Springs (US) – The Mesa
09/23 Santa Fe (US) – O'Shaughnessy Performance Space @ Santa Fe Uni
09/24 San Fransisco (US) – private show (RSVP only)
09/29 Seattle (US) – Decibel Festival @ Broadway Performance Hall
09/30 Portland (US) – Classic Pianos
10/03 Mexico City (MX) – Mutek

ERASED TAPES 5th Anniversary Tour w/ Ólafur Arnalds & A Winged Victory For The Sullen

10/08 HAMBURG (DE) – Fliegende Bauten
10/09 PRAGUE (CZ) – Palac Akropolis
10/10 BUDAPEST (HU) – Trafo
10/11 MANNHEIM (DE) – Alte Feuerwache
10/13-14 BERLIN (DE) – Radialsystem
10/15 AMSTERDAM (NL) – Paradiso
10/16-17 LEUVEN (BE) – Stuk
10/18 LONDON (UK) – Hackney Empire
10/19-20 ISTANBUL (TR) – Salon IKSV

PREVIOUS PRESS:

'No. 42 Best Albums Of 2011' -The Guardian
'Felt is a transportative album, a balm for troubled minds.' BBC Music
'Frahm’s hyper-intimate recording technique for the album makes Felt a captivating listen' (9/10) DIS

★ ★ ★ ★ – Popmatters ★ ★ ★ ★ – Uncut ★ ★ ★ ★ – Clash ★ ★ ★ ★ – Mojo

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: screws.durtonstudio.com · facebook.com/nilsfrahm · twitter.com/nilsfrahm · erasedtapes.com

Screws

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Nils Frahm - You

I was excited to see this wonderful collection of little piano vignettes released by Nils, one of my favorite piano players and people. The simplicity of these pieces and the honesty I feel in the music communicated a sense of ease and exploration that I immediately connected with.  This is my rework of a beautiful passage contained in the song "Re". 

http://www.unseen-music.com

http://reworked.nilsfrahm.com/

Nils Frahm - Re (Helios Rework)

Independent label and distributor in Tokyo, Japan specializing in indie / underground music from Indie Rock / Electronica / Alternative, Ambient / Drone / Experimental,   Jazz / Crossover / Avant-grade, Techno / House / Disco, Beat / Downtempo / Dubstep.

We are here to seek new talent and inspire your music life. You can put your music in our dropBox or make contact with us via soundcloud. Any music and style is welcome and appreciated.

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