[p*dis] distribution sampler for July 2016


p*dis sampler 2016.07

Sibylle Baier - "Tonight"

'...it is then that I look up and I see — I — see it: the sea. For the first time, after days and days, I really see it. And I hear its immense voice and powerful smell and, inside, its unstoppable dance, an infinite wave. Everything disappears and nothing remains but the sea, before me, upon me. A revelation. The pall of anguish and fear that has gripped my soul fades away, the web of infamy, cruelty, and horror that has ravished my eyes falls apart, the shadow of death that has devoured my mind dissolves, and in the sudden light of an unexpected clarity I finally see, and hear, and understand. The sea. It had seemed a spectator, even silent, even an accomplice. It had seemed a frame, a stage set, a backdrop. Now I look at it and I see: the sea was everything. It was everything, right from the first moment. I see it dancing around me, sumptuous in an icy light, a marvelous, infinite world. The sea was in the hands that killed, in the dead who were dying, the sea was in the hunger and thirst, the sea was in the torment, in the baseness and the madness, the sea was the hatred and the desperation, mercy and sacrifice, the sea is this blood and this meat, the sea is this horror and this splendor. There is no raft, there are no men, there are no words, feelings, gestures, nothing. There are no guilty and no innocent, condemned and saved. 
There is only the sea. All things have become the sea.' 

Alessandro Baricco, 'Ocean Sea' 

Desolate Horizons | Endless Melancholy - 'Deep As The Dark Blue Sea' (Split) (2015)

Endless Melancholy on web: 
endlessmelancholy.bandcamp.com 
soundcloud.com/emelancholy 
www.facebook.com/emelancholy

Desolate Horizons on web:
desolatehorizons.bandcamp.com 
www.facebook.com/thehappymask 
vk.com/thehappymask 

Reflections

Still

10 Ruby Past Lives

13 Babalonia

15 Fun, The Final Frontier

 With a sound that was swampy, primal and modern-urban all at once—as much in the tradition of rock n’ roll and punk rock as it was a rejection of those things, the Scientists’ formula was as universal as it was specific to their own experience. The themes of getting wasted, driving around in hotted-up cars, being trapped in crap jobs, and paranoia were their subject matter. Machine throb bass and drums with jagged car-wreck guitars were their modus operandi. Fitting into no place or time they spurned all but the most rudimentary and elemental of rock structures to create a sound all their own. 

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The Scientists - A Place Called Bad

Empty Cellar Records is stoked to announce the third full-length release by San Francisco’s Cool Ghouls, Animal Races. Fans of their self-titled debut and 2014’s A Swirling Fire Burning Through the Rye will be similarly stoked to hear how this band has continued to evolve. If the first album was a celebratory debut, and the second an earnest venture into deeper waters, this third album is like the crystal born of the murky womb that was the second record, fertilized by the initial intention of the first. Not only have the ghouls reaped the crop they sowed; they’ve baked it into some new kind of bread.

For the uninitiated – Cool Ghouls play rock'n'roll. That's about all there is to it. They're California natives. They try to do a good job. They like to try to elevate and get far out. They also like to keep it real. They like to make friends and have a good time. They don't like bullshit. They want to keep growing and learning how to become more powerful musicians. This record reflects the discoveries they’ve made over the last five years about live performance, themselves, and each other.

The eleven tracks, recorded to tape by Kelley Stoltz in his backyard studio and mixed by Mikey Young (Total Control etc.), are first and foremost documents of the four-piece’s live performance of the tunes. Many of the songs were road-tested, but - unlike the prior records - a few of them were not. This opened the door for some new looks: an acoustic guitar, some synth, upright piano, a little pedal steel wizardry from Tom Heyman, etc. It’s Cool Ghouls doing what they’ve always done, but in more ways and better.

Animal Races will be available on LP/CD (8/19) in the US via Empty Cellar Records and the EU/UK via Melodic Records; and also, on cassette via Burger Records. All versions feature full-color artwork painted by Shannon Shaw (Shannon and The Clams).

Buy the album!

Cool Ghouls - Sundial

Taken from "Sundur" out on Morr Music August 19th 2016
Buy the album: http://bit.ly/2aZaax6

Sundur

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Pascal Pinon: 53

From Ben Chatwin's debut record on Ba Da Bing, Heat & Entropy, out July 29th.

Ben Chatwin "Inflexion"

The first track off the upcoming Grapefruit release, The Deep Niche. Preorder here: http://grapefruitrecordclub.com/products/garbage-and-the-flowers-the-deep-niche-cd-plus-more

The Garbage & The Flowers "St Michael Of The Angels"

The Brotherhood of Lizards 'Lizardland: The Complete Works' will be released by Captured Tracks on August 19th, 2016. 

Pre-Order Digital: http://apple.co/28ICv90
Pre-Order Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/lizardland-the-complete-works

When Cleaners from Venus were winding down at the end of the 80s, head Cleaner Martin Newell started a new project, the Brotherhood of Lizards, with bassist Nelson (laster of New Model Army). Though there is a fair amount of Cleaners DNA in the mix due to the charms of their lo-fi recording methods, the music on Lizardland has a sharp sound all of its own.

Our reissue includes their 1989 album Lizardland as well as the band's legendary self-titled 1988 cassette!

The Brotherhood of Lizards // The World Strikes One

Tristan Perich - Noise Patterns: Excerpt

out on Dronarivm at July 18th.

dronarivm.com

music by Francesco Giannico and Giulio Aldinucci 
mastered by Alexandr Vatagin 

samples recorded by Luca Bonaccorsi in Shantangjie,  Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

A town square is an open public space commonly found in the heart of a traditional town and used for community gatherings. Based on this basic perspective, it is easy to notice how the soundscape of this living center could represent not only sonically, but also from a cultural point of view, a priceless document. After an open call lasted 6 months to send most interesting audio material concerning the theme of the “square” the samples have been selected and reworked in order to create an ideal symphony of all living squares all over the world. 

for more visit agoraphonia.com

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FRANCESCO GIANNICO & GIULIO ALDINUCCI - Shantangjie (taken from 'Agoraphonia' CD)

Lawrence Arabia - Another Century

Title : Happy Ending                  
Artist : okamotonoriaki
Label : mü-nest                          
Cat # : mnc016
Release Date : 28 July 2016
Purchase CD: 
Linus Records (JP) http://www.linusrecords.jp/products/detail.php?product_id=8601
Norman Records (UK) https://www.normanrecords.com/records/160080-okamotonoriaki-happy-ending-
n5MD (US) http://n5mailorder.com/release/2695&zenid=6647590b657fc3291bbb019d2972e0fc/okamotonoriaki-happy-ending

Tracklisting
01. Escaper 02. Dogsled 03. At The Window (w/ Cuushe)
04. Here And There 05. Citylights (w/ Aki Huang)
06. Polaris 07. Tokyo (w/ Flica) 08. Snow Day
09. Rooftop Paradise (w/ Polar M) 10. Happy Ending
(total time: 48 minutes)

Critically acclaimed Tokyo-based audio-visual artist, okamotonoriaki, is back with his long-awaited 3rd solo album - “Happy Ending”, an emotional album that took 3 years to craft, capturing stories and moments about lost and loneliness with his unique style of unconventional pop music.

While those details that define okamotonoriaki’s previous albums - beautiful piano notes, delicate melody lines, and layer after layer of masterfully crafted beat programming, still intact, more fresh elements have been carefully instilled into this new album. The unconventional arrangement that pushes the boundary of pop music, the astonishingly detailed and varied sound palettes, and the musical chemistry through collaboration, all contributed to this breathtaking new album that allow us to see the new side of okamotonoriaki.

In this 3rd album, okamotonoriaki collaborated with Tokyo’s dream-pop darling, Cuushe, in “At The Window” - a melancholy track that tell the story of a woman’s endless wait for the homecoming of her astronaut lover. Malaysian singer-songwriter Aki Huang also lent her enthralling vocal in the spellbinding track “Citylights”. Critically acclaimed Malaysian electro-acoustic outfit, Flica, and Kyoto-based prominent guitarist, Polar M, both joint-force with him to create some of the finest moments in the album.

“Happy Ending” is mastered by none other than Tokyo’s renowned musician and sound engineer, Chihei Hatakeyama, with Tokyo/Berlin-based design house - The Simple Society, at the design helm.

Happy Ending

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HAPPY ENDING / okamotonoriaki (album preview sample)

Lymbyc Systym, ‘New Varieties’ out August 5th on Western Vinyl.  Limited edition 45 rpm vinyl format features "bone-colored" vinyl and a remix by Botany.

Order the album:
iTunes: hyperurl.co/qybj7g
WV: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv147

Lymbyc Systym
Artist Page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/lymbyc-systym
Website http://www.lymbycsystym.com/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/lymbycsystym
Twitter http://twitter.com/lymbycsystym
Instagram http://instagram.com/lymbycsystym

Lymbyc Systym - "Opposing Bodies"

Veteran Erased Tapes recording artist Peter Broderick set to release new studio album 'Partners' on 19th August 2016.

Order it on LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP088

In an email to Robert on February 3rd 2016: 

Dear Robert.

There’s a lot I’d love to tell you about this music.

The inspiration really came when I decided to learn to play John Cage’s In A Landscape on the piano . . . I listened to a recording I had over and over again, five seconds or so at a time, picking out every single note. Then cross referencing what I’d learned with other versions of the piece as well as the original score. The feeling of playing this piece really brought me close to the piano again, and brought new life to my own piano songs.

Beyond Cage’s music, his life and practice have interested me more and more, after having read about his love for foraging wild foods and using chance operations to compose music, in a sense taking his ‘self’ out of the music. I love his so-called ‘mesostics’ and began to write several poems using that method, around this phrase:

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When it came time to record in the studio, I rolled two dice to decide how many poems to read. I rolled 5. Then I assigned a number to each poem and rolled the dice to see which five poems would be read and in which order. That’s the first track Partners, which is also the last word of the last poem I selected through this chance-based process. Track two is my version of In A Landscape. I love playing that piece so much. Carried  is a piece I wrote in Berlin which I’ve played live from time to time. There was a soft vocal loop playing out through an amplifier in the room while I played the piano.

Under The Bridge is my first ever chance-based composition, written by assigning different numbers to different notes and then rolling dice to decide in which order to play those notes. Conspiraling is another piece I’ve been playing for a while. Actually a version of this was recorded in the session that became ‘How They Are’, but it didn’t quite feel right. I like to pretend my voice is like a synthesizer in this song. Then there’s Up Niek Mountain which is a piece I finished composing while in residence at a farm in the Netherlands back in 2010, and is named after one of the family farmers there, Niek, who passed away shorty after I was there. We miss you Niek. The last song is a cover of Brigid’s Sometimes. Brigid to whom I dedicate this recording.

And then there’s Tucker, Mr. Martine, who agreed to record this album without me ever hearing the mixes. We talked about all the sounds and he set up several devices with which to manipulate the sound live, as it was being recorded and mixed down to tape. Francesco also agreed to master the record without me hearing it. I like to imagine maybe one day, five or ten years from now, I’ll walk into a café or roadside diner and hear it for the first time, playing as background music while people eat.

OK surely that’s enough for now! Sorry for blabbing, Robert. Your support has really meant a lot to me. I’ve loved having you in mind while working on this project, knowing it could very well have a home on your sweeeeeet label. Hope all is well.

With love,
Peter

Partners

Carried

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Peter Broderick - Carried

ポウズ・ワン - スパイダー・マン

2012-2013 / hakobune (SRCD059)

mizunara *looping around the forest i thought i remembered (constellation tatsu)
whispering in their presence *whispering In Their Presence (sunshine ltd.)
part 3 *nebulous sequences (voxxov records)
recalling my insubstantial thoughts *recalling my insubstantial thoughts (tobira records)
letter forgotten *the cowboy across the river (constellation tatsu)
part 6 *nebulous sequences (voxxov records)
until you wake up in the morning *the still life of reverie (fabrica records)
This Wasn’t What I Thought *the cowboy across the river (constellation tatsu)
kusunoki *looping around the forest i thought i remembered (constellation tatsu)
part 10 *nebulous sequences (voxxov records)


produce : Takahiro Yorifuji
mastering : Ken'ichi Itoi
photo : Fábio Petry
art direction : Ken'ichi Itoi

(p) & (c) : 2016-8-18 / shrine.jp

manufacturing : shrine.jp


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p*dis sampler 2016.07

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