p*dis sampler 2017.8

Full stream of Jex Opolis' kaleidoscopic "Après-MIDI," a cut from his forthcoming LP on Good Timin'.

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2017/04/premiere-hear-a-stunning-synth-heavy-cut-from-jex-opolis/

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Premiere: Jex Opolis - Après-MIDI

If you listen to this record backwards, Kevin Shields
will tell you when the next MBV album drops.

Featuring Simon Raymonde of Cocteau Twins
on “Dawn of a Bright New Nothing”.

Tracks 6-8,11 Mixed by Elliot Frazier
Tracks 1-5, 9, 10, 12 Mixed by David Bolema and Joshua Garman
Mastered by Karl Skivington @ EnvelopeAM Studios, Nottingham
 
Joshua Garman: Vocals, Guitar, Programming (6, 9, 10, 12), Bass (5)
David Bolema: Guitar (2, 4, 6, 11), Bass (6), Autoharp (5), Baritone Guitar (12), Piano (1, 8), Synth (11)
Joel Gorenflo: Drums, Percussion
Elliot Skjordal: Bass (2, 4, 7, 9)
Simon Raymonde: Bass (8)
Matt Massuch: Guitar (12)
Mark Morris: Baritone Guitar (12)
Kjartan Code: Viola, Cello (1)
Benjamin Myers: Trombone (1)
Sofia Peters/Jordan Herrera: Violin (1)

Produced by Joshua Garman
Engineered by David Bolema
All songs written by Joshua Garman
Artwork by Wyatt Parkins

Special thanks to Chris Wahamaki, Matt Massuch, Wyatt Perkins, and DIT Kalamazoo.

Recorded at DIT Sessions.

Are You Free?

Crash City Saints - Act 2

first single from new double album Second Of Spring by Melbourne psych rock quintet Beaches. Second Of Spring will be released on 8 Sep 2017 on double LP, CD and digital.
Order Void now from:
www.chaptermusic.com/store/beaches/void
www.chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/track/void
Void will be available on iTunes/Spotify/Apple Music etc from Friday July 14 via http://radi.al/BeachesVoid

Second Of Spring

Beaches - Void

The 1st single from the self titled, debut album by Fake Laugh. 

Melt is released May 16th. The LP lands July 28th via Headcount Records.

Lyric video > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceg5t1b7jmw

Vinyl pre-order > https://headcountrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fake-laugh

Fake Laugh Facebook > www.facebook.com/fakelaughmusic 
Fake Laugh Twitter > twitter.com/FakeLaughMusic?lang=en 
Fake Laugh SoundCloud > soundcloud.com/fakelaughmusic 
Fake Laugh YouTube > goo.gl/wRA3k0 
Fake Laugh Instagram > www.instagram.com/fakelaughhh/

Fake Laugh

Melt

order LP

Fake Laugh - Melt

First excerpt of Sylvain Chauveau new album Post-Everything.
Out on August 25th 2017 on Brocoli
http://www.brocoli.org
http://www.sylvainchauveau.com

Credits:
SC - Vocals, Programming
Chantal Acda - Vocals
Myriam Pruvot - Backing Vocals

Music & Words by Sylvain Chauveau

Sylvain Chauveau - Find What You Love And Let It Kill You

L.A. Witch self-titled debut album out now on Suicide Squeeze  
https://store.suicidesqueeze.net/
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Label: Suicide Squeeze Records
Artist Facebook: www.facebook.com/lawitches
Artist Twitter / Instagram: @la_witch
Suicide Squeeze Twitter / Instagram: @suicidesqueeze
www.suicidesqueeze.net
www.facebook.com/suicidesqueezerecords

L.A. Witch

Untitled by L.A. Witch

New single from the album "Ariadna" out Sept. 8th. Pre-order it on limited edition vinyl (comes with bonus 12"), CD (comes with January Sun EP) and cassette. 

Moscow's Kedr Livanskiy (real name Yana Kedrina) confesses "Synthesizers help me maximally feel the present moment." Livanskiy was born into a shifting and critical time for Russia.  The Soviet Union had exhausted and old values were anathematized because of reconstruction.  A sense of displacement drove Kedr to find herself.  She's escaped reality repeatedly in her explorations into the imagery and ideas of romanticism, mythical and fairytale themes which visibly bleed throughout her work and especially on her debut full-length 'Ariadna'.  The title track which was named after the Greek goddess, Adriane, debuted via THUMP today who've described it "anchors its elegantly drifting shoegaze melodies with a knocking electro beat."

Kedr considers this album to be divided into a couple of different parts - like how one person can contain many different moods. The first half revolves around mythological thoughts and the second takes cues from the urban and suburban environments around her, all the while in the middle of everything is the hero who experiences real feelings and emotions. 

Kedr also channels the places in her neighborhood on the outskirts of Moscow (affectionately dubbed by her as "BORDER MOSCOW"). There's a river there where identical Soviet high-rises stand on both sides, with a bridge and garbage processing plant adjacent. Where nature and industry meet. The whole scene looks very apocalyptic, but also mystical and mysterious, especially at twilight.

Her inspiration for this record comes from the Izhevsk (sometimes referred to as "the capital of Russian electronic music") sound of the 80s, including groups like Stuk Bambuka V XI Chasov (Bamboo Crash at 11AM) and Samtsy Dronta. The movement in Russian experimental music is especially inspiring, with acts likes Valery Chkalov, Sergey Kuryokhin and Pop Mechanica; in general, the late-Soviet period was very inspiring with all its figures in music, cinema, their energy and their approach towards life and art.

'Ariadna' marks a change in her recording approach: her critically acclaimed breakthrough EP 'January Sun' was written and recorded completely in Ableton, while 'Ariadna' was written using the Roland SH-101, Roland Juno 106 and Korg Minilogue synthesizers, then mixed down in Ableton. According to Kedr, "This way, one gets into a flow of live interaction, here and now, with the instrument." 

To her, this interaction is more "raw and sacred" than actually mixing the track down, which seems like "mere formalism" in comparison. There is a definite leap in production values this time around, but Kedr manages to keep true to her sound despite the greater polish and depth. 

Kedr Livanskiy Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kedr_livanskiy
Kedr Livanskiy YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeQ-sEipCI_MiMYrR-4iopA
Kedr Livanskiy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kedr_livanskiy/
Kedr Livanskiy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kedr-livanskiy-1006510909393113/

Ariadna

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Kedr Livanskiy - Ariadna  [2MR-029]

The first single off Widowspeak's 4th album, Expect The Best, out August 25th, 2017 on Captured Tracks.

Pre-Order Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/expect-the-best
Pre-Order Digital: http://smarturl.it/expectthebest

Tour Dates:
07/28 - Teulon, MB - Ignite Retreats (Real Love Summer Fest)
09/08 - Boston, MA - Great Scott
09/09 - Burlington, VT - ArtsRiot
09/11 - Toronto, ON - Garrison
09/12 - Detroit, MI - El Club
09/13 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
09/15 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St. Entry
09/16 - Madison, WI - High Noon
09/17 - Des Moines, IA - Des Moines Social Club
09/19 - Denver, CO - Hi Dive
09/20 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
09/21 - Boise, ID - Neurolux
09/22 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
09/23 - Seattle, WA - Barboza
09/24 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret
09/26 - San Francisco, CA - Swedish American Hall
09/27 - Visalia, CA - Cellar Door
09/28 - Los Angeles, CA - Pico Union
09/29 - San Diego, CA - The Hideout
09/30 - Phoenix, AZ - Rebel Lounge
10/01 - Santa Fe, NM - Meow Wolf
10/03 - Austin, TX - Sidewinder
10/04 - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
10/05 - Birmingham, AL - Syndicate Lounge
10/06 - Nashville, TN - The High Watt
10/07 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
10/08 - Asheville, NC - The Mothlight
10/10 - Washington, DC - DC9
10/11 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot and Saddle
10/12 - Kingston, NY - BSP Kingston
10/13 - Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade

Expect The Best

Widowspeak // Dog (Official Single)

Hausi

Rafall

Pre-order 'Eulogy For Evolution 2017' on LP/CD/DL here: http://phonofile.link/eulogy-for-evolution

Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds reissues and revives his debut album in form of a special remastered 10th Anniversary edition titled Eulogy For Evolution 2017 — available worldwide via Erased Tapes on August 25th. 

Following its initial release in 2007 and coinciding with Ólafur’s 30th birthday, label founder Robert Raths gifted the chance for this record to shine a second time. 

'Eulogy For Evolution' is a journey from birth to death, transporting the listener through life itself. Originally written as a teenager, the record has now been restored with the help of his friends, remixed by Ólafur himself and remastered by Nils Frahm. The cover art was redesigned and enhanced by Torsten Posselt at FELD using the original photographs taken by Stuart Bailes during a trip to Ólafur’s home in Iceland in 2007.

To experience the record in the present day is not only to experience the past, but also the sheer timelessness and relevance of these compositions, and the ambition Ólafur has had from the very beginning. “Fast forward 10 years, our relationships and knowledge in sound have matured, but you can still hear this urgency in Óli’s songs that caught my ears to begin with”, states Robert Raths.

Words from Ólafur, June 2017:

 “I spent a couple of weeks in some sort of a time machine, opening up and working on 12-year-old recordings. There was noise in the microphones, some channels seemed accidentally muted, but sometimes I found myself admiring what my teenage self was capable of. It was somehow charming. Well, most of it. So I fixed the stuff that wasn’t before sending it off to Nils Frahm for remastering. 

It was an ambitious outing. When I was 18 my uncle passed away from cancer. It was the first time I had experienced the passing of someone close to me, so I dedicated my work to him. Around the same time his first grandchild was born, and was named after him. I was inspired by the joy and positivity he brought, and saw that somehow life was extended after our death. So I set out to create a solid piece of music that would take us through the circle of life. 

This work by a highly emotional teenager has been revived, matured and, I hope you’ll agree, improved by some of my favourite people in this world. I’m grateful to see it get another chance to shine and I hope you will enjoy this journey to the past.”

Tracklisting:

1. 0040		
2. 0048 / 0729
3. 0952		
4. 1440
5. 1953		
6. 3055
7. 3326
8. 3704 / 3837

Ólafur Arnalds - 1440

'Car Crash' is the second song from CYMBALS second album, Light In Your Mind, released on 25th August. Available on CD, black vinyl, cream vinyl for indie stores only and a very limited yellow vinyl pressing with a fanzine which is only available through the Tough Love shop.

Pre-order Light In Your Mind
http://radi.al/LightInYourMind

CYMBALS live
31st August - Thousand Island, London - tickets -http://rockfeedback.seetickets.com/event/cymbals/thousand-island/1123474

Light In Your Mind - MP3

CYMBALS - Car Crash

ESG
Reissue 'Keep On Moving'
Out August 25th 
Blue LP / Standard LP /CD

“If there's one tune which sums up ESG's enduring lust for life, it's the beautifully-judged Black Flag/early techno crossover of the closing 'Gimme A Blast'.” Ben Thompson, The Guardian 5/5
 
“This album's every percussive aspect has been honed to impart the maximum amount of pleasure.” The Observer
 
“Despite their influence on younger bands (you can hear LCD Soundsystem's knobbly grooves on ‘Insane’), ESG still sound like nothing else.” The Guardian
 
“An astonishingly primal album.” Uncut

It feels like someone left the light on in the studio and it all just ran itself, there had been a funky human input earlier in the day but, by a Darwinian machine-led kind of osmosis, the tracks recorded spent the wee small hours self-reducing and simplifying themselves. Marinated in music.
 
“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil,” said Truman Capote. ”Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,” opined Leonardo da Vinci much earlier in proceedings. Yes, it’s the space around the object, what you leave out that makes what you leave in so important. ESG know this. Sure they can play the game but it’s the swagger of the groove and the minimal topping – like an anti-cup cake – that makes this unique New York sisterhood so appealing on ‘Keep On Moving’.
 
Sampled on TV ads, lauded by critics and swooned over on the dancefloor, ESG’s post-punk took out the grunge and polished the basics. Cut them open and “less is more” is written all the way through.
 
‘Keep On Moving’ was released just over ten years ago to much praise (Q said it was “even better” than 2002’s much loved ‘Step Off’). ESG had been sparring partners for PiL and early hip hop and four years after the ‘Off’, they were onto something new – rhythm as core, reflective storylines about relationship management, sensuality and insanity gather around the bass fix but they’re much blurrier than the incessant beats. Inadvertently they unmask techno and glitch and leave out any kind of superfluous fluff. It’s hard and temple throbbing. Turn it up. And keep moving.

ESG - Insane Tambourine Mix

Taken from the album ‘Hikari' by haruka nakamura PIANO ENSEMBLE. To be released worldwide on 8 August, 2017 on KITCHEN. LABEL.

Pre-order (ENG): http://www.kitchen-label.com/ki020-haruka-nakamura-piano-ensemble-hikari/
Pre-order (JP): http://www.inpartmaint.com/site/21239/

KITCHEN. LABEL presents haruka nakamura PIANO ENSEMBLE’s new album entitled “Hikari” in a special 2CD box set edition to be released on 8th August 2017. “Hikari” is the final set of the trilogy of albums (Ongaku No Aru Fuukei and CURTAIN CALL) to feature the current PIANO ENSEMBLE lineup before they go on a indefinite hiatus after their last show at the grand St Mary’s Cathedral in Tokyo on 21st July 2017.

Since the release of “Ongaku No Aru Fuukei” in 2014, haruka nakamura PIANO ENSEMBLE has held a tour with 17 concerts in Japan and 4 around Asia, with high profile and sold-out concerts at venues such at Memorial Cathedral of World Peace in Hiroshima, Meguro Persimmon Hall in Tokyo and Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Kobe among others. Recorded in late 2016 and early 2017, “Hikari” includes a new suite of pieces from evolved and fully-formed versions of the group’s favourites and also previously unrecorded items from its concert programs. The album’s repertoire is the ensemble’s most complete yet and documented at the peak of the ensemble’s form.

Part one of “Hikari” begins with music recorded once again at the acoustically profound sonorium hall in Tokyo. As ever, haruka nakamura’s attention to the purity and precision of each and every note is matched by counterparts ARAKI Shin (Saxophone and Flute), Akira Uchida (Saxophone), Rie Nemoto (Violin) and Isao Saito (Drums). haruka nakamura’s piano melodies might appear uncomplicated, but this transparency of sound creates a mesmerising cumulative effect with “SIN” representing the ensemble at its most buoyant.

Part two and the centrepiece of the album features 3 extended tracks recorded at Meguro Persimmon Hall (Tokyo), Waseda Scott Hall (Tokyo) and Lutheran Church (Fukuoka). 9-piece female choir group CANTUS, baobab and 14 year old vocalist Urara all took part in these recordings where the pieces “CURTAIN CALL” and title-track “Hikari” showcase the album’s collection of sacred hymns and spiritual high points. The ensemble is also joined by long time associate AOKI,Hayoto (Guitars & Harmonica) along with Hiroki Chiba (Contrabass), Sakanoshita Norimasa (Guitar) and Ami Misawa (Cello). The album ender and new piece “Todai”, thereby closing a divine circuit with its concluding distances. If music is meant to be a transporting experience, then the album “Hikari” is haruka nakamura PIANO ENSEMBLE at their transcendent and luminescent best.

This album is recorded by Katsunori Fukuoka (Flysound) and is mixed and mastered by Gen Tanabe (studio camel house). “Hikari” is packaged in a hardcase box and features a 36 page book containing exclusive photos, liner and composer’s notes (In Japanese). The album also includes a digital download for 2 bonus tracks Hajimari No Sanbika (Waseda Scott Hall) and Yuube No Inori (sonorium). Total runtime: 85 mins.

Tracklist
1-1 nowhere (sonorium – Mar 11, 2017)
1-2 SIN (sonorium – Mar 11, 2017)
1-3 四月の装丁 (sonorium – Mar 11, 2017)
1-4 音楽のある風景 (sonorium – Mar 11, 2017)
2-1 光 (Meguro Persimmon Hall – Dec 11, 2016)
2-2 CURTAIN CALL (Waseda Scott Hall – Dec 23, 2016)
2-3 灯台 (Lutheran Church – Jun 18, 2016)
Bonus Track 1 – はじまりの賛美歌 (Waseda Scott Hall – Dec 23, 2016)
Bonus Track 2 – 夕べの祈り (sonorium – Mar 11, 2017)

Released by KITCHEN. LABEL
Ⓟ & © 2017 KITCHEN. LABEL

MORE INFO:
www.kitchen-label.com

haruka nakamura PIANO ENSEMBLE - 光 (光, 2017) - preview

品番：PDIP-6564
発売日：2017/07/30（日）
タイトル：.（ドット）
アーティスト：cyclo.（サイクロ）
本体価格：2,300円＋税
フォーマット：国内盤CD
JANコード： 4532813535647
レーベル：p*dis / Inpartmaint Inc.
■再発盤／紙ジャケット仕様
■ライナーノーツ付
解説：國崎晋(サウンド&レコーディング・マガジン編集人)

03 C2

From their second album "Multi-task", out September 22nd, 2017 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Omni "Equestrian" (Trouble In Mind Records)

From the album Clear Language available September 22, 2017 from Western Vinyl

Pre-Order Clear Language:
Bandcamp https://balmorhea.bandcamp.com/album/clear-language
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/clear-language/id1252681306?ls=1&app=itunes
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv150

Balmorhea
https://balmorheamusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/balmorhea/
https://twitter.com/balmorheamusic
https://www.instagram.com/balmorheamusic/

A decade-plus on the road, near-constant musical output, and shifting creative priorities caused the revered Austin duo, comprised of multi-instrumentalists Rob Lowe and Michael Muller, to soberly assess the band’s future. What, in the form of Balmorhea, was there left to say? And did they have the energy to say it? 
 
Stranger, the group’s maximalist, genre-leaping full-length from 2012, had already seemed to trace the group’s farthest bounds. And, over the years, they’d worked with a roving cast of accomplished string and rhythm players to craft a glassy-eyed, sage-brushed, instrumental Americana that, while celebrated in The New Yorker, Pitchfork and The Atlantic, among myriad other press, and attracting the film, ad, and television worlds risked pigeonholing them for good. 

As they had in the beginning, in 2006, Muller and Lowe worked simply and with restraint, letting intuition guide them as they molded the 10 elegant, spacious gestures that comprise Clear Language.  A relaxed, clear-eyed sense of reflection flows gracefully through the album as these two old friends transmit unfettered meaning through simple sonic gestures that resonate with the cosmos as much as they echo the pulse of a human heart.

Clear Language

Balmorhea - "Clear Language"

Eric Copeland - Neckbone

Neckbone is taken from the forthcoming LP 'Goofballs' - 
released by DFA worldwide on September 22, 2017.

Preorder all formats here:  
http://smarturl.it/ECGoofballs-pivot

Goofballs

Eric Copeland - Neckbone

140GONE
BENNI 'I & II'
Release Date: July 28th, 2017

Hailing from an H Class planet far across the cosmic highways, BÊNNÍ is "hi NRG New Age" music. A pivotal member of bands Wizzard Sleeve/Gary Wrong Group, Heavy Lids, Roman Gabriel Todd's BRUOOTS, and many more, Bênní was born from his personal need of new music to listen to while driving his space craft long distances. Tired of listening to Van Halen's "5150" and Zebra's self titled album on his journeys, he began creating sci fi landscapes and ethereal soundtracks of his own. Often times primitive, BÊNNÍ's music can go from Vangelis, to John Carpenter, to 80s dungeon electro band Warning and into vintage arcade game circuitry with the blink of an eye. With his first LP release, BÊNNÍ will be embarking on a Euro/Scandinavian tour in August with US Tours close behind. Previous cassette released on AVRCRC.

New Orleans' enigmatic Quintron weighs in...

"The thing to me that has always kinda set the Memphis / New Orleans punk scenes apart from other places is that music and musicianship always outweighs high concept or the typical sneering "fuck you" attitude of other places. BÊNNÍ is a Musician with a capital M and it's no accident that within a year of his coming to New Orleans (from less than an hour up the Gulf), he began to influence the local landscape as much as any of us who had been here and doing it for decades. BÊNNÍ is special, especially for a young dude. He NEVER overplays; he always listens; he's funky as a church lady; and his memory for parts and complicated song structure is unmatched in anyone I have ever worked with....plus he's chill as fuck. There is a reason that he is in almost every good band in the entire city right now. So yea...if any of you Memphis bitches get funny ideas about stealing him away from us, there will be a straight up lazy drunken army riding up the river to forcibly take him back."

**No soft synths were used in this recording**

https://benni.neocities.org/
www.goner-records.com

i & II

Pyrran Control Station

BÊNNÍ "Pyrran Control Station" || 'I & II' [Goner Records]

The first single off Lina Tullgren's debut LP 'Won' - out September 22nd on Captured Tracks!

Pre-Order Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/won

Pre-Order Digital: hyperurl.co/CT-257-Digi

Lina Tullgren // Asktell (Official Single)

The first single off Dinner's 2nd album, New Work, out September 8th, 2017 on Captured Tracks.

Pre-Order Physical: http://bit.ly/2utJX2f
Pre-Order Digital: http://apple.co/2v0E27V

Dinner // Un-American Woman

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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