Bohemian4 Session

SPREZZATURA RECORDS 2022 cover version of Donovan's Hampstead Incident first released in 1966.  Roxanne Fontana produced and recorded in London at Gizzard Recording.  The analogue 16 track 2 inch tape, mixed to tape and mastered digitally, utilizing vintage microphones, real string section, and British musicians young and old, brings the classsic song that rang through the rainy streets of London, on the dawn of it's swinging era, up to date sonically and emotionally in a voice somewhat cynical and world weary, more appropriate to 2022 than 1966.  The final song on the Roxanne Fontana new album Phantasmagorgy released mid-April 2022, it is the final comment on the quasi-concept album of poetic folk and psychedelia.
PLAYERS --  ROXANNE FONTANA VOCALS; PETE KOSANOVICH ACOUSTIC GUITAR; MAT TREIBER CHROMATIC HARMONICA; RICHARD VERNON BASS; STEVE HANDS DRUMS; HELEN WILDING VIOLA VIOLIN
RECORDED BY ED DEEGAN; MIXED BY ED DEEGAN AND ROXANNE FONTANA; MASTERED IN NY BY GLENN BURGOS, WISHCRAFT STUDIOS

Roxanne FONTANA - Hampstead Incident

These are all bands and projects I have been involved in over the years.

Pretend You're American by 'The Hostages' 1980

Broadcast cover.
Written by Trish Keenan and James Cargill.

Winter Now

All songs written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Leisure Walks at home in Melbourne and Nanaimo. 

Dedicated to friends and heroes. Big love to all our Melbourne pals who have inspired us, and taught us so much.

Selena Unger: synthesizers/organs/vibraphone/piano, words, vocals, artwork/design 

Roland Smirk: drum machines/programming/rhythm boxes, percussion, bass/electric/nylon/12-string/slide guitars, synthesizers/organs/vibraphone/piano, vocals

Sad Cowboy Can't Dance

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https://www.juno.co.uk/products/bartosz-kruczynski-selected-media-2016-2018/704317-01/

Emotional Response is delighted to present a special project, a collection of music from Bartosz Kruczynski, recorded for "Selected Media" and presented here as a time-piece of his continuing works.

Initially known as one half of sample based project Ptaki (The Very Polish Cut Outs / Transatlantyk), Kruczynski first appeared for Emotional Response as The Phantom for the first series of SchleiBen in 2015. Featuring two works of deep 'fourth world' sounds, they highlighted a shift to more mellow, synthetic and hazy compositions.

His break out came, however, when he explored this sound further on his eponymous album Baltic Beat, for the acclaimed Growing Bin Records. This has been augmented with the recent club based music as one half of the wonderful Earth Trax (Rhythm Section International / Phonica Records) project. 

Here though, Kruczynski returns to the ambient and ethereal - plus a touch of dub techno - to showcase his expansive collaborative work with Polish studio, TVP Culture. Given free artistic license, the 15 'short form' recordings included here were for programming, in the main, on modern Polish Art including the likes of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Miroslaw Balka and Tadeusz Kantor, as well as some international aspects for Enrico Prampolini, Ai Weiwei and Monica Bonvicini.

Taken from over 70 episodes the material included recollects imagery, video and memory to present a series of short vignettes that together create one whole. Minimal and hazy ambience (V, VII, VIII, XI, XII) envisages classic melodies and chords and is accompanied by further 'fourth world' pieces (I, II, III, VII, X) that present an oeuvre that is recognisably the music of Kruczynski, while remaining fresh and perfectly meditative. 

A counter can be found in the atmospheric dub works (IV, IX, XIV) that hint at echo chamber environs to get infinitely lost in. As an album then, "Selected Media" can be heard as a snapshot to Kruczynski's music journey, a meeting of art and music that is oft overlooked but very much essential.

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