Kammarn is the third album from Golden Ivy.  Pre-listen for the upcoming album, released May 19 2023.

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American Cream Band 'Presents' [QUI009] - out 15th of September 2023, Vinyl & Digital




At once a spiritually-charged journey and a shit-kicking party record, American Cream Band comes to Quindi covering all the bases. 

American Cream Band was formed by Twin-Cities musician Nathan Nelson around 10 years ago, taking the form of improvised live shows and albums Frankensteined from these sessions into exultant, fully-formed records you can sink your teeth into. The trick with improvised music is to start with intentions, however abstract they might be, and Nelson leads his rolling cast of collaborators into the creative fray with subtle guidance which drives the impulsive musical moment forward. 

The band’s previous records have manifested on labels like Moon Glyph and Medium Sound, and now Presents arrives in a freewheeling flash of snappy new wave, skronky sax, call and response sass and some krautrock-minded sonic cosmology. The album came together in December 2021, when Nelson took ten musicians to legendary studio Pachyderm in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. Living together, eating together, and with Nelson quietly setting up his low-key magick intentions around Jupiter’s planetary frequency and the studio’s abundance of elephant statues and carpets, they laid down some drum-heavy sessions that became the building blocks of the record. 

‘Taste What We Taste’ is the perfect example of an exuberant groove pounded on skins as a vessel for a joyous get-down, with the singers and players free to freak out on top. Nelson remains at the centre of the melee, throwing half-sardonic, half-heartfelt calls out for connection. ‘Banana’ celebrates nonsense and holds down the most serious of beats - a disco-not-disco deadeye dripping in late night sleaze and lysergic potential. On ‘Royal Tears’, the jagged guitar chops call back to Gang Of Four, while the hot n’ heavy sax from Cole Pulice baits James Chance and all the other angular New York un-jazz misfits.   

Amongst his other implied intentions for the recordings, Nelson wanted to channel opposites, not least the distinct male-female energies in his vocal sparring with the girls on assistance duties. It wouldn’t be right to call them backing singers as they shoot back at his punchy mantras, bringing a certain fierce femininity that tips its hat to The B-52’s Cindy Wilson and Kate Pierson, not to mention iconic post-punk bands like Au Pairs, Delta 5 and Bush Tetras. 

There’s space for the dreamier kosmische which has crept into the American Cream oeuvre in the past, as ‘Sirens’ opens the album up in a swirling pond of rag tag percussion and molten synths. ‘Words Would Handcuff Us’ cools the whole riotous assembly down in unmoored perfection, a strung-out Bossa nova seance dusted with celestial drips from analogue spaceships. 

Equally treading the line between light and dark, conscious and unconscious, the sacred and profane, Presents is a life-affirming, creep-under-the-skin listening experience – a joyously transient chapter in the evolution of American Cream Band.


Presence was recorded and mixed by Nick Tveitbakk at Pachyderm Studios with the exception of 'Sirens', which was recorded by Eric Kramlinger at Quincy Street Studios and mixed by Luke Tweedy at Flat Black Studios. Editing and additional recording by Nathan Nelson at Earth 2. Mastering by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic Sound. Lyrics and arrangements by Nathan Nelson.

The following people contributed to the making of this record and without whom it would not have been possible:

Nic & Quindi, Pete Biasi, Marissa Galan, Liz Buhmann, Sophia Deutsch, Cole Pulice, Adam Patterson, Mat Heinrich, Alex Achen, Andy Rockwood, Adam Marx, Meg Ashling, Sho Nikado, Michael Gallope, Joe Berns, Jason Edmonds and Nick Tveitbakk.

Designed by Hannah M. Haugberg. Cover photo by Colin Simmons.

Vinyl manufactured at R.A.N.D. Muzik, Leipzig, Germany.

Distributed by Goodfellas 

C+P Quindi Records 2023

[QUI009] American Cream Band - Presents  PREVIEW

as promised to people that pm'd me.
made approx 2006-07

feat Kawai K5m

2nd Neotek Test Trac Omc

say hello. wave goodbye. beginnings and ends. RESPIRO PETROLIO was the final track we terminated during the sessions for my album NESSUNO. it was improvised when recording additional instruments and vocals in spring 2.023. mixed down when there was time left. unreleased to this day.

jota solo_respiro petrolio (2.023)

Mushroom's Patience - Untitled (track 8 / C2). Taken from the album “Water” out soon on Vrystaete / Enfant Terrible (Vrystaete18 / 2023).

More information and sound previews here: https://www.enfant-terrible.nl/releases/mushrooms-patience-water/

Mushroom's Patience - Untitled (track 8 / C2)

taken from NESSUNO, LP. released by NEKOFUTSCHATA and QUINDI RECORDS, available as (very) limited, first edition from mid-12/23. www.quindirecords.it

jota solo_freddo 2 (NESSUNO, 2.023)

PromoTrack from "La Nueva Normalidad"
Will be released in 2024
Mushroom's Patience 2024

Promo Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgzfnbM7L84

La Nueva Normalidad

König [PromoTrack 2023 - La Nueva Normalidad]

Rufus @ 53100 - 2023

OOH latest show on @noodsradio w/ dearest friend Rufus head of @quindirecords spinning numbers from his own imprint 

tracklist:

cabaret du ciel - raintears (piano version)
novy svet -  tibidabo
ellis swan - down by the reservoir
monde ufo - i'm so tired
woo - paradise in pimlico
dead bandit - sedated
bondo - pipecleaner
jota solo - canzone della vita
cabaret du ciel - different suns
dead bandit - blowing kisses
woo - arc II (ultramarine remix)
fortunato durutti marinetti - lightning on a sunny day (sandro's version)
american cream band - words would handcuff us
woo - even more notes (leeway no more notes remix)

OOH-sounds W/ Rufus [Quind Records] - Noods Radio Feb25

Nico Georis X Radio Alhara (07/04/24)

The Hired Hands: A Tribute to Bruce Langhorne 3

wandering the hidden corners of independent music with a restless, romantic spirit

www.quindirecords.it

For general enquiries: info@quindirecords.it

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