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Miquela E Lei Chapacans
Miquela e Lei Chapacans

Released 14th October 2022

The first progressive girl group of the French Occitan language pop scene bring you folk funk, sun-baked bossa, Coltrane jazz and their own brand of punky “Dizco rural” against an untouched French Balearic backdrop spanning the late 70s and 80s.

If even the most assiduous of European record collectors consider the Occitan language music scene to be France’s best-kept secret then it’s as fair to say that the incredible multifaceted recordings of langue d’oc prog girl group Lei Chapacans has spent the last four decades hiding in plain sight. In all fairness this overlooked treasure chest of minority language excursions into folk funk, Balearic, bossa, John Coltrane penned jazz, baroque psych, Palestinian poetry, comedic synth skits (and even the rawest form of femme-fronted multiingual punky disco) has been stowed away in inconspicuous photographic record sleeves, falsely evoking something closer to contemporary C&W while oft-misplaced in record shop cassette racks alongside “traditional” spoken-word and scholastic albums. So for the uninitiated, don’t be too hard on yourself.  The fun starts here.  For those who are familiar with the rare and sought-after one-off solo album by Occitan singer Miquela and have craved for more, then you’ve come to exactly the right place. Lei Chapacans (a name that roughly translates to The Vagabonds) is the all-girl vocal group assembled by Miquela herself just two years after her debut release, having toured the word and snubbed major label record deal offers with a steadfast allegiance to the protection of the Occitan language in which this album is primarily penned and performed (minus a small amount of German and sarcastic English in one rebellious instance). For European collectors with a penchant for French savoir faire, but have further yearnings for folkloric femme funk, then it’s time to look towards the Occitan sunset where you will meet Lolo, Miquela, Sophie, Irena and Denise.

These amazing, and undeniably culturally important recordings might have taken some time to find a wider audience, but for music lovers, crate diggers and vinyl vultures alike there are still a lot of tasty morsels out there to be scavenged and devoured, ask any self-respecting Chapacan and they’ll concur wholeheartedly.

Miquela e Lei Chapacans

Dizco Rural

Miquela e Lei Chapacans - Dizco Rural

Oliver Coates cover of Bryce Hackford's Another Fantasy. all played on Cello

Oliver Coates - Another Fantasy (Bryce Hackford)

From the forthcoming 12" by Joel Graham 2015 © Music From Memory

"An obscure tape release discovery by Red Light Radio founder and close friend of the label, Orpheu de Jong, led to Music From Memory’s latest release. This two track 12” highlights the work of electronic music pioneer Joel Graham, a San Francisco based artist who self released two cassettes in 1984/85.  

Originally recorded and performed live on pre-MIDI analogue equipment in 1982 as an outline for a live performance, these visionary tracks provoke much of the same sensibilities found in both contemporary dance music as well as in works of more established vanguard artists of the time. Slowly unravelling and deeply hypnotic, Joel Graham’s music seems to manifest a doorway to a profound new world and can be seen as a forerunner of what was to come in electronic music."

Joel Graham - Night (15:11)

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Artificial Dance

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Savant - Stationary Dance

Taken from "Tardis" out February 12th 2016
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Weaver's Cave

Taken from the album MUSIC VOL. released as CD and Download

COH '132' (EMEGO 222)

Guest mix for Berlin Community Radio, June 2016. 
Originally broadcast live 15:00 - 16:00, Thursday 30th of June. 

Tracklist: 
The Au Pairs - It's Obvious (Human Records, 1981)
Vincent Over The Sink - I Found A Genie (Another Dark Age, 2015)
Carla dal Forno - DB Rip(Blackest Ever Black, 2016)
Chandra - Kate (Go Go Records, 1980)
Fall Of Saigon - On The Beach At Fontana (Atem, 1982)
Shiny Two Shiny - 7/4 (Being Cut, 1988)
Tones On Tail - Lions (Beggers Banquet, 1984)
Pitch - What Am I Gonna Do For Fun (On/Off Records, 1982)
The Cannanes - Cardboard (Self-Released, 1988)
Robert Rental - Double Heart (Mute, 1980)
Suburban Lawns - Janitor (I.R.S. Records, 1981)
Alive She Died - She's Lost Control (Self-Released, 1985)
Karen Marks - Won't Wear It For Long (Astor, 1981)
Deux - Dance With Me (Minimal Wave, 2010)
Messer Chups - For Everyone Over the 30 (Solnze Records, 2000)
Carla dal Forno - Better Yet (Blackest Ever Black, 2016)

Berlin Community Radio - June 2016

Taken from 'Drama' Single by HTRK, out July 6, 2018.

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Drama

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Tracklist

A1 Kläppen 
A2 Kläppen II
A3 Natt & dag
B1 Delta
B2 Baby Blues
B3 Kont

On his previous album for Malmö Inre - Monika - Ivar Lantz promised us the width of the Scandinavian forests within reach. With this new album, again under the guise of Golden Ivy; a new chapter of that same tale is laid forth. Truly siblings born from the same creative flow, they both stand alone from Lantz’s previous musical endeavors and together to support each other. 
 
Kläppen is an epic mellow experience for both the body and the mind. An almost family friendly record for the home stereo system, and yet quietly but daringly explorative of the avant-garde terrain. 

While the title is identical to an actual place on the map, don’t let that fool you. The word itself is an old Swedish way of describing a hilltop, and can still be heard in local talk to this day. But in the context of this album, it is essentially an imagined place. And it’s important that we all have a place like this to go to. A place where our theta waves oscillate in the right rhythms. With his violin and flute, Lantz have found the right tools to harness these rhythms and carve them into sound waves, guiding us there. Kläppen is, alas, both the trip and the destination. 

Ouroboros!

Golden Ivy - Kläppen

What is in the Museum Of No Art? Not paintings, but visions. Not sculptures, but empty spaces full of potential. It is within this inverted gallery that Mona Steinwidder traces fabulous forms with voice, sampler, synthesizer, clarinet and effects. Under the moniker Museum Of No Art, she has created an album that floats in a hazy lacuna between realities, rooted in propulsive and deep bass resonance, but also footloose, playfully deconstructing language and mixing in layers of echoing synthetic and organic tones. The fascinating result of these unfettered experiments resonate as an imaginary cadavre-exquis played by DJ Screw, Arthur Russell, Hiroshi Yoshimura, MJ Lallo, Poppy Nogood, and Laurie Anderson.

With a background in fine art and music, over the years Steinwidder has created and released music under the pseudonym Mohna, as part of the experimental pop band Me Succeeds, and collaborates with composer Alexander Schubert and electronic dance music producer Christian Löffler. Recently, shifting her focus more on improvisation and experimental music, she moved to Vienna for six months to concentrate on experimenting with synthesizers, samplers and voice. Her intention was to build a “playground” that would leave space for improvisation and allow for a meditative and intuitive process. This solo exploration allowed her to return home with a new way to play.

“I like this idea of an open and light structure that can grow and transform and leaves space in all directions. Something without a clear beginning and ending. A rough, short note. Today I’m in the mood to sing, but tomorrow I might be in the mood to just float on an ocean of synths or to play a solo on my clarinet. I am a never-ending process and I am many. The Museum Of No Art album is a collection of days and moods, images and circumstances I experienced and immediately recorded in the last year.”

Limited edition of 200 LPs with risograph printed artwork.

Tracklist:

A1 La Grotta (5:39)
A2 Fabulous Youth (8:06)
A3 Minimal Default on a Clear Blue Day (3:33)
A4 A Melting Tree (2:30)

B1 Form and Focus (4:48)
B2 Eternal Explorer (3:31)
B3 A Nameless Person Tries to Describe Herself (3:10)
B4 Three Years Later (The Formation of a New Animal) (5:14)
B5 Subconscious Message (2:26)

Release date: July 17th

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Museum of No Art (23SC)

Museum Of No Art -  Fabulous Youth (23SC)

Tracklist: 
Beesmunt Soundsystem - Amazon Dub
Seb Wildblood feat. mauv - Amelia (Suzan Kraft rmx)   
Ichisan & Nakova - Pionir                                              
Cindy - 2y & 6m 
Charles Webster feat Ingrid Chavez - The Spell   
Max Jones - 1989 
Il Quadro di Troisi - Raggio Verde 
Daniel Avery - Lone Swordsman    
DC Salas feat. Joy Wellboy - Cala Falco 
Sui Zhen - Perfect Place (Bell Tower rmx) 
Mother of Mars - Seed 2 Sky                                           
Tolouse Low Trax - Wooden Words                            
Piezo - Anti-Gloss  
Birthday - Chocolate for Breakfast 
Cheap Charly Men - No Good (Prodigy Disco Edit) 
Ichisan - Terasa 
Vicious Pink - Cccant You See 
Greg Beato - Tricky LSD 
Oddnipp - Proto Nipper 
Robag Wruhme, Brascon, Seasoul - Treesong
Footprintz - Rush To The Capsule (Ewan Pearsong rmx) 
Rouge Mecanique - All Will Be Change 
The Beneficiaries - The Crystal City 
Adwer - Messing With The DNA 
Kelly Lee Owens - Melt 
Der Zyklus - Die Daemmerung Von Nanotech  
DMX Krew - Mentosse 
Haider - I Came To Destroy 
Max Graef - Mulholand Drive 
Vanessa Worm - Tiny Revolutions 
Red Axes - Hold 
ANBB, Alva Noto, Blixa Bargeld - I Wish I was a Mole in the Ground
Ana Roxanne - It's a Rainy Day on the Cosmic Shore

Savant - Stationary Dance

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