[p*dis] distribution sampler for August 2014


p*dis sampler 2014.08

Sounds

A compilation of some of our favourite tracks since our inception in 2009.  Have we missed anything? 

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Second Language Music 2009 - 2024 (work in progress)

Discovering the new indie & alternative pop rock music

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Under the Radar #48 (14.02.2015)

Mellow folkish 4

Silver Servants

Adieu À L'Écurie - D.Rothon

Future Conditional - Demolitions(feat. Bobby Wratten & Beth Arzy)

Climbers

From the album 'Silver Servants,' out now.  
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A CROW WILL REMEMBER YOUR FACE
(English/Johnson/Kraus/Palmer/Tcherneyan)
 
Glen Johnson - voice/Oliver Cherer - backing vocals/Sharron Kraus - keyboards, recorder, dulcimer, backing vocals/Katie English - flute/Jerome Tcherneyan - percussion, glockenspiel/Nick Palmer - piano/Zizi Kanaan - backing vocals/Aine O'Dwyer - backing vocals

"a pin-tail duck, he does not give a fuck but a crow will remember your face..."


Silver Servants - A Crow Will Remember Your Face

From 'Cold Lazarus' EP, free to Second Language Music subscribers with the album, 'Silver Servants.' 

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Silver Servants - See The Light

track 9 "Act 3-2" from TT003 Masahiro Hiramoto "OPERA ONE" [Tekna TOKYO] 

"Act 3-2" from the album "OPERA ONE" [Tekna TOKYO]

Taken from the album Diversions Volume 3 - Songs From The Shipyards

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A Great Northern River

Cédric Pin/Glen Johnson - Prick

Taken from Diagrams' new album "Chromatics" out now! Available to buy here: http://bit.ly/1ocqKNp

Diagrams - Gentle Morning Song

Release Date: February 24, 2015
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Matthew O'Neill - "Campfire Cook"

Alternative/more polished version on my small compilation/album https://tobiasw.bandcamp.com/album/minute-maps

Uncertainty

Outlander

Loved Owed (aka Love Ode)

Here is a (relatively) new collection of original songs by Danny Oxenberg (one of the lead vocalists, guitarists of Supreme Dicks) and Bear Galvin.

Of this album, Sing Sing writes: This record is one more riddle, a new hieroglyph to be discovered under the glimmer of a deaf lantern, one more reason to believe that ghosts are among us and that they can’t stop dying of love.

Artwork by Hippolyte Hentgen.
Album produced by Maxime Guitton.

DANNY OXENBERG & BEAR GALVIN (PILLOW MT. CONSPIRACY)
LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS
available on LP, CD and digital
http://www.three-four.net/releases/TFR032
http://threefour.bigcartel.com/


Text by Sing Sing

In the last three decades, no other band has surpassed The Supreme Dicks in mystery. No one has, at this moment, penetrated into their irradiant secret. All answers have yet to be found to the questions aroused by their work for the listener (What is its centre? Its driving force? Its aim?) A few contradictory accounts, some dots hard to connect, a story that seems to be constantly falsified and a small bunch of rare records so impossible to shed light on that they become all the more mesmerizing. The collection of original songs presented to us today by Danny Oxenberg – one of the lead vocalists for the band – along with Bear Galvin will not illuminate us much further. What we will find, at the very most, is the confirmation of his majestic talent as a songwriter; a wrecked heir of American popular music’s most skilled of wordsmiths; a survivor, nonetheless, from a bath of boiling oil, terrified, drained of his spirit, neglected by God no less than by the Devil and singing the sore, croaked, enamoured laments of a lonely machine, laying some weird, solar, glacial arpeggios on a weeping electric guitar. His time-honoured herd is not with him; he is nevertheless not completely on his own, since this new festoon of burnt fairy lights was woven along with his precious alter ego, who goes by the name of Bear Galvin. As far as we know, the compositions were patiently hunted down, in the wake of improvisations that one would like to imagine as free – and convulsive – beyond the limits of reason; that is, when they were not the fruit of telepathic brainstorming during which one picked up on the other’s idea, against the noise of a detonation in slow motion, which we leave it to you to dream about. This hazy duet brings back from such peregrinations what sounds like the burnt map of an authentically savage territory, where radiant melodies and more or less agreed upon dissonances, lymphatic noise and hoarse lyricism, indelible melancholy and profuse epiphanies cross, substitute and rekindle each other, setting in motion something that could be grace. A grace unfussedly invited into the very heart of a vituperative and atonic world, without measurable duration, each and every of whose bits of unfolding landscape hits the eye like a traffic accident. This record is one more riddle, a new hieroglyph to be discovered under the glimmer of a deaf lantern, one more reason to believe that ghosts are among us and that they can’t stop dying of love.

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Danny Oxenberg & Bear Galvin - Less Than Nothing  A)  As I Was Eating An Ice Cream Cone

Imaginational Anthem Vol. 8 : The Private Press
Out September 16th on 2LP vinyl (ltd, 500) / CD / DL

8th volume of Tompkins Square label's acclaimed acoustic guitar series focuses on impossibly rare private press recordings 1968-1995.

Tompkins Square label presents the 8th volume of Imaginational Anthem, the acclaimed series focusing on acoustic guitar, particularly in the American Primitive vein.

Since 2005, the series has revived interest in old masters of the genre while also giving many folks their very first taste of artists like William Tyler, Steve Gunn, Cian Nugent or Daniel Bachman.

Volume 8, compiled by hardcore record collectors Michael Klausman (former used LP buyer for NYC's recently shuttered Other Music) and Brooks Rice, features some of the best and most obscure private press guitar records virtually no one has heard. In fact, so-called guitar soli expert, Tompkins Square owner Josh Rosenthal, had never heard of a single artist on the comp (except for Perry Lederman, whose track was Josh's sole contribution to the collection). "Just goes to show what a bottomless pit music discovery from the past continues to be. There's just no end to all the riches from past decades."

Amidst the obscure entries are bits of rock-star lore; Joe Bethancourt was supposedly given a sitar by an admiring Jimi Hendrix, and Perry Lederman was reportedly responsible for teaching Bob Dylan how to fingerpick. But the true joy of this collection is derived from discovering incredible acoustic guitar performances completely lost to time. Until now.

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Imaginational Anthem vol. 8 : The Private Press

The Secret Forces Of Nature by Gary Salzman ('68) from IA vol. 8 : The Private Press

His Clancyness - Isolation Culture (HDD055)out October 14th 2016 via Tannen / Maple Death (EU/UK) and Hand Drawn Dracula (ROW)

Order (EU/UK):  http://bit.ly/IsolationCulture
Order (CAN/US/ROW): http://bit.ly/HDDIsolation
Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/isolation-culture/id1159553110

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His Clancyness - Impulse

BROKEN WINGS by Sage Francis

Isla Cameron - O Willow Waly

From the album "A LITTLE FABLE" (KI-007, KITCHEN. LABEL)

Available via KITCHEN. LABEL 
http://www.kitchen-label.com/catalogue/ki007-aspidistrafly-a-little-fable

ASPIDISTRAFLY - LANDSCAPE WITH A FAIRY (A LITTLE FABLE, 2011)

From the upcoming album "A LITTLE FABLE" (KI-007, KITCHEN. LABEL)

Available via KITCHEN. LABEL
http://www.kitchen-label.com/catalogue/ki007-aspidistrafly-a-little-fable 

ASPIDISTRAFLY - HOMEWARD WALTZ (A LITTLE FABLE, 2011)

Mute are delighted to announce the signing of Yann Tiersen and the release of his brand new, long awaited album, Dust Lane, out on 4 October 2010. 

Hailing from Brittany, Yann Tiersen is one of the most revered artists of his generation with a reputation first established by his studio albums (which include 1998's Le Phare and 2005's Les Retrouvailles) and cemented by his work on the original film score of Amelie (2001) which earned him widespread recognition. 

Produced by Yann Tiersen and mixed by Ken Thomas (Sigur Rós, M83, Moby), Dust Lane sees Tiersen incorporate vintage electronic sounds and textures into his music for an album he describes as "a journey on the dusty lane that leads us to death. Not a sad thing, but like a colourful, sometimes painful, but mostly joyful experience: life!"

Yann Tiersen - Palestine

From the forthcoming album, 'I Feel Nothing Most Days,' out 26th April 2019 on Second Language Music.  Pre-order here : https://olivercherer.bandcamp.com/

Oliver Cherer - Weight Of The Water

This one has been a long time coming.  In 2014, debut album in the can, Silver Servants, a loose collective of Second Language artists, commenced work on a Winter-themed recording.  For one reason or another, what was meant to be one, gapless sonic tapestry, never made it to full fruition but you can hear the fruits it did produce, here on ‘Drifts & Flurries.’  With the creative success of the ‘Avenue With Trees’ album, we decided to take those Silver Servants tracks as a starting point for a new compilation, inviting old ghosts and new friends to contribute.

Mark Brend aka Ghostwriter, was one of the very first artists to release something on Second Language – ‘The Continuing Adventures Of The Strange Sound Association album,’ came out in 2010, when we were less than a year old.  His specially-commissioned work here forms pillars throughout this record, accompanied by Katie English (Isnaj Dui, Littlebow, Silver Servants).  The Declining Winter featured on our first ‘Music & Migration’ compilation from the same year.  Here, in true ‘Servants style, they collaborate with Clay Pipe fellow, David Rothon and Glen Johnson, a Servant, himself.

ISAN first featured on a Second Language compilation in 2011, if only for a minute (‘Minute Papillon’).  You can also find them on our second ‘Music & Migration’ compilation and the duo’s Robin Saville released his solo album, ‘Public Flowers,’ on the label in 2013.

Oliver Cherer (in his Dollboy guise) was also an early 2L attendee.  He’s omnipresent here, voicing Ghostwriter tracks, moonlighting as a Silver Servant and offering an icy take on Nico’s ‘Frozen Warnings.’  Newer to our fold are the London-based Japanese composer, Yumi Mashiki and Paul Tornbohm’s Alter Later project, voiced here (on a splendid Yazoo cover) by Amanda Butterworth of Mücha.  The French field recordist, Marc Namblard, exposes the secret sounds of frozen lakes, Scot electronicists P60 team up with Finnish guitarist, J. Luneburg for a secular dance and Sea Glass, formed from the ribs of The Leaf Library and Firestations, take on Movietone’s ‘Blank Like Snow.’ David Rothon offers a beautiful paean to the Welsh hill and battleground, Bryn Glas.  

‘Drifts & Flurries’ includes a bonus disc, ‘The Frosted Pane,’ by Johnson and the Bulgarian violist, Raisa Zapryanova.

This is SL042.

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Sea Glass -  Blank Like Snow

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