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• A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS - Transfixiation CD (Dead Oceans) DOC099cd (UPC#: 656605139920) • A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS - Transfixiation LP (Dead Oceans) DOC099lp (UPC#: 656605139913) • A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS - Transfixiation (Pink and Blue Vinyl) LP (Dead Oceans) DOC099lp-C1 (UPC#: 656605139937) • BUNNY LION - Red CD (Fantasy Memory / Captured Tracks) FM002cd (UPC#: 817949010362) • BUNNY LION - Red LP (Fantasy Memory / Captured Tracks) FM003lp (UPC#: 817949010287) • S. CAREY - Supermoon 12" EP (Jagjaguwar) JAG264lp (UPC#: 656605226415) • ERIC CHENAUX - Skullsplitter CD (Constellation) CST112cd (UPC#: 666561011222) • ERIC CHENAUX - Skullsplitter LP (180 gram) (Constellation) CST112lp (UPC#: 666561011215) • GROOMS - Comb The Feelings Through Your Hair CD (Western Vinyl) WV127cd (UPC#: 656605466224) • GROOMS - Comb The Feelings Through Your Hair LP (Western Vinyl) WV127lp (UPC#: 656605466217) • IN TALL BUILDINGS - Driver CD (Western Vinyl) WV128cd (UPC#: 656605466323) • IN TALL BUILDINGS - Driver LP (Western Vinyl) WV128lp (UPC#: 656605466316) • MOURN - Mourn CD (Captured Tracks) CT216cd (UPC#: 817949010645) • MOURN - Mourn (w/ bonus track) CD (Captured Tracks) CT216dlx • MOURN - Mourn LP (Captured Tracks) CT216lp (UPC#: 817949010652) • PHOSPHORESCENT - Live at the Music Hall 2xCD (Dead Oceans) DOC093cd (UPC#: 656605139326) • PHOSPHORESCENT - Live at the Music Hall 3xLP (Dead Oceans) DOC093lp (UPC#: 656605139319) • ALAN WATTS - This Is It! LP (Numero Group) NUM1231lp (UPC#: 825764603119)
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PHOSPHORESCENT LIVE AT THE MUSIC HALL Sun Arise! (An Invocation/An Introduction) (Live) A New Anhedonia (Live) Terror In The Canyons (The Wounded Master) (Live) The Quotidian Beasts (Live) Tell Me Baby (Have You Had Enough) (Live) Nothing Was Stolen (Love Me Foolishly) (Live) Dead Heart (Live) Down To Go (Live) Song For Zula (Live) Ride On/Right On (Live) A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise (Solo, Live) Muchacho's Tune (Solo, Live) Wolves (Solo, Live) Joe Tex, These Taming Blues (Live) Los Angeles (Live) A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise (Live) South (Of America) (Live) Wolves (Live) At Death, A Proclamation (Live) CATALOG #: DOC093 RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 17, 2015 FORMAT: 3xLP/DIGITAL LP BOX LOT: 18 GENRE: FOLK ROCK / INDIE ROCK KEY MARKETS: BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CITY, NASHVILLE, CHICAGO, PORTLAND, LOS ANGELES, SEATTLE, INDIANAPOLIS, AUSTIN TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: NONE VINYL NOT RETURNABLE
Those who were fortunate to catch Phosphorescent at any of the their shows in 2013 can attest to the fact that this is no ordinary touring band. Built around the core of founding member/songwriter Matthew Houck, Phosphorescent has expanded from a loop-station based solo act into a fully fledged classic rock band to be held in the same regard as the likes of Crazy Horse. They spent most of 2013 touring behind their hugely acclaimed album Muchacho, and by the end of the year the band were at the peak of their powers. This 3xLP/2xCD live album was recorded over the course of four jam-packed, sweltering holiday nights in mid-December. The shows featured the full line up of Matthew Houck (Voice, Guitar, Piano), Rustine Bragaw (Bass, Voice), Christopher Marine (Drums), David Torch (Percussion), Jo Schornikow (Organ, Voice), Scott Stapleton (Piano, Voice), Ricky Ray Jackson (Pedal Steel, Guitar, Voice). The songs are culled from across the catalogue of Phosphorescent albums stretching back to early live favorite 'Wolves', which is featured here in both solo form and in full band guise, through to current classics such as 'Song for Zula' & "Ride On/Right On'. After the shows, Houck spent hours going through the recordings, piecing together this definitive live collection. This is far from a quick cash-in live album - in fact, it should should perhaps be seen as the ultimate Phosphorescent record, taking the recordings that make the studio album to a whole new level. Once Houck had pieced together the tracks, he and album mixer John Agnello worked through the tracks, mixing them to truly represent that amazing Phosphorescent sound - one part cowboy bravado, one part wounded master. You can hear how Houck's voice cracks over over the tender 'Tell Me Baby‌' and how it soars in the perhaps definitive Phosphorecent live song 'Los Angeles'. The musicianship on display here is supreme, particularly Ricky Ray's sublime pedal steel and the dual keyboard work of Schornikow and Stapleton, playing opposite each other and playing off each other. This album should be considered an addition to the pantheon of classic live records - The Who's Live at Leeds, Frampton Comes Alive, Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps, The Band's The Last Waltz, Bob Marley's Live, Cheap Trick's Live at the Budokan - like those, it is a defining moment in the catalogue of Phosphorescent.
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- Live at the Music Hall is soon to be a fixture in Phosphorescent's storied catalog. A veritable greatest hits from a band in peak form, this 19-song collection includes "Song for Zula," "Los Angeles," "Wolves" and many more. - The 3xLP version comes in a triple-gatefold LP, and comes with an album download. - Phosphorescent's previous album Muchacho has scanned over 60k to date, with track sales for "Song for Zula" well over 72k.
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A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS TRANSFIXIATION Supermaster Straight Love High What We Don't See Deeper Lower Zone We've Come So Far Now It's Over I'm So Clean Fill The Void I Will Die CATALOG #: DOC099 RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 17, 2015 FORMAT: CD/LP/DIGITAL CD BOX LOT: 30 LP BOX LOT: 45 GENRE: ALTERNATIVE / INDIE ROCK KEY MARKETS: NEW YORK, CHICAGO, LOS ANGELES, AUSTIN
"That's the most intense fear and feeling—when you go to a show and you're actually scared," says Oliver Ackermann, guitarist and frontman of Brooklyn trio A Place To Bury Strangers. "Or you can palpably feel the danger in the music," adds bassit Dion Lunadon, "Like it's going to fall apart at any moment and the players doing it are so in the moment they don't give a shit about anything else. They're just going for it. It's a gutter kinda vibe; everything about it is icky and evil and dangerous." The same could be said the band’s fourth album, Transfixiation. Rather than fixate on the minute details like they may have done in the past, the group, rounded out by drummer Robi Gonzalez, trust their instincts and try to keep things as pure as possible. Music is much more exhilarating when it's unpredictable even on repeat plays, and this is very much an unpredictable record. Gonzalez makes his recording debut with the band here, and it’s obvious that he’s helped pushed the band’s recordings closer to the level of their infamous live shows. "The one thing we have in common is this fire when we're playing," adds Gonzalez. "I don't know; it's real intense."
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CD UPC: 656605139920
"[A Place to Bury Strangers] sculpts something unexpectedly elegant out of the type of din you'd expect to hear on an airport tarmac"- SPIN MAGAZINE "Hypnotic and forward-looking, A Place to Bury Strangers sound more vital than ever”- ALLMUSIC
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"A real sonic adventure that never relinquishes its grip on structure, despite the fact that the guitar effects pedals are practically stomped into the floor"- POPMATTERS
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- First full album with new lineup of Oliver Ackerman (guitar, vocals), Dion Lunadon (bass), and Robi Gonzalez (drums) - Limited two-tone blue and pink colored vinyl available
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MOURN MOURN -12” LP/CD • Hometown: Barcelona, Spain • Touring in 2015 • National college and specialty radio campaign via AAM • UK radio campaign via Peer Group • Album announced in October with debut single
CT-216 01 . Yo ur B ra in I s M ade Of Candy 02. Da r k I s u e s 03 . Phillip hi u s 04 . M i ser y Fac to r y 0 5 . Oti t i s 0 6 . Yo u Do n’ t K now Me 07. M a rsh all 0 8 . S q uir re l 0 9 . J a ck 10. Silv er Go ld
MOURN is a very young quartet formed from the friendship of Jazz Rodríguez Bueno and Carla Pérez Vas- both born in 1996 in El Maresme, Catalonia, Spain. The duo armed them- selves with inspiration from PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Sebadoh and Sleater Kinney and began writing material, which they quickly released, raw and acoustic, on their YouTube channel. These recordings caught the attention of their homeland’s Sones Records. Despite being teenagers, earlier this year they came out of the studio (along with drummer Antonio Postius and bassist Leia Rodríguez) with a brilliant treatise of indie rock that has stunned those who have had the opportunity to listen to it. Jazz (18), Carla (18), Leia (15) and Antonio (18) came together to present these tracks with authenticity and self-awareness beyond their age. With the confidence only residing in youth, the Mourn debut was recorded live in the studio in two days, proof of which is in their live-in-the-studio videos for singles “Otitis” and “YourBrain Is Made of Candy.” Both tracks perfectly capture the bands’ affinity for the brevity of The Ramones with the lyrical and melodic sophistication of The Pixies.
RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 17, 2015 GENRE: INDIE / ALTERNATIVE LP UPC: 817949010652
CD UPC: 817949010645
LP FORMAT: 12” LP + MP3s LP BOXLOT: 45 EXPORT: WORLD, EXCL. SPAIN, NEW ZEALAND VINYL NON-RETURNABLE CD FORMAT: JEWEL CASE CD BOXLOT: 30 EXPORT: WORLD, EXCL. SPAIN, NEW ZEALAND
“More importantly, the Catalonian quartet play with an unshakable conviction and a lack of self-consciousness, recording straight-to-tape, letting the harmonies bleed together and drums play at maxed-out levels.” – Pitchfork “Their first song for the label, “Silver Gold”, is a sludgy track, drowning in slippery distortion and Pixies-esque fire.” – Impose Magazine “Jazz Rodriguez Bueno, Carla Perez Vas, Antonio Postius and Leia Rodriguez pierce the surface with unified cries, screams and howls that seize attention in a flash.” – DIY Magazine
Press: Sara Casella sara@omnianmusicgroup.com Sales : Pamela Garavano-Coolbuahg pam@omnianmusicgroup.com
GROOMS
COMB THE FEELINGS THROUGH YOUR HAIR WV127 • LP / CD / MP3 RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 17, 2015
ABOUT THIS RECORD Having lived, worked, and created in the ever evolving Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn for over a decade, native Texan Travis Johnson has felt the direct impact of the growth and dissolution that comes with rapid gentrification. His band Grooms practiced, and recorded at Brooklyn's Death By Audio for seven years (first as Muggabears, then as Grooms) before they were forced out of their spiritual and literal home in November 2014 when DBA shut its doors. A little over a year before, with the band's income not providing enough money to support any of its members, bass player and co-writer Emily Ambruso went on hiatus from the band, leaving Johnson as the only original member. Despite these unfortunate blows, Johnson soldiered on, soon recruiting Jay Heiselmann on bass, and actor/comedian Steve Levine on drums. After months of experimenting with sound collages, samples, and electronic beats, the band recorded an obsessively detailed and melodically complex album, with a heavy focus on mood and texture. Unlike their previous album Infinity Caller (which Speedy Ortiz's Sadie Dupuis called "...an exercise in explosion and restraint hallmarked by sweeping guitars, stuttery drums, and cryptic, airy vocals...") many of the songs on Comb... bring the band's rhythm section to the fore, and Johnson's trademark guitar stylings often take a backseat to his psychedelic sample-collages and ambient electronics. Fortunately the new approach works, balancing pop structures with masterful experimental production that shifts in tone and color in harmony with Johnson's tales of acceptance, loneliness, and impotent violence. On Comb..., that violence is most evident on "Something Wild", a song about destroying the high-priced waterfront condos that contribute to the rising cost of living in neighborhoods like Williamsburg and Greenpoint, and then feeling conflicted about it. Love is the subject matter on "Bed Version" (a song which Johnson describes as "a fantasy about seeing the joy in my girlfriend's face as she realizes she's not cosmically alone."), and the album becomes wistful on "Cross Off" (a remembrance and longing for the good old days when Ambruso was still an active member of the band), but even on these songs Levine's alternately Krautrock and Elvin Jones-inspired drums, and Heiselmann's propulsive bass help to maintain the album's intense atmosphere. Album standouts like "Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair" and "Doctor M" deliver head-bobbing pop hooks as Johnson ponders his long-term struggle with addiction, while other songs, "Savage Seminar," "Will the Boys?," and "Grenadine Scene from Inside," explore the thoughts, and feelings of fictional characters in the films Magnolia, Lost Boys, and Steel Magnolias, respectively. Whether singing from a fictional or personal perspective, Johnson's songs on Comb... are all loosely about letting go of bitterness and resentment. Like the Brooklyn neighborhood where he lives and works, his internal real estate is constantly being reevaluated, razed, and rebuilt. Fortunately his personal growth has yielded an album that attentive listeners will find relatable and consistently rewarding.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION • Canvas Media is handling a US press campaign
TRACK LIST 01 Bed Version
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02 Comb The Feelings Through Your Hair 3:53 03 Cross Off
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04 Something Wild
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05 Doctor M
6:09
06 Half Cloud
2:36
07 Will the Boys?
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08 Savage Seminar
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09 Grenadine Scene From Inside
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10 Foster Sister
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11 Later A Dream
5:14
PRESS QUOTES "…a revelation -- dynamic, hooky, energetic!" PITCHFORK "The ’90s indie rock lashings of Grooms, add a reminder to dust off your Polvo/SY LPs" STEREOGUM "...some of the most exciting new sounds the Kings County has to offer.” POP MATTERS
• The band will tour throughout 2015 in support of Comb… LP UPC 656605466217
CD UPC 656605466224
• Grooms have shared bills with Dirty Projectors, St. Vincent, Dan Deacon, Japandroids, Tuneyards, Wavves, Surfer Blood, Real Estate, Erykah Badu (for real), Woods, Kurt Vile, A Place to Bury Strangers, Ted Leo, Wye Oak, Ponytail, Joan of Arc, and more Release Date FEBRUARY 17, 2015
Formats LP / CD
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Box Lots LP 30 / CD 30
Catalog Number WV127
Genre POP / INDIE
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IN TALL BUILDINGS DRIVER
WV128 • LP / CD / MP3 RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 17, 2015
ABOUT THIS RECORD Erik Hall worked patiently and solitarily for four years to craft Driver, his sophomore album as In Tall Buildings. Produced between his home studio in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago and a 60's farmhouse in Leelanau County, Michigan, the album comes twenty years after Hall originally fell in love with home recording at age 13 - the year he got his hands on his first multitrack recorder. Raised in downtown Chicago, Hall played drums and guitar in high school rock bands, and then went on to study percussion and audio engineering at the University of Michigan. While in college he joined the avant afro-funk band NOMO and met His Name is Alive's Warn Defever, who produced many of the band's albums. Under Defever's tutelage, Hall honed many of the recording and production techniques he would later apply to his solo recordings. As he explains, "I was the guy in the band badgering him with questions throughout the sessions, trying to learn everything I could and then trying it out myself at home." As a multi-instrumentalist and producer Hall eventually went on to record and tour with several groups, including old friends His Name is Alive and, more recently, dream-pop duo Wild Belle, performing the rhythm section tracks and lending an engineering hand to their Columbia Records debut. In 2010 Hall’s home recording efforts yielded the first In Tall Buildings album, which The Huffington Post called "gorgeous indie-pop", and the Chicago Tribune found "hypnotic". In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, he summed up much of his philosophy about composition with a pair of conflicting quotes he attributes to Allen Ginsberg and Kurt Vonnegut, respectively: "First thought, best thought" and "Edit yourself, mercilessly." Loosely guided by these principles, Hall set out once again to assemble a new batch of songs, when he wasn't recording and touring with other bands. In stark contrast to the dense polyrhythms echoed by NOMO's albums, Driver uses a relatively simple palette to create spacious pop songs, leaving plenty of room for Hall's often Peter Gabriel-esque vocals to shine. The music, though culled from every guitar, keyboard, and drum he managed to fit into his home studio, is powerful in it's restrained simplicity, and it's a compelling foil to the haunting gravity of his vocal performance. Never rushed, his melodies deliver elliptical lyrics that manage to feel intimate, while retaining a sense of mystery. Ultimately, the album's melancholic vibe is relatable, rather than moping or histrionic, and in the end these songs are incredibly comforting and inviting.
TRACK LIST 01 Bawl Cry Wail 02 All You Pine 03 Exiled 04 Unmistakable 05 Aloft 06 Flare Gun 07 I’ll Be Up Soon 08 Cedarspeak 09 When You See Me Fall 10 Pouring Out
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PRESS QUOTES "…hypnotic…" CHICAGO TRIBUNE "…a winning mix of folk, chamber-pop, and experimental composition." TIME OUT CHICAGO "…In Tall Buildings' music grabs you immediately." DAYTROTTER "…gorgeous indie-pop." HUFFINGTON POST "In Tall Buildings is the aural representation of a pleasantly scattered mind." AMERICAN SONGWRITER
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION • Pitch Perfect PR is handling a US press campaign • The band is booked by Windish and will tour throughout 2015
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CD UPC 656605466323
• Erik Hall is a member of the Columbia Records band Wild Belle, and spent years as a member of NOMO and His Name Is Alive Release Date FEBRUARY 17, 2015
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Catalog Number WV128
Genre POP / INDIE
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BUNNY LION RED -LP/CD
• Recently unearthed and available for the first time on vinyl! • Includes LP Insert with unreleased photos and interviews with Puddy Lion and LInval Thompson • First 300 copies pressed on red vinyl.
Although his lack of touring kept him from being established as a major figure in overground reggae circles, Linval Thompson’s work as a singer, songwriter and producer is essential to Jamaican music. Between 1977 and 1979, he released five solo albums and produced countless artists on the side. Thompson acted as a mentor to many up-and-comers, including Junjo Lawes, Scientist, and Eek-AMouse.
FM-003 01. N a tt y R i s e a nd Shine 02 . Jubila t i o n 03. B unny Li o n at t h e Control 04. G o Ro cke rs 05. B la ck m a n K ingd om 06. Mo n t Zi o n 07 . Ra t Tra p 08. B ub bling D u b 09. Ili e 10. Hea r t a nd S o ul
As dancehall became more prominent in the late 1970s, Thompson began to offer up his rhythms to sound system deejays. The mysterious deejay LP, Bunny Lion Red was originally released on London’s Starlight records in 1979. Little was written about the album at the time; however, we have uncovered that Bunny Lion is in fact the legendary Puddy Roots of Killamanjaro Soundsystem fame.
Red features ten grooving Thompson Sound rhythms voiced by Puddy. This is the earliest documented work of the criminally under-recorded Puddy Roots. It’s also the perfect gateway record for anyone curious about dub, roots reggae, or dancehall.
RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 17th, 2015 GENRE: REGGAE / DUB/ DANCEHALL
LP UPC: 817949010287 LP FORMAT: 12” LP + MP3s LP BOXLOT: 45 EXPORT: WORLD VINYL NON-RETURNABLE CD UPC: 817949010362 CD FORMAT: JEWEL CASE CD BOXLOT: 30 EXPORT: WORLD Omnian Music Group 195 Calyer St. (Ground Level / Downstairs) Brooklyn, NY 11222 www.omnianmusicgroup.com phone: 1.718.609.0870
ERIC CHENAUX Skullsplitter CD / 180gLP / DL
RELEASE DATE: 17 FEBRUARY 2015
“I’m in love…a sound that is both distant and dreamlike (guitar) and present and natural (voice).” – Stephen Mejias / Stereophile
“Just those perfect things, guitar and voice - coaxed & shattered & sublimated & splintered & mirrored & burned to ash.” – Said The Gramophone "Chenaux combines meticulous songcraft with experimental instincts, so no matter how pretty or tuneful a piece is, he adds compelling layers of noise and texture, shaped with an improviser's sense of adventure." – Peter Margasak
Eric Chenaux has emerged as one of the most distinctive, innovative and original voices in what might be called avant-garde balladry, juxtaposing his gorgeously pure and open singing against a guitar sound and style that truly stands alone. Skullsplitter is the impressive new album that confirms Chenaux’s singular aesthetic: genuine, natural, unaffected vocals gliding through slow, smoky melodies while electric and nylon-string guitars are deployed with adventurously experimental, dextrous, semi-improvisational technique and texture. Skullsplitter stands as a welcome and natural evolution from Chenaux’s previous song-based album Guitar & Voice (2012), his first properly solo record for Constellation (i.e. made without guest musicians or collaborators), which was widely celebrated as his best work to date, championed by The Wire, Said The Gramophone, Stereophile and others for its unique sensibility and sensitivity. Skullsplitter builds on these strengths and similarly consists solely of Chenaux’s voice and guitar. When Eric plays guitar, his feet are as busy as his hands (though his hands can keep busy too, as heard on a number of wonderfully fried solos and instrumental excursions on the album); he is continually working his concise array of signalbending devices – volume, wah and freeze pedals – with a remarkable and idiosyncratic fluidity that’s integral to the expressivity he brings to the instrument. His voice is the calm center of this stormy micro-climate of bodily kinetics and woozy playing; indeed, “warm weather” is a metaphor Chenaux has used to describe his music in the past, and it seems ever more suitable as his sound evolves: his vocals are like a high pressure system, riding on clear bright air,, stabilizing the roiling, changeable atmosphere of the guitars underneath. Skullsplitter is the apotheosis of this evolving tension between the two constituent elements of Chenaux’s solo songcraft, where the guitar seems constantly in search of disruption or escape from an accompaniment role. Or perhaps more fittingly, it often sounds as if Chenaux’s singing voice and the voice of the guitar just happen to be wandering through the same tune, with their own independent ideas of the route they’ll be taking. Yet the songs remain surprisingly, almost effortlessly coherent, and with a languorous groove; the album unfolds like a weirdly bubbling but warmly welcoming bath. Additional familiarity, for fans of the Chenaux songbook, might come from the (barely recognizable) re-interpretations of two ‘old’ songs, “Have I Lost My Eyes” and the album’s title track itself. Chenaux also has a long history of sonic experimentation through sound-art commissions and collaborations, with analog signal capture through natural oscillation and wave distortion, site-specificity and environmental sound. Working closely with his longtime recording engineer Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, Chenaux brings this experience to bear on the production side of Skullsplitter as well, with the use of physically swinging speakers and radical gating and panning to tease out further fluctuations in the barometer of the guitar sound. The result is a gem of an album in Chenaux’s increasingly luminous discography.
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TRACKLIST: 01. Have I Lost My Eyes? 02. The Pouget 03. Skullsplitter 04. My Romance 05. Spring Has Been A Long Time Coming 06. The Henri Favourite 07. Poor Time 08. Le Vieux Favori 09. Summer & Time GENRE: Indie Rock / Avant-Folk DURATION : 42:06 CD IN 100% RECYCLED GATEFOLD PAPERBOARD JACKET VINYL IS NON-RETURNABLE 180gLP INCLUDES ART PRINT POSTER + DL COUPON NO EXPORT TO ISRAEL
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S. CAREY SUPERMOON Fire-scene (alt. version) We Fell (alt. version) Supermoon In the Stream (alt. version) Neverending Fountain (alt. version) Bullet Proof.. I Wish I Was
CATALOG #: JAG264 RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 17, 2015 FORMAT: LP/DIGITAL LP BOX LOT: 25 GENRE: AVANT FOLK / INDIE ROCK KEY MARKETS: CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, MINNEAPOLIS, EAU CLAIRE, NEW YORK CITY, BROOKLYN, PORTLAND, LOS ANGELES, SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: NONE VINYL NOT RETURNABLE
Recorded primarily during the perigee-syzygy (also known as the super moon) of August 2014, the Supermoon EP from S. Carey is a study in scale, space, and proximity. These songs are a new and closer look into existing works from both S. Carey's renowned full-lengths, 2010's All We Grow and 2014's Range of Light. With Supermoon, Carey has broken these songs down to their essential, acoustic parts with his forever humming vocals laid over top, lilting yet percussive piano, and a subtle swath of harmonic strings. You can hear Carey's breath between words and the pat of his fingers on the keys; you can hear the living room in which his family's baby grand piano sits. These songs are beautiful, intimate and so potently personal. This collection is a stark presentation of S. Carey laid bare, an open invitation for the listener to climb into his world. One particularly poignant piece is the re-imagined Range of Light closer, "Neverending Fountain," perhaps an apt metaphor for the life of the songs themselves. Says Carey, "The longer you spend with a song, the more you can see it in its pure form." Supermoon also features a heartrending cover of "Bullet Proof.. I Wish I Was" from Radiohead's classic album The Bends, and a new song, the EP's namesake, "Supermoon," which takes its inspiration, like much of Carey's work, from the natural world around him. Another source of inspiration quoted by Carey is the excitement of working out arrangements for pre-existing songs on the spot, for various sessions on tour. He brought that spirit to the recording of Supermoon, which took place over the course of a single weekend. Already known as an artist of impeccable craft, S. Carey worked with long-time friends and collaborators (Mike Noyce played viola, Zach Hanson engineered, mixed, and mastered) to add a chapter to the still unfolding story of Sean Carey as an artist. We can hear the songwriting, singing and performance for what it truly is; understated, true and pure beauty.
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- S. Careyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debut album All We Grow has scanned over 13k to date - A West Coast US tour is planned in coordination of this release, as well as various house show dates and Midwestern dates
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Numero Group Alan Watts: This Is It
Catalog Number: NUM 1231 Artist: Alan Watts Title: This Is It Release Date: 02/17/15 UPC: LP 825764603119 Available formats: LP Genre: psychedelic Box Lot: LP:35 Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl is not returnable Track Listing
Psychedelic music all began with the tiniest possible bang: a minuscule pressing of a self-produced LP by Zen Buddhist scholar Alan Watts. In one cosmic flash of inspiration and group improvisation, the next two decades of musical innovation was pre-supposed: psychedelic rock, spiritual jazz, and even new age. As this micro pressing barely made it out of the ashram, it was his writings that actually spread his ideas, usually through osmosis: he was profoundly influential on the beat poets and the subsequent counter-culture. He became the forebear of ‘60s counter-culture’s spirituality, much as William Burroughs was the forebear of its hedonism. Released in 1962, This Is It is an imaginative cacophony of percussion, non-verbal chanting, and free-flowing expression, punctuated occasionally by leisurely passes at a terrestrial piano, marimba, or french horn. It is at once, experimental, intellectual, and experiential. Three years before Ken Kesey’s inaugural Acid Test, This Is It! constitutes the first transmission for a tunedin counterculture of hippies, beats, and psychedelic revolutionaries of all stripes.
Side 1 1. Love You 2. Onion Giant 3. Gagaku-ku 4. Fingernail Poem 5. Umdagumsubudu Side 2 6. Metamatic Ritual 7. The End
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