B-Music Label

BEARDED LADIES - VARIOUS ARTISTS
AND JANE WEAVER 'CHERLOKALATE
(BMS008 and BMS009 - OUT NOW)

Effervescent songbird Jane Weaver has joined forces with Finders Keepers to produce a B-Music certified canon of femme-folk, laden with finger picked
This bespoke globe-trotting decade spanning collection traces a line between the acid soaked protest rumblings of yesteryear and the forward looking/backward facing revivalists of today.

Featuring Wendy & Bonnie, Susan Christie, Bonnie Dobson, Brigitte Fontaine, Jane Weaver (B-Music), Cate Le Bon, Selda (unreleased), Heaven & Earth, Lights (Produced by ESPERS' Greg Weeks), Speck Mountain, Heather Jones, Turid, and more.

Jane Weaver is a unique and seasoned voice and player, standing out amongst the ranks of femme singer-songwriters. For her debut US album, fans of Mazzy Star, Broadcast, Nico, Doves, Savath y Savalas, and Mia Doi Todd will not be disappointed.

“John Cale inflected heroin-chic, that trips and drips and pulls you down on a trip to the delta South. Moments of eerie tranquility that are like echoes across a room haunted by childhood and ice cream vans” – AngryApe



VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS
VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS
(BMS007 - OUT NOW)

For those who wanted to hear the heart-wrenching ramblings of another finger-picking twat in a John Martyn T-shirt while basking in the sun at another low maintenance / highly accessible 'chill out' festival or lightweight ‘folk’ event - you might as well move along… there's nothing to see here

Though, there is a reason why a Voice of the Seven Woods gig stands out like a sore thumb, and you can guarantee he'll be asked back next time.....

An unnamed elderly guitar repairman at a reputable music shop in South Lancashire, UK is usually a mild-mannered character, but thanks to Rick Tomlinson this nimble-fingered technician is slowly coming to his wit's end. The fact that this reluctant leading light of the fickle 'nu-folk' movement has literally smashed his way out of a tight pigeonhole using his trusty wooden axe as a battering ram is evident by the blood-stained frets. But this is only part of the old man's concern. It's actually Rick's latest requests to make this handcrafted German guitar sound like a mutant instrument from the Middle East that are really eating him alive. Rick actually wants his strings to rattle and buzz.

Legendary Anatolian protest singer Selda has already donated a Turkish electric saz to Rick's un-blinkered cause. And at recent gigs, when his guitar has been in surgery, his replacement sitar and oud have become trusty substitutes. Rick's collection of kraut rock, South American psych and Turkish acid rock LPs, has also clearly played a large part in his inspired current output. He has also played live with TWO members of seminal Krautrockers 'Can', built up a hefty daytime bar tab in Wales with the legendary Meic Stevens and has backed lost West Coast folk/pop luminaries Wendy and Bonnie.

Add this to twelve months of shared stage space playing culturally disparate music with the likes of Acid Mothers Temple, Dead Meadow, Espers, Chris Corsano and Thurston Moore, and it's evident that Mr. Tomlinson's puerile approach to traditional musicianship is actually re-constructing musical bridges as opposed to destroying them. Perhaps it's Voice of the Seven Woods who is the real musical repair man in this equation.



SAROLTA ZALATNAY
SAROLTA ZALATNAY
(BMS006 - OUT NOW)

"One night in Budapest, at Serge Gainsbourg's Eurovision aftershow. the Meters storm in. Then Zalatnay grabs the mike. Psych." - BOB STANLEY (SAINT ETIENNE)

""For years suspicious DJ's have asked me why I go to Hungary to buy my Records - Well here's the answer. Spanning multiple decades and genres Cliff Richards sexy Hungarian cousin gives Marrianne and Cilla a psychedelic run for their money." - DJ FORMAT

19 Stomping selections by Hungarian jet-set fit-bit. Eastern Europes most vivacious sexual secret piles heavy psych/jazz/glam and funk onto a heaped spoonful dripping with the cream of the 70's Hungarian rock scene - OMEGA, METRO. LOCOMOTIV GT AND SKORPIO.

Also available soon from the B-MUSIC US on-line shop

Discography

.. Jean Claude Vannier L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches (BMS001)	..Susan Christie Paint A Lady (BMS002)
Mustafa Ozkent Genclik Ile Elele (BMS003)	Selda Selda (BMS004)
.. Lubos Fiser Valerie And Her Week Wonders (BMS005)	Sarolta Zalatnay Sarolta Zalatnay (BMS006)
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.. Voice Of The Seven Woods Voice Of The Seven Woods (BMS007)	COMING SOON MUCH MORE HEAVY MUSIC!!!

B-Music is an independent collective of DJs, musicians, and music lovers dedicated to the obsessive and painstaking pursuit of obscure, obsolete, exquisitely obnoxious, unbelievable, underexposed and undeniably delectable discs of experimental pop music from the psyched out 60’s and 70’s and beyond.

Centered around a global eponymous traveling club and a home base residency in Manchester UK (spearheaded by Andy Votel and Dominic Thomas) with a newfound habitat in NYC and LA:

B-Music has evolved to embrace the triple-label aesthete of the Finders Keepers, Delay 68, and Twisted Nerve labels while representing a passionate, un-blinkered approach to the culmination of way-out sounds, bugged-out cinema, design and literature; encompassing all elements of off-kilter counter-culture.

Following in the very same footsteps as the mind boggling "Music To Watch Girls Cry" and "Songs In The Key Of Death" DJ mixes for Fat City Records and the original 5-star rated Finders Keepers compilation LP in 2001, Manchester based vinyl-vulture, graphic designer, recording artist and producer Andy Votel has enlisted the skills of fellow B-Music DJ and designer Dominic Thomas, Delay 68's Rare Disc Detective Doug Shipton and LA / NYC based multi-musicalingual henchwoman Mahssa Taghinia to form a team of psychedelic librarians and cosmic-pop-quiz-elitists to run their new-ish Twisted Nerve distant sister-labels, leaving no progressive pebble unturned or record collection un-rifled. B-Music perhaps embodies what could be 'accidental world music labels' with a definite punk aesthetic and DJ friendly ethos which allows the desperate listener to sit back while we deliver schizoid cultural channel-hopping compilations and rocking-horse-shit & hen's-teeth re-releases to the comfort of your psych-starved living room:

Findes Keepers is a record label 40 years in the making, introducing fans of psychedelic / jazz / folk / funk / avant-garde and whacked-out movie muzak to a lost world of undiscovered vinyl artifacts from the annals of alternative pop history - catering to record collectors, DJ-producers, and enthusiasts alike with a huge emphasis on sample friendly soundscapes, rock steady back-beats and primitive electronic experimentalism. Discerning purveyors of the bizarre and abnormal yet strangely genial should expect the Japanese choreography records, space-age Turkish protest songs, Czechoslovakian vampire soundtracks, Welsh rare-beats, bubblegum folk, drugsploitation operatics, banned British crime thrillers, celebrity Gallic Martini adverts, Persian Nuggets, and endless Midsommar ‘trips’ amongst others ... presented on CD, 7" and traditional black plastic discs in authentic packaging.

was founded in late 1997 by Andy Votel and singer-songwriter Damon Gough (Badly Drawn Boy). The label was originally inspired by a wide range of alternative influences such as:

ONE-OFF NORTHERN SOUL RECORD LABELS. EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL LABELS SUCH AS ECM. A REBELLION TO DANCE MUSIC. PUSHING YOUR LUCK. WOODY ALLEN. A HAYLEY MILLS FILM. FRENCH EPS ON PHILIPS AND BARCLAY. A REACTION TO LAZY MUSIC JOURNALISM. A LOVE FOR THE BAND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WARP RECORDS. WURLITZER JUKEBOX RECORDS. MUSIC AND DESIGN IN UNISON. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN. A COTTAGE INDUSTRY. MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING. THE AMOUNT OF MUSIC YOU CAN SQUEEZE ON TO A SEVEN INCH SINGLE. BREAKING DOWN ALL MUSICAL BOUNDARIES AND GENRES. HIP-HOP. B-GRADE U.S. PSYCH BANDS. A PLEASANT SURPRISE AT THE CHEAP COST OF MANUFACTURING JUKEBOX SINGLES IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.

Andy and Damon didn't want to set up a business. They wanted to make five hundred 7" records with cheap two color sleeves and sell them to their friends before the end of the year. They sold the records in less than a month and soon after got embraced, mithered and intimidated by the music industry. They then got another record made and proceeded to put out records by their like-minded friends and then they became a record company, made films, designed graphics and organized events.

Delay 68 is another label specializing in historical and vintage exorcisms, hosted by independent record label Cherry Red and curated by the B-Music crew. Here you will find some of the would-be folk legends that you didn't read about: they never played the festivals and you never heard their records (until today!) and justified challenges to conventional ‘progressive’ musical ideas and ideals with unearthed political-cultural tunes from scattered countries of origin which are as relevant today as they were when the vinyl first came off the presses 30 some years ago. Delay 68 presents the compilations and collections that is pocket testimony to the ones that got away - as well as the ones they didn't want to catch in the first place.

www.b-music.us

CONTACT : doug@finderskeepersrecords.com

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LICENSING ENQUIRIES : Doug Shipton - doug@finderskeepersrecords.com
RADIO + U.S. PRESS + RETAIL INQUIRY : Amanda Colbenson – amanda@choutteshop.com