Pop Levi & The Heavy & The Death Set & Ape School & Spokes
Influences
Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Electric Light Orchestra, The Byrds, Prince, Marvin Gaye, Marc Bolan, Smokey Robinson, Robert Johnson, Syd Barrett, ABBA, John Coltrane, Serge Gainsbourg, Van Dyke Parks, Captain Beefheart, The Carpenters, David Crosby, The Erik Brickland Survival Scheme, Wu Tang Clan, Led Zepelin, Bo Diddley, The Sonics, The Stooges, Tom Waits, Muddy Waters, The Beatles, The Parliaments, Marvin Gaye....
Back in 2006 the good people of Ninja Tune decided they wanted to start a rock label. But not any old, boring, run-of-the-mill rock label. Not a rock label pumping out the latest British indie four piece bands, or carefully crafted facsimiles of classic rawk. Not a label peopled by ironic Hoxtonites playing pisstakes of ACDC. Not a rock label licensing in already-successful US acts and re-packaging them for the UK market. A rock label that took the same irreverent, iconoclastic, vaguely psychedelic attitude towards that type of music as the parent label had taken to various aspects of dance music.
Counter Records is as varied and uncategorisable as the musicians making up the label’s roster. Drawn from Liverpool, the West Country, Wisconsin, Australia, Darlington and so on and living everywhere from Los Angeles to Baltimore to New York as well as London (and, erm, Darlington), the only thing they share in common is their attempts to re-write the rule book of what can be done with their chosen form of expression.
First release on Oxeyedaisy Recordings, in association with Grumpyman Records…
5 track CDEP, Green Leaves & Bare Branches, by Little Scratch. Limited edition run, with hand finished sleeves. Tracks can be previewed on Little Scratch’s myspace page.
“A rare sighting of the excellent Little Scratch, who produce a wonderful, slightly hazy pastoral sound… Psychedelic whimsy with distinctly melancholic overtones”.
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I will be opening for Baby Bash & Frankie J with special guest Paula Deanda in July, 2009 at the El Corazon in Seattle, Wa. at 8 PM. If you can be there, get you tickets now before it sells out. It is for all ages. See you there ~ Vanessa :)
T H A N K Y O U FOR BEING A FRIEND!! Counter Records :) check out "beyond the Milky Way" my new demo!!! please comment me & tell me what u think tnx Golan
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