LONDON BASED EVENTS & LABEL SET UP IN 2006 TO RELEASE NEW MUSIC, SMALL RUN PRINT EDITIONS & VIDEO.
OUT NOW ON CD & PAY-WHAT-YOU-LIKE DOWNLOAD!!
K*CD004 - ALAK "Clarinettis Qoonotations: Too Many Notes" fucking preternatural and the golden weave of g-nashing teeth
"Clarinettis Qoonotations: Too Many Notes." fucking preternatural and golden weave of g-nashing teeth, is the long awaited new full-length release from California-based musician Jocelyn Noir's ALAK (formerly Alas, alak, Alaska!).
Noir's album is permeated by a strange Gothic air. A heavy, hanging dark smoke that twists and turns itself into animated baroque swirls, occasionally clearing to reveal a blindingly clear light.
This is a special record.
Running time: 42m
(I) Alas, runners., (II) Because surprises change so little, (III) Finick While Clicking It's Fingers, (4) burning circles, (V) Tha Ginseng Jissup, (VV) Key Drum Catawba, (OO) pumpkin teeth are soft but have low low brass-o., (8) Juniper the Arrows, (9) Crystal Power Attack, (X) Wooleathe Mneathe, (11) Tragos Ode, (XII) STARK FOOL (STRAW PYRAMID), (13) Tha Eighther
Available now on CD or pay-what-you-like download
Compact Disc comes deluxe-packaged in a 7" sleeve with foldout poster, reproduction etching & Tyvek CD envelope.
£7 (including worldwide P&P)
High quality pay-what-you-like download with cover art etc & full stream of the album available from here:
K*CD002 comes courtesy of Nina Canell & Robin Watkins in the form of a 2-disc CD album. Working under many different names across different releases and within the same record means you could know them already as The New Heat, Obscured by Light, Luftkluster, Luftfluks, or in this case, Champagne Diamond/The Brilliant Light.
This is the first time their material will be available on CD, after two vinyl-only releases on Oscillatone and most recently, the vinyl version of this release on CAFF/FLICK.
Across the delicate and lovingly produced album, bittersweet boy-girl vocals interweave with found sounds, minimal guitar lines, and numerous bits of exotic instrumentation to devastating effect.
The reverse of the release sports a list of soundmaking devices that reads like the components of some kind of incantory ritual, spanning from the traditional - acoustic guitar, Chinese hand-drum - to the mysteriously ambiguous - water, BKC bicycle - and the specifically strange - Marsona Sleep Machine, Mr Riyaz Tabla Machine.
Well, the spell seems to have worked, leaving traces of strange magic all over this intimate and singular release.
Running time: 37m 16s
Disc One: (1) Champagne Diamond, (2) Scatter & Yearn, (3) Fly The Radio Sky, (4) Rot, Get Soft, (5) Separate Members, (6) Build & Leave
Disc Two: (1) Morasko Circle, (2) Red Earth, (3) Moro the Black Dog
Comes packaged in a 7" sleeve with a foldout poster & Tyvek CD envelopes
£7 (including worldwide P&P)
COMING SOON!
K*CD003 - 14 Ways to push air
The hugely anticipated Kaleidoscope compilation, including songs from ALAK, Sculpture, Karen Gwyer, patten, Desolation Wilderness, Roj, 4tRECK, The Lickets, Champagne Diamond/The Brilliant Light, Arch M, Julianna Barwick. PLUS more to be announced!
Comes packaged in a 7" sleeve with a foldout poster & Tyvek CD envelope
More details to be announced soon.
FREE! Aether Series
K*AE001 - Arch M "Mountain-Tan Commercials"
This free 7 track release from Arch M marks the launch of our download-only Aether series. A collaborative/split release with Kaleidoscope & Cavern, "Mountain Tan Commercials" comes ahead of Arch M's 12" vinyl release "Moon-Tan", due soon on the Cavern label.
Over 7 gorgeous tracks, concise electric guitar figures gleam with soft distortion and a luscious reverb. Clattering percussion falls around with unrestrained urgency, and a precision that belies it's apparent spontenaiety. Melodies - like old friends fondly remembered - swim in your head long after the ecstatic nine minutes is over.
Running time: 9m 6s
(1) Cat Grave, (2) Mountain Tan, (3) Not Enough, (4) In the Mountain, (5) Cremation Procession, (6) Bad Take, (7) Bdrm band at caf nva
Click the image to download.
Also available as a limited edition audio tape version from: corey@ccaavveerrnn.org
OUT NOW!
K*CD001 - patten "There were Horizons"
17 tracks of gentle instrumentals peppered with simple electronics, found sound and various delicate instrumentation from the schoolroom sounds of nylon strung guitar, zither and glockenspiel to the Arabic Rebab. The whole record has the feel of a long lost tape, with it's subtle pitch modulations and hazy production evoking a series of blurry memories, recalled through the hiss and sun-bleached weathering of time.
Running time: 50m 47s
(1) Galapagos, (2) Memory pictures, (3) Glossary, (4) Two hands writing, (5) Never never, (6) Restless peak, (7) Ice crystals, (8) Poor Madeline/a wanderer's dream, (9) Cycles, (10) Skydive, (11) Comma, (12) The Bullrushes, (13) Bridges, (14) Seesaw, (15) The Diver, (16) Forget Tuesday, (17) u + i
Comes packaged in a 7" sleeve with a foldout poster & Tyvek CD envelope
- All the bands set up at the same time along the perimeter of the room with the audience in the center - Each band does one song at a time, no breaks, back to back to back etc., until the show is completed - There is no headliner or opener, no front row or back of the room
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”.
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”.
1: Artificial Color Visual (SPERMWHALES) 2: GANJAHEAD (SPERMWHALES) 3: Hang in there god loves you joke song (SPERMWHALES) 4: BIRDSONG (SPERMWHALES) 5: OH! THAT HUM! (SPERMWHALES AND THE SHY VIOLET) 6: SHOOT ME (THE SHY VIOLET) 7: WAKE ME (THE SHY VIOLET) 8: SUMMER RAIN (THE SHY VIOLET)
