Salut
From the 6th to the 31st of January we’re having a store wide sale on all bruit direct disques releases.
With 7″ records at 3 euros, older LPs at 9 euros and even a 2 euro knock down on the latest records.
This is crazy
right ?
Salut
Author: Guy M.
Mamitori Ulithi Empress Yonaguni San in Noisey (IT)
Nice review of this wonderful record in the Italian Noisey
read it here
“Gaia Saver 五色 地 図 グ ザ ー ヌ ス Dreaming girl14”, which begins with a delay and a sweet bass line, turns almost immediately into a skein tangled of mutant disco and kraut rock foley, dotted with metal guitars and screeching trumpet, which features the improvised vocal line that makes me think of Damo Suzuki singing a song by Guided By Voices.
fuckin’ record reviews 2015
One of the best blogs out there thought of us in 2015
thanks fuckin’ record reviews !
wonderfuls – only shadows now OUT NOW
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Wonderfuls – Only Shadows Now
12 €Only shadows Now - Robert delivers 10 confessionals that drift around tragedies, hopelessness, failed systems, nonconformity and physical/psychological experiences. Set to the minimalist sparse compositions of Dan McGirr (guitar) and Natasha Buchanan (synth, voice) whose guitar and synthesizer lines entwine around the bleak lyrics and help paint Robert's world of despair and loneliness. Only more downer, time hasn't healed the wounds, they've only become deeper.Add to cart
get it!
The Frightening Lights out now
the record is available in the US at Tedium House and Easter Bilby
via Cargo in the UK and beyond
and in our shop
The Frightening Lights LP out soon
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The Frightening Lights
12 €Soft, caressing and subtly disturbing, Frightening Lights’ songs move like menace through fog. Singer Elizabeth Downey says she first envisioned the songs as a kind of deathbed confession, their violence is carefully suppressed, modulated perhaps through long penitence. Shreds of instrumental sound – a funeral organ, an offkilter accordion, discordant bowing on a borrowed danbo – flit in and out of the peripheries, creating eerie, flickery landscapes around Downey’s sleepy murmurs. "It’s a strong mix of a contemporary sound offset in traces of the avant-garde, and though the comparisons to Mazzy Star and Opal are strong, they don’t detract from what this duo has to offer." (Still Single)Add to cart
Next release on the label is Australians The Frightening Lights (Elizabeth Downey, Dan Hawkins) 1st LP.
Here are tracks from the LP
stay tuned!
Sky Needle european tour
Throughout September 2013 SKY NEEDLE will perform a series of concerts across Europe. Many of the shows will be with pals MAD NANNA. The history of Australian music has lead to this moment.
The tour is in support of the new SKY NEEDLE LP ‘DEBASED SHAPES’ released on French label Bruit Direct Disques.
The touring band is
Sarah Byrne – vox, percussion
Daniel Jenatsch – string panel
Joel Stern – leghorn, electronics
Alex Cuffe – speaker box bass
Michael Donnelly – debris
Glen Schenau – rhythms
DATES
September 11th 2013 – London UK
Upset The Rhythm presents
SKY NEEDLE, MAD NANNA, PHEROMOANS
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/sky-needle-mad-nanna-the-pheromoans.shtm
Cafe Oto
September 12th 2013 – Sheffield UK
SKY NEEDLE, MAD NANNA, SWEAT TONGUE
http://www.theaudaciousartexperiment.com/
Audacious Art Space
September 13th 2013 – Brighton UK
SKY NEEDLE, MAD NANNA, SWEAT TONGUE, DYLAN NYOUKIS, PHEROMOANS, MEN OH PAUSE
https://www.facebook.com/events/433580680082523/
Cowley Club
September 14th 2013 – Manchester UK
SKY NEEDLE, MAD NANNA, SWEAT TONGUE
http://goldenlabrecords.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/events/211779052318569/
Dulcimer Hotel
September 15th 2013 – Bristol UK
SKY NEEDLE, MAD NANNA, many more
https://www.facebook.com/events/169216453261192/
SHHH FESTIVAL, Bristol Folk House
September 18th 2013 – Tilburg, Netherlands
SKY NEEDLE, GHÉDALIA TAZARTÈS’
http://incubate.org/2013/line-up/161/sky-needle
Incubate Festival, Paradox
September 19th 2013 – Rotterdam Netherlands
Worm Presents
SKY NEEDLE, MAD NANNA
http://roodkapje.org/worm-presents-sky-needle-mad-nanna-19-09-2013/
Roodkapje
September 20th 2013 – Amsterdam Netherlands
SKY NEEDLE, MAD NANNA, SWEAT TONGUE
Occii
September 21st 2013 – Hasselt Belgium
KRAAK presents Australian Open
SKY NEEDLE, MAD NANNA, SWEAT TONGUE, JOEL STERN, UNWAR, MAAN
http://www.kraak.net/en/events/
KC Belgie
September 23rd and 24th 2013 – Bricquebec France
SKY NEEDLE, MAD NANNA
Bricquebec Farmhouse
September 25th 2013 – Caen France
SKY NEEDLE, MAD NANNA
http://ecuyes.blogspot.com/
September 26th 2013 – Paris France
LE NON JAZZ + SDZ EN COLLABORATION AVEC LES INSTANTS CHAVIRÉS
SKY NEEDLE, MAD NANNA, BILL DIREEN
http://www.instantschavires.com/spip.php?article862
Instants Chavires
September 28th 2013 – Berlin, Germany
Noisekoln presents
SKY NEEDLE, MAD NANNA, GENEVA JACUZZI
https://www.facebook.com/events/562526287143757/
Urban Spree
September 29th 2013 – Berlin, Germany
SKY NEEDLE, MAD NANNA, KRAPOOLA
http://www.ausland-berlin.de/skyneedle-mad-nanna
Ausland
FIN
debased shapes review at volcanic tongue
Second full-length album from this amazing Australian homemade instruments orchestra, now upgraded to a seven piece big band: Debased Shapes is a revelation, with the group moving on from the weirdo Sun Ra/Moondog hands-on DIY improvisations of their first album into a liminal zone of left field pop synthesis and ‘debased’ songcraft. Parts of this beautiful album almost sound like a Scratch Orchestra re-imagining of the early Rough Trade sound, stuff like the Raincoats or even The Swell Maps re-crafted for clunky hands-on sound sculptures, with female vocals somehow directing every squawk and dunt towards a vision of psychedelic pop that comes out of invention more than technique. There’s still a dazzling afro-primitive free jazz feel to the choruses of honking geese and thrifty percussion but they feel more like hallucinatory song forms here, true DIY imaginings of heavenly pop hits. A stunning amalgam of sound sculpture, improvised percussive freak out and super personal pop vision. Still no one like them, highly recommended!
All text copyright © David Keenan/Volcanic Tongue unless otherwise noted
sky needle new lp debased shapes OUT NOW
the new record has arrived at our place
buy it here
soon landing at volcanic tongue, infinite limits, little big chief and tedium house!
Sky Needle – Debased Shapes ready
We are now ready to take pre-orders for this new record, which ties in nicely with their european tour due to start on Sept 11th at Cafe Oto in London.
The record will be distributed by Little Big Chief and Tedium House/Revolver in the USA, Volcanic Tongue and Infinite Limits in the UK, the band in Australia on their retrun in October and us right here in our new shop where you will find all our previous releases and can save with combined shipping..
Here’s a splendid extract from the Lp, video by Alex Cuffe who plays what looks like a wooden bass or somethin’ in the band