Hi! We have a great offer...celebrating the upcoming release of Fermentæ (late 2008), for the purchasing of 2 (or more) releases from our catalogue, you´ll receive a free copy of the 3´cd "Diaspora"... consisting of a solitary track performed via. bass/ guitars, field recordings and percussion being recorded in parts throughout '06 - '07 onto primitive ZIP disk via Roland 8-track. A 19m45s passage of unwavering ambience, chaotic disintegration and return towards peace in discord. Limited stock!! + Check the catalogue for new distro releases: Burial Hex, Silvester Anfang & Dead Raven Choir...and more coming next week. + Listening: .Kevin Drumm "Imperial Distortion" .Pau Torres "Los Amputados" .Climax Golden Twins "Session 9"Two night ago, I saw one of the best show since I´m here in Toronto: The Brothers Unconnected: A tribute to Charles Gocher & Sun City Girls. Check the dates and try to see it!! for tour dates check: www.suncitygirls.com/news/ Also really interesting: www.charlesgocher.com Lots of interesting merch on sale at the shows!!
New stuff added to the catalogue: Burial Hex, Sink, Aluk Todolo, R.Y.N, Halo Manash, SILBERNACHT (probably the best release I´ve heard in the last 5 years!! ambient composition a la David Lynch/Angelo Badalamenti "Mullholland Drive"). Current Ambience: -Ascend "Ample Fire Within" -Fred Frith "Clearing" -Ocrilim "Anoint" -Ornette Coleman "The Complete Science Fiction Sessions" -Yngwie J. Malmsteen´s "Rising Force" -Climax Golden Twins "Victrola Favorites"
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Etude Records proudly presents Kevin Yuen's alter ego: FERMENTÆ. "eardrum death tantrum(s) in the negative human-hive : captured via + New series on Utech Records: the "URSK" series. A collaboration between Utech Records and visual artist Stephen Kasner. "The foundation of the series is the belief that a visual device can bind a disparate body of music in a meaningful way" + More obscure sound archives on his way for next weeks from Aurora Borealis, Burial Hex, Ajna Offencive, Aural Hypnox, etc... Current Playlist: - Vio-Lence "Oppressing the Masses" - Burial Hex "st" - Diamanda Galas "The Litanies of Satan" - Greg Malcolm "Homesick for Nowhere" |
Julian Cope say:
"Okay, as regulars to this reviews section will by now have guessed, whenever I have a yen to opt out of life and crawl into the back of my mind, I often find Israeli noise the most suitably discomforting. However, I have this month been fending off psychic attack with the slightly less offensive sounds of ÉPICYCLE by the Portuguese artist Alfredo Costa Monteiro. An enormous and diesel-powered Soviet space freighter low on fuel and crewed by North Korean retards so Luddite they think the remains of last night’s rice supper might get the engines sputtering into life again, that’s what this record sounds like. For endless repetition only, this one. Unfortunately, at least from what little I know about Monteiro, this new release appears to be highly unrepresentative of his regular style. Well all I can say is this shit stinks so bad we need several latrines-full more. Bring on the boxed set, Lord Alfredo, and don’t forget the accompanying free largactyl syringe! In the meantime, this icky ointment is available on Barcelona’s Etude Records."
From the WIRE Magazine, Alfredo Costa Monteiro "Épicycle" opinion: "Alfredo Costa Monteiro is a Barcelona based artist who works across the spectrum from sound art to visual art after moving out of a sculpture/mixed media background. If that suggests a certain restlessness, his discography bears that out: Paper Music (2001) was generated entirely from paper-sourced sounds, while Rumeur (2004) was also a solo accordion work. Epicycle is an exercise in voice processing, produced entirely using Monteiro´ voice, filtered and reshaped by software. Not that you can really tell: Monteiro renders it into crackles, buzz, gales of static, and even at one point a bass rumble that threatens to erupt into Merzbow-style power electronics. Only the faintest traces implying a human larynx are detectable. Epicycle has a proise and organisation which you could call sculptural as much as musical or tonal, but it feels dogged by a certain flatness, an interest in form above all else, that makes for an overly pro-faced atmosphere."
More reviews added at the release section.
We´ve been moving from barcelona to toronto (canada), a great change ! extreme weather malfunction, snow storms, etc...but lovely city and some great upcoming news. Catalogue has been update with small treasure and more news will follow shortly, including some new (and free) mp3 piece by turntable wizard Mike Hansen and the secret piece "The Fox" by Pau Torres. Currently brain food: -Marc Ribot "Exercices in Furtility" -Harvey Milk "Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men (Reissue)" -Merzbow "Merzbear"
01|22|2008
Great success at the Etude Records showcase/party!, beautifull live sets by Agustí, Ferran, Jose Luis and Alfredo. Best way to start 2008. Thanks to everybody who came!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
01|03|2008
Finally! 3 new releases added to the catalogue: Alfredo Costa Monteiro "Épicycle", Tomasz Krakowiak "La ciutat ets tu", and Jose Luis Redondo "La reponse est aux pieds". Also let you know, we´re having a release party/label showcase on Thursday 15 January at Antic Teatre (C/Verdaguer i Callis, 12), with live shows by Ferran Fages, Agustí Martínez, Alfredo Costa Monteiro and Jode Luis redondo. You´re more than welcome!!!!!
12|04|2007
Sorry for the lack of info during last month! We´ve been busy working on the upcoming 3 new releases
on Etude Records. On december 15 Alfredo Costa Monteiro release "Épicycle" will be available in two
limited version of the design including amazing metalic pantone red or brown colors.
Later it will be available two new releases, etude015 by polish/canadian musician Tomasz Krakowiak
"La ciutat ets tu" and etude016 by catalan guitar/composer Jose Luis Redondo "La reponse est aux pieds".
10|18|2007
Back from a great visit to Lithuania (kaunas & Vilnius)...lot of smoked cheese and soups! Catalogue has been update with some incredible stuff by people on Brasil Essence-Music,incredible design packagin for BORIS soundtrack from the film "Mabuta no Ura", including nice set of pictures from their recent tour in europe + more goodies. Also the dark ambient of NORDVARGR "In Oceans Abandoned by Life I Drown... to Live Again as Servant of Darkness". Also added to the catalogue is some extreme releases from Malasya by GOH LEE KWANG and his label Herval Records. In the next weeks there will be more stuff added from labels like Archive (including their new DVD section), the new volumes on the Arc Series by Utech Records, the 4 cd boxe by Lasse Marhaug "Tapes 1990-1999" + more.
10|03|2007
Preview design of the upcoming releases by Alfredo Costa Monteiro "Épicycle" (Etude014) and
Tomasz Krakowiak "La ciutat ets tu" (Etude015):
They will be available end October 2007. Also lots of new stuff will be added at the catalogue section in the next few days
(Boris, Goh Lee Kwang, Nordvargr,etc...). In other news, great review by Brian Olewnick of "Cançons per a un lent retard"
by Ferran Fages at the Bagatellen site (http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/reviews/001792.html).
Next week, Ferran Fages first release on Etude "Cançons per a un lent retard" will be available on stock.
An amazing 71 minutes into 9 tracks of acoustic guitar. We´re very excited!!!!! also more new stuff coming
after the summer...."Epicycle" by Alfredo Costa Monteiro will be released and more and more news before
the end of 2007!
Also next week, the catalogue will be updated with some amazing releases! Stay tuned!
CURRENT PLAYLIST:
-Alejandro Jodorowsky & Don Cherry : The Holly Mountain
-David Lynch : The Air is on Fire-Soundscape
-Marzuraan : Solid state
Catalogue is growing! From the great label Utech Records comes the Arc series:
The Arc Series will represent an alliance born from a mutual respect between the label and photographer
Max Aguilera-Hellweg, The releases will be designed by Utech and will constitute the label's first fine art
series. A selection of sound artists including Daniel Menche, Knell, Joshua Convey and James Plotkin are
slated to release music in the coming months. The first volume will be ready in April and features
Skull Defekts recorded last fall in Chicago. All items will be hand assembled in a package exclusive to the
series and limited to editions of five hundred, issued every six to eight weeks. Nine volumes are scheduled
for release in 2007.
First 3 volumes available at the catalogue section! Limited stock
New stuff added to the catalogue section. From the great obscure label Cold Spring, the new project by a member of Satanic Black Metal act Blodul, Deadwood. The Ultra deep, glacial Dark Ambient, based around Antarctic co-ordinates of SleepResearchFacility, and one of our longtime favourite releases, "Necrosphere" by Necropolis. Other news on Etude Records is "Cançons per a un lent retard" by Ferran Fages, goes into production! Copies expected late July/August. CURRENT PLAYLIST: -Possessed "Seven Churches" -Ferran Fages "Cançons per a un lent retard" -Alfredo Costa Monteiro "Épicycle" -Ferran Fages "A cavall entre dos cavalls" -Neumática "Alud" -Climax Golden Twins "Lovely"
06|14|2007
Upcoming release by catalan composer FERRAN FAGES "Cançons per a un lent retard" (ETUDE013)
05|29|2007 From our friends Frozen Elephant MusicPlease note this new release by Frozenelephantsmusic.com introducing the duo Mike Hansen from Canada and Tomasz Krakowiak from Poland. Both artists have been involved with improvided music for a decade, collaborating and releasing outstanding works with international artists such as John Butcher, Kaffe Matthews, John Oswald, Otomo Yoshihide, Aki Onda and many more. For Frozenelephantsmusic.com they have selected various unplugged and improvised works, a tremendous collection of raw and haunting compositions made from record-player (Hansen) and percussion (Krakowiak) only. The demanding recordings of “The Confines of Power” combine crackling ruins of sound, concrete noise-incidents, sine feedbacks, intimate close-ups and detailed ideas of scale and movement. Hansen has already been part of the “Connected Dots. Connected Ideas” compilation release in March 2007.
05|20|2007
Some of the artwork created by Seldon Hunt for the upcoming release by Lngtché (expected 06|2007).
04|24|2007
Climax Golden Twins "S/T" and Pau Torres "HOSTILE" available on the catalogue section!!
Pictures added on the archive! Showcase by Agustí Martínez and Etude Records.
Forthcoming release!! The debut album by LNGTCHÉ "Music for an untitled film by T.Zärkkof",a 44:22 min obscure piece for the unknow russian auteur T.Zärkkof! release (ETUDE012) expected for April 2007.
02|18|2007 Upcoming release by Agustí Martínez "Are spirits what I hear?" Solo alto saxophone live recordings from minimal, graphic score and early composition works! Available soon...
02|12|2007
New release by Pau Torres.... HOSTILE ( available through TESTING GROUND )
01|02|2007 Vladimir Ussachevsky
11|15|2006
"At Every Point" by canadian composer Mike Hansen, already available throught Etude Records.
11|11|2006
Johnleocrowalbum new E.P. by composer Pau Torres, available for free at the net-label Frozen Elephants Music.
