PENGUIN CAFE & CORNELIUS - 'UMBRELLA EP'

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• ERATP096LP - 12"

  4050486113073

• ERATP096CD - CD

  4050486113639

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Worlds collide as Penguin Cafe and Japanese producer Cornelius' mutual admiration for one another led to them joining forces for this four-track 'Umbrella EP'. The pair reworked and reimagined existing tracks of their own, alongside two new Penguin Cafe songs. Limited to an edition of 1000 copies worldwide, the complimentary sounds of Penguin Cafe on piano and strings, merged with the electronic soundscape of Cornelius, form this special Record Store Day 12" (April 22nd) on Erased Tapes. Penguin Cafe was founded by Arthur Jeffes in 2009, bringing together a diverse and disparate group of musicians from the likes of Suede, Gorillaz and Razorlight, initially to perform his father Simon Jeffes’ legacy of world renowned Penguin Cafe Orchestra music, ten years after his untimely death in 1997. Arthur, a composer in his own right, quickly began to create new and unique genre-defying music, with the spellbinding philosophy of the Penguin Cafe always in his mind. The project has evolved into something at the hands of Arthur who utilises many different instruments and influences including elements of African, Venezuelan, Brazilian, bluegrass, classical, avant-garde and minimalist music — using a variety of instruments from strings, pianos, harmoniums, slide guitars, cuatros, kalimbas, experimental sound loops, mathematical notations and more. To date, the new Penguin Cafe have released two albums of fresh, innovative and beautiful music, developing from the traditional folk and jazz heritage Penguin Cafe Orchestra is known for into another realm of blissful ambience and dance music, recreated using strictly acoustic elements. Joining the Erased Tapes family, Arthur and the Penguins have been in the studio recording their upcoming album The Imperfect Sea for release on May 5th 2017 — accompanied by live dates in the UK, America, Japan and further international touring throughout the year.

Tracks

Solaris (Cornelius Mix)
Birdwatching at Inner Forest
(Penguin Cafe Mix)
Close Encounter
The Track Of The Dull Sun

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STEVE PETERS - 'AIRFORMS (CHAMBER MUSIC 10)'

Formats

• POL032017 - CD

  700261455846

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Chamber Music is an ongoing series of site-specific sound works made entirely from a single recording of the empty space in which they are presented. An hour of “silent” room tone is recorded when no people are in the building; this is heavily filtered to extract drones derived from the room’s resonant frequencies. This is the only sonic material used, and there is minimal electronic processing involved. Airforms was made in 2013 as a birthday gift for Steve Roden, who provided two hours of empty room tone recorded in his bubble-shaped “Airform” house designed and built by architect Wallace Neff in 1946. The first hour was used to make the drones, and the second hour to make the bell-like tones, and the two are here superimposed. Certain Roden-inspired compositional strategies were devised to generate indeterminate structures. “This is literally chamber music – sound artist Steve Peters records the ambient resonances of empty rooms, which he then turns into site-specific installations exhibited in the same locations. The latent acoustic potential of the space is brought out into a more tangible form. For the most part, stony sonorities are all that can be heard: long, looming tones that unfold incredibly slowly...these are broken by moments of vivid detail: sounds like dropping water, or the soft report of a sonar, gather and disperse, apparently randomly – though after a while they almost recall Morse code.” —The Wire

Tracks

1. Airforms (Chamber Music 10)

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Ambient resonances of empty rooms
processed to create true ?chamber? music

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THE I.L.Y.'S - 'BODYGUARD'

Formats

• CF097 - LP

  814867024488

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The latest release from the mysterious, experimental duo comprised of Zach Hill and Andy Morin of Death Grips, Bodyguard also features guitar work from Tristan Tozer (Yah Mos, Drug Apts). “...with Bodyguard, they’ve given us, I would argue, an album a whole lot more bracing and immediate and fun and welcoming than anything Death Grips will ever allow themselves to make.” – Tom Breihan, Stereogum

Tracks

1. Wash My Hands Shorty
2. Well Known People Want To Know
3. Gargoyle
4. Quietly Being The Best
5. 49er Lighter
6. I Love You Man
7. The Treatment
8. This Is How It Is Now
9. Bobo
10. The Studio

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Experimental garage rock / art punk duo
featuring Zach Hill and Andy Morin of
Death Grips, with guitar from Tristan Tozer
(Yah Mos, Drug Apts)

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BARRECA | LEIMER - 'FIELD CHARACTERISTICS'

Formats

• POL022015 - CD

  888295234139

Details

Field Characteristics derives from the Marc Barreca | K. Leimer performance produced by Steve Peters for the Wayward Music series, presented 14 November 2014, at the Chapel performance space in Seattle. The audio originated from hundreds of independently recorded digital, electric, acoustic and found sounds. These fragments were edited, layered and reprocessed with Pro Tools and Ableton Live. The performance consisted of manipulating and mixing both live and prepared audio. Utilizing the same sources as well as recordings of the performance, Field Characteristics represents a further extrapolation of the material. CD includes an 8-page booklet of images used in the performance. Field Characteristics followed the first Barreca | Leimer album, Premap, released in 2014.

Tracks

1. Indore
2. Esker
3. Sere
4. Loess
5. Eyot
6. Oram
7. Fen
8. Talus
9. Stem

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BENNI - 'I & II'

Formats

• 140GONE - LP

  600385276214

• 140GONECD - CD

  600385276221

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Hailing from an H Class planet far across the cosmic highways, Bênní makes “hi-NRG New Age” music. A pivotal member of bands Wizzard Sleeve / Gary Wrong Group, Heavy Lids, Roman Gabriel Todd’s Beast Rising Up Out Of The Sea, and many more, Bênní was born from Benny Divine’s personal need for new music to listen to while driving his space craft long distances. Tired of Van Halen’s 5150 and Zebra’s self-titled album on his journeys, he began creating sci-fi landscapes and ethereal soundtracks of his own. Often times primitive, the music can go from Vangelis to John Carpenter, to ’80s dungeon electro band Warning and into vintage arcade game circuitry within the blink of an eye. “The thing to me that has always kinda set the Memphis / New Orleans punk scenes apart from other places is that music and musicianship always outweighs high concept or the typical sneering “fuck you” attitude of other places. Benny Divine is a musician with a capitol M and its no accident that within a year of his coming to New Orleans (from less than an hour up the Gulf), he began to influence the local landscape as much as any of us who had been here and doing it for decades. Benny is special, especially for a young dude. He never overplays; he always listens; he’s funky as a church lady; and his memory for parts and complicated song structure is unmatched in anyone I have ever worked with.... Plus he’s chill as fuck. There is a reason that he is in almost every good band in the entire city right now. So yeah... if any of you Memphis bitches get funny ideas about stealing him away from us, there will be a straight-up lazy drunken army riding up the river to forcibly take him back.” —Quintron

Tracks

1. Night Theme
2. Pyrran Control Station
3. Axis A
4. Ard?rian?s Theme
5. Axis B
6. Night Theme Reprise
7. Stardance
8. Chimera
9. Moons Of Almuric
10. 1000
11. Machine Supreme

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Sci-fi landscapes and ethereal
soundtracks from member of Wizzard
Sleeve, Gary Wrong Group, Heavy Lids, and
Beast Is Rising Up Out Of The Sea

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PETER BRODERICK - 'PIANO WORKS VOL: 1'

Formats

• ERASM005 - BOOK

  9781785585524

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**SPECIAL ORDER ONLY / NO RETURNS** The first publication of piano pieces by Erased Tapes composer and musician Peter Broderick features 20 works and an exclusive album of recordings plus unique notes from the composer. In this, his first volume of sheet music, Peter Broderick collects 20 works for solo piano alongside exclusive new recordings. Taken from his piano-led records such as Docile, Float, How They Are, Partners and Grunewald, some are original solo works while others have been stripped back and arranged for solo piano for the first time. The collection also includes the composer’s performance and repertoire notes. “Ever since I started releasing records of piano music back in 2007, it seems that every few months I get an email from a stranger, asking me if I have sheet music for my piano songs. Sometimes people even write to me assuming that the sheet music already exists, asking in regards to a particular song, “Where can I find the sheet music?” My response to all these requests has been always been the same . . . “Unfortunately the music is only written in my head and in my fingers, but I do hope that maybe one day I’ll be able to write some of it out and publish a book of sheet music.” And finally, ten years later, that day is here! I am very proud to announce that Piano Works Vol. 1, my first book of piano sheet music, will be available in mid-June. Thanks to my dear friends at Erased Tapes and Music Sales for helping this come to fruition.” – Peter Broderick • Unique recordings exclusively available through digital download • 20 beautiful piano scores bound in a beautiful 2-colour printed book made with natural textures. • Personal notes written by the composer

Tracks

1. Dearest
2. Query
3. Ceasefire
4. Laden
5. Moment
6. Diverge
7. A Snowflake
8. Three Floats
9. Pulling The Rain
10. When I?m Gone
11. Carried
12. Conspiraling
13. Up Niek Mountain
14. Under The Bridge
15. It?s A Storm When I Sleep
16. Eyes Closed And Traveling
17. Low Light
18. Planes (Solo)
19. Bernard & Elba?s Waltz
20. Sonata For The Sirius

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Comes with DL code

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