NO=FI Recordings: gennaio 2014

martedì 28 gennaio 2014

MIKE COOPER - New Globe Notes (LP + Booklet)

MIKE COOPER

New Globe Notes

NO033

Edition of 300 copies

LP - Black Vinyl

32 pages Booklet

Artwork by Francesco De Figueiredo

Edited by Valerio Mannucci

Booklet with texts and pictures by Mike Cooper
plus a preface written by David Toop

Release date: Feb. 13th 2014

co-produced with NERO

listen HERE to Patterns of Islands

and HERE to Pearl Fisher

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We are pleased to announce the release of “New Globe Notes”, the new LP by British musician and artist Mike Cooper.

The vinyl + booklet edition is produced by NO=FI Recordings and NERO.

For the past fifty years, Mike Cooper has been constantly experimenting with live composition, field recordings and free improvisation; in the late 90s he developed a particular kind of contemporary exotica inspired by his trips in the Pacific area; the result is, in his own words, an “imaginary, exotic, ambient soundscape of places that didn't exist”.

“New Globe Notes” collects material previously released on Mike Cooper's own imprint Hipshot Records, and is accompanied by a 32 paged booklet containing texts and pictures by Mike Cooper himself, plus a preface written by English author and experimentalist David Toop.

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TRACKLIST

Side A

PATTERN OF ISLANDS

NOCTILUCA
YU YANGS POND
ELECTRICITY
TEBUTINNANG

Side B
PEARL FISHER
BLUE SEALAND
THE GREEN ISLAND-FIJI
SAKAM KAVA

Mike Cooper - Electric Lap Steel Guitar / Prepared Guitar / Larp / Casio SK1 keyboard / Crackle Box / Percussion / Ambient Field Recordings / Loops and Drones.

Recorded mixed and edited at Steelworks in Rome on four track cassette recorder and mini disc in 1999 and 2001.

Digital Remix re-edit at Steelworks in 2013 for NO=FI Records by Mike Cooper.

Mastered by V. Fisik at Hombrelobo Studio (Roma)

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The Vinyl + Booklet edition costs 18 euro + shipping

ORDER at nofirecordings [@] gmail.com

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domenica 19 gennaio 2014

GIANNI GIUBLENA ROSACROCE / MARIA VIOLENZA Split LP

GIANNI GIUBLENA ROSACROCE

MARIA VIOLENZA

split

NO032

Edition of 300 copies

One Sided LP

Black vinyl - Silkscreened on the side B

Silkscreened cover : Gold / White on Black Paper

Release date: 21st January 2014

Artwork by Daniele La Placa

Screenprinted by Sericraft

Co-produced with: Brigadisco, Escape From Today, Lemming Records

Give a listen HERE (GGR) and HERE (MV)

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Gianni Giublena Rosacroce keeps on sending us "sound postcards" from his travels through deserts and colorful oasis. After the last tape released, "La Mia Africa", GGR comes back with new tales of far unexplored territories: ipnotic percussions, dreamy horns, powerful imaginative sounds wich leads our mind back to a 70s' Mondo Movies' soundtrack shooted somewhere in the north of Africa.

In this new travel GGR is not alone anymore, the bewitching Maria Violenza goes along with him. Born and grew up in Sicily, she let spread out all the influences of the different cultures that her island has seen living (and
struggling) side by side for centuries. What we find here are arabian rythms, sonorities wich recall spanish and morocco'sensations wich collide with a forceful synth wave evil touch, a cold blow!
This split is a travel in oniric territories with two sage guides beside.

Just play it and lay yourself in their hands ... to somewhere else...

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