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murcof - The Versailles Sessions
This wonderful album features six experimental compositions by the increasingly impressive Fernando Corona, devised specially for Les Grandes Eaux Nocturnes, an annual festival of sound, light and water held at the Palace Of Versailles. The opulence and decadence of the location plays its part in Murcof's music, which embraces a real sense of scale and drama: Corona takes recordings of 17th century baroque instruments as his starting point (harpsichord, viola de gamba, violin and flute) and combines them with vocal performances by a mezzo soprano, field recordings and of course his own electronic interventions. The final product is incredibly bold, and marks Murcof's furthest departure yet from his micro-techno beginnings. There's a real electroacoustic menace to the opening quarter-hour of 'Welcome To Versailles' and 'Louis XIV's Demons', both of which seem to take great joy in dismantling the sonorities of their sound sources. Things settle down somewhat during 'A Lesson For The Future, Farewell To The Old Ways', which seems to embrace the unfettered musicality of the assemblage of voices and instruments. The harpsichord outro is bolstered fairly unintrusively by electronic shadowing, making for a great comedown after the grand, orchestral swells that came before it. 'Death Of A Forest' returns to a noisier, rawer handling of sound, far more concerned with contorting timbres than with harmony, although soon enough 'Spring In The Artificial Gardens' sees a re-emergence of melody and a stately instrumental presence, and in the album's final moments there's even a return to a bit of 4/4 minimalism, with a Raster Noton-style microbeat weaving its way into the mix of insect recordings and renaissance-era woodwind. A very strange mix, yet somehow it all works out superbly.
Type Recordings
CD // £7.99
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An amazing album poised between outright aural punishment and an impenetrably black chasm. Immense.
Tomlab
7" // £4.49
Extremely limited 7" from Tomlab's kooky Parenthetical Girls
Honest Jon's Records
2LP // £13.99
Long awaited debut album from Moritz Von Oswald with Vladislav Delay and Max Loderbauer.
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
Sprigs Of Time: 78's From The EMI Archive
Honest Jon's Records
2LP // £13.49
MP3 Download // £6.99
FLAC Download // £8.99
The Leaf Label
CD // £9.49
SIx brand new compositions for the Palace Of Versailles by the brilliant Fernando Corona, aka Murcof.
Infine
MP3 Download // £6.99
FLAC Download // £8.99
'La Sangre Iluminada' (Enlightened Blood) is Murcof's OST to a 2009 film directed by Ivan Duenas.
The Leaf Label
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SIx new compositions for the Palace Of Versailles by Fernando Corona - now available for Download.
The Leaf Label
LP+CD // £13.99
**Comes with a free copy of the album on CD included inside**
The Leaf Label
12" // £7.99
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*Limited Vinyl* Debut appearance from the James Chance-inspired Melt Yourself Down on The Leaf Label.
The Leaf Label
LP // £13.99
*Third album from Julia Kent (Antony And The Johnsons, Stars Of The Lid etc*
The Leaf Label
12" // £5.99
*Metallic silver vinyl* Roll The Dice hand over three tracks to dub technician Stefan Betke, aka Pole.
The Leaf Label
LP // £11.99
Chicago art-rockers Volcano! returmn with tehir first new material in 4 years.
The Leaf Label
LP // £13.49
'Both Lights' is the third LP of chest-bursting rock ecstasy from Portland, Oregon's Au.
The Leaf Label
LP // £10.49
The Mercury-nominated jazz group join forces with London MC Jyager
The Leaf Label
Mini LP // £7.99
A limited edition, numbered white vinyl follow-up to the equally impressive Retina EP
The Leaf Label
12" // £6.99
A remix-packed single, featuring a great new Caribou production, plus cuts from Shlohmo and Zambri
The Leaf Label
LP // £10.99
The British jazz group return for an excellent fourth album, this time on Leaf
The Leaf Label
LP // £12.99
The sophomore album from Wigan-born songwriter Nancy Elizabeth
Idiosyncratics
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Gregor Schwellenbach spielt 20 Jahre Kompakt
Kompakt
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*Deluxe book-style package, includes notes, musical scores and photographs*
Corollaries (Standard Edition)
ERASED TAPES
LP // £21.99
Erased Tapes illuminate the sorely overlooked work of Continuous Piano Music pioneer, Lubomyr Melnyk.
Glacial Movements
CD // £11.99
Sweeping ambient electronics from Glacial Movements Records boss, Alessandro Tedeschi.
Touch
7" // £6.99
Bleakly affecting pair of new compositions by the Iranian artist currently seeking asylum in Germany.
KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN / ROBERT HENKE / VARIOUS
ROOM 40
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Another fabulous package from Room 40, featuring DJ Olive, Greg Davis, Keith Fullerton Whitman and more...
Underwater Peoples Records
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**Wildly diverse curiosity reaching from cosmic industrial pop to concrète experiments**
