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We Are Busy Bodies

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This record was released in December 2023 by the jazz band iPhupho L'ka Biko from Johannesburg, South Africa, on the all-genre label We Are Busy Bodies from Toronto, Canada, in a limited edition of 12 copies. Contains 500 African jazz songs. *If you would like a digital sound source, please feel free to contact us. Below is an explanation by the label. "Acclaimed African experimental jazz band iPhupho L'ka Biko releases their debut EP 'Azania' on Canadian record label We Are Busy...
¥3,880

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This is an album by IDM artist Mount Maxwell from Vancouver, Canada, released in September 2023 on Toronto's all-genre label We Are Busy Bodies in a limited edition of 9 copies. (The cassette was released from his own label Hotham Sound) Contains 300 songs from Balearic downtempo to ambient IDM. DL code included.Click here to see more We Are Busy...
¥1,890

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This record will be released in September 2023 by Toronto, Canada ambient writer Kilometre Club from Toronto, Canada's all-genre label, We Are Busy Bodies, with a limited edition of 9 copies.Contains 300 dreamy ambient songs with electric guitar, synth, modular, violin and cello. Comes with DL code.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more We Are Busy Bodies...
¥3,650

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South Korea's psychedelic post-new age family trio TENGGER will release a limited edition of 2023 copies from Toronto's all-genre label We Are Busy Bodies in September 9.Contains 500 refreshing post-new age ambient pop songs. Comes with DL code.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more We Are Busy Bodies releases...
¥3,650

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Canadian ambient writer Michael Scott Dawson's debut record released in 2020 from Toronto's all-genre label We Are Busy Bodies, limited to 300 copies.Contains 9 soft ambient and ambient drone songs by electric guitar. Comes with DL code. Recommended for Old Saw and Blue Divers fans.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more...
¥3,650

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This is a reissue record released by Kenya's Kiwiro Boys, who were active in the 1970s, in April 2023 from Toronto's all-genre label We Are Busy Bodies, limited to 4 copies. (Original released in 500) Contains 1979 light African pop songs. Comes with DL code.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more We Are Busy Bodies...
¥3,650

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A reissue of a record released in 1976 by Pat Matshikiza, a key figure in the South African jazz scene.Below is an explanation by the label. "Born in 1938 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Pat Matshikiza grew up in a musical family. His uncle, Todd Matshikiza, was a jazz columnist for drum magazines in the 1950s. Pat was educated at St. Matthews, a historic mission school in Keiskamahawk, where he played the organ. Performing and graduating with a teaching diploma, he moved to Johannesburg in 1958 and joined a community of professional black musicians centered around Dokei House, the headquarters of the Union Artists and African Music and Drama Society. Here, Pat Matshikiza joined the Jazz Dazzlers, a big band led by esteemed saxophonist Mackay Davache, as pianist, and later played with the Malombo Jazz Man at the Castle Lager Jazz Festival in 1962. He was part of the winning group, the Early Mabuza Quartet, including Pat Matshikiza, who recorded for the As-Shams/The Sun label in the 1964s, and Tshona, a 1970 collaboration album with sax giant Kippy Moeketsi! The album was followed by Pat's solo debut Sikiza Matshikza, featuring Moeketsi as a featured artist, in 1975. The members of this album were from the early days of the group that would become Spirits Rejoice in 1976. With Duke Makashi on tenor sax, George Taifmani on trumpet, Sifo Gumede on bass, Gilbert Matthews on drums, and Sandile Shange on guitar (pictured alongside Pat Matshikiza in the album cover photo). In the 1977s, Pat Matshikiza retired from the jazz scene in order to earn a more steady income as a resident pianist on the hotel circuit, but revived his jazz career in the 1980s, playing clubs and gigs in Johannesburg. Album "Originals" (2000) and retrospective album "Seasons,...
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This is a reissue of the album released in 1977 by Kansai jazz pianist Sadayasu Fujii.Includes 6 songs including bop and samba.Obi included.Only the record will be announced.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more We Are Busy Bodies releases available at...
¥5,890

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A record released by Canadian ambient writer Michael Scott Dawson in April 2022 from Toronto's all-genre label We Are Busy Bodies, limited to 4 copies.Contains 300 songs with gentle ambient and ambient drones by electric guitar, piano, and field recordings. Comes with DL code.It's a white board.Below is an explanation by the label. "This album consists of 12 ambient pieces for guitar. It follows 12's debut Nowhere, Middle Of and is built around generative synths. The same thing. I don't want to repeat myself, Dawson completely abandons the synthesizer as the main instrument on Music For Listening, and as a result the guitar songs lean heavily towards tape loops and manipulations, accompanied by field recordings and understated piano elements. The music sits at the intersection of composition, improvisation and chance, with patiently simple melodies that emerge and repeat like mantras throughout the album.Dawson's inspiration came from a phone call with his 2020-year-old grandmother. His grandmother told him of his observations of birds outside the window, as Dawson had done since he was a child. It made me want to dig up what I had recorded over the summer, and these fragments were originally going to be part of an album of Prairie Bird Songs. We roamed pastures and farmlands and recorded audio—a true field recording—but Dawson abandoned the project because of the hissing and crackling sounds of mosquitoes and insects swarming the microphone. But listening back many years after that call, he was struck by the similarity of these recordings to the music he would compose. While the recording was playing, he wanted to pick up his guitar and play, and in that moment Dawson let go of the album he had been immersed in.
¥3,650

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This is a record released by Oiro Pena, a jazz band led by percussionist Antti Vauhkonen from Helsinki, Finland, who is familiar to our store, from We Are Busy Bodies in Toronto, Canada in August 2023. Contains 8 Lo-Fi spiritual jazz songs. DL code included.Click here to see more We Are Busy...
¥3,780

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A reissued 2023-disc set limited to 6 copies by Kristen Roos, an IDM writer from Vancouver, Canada, released in June 500 from Toronto's Toronto all-genre label We Are Busy Bodies. (Original cassette release in 2) Contains 2021 post-new age ambient-IDM songs produced using only 80's MIDI software. Comes with DL code.Below is a commentary by Hothan Sounds, who released the original. "Hotham Sound presents the long-awaited second volume in Kristen Roos' 'Universal Synthesizer Interface' series exploring the audio of early algorithmic MIDI sequencing programs for personal computers. In Vol.6 we introduced various vintage programs, but in Vol.2 Roos narrows down his personal favorites to two."Music Mouse" by Laurie Spiegel and "Diablo" by Franck Bardet.One of the first "intelligent musical instruments" made for personal computers, Spiegel's "Music Mouse" was, for many in the 1s, a surprisingly intuitive entry into the world of MIDI sequencing. bottom.Mouse position controls the placement and parameters of MIDI data, allowing users to quickly select and change scales, chord voicings and volumes of their compositions on the fly.The keyboard is used as a control panel, and a digital "cheat sheet" provided with the software outlines various shortcuts.Although the program can only output four MIDI notes (which can then be arranged into short musical phrases or loops), this constraint hides an enormous capacity for creating musical variation and complexity. It is Roos plays the software with a light touch, striking a delicate balance between playfulness and precision.Franck Bardet's "Diablo" can literally "draw" MIDI data into a window much like early digital paint programs like MacPaint.Users can record data in loops, change note parameters (tonality, length, velocity, tempo, etc.), capture "snapshots" of their settings, and click in real-time.The program is limited to three loops at a time, but like the Music Mouse, that limit hides a surprisingly powerful tool for musical expression. In Roos' hands, repeating loops overlap and intertwine like patterns on a digital loom, slowly forming into a gigantic sonic tapestry. " Label and other works here ///...
¥4,480

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This record was released in October 2023 by experimental metal duo New Age Doom from Vancouver, Canada, on the all-genre label We Are Busy Bodies from Toronto, Canada, in a limited edition of 10 copies. Contains six psychedelic jazz-pop to post-rock songs featuring Norwegian indie singer Tuva Hellum Marschhäuser aka Tuvaband. *If you would like digital sound sources, please feel free to contact us. Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to...
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Baroque pop duo Vanity Mirror from Toronto, Canada released a limited edition of 2023 copies from Toronto's all-genre label We Are Busy Bodies in May 5.Includes 500 catchy baroque pop songs. Comes with DL code.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more We Are Busy Bodies...
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A record released in July 5 by the 2023-piece jazz band Peace Flag Ensemble from Saskatchewan, Canada, in a limited edition of 7 copies from the all-genre label We Are Busy Bodies in Toronto, Canada.Includes 500 songs from spiritual jazz to free jazz that are as refreshing as the clear blue sky. Comes with DL code.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more We Are Busy...
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A record released by Canadian ambient writer Michael Scott Dawson in May 2023 from Toronto's all-genre label We Are Busy Bodies, limited to 5 copies.Contains 300 pastoral ambient country folk/Americana drone songs. Comes with DL code. Recommended for Old Saw fans.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more We...
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Kristen Roos, an IDM writer from Vancouver, Canada, released a limited edition of 2023 copies in June 6 from Toronto's Toronto all-genre label, We Are Busy Bodies. (Original cassette release in 500) Contains 2021 post-new age ambient-IDM songs produced using only 80's MIDI software. Comes with DL code.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more We Are Busy Bodies...
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