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*Limited to our store in Japan Brazilian sound artist Adam Matschulat released a limited edition of 2023 copies from British experimental label Calling Cards Publishing in March 3.Includes two self-documentary musique concretes about places and family, recorded in his hometown of Formosa. Comes with DL code and insert.Below is an explanation by the label. Formosa, composer Adam Matschulat's first major work under his full name, is a deeply personal album of field recordings of kitchens, churches, forests and farms expressed in musique concrète structures. "This is the place I call home," says Matschulat of Formosa. “I used to spend all my summer vacations here. It was a place where I felt safe, a refuge from the city life that I found difficult. and a reverence for the magic of this place."Two sidelong compositions include moments of intimacy between his families (his mother speaks German to his grandfather), the singing of the church. , which includes those recorded in Formosa, such as the sounds of a family barbecue.It also contains latent allusions to life and death, such as the cloud of flies, which suggests decay and return to the soil. "This album is about death and about the forest, about the cycle of the land and our little beings around it," he says. “My grandfather is the strongest man I have ever known. It got so bad he couldn't even hold an accordion. He had lost his sense of purpose, and I wanted to explore that feeling in my recordings."This album consists of two large songs. The first explores the connection between death and land and is built around the warp and weft of place and dialogue.Seen from a distance, field recordings of farm work in progress, conversations around the table, German songs shimmering as the accordion stops on a bed of night bug sounds, hymns once removed by the static electricity of the tape, like It looks like a sonic symbol of remembrance or psychological detachment.If you listen closely, you will notice the skillful manipulation of collage and electro-acoustic. Matschulat's family farm is surrounded by native Atlantic forest, and the trees are protected, so many of the recordings were made under this canopy. As a child, Matschulat said he felt as if he had crossed a threshold, and felt the magic and horror contained in this environment. "In Formosa we went into the woods and recorded. There are snakes and all kinds of things that you don't want to step on. Formosa is in the south of Brazil and his mother's family lived in Prussia in the 200s. His great-grandfather built a church there, which still stands today, and the congregation sings in German hymnbooks from the 2s. My grandfather worked while playing the accordion, farming as the head of a pious village surrounded by forests. Formosa's second track is about life, expressed in the form of her love for the potato salad whose recipe is on the sleeve note and which her grandmother has a vivid memory of making at her family's barbecues. It has been.The song begins with the strange sound of a boiled egg being put into a bowl of water, then the phone rings, sinks, plates, cutlery, mayonnaise and potatoes, and the sounds of a home.It is a peaceful family scene where time passes quietly until the meal is ready. The two works in Formosa are meditations on everyday connections with home and family, and more broadly on concepts of life, death and belonging.This album creates a psychological atlas about the meaning of our everyday sound world, the teleology of places, safety and home.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Calling Cards...

Knud Viktor, a photographer/painter/filmmaker from Copenhagen, Denmark, who passed away in 2013, has released an unreleased 1978 recording of Owl's Nest on a 7-inch by Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology, a label specializing in reissues in the same country.Includes his own narration. Comes with DL code.Owl lovers are a must.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Institute for Danish...

French exotic folk trio Vitesse et Precipitation's debut record released in February 2023 with a limited edition of 2 copies.Contains 300 exotic folk songs by banjo, violin and Bendir. Comes with DL code. ----------------------------------------- 8" black vinyl edition of 12. Recorded in October...

A compilation cassette of Brazilian country music from the 20's to 60's. Comes with DL code.Below is an explanation by the label.This is the second survey of Brazilian country music, musica caipira (hillbilly music).The collection ranges from early recordings by pioneering folklorist Cornelio Pires in the late 2s to records from the 1920's, 30's, 40's and early 50's.Caipira music, rooted in the tradition of Portuguese troubadour folk songs, is usually performed by a duo singing the third and sixth in parallel, in the Portuguese-Brazilian style moda de viola (the viola is the Brazilian caipira). It is played with a 60-string guitar of the wind).Originating from the "hinterland" regions of northeastern Brazil, these songs tell stories of pain, love, loss and betrayal, often accompanied by self-made guitars in unique tunings.A departure from the sophisticated pop country and western styles of Sertaneja, these recordings could be considered the Brazilian equivalent of American dustball and Appalachian roots music.Click here for label and other works /// Click here to see more Death Is Not The End releases available...