COMING SOON!

K*AE003 - Various Artists - '14 Ways to push air'

The 1st Kaleidoscope compilation, including songs from ALAK, Sculpture, Karen Gwyer, patten, Desolation Wilderness, 4tRECK, Roj, The Lickets, Champagne Diamond/The Brilliant Light, Arch M, Julianna Barwick. PLUS more to be announced!

Available as a high quality name-your-price download.

More details to be announced soon.

TESSERACT!

K*AE002 - patten - 'Sketching the Tesseract'

2008S upbeat follow-up to 'There were Horizons'. Like a wobbly old mixtape of early electronics, Library recordings, British folk and Kosmische music that's been left out in the sun for too long.

Available as a high quality name-your-price download HERE.

Sketching the Tesseract AV edition also available!

watch/download HERE

or to watch (no DL option) HERE

Click the image to visit the patten myspace for songs and tour info.

QOONOTATIONS!

K*CD004 - ALAK - "Clarinettis Qoonotations: Too Many Notes." fucking preternatural and the golden weave of g-nashing teeth

Clarinettis Qoonotations: Too Many Notes." fucking preternatural and golden weave of g-nashing teeth, is the long awaited new full-length release from California-based musician Jocelyn Noir's ALAK (formerly Alas, alak, Alaska!).

An accomplished songwriter & guitarist, her complex and unique melodic approach is underpinned by a surrealistic manipulation of language that is intelligent, beautiful and affecting.

Noir's album is permeated by a strange Gothic air. A heavy, hanging dark smoke that twists and turns itself into animated baroque swirls, occasionally clearing to reveal a blindingly clear light.

This is a special record.

Available on Compact Disc deluxe-packaged in a 7" sleeve with a foldout poster & Tyvek CD envelope or as a high quality pay-what-you-like download.

Running time: 42m

(I) Alas, runners., (II) Because surprises change so little, (III) Finick While Clicking It's Fingers, (4) burning circles, (V) Tha Ginseng Jissup, (VV) Key Drum Catawba, (OO) pumpkin teeth are soft but have low low brass-o., (8) Juniper the Arrows, (9) Crystal Power Attack, (X) Wooleathe Mneathe, (11) Tragos Ode, (XII) STARK FOOL (STRAW PYRAMID), (13) Tha Eighther

FOR COMPACT DISC £7 (including worldwide P&P)

DISC SOLD OUT!

Download now available direct from Jocelyn... support innovation! For full song streaming & high quality name-your-price download click the image or these words alak.bandcamp.com.

Visit the ALAK myspace myspace.com/alasalakalaska for songs and tour info.

STRANGE MAGIC!

K*CD002 - Champagne Diamond/The Brilliant Light

The 1st CD release of 2009 comes courtesy of Nina Canell & Robin Watkins in the form of a 2-disc CD album. Working under many different names across different releases and within the same record means you could know them already as The New Heat, Obscured by Light, Luftkluster, Luftfluks, or in this case, Champagne Diamond/The Brilliant Light.

This is the first time their material will be available on CD, after two vinyl-only releases on Oscillatone and most recently, the vinyl version of this release on CAFF/FLICK.

Across the delicate and lovingly produced album, bittersweet boy-girl vocals interweave with found sounds, minimal guitar lines, and numerous bits of exotic instrumentation to devastating effect.

The reverse of the release sports a list of soundmaking devices that reads like the components of some kind of incantory ritual, spanning from the traditional - acoustic guitar, Chinese hand-drum - to the mysteriously ambiguous - water, BKC bicycle - and the specifically strange - Marsona Sleep Machine, Mr Riyaz Tabla Machine.

Well, the spell seems to have worked, leaving traces of strange magic all over this intimate and singular release.

Comes packaged in a 7" sleeve with a foldout poster & Tyvek CD envelopes

Running time: 37m 16s

Disc One: (1) Champagne Diamond [MP3], (2) Scatter & Yearn, (3) Fly The Radio Sky, (4) Rot, Get Soft, (5) Separate Members, (6) Build & Leave

Disc Two: (1) Morasko Circle, (2) Red Earth, (3) Moro the Black Dog

£7 (including worldwide P&P)

DISC SOLD OUT!

Beatiful limited 12" vinly edition availabe directly from Nina & Robin. Support innovation! Order enquiries to: info@canellwatkins.org

Click the image of the discs to visit their site.

TAN!

K*AE001 - Arch M - Mountain Tan Commercials

This split/collaborative release with the Cavern label marks the launch of our Aether series. The Aether series will be made up of occassional free, download-only treats & we are very pleased to be working with Arch M & Cavern on the first one.

In advance of his forthcoming 12" record 'Moon-Tan' on the Cavern label, Arch M delivers a teaser in the form of 'Mountain Tan Commericials'. Available as a free download and limited edition tape, 'Mountain Tan Commercials' sees London-based Arch M delving into the farthest reaches of a sun-drenched, battle-scarred lo-fi pop.

Over 7 gorgeous tracks, concise electric guitar figures gleam with soft distortion and a luscious reverb. Clattering percussion falls around with unrestrained urgency, and a precision that belies it's apparent spontenaiety. Melodies - like old friends fondly remembered - swim in your head long after the ecstatic nine minutes is over.

Running time: 9m 6s

Tracklisting: (1) Cat Grave [MP3], (2) Mountain Tan, (3) Not Enough, (4) In the Mountain, (5) Cremation Procession, (6) Bad Take, (7) Bdrm band at caf nva

Click the image to download the release.

Cavern site

Arch-M page

EDITION! Mixtape Project

K*ED001 - Various Artists - Mixtape

Available for free at the Kaleidoscope co-curated Galvanised! festival earlier this year, 'Mixtape' is the first printed publication/edition from the label. The publication took the form of a DIY 'mixtape' selected by visitors to Galvanised! from an assortment of photocopied images by over 40 contributors from from the worlds of music & art.

The contributors had all been asked to produce or select an image inspired by, representing or related in some way to sound/music. These were then emailed to us & then photocopied into muliples to be made available at Galvanised!.

The visitors then made their own selection of five images which they could take home from the presented collection. Echoing the reference to sound in all of the images, the 'hand-picked' publication's cover was a plain white 12" sleeve, which was given to all the participants to house their chosen images, along with 3 stickers (one pictured on the right) for further customisation.

First installment including contributions from: Alex Baker, Peter Blundell, Jessica Brouder, Justyna Burzynska, Eloise Calandre, Sam Callow, Stella Capes, Marinana Dias Da Cunha, James Dunn, Rose Eken, Annika Eriksson, Danielle Goldstein, Goodiepal, Anne Hardy, John Hartley, Charles Hayward, Merlin & Riley Hayward, Angie Hicks, Vincent Honore, Mark Kluzek, James Lander, Sara Mackillop, Matthew Mackisack, Nevine Mahmoud, Pol McLernon, Stefan Meier, Haroon Mirza, Paul Neicho, No More Yesterdays, House of O'Dwyer, Sean Parfitt, Cora Piantoni, Kevin Quigley, Giulia Ricci, Jamie Shovlin, Reuben Sutherland, Josh Thomson, Alexander Tucker, Matthias Ulrich, Robin Watkins, Jordan Wolfson.

'Mixtape' is now an ongoing project with an archive of images which will grow over time to be displayed and selected from on other occassions. If you would like to make a contribution, please send us an email titled 'Mixtape' with your name and an image that will photocopy well at A4.

HORIZONS

K*CD001 - patten - 'There were Horizons'

17 tracks of gentle instrumentals peppered with simple electronics, found sound and various delicate instrumentation from the schoolroom sounds of nylon-strung guitar, zither and glockenspiel to the Arabic Rebab. The whole record has the feel of a long lost tape, with it's subtle pitch modulations and hazy production evoking a series of blurry memories, recalled through the hiss and sun-bleached weathering of time.

Available on Compact Disc deluxe-packaged in a 7" sleeve with a foldout poster & Tyvek CD envelope or as a high quality pay-what-you-like download.

Running time: 50m 47s

(1) Galapagos, (2) Memory pictures, (3) Glossary, (4) Two hands writing, (5) Never never, (6) Restless peak, (7) Ice crystals, (8) Poor Madeline/a wanderer's dream, (9) Cycles, (10) Skydive, (11) Comma, (12) The Bullrushes, (13) Bridges, (14) Seesaw, (15) The Diver, (16) Forget Tuesday, (17) u + i

FOR COMPACT DISC £7 (including worldwide P&P)

DISC SOLD OUT!

Available as a high quality name-your-price download click the image or these words patttten.bandcamp.com.