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Hello from Compactrisc. We have lots to tell you.
---Herv: Snap Hands---
Snap Hands, the debut album by Herv, was co-released on CD by Compactrisc and Sinkorswim Records (http://www.sinkorswimrecords.com) at the start of the year. We think it's a fantastic album, and we reckon you should all run out and buy it. Other people have been very positive about it as well, so we've copied some reviews onto the next bit of this thread. Our favourite so far: "a national Herv day would be a nice, humble gesture".
Snap Hands is available online from Road Records (Dublin) and Norman Records (Leeds), and both are linked from our website (http://www.compactrisc.net). In Dublin, the CD is in Road, Tower, Big Brother, Spindizzy, Freebird, Mero's, Selectah, City Discs and a couple of other places. It will soon be available in shops in Galway, Belfast and Cork, and other distribution will be following.
Affordable access is a good idea (and paying twenty quid for a CD is the kind of thing the French would have a national strike about), so the CD is in the shops for as close to €10 as we can get it.
Herv's gigs are a swirl of laptop, *gameboy, violin, accordion and breaks, and in case you've missed his any of his performances so far this year, he'll be playing soon in Dublin and Limerick, with other stuff being organised. Herv is also going to be travelling to Estonia at the end of May with Irish Modern Dance Theatre (http://www.irishmoderndancetheatre.com) and composer Juergen Simpson (of The Jimmy Cake), as part of the cultural program to welcome accession states into the EU.
http://www.compactrisc.net/herv/ .
---Northstation---
The next release on Compactrisc will be the CD album 'Bears' (risc005), by Northstation, a.k.a. Steve Fanagan. The album, recorded by Steve at home over the past year, is a meditative collection of fractured electronics and chiming guitars, bringing to mind things like the hum of Labradford and the electronic warmth of Four Tet, and a host of other stuff from Polmo Polpo to This Heat. It will be released in a specially-commissioned heavy cardboard sleeve, *and sounds fantastic on headphones.
Steve has previously released music as (deep breath) Old Man Polka (the album 'I Go To Work To Come Home To You', released last year on Dead Slack String Records), as a member of Deadman's Flats, as Northstation (with one previous album, 'Plink. Plonk.' on Mango Music), as Wrecking Ball (with a CD-R album of improvisations for voice and bell, 'Grunt Work', recently released by Deserted Village Records) and under his own name (the album 'There Is Hope', recorded in Chicago by Steve Albini and released on Mango Music in 2001).
http://www.stevefanagan.com .
---Other news---
Physical Remix:
Help to destroy some records in the name of art.
http://www.compactrisc.net/physicalremix/ .
Compilation:
We're starting to put together tracks for our next-release-but-one, a compilation of Irish acts which will go from experimental drones to electro-acoustic singalong to broken apart rock to blahblahblah. We'll tell you more as soon as we know what's happening.
Maersk:
Maersk are currently rehearsing and putting together music for their album, which should be out later on this year. Conor Ryan's video for the track "I/O" (from the Compactrisc EP, First Line) will be online soon.
http://www.compactrisc.net/maersk/ .
Compactrisc releases available and in shops:
risc002 – Herv – "Warmduscher"/"Demian" – 7" heavy vinyl – about €4.50.
risc004 – Maersk – First Line EP – 10" vinyl – about €7.
risc006 – Herv – Snap Hands – CD – about €10.
---Herv: Snap Hands---
Snap Hands, the debut album by Herv, was co-released on CD by Compactrisc and Sinkorswim Records (http://www.sinkorswimrecords.com) at the start of the year. We think it's a fantastic album, and we reckon you should all run out and buy it. Other people have been very positive about it as well, so we've copied some reviews onto the next bit of this thread. Our favourite so far: "a national Herv day would be a nice, humble gesture".
Snap Hands is available online from Road Records (Dublin) and Norman Records (Leeds), and both are linked from our website (http://www.compactrisc.net). In Dublin, the CD is in Road, Tower, Big Brother, Spindizzy, Freebird, Mero's, Selectah, City Discs and a couple of other places. It will soon be available in shops in Galway, Belfast and Cork, and other distribution will be following.
Affordable access is a good idea (and paying twenty quid for a CD is the kind of thing the French would have a national strike about), so the CD is in the shops for as close to €10 as we can get it.
Herv's gigs are a swirl of laptop, *gameboy, violin, accordion and breaks, and in case you've missed his any of his performances so far this year, he'll be playing soon in Dublin and Limerick, with other stuff being organised. Herv is also going to be travelling to Estonia at the end of May with Irish Modern Dance Theatre (http://www.irishmoderndancetheatre.com) and composer Juergen Simpson (of The Jimmy Cake), as part of the cultural program to welcome accession states into the EU.
http://www.compactrisc.net/herv/ .
---Northstation---
The next release on Compactrisc will be the CD album 'Bears' (risc005), by Northstation, a.k.a. Steve Fanagan. The album, recorded by Steve at home over the past year, is a meditative collection of fractured electronics and chiming guitars, bringing to mind things like the hum of Labradford and the electronic warmth of Four Tet, and a host of other stuff from Polmo Polpo to This Heat. It will be released in a specially-commissioned heavy cardboard sleeve, *and sounds fantastic on headphones.
Steve has previously released music as (deep breath) Old Man Polka (the album 'I Go To Work To Come Home To You', released last year on Dead Slack String Records), as a member of Deadman's Flats, as Northstation (with one previous album, 'Plink. Plonk.' on Mango Music), as Wrecking Ball (with a CD-R album of improvisations for voice and bell, 'Grunt Work', recently released by Deserted Village Records) and under his own name (the album 'There Is Hope', recorded in Chicago by Steve Albini and released on Mango Music in 2001).
http://www.stevefanagan.com .
---Other news---
Physical Remix:
Help to destroy some records in the name of art.
http://www.compactrisc.net/physicalremix/ .
Compilation:
We're starting to put together tracks for our next-release-but-one, a compilation of Irish acts which will go from experimental drones to electro-acoustic singalong to broken apart rock to blahblahblah. We'll tell you more as soon as we know what's happening.
Maersk:
Maersk are currently rehearsing and putting together music for their album, which should be out later on this year. Conor Ryan's video for the track "I/O" (from the Compactrisc EP, First Line) will be online soon.
http://www.compactrisc.net/maersk/ .
Compactrisc releases available and in shops:
risc002 – Herv – "Warmduscher"/"Demian" – 7" heavy vinyl – about €4.50.
risc004 – Maersk – First Line EP – 10" vinyl – about €7.
risc006 – Herv – Snap Hands – CD – about €10.