Release date 28 April 2008 on The Leaf Label.
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Wildbirds & Peacedrums are charismatic singer Mariam Wallentin and drummer Andreas Werliin. Together the Swedish duo have forged an extraordinary hybrid of spiritual pop, primal blues and ecstatic soul music. Seesawing between pagan rhythms and sparse, bewitching ballads, their self produced debut is a declaration of intent: immediate, exhilarating, and ... [More]

Release date 31 March 2008 on The Leaf Label.
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Twenty-nine-year-old British-born Essie Jain makes her recorded debut with the glacial delights of 'We Made This Ourselves', an album whose quiet, powerful minimalism is undeniable.

Born into a musical family, Essie grew up in London, where her childhood featured classical piano and cello instruction, as well as training in operatic singing. ... [More]

Release date 19 November 2007 on Malicious Damage.
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The third album from Oxford's Punk/Metal trio Headcount and their second for Malicious Damage. The album follows 2004's critically acclaimed Die Monkey Die album which gave the band substantial radio exposure - BBC Radio 1, a guest appearance on Radio 6's Bruce Dickinson Show, Total Rock Radio and ... [More]

Release date 5 November 2007 on Pinkflag.
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**BACK IN STOCK**

Having spent the four-and-a-half years since the May 2003 release of Send, their last full length studio album, consolidating and reappraising their back catalogue (by means of CD and DVD releases and re-releases of their '70s material) and for the most part remaining out of the public eye, ... [More]

Release date 5 November 2007 on Hyperdub.
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Of all the artists past and present who claim to let their music do their talking for them, Burial is one of the elite band of whom this truly is the case. In fact, so reluctant is he to engage with the cult-of personality hoopla that surrounds almost every modern ... [More]

Release date 5 November 2007 on Malicious Damage.
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After many years recording and gigging around the UK with other Bristol bands Viki and Owen Shirley got married, retreated to their Bristol home studio and in 2004 began work on a very special and personal project. They called it Canola (the Celtic Goddess of music) Tenderfoot (a novice). And ... [More]

Release date 22 October 2007 on The Leaf Label.
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**Order the album on CD or vinyl and you'll receive a free A3 poster featuring artwork from the sleeve of Parades. Strictly one per order and while stocks last.**

Parades is the highly anticipated second album by Denmark’s Efterklang, the follow up to their underground hit of 2004, ... [More]

Release date 16 October 2007 on Pointless Records.
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When the world last heard of Klaus Ammitzbøll of Symptoms, it was with the simultaneous internet release of three albums. Not one to rest on his laurels, Klaus is back with a two-album release, bringing his total album count up to seven.

The first album is Calm. Its basic musical ... [More]

Release date 16 October 2007 on Pointless Records.
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When the world last heard of Klaus Ammitzbøll of Symptoms, it was with the simultaneous internet release of three albums. Not one to rest on his laurels, Klaus is back with a two-album release, bringing his total album count up to seven.

Collapse; its sound is inspired by the movement of ... [More]

Release date 15 October 2007 on room40.
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"This is the story of a man marked by an image of his childhood …” Or perhaps is it the story of this woman coming here to meet a beloved stranger, at the Grange-Auloup street? or maybe their story?” - Sébastien Roux

Revers Ouest* is a radiophonic work based on text ... [More]

Release date 15 October 2007 on room40.
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'Basis' is based on recordings of acoustic instruments. All sounds were processed and layered into compositions by Steinbrüchel. Through this processing Steinbrüchel revealed hidden structures and melodies and isolated them, creating new melodic and organic textures without losing the soul of the original.

These seven tracks reveal a new side in ... [More]

Release date 24 September 2007 on The Leaf Label.
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** The LP release is printed on tasty red vinyl and is a limted edition press of 750 copies **

With an intuitive understanding of melody and dynamics, Nancy Elizabeth brings a refreshingly Northern turn of phrase to her debut album, Battle and Victory.

The Lancashire-born singer’s down-to-earth songs are ... [More]

Release date 17 September 2007 on The Leaf Label.
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Fernando Corona’s long-awaited third album as Murcof marks a dramatic departure from previous works. Truly monumental in scale, Cosmos is composed almost entirely of recordings of classical instruments, a process which Corona describes as “expanding the possibilities of acoustic instruments through electronics.” It’s a move away from the micro-programmed sound ... [More]

Release date 3 September 2007 on The Leaf Label.
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‘I Used To Try’ is the second single by Lancashire born and bred Nancy Elizabeth. The single precedes Nancy’s forthcoming debut album, Battle and Victory. The single will be available as a download, and in a limited edition of 600 numbered 7” singles for the world. The CD version is ... [More]

Release date 30 July 2007 on Pinkflag.
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Recorded at ORF's Vienna studio in February 1993 "Vien" stands as a unique documentation of the period when Wir(e) 's main public activity was as part of the occasional "I Saw You" events which themselves drew heavily on the "People In A Room" performances in the Jeanetta Cochrane in ... [More]

Release date 30 July 2007 on Colin Newman.
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Colin Newman's 5th Solo album "It Seems", originally released in 1988, was in fact the last vocal record released under the artist's own name and may well remain so if the artist's expressed desire to work only on collaborative ventures, mainly Wire and Githead, continues to hold sway.

"an ... [More]

Release date 30 July 2007 on room40.
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For Barry Ray is the husband and wife duo of Carina Thorén (Sweden) and John Chantler (Australia). After a number of compilation appearances, long gone CDrs and lathe cut records under various guises, the pair bunked down over the winter of 06/07 to lay the foundations for ‘New Days’, kicking ... [More]

Release date 30 July 2007 on room40.
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Christopher Willits is a ceaseless creative force focused on teasing out the most from his instrument of choice – the guitar. With 'Plants and Hearts', he sets out on a divergent exploration of the tonal qualities of guitar, rendering out a composition that references in equal doses the minimal harmonic ... [More]

Release date 9 July 2007 on room40.
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In essence Tokyo’s Tenniscoats celebrate all that makes song vital in our collective conscious. Matching emotive live performance against delicately psychedelic folk songs, the duo of Saya and Takashi Ueno (assisted by a plethora of floating members), create some of the most compelling music currently emanating from Japan.

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Release date 28 May 2007 on room40.
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This recording is taken from a live concert which took place at the Musique Action Festival in France on Thursday the 26 of May 2005. Initially Luc Ferrari and erikm were invited to present "Les Protorythmiques" at Musique Action 2005, a work composed around a new 'open working ... [More]

Release date 21 May 2007 on The Leaf Label.
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Cécile Schott returns with her third album as Colleen, the highly personal but distinctly more adventurous and confident Les Ondes Silencieuses, which follows her one-off Colleen Et Les Boîtes À Musique project from late 2006.

This album signals a change of approach for Parisienne Schott. Gone are the ... [More]

Release date 7 May 2007 on swim~.
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PRESS RELEASE

Formed initially as a one off for the label’s 10th birthday bash in April 2004, Githead quickly established a life and voice of its own. Its “all star” line up –comprised of Wire ’s Colin Newman , Robin Rimbaud ( Scanner ) + Malka ... [More]

Release date 7 May 2007 on The Leaf Label.
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A real treat for the burgeoning ranks of A Hawk And A Hacksaw fans, this strictly limited EP includes the first fruits of the duo’s blossoming relationship with a group of extraordinarily talented Hungarian folk musicians, who have come together under the name The Hun Hangár Ensemble ... [More]

Release date 7 May 2007 on room40.
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Recorded over a series of four Sunday afternoons, Wakool is an interrogation into an expanded range of techniques and gestures applied to instruments including banjo, electroacoustic guitar, bandura, and eukolin. In part an antidote to laborious studio process, this project privileges live stereo recordings without additional overdubs, processing or equalization. ... [More]

Release date 2 April 2007 on The Leaf Label.
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Copenhagen’s Efterklang make a welcome return with a magical re-introduction to their sound - the release of Under Giant Trees, a limited edition five-track mini-album in deluxe packaging.

Recorded in the band’s own studio, the evolution of Under Giant Trees was somewhat unconventional. The five pieces developed as a way for ... [More]