BISON RECORDINGS Glasgow
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Owner : Abby Thomas
Distr. : UK - Bleep
NE - Shiny Beast
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Bison is a label set up by Abby Thomas, digital archivist at Cafe OTO and audio
engineer at the British Library. The label explores experimental song, off-pop,
lyrics and language and the bleed between visual art and music.
BR 002 EL-B FT. MC D-TWIST CLUB MUSIC 12" 03.2013
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BIS 001 STILL HOUSE PLANTS LONG PLAY LP 11.2018
(Note : LP , 300 copies)
Still House Plants are a Glasgow-based three-piece collective made up of guitarist
Finlay Clark, drummer David Kennedy and vocalist Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach. Their
focus is on dissolving the boundaries between what constitutes music and art through
collaboration and experimentation. Their first EP, released in July 2016, was Wire
critic Frances Morgan's release of the year. They have been artists-in-residence for
the CCA/AC Projects Music Residency, (Glasgow) and at The Pipe Factory, (Glasgow).
The trio have since performed internationally, touring with Mette Rasmussen to perform
at Ultra Eczema's 20th Anniversary, (Antwerp), Fasching Jazz Club, (Stockholm) with
Rasmussen and Richard Dawson, as well as at KRAAK festival, (Brussels). Still House
Plants are Cafe OTO Jerwood Residents 2018/19.
https://www.normanrecords.com/press/index.php?item_id=173404
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BIS 002 KOMIO KURACHI SOUND OF TURNING EARTH CD 06.2019
01. A Siren At 5 O'Clock
02. Ice Cream In November
03. Don't Bully The Nine Tailed Foxes
04. Instant Dramatic Rain
05. Taue Ute
06. At Home
07. I Got A Share Of The Gift Someone Else Received
08. Glittery Lip Sticks In Spring
09. Rejuvenating Shinkansen
10. Here Comes The Tatamiya
The first release outside of Japan for one of the most original figures in Japanese
music, Kumio Kurachi. Recorded by Jim O'Rourke at his home studio, 'Sound Of Turning
Earth' is Kurachi solo on vocals and guitar, mixing surreal lyrics and theatrical
vocal personas with unorthodox tunings inspired by Japan's national instrument the
koto. A strangely brewed but fresh Japanese prog folk record. Kurachi has been playing
music since the '80s, so is well known in Japan and has collaborated with Taku Unami
and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto. He has played with Tenniscoats, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Katsura
Yamauchi, Tori Kudo, Jim O'Rourke and Eiko Ishibashi. 'Sound Of Turning Earth' arrives
as a deluxe gatefold CD accompanied by artwork by Kurachi and full translation of his
strange lyrics.
www.shinybeast.nl
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BIS 3 HUMMING DOGS LES BORIGENES LP 09.2019
The first LP from France's Humming Dogs. Born from the radical 'Oiseau Mouche'
(Bird-Fly Company) - a troupe of actors and comedians who focus on the theatre of
gesture - Humming Dogs make joyful, avant rock music, which pooh poohs the po-faced
in favour of a party. Humming Dogs are made up of eight members - David Bausseron,
Mathieu Breuvard, Florence Decourcelle, Thierry Dupont, Chantal Esso, Léa Le Bars,
Florian Spiry, and Valérie Waroquier, who each write and create songs, swap instruments
and sing collectively. Guitars, bass, drum kit, and keyboards mix with toy percussion,
amplified pine cones, pot lids, iPads and a zither. 'Ha Ha Ha' opens the record with
the group dispersed and growling at one another, only to break out in infectious
laughter, a free word riot and a thick bass melody. The traditional French song
'Karnaval' gets totally sent by keyboards and a heavy guitar scrawl egged on by the
bands hooting and hollering. 'Ça Me Gratte' haunts, grates, until it splits with a
rising synthesizer, squeaking toys, vocal drones and spitting, near exhausted vocals
from Chantel Esso. 'Les Borigenes' contains the self taught, simple charm of the
Shaggs 'Philosophy Of The World', performed in the spirit of village revelry and
recorded and edited beautifully in the tradition of the GRM. Democratized
experimentation, low ego rock'n'roll - 'Les Borigenes' is a truly joyous, remarkable
and wild record. It arrives in an edition of 500 140 gram black vinyl LPs, with
artwork from London's Submit to Love Studios and Taylor Silk.
www.shinybeast.nl
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BIS 4 URS GRAF CONSORT UVA URSI LP 02.2020
'Uva Ursi' is the 2020 record from the vast and motley collective Urs Graf Consort.
Italian variety, free jazz, cabaret, instrumental theatre, Lettrist recitation, the
disruptive intensities of improvisation and noise, and walrus songs. Each listen
reveals an absurd level of detail in construction; the unravelling of simulacra is
set to viele-a-trou and synthesisers, ensemble vocals and finely woven cacophony.
The LP arrives printed in a high gloss outer sleeve, with a double sided printed
inner sleeve featuring lyrics and their English translation.
www.shinybeast.nl
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BISON 006 BILL WELLS : The Viaduct Tuba Trio Plays The Music CD 11.2020
Of Bill Wells
The Viaduct Tuba Trio Plays The Music Of Bill Wells represents another creative
achievement for the prolific composer and multi-instrumentalist. Recorded at Castle
of Doom studios in Glasgow by Tony Doogan, mixed by Bill at Loathsome Reels and
mastered by Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub. Cover art by longtime collaborator
Annabel Wright.
https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/BISON.006CD.html
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