July News Letter

SUMMER SALE! From 1st July to 31st July Having toiled day and night for the past six months to unleash a steady stream of obscure, obsolete, exquisitely obnoxious, unbelievable, underexposed and undeniably delectable discs on the record buying public we thought it only fair that we give you (and your bank balances) a bit of a breather. So for a limited time only we're offering a chance to catch up with some titles you may have missed or pick up the latest releases with the Finders Keepers summer sale! Buy any 3 CDs for £25 Buy any 5 CDs for £40 Buy any 3 LPs for £35 Buy any 3 double LPs for £40 Buy any 3 45s for £10 *Prices include postage and packaging to the UK ONLY - see the sale shop for details on shipping options. Offer available on Finders Keepers, Twisted Nerve, Cache Cache, Bird, Battered Ornaments and B-Music releases only. More information here CACHE03/BMS044 Various Artists Strange Passion CD/LP (UK only)/Digital UK release date 16th July US release date 17th July Ireland in the late 1970s and early 1980s was an island in the grip of unrest, with civil and political strife in the north, and a tardy economy and religious hegemony in the south. To be young in Ireland at this time was extremely tough with many choosing to follow the well worn path of emigration. A significant number of those that stayed had little choice but to join the dole as employment opportunities were scant. However, the increasing influence of those windows to the wider world such as TV, radio and print were combining to fuel imaginations and plant seeds of disaffection amongst an increasingly sophisticated and pop literate youth desperate for change. Needless to say when punk entered the mainstream the cultural and social conditions were such in Ireland that a new generation of kids were perfectly primed to tap into its energies and values. Focusing on a three year period from 1980 to 1983, Strange Passion is a compilation of rare, unheralded and unreleased Irish music that emerged after the first wave of punk and new wave bands. A time when the raw primitive sounds of punk began to absorb new ideas and technologies and emerging acts were reaching audiences on an unprecedented scale thanks to new magazines such as Hot Press and Heat, RTE Radio 2 and it’s Fanning Sessions, as well as new youth magazine programmes on national TV like Anything Goes. Access to UK’s broadcasting and magazine cultural behemoths (Peel, NME, Morley etc.) as well as touring bands such as The Clash and PIL also played their part in creating an appetite for this thrilling new subculture and soon venues such as The Magnet, Dandelion and Project Arts Centre in Dublin and Kampus in Cork became significant live music hubs. This was catalysed by new youth scenes which sprung up particularly in the main urban centres of Belfast, Derry, Dublin and Cork. Fuelled by boredom, antipathy towards society and inspired by the developing DIY scene in the UK, new bands, independent labels fanzines and creative art provocateurs began to emerge. Such was the rapid growth and creative freedom of this new culture that for a couple of years there seemed a constant stream of emerging acts producing work that was both original in content and presentation. Undoubtedly U2 were the breakthrough act from this new generation of acts. However, others such as Virgin Prunes with their Dadist inspired blend of performance art and punk offered a darker vision tapping into the latent energy of their environs which resulted in extraordinary live events and the odd incendiary TV performance. Live legends, The Threat and Chant! Chant! Chant! were gone almost as soon as they arrived but so fully formed were they already that recordings they did leave behind stand as prime examples of post punk music. Finders Keepers Records are proud to present the first ever compendium of Irish post punk and new wave - featuring extensive liner notes, rare photos with the full participation of the featured artists and bands. THE FIRST 50 PRE-ORDERED COPIES OF THE LP WILL CONE WITH A BONUS CD OF THE COMPILATION CD and LP available to pre-order here Digital album available here Listen here FKR062 Andrzej Korzynski Possession CD/LP/Digital UK release date 16th July As our maiden voyage into an expansive vat of unreleased music by Polish composer Andrzej Korzynski, Finders Keepers Records presents his previously unreleased electro/orchestral/ experimental score for Andrzej Zulawski's surrealist 80s horror classic, Possession. These 25 cues were written and recorded exclusively for the 1981 award-winning film starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neil, but due to the progressive, stark and modernist nature of the finished film less than half of them made it on to the actual director's cut - leaving many of the tracks on this package totally unheard outside of Korzynski's studio. The intended Possession score in its entirety marks an important axis in Korzynski's career where his various musical disciplines overlap. In one respect it marks his first forays into to synth driven electronics and disco drum machines, while other tracks epitomise the well honed techniques used in previous Zulawski scores, such as Third Part Of The Night and The Devil, which rely on his inimitable orchestral arrangements and combination of clavinet, Rhodes, piano and electric guitar. This is the first time any of this music has been released outside of the films original context and is packaged on CD, 12" vinyl and conceptual green compact cassettes housed in miniature clamshell cases reminiscent of the films original VHS release that briefly adorned UK video shops in the early 1980s (before being banned by over excited censors as one of the unproscecuted 'video nasties' in the infamous 1983 tape cull). The important restoration of Korzynski's music aims to shed new light on the seldom manufactured productions of the composer whose vast cinematic catalogue warrants overdue global status alongside other golden era Eastern European composers such as Kryzstof Komeda, Jan Hammer and Zdenek Liska - not to mention the best of the French and Italian soundtrackers, such as Roubaix, Vannier and Nicolai. Duplicated and carefully remastered directly from Korzynski's original master tapes this album boasts the uninhibited studio experiments and retains the pre-cut ambience as an exclusive archival forerunner to our expanded selection of Korzynski releases later in 2012. CD and LP available to pre-order here Digital album available here Listen here FKR063 Andrzej Korzynski Third Part Of The Night 10" vinyl/Digital UK release date 16th July As one of the most triumphant and beguiling directorial debut features to emerge from the fruitful Polish New Wave, Andrzej Zulawski's 1971 film Third Part Of The Night not only earned the 30 year old filmmaker a place next to other radical Polish directors such as Polanski, Skolimowski and Has, but also galvanised a creative bond with long running collaborator and composer Andrzej Korzynski, providing fans of foreign abstract/suspense cinema with a potent creative fusion to match those of Polanki/Komeda, Fellini/Rota and Argento/Goblin, amongst others. Quite simply one of the heaviest psych rock film soundtracks of all time Andrzej Korzynski's short and unreleased score matched the blueprint that adorned the drawing boards of conceptual French jazz orch rock composers like Jean-Claude Vannier, Francois De Roubaix and Alain Gourageur, creating a soundtrack that unknowingly begs comparison to Masahiko Satâ„¢'s Belladonna Of Sadness and Billy Green's Stone. As one of the first progressive pop writers to come out of the vibrant (but carefully scrutinised) Polish beat scene with his bands Ricecar and later Arplife (and composing for national heroes such as Czeslaw Niemen, Niebiesko-Czarni and Test) KorzynskiÕs growing passion for conceptual rock and jazz music soon lead to instrumental composition and soundtrack scores. His cinematic debuts scoring two consecutive transitional new wave films for Andrzej Wajda (in collaboration with the radical Polski pop groups Trubadurzy and Grupa ABC) also provided Korzynski with another significant cinematic muse in that of the stunning actress Malgorzata Braunek with whom they would both eventually achieve their finest performances under the direction of the ravenous first timer Zulawski. Third Part Of The Night (1971) perhaps epitomises that triangular on-screen unison in its vibrant youth and feeds it through a hallucinogenic mangle finding astonishing beauty (within a repulsive synopsis) against a bleak and shattered backdrop and accompanied by progressive, psychedelic orchestral rock music - elements which would intensify for all three creatives with the next film, Diabel, which was banned by the Polish government the following year until 1988. Third Part Of The Night also marks the public unison of Zulawski and Braunek whose later private romantic relationship is said to form the basis for another defining Zulawski/Korzynski defining endeavour with the 1981 film Possession exactly a decade later, encapsulating a period that bequeaths a previously unopened vault of some of the composers finest and most inspired sonic adventures. Available to pre-order here Digital album available here Listen here VCR-002 Bruno Spoerri And Betha Sarasin AX+BY+CZ+D=0 (AKA Kunst Am Computer) 12" vinyl UK release date 16th July Here is the second release from this new archival vinyl series brought to you by the combined inquisitive minds behind Pre-Cert Home Entertainment and Finders Keepers Records as they continue to share the results of some of their most subaqueous vinyl, tape and film excavations yet. Dead Cert Pressings takes the combined obsessions of all its collaborators and applies an intensive research model to the annals of vintage outsider music, sound sculpture, spoken word, ethnological documents, art-trash, early computer music, neotantrik music, tape manipulation, non-pop and vinyl voyeurism. Investigating and re-contextualising previously unheard recordings from sources that transcend and eclipse the limitations of the record collecting trend and the commercial music industry, Dead Cert aims to elasticate the phonographic medium and present truly unblinkered lost experimental noise from the non-commercial sidelines of production music; musique concrete, film musik, hard-bop, Letterism, volk music, surrealism etc while defying the constraints of definition, faddism and inverted Post-Modernism. All scheduled recordings are pressed on vinyl LPs mastered in accordance with the original creators instructions and cut at the most relevant volume and playing speed. Duplicated in modest quantities and housed in a variety of bespoke or economic packaging priced accordingly. Following on from Dead Cert's debut release (the liberation of the impossibly rare Voice Of Packaged Souls by Suzanne Ciani) this official second pressing of an equally obscure sculpture theory souvineer disc treads similar ground in documenting conceptual art and sound collaborations with mechanical music pioneers, in this case Swiss electronic jazz musician Bruno Spoerri. This previously untravelled and unpromoted aural thesis documents a one-off 1982 collaboration between the Zurich born music technologist Spoerri and theoretical material mechanic Miss Betha Sarasin as they collectively embrace computer technology to the advantage of their individual artistic disciplines resulting in a series of startling melodic and non-melodic pieces using electromagnetically oscillated stainless steel "instrument sculptures". For Spoerri enthusiasts this record presents the musician in a new light. AX+BY+CZ+D=0 (AKA Kunst Am Computer) presents new avenues and compromises for him in a way that can only be achieved through collaboration enhanced by the challenges of the undetermined reactions of alien materials and environments. Sonically and stylistically the results reveal a darker side to Spoerris music reflecting the recent favour for "industrial" and "drone" aesthetics in contemporary experimental recordings and bridging a comparitive unison with other unconcious European contemopraries such as Gruppo d'Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, Giuliano Sorgini and Egisto Macchi (from Italy), Igor Wakewich and Richard Pinhas (from France) and the darker Czech soundtrack work of Zdenek Liska. In equal measures this LP also retains the unmistakable personality of Bruno at his most uninhibated, including the signature sounds buried in his earlier construction site sample experiments and his ongoing relationship with Arp technology and Bill Bernardi's Lyricon 1 wind synth that was simultaneously being utilised and developed in the US for Suzanne Ciani, Roland Kirk, Michal Urbaniak and new age electronic artist Kat Epple, again, sonically unifying these forward thinking pioneers. Available to pre-order here

Finders Keepers Records and Cache Cache have teamed up with Manchester's 20/22 to mark the release of Strange Passion with an evening of no wave, synth pop and motorik beats featuring DJs Arnold Blaart Krankheit (Faktion), Doug Shipton, David Orphan, Luke J Murray (Finders Keepers Records). 20th July. 8pm til late. FREE ENTRY! 20/22 Dale Street Northern Quarter Manchester M1 1EZ. Our excavation of the Finders Keepers vaults continues as this month we present the fourth in our series of themed compilations, this time based around food and drink. Available here We have a limited number of badge bundles available featuring Cache Cache, Harmonitalk, Googoosh and Finders Keepers designs. Available here To coincide with the release of Korzynski's groundbreaking score to Poessession we have we have THREE copies of the DVD to give away courtesy of Second Sight. To win one send us a picture of your most prized possession to merchandise[at] finderskeepersrecords.com 014EGGSCD/LP The Eccentric Research Council CD/LP/Digital Sheffield/Salford eccentric outsider pop artist Adrian Flanagan with the help of his pal, synthesizer wizard/producer Dean Honer, have made a memorial road trip record based around the 1612 Pendle witch trials which features vocals from Bafta nominated actress Maxine Peake and released through Bird in August. Using a collection of pre-war analogue synthesizers and old rickety drum machines played by tin robots and a brass band made of Lego. COMING AUGUST 2012...

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