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Eleh's cover art was chosen to be a part of a modern
letterpress exhibit at Gallery 51 in North Adams, Massachusetts.
Also chosen from Manifesto Letterpress' recent work
was a Dinosaur Jr poster designed by Darryl Norsen & a SXSW poster for Ecstatic Peace designed
by Dennis Typhus.
Reception will be held at March 29th (6pm-8pm). Show runs
from March 29th-April 22nd.
where:
Gallery 51
51 Main Street
North Adams, MA 01247
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EMAIL
CHANGE:
If you've been contacting Important via importantrecords@verizon.net
please change your contact info to importantrecords at comcast
dot net. The @importantrecords.com email addresses will continue
to work without interruption.
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James
Blackshaw in Rolling Stone:
Not a month seems to go by without O True Believers picking
up more and more press. Apparently David Fricke included Believers in his Fricke's Picks column, though he credits
it to Bo'Weavel who licensed the vinyl rights:
James Blackshaw is a young English acoustic guitarist whose
first trips to the fifth-dimension intersection of antique British
and Yankee folk, plantation blues, Indian drone and analog hum
(harmonium, Farfisa organ) seeped out in 2005 on CD-R, in pressings
of as little as eighty. Sunshrine/Celeste and O True Believers
(both on Bo’Weavil) are slightly less limited editions,
on twelve-inch vinyl, of Blackshaw’s shimmering instrumental
wanderlust. His rolling clusters of twelve-string rain bear
the vintage imprint of John Fahey and Robbie Basho, but there
is a more pronounced psychedelia in Blackshaw’s transportive
integration of sarod, tamboura, whispered timpani and twilight
ambience in the near-half-hour of “Sunshrine” and,
on O True Believers, the dawn-raga daydream “The Elk With
Jade Eyes.”
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The upcoming Acid Mothers Temple US/Canadian Tour will feature
a brand new cd and limited edition tour vinyl on Important Records.
You'll be able to get the CD on the AMT tour before it's available
in stores!
Fri 04/13/07 Troubadour Los Angeles CA Mammatus
Tue 04/17/07 Emos Jr. Austin TX Mammatus
Thu 04/19/07 Bottletree Birmingham AL Mammatus
Fri 04/20/07 The Earl Atlanta GA Mammatus
Sat 04/21/07 Grey Eagle Tavern Asheville NC Mammatus
Sun 04/22/07 Satellite Ballroom Charlottesville VA Mammatus
Mon 04/23/07 Ottobar Baltimore MD Mammatus
Tue 04/24/07 Rock and Roll Hotel Washington DC DC Mammatus
Wed 04/25/07 First Unitarian Church Sanctuary Philadelphia PA
Mammatus
Thu 04/26/07 Knitting Factory New York NY Mammatus
Fri 04/27/07 South Paw Brooklyn NY Mammatus
Sat 04/28/07 Middle East Downstairs Cambridge MA Mammatus
Sun 04/29/07 BAR Nightclub New Haven CT Mammatus
Mon 04/30/07 Babylon Ottawa ON Mammatus
Tue 05/01/07 Lees Palace Toronto ON Mammatus
Wed 05/02/07 Soundlab Buffalo NY Mammatus
Thu 05/03/07 Grog Shop Cleveland Heights OH Mammatus
Fri 05/04/07 Magic Stick Detroit MI Mammatus, Odd Clouds
Sat 05/05/07 Empty Bottle Chicago IL Mammatus
Sun 05/06/07 Triple Rock Club Minneapolis MN Mammatus
Wed 05/09/07 Richards On Richards Vancouver BC Mammatus
Thu 05/10/07 Chop Suey Presents Seattle WA Mammatus
Fri 05/11/07 Doug Fir Lounge Portland OR Mammatus
Sat 05/12/07 Bottom of the Hill San Francisco CA Mammatus
Sun 05/13/07 Attic Santa Cruz CA Mammatus
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This
just in from the bad news department: Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes)
brother Peter was involved in a nearly fatal apartment fire.
The Young family is raising money to pay Peter's mounting hospital
bills. You can help by clicking here. |
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Death
Unit live photos:
http://billtmiller.com/nofun/deathunit.htm
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****NEW JANUARY RELEASES
AVAILABLE NOW****
Death Unit "Infinite Death" cd (Carlos
Giffoni, Chris Corsano & members of Mouthus and Hair Police)
My Cat Is An Alien "Leave Me In The Black No-Thing"
cd
Roberto Opalio "Chants From Isolated Ghosts"
cd
****EVERYTHING'S COMING
UP CORSANO****
The last few days have been full of Chris Corsano news.
According to Pitchfork he'll be playing drums on the next
Bjork album. Also on Pitchfork: Deerhoof's drummer put the
Flaherty/Corsano/Yeh trio on his list of favorites of 2006.
Of course, I totally agree. Hopefully we'll be able to get
the three of them together in the same place at the same time
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UPCOMING RELEASES:
The first quarter of 2007 is going to be an extremely busy
release period for Important. Here's a rundown of what to expect:
January 23rd will see new full lengths from My Cat
Is An Alien, MCIAA's Roberto Opalio solo &
Death Unit. (Death Unit is Carlos Giffoni w/ Chris
Corsano & members of Mouthus & Hair Police.)
February is possibly our busiest release month ever with
a cd & lp from The Bark Haze (Gown and Thurston
Moore guitar duo), Rameses III, Baikal (Bardo
Pond guys), a cd/lp from the Vanishing Voice &
the anticipated vinyl only Eleh full length shown to
the left. (Eleh is a tribute to La Monte Young, Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue and the spirit
of early minimalist experimental electronic music. Imagine glowing
tubes inside fifty pound test oscillators & vintage modular
analog gear creating stark low end drone. Pure volume. Pure
tone. Only 400 are being pressed and it's housed in deluxe letterpressed
packaging.)
March will see the release of Larsen & Friends Abeceda performance on cd and dvd. This performance
captures Larsen w/ David Tibet, Baby Dee, Johann Johannsson & Julia Kent paying musical
tribute to Karel Teige. An event not to be missed and
if you did miss it now you can see it and hear it. We'll also
be releasing MUSM II including tons of unreleased Larsen material. Also in March will be a full length from Jessica
Rylan, Merzbow's Merzbear and the debut from
brilliant Itallian guitarist/composter Alessandro Steffana.
Happy new year and stay tuned. 2007 is looking to be a very
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Here's a live video of Mark Ribot playing Alessandro
Stefana's Poste E Telegrafi Blues live. Important
will be releasing Alessandro Stefana's debut album Post E Telegrafi in early 2007 and Ribot is
a guest musician on the album. http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=LNfEtmzqTw4 |
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(PLEASE NOTE COLOR VINYL IS SOLD
OUT. VERY FEW BLACK VINYL COPIES REMAIN)
OCEAN DEMO VINYL
It was Ocean's breakthrough self released demo that first caught
our ear and started the flood of interest. With two massive
tracks for a total of 36 minutes of huge psychedelic doom this
is the record that started the buzz and it's now available on
vinyl via Ocean's own 43rd Parallel Recordings. Packaged in
a deluxe foil printed package hand done by Ocean's Reuben J.
Little. We're accepting pre-orders now and will be shipping
next week. First 100 orders will receive red or blue vinyl.
If you order more than one record your first record will be
on color vinyl and the remaining records will be black. Ltd.
edition of only 500.
$14
$3 shipping in the usa
$10 overseas
paypal i.d. is importantrecords@verizon.net |
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Click here
to see Citay featured on this Swedish television show's segment
about the "San Francisco Psychedlic Rock Scene."
It's a half hour long show featuring interviews and studio
and live footage of Citay, Brightblack, Howlin Rain, Comets
on Fire, Badgerlore/Six Organs of Admittance, Michelle Cable
and others. There's a couple of minutes of Swedish at the
beginning but the rest is in English.
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As you may have noticed our website was down over the weekend
while Brainwashed, our host, switched servers. As a result
email has been slowly trickling in. If you've emailed us and
didn't receive a response please email again.
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HOLIDAY
SALE!
We just put up the 2006 Holiday sale page including
deep discounts on recordings from Merzbow, Jack Dangers, Noam
Chomsky, Kimya Dawson, KK Null, Mudsuckers, Daniel Menche,
Anoice, Diane Cluck & many more. Click here
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OCEAN/GRAILS LIVE TONIGHT IN BOSTON:
Ocean & Grails will be
sharing a bill tonight live @ the Middle East Upstairs in
Boston. For more info visit mideastclub.com
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NOVEMBER
RELEASES ON IMPORTANT RECORDS:
Coming up later this month
is a full length album of piano works from Conrad Schnitzler
titled Klavierhelm as well of a box set of his
electronic work titled Trigger Trilogy. Naturally,
it's an honor to be able to work with such a legendary artist.
Hototogisu will be releasing a full length titled Some
Blood Will Stick on Important in November. We're currently
sold out of their double disc Ghosts Of The Sun though
a small amount of the hand made version are still available.
The covers were hand made by Marcia Bassett.
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OCEAN RETURNS TO THE STUDIO
Ocean have returned to the
same Portland Maine studio where they recorded the final version
of their tremendously successful debut full length Here
Where Nothing Grows. One week into the sessions the reports
are profoundly positive.
Just received an email this afternoon from the studio thats
got everyone buzzing with excitement:
"Something magical
has happened with this one. I can't explain it but it's everything
I ever hoped and wanted Ocean to be. "
Amen. Look for the record to be released some time in
2007
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RIVULETS - YOU ARE MY HOME
IMPREC109
One of our last releases
of 2006 is going to be the long delayed Rivulets full
length You Are My Home featuring guests Jessica
Bailiff (Kranky), Chris Brokaw (Codeine, Come,
the New Year), Christian Frederickson (Rachel's), Fred
Lonberg-Holm (Boxhead Ensemble), & Bob Weston (Mission
of Burman, Shellac). Previous Rivulets full lengths
were issued on Low's Chairkicker's Union
label and this is the first Rivulets album for Important.
Press copies are available now...
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BORIS - VEIN
Vein is now completely sold out. Appologies to all mailorder
customers & subscribers who missed this release. Boris
will have copies on some upcoming American dates and they'll
likely be offering them soon through Inoxia. Copies have been
shipped to distributors so stores and mailorder should have
a very limited amount in stock in the coming weeks. If you're
looking for a copy you're advised to act fast as there were
not nearly enough made to meet the demand. Again, sorry to
all who missed out. There just wasn't a fair way to handle
it
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NEW SITE LAUNCH
Here it is, the brand new Important Records website. You will
find that the overall layout is far cleaner than it was and
you should have an easier time navigating the site. The best
part is that now the Important release page can be searched
by artist, sorted alphabetically and scrolled chronologically.
Darryl Norsen & Paul Eichorn made it all possible.
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NEW
SITE LAUNCH & BORIS
The first official finished copy of Vein was
just assembled. We're going to try to time
it so that the ordering of Vein coincides
with the launch of the new Important Records
website. So, keep checking back and as soon
as you see the new site design Vein should
be ready. We will also have some Important
hoodies designed by Stephen O'Malley
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Just
when we thought that Boris' Vein
was in the final stretch we had another
set back. Unfortunately, we had to move the
printing of the jackets to a company in Florida.
They are rushing it into production and sent
us a proof, which you can see full assembled
in the photo to the right. (the proofs were
cut wrong and are pretty scuffed so the final
product will look a little cleaner but you
can get the idea).
Expect Vein to be completed in another
2-3 weeks. At this point, however,
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At
a meeting over curry recently
Ocean handed over the demos
for their new full length album coming some
time in early 2007. Though they've
moved one step forward they've still got a
foot in the unique sound that has made
Here Where Nothing Grows the highest selling
Important release yet (and it shows no signs
of slowing down.)
We listened to it over and over again while
putting together the new Steven R Smith
lp. 500 were made and each come with a hand
made wood-block print from Steven R Smith.
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BORIS
"VEIN" VINYL NEWS:
Vein
is going to cost around $30 direct from
Important and will likely be a little more
in the shops. It will be ready in about 3
weeks. Now, before you rush to the nearest
message board to complain, please read on:
Vein is expensive, but it is not overpriced.
This price reflects the cost of licensing
and manufacturing such an elaborate package.
We did everything Boris requested and this
beautiful record is entirely their creation.
Atsuo told me more than once that this is
a very, very special record for them. So,
we went all out and two years and lots of
problems later it's nearly complete. There
were some snags along the way that drove the
cost per unit up. Like, we had to pay for
all the screen printed mylar "pictures"
for the picture discs even though we're not
using them. Whatever you choose to do, please
understand that this price reflects the cost
of production and the final product will be,
in my opinion, both stunning and well worth
it. (note: as
per request of Boris, we can not give out
those mylar inserts as previously mentioned
on this news update.sorry about that!) |
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Designer
Series T Shirts
We've been commissioning
t-shirt designs from some of our favorite
graphic designers and the first two shirts
are now available. The first is from Stephen
O'Malley (Sunn O))), Khanate, Ginnungagap)
and the second is from Boston based artists
Darryl Norsen. Future shirts from Savage
Pencil, Aryk Roper, & Seripop.
More info on the apparel
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Larsen
& Friends
ABECEDA
Concert/performance inspired by Karel Teige’s
artworks (1900 – 1951)
Larsen:
Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo, guitar, electric
viola
Marco “il Bue” Schiavo, drums,
glokenspiel
Paolo Dellapiana, electronics, accordion
Roberto Maria Clemente, guitar
Baby
Dee, harp, piano
David Tibet, vocals
Johann Johannson, electric organ, piano
Julia Kent, cello
Snejanka Mihaylova, lights and performance
Bellissimo, visuals
The title says it: at the center of
attention is the alphabet. In the sense
of the single letters. Considered however
as elements in and of themselves, gifted
in some way with a true semantic individuality:
the ideogram A - a hut, C - symbol of the
moon ... this is how they were understood
by Karel Teige: 1920's Czechoslovakian cultural
radical, founder and principle theorist
of the Devetsil collective, largest driving
force of the local avantgard surrealists.
Designer, student of architecture and visual
art, Teige attacked with modern force in
the exploration of the possiblity of an
interweaving of verbal art and optical expression,
industrial technology and mass media, inspired
by the poem composed in 1923 by compatriot
Vitezslav Nezval: at that time involved
in Devetsil: Abeceda specifically. The same
Nezval said on the subject of opera"It
is intellectual exercise around the most
elemental poetic object: the letters of
the alphabet.". Language taken back
to its minimal terminology, to the essence
of spelling and fonetics of its building
blocks in which derive the rhymeing quarters
of every letter - 25 in total - of the latin
alphabet. Ulterior developments of Abeceda
made the ominous volume realized three years
after Teige, that applied the notion of
"poeticism" on the live body of
Nezval's opera, that is, the symbiosis between
visual and verbal signs which position the
same fundamentals of Devetsil. In his words
"The artistic fruit of Poetism is negligent,
fantastic, exuberant, playful, anti-heroic
and erotic.".
Conceived and built as a poetic dialogue
between text and images, Abeceda manifests
still now the real extraordinary expressive
urgency. They are established elements,
as well as the verses of Nezval, the photography
of Karel Paspa that paints the suggested
figuration from the original text on the
dancer and choreographer Milca Mayerova
(she also, like the same Paspa, adhered
to the Devitsil movement). Factors combined
from Teige with imprint photomontage techniques,
"I have tried to create a photo-style
of an exquistely abstract and poetic nature,
translating in graphic form that which Nezval
expressed in his verses as verbal poetry.",
chiosava the author. Drawn into cultural
oblivion following the annexation of Czechoslovakia
by Nazi Germany, the memory of Abeceda has
resurfaced only recently. In 2001, when
the work was at the center of the exhibition
Dreams and Disillusions - Karel Teige and
the Czech Avant-garde at the Grey Art Gallery
in New York (occasions in which were presented
the video of the subject of the year before
at Wolfsonian-Florida International University),
and again in the last months, inserted in
the basic theme of the exposition Modernism
- Designing a New World (1914 - 1939) hosted
by the London museum Victoria & Albert.
Teige and the other members of Devetsil
would have certainly liked the ulterior
declination of Abeceda built by Larsen.
The Turinian group, active for more than
ten years (a passage documented by six albums,
the last and most recent being Seies), that
communicate an eclectic and multi-disciplined
approach to musical material. Specimen,
in that sense, the work done years ago by
Winsor McKay with his cartoons, put to music
by Larsen under the wording of Cartoanimalettimatti
(a project premiered in 2002 during the
festival Rimusicazioni) and in general the
stateless attitude with which the quartet
measures the codes of rock, after the zeroing
of the same rock provoked by punk, as such
to make Larsen more appreciated abroad than
in their own country. Reasons for which
the artistic interlocutors of the Turinian
group tend to place themselves beyond borders.
American are both the labels - Young God
and Important Records – that have released
their music so far, and many of their partners
seen often by their side, Jamie Stewart
(Xiu Xiu) - in the configuration called
XXL, or Matmos and the ex-Swans Michael
Gira and Jarboe. All icons of the independent
music scene across the ocean.
Some of these accomplices will play with
Larsen on Abeceda : David Tibet, brain of
the british “apocalyptic” project
Current 93, project that also involves Baby
Dee, transgender cult icon from the Manhattan
off scene, same underground the cello player
Julia Kent, of Antony and The Johnsons,
belongs to, whereas Johann Johannsson, musician
and producer that has worked with Marc Almond
and Barry Adamson, comes from Island. Also
on stage with the band will be the russian
performer and choreographer Snejanka Mihaylova;
together with Larsen, and the visuals by
the Bellissimo team inspired by Tiege’s
Abeceda, they will set up a concert/performance
in 25 movements, one for each letter of
the latin alphabet; elaborate and fascinating
staging, exclusive worldwide preview for
the Torino Settembre Musica festival and
its audience.
Alberto Campo
www.settembremusica.it
www.larsen.to.it
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Designer
Series T Shirts
We've been commissioning t-shirt designs from
some of our favorite graphic designers and
the first two shirts are now available. The
first is from Stephen O'Malley (Sunn
O))), Khanate, Ginnungagap) and the second
is from Boston based artists Darryl Norsen.
Future shirts from Savage Pencil, Aryk
Roper, Atsuo from Boris & Seripop.
More info on the apparel
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BORIS
"VEIN" VINYL NEWS:
Vein
is double sided, not single sided as some
websites are reporting. Boris originally intended
for this to be a clear picture disc using
screen printed mylar inside the record. I
saw some samples, each being slightly flawed,
but at a meeting with Boris in Boston they
agreed that the flaws were acceptable and
the pressing commenced. Upon pressing the
factory realised that each one was coming
out worse and worse. (it has to do with the
heat of the vinyl and the ink used on the
mylar) So, last friday the picture disc plan
was scrapped. Click photo to enlarge.
Instead of a picture disc the record is being
screen printed. The result is a much better
image on the record. The grooves start about
2 inches into the record leaving a smooth
perimeter for the screen printed image. Each
side is about 18 minutes and although the
grooves were cut in this manner the record
retains a nice, robust sound.
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5 new Important
Records releases for the month of July and
one of them is free! Yes, free.
Alasehir &
Alumbrados : 2 new
groups = 2 new full lenghts from Bardo
Pond brothers John & Michael Gibson
Flaherty/Corsano/Yeh:
wo new full lengths (one on cd/one on lp)
from the Paul Flaherty/Chris Corsano
duo only this time with Burning Star
Core's C. Spencer Yeh handling
vocals/violin.
Daniel Menche:
Menche has been working on percusively
based material lately and this stuff is
amazing. Big, dense, pulsing and slowly
evolving pieces.
IMPREC100:
Free. Yes, free. Any and all purchases
(while supplies last) will come with IMPREC100.
This is a free sampler w/ tracks from
Anoice,Ocean, Citay,
Diane Cluck, Major Stars,
Muslimgauze and a bunch more Important
artists. All tracks are from previously
released albums on Important although
the Ocean and Dresden Dolls tracks
were only available on limited edition vinyl
only releases
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.... LARSEN &
DIANE CLUCK will be at this years Safe As Milk.
Click above for more info |
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NO
FUN:
Upcoming next week wednesday:
No Fun Productions Event
11 may 31st at tonic NYC 8 pm
Hair Police
Heathen Shame (members of Major Stars)
Prurient/Carlos Giffoni
Graveyards (with John Olson from
Wolf Eyes)
advance tickets availible
trough www.tonicnyc.com. or at Other Music
in manhattan and the tonic box office.
poster by maya miller:
http://www.nofunfest.com/nofun11web.jpg
www.tonicnyc.com for directions
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BORIS
"VEIN" VINYL NEWS:
Click on the image to
the left to see a larger version of it. This
is the clear mylar screen print that will
be inside the vinyl, like a picture disc.
The pink record in the background has nothing
to do with this project, it's simply there
to give perspective.
Since we're getting lots of emails about this
I figured it was probably time to give everyone
someinsight into what we're doing. The vinyl
only Boris release "Vein" should
be available in the next 30-60 days. It's
been an extremely challenging and time consuming
process. There's been a couple of months of
daily communication with the pressing plant
and more trouble shooting than I have the
space to elaborate on.
Basically, the record is a picture disc. However,
rather than a picture inside it's a screen
printed image on clear mylar. This gives the
impression of clear vinyl w/ an image suspended
within. This will then be packaged in a clear
pvc bag w/ custom oversized stickers on each
side. Even making the stickers has been a
challenge as they are a custom size and require
hand building a die to cut them.
We've okay'd test pressings and we're waiting
to see some new samples of the mylar picture
disc. The first samples failed due to the
image smudging when the vinyl was pressed
over it. New inks have been used and hopefully
they will not smudge this time around. Boris
has already said that any flaws will give
this record personality and they seem to be
okay with it. I'm hoping that each one will
be perfect. Either way, this record is amazing
and after all this work we're just anxious
to get the final product in hand.
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Larsen
w/ Current 93. Click poster to the left
for details.
Fe-Mail will be at the Vancouver
International Jazz Festival this coming
weekend
Citay will be performing this coming
sat. at an Arthur Magazine sponosored
event at the Rickshaw Stop. Citay
is on @ 10. details
Fe-Mail photo credit: Nada Zcank
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Two new Important
T-Shirts
Just added are two new $5 Important logo t-shirts
on the apparel page. One
of the shirts is a Fruit Of The Loom "dakota
slate" color which is definitely the best shirt
color we've ever seen. It's like a nicely faded
black or the deepest grey ever.
Brown..... .......................Dakota
Slate |
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Experimental
Audio Research on Important
As many of you know,
we've been slowly working with Sonic Boom
for the last few years putting together a
record for Important. I appologize to everyone
who's emailed us regularly asking for updates.
There hasn't been much news to tell though
recently it seems that Sonic's in the process
of wrapping it up. More info, and hopefully
an album, soon.
For now, check out the official Sonic Boom
website |
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Major Stars are
on tour:
fri
april 28 "102 ingram street" brooklyn,
ny w/ om, michael hurley, psych perv djs
saturday
april 29th - wfmu recording session @ 12:30
- to air at a later date
sat april 29 kyhber pass - philadelphia,
pa - w/ bardo pond, elevator parade & like moving
objects
sun april 30 - garfield artworks - pittsburgh,
pa - w/ victory at sea, centipede e'est
mon may 1st "max's pad" 916 catherine
st in ann arbor
tue may 2 - subterranean - chicago, il -
w/ seepage, scalpels, folk & violence
thu may 4 - skylab - columbus, oh - w/ bonedust,
sword heaven, lambsbread
fri may 5 - talking head club - baltimore,
md - w/ others tba
sat may 6 - cakeshop - new york, ny - w/
endless boogie, dan melchior
sun may 7 - flywheel - easthampton, ma -
w/ txoka txoka, and others tba
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Larsen
on tour:
Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo aka ( r )
04/26/2006 @ Auditorium Controradio, Bari, Italy
+ Baby Dee
04 /27/2006 @ Spazio 211, Torino, Italy + Mi and
L'au + Morose + Baby Dee
Larsen +
Xiu Xiu + XXL
05/04/2006 @ Thermos, Ancona, Italy
05/05/2006 @ Jail, Legnano, Milano, Italy
05/06/2006 @ Covo, Bologna, Italy
05/07/2006 @ Teatro Miela, Trieste, Italy
05/09/2006 @ Circolo Degli Artisti, Roma, Italy
05/10/2006 @ Galleria Toledo, Napoli, Italy
05/11//2006 @ Banano Tsunami c/o Porto Antico,
Genova, Italy
Larsen
04/28/2006 @ Golden Mt. Zion Festival c/o Zion
Club, Morbio Inferiore (Chiasso), Switzerland
+ Baby Dee
05/24/2006 @ Sala BeCool, Barcelona, Spain + Baby
Dee + Six Organs Of Admittance
06/22/2006 @ Hana- Bi, Marina Di Ravenna, Italy
06/23/2006 @ Hybrida, Tarcento (Udine), Italy
06/24/2006 @ Tarfò Bar, Budapest hungary
07/29/2006 @ Safe As Milk , Haugesund, Norway
09/28/2006 @ Le Kab de L'Usine, Geneve, Switzerland
+ Baby Dee
09/15/2006 @ Settembre Musica, Torino, Italy
Larsen presents ABECEDA featuring:
David Tibet, Julia Kent, Baby Dee, James Stewart,
Johann Johannsson
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Available now
for a limited time:
Lee
Ranaldo "Vancouver Ambients
vol 1-4" 7" - cover art is a screen
print designed, signed & #'d to 500 by Lee
Lee
Ranaldo "Road Movies"
cd & book - Lee's poetry & Leah Singer's
photographs. Signed by both and includes a full
length cd from Lee.
My
Cat Is An Alien "Introducing
The Cosmic Blues" 7" - Each 7"
is packaged w/ an individual signed polaroid.
Only 300 of these were made
My
Cat Is An Alien "Cosmic Light
Of The Third Millennium" cd - First full
length from MCIAA for Important
Ocean vinyl sold
out almost immediately. They'll be taking copies
across America in April/May. Check out the Ocean
website for tour dates.
May will finally see the release of the debut
full length from the young Japanese group Anoice.
Click their photo below to get to an MP3:
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.Ocean's
"Here Where Nothing Grows" double vinyl
is available. The silver on black cover sold
out in the first ten minutes and very few copies
of the black on black pressing remains. This vinyl
edition contains an exclusive live d-side cover
of The Cure's "Siamese Twins." Ocean
is heading out on a national tour next month. For
more info check oceanofdoom.com
Starting next week we'll have the following new
releases available:
Lee Ranaldo "Vancouver Ambients vol
1-4" 7" - cover art is a screen print
designed, signed & #'d to 500 by Lee
Lee Ranaldo "Road Movies" cd &
book - Lee's poetry & Leah Singer's photographs.
Signed by both and includes a full length cd from
Lee.
My Cat Is An Alien "Introducing The
Cosmic Blues" 7" - Each 7" is packaged
w/ an individual signed polaroid. Only 300 of these
were made
My Cat Is An Alien "Cosmic Light Of
The Third Millennium" cd - First full length
from MCIAA for Important
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A quick and timely
reminder that if you intend to make it along to
the Terrastock 6 festival this year, right now would
be a REALLY good time to buy tickets.
The festival takes place in Providence, Rhode Island
USA on April 21st, 22nd and 23rd 2006.
Tickets are just $110 for the whole weekend (inclusive
of postage, booking fees and admin charges) and
are available for purchase online, or from AS220
(address below). Thirty five international bands
are appearing, plus special guests. This works out
at just THREE DOLLARS A BAND. You would have to
be absolutely mad to miss out on this opportunity!
Full details are here: http://terrascope.co.uk/TerrastockPages/terrastock6.html
Confirmed band list (note: there have probably been
some significant additions since you last saw this,
so please read it carefully)
Avarus (Finland) + Bardo Pond + Black Forest / Black
Sea + Bridget St John + Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood
(Australia) + Charalambides + Cul de Sac + Damon
and Naomi + Fursaxa + Ghost (Japan) [farewell performance]
+ Glenn Jones + The Green Pajamas + Kemialliset
Ystävät (Finland) + Kinski + The Kitchen
Cynics (Scotland) + Sharron Kraus (England) + Landing
+ Larkin Grimm + Lightning Bolt + The Magic Carpathians
Project (Poland) + Major Stars + Marissa Nadler
+ MV/EE + Paik + P.G. Six + Tom Rapp and band +
Jack Rose + Salamander + St Joan (England) + Spacious
Mind (Sweden) + Spires that in the Sunset Rise +
Tanakh (Italy) + Thought Forms (England) + Urdog
+ Windy & Carl
There is also a Terrastock Launch Party taking place
on April 20th at the venue (AS220) featuring Acid
Mothers Temple (Japan) + Abunai (reunion) + Bright
+ Joe Turner + The Seven Levels + Area C. Note however
that Terrastock tickets will not be valid for entry,
and that tickets for this gig are not available
in advance - entry will cost you an additional $10.
Doors open 8pm. Both the launch party and the Terrastock
festival itself are all ages shows.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Jeffrey Alexander, Program Director
AS220, 115 Empire Street, Providence, RI 02903 USA
401-831-9327
401-454-7445 fax
terrastock6@secreteye.org
Travel and accommodation information: http://www.terrascope.co.uk/TerrastockPages/terrastock6_travel.html
Contact Aamir Malik for all your flight, travel
and accommodation needs. Drop him a line at: aamirmalik@prodigy.net
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Larsen + Piano Magic
14/02/2006 @ Spazio 211, Torino, Italy
Larsen + Baby
Dee
09/03/2006 @ Casa Del Popolo, Montreal, Canada
+ Fratelli D'italia
10/03/2006 @ Philadelphia , tbc
11/03/2006 @ AS220, Providence, RI, USA + Jack
Wright + Work/Death
12/03/2006 @ Tonic, NYC, USA
28/04/2006 @ Golden Mt. Zion Festival c/o Zion
Club, Morbio Inferiore (Chiasso), Switzerland
28/09/2006 @ Le Kab de L'Usine, Geneve, Switzerland
Larsen + Xiu Xiu + XXL
04/05/2006 @ Thermos, Ancona, Italy
05/05/2006 @ Jail, Legnano, Milano, Italy
06/05/2006 @ Link, Bologna, Italy + Liars
07/05/2006 @ Zenzero, Bari, Italy
09/05/2006 @ Circolo Degli Artisti, Roma, Italy
10/05/2006 @ Galleria Toledo, Napoli, Italy
11/05/2006 @ Teatro Della Tosse, Genova, Italy
( r ) + Matt Elliott
+ Manyfingers
29/03/2006 @ Galleria Toledo, Napoli, Italy
30/03/2006 @ Milk Club , Genova + Grails
31/03/2006 @ Jail, Legnano, Milano, Italy
01/04/2006 @ Hybrida, Tarcento, Udine, Italy
02/04/2006 @ Le Kab de L'Usine, Geneve, Switzerland
Fabrizio Modonese
Palumbo (solo set) + Mi and L'au + Morose
27/04/2006, Spazio 211, Torino, Italy
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Important Records hoodies in the apparel
section
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introducing CITAY
follow links for sneak preview MP3
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December
5 , 2005
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introducing
ANOICE
follow links for sneak preview MP3
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November
26 , 2005
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DIANE
CLUCK VOTED 2nd BEST ALBUM OF 2006 BY MOJO
The prestigious
UK magazine Mojo recently listed Diane Cluck's
Important full length Oh Vanille/Ova Nil the
ranking of 2nd best underground album of the
year! It's available for purchase here.
Heres's the full list:
1. Lightning Bolt-Hypermagic
Mountain
2. Diane Cluck - Oh Vanille/Ova Nil
3. Earth - Hex
4. Animal Collective - Feels
5. Sunn O))) - Black One
6. Big Business - Head For Shallow
7. The White Mice - Asphyx
8. Langhorn Slim - When The Suns..
9. Asva - Futurists
10. Jackie O- Mother Fucker - Flags |
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DANIEL JOHNSTON
HOSPITALIZED IN TEXAS
Our dear friend Daniel Johnston
was hospitalized last week in Texas for what
his family suspects may be Litium poisoning.
Read the Johnston family statement here.
You're in our hearts and thoughts Daniel.
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Read the recent Larsen interview in the international
fashion mag LABEL
HOTOTOGISU
LIVE DATES IN EUROPE
EVENT
IN Copenhagen, DENMARK
SAT. DEC 3RD, 8PM, Byens Lys (Christiania):
TAURPIS TULA, HOTOTOGISU, FAMILY UNDERGROUND
Tickets: 50,- kroner
EVENT IN Den Haag, NL.
STATE X NEWFORMS
http://www.state-xnewforms.nl/2005/
DEC 16 & 17
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Ocean's debut receives tremendous
press in it's first week of release!
Ocean's
debut album "Here Where Nothing Grows"
has been receiving substantial international
press in it's first week of release. Features
have been confirmed in numerous international
metal and non-metal press and countless reviews
have been confirmed as well. Check on our
release page for
links to all the press we've been able to
find thus far.
We're nearing the end of the supply of the
limited edition of 2000 in a deluxe foil stamped
gatefold.
Here are some dates from their upcoming tour:
nov 19 portland me @ geno's cd release w/
rosetta & cwaf
nov 25 allston ma @ o'brien.s cd release w/
sin of angels & shroud of berevement
nov 26 baltimore md @ jerk store
nov 27 harrisonburg va @ crayola house w/
withersoul & tba
nov 28 hickory nc @ underground w/ tba
nov 29 chattanooga tn @ ziggy's w/ moscow
theater siege & hoth
nov 30 tba
dec 1 tba
dec 2 fredericksburg va @ the burbon room
w/ we're all gonna die & tba
dec 3 new york ny @ c squat w/ death mold,
kurixis, rabia & deathcycle
dec 4 trenton nj @ the mill hill basement
w/ rosetta
dec 19 boston
@ the middle east w/ sunno))) & nachtmsticm
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Minazo
tribute t shirts, designed by Jenny Akita,
have just been added to the apparel
page of our site. New vinyl bags as well as the
limited edition metallic print shirts for Ocean's
debut full length have also been added to the apparel
page.
You may also notice that we're in the middle of
a big content update on the distributed
titles pages.
MINAZO 1994-2005
   
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2 and 3 copyright Jenny Akita
Minazo, Japan's only male
Elephant Seal and Merzbow's muse on the album
Merzbeat (as well as the cover star) sadly passed
away recently at the age of 11.
Masami and Jenny Akita made frequent trips to
visit the seal and his memory will be preserved
in the many photographs, paintings and albums
Masami made that were inspired by this mighty
animal.
Masami & Jenny Akita are both strongly opposed
to the containment of animals in zoos and aquariums.
Had Minazo lived in the wild he may have been
able to live a bit longer as 11 is a young age
for an Elephant Seal.
We will have a commemerative Minazo t-shirt, designed
by Jenny Akita, at some point in the near future.
Check out the great
photos on this Russian page dedicated to Minazo
Here's a link to the aquarium's Minazo
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