“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” – Andre Gide
Cat #: 070TZM
This is the first 7″ single from Dear Eloise. The A Side “Castle” is take from their debut album The Words That Burnt on Maybe Mars/tenzenmen (2011).
DEAR ELOISE
Yang Haisong – Guitar / Drums
Sun Xia – Vocals
Produced by Dear Eloise
Recorded & Mixed by Dear Eloise at No. 13 studio
Released in conjunction with Genjing Records, Maybe Mars and Share in Obstacles
Cat #: 083TZM
Hedgehog’s March 2011 album “2011 DEstroy meMOries” was taken from their underground issue demo of the same title. Consisting of 9 tracks, many of which are incomplete versions of new songs, they have been showcased in a lo-fi and gritty way, which sounds more like their live shows. Only 500 limited copes made.
Cat #: 082TZM
Hedgehog’s brilliant 3rd album – imported to Australia under license from Modern Sky.
Cat #: 081TZM
Hedgehog’s second album – licensed under import from Modern Sky (Beijing)
DaBaoGe, Layabozi, Brad Ferguson, Shanghai 24/7, Mensheng, Rock In China, Die In Velvet, Monkey King, Changsha, Ashetemato, Chengdu, Moon Tyrant, Arcane Saints, This Town Touring, Friend Or Foe, We Are Shanghai, Beijing Gig Guide, AV Okubo, Snapline, The Gar, D-22, SS20, Helen Feng, Nova Heart, The Spill
Cat # 087TZM
Yes I’m Leaving is a three piece rock band hailing from Sydney. Influenced by grunge, post punk, hardcore and shoegaze. They have a strong DIY mentality, which showed through on their first self titled release, with their follow up album ‘Nothing’, sharing the same ethos.
“Nothing” Yes I’m Leaving’s second album was recorded in 3 hours at Keynote Rehearsal studios in Homebush West, near where the Olympics was all those years ago. A big room was miked up in a simple way with baffling used to distract from the sonic vibrations of the s/t session. To be honest I can’t remember anything after I got the levels ‘safe’.
The songs are sludgy and full of uncompromising lurching riffage with neojungalistic drum bass rhythmic patterns overlayed with howling and screaming vocal mantras. Say that five times fast!
Everything was live and we charged through 12 songs perhaps with a sense of care as we kept a few alternate takes in the end. The mixing took a long time as it was an overloading experience to put a ‘the end’ sign on a song as passages were aurally exhaustive which is, in the end, why they are so accurate to the sounds of the day.
‘Nothing” is a manic depressive exploding catharsis record. Either/neither insincere or tongue in cheek, full of psychadelia, possessed sludge or something else beyond the pigeon hole. The vinyl reissue comes with a new screenprint and insert, on weird random coloured vinyl.
Layabozi, Duck Fight Goose, Zang Nan, Rainbow Danger Club, Rock In China, Jonathan Campbell, China Daily, D-22, Brian Offenther, Pangbianr, Trash A Go-Go, Andy Best, Michael Pettis, Maybe Mars, Zaza Zhang, Share In Obstacles, Eyes Behind, Yang Haisong, After Argument
pbr: The first official SIO release is a Dear Eloise single 7″, which is also a co-release with Genjing Records [update: also co-released by Tenzenmen in Australia]. What is the plan for the future? Is Share In Obstacles more of a label, a distributor, or something in between?
Zaza: The upcoming schedule of Share In Obstacles is releasing the first 7″ of After Argument, the band of the co-founders and owners of this label (Yang Haisong and me). This is pretty much a label that just releases the 7″ of bands involved, like bands we’re in or bands we simply love. It takes time and energy, we will do it little by little, hope things can sort out well.
And in my opinion, Share In Obstacles is something between a label and distributor, but that’s not the most important thing. Coz for us, our main purpose is more about disseminating the music we love and we make, on our own and in our own way.
Full interview at pangbianr here
Birdstriking, D-22, Global Times, Smart Shanghai, Morgan Short, Domus, Matthew Niederhauser, Zhang Shouwang, Mixtape, Time Out, Lanzhou, Low Wormwood, Demerit, Yugong Yishan, X is Y, That’s Mag, City Weekend, Duck Fight Goose, Han Han, Jake Newby, Pairs, Rock In China, Xiao Zhong
Cat: 088TZM
Proximity Butterfly melts together with ancient Chinese instruments and cutting edge-rock layered with psychedelia. Established in 2003 by Joshua C. Love (America), Chenduxi (China) and Heather Judson (Canada), Proximity Butterfly landed in China 9 years ago – since then, the tales of performance, power and the world’s unknowns have shaken the space that makes this band so unique and full of genuine expression. The band currently consists of guitarist/vocalist/producer Joshua C. Love, bassist/vocalist Heather Love, guitarist Lenny (Robert Tanner), and drummer Wang Yong.
Their music is mixed with a complex variety of elements, including the retro atmosphere of Led Zeppelin through complex jazz time signatures, Pink Floyd’s psychedelia and strikingly poignant lyrics, an unidentified aspect of aggressive rhythm structures and an ethereal tactfulness only to be compared to the likes of Jane’s Addiction or Sigor Ros. Creating an almost circus-like attraction to what songs they’ll play next, Joshua C. Love describes it as, “looking for the timeless, a series of works that can be heard in a 100 years and people will say, yeah, I know that feeling.”
“The live shows are like a ceremony. Not religious, but so full of passion and attention that the energies tie the room together.”
