Cat #: 082TZM
Hedgehog’s brilliant 3rd album – imported to Australia under license from Modern Sky.
Hedgehog – Blue Day Dreaming – 6th February 2012
Cat #: 081TZM
Hedgehog’s second album – licensed under import from Modern Sky (Beijing)
Alternative China – 2nd February 2012
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
Yes I’m Leaving – Nothing – 20th January 2012
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.
Alternative China – 4th January 2012
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
ZaZa Zhang interview by Josh at pangbianr – 3rd January 2012
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
Alternative China – 1st December 2011
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
Proximity Butterfly – Reprieve – The Auspicious Occurrence of Dr. Chen’s Past Lives – 1st December 2011
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.”
Dead Ants Rainbow – Selectively Mute – 21st November 2011
Cat #: 086TZM
DEAD ANTS TRIO are an improvised unit of primarily baritone guitar, electric bass, and drums, dedicated to free-form ecstatic improvisation dragged from the place where both noise and trancendence spring. Some describe them as faux-jazz grindcore, others as avant-skronk, others as post-punk expressionism. All these descriptions are inaccurate.
DEAD ANTS RAINBOW. SELECTIVELY MUTE.
Two discs recorded over time and space, revealing the many hues of The Dead Ants Rainbow in rotating three-part colour wheels.
GAUCHOS CON HUEVOS: the original Ants (Lachy Ewbank and Troy JP Naumoff), hermetically transformed into a time-travelling triumvirate through the meddling magickal bass-alchemy of A D Machine several years later. With additional guests, these recordings never really happened.
DATRIO / DAPROCESS: a collection of folded space-rituals featuring the trio of Ewbank, Naumoff and MacHine on rotating instruments (bass / baritone guitar / drums / piano / voice / microtonal reeds) in classic live-to-air improvisations; plus the unexpected trio of Naumoff, MacHine and Sleepy (of Gravel Samwidge fame) in severely overdimensional warp-mode, improvising live through A D MacHine’s personalised real-time processing portal.
Alternative China – 9th November 2011
David O’Dell, Inseparable, Red Rock, Yaogun, Jon Campbell, China Music Radar, Carsick Cars, Hedgehog, Low Wormwood, Beijing Daze, Lanzhou, Re-Tros, Nova Heart, Candy Monster, Layabozi, Boys Climbing Ropes, Little Punk, Morgan Short, P.K.14, Xiaorong Cocktail 78, Duck Fight Goose, Emptying The Haunted Air, Archie Hamilton, Split Works, Androsace, Painbianr, Friend Or For, Deadly Cradle Death, Yantiao, Rabshaka, Han Han, Charles Saliba, Maybe Mars, D-22, China Economic Review
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