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please don't forget to add postage. if buying more than 1 item, please email for p&p total - sales [at] ephreimprint.eu

1 cd europe £0.50 1 cd rest of world £1.00 1 record europe £2.00 1 record rest of world £3.00

erik de cordier from palermo, italy works with audio samples stolen from abandoned night-time locations - a deserted hypermarket car-park, lonely seaports and unhabited buildings. with a particular focus on evp, he collages sound into intruiging and potentially disturbing musical episodes.

erik de cordier recently featured on two compilations - 'blurred tapes' (cathedral transmissions) and 'against it, vol 1' (against it records).

 

for his ep on ephre, jonathan read crafts three enigmatic drone works alluding to space flight and a possible journey to and from 'cybele' (the grecian, divine fertile earth). in this light, despite the alien overtones to the music, there is a feeling of warmth hidden inside and one can imagine the heat and open skies of his home merriwa, australia when listening to his music.

jonathan's debut album 'stooky bill' was released recently on the enpeg label and has a forthcoming release on hibernate records.

 

in contrast to the title - referring to a repetitive or even obilgatory event, this piece from david newlyn is an enigmatic, labyrinthine sonic journey. constructed from field recordings made in a nightime durham cathedral, we hear muffled choral swells rising and falling away into an uncertain hushed atmosphere amongst the pews and buttresses before the whole piece solidifies into a shimmering drone that forges on through the haunted ecclesiastical gloom.

david has previous releases on u-cover, symbolic interaction and mobeer, plus up and coming on tokyo droning. he also curates the cathedral transmissions label.

 

superb sound design and soundscaping from carlos villena, who hails from barcelona in spain. constructed from solar landscape field recordings, this single longform piece shifts between different atmospheres and textures, at once building into aggressive pillars of noise only to fall away into uncomfortably serene passages - an aural hallucination of sunblindness.

carlos' work borders the sonic worlds between environmental sound recording, noise, drone, black metal and improvisation. he also runs the mantricum records label and has forthcoming releases/splits with cornucopia, freiband, z'ev, arnau sala and more.

comes as a 3inch mini cdr with sleeve design by conor gorman. running time: 22 minutes.

 

+ special joint release by ephre imprint + hibernate records

poor henrietta marie is based on a single mobile phone recording of a young girl singing "wade in the water" unaccompanied on the street of a small english town. the recording was later treated and re-arranged on magnetic tape, then passed through dsp processors and set alongside live multi-tracked instrumentation. henrietta marie refers to the sunken slave ship of the same name that now resides in a sad watery grave. the ep comprises of one long work, moving through 3 sections.

ltd edition 3" cdr with full gatefold artwork by jonathan from hibernate. running time: 21 minutes.

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nigel samways homepage

hibernate records homepage

frans de waard @ vital weekly 718 review:

"...samways uses tape treatments, dsp processing, instruments and some more field recordings, and
crafted a great piece of music of a loop of singing, to which a whole brand of small electronic sounds, drones and glitches are added. think 'jesus blood never failed me yet' meeting 'salt marie celeste': a radioplay like piece of obscured field recordings which tell us a story, other than 'just' beautiful music. excellent release here."

more reviews on the blog click here

 

 

+ one ep / vecchi-teller [eph02] cdr in slip case / £3

vecchi-teller are an electro-acoustic improvisational duo. material gathered here from live sessions 2005-9, now hewed down and re-configured. live instrumentation of toolbox junk percussion, a purple vibrator, analogue synthesizer and rotten MW radio interference are processed and re-sampled through live dsp scenarios. the music can be abrasive and visceral, taking musical cues from noise, free jazz and industrial. tracks are presented non-chronologically, with material recorded at different times collaged and juxstaposed together within individual tracks. running time: 21 minutes, 5 tracks.

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+vecchi-teller homepage

frans de waard @ vital weekly 714 review:

"...five blocks of sound, heavily layered, with some strong noise based undercurrent. sounds crashing into each other, but there is always a deep drone end to the pieces. Its not noise as the textbooks describe, but rather a violent brother of musique concrete..."

 

this is the first ephre imprint special edition release - a 10" lathe cut by peter king of king records in new zealand. sleeves hand printed from carved beach driftwood blocks and numbered by daniel from vecchi-teller. each release comes in a tough cardboard jacket with 2 bonus art prints and record in a clear sleeve. the lathe cut + cdr releases contain the same audio (see below for details).

 

a further entry in an ongoing series of works based around adhoc recordings made in the midst of different cityscapes. after 'mestre full stop' (venice) and 'veilleur de nuit' (paris), comes 'silver rain, green trees' constructed on a bed of recordings made in london 2007-8. focusing on the redundancy and decay of the old thames and a sodden overgrown suburbia, where the decompositional textures of the of the music mirror london's bruised and battered underbelly. the cdr version release contains the same audio + running time as the lathe cut. nigel samways has previous releases on labels experimedia, october man, camomille and authorised version. 7 tracks, 23 minutes.

 

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