Conch Records
BOOK: The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl
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The Record is the full-color catalog accompanying the groundbreaking exhibition The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl at the ICA April 15 through September 5 2011. The first exhibition to explore the culture of vinyl records in the history of contemporary art, The Record features rarely exhibited work and recent and newly commissioned pieces by thirty-three artists from around the world. These artists have taken vinyl records as their subject or medium, producing sound work, sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, video, and performance.
Works by well-known artists such as Laurie Anderson, Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, and Carrie Mae Weems appear alongside those of other North American artists, and of artists from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, some of whom have never before exhibited in a U.S. museum. Among the works shown are David Byrne’s original Polaroid photomontage used for the cover of the 1978 Talking Heads album More Songs about Buildings and Food, the fictive soul “album covers” created by the outsider artist Mingering Mike in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and Wheel of Steel (2006), an arresting narrative of record-playing told through digital photos by the South African-born and Berlin-based artist Robin Rhode. In addition to the 225 images, 200 of which appear in color, the catalog includes personal reflections and critical analyses.
All of the artists in the exhibition contribute personal statements about their work in relation to the vinyl record, and critics and scholars explore the historical impact of the record on art and music and the ways the medium has helped shape individual and collective identities.
Contributors. Jeff Chang, Vivien Goldman, Jennifer Kabat, Mark Katz, Josh Kun, Barbara London, Mac McCaughan, Carlo McCormick, Charlie McGovern , Mark Anthony Neal, Piotr Orlov, Luc Sante, Trevor Schoonmaker, Dave Tompkins
Atropolis - Atropolis CD (Dutty Artz)
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It makes sense that a lifelong New Yorker has created an album that encompasses the best of a number of musical influences the city has to offer. By age 16 Adam was deep into sounds from Mali, Nigeria, the Balkans, the Caribbean, and South America and living in the melting pot meant that all those musical communities were nearby. Years later, Patridge has created a fresh-to-death amalgamation of nueva cumbia, dubstep, moombahton, Afro-Colombian house, and kuduro, catching the ears of studied future world music professionals, Dutty Artz label heads Jace "DJ/Rupture" Clayton and Matt Shadetek. More..
ATROPOLIS INTERVIEW By MARTYN PEPPERELL
A born and bred New Yorker with mixed bloodlines drawn from Cyprus, Scotland, Germany and Aotearoa (the Maori name for New Zealand), under his Atropolis alias, Adam Partridge constructs and DJ’s what he dubs “nueva cumbia,” a modernised off-shoot of cumbia, that most storied of Afro/Columbian hybrid musical styles - a genre some say is rooted in the days of African slave ships, Spanish colonization and the resulting cultural interplay. More...
Upcoming: Gang Colours - In Your Gut Like A Knife 12" (Brownswood)
Due out 6th of July, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
Gang Colours // In Your Gut Like A Knife // EP Teaser by Brownswood Tracklisting: A1. Village & City A2. Fireworks In Pocket B1. Dance Around The Subject B2. In Your Gut Like A KnifeIt’s the emotive, dreamy quality of Gang Colours‘ debut EP, ‘In Your Gut Like A Knife’, that really grips the listener to his/her core; indeed, all the way to the gut. Floating in ambiguity, not leaning towards one genre nor another, its organic simplicity leads to a unique groove: one that maybe hasn’t been paved just yet.
As a portal into a world of daydreams, tumbling into shadows and embracing luminescence simultaneously, Gang Colours turns drum patterns into magic. Breeding surreal headphone-friendly landscapes, he fills them with unexpected sounds that would otherwise seem out of place. Within his intricate collages however, they nestle so comfortably – it’s hard to remember their usual context. At times his sound effects strike a peculiar balance between otherworldly and familiarity (reminiscent of slide whistles or insects buzzing). At other points they conjure a sense of longing. Think Mount Kimbie with a playful sense of humour, Burial on a soft, sunny dancefloor, Gold Panda with an R&B lean.
Upcoming: Fela Kuti Boxset compiled by ?uestlove
The first in the long-awaited series of curated Fela Kuti vinyl box sets will be in at Conch soon, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
The 6LP Boxset will be $195
The box includes six Fela Kuti albums that were handpicked by ?uestlove of The ROOTS, with painstakingly recreated original album artwork along with vintage vinyl label artwork.
Knitting Factory Records presents the first of the long-awaited vinyl reissues from the Fela Kuti catalog. This is the first in a series of curated Vinyl Box sets. These six albums were chosen by noted Fela-head, ?uestlove from The Roots. Each album features the painstakingly recreated authentic album artwork along with vintage vinyl labels.
Also included in the box is a poster from a 1986 Austin, TX Fela concert and a 12 page full-color booklet with an essay by ?uestlove and album descriptions by the veteran British music journalist, Chris May.
“It’s the story of Hip Hop”, says ?uestlove of this particular collection of Afrobeat masterpieces. “It’s the story of taking nothing and turning it into something.” The box set includes Everything Scatter (1975), Expensive Shit (1975), Fear Not For Man (1977), Sorrow Tears And Blood (1977), Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense (1986), and Beasts Of No Nation (1989), and is the first in a series of curated Fela box sets from the venue-affiliated imprint.
The box includes the albums:
Everything Scatter (1975) Expensive Shit (1975) Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense (1986) Beasts Of No Nation (1989) Fear Not For Man (1977) Sorrow Tears And Blood (1977)
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