label highlight 17/02 Three:Four Records
"Having made a reputation for hypnotic and darkly enveloping songs, Brooklyn's Mike Wexler has persisted through several waves of contemporary folk music without ever being fully absorbed by any of them. Syntropy - his third full length - is the first to convey the ...
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TFR037CD | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Having made a reputation for hypnotic and darkly enveloping songs, Brooklyn's Mike Wexler has persisted through several waves of contemporary folk music without ever being fully absorbed by any of them. Syntropy - his third full length - is the first to convey the ...
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TFR037LP | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Following Phantasmes, released in 2014, Ruins of Time is a new original motion picture soundtrack of the short film "Ruins of Time" by Mathieu Peteul. "Ruins of Time" is an experimental short film originating from the film Limbo. Available on vinyl, the 4 tracks mixes ...
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TFR035 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"With Fornalha, his first record on three:four released two years ago, Norberto Lobo began to move from a fingerpicking into a more personal and adventurous playing. Muxama is the following step. The reference to americana music are less and less obvious. His technique ...
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TFR034LP | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"With Fornalha, his first record on three:four released two years ago, Norberto Lobo began to move from a fingerpicking into a more personal and adventurous playing. Muxama is the following step. The reference to americana music are less and less obvious. His technique ...
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TFR034CD | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"In the last three decades, no other band has surpassed The Supreme Dicks in mystery. No one has, at this moment, penetrated into their irradiant secret. All answers have yet to be found to the questions aroused by their work for the listener (What is its centre? Its ...
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TFR032CD | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Rust has been completed over a number of years - writing and recording started around the time the previous circle bros album 'Haven' came out. It took a full five years to get everything done - it was a very long process of revisiting the songs, and deciding what was ...
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TFR031 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"For our second release with Filipe Felizardo, we made a double LP. I'm not sure we can make a triple for the next one, but for sure, this release could not be a single one. The first time we listened to it, its raw power kept us in suspense for the nearly one hour and ...
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TFR030 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"In ZDB is the recording of the Norberto Lobo, Giovanni Di Domenico and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto gig that took place on november 14th at Galeria Ze dos Bois (one of our prefered venues in Europe) in Lisbon. Three relatively young players with phenomenal technical skills and ...
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TFR029 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Helena Espvall first met David Maranha in 2006 when her band Espers played a show in Lisbon. They played two gigs the following year, and Espvall contributed to Maranha's Marches of the New World. Since then they always had the intention of working together more ...
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TFR027 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"I explored for years the use of repetitive structures within different perspectives. In many cases, these figures involved long developments. 'Cuts' is the effort to merge this attitude with concise forms and tight evolutions. Vertical exploration of sound needs time; ...
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TFR028 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Around the theme of the ocean symbolising the subconscious, the hidden world and a very personal concept of "loisivete" a combination of idleness "oisivete" and law "loi", Maninkari continues exploring a weird and dreamlike world. As usual, the Charlot brothers resort ...
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TFR025 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Sometimes music can be as simple as two people playing together. French guitarists Imagho (We Are Unique Records / Alara music) and Mocke (We Are Unique records, member of Midget!, Holden, Arlt and Swann) gathered together for two days at the end of december 2013 at ...
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TFR024 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Let say it clearly, Filipe is one of our favourite guitar player. We love his very personal approach of building his music. Building is the right word here, as his music is so intense that it can be compared to sculpture: rough, soft, massive, ethereal, delicate. He ...
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TFR022 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Savage Bliss is the fifth album from Amute and the first to be released by three:four records. As a solo artist, Jérôme Deuson continues his path with determination and shows that he has the level of such artists as Tim Hecker and Fennesz. This record still holds ...
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TFR023LP | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Phantasmes is a 50 minutes experimental sci-fi movie written and directed by Thomas Pantalacci. "A sensory experience between dream and reality, fantasy and eroticism, awakening and sleep." For that purpose, the band Maninkari wrote a two-part - one per side - 39 ...
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TFR020 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Thierry Müller and Aaron Moore met up during a shared gig in 2009. Although they were playing separate sets, that gave them the opportunity to share their respect for each other's work. Striving for new experiences, they booked a studio to see what they could get out ...
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TFR018 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"From the start, curiosity pushed Thierry Müller and Mushy to book a studio in Rome. Intrigued by the combination of their universe, they spent three days improvising with Luciano Lamanna. With nine hours of recordings at his disposal, Thierry wrote the Far From ...
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TFR016LP | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"From the start, curiosity pushed Thierry Müller and Mushy to book a studio in Rome. Intrigued by the combination of their universe, they spent three days improvising with Luciano Lamanna. With nine hours of recordings at his disposal, Thierry wrote the Far From ...
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TFR016CD | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"In 2009 and Cyril and Jon get back in contact via individual releases on the same labels (October Man, Cathedral Transmissions). Cyril sends a track for Jon to contribute to and the collaboration that has become 'Offtempo' began. After around a year of file exchange, ...
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TFR011 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"With The Half Forgotten Relic of a Dream, Maninkari enters a new era. After three albums taken from the same studio sessions, they are back with more direct and refined tracks. As usual, Maninkari uses a great deal of instruments in many styles (cimbalom, cello, viola, ...
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TFR010 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"The collaboration between Scott Cortez and thisquietarmy doesn't really come as a surprise. The latter acknowledges that the previous works from Cortez (under the lovesliescrushing moniker) greatly influenced his work, to the point of using the same way of writing the ...
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TFR005 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS