DISCREPANT
Based in London, Discrepant was founded in 2011. They have produced a number of fine vinyl releases for all sorts of experimental music, including vinyl releases by Kink Gong, Charbel Haber, People Like Us, Bosaina, German Army, Ergo Phizmiz aka DW Robertson, Mutamassik, Meridian Brothers (plus sideprojects Romperayo and El Chupame) and many more.
''Zomia is an idea, a concept that, not so long ago, there were two very distinct worlds in southeast Asia, the valley VS highland/hinterland, the civilisation VS the primitive, paddy rice VS slash and burn agriculture, Buddhism VS Animism, fixed territory VS ...
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"Introducing a new project by Discrepant label boss Gonccalo F. Cardoso (Gonzo, Visions Congo, Papillon) and Tenerife electronic stalwarts Tupperwear (Mladen Kurajica and Dani Tupper). Diving deep into various phantom island mythologies (the elusive St. Brendan's island ...
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"Spencer Clark is back with a futuristic eco-friendly record. It's life on earth as you never heard it. The story goes like this: Spencer wanted to do a soundtrack for the yet to be made Avatar 2. And if you know Spencer's work, you'll know that he engaged on this ...
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"Multidisciplinary Portuguese artists Calhau! return in 2020 with a new album and their first release on Discrepant. It's quite possible you've never heard about them. They're not that famous in Portugal or anywhere. Calhau! is formed by couple Alves von Calhau and ...
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"Over the last decade multi instrumentalist Tomas Tello has been developing his own personal music style based around an exploration of the guitar and his intense personal investigation of traditional Peruvian music - in particular Andean culture which he grew up with. ...
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"On vinyl comes a 24-minute sound collage/composition that takes us to the Lebanese Civil War, which ravaged the country between 1975 and 1990. The audio material, which serves as the foundation of this work, was collected by Raed Yassin on his regular trips to the ...
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"Previously released on CD accompanied by "Gone, Gone Beyond", "The Mirror" is the dreamy soundtrack of an a/v project from collage artist extraordinaire Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us. With ''The Mirror'' Bennett continues her eternal disassembling of popular music ...
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"Comic book artist, graphic designer and free jazz improviser are only some of the many talents from Beirut born Mazen Kerbaj. After appearing as part of various ensembles on the label, Ariha Brass Quartet and Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra, Kerbaj finally lands ...
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"Comic book artist, graphic designer and free jazz improviser are only some of the many talents from Beirut born Mazen Kerbaj. After appearing as part of various ensembles on the label, Ariha Brass Quartet and Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra, Kerbaj finally lands ...
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seam split on bottom of cover "Sometimes you know it's coming, sometimes it's unexpected, but the time to hang your boots will always come. It's better when you have total control, even better if you end up on a high (or on a low). After seven years of sonic ...
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"Kasenian reak is a genre of performative art from the Priangan area of west Java, organized during hajatans (life-cycle celebrations) and nowadays primarily held during weddings and circumcisions. The style, known as a seni lungsuran, is part of the greater family of ...
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listen on bandcamp***""La Danza del Agua" (The Dance of Water) is an eclectic musical journey through Latin American experimentalism - a sort of unofficial companion to the Anthologies of Atypical Portuguese Music volumes but focussing on South American music themes ...
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"New psych jazz doom freak out by tight portuguese trio. A fluent and rich dialogue between outer-world sounds mixed with a free jazz approach to rock, living in the limbo between what is fiction and reality. Meaning, it's music that's doing soul searching without any ...
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"Ariha is a combination of 3 of the most innovating figures of modern day trumpet playing with tuba virtuoso Carl Ludwig Hubsch. The practitioners here, three trumpeters, Axel Dörner, Franz Hautzinger, Mazen Kerbaj, and Carl Ludwig Hübsch hoisting a tuba, practice a ...
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"Founded by Lebanese visual artist and musician Raed Yassin and Swiss musician Paed Conca in 2006, Praed is a band whose musical oeuvre can be described as a mixture of Arabic popular music, free jazz, and electronics. Praed's body of work explores the terrain of shaabi ...
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"Visions Congo is yet another moniker from Discrepant's head honcho, Goncalo F Cardoso, taking Africa as a starting point to evoke the memories and re-imagined experiences of his 6-month stay in the region back in 2015. Most of the recordings and compositions were done ...
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"Discrepant presents another unique document of Kink Gong's aka Laurent Jeanneau's collection of surreal soundscapes of augmented field recordings, this time using two very different source recordings to create his own unique brand of alien music. Using contact mic ...
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"The music moves very slowly through four movements: ''Reluctant Swimmer'', ''Movies is Magic'', ''Virtual Surfer'' and ''Dolphins''. 'Floating in out of the exotic ether and disappearing like smoke, engulfed in the alien hugeness of nature... a very elegant set by a ...
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"Introducing Chupame El Dedo (suck my finger), a new group formed by Eblis Alvarez (Meridian Brothers, Los Piranas) and Pedro Ojeda (Romperayo, Los Piranas) from Bogota, Colombia. Created for a one off live performance commissioned by Detlef Diederichsen at the 'House ...
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"Andy Moor (guitar) and Yannis Kyriakides (computer) lovingly deconstruct and reassemble their favourite rebetika music in a set of 9 pieces that encompass a wide scope of musical vision. This is an unusual and original take on the so called "blues" music of the Greek ...
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"Gonzo is the ''why so serious?'' monicker of musician, dj and discrepant headhoncho, Goncalo F Cardoso. Since starting the label back in 2010 Gonzo has released a series of limited collage tapes on the label, Dies Irae being the very first one back in 2012. He now ...
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"Chang Fo Ji are small plastic boxes with various Buddhist loops available throughout China and Tibet. Working with batteries, the small speaker can blast from poppy modern Chinese buddhist prayers to ancient recordings of famous tibetan buddhist masters. They can be ...
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"Debut album from Papillon, a new project by Discrepant head honcho, Gonçalo F Cardoso and with guest appearances by Cédric Stevens and Kink Gong.
Taking inspiration from the 1969 French adventure book of the same name, Papillon explores the sonic interzones between ...
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"Clandestine auteurs the Opalio Brothers, Roberto & Maurizio Opalio (aka My Cat Is An Alien) have deftly sprinkled our solar system with their beautifully fragile, arcane soundscape via their own Opax label, as well as multimedia collaborations with vanguards such as ...
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"Kink Gong aka Laurent Jeanneau is a Field Recording artist based in Dali, China. He spends his time recording ethnic minority music, mostly in Southeast Asia and releasing the results on his own CDr label, Kink Gong Recordings as well as occasionally contributing to ...
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