KARAOKE KALK
Legendary electronica label, founded in 1997 by Thorsten Lütz in Köln-Kalk. Now based in Berlin, the label has produced releases by Senking, Bill Wells, Dakota Suite, Tolouse Low Trax, Toog, Wechsel Garland, Hauschka, Donna Regina, Ant Orange, Will Samson and many more.
""The Prepared Public" is Toog's 7th full length album as a solo musician. The album begins, as all music should, with the sound of tuning up. What ensues is 18 tracks of bewildering beauty: both enchanting and baffling. Toog's style is playfully humorous and at the ...
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"The origin of this collaboration began two months prior to the Fukushima disaster in Japan. Dakota Suite had been touring Japan with their friends from the Japanese band called 'Vampillia' and had been in several coastal locations in Wakayama as well as places near to ...
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KALKCD94 | KARAOKE KALK
"The origin of this collaboration began two months prior to the Fukushima disaster in Japan. Dakota Suite had been touring Japan with their friends from the Japanese band called 'Vampillia' and had been in several coastal locations in Wakayama as well as places near to ...
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KK94 | KARAOKE KALK
"After collaborating on Dakota Suite's remix project 'The Night Just Keeps Coming In', Chris Hooson of Dakota Suite asked Emanuele Errante to work with him on a project composed for the death of his sister-in-law called 'The North Green Down'. Chris had composed a ...
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"If people thought it was a bit strange, then they didn't say," says Bill Wells of the stellar cast of collaborators who played and sung on his new album, Nursery Rhymes. "I made it all clear pretty early on in proceedings and everyone seemed up for it." Well, actually, ...
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"Following 2011's The Hearts of Empty Liverpool based band Dakota Suite led by Chris Hooson in collaboration with David Buxton are back with another superb album on Karaoke Kalk. While Hearts of Empty was a distinctly jazzy instrumental album, There Is Calm To Be Done ...
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KK81 | KARAOKE KALK
"The group's debut recording The National Jazz Trio Of Scotland's Christmas Album, was released in late 2012, followed by Standards Vol II in 2013. Their new album is titled Standards Vol III, although the description isn't strictly accurate. "Well it's partly a nod ...
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KK80 | KARAOKE KALK
"Following the release of The National Jazz Trio of Scotland's Christmas Album on Karaoke Kalk just last December, the Berlin label now presents the second album by acclaimed pianist Bill Wells' latest project The National Jazz Trio of Scotland; Standards Volume Two. ...
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NATIONAL JAZZ TRIO OF SCOTLAND, THE - THE NATIONAL JAZZ TRIO OF SCOTLAND'S CHRISTMAS ALBUM (LP m/vg++)
"Karaoke Kalk are proud to present "The National Jazz Trio of Scotland's Christmas Album" featuring members of Francois & the Atlas Mountains, Golden Grrls, The One Ensemble. Bill Wells - piano, keyboards and samples, Aby Vulliamy - vocals, Lorna Gilfedder - vocals, ...
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KK70 | KARAOKE KALK
"Actually what Bill Wells and Stefan Schneider are doing on their new album "Pianotapes" is chamber music. Wells plays fragile scales on the Bechstein grand piano, while Schneider records them on two old reel-to-reel tape machines and plays the recordings back at ...
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KK60 | KARAOKE KALK
"For ages nighttime was said to be the time of ghosts and spirits. Creatures of the night were believed to gain special powers between midnight and dawn. In latin this shrouded in mystery lapse of time was called "intempesta" - time without time. Detlef Weinrich, alias ...
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"Classical Music and Jazz meet buzzing Electronica. Takeo Toyama's songs sound very cheerful as if they were made for some sort of amusing sunday afternoon cartoon. His release "Etudes" presents itself very dynamic and with an extraordinary spectrum of sounds: piano, ...
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KK53 | KARAOKE KALK
"the long expected follow up album from pluramon on karaoke kalk. listeners of the previous albums will recognize a style that remains dreamy and atmospheric popsongs that are sometimes laid-back yet melancholic, even enigmatic, at other times dramatic and intense. the ...
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"For everyone who, like me, loves to listen to jens massel's music, no matter under which name it is released (andis,fumble,poto & cabengo or senking), jumpstart will be the long awaited follow up.Starting off chugging quietly it takes unexpected turns and becomes ...
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KALKNET1 | KARAOKE KALK
2017 repress of Hauschka's 2004 debut LP "The Scene: The Welsh mountains, remote and harsh, a special place. A good place to produce a special album. The characters: Volker Bertelmann in his friend Adam Fuests' studio, equipped with only a piano and a laptop. The ...
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KK35 | KARAOKE KALK
""liberation von history" somehow reminds one of a jumbled up jigsaw puzzle. you are easily tempted into trying to fit together the obvious pieces in your mind according to your customary logic - until those few little pieces turn up that just wouldn't fit in, and you ...
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