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.
"With Far Islands And Near Places Parisian pianist, composer and multi-instrumentist Quentin Sirjacq releases his solo debut on Karoake Kalk. While he has collaborated with Dakota Suite on the 2014 release There Is A Calm To Be Done for instance, this is the first ...
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KK93 | 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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KK89 | KARAOKE KALK
"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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KK88 | KARAOKE KALK
"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
12"-Tracklist: A1 Spotkanie - Czemuzes mnie, matulenko Margaret Dygas - Impulse Remix A2 Donni Sò - La Pagliarella Ulrich Schnauss Remix B1 The Mahugang "Back To The Roots"- Moca cala te Mark Ernestus - Groove 26 Remix B2 La Caravane du Maghreb - Saadi Belouali Jani ...
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KK76 | 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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KK74 | KARAOKE KALK
"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
"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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KALKCD70 | 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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KALKCD52 | KARAOKE KALK
"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
"With the 23s karaoke kalk is putting forward yet another hitherto unknown project. and still the first notes already sound strangely familiar - not a familiarity that originates from a sound that you have heard a million times before but rather some sort of ...
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KK50 | 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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KALKCD42 | KARAOKE KALK
"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
"Pianist and composer Volker Bertelmann releases his second album with Karaoke Kalk, The Prepared Piano. With his debut release, Substantial, Bertelmann proved himself a master of deconstructed piano sounds, experimenting with form and the interplay of single, sustained ...
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KALKCD31 | 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
"The scene: the welsh mountains, remote and harsh, a good place to produce a special album. Volker Bertelmann on pianos as well as bass from Stefan Schneider of Mapstation and To Rococo Rot, and a deftest trace of processing, barely discernible. This is tender, highly ...
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KALKCD25 | KARAOKE KALK