PINGIPUNG
The Hamburg-based label is specialised in electronic music. Pingipung was founded in 2002 and has produced releases by Schlammpeitziger, Quasi Dub Development, Peter Presto, Sven Kacirek, Hey-O-Hansen, Ya Tosiba, James DinA4, Dennis Busch and others.
"More than a decade ago, dub legend Lee "Scratch" Perry (1936-2021) walked into a Quasi Dub Development recording session in New York. His signature freestyle lyrics - dadaist and quirky as only the Upsetter could deliver - became part of their Little Twister album, ...
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"Anadol and Marie Klock have teamed up for a joint album, La Grande Accumulation. They met two years ago at a festival in England crowded with violent seagulls and outsider musicians. Klock being prone to barking on stage and Anadol not laughing at jokes she doesn't ...
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"The hypnotic folk music of the Ainu a cappella group Marewrew has received the first of two remix treatments by Pingipung artists. Part 01 is by Andi Otto and M.RUX. Andi Otto was the curator of the Marewrew album for Pingipung, released earlier in 2024. He selected ...
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"Marewrew (pronounced: Ma-leoo-leoo / m?le?ul? e?u)? is a female vocal group that sings traditional Ainu songs. The music of the long-suppressed people from northern Japan has been a particular focus of Pingipung's output in recent years, together with Oki Kano who ...
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"In the wake of a profound loss, Marie Klock, a neo-chanson singer and multi-instrumentalist from Paris, presents a poignant tribute with her debut on Pingipung. On "Damien est vivant" Marie Klock pays homage to the poet Damien Schultz, who has recently passed. They ...
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"Anadol is a psychedelic synth folk project by Goezen Atila, a Turkish sound artist and photographer based in Berlin. Her third album Uzun Havalar is based on collective improvisations of middle eastern folk songs called "uzun hava". They turn out as rich, atmospheric ...
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"Whether it is traditional or contemporary, we need to be authentic," says Goezen Atila who performs as Anadol. "I don't claim that I am authentic, but this is what I want to achieve." A sense of authentic exploration, introspection and celebration coats every inch of ...
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""Upopo Sanke" means "Let's sing a song" in the Ainu language. Umeko Ando (1932-2004) was one of the best-known artists of the Ainu, an indigenous, long-suppressed community in northern Japan. She sings their traditional songs together with Oki Kano on the Tonkori harp, ...
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"Umeko Ando (1932-2004) was a folk singer from Japan. She is a representative of the Ainu culture on the Hokkaido Island in the north of Japan. Ihunke is her first album which she has recorded with the Ainu musician and dub producer Oki Kano in 2000. This re-release of ...
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""Upopo Sanke" means "Let's sing a song" in the Ainu language. Umeko Ando (1932-2004) was one of the best-known artists of the Ainu, an indigenous, long-suppressed community in northern Japan. She sings their traditional songs together with Oki Kano on the Tonkori harp, ...
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2023 repress "Umeko Ando (1932-2004) was a folk singer from Japan. She is a representative of the Ainu culture on the Hokkaido Island in the north of Japan. Ihunke is her first album which she has recorded with the Ainu musician and dub producer Oki Kano in 2000. This ...
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repressed "Umeko Ando (1932-2004) was a folk singer from Japan. She is a representative of the Ainu culture on the Hokkaido Island in the north of Japan. Iuta Upopo was released on her last CD "Upopo Sanke" in 2003, produced by Oki Kano (Chikar Studio, Oki Dub Ainu ...
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"Hatiralar was Anadol's second album, originally composed between Berlin and Istanbul around 2012 and released years later only in digital form on the Ankara based label Inverted Spectrum. The title Hatiralar ("Memories") turns out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. ...
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"Flute Boy is a harbinger of the forthcoming debut album Songs for Broken Ships by MD Pallavi and Andi Otto. The two tracks are physically exclusive to the 7" single but are in the digital package of the LP album. Flute Boy is a folktronica lullaby, a cute waltz with ...
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"Y Bu¨lbu¨l is back on the controls accompanied by Yumurta, a percussionist from Istanbul. Pingipung introduced the London based artist in 2020 with his psychedelic, synth-laden debut "Fever". "Not One, Not Two" is based on a one-way transmission of improvised drum ...
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PINGIPUNG76 | PINGIPUNG
"Whether it is traditional or contemporary, we need to be authentic," says Goezen Atila who performs as Anadol. "I don't claim that I am authentic, but this is what I want to achieve." A sense of authentic exploration, introspection and celebration coats every inch of ...
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"Cole Pulice is a saxophone player from Minneapolis. An improviser of ambient jazz who earned his merits touring with Bon Iver, working with Godspeed You! Black Emperor and releasing wonderful electroacoustic gems with the groups Iceblink (Moon Glyph) and LCM (Orange ...
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