THREE:FOUR RECORDS
The Lausanne-based label was founded in 2008 and is run by Gaetan Seguin. The catalogue includes releases by Anahita, Norberto Lobo, Le Fruit Vert, Aaron Moore (Volcano the Bear) and Thierry Müller (Ruth), La Tene, Silencio, Larkian, Eric Chenaux, Maninkari, Danny Oxenberg and many more.
"Since our first listening, we've been obsessed by the strange beauty of this small pop track that seems to be fallen on a dark hole. After having the chance to see the film before its screening at Cannes Festival' La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, we decided to release ...
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TFR058 | 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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TFR054 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Insalata Statica (Silent Water), Giovanni Di Domenico's first solo album, allowed the Italian pianist based in Brussels to free himself from his abundant creativity by proposing 6 dense movements. It took him 5 years to record and produce this first record. With Zuppa ...
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TFR055 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"La Tene is back with a double invitation to its third full length LP. The hurdy-gurdy/harmonium/percussions trio welcomes two bagpipes (cabrettes and 23" to be exact), and a combo of string instruments (12-string guitar and electric bass). Beyond the instrumentation, ...
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TFR051CD | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Circle Bros is the longrunning onemanproject of Wim Lecluyse (founder of Morc Records). What started out as a way to experiment with sounds and recording techniques, evolved throughout the years into a more song-oriented outfit. The roots are to be found in the world ...
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TFR053 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"This is dance music and this music dances. We rub the music. We get rubbed. We get knee-deep in the music. We hang on it. Dancing is a form of reflection - a form of listening. Our bodies reflect off of the music. The music bounces and pings and pongs all around us. ...
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TFR049 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"For years, Manuel Troller shied away from performing solo. But three years ago, the Bee-Flat jazz club in Bern asked him to play a gig with Marc Ribot. The young, up-and-coming Swiss musician was to play first, followed by the American grandmaster of free improvisation ...
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TFR052 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"A radiating gateway though not necessarily the obfuscating shine following the sprawling bleak tone poem of Volume IV - The Invading Past and Other Dissolutions, but an assumed labour of love notwithstanding. Volume VI - The Sun Rises in your Tummy & Other Christmas ...
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TFR050 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"For years, Manuel Troller shied away from performing solo. But three years ago, the Bee-Flat jazz club in Bern asked him to play a gig with Marc Ribot. The young, up-and-coming Swiss musician was to play first, followed by the American grandmaster of free improvisation ...
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TFR052CD | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Estrela is the third chapter of Norberto Lobo's solo records on three:four. If it is easily identifiable by the black and white photography by Antonio Julio Duarte on the front cover, the music brings some newness: for the first time under his own name, Norberto Lobo ...
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TFR048CD | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Estrela is the third chapter of Norberto Lobo's solo records on three:four. If it is easily identifiable by the black and white photography by Antonio Julio Duarte on the front cover, the music brings some newness: for the first time under his own name, Norberto Lobo ...
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TFR048 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Miszteriumok is the third full-length record - their first on three:four - of Italian duo Amuleto, composed of Francesco Dillon and his cousin and three:four's artist Riccardo Wanke. Following the route of previous releases this new album emerges as the fusion of ...
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TFR047 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"The twentieth century has had its share of poets exploring magic and mysticism. However, it is Kathleen Raine who has articulated the deepest spiritual vision throughout the entire body of her work. Having studied William Blake - and, in the process of doing so, ...
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TFR046 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"La Tene's previous album Vouerca/Fahy, released at the end of April 2016 on the three:four, was rapidly out-of-print after a long series of concerts throughout France and neighboring countries. Thanks to this immediate success, they were invited to play the prestigious ...
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TFR044 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
listen on bandcamp***"The Xvoto Reels provides additional proof (if necessary) that Razen is an audacious group. If the Belgian band led by the duo Brecht Ameel and Kim Delcour has explored different musical worlds with changing formations, the involuntary irruption of ...
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TFR045 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
listen at bandcamp***"You can hear the friendship in this music, an almost telepathic musical synergy so much more that the sum of its parts. A back and forth that moves. Compositions with the loose back and forth of an improvisation. Of a conversation. A conversation ...
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TFR042 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Out of the crystal clear and warm cosmic perennial waters comes forth another sparkling jewel from Anahita aka Tara Burke (Fursaxa) and Helena Espvall (Espers). Two elves dancing amidst gnarled branches of ancient trees and fragrant herbs, concocting a magical potion ...
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TFR039 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"A true chanteuse halogene, Eloise Decazes has been haunting the ruins of French chanson for a few years now, notably with the group Arlt. Elsewhere she can be heard miniaturizing Luciano Berio's Folksongs in the company of Delphine Dora, or improvising hymns to the ...
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TFR043CD | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"A true chanteuse halogene, Eloise Decazes has been haunting the ruins of French chanson for a few years now, notably with the group Arlt. Elsewhere she can be heard miniaturizing Luciano Berio's Folksongs in the company of Delphine Dora, or improvising hymns to the ...
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TFR043 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Originally Oba Loba is a project of Norberto Lobo and Joao Lobo in order to satisfy their desire to compose music for a band. Their debut album, Oba Loba, released in 2015 and critically acclaimed, has been described as a "hybrid instrumentals that cannibalise popular ...
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TFR041 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"In The Byre I hear how spaces and times leave their affects like so many traces. And how the present-time of the music is something like an interval. A present interval that is not the result or effect (or even function) of our shared hesitation, but is the very ...
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TFR040 | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Joao Lobo is a portugese drum player living in Brussels. He is not Norberto Lobo's brother or cousin (even if they play a lot together and Norberto Lobo did the drawing for this record). From jazz to gnawa music, instrumental electronic trance to original rock, ...
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TFR038CD | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
"Joao Lobo is a portugese drum player living in Brussels. He is not Norberto Lobo's brother or cousin (even if they play a lot together and Norberto Lobo did the drawing for this record). From jazz to gnawa music, instrumental electronic trance to original rock, ...
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TFR038LP | THREE:FOUR RECORDS
repressed "La Tene collect, listen and probe folk melodies and motifs of large territories, from the Jura to the mountains of Auvergne, weaving them to repetition and continuous sounds, electronics and frenzy until exhaustion. Their music, drones played with ...
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TFR033 | 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
