a wee bit o' news
- wobbling roof magazine, issue #2 is shaping up to be a monster.
- I (as in paul) am sitting on so much new and unreleased Mercy Choir and Orchids music, I’m not quite sure what to do with it all. Any suggestions?
1 week ago
November 17, 2009
October 26, 2009
September 29, 2009
Wobbling Roof Magazine is a multi-media arts magazine published by dead language records. Here you’ll find poetry, prose, audio, and visual art. Enjoy the first issue. There’s lots of great stuff inside…
2 months ago
August 19, 2009
The Dead Language Records staff is on summer vacation! We are kicking back on the beach and sipping frozen cocktails out of halved coconut shells. Enjoy all the free music and we’ll see you again soon. There’s plenty on the hopper…
3 months ago
June 19, 2009
Mercy Choir’s 3-song collaboration with Queens’ Speak Onion is avaliable now.
You can download it (for free!) here: http://www.immigrantbreastnest.com/releases/ibn007/
The songs:
Items of note:
Lyrics on Surface of Depth are by the wonderful Frank Critelli and the music was written by Paul Belbusti. Fans of Mercy Choir might recognize this song as it’s appeared in various forms during live shows.
The Fall is a Ministry song.
Enjoy this collaboration and be sure to listen to some of Speak Onion’s solo material.
5 months ago
May 18, 2009
MERCY CHOIR and SPEAK ONION recording collaboration
Mercy Choir (dead language records) and Speak Onion (immigrant breast nest) recently collaborated on a few tracks which will be released as a short E.P. by both labels in the coming weeks. The results are sure to be worthy of a chinscratch. IBN C.E.O. Derek Tibs was there to document the recording session:
more here: http://www.immigrantbreastnest.com/visuals
6 months ago
May 12, 2009
New Releases, New Music....
Hello All, Dead Language Records is proud to announce the release the new and first full length album by Canada’s Forms. The album is called R/S and is available now for free download here: http://deadlanguagerecords.com/forms.html Forms is a guitar and piano duo and R/S is a 12 track, instrumental, mostly improvisational album. It’s a beautiful sequence of songs that will become an essential part of your music collection, no matter what sort music you enjoy. These guys are great players and we look forward to many more years of music from them. We hope you love it as much as we do. The boys of Forms have created a limited edition CD version of the album (which looks great!), and you can inquire about it directly with the band by emailing them here: willb@live.ca —————- Other news: - Mercy Choir will be performing some shows in New York City and New Haven, CT this summer. Please reply to this email if you are a booker and have any open dates. Some of these shows will be sparse solo performances and some will be with backing musicians playing more fleshed out arrangements. - There are still a few copies left of Christopher Trull’s mind boggling instrumental guitar album Boxes of Dead Things. Get your copy now, before there all gone. Of course, go ahead and download the mp3 version of the album and enjoy. - Orchids is Paul Belbusti’s (that’s me) non-Mercy Choir project. The consist of various experiments (in the literal sense) in instrumental guitar and pedal soundscapes, piano plunking, and audio collage. Many tracks are now available to stream on the Orchids Muxtape page: http://orchids.muxtape.com An Orchids E.P. is in the works. From Wikipedia: “In the Greek world, Tuesday (the day of the week of the Fall of Constantinople) is considered an unlucky day. The same is true in the Spanish-speaking world, where a proverb runs: En martes, ni te cases ni te embarques, meaning, ‘On Tuesday, neither get married nor begin a journey.’”
6 months ago
May 4, 2009
Coming Soon: Forms - R/S
Coming later this week is the debut release of Canadian guitar/piano duo Forms. Their full length album, R/S is absolutely beautiful and will be available for free download in the very near future.
Just to wet your whistle, here’s the first track:
Here’s a few words from the band about the album:
R/S is based on two recurring themes. The initial concept for the recording of R/S came from the Steve Reich composition “Clapping Music”. The first theme for R/S is the initial rhythmic motif from “Clapping Music” set to an E minor triad. The second theme is a chord progression based around the “basso ostinato” near the beginning of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 (3rd movement). It is transposed from the original key. In this recording the piano plays A B E A Bb F E C G F D Fmin7+imp. C while the guitar simultaneously plays A E A F E C G F. Almost all of R/S is improvisation stemming from the two themes or variations thereof.
6 months ago
April 22, 2009
April 21, 2009
Mercy Choir on Muxtape
hooray for the death of myspace.
7 months ago