{"title":"Gringo Records","description":"\u003cp\u003eGringo Records\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hirameka-hi-fi-sprezzatura-cd","title":"Hirameka Hi-Fi – Sprezzatura CD","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1341430300\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHirameka Hi-Fi – Sprezzatura CD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSprezzatura - Ease of manner, studied carelessness; the appearance of acting or being done without effort. 'the nonchalance which marks...the perfect artist'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Sprezzatura' is Hirameka Hi-Fi's first album proper. Recorded exactly 4 years on from the date of their formation, it concludes the trilogy which began with 1999's well-received 'A Proud Tradition Of Failure' and developed with 2000's radio hit 'The Imperfect Approach'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlways hyper-sensitive, HHF have designed this recording with precise cuts and sweet showers of accident, embracing their fears and weaknesses to conceive...the HHF aesthetic. This is a point of departure. This is the first of many HHF records. This is a moment, a means to an end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe usual long-distance nature of the band was rejected with disgust. They crammed together for one whole month in that scraping heat of Summer 01, harmonising diets and drinking nought but water. They left their womb-like domicile solely to toil for hours in a sun-shot sweatbox. Shyly, painfully, they orchestrated buzzes, scratches and clatters. They let the innards out, made them wallow, let the stuff which made them great just grow and sublimate. By the end they were sore but sharp. They had hacked out the evanescent outline of beauty. They laughed and slapped each other's backs, taking in the late afternoon sun in the dusty yard outside the room. Within hours, The Electric Press (Bob Tilton, Spy vs Spy) had arrived to record them. And so it was that on the cusp of Autumn, the songs were dashed down in minutes on (lucky) 7 track tape recorder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLet's cut the crap. The resulting record represents their most accessible and satisfying work. From the fatal jerk of 'Take On The Break', thru the sweltering swoop of 'All A-tremble', by way of the rampant, rollicking 'Redemption Kicker', to the ragged shuffle of the title track. Battles are fought and won in the course of these tunes. The sweet swooning sweep of 'In Our Time' is the album's true centrepiece. Propped up by the warm groove and ice shard guitar stabs of 'Hesitation Rules', it flicks a brave shining V at all snide opponents before ushering the heavy curtain of darkness that falls by command of the final two songs, the cool closing twins - 'The Sum' with its minimalist workout and growling urgency, and 'Eavesdrop' with its crumpled warm waves of distortion, hopeful bass, chunky drums and haunting lazarus piano.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrummer Ben Wright was asked to contribute to this tract. He shrugged off the thought of words, grimaced at the thought of writing about the tunes. Beaming, he roared, 'Bring it on!', and wandered away. So, come now, and 'bring it on'. For Ben.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gringo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50222148845860,"sku":"","price":3.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2606\/0952\/files\/hirame.jpg?v=1735426946"},{"product_id":"clambake-gator-in-the-pool-cd","title":"Clambake – Gator In The Pool CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2710690108\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClambake – Gator In The Pool CD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClambake comprise of brothers Andy Barker on 4string guitar and vocals and Nick Barker on leopard print drums and vocals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLets cut to the chase, Clambake rock (and roll). Primal punk rock meets rockabilly, country and blues - the new rock and roll is rock and roll, so don't let anyone tell you different. The four stringer and stripped down drumkit compete with the urgent delivery of the two protagonists - brothers since 1972, comrades in arms since 1995.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 'Bake got more serious in 1999 after dates with R L Burnside and Gallon Drunk, resulting in a single release on Dig the Fuzz Records. Now Clambake have made a firm commitment to make the world a better place with their debut album on Gringo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis release nails the lo-fat Clambake approach to their work. Recorded by Mark Simms and Neil Johnson on to an ancient Revox two track machine in a single afternoon, the songs on 'Gator for the Pool' get to the point and leave. 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They are band who rock like the Stooges jamming with the Valentines. They take the neo-psychedelia of the Spacemen 3 and the tautness of Joy Division to the outer limits. Yet they rein in the wild excesses to pack a mighty punch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeachange's raison d'etre is unaffected - get six of your mates together and form a band. Simple. Together they craft melodic, tightly-knit, guitar-driven songs. Songs that bear such unequivocal titles as \"Superfuck\" or the more abstract \"A vs Co10\". The songs grow of their own accord.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom there to nowhere. Seachange move in together. They share a house and practice in the basement. The house is haunted. They freak out and move out. A disused Victorian swimming pool becomes their next rehearsal space. The acoustics lend themselves to their taught rock and roll onslaught.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA wider audience awaits. Early demos find their way to Peel and Lamacq. They embrace the seachange and early exposure ensues. They play with kindred spirits And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead. A single comes out on Radiate Records and they tour with fellow miscreants Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster. They open for Idlewild and Interpol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Seachange 'punk rock' doesn't equate to hollow attitude and aped sounds. You want a community-led thrifty DIY spirit? Try the kids who organised a year long club night tagged 'Why Can't We Just All Get Along?'. 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They play with kindred spirits And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead. A single comes out on Radiate Records and they tour with fellow miscreants Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster. They open for Idlewild and Interpol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Seachange 'punk rock' doesn't equate to hollow attitude and aped sounds. You want a community-led thrifty DIY spirit? Try the kids who organised a year long club night tagged 'Why Can't We Just All Get Along?'. 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By ‘well formed rock unit’ we mean, of course, guitar that does not sound pretty, bass that leaves a chest pain, drums that Pound! Pound! Pound! and vocals that wobble on the precipice of detatched humour and righteous anger.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gringo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50258095898916,"sku":"","price":3.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2606\/0952\/files\/kysoft.jpg?v=1736450807"},{"product_id":"wolves-of-greece-s-t-10-record-new","title":"Wolves! (Of Greece) s\/t 10\" record - NEW","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=903183474\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWolves! (Of Greece) s\/t 10\" record - NEW\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWolves! 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It may regularly be almost overpoweringly loud and abrasive, but it is never aggressive or confrontational. It may invoke unease, even tinnitus, but its aim is (with apologies for veering close to the pretentious, here) a kind of catharsis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough that isn't really the point. It just isn't that easy to say what is. Maybe it would be better to ask what the point of working in an office is. What the point of David Beckham is. High volume is often presented as an end in itself, when it's primary function is often simply to disguise an absence of substance, a veneer to protect the self righteous and the self important. With Wolves! (of Greece ) it masks a more subtle aesthetic. Expectation becomes self defeating. Those coming to the Wolves! expecting melody often leave believing they have found none; yet it is never far away - it's simply that it is never forced, never allowed to be the focal point, but is disguised by an equally deceptive semblance of chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStructure remains fluid, yet absolute. Rather than adhere to some linear construct where B follows A in a pre-ordained manner, each member is allowed freedom to roam within parallel, individually defined boundaries, in a manner which, it could be argued, take the Wolves! closer to jazz than anything else, multiplying permutations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis has always been central to the nature of the Wolves! (of Greece ), as has the relationship between the nature and the actual sound of what is created. So, rather than being an external process whereby the music is transmitted to an audience, the live mix (and the recorded sound) of the Wolves! is as integral a part as any other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd if this all sounds like a deliberate attempt to find an alternative to the by now ritualised approach to writing and performing music, that's because it is, albeit in a far less coldly calculated, clearly delineated way than it might appear. But it isn't the only tired ritual being challenged by a Wolves! live performance, as the equally ritualistic relationship between performer and audience is another cosy situation being questioned. 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The only option left in a society that thrives on nostalgia and recycling is therefore to fuse together styles and combinations of instrument and sounds in a way that celebrates the new yet pays homage to the past. This results in a music of contrasts, one which does not take itself too seriously to appreciate the humour and irony of what it is doing. The name reflects this providing recognition of the aural dangers of manipulation and splicing together different musical characteristics, in a grim parallel to genetic manipulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigner Babies quickly gained a reputation across the thriving underground scene of Nottingham as a band at the cutting edge of creativity, having played with the likes of Oxbow, Melt Banana, The Apes and Wolves! (of Greece). Dusty’s intricate guitar riffs belt out from an Ampeg amp, fuelled by intense drumming and electronics. Kushal’s lyrics float over melodic passages, then sink below the depths of crazy noise, wailing from within the music, while stalking the stage forcing the audience to take notice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigner Babies represents the danger of synthesis and manipulation in today’s capitalist culture. 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Now in its third instalment, Variations allows other artists free range to reinterpret a band's output as they see fit, further reinforcing the idea that The Unit Ama's music is not their own property, but that it somehow exists without a need for a definitive article and is much yours as it is theirs This free-wheeling approach to music making characterises The Unit Ama's first album. 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