This Friday the opening of the exhibition The Object Lag in De Nieuwe Vide in Haarlem will be the stage for a Narrominded improv event with Puin + Hoop, Herman Wilken and Coen Oscar Polack doing an extended improvisation. Come listen, free entrance! As a teaser for this event and as a gift to you in general we share with you a half hour long improvisation piece by Coen Oscar Polack entilted Test Drive, recorded live earlier this week. Download the mp3 here or listen in the player below (note: the track starts quietly).
This Friday, February 5 2010, we’ll throw a party in one of Amsterdam’s coolest venues, Smart Project Space. It’s gonna get ugly with Boutros Bubba, Fine China Superbone and Katadreuffe. But there will also be some lushus spacing out situations going on with Hydrus and Puin + Hoop live sets. And to top that off, Hunter Complex will present his debut album Hunter Complex this night! An evening not to be missed, we would say! Be welcome from 20:30.
The radio program Beautiful Extremes, online radio by Studio 80, played the tracks Rampetampen by Living Ornaments from their new album Korrels and Zawinul / Lava by Puin + Hoop from Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World. Listen to the fragment from the broadcast on October 27 in the player below.
The release party of Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World at Delicatessen in Amsterdam with performances by Hydrus, Spoelstra, Puin + Hoop and Hakki Takki turned out to be a wonderful evening. Check out this video report to get a bit of an impression. Puin + Hoop recorded their set and they were so kind to make it available to us as a free download. You can download it here or stream the mp3 in the player below. Enjoy!
If you pre-order Retro Retry 2 now, the digipack cd will be delivered in your mailbox as soon as it’s out. We offer the pre-order in our webshop with a special discount of 20%! Until the releasedate on October 3, you pay only €8 inside EU, or €10 outside EU for your copy including shipping! Go to the shop. Retro Retry 2 features tracks by FFF, Polycorn, Legowelt, Rude 66, Coen Oscar Polack, Spoelstra, This Is Total War, Garçon Taupe, Nanko, Baba Electronica & DJ Lonely, Hakki Takki, Puin + Hoop, Hunter Complex and Hydrus. More info and previews right here.
In stores now! Gonzo (circus) magazine #93, including the cd booklet for NM040: Memory Of a Free Festival, an exclusive Narrominded download sampler. The sampler contains 20 tracks, including songs of upcoming releases, hits from our back catalogue and unique new tracks by Spoelstra, Puin + Hoop, Garçon Taupe, Cor Fuhler, Hydrus and more. Check out the tracklist here, and buy the magazine for the password! Gonzo also set up a unique contest: a chance to win the complete Narrominded back catalogue, including all upcoming releases of 2009! How awesome is that? But wait, there’s more! In the Gonzo webshop you’ll find some unique special package deals of Narrominded releases, for instance three Split LP’s for only 22,50.
Scheduled for release this September: Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World (cd). On this album, 14 artists cover Brian Eno’s Another Green World (1975) in it’s entirety. All participating artists are based in the Netherlands and operate in the field of electronic and electro-acoustic music. We’re proud to announce the full line-up: FFF, Polycorn, Legowelt, Rude 66, Coen Oscar Polack, Spoelstra, This Is Total War, Garçon Taupe, Nanko, Baba Electronica & DJ Lonely, Hakki Takki, Puin + Hoop, Hunter Complex and Hydrus. The artwork will be delivered by the great Willehad Eilers and mastering is done by Alden Tyrell. Click here for the tracklist and a preview of the artwork.
The album is the follow-up to Retro Retry 1: EVOL (2005), on which Sonic Youth’s EVOL was covered by 10 Dutch bands, including Gone Bald, Makazoruki, Pfaff, Fine China Superbone and zZz. The artwork for RR1 was done by Vormversterker. The cd was distributed with That Dam! magazine, which featured an exclusive poem by Lee Ranaldo.
Dutch technology whizz’s/weirdos Puin + Hoop are going to record a new album for Narrominded. Until now they have released six albums/ep’s of their ambient improvisations through their own TBFKAGNK Records, the latest being ‘Live at Zaal 100′ which they recorded during their gig at the Boutros Bubba National Anthems cd presentation in March. The cd was already available the same evening!! Expect new material later this year.
Watch the video report of the Boutros Bubba cd presentation in Zaal 100, Amsterdam, March 27 2009. With Boutros Bubba, Coen Oscar Polack & Herman Wilken (Hydrus), Donné et Desirée, Garçon Taupe, Katadreuffe, Makazoruki, Puin + Hoop, Roy Santiago.
