Amish Records News

New Ensemble Economique music

The first two tracks from the upcoming Lee Noble/Ensemble Economique split LP (June 20th) on the french label Hands In The Dark just went live. 300 LP pressing.

Ensemble Economique - Your Hands, Your Lips, Your EYES, Your Hips by Hands In The Dark - 2 

Lee Noble - Woman in the Dunes by Hands In The Dark - 2 

PG Six touring!!

PG SIX BAND

5/3/12 - Radio - Somerville MA w/ Major Stars
5/4/12 - Casa Del Popolo - Montreal Canada w/ Harris Newman
5/5/12 - Tranzac - Toronto ON Canada w/ Picastro
5/6/12 - Happy Dog - Cleveland OH
5/7/12 - Empty Bottle -  Chicago IL w/ Solar Fox , Spires that in the Sunset Rise
5/8/12 - Zanzabar - Louisville KY w/ Luke Roberts
5/9/12 - Ace of Cups - Columbus OH w/ Sundown, Moon High
5/10/12 - DC Nine - Washington D.C. w/ Sundown
5/11/12 - Johnny Brenda's - Philadelphia PA w/ The Strapping Fieldhands, Chris Forsythe, Kohoutek
5/12/12 - Golden West Cafe - Baltimore MD

PG Six Band is out on the road starting next week in support of their new(ish) album Starry Mind on Drag City.

Check out "January".

 

 

Don't forget the classic albums PG Six released with Amish Records.

Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites (AMI014)

CD

iTunes

 

The Well of Memory (AMI019)

CD

iTunes

 

Music from the ShermanBox Series and other works (AMI024)

CD

iTunes

The Brooklyn Flea Record Fair

Amish is going to be sharing a table with the Record Grouch at this years' Brooklyn Flea Record Fair. We'll be brining the regular catalog, a few super-rare and out of print items plus some import-only goodies from of friends Metabolismus. Come out and say hi.

Announcing Required Wreckers 5: Mike Shiflet/Pete Swanson split LP

Amish is pleased to officially announce the fifth installment in its Required Wreckers series.  This split simultaneously pulls from two idioms by two of America's most adventurous artists working in the noise and electronic traditions.

Unlike some of his more recent releases (please check out his fantastic new LP on Type), Mike Shiflet's "Bedside" is a beautiful and fractured experiment in both noise and pastoralism.  On the flipside of this release, Pete Swanson offers another in his post-Yellow Swans brutalism. Swanson's track, entitled "College View," hints at the chaotic underbelly of some of his more recent aesthetic leaps, as well as a miniature portrait of his day-to-day studies here in New York.  Paired together, these two compositions move between the abstract and the pastoral.

Available this summer.

Mike Shiflet/Pete Swanson (AMI 035R/W)

Side A
Mike Shiflet – Bedside

Side B
Pete Swanson – College View

Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk

The artwork for this split will feature a fascinating and provocative collaboration of photographic manipulations of Chinese scholar rocks by Miranda Lichtenstein and Cameron Martin. The cover art and booklet will include works  from this series, which Lichtenstein and Martin began working on in 2010.. (This is not the actual album cover)

 

Ensemble Economique touring Europe

Ensemble Economique (Brian Pyle of Starving Weirdos & RV Paintings) is embarking on another run of European dates this spring.

'Standing Still, Facing Forward' (AMI-032R/W) LP is sold out but you can still get it digitally 

April 9th - Paris, espace b, w/ UMBERTO, Holy Strays(Fake Séries J#1, Hartzine festival)
April 10th - Valencia, La Residencia w/ UMBERTO, Tarántulas Pentium
April 11th - Barcelona, Miscelänea w/ Bradien
April 12th - Madrid, Triangle Club (Nasti Club)April 13th - Lyon, La Triperie w/ DUBAI
April 14th - Brussels, Ancienne Belgique w/ Barn Owl, Blanck Mass
April 15th - Antwerp, Bar à bateau
April 16th - Amsterdam, OT301 w/ Xui Xui
April 18th - Turin, Piazza della Repubblica 4
April 19th - Rome, DalVerme w/ Heroin In Tahiti, Mushy (Rainforest Series, Nero Mag)
April 21st - Berlin, MindPirates, C3R3MØNY Night with the PURGE crew
April 27th - St. Petersburg, Erata Museum w/ Nadja
April 28th - Petrozavodsk, Sigmund Freud w/Love Cult, Dva Zagorodnyh Doma

Record Grouch grand opening

Half of the Amish Records' braintrust, Brian Gempp, is embarking on new adventure with partner Doug Pressman this Saturday, March 31st, from 12:00 to 9:00ish and opening a new record store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Come out for an opening celebration; there’ll be plenty of used vinyl and other odds and ends for sale, as well as some beer. And keep your ears peeled for upcoming events.

Record Grouch
986 Manhattan Avenue
(between India and Huron, off the Greenpoint Ave stop on the G Train)
Brooklyn, NY 11222
718-389-0122

Mike Wexler 'Dispossession' Album Release Show

AMEN DUNES (Sacred Bones)

MIKE WEXLER + BAND (Mexican Summer)

HIRO KONE (Bitterroots)

Friday 3/30
9PM, free
Zebulon
258 Wythe Ave

 

Announcing Required Wreckers 4: Gregg Kowalsky with Jozef Van Wissem

Amish is pleased to officially announce the fourth installment in its Required Wreckers series.  This release draws on the rich experimental traditions happening in contemporary American music and visual art. Available in early summer.

Gregg Kowalsky with Jozef Van Wissem (AMI 034R/W)

(image taken from herrhanz flickr)

Side A
Gregg Kowalsky - Electronic Music for Square and Sine Waves

Side B
Gregg Kowalsky & Jozef Van Wissem – For Baroque Lute, Tapes and Resonant Space

Mastered by Christopher Davidson

Wade Guyton will be supplying the visual component for this release, which will include the front and back covers, as well as a 16-page b/w booklet. (Not the actual front cover)

Ben Vida: New album + RootBlogMix

Ben Vida has a brand new LP called ‘esstends-esstends-esstends‘ available now on PAN.

Five pieces for Computer Controlled Modular Synthesizer and Digital Signal Processing. Composed and recorded from February 2010 – April 2011 in Brooklyn, New York.

 

The Root Strata 'Rootblog' posted a killer mix from Ben this week which you want to check out.

Ben Vida
RootBlogMix
03122012

1. Mark Fell – Acids In The Stochastic Energy Pause With Thin Razor, Attack Noise Hat, Linn
2. Kevin Drumm – Stochastic Sophistication
3. Aphex Twin – [symbol]
4. Marcus Schmickler – Cursive Phrasing
5. EVOL – Rave Slime
6. Iannis Xenakis – Pour la Paix
7. Keith Fullerton Whitman – Generator 7b
8. Jon Appleton – In Deserto
9. Martin Neukom – 18.4
10. Robert Ashley – ‘Max’ Anecdote With Chorale ‘No, Never, No’
11. Florian Hecker – Octave Chronics
12. Thomas Lehn – feldstarke 8
13. David Sylvian  – She Is Not
14. David Behrman – On the Other Ocean
15. Mouse On Mars – Paradical
16. NiteCrawlrz – NoN-ReleasE

Ben Vida 'Zizzlers' (PAN 23) from Bill Kouligas on Vimeo.

Mike Wexler

Our friend and former Amish recording artist Mike Wexler has an album coming out and we couldn't be more excited. The wait between musical transmissions might be long but it's always worth the wait. His new one, Dispossession, will be out March 6th.

Stream "Pariah"

Mike is playing a show this weekend to celebrate

This Sat 2/25 @ Union Pool
Brooklyn, 8:30pm, $8

MOUNTAINS (Thrill Jockey), 11PM
http://www.thrilljockey.com/thrill/Mountains/

MIKE WEXLER + BAND (Mexican Summer), 10PM
http://www.mexicansummer.com/shop/mike-wexler-dispossession/

CHRIS FORSYTH (Family Vineyard), 9PM
http://soundcloud.com/chris-forsyth

While we are on the topic don't forget the following releases which we stock in our store.

Sun Wheel CD (2007) Amish Records - $12 ppd USA

Sun Wheel LP (2007) Chouette - $12 ppd USA

Axis, Road of Awe 7" (2009) The Caspian Label (UK Import) - $8 ppd USA