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Mentolados Durruti is an improvising trio from Buenos Aires.
Luis Conde, Luis Ianes and Carlos Vega improvised and recorded their album on March 3 of 2019. An attempt to recover narratives found in the archaeology of other music and other discussions. There is no fusion. There is an epic. Clarinets, saxophone, guitars, bass.
Fulmedesh is a hemisphere-crossing collaboration partnership. Surrealist refractions. Impressionist observations. Environmental collapse. Fragments.
Their first album, Caracoles de una ciudad enterrada, is an assemblage of keyboards, electronics, guitar, field recorings, drums, flute, and poems. Additionally it is jointly released by pan y rosas discos and Amor Loco Discos.
Memorymusic is the moniker of Brooklyn-based keyboardist, producer, and composer Leo Galbraith-Paul. His sound centers recollection and imagining to create meditative, self-reflective listening experiences.
Memorymusic’s first album for pan y rosas is: Keyboards, electronics, drums. Ambient jazz wash. A seed that grows upward. Strands of potential. Beauty and ugliness. Longing and craving. Threads of memory.
Bleak House produce crumbly, autumnal library music; flickering guitars, stumbling piano, mournful horns, and pattering percussion. Formed in 2001 by British musicians (Luke Sample, Andy Brain, Caroline Vile) also involved in Keshco, the Bleak House palette is distinctly sepia-tinged.
Outwardly was recorded in snatched moments between 2017 and 2019 in London and Oxford, built up from layers of improvisation, and mixed using Jeskola Buzz and Goldwave.
DC33.33 is a moniker belonging to Dave Gabriel, a person who resides in Chicago.
Ibis Color Millet is a collection of electronic clickety-clack music.
bella is a brazilian artist and musician who lives in são paulo. she attempts to erase the boundaries between sound and space with performances focused on the imperceptible movements of reality. her work is frequently interdisciplinary and collaborative.
bella’s second album for pan y rosas is the result of recordings from various places where she traveled during the first half of 2019. Forest, cicadas, radios, walkman, cell phones, refrigerator, computers, lights, flies, spiders, sheep, inaudible particles all inform HADRON.
This is a co-release with the qtv label.
Heavy Lifting (Lucy Cheesman) has been playing live coded music using TidalCycles and FoxDot since 2016.
Her second album for pan y rosas features songs about weddings, karaoke, getting your head chopped off, the cyclops Polyphemus, bad housemates and lost property. The music was all improvised over two long sessions, and edited down before the vocals were recorded. Most of the sounds are made using a few 90s synths with some samples chucked in for good measure and vocoded/pitch shifted vocals.
Mira Martin-Gray is an improviser and reluctant composer preoccupied by feedback, probing the intersections between noise & melody, drone & rhythm, indeterminacy & control. Reclaiming undesirable sounds, she wields the emotionally expressive power of abstract music to counter dominant cultures of (un)desirability. A multi-instrumentalist, injury and disability led her to find means of making music accessibly using mixing boards. She lives in Toronto.
OUT OF BODY OUT OF WORK: solos for mixing boards is a document of Mira’s work exploring the expressive and emotive possibilities of the mixing board. She recorded her solo performances at her home in June and July of 2019. This is her first album for pan y rosas discos.
M.A.K.T. Sono is a french experimental duo comprised of Magali Albespy & Kecap Tuyul. They formed in February 2018 from a mutual taste for improvisational forms that rely more on indetermination and surprise than on mastering instruments. They both use electronic tools whose complex settings can generate unexpected sound events and unstable situations.
Their first album for pan y rosas, Tinnitus Flowers, is a collection of improvisations that took place in the Spring of 2018. The sound is: Mixing boards. Moog mothers. Clicks. Whirs. Squiggles. Grinds. Smears.
Andrea May (may HD) is a visual and sound artist, curator from Brazil who researches the hybridization of artistic languages and the aesthetics of noise. Her multi-disciplinary techniques include infographics, illustration, collage, video projection (vjing), installation, sound art, djing, and collective actions.
may HD’s “Noisy Turntablism” project aims to connect sound experimentalism with visual arts in diverse reflections from noise. This performance consists of free improvisation using prepared and destroyed vinyl records with analog and digital effects.