ADR 2014 in review

31/12/2014

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At a label fair last night, while perusing our table with a friend, I noted, “Shit… I had a pretty good year!”

In 2014 we released 15 physical albums and 9 videos. That is three more releases than we planned to do and six fewer videos (calculating that we’d meant to create some form of video for every release). We got 24 (to our knowledge) positive reviews on various blogs and print publications. Two titles sold out. We put on a small handful of shows and relaunched the NO LOVE imprint (just today, actually). And I indulged in our most excessive package to date for one of my own pet projects.

As we were at the start of 2014, we’re planning to drastically scale back operations in 2015. As with 2014, we’ll see how that goes (we already have two releases scheduled for January and one in February).

2014 Year End Top 5

(of Arachnidiscs Recordings 2014 releases according to Arachnidiscs Recordings)

#1. Dominic Marion: Totenbaum Träger / Projet Muet

Creeping drones and cinematic post-jazz improvisations.

#2. Uvesen: III

Creepinger drones and dark, reverb-drenched noise improvisations.

#3. Clara Engel: Ashes & Tangerines

Something like the haunting folkiness of Vashti Bunyan corrupted by the bombastic gloom of Nick Cave.

#4. Nite Audit: The Audiot

Apparently the Ween brothers, Beck and Lou Barlow had an orgy and Nite Audit is their love child. There’s something wonderfully ’90s yet incredibly current about Kyle’s music.

#5. Colin Fisher & Mike Gennaro: Sine Qua Non

It’s like Rashied Ali and John Coltrane on bath salts. Free jazz that breaks the chains of your mind.


Tonight in Toronto! Blü Print: An Arachnidiscs Showcase

04/11/2014

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An eclectic showcase of Arachnidiscs Recordings artists and double-tape release celebration

COLIN FISHER & MIKE GENNARO (tape release)
face-melting free-jazz
https://arachnidiscs.bandcamp.com/album/sine-qua-non

HOLIDAY RAMBLER
depression era storytelling
https://soundcloud.com/arachnidiscs-recordings/holiday-rambler-auden

BEARD CLOSET
drone/noise/post-music guitar god
https://arachnidiscs.bandcamp.com/album/beard-closet-primate-pyramid

TRANZMIT (debut performance)
Dark elektro radio sampling, musique concrete, audio manipulation
https://tranzmit.bandcamp.com/


Colin Fisher & Mike Gennaro: Sine Qua Non

18/09/2014

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Released: 07 October 2014.
Free jazz sax/drums duo beating out five face-melting, brain-blowing freak jams.

Colin Fisher – alto saxophone
Mike Gennaro – drums

Recorded live in Toronto, March-May 2014

CALL IT: Free-jazz, post-bop, avant-garde, experimental, improvisation, fiery freak-outs, transcendental tripping.
SONIC COUSIN TO: Rashied Ali, Sam Rivers, Ornette Coleman, Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Rollins, Albert Ayler,  you know… that kinda thing.


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