maybe you know the blog http://dyingforbadmusic.
We post, as you do, the music we love.
Last year we deceided to go a step forward and found a DIY label for the music we love.
We know it's a difficult step, because we did what you did. Post records for free as preview. And you know, it's a download'n'go business. There are just a few people who get the real releases.
Maybe because they are sold, or it's difficult to order or it's just not good enough to buy :)
Anyway, we start our label in good faith and with two great (at least for us ;-)) releases and we have a lot good projects to come.
We do free download releases and small editions of cdr releases.
It's a good way we think.
So it starts with
*Aalfang mit Pferdekopf* - Is It Possible To Be At War With You?
Experimental, ambient with surreal folk songs
8 Track pro-cdr with fullcolored 4 page folder
All infos, preview and order here:
http://dyingforbadmusic.com/
*Least Carpet* - s/t ep
Eastern european influenced psych Folk in vein of Hala Strana and Thuja
8 track free high quality mp3 / flac download
All infos, a movie and download here:
http://dyingforbadmusic.com/
A summary of both releases you will find here:
http://dyingforbadmusic.
We plan:
*Low - Fye* - catchy lofi pop tunes - sounds like Syd Barrett record songs in nowhere as pro-cdr release
*The Vévé Seashore* - psych folk songs and digital freak out
*Least Carpet* - full album release
and many more.
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We drop greyzone postings of available independent releases, because we sit in the same boat :) but there is a lot of good free music to discover and we give our best.
All the best and maybe till later
DFBM staff
http://dyingforbadmusic.com
et ce qu'en dit Frans De Waard dans Vital Weekly / and what said Frans De Waard in Vital Weekly :
AALFANG MIT PFERDEKOPF - IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE AT WAR WITH YOU? (CDR by Dying For Bad Music)
LEAST CARPET (CDR by Dying For Bad Music)
This weekend I brought some amazement to someone's face by telling I really (really!) like Abba. We all have our secrets, I guess. Marcus Obst is best known for running the Field Muzick Recordings label, but he started Dying For Bad Music to release folk music. He knows (?) I don't like folk music (think to know I don't like it), but asks me if I want to review it. The first one is rather surprising Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf, once the band name used by Mirko Uhlig, but I thought he left it behind when he started to work under his own name. 'Auf Wasserleichen Gehen' opens up with what seems like a guy on speed and a guitar. Helium folk? In the same piece we have several more, entirely different songs and sound collage. Definitely not standard folk music, which is always great, I'd say. The theme of a man with an acoustic guitar is repeated in the other songs indeed, but that's not what makes this an interesting album, in my opinion. Its the more or less psychedelic approach of adding
field recordings and electronic treatments (cross fading a song into a backwards rendition of the same song). All of that makes this a highly unusual folk album - even for someone like me, readily admitting, who doesn't know much about folk music. I think this is a particularly strong album, even with the guitar playing and singing (maybe a bit too much reverb on the voice sometimes). Some of that sounds like things I heard on Black Petal before and its not the kind of music I would play a lot indeed, but I can actually enjoy it quite a bit. Maybe for those who like Current 93? How would I know? You never know.
Least Carpet play 'Eastern European influenced psych folk' and use guitar, bouzouki, melodica, flute, drums, flutes, drums, cymbals and jew's harp. I am not sure if this one guy or a band. The tracks are rather short and indeed have some vaguely middle-european feel to it, or perhaps even a medieval feel - at least how we think it must have sounded back then. No vocals, this is purely instrumental music. The recording is nicely kept rough, with a sort of direct recording and no sound effects on any of the instruments. I see castles in the mist, gypsies at campfires, a wood at dawn and all such fairytale stereotypes, which I never particular cared for - disliking anything fantastic, but rather liking the real world. That may not say anything I feel about this music, but actually I thought this is quite nice too. Just like the Aalfang release, this may not be the sort of music I play a lot (although later date Dead Can Dance occasionally finds it way to the CD player - there: another
confession), but its music that is indeed, at times, appreciated. (FdW)
