Melinda & Maciek : Jazz Frit [LBN043]

Melinda & Maciek is a project started in February 2018 thanks to an accidental Instagram connection between 2 musicians. Melinda Ligeti is a composer/singer/multiinstrumentalist/arranger/producer from Serbia, living in Italy, while Maciek Cieslak is a drummer from Poland, living in France. It all started with Melinda’s old wish to write music based on a bare drum track. Maciek happened to have some ready, recorded drumparts that he sent to her, and she used them to build music upon it, using piano, synth and bass. It was an experimental approach to composition Melinda always wanted to try, and it finally happened. The result is 4 songs, mixing jazz, prog, fusion, chillout, contemporary… imagined as a mini album, giving the taste of what this project might become if developed further. 3 of them are instrumental, and one is also involving Maciek’s vocals that got caught on microphones while recording the drumpart, a selfironic song that makes fun of the hardship of singing and playing at the same time, in his native Polish language. Jazz Frit is a symbolic title for this album, for the fact that musicians involved are living in (Fr)ance and (It)aly, but also, and so much more, for the meaning of frit word, which by Oxford dictionary definition is the mixture of silica and fluxes which is fused at high temperature to make glass, plus – according to urban dictionary means intoxicating/exciting, as well as ligthly fried.”

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Format: 4 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, WAVE
Released: 28 Oct 2018
Style: Fusion, Contemporary Jazz

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Ykymr : City [LBN041]

“A city that wakes up.
The sun illuminating the last leaves of thirsty trees.
The dark has forgotten a book of unresolved questions.
Read, write, listen, speak and love … as long as you can.”

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Format: 8 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, WAVE
Released: 8 Oct 2017
Style: Ambient, Folk, Experimental

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Captive Portal : Music Is Telephone [LBN038]

“Everything done by Zach Bridier. Recorded with a single acoustic guitar.

All sounds are original. No software synths and no audio from third parties were used in this recording.”

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Format: 5 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, WAVE
Released: 25 Feb 2017
Style: Acoustic, Folk

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Feminine : Lorelei [LBN037]

Lorelei is the debut album from duo Feminine (Giampiero Riggio and Francesco Cipriano).
A wave manifesto against the deeply rooted reverence for the logic of genres.
Lorelei develops on two complementary levels: one archaic and passionate,
troubled by the many contradictions of a land like Sicily and the other,
accurate and bewitching, is a prelude to teutonic Stuttgart.
A countless number of bytes which they shared and exchanged remotely.
This work is romantic and brave at the same time, constantly immersed into a very deep atmosphere, never trite,
fooled by the certainty that there is no dream which cannot be described.”

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Format: 8 x File, Album, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, WAVE
Released: 10 Dec 2016
Style: Pop, Acoustic, Experimental, Folk

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Samurau : Things left unsaid [LBN032]

Things Left Unsaid is not only the testimony of a precise moment, but rather the result of a long research, composition and improvisation done by the band: there’s a common area where musical elements from diametrically opposed musical worlds such as jazz and contemporary music, rock and blues coexist without forgetting the melodic vocation in each composition.

Samurau: the band (Michele Sanna – guitars; Matteo Muntoni â el.bass; Alessandro Garau- drums) after a long period of mutual courtship and knowledge among the members, was officially founded in 2014: the aim is to satisfy the need to blend in total freedom, sounds, music, different styles through their own compositions.”

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Format: 8 x File, Album, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, AIFF, WAVE
Released: 7 Oct 2015
Style: Acoustic, Jazz, Blues

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Jan Grünfeld : Music for plants [LBN031] [hpcd109]

“The tracks of Music for plants are based on a live improvisation with electric guitar and a looping machine. Jan Grünfeld has recorded the music in the summer of 2014 on a huge balcony of an old villa in Bad Muskau, right at the German-Polish border – a very arcadian place!
The music is free, like a suntrap. The plants grow better with Jan Grünfeld’s music!
But not turn up too loud! And do not forget to water!”

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Format: 7 x File, Album, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, WAVE
Released: 7 Oct 2015
Style: Ambient, Acoustic, Field Recording

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Various Artists : La bèl pop (fifth anniversary compilation) [LBN030]

“This year La bèl will turn 5 years old and we wanted to celebrate its birthday by publishing a La bèl compilation with all the artists that collaborated with us during these years. The idea is to ask each one of their for a ‘pop’ track, leaving complete freedom to their personal interpretation of this word. We think this would be a nice idea, since hardly any of their works within the ‘pop’ scene. La bèl pop (fifth anniversary compilation) is the final outcome of this experiment.

This compilation is published to coincide with the first Netlabel Day.”

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Format: 16 x File, Compilation, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, WAV
Released: 14 Jul 2015
Style: Pop, Acoustic, Experimental, Folk

Plusplus : Psycho [LBN026]

Psycho is the third and final installment in the ‘Evils trilogy’ from Adam Radmall aka Plusplus consisting of eight new tracks that continue on a similar theme to the two previously acclaimed albums ‘Evils’ (2010) and ‘Game Over’ (2012). Compared with the first two Plusplus albums, Psycho is more a collaboration with Bryan Styles (Plantman) and Rob Scillitoe contributing on drums and double bass respectively. Producer John Hannon also contributed significantly. The result is much more of an organic sound that reveals another side of the plusplus yet retains a similar mix of brooding atmospheres and circadian rhythms punctuated by playful folk melodies evident on previous work.”

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Format: 8 x File, Album, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, WAV
Released: 8 Sep 2014
Style: Pop, Acoustic, Folk

Frank Wilke / Andrè D. : Vertical Theory [LBN024]

Vertical Theory is the joint work of two musicians, possessed of free improvised music. The music came over the distance of about 1.26843e-10 ly in their head mostly first at nocturnal walks in such diverse regions of Europe as the French Maritime Alps on the one hand and the West German Ruhr area on the other.”

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Format: 6 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 31 Jan 2014
Style: Jazz

Nick Rivera : Zamalek [LBN023]

Zamalek is an island in Cairo in the middle of the Nile. But also a neighbourhood, something in between. This album is about the sky you can’t see from this island and the things that swim in it. Zamalek is a warm cuddle from your trusted friend, a fist in the nape from your best enemy.”

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Format: 7 x File, Album, MP3/320 kbps
Released: 5 Dec 2013
Style: Acoustic, Pop, Folk, Rock