tasos stamou’s kukuruku recordings label, home to quite a few improv and outsider cdr editions, is now available through the excellent metamkine distribution in france. time you checked out some of those obscure sides that always seemed hard to get, ok?

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http://www.kukurukurecordings.com/
http://www.metamkine.com/?partiste=1&monlabel=1495

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two recent offerings from tasos stamou’s label, first one is ‘Two Fields and a Snowflake’ -a recent recording by the athens-based duo of Free Piece of Tape. While the band’s usual palette of sound consists of amplified objects, percussion, electronics and the like, this disc is different since it consists of purely acoustic recordings made in and around a city apartment. One finds folk-tinged percussion and guitar alongside domestic object manipulation, environmental sounds and some mildly claustrophobic natural reverb; delicate colours and an interesting trip along the way.

number 7 in the label’s catalogue is ‘vague’, the duo of Scillia Lorage & Kiko C. Esseiva. Kiko is known from some previous electroacoustic recordings on hinterzimmer, 1000+1 Tilt and echomusic, which ranged from quite good to exquisite. Here we find him in an open collaborative setting with ms. Lorage. Haven’t heard this one yet, but from what i gather it’s largely in the same direction as him previous offerings.

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kukuruku recordings is a cdr label run by tasos stamou. it’s been active locally for some time now, but tasos had been waiting for the two latest releases to apear before bursting into the internet & beyond. the first two discs feature tasos, alone & with adam_is, in some very interesting electroacoustic trips; while newer discs feature topmodel, a berlin-based trio on cheap instruments & raw recordings, the illustrious dead traveller chanelling pagan customs & finally some improvisation-meets-enviromental recordings from barcelona under the title paisatges.

the label now has an online home here : http://www.kukurukurecordings.com/

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