Out now: Federico Albanese, Petrels and Origamibiro

Hey.

Welcome to the first newsletter in March. Available since last week are the new albums of the Italian composer/ pianist Federico Albanese, sound artist Petrels and the multimedia art project Origamibiro.

AVAILABLE NOW
den191 | Origamibiro - Odham's Standard Cd | 12'' | DIGITAL
den193 | Federico Albanese - The Houseboat and the Moon Cd | 2x12'' | DIGITAL
den194 | Petrels - Mima Cd | 12'' | DIGITAL

Listen:
www.denovali.com/origamibiro
www.denovali.com/federicoalbanese
www.denovali.com/petrels


NEW TRACKS
Beyond that we've uploaded new pieces oft he upcoming The Alvaret Ensemble full length and the first edits of the new Incosolable Ghost project.

www.denovali.com/thealvaretensemble
www.denovali.com/inconsolableghost


DENOVALI SWINGFEST BERLIN + LONDON UPDATE
Around 50% of the tickets for day I in Berlin and 60% of the tickets for day II in London are gone now. Preorder: www.denovali.com/swingfest


MAILORDER NEWS
This week's mailorder update includes the restock of the Bohren LP version, new Oval LP, Hauschka cd reissues, new Mogwai, new Alcest, Helms Alee, Floex Zorya LP restocks etc.

Thanks a lot for your support.
Denovali

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FEDERICO ALBANESE – THE HOUSEBOAT AND THE MOON Cd | 2xLP | DIGITAL



Federico Albanese is a composer born in Milan, Italy in 1982, and currently based in Berlin. His musical versatility is a natural gift that pushes him to explore music in all its facets. Albanese's compositions are airy and cinematic, blending classical music, electronics and psychedelia. Federico started studying piano and clarinet as a child before becoming fascinated by rock music. As a teenager he studied bass and became a self-taught guitarist and soon became one of the leading figures of Milan's underground scene, performing in several bands. Influenced by black music, folk, electronic, modern and contemporary classical music his skills as a composer soon emerged. He worked for 5 years as prop man in several film sets. This experience made him understand the power of the connection between music and images and helped him to develop his personal musical path.

In 2007 Albanese met singer and songwriter Jessica Einaudi and together they founded the avant-garde duo "La Blanche Alchimie". Composing songs with Jessica he rediscovered his love for the piano, which from that moment on, became his main instrument. Since then Federico has scored several films, short films and documentaries, including a documentary on a project commissioned by Ermenegildo Zegna in the National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome.

In February 2014, Federico Albanese will release his debut album entitled "The Houseboat and the Moon". He found a place, an imaginary place, where, whenever he wanted to, he could jump on and just float away. On this moving shelter, traveling across memories and imagination, lulled by water and led by the moon, Federico wrote the 13 compositions of his debut. He recorded all of the piano parts with a 1969 German tape recorder, the Uher Royal Deluxe, which allowed him to catch all of the tiny hidden shades, the imperfections, the noises of the piano and its surrounding space. Federico melts this rarefied sound with electronics, live recordings, strings, and homemade instruments. The result is a combination of contrasts and colors with a variety of atmospheres that wonderfully represents Federico's musical universe.

Stream: www.denovali.com/federicoalbanese
Download: www.denovali.com/mp3shop
Facebook: www.facebook.com/federicoalbanesemusic

Vinyl – 2xLP:
::: thick gatefold sleeves
::: download code
::: limited edition: 150x clear
::: regular edition: 350x black
::: price: 22.00 euro

Cd
::: nice digipak
::: price: 13.00 Euro



ORIGAMIBIRO – ODHAM'S STANDARD Cd | LP | DIGITAL



Origamibiro is a collaborative project consisting of three core members: musician, soundtrack composer and producer Tom Hill, visual artist and filmmaker The Joy Of Box, and multi-instrumentalist Andy Tytherleigh. Originally started as a solo project for Tom, Origamibiro has since evolved into an audio-visual collective, producing studio music, art objects, interactive installations and hauntingly original live audio-visual performances. Origamibiro like to create work with an array of unorthodox processes and contraptions, found objects, video feeds and multi instrumentalism. Their unique live performances involve treated books, typewriters, found celluloid, paper, eerie wildlife recordings, home movies, sellotape and bespoke visual contraptions. All of these things had been added, adapted, even destroyed as a way to generate images and audio that could evoke a feeling, a response, an understanding or perhaps a question from audiences.

2014 sees the re-release of Origamibiro's entire back catalogue - the albums ‘Cracked Mirrors and Stopped Clocks’, ‘Shakkei’ and ‘Shakkei Remixed’ - through Denovali and also the release of their fourth studio album 'Odham's Standard'. Discussions concerning tone and theme took place much earlier in the writing process this time around and unbeknown to each other, both Tom and Jim were taking an interest in more supernatural aspects of audio and video material generation. Jim had begun to research into spirit photography, where images of deceased spirits are apparently imprinted onto photographic plates through the presence of a medium. Looking for an audio equivalent, Tom began looking into EVP or electronic voice phenomenon whereby hidden voices from deceased spirits appear to present themselves in audio recordings. What is fascinating about this process is not how legitimate the phenomenon actually is but how dependant it is on the decision or need of the viewer or listener to believe it is significant or even personal.

Interestingly, there have been many attempts over the years to debunk or disprove the validity of spirit photography and yet for every court case there are also a number of witnesses willing to passionately testify that not only is the phenomenon real but that it applied directly to them. Arthur Conan Doyle was the creator of the most famous detective in the world and, conversely, a staunch defendant of the validity of spirit photography. In his infamous treatise 'The Case For Spirit Photography' he is both naive and strangely prescient: “Victorian science would have left the world hard and clean and bare, like a landscape in the moon. (however) There is nothing scientifically impossible, so far as I can see, in some people seeing things that are invisible to others. One or two consequences are obvious, the experiences of children will be taken more seriously. Cameras will be forthcoming. These folk who appear to be our neighbours, with only some small difference of vibration to separate us, will become familiar.”

Stream: www.denovali.com/origamibiro
Download: www.denovali.com/mp3shop
Facebook: www.facebook.com/origamibiro

Vinyl – LP
::: thick sleeves + thick printed inner sleeves; 180g vinyl
::: download code
::: limited edition: 150x silver
::: regular edition: 350x black
::: price: 16.00 euro

Cd
::: nice digipak
::: price: 13.00 Euro



PETRELS – MIMA CD | LP | DIGITAL



MIMA is the third album on Denovali Records from London-based musician Oliver Barrett - aka PETRELS. Following on from the highly praised Petrels debut Haeligewielle ("Petrels has provided us with what has to be the strongest solo debut from a musician so far in 2011." - Fluid Radio) and second album Onkalo ("A calm, thoughtful place in the centre of a universe tearing itself apart." - Muzik Dizcovery) Mima is a further development and distillation of the distinctive sonic palette and inquisitive approach that have come to characterise Petrels so far.

Named after the semi-mystical automaton from Harry Martinson's long-form sci-fi poem 'Aniara', Mima builds on the retro-futuristic themes of Onkalo and delves deeper into ideas that lie between the twin poles of faith and uncertainty. A deep interest in mythology, and the part it plays in human development, has been a fundamental part of previous Petrels releases and Mima serves to take this interest further, asking; What place does myth have in our future understanding if we seek to claim the answers to every question? And what myths could we seek to build for ourselves in the future? Drawing inspiration from sources as wide-ranging as the Space Race, Angela Carter, early Cosmology, M. John Harrison, witchcraft, Iain M. Banks Culture novels, and the films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mima is another immersive sonic landscape from Petrels - more interested in posing questions than providing easy answers.

Since releasing Haeligewielle in 2011, Petrels has toured across Europe and shared a stage with the likes of Tim Hecker, FIRE!, Nate Young (Wolf Eyes), Trouble Books, Fennesz, Nadja, and Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster). Having also collaborated with and provided remixes for artists as varied as Duane Pitre, Brassica, Talvihorros and Max Cooper, Petrels' output is proving to be thrillingly eclectic and unpredictable.

Stream: www.denovali.com/petrels
Download: www.denovali.com/mp3shop
Facebook: www.facebook.com/petrels

Vinyl – LP
::: thick sleeves + thick printed inner sleeves; 180g vinyl
::: download code
::: limited edition: 150x beer with aqua blue a/b
::: regular edition: 200x black
::: price: 16.00 euro

Cd
::: nice digipak
::: price: 13.00 Euro



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STILL ACTUAL

den070 | N(22) - Goor 2x12''
den174 | Floex - Gone 10''
den175 | John Lemke - People Do Cd | 12''
den176 | Sebastian Plano - Arrhythmical Part of Hearts Cd | 12''
den177 | Sebastian Plano - Impetus Cd | 2x12''
den178 | The Dale Cooper Quartet - Quatorze Pièces de Menace Cd | 2x12''
den179 | Celeste – Animale(s) 2xCd | 2x12''
den180 | Thisquietarmy - Blackhaunter 12''
den181 | Thisquietarmy - Hex Mountains Cd | 12''
den182 | Piano Interrupted - The Unified Field Cd | 12''
den183 | Selaxon Lutberg - Simboli Accidentali Cd | 12''
den185 | Saffronkeira + Mario Massa - Cause and Effect Cd|2x12''
den186 | Ensemble Economique - Interval Signals 12''
den187 | Ensemble Economique - Light That Comes, Light That Goes Cd|12''
den188 | Origamibiro - Collection 3xCd | 4x12''
den189 | Birds of Passage - This Kindly Slumber Cd | 12''
den190 | Talvihorros - Eaten Alive Cd | 12''
den192 | Carlos Cipa & Sophia Jani - Relive Cd | 12''



MAILORDER NEWS / BACK IN STOCK

A New Line (Related) - S/t 12'' 2x12'' [24€]
Alcest - BBC Live Session 12'' [15€]
Alcest - Écailles De Lune 12'' [19.5€]
Alcest - Le Secret 12'' [19.5€]
Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Âme 12'' [19.5€]
Alcest - Opale 7'' [9€]
Alcest - Shelter (Digibook) Cd [14€]
Alcest - Shelter 12'' [19.5€]
Alcest - Shelter Vinyl Deluxe Boxset [45€]
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde 12'' [19.5€]
Amenra & Hive Destruction - Split (Clear Vinyl) 10'' [18€]
Andy Stott - Passed Me By / We Stay Together 2xCd [18.5€]
Anna von Hausswolff - Ceremony 2x12'' [23.5€]
Anna von Hausswolff - Ceremony Cd [15.5€]
Anne Guthrie - Codiaeum Variegatum 12'' [18€]
Ava Luna - Electric Balloon 12'' [15.5€]
Band Of Horses - Acoustic At The Ryman 12'' [19€]
Bolder - Hostile Environment 12'' [17€]
Brandt Brauer Frick - Broken Pieces / Skiffle It Up Remixes 12'' [9€]
Brandt Brauer Frick - Corky 12'' [9€]
Brandt Brauer Frick - DJ Kicks 2x12'' [24€]
Brandt Brauer Frick - You Make Me Real - The Remixes 12'' [9€]
Bushman's Revenge - Thou Shalt Boogie! 12'' [19.5€]
Bushman's Revenge - Thou Shalt Boogie! Cd [16€]
Calexico - Algiers 12'' [17.5€]
Calexico - Feast Of Wire 12'' [18.5€]
Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness 12'' [17.5€]
Caribou - Up In Flames 12'' [17.5€]
Carla Bozulich - Boy 12'' [22€]
Carla Bozulich - Boy Cd [15€]
Celer - Voyeur 12'' [15.5€]
Charlemagne Palestine & Z'ev - Rubhitbangklanghear Rubhitbangklanghear 12'' [15€]
Christopher Komeda - Rosemary's Baby OST 2x12'' [32€]
CocoRosie - Tales of GrassWidow 12'' [18.5€]
Com Truise - Wave 12'' [13.5€]
Converge - Petitioning Forever 2x12'' [22.5€]
Cripple Bastards - Nero In Metastasi (Grey Vinyl) 12'' [19.5€]
D. Charles Speer & The Helix - Doubled Exposure 12'' [17€]
David Carbonara - Mad Men: On The Rocks OST 12'' [22€]
Death Vessel - Island Intervals 12'' [17€]
Dent May - Warm Blanket 12'' [15.5€]
Die Nerven - Fun 12'' [16€]
Don Peake - The Hills Have Eyes OST 12'' [25€]
Donato Dozzy & Nuel - The Aquaplano Sessions 2x12'' [19.5€]
Earthless - From The Ages 2x12'' [24€]
Earthless - From The Ages Cd [15€]
Elder - Live at Roadburn 2013 12''+Cd [19.5€]
Elder - Live at Roadburn 2013 Cd [14€]
Electric Litany - Enduring Days You Will Overcome 12'' [17€]
Floex - Zorya (Clear Sky-Blue Vinyl) 12'' [17€]
Floor - S/t 12'' [19€]
Fuck Buttons - Brainfreeze 12'' [13€]
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life 2x12'' [23€]
Get Well Soon - Rest Now Weary Head You Will Get Well Soon 12'' [16€]
Get Well Soon - The Scarlet Beast O'Seven Heads 2x12'' [19€]
Get Well Soon - Vexations 2x12'' [19€]
Gnod - The Somnambulist's Tale 12'' [17€]
Guided By Voices - Motivational Jumpsuit 12'' [21€]
Hans Koller - Minor Meetings 1958 12'' [18.5€]
Hauschka - Substantial Cd [16€]
Hauschka - The Prepared Piano Cd [16€]
Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors 12'' [22€]
Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors Cd [15.5€]
Holden - Circle Of Fifths 12'' [10€]
Holden - Gone Feral 12'' [10€]
Hooded Menace - Labyrinth of Carrion Breeze 12'' [14€]
James Plotkin & Paal Nilssen-Love - Death Rattle 12'' [21€]
Joe Delia - MS 45 OST (Frost Vinyl + Poster limited edition) 12'' [26€]
John Cage - Song Books (incl. 24 page booklet) 2xCd [18€]
Jon Hopkins - Collider: Remixes 12'' [11€]
Jonas Reinhardt - Ganymede 12''+Dvd [24€]
Kangding Ray - Solens Arc (limited edition) 2x12'' [24€]
Machinefabriek + Sergio Sorrentino - Vignettes Cd [14€]
Mantar - Death By Burning 12'' [16.5€]
Marissa Nadler - July 12''+Cd [18.5€]
Mark Banning - Journey to the Light 12'' [18€]
Mastodon - Call Of The Mastodon (Clear w Gold/Blue) 12'' [20€]
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Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People 12'' [17.5€]
Nostalgia 77 - A Journey Too Far 2x12''+7'' [18€]
Nothing - Guilty Of Everything 12'' [18€]
Nothing - Guilty Of Everything Cd [15€]
Oval - Voa 12'' [18€]
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Picastro - You Cd [15€]
Polar Bear - Peepers 12'' [16€]
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Radiohead - In Rainbows 12'' [21€]
Rainer Veil - The New Brutalism 12'' [17€]
Rebekka Karijord - Music for the Film and Theatre Cd [15.5€]
Savages - Silence Yourself 12'' [18.5€]
Scott Kelly & The Road Home - Eternal 7'' [8.5€]
Serge Gainsbourg - 1.2.3.4 2x12'' [45€]
Shortcircles - Between Waves 12'' [14€]
Simon Pyke - Universal Everything & You (Picture Disc) 12'' [19€]
Snow Ghosts - Secret Garden 12'' [12€]
Sondre Lerche & Kato Adland - The Sleepwalker OST 12'' [19.5€]
Stefan Jaworzyn - Drained of Connotation 12'' [21€]
Steve Roach + Kelly David - The Long Night Cd [17.5€]
Sun Araw - Belomancie 2x12'' [22€]
Sun Ra - Sleeping Beauty 12'' [15€]
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The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble - Mr Machine - The Remixes 12'' [9€]
The Men - Tomorrow's Hits 12'' [16.5€]
The Notwist - Close To The Glass 2x12'' [18.5€]
The Notwist - Neon Golden (Ltd. Deluxe Edition) Cd+Dvd [18.5€]
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The Notwist - Neon Golden Cd [17€]
The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me (Artbook Deluxe Edition) Cd [18.5€]
The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me 12'' [18.5€]
The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me Cd [17€]
The War on Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues 12'' [15€]
Valentin Stip - Sigh 2x12'' [19.5€]
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William Basinski - A Red Score In Tile Cd [16€]
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William Fitzsimmons - Lions 12'' [18€]
William Fitzsimmons - Lions Cd [16.5€]
Year Of No Light - Vampyr Cd [14€]



CARLOS CIPA + FEDERICO ALBANESE TOUR