Travelogue: A Journey With Whitelabrecs

By my count, Whitelabrecs has come out with nearly 70 releases in the four years since it was founded  by Harry Towell (aka Spheruleus).  For the first three, the label strictly followed a set formula in which each release came out on vinyl-effect CDs in a limited run of 50 copies.  This year, Towell has…

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Through a Musical Lens: Lowlands – Ester Vonplon / Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer [IIKKI]

Lowlands is the third edition of the recently launched IIKKI project, a unique concept in which each entry in the series is the outcome of a creative dialog between a visual artist and a music artist which results in parallel imprints – a fine art book and a vinyl record. This one began when Ester Vonplon traveled last…

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‘Chasing Ice (The Canary in the Global Coal Mine)’ – OST music from J. Ralph

The film ‘Chasing Ice’ is going become available on Netflix this weekend (June 1), followed by a UK DVD release on June 10 and a US DVD release in September. To produce the film, photographer James Balog and his crew braved brutal conditions in the Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing…

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