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Hangman
Posted On: 16th of September, 2023
Posted In: Jina Mahsa Amini, Hangman, woman life freedom, ZÖJ, zojduet, kamancheh, voice Iran, kaiber, runway, midjourney, gelareh pour, brian o dwyer, Hushang Entehaj, McKenna Motion, Parenthèses Records, Tradition, Continuum, Melbourne Recital Center, current
This is Hangman, Zöj’s first single from Fil o Fenjoon honouring #womanlifefreedom and #mahsaamini anniversary is out today.
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From Gela:
This track’s been recorded at MRC when Brian and Myles left me in the main room and said, just play something. I turned the pages on my book and found this amazing poem by Hushang Ebtehaj, and played and sang this piece for the first time. What you hear is what Myles captured in that moment. Feel free to turn on the caption and read the translation.
Please make sure you post/do something to honour this important revolution today. For freedom for #Iran, for freedom for all women in this world.
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Thank you all for your support and love.
Woman . Life . Freedom
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Welcome ZÖJ
Posted On: 26th of July, 2023
Posted In: Gelareh Pour, Brian O'Dwyer, Persian experimental music, Kamancheh, Qheychak Alto, Drums, Melbourne, Cross-cultural music, intercultural music, Tradition, Continuum, current
ZÖJ is the ongoing musical conversation between Australian-based Iranian master of the Kamancheh Gelareh Pour and Brian O'Dwyer.
Ethically grounded in interculturalism, ZÖJ seeks to contribute to modern of sustainable and nurtured cross-cultural collaboration and the development of new Australian Music.
Their debut album FIL O FENJOON has been in production since 2021 and will see the light in November 2023.
KEDA releases 3rd album
Posted On: 11th of February, 2023
Posted In: KEDA, Mathias Delplanque, E'Joung-Ju, Korea, Experimental Music, Ambient, Dub, Traditional, Geomungo, Electronics, Parenthèses Records, Festival Printemps Coréen, Compagnie Linga, John Sellekaers, Flow, Continuum, France, Korea, Brussels, Nantes, contemporary dance, Switzerland, Suisse, current
Invited by Compagnie Linga to compose the musical score of the dance production 'Flow' and perform it live, KEDA created a mesmerizing soundtrack, in which E’Joung-Ju stirs up lively rhythms and melodic fragments of the Korean geomungo, like an electric bass, which Mathias Delplanque captures and mutates in ambient and noise collages, ensuring a hypnotic pull.
Watch the trailer
PR welcomes
Posted On: 8th of December, 2021
Posted In: Parentheses Records, L'ombre de la bête, France, Nantes, Traditional music, britany, bretagne, veuze, Mathias Delplanque, François Robin, A la Zim, bagpipe, cornemuse, electronic music, experimental music
We’re thrilled to welcome L'ombre de la bête to the Parenthèses roster in partnership with french A La Zim!
L'ombre de la bête is a duo made of Mathias Delplanque (electronics) and François Robin, master of the Veuze, a Breton bagpipe found traditionally in southeastern Brittany and in the northern part of the Vendée, particularly around Nantes.
Their music takes inspiration from the traditionals of that region flirts with krautrock, drone and traditional music.
Their album will see the light in spring 2022.
Stay tuned...
PR welcomes
Posted On: 6th of July, 2021
Posted In: Parentheses Records, Mark Cain, Fremantle, Western Australia, Ethnic Music, Traditional Music, Daramad, Osmosis, KULCHA Multicultural Arts of WA, wind instrument, reed, percussion, gamelan, Linsey Pollack
For the label’s fifteenth release, Parenthèses Records is proud to unveil CAMEOS, the new album from West Australian composer, educator, instrument maker and multi-reed specialist Mark Cain.
CAMEOS is a collection of 18 short and enigmatic pieces Cain has written and/or improvised in his home studio in Fremantle, Western Australia. Some pieces were created for the puppet theatre work, Turtle and the Trade Winds and Oddysea with musician colleague, Jamie David. Others were devised for the Cinematic Scores series event in which he composed the accompanying live score to the 1922 American ethnographic documentary, Nanook of the North. Others are pieces he’s recorded that have only now found a home on Cameos.
With CAMEOS Cain charts his interests in traditional music, ethnic instrumentations and improvisation and collides it with his love of wind and percussion instruments from various pockets of the world, including instruments he has made. A lifelong artistic dedication that has been at the core of his work with bands such as Nova Ensemble, Ozmosis, Daramad and his current group, Eastwinds. CAMEOS is a vital and playful record that reveals new perspectives on traditional sounds, an album that countains an atypical sonic universe, revealing new archipelagos on the music map, Cameos could, an album that could easily sit between Stephan Micus and the late John Hassell.
...10 & 10...
Posted On: 6th of May, 2021
Posted In: Parentheses Records, Compilation, Anniversary, Mark Cain, Patrick Graham, John Sellekaers, Masonik, Mathias Delplanque, Philippe Foch, François Robin, L'Ombre de la Bête, Compagnie Linga, KEDA, E'Joung-Ju, GRM, Experimental Music, Ambient, Soundscape, Soundtrack, World Music, Traditionnal, Geoumungo, Percussion, Australia, Canada, Belgium, Quebec, Brussels, Nantes, France, Perth, Fremantle
On December 3 2020, Parenthèses Records turned 10 years with the date marking our first release, « The Vedantic Chapter » by Perth-based sound and visual arts collective Masonik.
12 releases came out in this time-lap (yes, we like to take it slow), all encapsulating the label’s core artistic vision but most of all 12 albums that were true collaborative efforts leading to enduring friendships.
To celebrate the big 10, PR is proud to release two free compilations:
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Innerland
Posted On: 18th of December, 2019
Posted In: Patrick Graham, John Sellekaers, Parentheses Records, Unnatural, Remix, Debashis Sinha, Percussion, Ambient, Abstract, Experimental, Music, Minimal Techno, Tradition, Continuum, Belgium, Canada
Innerland is the second single announcing "Unnatural", the collaborative effort between Patrick Graham & John Sellekaers that will see the light in February 2020.
Worked around Patrick' improvisations with cymbals and other percussions, Innerland offers a total different narrative than the one of Lacuna's with John again subtly sculpting the palette creating wonderfully uncluttered sonics...enabling the smallest details to find air.
A percussionist with a distinctive voice, Debashis Sinha has long been a fixture on Canada’s creative music scene as an acoustic and electronic musician, exploring the many different ways traditional and contemporary tools can inform each other.
While keeping the atmospheric and sometimes cavernous feel of the track, his remix manages to bring it to the minimal techno realm.
KEDA & Compagnie Linga
Posted On: 4th of February, 2018
Posted In: Compagnie Linga, KEDA, Mathias Delplanque, E'Joung-Ju, Korean, Dance, Geomungo, Contemporary Dance, Electronic Music, Octogone Theatre de Pully, Geneve
FLOW marks the first collaboration between Compagnie Linga and KEDA, the French-Korean duo formed by Mathias Delplanque and E'Joung-Ju, master of the geomungo , having released two album with Parenthèses Records.
With the hypnotic, warm, dancing and stateless folk music specially composed for the piece and performed live, a choreographic work was imagined for Compagnie Linga's dancers using the astonishing performance of animal group movements such as benches of sardines or flocks of bird as the metaphorical vision.
Check out this little gem of TEASER to get a taste of it.
KEDA announces new album
Posted On: 31st of January, 2018
Posted In: KEDA, Mathias Delplanque, E'Joung-Ju, Korea, France, Geomungo, Festival Printemps Coréen, Experimental Music, World Music, Tradition, Continuum
KEDA is back with a new release entirely recorded live on May 27 2017 at Festival Printemps Coréen in Nantes while improvising on a painting created in real time by Korean cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim.
On Live at Cosmopolis, KEDA embraces a noisier and full-on improvised approach placing the duo amongst a rising tide of korean musicians/projects currently making a name for themselves as true adventurers such as multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha, post-rockers Jambinai, Pansori maestro Bae il Dong or Danso player Hyelim Kim to name a few.
The album is out on January 26th and is made available as a FREE download via our Bandcamp HQ.
RE: Residual
Posted On: 6th of October, 2014
Posted In: Peter Knight, Dung Nguyen, Mathias Delplanque, Lena, Tilman Robinson, Joe Talia, Black Sifichi, Dan West, Residual, Remix, Experimental Music, Ambient, World Music
In 2010, Parenthèses Records released Peter Knight & Dung Nguyen’s duo collaboration RESIDUAL seeing the pair developing unique approaches to combining Vietnamese and Western music elements in a contemporary setting.
At the start of 2014, Alexis Courtin from PR and Peter Knight discussed their shared desire to give the album a second life and thus asked a carefully chosen list of musicians from France and Australia to present their personal perspectives on Residual. The result is this amazing album that comes as a FREE download, blurring the boundaries between abstract ambient, repetitive experimental music and groove-based textures.
From LENA (aka Mathias Delplanque, France, Bruit Clair Records)’s proto dubby techno, Tilman Robinson’s abstract ambient, Joe Talia’s subtle electronica, Black Sifichi (France)’s unmistakable voice and post-musique concrète edit to Dan West ’s minimal groove, Residual was given the most refined homage.
FREE Download
October 20 2014
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