Posted In: tradition

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

L'OMBRE DE LA BETE

Posted On: 17th of June, 2022
Posted In: François Robin, Mathias Delplanque, Veuze, Bretagne, Duduk, Mizmar, A la Zim Muzik, electronics, experimental music, Parenthèses Records, Tradition, Continuum, Xango Muzik

Hello friends,

It's been a long time in the making so we are particularly thrilled to share with you the BIG news that our newest release, proudly co-produced with À La Zim Muzik, is now up for PRE-ORDER.

François Robin & Mathias Delplanque are L'OMBRE DE LA BÊTE , an immersive exploration of the organic sound of the VEUZE.

Expect drone flirting with krautrock and traditional music.

The album will see the light on July 1st, coming in a beautiful 4 panels digisleeve with inserted 4 pages booklet, all designed by French visual artists Quentin Faucompré
Until then, 2 tracks are available on both Bandcamp below.

https://lombredelabete.bandcamp.com
https://parenthesesrecords.bandcamp.com

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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10...

Unnatural

Posted On: 18th of March, 2020
Posted In: Patrick Graham, John Sellekaers, Parentheses Records, Unnatural, Remix, Leafy Suburbs, Lyndon Blue, Debashis Sinha, Mathias Delplanque, Lawrence English, Tamar Kasparian, Percussion, Ambient, Abstract, Experimental Music, Soundtrack, Tradition, Continuum, Belgium, Canada, Australia

After three singles and their accompanying remixes, we're very excited to share with you UNNATURAL by Canadian percussionist and improviser Patrick Graham & Belgian sound artist John Sellekaers.
The album is available from our our Bandcamp HQ including two bonus tracks and from all streaming platforms.

Next of Kin

Posted On: 25th of January, 2020
Posted In: Patrick Graham, John Sellekaers, Parentheses Records, Unnatural, Remix, Leafy Suburbs, Lyndon Blue, Percussion, Ambient, Abstract, Experimental Music, Soundtrack, Tradition, Continuum, Belgium, Canada, Australia

Next of Kin, the third single taken from "Unnatural", the fiercely imaginative collaboration between Patrick Graham & John Sellekaers, translates once again the duo's shared aesthetic to play on timbres and textures. A sparsely populated, sonically inquisitive track with the electronic treatments slightly more upfront creating cavernous resonances that engage the listener into a sonic containment.

At the remix control, we find Leafy Suburbs. His take on Next of Kin isn't one easy to pin down. A syncopated monochromatic disorienting pulse traverses micro sound manipulations that leave the listener with an overall feeling of cosmic weirdness.

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.