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12.17.2006 Thanks to everyone who made it out to the Sound Fix in-store 2 weeks ago! We had a great time and we hope you did as well. For those of you who weren't able to make it or just happen to live far away, here are some photos of the event (some are Ian's and some were taken by our friend Francisco Monar):
11.27.2006 LAST MINUTE SPECIAL EVENT! Barge Recordings and Sound Fix Records are proud to present an afternoon show that should not be missed. This weekend, Saturday December 2nd at 2pm, Sound Fix will host Geoff Mullen, MGR and Black Hand. The performances will be held in the Fix Cafe which is connected to Sound Fix Records and is FREE to boot! So you can spend that extra cash on records from the artists as well as beer and/or coffee. We can't think of a better way to enjoy a Saturday afternoon. For details you can call the nice folks at Sound Fix Records - (718) 388-8090. Sound Fix is located at 110 Bedford Avenue(at 11th street) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. These artists do not play live very often let alone on the same bill....so you should not miss what promises to be a memorable afternoon of heady soundscapes. See you there! I
made a flyer for the occasion: 11.06.2006 Hi kids. Couple new reviews in the press section. One from the November issue of The Wire and one from the wonderful web-zine/label Foxy Digitalis. As some of you may or may not know this past week was CMJ time here in New York City. Though I normally try to avoid CMJ like the plague, our good friend Mike Gallagher aka MGR was doing a rare live performance for the Nuerot/Robotic Empire night at Sin-e. Unfortunately I was just getting over a minor case of food poisoning/stomach flu....so i wasn't in the best of spirits, but Mike killed it that night and performed 20 minutes of what he does best....cinematic, spatial guitar drones. Totally put my head in the right space. The (In)famous Pitchfork Media even pricked up their jaded ears and happened to mention Mike in their coverage of the CMJ weekend. You can see that here. 10.28.2006 Happy Halloween everyone! In celebration of this totally wicked holiday, The Fun Years have alerted Barge HQ that some of their music has been featured in a Fuse Music Television halloween ad. The piece is from an early Fun Years self-released CD-R entitled Minimal Hardcore. 10.25.2006 Hi Folks! Couple of newsworthy items. First off, INNATURE will now me available from Keith Fullerton Whitman's online music sales site called Mimaroglu Music Sales. Stop by the website and check 'em out....they sell some great stuff. Secondly...the praise for INNATURE just keeps rolling in. Here's a nice little review from the fine folks at Fakejazz.com. And finally.....we mastered The Fun Years record this past weekend with our friend Josh Bonati. He worked his usual magic and the record sounds fantastic! We are so excited about this release and are hard at work putting together the packaging and preparing it for human consumption. Stay Tuned! 10.03.2006 We have posted a little photo "how to get the sleeve out of the wallet" here for those of you who have purchased INNATURE and are having difficulty getting the sleeve that houses the CD out of the main wallet. Again we apologize for this inconvenience. We are taking measures to address the issue and all product leaving Barge HQ will be packaged with the sleeve free-floating in the wallet so that you my choose to use the insert if you wish. We hope the "How To" helps. In other news....check out some of the reviews INNATURE has been receiving in the press section of the site. There will be reviews in the November issue of The Wire, Signal to Noise and Resonance as well. 09.27.2006 Hi everyone! BRG001/INNATURE is finally released to the public. The street date was Tuesday the 26th and should be available at your favorite record shop. If they don't have it....tell them to order it! You can also order direct from us on the catalog page using a major credit card or Pay Pal. If that doesn't suit your fancy It is available from CTD Ltd., Forced Exposure, Boomkat, Ektro Records, Aquarius Records and Other Music among others. Dave and I are so happy about this record finally coming to fruition and would like to publicly thank all the artists who brought such fine music to the table...you are the cat's pajamas! I also wanted to let everyone know that we have had many comments not only about how great the line-up and music is but about how difficult the insert is to get out. We sincerely apologize about this slight production miscalculation. We liken it to eating fine oysters....though difficult to open, the rewards are well worth the effort...that is if you like oysters. I will be posting a little pictorial "how to" in the coming days...we hope this will be helpful to those with the good sense and taste to purchase this compilation. Anyway, now that INNATURE is finally out we can turn a bit of our attention to BRG 002 which will be a full-length from the incredible Fun Years. We have the final mixes in-house and are sorting out all the fun production stuff that goes into making records....and when I say FUN...I'm not being sarcastic. Dave and I live for this....just ask my wonderfully patient and forgiving wife. 09.16.2006 We are pleased to announce that Barge Recordings products will now be available from Forced Exposure. FE is one of the finest distributors of left ear leaning music in the US and we couldn't be happier about our new relationship. Please visit their website and have a look at what they offer. In other news, INNATURE will be available from the fine folks at Aquarius Records in San Francisco. AQ is one of our favorite record shops...Dave and I buy from them via mailorder as much as our wallets will allow and so should you! They have a great staff who truly love all types of music and take a tremendous amount of time to write reviews of almost all their products. Many hours have been spent perusing their website and fighting of the urge to buy everything! Please visit them on the web or if your in SF go to the store and say hi! Tell 'em Barge sent ya! We hope you are enjoying the change in season....this is my favorite time of year. 08.27.2006 Hi Folks. BRG001 - INNATURE is now available in the US from Carrot Top Distribution LTD. If you are a buyer for a record shop here in the states, INNATURE is available for pre-order. If you are just a mailorder freak, you can buy it from CTDLTD's online mailorder site Saki. 08.19.2006 Big
News! We are pleased as punch to announce that Barge Recordings
has formed a relationship with Baked
Goods Distribution to fulfill
our distribution needs in the UK, Europe and Japan. For those
of you who don't know, Baked Goods are one of the finest purveyors of
electronic/experimental/indyrock music in the UK(and beyond!)
not to mention a great group of blokes! Dave and I are very happy
to be working with such a fine company and hope the relationship
is long and prosperous for both parties. If you are a retailer
in the UK, Europe or Japan and would like carry Barge Recordings
audio media please visit the contact page
of this here website and either email Ian or
follow the links to Baked
Goods to find out how to obtain our fine products.
We are also speaking to a few other unnamed companies here in the
US for domestic distribution....we'll keep you posted! 07.25.2006 New York has been hot. Our day jobs are sucking the soul straight out of our eyeballs and our replicater is taking their sweet time with BRG 001. But enough complaining...the good news is The Fun Years are hard at work with their debut full length for Barge Recordings and we couldn't be happier about it. We are pleased to announce that BRG 002 will be the first non CD-R release for The Fun Years and the first non various artist release for Barge. For those of you who are not familiar with The Fun Years, they are a two piece drone/sound-scape/tone-bender outfit from the fine city of Boston. They are featured on BRG 001 - INNATURE and have wowed the few lucky enough to see their rare live performances. We have yet to decide on a street date for the full-length but hope to have it hit the shelves before the new year. Also in the works here at Barge HQ is a 12" series tentively dubbed Riptide. We are keeping the participants undisclosed for the time being but we promise you will be as excited as we are about the prospects. Stay tuned for details on BRG 001, BRG 002 and the Riptide Series....and stay cool you crazy cats. 06.30.2006 Hey Folks! Dave and I went to see Geoff Mullen perform with James Blackshaw et al on Wednesday the 28th here in New York City. It was a dreary, rainy night....but the strange sounds that emanated from the Tap Room at The Knitting Factory kept our spirits high. I had never seen Geoff perform before...so the night was especially satisfying for myself. Monsignor Mullen has a gift...this is no exaggeration...he executed a mesmerizing set that for me, stole the evening. In three well crafted pieces, Geoff changed the way I look at a simple electro-acoustic set-up. He has a completely non-traditional approach to playing an acoustic guitar, banjo and a Casio(i could be wrong here) keyboard. These basic instruments were transformed into some kind of beautiful battle orchestra from the hinterlands....I'm not sure of any other way to describe it! I took a few photos that in no way do justice to the sounds we all enjoyed that evening.
Oh...and by the way...Geoff has a new full-length coming out on the Last Visible Dog imprint that you should certainly look for. I'm sure it will prove to be a fantastic compliment to the record he recently did for K.F. Whitman's label ENTSCHULDIGEN. Mr. Mullen has been busy...thankfully. 06.15.2006 Ugh. We apologize...the updates have been scarce. The days here at camp Barge have been very busy. We are at last finalizing the art for INNATURE...it looks fantastic! Thanks to our friend Pali for providing the amazing painting that will grace the cover. In other news: Animal Hospital is on a nation-wide tour of the U.S. Tour dates here. Please make a point of going out to see the mother of all one-man bands. Kevin "Animal Hospital" Micka is mind-boggling in his live process...it really is a treat to see him perform. The Family Vineyard has released a retrospective of Loren Connors' singles and rarities. I have yet to hear it, but one would think it essential for any true fan of Loren's work. Having read a few reviews that give the 3 CD set a highly positive nod, I definately want to purchase it for my own collection. What else...? We have several new projects in the works. Stay tuned for details....they will prove to be very exciting and shall willfully catapult Barge Recordings to the top of the left-ear leaning dung heap that is this vast American musical landscape....huh? 04.05.2006 Hello folks. The Fun Years will be playing a show on Tuesday April 18th at PA's lounge in Somerville, MA. The performance is the first installment in a series of live semi-improv electronic shows called Uppercase Sound. The series aspires to challenge the notion of genre specific performances, combining DJs, noise, drone, IDM and whatever else the curator can muster from the ever eclectic Boston music scene. Sounds good to us! If you live in the Boston area, try and make it out....what the hell else are you gonna do on a Tuesday...and the Fun Years are damn good live. PA's Lounge is located at 345 Somerville Ave. in beautiful Somerville Massachusetts. The event starts at 8:30pm. 03.26.2006 Update: BRG 001 has officially been dubbed INNATURE. The track listing is available in the catalog section. A street date has been confirmed for September 26th 2006. Hopefully you were able to catch Circle whilst they were touring the US. Dave and I went to the NYC show and they were face-melting as usual. Let's hope they come back soon. Animal Hospital is in the midst of booking a US tour for June. Check animalhospitalmusic.com for details. I don't know about you, but I'm ready for some warm weather...this whole in like a lion, out like a lamb thing is bullshit. What happened to global warming?! 03.10.2006 Updated Circle dates: (All shows with Cul De Sac) Boston folks - The venue has changed from Great Scott's to TT the Bear's 03.9.2006 Hello friends. Looks like MGR will be making a little jaunt to the east coast in May. We have just received the official dates straight from the source. Mark your calendars: 05.09.06 05.10.06 In other news, BRG 001 is sequenced and heading into Bonati Mastering for the royal treatment by our friend Josh Bonati. Josh is a talented young engineer and we are very happy to be working with him. We'll keep you posted. In the meantime choke on this.
02.19.2006Barge affiliates Circle will once again be crossing the pond to unleash their fury upon the New World. If you've not seen this band live you are not truly awake. Be forewarned, if you see them once you will be counting the days until they come back to your town again and all the other bands you see in that time will seem rather drab in comparison. Here are the dates so that you may plan accordingly....if it happens to be your mom's birthday, you may just want to bring her along. Sat Mar 11, Boston, MA - Great Scott
01.25.2006If you live in LA then your a lucky little son of a sea cook....at least on the 27th. Our good friend and affiliate MGR is playing at the Knitting Factory with Jarboe, Red Sparowes, and House of Low Culture. So break out your old opium pipe, chase the dragon and go out and see some GOOD music for a change. For more MGR info go HERE.
01.15.2006Hi All. Barge Recordings is pleased to announce the world-wide release of BRG 001. A compilation of epic proportions bringing together some of the finest musical talents from the US, Canada and Europe. The cast will include: Circle, Polmo Polpo, Geoff Mullen, The Fun Years, Bird Show, Loren MazzaCane Connors, Tim Hecker, The Kallikak Family, Animal Hospital and MGR. We are ecstatic to be working with such an amazing group of artists and would like to thank all of them for their contributions....It's going to be a great record. The TBD titled compilation will be on store shelves in the Spring of 2006. Please tell your local record store proprietor to order a handful....it will only reflect poorly upon him/her if it is not prominently displayed in their establishment. We are hard at work here at Barge World HQ. Designers are being "commissioned", coffee is being gulped, sleep is being lost and girlfriends are getting "edgy". Please check back periodically for updates. This site is still under a constant state of flux. We are HTML challenged lunk-heads....but we're doing all we can to make this an enjoyable and educational world-wide web experience. Feel free to drop us a line with any questions or comments. Thanks. |
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