CobSOn – Road/Social Disaster
Anna “CobSOn” Muchin took piano lessons since she was a child and started to write songs in 2002. She became the singer of the pop‘n’roll-band Montevideo in 2004, while at the same time working as a solo act. Anna’s first mini-album “Wasted?” was released on WM Recordings in august 2005.
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Tracks:
1. Road
2. Social disaster
In September 2005 Montevideo split up and CobSOn joined forces with Yannick G. (drums) and Laurent B. (guitars) and from that moment on CobSOn was a trio.
CobSOn are based in Montpellier, France.
CobSOn are:
Laurent Bencharif
Yannick Gomez
Anna Muchin
Words and music by Anna Muchin
Official website: http://www.cobsontheband.com
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/cobson
Elfferich Four – Special Four
Elfferich Four is a dutch drums-bass-guitar trio making a new kind of progressive rock/funk/jazz. All tunes are by Jeroen Elfferich, the drummer. The grooves are all uneven which means that they don’t play 1, 2, 3, 4 anymore.
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Tracks:
1. This is what I like
2. White elephant
3. Bush bush
4. This is what I like too
The band started in the early 90′s as a quartet (drums, bass, guitar plus saxophone) and made three albums: Electricity, Curiosity and Special Four. These were reissued by WM Recordings in the summer of 2006.
Jeroen Elfferich’s solo project Happy Elf can be found here.
Elfferich Four – Curiosity
Elfferich Four is a dutch drums-bass-guitar trio making a new kind of progressive rock/funk/jazz. All tunes are by Jeroen Elfferich, the drummer. The grooves are all uneven which means that they don’t play 1, 2, 3, 4 anymore.
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Tracks:
1. Curiosity
2. Hip Trip
3. The Past
4. Little Miracle
5. Use Me
6. Dark Places
7. Einstand
8. Violent Valentine Kiss
9. Night Faces (Drum Solo)
10. Scopus
11. Septomber
12. Reunion
The band started in the early 90′s as a quartet (drums, bass, guitar plus saxophone) and made three albums: Electricity, Curiosity and Special Four. These were reissued by WM Recordings in the summer of 2006.
Jeroen Elfferich’s solo project Happy Elf can be found here.
Elfferich Four – Electricity
Elfferich Four is a dutch drums-bass-guitar trio making a new kind of progressive rock/funk/jazz. All tunes are by Jeroen Elfferich, the drummer. The grooves are all uneven which means that they don’t play 1, 2, 3, 4 anymore.
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Tracks:
1. Electricity
2. Duel
3. Pets
4. Superswing-Bonaparte
5. Chivalry
6. This Delicious Dish
7. Triple Nipple
8. Be – Was – Been
9. Noon Monsoon
10. Rhythm & Rhyme
11. Miss Dracula
12. Together In Parentheses
The band started in the early 90′s as a quartet (drums, bass, guitar plus saxophone) and made three albums: Electricity, Curiosity and Special Four. These were reissued by WM Recordings in the summer of 2006.
Jeroen Elfferich’s solo project Happy Elf can be found here.
Happy Elf – Twelve Churches
Happy Elf is the alter ego of multi instrumentalist Jeroen Elfferich from Delft, the Netherlands. He has released more than 10 albums since 1999.
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Tracks:
1. New generation
2. Different feathers
3. Organs of sense
4. Eddy
5. Rainbow
6. Holiday
7. Run away
8. Get you
9. Song for you
10. Crazy game
11. Twelve churches
Happy Elf’s main instruments are his 2 analogue synthesizers, the Roland Juno 6 and Yamaha CS10. But we also hear electric guitar, bass guitar and drum computers. A lot of the songs are instrumental but some have vocals. Because Elferich has no beautiful voice he tries out some effects and vocal tricks.
The music of Happy Elf can be labeled as electropop, but actually it is much more than that: it’s pop music made with analogue synthesizers.
Elfferich has been making different kinds of music for the last 25 years. He has been performing as a percussionist in orchestras, guitarist and lead singer in a rockband and as a drummer in jazz-, funk-, klezmer-, rock-, fusion- and cajun bands. He currently leads a reformed edition of his progressive rock/funk/jazz band Elfferich Four, whose back catalog is also available on WM Recordings.
Rubber Band Banjo – The Circlemaker
Rubber Band Banjo is a self-educated musician who likes to tinker around with new forms of music making. Starting off as an electronic musician in November 2001, a wretched EP was created with the demo version of a cheap program in four days flat. It sounds somewhere in between the Conan the Barbarian soundtrack, video game music, and Mr. Bungle gone horribly wrong.
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Tracks:
1. The circlemaker
2. Quetzalcortl
3. Twisted serpent tv
4. Max Ernsts red nightmare
5. Rna shutter speed
6. Vacuum coffee
7. Phosphene recording device
8. Macroscopia
9. Hyperdimensional elephant
10. Anamnesis
11. Memetic recombination
12. Wave genetics
The fourth full-length Rubber Band Banjo album The Circlemaker emphasizes the use of unfamiliar sounds played on homemade instruments and electrified objects. The rhythmic sound sources include 3-stringed and rubber band zithers with percussion on both electronic drums and objects amplified with contact mics. As a result the album is largely percussive driven, but has ambient and dynamic qualities from the natural recordings, software synthesizers, voice, and shortwave radio. These recordings are inspired by avant rock, krautrock, and whatever comes out of experimenting with electrified objects and instruments largely made from junked parts.
Official website: http://www.rubberbandbanjo.com
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/rubberbandbanjo
Riojafari & the Delicious Allstars – Banausenbrause
RioJafari started his musical life in 1992 as a singer and drummer of the alternative/hardcore band Oddoneout. After that he made his first step in the jungle as MC. Twist, working with different artists from Cheltenham, London, Mannheim, Oldenburg and many many more…..
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In 1999 he started to work with Phil C. (Bassburger), to create his own style of music. Finally his first album was released in september 2007.
“Banausenbrause” is a delicious mix of Alternative HipHop, Funk/Jazz, and something you never heard before! Open your ears and eyes…
Official website: http://www.riojafari.de
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/riojafari
Keji Hamilton & the Exousia Band – Keji
Keji Hamiliton is a multi-instrumentalist who plays the keyboard, guitar, saxophone, conga and drums; amongst several other instruments. He is a master composer/arranger of the Jazz and Afrobeat genres of music.
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Tracks:
Designers
Innocent Blood
Forever Live Jesus
Bambiala (Beggars)
Original Power
Africa I Belong
Keji was a key figure in Fela Kuti’s Band, as a Guitarist and later Keyboardist. His record credits with Fela include ‘Beast of No Nation’, ‘Overtake Overtake Overtake’, ‘Just Like That’, ‘Army Arrangement’ and ‘Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense’. Keji had a very close relationship with Fela and many fans of Fela would readily remember Keji because he usually opened Fela’s live performances. Fela, in one of his hit tracks, made fond reference to Keji in the popular refrain “kereke ji keke, yah.” Keji is reputed to be one of the few musicians that plays the ‘authentic’ traditional afrobeat music at the level Fela established.
Keji currently heads the Exousia Band (a thirteen man band) and had his ‘return’ concert on September 15 2007, at the Muson Center, Onikan – Lagos, Nigeria.
MOJO Magazine (June 2008): “This is Afrobeat much as Fela Kuti himself played it in the latter years of his career (…). The band is well drilled, the horns and backing vocals wonderful, but there is never the sense that everything is teetering on the verge of collapse. Which might be why Kuti had him around so long.”
Panicphobia – Handle With Care – Might Panic
Panicphobia are a rock-quintet from Aarhus, Denmark. They play what they like to call “playful rock”, which is a mix between progressive and alternative. The music has not been “written” in the more traditional sense, but is sort of collectively composed.
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Tracks:
1. Perfect and Senseless
2. What Trees Think
3. Die Heart
4. Time
5. The Art of Building a Rocket
Emerging musical ideas have been added a healthy mix of theory combined with observations and intuition along with musical experiments or improvisations.
Panicphobia’s first official release of “Handle With Care – Might Panic” is an opening statement of the musicians’ views on the art of creating new music. It is a suite in five very different compositions, each of them based so much on a stricht, either metrical or expressive skeleton that “Handle With Care – Might Panic” could by all rights be described as a conceptual release.
Official website: http://www.panicphobia.dk/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/panicphobiadk
The Aperion Project – Gods, Demigods & Demons
The Aperion Project is devoted to the production, recording and performing of various forms of music. Consisting of two musicians – Brandon Rizzo (trumpet/flugelhorn/keyboard) and Gabe Patti (saxophones) – the musical output of The Aperion Project ranges from live improvised music to electro-acoustic studio projects.
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Tracks:
1. Icelos
2. Newtrackmellow
3. Black Narcissus
4. Satellite Motion
5. The Fermi Paradox
6. Parallax of One Arc Second
Aperion is an ancient Greek word meaning “boundless” or “formless substance” first described by the ancient Greek philosopher Anaximander.
The Aperion Project is devoted to the production, recording and performing of various forms of music. Consisting of two musicians – Brandon Rizzo (trumpet/flugelhorn/keyboard) and Gabe Patti (saxophones) – the musical output of The Aperion Project ranges from live improvised music to electro-acoustic studio projects.
Gods, Demigods and Demons came together over about a 6-8 month period:
01 Icelos is a minor deity from Greek mythology.
02 Newtrackmello was created spontaneously at the keyboard, semi-derived from a piece of music by Erik Satie
03 Black Narcissus was composed over 10 years ago, it is a modal piece based off the Phrygian mode in AABBAA form, each section of the form being 6 bars long.
04 Satellite Motion goes out to DJ Motion
05 The Fermi Paradox is an idea put forth by Enrico Fermi concerning extraterrestrial life
06 Parallax of One Arc Second is longhand for Parsec which is an astronomical measure of distance. This piece was recorded and improvised in one sitting.
Official website: http://www.aperionproject.org
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/aperionproject
Happy Elf featuring Nina – Dong-dong-di-ki-di-gi-dong
Happy Elf is the alter ego of multi instrumentalist Jeroen Elfferich from Delft, the Netherlands. He has released more than 10 albums since 1999.
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Tracks:
1. Dong-dong-di-ki-di-gi-dong
2. Rock in the Sea
3. Wild and Exciting
4. Storm and Thunder
Happy Elf’s main instruments are his 2 analogue synthesizers, the Roland Juno 6 and Yamaha CS10. But we also hear electric guitar, bass guitar and drum computers. A lot of the songs are instrumental but some have vocals. Because Elferich has no beautiful voice he tries out some effects and vocal tricks.
The music of Happy Elf can be labeled as electropop, but actually it is much more than that: it’s pop music made with analogue synthesizers.
Elfferich has been making different kinds of music for the last 25 years. He has been performing as a percussionist in orchestras, guitarist and lead singer in a rockband and as a drummer in jazz-, funk-, klezmer-, rock-, fusion- and cajun bands. He currently leads a reformed edition of his progressive rock/funk/jazz band Elfferich Four, whose back catalog is also available on WM Recordings.
Jeroen Elfferich also released two drum books and got a very positive review in THE MODERN DRUMMER magazine. He recorded a solo drum cd “Music in rhythm” under his own name.
Jack MacDonald & The Hotel Faces – Funky On Up
Jack MacDonald was born somewhere among the stars in 1948. For the first few years of his life he wandered around and was young. And then he became not so young.
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Tracks:
1. It’s Off To Work I Go
2. Three Beers Me Ate
3. Mean Lean Leana
4. You Can Love Me
5. Crocodile Lady
6. I’m A Nice, Nice, Nice A Guy
7. Love Tank
8. Tiger Man
9. Texas Sugar Plums
10. I Can’t Find Your Love
11. John Johnny Mowdown
12. I’m Riding My Horse
13. Dream City
14. We Were Created For The Sky
He wandered still and the stars wandered with him. The Universe became stormy and for a while Jack almost became a pirate — but didn’t. On planet Earth he settled in Cape Breton and then he moved to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and met Ceti Alpha (Nick Bevan-John) in 1999. They spent Sundays together and recorded two albums a year. They have over 19 albums, including two Christmas ones. Recording and playing with Call Center, The Hotel Faces, and many other bands, Jack continues to make music. He sells his albums on the streets and door to door in the Metro Halifax area; he is presently considering buying a White Van to increase his “door to door opportunities”.
WM Recordings is proud to present the first volume in a series of Jack MacDonald albums to a wider audience.
konstruKt – Akustikelektrik
konstruKt was founded in 2008 to play and record ‘improvised music’. The band’s music pays a homage to Avant-Garde Jazz and Contemporary Music.
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Tracks:
1. Oyun
2. Stirring the Chaos Pan
3. Ilk Hareket
4. Kaptan Swing
5. Mind the Dark
6. Double Quartet
7. Illuminati
The members of konstruKt have been in the Turkish music scene for years, experimenting and performing with various local bands in Istanbul. The influence of the 60′s free jazz attitude can easily be recognized throughout their recordings.
On Akustrikelektrik the band is more focussed on the hardcore sound similar to Naked City’s early works and free form jazz of the 70′s.
The album is available on CD and from all major download stores.
The Band:
KORHAN ARGÜDEN // drums
ÖZÜN USTA // percussion / voice
UMUT ÇAGLAR // guitar / electronics
regular guest…
KORHAN FUTACI // reeds / fx / voice
Website: http://konstruk-t.com
MySpace: konstruktist
Bookings: booking@konstruk-t.com
Jill’s World – Jill’s World
Jill’s World play krauttechno and put together a struggling mix of cabaret, vaudeville and faulty horny, but at the same time infantile Deutsche Techno Aus Der Hölle in one and the same song!
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Tracks:
Fred vom Jupiter
Süss und Sauer
Laut
Robot
Kiwi
Sehnsucht
Jill’s World perform live on market squares, in obscure youth clubs and sweet parish venues. Performing live however is somewhat different in Jill’s World: the songs are manually activated (the cd does the rest), its pure playback with a little bit of kitschy singalong stuff here and there. No need to weep: it is the show that matters in Jill’s World. And what a great show it is: blazing dress changes, slapstick and utter nonsense mixed with tacky lyrics.
Jill’s World is not just another rawk act on stage: it is your wet dream come true. Enjoy their songs such as Süß und Sauer (a song about conflicting feelings/tastes), Sehnsucht (nostalgia for that universal youthful feeling) and of course their reworking of the cult classic Fred vom Jupiter.
Indulge yourself in their wonderful world and make sure to visit http://jillsworld.be
MySpace: www.myspace.com/jillsworldmusic
Meneer Jan – Hallo, Hallo, Vandaag Is Er Muziek!
Meneer Jan is an alter ego of Jan Turkenburg, composer and music teacher from Zwolle, the Netherlands.
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“Hallo, Hallo, Vandaag Is Er Muziek!” is his first CD of original music for children. His latest effort is “It Must Be One Of Those Days (Soms Heb Je Echt Je Dag Niet)”, a mini album with various versions of the extremely catchy title track.
Website: www.meneerjan.nl
Barbara de Dominicis – Anti-Gone
Barbara De Dominicis’ work is situated somewhere between writing and music, still striking a balance between improvised-experimental music and songs. She has been singing her own songs and other people’s too; and sometimes she still does. She manipulates sounds, performs real time invented music, records imaginary soundscapes…
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Tracks:
Anti-Gone
Disremembering Echo
Vulnerable Interlude
Calypso Or The Enamouring Island
Venus Motel
Recuerdo
Electraschock
P.S. I Que
Me-Dea
Murmuring Mermaid
Calypso Or The Enamouring Island [remix by Ursula 1000]
Passione [Live, with Mirko Signorile]
Amongst her voyages “sonore and not” are : Extravagance in Cesare Pavese, performance for piano and voice based on italian poem “Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi “ by Cesare Pavese (Berlin 2001- with pianist Antonello Malafioti from Interjazzional), The body, exposed, an extemporary performance for piano and voice, based on Barbara’s unpublished poem Il corpo, esposto. (Naples 2005 – together with pianist Mirko Signorile and drummer Vincenzo Bardaro from Urban Society).
She has been collaborating (both touring and recording) with Body and Soul, Mirko Signorile, Marco Messina, Frame, Leon Miller, Francesco Forni, Giorgio Santisi, Mauro De Leonardo, Sandro Sibillo, Rosario Castagnola, L’Ultimo Metro, Nicola Conte, Luigi Scialdone, Corrado Calignano, Gerardo Di Lella, Ursula 1000, The Body & Soul, Kaddish, Oscar Montalbano, Gaetano Partipilo, Alessandro Tutoli.
In 2004 she meets percussionist Pasquale Bardaro and together they create Cabaret Noir. Their debut album is published by Schema Records in Europe and Rambling Records in Japan. The album includes a video of track “The Ironic Death” by videographer Pietro Marcello. Cabaret Noir is a cocktail of electro-jazz influences featuring some of the best musicians on the European jazz and classic scenes. Their music could be described as an evocative sequence of soundscapes: almost an imaginary soundtrack An ethereal, visionary and dreamy atmosphere. The tales of “Cabaret Noir” are haunted by paradoxical visions: a collection of melancholic, moody reflections that seem to find their ideology in a film noir… Mellow and sensuous stories but surrealistic and ironic at the same time.
In 2007 she starts a series of extemporary performances that go under the name of Poe-Si. Poe-Si is a series of unpredictable performances that only happen in the making. It can be explained as a collection of experiments based on the interaction amongst the couple orality-vocality and the different elements on stage as like as an electronic station, a piano and a visual element (each time a different one: it can be a video or an istallation).
In 2007 she starts a collaboration with the media artist Davide Lonardi, sonorizing his video-poems (Iº libro del volo) and starting to work on the music of his first movie (A season of wind)
In 2008 she produces her solo album Anti-Gone: a sort of hidden concept album with a reference to the greek heroin Antigone. A few months ago she “met” Julia Kent (Antony & The Johnsons). Together they brought into existence Intermittenze.
Website: http://www.anti-gone.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/barbaradedominicis
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/sofficem
Meneer Jan – It Must Be One Those Days (Soms Heb Je Echt Je Dag Niet)
Meneer Jan is an alter ego of Jan Turkenburg, composer and music teacher from Zwolle, the Netherlands.
Gypsyliana – Sonus Nomas
“Sonus Nomas” (nomadic sound) is the sound of nomad hearts in the world, the song of restless souls that try to give life to emotions and the multitude of human situations through the use of musical notes and story.
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Tracks:
More Sokol Pije Voda Na Vardarot
Vengo Anch’io, No Tu No
Io-io Turceasca
Vivere
Som Roma Som
Mater Makaray
Ma Mi
Suonno Suonno
Alfonsina Y el Mar
Nane Tsora Dream
A nomad record that goes through music in its various styles, amusingly mixing the various sounds to create a new way of expressing music, similar to a long story made up of various chapters.
Sonus Nomas is a “divertisment”, based on gypsy, Balkan, Italian, pop and global music, inspired by traditional Rom songs, Italian folk songs, pop, rock and traditional Romanian and gypsy music with the support of electronic sounds and break beats.
The conceptual design of Sonus Nomas derives from an idea of the Italian singer Gypsyliana (Cristina Barzi), to create the new Gypsyliana style, (Italian gypsy), by mixing global music with her musical education that stems from Tzigane music, jazz, Italian traditional and pop music, enriched with the gypsy and Balkan arrangements of the Taraf de Transilvania, a Romanian group residing in Rome since 1999.
Gypsyliana’s style is a mix of passionate musical emotions; a delicious menu of sounds that are tasty and strong like an Italian gypsy sauce….. ready to enjoy.
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/gypsyliana
Molotow Brass Orkestar – Molotow Brass Orkestar
Molotow Brass Orkestar: Balkan brass meets swiss folk music.
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Tracks:
Adzanak Badzanak
Varshaver Freylekhs
Ajde Jano
Jocul Boldenilor
Lioba – Vladin
Dusty Road
Baym Rebin’s Sude – Galizianer Tanz
Southern Comfort
Bugarsko Oro
Czarny Forever
Gas Gas
Guggisbärg Lied
Combine swiss folk songs with a klezmer or balkan brass playing style and add a little bit of ska to get the unique sound of the Molotow Brass Orkestar. The band was founded in fall 2007, when 6 friends – who all happened to study music in bern – sat together and started to rediscover songs they knew from their childhood.
Molotow Brass Orkestar unifies east and west. Its music is a declaration of love to folk music in Switzerland and eastern Europe. Fresh witty and traditional at the same time.
Website: http://www.brassorkestar.ch
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brassorkestar
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Brassorkestar
Happy Elf – It’s A Wonderful World
Happy Elf is the alter ego of multi instrumentalist Jeroen Elfferich from Delft, the Netherlands. He is one of the most productive artists on our label.
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Tracks:
What’s Happening
Tokyo
Slow Down
Online
Space
We Must Be Together
Long Time
Boys
Crazy
It’s A Wonderful World
The music of Happy Elf can be labeled as electropop, but actually it is much more than that: it’s pop music made with analogue synthesizers.
Elfferich has been making different kinds of music for the last 25 years. He has been performing as a percussionist in orchestras, guitarist and lead singer in a rockband and as a drummer in jazz-, funk-, klezmer-, rock-, fusion- and cajun bands. He currently leads a reformed edition of his progressive rock/funk/jazz band Elfferich Four, whose back catalog is also available on WM Recordings.
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