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Richard Youngs

'Amaranthine'

Limited edition of 500 LPs

MIE are delighted to be releasing the excellent Amaranthine on vinyl on the 16th January 2012. Richard is one of our favourite artists on the UK experimental scene and to release this new, singular work by the man himself is very exciting for us.

Bringing rhythm to the fore, Amaranthine is built around layered percussion and Youngs' ever present vocals. The asymetrically patterned underlay is scored for drums, household objects and handheld percussion; at points scything fuzz guitar cuts through the sense of ritual with abandon and deep synths bubble up out of nowhere before dissipating into solo shakuhachi.

Amaranthine is another typically atypical Youngsian release in which he ventures deep into uncharted musical space, all the while retaining his essential Youngs-ness.

£10 plus postage

Postage

UK £12.50 GBP Europe £14.50 GBP World £17.50 GBP

MIE 008

Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides

'Poisson'

Limited Edition of 500 180 gram 12", with printed inner sleeve.

Work of this quality tends to be the product of a self-contained and selfconcsious tradition, even if a hermetic one. And in this case I fancy I can hear the flowering of a Northern/Midlands sensibilty that setms orignally from the A Band, Youngs and Wickham-Smith, and Ashtray Navigations. It is informed by ecstatic jazz but its roots are in pragmatic sonic experimentalism of a determindedly autochthonous kind. You can almost smell the witch trials in this, and I urge you all to catch a handful of mane before these horses gallop over the hill - Bruce Russell, The Dead C.

Fucking brilliant. Whirling eastern tones, primal playing and dusty, dismal grain make it a sludging mess, but coherent and beautiful all the same. A great end to one of the records of the year. - Foxy Digitalis

Beautiful vinyl upgrade from one of the most consistently mind-blowing groups in the UK. This one is even more claustrophobic and disturbing than their creeped-out Chocolate Monk disc, with the sound of creaking percussion and dooms of gong tone conjuring the whole ghost galleon in distress feel of Nurse With Wound’s A Salt Marie Celeste while mutated vocals, voids of breath and Jones’s fantastic flute playing carve halos in the air. It’s still amazing to me that they manage to be so inventive and so consistently ‘on’ while working from such a minimal instrumental palette but I’ve yet to hear anything by these two that hasn’t handed me my ass on a plate. - Volcanic Tongue

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£10 plus postage

Price with postage

UK P&P £12.50 GBP Europe P&P £14.50 GBP World P&P £17.50 GBP

Distro

Keith Freund & Jacob Feige

'From the Bellona Museum of Natural History'

This extremely limited edition LP is being produced by Lombard-Freid Projects as a part of artist Jacob Feige's upcoming show, From the Bellona Museum of Natural History. The album (and gallery installation) features a mix of documentary narrations, fake and real field recordings and animal calls by Feige, and PBS Nova-style synthesizer moods by Keith Freund.

The record is being produced for the painting/sculpture show, which opens October 21st and runs through November 21st and includes a sound installation based on this record.

We have just 4 copies of this LP. It was printed in a run of 100 and these are the only copies for the UK!

Location (inc p&p)

UK £15.00 GBP Europe £17.50 GBP

Distro for Positive Beat Recordings

Talons'

'Songs For Boats'

Limited Edition and comes with downloads of the LP and of Lost Ships

A follow up to one of our favourite recent LPs, Songs For Babes, which is long sold out, so we're extremely happy to have 50 copies for EU distribtuion of Songs For Boats.

"Talons' is primarily Mike Tolan (Trouble Books, Six Parts Seven, Mustache Mountain). Positive Beat is pleased to present Talons' latest work 'Songs for Boats' on LP (coming on March 29th 2011). 'Songs for Boats' is an album of love songs at the end of the world. It is a new folk music made to resonate now rather than endure for decades. Written while Mike was living/studying in Spain and the world was sliding into recession, these boat songs came into being as he wondered how he would get home once the world fell apart. 'Songs for Boats' was recorded at home in Akron, Ohio throughout 2010 with the help of friends whose contributions in the form of varied acoustic instruments, woodwinds and lapsteel create a delicate world within which the songs come alive, sway, and pull themselves along towards humble, hopeful ends." - Positive Beat Recordings

£12

Price with postage

UK P&P £14.50 Europe P&P £16.50

Distro for B&H/Wagon

Trouble Books & Mark McGuire

'Self-titled'

Limited Edition of 250 12" on transparent red vinyl, w/ hand-sewn booklet and mp3 code.

An unbelievabely exciting release from MIE fav's Trouble Books and Mark McGuire, Emeralds Guitarist and fellow Ohian, we're going to have 50 copies of this beauty for the whole of the UK and Europe so get on it now!

Here's what the guys say about how it came together:

"An idea started at a summer party at Sam Goldberg's Cool Ranch house for a collaboration turned into a full-length album over the winter months in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio. Emeralds' Mark McGuire weaves his incredible guitar parts through synthesizers, loops, orchestral instruments, and singing assembled by Trouble Books' Keith Freund and Linda Lejsovka. Turned out just as awesome as we dreamed."

£12

First pressing sold out from MIE. And now the Second pressing is sold our as well.

Trouble Books Acquaintance Pack

Missed out on the Trouble Books & Mark McGuire LP then why not try this!

One Gathered Tones LP

One Endless Pool EP

Postage included

£18 for the UK, £22 for the EU, £28 for World

Price with postage

UK P&P £18.00 Europe P&P £22.00 World P&P £28.00

MIE 007

Daniel Menche & Anla Courtis

'Yagua Ovy'

Limited Edition of 500 12" on 180 gram vinyl in heavyduty sleeves and polyvinyled inners

Yaguà Ovy is the first collaboration between the sublime noise artist, Daniel Menche, and Anla Courtis, the Argentinean experimental guitarist and founder of Reynols. Based around the Argentinean mythology of the Werewolf, or "the blue dog" that lives on the "Land without Evil" of Mbya–Guarani, Yaguà Ovy shows Menche and Courtis at their commanding best, whipping up a cacophony of primal and natural noise from all manner of objects and instruments. Menche draws out the sound and resonances found lying in snow and rocks while Courtis bewitches pizza sauce cans and his guitar creating this mind flaying homage to the mythical wolf.

“Menche leads the listener into a dark wilderness through shingle and stone, while around him Courtis builds a sense of menace into the story, a deep sense of foreboding, with his cracked guitar rumbling like a gathering electrical storm, an impending violent transformation. When it breaks, the downpour builds in intensity until it becomes a howl, a savage roar from an indefinable form that indeed sounds part nature, part beast, part human.” - The Liminal

“an album that’s not quite noise, but not quite improv, but really has some of the best qualities of both.” - Brainwashed

Daniel Menche & Anla Courtis - Yagua Ovy LP by Mie Music

£10 plus postage

Price with postage

UK P&P £12.50 GBP Europe P&P £14.50 GBP World P&P £17.50 GBP

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Cath & Phil Tyler

'Dumb Supper'

Limited Edition of 500 12" on 180 gram vinyl in heavyduty printed inners and sleeves

Blood n guts folk from the Anglo-American duo. The Wire says “The twining harmonies…recall the heyday of English pastoral folk song”. Plan B says "Dumb Supper is one of those rare modern folk albums that will find a home both in the longstanding 'traditional' music community and among those attracted to the form's more experimental and lo-fi possibilities". Most of the tracks are re-discovered and adapted by the Tylers, their searing harmonies and sparse, vital instrumentation breathing new life into timeless tales of love, loss and death.

"Folk moves into a new era with Cath and Phil. Their combination of earthiness and grit, raw yet hearfelt and beautiful singing and immaculate playing makes this one of the most exciting and most moving albums I've heard in a long while." Fiona Talkington, BBC Radio 3’s ‘Late Junction’

£10 plus postage

Price

UK P&P £12.50 GBP Europe P&P £14.50 GBP Outside EU P&P £17.50 GBP

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Trouble Books

'Gathered Tones'

12" on Green Coloured Vinyl with handdrawn and stiched booklet, comes with download codes.

"This Ohio-based band return with another helping of their remarkably lovely, almost ambient experimental songwriting. Gathered Tones embraces warm, vintage synth designs along with lightly processed instrumental recordings and other such digitally manipulated ephemera, providing a rich, tapestry-like backdrop for meandering vocals and quirky song narratives. Melodious, musically spell-binding and ultimately rather moving, Gathered Tones comes with a high recommendation." - Boomkat

Edition limited to 250.

Price

UK £13.50 Europe £15.00 Anywhere else £19.00

MIE 004

Talons'

'Rustic Bullshit CDr'

A European release of Talons' 2005 album, Rustic Bullshit, commonly regarded as one of the saddest collections of songs ever written. Maybe. Whatever, its extremely saddening and a pure classic.

"In the empty spaces between words or music, you can hear the clattering of glass bottles or the chatter of a host of friends who provide backup instrumentation and vocals — an effect that makes Talon's music feel both profound and utterly familiar." - Cleveland Free Times

"Unknown American constructs the album-equivalent of Helen Mirren: sweary and gorgeous." - Subba Cultcha

Comes in a brown handstamped envelope with a lyric sheet.

Only 50 copies.

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Talons'

'Songs For Babes LP with Songs For Boats Demo'

The extremely limited European release of Talons' latest LP. Twelve great songs which veer between funny and sad about cuddling, doing crystal meth, taking a walk and other stuff.

"It’s beautiful, it’s intimate and it’s honest, maybe most importantly though it’s made by just some bloke. Some bloke you’ve never heard of, but seems capable of placing the most eloquent of phrases on every miserable thought you’ve ever had. For anybody with even one sentimental bone in their body, I cannot recommend this album highly enough. Beautiful, thoughtful, serene…probably the best solo album 2009 will see." - God Is In the TV

12" vinyl LP with CD-R version. Covers are hand printed on 100% recycled paper. Comes with a cool booklet with song diagrams/schematics, drawings, and words. And, exclusively to MIE, the new demo CDr of Talons' forthcoming Songs For Boats LP.

Only 50 copies.

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Trouble Books

'Endless Pool EP'

The follow up to the United Colours LP, completely gorgeous.

Further adrift, awash, afloat... slow-motion choral reef songs. Recorded at home, winter 2009.

"An incredibly warm and loving EP for those cold winter nights, sat by the log fire, watching the snow settle outside. Lush, dreamy vocals sit gently afloat a simmering concoction of strange and unique sounds, seasoned thoughtfully and subtlety. A companion piece to their full length ‘The United Colours of Trouble Book’ album, this is an outstanding EP." - Tasty Fanzine

Single-sided 12" vinyl, with CD-R version. Hand screen-printed covers onto blue paper, masking-taped over card.

Price

UK £9.00 Europe £12.00 Anywhere else £15.00

MIE 001

Trouble Books

'The United Colours of Trouble Books LP'

The most recent full-length Trouble Books album. Easily the best too. Home-recorded ambient, experimental pop songs.

"An album awash in fuzz and atmosphere while retaining a low-key pop sensibility... this LP is the beginning of a rapid ascent in Trouble Books' trajectory." - Skyscraper Magazine

"It falls from the speakers like swirling orange leaves...enduring and nigh-on perfect." - Drowned in Sound

Vinyl LP with CDr in hand printed covers on old record sleeves.

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