CRAMMED DISCS IS PLEASED TO PRESENT
ITS SPRING RELEASES
The Best Of Soapkills
Out on May 8
CD / 2LP / Digital
One of the very first indie bands to emerge in the Middle East, Soapkills was founded at the end of the ‘90s by Yasmine Hamdan and Zeid Hamdan, both born in Beirut, Lebanon, but not related. They drew their inspiration from Arab music (both classical and folk) and from electronic music, dub and trip hop. After live performances all around the world (Paris, Berlin, Syria, Algeria, Congo, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Australia), Soapkills stopped operating in 2005. Yasmine and Zeid have now joined forces to curate a definitive Soapkills compilation album, which will come out on CD, vinyl and digital, together with the digital re-issue of the three original Soapkills albums.
Listen to "Cheftak" (Paris version, previously unreleased) here
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On another note, Yasmine Hamdan is about to embark on a European tour.
Dangerous Orbits by Bérangère Maximin
Out on May 15
CD / 2LP / Digital
Bérangère Maximin makes spacious colourful music. A sonic sculptress of exception, she started out in an academic environment with an electroacoustic training, and has gradually incorporated the contribution of post-punk, dub and sound art experiments to develop a hyper-personal style, producing sensual, hypnotic, sultry pieces with immediate impact. Bérangère studied with the musique concrète composer Denis Dufour (a member of the famous GRM and a pupil of Pierre Schaeffer) and her first album came out on John Zorn's label Tzadik. Dangerous Orbits is Bérangère Maximin’s fourth album, and her first for Crammed Discs’ Made To Measure series.
Click here to listen to "Cracks"
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The Tide EP by Maïa Vidal
Out on vinyl on June 12
10"EP / Digital
To herald the arrival of her upcoming new album “You’re The Waves” (out on Sept 29), young American singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Maïa Vidal presents “The Tide”, a 6-track EP which contains three beautiful new tracks, as well as three distinctive remixes, including a radio version by Oscar and The Wolf member and co-producer Ozan Bozdag.
Click here to watch the music video for "Bones"
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