Dear friends of Crammed Discs!
We'll be delighted to share with you some very exciting new releases this Fall.
There will be something for everyone's taste: unique vinyl reissues, candy pop gems, a beautiful soundtrack on the revived Made To Measure series, and more to come.
All ready for pre-order, so why wait ?
Aksak Maboul
"Onze danses pour combattre la migraine" (vinyl reissue)
out on September 11th
Here's at last the vinyl reissue of the seminal album recorded in 1977 by Crammed founder Marc Hollander
with Vincent Kenis (a.o. producer of the Congotronics series), and originally released
on Marc Moulin's ephemeral Kamikaze label.
Leapfrogging over style & genre boundaries, Hollander & Kenis playfully fused and deconstructed all kinds of genres to create their own musical world, taking in elements of rock, electronics, jazz, early 20th century classical, imaginary African & Balkan music, American minimalism, and even proto-techno (as in the surprising track Saure Gurke, which foreshadows some characteristic Detroit techno riffs by a good ten years).
Three years later, Hollander founded the Crammed label.
"Onze Danses…" became a cult album, and can retrospectively be viewed as a manifesto for the Crammed aesthetics, a blueprint for some of the directions which the label went on to follow during the next few decades.
Maia Vidal
"You're The Waves"
out on September 25th
Love, Love Love! This is the main theme of this great new album by Maïa Vidal. Beautiful melodies and moving, humourous and distinctive lyrics, all written by Maïa, make this album a special treat for the rainy days. This lovely electronic pop opus was brilliantly produced by Maïa herself, co-produced by Giuliano Cobelli, and mixed by
Van Rivers (Glasser, Fever Ray, Matthew Dear).
Maïa Vidal has created 3 videos for this new album: "Bones", "The Tide" (premiered by Vice US), and here is the latest, "Islands Of You and Me", just premiered by MadmoiZelle:
Islands Of You and Me video:
You can PRE-ORDER the album here
PRE-ORDER also available on iTunes
Maïa Vidal will be touring to present her new album
Tuxedomoon & Cult With No Name, feat. John Foxx
"Blue Velvet Revisited"
Out on October 16th
The resurrection of Crammed's celebrated Made To Measure composers' series continues!
After recent releases by Jozef Van Wissem, the Brooklyn-based lutenist & composer
("It Is Time for You to Return", Made To Measure Vol. 40),
and by acclaimed French electroacoustic composer and sonic sculptress Bérangère Maximin
( "Dangerous Orbits", MTM Vol. 41),
here comes this entrancing opus by legendary post-punk chamber music pioneers Tuxedomoon and UK electronic balladeers Cult With No Name (with a contribution from electronic music godfather John Foxx).
This is the original soundtrack written and recorded in 2015 by Tuxedomoon and Cult With No Name for the eponymous documentary by Peter Braatz, based on footage shot in 1985 on the set of David Lynch's great classic, and coming out now to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the film. Out on CD and LP.
You can PRE-ORDER the album here
PRE-ORDER also available on iTunes