The very first Buchla synthesiser performance by revolutionary composer Suzanne Ciani finally makes its fifty year journey from its switch-on New York art gallery to its long deserved and discerning global phonographic audience.
With this previously unheard vinyl pressing, Finders Keepers Records are proud to present an archival project of ‘art music’ that not only redefines musical history but lays genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we have come to understand it. To describe Italian-American composer Suzanne Ciani’s resurrected Buchla concert records as genuine gamechangers would be a gross understatement. These records represent a musical revolution, an artistic revelation, a scientific benchmark and a trophy in the cabinet of counterculture creativity. This sonic installation album, alongside her recently liberated WBAI / Phill Niblock 1975 sessions (FKR082), are triumphant yardsticks in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial musical moon. While pondering the early accolades attached to these golden era New York recordings it’s daunting to learn that these records were in fact not even records at all.
What exists on this disc now was a manifesto and a one-time gateway to a new world, which somehow was only partially pushed ajar. Captured here is a genuine live act exploring new territories with a fully performable music instrument. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic pulses, tones and harmonics found on these 1970’s artistic gallery collaborations / live presentations (then soon to be followed by academic grant applications and educational demonstrations) had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the widely marketed work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita, then the name Suzanne Ciani and her infectious influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of our record.
With the light of Buchla and Ciani’s initial flame Finders Keepers continues the journey through the vaults of this increasingly celebrated music legacy, illuminating these ‘non-records’ that evaded the limelight for almost half a century. You can’t write history when you are too busy making it. With fresh ink in the bottomless well, let’s start at the beginning. Again.
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The very first Buchla synthesiser performance by revolutionary composer Suzanne Ciani finally makes its fifty year journey from its switch-on New York art gallery to its long deserved and discerning global phonographic audience.
With this previously unheard vinyl pressing, Finders Keepers Records are proud to present an archival project of ‘art music’ that not only redefines musical history but lays genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we have come to understand it. To describe Italian-American composer Suzanne Ciani’s resurrected Buchla concert records as genuine gamechangers would be a gross understatement. These records represent a musical revolution, an artistic revelation, a scientific benchmark and a trophy in the cabinet of counterculture creativity. This sonic installation album, alongside her recently liberated WBAI / Phill Niblock 1975 sessions (FKR082), are triumphant yardsticks in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial musical moon. While pondering the early accolades attached to these golden era New York recordings it’s daunting to learn that these records were in fact not even records at all.
What exists on this disc now was a manifesto and a one-time gateway to a new world, which somehow was only partially pushed ajar. Captured here is a genuine live act exploring new territories with a fully performable music instrument. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic pulses, tones and harmonics found on these 1970’s artistic gallery collaborations / live presentations (then soon to be followed by academic grant applications and educational demonstrations) had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the widely marketed work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita, then the name Suzanne Ciani and her infectious influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of our record.
With the light of Buchla and Ciani’s initial flame Finders Keepers continues the journey through the vaults of this increasingly celebrated music legacy, illuminating these ‘non-records’ that evaded the limelight for almost half a century. You can’t write history when you are too busy making it. With fresh ink in the bottomless well, let’s start at the beginning. Again.
The very first Buchla synthesiser performance by revolutionary composer Suzanne Ciani finally makes its fifty year journey from its switch-on New York art gallery to its long deserved and discerning global phonographic audience.
With this previously unheard vinyl pressing, Finders Keepers Records are proud to present an archival project of ‘art music’ that not only redefines musical history but lays genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we have come to understand it. To describe Italian-American composer Suzanne Ciani’s resurrected Buchla concert records as genuine gamechangers would be a gross understatement. These records represent a musical revolution, an artistic revelation, a scientific benchmark and a trophy in the cabinet of counterculture creativity. This sonic installation album, alongside her recently liberated WBAI / Phill Niblock 1975 sessions (FKR082), are triumphant yardsticks in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial musical moon. While pondering the early accolades attached to these golden era New York recordings it’s daunting to learn that these records were in fact not even records at all.
What exists on this disc now was a manifesto and a one-time gateway to a new world, which somehow was only partially pushed ajar. Captured here is a genuine live act exploring new territories with a fully performable music instrument. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic pulses, tones and harmonics found on these 1970’s artistic gallery collaborations / live presentations (then soon to be followed by academic grant applications and educational demonstrations) had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the widely marketed work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita, then the name Suzanne Ciani and her infectious influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of our record.
With the light of Buchla and Ciani’s initial flame Finders Keepers continues the journey through the vaults of this increasingly celebrated music legacy, illuminating these ‘non-records’ that evaded the limelight for almost half a century. You can’t write history when you are too busy making it. With fresh ink in the bottomless well, let’s start at the beginning. Again.
Stepping out of a six month hibernation with our best foot forward, Finders Keepers Records Radio Show returns from our beauty sleep to a breakfast of French toast, croissants, strong coffee and a refreshing pint of petrol with-a-rag-stuffed-in-the-top! Marking 50 years exactly since the Mai 68 riots in Paris, your faithful hosts take you on a two hour journey in recognition of the huge and immediate cultural shift in French art, literature and music including the rise of forward-thinking, philosophical, thematic pop music which made France the forerunners and undisputed maverick masters of the concept album. Discussing a genre that arguably peaked with Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Vannier's notorious Histoire De Melody Nelson, your faithful FKRR hosts, Andy Votel, Doug Shipton and Pete Mitchell dig much much deeper into their vintage vinyl vaults to trace the sonic origins of feature-length French Psychedelia while they attempt to authenticate the first French concept album and trace a bloodline of existential spoken word French Funk and gritty fuzz-fuelled symphonic rock which would go-on to shape the future sound of all French pop and its inimitable sprawling legacy. Punctuated with tracks from the insanely rare Popera Cosmic LP (an LP devised by teenagers Francois Wertheimer and Jean-Michel Jarre) which formed the foundations of the Gallic galactic narrative psychpop phenomena, this two hour special hopes to open your eyes and ears to a world you always wanted to explore, but perhaps never knew existed, with an interchangeable cast and family tree that eventually branched out to the start of French cosmic disco and synth pop while influencing the sampled sound of progressive European pop music for almost a semi-century.
From science fiction to malediction... From astrology to astronomy... From hypnosis to psychosis... via stone faces to cabbage heads...this show hears a fine return to form for Finders Keepers, celebrating controversial lost-pop and a bygone political hotbeds which they might call their perfect comfort zone. It's gonna be hard to cram it all in into one show but "The Revolution Will Not Be Sequelised". Ceci n'est pas une POP.
WE FREAKINGS OF ORIENT ART!
Throwing you in at the deep end of a frozen pond with Tamil tinsel and glittery Greek beat the Finders Keepers festive rescue team return to save you from present buying panic and the jingle of consumerist pockets with a seasonal stack of recycled vinyl and lesser-broadcast yuletide Yé-yé. Your faithful merry gentleman Shipton, Votel and Mitchell take you on another psuedo-psycotropic sleigh-ride as our invisible elves add their special secret ingredients of Weinachten wax and seasonal styrene to the mulled-vino for our third annual Christmas radio special. Joining the Finders Keepers Records Radio congregation in their jam packed snowbound shack are longtime friends and guests DJ Cherrystones and Modern Kosmologist Jane Weaver who, in an eggnog vs yule log throw-down, battle the prattle and the reindeer cattle to get a word in edgeways. The more the merrier? As the winter wall-bangers flow, it doesn't get much merrier than this.
Within the confines of this calendar month Saxonic inhabitants will experience a full moon, a Friday 13th and, as always, a glut of Hallowe'en parties officially making 2017 the host to the scariest October of all time. The add salt to the wound The Finders Keepers Records Radio Show trump this horrific hat-trick by bringing you a truly bloodcurdling display of vampyric vinyl, psychotic psychedelia, freakshow funk and a unique brand of zombified humour that would make the most stoic stand-up comedian literally die on stage. Yes it's that bad! Andy "The Axe Minister" Votel and Doug "The Diabolical" Shipton are left under the parental supervision of Pete "The Mummy" Mitchell while they attempt a radiophonic seance to resurrect the Morte Vivante of European horror pop and obscure curios from the belly of the B-Music beast. Putting a combined 75 years of well-polished professionalism to one side these three absolute losers present what they consider to be their worst ever show and even a visit from Lancaster's (genuinely proficient) poetic-power-drinkers The Lovely Eggs isn't going to sooth the gaping graze that this show will leave on your tolerance for years to come. With all the usual tenuous magazine features that allow us to stitch this Frankenstein-a-like bastard together this show is a nightmare. So, tune in and let Finders Keepers summon up the same jokes we did last year and feel the pain as your favourite reissue album subliminally brainwashes you all with attempts to eat your living bank balance from the inside out! Dead air? Viva la muerte!
Summer is a coming in, loudly sing cuckoo! Yes, indeed! Faithful and patient patrons of the Keepers cottage, summer is well and truly upon us and what better way to celebrate the sunstroke season than to crank up your metaphysical motor vehicles and hit the open road in search of dusty needle nirvana. Join your faithful tour buddies Votel, Mitchell and Shipton, abetted by hard rock hitchhiker Stan Chow, on one of their regular cross continental record raid road trips combining the kind of vehicular vinyl cuts used in Votel's very own Cock Diesel biker psych nights and adding global doses of two-stroke funk, Gallic gas guzzlers, freewheeling folk and psycho-manic soundtracks (amongst many more mutant micro-genes).
Ideal for feature-length road trips, channel crossings, festival freeloading or family fleets of fancy, this show was bought to you by the letter's D, R, I, V, and E and the colours green for GO because there is no time for pit stops or bog breaks when Finders Keepers (fuzz) pedals hit the metal. So throw away your A to Zs as well as your MP3s and your seedy CDs because this voyage is virtually vinylcentric to the core (except for that one sticky cassette) and when you cover as much ground as the FK Radio shows and their infectious brand of B-Music you'll find that A roads home are simply no longer an option. Check the breaks! It's a Gasssss!
Finally climbing out of a winter time hibernation your faithful Finders Keepers Radio regulars embrace the joys of spring with open ears, wide mouths and clear minds in their ultimate radiophonic relaxation programme complete with musical massage oils, organic gramophones and natural vinyl vitamins in this Folkish Easter time special!
Emerging from the communal egg like a three-headed garage sale guru Votel, Mitchell and Shipton celebrate record rebirth and general worldly wax eggsploration; combining acid folk classics, new age obscurities and folk funk crowd teasers with a healthy dose of spiritual well-being and quasi-optimist yoga yak.
Inviting guests like spectral songbird Magpahi alongside reluctant future folk artists Felt Mistress into the Keepers Cottage this expanded psychedelic egg hunt attempts to summon the bargain buds of May via audio incantation while whale music, aquarium sound effects and Moomintroll melodies punctuate this very crooked craft fair! Add Hen To Eggs and Keep It Rollin'
'Tis the season to be explicitly self-explanatory... Yule never hear another radio show like this because snowbody does it quite like the Finders Keepers Records Christmas congregation etc. Expect turkey from Turkey, festive French fuzz, mince pies from Melbourne, magnetic melodies from Moominvalley, Tamil tinsel and plenty of Kristmas krautrock amongst other under-the-counter shocking stocking fillers. Oh yeah, and we've also got Paul McCartney from The Beatles on the show with us, sharing sporadic chatter and make-shift Christmas singalongs with our regular presenters Andy Votel, Pete Mitchell, Doug Shipton and returning guests John McCready with James Pianta from Australian label Roundtable Records. This all vinyl (and sometimes even cassette) fuelled radiophonic transmission puts a rosy red cherry on the top of another fine year of monthly odd pop radio shows from Finders Keepers "accidental world music" record label - making global sound local since 2005 while popping a cosmic cork over the 2017 threshold after simply having a wonderful Christmas time! Buon Natale, Nadolig Llawen, Wesołych Świąt and Feliz Navidad to every man, woman, child and Moomin for this seasonal psychedelic sitting.
With a loud creak it rises from the old black casket and sits upright, wide eyed and thirsty for its next terrified victim... The Finders Kreepers Hallowe'en special is back! It's that time of year again where the B-Music crew's combined record collection of global ghoulisms sounds more relevant that ever. Complete with decapitated disharmony, maledictus melody, frankensteiner filled fuzz and our unique brand of humour which is literally dead in the water. Your faithful fantoms Vampire Votel, The Petergeist Mitchell and Grave Dug Shipton are joined, live in the tomb, by post punk 3D effigy Gerry H. Hologram, devil music expert Victor Brox and the mysterious Were-Worm. As if that wasn't enough to make your ears bleed, Finders keepers are also proud to present an exclusive meeting between Christopher Lee and Vincent Price. There'll also be a lot of medium rare vinyl and records that had previously vanished into thin air. I could sit here typing this sh*t all day to be honest, so in danger of not missing added trivia about Manc horror film director Cliff Twemlow and the Hells Angel of Sweden (courtesy of Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias' CP Lee) we'd advise you to unleash your talismans and tune in your ouija boards. Tis the season to be screamin'.
Unheard and unreleased tracks by Suzanne Ciani, Jane Weaver's Fenella, Gerry & The Holograms (and more!) make up this silver tray of sonic hors d'oeuvres magnetising you to the mountains of North Wales for this special September annual event. Just in time for our annual omni-presence at Festival No Six your faithful guardians of the Keepers Cottage, Andy Votel, Pete Mitchell and Doug Shipton provide an aural tour guide to the many Finders Keepers Records' curated events over the weekend.
For a festival held in the actual filming location of Patrick Magoohan's inimitable 1960's TV thriller, the B-Music brigade assemble their nearest and dearest to keep the commune cosmic, providing off-kilter treats for both the eye-drums and ear-balls. Also serving as a fine 2 hour road trip, this show cherry picks the best accompaniments for your journey into the depths of the Welsh valleys and also serves as another multifarious magnetic musik magazine for those who can't make it to the festival itself but will surely join us in spirit! Be seeing you!?
SWEAT THE SUNSHINE IN!
Ideal for short breaks, long road trips, tall drinks and wide-screen couch potato salads your Finders Keepers holiday reps Andy Votel, Pete Mitchell and Doug Shipton manage to string entire sentences together while juggling exotic fuzz-ridden phonograms in celebration of sunstroke psychedelia, South American soap operas, pseudo Samba and the greatest ancient sporting festival of all time. Behold Olympic fever.
Rio is our muse this month and with a lukewarm Gulf Stream between their Mancunian tootsies the guardians of the Keepers Cottage take the sacred torch and shine it on a bunch of Italian sports library LPs, some anthemic Athenian psych and twenty tonnes of Brazilian obscurities uniting São Paulo's 50c bargain bins with record fair wall pieces. Peppered with token doses of tenuous sports terminology and the usual magnetic blend of the irreverent and the irrelevant the sunshine soldiers you have learned to love, cherish and tolerate aim to sooth, groove and prove that hockey sticks and drum sticks ain't that dissimilar if you squint your ears!
OK. If this show lands on target many of our listeners will be driving in the sun, strolling on a white rocky beach or recovering from last night's paella and that extra shot of herbs… So with that in mind i'm going to keep this short. Welcome to the long-mooted and strategically timed Finders Keepers Balearic Especial. A show that does exactly what it says on the tin. Made from strictly indigenous secret ingredients with little need for preservatives or technological enhancements.
For our fourteenth feature-length attempt at "Making Global Sound Local" regular Finders Keepers office dwellers and co-hosts Andy Votel, Pete Mitchell, Doug Shipton and Lee Janda use their unique brand of wax-anorak-geekery, dubious dad jokes and mountainous mispronunciations to unveil two hours of lesser-spotted Balearic uber-classics. From the islands and islets that link Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera and continue to unite folk, funk, farmers, free-thinkers, fine food and fauna, The Finders Keepers radio hosts unearth a small selection of mid-Med microgroove discs with a trail of crumbs pointing back to the days when the first hippie communes welcomed jazzers, artists, actors and activists to those mythical retreats over 50 years ago. Including our all of our regular rigged competitions (!) and magazine features Finders Keepers also invite special guest and Manc blues prophet Victor bros who regales stories of the early days on Ibiza in the presence of a pre-Velvet Underground Nico while namedropping Don Cherry and the first free music ensembles and DJs to hit those unknown shores in the early 1960s.
The Finders Keepers radio renegades gather once again to bring you a special edition satellite show, custom orchestrated to celebrate the return to our screens of the longest-running annual international TV song competition aka Eurovision. Yes, that's right, the outer national psychedelic librarians behind one of the most alternative outer national record labels on the pear-shaped planet are here to prove that the genre that we've loosely termed as B-Music exists in all corners of the vinyl vault and even the most hell-bent ambitious entrants for the kitschiest competition show in Europe have bones in the closet, irons in the fire and bats in the belfry - all of which crop up on Eurovison single B-Sides, previous precocious pressings or post mic-battle bounce backs.
If we're not making ourselves clear here, lets just clarify. Outside of the competition these Eurovisionaries also made some pretty good synthy, fuzzy, drum heavy records when left to their own devices and Finders Keepers Radio is here to prove it. So sit back in your favourite chair, pour yourself a Babycham, light up that dangerous fondue oil and marvel as we bring you resilient rock follies from the likes of Greece, Turkey, Belgium, Luxembourg etc. while trying not to count the amount of times we use the phrases "You Were Robbed" and "Repeat Offender" safe in the knowledge that we're already panning next years follow up show every time we hit foreign thrift stores. This one's for you, Terry.
Brocks Warriors On Edge Of Teimar (and other Swiss cheese orbs)
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind, and one colossal wait between transmissions for all regular listeners of The Finders Keepers Radio Show! Having taken a brief hiatus during the April showers while European record fairs collide with Record Store Day chaos your faithful cosmonautical cowboys Votel, Mitchell and Shipton return to your discerning diaphragms with an outerstellar space rock special of epic interplanetary proportions.
This bumper edition of our regular proxi-pop pilgrimage is recorded live on lunar location beamed to you directly from the Keepers Cockpit combining unpolished nuggets of black plastic debris in a show that traces, misplaces and erases the history of the flexi-genre known as space rock (while reducing it to various alien strains of Gallic Galaxian psych, Morricone moonshakers, Swiss spatial awareness and Mancunian martian invasions amongst other tenuous intergalactic alliterations). Putting our Tandy teleportation tank to the test comes a wide cast of very special guests including return visitors Jane "Amber Light" Weaver and Matt "Toast Of London" Berry sharing their loves for specific synth fuelled 70's sci-fi. Meanwhile, elsewhere of our vinyl vessel, astro-probes AV, PM and DS welcome two undisputed heavyweight pioneers of genre defining space sonic schallplatten on board in the form of Swiss computer jazzer Bruno Spoerri and Hawkwind principal pilot HRH Dave Brock.
Spanning over 50 earth years of recorded spazio guff, combining jazz, folk, punk, musique CON-crete and unidentified OSTs, Finders Keepers lunar cafeteria caters for fans of Bananamoon and Barbarella alike proving that patience is a conquering virtue and absence makes the heart grow Fonda.
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After a couple of months sat nervously in the waiting room Professor Pete Mitchell finally invites The Finders Keepers grande fromage double pack of Votel and Shipton into his makeshift hypnotherapy capsule and extrudes further home truths, hot gossip and cold facts about the history of the "accidental world music label" utilising out of date truth serum and squeal techniques mastered over a 72 year career in radiophonic snoopery.
Find out the real stories behind the snazzy headlines, liner notes and polarised magazine reviews that FK keenly amassed between July 2010 and October 2011 in what became the labels most productive and pivotal period to date. Starting with French comic book concept albums and Serge-alike spacemen and taking a cosmic cruise via French vampires, Czech witches, Pakistani train drivers, Thai cowboys and werewolves on wheels, Pete, Andy and Doug also reflect on the year that saw the label launch its slow-moving literary imprint and temporarily lose all its stock in a warehouse fire only to rise from the flames thanks to a huge community of global supporters that probably includes YOU! Having made, done, and mended, Finders Keepers started a new chapter by its 50th release and survived to tell the tale to patrons and participants of the Keepers Cottage. Tapeworm? Yes.
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Jane Weaver discusses are maiden visit to Texas/SXSW
Having unexpectedly garnered unanimous "Best LP" accolades for both 2014 and 2015 amongst some of Europe's most credible radio stations, retailers and fellow musicians, the self-propelled synth-driven space rock of Jane Weaver has seen her exploded readership go from strength to strength galvanising a loyal core fan-base and a tightly packed diary for the last 18 months. Without pausing to re-enter her homely Mancunian atmosphere Jane will break her studio and tour schedules to visit Texas' South By South West festival on 16th March 2016 her unique brand of science fiction folklore and astro femme funk in this rare US visitation. In this interview Jane discusses the inner workings of The Silver Globe with psych psychiatrist Pete Mitchell who probes the independent producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist about Polish cinema, French pop, Australian prog, Atari video games and late period Hawkwind! Stream here, then gravitate towards SXSW to be inducted to The Silver Globe liberation commune.
Just in time for the longest UK bank holiday weekend of the year, your intrepid explorers at Finders Keepers Records bring you an epic elongated bumper episode of our regular radiophonic rare record rundown including approximately 50% extra absolutely free!
This time the tangled topic of rock operas, mutant musicals and psychedelic stage shows is discussed, dissected and defended by regular hosts Andy Votel, Pete Mitchell and Doug Shipton who will be joined by a crooked chorus line including regular Keepers cottage pop patron Jane Weaver, TV's "Toast" main maestro Matt Berry, Cambrofuturist Gruff Rhys and Twisted Nerve co-founder Badly Drawn Boy (as well as the usual musings of a certain slimy crolyn cestodaria). This show is served best with an open mind and closed captioning bringing foreign language rip-offs of West End repeaters, creep show cash-ins and holiday season sequels - not forgetting token doses of horrotica, bastardised ballet and Popera Cosmic anti-classics.
Marvel as your hosts play expensive Japanese cross-dresser psych sing-alongs while discussing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang standards sung by stars of adult entertainment! Relax to the sound of Minimoog movements that soundtrack the Messiah meeting The Mafia. And celebrate the annual eggsploitation vacation while our combined edutainers mention the words "Jesus", “Christ” and "Superstar" over 76 times! For listeners who aren't too high-brow to compare the work of Jodorowsky and Lloyd-Webber and think that The Wickerman should have been a Vaudevillian blockbuster then this one is for you... and if not, "Dammit, Janet!" Anything you can do, we can do... odder?
My connection is your connection! Casually stumbling into the new year without having to strenuously reorganise those awkward slices of obsolete black plastic, your faithful Finders Keepers Radio Show hosts head straight to one of the most reliable and varied corners of the record room and the trusty/crusty/musty shelf controversially marked KRAUTROCK! A German-born genre previously known as kosmische before the Wümme based group Faust adopted the potential slur as the movement's new blanket tag.
Aiming to stretch the genre's ready-elasticated boundaries that little bit further Herrs Votel, Mitchell und Shipton try to avoid the obvious major label gatefold trophy records (and happily fail at the first furlong) by adding 1970's DDR pop, German DIY punk, early Krautsploitation horrotica, Deutsch library records and other strains of lesser known Krautsider pop. So expect all the big hitters from Dusseldorf, Munich, Cologne and, errr, Altrincham while swimming in a sea of crackle via freakish visiting cabaret bands and unlikely collaborations spanning five decades... For all those purists, snobs and naysayers out there, we are joined by the original vocalist from CAN, Mr. Malcolm Mooney who is happy discuss Stockhausen, The Fat Boys and David Bowie to add more salt to your tangerine!
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Ho-Ho-Hope you're still listening… As we come to the end of our first year of Finders Keepers transmissions and podcasts, the hibernating inhabitants of the Keepers Cottage present our biggest family gathering yet just in time for the festive season. Presenting a wide range of tenuous, strenuous and overambitious midwinter nuggets, Andy Votel, Pete Mitchell and Doug Shipton welcome a co-host cameo from our Belgian buddy Gerd "Hurt The Wild" De Wilde to help us sift through kristmas krautrock, synthesised Santa jams, festive folk funk and Lollywood Hogmanay classics in this "longer than advertised" bumper edition of our serialised music therapy sessions.
Bringing good cheer to the ears of this months listeners we have surprise visits from some special stateside studio guests such as legendary synthesist Suzanne Ciani (of Buchla/Atari/Stepford Wives fame) joined by Iranian wax magnet Mahssa Taghinia (Finders Keepers US/Mount Analog) who will discuss early synth discoveries, skiing locations and cross-continental chocolate discrepancies accompanied by lesser spotted novelty records while gracefully deflecting the ill-advised humour of our admittedly inebriated hosts. Raiding the drinks cabinet and running up phone bills like babysitter on boxing day The FKRR crew also connect with some no nonsense musical legends via the Christmas miracle of technology as they speak to members of Nyah Rock movement originators Cymande as well as Phil Spector's leading Christmas angel Darlene Love. With all these special guests it's hard to imagine how we would possibly squeeze in our regular contributor Tape Worm aka The Slimy Santa without spilling egg nog on the hedgehogs in our snowy woodland retreat… but we'll try. How many versions of Silent Night can you fit in a mini??? Turn On, tune in and find out!
The very first Buchla synthesiser performance by revolutionary composer Suzanne Ciani finally makes its fifty year journey from its switch-on New York art gallery to its long deserved and discerning global phonographic audience.
With this previously unheard vinyl pressing, Finders Keepers Records are proud to present an archival project of ‘art music’ that not only redefines musical history but lays genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we have come to understand it. To describe Italian-American composer Suzanne Ciani’s resurrected Buchla concert records as genuine gamechangers would be a gross understatement. These records represent a musical revolution, an artistic revelation, a scientific benchmark and a trophy in the cabinet of counterculture creativity. This sonic installation album, alongside her recently liberated WBAI / Phill Niblock 1975 sessions (FKR082), are triumphant yardsticks in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial musical moon. While pondering the early accolades attached to these golden era New York recordings it’s daunting to learn that these records were in fact not even records at all.
What exists on this disc now was a manifesto and a one-time gateway to a new world, which somehow was only partially pushed ajar. Captured here is a genuine live act exploring new territories with a fully performable music instrument. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic pulses, tones and harmonics found on these 1970’s artistic gallery collaborations / live presentations (then soon to be followed by academic grant applications and educational demonstrations) had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the widely marketed work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita, then the name Suzanne Ciani and her infectious influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of our record.
With the light of Buchla and Ciani’s initial flame Finders Keepers continues the journey through the vaults of this increasingly celebrated music legacy, illuminating these ‘non-records’ that evaded the limelight for almost half a century. You can’t write history when you are too busy making it. With fresh ink in the bottomless well, let’s start at the beginning. Again.
