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Mixed Tapes Kept Under My Bed
UMB#01 - CRr, 2002
This is the first release by UMB. It was assembled with the
intent of giving a picture of the as fragmented as lively DIY Italian
scene at the turn of the century. This is mirrored in the differnt contributions
from (more or less) minimal Lo-Fi songwring (Belongs To Me, Bon Voyage, Morose, My Dear Killer,
My Shell, Smou, Something Faded, The Fog in The Shell), alt-pop (Milaus, The Finger), noise and post(ish)-rock signatures (ONQ, The Frozen Fracture, Ultraviolet makes
me sick, Nasten'ka, The Colours Seen from Behind) up to jazz derivative (Comfort Trio).
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My Dear Killer
Clinical Shyness
UMB#02 - CD, 2006
Debut full length album from My Dear Killer, one of the finest Italian
lo-fi singer/songwriter. Soft yet desperate tunes, submerged in a heavy mesh of
guitar drowns, noises and feedbacks. The LP is based, non exactly loosly, on
the origanal demo version released in 2001, implemented by a series of additional
recordings, added in different occasions and until 2005. Released by a syndicate of record labels, incluiding,
UMB, Eaten By Squirrels, Madcap and Boring Machines.
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Something Faded
Everyday Boredom
UMB#03 - CRr, 2002
The first, and last, collection of songs from this pseudo-indie-rock-band that features members of
The Fog in the Shell and Lasofferenza. Noticeably, contains a wonderful version of AC/DC "You shook
me all night long".
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The Popper Pop
Texas Motel/Oasis Motel
UMB#04 - CRr, 2002
A surrogate of indie-pop mixed with tasteful southern rock mixed spicy alt-country. In limited edition of 50 copies. Available
in two different versions, with different cover sleeves and title, BUT
with the same content.
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Nasten'ka
1995-1999
UMB#05 - CRr, 2002
This an heterogeneous anthology and a sort of compendium of Nasten'ka musical production,
collecting material recorded in studio, which already appeared on demo K7s or compilations,
as well as song recovered from taping the band practises through their existence which lasted
just short of a decade. To date, one of the Lake's Land best ever bands, blending tastefully melody,
dissonance, rhythmical complexity and dreamful vocals.
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Belongs To Me
Massimo Effetto
UMB#06 - CRr, 2002
A greatest hits from Belongs To Me: suspended in beetween dreaming songwriting,
phsychedelia, noise, and electronic... imagine Luigi Tenco and Syd Barret having a chat
about lost love...simply mental!
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Kech
A Lovely Place
UMB#07 - CRr, 2002
Power indie-pop from Milan. Straight tunes, catchy vocals, yes, right, simple but works a marvel. when
brip pop screams gimme indie rock!
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My Dear Killer / the FOG in the SHELL
My love: a definition
UMB#08 - CDr, 2002
Split shared by My Dear Killer and The Fog In The Shell.
Possibly the best representation of what the so-called "bedroom scene" attitude is about. My Dear Killer picks up
his guitar and sings in front of a cassette tape recorder. Without production or overdubbing
or any embellishment, this is just how the songs flow, never mind the background
noise from the motorway. THEfogINtheSHELL, alternates episode of pure intimacy
(Song for E., Song for M.), with the warmth and comfort of a rehearsals with friends
(Song for F.), and collects a live performance of its earlydays classic Sorry. It was reissued with new
graphic layout and a mastering cleanup in 2008, in 25 copies only.
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Broken Keyboards Kept Under My Bed
UMB#09 - CRr, 2002
Second volume of UMB compilation and the first dedicated to minimal electronics.
In the 18 tracks there is a great variety of style and interpretations of the
used of DIY electronic: from glitches to beats, from sophysticate to quasi-trash.
A bit for all tastes, or for none. Feauture the contributions of ENT,
Roccu, Eniac, Pirmin, Schlock, Purusha, Radioabelmouth, Fishkiller,
'mbromo, Polis, ONQ, Morose, Banda minima, Punck, Skoda, Potato Sld, Bosvet.
Can listen to it on streaming and free download on the dedicated page: BrokenK.
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Fong
Manifesto
UMB#10 - CRr, 2002
Electro-noise, ambient, madness: does music really exist?!
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Belongs To Me
Alienix
UMB#11 - CRr, 2003
A new page of what BTM has been experimenting in the past and we bet will keep on doing in the future.
Alienix" is definitely the most structured BTM production, a hybrid of a pure homemade and a crystal clean product, with all
the positive and negative sides of it. You decide!
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The Frozen Fracture / Morose / Buio Omega
I am vertical
UMB#12 - CRr, 2002
Released on 29th anniversary of the poet's departure, I am vertical
is the Under My Bed tribute to the work of Sylvia Plath. The poem is subjected to very personal
interpretations by The Frozen Fracture, Morose and Buio Omega.
The noisy approach of Buio Omega, to in the reflective attitude of Morose, through the clear-cut
guitar style of The Frozen Fracture, define the multi-faceted tone of this release. But, it is the ultimate beauty of
the poet's lyrics which uncovers and permeates the record.
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Morose
La mia ragazza mi ha lasciato
UMB#13 - CD, 2002
Morose's debut full length album: a co-production with Cane Andaluso, Kimera, and Under My Bed.
Guitars, drums and voices meet strings, accordions, a saw and a piano... The best choice for those
who love Red Red Meat, Black Heart Procession, Velvet Underground and the early works of Leonard Cohen.
Available in a cardboard box with 12 inlay sheets (one for each song),
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Lorca/Pillow
5 Pezzi Facili (1/5)
UMB#14 - CRr, 2003
First of a series of 5 split EP, Cinque Pezzi Facili (1/5) features contrinutions from Lorca and
Pillow.
"Some Kind of Payoff" is a collection of five mellow, melancholic and
minimal songs, in an ethereal and diffused atmosphere. Pillow's
" She takes you, She leaves you" softly walks through some sad acoustic tunes, in which
the dust from behind the corner can be breath.
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Mr60/The Frozen Fracture
5 Pezzi Facili (2/5)
UMB#15 - CDr, 2006
The second split of the 5 Pezzi Facili series, features the contribution from Mr60,
and The Frozen Fracture. Mr .60's "Concepto:desperato" is a sort of metaphoric journey in which
the band explores the vast compositive possibility
given by ability of the members to put hands at several different instruments each. The Frozen Fracture contribution
"Rare Earths Noble Gases" is also a time-travel journey.
This rather random prit-stick glued bric-a-brac disaster which represents the ultimate experience of a projectal failure.
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My Dear Killer/Tettu Mortu
5 Pezzi Facili (3/5)
UMB#16 - CDr, 2011
The third split of the 5 Pezzi Facili series, is a collaborative effort of My Dear Killer and Tettu Mortu
Cynical Quietness (My Dear Killer) a brief acoustic passage by the depth of incommunicability in which the usual mesh of drawn
and feedback are substituted by field recordings of the Scottish winter.
Bounce is a collection of short sketches in which Tettu Mortu reexplores the impro-noise improvisation of its previous works
(Christo EP, Fields Ep) in the first two episodes, leaving place to the field recordings dominated closing tracks.
Ten pieces to remember that the winter will be coming soon again.
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Morose/Campofame
5 Pezzi Facili (4/5)
UMB#17 - CDr, 2012
The fourth split of the 5 Pezzi Facili series, features the contribution from Morose,
and Campofame. This is the second Morose work with lyrics in Italian, and the first as a duo, which also features the collaboration
of members of Campofame. This is a stumbling walk through the dark corners of souls, accompanied by a inspired executions and arrangements.
Compafame continue on the a similar tortuous path in their very personal yet elegant combination of acoustic, electronics and digital sampling.
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Empty Vessel Music/Konstanzegraff
5 Pezzi Facili (5/5)
UMB#18 - CDr, 2012
The fifth and conclusive split of the Cinque Pezzi Facili series, features the contribution of Empty Vessel Music and Konstazengraff.
"The slavery diaries" is a collection of intense acoustic portraits, from which emerges a very personal and modern take on what might appear,
at the surface, as a crystallised and canonical style. The companion split by Konstanzengraff, Vietrax is built by different elements - rhythm
often comes from synthesised lines flowing in parallel with the skeletal percussion, whilst melodic counterpoints form a faded and weatherbeaten
remittance.
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Kech
Are You Safe?
UMB#19 - CD, 2003
"..at the end of the day, this is an intriguing and oblique indie-rock, leaded by the guitars and a dreaming
female voice, effective in sketching delightly non conventional melodies...[...].. In other words, even if
the band is moving a very well defined environment, it manages to do it with an enviable grace and a number
of unexpected solution, giving birth to songs that, in their freshness, are so easy to stick to your mind.."
(Aurelio Pansini, Mucchio Selvaggio #557)
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AA.VV.
More Tapes Kept Under My Bed
UMB#20 - CDr, 2003
More Tapes Kept Under My Bed is the third collection of songs of
Under My Bed Recordings and includes contributions from Meets Guitar, Jet Johnson, Breams,
My Dear Killer, Burd Earl, Felipe, Lorca, Plastick Explosion, Straight Saranza, Baggage Claim,
and many more...
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Atlas Cedar
The Bank Holyday EP
UMB#21 - CDr, 2003
The Bank Holyday is the first release by Atlas Cedar. The only superficial harmonic simplicity,
chiselled by painstaking guitar and mellow singing confers an understate tone to this song collection. A
rranged with simplicity and elegance, the Bank Holiday Session is a rather splendid collection of unpretentious
tunes, on the verge between introspective and minimalist song-writing. Also features a cover version of
Richard and Linda Thomson "A heart needs a home".
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My Dear Killer
The Easter EP
UMB#22 - CDr, 2003
The Easter EP contains alternative takes of songs which have
not being included in the final version of Clinical Shyness and other spare material
from the same period. It is so-called as it was actually recorded at Easter, by the usually dodged
80-8, eight minus one
track recorder by MdK and Lorenzo T. (Nasten'ka), and features the guest appearence
of Giulio (Candies) on drums. This Ep features,
The scent of the water, Phone calls, The winter bride, I fear) Time,
and One day, another. Limited editios of 25 copies, xerographyc graphics on mixed acetate/heavy paper supports.
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My Shell
The Baijkal EP
UMB#23 - CDr, 2003
UMB#23.mkII - CDr, 2017 [20 Copies]
The Baijkal EP is the first full release of My Shell for Under My Bed,
following a string of contributions to our compilations. Although this record can be litteraly
decribed as no-fi, having been recorded with a shoebox cassette recorded, it remains a brilliant piece of
intimistic song-writing. We have been absolutely enthusiastic of this record through the years.
Having been impatiently awaiting in vain, for a more complete and, just a little bit more polished, collection of songs from this
outstanding act, we have remastered the original demotapes, and reissued it in a limited edition of 25 copies in 2017.
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Jeffrey Fields
Graceland EP
UMB#24 - CDr, 2004
Having spent time in several rock and post-punk bands in the 90s, Jeffrey began writing and recording his own
songs in early 2003. Recording mostly at home on a limited budget, and even more limited equipment, Jeffrey
wears his influences on his sleeve while maintaining his own unique lyrical vision and melodic eccentricities.
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ONQ
Canzoni Tutte Uguali
UMB#25 - CDr, 2004
UMB#25.mkII - CDr, 2004
ONQ Desein Ohne Leben by Bluesanct/Orphanology in 2002. ONQ returned then at its original form, that is that of a one-man-act, playing, recording, mixing and
composing all the songs appearing on the record. The record apparenty sound less full with respect with previous release in which the band appeard
as four-pieces. Yet, it just highlights one of the many different angles of the project, as it enriched by many subtle details,
tasteful electronic arrangements and by sampling. It was the fist (and only) record by ONQ sung in Italian
and involving the collaboration with female singers. Canzoni tutte uguali came with a
two-colour ink hand-stamped artwork, pressed on recycled manila paper: Each copy was then unique. It happened to be the last full-length release by ONQ.
To date. The original editon was long gone, before being repressed in a very limited
number of copies (15 only!) in 2017. That's now gone too.
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The Frozen Fracture
Portraits of Wasted Youth in Distortion
UMB#27.mkII - CDr 2014
Portraits of Wasted Youth in Distortion is the first release by The Frozen Fracture in over a decade. It is a collection of
four semi-improvisation portraits, directly taped using low-edge analogical equipment. The core of this project is the use of low-power solid
state amplifiers driven on and above the saturation level by cloned and modified distortion
units and line splitters so to obtain, in parallel and simultaneously, different saturation ranges. The result are four pieces catching different
shades of introspectiveness,
melancholy, and more robust hues of inadequacy.The graphic design and its pressing are by Cosimo Rosa (Luigi VonTurin).
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The Dutch Courage
Selected Wreckages
UMB#28 - CDr, 2009
The Dutch Courage is a noise semi-improvisational duo. Their sounds is a rather basic stratification of crystalline
and dilated guitar riffs on a magmatic landscape of oversaturated keyboard, filtered through curiously self-assembled stomp boxes.
These tracks were recorded between 1998 and 1999, hence, mixing quite pioneering approaches with, at tract rather naïve,
but generally very intriguing excursions toward extreme circuit-bending. The EP features a unique packaging, containing a mini-poster
and a little novel associated with each episode. Limited edition of 20 Copies.
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My Dear Killer
Lullabies for Earybirds
UMB#29 - CDr/Tape 2011
UMB#29.mkII - CDr 2012
My Dear Killer's Lullabies for Earlybirds is a very soft sounded 4-song EP.
Home recorded with a casette four-track in Glasgow and mixed in the lake's land
to mark the return in the motherland from the cold shores of Albion. It was originally released
in 5 copies only (2011); the second edition 2012, labelled "Mk. II",
features cardboard/acetate cover, new graphics and is also limited to 20 copies. Total assembled (mkI + mkII) 25.
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AA.VV.
Ten Years of Secret Mixtapes
UMB#30 - CD, 2011
Ten Years of secret mixtapes (kept under my bed), is a compilation assembled to celebrate/commiserate the 10th anniversary since Under
My Bed Foundation (2001-2011). Released on the 18th of December 2011. Features: ONQ, Lebenswelt, My Shell, Baggage Claim, My Dear Killer,
Campofame, Morose, Empty Vessel Music, Andrea Rottin, Father Murphy, Prague, Santo Barbaro, Sparkle in Grey. Graphics by Matteo Uggeri.
150 copies, limited edition.
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Collezionando Vuoti a Perdere
UMB#31 - CDr 2013
Collezionando vuoti a perdere is a little collection of songs, in Italian, inteded to be
a one-release project and, if you like, a shot to nothing. The record is the picture of warm and
solitary summer nights spent is a city deserterted by human being, sketched by acoustic guitars,
soft vocals, improvvised percussions and reverberation. Recorded in a living room, with a couple of
microphones in what can be defined as nothing
but DIY style, it perfectly suits the purpose, of the record, and of Under My Bed. Comes in a heavy
cardboard printed envelope and acetate insert sleeve. 25 copies only.
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Bob Corn & Matteo Uggeri
Fields of Corn
UMB#32 - CD 2012
Fields of Corn is a joint project of Matteo Uggeri (Hue, Sparkle in Grey, Der Einzige) and Bob Corn.
The tracks sung by Bob and recoded by Matteo sound very much like a dense, discreet soundtrack to a short film featuring side roles:
in the background, there's the persistent singing of an unidentified bird,
possibly the same one that had accompanied Matteo and Bob's walks two years earlier. Jointly release by Grey Sparkle, Fooltribe,
Boring Machines and with a small contribution from Under My Bed. Mastered @ MafarKa BoX.
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Lo Sceriffo Lobo
Il Veicolo Interiore
UMB#33 - CDr, 2012
Lo Sceriffo Lobo, after several years of self-segregation in his bedroom, attached to his console collection, discovered the beauty of
travel and movement. All songs are less than 2-minutes long and are characterised by a pop-punk attitude combined with a certain
cure for electro-dance beats and howling sinths. Released jointly with Marsiglia.
Limited edition of 50 copies.
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The Colours Seen From Behind
Take to the Ocean and hit the Sun
UMB#34 - CD 2012
The Colours Seen From Behind is the solo work of Mauro Costagli, the man behind OuZeL rec and also members of Lo-fi Sucks!,
and previously in Morose and ONQ. TCSFB has been, until recently, mainly a recording project, aiming at different types of sound - say,
indierock when he played in line-ups with guitars, bass and drums, as well as more experimental setups when accompanied only by a cello
and a cajon. In late 2011 Mauro recorded the EP Take to the Ocean and Hit the Sun
as a joint effort of Ouzel rec and Under My Bed.
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CRTVRT
Here it Comes: Tramontane!
UMB#35 - CD 2013
Crtvtr is a band from Genoa, Italy.
Their music is suspended between Washington post punk and a
touch of diverted contemporary psychedelia. Splatters of post
rock, sprays of math. They are a power
trio and they like to experiment with full range dynamics. We are
glad to coproduced their first LP "Here it comes,
Tramontane!", which features the appearance of Mike Watt, together with
an extended syndication of DIY labels (To Lose La Track, Mia
Cameretta Records, Buridda Distro, Dreaming Gorilla Records,
QSQDR, Human Feather, Hysm?, TenZenMen).
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Acid Jack Flashed
Washing in Dirty Water
UMB#36.mkI-III - CDr 2013
Washing in dirty water is a collection of 15 pages ripped from a diary. The first part of a story.
Recorded in the same order as they were composed, these songs are the chronicle of a season, the start of a trip
that changes life. It's got ups and downs, hope and despair, folk and garage, pop and punk, cellos and fuzz.
Released in 125 copies, all the four pressings (mkI-III) are now sold-out. Those where the plain withe (mkI), cherry red (mkII), rainbow (mkIII).
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Empty Vessel Music, Apash Twenty Twelve, Magnetic Poetry
Safe In Their Alabaster Chambers
UMB#37 - CDr 2013
Safe in their alabaster chambers is is the second volume of the murmured poetry series. It is a tribute to Emily Dickinson, and features the lyrics of
"Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" as well as an accompanying instrumental rendering as interpreted by Empty Vessel Music, Apash Twenty Twelve and Magnetic Poetry
(previously members of Mesta). The record is to be released 15 October 2013, in 75 copies, limited editon, multi-layer transparent paper and cardboard. The
drawings are by Jennifer Jo Oakley (Empty Vessel Art). Dedicated page: Safe/Alabaster/Chambers.
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Stefano DePonti
Like Lamps On By Day
UMB#038/OBR14 - K7/CDr 2013
Like Lamps On By Day is the heap of more then ten hours of impros were selected, processed and reduced to 25 minutes divided into seven different pieces.
This kind of procedure brought to light aspects and connections which were left unexplored; the result is a work characterized by a specific artistic identity that put
the accent on the connection between pure research and poetic urgence.
Like Lamps On By Day
is a joint effort of Old Bycicle Records and Under My Bed,
released on K7 and CDr, all of them hand packaged/pressed.
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Shakin Hand
S/T
UMB#039/°m°052 - CDr 2014
Self-titled debut EP from this blues-wave duo from Genoa. The songs are built around the band minimal formation (guitars, bass, kick-drum),
simple yet obsessive riffs drenched in reverberation. Pressed as a limited edition of 50 copies with graphics silk screen-pressed
on heavy cardboard. Released in collaboration with Marisiglia Rec.,
limited number serigraphy on heavy cardboard.
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Burnt Circuits Kept Under My Bed
UMB#40 - K7 2014
Burnt Circuits Kept Under My Bed is the 5th volume of Under My Bed compilations series;
this collection of provides a snapshot in time of the ever expanding in number and qualities of, mainly, italian
electro-acoustic and electronic scene. As in UMB tradition most projects involve minimalistic, DIY, Lo-fi, home-recorded deviated
pieces. Features: 1Erore, Deison, Stefano DePonti, Fabio Orsi, Luca Sigurta', Matteo Uggeri, Spring Makers, Von Tesla, st.ride, Architeuthis Rex, Apoteke, Marta DePascalis, Maurizio Abate, Carlo Giordani & Andrea Marutti, Mace., Metzengerstein + IOIOI, Tettu Mortu, Deep Grass. Limited
edition of 90 copies, packed in heavy recycled cardboard folders, ink stamped graphics. The artwork by M.Uggeri inspired by
the user manual of the Ampex 601, portable two-track recorder. More info at dedicated website.
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A Finnish Contact
In Case We'll Meet
UMB#41/KHL01 - CD 2014
In case we'll meet is the first work of A Finnish Contact, a project of Luca Freddi (electronics) and Fabio Valesini (guitars). A gloomy, immersive ambient soundscape of guitar and electronics textures, loops and samples, generating sort of a an imaginary soundtrack to an imaginary movie.
The full length, co-released with Kohlhaas records, comes in a CD digipack featuring photography by Lara Bacchiega
and artwork by Fabio Valesini, printed at Legno in Milan.Edition of 300 copies
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My Dear Killer Vs. Bob Corn
Canzoni In Silenzio
UMB#42/OBR16/GS_CS08 - K7 2014
Live recording of My Dear Killer and Bob Corn, both just playing an acoustic guitar and singing, sharing the "stage" during the itinerant
house-show festival Sottovoce:concerti fatti in Casa, organised by the RedBox association.
The two acts have been amongst the pioneer of the so-called italian "bedroom scene", but have, during the years, followed different paths and directions.
In this C60 tape casette, edited by Under my Bed, Grey Sparkle and
Old Bicycle, these different styles, stripped to the most essential assembly,
becomes apparent, and are as much enjotable. The K7 is packed in an heavy recycled cardboard box, with stamp-printed graphics by Matteo Uggeri.
It has been mixed and Masterd @ MafarKa Box, with little to editing from the original recording at La Sauna. Limited Edition of 150 Copies.
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Simon Balestrazzi/Uncodified
Crash Tape #10
UMB#43/OBR019 - K7 2014
Split cassette tape (number #10 of the Crash Tape series by Old Bicycle Records) shared by Italian pioneers of electronic-industrial-noise scene
Simon Balestrazzi and Uncodified, aka Corrado Altieri. Simon Balestrazzi's contribution (Side A: Eine Ballade) is a long "ballad" divided
in three parts (Dann, Bevor die Sonne kam, Kamen die Vögel), dedicated and inspired by Friedrich Dürenmatt's Minotaur.
Uncodified (Side B) contributes two edgy, sharp and acid pieces, as suggested by the very titles Valproic Acid Dosage Forms and Chemical Stabilizers.
This is a wonderful piece of work, ideally listened to in the dark or in full sunshine, but with close eyes. Packed in heavy black cardboard folder,
and xylographic prints (by G. Aprile).
Co-released by: Under My Bed/Old Bicycle. Limited edition of 100 Copies.
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Sparkle in Grey
The Calendar
UMB#44/OBR018 - CD 2014
One year after the release of Thursday evening, Sparkle in Grey complete a long-lasting, and much quieter sounding, project entitled The Calendar. The overall sound of the The Calendar is airy and ever-changing,
accompanying the movement of the seasons from which transpires a delicate poetry, open to minimalist experimentation, like drops of water that find their way on glass, hair that has been bleached softly by sunbeams,
leaves scattered around a court, and nights that consume the feeble light of sunsets. Packed in recycled gross cardboard, with hand stamped graphics and a 28 page booklet, in which twelve double-paged scenes, composes a perpetual calendar.
Co-released by: Grey Sparkle/Under My Bed/Old Bicycle/Lizard /Moving Records & Comics.
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Prague
The Great Dark Nothingness
UMB#45/EBS13 - K7/CD 2015
After several years in the silent room, Prague returns with a novel collection of songs much in its characterising style, self explicatively entitled The Great Dark Nothingness.
This record follows the path of previous work by Prague and, might be, even a couple of steps back in a tortoise way towards its origin as a one-man-project. These songs comes from the heart rather than the head, and are constructed on a delicate balance between intimate song-wring, intense, sometimes roaring, guitars and softly sparse arrangements. There for those who have the heart to listen to them.
The Great Dark Nothingness is coproduced by Under My Bed and Eaten by Squirrels.
Available on K7 and CD, both in heavy cardboard folders, hand-stamped, in a limited number of copies (90 and 500 respectively).
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Sleet
My Home Sinking
UMB#46 - K7 2015
Sleet is a pastoral fable with a resolutely vulnerable core - a '60s folk narrative echoing through modern classical and ambient music.
The fading Morriconian memories of Sleet evolve through a languid structured homage to Italian songwriters, embellished by weaving flute,
cello, vibraphone, duduk and drums, like a prayer for human tragedy to a deaf and distant cosmos.
Sleet is released in a limited edition of only 66 audiocassettes, with the first 6 copies sold including handwritten lyrics and a small portrait of
vocalist & photographer Natalia Drepina. Presented in craft paper and letter-pressed cover. We have been very happy to contribute in spreading
1/6th of them.
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Stefano De Ponti/Nina Haab
Calce
UMB#47/KHS008 - CD + Artist Book 2016
Outcome of overlying minerals and organic sediments, shifted in the course of the millennia, the lime, in Italian Calce, is for Nina Haab and
Stefano De Ponti the metaphor of an extended creative process. Transdisciplinary work, Calce was born in an ancient cave of limekiln. Listening to the
territory and the people who have lived and still live there, the two artists have produced, gathered and shared a broad amount of audio-visual material,
including images, interviews, historical documents and soundscapes. Through processes of stratification and refining, these elements flow into a diptych
of peculiar narrative and sound density, in which is dissolved the very possibility of an individual sensorial and mnemonic experience.
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My Dear Killer & Matteo Uggeri/Moder Day Monks
Blind Tarots
UMB#48 - K7 2016
Blind Tarots is a split tape featuring the contribution of My Dear Killer & Matteo Uggeri (L'albero della Morte) and
Moder Day Monks (The Shade of The Living Lights). The two side of tapes are like two side of a coin, showing related somewhat
distant attitudes to appoach soft, minimilist, introspective folk. L'albero della Morte is a instrumental, half improvvisational
and broken rithm episod overlayed and blended by a mesh of field recordings and sampling. The shade of the living light can
as much be intended of unique composition, featuring a collection of sound sketched and songs. The tapes is hand stamped on
hearvy recicled cardboard boxes, enriched by three tartots card to interpret fortune as much as misfortune. Graphics by M. Uggeri. Edition of 50 copies.
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My Dear Killer
Clinical Shyness (10th Annyversary Edition)
UMB#02Mk2 - K7 2016
Repressing on tape cassette of My Dear Killer's first long playing Clinical Shyness, in occasion of the 10th year
from its original release coinciding with ten years of activity of Boring Machines.
Clinical Shyness is a collection of six short songs and an instrumental piece. It is intimistic, skewed folk, constructed over
repetitive and ossessive guitar arpeggios and feeble vocals, drenched in heavy noise and feedback texture of. Basically,
a rather remarkable portrait of skizofrenic loveless paranoia, as the title suggests. This version presents subtly rearranged mixs of the original recordings, remastered for K7. Released with Boring Machines (part of the
10 Anniversary series) and Old Bicycle. Sold out, but available in the original CD verion.
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Lebenswelt
Shallow Nothingness in Molten Skies
UMB#49 - CDr 2016
Shallow Nothingness in Molten Skies is the first release by Lebenswelt in several years. It builds over, and restarts the journey from
where it left, at Out is The Cow, Staring at Life in Rain and Corners of a drowning faith . And it couldn't have been otherwise. The record is permeated by profound vein of melancholy,
that impregnates the melodies, through soft, respective, almost obsessive tunes dispersed in heavy reverberation, prepared guitars and sparse electronics.
Part of the envelope series, comes in manila textured envelope, acetate and heavy cardboard xerography inserts, limited to 29 copies. More on Lebenswelt website
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A. Novellino/Drekka/S. Balestrazzi/E. Mazzon
Quadrature
UMB#050 - K7 2017
Quadrature is a collection of four pieces, by four acts sharing common attitudes towards experimenting with either concrete or electronically/digitally generating
sounds, and its making. The title, of this collective work quadrature, stems from a common detection technique of electrical waveform, in which contribution from
signal with are phase orthogonal. This is purposely reflected in the two sides of the tape in which, whereas the single tracks conserve the characteristic
expressive style of each of the contributing artists, a sense of almost constant flow and that of unity can be perceived. The end results is that of spacey,
dreaming and floating walk through sometimes alien sometimes factual ambient concluded by a sudden rhythmical and situational awakening. The graphics were designed
by M. Uggeri.
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Sad Cambodia
First Metheoretical Bulletin
UMB#051/SIN037 - K7 2017
First Metheoretical Bulletin, as name says, is the first release of Sad Cambodia, a collaboration duo composed by Stefano (My Dear Killer) and Massimo Onza (Wound).
The project was born with the aim of finding a common ground for expression, in an attempt of mixing analogue electronics and acoustic instruments, mainly guitars. Along this path, synths,
reverb pulses, objects, samples and noises met dispersed variations over acoustic string drawings. The result are these two tracks, which move towards keeping together the free-form tensions
with rarefied, at times, almost melodic parts, alienating passages and post-rock flavour spaces. To summarise the blending of discordant mixtures drifting towards melancholic horizons, we coined
the neologism Metheoretical, stemming from theoretical and meteorological. In our sad Cambodia, over the constant rain and heat of the monsoon, can you feel some distant bird singing in the forest?
You might, in this first bulletin. Coproduced by Under My Bed & Sincope.
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My Dear Killer
The Cold Plan
UMB#052/EeeE - 12" 2018
The Cold Plan is the third extended playing by My Dear Killer. It follows on the step of its two preceding works continuing
the journey and the exploration through often figurative locations which becomes here sometimes traceable on a physical map. The tunes
and harmonic sceneries are designed to embrace the atmosphere of a quiet-yet-conscious desolation. The pieces are composed by minimalist overlaying
of ambient, analogue and synthetic landscapes, layered of soft, dilated, guitar tunes that leave the dense noises mesh which characterised previous
MdK works as sporadic episodes. The half-conclusive nature of the mixes serves to convey the nature of void and the unsolved feeling of dismemberment
which pervades the record. The Cold Plan is the result of the collaboration of S. Stephanowic and S. De Ponti. The graphics were designed
by M. Uggeri. A video was also realised for the track Skyscrapers filmed by Theodor Guelat.
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Lebenswelt
Metaphysics of Entropy
UMB#053 - CDr 2018
Metaphysics of Entropy is Lebenswelt's 5th long release. Although moving further in the way of the subtly pervasive
melancholic vein which characterises Lebenswelt writing, the present work concedes larger space to introspective song-writing,
as apparent from the five central songs forming the conceptual core of the record, and framed by two long instrumental tracks at
the opening (Unfinished Piece for Detuned Piano) and closing (Metaphysics of Entropy).
The record also contains the re-edition of the previously released Illusions Hold, by the hands of Belaqua Shua.
It features moreover the presence of several contributors: Pier Giorgio Storti (Belaqua Shua) on cello, clarinet, balalaika;
Stephano Stephanowic (My Dear Killer) on guitar-based noise feedbacks; Luca Galuppini (ONQ) on musical saw and Mauro Costagli
(Monetre, The Colours Seen From Behind, Lo-fi Sucks!) on drums. These additional contributions, mainly at acoustic and electro-acoustic
instruments, provide additional tinges and shades to the floating, dreamy, suspended atmosphere of the record.
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Morose
Sopra il Tetto Sotto Terra
UMB#055/RBS30 - CD 2019
Sopra il tetto sotto terra is the sixth long playing by Morose, and the second in which the lyrics have been composed
in the native Italian language. Over more than 20 years of activity the act has developed a now refined, mature and very distinguishable
in which song-writing and complex-yet-ethereal harmonisations finds a subtly and exquisite balance. The records can be seen as collection
of tales, where the characters attempt sometimes through tragic, sometimes through heroic, sometime through ironic efforts to comply and
establish their own individual identity. These stories are told by weary poetic lyrics accompanied musically by sudden epiphanies, melancholic
withdraws, rushes of protest and turmoil and, at the end, of hopeless hopes. For the occasion Morose appear as a duo composed of project's
founder D. Landini (Guitar and Voice) and long term band member, multi-instrumentalist P.G. Storti (Mellotron, Clarinet,
Electric Organ and Guitar, Cello). Co-released by Under My Bed and Ribéss Records.
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Adriano Zanni
Passato Presente Nessun Futuro
UMB#056 - CD + Photographic Book 2020
The latest work of Adriano Zanni entitled Passato, Presente, Nessun Futuro is a collection of acoustic
and visual sketches gathered in the first twenty years of the new millenium. It is then composed of a 100 pages photographic book, containing
90 snapshots (17X24 cm format) and notes, associate to a compact disc featuring 13 tracks in which AZ played analogue and digital synthesisers,
in combination with field recording and samplings. It also features an appearance of MdK on track 7 (Zone Temporaneamente Autonome)
at the acoustic guitar. The combination of the visual impact of the black and white photography and crystal-clear, almost, bewildering sounds
accompaning them provides an almost unfiltered observation of the transmutation of current society brought about by the steep diffusion of
technology since the turn of the millennium. This is shown through pictures depicting the slow dissolution of industrial plants, of nature
regaining abandoned territory, when managing, and of people laying mainly on the margin of the scenarios.
Available from UMB or
AZ's bandcamp pages or
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Stalingrad Cowboy
Lightship
UMB#057 - CDr 2020
Lightship is the first release from Stalingrad Cowboy, a solo project y M. Laudati (Nasten'ka, My Shell, Buio Omega),
is composed of four dreamy, dilated, instrumental pieces setting their roots in shoegazing and post-rock atmosphere. Softly driven by standing waves the
lightship moves through reverberations of empty rooms, of desert location, of concrete multiblocks, until setting sail from some stony lake shores
towards the distant glow of the open sea at night. Edition of 33 copies, contained in manila colour xerographic printed envelope, mixed acetate-heavy
cardboard hand assemble insert.
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Lebenswelt
Unspoken Words
UMB#058/Ouz#37 - CD 2022
Unspoken Words is Lebenswelt 6th long release.
The record coherently develops the distinctive melancholic slow-core sound, made of floating screwdrivers-prepared guitars layering over minimal
loops, towards an increasingly upgraded songwriting dimension. In this occasion the recordings feature numerous contributions,
that extend the mesh of sound texture and donate specific colour to each track in the collections.
Unspoken Words then marks the ultimate transition from an originally meant one-man-project to an actual collective, featuring Lebenswelt's
longtime friends and favourite artists, together here for the very first time. The original drawings appearing on the cover are kindly by Anat Zeligowski.
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