Blue Tapes July news and free music!

It's been quite a busy month in Blue Tapes world. Not only did we put out our first release in months - blue seven: Kurosounds - but we also brought Cherry over from his temporary hometown of Berlin to play a show in Brighton!

Our friends John and Margerita, hosts of NTS Live's excellent Don't Trip, invited us to do a guest mix for their radio show! As it's been a year since we first had the idea for the label, we decided to celebrate with a mix taking in our first seven releases in chronological order.

That mix is now available to download - for free! - from our Bandcamp:

http://bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-blue-one-a-blue-tapes-sampler.

 

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Kurosounds’ release - two tapes, one featuring the tape-length composition Bleu Nuit - is all kinds of special for us. It inhabits the strange dreamy place where not-quite music and diegetic daysound blur into sound as pure as paintings.

This is the closest to the sound we heard in our heads when we started Blue Tapes as an endeavour, so Kurosounds to us sounds like home.

There are instruments here - acoustic guitar that sounds like it’s been deconstructed atom by atom (and then sewn back together), something that might be a kalimba or mbira, distant percussion and sounds that could be synths were it not for the fact that they seem to be breathing. But these manmade contraptions never dominate - they drift in and out with as much agency or urgency as any of the found sound snatches of conversation or other noise that populate this world.

Each element goes about its business, seemingly aware of the other shapes in the space it inhabits, but blissfully relieved of any pressure to interact with them.

http://bluetapes.co.uk/product/blue-seven-kurosounds

 

 

Cherry rocked the Wire magazine-associated The Outer Church night in Brighton! This was Teruyuki Kurihara's first visit to the UK, and it really was a superb performance - sounding sometimes like pulsating minimal techno chased and haunted by the rattling ghosts of a spectrally-reverbed surf guitar...? Video to come soon.