ETALABEL - a few news from a small label from Poland

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Hello everybody. I am new here but I often read the 12k forum and must say that I've found here a lot of interesting and useful posts.

I would like to introduce my label, called ETALABEL - www.etalabel.com

It is a small label, which had a long break (3 years). In 2009 I published an artist called Bionulor.
I have to say that in 2006 I also released an artist Milipop, who later published in 12k and Room40 under
his name and surname Tomasz Bednarczyk. (Please check the artist section)

Now the label is coming back with a very nice release by an artist Noiko called "Honey".

http://www.etalabel.com/index.php/noiko-honey/

In short: "Honey" is a debut album with ten instrumental electroacoustic lo-fi compositions created from various samples, sounds of a clarinet, guitar, drums, glockenspiel, piano and different electronic virtual instruments. The material consists of productions created within 4 years... The inspiration to creating this kind of sounds was the birth of the artist’s daughter, who was usually nearby during the sound recording.
The album comes in a nice DigiPack (limited edition: 100) and on BandCamp.

Please listen and let us know what you think.

ETALABEL is also present in the social networks:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/etalabel
Google+: http://plus.google.com/u/0/103916712970007826641/posts
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ETALABEL

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Noiko | Rehearsals



More photos here: http://www.etalabel.com/index.php/noiko-live-rehearsals/

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Noiko - "Honey" in the Stashed Goods - Fluid Radio Store

http://www.store.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/02/noiko-honey-limited-edition-cd/

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IGLOO MAGAZINE review of NOIKO - "Honey":
[...] Opening softly,"Les Particules Élémentaire"; is cocktail jazz played for an audience of tired stevedores in a rundown taproom within staggering distance of the docks, flakes of lead-based paint peeling from the walls and falling into the combo’s instruments. In fact, everything on this album is flaking, peeling, derelict, tumbledown. Except for the music itself, which has been painstakingly pieced together over four years and recorded with warmth and clarity. [...]
The full review is here: IGLOO Mag Review by S. Fruitman

The first review in the USA!
[...] Humble is the man who allows a child to be his muse. In the case of Noiko, old neural passages are reopened; the sonic world grows as rich and untamed as an uncharted forest. Sheet music for Honey would look like a hodgepodge of cues and notes, with little apparent pattern. And yet, there is a pattern to the album, an overall tapestry of wonder. [...]
The full review is here: A Closer Listen

Another review in Cyclic Defrost (Australia)
[...] It is also an electrosacoustic album, and seeks to convey a lo-fi sensibility but it’s leanings are way too accomplished and even polished to really give justice to garage origins. It bespeaks of well honed ears of seasoned musicians with both compositional knowledge and a depth of interest in experimental music history, especially towards concrete music which I suspect when mixed with acoustic instruments begets the term electroacoustic. They even list that the mastering was performed “by Krzysztof Orluk with his analogue equipment. One of them is the prototype tube saturator constructed by Andrzej Starzyk, a Polish engineer and designer of the recording studio gear.” Such statements are indicators of the performers serious nature and geekish tendencies as well as being the qualities that find this Polish musicians album on rotation in my environ along with it’s rootless mix of sampling, jazz, minimal piano, electronic ephemera and field recordings. [...]
The full review is here: Cyclic Defrost

A nice review from VITAL WEEKLY
[...]"Thumbs Up" for Noiko [...]
The full review is here: http://www.vitalweekly.net/817.html

Noiko - "Honey" release page

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Noiko available in iTunes - http://itunes.apple.com/pl/album/honey/id512368002

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ETALABEL will be present at SoundSpace, London
http://www.sound-space-store.co.uk/
If you could send the info to your friends, that would be an awesome help!

The whole info is here:
http://www.etalabel.com/index.php/soundspace-2012/
(Please just click the FB / Twitter / G+ button at the bottom  of the NEWS and share the info with your friends)

THANK YOU!
www.etalabel.com

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Although I try hard to promote NOIKO "Honey" (http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/honey) some people put the album on the illegal file sharing servers. That is SO unfair for such a small label which tries to promote young and unknown artists. I feel a bit depressed that after 3 months of really hard promotion work some people did this to the label and the artists.

There are some nice albums waiting to be released (ambient / lo-fi / experimental, etc.). I really want to make the physical DigiPacks cause I believe that there are people who still love to get a nice physical album. But there won't be any release without money.

Therefore I decided to change the purchase option to "Name Your Price", starting with $0.00.
If you feel like helping a small label which goal is to help young and unknown artists, please consider buying www.ETALABEL.com releases,
or simply enter $0.00 and download the music from the label for FREE.
Remember - even $1.00 makes the difference!

http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/movement
http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/rz
http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/3
http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/over-a-foul-line-simple-questions
http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/syntestezja

And some totally FREE release:
http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/dark-sky-remix-project

Each supporter will get a nice discount for the next DigiPack release! (a collaboration between a Polish and Chinese artist)

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Exactly 6 years ago, on 8 May 2006 (actually it’s my my birthday :-) ), ETALABEL published a very nice album which consists of 8 Dark Sky remixes – “Dark Sky Remix Project“. The original Dark Sky: Saturday and Dark Sky: Monday tracks come from the first Eta Carinae album. I managed to contact several artists, both from Poland and other countries, who agreed to make the remixes of the tracks. You can listen to the Dark Sky versions of Andrew Duke (Canada), Pei (Taiwan), Subatomicglue (USA) as well as some Polish artists, with the famous Human Error among others.

Dark Sky Remix Project – FREE DOWNLOAD. Please celebrate my birthday, make me a present and download the album for FREE ;-)
http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/dark-sky-remix-project

Here is the original description of the album:

Eta Carinae “dark sky remix project” is the biggest project of ETALABEL.com so far. Artists from all over the world were invited to work on the remixes. It took a while, but finally many superb musicians joined the project. The starting material for the remix was a composition “dark sky: saturday, monday” from Eta Carinae’s first album. Having diverse approach to music and composition, artists created excellent, varied in style tracks. From a dark ambient track by Andrew Duke (Canada, www.cognitionaudioworks.com), trough Far East soundscapes painted by well-known artist Pei (Taiwan, www.post-concrete.com), to quiet, predictable, but how delicate ambient composition by Human Error (Poland). Interesting addition is a track by Subatomicglue (USA, www.subatomicglue.com), who works for famous Lucasarts company as FX designer, and composes music in spare time as his hobby.

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Very NICE, long and deep review of Noiko "Honey" is the 20th GOOD review of this album! Thank you all reviewers!
Ambient Exotica review by Björn Werkmann :: http://www.ambientexotica.com/ambrev072_noiko_h/

Links to all 20 reviews are here :: http://www.etalabel.com/index.php/noiko-honey-reviews/

There are only 14 digipacks left...
http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/honey

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I would like to announce a new ETALABEL release

This time it's a nice ambient/drone collaboration between two artists:
one from Poland: Krzysztof Orluk, and one from China: Bai Tian.

ChoP vol. 5 | Krzysztof Orluk & Bai Tian – "Structure Of"

Both artists were invited by me and my friend Zen Lu to joint the project called ChoP - which is now a 6-year-old collaboration between artists from Poland and China. ChoP did a lot of things - tours in Poland, Europe and 2 big tours in China, and we also collaborated with British independent film director Isaac Julien on his project "Ten Thousand Waves" and than "Better Life". Here is the ChoP web page - www.chop-project.com

Here is the link to the release:
http://www.etalabel.com/index.php/chop5-structure-of/



I also wanted to make it special so I for all people who purchase the CD on BandCamp I  add hand painted pictures on a rice paper - painted by me.
Here are the photos of how the pictures were prepared:
http://www.etalabel.com/index.php/tree-paintings-chop-vol-5/

Each picture is different - Here is one example:


Hope you gonna like it :-)

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There is a chance to WIN a DigiPack - just answer one easy question and get ChoP vol. 5 !!!

Check the question HERE: http://www.etalabel.com/index.php/win-chop-vol-5/

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Review: http://www.vitalweekly.net/837.html

KRZYSZTOF ORLUK & BAI TIAN - STRUCTURE OF (CDr / DigiPack by Eta Label)

Apparently there is an exchange between Polish and Chinese artists under the name of ChoP, to exchange ideas and work together, also to play live in each others countries. The idea is to combine traditional and modern sounds of the two countries with field recordings and ambient structures. Orluk has had a release on Databloem before and Bai Tian on Lona Records, Audio Tong and the Anthology CD on Sub Rosa. The eight pieces they created together, through internet exchange it seems, use flute, field recordings, Ableton Live and Nuendo (the latter two being software bits, in case you were wondering) and the element of field recordings is hard to figure out in these pieces. Its all highly ambient indeed, but glitchy, not drone based. Or at least not always drone based, but sometimes hovering in the background. Its music that is hardly Chinese or Polish I should think, but in fact could be from anywhere. Delicate late night music of carefully constructed hiss, cracks and long form glitchy sounds, field recordings inside a train station and which works fine on an early morning (the computer clock says 7:35 - no kidding). Each artist created four pieces, but its hard to see a difference between their individual approaches. There is not a single moment around here which I thought was radically different from what I already know, but everything is executed with the greatest care and love of the microscopic detail of sound. (FdW)
Address: http://www.etalabel.com

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From now on a huge SALE in ETALABEL SHOP. http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/

All items (both DigiPacks and Downloads) 50% OFF until 31.07.2012.

Just enter the discount code: "etasale"

Details: http://www.etalabel.com/index.php/sale-50/

ChoP vol. 5 | Krzysztof Orluk & Bai Tian - "Structure Of" | 50% OFF (DigiPack & DL)
Noiko - "Honey" | 50% OFF (DigiPack | 10 copies remaining & DL)
Bionulor - "Bionulor" | 50% OFF (Limited CD-r  | 1 copy remaining & DL)
More (Krzysztof Orluk) - "End Of The Music" | 50% OFF (DL)
An On Bast - "Happy-Go-Lucky" | 50% OFF (DL)
RND - "Distracted" | 50% OFF (DL)
Eta Carinae - "Eta Carinae" | 50% OFF (DL)
Chmury - "Żywe" | 50% OFF (DL)

All other albums can be obtained FREE of charge (unless you want to support the label and help some great unknown artists!)
Just "NAME YOUR PRICE" starting with $0.00

Burma Project - "Syntestezja"
ChoP - "over a foul line / simple questions"
Zen Lu - "Ding"
Eta Carinae - "Dark Sky Remix Project"
Eta Carinae - "::3::"
Narzędzie - "RZ"
Eta Carinae - "Movement"

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Last 4 days of the SALE in ETALABEL SHOP. http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/

All items (both DigiPacks and Downloads) 50% OFF until 31.07.2012.

Just enter the discount code: "etasale"

Details: http://www.etalabel.com/index.php/sale-50/

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A FREE release by www.ETALABEL.com - just click, download and enjoy :-)

DigitalSimplyWorld - Getting Away From It All

http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/getting-away-from-it-all