A San Francisco-Bay Area-based independent record label that was founded by electronic musicians Don Falcone and Karen Anderson in May 1997. The label is oriented towards ambient, electronic, experimental, space and psych music.
Their first release was Spaceship Eyes "Kamarupa" CD. So far they have released seven other CDs: Quiet Celebration, Fireclan, the Where Stalks the Sandman compilation (featuring Kim Cascone and Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson), Thessalonians and Falcone & Palmer and Grindlestone. The eighth CD released on Dec 1, 2008 is the Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix CD entitled "The Entropy Tango & Gloriana Demo Sessions."
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CDs are available from , CD Baby , Ear/Rational , Amoeba Music , Wayside Music , CD Services , Soleilmoon , Backroads Music , Artist's Shop , Aural Innovations , ZNR and Buy.com , as well as digitally from iTunes , Napster and Emusic .
They've been played on numerous radio shows: Hearts of Space, Musical Starstreams, BBC radio, Wind & Wire, Discreet Music, EMUSIC, Star's End, Echoes, Aural Innovations Radio, Mystic Music, Neptune Currents, Exposure, Earwaves, Off the Beaten Path, Progressive Underground and feedback monitor to name a select few.
But, What is Noh???
Noh is a lyric dance-drama performed on a special stage to the accompaniment of music. Dramatic elements are few: the symbolic movements of the actor in Noh costumes with the monotonic music to display a unique artistic beauty that make for the profoundness of the Noh experience.
What does it have to do with a record label and its music?
We don't Noh.
But seriously, Jimmy Possesion, Head of Music at Cambridge (UK) University Radio, sums it up this way:
"Japanese Noh plays evolved out of Shinto rites around 600 years ago. They consist of an all-male cast divided into players (the principals) and the chorus who narrate and sometimes even chant the lines of the main characters while they're dancing. Lecture over, but keep the division between major and minor characters in mind as it applies equally well to the music . . ." (March 9, 1998)
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