Etude Records

ETUDERECORDS is a label created in Barcelona in 2006 and focused on experimental music and obscure sound archives.
Postal Adress:
Etude Records
725 College st
P.O.Box 31013
Toronto, Ontario
m6g 4a7
Canada
ap’strophe "Objects sense objectes"
ap’strophe is the duo of Ferran Fages and Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga. They began working together in 2006, when Ferran Fages recorded his last guitar album “Cançons per a un lent retard”, where Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga collaborated in the track Paraula clau, which they composed and interpreted together. After recording the album they realized the impossibility of re-interpreting this piece, which is based on the detuning(s) of the guitar, but they decided to continue working together. They decided to treat the piece Paraula clau as finished and started to search for a common sonoric space. The result of this survey gave shape to their present collaboration, which consists of a duo of acoustic guitar and zither. With their music they investigate the perception of the distinctive timbre of the guitar and the zither alongside the differences and similarities of their string instruments.
ROBERT MILLIS "120"
ABOUT "120"
Robert Millis: a Climax Golden Twin, a collector '78s resulting in the impeccable Victrola Favorites book & compilation, purveyor of searing avant-scum-noise-rock in AFCGT, a world traveler in search of esoterica for Sublime Frequencies…Despite his many activities, Millis' recorded output has almost entirely been by way of collaboration, making this gem of a solo album all the more special. This is closer related to the collage work that Millis has contributed to the Climax Golden Twins, bridging all of those aforementioned interests in a polyglot of psychedelic smear pocked with snippets of conversation, poetic extracts from his collection of '78s, and a judicious amount of vinyl crackling. An album such as this would easily be confused for the hermetic revelations that Philip Jeck extracts from his rough shod vinyl and turntables; but Millis seems to counterpoint the crackle and the clean with more drama than Jeck, almost positing the crackle like a punch line in a joke that breaks through one of Millis' blissed out shimmers constructed from loops and drones from guitar, bells, and glass harmonica, where haunted melodies from times long gone whisper through the mix. The logic of the album may seem absurd from afar; but the internal logic is peculiarly sensible, as if Millis were tapping into some stream of consciousness that subcutaneously connects all of these intermingling sounds…very highly recommended no matter how you slice it.
----Jim Haynes (Coelacanth, Helen Scarsdale Agency, 23Five, etc) in his Aquarius Records review of the extremely limited CDR version of 120, December 2008
RELEASES:
etude010 Mike Hansen "At every point"
etude011 Agustí Martínez "Are spirits what I hear?"
etude012 Lngtché "Music for an untitled film by T.ZArkkof"
etude013 Ferran Fages "Cançons per a un lent retard"
etude014 Alfredo Costa Monteiro "Épicycle"
etude015 Tomasz Krakowiak "La ciutat ets tu"
etude016 Jose Luis Redondo "La reponse est aux pieds"
etude017 Ferran Fages "Al voltant d..un para/.lel"
etude018 Robert Millis "120"
etude019 apstrophe "Objects sense objectes"
UPCOMING:
Fermentæ; Climax Golden Twins;