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WR 023EP
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Limited and silkscreened 7" (200 copies only). Warren Hildebrand (aka Foxes In Fiction) and Thomas Meluch (aka Benoît Pioulard) have been acquaintances for a number of years. The idea of a collaboration began to take shape and they finally began exchanging songs and files, eventually building up to the two epic pieces heard on this, their debut 7" for Wool Recordings.
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Little is known about France's Frank Rabeyrolles. He has a PhD in philosophy, an endless love for funny analog drum machines and tambourines and many dedications in his albums to his beloved cats. Discovered in 2004 with Life Behind a Window under his Double U alias, he manages to surprise and seduce the public and the press in France with his dreamy hybrid-pop/songwriting. International press (De:Bug, XLR8R, Lodown) has also fallen for his charming vision of "French Touch." Frenetically productive, Frank R. has kept up the pace since then, releasing a new album every year, first with Double U, then with Franklin, a new name which translates his serious desire for continuous mutation. In 2006, he also created his label Wool Recordings, releasing vinyl exclusive tracks from Laetitia Sadier, Stereolab's grand lady, a Castanets split EP, and re-issuing rare, sought-after '70s Estonian vocal jazz, also inviting new talents like Peter Broderick, Benoit Pioulard, etc. His Artificial Light album got better international exposure through a brilliant remix by Com Truise, his synthetic layers and dancing beats seducing as much fashion hipsters than geeky bloggers. Rabeyrolles now feels ready to issue a piece under his own name, putting his soul out in the wild: poetic, fragile, and pictorial, #8 loves playing with the rules of contemporary pop.
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7" of exclusive tracks from The Castanets. Special full-color silkscreened vinyl for fans of Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Smog, Black Heart Procession, Sufjan Stevens. Includes an unexpected cover of U.S. '80s country songwriter Keith Whitley's song "I'm No Stranger to the Rain." The other track is a long and rootsy version of "Meridians," a classic and magic Castanets song with a deep, gloomy, bluesy and ghostly touch.
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Limited to 250 copies 12". Special full-color design by Keith Rankin. For fans of Can/Terry Riley/Krautrock/early electronic music. Blogged by Altered Zones, Decoder Magazine, 20jazzfunkgreats, etc., Giant Claw is multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Keith Rankin's synth-exploration project, and the music is an homage to early electronic music and also a contemporaneous and visionary work. Keith co-runs Orange Milk Records. Altered Zones: "builds through the accumulation of synth motif upon synth motif, enticing a theatrical and fantastical experience nothing short of a Mega Man boss theme."
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Franklin is the side project of Franck Rabbeyrolles, who's also the guy behind Double U, a French minimal electronic pop project. After an acclaimed EP featuring an '80s retro futuristic remix from Com Truise, recently signed on Ghostly International, Franklin returns with a second album, Artificial Light. His mutant synth pop is a typical combination of vintage analog sounds, drums machine, floating interludes and texturized guitar waves. Previous Franklin album Every Now And Then (WR 008CD) took you on a cinematic road-movie trip; Artificial Light invites you to a pictural game of reflecting lights for a unique rhythmical experience. Call it dream-pop, lo-fi, experimental, bedroom production, whatever -- Franklin has followed his sonic explorations and developed his own individual voice.
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Limited and silkscreened 12" featuring unreleased songs from Richard Swift, Rebecca Gates, Superbravo and Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab). Wool loves Laetitia Sadier's music and wanted to do a special release all around her. For this special occasion, they asked her to curate something really personal. She decided to invite some of her closest friends to take part in the project, with a water-related song as the only suggestion. La Piscine is not a compilation but rather a collaborative project of friends and talented artists.
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Limited silkscreened 7" for fans of Atlas Sound, Lali Puna, Neon Indian, Twin Shadow, etc. Franklin is Franck Rabeyrolles' (Double U) side project. Where Double U's music seems more intimate, folky and melancholic, Franklin sounds more like mutant pop. Includes a remix by Com Truise.
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WR 012EP
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Luther Russell has been putting out records since 1991, first as lead singer/songwriter of The Freewheelers, then as a solo artist, and later as a respected producer. This EP features selections from his album The Invisible Audience, a sprawling collection of beautiful songs which melt the sensibilities of Bob Dylan, Big Star and Elliott Smith and serve as something of a crash-course through the history of American songwriting. This EP is a collaboration between Wool and Luther's own label Ungawa. On white vinyl.
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The Estonian ensemble Collage was founded in 1966 by Rivo Dikson and included students from The Tallinn Conservatory and The Tallinn School Of Music and Pedagogical Institute. Anne Erm, one of the band's original voices, named the band Collage as its repertoire included a broad range of music: jazzed-up pop songs, arrangements of classical instrumental music, scores for small formations, large jazz orchestras and original works by Estonian composers. Soon the Repertoire was further expanded to include Estonian folk music, thanks to a request from Estonian Television which commissioned five folk songs as part of an ethnographic program. These songs were also included in the ensemble's first LP: Collage, released in 1970 by Melodiya. Estonian traditional folk songs (known as runo-songs) had not received widespread use in pop music. It seemed that such use had potential. From then on, folk music achieved a significant position in the band's repertoire. Contact with the work of Swedish pianist and composer Jan Johansson (1931-1968) at The Tallinn Jazz Festival in 1966 and 1967, as well as the work of Estonian composer Veljo Tormis influenced the band to an active involvement with folk music. Collage's use of runo-songs has, in turn, influenced the activities of other ensembles throughout the years within the Estonian musical landscape and abroad. Forty Seven Minutes Four Seconds is a collection of original recordings taken from Melodiya Records, and also directly from Estonian radio studios. A wonderful lost jewel of Estonian jazz from the '70s -- modern hybrid jazzy pop that lies somewhere between Carlos Jobim, Michel Legrand, Stereolab, etc. Includes one unreleased song. Band members: Aarne Vahuri, Lea Gabral, Alo Poldmae, Anne Erm, Maire Eliste, Kersti Johannson, Enn Tomson, Katrin Magi, Ivar Johannson, Ole Valgma, and Tauno Vahter.
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Wool Recordings presents a very limited and silk-screened 10" vinyl release of 4 songs, including one previously-unreleased track, by '70s Estonian jazz ensemble Collage. "Halb Sirp" and "Vastlalaul" sum up the jazzy pop side of the band with very sweet vocals between traditional Estonian folk and Michel Legrand aspirations. On the second side "Neiud Lähevad Ära" and "Suur Tamm" deal more with the funky and break-y side of the band, which is what makes this band sound really unique for their time-period.
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