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PERL 128LP
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New album by Bruno Pronsato, Do It At Your Funeral. "Ode To Street Hassle" features Benjamin Freeney.
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PERL 118EP
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Bruno Pronsato, Berlin producer who produced US Drag (FOOM 012LP, 2017), drops off a few at Perlon.
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2017 release. Bruno Pronsato returns with his first new artist album since 2011. Entitled US Drag, it's the follow-up to 2011's critically acclaimed Lovers Do (SONG 006CD/LP) -- lauded by Pitchfork as a "striking and massive statement", and decorated with a 4.5/5 rating by Resident Advisor. The new record, which finds the ex-punk rock drummer exploring dense, interlocking rhythms and unorthodox tuning systems, was recorded in Berlin during the second half of 2016, and features a collaboration with Liars' frontman Angus Andrew. After the vast, complex arrangements of his previous albums, the nine recordings on US Drag are relatively more upfront and direct, with a particular focus on bells, tuned percussion, and the Sequential Circuits Six-Trak synthesizer (used to create many of the album's synth parts). Pronsato's ongoing collaboration with Yonatan Levi continues, with the Israeli bassist appearing on the album's second track. "His music is worth the serious headphone scrutiny one devotes to a Pierre Henry or Eric Dolphy LP." --XLR8R "One of the most compelling artists in experimental house music . . . has a way of enveloping a space until everything else just feels inconsequential." --Resident Advisor "Amazingly fresh and joyously live . . . Wields silence as if it's his own instrument." --The Wire "Electronic nonpareil" --FACT Magazine.
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SONGSAYS 006LP
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First vinyl edition of Lovers Do by Bruno Pronsato, originally released as a CD in 2011 (SONG 006CD). Bruno Pronsato has always kept busy with various projects, including Others, his experimental house outfit with Daze Maxim; Public Lover, his duo with the French artist Ninca Leece; and his work with Sammy Dee as Half Hawaii, which has released on Perlon and Diamonds & Pearls. As half of the duo Ndf, he coproduced "Since We Last Met," a single that marked his debut on DFA and landed in Pitchfork's "Top 100 Tracks of 2010" staff list. But as Bruno Pronsato was juggling all of these different projects, one piece of music was slowly taking shape -- his third and most immersive album, Lovers Do. Like much of his work to date, Lovers Do is experimental without being snobby -- or, in the artist's words, "accidentally avant-garde" -- but this one takes it further than the others. It has a looseness that's truly rare in techno; scrapping formulaic verses and breaks, it winds along like an abstract sketch, guided by intuition instead of logic. Some songs are fraught with nervous tension while others are soothing and rich with detail that ranges from dappling Rhodes to orchestral swells, jazzy drum fills, and wet hand claps. Human voices swirl in and out of the mix, serving only to make things more surreal. Many of the tracks stretch well beyond ten minutes, though one bows out after less than three. Overall, the album is delicate and subtle, but it also features one of Bruno Pronsato's best club tunes, the eerie and delirious "Feel Right." Bruno Pronsato spent two years composing Lovers Do at his home studio in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. His muse Ninca Leece makes scattered cameos throughout. Brian Eno once described his own music as a place one occupies rather than a thing that happens; Lovers Do is such a place -- a lovely, impressionistic scene with amber tones, murky figures, dim streetlights, and dusty shadows.
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SONGSAYS 006CD
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It was in 2008 that Bruno Pronsato released his last album, Why Can't We Be Like Us (HELLO 010CD), and in the meantime he's kept very busy -- primarily with side projects. First there was Others, his experimental house outfit with Daze Maxim. Then came Public Lover, his duo with the French artist Ninca Leece that debuted last year on The Song Says (Bruno's label). He's continued to join forces with Sammy Dee as Half Hawaii, playing live shows around Europe and putting out tracks on Perlon and Diamonds & Pearls. As half of the duo Ndf, he co-produced Since We Last Met, a single that marked his debut on DFA and landed in Pitchfork's top tracks of the year. But while he was juggling all these different projects, one piece of music was slowly taking shape: his third and most immersive album, Lovers Do. Like much of Bruno's work to date, Lovers Do is experimental without being snobby -- or to use his own term, "accidentally avant garde" -- but this one takes it further than the others. It has a looseness that's truly rare in techno; scrapping formulaic verses and breaks, it winds along like an abstract sketch, guided by intuition instead of logic. Some songs are fraught with nervous tension, others are soothing and rich with detail, from dappling Rhodes to orchestral swells, jazzy drum fills and wet hand claps. Human voices swirl in and out of the mix, serving only to make things more surreal. Many of the tracks stretch well beyond ten minutes; one bows out after less than three. The album overall is delicate and subtle, but it also features Bruno's best club tune in years, the eerie and delirious "Feel Right." Brian Eno once described his own music as a place you occupy rather than a thing that happens. Lovers Do is such a place; a lovely, impressionistic scene with amber tones and murky figures, dim street lights and dusty shadows. Bruno spent two years composing Lovers Do at his home studio in Prenzaluerberg, Berlin. His muse Ninca Leece makes scattered cameos throughout the record, and "Feel Right" features vocals from a raft of Bruno's friends and contemporaries, including Vera, Margaret Dygas, Marc Schneider, Marco Rafanelli, Alex Petit and Pheek.
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SONGSAYS 005EP
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These are two tracks from Bruno Pronsato's album, Lovers Do. "Anybody But You" sets a wobbly vibraphone over a steady bass line and threads of indistinguishable vocals. On "Feel Right," Bruno invites friends, producers and casual acquaintances to lend their voices. With almost 50 contributors including the likes of Vera, Margret Dygas, and Anthony Collins telling you to "feel right," how can you not? A tangle of noise holds the track together, floating alongside a thick bass line and off-kilter percussion.
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HELLO 013EP
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Following Bruno Pronsato's Why Can't We Be Like Us is another timeless pearl on Hello? Repeat. On the title track, Bruno worked with his very good friend Caro (aka Randy Jones), and together they delivered a truly magical vocal track. On the flip side, you'll find a fairly dirty track called "Where'd You Learn To Kiss That Way." Again, Bruno manages to create a record with a very unique atmosphere.
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HELLO 010CD
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This is the second full-length release by Seattle's Bruno Pronsato (Steven Ford). Why Can't We Be Like Us embodies his old passion for playing the drums as well as his addiction to ones and zeros. Instead of creating streamlined minimal, he has more of an abstract sound on his mind -- one that lives on a dark, organic and percussive note. He has always been unpredictable and funky with a twist between the beats, his tracks often relying on devious turns, flickering sounds, warm bass lines and some free-riding vocals. These tracks tell a story with long, grooving compositions that are full of rhythms that twist around bubbling sounds that seem to launch out of his very own inner space. Sometimes a piano melody dances around, then an undefinable vibrancy chirps out of the background, and in the next moment some unheard buzzing sighs apart from space and time. This album feels like a logical progression from his EPs for labels like Orac, Philpot, Hello? Repeat and his creative powers as one part of the duo Half Hawaii on Perlon. Musical suspense that processes feelings and soul through electronic vibrations. Everything sounds like Bruno Pronsato plays it himself and follows the "I am an instrument" dictum of the spacy free jazzer, Sun Ra. Bruno Pronsato lives in the space of the inner-sound.
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HELLO 005EP
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"Bruno returns with another piece of jewelry for Hello? Repeat. The title track 'There's Galaxies Better' arises at a mysterious place somewhere in Seattle and tells the story of a Lady Cabdriver somewhere in the future. 'TGB' starts with loose, stuttering percussion over a locked bass before opening out into a beautifully detailed mix of chords and straight to your face chorus-vocals. As if this is not enough, Grandmaster Thomas Melchior steps along and delivers with his interpretation of 'TGB,' a hypnotic build up groove monster which will take you on a cosmic spellbinding ride. The second strike on this EP is 'Our Holiday Clothes.' It's peppered with fresh-flavored ingredients, cut-ups, smacking claps, stumbling bells, sexy-beats and a driving arrangement which makes us dance, dance, dance."
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HELLO 003EP
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"One thing that is already a fact about new label on the block Hello Repeat is that they're not playing it safe by catering standard clubfare to the latest trend but are rather determined to kick electronic sounds decidedly back to the future. In 2005 Bruno established himself as a true renovator of techno music with seminal releases on Orac, PhilPot, Milno Modern or Musique Risquée, proving that there are still enough fresh rhythmical twists possible even in a 4/4 pattern and that his infinite sound palette goes far beyond the scope of typical formalistic minimal stuff. Wade In the Water, Children will drive your circulation right up and get your juices flowing like the classic Kneipp cure with it's bassline getting bent and strangled in every extreme direction plus a duet of spoken voices meandering in between the quirky wigglin beats and blurring your perception between the track and what is going on around you on the floor."
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