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Fragment
Factory is currently neither
looking for submissions, nor able to ensure the audition of
any material sent to the label.
Thanks for understanding!
Thanks for understanding!
2012-95-15
[FRAG23] is now available!
JOACHIM MONTESSUIS "Chapel Perilous" LP
After a prolific 2011 with a handful of splendid releases on CD, DVD and cassette + collaborations with the likes of Charlemagne Palestine, Julien Ottavi and The Master Musicians of Joujouka, “Chapel Perilous” marks the debut vinyl release and first proper solo album by the Paris based audio/visual artist and curator of the exquisite Erratum label. 23 tracks, totalling approx. 35 minutes, compiled from recordings made in the course of the past eight years, de- and recomposed for this album in early 2012. Drawing on his voice as the main tool, Montessuis delivers a frantic opus of cut-up noise poetry, making “Chapel Perilous” le chef d’œuvre of his extending body of work.
140g black vinyl, edition of 317 copies.
Mastered by Fred Alstadt at Angström, Brussels // Lacquers cut by Yann Dub at Reverse, Barcelona.
14.00€ + shipping (3.45€ worldwide)
ordering info: http://fragmentfactory.com/catalog.html
Resellers: FF offers decent wholesale rates for all available releases.
2012-04-25
Steve Cammack on [FRAG22]:
Have just spent a pleasant while listening to the latest release from
German label Fragment Factory. "Zum Geleit" by Michael Muennich. That's
"Escorting" to us English readers.
Fragment Factory seems to be getting itself an identity. After early releases by "noise" projects the label seems now to be releasing material by sound explorers, conceptual artists, recordists...it is developing into a fine ear. My first exposure to this label was through the cassette release by Berlin based artist Alex Schneider (AKA Krube), and then there has been collaboration recordings featuring EVP pioneer Michael Esposito and Kevin Drumm and "industrial" stalwarts Z'ev and John Duncan. Last year saw the release of the Michael Muennich cassette "Rugged" as well as a collaboration with GX Jupitter-Larsen on 7" vinyl.
Both myself and Michael contributed a cassette for the Lucas Abela "Mix Tape" exhibition that took place in June last year in Australia.(common ground).
And now there is "Zum Geleit" a white 3"CDr packaged in a small plastic wallet. The sound is elemental. To these ears the sound is of rain. The layered sound of rain upon a variety of surfaces. The sound of rain upon various surfaces slightly tweaked and treated and expertly looped. Perhaps the rain is recorded on the glass and metal roof of the building that adorns cover and insert of this release? Perhaps it is not rain at all but insects or dead air space...but to me it sounds like rain. Immediatley the 400 Blows track "399 To Go" is brought to mind...really, dig out the 1989 compilation LP "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Forever" on Concrete Productions and give it a listen. There is also the sound of metal and wooden wind chimes in the mix. The piece is seventeen minutes long and totally engrossing. It also notes that the CDr was mastered by (the master) Phil Julian. I think it won't belong before there is a Phil Julian / Cheapmachines release on Fragment Factory.
One of the "things" I like about Fragment Factory is their release formats. They put stuff out on CDr, cassettes aswell as quality vinyl - that is excellent to see. I do know people (I won't name names, let's just call them ... idiots) who won't put their stuff out on cassette or CDr because they believe it is an inferior format. They'll never learn (great song)! I can only take my hat off to Fragment Factory, a label to keep an eye/ear on....soon they shall be as essential as fellow German labels Pan and Tochnit Aleph.
www.muhmur.blogspot.com
Fragment Factory seems to be getting itself an identity. After early releases by "noise" projects the label seems now to be releasing material by sound explorers, conceptual artists, recordists...it is developing into a fine ear. My first exposure to this label was through the cassette release by Berlin based artist Alex Schneider (AKA Krube), and then there has been collaboration recordings featuring EVP pioneer Michael Esposito and Kevin Drumm and "industrial" stalwarts Z'ev and John Duncan. Last year saw the release of the Michael Muennich cassette "Rugged" as well as a collaboration with GX Jupitter-Larsen on 7" vinyl.
Both myself and Michael contributed a cassette for the Lucas Abela "Mix Tape" exhibition that took place in June last year in Australia.(common ground).
And now there is "Zum Geleit" a white 3"CDr packaged in a small plastic wallet. The sound is elemental. To these ears the sound is of rain. The layered sound of rain upon a variety of surfaces. The sound of rain upon various surfaces slightly tweaked and treated and expertly looped. Perhaps the rain is recorded on the glass and metal roof of the building that adorns cover and insert of this release? Perhaps it is not rain at all but insects or dead air space...but to me it sounds like rain. Immediatley the 400 Blows track "399 To Go" is brought to mind...really, dig out the 1989 compilation LP "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Forever" on Concrete Productions and give it a listen. There is also the sound of metal and wooden wind chimes in the mix. The piece is seventeen minutes long and totally engrossing. It also notes that the CDr was mastered by (the master) Phil Julian. I think it won't belong before there is a Phil Julian / Cheapmachines release on Fragment Factory.
One of the "things" I like about Fragment Factory is their release formats. They put stuff out on CDr, cassettes aswell as quality vinyl - that is excellent to see. I do know people (I won't name names, let's just call them ... idiots) who won't put their stuff out on cassette or CDr because they believe it is an inferior format. They'll never learn (great song)! I can only take my hat off to Fragment Factory, a label to keep an eye/ear on....soon they shall be as essential as fellow German labels Pan and Tochnit Aleph.
www.muhmur.blogspot.com
2012-04-15
[FRAG22] now available:
MICHAEL MUENNICH "Zum Geleit" 3inch CDr
Originally
self-released on the occasion of a performance in Berlin 2011 in a
micro-edition of 12 copies, now publicly available for the first time.
One long, electro-acoustic composition totalling just over 17 minutes.
Basically rustling and crackling, made with the same setup used for
said concert. Triangle, spiral spring, tape loops and amplified tin can.
White disk in mini DVD case, w/ double sided insert card.
Recorded on June 27/28, 2011 at FF Hamburg.
Mastered by Phil Julian.
6.00€ + shipping (1.45€ Germany // 3.45€ worldwide)
ordering info: http://fragmentfactory.com/catalog.html
limited quantities are available for wholesale rates.
2012-02-20
[FRAG21] now available:
YOSHIHIRO KIKUCHI "One Intensely Eats Up Another Economic Principle" C26
I've been keeping a close eye
on Kikuchi's works during the past 2 or 3 years and after numerous
collaborations with Seido, Anla Courtis, Bryan Saunders and the likes,
I'm delighted to welcome back one of Japan's most versatile
contemporary artists for his second solo release on Fragment Factory.
The recordings basically result from audible conflicts between different soundfile types,
modified and processed to four new compositions of glitchy, splintered
electronic music. Printed overhead transparency j-card plus a special
full-color print lying underneath, designed, printed and signed by YK.
Pro-duplicated, stamped tapes, handnumbered edition of 66 copies. Each
copy is unique!
http://www.fragmentfactory.com/frag21.html
order: http://fragmentfactory.com/catalog.html
http://www.fragmentfactory.com/frag21.html
order: http://fragmentfactory.com/catalog.html
2011-11-16
2011-10-04
Now available:
Special edition of the regular [FRAG20] LP, which has been released some time prior to this version.
Alternative sleeves/cover art, hand-assembled, label logo stamped on both sides of the inner sleeve.
Hand-numbered, limited to 50 copies.
20.00€ + shipping
order/postage info ----> catalog section
Special edition of the regular [FRAG20] LP, which has been released some time prior to this version.
Alternative sleeves/cover art, hand-assembled, label logo stamped on both sides of the inner sleeve.
Hand-numbered, limited to 50 copies.
20.00€ + shipping
order/postage info ----> catalog section
2011-08-27
The
Esposito/Drumm 7" is now sold out from the label. Some of the
distributors mentioned on the links page, such as Second Layer, Rumpsti
Pumsti or Hanson still have copies in stock.
2011-08-15
now shipping:
[FRAG20] LP
JOHN DUNCAN / MICHAEL ESPOSITO / Z'EV "There Must Be A Way Across This River / The Abject"
„Michael Esposito proposed the trip to the house where I lived in Chicago (Prospect Heights, to be exact), researched and contacted the present owner to get permission to make recordings inside. He spoke by phone with the wife. When we visited the house, the husband told us the wife was away and refused to allow us to enter. Michael made a recording of this encounter, which is where the EVP was found. Would EVP have been recorded if I hadn't been there? […] Credit should also be given to Heidi Harman, the medium who was with us that night who gave the unsettling news that she could hear my name specified by the voice“.
John Duncan, 03/2011
Two long, remarkable pieces, documenting the occurences at John Duncan's childhood home on February 20, 2009, recorded by Michael Esposito and later processed by Duncan and Z'EV.
Edition of 461 copies, pressed on black 140g vinyl, incl. double-sided insert.
13.00€ + shipping
order/postage info ----> catalog section
2011-06-18
[FRAG19] ARTIST EDITION
Artist
Edition of GX Jupitter-Larsen & Muennich "Die Arbeiter von
Wien"
7inch. Handnumbered, limited to 14 copies, signed by both artists. 4
copies of these will be available for sale from the label. GX might sell a few
copies as well.
Individual handmade sleeves. Black cardboard, Vienna city map snippet under red transparancy.
25.00€ + shipping (currenlty 2 copies left).
sold out.
Individual handmade sleeves. Black cardboard, Vienna city map snippet under red transparancy.
25.00€ + shipping (currenlty 2 copies left).
sold out.
2011-05-06
now shipping:
[FRAG19]
GX JUPITTER-LARSEN und MUENNICH "Die Arbeiter von Wien" 7inch
Following
his "Internationale" cassette and the "Solidarity" CD (both on Banned
Production), "Die Arbeiter von Wien" displays the 3rd part in
Jupitter-Larsen's series of renditions of old trade union/battle songs.
Written by the Vienesse lyricist and essayist Fritz Brügel, presumably in the late 1920's, this piece deals with the events during the so-called "July-Revolt" in the capital of Austria on July 15, 1927. The cause of these events was a court verdict, which aquitted 3 members of the right-wing "Frontkämpfervereinigung Deutsch-Österreichs" of a charge. It was the very same persons, who were responsible for the death of a man and an 8-year-old child in January of the same year.
The "Black Friday", as it went down in history, led to the palace of justice in flames and left 84-89 demonstrators shot dead by austrian police forces, more than 600 people injured and set the stage for a fascist takeover in Austria.
2 renditions, crude, P.E.-ish, vocal-heavy. In short: Commensurate to the occurrences at the time. One side with the original german lyrics, one side with the lyrics translated into english. Double-sided full-color sleeve, lyrics included, 250 made.
6.50€ + shipping (Germany: 2,20€ // elsewhere: 3,45€)
Written by the Vienesse lyricist and essayist Fritz Brügel, presumably in the late 1920's, this piece deals with the events during the so-called "July-Revolt" in the capital of Austria on July 15, 1927. The cause of these events was a court verdict, which aquitted 3 members of the right-wing "Frontkämpfervereinigung Deutsch-Österreichs" of a charge. It was the very same persons, who were responsible for the death of a man and an 8-year-old child in January of the same year.
The "Black Friday", as it went down in history, led to the palace of justice in flames and left 84-89 demonstrators shot dead by austrian police forces, more than 600 people injured and set the stage for a fascist takeover in Austria.
2 renditions, crude, P.E.-ish, vocal-heavy. In short: Commensurate to the occurrences at the time. One side with the original german lyrics, one side with the lyrics translated into english. Double-sided full-color sleeve, lyrics included, 250 made.
6.50€ + shipping (Germany: 2,20€ // elsewhere: 3,45€)