Happy spring from O Rosa Records!
More Rivulets live dates for you:
SUN 4, New Orleans, LA, The Mudlark Public Theatre
FRI 30 , Chicago, IL, The Township
SAT 31, Evanston, IL, WNUR Airplay - Radio session. Listen live at wnur.org, 4pm
We're also pleased to announce the reissue of yndi halda's Enjoy Eternal Bliss LP on coloured vinyl! For ordering options and info, head to our webstore here.
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04.01.12
Happy new year from O Rosa Records!
Our first news announcement of 2012 is an exciting one: Rivulets will be playing a series of solo shows across Europe in February. Be sure to pick up tickets in advance: WED 1 Paris, FR, Espace B
THU 2 Lyon, FR, Sonic
SAT 4, Bordeaux, FR, El Chicho
THU 9, Santiago, ES, Cachán Clube
SAT 11, Lisbon, PT, TBC
SUN 12, Don Benito, ES, Rincon Pio Sound
TUE 14, Madrid, ES, La Faena II
FRI 17, Manlleu, ES, Espacio Pop Up
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07.10.11
Watch a brand new live video from Rivulets below!
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23.08.11
The new Rivulets album We're Fucked is out today on Important Records.
You can stream the entire album free and order direct from Rivulets here.
We're Fucked is also available on iTunes, Amazon, most anywhere you buy music.
Upcoming solo shows for September:
FRI 16 Tilburg, NL, Incubate Festival
SAT 17 Utrecht, NL, dB's
SUN 18 Groningen, NL, schemer
TUE 20 Antwerp, BE, Kavka
WED 21 Ghent, BE, Cafe Video
THU 22 Frankfurt, DE, hinah session
FRI 23 Cologne, DE, Aetherblissement
SAT 24 Lier, BE, JH De Moeve
WED 28 Trieste, IT, Etnoblog
THU 29 Linz, AT, Stadtwerkstatt
+ with Library Tapes * with Love Like Birds
Detailed show info here
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17.08.11
FatCat Records recently featured O Rosa as their guest label on their new radio show, hosted by This Is Fake DIY. Click above to hear a selection of tracks from our past releases!
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16.08.11
We are proud to announce that Rivulets will be releasing the follow up to his O Rosa full-length on Important Records (who handled the US issue of You Are My Home) later this year.
Pre-order the new album "We're Fucked" here: http://bit.ly/o0kjqs
Please note that the above link is for digital versions (mp3, FLAC) of the album only.
The CD, released by Important Records, is available to pre-order on Amazon, etc.
http://www.rivulets.net
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27.01.11
Rivulets tour this February!
7 MON Berlin, Bis Auf’s Messer, DE +
8 TUE Nürnberg, K4 Zentralcafè, DE *
9 WED Munich, Kafe Kult, DE *
10 THU Frankfurt, hinah session, DE *
11 FRI Lille, La Malterie, FR *
12 SAT Wanquetin, Le Plané Ari Home, FR *
13 SUN Brussels, Cellule133a, BE *
14 MON Ghent, Studio Café Commerce,, BE #
15 TUE Leuven, NachtKracht, BE #
16 WED Leiden, The Breimer Common Room, NL *
17 THU Hamburg, Fundbureau, DE *
18 FRI Dortmund, subrosa, DE +
19 SAT Darmstadt, Oetinger Villa, DE +
24 THU Genova, La Claque - Teatro Della Tosse, IT
26 SAT Suburban Club, Salerno, IT
01 TUE Padova, Pulse at la Mela di Newton, IT
+ with Aidan Baker
* with Library Tapes
# with Love Like Birds and Library Tapes
Please note that some of these are private shows requiring reservation. See here for details:
http://www.rivulets.net/shows
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13.11.09
O Rosa Records present...
EFTERKLANG collaborators and the subject of a short film by VINCENT MOON, Denmark's glorious SLARAFFENLAND hit Brighton for one of three exclusive UK shows.
The band's musical language is of joyousness and a stirring, psychedelic live show characterised by soaring vocal harmonies, crashing percussion, beautiful brass arrangements.
This is pop music for the open minded and a fresh reminder to all others that pop music can and should take any form. SLARAFFENLAND are energetic, beautiful, sometimes abstract and full of mystery. Most of all, it is uplifting music.
For fans of: Akron/Family, Fleet Foxes, Efterklang, Anathallo, Sigur Ros, Jenniferever, mum, Fleetwood Mac
Vincent Moon film
Slaraffenland (+ support)
9th Dec 2009
The Freebutt, Brighton, BN2 9ND
7.30pm
Tickets 5 adv / 6 door
email james at yndihalda.com with your name to reserve tickets
Support acts to be announced.
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05.04.09
Hello world,
Just some quick artist updates:
Rivulets is featured in new zine Menagerie, an entirely word-free new magazine curated by our friend and collaborator Jake Blanchard. The zine carries a covermount CD with Rivulets' unreleased track 'Lazarus', recorded by Alan Sparhawk in Duluth, MN. Order .
Nathan will also be playing at Duluth's Homegrown Music Festival on the 28th of April. Click here for details.
Finally, interested in tracing Rivs' performance history back to its beginning? Here is the place to be.
Sylvain Chauveau has released a new album of solo piano material (one 47-minute long piece of solo piano material, to be exact) on the world reknowned Creative Sources label. Recorded by Tortoise's John McEntire in Chicago, Touching Down Lightly is (to quote Sylvain) "an attempt to place spare notes or chords in the right sonic space with depth and restraint."
Whip will be back in Europe for a series of shows in support of his new EP Make Them Sirens Sing (released by Zeal Records). Check out the dates on his myspace page here.
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19.02.09
Wow, 2009 has started slow for us. We're all very busy working on precisions for upcoming releases and digital releases of old ones. ROS01 - Whip's glorious R. Mutt's Blues EP is now sold out and will only be available through download for the time being. This is something we've been working on for a while and will hopefully be near completing soon.
We're talking with a few artists about forthcoming releases and have some incredible albums lined up for the rest of the year.
Artist news...Rivulets (aka Nathan Amundson) will be hitting these European shores again soon, following up his short set of intimate shows last November. We have no firm plans yet, but we are working on a great support slot, with one of our favourite artists (and probable future O Rosa flag-flyer).
Whip (aka Jason Merritt) is going on tour at the end of April to early May in the Benelux, Germany, France and some other places. No UK dates for the minute, but we'll sort that soon enough. A new whip ep - Make Them sirens Sing is in the works, as is a new Whip full-length.
Sylvain is, as usual, busy with enigmatic and boundary-redefining new projects that he will update us about sooner or later. Be sure to check out the new 130701/FatCat compilation Floored Memory...Fading Location, which features tracks from Sylvain's stunning Un Autre Decembre album, as well as unreleased material. A podast featuring interviews with Sylvain and the other 130701 artists will be made available soon. Check out the FatCat website here.
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13.12.08
2008 has been a feverishly busy year for everyone here at O Rosa. Our biggest releases to date, a Rivulets European tour, Sylvain Chauveau's beautiful show at the Union Chapel (backed by our friends and colleagues Greg Haines and Peter Broderick) and lots of exciting planning for next year. We'd like to thank everyone, everyone who has helped in any faculty. We have some exciting announcements regarding next year's release plans - stay tuned!
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15.4.08
We'd like to extend our warmest thanks to Prof. Grenville Hancox, head of music at Christ Church University. His help is hugely appreciated.
There is a beautiful live video of Rivulets' beautiful "You Are My Home" online here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8bscoD25o-c
The release of this record is coming up soon! Be sure to get pre-orders in early!
We have some great new reviews of Roman Anglais by Felicia Atkinson & Sylvain Chauveau, which can be read on our myspace site.
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03.3.08
Welcome to the new O Rosa Records site! A thousand thanks to Alex Harbin for all his help.
To accompany this good news, here's some more good news:
The gorgeous You Are My Home by Rivulets is heading towards the manufacturers as I type. We have some minor artwork changes to make, and then we're ready to go. Expect a May release of this beautiful record (and have a quick listen here).
Just as good: ROS02, the debut collaborative effort from
Felicia Atkinson and Sylvain Chauveau is to be released worldwide on
the 10th of March 2008. Pre-orders from the site, though, will be
exclusively available from around the beginning of February.
Are you happy? We're happy.
O Rosa Records is a record label owned and run by Casa Nostra.
O Rosa Records was formed in 2006, and has been treading water steadily since then. It is based in Brighton, UK, run in time stolen from its staff's other endeavours and with money that should have been spent elsewhere.
Everything will be packaged and designed with the dedication that the music deserves. We will
Whip
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Portland's Jason Merritt writes songs for both himself (as Whip), and for his band (Timesbold). while all are rich and melancholy Americana, the former are much softer and more delicate than the full-band arrangements, and fit the O Rosa sound perfectly.
Jason spent his youth in upstate New York, but eventually found his way to that great centre-point of outsider culture - Portland, Oregon. He was eager to escape New York by any means necessary, and around the year 2000, he found that making records brought him out of the little town he was living in and so the musical adventures of Timesbold and Whip began to take him around the world, and further from home with every new endeavour.
Felicia Atkinson & Sylvain Chauveau
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We welcome the first European artists to our little label. The melifluous sonic interweaving of autumnal, shimmering guitar, prepared piano, subtle electronics and the most musical use of pure silence in modern times with Felicia's barely-whispered narratives inspired us to welcome them with open arms! Sylvain has released with the world-respected Type and FatCat labels (his most recent EP S is available from Type as of October 2007), has toured with Sigur Ros and played with Christian Fennesz, and is one of Paris' most prominent currently-operating modern composers. Felicia is an artist, and a songwriter in her own right, as well as writing poetry (as evidenced here), and has a discography no less note-worthy than Sylvain's.
Rivulets
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Nathan Amundson began writing songs as Rivulets in 1999, after leaving home as a 16-year old and traveling almost non-stop across the United States.
Rivulets has previously released records with Important Records, Acuarela, BlueSanct, Silber, and (perhaps most thrillingly) Chair Kickers' Union (the label owned by Low. Alan Sparhawk of that band also recorded the first two Rivulets full-lengths, and Mimi Parker performs on them).
Having shared a stage with - among others - Cerberus Shoal, Coco Rosie, Mark Eitzel, Daniel Johnston, Low, Mirah, My Morning Jacket, Scout Niblett, Piano Magic, Stars of the Lid, Songs: Ohia, Swearing at Motorists, Willard Grant Conspiracy, and Xiu Xiu, Rivulets is a well-known as a blistering live act, and will be gracing Europe with songs from You Are My Home in 2008.
yndi halda
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yndi halda was formed by school friends James Vella, Jack Lambert, Oliver Newton, Daniel Neal and Brendan Grieve during the members' formative teenage years. United by a love of expressive leftfield music, the band came together initially as a hissy bedroom collection of home-recorded tape demos that gradually yielded an interest in the longform orchestral pieces that the band now calls their own.
O Rosa Records reissued and repackaged the band's debut album Enjoy Eternal Bliss in summer 2011 while the band work on their upcoming, currently untitled, second record.
Sweet, hushed tones and delicately cracking vocals with plaintive and genuinely stirring lyrics. R. Mutt's Blues is the record that saw Jason slowly return from almost dead; after an entire year of phonographic inactivity, the first months of 2007 will see Whip release this stunning EP and accompanying full length, as well as some (no doubt wonderful) live performances on this side of that great Atlantic. The title refers to Marcel Duchamp's oft-misunderstood Dadaist masterpiece 'Fountain', and is a knowing and cheerful allegory to something we may never understand. These songs will melt hearts.
Order:
Order the R. Mutt's Blues EP from here
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ROS02 - Felicia Atkinson & Sylvain Chauveau | Roman Anglais - 10th of March 2008:
Felicia and Sylvain's debut collaborative effort is quite noticeably the work of two of the field's most noteworthy songwriters. From Dans La Lumiere's gentle electronic flickering that brings to mind Labradford or Stars of the Lid, to the gorgeous (and unexpected) English vocals of Aberdeen - "down by the river, I shot down my baby" - this record is one that no-one will fail to be stirred by. Like a serene, slow-motion window into the world of Paris' lively architecture, or a glimpse into where silence meets sound at their closest point. You will not forget this record.
Le premier album de Felicia avec Sylvain est une collaboration l'on peut clairement percevoir le styles respectifs des deux personnages. De l'electronique scintillante et lre de Dans La Lumiere, vision de delicatesse et de grace dans leurs formes les plus pures, a la surprenante voix anglophone de Aberdeen - « I shot down my baby, down by the river » une musique qui en remuera plus d'un. Comme un alenti depuis une fenetre parisienne, ou la rencontre rencontre intime entre le son et le silence. Vous n'oublierez pas cet enregistement.
Order:
Order Roman Anglais from here
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ROS03 - Rivulets | You Are My Home - 5th of May 2008:
We have, in You Are My Home, a wintry, longing and grippingly beautiful record. Moments of warmth are carried - resonate, even - through passages of great yearning. The heartbreakingly lingering finger-picked guitar; warm, full orchestral arrangements and enveloping, delicate vocal deliveries that make up You Are My Home are to be treasured, held close like sunlight in Alaska.
This is a record that stands so complete and so singularly in the field; there is enough sentiment here to fill a whole back catalogue of recordings, and O Rosa Records is proud to present this truly breathtaking release.
Order:
Order You Are My Home from here
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ROS04 - coming soon
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ROS05 - yndi halda | Enjoy Eternal Bliss - 1st of August 2011:
O Rosa is proud to present a reissue, repressing and repackaging of the record that started the entire endeavour. yndi halda's Enjoy Eternal Bliss was originally released by Big Scary Monsters and Burnt Toast Vinyl in 2007, but we have since re-obtained the rights to the band's debut (and, currently, only) album and are now able to offer a brand new edition.
Receiving a huge critical acclaim on release (9/10 Drowned in Sound; 9/10 Rock Sound etc. etc.) and sending the band across the world on tour, Enjoy Eternal Bliss is available from O Rosa on CD and Burnt Toast Vinyl on double vinyl.
Order:
Order Enjoy Eternal Bliss from here
Hetfield: James Vella
Ulrich: Oliver Newton
Hammett: John Lynch
Trujillo.: Andreas Geiser
For getting in touch:
(N.B. contact change-around coming soon - please direct mail to above until further notice)
Press: Paul at Plug Two
UK and Europe distribution: Danny at Baked Goods
Scandinavia distribution: Anders at DotShop
USA distribution: Jimmy at Forced Exposure
Japan distribution: Masami at P*Dis
Other inquiries (including demo submission): James at O Rosa
Links:
O Rosa Records on myspace
O Rosa Records webstore
yndi halda (James' band)
A Lily (James' solo project)
Baked Goods (UK and Europe distribution)
DotShop (Scandinavia distribution)
Forced Exposure (USA distribution)
P*Dis (Japan distribution)
PlugTwo (Press)
Burnt Toast Vinyl (our friends)
Stagedive Malta (trailblazing Maltese promoters)
FatCat Records (James' employers)