Marcin Masecki’s new CD “Polonezy” premieres today. We published it in partnership with the National Audiovisual Institute and we are very happy it’s out. You could even say, if you were so inclined, that it heralds the arrival of a new era of the polonaise (that’s in French). For those who don’t know yet what it’s all about, below is a litte teaser, and if you click here you can buy the CD.

Today at Record Store Day!

(The name is more than appropriate in Warsaw where there is only one record store.)

First, this is the day that Baaba’s, Gaba’s and Michał’s single makes its debut. Right there, at Record Store Day, in the courtyard on Chmielna 51. Starting today, though, you can also order it from our online store. You probably even should. Secondly, this is the day of live gigs by Baaba (2 p.m.), Coldair (3 p.m.) and Masecki (4 p.m.), and in the evening, at Powiększenie, LXMP will share the stage with The Kurws. So that’s the Record Store Day stuff.

Then there are the planned debut releases of:

-Marcin Masecki "Polonezy"

--Małgorzata Sarbak "Bach Partitas"

---LXMP "Back To The Future Shock" (also on LP)

----Ed Wood "Post-Mortem Lovers"

-----Wovoka "Trees Against The Sky"

And others later.

May everything that’s good abound for you.

PS. Apart from that, small changes on our website. Most importantly, the killer player is no more. Instead, you can go to ‘audio’ and listen to a soundcloud mix.

As usual, some sort of an album summary is called for.

Being an apocalypse year and everything, 2012 brought the following releases:

1. BAABA "The Wrong Vampire" buy here

2. PICTORIAL CANDI "Eat Your Coney Island" buy here

3. PAULA & KAROL "Whole Again" buy here

4. ALTE ZACHEN "Total Gimel" buy here

5. MARCIN MASECKI "Die Kunst der Fuge" buy here

6. LXMP WITH CHAD POPPLE "The Lost Tuba" buy here

7. LXMP WITH KAZUHISA UCHIHASHI "Broken Strings" buy here

8. BABADAG "Babadag" buy here

9. SEMANTIK PUNK "abcdefghijklmnoprstuwxyz" buy here

And in the new year we’ll no longer idle about, and can already promise the following from our winter/spring collection:
1. BAABA i GABRIELA / BAABA i MICHAŁ 7' (with this, we are launching our series of Lado 7-inches)
2. CUKUNFT "Wilde Blumen" 
3. ED WOOD "Post-Mortem Lovers" 
4. COLDAIR "Whose Blood"
5. LXMP "Back To The Future Shock"
6. MARCIN MASECKI "Polonezy"

And, of course, five hundred other ideas, but we don’t know if we can squeeze them all in.
Have a good night and an even better year!

As you can see, we remain loyal to our near-quarterly approach to instant news reporting.

We’re ashamed to admit that we failed to admit to taking part in two cool events:

a) the LADO ABC showcase featured at the annual CJG Music Fair in Warsaw. Four Lado bands performed (Efekt Moozgu, Ed Wood, Pictorial Candi, Babadag) plus a special guest from Germany (Felix Kubin).

b) LADO ABC’s participation in and co-production of the Jazz & Experimental Music From Poland festival in London, where audiences were treated to concerts by Marcin Masecki, Hubert Zemler, Levity, Paristetris, and to a specially commissioned piece by Janek Duszyński.

But we will admit to two pre-New-Year album premieres:

a) Babadag - Ola Bilińska’s collaboration with Szymon Tarkowski, Hubert Zemler and Maciek Cieślak – available in good and bad music stores as of December 15.

b) semantik punk – a Warsaw band which recorded its debut album "abcdefghijklmnoprstuwxyz" in Los Angeles under the watchful eyes and hearful ears of one Ross Robinson. Available in good and bad music stores as of December 27. 

Both records will be up for pre-sale in our online shop in a little while.

Apart from that: lots of plans, very little time, no real headquarters to operate from, but at least the bottles are refundable.

For all of you out there and for all of us out here, we have improved our online store. Namely, you no longer have to log in to shop. You enter, you order, you pay, and then you wait until it arrives. The only difference is that if you do decide to register and then log in, you will have all your data kept for good. You will see your entire purchase history. Plus, if you really really want it, you will receive some news from time to time.
The choice is yours, Jimmy. Or is it Timmy?

We know everything and it starts quite soon, so here we goooo:

12.07 Ścianka / Michał Biela solo
19.07 SzaZaZe plays Themerson / Pictorial Candi
26.07 Coldair / Woody Alien
02.08 The Kurws / Alte Zachen*
09.08 Jozef Van Wissem / Father Murphy
16.08 Hokei / Jacek Sienkiewicz
23.08 Piętnastka / Szuszkiewicz i Muzycy
30.08 Jacaszek / Alameda Trio

06.09 Marcin Masecki** / LXMP with Chad Popple & Kazuhisa Uchihashi***

* "Total Gimel" release party

** "Die Kunst Der Fuge" release party

*** "The Lost Tuba" and "Broken Strings"release party

Location: Bar Ka (Wisła, next to construction works of subway station Powiśle) / Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie 31/33 / Warszawa / in case the weather sucks, concerts will take place at Powiększenie (Nowy Świat 27)
All concerts start 9PM.

Admission free.

Greets / see you.

The first single (?) from the upcoming Alte Zachen album:

And soon we'll tell you about our Lado w Mieście festival.

Alte Zachen, Rogiński / Tyciński / Moretti / Rzepka quartet, has just recorded their debut album. It is being mixed as we speak, and at the same time the cover art is being designed somewhere in the east by our friend Zev Engelmayer. The album is entitled "Total Gimel" and will premiere at the Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow on July 4.
Apart from that, we expect the recording session of Hokei, the joint forces of Stwory and Ed Wood, to take place soon, and the mixing of Wovoka is almost over.
So much stuff...

Hello, you.

We’ve been away for a while, but now we plan to be here at least once a week, even when nothing happens. Just like that.

First of all, we have not yet revealed what everybody knows anyway, namely that Paula i Karol have published their new album. It’s called “Whole Again” and has been on the market for quite some time. Paula even says she saw it in a kiosk at Okęcie airport! Robert Bęza made a video for the first single, and reviews are starting to appear in the press. This is what we call the spring, maaan.

And we have other plans. On June 1, we are putting out LXMP with Chad Popple of Gorge Trio. This will be the first in a series of four records of LXMP in a trio mode. The second installment will come on September 1 and will feature Kazuhisa Uchihashi. September will also see the premiere of Marcin Masecki’s “Die Kunst der Fuge” (that’s Bach). But it will come out! It will!

And concerts? Paula i Karol are travelling the world as usual. They recently visited Great Britain. Baaba and LXMP came back from the US. Kristen and Ed Wood are just about to go Primavera, and Plum have started a tour.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Release party of Pictorial Candi's debut album will take place at Cafe Kulturalna in Warsaw on 16th of May (10PM). Feel invited. And in the meantime, check one of the tunes HERE.

As the spring inevitably approaches, so does our first 2012 crop.
Which leads us to the following statement:
On March 16th, Baaba will premiere its new album entitled 
"The Wrong Vampire", recorded with the help of Natalia Przybysz 
and Małgorzata Sarbak. As all those who know already know full 
well, it will be a concept album worthy of the achievements of such 
greats as The Flosstones or Orban Ketōzs. It will feature the band's 
unique take on Christopher Komeda's original soundtrack 
for the film "The Fearless Vampire Killers".
It is also worth mentioning that the cover art was supplied by the 
amazingly talented Dawid Ryski, a man of boundless imagination 
and a surgical way with pencils, currently residing in Puławy.
Here is a single from the album.
Stay tuned for information about our next new release.

Due to a temporary reorganization of our stock we know close to nothing, but we do remember that we finished 2011 with a 6:0 win, which means that the following players scored:
PLUM "Hoax"
PROFESJONALIZM "Chopin Chopin Chopin"
EFEKT MOOZGU "Slumberjackin'"
HUBERT ZEMLER "Moped"
KRISTEN "An Accident"
LEVITY "Afternoon Delights"
We kind of thought there were fewer of those.
As for 2012, we only know that the first half of the year will see new releases: Marcin Masecki’s dictaphone take on Bach’s The Art of The Fugue; Baaba’s Komeda tunes with Natalia Przybysz and Gosia Sarbak; Candelaria Saenz Valiente’s solo album; and a brand new record by Paula i Karol (their second). All that is for sure, and then there are those things that are slightly less for sure. The dates of all the new releases will be published once we’ve gotten our house in order.

We have kept up our tradition of not saying much,

which is shameful really. So without further ado:

A) June 1 will see two debuts:

PROFESJONALIZM "Chopin Chopin Chopin"

Marcin Masecki's weirdojazzish sextet

EFEKT MOOZGU "Slumberjackin'"

the totalfuckingdestructionish duet of Zabrodzki and Dabrowski

Both available at our online store starting June 1, and in shops

a little while later.

B) Vinyls! Lanquidity Records published two records with us:

BAABA "Disco Externo"

12' + 7' with remixes by Max Tundra and Greg Saunier of Deerhoof

MITCH & MITCH with thier INCREDIBLE COMBO

"XXII Century Sound Pioneers"

12' and 7' or 1.5 LP

Available at out store, probably also from June 1.

For more news, click on the 'blog' link on your left and that will magically transport you to our facebook page. A bunch of live shows coming up. Paula & Karol took off to see some Europe, as did Paristetris. SzaZa will probably soon take off to see some World.

Even the Mitchz are rumoured to be planning appearances in Prague and Sziget.
Stuff's happening.

Short, but essential. The official release date of "Hoax", the new album by Plum is scheduled for the 15th of March. It contains ten lovelynoisy tunes, some of them not so obviously Plumish, which makes it even more delicious. You will be able to order the CD through our online store from the 5th of March onwards, but first check out the band's website to see what it's all about. Yo.

So that was that.
First, the summary we promised: 2010 was for us a year of multiple publications, of travelling to multiple destinations and of receiving multiple nominations and awards. Thanks.
As for the future, we still know fairly little, but we do know the following:
a) We will most likely put out a re-issue of another 90s classic, "Ombreola" by Starzy Singers. Just like with "Rock-a-bubu", we will throw in some tasty bonus stuff onto the second CD. For example, the first demo tape with Seszka screaming even more than you're used to.
b) We will surely publish something by Piotrek Zabrodzki and Patryk Dąbrowski, who are still struggling to come up with a name for their project. Their music is likely to pleasantly demolish your ears for ever. Amen.
c) Also for sure, there will be something else from the PinkPunk crew, this time by Plum. We're really happy because their new album is a fucking classic.
d) In partnership with Lanquidity Records, we will put out vinyl records of Mitch & Mitch's "XXII Century Sound Pioneers" and Baaba's "Disco Externo". Both in 12' plus 7' versions. Pretty cool, no?
e) Minutes before his departure, Marcin Masecki took some preliminary steps with his band Profesjonalizm. When he comes back he will continue so this should also come out around pretty much about the nearest future of the days to come roughly sooner or later.
f) You can also count on Cukunft - they are entering a recording studio as we speak.

We will of course keep you updated with any new info.
Have a great 2011!

PS. We also recommend our last issue of 2010 - the long-promised album by Janek Duszyński. It is called "Mybeautifuldream" and is available in our online store.

2010 was pretty eventful and we’ll try to sum it up for you in about two weeks.
For now, just a shout-out that Paula i Karol’s album should finally be availabe in shops, big and small, located in various jewels of Polish architecture as well as in our online store.
Also, the real-world retailers should soon feature (in small quantities, but still) some of the older newbies: Kristen, Ed Wood, Masecki, Paristetris, LXMP, and even Mitch & Mitch with Igor Krutogolov OR EVEN Rock-a-bubu by Starzy Singers.
And composer Janek Duszyński’s album will be out before the end of this year. All gorgeous with the cover designed by Janek Dziaczkowski. Seriously.
As for our plans for 2011, those remain hazy. We will start discussing them in January.
(In spare time check the nice article about Lado ABC by clicking this link)

Howdy all English-speaking music listeners. Perhaps you came here for Paula & Karol's newest release "Overshare"? Well, calm it down! Their album is being burned and packaged as we speak and will be ready for you here on the 3rd of December!!! We accept orders from pretty much everwhere like the US, Japan, and the coolest countries in Europe. Paula & Karol are pumped to meet you so check back soon.

A few new releases are just around the corner:

1. ED WOOD "Anal Animal"

2. MARCIN MASECKI "John"

3. KRISTEN "Western Lands"

4. PARISTETRIS "Honey Darlin'"

5. PAULA I KAROL "Overshare"

6. JAN DUSZYŃSKI "Mybeautifuldream"

In this order, roughly.

All of them will soon be available in our store.

Also, we launched the Lado facebook page to which you are all more than welcome.

In other also's, the Mitches have returned from Brazil and SzaZa took off for the US.

And lots of other stuff around.

A microfestival takes place between 8th and 10th of October at Powiększenie club in Warsaw.

All the shows start at 8PM. No delays.

08.10

Chad Popple (Colossamite, Gorge Trio) - drums

Chad Popple + LXMP (Moretti / Zabrodzki)

Ed Wood

09.10

Jesse Rivkin (The Young Lungs) - guitar, vocal

Jesse Rivkin + Milky Balls (Candi / Masecki)

Stwory

10.10

Yves Weyh (Zakarya, Tzadik Rec) - akordeon

Yves Weyh + Cukunft

Kristen

Feel invited dziam.