Releases

Norberto Lobo - Estrela (TFR048)

Estrela is the third chapter of Norberto Lobo’s solo records on three:four. If it is easily identifiable by the black and white photography by António Júlio Duarte on the front cover, the music brings some newness: for the first time under his own name, Norberto Lobo is playing with a trio composed of Yaw Tembe (trumpet), Ricardo Jacinto (cello) and Marco Franco (drums).

For many months, he had been playing with Ricardo Jacinto, Marco Franco and Yaw Tembe - first in different duos, later in trios, and finally in the final formation in quartet - to create new arrangements for Lobo’s compositions. (...)

Total length : 31 minutes and 37 seconds.
LP : 16 CHF.
CD : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Amuleto - Misztériumok (TFR047)

Misztériumok is the third full-length record - their first on three:four - of Italian duo Amuleto, composed of Francesco Dillon and his cousin and three:four’s artist Riccardo Wanke.

Following the route of previous releases this new album emerges as the fusion of composed and improvised forms and moves between contemporary and electronic music mixing acoustic, electronic and real world sounds. The music takes shapes from a progressive disclosure of sonic material that gradually manifests its nature: at times aggressive and distorted, other times ephemeral and intimate. (...)

Total length : 44 minutes and 30 seconds.
LP : 16 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF

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Delphine Dora - Eudaimon (TFR046)

The twentieth century has had its share of poets exploring magic and mysticism. However, it is Kathleen Raine who has articulated the deepest spiritual vision throughout the entire body of her work. (...)

Total length : 47 minutes and 20 seconds.
LP : 16 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Razen - The xvoto reels (TFR045)

The Xvoto Reels provides additional proof (if necessary) that Razen is an audacious group. If the Belgian band led by the duo Brecht Ameel and Kim Delcour has explored different musical worlds with changing formations, the involuntary irruption of a sixth “member” has upset the content of this new album. (...)

Total length : 43 minutes and 34 seconds.
LP : 15 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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La Tène - Tardive/Issime (TFR044)

La Tène's previous album Vouerca/Fahy, released at the end of April 2016 on the three:four, was rapidly out-of-print after a long series of concerts throughout France and neighboring countries. Thanks to this immediate success, they were invited to play the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival after appearances at the Sonic Protest Festival in Paris, Ring Ring in Serbia and at the Kilbi Festival in Düdingen.

Their second album, Tardive/Issime, was recorded in January 2017. (...)

Total length : 31 minutes and 38 seconds.
LP : 15 CHF.
CD : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Eloïse Decazes et Eric Chenaux - La bride (TFR043)

(french version below)

A true chanteuse halogène, Eloïse Decazes has been haunting the ruins of French chanson for a few years now, notably with the group Arlt. Elsewhere she can be heard miniaturizing Luciano Berio’s Folksongs in the company of Delphine Dora, or improvising hymns to the Titanic on cassette with Le Ton Mité. (...)

Total length : 46 minutes and 59 seconds.
LP : 15 CHF.
CD : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Le fruit vert - Paon perdu (TFR042)

I’ve been listening to Paon perdu each day since it arrived. It’s a record I’ve already come to love, and like most of the music I love it somehow transcends words. (...)

Total length : 34 minutes and 38 seconds.
LP : 15 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF

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Oba Loba - Sir Robert Williams (TFR041)

Originally Oba Loba is a project of Norberto Lobo and João Lobo in order to satisfy their desire to compose music for a band. Their debut album, Oba Loba, released in 2015 and critically acclaimed, has been described as hybrid instrumentals that cannibalise popular song (Clive Bell in The Wire, july 2015). (...)

Total length : 38 minutes and 29 seconds.
LP : 15 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Norberto Lobo Eric Chenaux - The Byre (TFR040)

When I recall the five days of Norberto Lobo and Eric Chenaux's September 2015 residency at Le Bourg in Lausanne, Switzerland, the first thing that comes to mind is Eric's enthusiasm for my partner Anne’s salad dressing. We knew we were receiving two gourmets, inexhaustible on the subject.
This residency, which I had invited my friend Laurent Bichara to record, was particularly close to my heart. (...)

Total length : 36 minutes and 16 seconds.
LP : 15 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Anahita - Tourmaline (TFR039)

"Out of the crystal clear and warm cosmic perennial waters comes forth another sparkling jewel from Anahita (Tara Burke (Fursaxa) and Helena Espvall (Espers). Two elves dancing amidst gnarled branches of ancient trees and fragrant herbs, concocting a magical potion for the mind of floating medieval cello spheres and melancholic ceremonial madrigals under the blinking eye of a pale moon and far off constellations of shooting stars."
Bart De Paepe, founder of the belgian tape label Sloow Tapes. (...)

Total length : 43 minutes and 51 seconds.
LP : 15 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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João Lobo - Nowruz (TFR038)

Nowruz refers to the Iranian New Year that happens every year on march 21st. It is a Persian compound word that we can literaly translate "new day". (...)

Total length : 44 minutes and 11 seconds.
LP : 15 CHF.
CD : 11 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Mike Wexler - Syntropy (TFR037)

Having made a reputation for hypnotic and darkly enveloping songs, Brooklyn’s Mike Wexler has persisted through several waves of contemporary folk music without ever being fully absorbed by any of them. Syntropy – his third full length – is the first to convey the entrancing intimacy of his live performances. (...)

Total length : 42 minutes and 23 seconds.
LP : 15 CHF.
CD : 11 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Dana Valser - Antiguo (TFR036)

Dana Valser is a singer from Spain, paying close attention to ancient folklore and intimate and obscure sounds of the heart. Her voice full of a deep melancholy around which arpeggios roughly played like an old blues by Christophe Langdale. (...)

Total length : 36 minutes and 22 seconds.
CD : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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maninkari - Ruins Of Time (TFR035)

Following Phantasmes, released in 2014, Ruins of Time is a new original motion picture soundtrack of the short film "Ruins of Time" by Mathieu Peteul.
"Ruins of Time" is an experimental short film originating from the film Limbo.

Available on vinyl, the 4 tracks mixes various human voice and strings blending spacey dark drones and strange atmospheres.. . (...)

Total length : 40 minutes and 41 seconds.
LP : 15 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Norberto Lobo - Muxama (TFR034)

Muxama is the 34th reference of three:four’s catalog. It has been obvious that the symbolic number should be honoured by an artist that we admire. (...)

Total length : 33 minutes and 32 seconds.
CD : 12 CHF.
LP : 15 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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La Tène - Vouerca/Fahy (TFR033)

La Tène collect, listen and probe folk melodies and motifs of large territories, from the Jura to the mountains of Auvergne, weaving them to repetition and continuous sounds, electronics and frenzy until exhaustion. Their music, drones played with traditional and acoustic instruments is an invitation to the dance frantically, leading to euphoria or trance. (...)

Total length : 40 minutes and 13 seconds.
LP, 2nd edition : 15 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.
CD : 12 CHF.

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Danny Oxenberg & Bear Galvin - Late Superimpositions (TFR032)

Late Superimpositions is a (relatively) new collection of original songs by Danny Oxenberg (one of the lead vocalists, guitarists of Supreme Dicks) and Bear Galvin.

Of this album, Sing Sing writes: This record is one more riddle, a new hieroglyph to be discovered under the glimmer of a deaf lantern, one more reason to believe that ghosts are among us and that they can’t stop dying of love.

Artwork by Hippolyte Hentgen.
Album produced by Maxime Guitton.

Text by Sing Sing

In the last three decades, no other band has surpassed The Supreme Dicks in mystery. No one has, at this moment, penetrated into their irradiant secret. (...)

Total length : 50 minutes and 00 seconds.
LP : 15 CHF.
CD : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Circle Bros - Rust (TFR031)

Rust has been completed over a number of years – writing and recording started around the time the previous circle bros album ‘Haven’ came out. It took a full five years to get everything done – it was a very long process of revisiting the songs, and deciding what was the best moment to ‘let them go’. (...)

Total length : 34 minutes and 57 seconds.
LP : 15 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Filipe Felizardo - Volume IV - The Invading Past and Other Dissolutions (TFR030)

For our second release with Filipe Felizardo, we made a double LP. I'm not sure we can make a triple for the next one, but for sure, this release could not be a single one. (...)

Total length : 83 minutes and 41 seconds.
First pressing: 300 copies.
2xLP : 20 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Denki Udon - In ZdB (TFR029)

In ZDB is the recording of the Norberto Lobo, Giovanni Di Domenico and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto gig that took place on november 14th at Galeria Zé dos Bois (one of our prefered venues in Europe) in Lisbon.

Three relatively young players with phenomenal technical skills and strong musical background, Lobo, Di Domenico and Yamamoto are mainly demonstrative in their playing. (...)

Total length : 36 minutes and 10 seconds.
First pressing: 300 copies.
LP : 15 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Riccardo Dillon Wanke - Cuts (TFR028)

“I explored for years the use of repetitive structures within different perspectives. In many cases, these figures involved long developments. (...)

Total length : 37 minutes and 47 seconds.
LP : 15 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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David Maranha & Helena Espvall - Sombras incendiadas (TFR027)

Helena Espvall first met David Maranha in 2006 when her band Espers played a show in Lisbon. They played two gigs the following year, and Espvall contributed to Maranha's Marches of the New World. (...)

Total length : 37 minutes and 54 seconds.
LP : 15 CHF.
Digital : 7 CHF.

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Norberto Lobo - Fornalha (TFR026)

Text by Eric Chenaux

“Talking to yourself is more about listening than speaking.”
Alice In The Cities – Wim Wenders

Fornalha sounds more like the work of an open format radio program or some Root-strata summer mix tape than a document of a guitar recital. The image of a musician as DJ is one that allows us to think about the musician as a listener, rather than a performer; listening rather than reciting.

Norberto Lobo is a mind-bending musician, strangely and effortlessly modulating psychedelic ideas to the guitar. (...)

Total length : 33 minutes and 56 seconds.
LP : 15 CHF.
CD : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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maninkari - L'océan rêve dans sa loisiveté (TFR025)

Around the theme of the ocean symbolising the subconscious, the hidden world and a very personal concept of "loisiveté" a combintion of idleness "oisiveté" and law "loi", Maninkari continues exploring a weird and dreamlike world.

As usual, the Charlot brothers resort almost exclusively to the use of acoustic instruments with oriental origins (bodhran, cymbalom, santoor, zurna).

Percussion instruments especially the bodhran play melodic or textural figures, whereas stringed instruments become repetitive to a point where they embody the rythmics.

The combination of repetition and oriental tones create a heady sound continuum providing the 10 nameless tracks with a mantra-like resonance. A short breathing in the middle of the album with an organ and birdsong is the only quiet moment of this tormented (but without violence), and meditative (but without bliss) record.

The permanent state of tension recalls the rigours of law and repetition provides the calm alternative of idleness "l'oisiveté". (...)

Total length : 50 minutes and 24 seconds.
CD : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF
digital : 7 CHF.

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Imagho & Mocke - Half Quartet (TFR024)

Sometimes music can be as simple as two people playing together.

French guitarists Imagho (We Are Unique Records / Alara music) and Mocke (We Are Unique records, member of Midget!, Holden, Arlt and Swann) gathered together for two days at the end of december 2013 at Imagho's studio, and recorded eleven tunes in the simplest way possible: live! Two men, two guitars, four mics, and that's it.

These eleven tunes are of Imagho's composition, written for his Guild acoustic guitar, beautifully enhanced by Mocke's lush Jazzmaster sound. (...)

Total length : 35 minutes and 43 seconds.
First pressing: 300 copies
LP : 15 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Amute - Savage Bliss (TFR023)

Savage Bliss is the fifth album from Amute and the first to be released by three:four records. As a solo artist, Jérôme Deuson continues his path with determination and shows that he has the level of such artists as Tim Hecker and Fennesz. (...)

Total length : 44 minutes and 15 seconds.
CD : 12 CHF.
LP : 15 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Filipe Felizardo - Volume II - Sede e Morte (TFR022)

Let say it clearly, Filipe is one of our favourite guitar player. We love his very personal approach of building his music. (...)

Total length : 42 minutes and 27 seconds.
First pressing: 300 copies.
LP : 15 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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silencio - the politics of lonely (TFR021)

The Politics of Lonely has an obvious connection with When I'm Gone, Silencio’s previous record released in 2012. Both albums had a long gestation period - from 2006 to 2011 - are centered around Julien Demoulin and mainly Bernold Delgoda, a similar narration (an intro, five A side pieces, three on the B-side, the first of which lasting over 10 minutes in duration) and a refined visual identity. (...)

Total length : 37 minutes and 26 seconds.
LP : 15 CHF.
CD : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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maninkari - Phantasmes (TFR020)

Phantasmes is a 50 minutes experimental movie written and directed by Thomas Pantalacci. “A sensory experience between dream and reality, fantasy and eroticism, awakening and sleep…”

For that purpose, the band Maninkari wrote a two-part - one per side - 39 minutes soundtrack with multiple pieces. (...)

Total length : 39 minutes and 34 seconds.
First pressing: 300 copies.
LP : 15 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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silencio - gone ep (TFR019)

Following their first, critically acclaimed album for three:four, Silencio are back with the "Gone" CD ep, co-released in a limited edition with Eglantine Records, Julien Demoulin's own label. This ep features the title track, two remixes by Bruno Fleutelot and Ken Camden, as well as two exclusive tracks recorded during the "When I'm Gone" sessions. (...)

Total length : 25 minutes and 18 seconds.
One-time pressing of 100 copies.
CD : 8 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Moore/Müller - Today is Yesterday's Tomorrow (TFR018)

Thierry Müller and Aaron Moore met up during a shared gig in 2009. Although they were playing separate sets, that gave them the opportunity to share their respect for each other’s work. (...)

Total length : 74 minutes and 19 seconds.
Double LP - gatefold sleeve - 500 hand-numbered copies.
2xLP : 20 CHF.
digital : 12 CHF.

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v/a - Your Victorian Breasts (TFR017)

Named after an 1988 unreleased, to this date, Supreme Dicks song, 'Your Victorian Breasts' is a collection of 20 otherwise unreleased tracks by the likes of Alastair Galbraith, Black To Comm, A R P, Pigeons, Ignatz, William Tyler, Filipe Felizardo, Hamilton Yarns. It also hosts 3 new collective projects: Mendrugo, which features Josephine Foster joining forces with husband Victor Herrero, José Luis Herrero, José Luis Rico and Takuhiko Nochimoto; Raajmahal, the reunion of Pat Murano (No-Neck Blues Band, Decimus), Carla Baker (Baba Yaga, Flower Orgy) and Santa Wolanczyk (Flower Orgy); and Syracuse Ear, a first-class improv gathering featuring David Maranha, Manuel Mota, Margarida Garcia and Chris Corsano. (...)

Total length : 94 minutes and 28 seconds.
One-time pressing of 650 hand-numbered copies.
2xLP : 20 CHF.
digital : 12 CHF.

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Ruth - Far From Paradise (TFR016)

From the start, curiosity pushed Thierry Müller and Mushy to book a studio in Rome. Intrigued by the combination of their universe, they spent three days improvising with Luciano Lamanna.
With nine hours of recordings at his disposal, Thierry wrote the Far From Paradise story. (...)

Total length : 54 minutes and 50 seconds.
LP+insert+DL code / CD
LP : 15 CHF.
CD : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Jeremy Lemos + Matt Jencik - split series vol. 5 (TFR015)

In a reaction to the collaboration between Matthew Hale Clark and Ken Camden, both active members of white/light and Implodes from Chicago, their friends and colleagues Jeremy Lemos (from white/light) and Matt Jencik (from Implodes) are also releasing a split record for us. Needless to say that sharing two records with members from those bands we love is a huge honor.

Jeremy Lemos is a real sound artist. (...)

Total length : 18 minutes and 49 seconds.
One-time pressing of 300 hand-numbered copies.
LP (10") : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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Matthew Hale Clark + Ken Camden - split series vol. 4 (TFR014)

The idea behind this split was to reunite friends. While in the studio working on his first solo album, Matthew Hale Clark recorded additional tracks for that matter. (...)

Total length : 25 minutes and 34 seconds.
One-time pressing of 300 hand-numbered copies.
LP (10") : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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silencio - Thin Air / Unseen Sun (TFR013)

Thin Air and Unseen Sun were recorded during the same session as When I'm Gone.

These two tracks are pressed on a white label 7" in a lovely hand-stamped cardboard sleeve. It comes as bonus with the LP edition of When I'm Gone or you can purchase it individually (via our website). (...)

Total length : 10 minutes and 02 seconds.

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silencio - When I'm Gone (TFR012)

The first drafts for When I’m Gone date back to the year 2005. It took them almost 6 years to finalize the record and 7 years to publish it. (...)

Total length : 39 minutes and 43 seconds.
LP (12") with exclusive 7" : 15 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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larkian & yellow6 - Offtempo (TFR011)

The history of Larkian and Yellow6 traces back to around 2001 when Cyril was running the Tricycle Evolutif record label. He invited Jon to release a 7" single on the label and this, 'Grey' was released early 2002. (...)

Total length : 58 minutes and 55 seconds.
CD : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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maninkari - The half forgotten relic of a dream (TFR010)

With The Half Forgotten Relic of a Dream, Maninkari enters a new era. After three albums taken from the same studio sessions, they are back with more direct and refined tracks. (...)

Total length : 51 minutes and 48 seconds.
CD : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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absent without leave - 'neath the tumbling stars (TFR009)

'neath the tumbling stars EP is made of three instrumental pieces based on guitar. At a junction between post-rock and ambient, absent without leave builds each track one step at a time. (...)

Total length : 21 minutes and 13 seconds.
One-time pressing of 454 hand-numbered copies.
12'' : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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annelies monseré + richard youngs - split series vol. 3 (TFR008)

Annelies Monseré always has had the urge to record many versions of one song and then remaining deeply in doubt which version to chose. For this release she did not chose. (...)

Total length : 21 minutes and 35 seconds.
One-time pressing of 522 hand-numbered copies.
LP (10'') : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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bio + larkian + les poissons autistes - s/t (TFR007)

Three:four is happy to introduce you to its first totally Swiss record. Although half of the label is based in Lausanne, we haven’t had the opportunity to work with local bands before. (...)

Total length : 49 minutes and 44 seconds.
CD : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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:take: - s/t (TFR006)

After opening our series of split vinyls with white/lichens last year, :take: is back with an EP, and this time, it's through a new media, i.e. CD format. (...)

Total length : 20 minutes and 06 seconds.
CD : 7 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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thisquietarmy & scott cortez - Meridians (TFR005)

The collaboration between Scott Cortez and thisquietarmy doesn’t really come as a surprise. The latter acknowledges that the previous works from Cortez (under the lovesliescrushing moniker) greatly influenced his work, to the point of using the same way of writing the band’s name (no capital letter and no spaces between words) for his actual solo project. (...)

Total length : 26 minutes and 36 seconds.
One-time pressing of 499 hand-numbered copies.
LP (12'') : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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bad bonn - Does Your Cat Know My Dog? (TFR004)

Does Your Cat Know My Dog? is the second volume of a compilation series devoted to musicians, programmers, reviewers, disc sellers or whoever involved in music activities that we love. We offer them the opportunity to share their passion for it by curating a record. (...)

Total length : 47 minutes and 27 seconds.
One-time pressing of 650 hand-numbered copies.
LP : 15 CHF. ()
digital : 7 CHF.

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the fun years + .cut featuring gibet - split series vol. 2 (TFR003)

Two is the right number to symbolize this release. Here is the second volume of our split series that highlights 2 two-man bands living in two different cities. (...)

Total length : 23 minutes and 19 seconds.
One-time pressing of 489 hand-numbered copies.
LP (10'') : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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ali_fib - Err on the Good Side (TFR002)

Err on the Good Side is the first volume of a compilation series devoted to musicians, programmers, reviewers, disc sellers or whoever involved in music activities that we love. We offer them the opportunity to share their passion for it by curating a record. (...)

Total length : 37 minutes and 15 seconds.
One-time pressing of 504 hand-numbered copies.
LP : 15 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.

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:take: + white/lichens - split series vol. 1 (TFR001)

The first volume of the three:four records split series gathers two mesmeric drone guitar lovers, the newly arrived French project :take: coming from Paris and the Chicago based combo White/Lichens. Two different approaches of drone music: soft and melodic for :take:, loud and unbridled for the Chicagoans. (...)

Total length : 23 minutes and 27 seconds.
One-time pressing of 500 hand-numbered copies.
LP (10'') : 12 CHF.
digital : 7 CHF.