Bitter Lake Recordings: Rocky & The Sweden - City Baby Attacked By Buds LP

[katorgaworks]

Greetings!
!こんにちは
!أهْلاً وَسَهْلاً

Just wanted to let everyone know that I've made streaming available for another song from the upcoming 傀儡電伝 LP, this time one of the unreleased tracks from 1982. You are some of the first people to ever hear this! Also, here's an image of Dend? Marionette performing live on August 20th, 1981 at Taku Taku in Kyoto:



https://bitterlakerecordings.bandcamp.com/releases

This LP will be released with my dear friend Kazu of Punk & Destroy fame on his label Mouse Records. The release date will be announced shortly. Expect it soon.

When 傀儡電伝 is released in physical and digital form, I will also be announcing newer BLR projects

Follow us on IG for updates on releases, new projects, and any cool unearthed photo ephemera! @bitterlakerecordings

[katorgaworks]

Just a heads up, this will be up for sale in the U.S. on 10/6 at noon (in theory) and 10/13 in Japan.

We will be doing a t-shirt/record pre-order bundle thing once the records are done, so we can print shirts to order

[katorgaworks]

Greetings! Announcing that not only are you now able to stream the full Dendo Marionette album a week before physical and digital release, but we've included a preorder bundle for those who want to buy not only the physical LP, but a t-shirt of the front cover, as well! Details can be found here:

https://bitterlakerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/-
https://bitterlakerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/-
https://bitterlakerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/-

Thanks! Very excited for the release next Friday.

[katorgaworks]

This doesn't technically come out until noon tomorrow, but I threw it up on the Material World website like a bad boy:

http://shop.materialworldrecords.com/bitter-lake-recordings-dendo-marionette-lp.html

As there were only 200 copies available for North America, I believe wholesale copies are totally out and we only have a not-very-large ammount available for mailorder, so act...fast?

[katorgaworks]

Here are some places you can get the Dendo Marionette LP very soon:

Japan

Punk and Destroy/Mouse Records (obviously)
Record Shop Base
Record Boy
Record Shop Misery
Big Love
Revenge Records
Jet Set
Record Shop Nat
Record Shop Knox
Record Shop Answer
Record Shop File-Under
Record Shop Vortex
Forever Records
Timebomb Records
Dig Dig Records

US

Material World Records (obviously)
Light in the Attic
Sorry State
Dark Entries
Sacred Bones
End of an Ear Records
Blackwater Records
Hausfrau Records
State Laughter
Velted Regnub
Feel It!
The Church of American Damage

Canada

Faith/Void

Europe

La Vida Es Un Mus


There might be more, especially in Japan (I gotta get a final list), but that's a good guide for where you can grab Dendo Marionette!

[cranefortune]

Got mine today, thanks Adam!

[katorgaworks]

LOL I saw the write up. You're very welcome haha

[cranefortune]

LOL I saw the write up. You're very welcome haha

haha forgot i wrote that, written with love!

[katorgaworks]

lol I laughed

[katorgaworks]

Today is as good as any to "officially" announce the second release on Bitter Lake Recordings, the C. Memi - Heavenly Peace 12"



Originally released as an almost-eighteen minute 7" in 1983, Heavenly Peace was the lone solo release of C. Memi, previously the leader of Osaka new wavers Neo Matisse. That band was known for their frenetic, punky new wave single "No Chocolate" in 1980, which was described in the Hijokaidan Story by Toshiji Mikawa as the band "who gave us that famous 'No Chocolate' single.? After Neo Matisse disbanded on amicable terms in 1981, drummer Jun Iwasaki compelled Memi to record a solo album for his fledgling label, Fairy Records. Jun lent Memi his 8-track recorder and she set to work on what would become the only release for both Memi and Fairy.

This resulting 1983 private press 7" EP is a more stated affair than "No Chocolate," with Memi (playing every instrument) tackling a more minimal synth sound over a fairly disparate palette of songs ranging from droning, abstract pieces to (typical of this era in Japanese pop music) '80s emulation of '60s French Chanson pop. Most impressive of all, however, is the ethereal title track "Heavenly Peace (Unga No Suimon Akete)," a song so beautiful, its swathes of cleansing, oceanic synths and the luminous, firework-like synth pop perfection stands as one of our favorite songs of its kind from all of Japan.

In Japanese society, it has become tradition for women to give presents and chocolate to men on Valentine's Day. Just years before, Memi boldly declared "No chocolate!," but with Heavenly Peace, originally released on Valentine's Day in 1983, Memi is captured on the cover by photographer Kiyotoshi Takashima (with the cover art laid out by artist Yasuhito Nagahara) bearing a most thoughtful gift: this masterful record. The canal gates open once more and, on the 35th anniversary of the original release of Heavenly Peace, we lovingly welcome you to the enchantingly sentimental world of C. Memi.

Listen here: https://bitterlakerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/heavenly-peace-12

[katorgaworks]

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/11/21/c-memi-bitter-lake-recordings-feature/

I sound so terrible in this, at least in the beginning, but the rest of it is well worth reading!

[katorgaworks]

Katorga Works news for once: Casanovas In Heat LPs should be on sale next week. To add to the hilarity around this record and the plethora of various delays, a majority of the copies got warped by freak accident and only about ~130 survived, so this is a very small run. Distros, hit me up if you want any!

Vexx 12"s should be done in 4-6 weeks.

[katorgaworks]

Bitter Lake Recordings news:

The Dendo Marionette LP is obviously out-of-print, but the band just released this beautiful 2xCD discography comp and Material World has some copies of it for the U.S.

http://shop.materialworldrecords.com/haunted-house-dendo-marionette-discography-2xcd.html

[nicolai]

Vexx 12"s should be done in 4-6 weeks.

Whoa a new Vexx record?  Are they still a band or is this a final release?

[katorgaworks]

Vexx 12"s should be done in 4-6 weeks.

Whoa a new Vexx record?  Are they still a band or is this a final release?

It's actually just a legit pressing of the Wild Hunt 12", which the band now considers a a pseudo-bootleg because M'Lady's never gave them royalty copies and owes them money lol. Cut louder, with proper artwork (the art on the "boot" was not how it was supposed to look). Yep! I've been casually pressing them about playing one last show when it comes out in NYC, but I don't think that'll happen.