Canigou Records

02/06/2023

Thanks so much to Matthew Blackwell for including Liis Ring's album ‘Homing’ on May’s Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp

"Whether she’s listening in Estonia, Sweden, or somewhere, Ring dives deep into the local surroundings, arranging guitars and keyboards to blur boundaries between music and environmental setting. Ring describes Homing as “fragmented memories from an ongoing search for a definition of home,” but the album suggests that she has found it: Home is where the music is, whether or not you’re the one making it."

Read the full review at https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-field-recordings/the-best-field-recordings-on-bandcamp-may-2023

Cassettes are sold out on the Breton Cassette page, but there are still 3 (!) copies left at https://canigourecords.bandcamp.com

These are the best sounds recorded outside the studio in May.

01/06/2023

It's been a month since Liis Ring's album 'Homing' came out on Canigou & Breton Cassette, and there have been some very kind words about it, including a great review on Foxy Digitalis:

"Liis Ring’s voice drifts across pointillist synth patterns and intuitive acoustic guitar strums. Each piece crystallizes small moments into eternal imagery. Homing is visceral, intimate to the point of breaking us into tiny fragments, but its engaging warmth and melodic reveries become timeless, familiar vignettes."

Read the full review at https://foxydigitalis.zone/2023/05/10/the-capsule-garden-vol-2-17-may-10-2023/

You can listen & grab one of the remaining 5 tapes at https://canigourecords.bandcamp.com/album/liis-ring-homing

29/04/2023

After one year of working together, Canigou Records and Breton Cassette are so happy to announce that Homing by Liis Ring (EE) is released today everywhere

Homing is available digitally as well as physically as an edition of 100 limited edition (and rather beautiful) cassette packages containing Liis’ most recent sound work and 72 original photos, collected in handmade cases. You can listen and buy at: https://canigourecords.bandcamp.com/album/liis-ring-homing

You can also stream the album on any platform at: https://tr.ee/ACUNhwE-ax

The photos and sound for this release were captured and recorded by Liis between 2018 and 2023 and can be seen as fragmented memories from an ongoing search of a definition of home. It's a search for an “original landscape” of what Liis calls an afterimage of home.

Through “Homing”, Liis shares how she as both a musician and a photographer connects her two practices together, and how she sees them as extensions of one another: the sound prolongs the image; the image concretises the sound.

We are so thankful for the opportunity to work with you for the last year, Liis, and appreciate all the time we have spent together, for the wonderful musician and visual artist you are and for the friendship that has risen out of this collaboration.

Sound, images and text by Liis Ring
Mastered by the legend Adam Badí Donoval
Documentation by Erik Mowinckel

Homing is supported by Association of Norwegian Visual Artists and Arts and Cultures Norway

21/04/2023

'Homing', Liis Ring's new album, comes out next week on Canigou Records and Breton Cassette, and you can now stream the second single, 'after-image V: sügis tornis' on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms: https://tr.ee/GQpqoKfAMS

You can also pre-order a copy of the (very) limited edition cassette at https://canigourecords.bandcamp.com/album/liis-ring-homing

"Sügis tornis' means 'autumn in the lighthouse' in Estonian, which is exactly what you are hearing on this track. It was composed and recorded inside Tahkuna Lighthouse on the island Hiiumaa off the Estonian west coast on 1st of October 2022. You can hear the autumn winds making the cast iron construction sing along with my synths and resonating with my voice".

13/04/2023

"Dancing has always been something I do in places where I feel safe. In other words, where I feel at home. Maybe it's also the other way around - that some places become more like my own through dancing?"
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'after-image I: nothing stands still’, the first single from Liis Ring's new album ’Homing' is out today on all streaming platforms: tr.ee/WNK6_P6J5b

The album (with limited edition cassettes) is up on Bandcamp for pre-order, ahead of the release on April 28th, in collaboration with Breton Cassette: https://canigourecords.bandcamp.com/album/liis-ring-homing

Liis will open the Bergen Book Fair with a concert at Landmark Bergen tomorrow, April 14th at 21:00, and Breton Cassette will be taking part in the book fair the whole weekend

06/04/2023

A little surprise: ‘Homing’, the new album by Liis Ring, comes out on April 28th on Canigou Records & Breton Cassette (yes, finally!)

Daryl Worthington wrote a lovely review on the album for the Spool’s Out column on the Quietus: “As the title alludes, the album is propelled by ruminations on what home is. Ring finds it’s transitory and mutable, existing in feelings and events beyond those contained by four walls.“

Read the full article at: https://thequietus.com/articles/32796-abadir-fausto-mercier-andy-loebs-sheng-jie-asher-zax-cassette

The album will be available on a pretty astonishing limited edition cassette, which you can pre-order (as well as the digital) on https://canigourecords.bandcamp.com/album/liis-ring-homing,

Canigou’s been (and will be) a little more quiet whilst I’m busy with other life things in the Sahel, but we’ve been preparing this release for over a year and it’s really quite special. More news & music next week!

Among drone-folk trips and joyously messed up noise jazz, Daryl Worthington finds the cassette scene has taken a political turn, whether immersive electronics fighting for free time, nostalgia-busting collages, or colonialism attacking text-sound compositions

04/12/2022

Very grateful that Matthew Blackwell gave me the chance to talk about Canigou for the Tape Label Report on Bandcamp daily, alongside some incredible labels that I’ve followed for years like Constellation Tatsu 🙌

Our ‘release to start with’ is the beautiful ‘cruzar pisando piedras’, the latest album by Lumtz

You can read the full report/interview at https://daily.bandcamp.com/tape-label-report/the-tape-label-report-november-2022

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November's round-up of five cassette labels you need to know about.

19/11/2022

Hace 2 semanas que salió 'cruzar pisando piedras' de Lumtz 🌊

Gracias a todxs por escucharlo, comprarlo y compartirlo!

Los cassettes están disponibles en https://bit.ly/cruzarpisandopiedras y el album se puede escuchar en cualquier plataforma de streaming en https://lnk.to/streamcruzar

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It’s been 2 weeks since ‘cruzar pisando piedras’ by Lumtz was released

Thanks to everyone for listening/buying/sharing!

You can listen and grab a tape at https://bit.ly/cruzarpisandopiedras and stream the album on any platform you like at https://lnk.to/streamcruzar

04/11/2022

‘cruzar pisando piedras’ de Lumtz está disponible *hoy* y se pueden comprar los cassettes de edición limitada (20 disponibles en Argentina para Latam y 20 para el resto del mundo) en https://bit.ly/cruzarpisandopiedras

Hoy además es Bandcamp Friday, y Bandcamp cede su porcentaje de todas las ventas a artistas & sellos ;)

El album también se puede escuchar en todas las plataformas de streaming: https://linktr.ee/canigourecords
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3h18Xu4
Apple Music: https://apple.co/3zKDN0G

Gracias a Luciano Lamtzev por confiar en Canigou, y a Akina Matayoshi por su diseño de portada y de los cassettes. Es una alegría trabajar con gente tan creativa y profesional, y poder compartir, por fin, la música de Lumtz a través de Canigou ✨💙

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‘cruzar pisando piedras’ by Lumtz is out *today* and you can grab one of the limited edition cassettes (20 available in Argentina for the Latin America region, 20 available for the rest of the world) at https://bit.ly/cruzarpisandopiedras

Today is also Bandcamp Friday, when Bandcamp waives its revenue share and artists & labels receive more for their music ;)

The album is also available on all streaming platforms: https://linktr.ee/canigourecords
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3h18Xu4
Apple Music: https://apple.co/3zKDN0G

Thanks so much to Lu for choosing Canigou and to Akina Matayoshi for designing the album cover and the cassettes. It’s a real joy to work with such creative and motivated artists and to finally be able to share Lumtz’s music through Canigou 💙✨

03/11/2022

Suuuper contentos de compartir los nuevos cassettes de Lumtz, que estarán disponibles mañana con su album ‘cruzar pisando piedras’

Se pueden pedir ya en https://bit.ly/cruzarpisandopiedras ✨

Cada k7 viene con un ‘O-card’ de papel reciclado y un A5 diseñado por la gran Akina Matayoshi y con fotos de Lumtz

Amigues de LATAM, en Bandcamp encontraréis la opción de pedir los cassettes directamente desde Argentina, para abaratar el envío. Tardarán un poco más pero habrá 20 copias en Argentina y Lu se encargará de que os lleguen 🙂

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Very happy to share these cassettes by Lumtz, as part of his new album ‘cruzar pisando piedras’, available tomorrow (Bandcamp Friday) at https://bit.ly/cruzarpisandopiedras

The clear turquoise cassettes come with a with recycled O-card, on-body printing and a foldable A5 insert with art by Akina Matayoshi and photography by Lumtz. Always exciting to see these transatlantic collaborations come to life 🌱

Full album out tomorrow digitally as well!