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BRACKEN RECORDS and FRUITS DE MER RECORDS CONTACT US: email to... info @ brackenrecords . com June 2009. Dear All - it is with much regret that we've had to increase prices a little. In all honesty, postage rates are killing us. It'll now be $25 for an album and $8 for a single. It may take a wee while to get them all changed, so feel free to take advantage in the meantime. Oh, and the HARUKO CD will be $17.50 with the DOUBLE LP + CD (both in 12" sleeves with booklets) at $35. Don't forget - all our prices INCLUDE POSTAGE WORLDWIDE. Should postal rates come down, we'll amend accordingly, but I don't reckon they will - do you? They blamed it on fuel costs when fuel was really high... June 2009. HARUKO LPs and CDs are IN, IN, IN - go to the BUY IT link above. ARITOMO's The Flying Garden In The Painting are also IN STOCK NOW - go shop Fruits de Mer Volume Four by The Flaming Gnomes is IN STOCK NOW, featuring covers of CARAVAN and THE ZOMBIES Love Song With Flute and Care Of Cell 44 - go get 'em... ARITOMO The Flying Garden In The Painting private-press Japanese album with hand-painted sleeves is a sentence that will leave most people limp, but for some will result in nearly taking an eye out. Yes, we have some, and they will be allocated at random, though probably to people who buy multi-items. Thus it is that my socialist tendencies are met, albeit in a capitalist way. Apologies in advance if you don't get one, but I'm only getting a handful and me and the missus want one each. And Jonesy probably wants one, and he's me best mate, so...what can you do, eh? HARUKO & ARITOMO LATEST - "Wild Geese" by Haruko will be with us w/c June 8th 2009. Although not officially released till June 29th, we will be taking payment and shipping as soon as we have them. The Aritomo LPs "The Flying Garden In The Painting" should be with us w/c 15th June 2009. Email NOW to reserve. As I type, I have about 120 Haruko vinyls and 40 Aritomo vinyls still available, without allowing for any shops may want. ANd without sending out a single promo to press or radio. May 2009. HARUKO latest - by popular demand (you bunch of nags...) we are reasonably pleased to report that there will be a CD version of the Haruko LP "Wild Geese". It will come housed in a full-blown 12" sleeve with lyric book insert (as with the vinyl), and can be reserved via email above - ask us to 'add you to the Haruko list thing', and we shall. It'll be even more limited than the vinyl release, and priced thus: Vinyl LP = $22.50 (shipped) CD version = $15.00 (shipped) Both vinyl & CD = $30 (shipped) How does that sound? Grand. Reserve it then...via email and whatnot. May 2009. Acid-folk legend, Mark Fry, has delivered the goods, so to speak. His collaborative effort with Nick Franglen (Production & Arrangement) and the lovely Virginia Tate (Flute), to name but two, can be heard below on an Emm Pee Free - do it, you never know, it may make you a better person. Actually, it's bloody marvellous, so go there...  April 2009. The 4th private pressed Japanese acid-folk Aritomo LP can be reserved here by email, will be called "The Flying Garden In The Painting", and will look like this...  Breaking News - Bracken will handle the distribution for the forthcoming ARITOMO LP (his 4th). Titled "The Flying Garden In The Painting". Private press Japanese vinyl LP, very limited - reserve a copy by email asking us to 'add you to the Aritomo list'. As with the Haruko LP, it will be $22.50 shipped to your door. More information as I have it, though having heard all the tracks, it's as brilliant as you'd expect. Getting short on the Schizo Fun Addict "Theme One/ Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" and Stay "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow/ 2000 Light Years From Home/ Chicago" singles - down to just a few dozen of each now. Best buy them - we'd hate you to be disappointed. Still waiting on THE FLAMING GNOMES vinyl - soon, very soon, and for the rest of your life...sorry to those waiting. If you ordered other stuff at the same time, you should have received those by now, unless you just ordered, in which case, they're on their way. The HARUKO LPs should be with us late-May/ early-June. Thanks to all who've reserved thus far. March 2009. Get yourselves sorted on reserving the Haruko LP (see below). We are experiencing really high reservations on this, the like of which we've not seen before, so an email reserving may prove prudent. When I read that back, it actually sounds like I know what I'm talking about... Still waiting to see where we need to price it, but somewhere around the $20 mark should do it, which includes postage in the usual way. All this has been aided by Shaded Moontide, whi cited it as being 'amazing' and thought it was 'probably going to be the folk release of the year'. How nice is that, eh? Take care, dear readers, it's a wicked world out there in the main. March 2009. We are delighted to be able to tell you all about Volume 5 in our series of Fruits de Mer releases. Oh yes indeed - it'll be an as limited as I am 7" coloured vinyl platter by my mate, acid-folk legend, Mark Fry. Mark has teamed up with Nick Franglen (for Production and Arrangement) to re-work "Dreaming With Alice" in un-fragmented form for the first time ever. It'll be backed with "The Witch" recorded live in Chicago last year, and both tracks are exclusive to this release. Loads of interest in this one, so email us asking to 'join the Mark Fry list' and we'll ensure you don't miss out. Lovely. Oh, and the cover-art is a shot of Mark's marble collection, so what more could you want, eh...? March 2009. Right you are, so we've had a few problems getting the Flaming Gnomes single pressed (technical glitches whereby a load of grinding noise was audible in the right-hand channel, which I won't bore you with), and because we love the songs and, most of all, our customers, we weren't prepared to release something sub-standard. Anyway, all seems to be sorted and we'll have the finished vinyl as soon as humanly possible. So go on and order the bugger...thanks very much. February 2009. Bracken is back! After a year on the back-burner as we set up and launched the Fruits de Mer imprint, Bracken Records will release its first album proper in the early summer of 2009. It was always going to take something special and breathtakingly beautiful for us to forsake our beloved 7" format, and so it proved. It's by Haruko, is called "Wild Geese", and will be released on limited vinyl only, mastered by the master, Fran Ashcroft at HappyBeat Studio, England www.happybeat.net . Haruko is teenage Susanne (Susi) Stanglow, and she comes from Germany. Loner-folk would be the genre in which to pigeon-hole it. One of the most beautiful albums you've ever heard would be the way to describe it. Please take a few minutes of your life to check out the A and B side MP3 samples below. It may just change your life, or perhaps affirm it, depending on what you're looking for. Drop us an email asking to "join the Haruko list", and we'll let you know when it's available and ensure you get a copy.  February 2009. Volume 4 of the Fruits de Mer series is in the can. A limited lusty red vinyl seven inch will be released sometime in the Spring, containing two tracks: Care Of Cell 44 (Zombies) and Love Song With Flute (Caravan). The Flaming Gnomes are the lovelies responsible for re-interpreting these bona-fide classics, and adding a sort of Small Faces cheeky-chapiness to them - genius. The Gnomes done good, as you can hear from the MP3s below. As did Jeff Cummins, who did the artwork for us, and he's done artwork for, amongst others, Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney, Moody Blues, Elvis Costello, Rolling Stones and Nick Lowe, so it must have been really intimidating for him to do a release as big as this. Many thanks to the Gnomes and Jeff for a brilliant release. You know the score - $7.50 shipped to your door, go to the shop NOW by clicking the Buy It page above. |
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  Click the sleeve to go to SHOP... HARUKO Wild Geese MP3 Taster... HARUKO Wild Geese - Vinyl LP, or CD, or LP/CD offer - go to the shop now. ALBUM OF THE WEEK at Norman Records in Leeds. ARITOMO The Flying Garden In The Painting - Japanese Private Press Acid-Folk Master with his 4th album. ALBUM OF THE WEEK at Norman Records in Leeds. Only a handful left after reserves, so don't dally... Norman Records, Leeds Piccadilly Records, Manchester Rough Trade, London Heyday Mail Order, London Docs Records, Fort Worth, Texas... |
