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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 19:08
compilation dei 15 anni della Bella Union
Rough Trade Shops
15 Years of Bella Union Records
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the birth of Bella Union Records, and to celebrate we have teamed up with the good folk at Rough Trade Shops to compile 145 minutes and 52 seconds minutes of music, old and new, that reflects fondly on the beginnings of the label and looks excitedly towards to the prospects of the future…
Looking back, as one must do when compiling any form of retrospective, is not something I had planned until I was to be 65, still a few good years away yet. So maybe that gives you a hint that I didn't exactly salivate at the idea of picking a small number of tracks from the last 15 years as some kind of complete representation of the label's output. For every artist and track I pick, there will be several more I cannot, and that is an uncomfortable feeling. Certainly before the time I took control of the label properly, around 2001, some of the artists signed were not wholly my choice and therefore not wholly my taste, so I decided that the only way for me to imbue this collection with the love and care it deserves was to make it as much of a personal one as I could, and most importantly to make it musically edifying to listen to. I hope I have managed to achieve this. There are so many notable absentees, bands that made great records for us, like Art of Fighting, The Autumns, Mazarin, Fionn Regan, Jetscreamer, Dustin O'Halloran, etc. who all would have a legitimate claim to be included on such a compilation but frankly, this is not a full retrospective release, it is basically a little over 2 hours of music and as such can only touch on the diversity of the roster, the back catalogue and thereby give a small flavour of what we do. So, once I had decided that personal reflection was the only way to make this set feel authentic, the track-listing flowed pretty easily and with the exclusive tracks several artists were able to record especially for this, I feel this is a lot more than just a dip into a catalogue. It looks to the future, which is where I tend to live.
Like the experience of many of the UK labels I admired growing up, Rough Trade, Island, Factory, etc. the road has not been smooth, and some of the potholes have been so deep, I have to say that we are truly blessed to still be here. Sometimes I wonder how we are. Of course, it is because we have awesome artists! We are nothing without them. Partly it's down to me not accepting defeat lightly, being a stubborn fool, but mostly it's down to the people who work here who have all become much more than just 'people I work with'.
To all of you here now, Duncan, Mark, Luke, Anika, Sam, to all of you who have worked in the old Cocteau Twins studios where this all began 15 years ago, the Twickenham office in Church Street after the studio went bust, the rat-infested office by the railway line in Hammersmith, the office-share we did in Hackney for less than a year, to the Strongroom office in Shoreditch we loved, to our new home in London Fields at The Laundry, thanks for keeping us in business. Thanks also to Cool Badge for their friendship and love, and all our friends around the world at Co-operative who work so hard helping our artists. If I am still around for the 30th anniversary retrospective, I think it might need to be a box set!
Simon Raymonde
Tracklisting
Disc One
1. Primitive Girl- M Ward 2.21
2. Stephen – Veronica Falls 2.27
3. Shadow –Wild Nothing 4.18
4. Lover Of Mine – Beach House 5.06
5. Effigy- Andrew Bird 5.06
6. July Flame –Laura Veirs 3.48
7. Montezuma – Fleet Foxes 3.37
8. Crooked Legs- The Acorn 5.10
9. TC & Honeybear- John Grant 5.00
10. Vinalhaven Harbor- Stephanie Dosen 3.23
11. Your Hand in Mine – Explosions In The Sky 8.17
12. Don’t Say- Hannah Cohen 3.51
13. Holiday- Poor Moon 2.39
14. Time Stretcher – Treefight For Sunlight 5.29
15. More Of This – Vetiver 3.59
16. I've Smoked Too Much – Lawrence Arabia 5.34
17. Oh Pity – Cashier no 9 4.54
18. Magic Look- Marques Toliver 3.03
Disc Two
1. Be Careful – Van Dyke Parks 2.49
2. Buffalo- Mountain Man 1.56
3. Colin-Peter Broderick 5.19
4. The Jungler – Midlake 3.42
5. Hearts (RAR mix) – I Break Horses 4.16
6. Everything's Fucked- Dirty Three 5.34
7. Wrongfully, I Rested – My Latest Novel 4.45
8. Goodbye – The Czars 4.24
9. The Departure – Our Broken Garden 3.39
10. To Guard & To Guide You–Lift To Experience 5.24
Exclusive Bonus Tracks
1. The House You Made- The Walkmen 4.00 **
2. Down There By The Train – The Low Anthem 4.55 **
3. Journey from Eden- Jonathan Wilson 7.47 **
4. Battlefield- Zun Zun Egui 5.18 **
5. Below It - Lanterns On The Lake 4.47 **
6. I Would Love You- Father John Misty feat.Phosphorescent 4.27 **
Rough Trade Shops
15 Years of Bella Union Records
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the birth of Bella Union Records, and to celebrate we have teamed up with the good folk at Rough Trade Shops to compile 145 minutes and 52 seconds minutes of music, old and new, that reflects fondly on the beginnings of the label and looks excitedly towards to the prospects of the future…
Looking back, as one must do when compiling any form of retrospective, is not something I had planned until I was to be 65, still a few good years away yet. So maybe that gives you a hint that I didn't exactly salivate at the idea of picking a small number of tracks from the last 15 years as some kind of complete representation of the label's output. For every artist and track I pick, there will be several more I cannot, and that is an uncomfortable feeling. Certainly before the time I took control of the label properly, around 2001, some of the artists signed were not wholly my choice and therefore not wholly my taste, so I decided that the only way for me to imbue this collection with the love and care it deserves was to make it as much of a personal one as I could, and most importantly to make it musically edifying to listen to. I hope I have managed to achieve this. There are so many notable absentees, bands that made great records for us, like Art of Fighting, The Autumns, Mazarin, Fionn Regan, Jetscreamer, Dustin O'Halloran, etc. who all would have a legitimate claim to be included on such a compilation but frankly, this is not a full retrospective release, it is basically a little over 2 hours of music and as such can only touch on the diversity of the roster, the back catalogue and thereby give a small flavour of what we do. So, once I had decided that personal reflection was the only way to make this set feel authentic, the track-listing flowed pretty easily and with the exclusive tracks several artists were able to record especially for this, I feel this is a lot more than just a dip into a catalogue. It looks to the future, which is where I tend to live.
Like the experience of many of the UK labels I admired growing up, Rough Trade, Island, Factory, etc. the road has not been smooth, and some of the potholes have been so deep, I have to say that we are truly blessed to still be here. Sometimes I wonder how we are. Of course, it is because we have awesome artists! We are nothing without them. Partly it's down to me not accepting defeat lightly, being a stubborn fool, but mostly it's down to the people who work here who have all become much more than just 'people I work with'.
To all of you here now, Duncan, Mark, Luke, Anika, Sam, to all of you who have worked in the old Cocteau Twins studios where this all began 15 years ago, the Twickenham office in Church Street after the studio went bust, the rat-infested office by the railway line in Hammersmith, the office-share we did in Hackney for less than a year, to the Strongroom office in Shoreditch we loved, to our new home in London Fields at The Laundry, thanks for keeping us in business. Thanks also to Cool Badge for their friendship and love, and all our friends around the world at Co-operative who work so hard helping our artists. If I am still around for the 30th anniversary retrospective, I think it might need to be a box set!
Simon Raymonde
Tracklisting
Disc One
1. Primitive Girl- M Ward 2.21
2. Stephen – Veronica Falls 2.27
3. Shadow –Wild Nothing 4.18
4. Lover Of Mine – Beach House 5.06
5. Effigy- Andrew Bird 5.06
6. July Flame –Laura Veirs 3.48
7. Montezuma – Fleet Foxes 3.37
8. Crooked Legs- The Acorn 5.10
9. TC & Honeybear- John Grant 5.00
10. Vinalhaven Harbor- Stephanie Dosen 3.23
11. Your Hand in Mine – Explosions In The Sky 8.17
12. Don’t Say- Hannah Cohen 3.51
13. Holiday- Poor Moon 2.39
14. Time Stretcher – Treefight For Sunlight 5.29
15. More Of This – Vetiver 3.59
16. I've Smoked Too Much – Lawrence Arabia 5.34
17. Oh Pity – Cashier no 9 4.54
18. Magic Look- Marques Toliver 3.03
Disc Two
1. Be Careful – Van Dyke Parks 2.49
2. Buffalo- Mountain Man 1.56
3. Colin-Peter Broderick 5.19
4. The Jungler – Midlake 3.42
5. Hearts (RAR mix) – I Break Horses 4.16
6. Everything's Fucked- Dirty Three 5.34
7. Wrongfully, I Rested – My Latest Novel 4.45
8. Goodbye – The Czars 4.24
9. The Departure – Our Broken Garden 3.39
10. To Guard & To Guide You–Lift To Experience 5.24
Exclusive Bonus Tracks
1. The House You Made- The Walkmen 4.00 **
2. Down There By The Train – The Low Anthem 4.55 **
3. Journey from Eden- Jonathan Wilson 7.47 **
4. Battlefield- Zun Zun Egui 5.18 **
5. Below It - Lanterns On The Lake 4.47 **
6. I Would Love You- Father John Misty feat.Phosphorescent 4.27 **