| MIL
DOLORES PEQUEÑOS |
PCP003CD-LP |
MIL
DOLORES PEQUEÑOS: "Lady Lazarus" (1993). It is seldom that
a debut album receives such resolute and unanimous critical
acclaim. "Lady Lazarus" is endowed with freshness, talent, a
strange revisiting of pop in its free and ample sense. Dark
and vital, magical, poetic and fun, electric and electronic,
all at one time. "Lady Lazarus" is an aromatic mixture that
seduces and surprises to this day.
CD: 12 € (11 $) - LP: 10 €
(9 $)
Love II - Real Audio (excerpt)
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PCP006CD-LP |
MIL
DOLORES PEQUEÑOS: "Soul Shack" (1994). Following its surprise
album "Lady Lazarus", Mil Dolores Pequeños definitely established
itself with "Soul Shack". Some of the biggest, most significant
songs in their repertoire, such as "Electric" or "De la piel
pa' dentro mando yo"(lyrics by Antonio Escohotado), are contained
in this outstanding comeback, endorsed by critics and audience
alike.
CD: 12 € (11 $) - LP: 10 €
(9 $)
Chamber Music - Real Audio (excerpt)
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PCP015CD |
MIL
DOLORES PEQUEÑOS: "Madrid Capone" (1996). The third long
play by Mil Dolores Pequeños features a number of innovations,
notably an increasing use of Spanish, rather than English, in
its texts, and a greater proximity to pop with a capital C in
its compositions. There are also some pills of idle blues and
ultra-electric passages, but chemical pop in the MDP key is
certainly the star of the show.
CD: 12 € (11 $)
Naked Woman - Real Audio (excerpt)
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PCP027CD |
MIL
DOLORES PEQUEÑOS: "Opio" (1998). MDP's fourth and latest
album. Javier Colis and Ajo reach a magical state of creativity
with "Opium". The music, the texts, the arrangements and the
sound are all in balance to achieve an unprecedented mastery.
More approachable to some, more innovative and researching to
others, the critics have agreed in presenting "Opium" as an
outstandingly brilliant effort. Never so psychedelic, perhaps,
but never more thrilling. An addictive record.
CD: 12 € (11 $)
Automaldición - Real Audio
(excerpt)
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| SUPERELVIS |
PCP002CD-LP |
SUPERELVIS:
"Wrong Songs" (1992). The second album of the now long-running
Barcelona band and the first with Por Caridad Producciones.
An touchstone for all their future performance. "Wrong Songs"
surprised at the time for its calm, nocturnal, intimately melodic
nature. Piano, guitar, vocals, harmonica and the occasional
winds... echoes of Leonard Cohen, Dylan or John Cale filtered
uniquely by Superelvis.
CD: 8 € (7 $) - LP: 10 €
(9 $)
Closer - Real Audio (excerpt)
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PCP009CD |
SUPERELVIS:
"Necessary Lies" (1994). "Necessary Lies" explores further into
the musical layout of the preceding "Wrong Songs" album, enriched
with a larger number of nuances and colours. First class collaborations
at the winds, by Mark Cunningham and Jakob Dramisnky.
CD: 8 € (7 $)
It Won't Be Easy - Real Audio (excerpt)
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PCP018CD |
SUPERELVIS:
"Happiness Is Stupid" (1996). Selected best national album in
1996 by the Rock de Lux magazine. The Barcelona quartet delivers
its best compositions here, endowed with arrangements of unprecedented
brilliancy and elaboration. "Happiness is stupid" features an
ample cast of collaborators. From the suburbs to Nino Rota and
the eternal Leonard Cohen.
CD: 12 € (11 $)
Hurt Forever - Real Audio (excerpt)
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PCP024CD |
SUPERELVIS:
"Having Fun On Stage" (1998). A live record featuring first
class collaborators. "Having fun on stage" is the perfect complement
to records such as the preceding "Happiness is stupid", and
a key to the understanding of Superelvis' multidimensional world
in its live format and its improvising mood, free from all song-binding.
CD: 12 € (11 $)
Paraíso - Real Audio (excerpt)
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| DESTROY
MERCEDES |
PCP014CD |
DESTROY
MERCEDES: "Volumen Uno" (1996). The first album by the Madrid
duet made up of Jaime Munárriz and Javier Piñango (ex-Mil Dolores
Pequeños) explores old electronics and its multiple possibilities:
cosmic psychedelia and space rock's evolutionary waves conniving
with machine sounds, noise and punk attitudes. A unique and
surprising experiment.
CD: 12 € (11 $)
Taller Neopreno (Parte 1)
- Real Audio (excerpt)
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PCP022CD |
DESTROY
MERCEDES: "Volumen Dos" (1997). Mechanical rhythms, electropunk'n'roll,
techno sabotaged by electric guitars, terminal dubbing and surrealistic
pop pills: from Suicide to the Residents, plus the contemporary
perversions of Ween. In its second album, Destroy Mercedes'
retrofuturism lands on the dancing floor of a subversive discotheque,
mixing old analogue synths with the terminator power of sampler
and the technology of the nineties.
CD: 12 € (11 $)
Mir Collision - Real Audio (excerpt)
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| JAVIER
COLIS |
PCP023CD |
JAVIER
COLIS: "Luna de agosto" (1997). The first solo album by
Javier Colis as such. Featuring Nacho Colis on drums, and the
other members of Mil Dolores Pequeños. Javier Colis creates
a multidirectional, experimental rock album, intuitive and knowledgeable
in equal parts: guitars, keyboards, sequencers and drums. Between
fury and self-containment.
CD: 12 € (11 $)
A New Chance - Real Audio (excerpt)
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| VAMOS
A MORIR |
PCP001CD-LP |
VAMOS
A MORIR: "Vamos a morir II" (1992). A mythical name in Spain's
most risky scene. The trio formed by Javier Colis (guitar),
Nacho Colis (drums) and Julio Jara (vocals) built up a unique
body of music striding between the latest eighties and the beginning
of the current decade. Violent, poetic, always rapturous and
extreme, Vamos A Morir broke the boundaries of rock, blues,
jazz or punk, ultimately creating a language of their own. Their
second record is a token of their durability.
CD: 12 € (11 $) - LP: 10 €
(9 $)
Carretera cerrada - Real Audio
(excerpt)
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| MARK
CUNNINGHAM |
PCP019CD |
MARK
CUNNINGHAM: "Blood River Dusk" (1997). The first record
under his own name by one of the most influential artists of
the legendary New York No-Wave scene of the late seventies.
This former member of Mars and Don King, a Barcelona resident
for ten years, creates in "Blood River Dusk" a suggestive mosaic
setting with strokes of electronic jazz and urban jungle of
the end of the century.
CD: 12 € (11 $)
Magnesia - Real Audio (excerpt)
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| ACCIDENTS
POLIPOETICS |
PCP011CD |
ACCIDENTS
POLIPOETICS: "Polipoesía urbana de pueblo" (1995). This
catalonian duet uses polipoetry as a launching pad for its harsh,
surrealistic speeches, packed with an irresistible sense of
humour. This SPOKEN record (with just a few musical backgrounds),
is an approach to their theatrical stage performances, with
the added appeal of an extensive and carefully composed song
book with all their lyrics.
CD: 12 € (11 $)
Po - Real Audio
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| ALMA
VACIA |
PCP026CD-LP |
ALMA
VACÍA: "Jardín de los callados" (1999).The band from the Vallecas
hood of Madrid, Alma Vacía (exDNI) is one of the most experienced
hip-hop ensembles in the country. Following a long silence due
to their tempestuous relations with Polygram, they return with
renewed vigour, more straightforwardly combattant than ever.
Excellent rhythmic structures sustaining relentless rhymes.
Real hip-hop without concessions or respite.
CD: 12 € (11 $) - LP: 10 €
(9 $)
El criminal del verso - Real Audio
(excerpt)
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| VARIOS
ARTISTAS - RECOPILACIONES |
PCP007CD |
VARIOS
ARTISTAS: "Noise club uno" (1994). A very special compilation
presenting unpublished tracks by musicians such as Pascal Comelade,
Víctor Nubla and Juan Crek (Macromassa), Mark Cunningham, Antón
Ignorant, Jakob Draminsky, Javier Colis, etc., etc. A new outlook
on their creativity at its individual peak, sidelining their
best known projects.
CD: 12 € (11 $)
Pascal Comelade Bel Canto Orquestra: The Skatalan Logicofobism
- Real Audio (excerpt)
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PCP025CD |
VARIOS
ARTISTAS: "Cura a los enfermos..." (1998). A special price compilation
with a good share of the most representative material by Mil
Dolores Pequeños, Destroy Mercedes, Alma Vacía, Javier Colis,
Accidents Polipoètics, Vamos a Morir and Mark Cunningham. A
perfect guide for those uninitiated in the music of Por Caridad
Producciones.
CD: 8 € (7 $) |
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| DADART |
PCP005CD |
DADART:
"Hermannheisstderfisch" (1993). An avantgarde megaband of seven
musicians doing free-jazz-punk. John Zorn, Lounge Lizards, Arto
Lindsay, John Lurie, Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa himself
are valuable references when it comes to defining the sound
of German Dadart. Dissonant, amusing and happily out of bounds.
Recorded live in Stuttgart.
CD: 8 € (7 $)
Hermann - Real Audio (excerpt)
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| FITZCARRALDO |
PCP008CD |
FITZCARRALDO:
"Granero responde ovejas" (1994). The only record left us by
this Valencia band in the course of its brief and raving "pataphysical"
existence, moving within the twisted sonic coordinates of such
bands as Residents or Pere Ubu.
CD: 12 € (11 $)
Ovejas - Real Audio (excerpt)
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| RAG
CUTTER |
PCP010CD |
RAG
CUTTER: "Drops Of Gasoline" (1994). The first album by this
Madrid combo. Minimalist performances drawing upon the sonic
liquor of Kevin Ayers (to whom there is a tribute included),
Tom Waits or Captain Beefheart. Deformed, sick, alcoholic blues.
CD: 12 € (11 $)
Obertura: Postcard - Real Audio
(excerpt)
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| JACOBITES |
PCP012CD |
JACOBITES:
"Heart Of Hearts (The Spanish Album)" (1995). The legendary
band of British Nikki Sudden and Dave Kusworth recorded this
album exclusively for Por Caridad Producciones, presenting new
tracks and recreations of some classics from their repertoire.
All their magic, and their Bolan-Stones-Bowie-Young spirit are
present as ever in these songs.
CD: 12 € (11 $)
Penicillin - Real Audio (excerpt)
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| TINA
GIL |
PCP013CD |
TINA
GIL: "Tina Gil 1" (1996). An electric songwriter from Barcelona,
Tina Gil uses no more than space-age guitars and vocals (Spanish,
English and Catalonian) to create punk-glam microsongs, medieval
tunes, pop about love and death, besides a remarkable score
of Bowie's "Ashes to ashes".
CD: 8 € (7 $)
Ashes To Ashes - Real Audio (excerpt)
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| LOTHAR
SHAPIRO |
PCP017CD |
LOTHAR
SHAPIRO: "Neuro Whip" (1996). This album presents a personal
approximation to some unknown kind of undulating, heavy and
ethereal blues. Granitic drums, dry ambients plenty of tension
and flaming guitars. Echoes of Kim Salmon and Hugo Race. With
the cavernous voice of Jeremy Harrington (ex-The Monochrome
Set).
CD: 12 € (11 $)
Frank - Real Audio (excerpt)
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| SCORECRACKERS |
PCP020CD |
SCORECRACKERS:
"Eating Flowers" (1997). A radical project of bruitiste extempore
by Markus Breuss (clones, trumpet, electronic sounds) and Pedro
López (electro-accoustic percussions, samples, tapes).
CD: 12 € (11 $)
SSG - Real Audio (excerpt)
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| LEE
ROBINSON MACHINE |
PCP021CD |
LEE
ROBINSON MACHINE: "Family Album" (1997). British Lee Robinson
(exFortunate Sons, exA-10 vocalist) releases his solo debut,
a collection of small and captivating songs: country, new wave,
blues. "Family Album" is backed by minimalist instrumentation:
a casiotone record with a great melodic passion.
CD: 8 € (7 $)
Spoonfuck - Real Audio (excerpt)
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