three:four records

25/04/2024

Very nice word from on his blog Futurism Restated about new album Halcyon Future. Now available at three:four and

29/11/2023

Super chronique du nouveau disque de Sarah Terral, Le Morfil, sur .son

https://hemisphereson.com/sarah-terral-90-synthese-modulaire-10-travestissement/

23/08/2023

Ça faisait longtemps.

Plus d’infos très bientôt.

09/08/2023

09/07/2023

Vernissage du disque de Louis Laurain, Le Bargy, dans le massif du Bargy.

21/06/2023

Les disques sont arrivés !
Louis Laurain - Le Bargy

Artwork: Lionel Catelan

26/05/2023

Bon à tirer validé.
- Le Bargy
Artwork:
Bientôt disponible.

16/05/2023

Nous avons reçus d’un de nos distributeurs quelques disques épuisés depuis longtemps. Parmi ceux ci figure la compilation du avec des morceaux live ou rares de , Bonnie Prince Billy, Sunn O))), Carla Bozulich.

23/12/2022

2022 was a great musical year. you Baumschule ( , and .loher), Raphael Loher, Sourdure and Angelo Maria Farro ()

14/10/2022

Release Day!
Raphael LOHER - Keemuun
LP,CD, digital

21/09/2022

Raphael Loher - Keemuun
Preorders are now open

“The four mirrored pieces that Loher put together reflect his long-term practice of prepared piano as well as deeply personal conception of his instrument: the piano as a giant resonator whose palette of available sounds shall be widened.”

16/09/2022

https://soundcloud.com/studioneau/meakusma-gast-threefour

Three:Four Three:Four Records wurde 2008 von Gaëtan Seguin und Arnaud Guillet gegründet. Seit 2017, bringen „mental stereo pair“ bestehend aus Seguin und Maxime Guitton ihre musikalischen Aktivitäte

15/07/2022

Programme de feu ce vendredi au de St-Saphorin avec et Loup Uberto !

04/07/2022

"Talvolta aereo, a tratti romantico, spesso umano. Un vero e proprio vivaio di emozioni, le cui spore trasportano un suono, quello di un felpato percorso jazz, in ogni dove, unendosi ed allineandosi al nostro ritmo interiore (e viceversa). Ho ascoltato così piacevolmente questo disco che, sinceramente, spendere altre parole per provare a descriverlo è come cercare un succedaneo che dia pari godimento dell’originale.
Fatelo partire, non ve ne pentirete. Abbracciate il vivaio."

Bausmchule ( ) by Vasco Viviani
https://www.sodapop.it/phnx/baumschule-3912-threefour-2022/

Ancora una volta Svizzera, questa volta a casa di Three:Four Records, una delle etichette più interessanti degli ultimi anni al mondo. No, non sto esagerando, scorrete soltanto di un poco il catalogo: Norberto Lobo, David Maranha & Helena Espvall, Dan Oxenberg & Bear Galvin, Oba Loba, La Tène, Eri...

04/07/2022

"Improvvisazioni che si fanno carne lacerata. I Baumschule costruiscono un pentagramma ostico, ed estremamente difficoltoso; ma di una bellezza esagerata. Si rimane rapiti fino alla follia pura da questi esacerbati suoni. Compendio di botti che lacerano, inevitabilmente, la mente. Lavoro destrutturato ed iconoclasta. Note sordide che lasciano quasi l'amaro in bocca...Fatevi investire da cotanta affabulazione!"

Baumschule ( ) by Claudio Baroni

https://blog.libero.it/musica2/16381690.html

Genere Musicale: MicrosuoniBaumschule - ( ) - (Cd - three:four records - 2022)Improvvisazioni che si fanno carne lacerata. I Baumschule costruiscono u

25/06/2022

en concert à l’aube samedi 2 juillet à la à Lausanne!

29/05/2022

Le disque de Baumschule est maintenant disponible avec des graines surprises !
https://baumschule.bandcamp.com/album/-?label=89456074&tab=music

De quoi commencer votre propre Baumschule (pépinière en allemand)

29/05/2022

On a retrouvé 4 cassettes de "Tardive/Issime", le deuxième album de La Tène qui sont sorties sur le label Astral Spirits (les versios CD et LP sont sorties chez Les Disques Bongo Joe et three:four records).
Faites-vite si vous voulez une copie!
https://wearethreefour.bandcamp.com/album/tardive-issime

13/05/2022

OUT TODAY!
Baumschule (Raphael Loher | Julian Sartorius | Manuel Troller)

Neon Green cassette (only 50 copies!) and yellow green jewel case CD are now available on Bandcamp (link in bio)

04/05/2022

Le LP « Vouerca/Fahy », première et seconde éditions est maintenant sold out chez three:four.

Et je remarque seulement maintenant que Stephen O’Malley a fiât un commentaire sur ce disque sur notre Bandcamp.

25/04/2022

🌳🌳🌳 Baumschule's splendid debut is out on three:four records on May 13! 🌳🌳🌳

Available on CD/cassette/digital.

Baumschule was formed following the meeting in 2019 of three musicians with already expansive experimental practice: pianist Raphael Loher, drummer Julian Sartorius and guitarist Manuel Troller (whose solo album 'Vanishing Points' had been released a year earlier on three:four). While Troller and Sartorius had been performing as a duo for some time, and Loher and Troller were already playing together on a more occasional basis, piecing together these three players was a first. After playing entirely improvised concerts, the trio started to explore a seemingly simple idea in the studio: to engage with a limited musical material and let it slowly unfold. A bit like planting a seed and watching it germinate. By setting themselves a set of limitations and rules, which in turn raise new musical questions to be solved, the three musicians have turned Baumschule into a creative playground which exude the sheer pleasure of playing together and listening to others.

The music which came out of the studio session is imposing in appearance: the single piece of the record is close to 40 minutes long. But truth is, it is based on a skillful balance between composition and improvisation, repeated patterns and blossoming micro-variations resulting from individual decisions, phase shifts and resynchronizations, linear progression and tabular strokes. In order to fully perceive these permanent oscillations, the trio invites us somehow to develop two simultaneous ways of listening: one that would focus on the instantaneous development of musical motifs; the other, based on the memory of forms, that would focus on the slow unfolding of the piece.

Listening to Baumschule gives a fascinating impression of musical twisting, as if their music propelled itself through a helical and upward movement. Most likely, this has to do with the fact that, while constantly reacting to one other, the three musicians seem to play on different planes and tempi: Loher works his material in a sprawling manner, Sartorius imperceptibly proliferates like a cellular network, while Troller moves forward with the regularity of a natural cycle.

If the respective trajectories of the three members seem to place them in the footsteps of a reductionist approach, one can just as easily listen to their project as a record of improvised music exploring the canvas of an invisible plan. This is to say how much the trio constantly thwarts what one may expect or discern from it: no sooner are one’s ears caught by some clear guitar lines, some elaborate texture of bowed piano strings or some identifiable rhythmic units, than the two other thirds are already reconfiguring the trio's material. Behind its apparent immobility, Baumschule ("nursery") is teeming. Behind the tree lies the forest.

Credits:
Raphael Loher: Piano
Julian Sartorius: Drums
Manuel Troller: Guitar

All music by Baumschule.
Recording by Valentin Liechti at Suburban Sound, Winterthur, February 2021.
Mix by Valentin Liechti and Baumschule.
Mastering by Rashad Becker at Clunk Mastering, Berlin.
Graphic design by Katharina Reidy and Meret Gschwend.
Produced by Baumschule.
Published by three:four records 2022.

Thanks to:
Valentin Liechti, Rashad Becker, Katharina Reidy, Meret Gschwend, Gaëtan Seguin, Maxime Guitton, Johanna Hilari, Cornelia Gassler.
Thanks for the generous support : Stadt Luzern FUKA-Fonds, Kulturfrderung Kanton St. Gallen, RKK Luzern.
TFR065

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

03/02/2022

We did not notice before that "Jupiter and Beyond" by Rafael Toral and João Pais Filipe was on Pitchfork's top ambient album of 2020!

"Rafael Toral has spent much of his three-decade recording career exploring space as both a physical and metaphorical concept. On titles like Saturn, Moon Field, and his multi-part Space series, he has used electric guitar and electronics to sculpt evocative, almost tactile drones that seem as much a product of three-dimensional space as they do time. On Jupiter and Beyond, he keeps pushing outward alongside percussionist João Pais Filipe. Channeling fountains of dissonance, it sounds in places like Sunn O))) without the exaggerated low end; elsewhere, it's reminiscent of the “isolationist” ambient of the early 1990s. Utilizing just gongs, bells, and feedback, Toral sketches out a world of activity teeming with suggestion: of vinelike tendrils wrapped around glassy stems, and mechanical birds roosting on metal branches, and, of course, spherical craft drifting past enormous orbs, engulfed in the silence of the interplanetary void."

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-ambient-music-2020/

Whether offering solace, transport, or simple numbness, these albums perfectly suited a year of lockdown.

27/01/2022

three:four records announce 3 upcoming releases:

Sourdure, De bon astre
(CD / cassette / digital ― TFR065)
Baumschule (Raphael Loher | Julian Sartorius | Manuel Troller), -
(CD / cassette / digital ― TFR066)
Angelo M. Farro, The Night of the Electric Insects
(CD / digital ― TFR067)

More details soon.
And more records to come during the 2nd half of 2022.

09/01/2022

"Les Particules" de Èlg est maintenant disponible en cassette sur le label espagnol Mascarpone Discos.
https://mascarponediscos.bandcamp.com/album/les-particules

Si vous préférez un beau gatefold en vinyle, il est toujours disponible sur notre bandcamp : https://wearethreefour.bandcamp.com/album/les-particules

20 track album

11/10/2021

Dans l’édition week-end du Temps au cœur d’un article sur les labels indépendants!

05/10/2021

"Le ménisque original" de Sarah Terral (Clément Vercelletto) dans la sélection "Best experimental music - Sept. 2021) de Bandcamp !

Bathtub-plug drum solos, South Side Chicago soundwalks, and more.

27/08/2021

Sarah Terral - Le ménisque original
Sortie officielle aujourd’hui! vercelletto

27/08/2021

NEW: Sarah Terral "Le ménisque original" out today - https://mailchi.mp/882d134d6a01/sarah_terral-news

19/08/2021

About Yann Gourdon's recent album
"The instrumentalist’s album, titled simply with his name, consists of two sides – minimalist suites scored for the hurdy-gurdy. The simplicity of this instrument here reveals another side – a complex multi-layered sound that drills into the ear with every passing second. “Face A” is a mantric, subliminally pulsating drone, shimmering with colours that stretch out in a uniform duration. A musical monument in which the source of the sound generated is vaguely obscured, and the focus moves to resonance and its acoustic properties. The ear may be perplexed more than once; as if someone covered the lively folk music with a sonic layer, which emphasizes the nuances of the composition through ornamentation. “Face B” slows down the tempo, the sounds of the hurdy-gurdy are not so much punctuated, but rather lengthy and dignified, at times stratified. In both cases the music grows ever more dense, the hurdy-gurdy takes over the space – the Frenchman transforms the simple instrument into a sonic, vibrating tunnel of sound."
http://noweidzieodmorza.com/14667-the-french-revelation/

Main, Reviews2 August 20213 August 2021 The French Revelation BY Jakub Knera Reading Time: 13 min Continue Reading Previous ArticleDifferent types of trance Regional traditions, songs, field recordings, dark drones, and psychedelia – the French scene is in bloom.Join me for a run-through of the mo...