THIS
OFFER HAS NOW EXPIRED.
If
we have already sent you a voucher - you have a
record reserved so please go and collect it! If
you have not received a voucher then you were too
late. All records in all stores are now reserved,
you can no longer order this free record.
However,
you can download 5 hours of related material from
the same period here, and
also you can buy the new People Like Us & Ergo
Phizmiz CD, "Perpetuum Mobile" here.
"HONEYSUCKLE
BOULEVARD"
by
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz
Self-released
10 inch record (Limited Edition 500 numbered copies)
Was
available from selected record stores/galleries
(in exchange for a voucher)
from January 15th-March 31st
2007. Offer is now expired.
This
is the debut collaborative release by artists People
Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz, available for free at
selected galleries and independent record stores
in the UK, the continent and US.
Both
artists operate on the cusp of both experimental
and pop culture, creating radio, audio and DVD releases,
film and A/V multimedia. Their work combines an irreverent approach
with a probing curiosity that explores crossover
points between media.
By appropriating and recontextualising found
footage, they craft collage with equal inflections
of wit and impending doom.
This record presents a progressive change for both artists involved.
It references their past works, but moves
into new territory, resulting in a very collaborative
work, much more than the sum of two parts.
The music is fundamentally electronic (but
not usually sounding so), with references to 1920's
ballroom music, 1950's easy listening, jazz, cartoon
and classical music, seamlessly melding diverse
elements into a dynamic, rhythmic patchwork.
They combine appropriation with live instrumentation
and vocals, with very open tangential musical structures.
With nonsense lyrics that are equally Brothers
Grimm and Edward Lear and accompanying slapstick
interjections, the result is in an exciting and
humorous work.
Recent
works include Ergo Phizmiz's large-scale piece "M:
1000 Year Mix" funded by the Arts Council of
England/Match My Foot Records, and "Wholepole
- The Discotheque of Erotic Misery" for BBC
Radio 3. People Like Us recently released the album "All Together
Now", and is also Artist in Residence at the
BBC Creative Archive. Both artists are currently collaborating
on a full length CD release entitled "Perpetuum
Mobile", to be released in April 2007 on Soleilmoon
Recordings. In addition, both artists broadcast experimental arts shows
on the freeform New York radio/internet station
WFMU.
This
product will be available in the following stores
from January 15th to March 31st
2007.
A-Musik
(Cologne)
Aquarius (San Francisco)
Bimbo Tower (Paris)
Earwax (Brooklyn)
Le Bonheur (Brussels)
Matéria Prima (Porto)
Monorail (Glasgow)
Rough Trade, Neal's Yard (London)
Tate Modern (London)
Worm (Rotterdam)
After
this period, or when the records run out, the record
will be withdrawn.
Please note!!! You cannot get a voucher by
contacting the above stores. They can only be requested
here.
No voucher, no record!
A
uniquely labelled voucher (one per person - all
IP addresses are logged) can be requested by filling
in the form below, and specifying which of the above
stores the customer would like to collect from.
Once you have sent your request we ask that you
be patient, you will hear from us with a voucher
shortly before 15th January, or if you order after
this date then very soon.
This
venture is totally non-profit, for artists and retailer,
and has been met with great enthusiasm from the
host stores. In fact the demand from additional stores that wish to participate
exceeded the amount of records that can be supplied.
The
marketing aspect of this project is partly a humorous
self-parody, in that both artists have favoured
the internet as their primary means of distribution
and now are encouraging people to go into real shops
again and "buy" their music for free.
This novelty form of distribution combines
the tradition of regular shopping with free downloading,
stretching the notion of the "gift economy"
to its limits. "Below the radar" artists have
difficulty with physical distribution of their work
because of the poor state of business for non-chart
releases combined with saturation of the market. However, this isn't a reflection of a
lack of audience interest; People Like Us' album
"Abridged Too Far" and Ergo Phizmiz's
"White Light White Heat" have collectively
amassed in excess of 50,000 mp3
downloads,
so there is no shortage of audience to be testing
these theories on.
http://www.peoplelikeus.org
/ http://www.ergophizmiz.com
Update:
2 August 2007
Download "Honeysuckle Boulevard" at the WFMU Blog!
The online edition of People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz's album, "Honeysuckle Boulevard", which came out at the beginning of 2007 as a free ten inch vinyl release and is now deleted, can now be downloaded for free at the WFMU Blog here. It includes vinyl label artwork, an info text file and also two bonus tracks. The bonus tracks have never before been made available for release or download.
Download the audio either as a zip file containing all the tracks, or grab each individual MP3. So off you go now to the WFMU Blog at http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/08/honesuckle-boul.html
