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The "Lucky Kitchen" Label

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"Lucky Kitchen" is the label run by electronic artists Alejandro & Aeron, who made the fantastic 2003 album, "Boucha Blue Blazes." (n.1) From its web site, LK appears to have a dozen or more "sound artists," who produce albums of soft electronics, "post-jazz," field recordings, and so forth. I liked a bunch of the MP3s I listened to.

Has anyone else heard of the label? What do you think of its artists, which include A & A, Liz Payne, Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone, Toshiya Tsunoda, Do, Joshua Abrams, and Relay Signals? This is a Search and Destroy/Classic or Dud question, I guess. Thanks.

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(n.1) BBB was so interesting to me because the traditional music on the album -- often a single violin or piano line -- appeared behind other, non-traditional sounds, like people walking on a village street in Spain, a family sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner, and so forth. These sound elements made the album warm and intimate. The pockets of silence and the real-world happenings floating through the songs gave the album a bittersweet, almost cinematic feel. And when Boucha -- Aeron Bergman's grandmother -- finally sings a more straightforward song, "I Don't Know," it's an even more sad and powerful moment, set against the backdrop of the other songs.

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 11 November 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...
They've put out records by friends of mine, and seem like swell people personally. The records I have from them seem pretty thought-out and carefully done.

― jodi, samurai photographer (burun), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

daniel: your description sounds like the LK stuff i've heard. especially the home tapes 10" by alejandra salinas. the children's record was weird, in a fairly cutesy way. uhh. been a while since i listened to any of their stuff. i've got notebook on cities and clothes (alejandra and underwood, not on lucky kitchen) and it was a little bit more abstract, less disjointedly 'musical.' but it's been a while.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 01:43 (nineteen years ago)


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