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Artist: TEAMFOREST
Title: Home
Label: A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format: 7"
Price: $6.50
Catalog #: ANOST 004EP
Released in 2002. "Home" is the meeting of a long-forgotten New Zealand lo-fi-pop attitude with rattling electronica beats and sounds, plus a few unhip instruments like banjo and synth trumpets that actually results in something like a classic pop song with a finely-tuned melody and just the right melancholic note. The B-side shows an even moodier aspect of Teamforest. Pure electronic melancholy with a slight shimmer of hope, all relaxed and grooving like a respectful tribute to Boards of Canada.


Artist: JOHN YOKO
Title: Papa Was a Rodeo
Label: A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format: 7"
Price: $6.50
Catalog #: ANOST 006EP
Released in 2005. Lali Puna's Valerie Trebeljahr and Markus Acher have resigned themselves to the joke that people often compare them to John & Yoko. This is their first joint excursion outside the familiar surroundings of their band set-up, and provides one more gem in the carefully-selected series of 7"s on Morr Music's sub-label, A Number of Small Things. Covers of songs by Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields and Bill Callahan (Smog).


Artist: FLEISCHMANN, B.
Title: Frisky He Said
Label: A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format: 7"
Price: $6.50
Catalog #: ANOST 008EP
Released in 2006. A supplement to the album The Humbucking Coil, released by the Vienna-based songwriter, B. Fleischmann. This two-tracker is made of space -- space to breathe and space to grow. "Frisky He Said" is a meditative piano piece, gradually surrounded by Fleischmann's typical clicking rhythm structures. The second track is an alternative version from what was on the full-length and starts with a minimal organ tune, followed up by a laid back guitar. This reduced melody is completed by tricky, adjusted beats. Digital and analog, closely-woven and wide open.


Artist: ELECTRIC PRESIDENT
Title: You Have the Right to Remain Awesome: Volume 1
Label: A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format: 7"
Price: $6.50
Catalog #: ANOST 009EP
Released in 2006. You Have the Right to Remain Awesome: Volume 1 begins with the organic "Good Ol' Boys," a carefully-arranged juxtaposition of soundtracks and sound signals. A track that borrows its concentration from rhythm and its electronic oscillations from digital music. A track that matures into analog vividness. "Dotted Lines" seems to be the exact opposite: almost a folk song, carried by an acoustic guitar and a likeable melody.


Artist: ELECTRIC PRESIDENT
Title: You Have the Right to Remain Awesome: Volume 2
Label: A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format: 7"
Price: $6.50
Catalog #: ANOST 010EP
Released in 2006. You Have the Right to Remain Awesome: Volume 2 starts with a dawn of two guitar patterns and flows into a captivating melody that is supported by tender trumpets. "I'm Not The Lonely Son (I'm The Ghost)" is a meandering pop song, a song for sunsets. "Wearing Influences On Our Sleeve-Less T-Shirts" appears equally direct but more quiet and stately. And once more there is Ben Cooper's clear and direct voice. A ballad maybe -- were there no handclaps within the chorus and if "ballad" weren't a cheesy category.


Artist: POPULOUS
Title: Breathes The Best
Label: A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format: 7"
Price: $6.50
Catalog #: ANOST 011EP
Released in 2006. Whereas Queue For Love enlarged the abstract-electronic foundation of Populous' debut album Quipo with reference points such as jazz, space, songwriting and soul (as attitude AND sound reference), Breathes The Best learns to stand on its own two feet, finally free of expectations. "Breathes The Best" is a digital pop song with body (in the sense of space to breathe) and soul. "Bon Bon Pour Les Rappers" begins as a game of soundscapes, absorbed by Populous' earliest passion: a nonchalant rhythm pattern. "Blood Red Bird" is a cover of a Smog classic, played by Andrea Mangia's friends, Giardini Di Mirò -- mixed and rearranged by Populous. Melancholy, indulging, rapt and close to your ear.


Artist: BENNI HEMM HEMM
Title: Beginning End
Label: A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format: 7"
Price: $6.50
Catalog #: ANOST 012EP
Released in 2006. "Beginning End" is an emphatic overture, reduced to opulence. A lot of instruments -- guitars, a brass section and a glockenspiel -- ensnare just a few sounds, a lively game. The second track is "Beygja Og Beygja," Benni Hemm Hemm's first hit single. This time, it is performed by an acoustic guitar and Benni's Icelandic singing fragments. Reminiscent of Stereolab, Ennio Morricone and any other good-natured dance band, sometime after midnight when the power goes out.


Artist: QRELLA, MASHA
Title: Don't Stop The Dance/Saturday Night
Label: A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format: 7"
Price: $6.50
Catalog #: ANOST 013EP
Released in 2006. Famous and familiar songs: Brian Ferry's "Don't Stop The Dance" on the one side, and "Saturday Night" from the Berlin-based duo Komeït on the other. Ferry's smooth declaration of love with its charismatic short interruptions are also typical of Masha Qrella's music. The arrangement and production is precise, transparent, and interwoven in a complex way. "Saturday Night" charms with an emphatic closeness instead of the vibrating coolness of side A. Take me to the places that I've never seen, indeed.


Artist: SEABEAR
Title: Teenage Kicks
Label: A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format: 7"
Price: $6.50
Catalog #: ANOST 014EP
Iceland's Seabear do a cover version of the punk rock classic, "Teenage Kicks," originally performed by The Undertones in the late '70s. Seabear made it a song with soft, sentimental and mellow tones, including a summery viola, a sparkling piano and the warm voice of Sindri. "Piano Hands" is a B-side session from their full-length debut, a silent tune with an abundance of sound.


Artist: SEAVAULT
Title: Mercy Seat
Label: A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format: 7"
Price: $6.50
Catalog #: ANOST 015EP
Organic, electronic, melodic songs that shimmer with light and dark textures from the UK. Antony Ryan (ISAN) and Simon Scott (Televise/Slowdive) blend together a mixture of musical elements that stun and comfort. This musical partnership could be described as The Cure drinking with My Bloody Valentine drinking with The Postal Service drinking with Ulrich Schnauss.


Artist: BENNI HEMM HEMM
Title: Skvavars
Label: A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format: 7"
Price: $6.50
Catalog #: ANOST 016EP
Released in 2007. Skvavars is an acoustic postcard. One track tells of travelling, the other one tells of the people met along the way. Benni Hemm Hemm recorded "Skvavars" for his album Kajak, and it drifts with one continuous surge. The wind murmurs the instruments around your ears... voices whirl through the air. "Baldrei" features a tiny guitar, trumpet, cornet and piano as well as Jens Lekman's Icelandic singing.


Artist: BUTCHER THE BAR
Title: Get Away/Leave This Town
Label: A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format: 7"
Price: $6.50
Catalog #: ANOST 017EP
Butcher The Bar is the 22 year-old Joel Nicholson, who currently resides in the north of England with his acoustic guitar and a couple of instruments such as a banjo, a melodica and an accordion. "Get Away" is a melancholy goodbye to a town, a disillusioned memory of a city that fades away while still living in it. "Leave Town" is as minimal and as maximal as a pop song could be: a guitar, a banjo and a warm voice.


Artist: IT'S A MUSICAL
Title: The Music Makes Me Sick
Label: A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format: 7"
Price: $6.50
Catalog #: ANOST 018EP
This is a double A-side release by It's A Musical, featuring songs off of their debut full-length The Music Makes Me Sick, on Morr Music. Two tracks of glorious keys, brass, and catchy vocal melody.

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