{"title":"AllChival","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllChival is a reissue sublabel that focuses on bringing rare and overlooked music gems back into the spotlight. With an extensive catalog of *artists* and performers, AllChival offers a diverse range of genres including jazz, funk, soul, disco, and more. Whether you're a collector or simply looking to discover new sounds, AllChival's carefully curated selection will transport you to different eras and musical landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs part of the Rush Hour distribution network or available for direct purchase, AllChival ensures that their releases are easily accessible to music enthusiasts worldwide. The label's commitment to quality is evident in their attention to detail when it comes to packaging and sound mastering. Each release is meticulously remastered from original sources, guaranteeing an authentic listening experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you're seeking out lost classics or exploring lesser-known artists, AllChival invites you on a journey through music history. Their dedication to unearthing hidden treasures makes them a trusted source for discovering timeless tunes that deserve recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"you-never-see-the-stars-when-it-rains-1994-99","title":"You Never See The Stars When It Rains 1994-99","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHi-Fi, Lo-Fi, No-Fi\u003c\/i\u003e - the sound of Wormhole \/ The Wormholes. For this release on Allchival we fast forward to the 90s – 1991 to start with, when Metal, Hard Rock, Punk and a love of Fugazi brought the Carroll brother s – Dave \u0026amp; Anto – together with Graham Blackmore as Wormhole. 18 tracks spanning their three LPs, with the full permission of the labels involved – the revered Dead Elvis, the American based Chunkin’ Bronchii’ and Lo Recordings – and remastered by one of their original collaborators and producer of their debut Marc Carolan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll three were residents of Ringsend to the south of Dublin’s city centre. Graham, the youngest of the three, was already a gifted guitarist\/singer, with Dave a natural self taught drummer\/singer and Anto locking bass to his brother’s beat. Early gigs had a special chemistry that set them apart from the rest of Dublin’s nascent indie rock scene of the time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AllChival","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50422753919307,"sku":"1138281","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/731e2938-2472-487e-925b-9611d3989176_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726766382"},{"product_id":"babel-7","title":"Babel","description":"\u003cp\u003eReturning to the well of Roger Doyle once again, his “Babel” project spans a decade of composition work before its’ initial release in 1999 as a 5CD set. Over 100 pieces and almost 50 collaborators it marks a journey through a virtual tower of Babel with each piece corresponding to a room within an imagined giant tower city. For the 25th Anniversary vinyl edition Doyle has revisited it- remastering it and providing its first vinyl edit - 80 minutes spread across two 180gm LP’s - rounding out the package with extended liner notes and a download code to the full 6 hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe’ve previously explored Roger’s Operating Theatre days and the idea for this project came in the early nineteen eighties while Doyle was heavily involved with the experimental theatre group. Working with emerging technologies and across a variety of genres he realised that he would be unlikely to achieve an overarching compositional style. Instead deciding to make a virtue out of the fact that he composed so schizophrenically, he wished to create a musical alphabet out of short abstract sounds with these sounds being analogous to phonemes in speech. With Blade Runner and sci-fi embedded in the zeitgeist of the times he came to the idea of the Tower of Babel as both a futuristic skyscraper and also an embodiment of language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 1990 Babel was finally begun and kept growing until it reached over 6 hours of music and was released in 1999.A large-scale musical structure making use of many technologies and music languages, with each piece of music being thought of as a 'room' or place within an enormous tower city. Each track in the main section corresponds to a virtual sonic architecture. The pieces are divided into two kinds: aural representations of actual spaces like The Dressing Room, The Stairwell and Mr. Brady's Room alongside internalised dream spaces like the Room Of Rhetoric, the Spirit Levels and the Mansard childhood memory room. Listeners can navigate their way differently through this virtual building at each hearing. As a supplement to the Babel Tower KBBL - the fictitious radio station – broadcasts a number of shows. Each has its own style and atmosphere. Collaborating with DJs, actors, writers and singers, KBBL is made to sound like a real radio station with ads, traffic reports and phone-ins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamples of the connections within the project can be found via the architecture were the saxophonist in the off-stage dressing room is rehearsing for her solo in the concert-hall (heard in Pagoda Charm) or the room off the stairwell, where the sounds of piano lessons and apartment life can be heard and the apartment where a muffled KBBL can be overheard At a molecular level The Iron Language Alphabet is a sound alphabet containing tiny fragments of sound representing letters or characters of an alien alphabet. This sound alphabet can be heard scattered through other pieces like The Room of Rhetoric, Pagoda Charm and in KBBL in Johnny’s Body at 002. Other molecular scatterings can be found in Cantilena where two songs sung by Operating Theatre’s Elena Lopez in KBBL are exploded and re-arranged to form new entities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoyle’s Babel celebrates language - a slight variation on the Biblical morality tale - and musical expression in all its variety.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Allchival","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50434035122507,"sku":"2180263","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/acrdlpx1front_c437bdb9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726885224"},{"product_id":"hiding-from-the-landlord","title":"Hiding From The Landlord","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew on Allchival is a compilation tracing the musical pursuits of Cork’s (via Belfast) Finbarr Donnelly and his trilogy of bands – Nun Attax, Five Go Down To The Sea? and Beethoven - before his untimely death by drowning in London’s Hyde Park in 1989. From the post punk of the first band via the discordant indie of the second to the chaos of Beethoven’s short lived existence this compilation shines some light on one of Irelands most enigmatic frontmen over a ten year period. Released on a 15 track LP and an expanded CD version with 24 tracks. Featuring tracks released on Setanta, Creation, Kabuki \u0026amp; Abstract plus previously unreleased Fanning Sessions, the LP also comes with a fanzine with detailed liner notes and ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNun Attax, formed in the late 70s, are synonymous with the Downtown Kampus at Cork’s Arcadia Ballroom, the lynchpin of the city’s post-punk music scene. Their live performances being the stuff of Southern legend - unforgettable, incendiary events, examples of which can be heard on the tracks here [White Cortina, Reekus Sunfare]. In the early-80s the band changed its name to Five Go Down To the Sea? and recorded the Knot A Fish EP 7’’ for London–Irish label Kabuki Records and soon after the band left recession-ridden Cork for the UK capital.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSquatting south of the River, working on building sites and collecting welfare under several aliases recording and gigs were sporadic but by 1984 they had hooked into the early Creation scene, and played gigs at Alan McGee’s Living Room club. Working with The Mekons Jon Langford they release The Glee Club on Edward Christie’s Abstract Sounds label. Following it up with the last of their three releases as Five..on Creation itself the band’s chaotic existence led to its demise only re-emerging in 1988 as Beethoven. Down to two original members – Donnelly and guitarist Ricky Dineen – plus two new additions their only release – a 12” on the fledgling Setanta records – features a cover of “Day Tripper” backed with original tracks and was NME’s Single of the Week in the summer of ‘89 when such things carried weight. 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Michael O’Shea’s self titled LP was originally released on Wire's Dome Imprint in 1982.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe background to the album is as interesting and inspiring as the artist who created it - born in Northern Ireland but raised in the Republic, O’Shea was keen to travel and escape the troubles of his home. Wandering throughout Europe and the Middle East, O’Shea found himself living and working as a relief aid in Bangladesh in the mid Seventies where he learned to play sitar while recovering from a bout of hepatitis. A later period spent busking in France accompanied on zelochord by Algerian musician Kris Hosylan Harp led to O’Shea’s idea of combining both instruments as a homebuilt instrument - Mo Chara [Irish for \"My Friend\"].\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AllChival","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50460035219787,"sku":"1054777","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/fae692c6-873f-4342-b54a-2a8f4ef82a69_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727228789"},{"product_id":"spring-is-coming-with-a-strawberry-in-the-mouth-rapid-eye-movements","title":"Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth \/ Rapid Eye Movements","description":"\u003cp\u003e**Features extensive liner notes** Ft. an amazing re-working from Morgan Buckley (Wah Wah Wino). TIP!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllchival present their second look at the music of Roger Doyle and Operating Theatre (a little known proto synth-pop act and experimental theatre group that he led.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn reverse chronological order the second disc contains music from the United Dairies release of 1979 – ‘Rapid Eye Movements’. Experimental tape work heavily influenced by the French school of music concretists and recorded at various points during the 70s in Finland, Holland and Ireland, although it is most certainly a Roger Doyle solo record the label ran by Nurses With Wounds John Fothergill decided to release it under the group name for reasons now lost to the fog of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter this a volte-face towards a more accessible sound, coming via his friendship with future Hollywood actress Olwen Fouéré and her connection to the theatre. It also featured the vocals of a young Spanish immigrant Elena López- bucking the 80’s trend by moving to rather than from Dublin. With Fouéré adding the theatrical element to the group (an almost essential part of any early 80s synth act) alongside pulsing synths, brass, a vocoder and the electro acoustic production talents of Doyle himself, it was the first time a Fairlight sampler was used in an Irish studio setting and gives a prescient but alternative take on the new wave sound that came to dominate the charts soon after. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoyle’s work on the newly released Fairlight sampler had brought him to the attention of U2’s Bono who had seen a feature about his sampling experimentations and reached out to him for piano lessons. This led to a deal on the bands embryonic Mother records for what Doyle calls his first “popular song” - Queen of No Heart - which alongside “Spring is Coming” made up the backbone of the EP which was released some years later (1986) on the Mother Records label. Established by U2 in 1984 and initially intended to launch Irish bands, many of the acts – including this one – were subsequently unhappy about the label’s haphazard approach to releases and lack of promotion. The record was released as a die cut 7 inch with the two main tracks and a 12 inch EP with additional tracks – ‘Part of My Make-Up’ \/ ‘Atlantean’ \/ ‘Satanasa’. The Mother experience was for Doyle and the rest of the group a frustrating one with no promotional plan and no tour. After that Operating Theatre as a quasi pop project ‘just kind of fizzled out’ says Doyle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoyle, the musical maverick at the heart of the act, continues to produce to this day and has released 30 albums. 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