Textual Records

Textual Records is a record label dedicated to the distribution of sound, music, and text by contemporary artists. As a form of publication, the label focuses on the simultaneity of inscription - the textual, sonic, and musical markings created within the context of art. Limited editions are produced in LP, CD, or cassette form in collaboration with the artists and other entities.

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''Someone To Watch Over Me'

Jenny Perlin and Frank Carlberg
Someone To Watch Over Me
Split Cassette Tape
Limited Edition of 100
2019
TR-008

TRACKS INCLUDE:
Side A - Transcript (soundtrack from a film) - a project by Jenny Perlin, 16mm, color, sound, 11:29, 2006)

Side B - We Get Crazy, composition by Frank Carlberg, 6:04, 2009
- Someone To Watch Over Me, composition by George and Ira Gershwin, interpretation by Noah Preminger and Frank Carlberg, 7:58, 2018

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Prelude to a Memory

Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere
Prelude to a Memory
7" (33 1/3rpm)
Limited Edition of 500
2016
TR-007

TRACKS INCLUDE:
- The Girl (Theme) - Written by Trevor Duncan (1959), Performed by Jarana Beat (2015)
- Washington Post March - John Philip Sousa (1889), Performed by Jarana Beat (2015)
- William Tell Overture - Written by Gioachino Rossini (1829), Performed by Jarana Beat (2015)

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If a song could be freedom . . . Organized Sounds of Resistance

7" (331/3rpm)
Limited Edition of 600
2015
TR-006

TRACKS INCLUDE:
- The Internationale (rendition from Kurdistan)
- Pfumo Nya Ku Pele
by Coral das Forças Populares de Libertaçåo de Moçambique (a revolutionary Mozambican call and response)
- Workers–Get Ready” (a 1970s soul send-up from the Progressive Labor Party)
- Bambini Pianificanti by the Gruppo Musicle de Comitato per il Saleario al Lavoro Domestico di Padova (a song from the Italian Wages for Housework movement)
- Got a Union in this Town” by the Mountain Musicians Cooperative and June Appal Recordings (a pro-union folk ballad from Appalachia)

The record and catalog If a song could be freedom . . . Organized Sounds of Resistance is an accompaniment to the exhibition (of the same name) at Interference Archive from June 25 - September 06, 2015.

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photo credit: Kristin Oppenheim

White Rabbit

Kristin Oppenheim
White Rabbit
12" LP - Gatefold with Poster Insert
Limited Edition of 350
2015
TR-005

White Rabbit is a new vinyl LP by visual artist, Kristin Oppenheim. The music and vocals were recorded in 2015 at The Garden, Brooklyn, NY and produced by The Garden and GreenGrassi. Credits include: bass and guitar by Tony Fennell, drums and percussions by Drew Vogelman, vocals by Erin Carden and Kristin Oppenheim.

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See related exhibition information:
White Rabbit, at greengrassi, London, UK.
http://www.greengrassi.com/Archive?eid=144

Sense Objects

Leah Beeferman and Stephen Vitiello
Sense Objects
Split 7" (45 rpm)
Limited Edition of 500
2014
TR-004

Sense Objects is an exhibition and split 7" record featuring the work of Leah Beeferman and Stephen Vitiello. This pairing brings together their ongoing shared interest in producing art from a sonic perspective. The vinyl record includes sound compositions produced in the fall of 2013.

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Listen to tracks on Sense Objects website, designed by Everything Studio:
http://sense-objects.com

Related exhibition information:
Sense Objects, curated by Regine Basha at Fridman Gallery, New York.
http://www.fridmangallery.com/#!sense-object/c1qvw

Attach:.jpg Δ photo: Goethe-Institut New York

Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere
C02/02 (An Exothermic Revolution)
12" LP
2013
TR-003 - *COMING SOON*

photo: Goethe-Institut New York

L’S BELLS - The Busker of the Gray Line

Saâdane Afif
L’S BELLS - The Busker of the Gray Line
CD Limited Edition of 500
2012
TR-002

Composed and performed by Mount Moon
Exhibition curated by Clara Meister, MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38
June 21-July 29, 2012
Produced by the Goethe-Institut New York, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French
Embassy

http://ludlow38.org/index.php?/currentexhibition/saadane-afif/
http://i-ac.eu/en/newsletter/13
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Touching From A Distance

Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere
Touching From A Distance
12" LP
Limited Edition of 200
2012
TR-001

The inaugural LP release of Textual Records is a labor of love, stemming from the two-channel video Touching From A Distance by Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere in\\ collaboration with Mariachi Ciudad de Guadalajara (interpreting Joy Division's Transmission).

The LP Touching From A Distance features full studio and instrumental tracks performed by Mariachi Ciudad de Guadalajara and the extended video audio extract
along with an interview Regine Basha conducted with Nevarez & Tevere.

LP liner notes were written as essay
by Nato Thompson.

$25 USD (plus tax/shipping)
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Textual Records is a project of Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere. All Rights Reserved, 2013