A Tree In A Field is a Swiss independent record label.
Among their latest 4 releases are 3 perfect and 

AIE CA GICLE – SPEAK EASY

Well, then I’m speaking easy. Shit. Because there’re many playful, catchy tunes, but there’re not enough dynamics in the tracks, so most of the songs become boring. Enervated indie guitar pop with some really good moments. Listen and form own opinion!

I’m very sorry. It could be an excellent album.

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4 Trees In A Field / 1 A perfect album by MIR 

Yes, Tara Jane O’Neil is an experimental musician. A multi-instrumentalist with post-hardcore and indie rock background. She was in the Rodan, The Sonora Pine (with Samara Lubelski, she is known from Thurston Moore’s Chelsea Light Moving), and played with Mount Erie, Sebadoh or Jackie-O Motherfucker. An airy melody with a little ambient feeling

from her album ‘Where Shine New Lights’ by Kranky

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„The Traps were contemporaries of Coachwhips, out of Providence RI circa 2003-2004. Very very heavy. Very very simple.” – John Dwyer (Thee Oh Sees, Coachwhips)

Boom Pow Awesome Wow – out on Castle Face Records on January 28th

Career of the Magik Markers was started by help of Sonic Youth. Some markers to their music: psychedelic-minimal-no wave-magic-noise-rock. Mirrorless

from the album ‘Surrender To The Fantasy’ by Drag City. It was recorded at an old music room, a practice place, two basements  and J. Masics’s (Dinosaur Jr.) attic  in different cities.

CLASSIC 80s US HARDCORE PUNK
A FAST LOUD ABRASIVE WHEEL

self-released 7″ vinyl EP by THE INSTIGATION

It formed in Shanghai in 2010, but the current line-up is living 4 different cities.
The Japanese guitarist and bassist: Kobe and Tokyo
(the distance is about 480 km or 300 miles).
The British singer: London. The Canadian drummer: Shanghai.
It’s also really hardcore.

If you want vinyl please write: theinstigation AT gmail.com

The Ruins was founded as a trio in 1985, but the guitarist never arrived, so started as a prog-rock drum and bass duo. During the years there were 4 bassists, the last one quit in 2004, since then the drummer, Tatsuya Yoshida is working as Ruins Alone. By the way he is also playing in the noise metal Zeni Geva, in the free jazz grind PainKiller with John Zorn and Bill Laswell, and in the prog-psych-space rock Acid Mothers Temple beside his many collaborations. One of these is the Sax Ruins with the saxophone player, flautist (and sculptor) Ryoko Ono, who participates in jazz, rock, funk, rhythm & blues and hiphop bands beside her own progressive-impro-rock band, ryorchestra.

Blimmguass LP by Skin Graft Records

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Nice indie pop music by Hospitality

Trouble LP on Merge (USA) and Fire Records (UK). I wonder whether will be there such a hit as the Friends of Friends?

Pontiak plays a strange mix of psychedelic rock and proto-metal. Lack Lustre Rush

from the album, Innocence by Thrill Jockey

Euro tour in April-May

A Tree In A Field is a Swiss independent record label.
In the following days you can read about their latest 4 releases.

MIR – plays alien folk, aka UFOLK music 

In the human sphere it is like a time and space noise wave
played on un/conventional rock instruments
and lots of additional electronic and analogue equipment.
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project hadn’t so many widgets than they have,
so the sound wasn’t the real McCoy there.

The MIR was launched in 2005 under influence of the German Kosmiche Musik. The astronauts are very colourful individuals. The drummer, Daniel Buess was in the pioneer jazzcore band 16-17, is founding member of the Ensemble of Phoenix, which is specialized to contemporary music, and there are various bands and collaborations.
Papiro, the masters of strings, originally is a classical trained violinist, who plays every instrument that he can get, and had/has many projects in different styles. For example there was a mystical experience in 2003 which led him to perform music based on playing only one chord at high volume for an extended period.
MZ operates on organ, synthesizers and other electronics. He originally played guitars with different underground bands until he discovered that he was more interested in soundeffects rather than virtuosity, and developed new techniques for guitar, and started to play around with synthesizers and their modifications. When I first saw the MIR, I stared his little room size keyboard structure, and named it ‘Oh my God, what is it?’
On their Shock Your Moneymaker album two percussionists joined them. “The duo’s tabla-like playing adds a furious, repetitive element to the band’s music, an effect that becomes even more striking when Papiro brings the Indian Shehnai flute into the mix.” It’s like a Martian jungle.

The album’s producer is Alex Buess from 16-17, GOD, Phantom City, Cortex (duo with Daniel Buess) etc.

The „vintage rocker” Michael Yonkers is one of the greatest hidden underground musicians like Seasick Steve, who won the Award for Best Breakthrough Act at his age of 66, or the 81 years old bluesman, Leo Welch with his debut album. Yonkers was born in Minneapolis in 1947. He has been making music since the early 60s, self-releasing some albums in the 70s, and stayed fully unknown until 2003. Then his unreleased album, the Microminiature Love, which was recorded in 1968 was released by de Stijl and Sub Pop. And boom. Fresh, fascinating psychedelic garage rock with a very unique sound, thanks to own made effects and a reshaped Fender Telecaster. It’s „like a fusion of stripped down Black Sabbath, The Troggs, Pere Ubu, and The Cramps.” It also comes the Stooges, the Godz and Joy Division to my mind. His previous albums would be reissued one after the other beside his new and unreleased materials.  Among his new stuff there are two collabs with the garage punk band, Blind Shake.

A marvellous acoustic chamber folk album The Borders Of My Mind with Jim Woehrle from 1974 is the brand new reissue by Drag City. Look!

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Texan harsh punk on drums, guitar and electronics. Burnt Skull

Sewer Birth LP by 12Xu

Special Swiss lo-fi doom folk by the one man act Doomenfels. Jahreszithen

from Epilog EP by A Tree In A Field Records

Bruno Dorella & Stefania Pedretti from Italy play
Minimal Extreme Noise Metal under the name of OvO

„The anarcho-punk (The Ex, Dog Faced Hermans, Rhythm Activism) made an important impact on us, but we don’t belong any movements. Although our lifestyle is perfect anarchism. We haven’t workplace, travelling around the world, working together with people whose values identical with ours, doing own label, etc. We can try to live by our own ideas, it requires much discipline, I think it’s an important trick of the anarchism.” (Read the full interview in Hungarian.)

OvO plays with Mombu (I) & Paranoiz (H)
at RNR666 party on Jan 24 in Budapest at Müszi

OvO + Mombu on Jan 23 in Szeged at Jazz Kocsma