Barge Recordings

my lowville : the fun years

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:56:03 -0700

"my lowville" is from the fun years' second album entitled "baby, it's cold inside." Released July 22nd 2008 on Barge Recordings.

This video was created exclusively for Barge Recordings by Shimpei Takeda.

auto show day of the dead : the fun years

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:44:27 -0700

"auto show day of the dead" is from the fun years' second album entitled "baby, it's cold inside." Released July 22nd 2008 on Barge Recordings.

This video was created exclusively for Barge Recordings by Melissa Clarke.

The Fun Years - Life-Sized Psychoses CD Release Party Poster

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:27:37 -0700

Poster for The Fun Years / Life-Sized Psychoses CD Release Party at Monkey Town in Brooklyn on Friday April 20th 2007. Design by Dave Nardone.

the-making-of-BRG001

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:44:47 -0700

The Fun Years - Press Pic

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:44:40 -0700

BRG001 ~ INNATURE : Various Artists

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:18:54 -0700

Track Listing:

1.) The Fun Years : Electricity Is A Scarce Commodity
2.) The Kallikak Family : Purity Music/Purity Sound
3.) Bird Show : Stay High
4.) Polmo Polpo : Farewell To The Flyer
5.) Tim Hecker : Dungeoneering
6.) Loren Connors : Outside My Window
7.) Animal Hospital : Late Summertime
8.) Circle : No Battle, No Fire
9.) Geoff Mullen : Gold Eyes
10.) MGR : Neither Here Nor There

BRG002 ~ The Fun Years : Life-Sized Psychoses

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:18:52 -0700

Track Listing:

1.) powerball annie
2.) in case you had any doubts...
3.) d >> 2
4.) softy as stilts
5.) garbage man, poet

Flyer for Geoff Mullen vs. MGR show at SoundFix 12.20.06

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:18:50 -0700

Afternoon delight. This was a fantastic mid-day show at Sound Fix Records in Brooklyn. The line up was Black Hands then Geoff Mullen then MGR finished things up.

MGR @ Sound Fix 12.20.06

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:18:47 -0700

This photo was taken by our friend Francisco Monar.

Geoff Mullen @ The Knitting Factory - New York

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:18:36 -0700

Photo by Ian P. Lawrence

Geoff Mullen @ Sound Fix 12.20.06 photo 2

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:18:33 -0700

This photo was taken by Francisco Monar

Geoff Mullen @ Sound Fix 12.20.06 photo 3

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:18:21 -0700

This photo was taken by Ian P. Lawrence

BRG 003 Geoff Mullen/Armory Radio Ltd. 2XLP - IN STORES 10/09/07 - AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW!

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:13:49 -0700

Hi Folks, Geoff Mullen's new limited edition double LP will be available in stores on 10/09/07. Armory Radio is an incredibly vast and moving piece of music. It showcases Geoff's immense talent for manipulating guitar and found sound into swirling and haunting soundscapes. The limited edition vinyl only double LP comes housed in a hand screen printed jacket that is hand stamped and hand numbered. There are 500 available worldwide. You can pre-order your copy today by visiting the catalog page of our website.

BRG002 The Fun Years/Life-Sized Psychoses : IN STORES

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:49:29 -0700

The Fun Years' new full length CD entitled "Life-Sized Psychoses" is a 50-minute composition combining drones, textures and stretched out progressions. Split into five tracks (although we at Barge prefer listening all the way through), "Life-Sized Psychoses" is the perfect balance of soundscape meets song. A duo of turntable and baritone guitar, The Fun Years have disguised their instruments with atmospheric textures comprised of obscure samples and blissful repetition. The result is a stream of audio magma, filled with dreamy sound washes and subtle phrases that effortlessly tumble over one another. The Fun Years could be called experimental, but "Life-Sized Psychoses" is very well mapped out. In the same way that artists such as Stars of the Lid and William Basinski use time as a muscial tool without pretense, The Fun Years compose songs (and albums) that allow you sink into and live with for an extended period of time. The duo concoct thick layers of rich drone and underlying harmony that artfully conjure notions of memory, space and the subconscious. While Isaac Sparks' sampling creates an undulating haze of pops and crackles from abstracted vinyl recordings, Ben Recht's guitar work of often looped arpeggios and open tunings draws the listener into the world of The Fun Years. Simply said, "Life-Sized Psychoses" is a beautiful piece of music.