Under My Bed Recordings

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Under My Bed, is a No-Profit label based in Milan (Italy), founded in 2001. The Under My Bed Recordings is dedicated to home-recording productions. For us, do-it-yourself is a choise and an attitude, not a budget limitation. Hence, we preferentially produce minimalist folk, pop and, more rarely, electrocnic acts. We prefer to listen to Fe-magnetic supports, but anything else would be simply fine. We do love tapes indeed.

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Contact us by :E-mail or written correspondence for information, material, interest or curiosity. Personal comunication is deeply appreciated. We strongly encourage to send us tapes. However, please check our demo-tape policy, before submitting any music.

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"Cinque Pezzi Facili"
Lorca	Mr60	Morose	My Dear Killer	Empty Vessel Music


Pillow	The Frozen Fracture	Campofame	Tettu Mortu	Konstanzegraff
The Under My Bed Coupled-Split Series

The Compilation Volumes

	Compilation Volume 1. Mixed Tapes Kept Under My Bed UMB#01
Mixed Tapes Kept Under My Bed is the fist volume of Under My Bed Recordings collection of songs and includes contributions from Belongs To Me, Bon Voyage, Comfort, Milaus, Morose, My Dear Killer, My shell, Nasten'ka, Onq, Smou, Something Faded, The Colours Seen from Behind, Thefinger, The Fog in The Shell, The Frozen Fracture, Ultraviolet makes me sick. Order from our Catalogue.

Compilation Volume 2. Broken Keyboards Kept Under My Bed UMB#09
Broken Keyboards Kept Under My Bed is the second collection of songs of Under My Bed Recordings and includes contributions from ENT, Roccu, Eniac, Pirmin, V1tro, Schlock, Purusha, Radioabelmouth, Fishkiller, 'mbromo, Polis, ONQ, Morose, Banda minima, Punck, Skoda, Potato Sld, Bosvet. Order from our Catalogue.

	Compilation Volume 3. More Tapes Kept Under My Bed UMB#20
More Tapes Kept Under My Bed is the third collection of songs of Under My Bed Recordings and includes contributions from Meets Guitar, Jet Johnson, Breams, My Dear Killer, Burd Earl, Felipe, Lorca, Plastick Explosion, Straight Saranza, Baggage Claim, and many more. Order from our Catalogue.

Compilation Volume 4. 10 Years of Secret Mixtapes (kept Under My Bed) UMB#30
10 Years of Secret Mixtapes (Kept Under My Bed) is the 4th compilation volume, and it is released to celebrate/commiserate the 10th Anniversary since UMB fundation. Includes contributions from: ONq, Lebenswelt, My Shell, My Dear Killer, Baggage Claim, Campofame, Morose, Empy Vessel Music, Andrea Rottin, Father Murphy, Prague, Santo Barbaro and Sparkle in Grey. Order from our Catalogue.

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My Dear Killer
Clinical Shyness
UMB#02/BM01

The title of the album, Clinical Shyness, is definitely self-explanatory. The record is released by a syndicate of record labels composed of Madcap Collective, Under My Bed, Eaten By Squirrels and Boring Machines. The album collects the most significant material recoded by My Dear Killer during the past five years and which have been rearranged and manipulated during winter of 2005. The result is a thirty-minutes-long collection of songs, which puts together with the intimacy of song writing with a the widespread landscape of noises and feedbacks in which the melody's arpeggios and whispered murmurs are submerged, reproducing the environmentin which these little portraits of loneliness have been compiled.
[what the experts say of it ->]
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ONQ
Canzoni Tutte Uguali
UMB#025

After two years since the release of "Desein Ohne Leben" by Bluesanct/Orphanology in 2002, ONQ returns as a one-man-band with the album "Canzoni tutte uguali". This is the fist recordf of ONQ sung in Italian and it is also the first work involving female singers. "Canzoni tutte uguali" can be requested directly to ONQ, via its website, or by mail-order either from Eaten By Squirrels, or from Under My Bed. Comes with a hand-pressed artwork. Each copy is therefore unique.
[what the experts say of it ->]
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	AA.VV. Goose Game (Grey Sparkle)
Goose Games (of Life) is a bonus Cdr coming with the the Delux Edition of Sparkley in grey's mexico edite by Grey Sparkle, Afe records, Musica di Un Certo Livello, Old Bicycle. Features sevral covers of Goose Games, including st.Ride, Luca Sigurt�, My Dear Killer, Sandro Codazzi, Hue, TourDeForce. Available from Grey Sparkle in Mexico Deluxe Edition.

Mr. 60/The Frozen Fracture
Cinque Pezzi Facili. Volume 2
UMB#015

Thsi is the second split of the 5 Pezzi Facili series. Mr.60's "Concepto:desperato" is a metaphoric journey through which the band explores its vast compositive possibility given by ability of the members to apaly seval instruments. The mellow and subtitle irony of which this halp of the EP is impregnated constitutes Mr 60s trademark. The Frozen Fracture contribution "Rare Earths Noble Gases" is also a time-travel journey cobining songs recorded uning Fisher-Price microphones, VHS recorder and other sort of oddity. It is an unusually random brick-a-brak and the ultimate experience of a musical project failure.
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:What's new in this site 10/05/12 - Bob Corn & Matteo Uggeri Fields of Corn out 26 May 2012 10/05/12 - My Dear Killer Showcase Cynical Quietness out 18 May 2012 05/03/12 - My Dear Killer+ Sparkle in Grey photos @ Musica da Cameretta 18/12/11 - 10th anniversary compilation out now!! 11/11/11 - My Dear Killer in Sparkly in Grey's Goose Game remix 15/08/11 - My Dear Killer+ Rella the woodcutter split 7" released

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My Dear Killer/Tettu Mortu
Cinque Pezzi Facili. Vol3
UMB#016

Cinque Pezzi Facili. Volume 3. This collaborative effort of My Dear Killer and Tettu Mortu composes the third volume of the split collection entitled "Cinque Pezzi Facili" edited by Under My Bed. Cynical Quietness (My Dear Killer) a brief acoustic passage by the depth of incommunicability in which the usual mesh of drawn and feedback are substituted by field recordings of the Scottish winter. Bounce is a collection of short sketches in which, for the occasion, Tettu Mortu replaces the extended noise improvisation that characterised the previous works (Christo EP, Fields Ep). The electronic bruit-ism of the first two episodes leaves the place, gradually, to the field recordings dominated closing tracks. Ten pieces to remember that the winter will be coming soon again.
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Bob Corn & Matteo Uggeri
Fields of Corn
UMB#032

Fields of Corn is a joint project of Matteo Uggeri (Hue, Sparkle in Grey, Der Einzige) and Bob Corn. It is a collection of ambient recordings, taken in two sessions: the first, in 2009, amongst Tiziano Sgarbi's parents, the village people and few shops; the second, in 2011, during Musica nelle Valli. The tracks sung by Bob and recorded by Matteo sound very much like a dense, discreet soundtrack to a short film featuring side roles; the one that stands out is the end track by the duo Comaneci. In the background, there's the persistent singing o f an unidentified bird, possibly the same one that had accompanied Matteo and Bob's walks two years earlier. Jointly release by Grey Sparkle, Fooltribe, Boring Machines and with a small contribution from Under My Bed.
OUT 26 May 2012, Showcase @ Musica Nelle Valli

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Ten years of secret mixtapes
UMB#030

Ten Years of secret mixtapes kept under my bed, a compilation assembled to celebrate/commiserate the 10th anniversary since Under My Bed Foundation (2001-2011). Released on the 18th of December 2011. Features: ONQ, Lebenswelt, My Shell, Baggage Claim, My Dear Killer, Campofame, Morose, Empty Vessel Music, Andrea Rottin, Father Murphy, Prague, Santo Barbaro, Sparkle in Grey. Graphics by Matteo Uggeri.
150 copies, limited edition.
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My Dear Killer
Lullabies for Ealrybirds
UMB#029/Second Edition

My Dear Killer's, Under My Bed veterans, Lullabies for Earlybirds is a 4-song EP, in uber-limited 5 copies edition. Home recorded with a tape four-track recorded in Glasgow and mixed in the lake's land to mark the return in the motherland from the cold shores of Albion. CD-r; Second Edition 2012 labelled "Mk. II", features cardboard cover/new graphics: limited 10 copies. Totale Pressed 15.
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	My Dear Killer/Rella the Woodcutter 7" Split Untitled BM033
Split 7", featuring My Dear Killer and Rella the woodcutter, limited edition 200 copies, heavy (180 g) vinyl, and litographic artwork. Released by Boring Machines. Only 4 copies left in distribution left!! Order from our Catalogue

	AA.VV (My Dear Killer+The Frozen Fracure & Morose) ADOOSSO! (Ribess Recortds)
Morose and My Dear Killer(ft. The Frozen Fracture) participated to ADDOSSO! a compilation released by Ribess records and sponsored by A.N.P.I. to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the reunification of Italy and the Partisan Resistance against the Nazi-Fascist regime. A few copies in distribution remaining. Order from our Catalogue

Collected Wreckages
The Dutch Courage
UMB#028

The Dutch Courage is a noise semi-improvisational duo. Their sounds is a rather basic stratification of nearly crystal clear dilated guitar riff on a magmatic landscape of oversaturated keyboard, filtered through curious self-assembled stomp boxes. This tracks were originally recorded between 1998 and 1999, and are quite pioneering in their, at tract rather na�ve, but generally very intriguing, excursions toward extreme circuit-bending. The EP features a unique packaging, containing a mini-poster and a little novel associated with each episode. More here:~Wreckages.Limited Edition: 20 Copies
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	My Shell/My Dear Killer/The Frozen Fracture The Rules Behind UMB#01ed
My Dear serial Killer's "The Rules Behind" excuted by the author, with help of Andrea on the Violin; My Shell, on the piano, and a noisy instrumental version by The Frozen Fracture. Published as a free electronic download, is also available, on request as a CDr. Free Download

My Dear Serial Killer
1/3; 2/3; 3/3

My Dear serial Killer is a series of mini-CD, compiled by Boring Machines. Each of the splits contains three songs, in which My dear Killer appears in variety of forms, ranging from the simplest guitar &voice minimalism, through the landscape layering technique which characterises the first full length album, Clinical Shyness, through an almost full band formation. This is, despite the tile, all but a serialisation, rather a journey into the heart of the meticulous chiselling leading to the definition of an almost the unique, and unmistakable style of song-writing.
Available from Boring Machines.

	Prague-My Dear Killer Save us/Forecast ESB#002
This 7" is a lathe cut pressed on trasparent vinyl by Peter King, and featurs My Dear Killer (Forecast) and Prague (Save Me). The double-singles has been entirely produced and financed by Eaten By Squirrels. The catalogue number is: ESB#002. Under My Bed will curate its distribution in the U.K. [what the experts say of it ->] Available from Eaten By Squirrels.

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My Dear Killer
My Dear Killer started as a parellel project to The Frozen Fracture and Dutch Courage. It blends the neatness of two apparently unsynchronised guitar style of the former and the periodic ad libitum noise evolution of the latter together with a somewhat more traditional ballad form in the singer-songwriter tradition, making it an almost unique act. The fist LP, entitled Clinical Shyness [umb #02] has been released in 2005. Appeared in several compilation afterward. A new split 7" single entitled Glass Glow is to be released in late 2011 by Boring Machines.

THEfogINtheSHELL
THEfogINtheSHELL started as a one-man-band. In the more classical Lo-Fi tradition it used to compose, play and record its own songs on tapes in what possibly is the warmest bedroom in town: with a view on a garage. Undoubtedly pivotal in the development of the Italian so-called bedroom scene, it gradually acquired a drummer, and subsequently grew in a full band form, embracing influences of post-rock and the hard-core roots of founding and current members of the band. They first LP, A Secret North was released by Dufresne records in 2004. Followed by "A Secret South".
Mr60
Mr60 is a rather eclectic and unusual collective, capable of switching between classical and toy instruments collected at a local funfair. The songwriting style of Mr60 is original and characteristic. It melts the subtle irony of the lyrics with mellow tunes which take benefit from the histrionic ability of the band's member to alternate amongst different instruments. They contributed to the second volume of the 5 Pezzi Facili split series, with Concepto:desperato [umb #15].

ONQ
Under My Bed is absolutely delighted to host the ONQ website. Luca Galuppini is the main promoter of the ONQ project, which started as, and, more recently reacquired the form of, a one-man-band. Undoubtly one of the most interesting musical project appeared on the Italian soil in the last ten-twenty years. ONQ has a vast back-catalogue which is freely downloadable. It has featured in several compilation and 7" mainly released abroad (Germany, U.K., and the US) while it has been substantially ignored in his own coutry: a crime against intelligence.

My Shell

My Shell is the solo acoustic project, of Matteo, previously also in Nasten'ka and BuioOmega, amongst the others. My Shell composes melancholic, slow, reflective ballads, in which acoustic guitar, grandpiano and a feable dash of the voice are melt together in a harmonic and subtile blend, My Shell is probably the most secretive and undiscoled pearl amongs italian singer-songwriter.

The Frozen Fracture
The Frozen Fracture: guitar stereo band, started as acoustic set-up but turned telectric shortly after that. The Frozen Fracture, has developed over a period of almost ten years, an extremely personal style exploiting the minimal organic of the band, forged a minimalist style researching towards the suppression of useless embellishments and technical exhibitionism. They achieve so by chiseling evolution and variation of simple melodic themes, making the best of metrical freedom associated with the absence of a rhythmic session.

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Bands Currenly On Tour:

My Dear Killer
18/05/12 @ Melancholic DJ Set
Buca di San Vincenzo,
Milano, It

Musica Da Cameretta
11/05/12 Luca Sigurt� + Gino Delia
01/06/12 Shaking Hand + Sceriffo Lobo
@ Sala Consiliare
Sopra la Casa del Popolo
Vergiate(Va), It