Okraïna Records + By the Bluest of Seas Records
@okrainarecords.bsky.social
#music #sound #records #vinyl #cd #objects #illustration #photography Duden Park, Brussels https://okrainarecords.bandcamp.com/ https://bythebluestofseas.bandcamp.com/
J'espère qu'il se casse de #Bruxelles, aussi ! Ça allégera ses souffrances (34 ans dans une ville détestée et jamais comprise)... et les nôtres! un Bruxellois
Après 34 ans comme correspondant à Bruxelles, Jean Quatremer quitte Libération avec une lettre de démission incendiaire. En interne, ses outrances répétées étaient devenues intenables. Son arrivée à Marianne devrait être confirmée pour la rentrée ⤵️ www.arretsurimages.net/articles/jea...
The final sentences of this piece are obscene, surreal, & terribly sad
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."
arstechnica.com
I find it much harder to promote music - especially tours - since I quit Insta and FB and Twitt. Sad that so much of current DIY happenings rely on those shit outlets. And since ALL I HAVE is Bluesky, feels I'm screaming into the void. HAHA. That said, come to my UK shows please. Tell yr friends.
Tall Dwarfs - The Brain That Wouldn't Die [NZ, Lo-fi] (1984) https://redd.it/58n00l https://youtu.be/IlZmx8U7lf0
Tall Dwarfs - The Brain That Wouldn't Die [NZ, Lo-fi] (1984)
youtu.be
"I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazz musician, but not famed enough to make a living in the society that is America…” 📸 Teppei Inoguchi/Jazz Workshop, Inc.
📣 !! LAST MINUTE !! #Brugge @ignatz-music.bsky.social is playing a (guitar) concert at Paula Mostaert TONIGHT, Wednesday July the 1st !!
Featured on Zaph Mann's "The Beat Goes On" inmemoryofjohnpeel.com/2026/06/27/t... A Dog Enters the Room by Ignatz "I Don't Know" (By the Bluest of Seas) @bythebluestofseas_records 2026 bythebluestofseas.bandcamp.com/album/i-dont...
I Don't Know, by Ignatz
9 track album
bythebluestofseas.bandcamp.com
Featured on Zaph Mann's "The Beat Goes On" inmemoryofjohnpeel.com/2026/06/27/t... Parfois by Amarante-Cerisier "Amarante-Cerisier" (Okraina Records) @okrainarecords.bsky.social okrainarecords.bandcamp.com/album/amaran... 2026
Amarante-Cerisier, by Amarante-Cerisier
8 track album
okrainarecords.bandcamp.com
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
theguardian.com
Ed Askew's "Tough Guys" is out now — a bittersweet chamber-pop single from the posthumous The Final Painting, due July 31st on Drag City, alongside a Chicago paintings exhibition. klofmag.com/2026/06/ed-a...
Ed Askew – “Tough Guys” / “Boy with a Hat” Exhibition Announced
Ed Askew’s “Tough Guys” is out now — a bittersweet chamber-pop single from the posthumous The Final Painting, due July 31st on Drag City, alongside a Chicago paintings exhibition.
klofmag.com
🇫🇷 #Paris Delphine Dora en concert au Comets Café, 75011 Paris ce vendredi 19.06 à 19h - ! sur réservations ! Nos deux disques de Delphine & Mocke (okr#11 et BtBoS#3) seront disponibles ! www.cafecomets.fr
Comets · Café & disques · Paris 11
Comets est un coffee shop & disquaire indépendant fondé en 2017 dans le quartier de Charonne à Paris.
cafecomets.fr
💥🎄on sera samedi avec nos 2 labels à l'édition estivale du Marché de Noël des Musiques inclassées des #InstantsChavirés Anc. brasseries Bouchoule - #Montreuil Sam 20.06 - 14h-20h - entrée libre (en très bonne compagnie : An'Archives, Bruit direct, Gravats, Un je ne sais quoi, Souffle continu...)
Amarante-Cerisier, quel nom, quelle musique, quel cadeau! 🙃Et quelle pochette (même à l'envers, comme sur la photo!)
Later deze namiddag (15u30) in #DropaHouse #Antwerpen, Gwen Sainte-Rose (cello) #soundcheck #concert
Later deze namiddag in #DropaHouse #Antwerpen, @ignatz-music.bsky.social (gtr + Fred Van Hove's piano) #soundcheck #concert
🗓️ !!! 𝗩𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗔𝗚 !!! 𝗱𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝟭𝟰𝘂 !!! Zondag 14 juni, 14u / 15u30 in #Antwerpen @ #DropaHouse (🎂 1ste verjaardag) By the Bluest of Seas afternoon - @ignatz-music.bsky.social (op de piano van Fred Van Hove) - Gwen Sainte-Rose (cello) + eten, platen, expo... soundinmotion.be/concerts/1-y...
📻 Thanks @wfmu.bsky.social for including our two last releases (@ignatz-music.bsky.social & Amarante-Cerisier) in their recent "heavy airplay" selection !
I have a new piece in @truthout.org today about autonomous libraries and the collections and spaces they create for political movements. truthout.org/articles/as-...
As Censorship Expands, Autonomous Libraries Are Springing Up to Fill the Gaps
From California to Illinois to Oregon, flourishing anarchist libraries are spreading knowledge and building community.
truthout.org
"Comme une sorte de mantra, qui se répète à l’infini. Au bout d’un moment les paroles s’effacent au service des sons, des phonèmes comme des percussions. C’est subtil et doux." Merci > davidfpresents.com à propos du "Silence" d'Amarante-Cerisier
David F Presents
David F Presents - Audioblog de David Fenech
davidfpresents.com
Adieu Areski (1940-2026). Ici avec Brigitte Fontaine, ils interprètent "Les Vergers" en 1974.
💔 Sur le premier disque Okraïna en 2012, on trouvait cette reprise d' #Areski (1940-2026) par Éloïse Decazes okrainarecords.bandcamp.com/track/on-nes... Court-circuit du calendrier, Éloïse (okr#1, okr#7) fête les 20 ans de son duo Arlt (avec aussi Gilles Poizat, okr#7) au #Périscope #Lyon ce soir
On n'est pas des arbres, by Éloise Decazes + Eric Chenaux
from the album Éloise Decazes + Eric Chenaux
okrainarecords.bandcamp.com
Adieu Areski Belkacem. Tu nous as tellement donné : ta voix, ton esprit unique. Une musique comme ça, ça ne s'oublie pas.