The very first Buchla synthesiser performance by revolutionary composer Suzanne Ciani finally makes its fifty year journey from its switch-on New York art gallery to its long deserved and discerning global phonographic audience. With this previously unheard vinyl pressing, Finders Keepers Records are proud to present an archival project of ‘art music’ that not only redefines musical history but lays genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we have come to understand it. To describe Italian-American composer Suzanne Ciani’s resurrected Buchla concert records as genuine gamechangers would be a gross understatement. These records represent a musical revolution, an artistic revelation, a scientific benchmark and a trophy in the cabinet of counterculture creativity. This sonic installation album, alongside her recently liberated WBAI / Phill Niblock 1975 sessions (FKR082), are triumphant yardsticks in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial musical moon. While pondering the early accolades attached to these golden era New York recordings it’s daunting to learn that these records were in fact not even records at all. What exists on this disc now was a manifesto and a one-time gateway to a new world, which somehow was only partially pushed ajar. Captured here is a genuine live act exploring new territories with a fully performable music instrument. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic pulses, tones and harmonics found on these 1970’s artistic gallery collaborations / live presentations (then soon to be followed by academic grant applications and educational demonstrations) had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the widely marketed work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita, then the name Suzanne Ciani and her infectious influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of our record. With the light of Buchla and Ciani’s initial flame Finders Keepers continues the journey through the vaults of this increasingly celebrated music legacy, illuminating these ‘non-records’ that evaded the limelight for almost half a century. You can’t write history when you are too busy making it. With fresh ink in the bottomless well, let’s start at the beginning. Again.

REST IN PEACE - PETE MITCHELL(11 December 1958 – 12 March 2020) RARE FILM MUSIC ON VINYL LIVES HERE !!!

Stepping out of a six month hibernation with our best foot forward, Finders Keepers Records Radio Show returns from our beauty sleep to a breakfast of French toast, croissants, strong coffee and a refreshing pint of petrol with-a-rag-stuffed-in-the-top! Marking 50 years exactly since the Mai 68 riots in Paris, your faithful hosts take you on a two hour journey in recognition of the huge and immediate cultural shift in French art, literature and music including the rise of forward-thinking, philosophical, thematic pop music which made France the forerunners and undisputed maverick masters of the concept album. Discussing a genre that arguably peaked with Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Vannier's notorious Histoire De Melody Nelson, your faithful FKRR hosts, Andy Votel, Doug Shipton and Pete Mitchell dig much much deeper into their vintage vinyl vaults to trace the sonic origins of feature-length French Psychedelia while they attempt to authenticate the first French concept album and trace a bloodline of existential spoken word French Funk and gritty fuzz-fuelled symphonic rock which would go-on to shape the future sound of all French pop and its inimitable sprawling legacy. Punctuated with tracks from the insanely rare Popera Cosmic LP (an LP devised by teenagers Francois Wertheimer and Jean-Michel Jarre) which formed the foundations of the Gallic galactic narrative psychpop phenomena, this two hour special hopes to open your eyes and ears to a world you always wanted to explore, but perhaps never knew existed, with an interchangeable cast and family tree that eventually branched out to the start of French cosmic disco and synth pop while influencing the sampled sound of progressive European pop music for almost a semi-century. From science fiction to malediction... From astrology to astronomy... From hypnosis to psychosis... via stone faces to cabbage heads...this show hears a fine return to form for Finders Keepers, celebrating controversial lost-pop and a bygone political hotbeds which they might call their perfect comfort zone. It's gonna be hard to cram it all in into one show but "The Revolution Will Not Be Sequelised". Ceci n'est pas une POP.

WE FREAKINGS OF ORIENT ART! Throwing you in at the deep end of a frozen pond with Tamil tinsel and glittery Greek beat the Finders Keepers festive rescue team return to save you from present buying panic and the jingle of consumerist pockets with a seasonal stack of recycled vinyl and lesser-broadcast yuletide Yé-yé. Your faithful merry gentleman Shipton, Votel and Mitchell take you on another psuedo-psycotropic sleigh-ride as our invisible elves add their special secret ingredients of Weinachten wax and seasonal styrene to the mulled-vino for our third annual Christmas radio special. Joining the Finders Keepers Records Radio congregation in their jam packed snowbound shack are longtime friends and guests DJ Cherrystones and Modern Kosmologist Jane Weaver who, in an eggnog vs yule log throw-down, battle the prattle and the reindeer cattle to get a word in edgeways. The more the merrier? As the winter wall-bangers flow, it doesn't get much merrier than this.

Within the confines of this calendar month Saxonic inhabitants will experience a full moon, a Friday 13th and, as always, a glut of Hallowe'en parties officially making 2017 the host to the scariest October of all time. The add salt to the wound The Finders Keepers Records Radio Show trump this horrific hat-trick by bringing you a truly bloodcurdling display of vampyric vinyl, psychotic psychedelia, freakshow funk and a unique brand of zombified humour that would make the most stoic stand-up comedian literally die on stage. Yes it's that bad! Andy "The Axe Minister" Votel and Doug "The Diabolical" Shipton are left under the parental supervision of Pete "The Mummy" Mitchell while they attempt a radiophonic seance to resurrect the Morte Vivante of European horror pop and obscure curios from the belly of the B-Music beast. Putting a combined 75 years of well-polished professionalism to one side these three absolute losers present what they consider to be their worst ever show and even a visit from Lancaster's (genuinely proficient) poetic-power-drinkers The Lovely Eggs isn't going to sooth the gaping graze that this show will leave on your tolerance for years to come. With all the usual tenuous magazine features that allow us to stitch this Frankenstein-a-like bastard together this show is a nightmare. So, tune in and let Finders Keepers summon up the same jokes we did last year and feel the pain as your favourite reissue album subliminally brainwashes you all with attempts to eat your living bank balance from the inside out! Dead air? Viva la muerte!

Summer is a coming in, loudly sing cuckoo! Yes, indeed! Faithful and patient patrons of the Keepers cottage, summer is well and truly upon us and what better way to celebrate the sunstroke season than to crank up your metaphysical motor vehicles and hit the open road in search of dusty needle nirvana. Join your faithful tour buddies Votel, Mitchell and Shipton, abetted by hard rock hitchhiker Stan Chow, on one of their regular cross continental record raid road trips combining the kind of vehicular vinyl cuts used in Votel's very own Cock Diesel biker psych nights and adding global doses of two-stroke funk, Gallic gas guzzlers, freewheeling folk and psycho-manic soundtracks (amongst many more mutant micro-genes). Ideal for feature-length road trips, channel crossings, festival freeloading or family fleets of fancy, this show was bought to you by the letter's D, R, I, V, and E and the colours green for GO because there is no time for pit stops or bog breaks when Finders Keepers (fuzz) pedals hit the metal. So throw away your A to Zs as well as your MP3s and your seedy CDs because this voyage is virtually vinylcentric to the core (except for that one sticky cassette) and when you cover as much ground as the FK Radio shows and their infectious brand of B-Music you'll find that A roads home are simply no longer an option. Check the breaks! It's a Gasssss!

Finally climbing out of a winter time hibernation your faithful Finders Keepers Radio regulars embrace the joys of spring with open ears, wide mouths and clear minds in their ultimate radiophonic relaxation programme complete with musical massage oils, organic gramophones and natural vinyl vitamins in this Folkish Easter time special! Emerging from the communal egg like a three-headed garage sale guru Votel, Mitchell and Shipton celebrate record rebirth and general worldly wax eggsploration; combining acid folk classics, new age obscurities and folk funk crowd teasers with a healthy dose of spiritual well-being and quasi-optimist yoga yak. Inviting guests like spectral songbird Magpahi alongside reluctant future folk artists Felt Mistress into the Keepers Cottage this expanded psychedelic egg hunt attempts to summon the bargain buds of May via audio incantation while whale music, aquarium sound effects and Moomintroll melodies punctuate this very crooked craft fair! Add Hen To Eggs and Keep It Rollin'

'Tis the season to be explicitly self-explanatory... Yule never hear another radio show like this because snowbody does it quite like the Finders Keepers Records Christmas congregation etc. Expect turkey from Turkey, festive French fuzz, mince pies from Melbourne, magnetic melodies from Moominvalley, Tamil tinsel and plenty of Kristmas krautrock amongst other under-the-counter shocking stocking fillers. Oh yeah, and we've also got Paul McCartney from The Beatles on the show with us, sharing sporadic chatter and make-shift Christmas singalongs with our regular presenters Andy Votel, Pete Mitchell, Doug Shipton and returning guests John McCready with James Pianta from Australian label Roundtable Records. This all vinyl (and sometimes even cassette) fuelled radiophonic transmission puts a rosy red cherry on the top of another fine year of monthly odd pop radio shows from Finders Keepers "accidental world music" record label - making global sound local since 2005 while popping a cosmic cork over the 2017 threshold after simply having a wonderful Christmas time! Buon Natale, Nadolig Llawen, Wesołych Świąt and Feliz Navidad to every man, woman, child and Moomin for this seasonal psychedelic sitting.

With a loud creak it rises from the old black casket and sits upright, wide eyed and thirsty for its next terrified victim... The Finders Kreepers Hallowe'en special is back! It's that time of year again where the B-Music crew's combined record collection of global ghoulisms sounds more relevant that ever. Complete with decapitated disharmony, maledictus melody, frankensteiner filled fuzz and our unique brand of humour which is literally dead in the water. Your faithful fantoms Vampire Votel, The Petergeist Mitchell and Grave Dug Shipton are joined, live in the tomb, by post punk 3D effigy Gerry H. Hologram, devil music expert Victor Brox and the mysterious Were-Worm. As if that wasn't enough to make your ears bleed, Finders keepers are also proud to present an exclusive meeting between Christopher Lee and Vincent Price. There'll also be a lot of medium rare vinyl and records that had previously vanished into thin air. I could sit here typing this sh*t all day to be honest, so in danger of not missing added trivia about Manc horror film director Cliff Twemlow and the Hells Angel of Sweden (courtesy of Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias' CP Lee) we'd advise you to unleash your talismans and tune in your ouija boards. Tis the season to be screamin'.

Finders Keepers Radio - Hard Rock Special by Finders Keepers Records

Unheard and unreleased tracks by Suzanne Ciani, Jane Weaver's Fenella, Gerry & The Holograms (and more!) make up this silver tray of sonic hors d'oeuvres magnetising you to the mountains of North Wales for this special September annual event. Just in time for our annual omni-presence at Festival No Six your faithful guardians of the Keepers Cottage, Andy Votel, Pete Mitchell and Doug Shipton provide an aural tour guide to the many Finders Keepers Records' curated events over the weekend. For a festival held in the actual filming location of Patrick Magoohan's inimitable 1960's TV thriller, the B-Music brigade assemble their nearest and dearest to keep the commune cosmic, providing off-kilter treats for both the eye-drums and ear-balls. Also serving as a fine 2 hour road trip, this show cherry picks the best accompaniments for your journey into the depths of the Welsh valleys and also serves as another multifarious magnetic musik magazine for those who can't make it to the festival itself but will surely join us in spirit! Be seeing you!?