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Pass The Mic: Artists and labels on 2018

Words: Loren • December 22, 2018

Pass The Mic: Artists and labels on 2018
Pass The Mic: Artists and labels on 2018

Faith Coloccia (Mamiffer, Mára, Barnett Coloccia and SIGE records)

1. What are your top five albums that were released in 2018? (Preferably in order 1-5)

  • "Plain Light" by Eyvind Kang
  • Alvin Lucier box set
  • "Sea" by Ryo Murakami
  • "Self Titled" by Oren Ambarchi, Crys Cole and Leif Elggren 
  • Flying Saucer Attack
  • "Love in Shadow" by SUMAC
  • "Beloved`" by Randall Dunn
  • "Hull" by Daniel Menche
  • all 2018 releases by SIGE artists: Black Spirituals: "Black Spirituals "Black Access/Black Axes", Nordra "Pylon ll", William Fowler Collins "Field Music" 

2. What band did you discover in 2018 (can be a brand new band or an older band) that had an impact on your life? What made them significant?

  • Betty Davis
  • Betty Harris
  • Judas Priest "Sin after Sin"
  • Miles Davis "Up With It"

3. How will you remember 2018? (In terms of music)

Busy 
and powerful.

4. What can we look forward to from you in 2019?

  • Mamiffer full length called The Brilliant Tabernacle (Sept or October 2019)
  • Mára EP "Here Behold Your Own" (Summer 2019)
  • Barnett + Coloccia "VLF" Spring 2019
  • Mamiffer "Metapatterning For Constellation" Performed by Polish Orchestra LP (2020)
  • Collab with Jon Mueller and Aidan Baker (Spring 2019)
  • Summer of 17 (Summer 2019)
  • a collab with a new friend!
  • New SIGE releases by Daniel Menche "Melting Gravituy" LP,  Jon Mueller "Canto" , Nordra "Pylon 3", Aaron Turner and Tashi Dori" Live CS

5. What records are you looking forward to most in 2019?

All the new SIGE releases. And I'm looking forward to the Mamiffer record "The Brilliant Tabernacle" being released, I'm so proud of it, I started it in 2013 and finished it during the last 2 years of my baby's naps! It is for him (my baby), and I can't wait for people to hear it!

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Pass The Mic: Artists and labels on 2018
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  2. (The Hussy/No Coast Records/Cave Curse/Fire Heads/On-And-Off Member of Nobunny (Bobby Hussy)
  3. 86'd Records/Rations Noise (Wells)
  4. Adam Gnade
  5. AJJ/Anxiety Machine (Mark Glick)
  6. BLAHA/The Blind Shake (Mike Blaha)
  7. Body Stuff (Curran Reynolds)
  8. Cattle Decapitation (Travis Ryan)
  9. CoinToss Records (Indy)
  10. Color TV (Phil - guitar)
  11. Dirt Cult Records (Chris Mason)
  12. Frank Turner
  13. Halo of Flies (Cory von Bohlen)
  14. Homosuperior
  15. Iron Lung Records (Jensen Ward)
  16. La Escalera Records/Western Settings (Will Castro)
  17. Red Scare Industries (Tobias Jeg)
  18. Riverboat Gamblers/Drakulas (Mike Wiebe)
  19. Salinas Records (Marco Reosti)
  20. The Holy Circle/Axebreaker/Locrian (Terence)
  21. The Last Gang
  22. THEOLOGIAN/ANNIHILVS POWER ELECTRONIX (Lee M. Bartow)
  23. To Live A Lie Records/Tired Of Everything (Will Butler)
  24. Toxic Pop Records/Pulling Teeth (Mike Riley)
  25. William Fowler Collins
  26. Nato Coles (Nato Coles & the Blue Diamond Band)
  27. Faith Coloccia (Mamiffer, Mára, Barnett Coloccia and SIGE records)

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