música esquisita: WERRA FOXMA - (fanzine

14.12.22

WERRA FOXMA - (fanzine | issue #3)

WERRA FOXMA ISSUE 3

WFR

Frazer Brown – Founder // socials

@frabroon78

Hazel Brown – Founder // design // logistics

@hazymaz81

Alasdair O’May – A&R

@alasdairOMay

Steven Anderson – Press & PR

@lfm_idm

WFR Graphics Wing

Kate Bosworth

@KAAAATE22

Stephen Osborne

@stephenosborne

WFR Atlantic Distribution

Ben Vance

@bendu_70

Salvatore Mercatante

@smercatante_

General Enquiries:

werrafoxma@hotmail.com

Submissions / demos:

wfrsubmissions@outlook.com

PR/mailing list enquiries:

steven@lettersfrommouse.com

werrafoxma.bandcamp.com

facebook.com/werrafoxmarecords

twitter.com/werrafoxma

instagram.com/werrafoxma

Werra Foxma Records

Werra Foxma Studio

11 Anderson Avenue

Armadale

West Lothian

Scotland

EH48 3JY

WELCOME TO ISSUE 3 OF THE WERRA FOXMA MAGAZINE

Hello everyone,

Issue 3 is finally here!

Man o man, we have a lot to cover in this issue. So much so, we had to increase the size of the magazine to accommodate everything.

The first thing you probably noticed… a cover CD? Damn right! In the spirit of bringing you as much value to magazine as possible, we recruited the services of three WFR artists: Cholly, Letters From Mouse and Sulk Rooms to bring their amazing live and improvisational sounds to ‘One Shot’, a CD of long-form performances recorded live, with every nuance and element being triggered and performed on the fly.

Talking about live, we thought it important to look back of some of the fun live experiences of the summer, especially Emotion Wave’s ‘A Day In The Sun’ festival in Liverpool, and our first live stream festival, Foxfest. Massive thanks to everyone who took part in these awesome happenings. These two events led to the creation of ‘WFR North’, our first brick and mortar festival, coming to Edinburgh on 22 October. More information on WFR North on page 6.

Our cover artist for this issue is the amazing Elizabeth Crompton. Her forthcoming album, Problems Of Other Minds, is an absolute triumph. Deep, emotional, and stunning from beginning to end. It sees WFR entering uncharted territory – an electronic album with vocals. Everyone at the label is seriously excited for this one, and we are in no doubt you will embrace it as much as we have.

The same goes for Viewers, the new Sulk Rooms LP from the one and only Thomas Ragsdale, and we roll out the full release plan for Dohnavùr, which covers multiple reissues, remixes, and releases which have come home to roost.

It’s another stellar period of albums from the SubClub, with The Metamorph, Letters From Mouse and Gribbles enchanting us with three fresh new LPs of enduring quality.

Our artist for this issue’s ‘The Process’ is the guru of generative electronic music, Glasgow’s Mike K Smith. We hope you enjoy his Ableton-centric approach to random sound, and how rewarding the process can be. We also shine a light on the first 5 independent record stores to stock our records. We have already added more into the pipeline, but more about that in the next magazine.

Lastly, it’s with great excitement to announce that, starting from issue 4, we welcome the journalistic expertise of Michael Stanton to the WFR magazine. I’ve been winging it on my own since the start of this journey with the magazine, and I’m fast running out of adjectives to describe our amazing artists and music. So it’s with a mixture of relief and excitement that I have someone with 20 years of music journalism experience to share the load with. Mike, welcome to the team.

Enjoy this issue.

Fra

ISSUE 3

Contents

Intro

5 Forthcoming

6 WFR North

7 Dohnavùr reissues & remixes

8 One Shot (Cover CD)

Verse

10 WFR SubClub – July to September

15 A Day In The Sun