On this episode of the podcast, I focus in on the work of the Melbourne, Australia-based label, Ramble Records. Over the past two years, Ramble has been rather prolific in its output, issuing a wide range of releases specializing in outsider music, guitar music, acid folk, avant-folk, psych, free jazz, Indian classical, and avant-garde sounds from around the globe. Owned and operated by Mike Sill – a musician himself who records under the name The Man From Atlantis – the label has also branched out to include a mailorder operation that stocks various like-minded labels from around the world that were previously unavailable in Australia. I recently had a chance to chat with Mike about various topics that included his background in making music starting in the 1990s, his eventual return to music with The Man From Atlantis, his motivations behind starting and expanding Ramble Records, and some of his future plans for the label for the rest of the year. You’ll hear that interview in a few different segments throughout the show, and you’ll also hear track selections from several releases from the Ramble Records catalog, including some of their most recent titles. I hope you enjoy this episode. Feel free to get in touch if you have any comments or questions. As always, thanks for looking and listening.
- ~Introductory Music: The Man From Atlantis “Psychic Sunrise”
- Cate Von Csoke “Silver Highway” Almoon (Ramble Records)
- C. Ross “Way Too Nice” Skull Creator (Ramble Records)
- Clara Engel “On Nightingale Wings” The Cicada Session / In the Fog (Ramble Records)
- ~Interview segment with Mike Sill of Ramble Records~
- Staraya Derevnya “Tangled Hands” Boulder Blues (Ramble Records)
- El Topo “First Eye Click” Wet (Ramble Records)
- Miranda Arens “No Name” Global Meditation, Nueva Realidad & Tarde de Miercoles (Ramble Records)
- Santa Sprees “Cloud Bisected at Horizon Then France” Fanfare for Tonsils (Ramble Records)
- ~Interview segment with Mike Sill of Ramble Records~
- Seth Andrew Davis “For Roland Kayn” For Electro-Acoustic Guitar (Ramble Records)
- Chris Alford and William Thompson “Integer of Fundamental” Overtone Undertow (Ramble Records)
- George Christian “Lamento dos Desabrigados, Sem Palavras” Distante Claridade (Ramble Records)
- Ernesto Diaz-Infante “There You Are” Vacilando EPs (Ramble Records)
- ~Interview segment with Mike Sill of Ramble Records~
- The Man from Atlantis “The Gates are Closing” The Gates are Closing (Ramble Records)
- The Man from Atlantis “Wondering Star (Love in Outer Space)” Volume 1 (Ramble Records)
- Manop Nakornchai “อาจเป็น” 2EP (Ramble Records)
- Duncan Park “In the Mountains of Sour Grass” In the Floodplain of Dreams (Ramble Records)
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