{"id":389,"date":"2010-02-04T09:20:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=389"},"modified":"2010-02-04T09:20:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:20:37","slug":"label-profile-midori-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/02\/04\/label-profile-midori-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Label Profile – Midori Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"midori\"In the documentary People Who Do Noise<\/em>, one noise musician says that the genre has \u201cstripped all of the musicality from music.\u201d But does that make it any less of an experience to catch one of Winnipeg label Midori Records\u2019 acts live when the rare opportunity arises? Hell, no. The experience is all they\u2019re concerned about. Sigmund just played an improv set at Element Sircus, horrifically backing for a self-mutilator. In the summer, Krakk sometimes lays all their electronic gear on the street and blasts the ears and minds of passers-by in guerrilla shows. And a couple years ago, label owner Fletcher Pratt played at Send + Receive festival, to recreate sounds from his Mind Gunk series. Stylus<\/em> recently met with Pratt, who is also a member of Krakk and Sigmund, to ask a couple of label-related questions.<\/p>\n

Stylus: How did Midori Records start?
\nFletcher Pratt: <\/strong>In 2003, I was jamming with a couple of guys in a band called Roof Bunny, and I just recorded and mixed it. Eric Gallipo, he was one of the guys in the trio, he was a music school grad, and he got into noise music\u2014and Roof Bunny was a trio, and the other guy graduated from music school too, and I thought that it was ironic. We jammed different noise, like a lot of rhythmic noise, and a lot of drone. But I had these recordings, and I didn\u2019t know what to do with them.<\/p>\n

Stylus: How many releases does Midori Records have?
\nFP:<\/strong> Fifty-five, although the label only started in \u201904. But that has to do with quality control, even if it\u2019s just 20 copies that I\u2019m releasing. It\u2019s a cross between half of my own projects, when I can be critical as I want, and when people send songs into me. Most of the time it\u2019s really good, but sometimes I have to say, \u201cYou need to redo this track, or that track.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stylus: What\u2019s the furthest you\u2019ve been sent songs from?
\nFP: <\/strong>I received some from Vluba, they\u2019re an Argentina duo, and I did 15 copies of their record.<\/p>\n

Stylus: And how does everyone find each other?
\nFP:<\/strong> Well I guess the short answer for that is the Internet. A good way to get a dose of a label is to do mail trades, contact a label and send five releases to each other.<\/p>\n

Stylus: What\u2019s the Winnipeg noise scene like?
\nFP:<\/strong> It has blossomed a little bit, but it\u2019s only something like five guys, and there isn\u2019t much of one, they do it in their basement. But it\u2019s a good time. [On Midori] there\u2019s Sigmund, Krakk, and my Fletcher Pratt Mind Gunk series. And Auntie Dada\u2014but I heard there was some drama there. And lately there\u2019s been a couple other guys who have been starting up their own label\u2014White Dog, that\u2019s Chris Jacques, and Cole Peters who plays under Gomeisa. They\u2019ve just started putting tapes out. [Their label is called Prairie Fire Tapes \u2013Ed.<\/em>] So it seems to come in waves of inspiration.<\/p>\n

Stylus: How often do you play live?
\nFP:<\/strong> Only once every couple of months. We do those guerrilla shows a couple times a year, and those are really haphazard, but people always show up. They seem to bring people out of the woodwork a little.<\/p>\n

Visit Midori online at www.myspace.com\/midorirec<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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