City Canyons Joins with Music & Words for International Release of Album of Dead Can Dance Percussionist

(PRWEB) January 24, 2005

City Canyons Records announces with great pleasure its newly signed agreement with the Netherlands?s independent label, Music & Words to release and distribute Peter Ulrich's new album "Enter the Mysterium" throughout the United States and Europe. Release is set for March 1 in the United States.

Hans Peters, co-president of Music & Words remarked ?I am looking forward to the joint effort with City Canyons, one of America's rising new indie labels, to further the music of one of the most creative and original recording artists on today's music scene through this international release".

Music & Words celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2005 having released more than 160 albums specializing in roots based music including musical areas like folk and Celtic, blues, Cajun, klezmer, African, Caribbean and Asian music ranging in musical style from ethnic to rock. While newcomer City Canyons Records has released three albums, Jen Elliott and Bluestruck?s "The Secret's Out", Finnish group Valerian?s "Intimations of Sorrow" and UK rocker David Steele?s "Underneath the Ice", the U.S. indie label has definitely become a presence on the international music scene with its upcoming release with Music & Words of "Enter the Mysterium".

Prior to "Enter the Mysterium", Peter Ulrich was perhaps best known for his long-time collaboration with Dead Can Dance, the fabulously creative band of the eighties that explored new frontiers of music exploring world, folk, darkwave and a wealth of other forms. Ulrich joined the group in 1983 and appeared on albums like "Garden of Arcane Delights", "Within the Realm of a Dying Sun" and "Spiritchaser," and was a touring member of the group until 1990.

Ulrich also collaborated on Ivo Watts-Russell's "This Mortal Coil" project, contributing the song "At First, And Then" to Filigree And Shadow, and also played on the legendary label 4AD with labelmates Michael Brook and the Wolfgang Press as an incidental percussionist. Ulrich's "Pathways & Dawns", released on Projekt Records in 1999, featured former Dead Can Dance bandmate Brendan Perry as a producer and arranger. Delighted reviewers of "Pathways & Dawns" compared Ulrich's work to medieval madrigals, baroque exotica, Todd Rundgren and Brian Eno all in the same sentence, a tribute to the infinite variety of Ulrich's music.

"Enter the Mysterium" is similarly diverse but with brilliant pop influences that should cause it, while losing none of its stunning originality, to appeal to a broader audience. Mysterium features words and music by Ulrich, vocals by Ulrich and Ulrich playing both traditional instruments and a selection of exotic instruments from all over the world.

Ulrich's music in Mysterium recalls Dead Can Dance but has an exotic flavor of its own, blending seamlessly an array of musical genres--art pop, dream-pop, ancient and medieval music, new age, world and ethnic music and darkwave -- into a lush tapestry. But words cannot explain that music to understand it, you must enter Ulrich's world of light and shadow, a world of black and white magic, a world haunting, mysterious, sometimes frightening but in the end uplifting--a world powerfully mapped out in Ulrich's new album.

As an added treat, particularly for those who have tired of the pabulum that passes for music on commercial radio, the release of "Enter the Mysterium" coincides with the reuniting of Dead Can Dance for a world tour this spring. Surely the rebirth of creative, risk-taking new music will be as refreshing and warming to some music-lovers' hearts as that first spring flower poking through the frost.

For more information on "Enter the Mysterium", including advance copies of the CD for review, full press kits with photographs and opportunities for interviews, please contact Katherine Brodsky, Random Minds, PR, 604-725-5449 or e-mail info@random-minds.com. The City Canyons Records website may be visited at http://www.citycanyons.com.

The Music & Words website may be visited at http://www.musicwords.nl. Distribution opportunities outside the U.S. and Europe are presently available for "Enter the Mysterium".

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City Canyons Records Sees The Future of Independent Music in Podcasting

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 20, 2005

City Canyons Records has seen the future of independent music and a substantial part of that future is podcasting. A large part of the independent label's strategy in promoting its most current releases has been through working with this exciting technology. City Canyons' foray into the new technology has included numerous podcasts of music from its most current release, ?slowburn? by ANEMO and participation in a very special podcast of music from another recent release,? Enter the Mysterium? by Peter Ulrich.

For the uninitiated, in simple terms, podcasts are similar to radio shows which can be downloaded directly into an iPod (or most other personal mp3 players, or a PC) and enjoyed later at the listener's leisure. Podcasts are becoming a hugely popular new way of discovering new music, or of tuning into specialist broadcasts catering for specific tastes. Podcasts are essentially global radio on demand whenever and wherever the listener wants it.

As part of City Canyons Records' podcast efforts, ANEMO?S music has charted as among the top ten tunes being offered by podcasters (PMC Top Ten at http://www.podmusiccountdown.com/archives/2005/10/pmc_top10_10150.html) and has been featured on podcasts including but not limited to PromoPicker, the Podsafe Music Network, SOMACast, AccidentHash, James Naughton, Tiny Binary Life, Reaching for Lucidity,

Aardvark's Nest, Daily Journal Podcast, Zaldor's World Podcast, DeFi Radio, MWS Podcast, BitJobs for the Masses ,Music for Jerks, MostlyTunes.com, Is This Thing On, RockCast Italia, Things Reunited, Radio Free Cruze, For What It's Worth and Mindless Rambling.

"Podcasting is a fantastic opportunity for bands to promote their music and be involved with an exciting underground music scene. The great thing about podcasts is the enormous variety of shows, which offer a staggering choice compared to terrestrial radio stations. The name "podcast" is actually a bit of a misnomer, because you might think you need an iPod to listen. In most cases, you can download and listen to podcasts on any computer/platform with a standard mp3 player. There's an element of 'Guerilla Radio' about podcasting, because it's about everyday people and their passion for all types of music, not big corporations out to make money, " says Matt Palmer who is one third of the creative core of ANEMO consisting of Palmer, Hazelle Woodhurst and Kingsley Sage.

Peter Ulrich?s foray into broadcasting is his current appearance on Projekt Podkast, a podcast of the famous darkwave record label, Projekt Records. On the podcast, Peter discusses his background as the former drummer with Dead Can Dance and his recent release on the City Canyons label, ?Enter the Mysterium? The Peter Ulrich podcast is available at http://www.projektpodkast.com/show.htm or http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=77112802.

For more information on Peter Ulrich or ANEMO, including opportunities for interviews, please contact Katherine Brodsky, Random Minds, PR. Retailers may order in-store copies of ENTER THE MYSTERIUM or ?slowburn? through Avalon Distribution (http://www.avalon-distribution.com). Consumers may purchase the album at CD Baby (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/peterulrich or http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/anemo), at the City Canyons Records Online Store (http://www.citycanyons.com/ccstore.html) or at their local record store.

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Consumer Electronics Show Features Music of City Canyons Records Artist Peter Ulrich

New York, NY (PRWEB) January 4, 2006

PRWEB) January 4, 2006 -- When Greg Beron of United Home Audio heard Peter Ulrich's debut solo album, "Pathways and Dawns" (Projekt) he was amazed by the sonic landscape created by producer Brendan Perry (Peter's former bandmate on Dead Can Dance). Greg began using the album to demonstrate the performance of top range equipment in his renowned high end audio store and became completely smitten by not only the sound quality, but also Peter's great songs which have a habit of really growing on the listener over repeat plays.

In Spring 2005, Greg and his colleagues at United Home Audio were thrilled to receive Peter's follow-up album, ENTER THE MYSTERIUM , released on New York's dynamic, emerging City Canyons label. The album featured more extraordinary songs-- grounded in world music, folk music, dream pop and darkwave-- performed on a wide variety of instruments from all around the world, very different, and great for getting the best out of high end audio.

Now, thanks to a promotional joint venture by City Canyons and United Home Audio, visitors to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 6-9, 2005 can pick up a free promo CD of four songs by Peter Ulrich, specially selected by Greg Beron. The CD will be available at T.H.E. Show, San Tropez Hotel, room 1802 while stocks last on a first-come-first-served basis. And, again that's absolutely free but interested parties have to ask for specifically for Peter Ulrich's ENTER THE MYSTERIUM.

Information is also available on the free promo CD on a brand new City Canyons Records' release, Sara Wendt's HERE'S US, which also features remarkable soundscapes that should appeal to the discriminating audiophile.

ENTER THE MYSTERIUM is currently available online at CD Baby (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/peterulrich),at the City Canyons Records online record store (http://www.citycanyons.com/ccstore.html) and at Amazon.com. Retailers may order the album online at the Avalon Distribution website at http://www.avalon-distribution.com. HERE'S US is also available online at CD Baby (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/sarawendt),at the City Canyons Records online record store (http://www.citycanyons.com/ccstore.html) and at Amazon.com.

About City Canyons Records

City Canyons Records is a Manhattan based independent label featuring an international roster of artists. In addition to Peter Ulrich and Sara Wendt, other artists on the Manhattan based City Canyons roster are New York artists, Jen Elliott and Timothy Dark, The Alrights from Minnesota, UK artists David Steele, ANEMO and The John Wilde Group and Valerian from Finland. Genres range from hard rock, to pop, to world music, to darkwave, to blues, to hip-hop to alternative rock.

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