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What Is Happening? I Feel It Everywhere! GmbH is the new mothership for the label/booking and event agency Bretford, WIHIFIE music publishing, as well as international in-house PR. We want to offer expertise in all these areas and strive for synergies within them. We want to make artists‘ voices heard and represent them faithfully and conscientiously. In doing so, we want to publish music that we really love.
Founded in 2022 by Henrietta Bauer, who has accompanied Berlin-garagesters Chuckamuck as manager for some years before releasing their album “beatles” on Bretford, the company pursues an open-minded diy approach and often works independently of given structures while aiming to contribute to the independent and diverse music scene.
Bretford releases music the way we want to hear it ourselves, regardless of trends and expectations. We share what we like, no matter the genre.
Producer Lorenz Szukal is inevitably responsible for the sound of Bretford Records while doing his magic recording outside of Berlin at O’tool Studio. Next to Die Verlierer’s eponymous album, which has been heralded locally and overseas, and their newest record “Notausgang”, he played a pioneering role in the recordings of the Jeff Clarke solo album “Locust” and “Horny Tears from Hell” by Waxlegs, both out on Bretford Records.
Bretford records is distributed by Cargo Records / 375media
https://www.cargo-records.de
https://375media.com
We condemn any action of discrimination, racism, sexism, facism, anti-semitism, anti-arab racism and glorification of violence.
Our releases:
BRD001 “beatles” by Chuckamuck – for their 4th album, the band expanded the O’tool studio in the countryside outside Berlin to record a decelerated and intimate record. Rather than garage rock, we hear a poetic country band that plays with beatles signs and, along other westerns, seem to come from El Pesoburg.
BRD002 “Die Ewige Party” by Chuckamuck – limited diy 7”
BRD003 “Motel Reno” by Oska Wald – a concept album named in homage to legendary US underground filmmaker George Kuchar and his Weather Diaries, a series of absurdist videos documenting the minutiae of his wasted time. Lo-fi neo-folk for friends of Michael Hurley and Jonathan Richman.
BRD004 “Locust” by Jeff Clarke – for the first time, Jeff Clarke in a totally new context: recorded in one single session in a forest outside Berlin. A stripped-down, melancholic change of pace from the Canadian musician whose boisterous garage rock compositions with the Bands Demon’s Claws, Hellshovel and The Black Lips let to King Khan identifying him as one of the “unsung heroes of rock’n’roll”.
+ digital singles “Slip Away”, “Mormon Galaxy” and „Palliative Care“
BRD005 “Horny Tears from Hell” by Waxlegs – a feminist charged four wheeled monster truck speeding through a dark and deserted town followed by beer cans attached by guitar strings, just in time to celebrate Lucifer’s second marriage. A raw, unpolished record that combines the best out of punk and metal.
