Only a few copies available, we have some CDs in of the first Bleeding Heart Narrative album, All That Was Missing We Never Had In The World.

Please note, this is the re-issue of the album, from Cold Spring Records, not the original Tartaruga release, which is long, long sold-out, having been originally released in March 2008.

The CD features the same tracklisting as the original release, plus the bonus track 'blueskywards'. The CD comes in a standard digipak format, featuring the same artwork as the original release.

Fans of the first Bleeding Heart Narrative album (the first release on Tartaruga, back in March 2008) will have an idea of what to expect, though the album presents itself as a development of the sounds and ideas that made 'all that was missing we never had in the world' such a word-of-mouth favourite.

More song-structured than the previous release, there is a much clearer vocal presence on the record, as heard in the free download Colours Turn Colours. The approach of Bleeding Heart Narrative continues to show a fascination with sounds and textures, and a willingness to experiment with a wide array of instrumentation. Organ, 12-string guitar, electronics, cello and piano all play a part, though there is a strong coherence to the album as a whole that is unmistakenably Bleeding Heart Narrative.

Housed in the usual Tartaruga gatefold recycled cardboard sleeves, beautifully printed, the CD comes with a further foldout poster inlay.
The first 200 copies come with an additional numbered two-colour screenprint, and are hand numbered and sewn together.

The fourth album release on Tartaruga is the debut album from Max Bondi - M.

Largely recorded over a single week in a small flat in Northern Spain, the record employs a vast array of sounds with such a tactile quality that at times it sounds as if the room itself is being played. From the subtly bristling tension and atmospheric double bass notes of Morendo, to the urgent and pulsating rhythmic layers of Volante!, the album plays like a dream both half-forgotten and lived-in all at once. The album reaches critical mass in A Desperate Threnody, where woozy interwoven drones mixed with shimmering percussion seem to drive inexorably towards a violent climax that instead yields to the most delicate and reflective piano motif.

Yet for all its calm and beautiful moments there is always a slight element of unease sitting below the surface and this side of the album reveals itself again as the wistful piano refrain is submerged in a growing wash of static that leads into the fragmented coda of the album’s closer, Elenco.

Notes and sounds rise and shimmer out of the gloom, conjuring textures sometimes so fragile and ethereal they could almost be smoke curling in the air, but always that dying computer crackle and deep foggy layers of dismembered drones rise up to pull you back in.

The third release on Tartaruga is the debut album from Quinta. This full-length album is available in the usual limited edition of 200 hand-assembled copies. A digital release will be available from June 29th 2009 in all major online stores.

The album is all the work of Quinta, multi-instrumentalist and sometime member of various of bands, including Bat For Lashes, Pthhhh, Orphans and Vandals and several others. She has crafted a bewitching album for Tartaruga, at once playful, humourous, nostalgic and original, and we hope you love it.

The album comes in full Tartaruga packaging - thick 300gsm recycled chipboard gatefold sleeve, silk-screen printed, stamped, numbered, and sewn together. The CD also contains two exclusive hand-made inserts.

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A journey through the sound world of Brassica, the album features a diverse range of sonic textures, structured compositions and 'small electronic pop songs', all tied together through a coherent musical approach. Featuring various instruments and electronics, the attention to detail on every small part of the record is exceptional, and rewards repeated listens.

Available in a strictly limited run of 200 copies.

The CDs are full glass-mastered CDs, housed in a signature Tartaruga recycled cardstock gatefold sleeve, silk-screen printed, hand stamped, and sewn together. Each sleeve is then individually numbered.

The album also features exclusive artwork from ten different visual artists, all enclosed on ten separate full colour postcard-style inserts. Each one corresponds to a track on the album, and each card is hand-stamped with the track name and artist details.