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Partial source-list of Bilders songs

Any band may perform a song. If you need help or want lyrics and chords, just contact us. We can give you written permission to record it and to release it. At present you do not need to negotiate with a publisher, only with us. If you are a publisher, why not contact us about the 350 Bill Direen songs currently registered with APRA-AMCOS for Fiji, New Zealand and Australia.

Leases for the licensed release or usage of music or texts are unique and last for three years unless otherwise agreed. Releases below are 12", 33rpm vinyl unless otherwise stated.

Please note that, excepting the song 'Four Long Years' on PT200: The Second 100, no authorisation or permission of any kind has been granted to any label or organisation to post, publish or upload any material previously released on CD between 2006 and 2010). Any use of that material is in contravention of the copyright acts of developed countries.

2024 Bilders vinyl LP 33rpm (14 songs) GY14-3 & SL135 plus bonus cassette (21 songs) GY14-4 &  SL136 of mixed material. Grapefruit / Sophomore Lounge. 

'Alien' covered by Stephen Cogle on a limited vinyl release by Peter Vangioni (Christchurch Art Gallery). 2024.

reissue of Mindful with additional tracks from the 2010 recordings in Berlin. Called now Mindful [Expanded]. Recorded in Berlin. 2023

reissue of Split Seconds (Grapefruit/Sophomore Lounge 2023) [12" vinyl; black & red]. Recorded in NZ.

The song 'Four Long Years' (Bill Direen, home recording) leased for three years to Powertool Records for PT200: The Second 100, feb. 2023, contaning 41 songs. Please note that no permission or authorisation for this was requested beforehand, but it was granted after South Indies asked for an explanation from Powertool Records, upon the release of the promotional CD PT200.

release of M.A.L.A. (Move Along Love Along), recorded in NZ. Thokei Tapes, Hamburg. 2021

New release: Memory of Others (Sophomore Lounge) OST of the film Bill Direen A Memory of Others. Double LP, 12" vinyl, gatefold. SL100. October 2019 with download of the feature length documentary dir. by Simon Ogston.

release of << cut >> (Zelle Records, Powertool, South Indies), 2018. [vinyl]

release of Chrysanthemum Storm(Zelle Records, Powertool, South Indies), 2017. [vinyl]

release of Bilders Tour Germany-Austria (South Indies). Download 24bit/16/bit/mp3. 2013

release of Beatin Hearts {Grapefruit Record Club), 2016. [vinyl]

release on SmartGuy compilation Thank You San Francisco (SmartGuy, 2016) [vinyl] 'Cell Songs #2'

released on The Utopians R Just Out Boozin' (SmartGuy, 2014) [7" 45rpm, vinyl: Utopians, Mardy, c.b.a.z.y.

released on Fiat Lux (Democrazy 2014) [vinyl; sold out]

released on flavour of the meat (Grapefruit Record Club, 2013) [vinyl]: Love is Colder Than Death, Mortals and Mice, Vidal. S2 Question, Dark Does Not Live by Water or Air, Finger Painting, Lion's Tooth (Yeats/Direen).Direen/Hamish Kilgour/David Watson/Miggie Littleton.

released on new york songs (Unwucht 2013) [vinyl; sold out]

as released on vacuum (siltbreeze) 1 - 2011 [7" vinyl; sold out]

released on vacuum (siltbreeze) 2 - 2012 [7" vinyl; availability uncertain]

released on KRYPTON 10 (Onset-Offset/Unwucht) 2011 [vinyl; sold out]

released on six impossible things (Unwucht) 2011 [12" 45rpm, vinyl; sold out]

released on high 30s piano (Unwucht) 2012 [12" 45rpm, vinyl; sold out]

released on soloman's ball (Unwucht) 2012 [12" 45rpm, vinyl; sold out]

released on die bilder -- schwimmen in der See (12" 45rpm, Unwucht) 2012 [vinyl; sold out]

released on above ground GONE AIWA (siltbreeze) 2011 [vinyl; availability uncertain http://www.siltbreeze.com/aboveground.htm]

released on Songs for Mickey Joe -- music Bill Direen/texts by Alan Brunton (Powertool NZ) [digital CD; lease expired]

released on Dial a Claw (Powertool NZ) 2008 [digital CD; lease expired]

released on Chrysanthemum Storm (Powertool NZ) 2008 [digital CD; lease expired]

released on Yes Today No Tomorrow -- Bits & Pieces (Powertool NZ) 2008 [digital CD; lease expired]

released on Mindful -- Berlin gallery recordings of 2008 (Powertool NZ) 2010 [digital CD; lease expired]

released on Mean Time -- home recordings (Powertool NZ) 2010 [digital CD; lease expired]

released on Parisian Friday -- French café & home recordings (Powertool NZ) 2010 [digital CD; lease expired]

released on Builders -- BEATEN HEARTS LP 1983 (Flying Nun and South INdies) [vinyl; sold out]

released on bilderine -- split seconds LP 1984 (South INdies) [vinyl; sold out]

released on CoNCH3/Cup and others(South INdies) [vinyl; sold out]

released on Bill Direen & Barry Stockley (South Indies) 1987 [vinyl; sold out]