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Album: Mirage [EP]
Track: 4 of 4
Title: Rattlesnake
Artist: Glass Beams
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RREP07
Formats: 12" Vinyl/Digital
Digital Release: 25th June 2021
Physical Release: 25th June 2021
About This Release:
Research Records indicate their inclination for cosmic instrumentation and kraut pervaded polyrhythms once again with an introduction to newcomer Glass Beams. Recorded at the beginning of 2020, Mirage is the first release from the artist, issuing four compositions that lend from a profusion of sounds and influences.
The album's opener and title Mirage arrives with a coiling vocal mantra that conspires with a sliding bassline and transcendent synthwork, reminiscent of early 70's prog jams yet inverted and futuristic. Taurus is a brisk arrangement, steeped with spaghetti-western elements and space-jazz to pave the way for the agile Kong. Rife with psych-fusion guitar phrases and instrumentation, Kong unfolds like a forecast lysergic voyage. The finale Rattlesnake nudges the serpent with intergalactic scales and spellbinding riffs. We may not know much about the enigmatic Glass Beams but Mirage is one epic inauguration, leaving the listener with more questions than answers.
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Album: Mirage [EP]
Track: 4 of 4
Title: Rattlesnake
Artist: Glass Beams
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RREP07
Formats: 12" Vinyl/Digital
Digital Release: 25th June 2021
Physical Release: 25th June 2021
About This Release:
Research Records indicate their inclination for cosmic instrumentation and kraut pervaded polyrhythms once again with an introduction to newcomer Glass Beams. Recorded at the beginning of 2020, Mirage is the first release from the artist, issuing four compositions that lend from a profusion of sounds and influences.
The album's opener and title Mirage arrives with a coiling vocal mantra that conspires with a sliding bassline and transcendent synthwork, reminiscent of early 70's prog jams yet inverted and futuristic. Taurus is a brisk arrangement, steeped with spaghetti-western elements and space-jazz to pave the way for the agile Kong. Rife with psych-fusion guitar phrases and instrumentation, Kong unfolds like a forecast lysergic voyage. The finale Rattlesnake nudges the serpent with intergalactic scales and spellbinding riffs. We may not know much about the enigmatic Glass Beams but Mirage is one epic inauguration, leaving the listener with more questions than answers.
![Rafet - You Are in the Embrace of the History (A1) [Audio]
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Album: You Are in the Embrace of the History [EP]
Track: 1 of 2
Title: You Are in the Embrace of the History (A1)
Artist: Rafet
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RESEARCH12D
Formats: Digital
Digital Release: 30th August 2024
About This Release:
Rafet studied music from a young age. Tertiary education brought about further teachings in jazz. Growing up in the family village of Miniara (North Lebanon) saw to an inquiry into maqamat and traditional arabic musics post study. After composing for multiple ensembles and performing in various projects over the years, Rafet settles into his own artistry with You Are In The Embrace of The History. This body of work is one that is personal; sighting connection to a land, spirit and devotion to a holy other.
You Are In the Embrace of The History delivers longing with grace, a realisation of ancestral memory with the eloquence of an internal knowing. Finding home in the cradle of the poem, a universal affirmation lies deep within an irregular heartbeat.
The listener is offered an invitation to enter into the vista of expansive harmonic voicings, anticipating resolution. The work is edged by expressions of spiritual jazz and tempered by the scope of ambient musics.
Rafets offering has the humility to pose questions (the illumination and the ecstasy). In the Dead Sea, there are no fish. Rafet - You Are in the Embrace of the History (A1) [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/inoDOWGnqRQ/mqdefault.jpg)
![Mouche - Juice [Audio]
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Album: Juice [SINGLE]
Track: 1 of 1
Title: Juice
Artist: Mouche
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RESEARCHEP07
Formats: Digital
Digital Release: 12th May 2023
About This Release:
Mouche returns to Australian label Research Records with his debut single Juice. The forthcoming album, Lake Songs out in late May 2023.
Active on the Melbourne scene in projects such as Crepes/The Murlocs/Swazi Gold/Dreamin Wild, Tims first album Live From The Bubble arrived back in 2020 as an ode to his aptly named studio space - The Bubble.
Lake Songs builds on those same atmospheres, showcasing the inward-looking craft of his one-man band. Cicada field recordings and light keys open proceedings, reflecting the warmer side of 80s new age, though before long were introduced to a variety of stylistic shifts incorporating elements of cosmic funk, lounge and library-style compositions. There are traces of Steve Hiett, Max Groove or even the recently re-discovered Ronald Langestraat, though the strength of Mouches talent for harmony shines through on its own level.
Shifting between moods yet reflecting an overarching sense of positivity, listening through the ten tracks gives off a real sense of place, though time is somewhat irrelevant. The warm climate and sandy beaches of Australia seem eternally embodied in Juice or Crystal Water. Perhaps where Live From The Bubble was dedicated to the very studio that birthed it, Lake Songs is dedicated to the vast land that surrounds it. Mouche - Juice [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/j408GsKjU5U/mqdefault.jpg)
![Swazi Gold - As You Go
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Album: Jehovahs Whispers [ALBUM]
Track: 5 of 6
Title: As You Go
Artist: Swazi Gold
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RESEARCH04
Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital
Digital Release: 8th March 2019
Physical Release: 8th March 2019
About This Release:
Swazi Gold have created a debut album that shimmers like the coast. There are six songs, two created by each member; through pure collaboration and participation. Swazi Gold are a true democracy.
Formed by the chief songwriters from Melbourne bands Crepes, Dreamin Wild and Sagamore, this new band brings old friends together. Chris Jennings and Sam Cooper grew up in the Victorian coastal towns of Barwon Heads and Ocean Grove, while TimKarmouche was an inland man, hailing from Ballarat in the state’s north-west.
“We’ve been playing together for so long; in different mediums and in different bands. We’ve played our own key roles, but now we know what each other wants. Swazi Gold shows off our relationship from over the years, which is really cool,” says guitarist and bassist Jennings.
Swazi Gold’s other guitarist and bass player, Cooper, has a theory about the unifying power of their regional origins:
“It’s this kind of small town thing where you strive to be different and creative. Because you’re more isolated, you focus on your creativity and align yourself to similar people. I think growing up down the coast has meant I’ve continued to be drawn to people from other isolated places,” he says.
It’s this togetherness that’s at the heart of Swazi Gold’s debut album,Jehovah’s Whispers.Recorded in a single weekend in 2017 at the Cooper’s family home in Ocean Grove (affectionately termed the “Cooper Ranch”)Jehovah’s Whisperscaptures a musical intimacy and deep friendship between the three members.
“The bond with all the tracks on the album isn’t necessarily lyrical, but it’s 100% sonic. The simplicity of the instruments we use and the set-up we have is what’s really rad,” says Jennings.
“It’s a fantasy of what we imagined Jehovah might be whispering in your ear,” he adds, grinning.
Drawing from their collective love of African music, American funk, and quirky, melody-driven pop music, the album explores the space between conventional genres and styles of production.
“Using drum machines has made the song-writing process a lot quicker and opened up a whole new avenue stylistically. We can move more into that dance or groove-based style. It’s kind of an EDM style of production, without the matching sound. That’s how it’s different,” says synth and keys player Karmouche.
Lyrically, the songs address themes like moving to Melbourne, realising personal limitations and seeing a thriving country town fade to nothingness. There’s a brooding one in there for anyone who’s ever been ripped off, too.
But withJehovah’s Whispers,it’s the impeccable timing from two drum machines that propel each track forward and bind the six songs so tightly.
“The drum machine is chomping away the whole time. In a live set, there’s a lot of energy straight away. Everyone’s dancing straight away; we’re dancing straight away. It’s really fun,” says Jennings.
Jehovah’s Whispers is an album that proves the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. And in amidst the love and equality, there’s still a heap of bite and attitude. Swazi Gold - As You Go](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jIlphNt70gY/mqdefault.jpg)
![Big Yawn - Bad Boy 4 Now [Audio]
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Album: South Preston Garage [EP]
Track: 6 of 6
Title: Bad Boy 4 Now
Artist: Big Yawn
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RRC02
Formats: Cassette/Digital
Digital Release: 4th September 2020
Physical Release: 4th September 2020
About This Release:
Research Records presents Melbourne electronic quartet Big Yawns second contribution to the label, South Preston Garage. A title to honour the bands beloved bandroom, S.P.G compiles demos extracted from the studio for a digital release with a limited run of cassettes. Big Yawn reflects that completing the EP presented the challenge of creatively engineering the lo-fi recordings in a way that offered thrilling and creative insight for us and perhaps some replay value for the listener.
S.P.G embodies Big Yawns trademark pastiche, fusing together rich percussion and sweeping synthesizers that are recontextualised through an extensive shed jam. The band characterises the first two tracks British Teeth and Burno as Big Yawn flavoured DnB, with refracted drum phrasing and unrelenting delays. Cascading acid-tinged bass rules in the quivering 4 Dads; a venture into the bands stockier temperament. The panoramic Burton Bell delivers raw and biting percussion, while remaining faithful to electronics with its layered sampling. The release then disperses into seaside rapture with its farewell Bad Boy. On Bad Boy, the band comment that the track is perhaps our most melodic number to date, with heavily looping synths evoking a Hiroshi Sato/city-pop feel.
What is perhaps most unique about Big Yawn is that they present familiar electronic sounds amplified as a live band. A timely release; S.P.G translates the satisfaction of hearing a live band in a period when all we really want is to go to a gig. Big Yawn - Bad Boy 4 Now [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jLW0I5KIEaM/mqdefault.jpg)
![Mouche - Juice [Audio]
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Album: Lake Songs [ALBUM]
Track: 6 of 10
Title: Juice
Artist: Mouche
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RESEARCH011
Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital
Digital Release: 26th May 2023
Physical Release: 26th May 2023
About This Release:
Mouche (real name Tim Karmouche) returns to Australian label Research Records with another full-length of imaginary soundtracks, instrumentals and sun-kissed digital jazz. Active on the Melbourne scene in projects such as Crepes/The Murlocs/Swazi Gold/Dreamin Wild, Tims first album Live From The Bubble arrived back in 2020 as an ode to his aptly named studio space - The Bubble.
Lake Songs builds on those same atmospheres, showcasing the inward-looking craft of his one-man band. Cicada field recordings and light keys open proceedings, reflecting the warmer side of 80s new age, though before long were introduced to a variety of stylistic shifts incorporating elements of cosmic funk, lounge and library-style compositions. There are traces of Steve Hiett, Max Groove or even the recently re-discovered Ronald Langestraat, though the strength of Mouches talent for harmony shines through on its own level.
Shifting between moods yet reflecting an overarching sense of positivity, listening through the ten tracks gives off a real sense of place, though time is somewhat irrelevant. The warm climate and sandy beaches of Australia seem eternally embodied in Juice or Crystal Water. Perhaps where Live From The Bubble was dedicated to the very studio that birthed it, Lake Songs is dedicated to the vast land that surrounds it. Mouche - Juice [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jkXF-36yJ68/mqdefault.jpg)
![Big Yawn - For Whomst [Audio]
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Album: No! [ALBUM]
Track: 5 of 13
Title: For Whomst
Artist: Big Yawn
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RESEARCH08
Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital
Digital Release: 6th March 2020
Physical Release: 6th March 2020
About This Release:
The various sides of Melbourne quartet Big Yawn fluctuate neatly across their debut full length No!. Subtle dub techno delays combine with live drums on Attaboi to formally introduce their clear affectation for the motorik sounds of 70s Deutschland. Previous single Skinrat curiously references off-rhythms and vocal cut ups a la late naughties UK bass music, while abstract jams such as For Whomst channel the adventurous live-and-direct sound of Golden Teacher and kindred experimentalist Inga Copeland.
Heavy low-end bass frequencies and twitches of dub fx permeate the LP, shades of post-punk and loopy minimal wave (Doodle Damage) contrasting with the more jagged dance orientated moments. In opting to close No! with their most expansive recording (Body Double), Big Yawn delve deeper into the tense and ritualistic atmospheres the prior tracks only hint at. The effect seems akin to a snapshot into their lengthy freestyle practice sessions; a process honed and refined here for the LP format. Until their next outing, the relentless groove of Anthem X will keep hips swaying during those sweaty early morning club hours. Big Yawn - For Whomst [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kD0Af2KlSYU/mqdefault.jpg)
![Khaled Kurbeh - Estihlāl [Audio]
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Album: Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh [ALBUM]
Track: 3 of 10
Title: Estihlāl
Artist: Khaled Kurbeh
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RESEARCH014
Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital
Digital Release: 18th July 2025
Physical Release: 18th July 2025
About This Release:
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh لكلّ فضاءٍ إيقاعه [to each space its own rhythm] 2019–23
a landscape of ever amusing contradictions on unstretched canvas: – of predictable rhythms (day and night, high tide and low tide, routine and intuition, rent and bureaucracy) and unpredictable rhythms (good fortune, bad poetry, chance, mistakes and chaos).
Berlin-based Syrian musician Khaled Kurbeh makes his Research Records debut with Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh, a tapestry of soundscapes written, performed and recorded across four years as part of his practice muhawalāt [attempts, variations] and hawāmesh [margins]: an outlet of gestures, sonic footnotes and observations from the everyday.
Kurbeh’s first release in seven years departs from his largely acoustic debut, Aphorisms, a collaboration with oud player Raman Khalaf and ensemble with elements of maqām and jazz.
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh offers a collection of 10 electroacoustic compositions – they’re brooding and experimental with hints of musique concrète. The tracklist implies a mapping or an itinerary. Field recordings of swallows and the snapping and un-shelling of sunflower seeds on interlude Nuzha I [Excursion I] are countered by sparse composition of low-end synth, harmonium, upright piano and prepared fender rhodes played with mallets on Darb I–II [Path I–II]. Patterns of cymbals and agitated bells appear on Jauqét Ajrās [Choir of Bells], while currents of bowed strings shiver and stutter on al-Ajrāf [The Cliffs]. The release captures four years of overlapping sonic wanders, finely balancing tensions of harmony and dissonance, stillness and resonance, texture and rhythm – recorded inside and outside.
The gatefold vinyl features artworks by Ida Lawrence and includes a booklet of 10 painted variations of the one scene. On the outer cover, paths stretch under a dramatically accented and vivid sky; while inside, the same landscape appears over and over in another light.
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh لكلّ فضاءٍ إيقاعه [to each space its own rhythm], is set for release on June 27th 2025 via Research Records, Naarm/Melbourne. A follow up solo piano album by Kurbeh, recorded in his studio in Kreuzberg, Berlin, will be released later this year. Khaled Kurbeh - Estihlāl [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kTwzr3NI16Q/mqdefault.jpg)
![Khaled Kurbeh - Nuzha II [Audio]
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Album: Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh [ALBUM]
Track: 8 of 10
Title: Nuzha II
Artist: Khaled Kurbeh
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RESEARCH014
Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital
Digital Release: 18th July 2025
Physical Release: 18th July 2025
About This Release:
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh لكلّ فضاءٍ إيقاعه [to each space its own rhythm] 2019–23
a landscape of ever amusing contradictions on unstretched canvas: – of predictable rhythms (day and night, high tide and low tide, routine and intuition, rent and bureaucracy) and unpredictable rhythms (good fortune, bad poetry, chance, mistakes and chaos).
Berlin-based Syrian musician Khaled Kurbeh makes his Research Records debut with Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh, a tapestry of soundscapes written, performed and recorded across four years as part of his practice muhawalāt [attempts, variations] and hawāmesh [margins]: an outlet of gestures, sonic footnotes and observations from the everyday.
Kurbeh’s first release in seven years departs from his largely acoustic debut, Aphorisms, a collaboration with oud player Raman Khalaf and ensemble with elements of maqām and jazz.
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh offers a collection of 10 electroacoustic compositions – they’re brooding and experimental with hints of musique concrète. The tracklist implies a mapping or an itinerary. Field recordings of swallows and the snapping and un-shelling of sunflower seeds on interlude Nuzha I [Excursion I] are countered by sparse composition of low-end synth, harmonium, upright piano and prepared fender rhodes played with mallets on Darb I–II [Path I–II]. Patterns of cymbals and agitated bells appear on Jauqét Ajrās [Choir of Bells], while currents of bowed strings shiver and stutter on al-Ajrāf [The Cliffs]. The release captures four years of overlapping sonic wanders, finely balancing tensions of harmony and dissonance, stillness and resonance, texture and rhythm – recorded inside and outside.
The gatefold vinyl features artworks by Ida Lawrence and includes a booklet of 10 painted variations of the one scene. On the outer cover, paths stretch under a dramatically accented and vivid sky; while inside, the same landscape appears over and over in another light.
Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh لكلّ فضاءٍ إيقاعه [to each space its own rhythm], is set for release on June 27th 2025 via Research Records, Naarm/Melbourne. A follow up solo piano album by Kurbeh, recorded in his studio in Kreuzberg, Berlin, will be released later this year. Khaled Kurbeh - Nuzha II [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/klKcnGmT_J8/mqdefault.jpg)
![Mouche - Fields of Summer [Audio]
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Album: Live From The Bubble [ALBUM]
Track: 3 of 10
Title: Fields of Summer
Artist: Mouche
Label: Research Records
Cat#: RRC01
Formats: Digital
Digital Release: 10th July 2020
About This Release:
Solo excursions from Tim Karmouche (The Murlocs/Crepes/Swazi Gold/Dreamin Wild) provide a joyous confluence of melody and rhythm, an instrumental ride through imaginary soundtracks and drifting liminal atmospheres.
Live From The Bubble strikes as a pure and earnest pursuit of experimentation in a fashion that seeks to evoke lifes simple pleasures. Crafted over many an hour spent in the mysterious studio space he nicknames the bubble, the various multi-tracks are looped and layered in a way that pays homage to old library funk and conjures up images of tight, seasoned session musicians in a pre-internet era. Like an old friend youve known for years, Mouches chords and harmonies communicate sentiments in a silent, knowing fashion.
A deliberate and necessary eschewing of words. The array of styles heard across the album hint to a fondness for exotica and surf rock, basking in a sepia-toned woozy nostalgia as opposed to wallowing in melancholy. Elements of Steve Hiett or G.S. Schray flicker in and out across the stereo field, particularly on the closing piece Thinking Straight, which despite its minor keys captures a mood of warmth and content, an end of summer lullaby to close proceedings. Karmouches own admission that the process of LFTB was centred around enjoyment comes as no surprise. Mouche - Fields of Summer [Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lEF80KzEOGU/mqdefault.jpg)
![Elite Beat - Go Back to Oly [Audio] (2 of 8)
Download & Stream: http://kud.li/research07 Subscribe: http://sb.kud.li/UC9G5WGgkv9Ikr_FZTMlfGkA Official stream from Research Records. Distributed by Kudos Records. More music playlists: http://pl.kud.li/UC9G5WGgkv9Ikr_FZTMlfGkA Album: Selected Rhythms [ALBUM] Track: 2 of 8 Title: Go Back to Oly Artist: Elite Beat Label: Research Records Cat#: RESEARCH07 Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital Digital Release: 8th November 2019 Physical Release: 8th November 2019 About This Release: Elite Beat is a musical collective from Portland, Oregon with a history spanning back to 2006. ‘Selected Rhythms’ captures the finest moments from all three of their ultra limited cassette series ‘Casual Rhythms’. Packed full of DIY dub mixing, cosmic orchestration and raw, percussion driven polyrhythms, the recordings have been remastered and put to vinyl for the first time with sections from Casual Rhythms Vol. 1 being re-shaped into previously unavailable single tracks. Recording plays a big role in the Elite Beat creative process. The studio as an instrument. Much of the Elite Beat music is mixed in an all-hands-on-deck dub style approach - live with an analog mixer and loads of FX being thrown and dubbed in real time. The sound is genre-less rhythm music with an emphasis on live playing, free form expression and technique that borrows from soundsystem culture. Inspiration can be heard from all parts of time and place. Some Ethio Jazz, Black Ark psychedelia, Exotica, Malian blues, even Haight-Ashbury in the summer of love. Each member an accomplished musician in their own right, Elite Beat thrive on collaboration. 2018 saw the release of their astral-Saharan jams with celebrated Taureg guitarist Mdou Moctar. The players get together every Wednesday evening, sometimes to chat, sometimes to play. The ‘record’ button gets pressed when they find what they are searching for. For this crew it’s all about ‘Casual Rhythms / Harmonious Lifestyles’ - if things don’t fall under that mantra, then it’s got to go. ‘Less is more’ for Elite Beat and their cosmic sounds. Elite Beat - Go Back to Oly [Audio] (2 of 8)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lMaeXlrqOOY/mqdefault.jpg)
![Dreamin Wild - Calypso Song [Audio] (5 of 8)
Download & Stream: http://kud.li/research05 Subscribe: http://sb.kud.li/UC9G5WGgkv9Ikr_FZTMlfGkA Official stream from Research Records. Distributed by Kudos Records. More music playlists: http://pl.kud.li/UC9G5WGgkv9Ikr_FZTMlfGkA Album: Heaven in Thirty-Eleven [ALBUM] Track: 5 of 8 Title: Calypso Song Artist: Dreamin Wild Label: Research Records Cat#: RESEARCH05 Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital Digital Release: 30th August 2019 Physical Release: 30th August 2019 About This Release: Dreamin Wilds second album Heaven in Thirty Eleven owes a lot to Footscray. The inner-western suburb of Melbourne features not only in the album title (its postcode is 3011) but goes deeper to form a central part of the records narrative and reflection. For all six members - Chris Jennings (Swazi Gold, Sagamore, Sledgehammer), Sam Cooper (Crepes, Swazi Gold, Sagamore, Sledgehammer), Tim Karmouche (Crepes, Swazi Gold, The Murlocs), Sarah Quirk, Monty Hartnett (Sleep Decade, Miris, Sagamore) and James Guida (Laguna, Environments) - Footscray buoyed periods of music exploration and discovery. After more than six year of writing, rehearsing and recording in the suburb, theres no doubt that Footscray is home for the band. Jennings adds that the album is, a bit of a recap of the last three years for Dreamin Wild, drawing attention to the change and growth many of the eight songs have undergone since creation. I Dont Disagree is an album highlight; an almost seven-minute track that struts along calmly, taking life as it is. Quirks soulful refrain soars atop Jennings laconic vocals, carrying the song to its end. Dynon Life is another album gem, reminiscent of summer in the city, and happy seeking excess. Heaven in Thirty Eleven is an ode to a Melbourne suburb brimming with culture and stories, made by artists who are proud to call it home. Dreamin Wild - Calypso Song [Audio] (5 of 8)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/la2Znk1i1H0/mqdefault.jpg)