Environment is the third instalment of the personal project by Elías Merino from Madrid. After a few years collaborating with the electronic ensemble Nuhg, Merino releases on Audiotalaia its fourth release as a solo project. Environment, at first hearing, comes as a dark ambient release but after a careful listening one can realise that we [...]

NOP is a solo project of Jérôme Montagne (FR). He plays with feedback on a no-input mixing-board to perform an audio-visual improvisation. An additional laptop (with personal program) is use to generate low-fi music visualization. Strongly inspired by the avant-garde filmmakers (Oskar Fischinger, Peter Kubelka..) and experimental electronic music (editions Mego, Pan sonic…), Jérôme mixes [...]

RCL-290 is a pocket cassette player of a doubtful brand produced in 1980s. Jan Faix bought it for a bargain at a junk shop and decided to explore the player’s sound possibilities. He was pleasantly surprised by its flexibility and colourfulness. The recording of this “instrument” was similar to that used by contemporary improvisers playing [...]

BANDWIDTH (FR) IS AYANKOKO/DAVID VILAYLECK (LAPTOP, DSP) AND MATHIEU GARROUSTE (TURNTABLE, FX). THE ALBUM IS THE RESULT OF TWO LIVE IMPROVISATION RECORDING SESSIONS MADE AT KOBE, PARIS IN FEBRUARY 2011. IT IS OUT BOTH ON CLINICAL ARCHIVES NETLABEL AND AYANRECORDS NETLABEL. THANKS TO KOBE STUDIOS AND TRASHVORTEX. Ayankoko (Fr) : David Vilayleck’s solo project (live [...]

What is the voltage of static electricity that courses over your skin standing each of five million hairs straight on end? Can the answer be derived quantitatively from the waveforms cascading against malleus, anvil and stapes to trigger follicle surge? Or is math itself lost in the abstraction to qualitative, perceptual, and metaphysical sense? Such [...]

Electronic band created in 2006 by two musicians from Perpignan (France). They both come from a jazz background as they play guitar or piano in other projects, with an aesthetic outcome ranging from Free jazz to noise or any other style of music where improvisation holds a key role. They recorded an album as a [...]