The composition is scored for four superimposed soprano saxophones, handled – of course – by Krieger. It is explained that playing the CD at the extremes of the audible range warrants the best consequence for this particular recording: soft volume to get a sort of microtonal ambient, loud for a deeper psychoacoustic experience characterized by [...]
Born in Tokyo. Started his career in experimental firm and video art in 1981.From middle of 80′s,he gradually turned into music through performing art,contributing to the development of the Japanese noise music in its early period with other pioneers such as Merzbow. He spreads his activities over Europe since 1998,with many concerts not only CD [...]
Knots, the new album from Milanese percussionist Andrea Belfi, is broken into four untitled parts. They are similar in palette, but each has its own discreet gloom and web-work of tactile rhythms. While his last record, 2006′s Between Neck & Stomach, boasted diffuse little symphonies brisling with brass shards, lattices of guitar (courtesy of 3/4hadbeeneliminated’s [...]
A powerful three-part set of electroacoustic improvisations from two of Japan’s finest experimental musicians: guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama and that famed exponent of the no-input mixing board , Toshimaru Nakamura. This latest long-player commences with the fluttering of pure, high frequency tones laced with complex, scratchy undertones. Akiyama’s guitar interjections bring a real sense of warmth [...]
Being active in the fields of electronic music since 1982 Andrew Lagowski started to work with his deep space sound project S.E.T.I. in 1992. Now with the fifth album and numerous other releases inbetween a connection is made with the first highly anticipated album KNOWLEDGE released in 1994. The new album CORONA unfolds an atmosphere [...]
live recording by two great bass players at the “Sons d’Hiver” festival on January 9, 1998. Leandre might be identified with European improvisation, while Parker is a cornerstone of the specifically American tradition. But these differences fade before what unites them. You will be struck by the sheer breadth and depth of sound, the orchestral [...]
This beautiful collaboration features two of the most prolific talents from the current experimental scene, both with reputations of leviathan proportions. For this release, Machinefabriek, based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and Peter Broderick, based in Berlin, Germany (although constantly on the road) set out to push each others limits, and to explore new areas within [...]
Voyage That Never Ends (1979-1997) “An advance first draft of what will one day become, for me perhaps, the consummate novel of the double bass. ‘Voyage That Never Ends’ assembles, modifies, and amplifies some of my earlier works (Oriente-Occidente, Strumentale, Studio n.6) into a new concert piece with a global perspective.” — Stefano Scodanibbio Stefano [...]
Only once in a great while does a recording come along that influences my thoughts on creativity, sound and spirituality in music. Sibanye (We Are One), duets with Louis Moholo-Moholo and Marilyn Crispell, is one of those recordings. Confronted with the racist oppression of apartheid in South Africa, Moholo-Moholo immigrated to Europe in 1964 and [...]
Instrument traditionnel japonais, le koto, sorte de cithare à treize cordes semble se marier à merveille aux chemins buissonniers de la musique improvisée. Prises au hasard, trois productions plus ou moins récentes nous invitent à la découverte du son obsédant du koto. Doneda / Achiary / Sawaï ou l’appel. L’appel des monts et plaines, crêtes [...]
