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CIAM . Les Dits Devant

Various Poets With Bernard Noël, Serge Pey, Jocelyne François, Abdellatif Laâbi, Christian Viguié, Michel Seuphor, Henri Chopin, André Velter, Pierre Albert-Birot, Henri Meschonnic, André Laude, Jean-Pierre Lafitte Published in 1992 by the CIAM at the Université in Toulouse (France), Les Dits Devant is a sound magazine about poetry.

28 January 2010 at 03:52 - Comments

AMM/MEV . Live Electronic Music Improvised

This album is the fussion of the two European early electronic bands: M.E.V. (Musica Elettronica Viva) and A.M.M. This is probably the first album of these characteristics, because electronic music had been a studio product until that time. Musica Elettronica Viva was a collective of musicians in Rome working in free improvisations of experimental, electronic [...]

27 January 2010 at 00:48 - Comments

Imaginary Softwoods . Imaginary Softwoods

John Elliott, aka 1/3 of the Emeralds, embarked on an anonymous journey into washed out synthdrone-psychedelia some two years ago. The results were released on an obscure triple cassette, and eventually made their way into the hands of the marvellous Digitalis imprint, who’ve done us all a great favour by pressing them onto a measly [...]

25 January 2010 at 20:10 - Comments

Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza . Azioni

Packaged in a gorgeous clothbound slipcase hardcover box with 76-page booklet, a 28×37 cm poster and an obi-stripe. The CDs and the DVD come in single digipaks.** This deluxe boxed edition presents some of the most compelling improvisations of this extraordinary improv group active in the 60s and featuring such names as Ennio Morricone, Ivan [...]

23 January 2010 at 22:07 - Comments

ORGANUM – BIRD’S WINGS WERE GLUED TO THEIR BODIES AND THEIR FEET FROZE TO THE GROUND

David Jackman is an artist with many followers, but that’s mainly for his work under the banner of Organum, who are a group. Jackman’s solo efforts are witty, conceptual or noisy at times and is immense expensive… Certain aspects of the Jackman solo work overlap with the Organum work, but that’s mainly the visual side [...]

22 January 2010 at 20:05 - Comments

Fabio Orsi : Osci

‘Osci’ is a two long tracks album (remixed by Gianluca Becuzzi/Kinetix) of ambient drone music, field recordings and experimental melancholic soundcapes… Using processed folk music parts (taken during folkloristic festivals, typical of the Apulian folk tradition), Fabio creates a dreaming atmosphere crossing between balls and bellows, silence and spirituality, everyday life: at home, in a [...]

21 January 2010 at 16:26 - Comments

BJ Nilsen .The Invisible City

Recorded and Mixed during 2008-2009 in Berlin. Gravity Station: subharchord, pitch-regulated viola, amplified chair dragged across floor, window shutters, grand piano, virtual Hammond organ, steel whistle coffeepot, acoustic and electric guitars, B&K Sine Random Generator Type 1024, birdsong through B&K Frequency Analyser Type 2107, Studer B67, various DSP // Phase and Amplitude: bumblebees, acoustic guitar, [...]

20 January 2010 at 22:40 - Comments

Grutronic . Essex foam party

Grutronic is a free improvising collective, featuring musicians spanning progressive jazz, free jazz and experimental persuasions. On Essex Foam Party, the core electronics-based quartet aligns with special guests, vibraphonist Orphy Robinson and sampler Paul Obermayer. With liquefying, trickling and ping ponging effects, the musicians implement analog and digital equipment to play with tricks with the [...]

20 January 2010 at 03:06 - Comments

VA . Aftenoon Tea

Almost a decade on from its original release via Mille Plateaux offshoot Ritornell, Afternoon Tea still feels like a vision of the future. A quintet of extreme electronic experimenters come together for a journey into the digital borderlands between computer music and free improvisation, as captured over a series of live concerts held during the [...]

18 January 2010 at 23:51 - Comments

Zreen Toyz . Ondulation Polyglotte

Capture des éléments sonores entre 1974 et 1983. Montage et mixage en 1984 au Studio Intercontinental. Montage : Jean-Luc Hervé Berthelot et John Raindirk. Mixage : Jean-Luc Hervé Berthelot et Norbert Deville. Gravure du LP original par Michel Besombes à Rêve Gravure, Paris. © + ? 1984, Jean-Luc Hervé Berthelot & SonArt. Edition 2007 : [...]

18 January 2010 at 03:21 - Comments