This is an intense investigation of disembodied perception in the form of a single electroacoustic composition – an uncomfortable calm inhabited by hints of signals and actions, interspersed with sudden jarring events, sometimes moving slowly and seductively, sometimes shifting the listener from one location to another. //
This is a compilation from some of his work during the years 1952-1960. The somewhat chaotic series of sounds create a rather mellow atmosphere despite their unpredictability and can still be compared to the modern noise music of today. // Karlheinz Stockhausen – Elektronische Musik 1952-1960 01 – Etude (1952) 02 – Studie I (1953) [...]
KTL is a unit made up of Peter Rehberg and Stephen O’Malley, artists otherwise known as Pita and Ω of Sunn 0))), respectively. KTL 2 is the second volume of incidental music to emerge from their work for Kindertotenlieder, the fourth collaboration between American writer Dennis Cooper and French director/choreographer Gisele Vienne. KTL 2 not [...]
A third magical instalment in the Touch label’s 7″ series, Amoroso pays homage to the so-called ‘sacred minimalism’ of Arvo Part, and features a trio of collaborators: Touch mainstays Christian Fennesz and Philip Jeck are joined by renowned organist Charles Matthews, a performer who first contributed to the Touch label via the Spire project
“Frank Baugh of Sparkling Wide Pressure reports: “This is music which reflects the inner urge, the secret fear, and the courage to look directly. Guided by moods into the true reflection of an empty world that is open. Open world. Sitting still and being one with movement. Seeing the truth reflected in hollowness. It is [...]
Armed with four 8011 DPA hydrophones, DPA 4060 omni mics, a Telinga parabolic reflector mic and a Sound Devices 744T digital hard disk recorder, Jana Winderen studies and records wild places which have a particular importance in our understanding of the complexity and fragility of marine ecosystems. The recordings were made on field trips to [...]
Contemporary Italian composer Stefano Scodanibbio has been a performing musician (on double bass) for a quarter of a century. Scodanibbio has created new techniques extending the colors and range of the double bass heretofore thought impossible on this instrument. Elena Casoli: guitar Jürgen Ruck: guitar Ian Pace: piano Mario Caroli: flute Magnus Andersson: guitar Rohan [...]
Intermission brings together a range of material Oren Ambarchi has contributed to compilations and limited edition vinyl releases between the years 2000 and 2008. Highlights include two live recordings – an early, fragile solo guitar recording taken from a radio broadcast in 2000 and A Final Kiss On Poisoned Cheeks, his powerful 12″ recorded live [...]
These Brighton mongs—DYLAN NYOUKIS and KAREN CONSTANCE—pick up where they left off with 2008′s The Magnetic Headache. Midnight-to-three recordings fueled by grape and smoke conjure a blurred narrative, the meaning of which is never clear, like weird off-camera sounds in a tripped out movie. A shape-shifting and strange mix of tape collage, free vocals and [...]
For some reason the collaboration between Tom Carter, Starving Weirdo’s and Shawn David McMillen (Warmer Milks) seems, for me, difficult to imagine, especially when Brian comes over distracting me by laughing with a massive gob full of chocolate digestives looking like a deranged Bradfordian cookie monster… Anyway as soon as I start listening it all [...]
