ZU + Eugene Chadbourne : motorchellington

ZU + Eugene Chadbourne

motorchellington

label: Felmay

ref: fy 7021

year: 2001

players: Eugene Chadbourne, Jacopo Battaglia, Luca Thomas Mai, Roy

Paci, Massimo Pupillo

New release by the prolific Chadbourne accompanied in this occasion

by a hard-core-influenced rock group. Witty remarks displayed in song

form within an overtly Down. Town New York influenced collage

aesthetics. The (live) recording and interpretation display a rather

laid back attitude

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Parker, Guy, Litton, Schlippenbach, Lovens : 2X3=5

Parker, Guy, Litton, Schlippenbach, Lovens

2X3=5

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 305

year: 2000

players: Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Litton, Alex von Schlippenbach,

Paul Lovens

Free language proposing an observation of a single centre from

slightly different perspectives based in a circular interaction with

leaps to the centre by the different instrumentalists. Waves of

variable if continuous intensity and sharp gusts of winds that cause

the ideas to go round the circle

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Fredy Studer, DJ M.Singe : Duos 14 -20

Fredy Studer, DJ M.Singe

Duos 14 -20

label: for4ears

ref: for 4 ears 1242

year: 2001

players: Fredy Studer, DJ M.Singe

Membranes put forward an encounter (between contemporary percussion

and experimental DJeeing) in wich the rhythmic origin of both stances

becomes evident (groove, sonic planes, rhythmic sequences

alternation, blunt pulse stances). A collage halfway between acoustic

and dance aesthetics

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Cristina Zavalloni, Stefano de Bonis : Scoiattoli Confusi

Cristina Zavalloni, Stefano de Bonis

Scoiattoli Confusi

label: Bassesferec

ref: BS/004

year: 2000

players: Christina Zavalloni, Stefano de Bonis

Multiplicity of stances with a multistylistic streak, thetrical

histrionization, cabaret, vocal performances taken to unsuspected

extremes of the repertoire?s range. repetitive rhythmic stances,

jazzistic atmospheres, pop influenced tunes, solo piano tracks…

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Michel Wintsch : Sharing the thirst

Michel Wintsch

Sharing the thirst

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 300

year: 2000

players: Gerry Hemingway, Bnz Oester, Marie Scwab, Nathalie Saudan,

Michel Wintsch

Lineal compositions, trend towards intervalic symmetry giving rise to

variously intended themes, constructed from overlapped rhithmic cells

in two-ply fashion. Jazzistic outlook removed from overty visceral

free languajes to dive into sophisticated stances or approaches from

a timbric almost Weberian- outlook

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Matthew Davis, Rosa Muoz : Mute Correspondence

Matthew Davis, Rosa Muoz

Mute Correspondence

label: Confront Recordings

ref: Front 007

year: 2000

players: Matthew Davies, Rosa Muoz

Careful blurring of the instrument with abstract stances in which the

task becomes distanced from usual behaviour in a broadening of the

instrumental concept which goes on to include recording technical

resources. Interactive outlook from a kinetic perspective, spatial -

musician/dancer duo centred upon the sonic component due to the kind

of support (CD)

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Sonic Liberation Front : Water and Stone

Sonic Liberation Front

Water and Stone

label: Eye Dog Records

ref: EDR 1003

year: 2000

players: Kevin Diehl, Terry Lawson, Nick Rivera, Adam Jenkins, Joseph

Toledo, Howard Cooper, Chickie Joseph, Kimbal Brown, Frank “Squirrel”

Williams

Encounter proposal between different languages: on the one hand, the

world of jazz, of solo horn stances over modal bass lines. On the

other, the world of Cuban folklorico, with bata grooves or santero

singing. All of it seasoned with athmospheric sonorities with a trip-

hop scent to them

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Marc Sens : faux-ami

Marc Sens

faux-ami

label: Shambala Records

ref: Shamb 00 006

year: 2001

players: Marc Sens

Electric guitar album with a self sufficient approach in which the

diverse sonorities of the instrument help in the construction of the

different voices by means of loops, effects, exploration of the

different areas/noises of the instrument in a recording with a taste

for blurring and superimposing drones and solo voices

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Toshimaru Nakamura : No-input Mixing Board 2

Toshimaru Nakamura

No-input Mixing Board 2

label: a bruit secret

ref: a bruit secret 02

year: 2001

players: Toshimaru Nakamura

Grown out of the no-input mixing board, a static, selfcontained

language, consisting in brief repeated harmonic sequences and slow

concentric rotations based in loops unfolds. Aesthetics of

interference noise (from microgroove to tape hiss) and techno

atmospheres

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Simon Navatov Quartet : Nature Morte

Simon Navatov Quartet

Nature Morte

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 310

year: 2001

players: Phil Minton, Frank Gratkowsky, Nils Wogram, Simon Nabatov

Faithful to this approach, Nabatov presents a recording of literary

inspiration: this time based in the poem by Joseph Brodsky which

lends its name to the album. The quartet features -aside from piano-

voice, trombone and clarinet. all of whichdisplay a vast richness of

vocabulary. Abstract interventions alternate with narrative passages

in which an illustrative character tends to predominate

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World of Tomorrow : III

World of Tomorrow

III

label: Sweet

ref: Sweet 009

year: 2001

players: Scott Prato, Chris Morrow, Tim Byrnes, Cliff Ferdon, Bonnie

Kane

A proposal coming from New York?s polystylistic scene: hardcore

influenced rhythm section meets wind instruments (sax, flute,

trombone) by way of soloists. Instrumental processing multistylistic

itinerarires in a casual live recording

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Eltractor : Elradio

Eltractor

Elradio

label: Ohm/Avatar

ref: Ohmavtr 024

year: 2001

players: David Michaud, Boris Firquet, Fabrice Montal, Jocelyn

Robert, Marc Tremblay, Martin Meilleur.

Collection of mediatic improvisations within an aesthetic of zapping.

Conversations between sound sources of diverse origin -tv,

electronica, instrumental, language tuition audio tapes…-

contemplated out of an intesrest in the superimposition of channels,

chance confluences or counterpoint of elements of diverse origin

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Herb Robertson : Music for Long Attention Spans

Herb Robertson

Music for Long Attention Spans

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 315

year: 2001

players: Herb Robertson, Steve Swell, Bob Hovey, Hans Tammen, Chris

Lough, Tom Sayek.

Post-free stances from a textural outlook, featuring a certain

deconstruction of instrumental roles, incorporation of noise, unusual

distribution of sonic space. A cubist perspective in which the

interplay remains quite lucid within free language, displaying a

strong tendency towards atmospheric construction

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The Left Coast Improv Group : The Left Coast Improv Group

The Left Coast Improv Group

The Left Coast Improv Group

label: Jimzeen

ref: Jimzeen CD 1003

year: 2001

players: Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Bob Marsh, Jim Ryan, Shoko Hikage,

Scott R. Looney

Essentialy acoustic collective improvisations featuring some

electronic contributions displaying a similar instrumental approach.

A listenin guided search through various collective itineraries in

which timbric and sonic space distribution concerns predominate

yielding various attemps at orientation as a result

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Rene Bertoldo : Um Argentino no Deserto

Rene Bertoldo

Um Argentino no Deserto

label: SIRR.ecords 2002

ref: sirr2002

year: 2002

players: Ren Bertholo, Elna Voss-Helliwig, Antonio Costa, Thierry

Dubost

Integral process of instrument construction, programmable synthesizer

with diverse lo-fi sound organized around loops of various lenghts

mixed with other sounds derived from the processing of concrete

sounds and percussive instruments. Music without sophisticated

rhythmic nor timbric stances

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Ted Killian : Flux Aeterna

Ted Killian

Flux Aeterna

label: pfMentum

ref: pfMentum CD007

year: 2001

players: Ted Killian

Stances centred in rock guitar as an instrument protagonist of a film

shot in wide spaces, with atmospheres woven by huge reverbs,

electronics or concrete sounds which alternate with heavy groves in

the purest rock style. Composition with influences both of

cinematographic techniques and north american landscapes

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Tibor Szemz : Invisible Story

Tibor Szemz

Invisible Story

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 312

year: 2000

players: Tibor Szemz, Pter Magyar Osszekto, Marcell Benk, Zoltan

Farkas, Mihaly Huszar, T. Bali, DJ Naga

A multimedia tinged project based in the world of amateur

experimental films shot in Budapest in the sixties and fragment of

?Aquarius? by Bela Hamva (read throughout the CD). A disembodied

vision of materialism over a music mixing the toughness of its

inspiration over a rock-industrial-minimal background with text.

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Koji Asano : Quoted Landscape

Koji Asano

Quoted Landscape

label: Solstice

ref: Solstice 20

year: 2001

players: Koji Asano

Much in the line of his latests works: a single track covers the

whole of the CD, with slow developments, almost imperceptible. Static

observation of parasite noises, wind blowing over microphone, cable

with hiss, which put forward the trompoeil consistent in situating

within the frame what we necessarily place without

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Repeat : Select Dialect

Repeat

Select Dialect

label: Cut

ref: Cut 005

year: 2001

players: Jason Kahn, Toshimaru Nakamura

Electronic duo illustrating akin tendencies. Approaches based in

loops and procesing of sound sources. Horizontal distribution of

sounds throught the sonic space, with slow, additive developments

centred in melodic and rhythmic stances. Ruidist influenced materials

or miking of acoustic sound sources

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Anthony Braxton : Composition N. 247

Anthony Braxton

Composition N. 247

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 306

year: 2001

players: Anthony Braxton, James Fei, Matthew Welch

The melodic repetitive stance, based in continuously repeated

rhythmic-melodic cells, with alternating sequences, mixed with the

timbre of the instruments (clarinets and highland pipes) produce a

network familiar to the swarm of quotidian electronic sounds of

number displays.

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Aaron Bennett : Live At Luggage

Aaron Bennett

Live At Luggage

label: ADBSound

ref: ADBSound

year: 2000

players: Aaron Bennett, Katt Sammon

Solo soprano sax album displaying the various sound nuances,

backgrounds and ideas in the pallete of this musician, from intense

unfoldings of endless strings of articulated sound at full speed,

rhythmic and melodic pieces of simmetrical harmonies, displays of the

harsh ends of reeds, a duet with a singer and a piece featuring the

audience playing at various toys.

Album de saxo soprano solo que muestra los diversos matices,

procedencias e ideas sonoras de este msico, desde intensos

despliegues de flujos sonoros interminables a toda velocidad,

composiciones rtmicas y meldicas de armonas simtricas, muestras

de la rugosidad de los vientos, un do con una cantante y una pieza

con un pblico que toca diversos juguetes.

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Jim Denley, Martin Ng : Vergency

Jim Denley, Martin Ng

Vergency

label: Grob

ref: Grob 322

year: 2001

players: Jim Denley, Martin Ng

Meeting points between these two musicians by means of processing

their own instrumental fragments in a gestural conversation where

self-reference plays and essential feature in the construction of

structures. Various degrees of abstraction in the instrumental sounds

allow for a game of contrasts, imitation and blurring within the

morass of electronic materials.

Puntos de encuentro entre dos msicos mediante el procesado de sus

propios framentos en una conversacin gestual en la que la auto-

referencia constituye un aspecto esencial en la construccin de

estructuras. Diversos grados de abstraccin en los sonidos

instrumentales permiten un juego de contrastes, imitacin y

difuminado en la masa electrnica.

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Jason Khan : Plurabelle

Jason Khan

Plurabelle

label: Cut

ref: Cut 007

year: 2001

players: Jason Khan

A calmed look over superimposed layers proposing proximity-

remoteness games based in the different cycles pulses and pitches of

each strata. Concrete sound sources, electronics, interference sounds

dialogate by means of two-ply loops. The contemplative attitude

serves as a thread through the different tracks without being

persistent in the display

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Steel Water Light : Scratchworks of a silent city

Steel Water Light

Scratchworks of a silent city

label: ReRMegacorp

ref: ReR RMGC

year: 2001

players: Roberto Musci, Chris Cutler, Jon Rose, Claudio Gabbiano

Audio from Scratchworks of a Silent City, a multimedia piece- also

featuring film documentaries by Joris Ivens and Paul Strand-

including duo and quartet improvisations in which instrumental

interventions samp?lers, sound processing… weave a proposal of

contrasts and radical atmospheric shifts

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Koji Asano : Autumn Meadow

Koji Asano

Autumn Meadow

label: Solstice

ref: Solstice 21

year: 2001

players: Koji Asano

A single piece unfolds during the whole CD. Constructions based in

superimposed layers which situated on distant points of the sound

spectrum, fluctuate slightly giving rise to tiny movements along the

lines drawn by the sounds, evoking a feeling of gigantic transformation

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