Nikola Kodjabashia : Reveries of the solitary walker

Nikola Kodjabashia

Reveries of the solitary walker

label: ReR recommended

ref: ReR NK1

year: 2004

players: Various

Collage-like frame of reference for a personal outlook featuring a

wide range of musical and literary sources: stylistic variations upon

recurrent motifs, eastern-influenced strings, percussion and

harmonies, clear-cut melodies filtered through chamber ensemble,

subtle electronics and folk-like speech recordings in a calm and

acoustic instrumental background.

Marco de tipo colage para una visin personal que incluye un amplio

abanico de fuentes musicales y literarias: variaciones estilsticas

de motivos recurrentes, cuerdas, percusin y armonas de oriente

prximo, melodas de claro perfil filtradas a travs del grupo de

cmara, sutil electrnica y voces folk -como de grabacin de campo-

sobre fondos acsticos y calmos.

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Schlippenbach/Bechegas : Open Speec

Schlippenbach/Bechegas

Open Speech

label: Forward.rec

ref: forward.rec 03

year: 2003

players: Alexander Schlippenbach, Carlos Bechegas

Distanced from permanent approaches to sound, this recording features

a measured interplay between two acoustic instrumentalists exploring

in a developmental manner the interactive possibilities around them.

Contemporary music stances meet free improvisational ones, noise-

based atmospheric passages or lyrical wanderings.

Lejos de planteamientos sonoros constantes, la grabacin documenta el

interplay mesurado entre dos instrumentistas acsticos que exploran

mediante desarrollos las posibilidades interactivas de su entorno.

Actitudes de msica contempornea al encuentro de otras improvisadas,

pasajes atmosfricos de corte ruidista o paseos ms lricos.

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Pau Torres : My wrong mood

Pau Torres

My wrong mood

label: Testing Ground

ref: TEST 014

year: 2004

players: Various

Animated backdrops created by means of studio ?side-products? provide

the stage for languid acoustic jazz loose stances as seen in

hangovery dreams in the early morning. Concentric movements, slowly

drifting, accretions from various extraction superimposed from a

carefully constructed perspective where overlays and low-fi audio

grain create detph.

Telones de fondo animados por medio de ?desechos? de estudio crean el

marco de intervenciones jazzsticas lnguidas y blandas, como en

sueos resacosos, de madrugada. Movimiento concntrico, lenta deriva,

sedimentos varios acumulados desde una perspectiva de cuidadosa

construccin donde las superposiciones y el grano sonoro crean la

profundidad.

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The Fonda/Stevens Group : Twelve Improvisations

The Fonda/Stevens Group

Twelve Improvisations

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 394

year: 2004

players: Joe Fonda, Michael Jefry Stevens, Herb Robertson, Harvey

Sorgen, Daunik Lazro

…which makes all the difference. Coherent move where immersion in

the medium of free improvised bears the traces of a long-standing

project. All sorts of rhythmic, textural and timbral subtleties are

phrased from an incredibly careful interplay, collective memory,

between players. Much as those proyects where development leads to a

sort of enhancement….

…. que marcan la diferencia. Transicin coherente donde la

inmersin en la improvisacin libre da muestras de un proyecto a

largo plazo. Todo tipo de sutilezas rtmicas, texturales y tmbricas

fraseadas desde un interplay cuidadoso, una memoria compartida, por

parte de los intrpretes. Como en aquellos proyectos en los que un

desarrollo conlleva ciertas mejoras…

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Peter Ablinger : Weiss/Weisslich

Peter Ablinger

Weiss/Weisslich

label: World Edition

ref: 0008

year: 2002

players: Theo Nabicht, Ringela Riemke, Normisa Pereira da Silva,

Katrin Vogel, Wolfgang Musil

As a conceptual artist the author’s approach to sound comes from a

peculiar angle. Photographic renditions, snapshots of sonic

landscapes are organized into a spectrum illustrating, by means of

short fragments, the idea of a continuum where time and pitch are

welded into a single, multistratum entity.

Como artista conceptual el autor se aproxima al sonido desde un

ngulo peculiar. Retratos fotogrficos, instantneas de paisajes

sonoros que son organizados en un espectro que ilustra, mediante

fragmentos cortos, la idea de un continuo en el que la duracin y la

altura son fundidos en una nica entidad multicapa.

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María de Alvear : Fuerzas

Mara de Alvear

Fuerzas

label: OgreOgress/CDstreet

ref: FUERZAS

year: 1986

players: Maria de Alvear, Composer Christina Fong, Viola

A solo viola composition exploring the expressive possibilities of

the instrument in the realm of modern music idiom. The impression of

quiescence results from a permanent movement along certain

intervallic distances, introducing changes in harmony and tempo that

contribute to its immobile character. The length and its static

circular movement, contribute to this perpetual dimension.

Composicin para viola sola que explora las posibilidades expresivas

del instrumento en el mbito de la msica contempornea. La impresin

de quietud resulta de un movimiento permanente a lo largo de ciertos

intervalos, ntroduciendo cambios a nivel armnico y de tempo que

contribuyen a su carcter inmvil. La duracin y el movimiento

circular, esttico tambin acentan cierta dimensin perpetua.

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Rob Price : At Sunset

Rob Price

At Sunset

label: Gutbrain Records

ref: GR04

year: 2004

players: Rob Price, Ellery Eskelin, Trevor Dunn, Joey Baron

Compositions for acoustic quartet embodying a reflection on that

particular perspective developed by N.Y. musicians where multi-

stylism blends, embracing a wide range of languages -each of them

rendered with a seriouness which makes the orthodox frown and yet, so

well done!- proposed an aesthetic of its own where plural styles and

humour coexist with ease.

Composiciones para cuarteto acstico que ilustran la peculiar

perspectiva desarrollada por msicos neoyorquinos donde las mezclas

multiestilsticas, amplio espectro de lenguajes -todos ellos

ejecutados con una seriedad que indigna a los propios y, no obstante,

lo hacen tan bien!-, con una esttica propia donde la pluralidad

estilstica y el humor se llevan bien.

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Evelyn Petrova : Year’s Cycle

Evelyn Petrova

Year’s Cycle

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 395

year: 2004

players: Evelyn Petrova

Moving through memories, inner movement results in surface waves, the

voice still previous to language weaves an imaginary folklore

intimately bound to oral tradition, work song, nursery rimes, cast in

a masterful instrumental technique, where accompaniment and lead

blend seamlessly and retain their primeval highly personal nature of

children tales.

Caminar por el recuerdo, movimiento interior, trae olas de

superficie, y la voz previa al lenguaje teje folklores imaginarios

unidos a la tradicin oral, canciones de trabajo, rimas infantiles

encarnadas en una lograda tcnica instrumental, con la unin

imperceptible de acompaante y solista y conservando su esencia,

harto personal, de cuentos infantiles.

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Outward Sound Ensemble : Cloudburs

Outward Sound Ensemble

Cloudburst

label: Discus

ref: discus 17cd

year: 2004

players: Herb Bayley, Chris Meloche, Martin Archer

Real time electroacoustic improvisation, with a strong emphasis made

on recurring motifs, interactively enhanced sound areas, manifesting

its ethos through a twofold layer: slow, developmental

transformations both in language construction (listening, mimetic

bridging of the electroacoustic and acoustic sounds gap) and in the

actual unfolding of the music.

Improvisacin electroacstica en tiempo real con un nfasis en

motivos recurrentes, reas sonoras enriquecidas por la interaccin,

manifestando su ethos a travs de dos capas: transformaciones lentas,

de desarrollo, tanto en la construccin del lenguaje (escucha,

acercamiento entre lo electroacstico y lo acstico) y el propio

desarrollo msical.

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TSE (two sounds ensemble) : Inversions I-VI

TSE (two sounds ensemble)

Inversions I-VI

label: Einnicken Records

ref: einnicken era 0416

year: 2004

players: Stefan Wistrand, Joakim Simonsson

A journey starting from an experimental, noise based approach that

slowly enters a linguistic realm occasionally hinting back to the

coexistence of the two the worlds, the tension -intrinsic to

language- between abstract and formal. The background often stresses

a precedence of vocabulary over sound, thus instancing a home-and-

abroad conflict.

Un viaje que comienza desde una postura experimental, basada en el

ruido que penetra lentamente el mbito lingstico y hace guios a la

coexistencia de los dos mundos, la tensin, propia del lenguaje,

entre lo abstracto y lo formal. El fondo a menudo acenta la

prioridad del vocabulario sobre el sonido, insinuando as un

conflicto de lo propio y lo extrao.

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Ercklentz Neumann : Oberflchenspannung

Ercklentz Neumann

Oberflchenspannung

label: Charhizma

ref: Charhizma 024

year: 2003

players: Sabine Ercklentz, Andrea Neumann

A biology lab where an organic approach to instrumental/electronic

materials confers them a landscapist, musique concrte aesthetic of

static auditive vanishing point. Carefully laid utterances not prone

to excess, the music thrives on calm, static movements, accretions of

sounds observed through the microscope or textural frottages.

Laboratorio de biologa donde el acercamiento orgnico a los

materiales instrumentales/ electrnicos es de esttica paisajista,

musique concrte, esttismo en el punto de fuga auditivo. La

expresin cuidadosa, ajena al exceso, de la msica tiende a lo calmo,

movimientos tectnicos de carcter esttico, sedimentos sonoros

observados a travs del microscopio.

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Antonio Murga : III Republica

Antonio Murga

III Republica

label: Smelin’ Cat

ref: Smelin’ Cat

year: 2004

players: Antonio Murga

New release by this prolific author featuring his accustomed palette

of homemade techno, kitsch samples, one-man band cum drum machine,

multilayered recordings. This release muses about the yet-to-come

Spanish Third Republic, peppering the various tracks with all manner

of direct or indirectly related references in the form of speech,

titles, tv samples…

Nuevo lanzamiento de este prlijo autor que presenta su habitual

paleta de tecno casero, samples kitsch, hombre orquesta con caja de

ritmos, grabaciones multicapa. Centrada en la an por llegar tercera

repblica, la grabacin ilustra los diversos cortes con todo tipo de

referencias directas o indirectas en forma de habla, ttulos,

fragmentos de tv…

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Chinchorrero : Chalacubana

Chinchorrero

Chalacubana

label: Altrisuoni

ref: AS 163

year: 2003

players: Various

A compositional project bridging the water between Switzerland and

Cuba. A thorough knowledge of latin music -in its various forms, from

salsa or folklorico to latin-jazz standards- is embedded within this

careful compositional task in which echoes from latin jazz orchestras

are mixed with modern soloists and arrangements.

Un proyecto compositivo sirve de puente entre Suiza y Cuba. La

profundizacin en el conocimiento de la msica latina -en sus

diversas formas, desde la salsa o el folklrico a los standards de

latin-jazz- se enmarca en una cuidadosa labor compositiva donde los

ecos de las orquestas de latin-jazz de antao se mezclan con solistas

y arreglos modernos.

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Frank Gratkowski Quartet : Facio

Frank Gratkowski Quartet

Facio

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 398

year: 2004

players: Frank Gratkowski, Wolter Wierbos, Dieter Manderscheid, Gerry

Hemingway

Experimental acoustic compositions featuring a wide range of sonic

concerns. Calm, almost static landscapes -immobility achieved through

mirror harmonic movement-, textural pieces, rhythmic overlays

shifting variously, noise based improvisations, idiomatic themes akin

to jazz ensemble compositions and extended techniques and atmospheres

out of modern music.

Composicin acstica experimental con un amplio espectro sonoro.

Paisajes en calma, casi estticos -inmviles por los cambios

armnicos en espejo-, piezas basadas en texturas, diversas

superposiciones rtmicas, improvisaciones de corte ruidista, temas

idiomticos como de ensemble jazzstica, tcnicas ampliadas y

ambientes de la msica contempornea.

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poire_z + Phil Minton : _q

poire_z + Phil Minton

_q

label: For4ears records

ref: 1551

year: 2002

players: Phil Minton, Günter Müller, ErikM, Norbert Möslang, Andy Guhl.

A wide range of materials in constant flux between static and dynamic

approaches. In spite of the overt character of the sonic materials

used (openly stating their electronic origins), the dialogue of

acoustic and electronic sound follows an imitative process resulting

in a language that links both in a teeming microscopic aesthetic much

as a pond’s inner life.

Amplia paleta de materiales sonoros en constante oscilacin entre

planteamientos estéticos y dinámicos. Pese al carácter evidente de

los sonidos empleados (manifiestan abiertamente su origen

electrónico) el dilogo de acstica y electrónica sigue un proceso

imitativo que los funde en una esttica de ajetreo microscpico, como

la vida interior de una charca.

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Adrian Frey Septet : Seven Songs

Adrian Frey Septet

Seven Songs

label: Altrisuoni

ref: AS 159

year: 2003

players: Various

Jazz large ensemble compositions featuring a collage of influences.

Based in the creation of moods by means of arrangements of marked

atmospheric quality, full of timbric reminiscences from various

extraction and a plastic use of language -attention paid to how

things are said- the album displays nimble soloists and a thorough

knowledge of jazz.

Composiciones para grupo de jazz grande con un abanico de

influencias. Basado en la creacin de atmsferas con arreglos de

fuerte carcter ambiental, llenos de reminiscencias tmbricas de

diverso origen y un uso plstico del lenguaje -atencin a cmo se

dicen las cosas- el lbum incluye solistas giles y un conocimiento

en profundidad del lenguaje jazzstico.

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Manieri/Ryan/Leandre/Marguet : For Flowers

Manieri/Ryan/Leandre/Marguet

For Flowers

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 396

year: 2004

players: Jolle Landre, Mat Manieri, Christophe Marguet, Joel Ryan

Highly evocative textures featuring a new sound concept in

improvisation. A reflection on the interaction between classical

avant-garde and free, acoustic and electronic, the album results in a

stressing of the live nature of music, of the possibilities of

technology and introduces space as a musical dimension through the

exquisite electronic work of Ryan.

Texturas altamente sugerentes de la mano de un concepto sonoro

novedoso en improvisacin. Reflexin sobre la interaccin entre la

contempornea y el free, acstica y electrnica, que insiste en el

carcter en vivo de lo msical al tiempo que incluye el espacio como

dimensin musical a travs de la cuidada labor con la electrnica de

Ryan.

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