Lee Ranaldo : Music for Stage and Screen

Lee Ranaldo

Music for Stage and Screen

label: Les disques Du Soleil et de L?Acier

ref: DSA 54085

year:2005

players: Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht, Christian Marclay, Gunther Mller, William Hooker

Different tracks, originally conceived as sound-tracks for theatre and film projects, featuring the work of this electroacoustic quartet employing all sorts of sonic sources. Specifically composed/constructed for visual projects, the impression is that of someone leaning on an invisible support, causing us to imagine its reality in spite of its absence.

En diversos cortes, en origen concebidos como banda sonora para proyectos de teatro y cine, el trabajo de este cuarteto de electroacstica experimental con todo tipo de fuentes sonoras. Compuesto para proyectos visuales, la impresin es la de alguien que se apoya contra un soporte invisible, obligndonos a imaginar su realidad a pesar de la ausencia.

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Mass Culture Control Bureau? : ?Things from the past

Mass Culture Control Bureau?

?Things from the past

label: Ad Hoc Records

distributed in Italy by Demos Distribuzione

ref: AD HOC 01

year:1978/82/2004

players: Various

A changing core of musicians, moving in the parallel channels of experimentation along the outskirts of the late 70?s early 80?s punk-pop world, a wide range of proposals, featuring daring electronics and studio work, spaced-out lyrics and culture criticism, dada staging and large doses of parody humour within loosely woven rock songs.

Entorno a un ncleo cambiante de msicos, en el canal paralelo de la experimentacin, por las afueras del mundo punk-pop de los 70 y 80, un amplio abanico de propuestas, con audaz electrnica y trabajo de estudio, letras extraterrestres y crtica cultural, escenificaciones dada y amplias dosis de humor pardico dentro de canciones tipo rock.

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Freiband/Boca Rat : Product 05

Freiband/Boca Rat

Product 05

label: Crnica

ref: Crnica 019-2005

year:2005

players: Various

Freiband is electronic music featuring an original use of computer generated sound. Physical scratching of hard disk results in various noise textures seen from a rhythmic perspective. Boca Raton presents concrete and synthesized sounds of a lighter texture if more sophisticated construction, resulting in eerie mirroring of the remotely familiar.

Freiband es msica electrnica que presenta un uso original del sonido por ordenador. Araado fsico del disco duro resultante en diversas texturas de ruido vistas desde una perspectiva rtmica. Boca Ratn plantea sonidos concretos y sintetizados de textura ms liviana y mayor sofisticacin, que resultan espejismos de lo remotamente familiar.

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Aki Peltonen : Radio Banana

Aki Peltonen

Radio Banana

label: ReR Megacorp

distributed in Italy by Demos Distribuzione

ref: ReR AP1

year:2005

players: Various

Accordion captured in all its evocative magic among orchestral arrangements and radio band noises weaving an original compositional work, carefully performed and full of reminiscence. The foci on the materials, thrive on instrumental warmth and soundtrack associated imagery, exploiting the accordion?s orchestral potential even in duo form.

El acorden retratado en toda su magia evocativa entre arreglos orquestales y ruidos de ondas de radio que tejen originales composiciones de cuidadosa ejecucin y preada de reminiscencia. El enfoque del material incide en la calidez instrumental y la imaginera de banda sonora de cine, explotando el potencial orquestal del acorden incluso a do.

Aki Peltonen : Radio Banana

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Stefano Saccon feat Flavio Boltro : Notte

Stefano Saccon feat Flavio Boltro

Notte

label: Altri Suoni

ref: AS 187

year:2004

players: Stefano Saccon, Flavio Boltro, Christof Stiefel, Baenz Oester, Norbert Pfammatter.

Careful rendition of original compositions in the realm of jazz. An imaginative approach to timbre orchestration, moving in a harmonic no-man?s-land of modal or chordal structures, the apparently evident simplicity invites a modern expanded approach further widened by computer background ?tapes? or instrument processing.

Cuidadosa interpretacin de composiciones original en el mbito del jazz. Original orquestacin tmbrica, inmersa en una tierra de nadie armnica de estructuras modales o cromticas, donde la aparente simplicidad evidente invita planteamientos modernos ms amplios incrementados por ?cintas? de fondo por ordenador o procesado instrumental.

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Crowel/Doles : Dac Crowell/Kurt Doles

Crowel/Doles

Dac Crowell/Kurt Doles

label: Suilven Recordings

ref: Suilven004

year:1997

players: Dac Crowel, Kurt Doles

Inspired in drone music, this minimalist pieces present slowly evolving stances of electroacoustic origin, displaying a experimental outlook in the choice of sound sources which yields way to a more compositional approach. Electronic and processed acoustic sources unfold along various parallel layers with special weakness for overtone colour.

Inspiradas en la msica pedal, esta piezas minimalistas proponen desarrollos lentos de origen electroacstico, desplegando una mirada experimental en la eleccin de fuentes sonoras que dan paso a planteamientos ms compositivos. Sonidos electrnicos y procesos acsticos se despliegan en capas paralelas y debilidad por colores sobreagudos.

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Bailey/Beck/Hession : Meanwhile, back in Sheffield

Bailey/Beck/Hession

Meanwhile, back in Sheffield

label: Discus Music

ref: Discus 21 CD

year:2005

players: various

Free improvisation trio with a superb interplay and listening capacity. Welcoming Bailey in his hometown, sax and drums display an awesome coordination and capacity to dialogue with the newcomer, with the open ease of long standing relationships. Various languages, occasionally wading in and out of the waters of the experimental.

Tro de improvisacin libre de magnfica interaccin y escucha. Recibiendo a Bailey en su ciudad natal, el saxo y la batera demuestran una sorprendente compenetracin y capacidad de dilogo con el recin llegado, con la comodidad de las relaciones duraderas. Diversos lenguajes improvisados, que vadean las aguas de lo experimental.

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James Green : Tempers

James Green

Tempers

label: Early Winter Recordings

ref: EWR 2005

year:2005

players: various

Self produced album, featuring various compositional approaches to the guitar. Building of layers by multi-track recording, the concerns remain in a purely idiomatic realm, moving through various melodic and harmonic stances reminiscent of various traditions and influences and tinged with flavours from various world confines and languages.

lbum autoproducido, que incluye diversos planteamientos compositivos en la guitarra. Construccin de capas mediante multi-pista donde el inters permanece en un medio puramente idiomtico, en torno a diversas propuestas meldico-armnicas que recuerdan diversas tradiciones e influencias teidas de confines y lenguajes del mundo.

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The Broken Blackbird Ensemble : ?Gadzooks!?

The Broken Blackbird Ensemble

?Gadzooks!?

label: Early Winter Recordings

ref: EWR 2005

year:2005

players: James Green, Fred Bellis, David Jaycock, Lindsay Aitkenhead, Andres Sotorrio, J?Crhome Smith

Within the realm of the idiomatic, various approaches coalesce from an experimental stance, centred around harmonic structured constructions stretched as the instruments progressively appear. Careful forays into noise, featuring a clear atmospheric, ethnic outlook, weave around real time interaction and collective idiomatic improvisation.

Dentro del mbito idiomtico, diversos planteamientos coexisten desde una mirada experimental, en torno a construcciones de estructura armnica desplegadas segn aparecen los instrumentos. Cuidadosos paseos por el ruido, de corte ambiental y tnico, tejidos en torno a una interaccin en tiempo real e improvisacin idiomtica colectiva.

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Daniel Patrick Quinn : Severed From the Land

Daniel Patrick Quinn

Severed From the Land

label: Suilven Recordings

ref: Suilven005

year:2004

http://www.suilvenrecordings.com

info@suilvenrecordings.com

players: Daniel Patrick Quinn

Self produced solo folk album by this multi instrumentalist. Slow unfolding textures, continuous rhythmic motifs permeating the whole of the pieces, minimal modal harmonies and lyrics featuring local and countryside themes. A strong influence of Indian drone backgrounds subtly interwoven with occasional psychedelic approaches.

lbum folk auto producido por este multi instrumentista. Texturas de lento desarrollo, motivos rtmicos continuos permean el conjunto de los cortes, armonas modales y lricas con temas locales y campestres. Una fuerte influencia de los pedales de fondo de la msica india sutilmente intercalados con ocasionales planteamientos psicodlicos.

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Slapp Happy : Acnalbasac Noom

Slapp Happy

Acnalbasac Noom

label: ReR Megacorp

ref: ReR SHCD

year: 1973/82/2005

players: Peter Blegvad, Dagmar Krause, Anthony Moore

Straight rock album featuring a wide range of styles and instruments pregnant with reminiscences of instrumental timbre, treatment of the voice, studio work; in short, thoroughly capturing the 70?s rock mood. The extra material featured comes from a decade later, featuring drum machines, synthesiser and more pop finishing.

Reedicin de un lbum de rock con una amplia paleta de estilos e instrumentos preado de reminiscencias del timbre instrumental, planteamiento vocal, trabajo de estudio: es decir, capturando el ambiente rock de los 70. El material extra es de una dcada despus, incluyendo cajas de ritmos, sintetizador y un acabado ms pop.

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Andy Bole : Ramshackle Pier

Andy Bole

Ramshackle Pier

label: Ad Hoc Records

ref: AD HOC 05

year:1984/2005

players: Andy Bole, Bill Gilonis, Catherine Jauniaux

Solo multi-tracks presenting the author?s varied interest in folk music and faithfully following its emphasis on accuracy, encompassing eastern tunes (bouzouki), more oriental ones (pipa) or western folk (acoustic slide guitar) as well as occasional tracks of a more experimental, multi stylistic nature along with members from The Lowest Notes.

lbum solo multi-pista con los diversos intereses del autor en la msica folk, fiel a la importancia de la ejecucin, con temas del este (bouzouki), otros orientales (pipa) o del folk occidental (slide guitar acstica) as como cortes ocasionales de carcter ms experimental y naturaleza multiestilstica junto a miembros de The Lowest Notes.

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Roberto Iolini : Songs from Hurt

Roberto Iolini

Songs from Hurt

label: ReR Megacorp

ref: ReR RI2

year:1998/2001/2005

players: Roberto Iolini

Two speech and concrete sounds collages ?the first centred on cinema music- bookend a series of shorter rock songs with narrations by young offenders by way of lyrics ?the last piece, a longer composition with former, current and future inmates in which the concrete sounds come from the detention centre instance their whole cultural alienation.

Dos colages de sonidos concretos y habla ?el primero sobre msica para cine- engloban una serie de breves temas de rock con relatos de jvenes delincuentes a modo de letras ?la ltima pieza, una composicin ms larga donde figuran presentes, pasados y futuros convictos de un centro de reclusin ilustran un enajenamiento cultural completo.

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David Behrman : My Dear Siegfried

David Behrman

My Dear Siegfried

label: XI Records

ref: XI 129

year:1972/2005

players: Thomas Bruckner, Ralph Samuelson, Peter Sumo, David Behrman, Tom Hamilton

Featuring readings of writings by pacifist poet Siegfried Sassoon and by his friend Sam Behrman, along with contemporary composition, speech, concrete and electronic sounds, the work is a tribute to memory and friendship through various texts and childhood recollections entwined with various historical events and the opinions stirred.

The second CD presents a series of earlier pieces featuring various computer processing computer systems illustrating the interaction between live instruments and processing or installations pieces based in early synthesizer sounds, pieces halfway between the happening and concert-lecture or early drone pieces of a mixed electroacoustic type.

La obra, -que incluye la letura de escritos del poeta pacifista Siegfried Sassoon y de su amigo Sam Behrman y composiciones de corte contemporneo, asi como sonidos concretos y electrnicos-, es un homenaje a la memoria y la amistad a travs de diversos textos y recuerdos de infancia entreverados con eventos histricos y opiniones que estos suscitan.

El segundo CD presenta una serie de piezas anteriores que incluyen diversos sistemas informticos de procesado e ilustran la interaccin entre instrumentos en tiempo real y el procesado, especficamente creadas para instalaciones con el sonido de los primeros sintetizadores, a medio camino entre el happening y el concierto-charla o de tipo pedal con un carcter electroacstico hbrido.

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Evan Parker and September Winds : Short Stories

Evan Parker and September Winds

Short Stories

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 428

year: 2005

players: Evan Parker, Peter A. Schmid, Hans Anliker, Jrg Solothurnmann, Reto Senn

As the title indicates, the format of the pieces has undergone a deep transformation. Apart from the length -their duration lending them a tighter, thoroughly carved form, organised around typological criteria- the studio recording proposes a distancing from previous recordings were the sound properties of the actual space featured prominently.

Como el ttulo indica, el formato de las piezas ha sufrido una profunda transformacin. Aparte de la duracin ?que introduce formas ms compactas, de cuidadosa factura, organizadas segn criterios tipolgicos- la grabacin en estudio supone un alejamiento de planteamientos anteriores donde la acstica del espacio tena un papel relevante.

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Edition Spéciale : Faidate

Edition Spciale

Faidate

label: Altri Suoni

ref: AS 178

year:2004

players: Various

Various compositions with all sorts of influences and styles centred around tightly performed original arrangements. The awesome variation between tracks stirs questions as to? be quickly accepted as part of their music. Powerful winds arrangements of TV serial ascendancy alternate with rap tracks, standard jazz themes, funk or Looney Tunes.

Diversas composiciones de influencia y estilos diversos en torno a arreglos originales

De impecable ejecucin. La apabullante variacin entre cortes plantea cuestiones? que son rpidamente aceptadas como parte de la msica. Potentes arreglos de viento de origen serial televisivo alternan con cortes rap, estndar de jazz, funk o Looney Tunes

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Woof : 7inches

Woof

7inches

label: Ad Hoc Records

ref: Ad Hoc 04

year:1980/2004

http://www.rermegacorp.com

rermegacorp@dial.pipex.co.uk

players: The lowest note, The work, Gilonis/Hodgkinson

A selection of choice materials from the archives of this label encompassing various aesthetically related 80?s groups. From assorted experimentation with literally hundreds of ideas thrown into mix to more structured materials of insane ascendancy and political content or collages of materials and styles: Truly representing the zeitgeist of the epoch.

Surtido de materiales selectos del archivo de este sello con diversos grupos de los 80 de esttica afn. Desde experimentacin variada con cientos de ideas literalmente lanzadas a la mezcla a materiales ms estructurados de origen desquiciado y contenido poltico o colages de materiales y estilos: verdadera representacin del zeitgeist del momento.

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Switters : The Anabaptist Loop

Switters

The Anabaptist Loop

label: Improvisatore Involontario

ref: Ii 0002

year:2004

players: Gianni Gebbia, Vincenzo Vasi, Francesco Cusa

Stripped down, occasionally sprinkled with rock outbursts, the trio proceeds building an experimental language featuring a stark if compressed, driving boiled down rhythm section with asymmetrical rhythms, symmetrical harmonies and driving funk groves reminiscent of contemporary jazz proposals if through an ongoing sense of humour.

Este tro esencial, a veces sazonado con explosiones de rock, se plantea la construccin de un lenguaje experimental con una seccin rtmica potente aunque escueta, mnima expresin, con ritmos asimtricos, armonas simtricas y ritmos funk poderosos afines a propuestas del ltimo jazz aunque filtradas por un constante sentido del humor.

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Susanne Lewis : Venus Handcuffs

Susanne Lewis

Venus Handcuffs

label: Ad Hoc Records

ref: Ad Hoc 06

year:1986/2004

players: Susanne Lewis, Bob Drake

Two-piece band overcoming the shortage of musicians through overdubbing and inventive, prejudice-free instrument playing and the technical limitations by making the best of the available (echoing rooms in derelict factories). Inventive experiments in low-fi with and large doses of juvenile existentialist lyrics and not-really-caring-you-know.

Este do supera la escasez de msicos con multi-pistas en las ltimas e interpretacin instrumental desprejuiciada y las limitaciones tcnicas sacando el mximo de recursos disponibles (habitacin resonante a modo de reverb). Experimentos ocurrentes en ultra low-fi con grandes dosis de existencialismo juvenil en las letras y pose paso-de-todo.

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Braxton/Franks : 4 Improvisations (duets) 2004

Braxton/Franks

4 Improvisations (duets) 2004

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 429/430

year:2005

players: Anthony Braxton, Walter Franks

Piano and reeds acoustic improvisations of an intimate character, close-up portraying their spontaneous encounter. Progressively developed the pieces present a well provided linguistic store available to both players as they move along all sorts of improvised, yet idiomatic, domains eventually plunging into more abstract realms, if constantly at play.

Improvisaciones acsticas de piano y vientos de carcter ntimo, retratando de cerca su encuentro espontneo. Piezas desarrolladas de forma progresiva, con un buen surtido de recursos disponibles mientras avanzan por mbitos improvisados aunque idiomticos, ocasionalmente entrando en planos ms abstractos pero siempre con una mirada ldica.

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The Blue Goat Quartet : High Tide

The Blue Goat Quartet

High Tide

label: Altri Suoni

ref: AS 180

year:2004

players: Jodok Hess, Frank Tortiller, Adrian Pflugshaupt, Markus Fischer, Tobias Friedli

Carefully tended sound rendition of these original compositions featuring particularly warm timbric, truly evocative combinations of soprano, piano/Rhodes & vibes in tracks of atmospheric intention, profuse arrangements and thriving in timbre quality. Clear harmonies and driving pulses in a thoroughly documented jazz composition project .

Cuidada produccin de composiciones originales que presentan combinaciones tmbricas particularmente clidas y evocativas -soprano, piano/Rhodes y vibrfono- en cortes de intencin ambiental, profusos arreglos y proclives a la calidad tmbrica. Armonas transparentes y pulsos giles en un proyecto jazzstico bien documentado.

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Vialka : Curiosities of Popular Customs

Vialka

Curiosities of Popular Customs

label: Vialka

ref: Via 002

year:2004

players: Eric Boros, Marylise Frecheville

Hard-country duo with all sort of inspirations and resources from the realm of rock ?progressive harmonies, electric folk, speed-metal back-beat, one-man guitar-walls or heavy-metal drum fills- striking arrangements and surrealist lyrics. Truly expressing their unprejudiced humour: ?such a pity, honey; they really did look nice and young?.

Do Hard-country con todo tipo de inspiraciones y recursos del mbito del rock ?armonas progresivas, folk elctrico, back-beat speed-metal, muros de guitarra sola o breaks de batera heavy- sorprendentes arreglos y letras surrealistas. Verdadera muestra de su humor sin tapujos: ?que lstima, querido, parecan unos jvenes tan agradables?

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Catherine Jauniaux : Fluvial Catherine

Catherine Jauniaux

Fluvial Catherine

label: Ad Hoc Records

ref: Ad Hoc 02

year:1983/2005

players: Various

Dressed by the collaboration of various musicians, Jauniaux thrives in this multi stylistic collage of poetic, surrealist lyrics visiting improvisation, cabaret, contemporary inspired rhythmic proposals, tender subtle airs, disembodied lullabies, folk inspired tunes or African songs disguised under overtly experimental ethos? zeitgeist.

Arropada por la colaboracin de varios msicos, Janiaux florece en este colage multi-estilo de letras poticas, surrealistas que visitan la improvisacin, el cabaret, propuestas rtmicas contemporneas, suaves y sutiles melodas, nanas incorpreas, canciones de inspiracin folk o africanas, vestidas en la manera de hacer del zeitgeist experimental.

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