Massy/Magnenat/Tiberghien : Truc

Massy/Magnenat/Tiberghien

Truc

label: Altri Suoni

ref: AS 176

year:2005

players: Yves Massy, Olivier Magnenat, Christophe Tiberghien

Acoustic trio featuring original compositions influenced by collective improvisation processes. Occasionaly distanced from idiomatic materials, the trio proceeds towards the linguistic through reversed itineraries -from noise to melody-, or weaves ideas around modal pedals and rhythmic ostinatos, introducing veils of atmospheric noise.

Tro acstico con composiciones originales influenciadas por improvisaciones colectivas. Alejado del material idiomtico, el tro se dirige hacia lo lingstico por recorridos inversos ?del ruido a la meloda-, o bien teje ideas en torno a pedales de armona modal u ostinatos rtmicos, introduciendo velos de ruido atmosfrico.

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Band/Le Myers : Two Ships

Band/Le Myers

Two Ships

label: Pogus Productions

ref: P21035-2

year:2005

players: Ellen Band, David Lee Myers

Purely synthetic noise meets acoustic abstraction through an improvised duo where outlooks and materials create various canvases. Teeming with microscopic life the music alternatively visits more spacious areas, air opening up the harmonics, and the organicity of interaction makes us wonder about the electronic/acoustic dichotomy.

Ruido sinttico puro y abstraccin acstica a travs de un do improvisado donde la mirada y los materiales trazan diversos lienzos. Llena de vida microscpica la msica tambin visita zonas ms espaciosas, donde el aire abre los armnicos, y el carcter orgnico de la interaccin nos hace cuestionar la dicotoma entre electrnica/acstica.

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Alejandra and Aeron : Porto (folklore fragments volume 2)

Alejandra and Aeron

Porto (folklore fragments volume 2)

label: Lucky Kitchen

ref: LK 027

year:2005

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players: Alejandra Salinas, Aeron Bergman

A range of sound postcards coming from Oporto (Portugal) celebrate the colourful soundscapes of the city. Open air life-style portrayed at close quarters, featuring the various natural environments, relevant areas, activities, speech and sonic idiosyncrasies of the Lusitanian city. Carefully documented imaginary folklore.

Una serie de postales sonoras desde Oporto (Portugal) celebran los coloridos paisajes sonoros de la ciudad. La vida al aire libre ilustrada de cerca, con los diversos entornos naturales, zonas representativas, actividades, habla y peculiaridades sonoras de la ciudad lusitana. Cuidado documento enmarcado en el mbito del folklore imaginario.

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PSI : Artificially retarded soul care operators

PSI

Artificially retarded soul care operators

label: Evolving Ear

ref: ee12

year:2003/2004

players: Jamie Fennelly, Chris Forsyth, Fritz Welch

Developments in the tradition of electroacoustic collective improvisation bring this trio to unusual stances. The poetic quality of their interaction permeates a deserted arena, visiting the thresholds of silence it remains coherently intense, distanced from current stark, minimalist proposals, their music overflows with light and listening depth.

Desarrollos en la tradicin de la improvisacin electroacstica colectiva llevan a este tro a parajes inslitos. La calidad potica de su interaccin permea un entorno desertizado, manteniendo una intensidad coherente en los umbrales del silencio; alejada de las actuales propuestas del minimalismo austero su msica rezuma luz y profundidad de escucha.

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Anthony Braxton Quartet : 20 Standards (Quartet)

Anthony Braxton Quartet

20 Standards (Quartet)

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 431/434

year:2005

players: Anthony Braxton, Kevin O?Neil, Kevin Norton, Andy Eulau

Second 4cd jazz quartet standards collection encompassing a wide range of instances from this tradition. The quartet moves through the various themes by means of a finely honed interplay, carefully balanced so as to remain faithful and yet removed from the academic approach by their sheer feeling. A rare exception in the field.

Segunda coleccin (4 Cds) de standards para cuarteto de jazz con un amplio abanico de ejemplos procedentes de esta tradicin. El cuarteto se mueve por los diversos temas con una interaccin y equilibrio exquisitos, siendo fieles a dicha tradicin pero alejados del academicismo por el profundo feeling. Verdadera excepcin a la regla.

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Odd Shot : Oskar+Emma

Odd Shot

Oskar+Emma

label: Konnex Records

ref: KCD 5154

year:2005

players: Roland Fidezius, Benjamin Weidekamp, Richard Koch, Rudi Fischerlehner

Original compositions for this quartet which dwells in a self-constructed space. A contemporary jazz outlook favouring asymmetrical rhythms and symmetrical harmonic constructions distances itself from its references through a collective process, devoid of artifice and visiting strikingly poetic timbric spaces, taken apart and yet suddendly flooded with light.

Composiciones originales para un cuarteto afincado en espacios auto-construidos. Mirada jazzstica actual afn a los ritmos asimtricos y construcciones armnicas simtricas que se aleja de sus referentes mediante un proceso esttico colectivo, libre de artificio y afincado en espacios de notable potica, desmontados aunque repentinamente inundados de luz.

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Soegard/Poulsen : ?And we also caught a fish

Soegard/Poulsen

?And we also caught a fish

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 436

year:2005

players: Fredrik Soegaard, Hasse Poulsen

Duo centered on the guitar as sound source approached from various perspectives: extended techniques, experimental acoustics or guitar produced electronic, processed sounds. The inclination to continuous, sustained layers of sound provides background textures, which support ?as a prepared canvas- various color strokes and gestures.

Do centrado en la guitarra como fuente sonora contemplada desde diversas perspectivas: tcnicas ampliadas, acstica experimental o sonidos electrnicos y procesados de origen guitarrista. La tendencia hacia capas de sonido constantes, sostenidas, aporta texturas de fondo ?cual lienzo- con diversos trazos y gestos.

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Antonio Murga : Trance Circus Cosmic Mass

Antonio Murga

Trance Circus Cosmic Mass

label: Smelling Cat

ref: Smelling Cat 2005

year:2005

players: Antonio Murga

Thinly chopped, the materials reach the hundred tracks in an evident feat of automatic writing prolixity. Definitely distanced from previous low-fi aesthetics, we follow an itinerary through TV serial jingles, Murnau soundtracks, techno drum-machines, one-man-band multi layerings in a more dance-floor-smash-hit polished finishing.

Hilados fino, los materiales alcanzan la centena de cortes en una evidente hazaa de prlija escritura automtica. Definitivamente distanciado de la anterior esttica low-fi, seguimos un itinerario por los jingles de serial TV, bandas sonoras Murnau, cajas de ritmo techno y hombres orquesta en un acabado brillante cual xito de pista de baile.

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Doran / Hauser / Laimgruber / Pfammatter : La_Fourmi

Doran/Hauser/Laimgruber/Pfammatter

La_Fourmi

label: Creative Works Recordings

ref: CW 1044

year:2005

players: Christy Doran, Fritz Hauser, Urs Leimgruber, Hans-Peter Pfammatter

Free improvisation quartet keen on quiet scenarios of teeming microscopic activity, spinning around a careful listening bound to real-time, realistic, collective interaction aesthetics. The research in collective sound possibilities thrives on the various acoustic, electric and electronic sources, thus creating a shared no-man?s land.

Cuarteto de improvisacin libre proclive a los escenarios tranquilos de pululante actividad microscpica en torno a estticas de interaccin colectiva realista y cuidadosa escucha. La bsqueda en las posibilidades sonoras colectivas abunda en las diversas fuentes acsticas, elctricas y electrnicas, creando una tierra de nadie comn.

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Morceaux_de_machines : Estrapade

Morceaux_de_machines

Estrapade

label: No type

ref: IMNT 0413

year:2003

players: A_Dontigny, Erik D?Orion, Diane Labrosse, Otomo Yoshihide, Martin Ttreault

Open collaborative concept allowing DJeeing to meet more abstract electronic noise. Rhythmic motives permeate the tracks and yet remain one possibility, alternating with harsh or subtler passages of digital sampling. Hyper-dense bruitism, improvisation and composition strike an interactive balance while the textures flow like lava rivers.

Concepto abierto que permite la colaboracin del Djeeing y el ruido electrnico abstracto. Motivos rtmicos permean los cortes pero no siendo sino una posibilidad y alternando con pasajes ms o menos duros de sampleado digital. Ruidismo hiperdenso, improvisacin y composicin en un equilibrio interactivo donde las texturas fluyen cual ros de lava.

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Smith/Quintus/Quintus/Tadic/Nauseef : Sankish

Smith/Quintus/Quintus/Tadic/Nauseef

Sankish

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 435

year:2000/2005

players: Wadada Leo Smith, Walter Quintus, Katya Quintus, Miroslav Tadic, Mark Nauseef

Improvisation and composition approached from an unusual contemporary music angle. A careful mixture of extended, acoustic instruments and exquisite electronics builds electroacoustic atmospheres where instruments and voice are portrayed in a disembodied manner, floating lilies among this hybrid space of oneiric ascendancy.

Improvisacin y composicin planteadas desde un ngulo inusual de msica contempornea. Cuidadosa mezcla de instrumentos acsticos y una exquisita electronica construyen atmsferas electroacsticas donde los instrumentos y la voz aparecen en forma incorprea, nenfares de espacio hbrido y ascendencia onrica.

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Francesco Cusa ‘Skrunch’ : Psicopatologia del serial killer

Francesco Cusa ?Skrunch?

Psicopatologia del serial killer

label: Improvvisatore Involontario

ref: II 0001

year:2005

players: Francesco Cusa, Carlo Natoli, Paolo Sorge, Tony Cattano, Gaetano Santoro

Various sound materials – tormented voices, musical motifs and concrete samples – weave soundtrack backgrounds for powerfully rhythmical tracks of experimental if sophisticated composition featuring asymmetric rhythms and symmetrical harmony, free soloing and a multi stylistic, darkly humorous or cinematographic aesthetics.

Diversos materials sonoros ?voces atormentadas, motivos musicales y samples concretos- tejen telones de banda sonora para cortes de poderosa rtmica en composicin experimental aunque sofisticada con ritmos asimtricos y armonas simtricas, solos libres y una esttica multi estilstica, de humor negro o de cine.

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Het : Let’s Het

Het

Let?s Het

label: Ad Hoc Records

ref: Ad Hoc 03

year:1984/2004

players: Various

A highly idiosyncratic approach to contemporary music textures strongly indebted to percussive ?from gamelan to African drumming- and choral traditions along with prepared instruments and assorted acoustic noise. The use of the voice ?speech-like, explicit lyrics- and the industrial-derived rhythms take us to more surreal-punk areas.

Acercamiento altamente idiosincrsico a texturas de msica contempornea muy en deuda con tradiciones percusivas ?del gamelan a frica- y corales, con instrumentos preparados y diverso ruido acstico. El uso de la voz hablada, con letras de contenido explcito y los ritmos de ascendencia industrial nos acercan a zonas de punk-surreal.

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Elmar Frey Sextet : News from the past

Elmar Frey Sextet

News from the past

label: Altri Suoni

ref: AS 175

year:2005

players: Daniel Scheker, Christoph Grab, Stefan Schlegel, Alessandro d?episcopo, Peter Frei, Elmar Frey

As hinted in the title, a homage to jazz tradition in a carefully documented and performed tribute: a comprehensive array of original compositions -if modeled according to the cannon- is punctuated by occasional standard titles, performed with balanced expression and featuring a careful arrangement and studio work.

Como el ttulo apunta, un homenaje a la tradicin del jazz en forma cuidadosamente documentada y ejecutada: rica paleta de composiciones originales ?aunque modeladas segn el canon- puntuada por ttulos estndar e interpretada con una equilibrada expression que adems incluye un cuidado trabajo en los arreglos y el estudio.

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