Radius : Witch of Agnesi

Radius

Witch of Agnesi

label: Pluntonium Records

ref: Plu-004

year: 2002

players: alan lechuza: baritone saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, oboe, flue, mark weaver: tuba, damon smith: double bass, dave wayne: drum set

A series of reflections on the free jazz quartet. The careful, original approach to timbres and interplay allows to remain within a (revised) tradition, staying in touch with the various moods explored, yet entering new harmonic and instrumental areas.

Reflexiones sobre el cuarteto de free jazz. Consideracin cuidada y original del timbre y la interaccin que permiten seguir en contacto con la tradicin (revisada), con las diversas atmsferas exploradas y frecuentar nuevas reas armnicas e instrumentales.

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DJET – INANIMATED OBJECTS

DJET – INANIMATED OBJECTS (EP)

Radical Matters Editions (INCLUDED) RMWE007

Concrete sound manipulations: improvisations and associations on a theme of the book of Stanislav Lem’s “The Sum of Technologies”.

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3 audio tracks.

Recorded & played: Alexander Lisovsky

Catlogue: W.E.007

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Butcher/Prévost : Interworks

ref: MRCD66
year: 2005

Saxophonist Butcher and percussionist Prévost are not the kind of musicians to turn in substandard performances, but even by their high standards this is a remarkably compelling disc. The recording by engineer Steve Lowe renders the protesting metallic wail of Prévost’s tam-tam and Butcher’s disparate whispers, squelches, and immaculately joined multiphonic excursions as vivid as sunlight in the tropics, and the player’s interaction is fully up to the scrutiny enabled by such transparency. The AMM aesthetic manifests in the way parallel iprovisations coexist without forcing an obvious relationship, and there is a feeling throughout the record that Butcher is making his space on Prévost’s turf. But maybe it’s just that no other percussionist who has recorded with Butcher has ever so rigorously confined himself; for most of the record Prévost sticks to bowed sounds on a single instrument, in stark contrast with the split-second changes of Gino Robair or the sonic and stylistic change-ups of Gerry Hemingway. Such self-discipline leads to music that is not at all flashy, but instead evolves with unshakable rightness. “Interworks” is a great one by great ones!
Bill Meyer jazzloft

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Mad Trio : Mad Trio

ref: Bpr111

year: 2005

players: Mark Weaver (tuba) and Alan Lechusza (woodwinds/electronics) and brings newcomer Carolyn Lechusza (cello/electronics)

Almost serial sequences on the tuba functioning as moebius walking bass lines, raided by distorted cello and reeds of progressive rock ascendancy or more experimental tracks featuring explorations of sparser density by this hardcore chamber trio.

Sequencias cuasi-seriales en la tuba cual lneas Moebius de bajo caminante, asaltadas por cellos distorsionados y vientos de influencia rock progresiva o cortes ms experimentales con exploraciones menos densas por este tro de cmara hardcore.

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Hi God People – Shortwave Children

[Hi God People - Shortwave Children]Sham#038

Four haunting pieces of clanging improvisation tempered with layered, droning vocals that create an atmosphere of primitive devotion. Volume VI of Shame File Music?s Terra Australis Incognita series of new Australian experimental music.?

Melbourne?s Hi God People are something of an enigmatic quartet, having floated about the edges of the garden state?s psych, experimental and indie scenes for a handful of years. Sure, the group?s members have been involved in other more journalised projects (such as Panel of Judges, Snawklor, Spill label), but as Hi God People, their music has been hard to come by in great volume. Luckily, then, for Shortwave Children ? part 6 in Shame File?s Terra Australia Incognita MP3 EP series. The disc, which features four tracks, was compiled in typical HGP style ? over two hours of material (recorded at Melbourne?s 3CR radio station, and live at the Rob Roy) was edited down to a mere 22 minutes. What made the cut is a mixture of cavernous, echoing chimes, clanks and scrapes; muffled communal utterances; skeletal guitar fragments and dark drones. The editing is seamless; perhaps a task more easily managed in the context of such disjunctive music, but done well nonetheless.

Mood-wise, the music rarely strays from a curious darkness, but it?s not to be confused with gloom. This is a record you could spend a night in with ? if only it lasted longer! ? and though it?s ever-meandering, it moves on when it has to. The best thing about it is its playfulness ? you can?t help thinking you?re missing out on some fantastical visual theatre, too. Nobody could accuse it of being at all ?poppy?, but Shortwave Children is catchy in its own way; a well-crafted document of an intriguingly unconventional outfit.

Jon Tjhia (cyclic defrost)

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Undecisive God : ?Eccentricities?

Undecisive God

?Eccentricities?

label: Shame File Music

ref: ?Eccentricities?

year: 2005

players: Clinton Green: guitar, Greg Wadley: guitar

Low-fi electroacoustics, extended hardwared guitar and pedal processes for a series of real-time performed, superimposed layers creating a carefully balanced harsh sonic world featuring sharp atmospheric shifts.

Electroacstica low-fi, guitarra ampliada intervenida con ferretera varia y procesos de pedal para una serie de capas superpuestas, interpretadas en tiempo real que crean un mundo sonoro duro, de cuidado equilibrio y radicales cambios de atmsfera.

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Pau Torres “John Leo Crow”

The 4th release at Frozen Elephants features the spanish/canadian Composer & laptop Musician Pau Torres. His ‘John Leo Crow’ album (FE004) includes nineteen short and yet impressive compositions based on various Max/Msp patches using skipped recordings as source material. With hardly one track longer than 60 seconds Pau Torres manages to create a dense, disturbing atmosphere, leaving the listener haunted by his imagination, trying to catch breath. There is no obvious comfort in this Music, Pau Torres cut-up compositions ask for close attention. Not unlike an abstract sculpture they present themselves defined by empty spaces, gaps or hollow forms, all wrapped up and stuffed as an unusual idea of sound.

(19 TRACKS / ZIP / mp3 / 192 KBPS / playlist/ ++ 26.3 MB)

Tracklist:

01 Pau Torres – Part 1 (1:14 min)

02 Pau Torres – Part 2 (1:01 min)

03 Pau Torres – Part 3 (9:07 min)

04 Pau Torres – Part 4 (0:58 min)

05 Pau Torres – Part 5 (1:02 min)

06 Pau Torres – Part 6 (1:04 min)

07 Pau Torres – Part 7 (1:09 min)

08 Pau Torres – Part 8 (1:02 min)

09 Pau Torres – Part 9 (1:09 min)

10 Pau Torres – Part 10 (1:01 min)

11 Pau Torres – Part 11 (0:58 min)

12 Pau Torres – Part 12 (1:16 min)

13 Pau Torres – Part 13 (1:00 min)

14 Pau Torres – Part 14 (0:56 min)

15 Pau Torres – Part 15 (0:44 min)

16 Pau Torres – Part 16 (0:53 min)

17 Pau Torres – Part 17 (0:57 min)

18 Pau Torres – Part 18 (0:57 min)

19 Pau Torres – Part 19 (0:48 min)

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Mark Applebaum : The Bible without God

Mark Applebaum

The Bible without God

label: Innova Recordings

ref: Innova 649:2CD

year: 2006

players: Various

Indirect homage to the Cage-Tudor-Cunningham ethos through a series of pieces performed by the composer on various electroacoustic sound-sculptures occasionally joined by an ensemble of acoustic instruments. Random practices and preparations, found objects, electronics, processing and chance pervade the whole project.

Homenaje indirecto al quehacer de Cage-Tudor-Cunningham a travs de una serie de piezas ejecutadas por el compositor en diversas esculturas sonoras electroacsticas acompaadas por grupos de instrumentos acsticos. Las tcnicas aleatorias, preparado de instrumentos, objets trouvees, electrnica, procesado y azar permean el conjunto.

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taiga remains + david kirby – wings grow back

(acoustic guitar, e-bowed guitar, chord organ)

DAVID KIRBY

(processing)

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O’Leary / Swallow / Favre : Awakening

O?Leary / Swallow / Favre

Awakening

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 460

year: 2006

players: Mark O?Leary: el. guitar, Steve Swallow: bass guitar, Pierre Favre: percussion

A trio recording where the tendency towards drawing atmospheric canvases is stressed by an aesthetic palette of blurred, uncertain edges, pulse dilutions and faded-in strokes resulting in a remote sonic presence. Faster tempi propose simultaneous solo constructions, collectively made.

Grabacin en tro donde la tendencia a la pintura de telas atmosfricas se ve acentuada por una paleta esttica de bordes inciertos, borrosos, pulsos diluidos y trazos en crescendo que contribuyen a una impronta sonora remota. Los tempos ms rpidos proponen construcciones de solos simultneos, realizadas en conjunto.

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Brian Klein & Carl Kruger : Improvised Hygiene Device

com muito prazer que damos nossas boas-vindas ao novo membro da h0rda, Brian Klein, que acaba de lanar um disco em colaborao com o veterano de n0-age, Carl Kruger. Como os prprios artistas definem, “Este lbum uma extenso do trabalho realizado ao vivo em 2004, desta vez em formato digital originado com troca de arquivos sonoros pela Internet.”

We are pleased to welcome another member in the h0rde, Brian Klein who has just released a collab album with the n0-age veteran, Carl Kruger. As the artists say by theirselves “following our live set recording in chicago in the summer of ’04, we exchanged files via the web to make this release”.

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Rich West : Heavenly Breakfast

Rich West

Heavenly Breakfast

label: PfMentum

ref: PfMentum CD035

year: 2006

players: Rich West, drums, accordion, pieces; Dan Krimm, electric bass; Bruce Friedman, trumpet; Emily Beezhold, electric piano, korg ms2000; Lynn Johnston, saxophones, clarinets

Multistylistic compositions, featuring driving funk progressive rhythms, post-free improv, contemporary chamber or polytonal passages, all sorts of electronic noise and assorted motifs and melodies within a carefully woven if truly crazed envelope.

Composicin multiestilstica con potentes ritmos funk progressivos, improvisacin post-free, pasajes contemporneos camersticos o politonales, toda suerte de ruido electrnico, motivos y melodas en un marco cuidado aunque realmente demencial.

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Violet – Universam

Improvised live recorded in Kyiv in A&T trade shop on 2nd of July 2005.
Concert was organized by Nexsound.
Other participants were Francisco Lopez, Michael Gendreau and Kotra.
Unfortunately other live sets are unavailable.

Jeff Surak, also known as Violet (as well as a whole bunch of other things
actually), was always closely connected to the area which we now identify as the
former Soviet Union, traveling there since twenty or so years. He’s also
frequently visiting the Ukraine, and on the second of July 2005, he played at
the A&T Trade Shop in Kyiv, a half hour solo piece of music. Violet plays his
form of drone music that is not set to lull the listener to sleep, but keep him
present and noting what is going on. Here he plays autoharp, effects and perhaps
some field recordings, and the whole thing is rather loud and piercing, through
the use of ever increasing feedback sounds. Half way through the piece collapses
and towards the end things get more introspective, towards a more ‘real’ drone
sound. It’s altogether a pretty solid live concert, full of tension and
excitement, good built-up and performed with great care. What more do you want?
(FdW, Vital)

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The Necks : Chemist

The Necks

Chemist

label: ReR Megacorp

ref: ReR Necks7

year: 2006

players: Chris Abrahams: piano, Tony Buck: drums, Lloyd Swanton: bass

In the line of their previous long-atmospheric-tracks-of-hypnotic-character works, this CD displays a more careful approach to sound, featuring richer rhythmics, more complex harmonies and varying timbres for their extended acoustic-ambient tracks.

En la lnea de sus trabajos anteriores, largos cortes atmosfricos de carcter hipntico, este CD muestra un planteamiento ms cuidado del sonido, incorporando la riqueza de rtmicas, harmonas y timbres cambiantes a sus amplios temas de ambient-acstico.

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Wolfgang Peter Menzel – ElectroVirus

German-born, Sweden-based artist and composer Wolfgang Peter Menzel presents a suite of five compositions. In his own words: “These tracks are results of my listening to body sounds, among them my own body. An earlier recording with pure body sound you can find at www.floraberlin.de/soundbag ( nr. 155 ). Body sounds surprise both through their rhythm and small melodic elements. At the same time those elements in their variation develop their own dynamics I feel that I had to add some accents like string sounds to sharpen the musical expression.

Sometimes my additional work take over but imagining a human body was easy for me because I think my body is part of my ear. Technically there are no secrets. I record my basic material with a mini disc and a consumer mic and I use consumer software. ”

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Nabatov / Rainey : Steady Now

Nabatov / Rainey

Steady Now

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 463

year: 2006

players: Simon Nabatov: piano, Tom Rainey : drums

A piano/drums duo setting proposes a renewed perspective for the cubist dismantlement of the linguistic: both rhythmics hold an intimately flowing dialogue, responding to the mind-boggling stylistic somersaults while displaying ease both at home and abroad, managing to build an overwhelming feeling into their dialogue.

Una propuesta en do de piano/batera que ve con renovados ojos el desmontaje cubista del lenguaje: las dos rtmicas mantienen un dilogo ntimo, fluido, en respuesta a los apabullantes saltos estilsticos, conservando la calma en cualquier terreno, al tiempo que logran revestir toda su conversacin de un aplastante feeling.

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Roberto Fega : “Fave Quotidiane”

Born in 1965, Roberto Fega plays tenor/soprano sax, bass clarinet and samplers. Always interested in expressive and devoted-to-research artistic forms, he played with Cervello a Sonagli and Circ.A and is currently playing with IATO and IXEM. He started his musical adventure with the Avant-garde-Rock group Dura Figura. He participated in a laboratory-seminar by Tim Hodgkinson (Henry Cow, The Work) on improvisation that opened up into an open collective of improvisation. Afterwards, he participated in a workshop by the musicians Amy Denio, Jessica Lurie, L Soybelman and the cartoonist D Zezelj. He collaborated with P. Angeli in the Fraili project, the live version of P. Angeli?s CD Dove dormono gli autobus , participating in some festivals and a concerto that went live nation-wide on Radio RAI 3. Collaboration in the CD of the Roman Solar Ledge, with the dancer L. Benfenati, Amy Denio, with P. Innarella realising the duet that goes by the title Timbuctu. He is a member of the Titubanda (www.titubanda.it), a brass band engaged politically and goliardically, is a member of the multimedia collective Arturo which is already seen in some theatre festivals (Mittlefest and Cortona) together with musicians M. Cooper, L. Venitucci (Ossatura), Zar Alekzander Caric, E. Vatteroni, Memoria Zero, A. Sordi, the Dance company of Travirovese and the actresses F. Santoro, L. Barletti and D. Giannetti. He is a member of the electronic improvisation and electro-acoustic trio Taxonomy with Elio Martusciello (www.sinewaves.it/martusciello.htm) and Graziano Lella (www.sinewaves.it/arg.htm) (arg), of a video-musical improvisation trio with Matteo Bennici and Luca Tanzini. He collaborates with group Solar Orchestra. (We are what we play, for CNI label)

Roberto Fega: sampling and computer music
Ludovica Valori: trombone e grafica
Matteo Bennici : contrabbasso
Valentina Pettinelli: voice.

composed between march -august 2006

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1 la tenerezza dell’amore e le sue crudelt

2 campagna

3 graffi verdi nel blu

4 intervallo metropolitano

5 il sugo

6 una rosa nel verde

7 patate

8 una serata in compagnia di Jack e Wendy (dedicato agli amici della Valdisieve)

9 il lato oscuro della quotidianit

total time 24 min 38 sec Tracks:[Mp3 192 kbps]

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Ensemble Impromptu : Instint

Ensemble Impromptu

Instint

label: Marmita-Musica Viva

ref: MMV-001

year: 2005

players: Jose Luis Galiana: saxos, Carlos Amat: piano, Jorge Gavald: guitarra procesada, Remigi Roca: contrabaix, Liba Villavechia: saxos, Agust Fernandez: Piano i direcci musical, Pep Llopis: direcci artstica

Free improvisation ensemble presenting original materials, carefully balancing the density of collective interventions with smaller formats, honouring their linguistic ascendancy in colourful blasts of multilayered accretions.

Ensemble de improvisacin libre que presenta materiales originales con un cuidado equilibrio entre la densidad de intervenciones colectivas y formatos ms reducidos, honrando su linaje lingstico en coloridas explosiones de sustratos superpuestos.

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DJET – Plusminus

noise, experimental, improvisation. It is written down in september-october, 2006.
music by A.Lisovsky 2006

http://djet.hearusplay.com/

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McManus / Battaglia : Pastellic Reflections

McManus / Battaglia

Pastellic Reflections

label: Flattened Planet Records

ref: McManus/Battaglia

year: 2006

players: Joe Battaglia-acoustic guitar, Terrence McManus-classical guitar

Acoustic guitar duo where reflections on various musical concerns find expression in an extended idiomatic realm. Noise elements contribute to enrich a sound palette whenever the issue calls for it, while the ?lack? of perspective chosen ?static camera, one shot- results in a stark realism that seems to hint at an underlying attitude.

Do de guitarras acsticas donde las reflexiones sobre cuestiones musicales se expresan en un amplio terreno idiomtico. Elementos ruidistas enriquecen la paleta sonora donde es preciso, mientras que la ausencia consciente de perspectiva ?cmara esttica, un solo plano- resulta en un realismo que parece apuntar una actitud subyacente.

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VA – glasshouse #01

“We finally have in hand the first hardcopy and tenth reference of the Modena label, Zymogen. We imagine that it is an important moment, as it is the first off-line excursion for the label and a greatly recognized requirement.
Should we say then: welcome to the real world Zymogen? The answer is, without doubt. Between being a concept album and an obvious representation of the activities of the label, this release has a real coherence. Glasshouse 01 is one of those rare compilations that shouldn’t really be distinguished it by its individual participants. It is a collective body of work comprising excellent graphics by Sunisbetterthanmoney, beautiful and consistent imagery by Mario Aldovini, and a manner in which guests, Ibakusha, D’incise, Takeshi Nakamura, Lezrod are immersed in the label’s ideology and resulting track-list.
Immersion? Yes. Filippo Aldovini has, it seems, a privileged a progressive tactic, which would not have been so easy to realize. So many of these artists compete in terms of excellence and diversity of their work. For example, Ibakusha surreptitiously takes us on board soundscapes where we sometimes perceive aural signals inviting us to backtrack – too late! D’incise offers us “un bouquet de fleurs fanées c’est si joli”…et tellement vrai (very true!). Nakamura continues with a “subtraction” hiding authenticity and beauty perhaps we ought to call it call it sub-abstraction.
Finally, Lezrod closes the door to the glasshouse in a back and forth flow of tearing sound layers and particles in search of skeletal form and harmony, with “xx”. We rate it XXL.”

Thierry Massard

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Olivier Le Goas Quartet : Gravitations

Olivier Le Goas Quartet

Gravitations

label: Altrisuoni

ref: AS 204

year: 2005

players: Olivier Le Goas: drums, Ralph Alessi: trumpet, Drew Gress: double bass, John Abercrombie: guitar

The flexible rhythmic concerns behind the compositions for this jazz quartet provide a varied frame for the nimble soloists to move at ease, paying careful attention to the subtle nuances the tracks undergo, following the various moods of their development.

Los flexibles aspectos rtmicos tras las composiciones de este cuarteto de jazz plantean un marco donde los capaces solistas tocan cmodos, prestando atencin a los sutiles matices del corte, siguiendo las diversas atmsferas del desarrollo.

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Phroq-Stream

All composed by Francisco Meirino using audio manipulations of piano sounds, february-april 2006. Original piano piece, composed and performed by Francisco Meirino in 2003. Spanish/Swiss artist Phroq is an excellent mix of complex electronic sound manipulations, sometimes harsh, sometimes atmospheric but always interesting and unique.

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Mystified – Machines

Machines… More than technology to help us through the day, they also have a sense of personality. If you don’t believe this compare in your mind the machines from, say, the 1920s to those from today– think of your cell phone, then the Goldbergian monstrosity Bell invented. Doesn’t
this difference mark the character of 2 diffferent eras? This EP by Mystified looks back, sometimes a decade, and sometimes as far as a century, to machines of the past, and the sounds they might make in our minds.

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John Wolf Brennan : Pictures in a gallery

John Wolf Brennan

Pictures in a gallery

label: Leo Records

ref: CD LR 464

year: 2006

players: John Wolf Brennan : piano

Sophisticated solo piano project fusing the experience of seeing paintings and playing music. A wide range of techniques (prepared piano stands out) and musical influences (cycles and rhythms, classical, jazz-like or modern influences) are evoked by the paintings, like a series of imaginative graphic ?scores? of delayed effect.

Sofisticado proyecto para piano solo que vincula la experiencia de ver cuadros y tocar msica. Una amplia paleta de tcnicas (destaca el piano preparado) e influencias musicales (ciclos y ritmos, clsica, jazzstica o contempornea) son evocadas por los cuadros, cual secuencia de imaginativas ?partituras? grficas de efecto retardado.

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