Metek, Pythagora, Mystified

Metek, Pythagora, Mystified

[treetrunk034] (November 27, 2007)

This project represents an overseas collaboration between 3 artists: Metek, Pythagora and mystified. It was noise guru Metek who initiated the collaboration. Mystified quickly agreed and the talented Pythagora joined in to make three.

Samples were exchanged by cdr across the Atlantic. Metek remixed mystified, mystified remixed Metek, Pythagora remixed mystified, mystified remixed Metek and Pythagora, and so on. The result is an interesting combination of sounds and textures. Variety is definitely a call word for “Metek Pythagora Mystified”, as is quality.

Many found sounds including shortwave samples were used in the recordings, so Treetrunk feels that the release is appropriate to appear here. Enjoy!

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Demons : Evocation

Demons : Evocation

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Consisting of Nate Young (of Wolf Eyes) and Steve Kenney, Demons explore near-epileptic and droning analog synth textures that elicit comfortable remembrances of electronic forefathers like Stockhausen and Cluster whilst simultaneously bludgeoning forward with the grating and scraping atonal complexities of Whitehouse and Throbbing Gristle. Having already rallied a fervorous flux of supporters with discomforting psychedelic multi-media performances and a slew of cryptic releases, Evocation is an appropriately elaborate and accomplished approximation of their shrewd identity and is their first full length CD release, with artwork by visual collaborator Alivia Zivich.

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Porcelain in the Backpack – Sand and Loam

Porcelain in the Backpack – Sand and Loam

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Porcelain in the backpack is Marcus Held from Leipzig, Germany, and we are glad to release ‘Sand and Loam’, a six track ep, which is his very first release.

Marcus makes a very special blend of electronic music, combining strange instruments, field recordings, and hyper processed sounds. However, what we feel is most important about his music is the emotional emphasis placed in each of his tracks, regardless of the sonorous differences between them.

His particular approach to making music involves taking sounds from an array of sources, particularly acoustic instruments. The composition process which follows involves a kind of granular synthesis, whereby he creates a unique flow of organic and nearly tangible sound.

Out there

Thirteensongs, which is a sub-label of 12rec and publisher of mix tape releases, came to the end last week.

All high quality mix-tapes focused on experimental music and hosted on the 13s website will stay online.

For the occasion, Filippo Aldovini’s ‘Modulating Docks’ will be streamed on Systrum Systum radio during the month of November.

Another important piece of news is that Ten and Tracer has just released a new EP on Bitlab records called ‘Desert Book’ and you can buy it digitally or on cd.

Support our artists!

Data Transfer part 2

In March 2006, David Velez, aka Lezrod, released the seminal album, Data Transfer, here on Zymogen.

It was a collaborative project, in which he shared his audio tracks with many artists from all around the globe, using the internet as a medium.

The follow up to this project, Data Transfer 2, is now available on the very nice Eko label, featuring Karras, Christopher McFall, Sascha Neudeck, Pangea (Juan Antonio Nieto), e:4c (Hlder Vasconcelos, Jos Diogo Correia), Darren McClure, Kate Carr, Juan Jose Calarco, Fabian Moncada, Ben Owen, Gill Arno, Richard Garet and Andy Graydon.

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Thomas Park mystified – Big Shoulders Mix

Thomas Park mystified – Big Shoulders Mix

[treetrunk033] (November 20, 2007)

The “Big Shoulders” mix is named for the “City of Big Shoulders”– Chicago, Illinois USA. The mix is all about my fascination with Chicago. I lived there for 7 years, somewhat sporadically, between the years of 1989 and 2000. My experiences in that city have never left my mind, and related impressions have inspired many a mystified song.

This mix is comprised of 15 songs, mixed into continuous play. The tracks in the mix were written between the years of 2004 and 2007. Some tracks will sound familiar to those interested in mystified net releases, while others appear on limited edition cdrs and cassettes, and will be new to most. As a point of interest, three tracks use sounds created by cars or parts of cars, including “Coming This Way”, “BDrum” and “Down Way Down”. Two pieces were composed using algorithmic sample manipulation– the tracks “Massy” and “Quite Deep”. Many tracks feature such phonographic elements as shortwave static and found drone sounds.

More than anything, these pieces reflect the “Spirit” of Chicago– as a sprawling urban area, with industrial qualities– as a city with notable architecture– buildings that loom and soar– as a city with a history, from gang violence to racial tension to cultural growth. On a personal note, my years in Chicago were especially difficult, for a variety of reasons, including emotional and financial ones. However, I was close to many friends, who today I miss. There were high points to my life there, for sure.

Chicago is the largest city in which I would consider living. Sometimes I have thought about moving back, to this day. The “Big Shoulders” mix is music by someone who has left Chicago, but whose heart is still there.

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Special thanks to Mark Jondahl for the cover art ( www.markjondahl.com ).

Here is a list of individual tracks from the mix:

Mystified “Big Shoulders” Mix

1. Coming This Way

2. Skyscraper2005

3. Centipede Fog

4. Massy

5. True Crime

6. Level Three

7. NV

8. BDrum

9. Quite Deep

10. Incidental 2

11. Humscape

12. Undertow

13. Down Way Down

14. Strange Traffic

15. Still Constant (Edit)

Tracks are from a variety of Net and other releases dating back as far as 2004. For more information about mystified, including a complete discography, please visit www.mystifiedmusic.com .

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bazterrak, izarzugaza, valverde, xedh – fremdsprachen

bazterrak, izarzugaza, valverde, xedh – fremdsprachen

(ca074) (November 25, 2007)

Improvised encounter with these four basque-based sound artists, opposing pure electronic sounds and fragmented plunderphonics to dark, soulful ambient sounds.

artists:

enrike hurtado “bazterrak” ( www.ixi-software.net )

laptop, self-made software

edorta izarzugaza ( www.muxika.info )

analogic devices, feedback

carlos valverde

synthesizers, loops ( www.carlos-valverde.blogspot.com )

miguel a. garca “xedh” ( www.xedh.org )

mixer, effects, electronics

artwork by carlos valverde & xedh

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Joelle Leandre / Kevin Norton : Winter In New York

Joelle Leandre / Kevin Norton : Winter In New York

CD LR 499 – LEO RECORDS – 2006

Release date: 2007/08

The world-renouned bassist and ground-breaking improviser Joelle Leandre and an inventive composer-percussionist Kevin Norton met at the stage of New York’s Stone one cold evening in December 2006. However, they generated such heat that the audience of that sold-out event forgot about the cold outside. The live recording is strikingly original and sonically overflowing. The shimmering notes of the vibraphone and cymbals intersect with the earthy tones of the bass and Joelle’s evocative voice to develop an expansive soundtrack for dreams. This recording touches your heart as well as your intelligence: the music speaks to both the immediate and infinite.

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Ilia Belorukov – Wanderers Nachtlied II

Ilia Belorukov – Wanderers Nachtlied II

(ca074) (November 22, 2007)

“Wanderers Nachtlied II”

This work continues the 2006 year’s album “Secret. What is There Inside?”. The experiments in the field of mixing the natural instruments with their very sound electronically processed are the main direction of these two studio projects. Along with bass-guitar and baritone saxophone Ilia uses electroguitar also playing on it with bow and ambient sounds.

The name of the album is the name of Goethe’s poem written in 1780 and the titles of compositions are lines from this poem. In the last composition Ilia reads it in the original language. I can exemplify here some quotes from a book ‘Immortality’ written by Milan Kundera: “This is the most famous German poem ever written, one which all German children must learn by heart”, “The idea of the poem is simple: in the woods everything is asleep, and you will sleep too”. But further Kundera tells about another meaning: “…then at last she realized that the poem speaks of death: he wanted to tell her that he was dying and that he knew it.”

Ilia – Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Voice, Baritone Saxophone, Untitled Flute, Noises & Sounds

Recorded by Ilia at Illusion Studio on July 2006 – September 2007

Mastered by Philip Croaton at Fate Speaks Studio

Cover Art by Ilia

Ilia Belorukov is a musician from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He works in the direction of free improvisation, free-jazz, noise and electroacoustic music. Ilia practices an experimental approach of sound extraction on different types of saxophones (alto, tenor and baritone) and on flute (inc. fluteophone). He often plays at The Gallery of Experimental Sound – 21 (GES-21) , Saint-Petersburg.

Ilia has played with such musicians as Vladislav Makarov, Nikolay Rubanov, Alexey Lapin, Roman Stolyar, Andrey Popovskiy, Philip Croaton.

He is a member of Totalitarian Musical Sect (TMS), DaDaZu & Wozzeck.

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PAOLO ANGELI – Tessuti (Paolo Angeli plays Frith & Bj

PAOLO ANGELI – Tessuti (Paolo Angeli plays Frith & Bjork)

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“Another extraordinary release by Sardinian virtuoso Paolo Angeli, this time featuring compositions by Fred Frith and Bjork – all played solo in real time (though when you hear it, it’s hard to believe it) on his highly customised and extended, electrified, giant Sardinian folk guitar. A tour de force of technique and at the same time highly musical; and there is so much going on here at any given time that it is difficult to relate what your ears tell you to just one Frankenstein instrument. Dense enough that it rewards listening to a few songs at a time, though you could probably also dance to it.

This is Paulo’s 3rd release for ReR; the first introduced his remarkable instrument and more remarkable technique, the second was of closely scored very large ensemble works; here he returns to the guitar but under the discipline of the real-time realisation of written and arranged compositions.

Paolo Angeli learned to play guitar from his father when he was still a small child. He later abandoned an intended career in the merchant marine when he moved to Bologna in 1989, and joined the legendary Laboratorio di Musica & Imagina group. He played many international festivals with the group, as well as in various ensembles with such well known improvisers as Fred Frith, Jon Rose, Butch Morris and Eva Kant. He has studied with the father figure of Sardinian guitar, Giovanni Scanu, and has worked compiling the music library for Sardinia’s Regional Institute for Ethnic Studies. He now works as artistic director of the Isole che Parlano arts festival in Sardinia. His work appears on many CDs, including Pacifica with Fred Frith on the Tzadik label, and Linee di fuga on the Erosha label.”-ReR Megacorp

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Paolo Angeli-prepared sardinian guitar

TRACKS

1. La pianta del Piede (Angeli)

2. Ahead in the Sand (Frith)

3. Unravel (Bjork)

4. The Hand that Bites (Frith/Cora/Parkins)

5. Mezzo Passo (Angeli)

6. Lelekovice (Frith)

7. Desired Constellation (Bjork)

8. Danza di un Fermaciuffi (Angeli)

9. One day (Bjork)

10. Tessuti (Angeli)

11. Atehna Mina (Angeli)

12. Navajo (Frith)

Bonus Tracks:

13. In Umido (Angeli)

14. Anchor Song/The Hand that Bites (Bjork/Frith)

15. Hyper-ballad (Bjork)

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prawatt – of soul vol.1

prawatt – of soul vol.1

[mhrk058] (November 21, 2007)

1 Startversuch-laufen-Hafen und Schiffahrt 7:13

2 Naturalny koniec 4:58

3 Opera Revolutionnaire 5:21

4 Where are you? 1:48

5 KV 198 W.A.Mozart 10:07

6 Cowboys and Angels 11:19

7 Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring, Bach 8:08

total time 48:54

Recorded live at ?osienice, Kaszuby, Poland by Karol Schwarz.

February 2007.

Mixed at DJK, Gda?sk by Karol Schwarz

Szymon Albrzykowski: bass, beats, noise, vinyl records

Karol Schwarz: beats, noise, guitar, voice

Kamil Jastrz?bski: mixer, effects

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Tagg, Lupkin, Shichman TRIO – Live in Brooklyn

David Tagg, Dan Lupkin, Dave Shichman TRIO – Live in Brooklyn

01.20.06

Analog and Digital converge for an amazing night of music. The David Tagg, Dan Lupkin, Dave Shichman TRIO bring you primal beats, innovative turntablism and intricate noise meeting in a frenzy of improvisation. The night was hosted by percussionlab.com at the Lucky Cat in Brooklyn, NY an amazing venue for abstract, forward thinking music. Special thanks to the wonderfully open minded percussionlab people and all the people that attended.

Tracks

1. Brooklyn Improv – Part 1

2. Brooklyn Improv – Part 2

3. Brooklyn Improv – Part 3

4. Brooklyn Improv – Part 4

5. Brooklyn Improv – Part 5

6. Brooklyn Improv – Part 6

7. Brooklyn Improv – Part 7 – Bonus Warm Up Improv

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Ilia Belorukov – Secret. What is There Inside?

Ilia Belorukov – Secret. What is There Inside?

(ca072) (November 22, 2007)

“Secret” is his first album in the genres of electroacoustic music and ambient. Unlike the musician’s main activities associated with free improvisation this work is more compositional though it contains one long improvisation on alto and tenor saxophones. Bass-guitar is the main instrument in this work, it creates rhythmic structures and melodic lines and it forms atmospheres by volume and superpositions of sounds.

Ilia – Bass Guitar, Alto & Tenor Saxophones, Noises, Sounds

Recorded by Ilia at Illusion Studio on March-May 2006

Mastered by Philip Croaton at Fate Speaks Studio

Photos by Shurshac

Cover Art by Ilia

Ilia Belorukov is a musician from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He works in the direction of free improvisation, free-jazz, noise and electroacoustic music. Ilia practices an experimental approach of sound extraction on different types of saxophones (alto, tenor and baritone) and on flute (inc. fluteophone). He often plays at The Gallery of Experimental Sound – 21 (GES-21), Saint-Petersburg.

Ilia has played with such musicians as Vladislav Makarov, Nikolay Rubanov, Alexey Lapin, Roman Stolyar, Andrey Popovskiy, Philip Croaton.

He is a member of Totalitarian Musical Sect (TMS), DaDaZu & Wozzeck.

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Federico Schumacher: [in]disciplina + 1197

Federico Schumacher: [in]disciplina + 1197

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Besides being my first monographic album, “[In]Disciplina” is a summary of a 10 year career in music, committed almost exclusively to electroacoustic music. Although the album contains only works edited since year 2001, I am certain that they are absolutely representative of the first steps -my first 10 years- of a long musical journey. Fortunately, artistic creation is an open door full of surprises and discoveries as well as deep deceptions. Although this album release coincides with an anniversary, a round number, I don’t feel in any way that this has anything to do with opening or closing stages, but with merely registering and presenting the work done.

I cannot stop stressing the fact that this album is a DVD-Audio containing multichannel versions of almost all the works. Hence, being played in an appropiate sound system (Home Theater Surround 5.1), it is possible to have an audition as near as possible to the actual concert experience of the pieces. The possibility that technology gives us to establish spatial movements of sounds with precision and the use of this resource in specific versions for this album as well as in the construction of the pieces, makes not recommended the hearing of some of these pieces by means of a conventional stereo system. Because of that, there is no stereo reduction, for example, of the piece “1197″, even though there are downloadable mp3 versions of all of the other pieces, the multichannel version remains the closer one to the ideal hearing of the piece.

Finally, I have to thank everyone who has made possible the release of this album specially to Fondo de la Msica del Consejo de la Cultura del Gobierno de Chile (Music Funding supported by Chilean Government Culture Ministry) and to Pueblo Nuevo Netlabel, being one of the most interesting approaches to making art and culture: open-minded, bonding and free.

Federico Schumacher.

(Santiago, Nov. 2007)

“[IN]DISCIPLINA” no solo es mi primer disco monografico, es, ademas, el resumen de 10 aos de carrera musical, consagrados casi en exclusividad a la musica electroacustica. Si bien en el disco solo han sido editadas obras a partir del ao 2001, me asiste la certeza que las elegidas son perfectamente representativas de estos primeros pasos – mis primeros diez aos – de una larga marcha musical. Felizmente la creacion artistica es una puerta abierta llena de sorpresas y hallazgos, aunque tambien, de profundas decepciones, y si bien este disco coincide con un aniversario, con un numero redondo, en ningun caso siento que tenga que ver con abrir o cerrar etapas, sino simplemente con registrar y presentar un trabajo realizado.

No puedo no dejar de insistir en que este disco es un “DVD-Audio”, que contiene versiones en multicanal de casi todas las obras. De esta manera, si el disco es escuchado en un sistema de sonido apropiado (Home Theater Surround 5.1), se podra tener una audicion de las piezas lo mas aproximada posible a la que se realiza en una sala de conciertos. La posibilidad que nos otorga la tecnologia de establecer con precision los movimientos espaciales de los sonidos y la utilizacion de este recurso, tanto en las versiones especificas para este disco como en la construccion intrinseca de las obras, hacen que la audicion de algunas piezas en un sistema estereo normal sea desaconsejable. Por esta razon, no existe ninguna version en estereo de una obra como “1197?, por ejemplo, y si bien pueden descargarse versiones en mp3 de todas las otras piezas, el archivo multicanal se mantiene como la version mas cercana al ideal de audicion de la obra.

Por ultimo, me queda agradecer a todos quienes han hecho posible la edicion de este disco, particularmente al Fondo de la Musica del Consejo de la Cultura del Gobierno de Chile y a Pueblo Nuevo Netlabel, quienes representan uno de los ejemplos mas interesantes de una nueva manera de hacer arte y cultura: abierta a la diferencia, integradora y libre.

ESTRENO MUNDIAL DE LA OBRA “1197?

1.197 es el numero de Detenidos-Desaparecidos durante la dictadura militar en Chile (1973-1989) y esta pieza ha sido compuesta en su homenaje, asi como en el de sus familiares. De una cierta manera, se trata de una obra coral, “globalizada”: cientos de personas de mas de treinta paises han colaborado en la composicion de esta pieza grabando, con sus medios, al menos un nombre de un detenido-desaparecido y luego enviandomelo via internet. Para ellos, mi mas profundo agradecimiento. La obra esta enteramente estructurada alrededor de estos 1.197 nombres, dichos con diferentes acentos idiomaticos, por adultos o nios y no siempre con la mejor calidad de grabacion. Mas, me parece que en este caso, el sentido se hace mas fuerte que la forma.

En el Cementerio de Santiago de Chile hay un memorial dedicado a los detenidos-desparecidos. Sobre la interminable lista con sus nombres, hay una frase del poeta chileno Raul Zurita que me ha acompaado durante el ao que duro la composicion de esta obra: “Todo mi amor esta aqui y se ha quedado pegado a las rocas al mar a las montaas”.

La lista completa de colaboradores puede encontrarse en mi sitio web.

Federico Schumacher,

Santiago, Noviembre 2007.

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HEINER GOEBBELS, and ALFRED HARTH: Hommage/Fier Fauste

HEINER GOEBBELS, and ALFRED HARTH: Hommage/Fier Fauste fur Hanns Eisler & Von Sprengen des Gartens

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Material from the incredibly creative duo of Alfred Harth and Heiner Goebbels, recorded in the 70′s. Von Sprengen des Gartens is an impressive display of improvisation with great interaction and technique, but balancing melodic and serious work in a fun workout. Amazing stuff. Fier Fauste fur Hanns Eisler presents the work of the great soundtrack composer Hans Eisler, alongside several compatible Harth/Goebbels pieces, and one work of Nino Rota in sensitive and playful renderings of great music, highly recommended!

“A long and extraordinarily fruitful partnership started here – continuing through the Sogennantes Linksradikales Blasorchester – where Alfred and Heiner picked up Christoph Anders, the three of whom then went on to co-found Cassiber, with Chris Cutler. A critical success in its own time, this duo recorded two more CDs before parting company, each more musically open than its predecessor. These first two sorties are a kind of jazz-inflected, punk-inflected, highly spirited and imaginative – series of adapted Hanns Eisler compositions – as well as some original pieces by the duo itself, who between them cover a lot of instruments, and combinations of instruments, and – ah youth – are never less than hurling themselves into their performances. Heiner went on, after Cassiber, to become one of Germany’s leading music-theatre writer and directors, as well as composing for the ensemble modern, orchestras and opera companies (he had an orchestra premiere to mark the opening of the Festival Hall complex in London on July 12th). Alfred went on to form several other bands, including Gestalt et Jive before relocating to Seoul in Korea, where he now lives and works. He is currently part of Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Orchestra. Both original LPs have been re-mastered for this release by Bob Drake.”-ReR Megacorp

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Tribe Of Astronauts – Missive_2

Tribe Of Astronauts – Missive_2

[treetrunk032] (November 20, 2007)

“Missive 2″ is a longform remix of the underground ambient hit, “Remote Missive” ( www.webbedhandrecords.com ). Like the original, it is based on space travel, and the idea of taking personal objects on space trips– contraband. This practice has been widespread, apparently, though not condoned by authorities. In this mix, emphasis has been placed on texture and stereo effect. The Tribe hope you enjoy it.

Tribe of Astronauts is a loose recording collective consisting of some artists affiliated with Webbed Hand Records, Treetrunk Records, and other netlabels. It is an “anonymized” project, an opportunity for the artists to create work not in the style of their main projects.

Any netlabel artist may release work as Tribe of Astronauts on any netlabel, under the condition that they release the work under Creative Commons or Public Domain, and claim no ownership of or exclusive rights to the name “Tribe of Astronauts.”

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Urs Leimgruber : Solo

Urs Leimgruber : Solo

13 Pieces For Saxophone

CD LR 498 2007/08

This is what Bert Noglik writes in his liner notes for this CD: “A sculptor shapes a work of art by getting to grips with his material, by creating a contour here, or bashing a bit out there. Urs Leimgruber takes on time and space by creating sounds, leaving traces behind him like an artist who designs sculptures or drawings which dissolve into thin air but which still have the power to remain fixed as impressions in our experience”.

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APEIRON : night in krakow

APEIRON : night in krakow

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Marzena Lis: grand piano

Rafal Mazur: acoustic bass guitar

Recorded in concert, Center of Contemporary Arts, Krakow, October 2006, by Rafal Drewniany (“Dzwiek to Sztuka/Sound is Art” Studio)

Apeiron is a duo of contemporary improvised music – grand piano and acoustic bass guitar – founded in Krakow by Marzena Lis and Rafal Mazur. They are working together since 2005 playing improvised music and realizing graphic scores. Apeiron is e self-reliant duo but members are really interested in cooperation with other artists. They worked with Gilad Roth – saxophone, Rafal Drewniany – electronics, Tomek Choloniewski – drums and with Misha Feigin (concert at “Meeting of Improvisers” – Krakow 2007) – guitar. Apeiron working in “trans-idiomatic” aesthetic, it means that on the ground every available kinds of aesthetic artists create new configurations and new shapes and figures of sounds.

1. night in krakow mp3

(31 min 19 / 320kbps mp3+cover / 73Mo)

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Tonguemische – Outro Rio vol. 1

Tonguemische – Outro Rio vol. 1

(chat 013) (September 16, 2005)

recorded live during the first edition of Outro Rio – a display of another musical side of Rio de Janeiro, on september 16, 2005. tonguemische began as a guitar trio and evolved to a seven-piece audio-visual unit, including members of combo recife de improviso, aFraternalfauna, vibrosensores, etc, alternating pre-conceived structures, free improvisation and visual performance. current line-up includes: Arthur Lacerda (guitar, etc), Filipe Giraknob (guitar, etc), Augusto Malbouisson (guitar, etc), Digital Ameri ndio (drums), Pedro Malazarte (sax), Pablo Pablo (violin) and Renata Azzi (visual performance)

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Actis Band : Cina!

Actis Band : Cina!

CD LR 497 – 2007/08

This is the third release by Actis Band on Leo Records with the same line-up as the first CD “Garibaldi” which sold out within first six months of the release. What’s it all about? Exploring the musical world with no borders and visas. Looking constantly over the horizon. Why “Cina!”? Because tomorrow is the question…… and China is the future! Looking around for every sound with creativity, respect, and the spirit of exploration… As on two previous discs there are 10 original compositions by Carlo Actis Dato played with power, precision and wit which are the trademark of Carlo and his band.

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Esbende Washlavok – #00

Esbende Washlavok – #00

EEDFM-06

Tracks

#00

An eclectic mix of electronics and organics wrapped around the sounds of the street below played and recorded live by fred debief for EED freed series.

Very interesting 46 minutes and 46 seconds track. Simply entitled #00, this one piece of the musician, Esbende Washlovak, gives again an obvious coherence to EED, which apparently likes to frighten itself …

Produced with opened windows on the street, #00 seems nourished with a sort of abyssal consciousness of the ordinary life, an impressive setting in prospect for the daily reality – #00 is also an experiment which can appear as trauma and then, wake up some internally interrogations, some unexplored visions to our direct report at our environment – as much to say that we are, there, far enough from a simple stage setting of an “ordinary” recording field – inspired !

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FERRAN FAGES :: CANONS PER A UN LENT RETARD

FERRAN FAGES :: CANONS PER A UN LENT RETARD

1- Suspens vertical (9:31)

2- Ms rpid que lull (3:26)

3- Tanget al dit (3:54) <<-Listening [mp3]

4- Lombre del dit (7:08)

5- Suspens horitzontal (16:08)

6- Paraula clau (17:39)

7- El retard del mirall (2:29)

8- Gir lent (5:15)

9- Retard llarg (6:05)

Ferran Fages: Acoustic guitar

Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga: Detuning on track 6.

ABOUT CANONS PER A UN LENT RETARD

Etude Records is proud to release “Canons per a un lent retard” by Catalan composer Ferran Fages.

71 minutes of acoustic guitar divided into 9 tracks full of solitude and hopeness. -E.R.

“The impulse to compose this music has been to accompany the slow decay of my fathers life… one way of expressing the anguish and emptiness of seeing and living a life slip away. His death came one month after the recording.” -Ferran Fages

“Canons per a un lent retard, Ferrans second guitar album stands a-parallel to the first (a cavall entre dos cavalls). 9 songs or canons that reveal (give us access to) the becoming of a song, opposed to today’s platitude of objective and/or subjective song-writing… Ferrans objective.

They are song(ing)s just because they intent to produce meaning… a music reality is aimed at and diagrammatically consists of a multitude of horizontal and vertical lines. Lines opposed to plotting points.

Possibilities of possibilities. Guitar compositions curving time with suspense, delay, slower or faster remnants.

We are confronted with intensity “colored” with dense and resistant materiality and aggressiveness… and it is not pure materiality. The musical event is immanentized by a death operation. The Imminent death of a close person, totally unpredictable, was constantly interrupting or (not) the process of synthesis, retroactively forming the songs by assuming and distorting their materiality. The emotional and predetermined character of this operation dissolves through the insistent and continuous listening of the canons, thus it seems that the songs’ time can truly exist outside Ferrans emotional temporality (thats why they ARE songs).

The conjunction and interconnections of these autonomous musical events, that coexist in many levels, produces refrains, small melodies, and many other different figures…In short, Ferran designates a “new” musical timeplace where improvisation and composition are open from being open-form or aleatoric, a destinerrance where something eventually must happen, something beyond calculation and labor, not negating death, but something coming from the other, who is any-particular song listener.” -Michalis Kyratsous (July 2007)

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offthesky – rare decay

offthesky – rare decay

rb017 15.11.2007

What an enormous output this year by Jason Corder aka offthesky. He has given us two great releases on term and autoplate. Now he returns with a 4-track-EP on Resting Bell.

Musically related to the “Du Soleil ep” on atmoworks, “rare decay” presents four careful though stunning pieces. The entire release from beginning to end is a perfect compliment to lying down and watching the clouds lilt by. Or like listlessly gazing on a silent snow fall. It is a fitting soundtrack to harbor the softer side of winter’s brittle curse. It’s warmth beckons beauty that stirs fire in the icy corners of a torpid tundra landscape.

Take a rest and enjoy this great piece of music.

1. rare decay

2. back to the end of the beginning again

3. inside outside corners

4. listless is more

Author

All tracks written and produced by Jason Corder

Artwork

done by Jason Corder

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Banz Oester : Blosperment Suite

Banz Oester : Blosperment Suite

CD LR 496 – 2007/08

Banz Oester is not a new name in Leo Records catalogue. He’s been a part of Michel Wintsch’s group with three releases under his belt. Blosperment (in Swiss-German double bass) is his debut solo CD. Banz says: “I try to play a multidirectional and multicolored music, take the listeners with me on my “amazing discovery-trip” and hopefully make them forget that they are “only” listening to a bass player. I am looking for an orchestral sound. Rather than using electronic loops or re-recordings, I am looking for playing techniques to develop in the direction that I wish.”

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Jopo Stereo . Voices of Rock

Jopo Stereo . Voices of Rock

Jopo Stereo – Voices Of Rock : a story of rock in 3 parts

Voices Of Rock was first created at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 28 Oct 2005, for the Kamikaze retrospective

dedicated to the ‘ rock ‘ painter, Robert Malaval.

Part 01 the swan song of rock

- the case 1

- the song 2

- the epitaph

Part 02 Voices Of Rock

Part 03 songs from the grave (a tribute to Joe Meek)

- baby / untitled

the case baseline polydronic composition have been used in Soulmates for the L-R concept album, I

Could Never Make That Music Again (Subrosa records).

the epitaph was previously released under the name Etude pour violon et marimbas in Vibr 2, the

broken tale issue.

Production : Jopo Stereo

Mastering : Janob @ Parisson

All music Jean-Philippe Renoult

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Christian Marclay

Christian Marclay’s “Ensemble” at the ICA

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is pleased to present “Ensemble,” a group exhibition of works that make sound, guest curated by artist and musician Christian Marclay. Marclay has been selected as the inaugural curator of the Katherine Stein Sachs CW’69 and Keith L. Sachs W’67 Guest Curator Program, a new initiative designed to bring outside points of view to ICA. Marclay is a leading figure in the worlds of performance, visual art and experimental music.

Likening his approach to that of a composer, Marclay has chosen a variety of sculpture and installations based on their sound quality and compatibility to sonically inhabit the same large first floor gallery. Visitors are invited to interact with some of the works, others are triggered by motion detectors, or set on timers. The installation will create an ambient sound environment, intermittently producing a wide range of sounds, from the very quiet notes of a music box to the loud ringing of a bronze bell. They have been selected so that they can share the same resonant space and interact like the various instruments of a musical ensemble. It will include iconic works by artists such as Harry Bertoia, Yoko Ono, and Michelangelo Pistoletto, as well as new works by the current generation.

I wasn’t quite sure what to expect based on the description, these kinds of things can take a myriad of shapes, but what was in my mind wound up being fairly close in nature to what i experienced at the show. This is a very dynamic sound landscape. Almost unrelenting at times. During some of the denser moments it’s almost claustrophobic due to the resonance of the space. As the descritpion says, pieces range from very quiet to very loud. While this was sometimes interesting, I found the louder pieces to be almost oppressive at times and they were in general the least thought out, volume seeming to be a concept in and of itself. While there is certainly something to be said on both sides of this arguement, I felt that the quiet pieces were so much more powerful and so much more enjoyable that the loud ones, and unfortunately kept getting drowned out.

This however did not hamper my enjoyment very much at all, and there were moments when it was quiet enough to hear all of the small stuff, which for the most part was a real treat. My absolute favorite of all the exhibits, was also one of the simplest. A pool, filled with dishes and bowls that was being “stirred” constantly by a compressor.

The resultant sound is as delicate and wonderfully aimless as windchimes, but with an almost gamelan-like sound. I could have sat and listened to this for hours. In fact, part of my wants to build a replica of it for my house. Smaller of course.

Other pieces of notice were; a tongue drum table which was shaped like and acoustic guitar body and had 5 seperately tuned sets of tonuges (I want this for my dining room… in my dreams), a set of three metronomes, set to different timings (mini Steve Reich), and a system of dangling bits of china, agitated by spinning record players.

Aside from some overly loud sounds (why a siren?) and some pieces that were either broken or too hard to figure out to keep interest, it was a really wonderful show. It was great just to be in a gallery full of clamor afterall, considering most art shows sonically have the same quality as funerals. It was exciting and envigorating to be so immersed in such an experience of sound, and to just walk around and hear the “mix” of sounds shift as you went.

The show runs through december (more details on the ICA site) so if you are near philly you should certainly go. If you are not and you can’t, you are in luck, as I recorded a walkthrough of the space for you to hear. I have to appologize for the sound quality as there is some hiss in the background… I was having problems with my MD that day. For the most part all of the talking has been cut out, so it is basically a theater of sound for you to sink in to. I like the recording very much, I hope you will too.

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Franziska Baumann / Matthias Ziegler : Voices & Tides

Franziska Baumann / Matthias Ziegler : Voices & Tides

CD LR 495 : 2007/08

Franziska Baumann – voice & SensorLab electronic, Matthias Ziegler – flute, bass flute, contrabass flute and loops. The clever use of SensorLab makes Franziska’s voice totally unique. There is a definite sense of a drama of the creative process which entices the listener into an undreamt-of world of sounds. What makes this duo so special is the density of chamber music, the aural tension, the mutually intuitive reading, call and response, and the confident but playful handling of acoustic, electroacoustic and electronic devices. The voice, the breath and air flow, lips, tongue and oral cavity are used expressively to generate an enormous spectrum of sounds and noises. They practice an unorthodox and extensive handling of their instruments, leave conventions behind and still remain connected to the European musical tradition.

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