improvised and recorded late at night in the backyard by the light of the moon and stars. mixed/edited in the cave early hours of the morning august 2010
a glorious attempt that fateful evening at letting go of the stress of earthly matters so i could, for a short time, explore space and other dimensions through murky guitar loops,intense analog synth noises and computer drones at high volumes on headphones until i dissolved into a million scattered molecules… while the rest of the neighbourhood (and beyond) slept unaware of my somewhat questionable and possibly quite dangerous sonic experiments to achieve full astral projectile liftoff.
«d’incise, our usual suspect when it comes to freejazz, teamed up with Marcel Chagrin (guitar, bass drum) and the Heu{s-k}ach project was born. This is ultimately a live only project, so all the recordings you’ll find here were taken from live gigs. And believe me, you can never be so minimal as this. Effects and guitar effects. Nothing more.
‘Un’ marks a new direction for d’incise’s musical projects. Freejazz as the starting point but with total experimentation as the language underneath. You can never have too many layers of sound, I guess. Absolutely awesome if you’re into experimental freejazz and beyond.
«The album starts with sounds of crushing objects, cymbals and tones of an electric guitar. “Deux” is more quiet and the drony guitar sounds are supported by electronic sounds and bells or something like Tibitan singing bowls. The stringsounds roll closely with the ongoing sounds of these instruments. “Trois” builds up very slowly and the alternation of warm bellsounds and harsh electronics fits really well and moves into a restless noisy end. The last track “Quatre” ends also with a great diversity of sounds and atmospheres created by for example slide guitar, high bell tones. “Un” is the first CD of this new project of the free-minded d’incise. I like the calm atmosphere which he created with Marcel Chargin and the exploration of the most intense combination of soundwaves and rhythms.» - JKH/Vital Weekly / August 2010
Lazers! is a Milwaukee-based trio of composer/performers including David Collins, Steve Schlei, and Greg Surges. Their collective work focuses on custom-built instruments and indeterminate notation, incorporating situational, playful approaches to performance while generating exploratory sonic spaces. Electronic instrumentation comingles with structures and forms rooted in the acoustic realm of improvisation: look for beats elsewhere, this material is more about sound’s relationship to negative space than pattern and rhythm. A multitude of approaches and scenarios makes each track on their debut album a fresh experience, its own uniquely impermanent world.
Open and structured improvisations for an electroacoustic trio of double bass, amplified textures, and wind instruments. Recorded at Last Resort Studio, Silver Spring, Maryland. Daniel Barbiero double bass; Jimmy Ghaphery alto sax, wood flutes; Gary Rouzer amplified textures, electric bass.
Tesseract rotations: open group improvisation with editing by Rouzer
Sounding Table part 1 and 2: group improvisation based on instruction by Rouzer
A Shadow in Reverse: tone row by Barbiero
K’tetuket: custom graphic score by Barbiero
Overlapping Gestures: conduction, concept, and mix by Rouzer
They’ll Come Back: in respect to Sun Ra Arkestra
A Greek meets a Mexican in London. The Mexican meets an American in Mexico. The American meets the Greek in Madrid. It sounds like the beginning of a joke about airplanes and parachutes but in fact, it’s the beginning of a trio whose music has been acclaimed by the critics as “stunning in its clarity, exquisite in it palette of sounds and inexhaustible invention” (James Wyness), the result of an “incredible level of musicianship.” (Dave X – Startling Moniker). For the musicians, each of whom live in a different country, it’s all much more straightforward: it’s a chance to make music, which is no small thing. Wade Matthews is an american composer and improviser. In 1989, he moved from New York to Madrid and became part of the international improv community. In 2007, he founded Intermedia 28. There, he began to combine field recordings with electronic synthesis in a 2-computer setup that has since become his main instrument.Â
Thanos Chrysakis output consists of composition, performance, and installation. He was born in Athens in 1971, residing  for the last ten years in the UK.  His work âInscape 5â was amongst the selected works at the International Competition de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges, while âNekyomanteionâ received an honorary mention at the 7th International Electroacoustic Competition Musica Viva in Lisbon.
Darà o Bernal-Villegas is a composer, improviser and drummer from Mexico City. His aim is to create an intense, creative interaction between the performer and the score; in other words, creating the conditions for a more intense dialogue between the performer and the composer. He is working with the Mexican Improvising Collective Generación Esponánea.
This disc will play in stereo on a CD player and with film and 5.1 surround sound (or stereo) on a DVD player or computer. The music, as always, is prodigious, sounding like a small band, but played by one person in real time (as the film attests). In this format, you can also see the instrument close-to – a highly rebuilt and extended giant Sardinian guitar – with many sympathetic and extra strings, motor driven hurdy gurdy wheels, whirling strings, springs and other appendages, played, like a cello, vertically, with bow, fingers, plectra and machines. However Heath Robinson it may appear, however, it is clearly, under Paolo’s hands, a highly serious and extraordinarily flexible beast – that requires and has given rise to new playing techniques. The programme of compositions here navigates through highly organised additive rhythms, freer Frith-like pointillism and some seemingly impossible mini-orchestrations. The film, professionally made, follows the performance, occasionally interpolating abstract passages and processed images. A remarkable player with a unique instrument, playing a music entirely his own.
