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Antoine CHESSEX – Francisco MEIRINO – Jérôme NOETINGER
“Maiandros”
Testimony to the first encounter of the trio during a concert given at the cave12 on the 28.10.2020, on the same evening of the new Covid announcements which brought on a re-confinement in France, and eve to a six-month long shutdown of cultural places in Switzerland. A concert from which we emerged staggering and with burning ears due to the ongoing crisis surrounding us. A masterful sonic performance. Before silence.
Drawing from the dense and intense sound material of the evening, Francisco Meirino carried out a work of mixing and cutting, thus releasing an account of it, conceived for vinyl support and domestic use, an auditory result with a fascinating tension/frame.
Swirling field recordings, urban/mechanical sounds, ghostly radio, cannibal revoxian magnetic tape, unrecognizable saxophone chants from hell, synthesizer manipulations, intermingle and merge into a sonic flow of pure permanent tension. An uncompromising and hallucinating sound journey of the very first order. A captivating back-and-forth, rich and spiralling between different levels of listening, filled with recognizable or unrecognizable sound materials and disturbing textures à la perfectly mastered dynamics, on a knife edge of abyss & time. And with, on the album, a simply gargantuan, corrosive, and overwhelming B-side!
Antoine Chessex: Tenor saxophone, amplifier, electronics
Francisco Meirino: Modular synthesizer, contact microphone and transducer
Jérôme Noetinger: Revox B77, electronics
19,00€
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URUK
“The Descent Of Inanna”
"An over-stimulating immersive auditive dive with exceptional depth. URUK carries the listener away within a phenomenal landscape of dark ambient and subterranean drones with constant rich textures generating an atmosphere of extraordinary intensity.
A journey into an opaque world of prodigious sound flows, not without luminous touches at times, from which we do not want to come back again.
Excellent and masterful sound drifts by two very high-caliber musical heroes from the audacious international scene. Uruk is the outstanding musical encounter between two titans of the international exploratory scene, the Italian bassist MASSIMO PUPILLO (member amongst others of the cult trio ZU) and THIGHPAULSANDRA, one of the majestic brains / electronic thinkers hiding behind the oh so very cult entity COIL." (Label note)
20,00€
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Francisco MEIRINO
“La Plainte”
Jungle spirits, shamanism, trance music and other “surprises” are stacked, superimposed and spiral in space and our ears in a powerfully captivating way. A first-rate cathartic whirlwind, for a fireworks display highlighting the swarming material and meta-sounds of human population. This piece by Francisco Meirino is largely composed by using samples from the sound archives of the MEG (Ethnographic Museum of Geneva).Highly recommended.
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Günter MÜLLER – Norbert MÖSLANG
“vlan_voilà”
Günter Müller, ipods, electronics. Norbert Möslang, cracked everyday electronics. Recorded April 10, 2016, cave12, Geneva.
A beautifull record from two Swiss masters of electronic music. Like an imaginary landscape full of pulses, resonances, ghostly voices and nice noises !
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DIATRIBES & Barry GUY
“Multitude”
“Barry Guy : doublebass. D’Incise : laptop, objects. Cyril Bondi : drums, percussions. Benoît Moreau : clarinet on track 3. Nervous encounter between the doublebass master-improv-virtuoso Barry Guy and a young Geneva entity called Diatribes. A tense and rich mix-testimony of strings, drums-percussion and electronics.” label info
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DARLING
Serie Cave12 fetish. Adrien Kessler : bass, voice (compositions, texts). Vincent Hänni (Young Gods), guitar. Andrea Valvini (ex. Goz of Kermeur), drums. Anne Cardinaud, keyboards. “Adrien Kessler, former bass player and singer of the band “Goz of Kermeur”who toured their three albums between 1992 and 2000, comes back full of fantastic strenght with this new super-power band and their first cd release. Darling is what you need ! A rabid pop mood, hypnotic, violent and grinding, somewhere between the young Bowie’s glam rock, the obscure violence of Birthday Party, the craziness of Pere Ubu or Beefheart and this unique little touch, free and indescribable that will encompass Darling and make them an impressive outstanding band. Darling, baby, IS WHAT YOU NEED !”
12,00€
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PATERAS – BAXTER – BROWN
“Live at l’Usine”
Serie Cave12 Alive.
“Anthony Pateras : prepared piano. Sean Baxter : drums. David Brown : prepared guitar. Recorded live in concert at l’Usine, Geneva, December 2006 by Adrien Kessler. “Percussive prepared piano... Percussive prepared guitar... Percussive drums... Dense and fascinating progressive pile & tangle of percussive sonorities by one of the best improv trios around, caught live during a dense concert on the black & rock building of l’Usine in Geneva. Great “Percussive” Impro !” Formed in 2002 Pateras-Baxter-Brown have performed countless concerts throughout Australia, New Zealand and Europe, developing a worldwide reputation for their uncompromising, intensely focused and remarkably fluid live shows. Using the unique combinations of prepared piano, prepared guitar and percussion, Pateras-Baxter-Brown allude to numerous traditions of percussive contemporary and traditional music, including contemporary classical chamber music, rarefied improvisation and non-western percussive traditions such as gamelan.”
“Anthony Pateras : prepared piano. Sean Baxter : drums. David Brown : prepared guitar. Recorded live in concert at l’Usine, Geneva, December 2006 by Adrien Kessler. “Percussive prepared piano... Percussive prepared guitar... Percussive drums... Dense and fascinating progressive pile & tangle of percussive sonorities by one of the best improv trios around, caught live during a dense concert on the black & rock building of l’Usine in Geneva. Great “Percussive” Impro !” Formed in 2002 Pateras-Baxter-Brown have performed countless concerts throughout Australia, New Zealand and Europe, developing a worldwide reputation for their uncompromising, intensely focused and remarkably fluid live shows. Using the unique combinations of prepared piano, prepared guitar and percussion, Pateras-Baxter-Brown allude to numerous traditions of percussive contemporary and traditional music, including contemporary classical chamber music, rarefied improvisation and non-western percussive traditions such as gamelan.”
8,50€
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Francisco MEIRINO
“Untitled phenomenas in concrete”
Composed between 2008 and 2011, “Untitled Phenomenas In Concrete” is a piece made out of 85 HighC/UPIC* sessions and 18 external sounds (recordings of snow falling, bones cracking, magnetic fields and insects). *UPIC is a computerised musical composition tool, devised by the composer Iannis Xenakis. It consists of a digitising tablet linked to a computer, which has a vector display. Interested by Xenakis’ approach and wanting to draw the sound before hearing it, Francisco Meirino spent nearly four years composing/drawing line by line “Untitled Phenomenas In Concrete”, listening to every line, gradually adding on lines and sounds, erasing, reassembling, gathering and discreetly weaving recorded sounds into the piece to “humanise” the whole. As a final touch, the piece was transferred on reel-to-reel tape to add some warmth to the cold digital processing of the UPIC. In short, this is a meticulously created album, the result of which is a completely coherent sound arrangement. Made with great care, “Untitled Phenomenas In Concrete” is a captivating and dense piece, a new gem in the already impressive discography of Francisco Meirino.
15,00€