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Lee Kwang GOH & Tim BLECHMANN
“Findars”
“Recorded earlier this year at the Finders Art Space in Kuala Lumpur, home base of Goh Lee Kwang and his Herbal International empire. The cover doesn’t mention what kind of instruments were used here, but me thinks there is Goh Lee Kwang’s turntable and no-input mixer and Blechmann’s lptop and software (free from the internet and/or self-built), but all of this is based upon earlier works by both. The recording lasts thirty-six minutes and while I like what I hear, I am not sure if it justifies to be released as a CD; Goh Lee Kwang also has a CDR division for more impromptus live recordings, called Theme Park. But something must have been captivating enough to put it on CD. There is a busy drone here, I assume from laptop and sound effects, along with the likewise busy manipulation of the stylus, feeding into a DJ mixer and maybe more effects. It’s intense music, with a mildly distorted edge to it, but it’s never loud, noisy or truly distorted, although I can imagine that in this Finders Art Space it might have sounded all quite loud and oppressive. It's solid, it's consistent, it's improvised (including flaws that may bring) and, as said, it's quite nice. Play loud for an optimum result”. (Vital, Frans De Waard)
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Claudio ROCCHETTI & Klaus JANEK
“Reisenotizen – Aus Dem Land Der Mitte”
Klaus Janek plays processed doublebass. Claudio Rocchetti processes fieldrecording and feedbacks. This recording contains sounds by Li Zenghui, Yan Jun, Stephen Roach, Feng Hao, Liu Xinyu, Torturing Noise, Sin:Ned. Recorded during August 2011 In China, Hong Kong and Malaysia.
Original price was: 15,00€.5,00€Current price is: 5,00€.
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Seijiro MURAYAMA
“Broken iteration”
“The Japanese percussion player who lives in Europe has three fields of interest: 1, non-idiomatic improvisation (that includes idiomatic researches about it, or workshops on it). 2, electro acoustic composition. 3, plural disciplinary collaboration (with words, images, body movements etc) and it would seem to me that these four pieces here are a combination of 1 and 2. […] Murayama’s playing is very minimal and we do recognize indeed the element of percussion instruments, and Murayama explores his instruments with great care.
It has a fine meditative character this music and it explores in depth the textures of the instruments. Murayama doesn’t use his drum parts as a drum kit, but plays one or two separate elements with brushes, sticks or objects and explores them.” FdW in Vital
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