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Tetuzi AKIYAMA & Michel HENRITZI
“Broken Blues”
Reissue of an ultra-limited cdr that popped out quietly on absurd in 2007, this record finds Tetuzi Akiyama and Michel Henritzi joining strengths for a singular set of guitar music recorded at the Alchemy Music Store in Osaka.
Captured during the heyday of stylised and pensive improvisation, the music here breaks protocol by avoiding some of the more polite mannerisms of the genre. What starts as a coarse yet beautiful duet of sparse melodic fragments, soon brings into fold the systematic undoing of the bodies of the two guitars themselves. Putting drills, hammers, nails, screws and saws into good use, and with maximum amplification, the two artists manage to bridge the distance between the freely atonal sketches of post-Derek Bailey guitar music and the Fluxus tradition of more overtly disruptive actions. In the process, they craft a singular work that, through raw tactile means, channels some of the violence and expressiveness that runs deep throughout the long tradition of guitar music.
Edition of 192 hand-stamped numbered copies.
15,00€
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2 CD
Michael ADAMIS
“A selection of electroacoustic works 1964 – 1977”
Michael Adamis (1929 - 2013). “Absolutely essential release of one of the most prominent personalities in the music world. Michael Adamis was recognised as a pioneering composer who created a contemporary musical genre upon the Greek tradition. He has managed to create an original electroacoustic soundscape, leaving a clear aesthetic mark among contemporary and Byzantine music. These works offer a remarkable example of his pioneering and diverse creative course, revealing a search for new means of expression. Tape, voice, distortion, concrete and electronic sounds, use of early synths. For the first time a Super Deluxe 2 CD & Booklet edition is released with a selection of previously unreleased electroacoustic works from the 1964-1977 period.” “Minyrismos” (1966) for tape, “Glaros II” (1977-2006) for flute and tape, “Piece one” (1964) for tape, “Piece two” (1964) for tape, “Lament” (1970) for two psaltes, two isokrates, percussion and tape, “Kratema” (1971) for psaltis, oboe, tuba and electroacoustic. “Proschemata” (1964) for tape, “Endon” (2001) for alto saxophone and electroacoustic, “Paegma” (1976) for tape, “Iphigenia in Aulis” (1970) for tape, “Kraterna” (2001) for psaltis, oboe, tuba and electroacoustic.
25,00€