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LE SON DU GRISLI N°1
“Jedna”
Published in December 2016. French edition. 19 x 21 cm (softcover), 96 pages + 1 tracing paper (b/w ill.). Texts by Guillaume Belhomme, Luc Bouquet, Thomas Millroth, Philippe Robert, Guillaume Tarche, Kasper Toeplitz.
French musical website Le son du grisli now in print version. First issue includes: Jason Kahn, Sven-Åke Johansson, La Monte Young, Nurse With Wound, Zbigniew Karkowski, 1910’s Manifesto of the Futurist Painters…
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Iannis XENAKIS
“Electronic works 2”
NEW: Volume 2 in Mode’s Xenakis Electronic Works series. “Polytope de Cluny” (1972-74) for 8-channel tape. “Hibiki-hana-ma” (1969-70) for 8-channel tape. Mode continues it’s Xenakis Edition with the second volume dedicated to his electronic works, again restored from the best quality source materials. New high-resolution transfers were made of Polytope de Cluny from the original analog master tapes. Hibiki hana ma has been restored from the existing digital masters. Hibiki hana ma was created for Expo 1970 World’s Fair in Osaka, Japan, where it was experienced by thousands. It was designed to be played on a tape loop in a hall which boasted state-of-the-art acoustic equipment, with some 700 speakers scattered under the floor divided plus 128 surface and suspended speakers symmetrically distributed throughout the pavilion’s amphitheatre. Essays by Sharon Kanach and Makis Solomos.
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KROCK
“Välfärdsorkestern”
Krock, an electric guitar quartet with Pascal Jardry, John Viklund, Mikael Gillefalk and Danjel Röhr. They play compositions from Per Magnusson, Ida Lundén, Malin Bång, Tony Blomdahl, Christofer Elgh.
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Girma YIFRASHEWA
“Love and Peace”
Unseen Worlds presents new recordings of solo piano pieces by Ethiopian composer Girma Yifrashewa, the first release of Yifrashewa's music outside of Africa. Born in Addis Ababa in 1967, Girma Yifrashewa is a worthy new torchbearer of African pianism. His highly personalized approach to the piano likens him to Ethiopian composer Emahoy Tsege Mariam, while his use of Ethiopian pentatonic scale within the Western Art Music format places his compositions in conversation with more academically minded work. Traditionally Ethiopian in melody, cinematic in vision, and deep in beauty, his compositions occupy a lyrical middle ground between classical and jazz that is supremely listenable yet defies easy classification.
Beginning his musical life at a young age with the traditional krar (influenced by Ethiopian folk legends like Kassa Tessema) Girma did not discover the piano until he was sixteen years old. He enrolled quickly thereafter in the Yared Music School, eventually earning a scholarship to study at the Sofia Conservatory in Bulgaria. Despite a short period as a refugee in Italy following communism's demise in Bulgaria and the consequent loss of his scholarship, Girma completed his conservatory training in Bulgaria gathered through charitable organizations in direct recognition of his talents. Following the passing of Ethiopian composer Ashenafi Kebede in 1998, Girma moved beyond his conservatory repertoire and began his career as a composer, penning the composition "The Shepherd With The Flute" - an homage to Kebede's most famous work, "The Shepherd Flutist." Since then, Yifrashewa has established himself a pre-eminent composer of Ethiopia, touring Africa and Europe extensively on cultural commissions. The emotional directness and unique quality of his work make it destined for wider popularity, still.
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NID
“Plate tectonics”
“Crawling back into the wound: NID 1995 - 2007. NID is an experimental group whose aim it is to challenge conventional concepts and structures of electronic music by experimenting with the source of sounds. The music is created on the spot, making each performance a genuine and unrepeatable event. It has been described as moving sound-objects, improvised electronic noise, or brooding ambient music. It has been compared to an underwater-journey, a pathway to the inner self. Given enough volume, it certainly affects the body as well as the mind. In which way remains open to the listener’s psyche. NID was formed in 1995. Over the years the core-members have performed in art-galleries, rock-clubs, bars, water-reservoirs, cinemas, as well as at industrial and electronic festivals and in record shops. In 1998 they were invited to play onboard the MS Stubnitz when it was anchored in the harbour of Stockholm as part of the "European Culture Capital" activities. They were also involved in the 2001 Six And More & R:IP jubilees, improvising with 30 other electronic free-jazz musicians. As for the group name… A “nid” is a curse or insult with homosexual connotation that was frequently in use in the Viking age. It brought a depth to the concept of honour and shame. It could be used as a challenge or simply to ridicule another (which was a challenge per se). It could reveal anyone else to be no better than he was, and it undermined social structures. NID disbanded in 2006. Chris Sidgell continues in various projects, most notably his solo project B-Tong. Jürgen Eberhard releases music under the name Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim. This is NID’s one and only proper CD release. The sound on this work may appeal to fans of Lustmord, New Blockaders or collage post-industrial in general-experimental ambient. The music on this CD was recorded live 2004 in Arnheim by Mars Wellink (Vance Orchestra). The cover was done by Katja Wahl. Limited edition of 500 copies, CD in jewel case.”
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TRIAC
“Days”
2015.
Triac is a new trio project led by Rossano Polidoro of former duo TU M’ whose beautiful 2009 sold out LINE release Monochromes Vol.1 (LINE_040) garnered great acclaim.
Days is an album of dazzling yet smooth distant drones that almost hover in the air. The sound of the slowest moving picture and subtle flickering lights beyond it. For listeners who appreciate the works of Celer, William Basinski, and Stephan Mathieu.
Triac is a discrete electronic music trio formed in the end of 2011. Their work also encompasses audiovisual art installations about the relations between sound/space atmospheres and natural elements. Their first album in a room was released in 2014 on Russian label Mikroton.
Music composed and perfomed by Triac. Recorded in 2014. Rossano Polidoro (of TU M’): laptop. Marco Seracini: piano, synth. Augusto Tatone: electric bass.
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Stian SKAGEN
“The inward rising”
“Stian Skagen (b.1980) aka [concept.virus] is one of the leading Scandinavian sound artists and has toured and recorded with acts such as Årabrot, Ryfylke and Nernes/Skagen, his work has been exhibited and performed several places around the world. The music presented on this release was made for the sound installation The Inward Rising by Skagen and fellow artist Monica Winther. The installation was presented at the Henie Onstad Art Centre from the 20th of November until 14th of December 2008. The Inward Rising is according to Skagen the result from a one-year research in paint pigments reflective and absorbing light qualities. LED light was programmed to change the colors reflecting from the painting. Various patterns and color combinations build up a large painting that in constant change as the lights are changing. The object was the source for a sound and video composition. The music on this record is standing in a minimalistic electro-accoustic tradition, inspired by composers such as Morton Subotnick, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis. The sound is digital and abstract, but contains clearly recognizable objects and structures which interacts with one another and makes up an organic whole. The critic Bjørn Hatterud wrote in a review on the piece in kunstkritikk.no that Skagen and Winther …“has created some of the most powerful I’ve experienced in an art museum ever… The sound is murky and dark. I hear trees falling, the roar of waterfalls, creepy creatures, or the roaring emptiness of space…” Prisma Records is proud to present this powerful, dynamic and extreme, yet delicately intricate composition for the first time.”
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Heribert FRIEDL
“Back_Forward”
“This cd is solely based on recordings of the hackbrett (cymbalon). It is a research of playing and digital processing of the instrument itself. The tracks should show the changes of concrete sounds into abstraction, without losing the soul of the sound itself. On BACK_FORWARD musical movement happens in a clearly defined space. Even though the initial point and the endpoint are never the same, the path between is always equal.” Limited edition of 300.
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NO BULLSHIT. A SONIC TRIBUTE TO ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI (1958-2013)
Data DVD with 5 hours of uncompressed audio. Pieces created by friends of the late Zbigniew Karkowski using his music /noise. Compiled between December 2013 and February 2014. Initiated and coordinated by Francisco López. Released in May 2014 (edition 1000 copies) by SONM: Sound Archive of Experimental Music and Sound Art.
With pieces by Tito Diaz, Pablo Reche, Alan Courtis, Francisco Meirino, Eric Mattson, Strom Varx, MAZK (Masami Akita & Zbigniew Karkowski), Thomas BW Bailey, Antoine Chessex, EVOL, He Felt His Body Divide, Una Lee & Peter Wullen, Seitz, Jupitter-Larsen, John Duncan + Zbigniew Karkowski, Carl Michael von Hausswolf, Leif Elggren, Jorge Castro, Eric Lanzillotta, Daniel Menche, Francisco López, Rubén García, Francisco Ali Brouchoud, ruidobello], JGRUU (Luis Alvarado & Ignacio Briceño), Chop Shop, Joachim Montessuis, Amy Denio, Domenico Sciajno, Milos Tatarevic, ILIOS, Le Depeupleur (Zbigniew Karkowski & Kasper T. Toeplitz), Peter Rehberg, Brian O’Reilly, Jorge Haro, Gen Ken Montgomery, Xopher Davidson, Destruction Des Animaux Nuisibles (Marta Sainz-Miguel A Garcia-Enrique Zaccagnini), Michael Gendreau, Gil Kuno, Phill Niblock, Marcus Schmickler, Industria Masoquista, Zbigniew Karkowski & Robert Piotrowicz, Dennis Wong, Dario Moratilla (Games Addiction), Manongo Mujica, Scott Arford, Jorge Vicario, Michael Mykola Haleta, Cal Lyall & Manuel Knapp, Dickson Dee, Zeitkratzer, Aquiles Hadjis, Gustavo Serpa, Piotr Grygor, Damion Romero, Christophe Charles, Robert B. Lisek, Naut Humon, Luis Marte, Marek Choloniewski, Chrs Galarreta, Anton Lukoszevieze, Eduardo Imasaka, Komora A (Karol Koszniec-Dominik Kowalczyk-Jakub Mikolajczyk), Massimo Pupillo.
Any and all income from distribution of any copies of this release will
directly go to Atsuko Nojiri, partner of Zbigniew Karkowski.
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RYKE
“Resuscitation”
“Collaborative work started in 1998 between R.H.Y. Yau (Auscultare & 23Five Inc.) and Kazumoto Endo (Killer Bug) is finally completed in 2006. Harsh spastic action concrete. Housed in a digipak and limited to 360 copies worldwide.”
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Roger DOYLE
“The ninth set”
“Irish composer Roger Doyle’s first release on Die Stadt is his prize-winning work The Ninth Set, a 67 minute masterpiece in 5 parts. He was awarded the Magisterium Prize at this years’s Bourges International Electro-acoustic Music Competition in France for parts 4 and 5. The award, which is one of the most important prizes in the world for electronic music, is open to composers having at least 25 years of professional experience in the field, and its objective is “the promotion and diffusion of works that might become milestones in the history of electroacoustic music”. Previous works of Doyle include a 5-cd set Babel which took ten years to compose, where each track corresponds to a room or place within an imagined tower city; and the 3 hour Passades, music made from software that freezes sounds like a freeze-frame in dvd. He’s also known for his project Operating Theater which released the classic “Rapid Eye Movements” album - consisting of 4 works composed between 1968 1980 - on Steven Stapleton’s (Nurse With Wound) own United Dairies label in 1980. Furthermore he guested on Fovea Hex’s “neither speak nor remain silent” EP number 2 “Huge”, alongside among others Clodagh Simonds, Brian Eno, Percy Jones and Colin Potter. The cd comes in a color digipack in a first edition of 600 copies.”
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Kevin DRUMM – Jason LESCALLEET
“The abyss”
The label doesn’t want to do notes anymore about his new releases. So we have to write some with our very good English.
When you read the two names, you already can get an idea ! But it will be wrong. No way to fix what they are doing. Great and unexpected.
Kevin Drumm, guitar, piano, electronics, tapes. Jason Lescalleet, hammond 136J, casio SK5, amplified objects, tapes, dell xps.
When you read the two names, you already can get an idea ! But it will be wrong. No way to fix what they are doing. Great and unexpected.
Kevin Drumm, guitar, piano, electronics, tapes. Jason Lescalleet, hammond 136J, casio SK5, amplified objects, tapes, dell xps.
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Ronnie SUNDIN
“Morphei”
Ronnis Sundin a composé la bande son d’un rêve imaginaire où le temps semble se ralentir et s’arrêter, où la pesanteur semble disparaître, où la...
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SINISTRI
“Free pulse”
Sinistri, formerly known as Starfuckers, is an experimental music unit based in Italy. Starting from an original, raw, minimal and high power approach to the rock language, they soon developed a personal direction exploring the space between proto-punk, black roots and contemporary classical music. Sinistri is a trio who uses electric, electronic and acoustic instruments, operating under the principles of intuitive music, exploiting asyncrony and non-metrical rhythms. Sinistri’s music comes out from an evolving process and appears like a steady aperiodic pulsation which filters, through a minimal rock perspective, archetypal prototypes and elements from jazz, funk, blues, concrete and electro-acoustic music.
Personnel: Manuele Giannini: guitar, amps, echoplex, wah, speaker, computer; Alessandro Bocci: computer, sampler, mixer, synth, turntables; Roberto Bertacchini: drums; Dino Bramanti: real-time processing-live mixing, sampling, MaxMSP code.
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Alexandre SAINT-ONGE
“Kasi naigo”
.....kasi naigo is a sound study of Ingmar Bergman’s Tystnaden (The Silence) and the silence of the Other...the object itself is a compression of an impossible space through the trituration of a gesture-the infinite as a question... A singular blast of air interchanged with a hollow, crackly static drone are almost constant through this, disc, and they serve to create an eerie, lonely, wide-open silence... This disc is expansive, tense, terrifying and subtle (Boss Sambosa, The Montreal Mirror).
CD in jewel case, front and back plastic covers marked with repetitive obsessional hand gestures using sharp object done in sync with film’s chronological clock.
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Alexandre ST-ONGE
“Joseph Carey Merrick”
SPECIAL CLEARANCE PRICES. “Welcome to eveyone for this CD Launch, the 22nd and the first of Alexandre St-Onge on Montrteal label Oral. This work is singular, vivid and direct, the 3 parts are glued together as a sound jewel. Following his tribute to Joseph Carey Merrick, composed and played at Epoxy 5 by Alexandre St-Onge in Montreal, May 2007, this not to be missed cd builds a relationship in between two monsters with deep feelings : the author and the man whom filmaker David Lynch immortalized in his movie The Elephant Man.”
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MØHR – MAEROR TRI
“Hafenstadt”
Release date: 27.01.2015. Digipak designed by Tilmann Benninghaus. Limited to 500 copies.
“This music was originally planned to form a part of the third tape box in the Møhr interpretation series of ZNS Tapes. In this series different artists got an individual 30-minutes-piece of basic material by Møhr to be interpreted it in any way: Using it as a backing tape and adding some more tracks, getting inspired and doing something unique in the spirit of the basic material, deconstruct and arrange it anew. The invited artists had any opportunity to re-work the source material. For the actual release the basic material was placed on side A and the interpretation on side B, enabling the listener to compare the basic and the final sound. Three tapes were compiled as one tape box linked by a loose theme. The first box, Bürokratie, contained works by Das Konzentrat, Bestattunginstitut and Suicide Commando (released in 1990), the second, Kulturschock, contained works by Andrew Chalk / Darren Tate, Ectoplasmic Embryo Experience and Flagrants D’eli (released in 1991). The third one, which was to contain Hafenstadt by Maeror Tri (as well as material of PBK and The Haters), has never been released due to the sudden end of ZNS Tapes. We're convinced that this combination of basic stuff plus musical reworking is still an interesting and exciting experience for the audience, maybe especially after more than 20 years in the archives”. (Andreaz Vogel)
Møhr existed between 1986 and 1994 as the solo project of Andreaz Vogel.
Previously he had been active as a bass player and drummer in various post punk and noise rock groups.Since its inception the main aim with Møhr was
to create a dense and energetic sound without the use of conventional instruemnts. With this wall of sound the listeners were almost under attack and forced into a dark and brooding listening environment, both on the recordings and in the live situation. Andreaz also ran the important tape label ZNS recordings.
Maeror Tri existed from April 1988 to the end of 1996, coming from the very
north-western part of Germany. The three members were influenced by (post)
industrial, noise rock and experimental ambient and found a way to establish
their very own drone based style, using often guitars but also other instruments plus all kinds of (self build) objects and masses of sound effects. Their symbol, the triangle “Wheel” stood for “consciousness”, moving & shining in different colours and speed. The sound was meant as a tool for the listener to open the mind for transcension & sensitization: 'We want to transmit a total openness, the bursting and overcoming of all mental barriers, the breaking out of the enforced subject “Tunnel-Reality” of modern society. Out of Maeror Tri evolved the project Troum that is still very active.
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Phil JULIAN
“Trace”
Phil Julian is a UK based sound artist, composer and improviser active since the late 1990’s, with a prolific output under the Cheapmachines alias and his own name. His work has been released on a catalogue of imprints and encompasses sonic textures ranging from harsh squalls of noise to compositions structured around hyper-minimalistic timbres and drones. Studio recordings and live performances within Europe and North America have focused on the use of electronics, particularly unstable and-or chaotic systems e.g. modular synthesisers, feedback, contact microphones, objects and surfaces and computer based works.
“Trace” was recorded at Stockholm’s EMS Elektronmusikstudion during Julian’s Guest Composer residency in 2013. Using a combination of the vintage analogue equipment at EMS and various computer processes, the material on “Trace” was recorded and mixed specifically for diffusion over the Audiorama 17.4 surround sound system, custom built and installed inside the commissioned torpedo workshop on Skeppsholmen island in Stockholm. “Open Form” which takes up the A side of the release is made up of much shorter pieces recorded
over the two week residency. “Corona” is an improvised piece using analogue electronics only and “Arrival” uses a custom computer patch alongside a complex set of processes running on the huge EMS Buchla synthesiser.
The recordings combine the dynamics and space associated with modern composition and electroacoustic works with the density and abrasive qualities more often encountered in noise and contemporary computer music.
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Mahine ROUHI et Olivier FOUCHARD
“Yad”
Super 8 and video with images made in the mountains around Grenoble and all edited at home. Music taken from Ground Zero, Antez, Tibet’s Bonpos, Ali Reza Mashayeki, Ulan Bator. This film is a poem about life and death, life and war. Now it exists also with English subtitles.
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Dave PHILLIPS
“Field recordings”
“This is a co-release with Tochnit Aleph. Recorded by Dave Phillips, January-March 2001 and January-February 2004. These recordings have been equalized, other than they have been left es arecorded. No mixing, no layering, non normalization or compression, no effects nor any other additions or manipulations. All cuts are indexed. Play loud. Alternate playback through earphones is highly recommended. Seriously.”
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KOMMISSAR HJULER – Mama BÄR – Ninni MORGIA – Silvia KASTEL
“Live in Edinburgh”
In April 2011 the two couples formed by Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer and Ninni Morgia & Silvia Kastel ventured for a tour in the UK; it was the first time they played together but their shared common visions, attitude and general craziness actually gave life to an inspired team. Every show was different; in Edinburgh, they decided to perform a piece originally written by Ninni Morgia & Silvia Kastel, "Jericho", that Papa Baer liked. So before the show, the group pre-recorded a tape in a big theater-like room inside the venue, with a spoken version of the lyrics. On stage, Mama Baer projected a video made by her, depicting the four of them standing against a wall; the music starts off with Kommissar manipulating the tape, then the actual "Jericho" lyrics are sung by Mama Baer and Silvia Kastel while Ninni Morgia’s bends, buffs and brushes his guitar and Kastel’s synthesizer starts growling out of the monster’s belly. Tension, discomfort, love, pain, theatre? music? art? Four people, each of them immolates themselves for the cause.
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COMPILATION
E84
Mecha/Orga (Greece). Mecha/Orga is the project of Yiorgis Sakellariou. Since its inception in 2003, Yiorgis has released a number of albums and performed his work internationally. He is actively involved with contemporary and experimental music in Greece through his CD-R label Echo Music and as a member of the Centre of Contemporary Music Research and the Hellenic Electroacoustic Composers Association. Adam Asnan (UK). This work, as its title suggests, can be best described as a presentation of materials analogous to a grumble, rustle, gurgle or rasp. As the dialogue and interplay between these materials takes form,
periodic lapses give way to variations of perceived obedience and stillness. The retention and encouragement of selected artifacts produced by technological idiosyncrasies or human agency in operation) provide for extra dimensions of punctuation, interruption and diversion. By allowing the sounds of the apparatus to remain, a juxtaposition between the acousmatic window and its inherent
artificiality is suggested. With a predilection for the classic theoretical/aesthetic framework of musique concrète, Adam’s work focuses primarily on the variable natures of sound capture, exploration and projection, often utilising the playback device and/or loudspeaker as an instrument in itself. Pauwel De Buck (Belgium). Neenah Foundry is a multi-channel composition constructed from field recordings which were made in the courtyard of an apartment building and in the cafeteria of Sint-Lukas art academy in Gent. The premise for this work was the contrast between these two sound environments. Due to the enclosed nature of these spaces, the surrounding sounds of the city were heavily filtered; only a residue was audible in the courtyard. The overpopulated cafeteria, in combination with its bad acoustics, created a complex frame of sound reflections and textures. Joshua Convey (USA). New York-based Joshua Convey creates textural, rhythmic and, perhaps surprisingly, melodic compositions by weaving traditional instrumentation (guitar, harmonica), field recordings and electronics to create moody tension between the different sounds. Joshua is also a member of Fessenden, a trio with Stephen Fiehn and Haptic’s Steven Hess.
Adrián Democ (Slovakia). For flute, soprano and string quartet. Adrián begun studying composition in Brno (Czech Republic) in 2003. Since then, his work has been commissioned and performed across Europe. He is also an improvising player of the fujara and other traditional Slovakian wind instruments. Mastered by Themistoklis Pantelopoulos. Edition of 500 copies.
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