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Well here it is - after many moons of waiting, faffing about, walking the line, singing in time and various other 'sports and entertainments' we have a spiffy new web page... it's on!
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Thanks for swinging by.... mk
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goodness!!
thanks to simon karis for this link
mothers against noise!
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BBC Radiophonic Workshop doco!
Here's a link to a top notch doco on the BBC Radiophonic workshop... Magnetic tape ahoy!
Alchemists of Sound
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3RRR - Wake in Fright
Synaesthesia records presents 'Wake in Fright': A weekly radio show on 3rrr melbourne. Sunday night/Monday morning's midnight till 2am.
This is also streamed live, check:
http://www.rrr.org.au/onair.php?pid=87
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New SynRecords.com Site Launches!!!
Finally! Our new site rolls out...
Big thanks to Tony and H4!
H4.com.au
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ARTICULATING SPACE: FESTIVAL OF EXPLORATORY MUSIC »
22ND - 24TH JANUARY 2005
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THE NOW NOW FESTIVAL - Sydney 2006 »
18 - 21 JANUARY
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Just Arrived
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JOSEF ANTON RIEDL (CDR)
Goddamn... this one is currently blowing my mind - hard to elicit just what exactly is causing the little hairs on the back of my neck to stand at attention, something to do with the complex blend of sound-poetry/anti-music/performance art & expert tape manipulation... originally released on wergo in 1971, this is an overview of the work of noted berlin-based composer josef anton riedl up to that point. easily one of the best “sounding” creel pones due to mr. p.c. c.p.’s continued efforts towards improving his spec. - creel pone
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Electronic Music 1: La Legende d'Eer
VACLAV NELHYBEL (CDR)
This could very well be the most obscure creel pone yet... a 1966 10” record by vaclav nelhybel during which the composer/performer does ravage dissonant cheap electronic organ & piano clusters & occasional instrumentation through ancient waves of tape delay & other early electronic modifiers... not unlike a library-music version of gene moore’s score for “carnival of souls”, albeit with implicit extra-orbital connotations... decidedly alien; wholly evocative...
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Who are they? where do they come from? why are they here? (dialogue in space)
THE INSIDE OF THE OUTSIDE / OR THE OUTSIDE OF THE INSIDE (CDR)
Incredible what the? private press re-issue. This one is right up our alley sounding (if you can trust us). Somewhat like a mix of Joe meek's greatest 'out' moments and the sparse cut up melody of the "ghostbox/focus group" scene. This is just perfect outside experimental music with unusual instrumentation and unexpected shifts. gold!
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Anthology of dutch electronic tape music volume "
VARIOUS (2CD)
in response to the interest volume one reaching near-epic proportions, the ever-so-kind folks over at creel pone have graced up with the second and final volume of this series, featuring one piece by each of the composers who completed a work at a dutch electro-acoustic music studio between 1966 and 1977; the trend of progression from zonked sound-therapy/experimentation into more long-form, cinematic work is evident throughout. just as amazing as volume 1; more completely necessary emanations from the hinter/nether-lands...
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TOD DOCKSTADER (CDR)
Recent claims made re: dockstader’s absence from the public eye since releasing his owl-label lps in the late 60s are somewhat off... in 1979 this lp was released on the boosey & hawkes library music label consisting of a spate of sound-queues made by mr. dockstader for production/documentary use. i will say this; this sounds like no other dockstader recording you’ve heard. personally, i think it’s amazing and way ahead of its time, but i could understand if others out there are a bit befuddled by the music on the lp in question; mostly short (<2 minutes) rhythmic / melody-oriented modular-synth studies coming across like a paleozoic aphex twin (and i know people often say “xXx sounds like aphex twin” as that’s the sole reference point they have in discussing contemporary experimental electronic music... give me the benefit of the doubt (you’ve probably gathered that my vocabulary re: electronic music is slightly more... verbose)... still... this really does sound like “afx”-era aphex twin, quite a bit - staggeringly so given the 15-odd-year divide.) there are a couple of “fat brass synth-fanfares for sci-fi” kind of queues, but for every one of those there’s a drifting filtered white-noise beast or high-resonance/q oscillating beat with crazy atonal triplet-feel melodies that just hits home...
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Reflecting on the first watch, we uncover treasure buried for the blind
CELLUTRON AND THE INVISIBLE (CDR)
Originally released in 1978 on the northfield, vermont based green mountain records, “cellutron & the invisible” is (apparently) the brain-child of one robert s. greely. i’ve tried my usual sources for more information, but all i get are dead links and references to the lp itself... in my mind, this is right up there with the continuum of weirdo 60s/70s outsider private-press electronic-psych fuh - think intersystems (specifically), spoils of war, nic “pascal” raicevic, etc... plenty of basement modular-synth spew coupled with chemically-derived “outsider poetry” and a few flourishes of psych-guitar for the “heads.”
If synth-drippings & zonked guitar/wordplay from a set of northern/deep woods dwelling longhairs doesn’t sound like a variant on your ideal “thing”, well, then i’ll be a digital readout hum...
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Carrefour - musique électro-acoustique
VARIOUS (CDR)
Very interesting mid-70s rundown of the “psychedelic era” québécois electro-acoustic composer-scene; contains pieces by the well-known (hugh lecaine) to the time-obscured (just about everyone else including the recently re-discovered micheline coulombe st. marcoux.) especially strong pieces include peter huse’s “space play” from 1969 (again: space + early electronix = winner, every time), michel pongtin’s “la mart du pierrot”, and of course the st. marcoux & lecaine pieces. occasional mis-steps hurt the head (i could do without the recast wedding march in the pedersen piece, although parts of it are extremely edit-heavy, also the synth sounds in the david paul piece are dated; and i’m not talking about the upside of dated synth sounds...) but do not cloud the overall vision. leave it to mr. p.c. c.p. to trawl the globe, slowly enlightening us to the goings on in electronic music studios the world over, one era/studio/batch/record at a time...
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FRANCIS PLAGNE (CD)
16 tracks from young buck, keen bean, Melbourne lad Francis Plagne. Bedroom explorations of a melodic and destructive nature. Multi-tracked popped chops sing songs you need to hear! Trust us. This journey will take you two folds in, quite possibly three or four. Again, trust us! there is no sacrifice for you here, fair listener. What lies here within is one man barber shop pop music, klangtankerous improv, concrete joy and heavenly hell. All you need to do is press play. Press play, sit back and enjoy the day. A boy once spoke of fish in a manner that shook the very foundations of fish culture. "Idle Bones", the cd (and limited lp), is a creature of such a nature that it bears no relation to said disturbance of said fish. Please embrace and wrap your friends around the melodic-pop-concrete-machine-improv tunes + non-tunes within.
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EUGENE CARCHASIO (3"CDR)
Mr E's most recent recording and his first 'available' work since the landmark DNE LP released in 1990. 'Garden of souls' seamlessly melds his recent explorations of percussion and electronic sound in a typically playful suite of organic and minimal compositions. Another small but precious drop in the pond. - kindling
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VOLCANO THE BEAR (10")
Re-stock of this somewhat ignored classic release by one of our favourtie what the? acts of recent times...
Hard to pin down the deep psych, cracked improv, spacious drone, surrealist/dada pop and general playful passionate exploration. Really hard to explain this one in words, but suffice to say this comes highly recommened for those interested in outer limit outsider gold.
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VARIOUS (3LP)
1980/1981-25th anniversary 3-lp-box set - limited to 500 copies
members of the group p.d. (later renamed p16.d4) founded the label selektion in 1980. using the name wahrnehmungen the label released 19 cassettes in 1980/1981. the tapes mostly presented experimental projects by members of the group and their collaborators. this set features 5 of these cassettes, each taking one lp-side. lp-side 6 can be seen as a virtual cassette: p16.d4 recordings from 1981, here released for the first time ever.
incl. ertrinken vakuum:kurzschluss ,lll: permutative distorsion:der apathische alptraum,p16.d4: (members will furthermore receive an exclusive 2-track 7" with outtakes from p16.d4«s "distruct"-project, recorded 1983 incl. material by r.rupenus / bladder flask and sea wanton / ntl, lmtd. 250)
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DOUBLE LEOPARDS (CD)
It's been a busy years for these folks ... 3 'official' releases. This being the latest and yes, it's quite a menancing number indeed. Deep sludge, dark drone, dense texture hinting at violence, tension and all things black and blue. The leopards really have developed a sound of their own which hints at disparete threads such as minimal improv, noise, 20th classical, rock and electronic mayhem. As usual the source of these sounds is hard to pinpoint and this may be where their 'secret' lies. A more menacing affair than the recent Eclipse LP (which we consider a bleak minimal masterpiece) - this is one to frighten friends, family and customers (as has proven the case in the shop of late) !
"A Hole Is True smothers all light as it burrows into the bowels of the earth below. Chord organs, plastic toys, and wind chimes lurch along with cymbals, guitars, strings, and an assortment of menacing sounds." - troubleman
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Love Peace And Poetry - Turkish Psychedelic Music
VARIOUS (CD)
A psychedelic trip to Turkey. The music recently got a lot of attention in the music scene, most of all because Turkish musicians found a way to combine traditional eastern melodies with modern western underground sounds. This album covers a range of all rare albums recorded in Turkey with artists such as: Selda, Özdemir Erdogan, Alpay, Mazhar ve Fuat, Erkin Koray, Ersen, Edip Akbayram, Hardal, Erol Büyükburc, Cem Karaca, Üc Hürel, Baris Manco, Mogollar, Bülent Ortacgil and Erkut Tackin.
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TERRACID (CDR)
More psychedelic bleeding from Michael Donnely's solo outfit. Following with the 'hard to pin down' nature of other Terracid releases this number takes the listener further out of reality. Mellow echo percussion and swirling synths, unholy drum frenzy, in the red acid acoustica etc ... human theatre at it's finest.
"Soil then fatness of thinking although the top of the skull is better letting the light out". - mymwly
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MERZBOW (CD)
Another wild and wonderful celebration of noise from the singular Japanese pioneer who started it all. Active in live noise electronics since 1978, Akita Masami is an international cult figure, and for his second Tzadik release we are once again treated to music unlike anything he has ever done before. Mixing a whole new world of acoustic percussion and drumming into his enormous arsenal of analog and digital noise makers, Sphere is one of Merzbow’s most startling and unique creations. A powerful symphony of noise.
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WARREN JEPSON (CDR)
Purportedly the score to a 1971 ballet by carlos carvajal, totentanz overwhelms us with its mystery while revealing only the most gratifying collection of sounds from every aspect that the creel pone series has covered thusfar...
The a-side piece contains a long section of tape-based concrète; lo-fi pre-industrial thudding, dissonant piano stabs. and much repetition (you’ll want to crawl inside this bit and never come out...) - this gives way to a great blast of weird-synth patterns that closes out the side... on the flip there’s even further mystery layers, which slowly give way to the most amazing bit of terry riley lineage repetitive minimal synth figuring and blasted spring reverb & gated riffing. completely awe-inspiring, with a demonic-looking cover to boot (depicting some sort of skeletons-and-ghouls-as-wedding-processional ceremony no less.) easily of the most intruiging creel pones yet... - creel pone
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EGGHATCHER (CDR)
'cat's ear' is a beautiful journey through processed buzzing drones, field recordings, inclings of folk guitar and so much more. there has been a flood of brilliant releases by robert through various labels such as foxglove, JYRK, 267-lattajjaa, celebrate psi phenomena, new american folk hero, barl fire, important, outa and now spanish magic. robert records under his own name, egghatcher, and future ears. this mystery man was the founding member of the appliances, part of san francisco’s first wave of punk bands in 1979 and he is currently a member of kyrgyz, beautiful friend, infinite article, broken mask, and has released a duo with charalambides tom carter. robert horton is indeed a beautiful friend.
limited to 100 copies
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SALVATORE MARTIRANO (CDR)
This wasted slab of late 60s aggro-politco tape-collage blends "of the era" topics and psychotropic noise, consisting almost entirely of slowed down screaming. it just has to be heard to be believed... - creel pone
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parmak çocuk (müzikli ve oyunlu masal)
SOLMAZ SPOREL (CDR)
There’s no explicit date, but i’m guessing this is a mid-60s 7” (released only in turkey) with solmaz sporel reading a fairly tale by the brothers grimm over a completely amazing musique concrète tape-backing (produced at the columbia-princeton electronic music center in new york no less.) personally, i think this is one of the most gratifyingly zonked things i’ve ever heard (having much to do with the language barrier and general over-the-top vocalizations by child voice-actors)... although i’ll understand if its a bit of a stretch for some. those who felt the vibrations from the arthuys creel pone (i.e. recitations of children’s stories with musique concrète accompaniment) will find much to rejoice over here... - creel pone
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MATSUO ONO / TAKEHISA KOSUGI (CDR)
A reproduction of a 1979 victor label reissue of a 1975 lp on the legendary alm label featuring a series of short tape music experiments, recorded between 1963 and 1966 by matsuo ono, with assistance from none other than takeisha kosugi. the artwork and libretto on the lp are full of references to “atom” (better known to westerners as “astro boy”), a mid-60s japanese cartoon to which many of these tape-sounds were used as sound effects and incidental music... pretty incredibly given how zonked & explosion-oriented these short pieces are.
The whole thing comes across as an earlier, analog version of jean-claude risset’s catalogue of computerized sound synthesis (i.e. each cue is announced beforehand by a loud/distorted japanese voice solely in the right/left channel.) as the record progresses, the jabs get longer and longer, until morphing into a suite of fully realized, multi edit-per-second blasts & cosmic drift that rival only the earliest wdr & ina-grm lineage tape-music etudes. one of the key pieces historical japanese electronic music puzzle, entirely fantastic & completely necessary... - creel pone
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PEP LAGUARDA TAPINERIA (CD)
"Digipack edition of this fantastic Spanish folk-rock record. This, the only album released by Pep Laguarda, was originally released in 1978 on the Ocre label (a sub-label of the infamous Belter), and today more than ever gets amazing reviews and feedback everywhere. Pep was helped by people like Daevid Allen and Pau Riba on this legendary album. Musically, it's the very highlight in the Spanish folk-rock history; melodic, hippie, well-crafted and with a strong Mediterranean feel, all these songs seem to be as young as they were in 1978."
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SUN RA (LP)
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Fourth album in this ultra-deluxe (and fully authorized) Sun Ra/El Saturn reissue program by Artyard. Originally issued as El Saturn 101679, recorded on 10/16/79, never reissued before in any form. "On Jupiter is near ideal as an introduction to the musical worlds of Sun Ra. It has a magical mix of colours from Sun Ra's varied palette. Beneath its compelling surface lie many layers of musical detail, and numerous hints as to where Sun Ra was coming from and where he was heading. It combines real depth with beauty and hits you the first time you hear it. On Jupiter represents Sun Ra's closest encounter with the world of disco. In the late 1970s he made other albums which also gesture in this direction -- Lanquidity has a jazz-rock feel while remaining firmly part of the Ra omniverse, this is true too of Disco 3000 despite its title. On Jupiter really has only one track which fits the 'disco' tag -- 'UFO' -- but this piece is such a strong statement that it becomes the centre of gravity of the album. The title track, 'On Jupiter,' features Marshall Allen's oboe and Sun Ra's piano, along with guitars and bass and multi-layered percussion. This is the first appearance on record of this piece, afterwards to remain a frequently performed item in the Arkestra's book. Sun Ra would reportedly rehearse his band to the point of exhaustion, but in the studio his was usually a one-take approach, close to a concert performance. This did not necessarily mean that every album appeared in the form it was recorded. On Jupiter, like Lanquidity (but unlike Disco 3000, essentially a live recording) owes a lot of its final sound to post-production. The album was mixed by Michael Ray, who layered in prerecorded material with that produced in the studio -- Sun Ra sent Ray back to the Arkestra base during the mixing session, and Ray returned with 'a handful of tapes.' Close listening would suggest that some of the guitar and percussion and possibly some vocals were added in this way." -- Chris Trent. All Artyard Sun Ra LP releases are issued in cooperation with ESP-Disk and Ihnfinity Is, along w/ the approval of Marshall Allen & the current members of the Arkestra.
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Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset
ALVARIUS B (LP)
The first Alvarius B. full-length release in 7 years. According to the brief statement on the insert this is a collection of songs seemingly based on actual, but unnamed, shady characters of the global underworld past and present. Regardless of intent, this is cryptic folk music of the highest order, with several tracks employing folk/rock/psych orchestrations featuring the talents of Eyvind Kang, Tim Young, Richard Bishop, Andrew McGinnis and Randall Dunn. Twisted Americana folklore breeds with baroque Italian cinematic pop, dark ballads, and vagrant story lines. Eleven unique and varied tracks and the most "produced" Alvarius B. record to date.
Limited edition one-time pressing of 1000 vinyl LPs with lyric sheet insert.
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TORI KUDO / LA CONSUMPTION 4 (LP)
Archive LP of material recorded by Tori Kudo and some fellow travellers during a stay in New York in the Summer of 1981. Originally released on cassette the approach on these recordings was a long way from the creepy organ driven "Noise Tenno" LP that Tori and Reiko released a year earlier. About half of 'Atlantic City' consists of songs, teeth bared and falling apart as they come together but still in a style similar to Tori's subsequent work with Maher Shalal Hash Baz. The other half is made up mostly of extended guitar jams nodding equally to rock and blues but retaining Tori's rather unique take on the idioms. Cover and insert art on the LP is adapted from drawings drawn and photos taken in NY and Atlantic City in 1981.
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KEITH ROWE / SACHIKO M / TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA / OTOMO YOSHIHIDE (3CD)
Keith Rowe guitar, electronics
Sachiko M sine waves, contact microphone on objects
Toshimaru Nakamura no-input mixing board
Otomo Yoshihide electric guitar, turntables
ErstLive 005 is from the quartet of Keith Rowe, Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura, and Otomo Yoshihide, the centerpiece show of AMPLIFY 2004: addition, the "four hour quartet". ErstLive 005 contains three individually packaged slimline CDs in a slipcase with original artwork by Keith Rowe, which wraps around the entire box, front, side, and back, as well as liner notes from all four musicians and numerous pictures from Yuko Zama. ErstLive 005 documents only the second performance of this quartet, after a brief set in Cologne the week before.
One thing I can say for sure is that the boundary between listening to this CD and playing this music is totally dissolved, and there is only a difference of time and space where the sounds are heard.-Otomo Yoshihide
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VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA (CD)
"This is music as a shamanic aid, made as much for the players themselves as for the listeners. But as I’m writing from the listening perspective, I have to inform y’all that this is music to get you there. Every track sounds as though it has always just ‘been there’, it’s just you ain’t quite tuned into its peculiar frequency until now. The 12-and-a-half minute Wearing Clothes of Ash is like a piano-led PARADIESWARTS DUUL-period drone-a-thon with John Cale and Terry Riley guesting on viola and keys. Following this, the sublime Baptism Bar Blues is proof positive that they can rock the riot house with pure adrenaline rush when the decision is made. Indeed, this track is magnificent and should be available to the masses free or in pill form." Julian Cope
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VARIOUS (3CD)
"gold leaf branches" is a massive collection. it is an undertaking that is years in the making, one that often looked as though it would never be completed. but after endless hours of emailing, calling, and generally harrassing the 59 artists presented here, "gold leaf branches" is complete. this is a compilation with two simple motives: to collect as much of the music i love from all over the globe in one place and to expose as many people as possible to numerous outstanding artists they might not have heard. "gold leaf branches" succeeds with flying colors. of the 59 tracks here, all but one are exclusive to this release. marissa nadler's song also appears on her latest album, "the saga of mayflower may," while an alternate version of six organs of admittance's "thousand birds" appears on "dark noontide."
complete artist list: Six Organs of Admittance, Kuupuu, Annelies Monseré, Courtis, Charalambides, Elephant Micah, WOLFMANGLER, Visitations, James Blackshaw, Hala Strana, Lamppukello, Claypipe, The North Sea, Kulkija, The Magickal Folk of the Faraway Tree, Hertta Lussu Ässä, Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood, Terracid, Agitated Radio Pilot, Pefkin, 6majik9, Anvil Salute, Rameses III, The Lost Domain, Keijo, Hush Arbors, The Gray Field Recordings, Stuart Busby, The Juniper Meadows, Snake Oil, Robert Horton, Master QSH, Braspyreet, Xenis Emputae Travelling Band, Silvester Anfang, Lau Nau, The Does, Maniacs Dream, Wood & Wand featuring the Rose, Jani H, Oxblood Reincarnations, The Golden Oaks, Plat Ypus, Drekka, itdreamedtome, Timothy, Revelator, Dead Raven Choir, Snowfoxx, Wax Ghost, Friendly Keys, The Weird Weeds (The Laudable Pus), M. Jarvis & A. Jarvis, Leighton Craig & Eugene Carchesio, Nick Castro (w/ B'eirth), Alligator Crystal Moth, Keijo & the Free Players, Marissa Nadler, Soarwhole, & Mike Tamburo.
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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (2LP)
album and more than a year of snowballing momentum, Animal Collective return with an eagerly-anticipated new album -- a truly stunning, inviting, often heart-warming experience. Feels is the band's seventh album to date -- their sophomore effort for FatCat -- and sees them again kicking off from their previous release to explore another different direction. Where Sung Tongs was largely acoustic-based and the product of just two members of the Collective (Avey Tare and Panda), Feels is in contrast a full group effort (also including Geologist and Deakin). Moving further away from the suggestion of folkish affinities; it is electrified, rhythmically more urgent, and overall a considerably denser work. Those sweet melodies and big catchy hooks remain intact, and the songwriting is once again bold, brave and adventurous, as ever indelibly stamped with their own unique personality. Hugely inventive and tightly focused, Feels simply sounds like nothing else right now."
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4G (2CD)
The Four Gentlemen of the guitar are: Keith Rowe: guitar, electronics; Oren Ambarchi: guitar, electronics; Christian Fennesz: guitar, computer; Toshimaru Nakamura: no input mixing board. "In mid-2004, they formed the Four Gentlemen of the Guitar (4g), and played a series of shows in Europe and Canada, three of which are contained on Cloud. The underlying concept of 4g is to unite four artists who each began their musical explorations as guitarists, keeping that mindset as a crucial underpinning of their work as they've each explored increasingly abstract territory, both with and without guitars. Cloud contains three performances (from Vand'ouevre, Paris and Victoriaville) from their seven city tour, totalling over two hours of music. The widely differing aesthetics of the four musicians meld fluidly, forming hovering, delicate masses of sound."
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Congotronics 2: Buzz 'n' Rumble From the Urb 'n' Jungle
VARIOUS (2CD)
Hot on the footsteps of Congotronics 1, here comes a fresh selection of even more amazing sounds, courtesy of no less than seven electro-traditional bands from Kinshas.
These bands all draw on traditional trance music, to which they've incorporated heavily distorted sounds generated by DIY amplification of their instruments... just like Konono No. 1, except that as the musicians come from various geographical and cultural backgrounds (Kasai, Lake Mai Ndombe, Bacongo province), they use very diverse rhythms, timbres and instrumentation: the trademark electrified thumb pianos and megaphones are joined by an array of buzzing drums, swirling guitars and hypnotic balafons.
The Congotronics 2 album also includes a 41-minute DVD based on material filmed by producer Vincent Kenis while he recorded these bands in Kinshasa, and edited by Elsa Dahmani.
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PHILIP SAMARTZIS (LP)
Deluxe U.S. vinyl version of an obscure Australian CD release by Samartzis. Luxurious quality production all around, #'d edition of 500 copies. "Dr. Philip Samartzis, a senior lecturer and coordinator of sound at RMIT in Australia, is not a novice to the experimental music scene. He was one of the founding members of the Australian avant-turntable/noise group Gum in the '80s, and has since been composing abstract electronic music, w/ previous releases on Synaesthesia, Dorobo, Staalplaat, and For4Ears. Samartzis' Soft and Loud is a modern day exploration of Japan's culture and identity through the guise of modern day musique concrete. Soft and Loud was conceived in the winter of 1999 in Tokyo, Japan and meticulously completed in Melbourne, Australia in August 2003, using specifically derived field recordings (that Philip had recorded) from Japan that detail the daily existence of many of its people. The digitally altered sounds of the Japanese subway system, electronic bird calls, the mournful calling of a chestnut salesman, to the digital wash of a Japanese stream cohesively offers a sense of serenity, and calmness as well as the loud, busy and chaotic nature of a country that appears often reserved and guarded. We, the listeners, become voyeurs to the country and experience the key characteristics of Japan that defines itself as a country."
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VARIOUS (CDR)
Four long tracks by four different acts for four different whacks:
* rameses iii get off the planet
* with throats as fine as needles dig into the clay and rock
* ffehro wander lost through the woods
* ajilvsga fall backways into the ocean
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