2013年6月27日木曜日

[718] Bane Mayo - Aqua


Label: Sorabia Disk

Catalog#: MGS 167
Format: CD/Cassette, Album
Country: Yugoslavia
Released: 1997
DISCOGS

A1 Aqua I 1:00

A2 Aqua XI 1:10
A3 Katarza 5:30
A4 O, Bože 1:33
A5 Aqua II 1:02
A6 Dvostruka Fantazija 0:52
A7 Aqua III 4:46
A8 Lov 1:24
A9 Tvoja Ljubav Me Ubija 0:54
A10 Ljubičasto 2:30
B1 Heronimus Boš 1:00
B2 Autostoper 2:14
B3 Ispod Duge 0:53
B4 Aqua IV 0:57
B5 Do Nikad 4:46
B6 Aqua II 1:33
B7 Aqua VI 5:30
B8 Kad Bi Dete 0:56
B9 Ulica Neba 1:02
B10 Aqua VII 0:52

Recorded at Studio "Kazablanka", March/June 1997. 

Remaster at Studio "Time".

オルタナティヴ・ロックのグループLogika Otkrićaのリーダーとして80年代インディーシーンで活動した、セルビアの音楽家Bane Mayo(ベイン・メイヨ)。ブルースからプログレまでロック色の濃いタイトルを揃えるSorabia Diskからリリースしたソロ作「Aqua」は、タイトルの通り水の音をはじめ、数々の具体音、リーディング、アコースティック・ギターにアトモスフェリックなエフェクトが重ねられ、おそらくはある物語やテーマに基づいた構成による、映画の音声トラック/サウンドスケープの風趣を漂わせるエクスペリメンタル作品。70年代後期よりロック/ブルースのバンドで演奏しているセルビアのギタリストDušan "Duda" Bezuhaがアコースティックギターとサウンドエフェクトを担当。Bezuhaと共にZona BのメンバーでもあるギタリストBezuhaDadi Stojanovićがキーボードで参加しています。


2013年6月24日月曜日

[717.1] spanish 01

(Musica Encendida, 1990) 

(Ghetto Vox Comunicacion, 1990)

(Hyades Arts, 1989)

(Hyades Arts, 1988)

(La caseria grabaciones, 1989)

check Vinyltribe

[717] Ildefonso Aguilar - Erosión


Label: JaJa Records

Catalog#: JA-JA-6
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Spain
Released: 1985
DISCOGS  OFFICIAL

JaJa Records: LP edition

A1 Meditación Y Acercamiento A La Génesis 6:07
A2 Perdido Entre Las Arenas Del Siroco 7:05
A3 Sobre Cómo Las Lavas Cubrian La Isla 7:48
B1 Liquenes 2:00
B2 Magma 4:15
B3 El Vuelo Del "Bu" Ácromo Y El Despertar Del "Bu" Rojo 10:37
B4 Un Instante En El Vértice 3:10

NO-CD 
Records: CD edition

1 Primera Parte: Elementos, Evocacion, Transformacion
2 Segunda Parte: Meditacion Y Acercamiento A La Genesis
3 Tercera Parte: Magma, Perdido Entre Las Arenas Del Siroco, Un Instante En El Vértice
4 Cuarta Parte: El Paisaje Posible, Sombre Como Las Lavas Cubrian La Isla

モロッコ沖にあるスペイン領ランサローテ島(カナリア諸島の一つ)を拠点に活動する美術家Ildefonso Aguilar(イルデフォンソ・アギラール)。70年代後期より録音され、85年に発表された唯一のアルバム「浸食」は、Steve RoachやTangerine Dreamを思わせる荒漠とした電子音響で、火山島ランサローテの風土や自然現象をトレースしたエンヴァイロンメンタル・ペインティング。初版はパンク/ミニマルウェイヴのレーベルJaJa Records/Discos Manzanaより、94年にはJorge Reyes & Suso Sáizや、Luis Paniaguaなどトライバル・アンビエント重要作を擁するバスクのNO-CDよりCDで再発。ビジュアル・アーティストとしてMathias GrassowやRoedelius作品の装画や写真も担当しています。


[related links]

Exposición Ildefonso Aguilar en el Centro de Arte La Regenta
Arquideas: Ildefonso Aguilar
Ildefonso Aguilar ingresa en la Real Academia Canaria de Bellas Artes - La Opinión de Tenerife
Ildefonso Aguilar profundiza en el paisaje volcánico de Lanzarote e Islandia con “Estructuras efímeras”
Con los ojos de... Ildefonso Aguilar - Portal Oficial de Turismo de Lanzarote

2013年6月20日木曜日

[716] Regular Music - Regular Music


Label: Rough Trade
Catalog#: ROUGH 73
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1985
DISCOGS  OFFICIAL

A1 Idyllic Rhythms 11:34

A2 Hyppolyte And Aricie 5:46
A3 The Fourth Door (Dub) 4:35
B1 Neapolitan Sixth (Part 1) 5:10
B2 Neapolitan Sixth (Part 3) 3:21
B3 The Third Dream 10:35
B4 The Fourth Door 4:35

演劇/ライブアートや現代音楽の分野で活動する作曲家Jeremy Peyton Jones(ジェレミー・ペイトン・ジョーンズ)によって結成された楽団Regular Music。元This HeatのドラマーCharles Hayward(チャールズヘイワード)をはじめ、映画/演劇向けの作曲などを手掛けVirgin/Real Worldからアンビエント色の濃い作品を発表している作曲家/ヴァイオリニストJocelyn Pook(ジョセリン・プーク)、Charles Haywardが結成した実験的なロックユニットThe Camberwell Nowにも参加しているヴォーカリスト/マルチ奏者Maria Lamburn(マリア・ランバーン)といった腕達者なプレーヤーによって繰り広げられる、Philip Glass/Michael Nyman/Crépuscule派ポスト・パンクなミニマルサウンド。


Regular Music Interview part 1
via Stuff-Em-Up the hill backwards

2013年6月19日水曜日

[715] Tibor Szemző - Snapshot From The Island


Label: Hungaropop
Catalog#: LP 006-63643-88
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Hungary
Released: 1987
DISCOGS  OFFICIAL

A1 Snapshot From The Island 24:23
B1 Water-Wonder N2 14:25
B2 Let's Go Out And Dance 10:36

SNAPSHOT FROM THE ISLAND is a compilation of tracks recorded between 1982 and 1986. Szemzo plays flute & drum computer on this 3 piece avant garde work collection 1982-86, joined by sythesizer player Laszlo Hortobagyi & The Birds of Camecon Personnel includes: Tibor Szemzo (flute, programming); Laszlo Hortobagyi (synthesizer); The Birds Of Camecon. - CD Universe

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bio.
Szemző was born in Budapest in 1955. He began his musical studies at the Kodály method school at the age of six and graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Music. Szemzö formed his own trio (later a quartet), and in 1979 he founded the minimalist ensemble Group 180 (1978–1990). It was a profoundly influential ensemble, renowned for its performances of Hungarian minimalism; it also performed works by John Cage and Steve Reich. Embarking on a solo career in 1983, Szemzö began integrating spoken word and visual elements into projects and in 1987 he issued his first solo recording, Snapshot from the Island. The downfall of Hungary's communist rule allowed him to began collaborating with various artists throughout Europe and beyond, and in 1998 Szemzö also formed a new chamber ensemble, the Gordian Knot. Other notable works include Ain't Nothing But a Little Bit of Music for Moving Pictures (the score to a collection of black-and-white home movies compiled by friend Péter Forgács), The Conscience and the musical piece, entitled Tractatus (a narrative-based chamber compositions) inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. In recent years Szemzo's interest has increasingly turned to film as well. His award-winning feature A Guest of Life (intermixing documentary footage, animation, and Super 8mm film stock) was shot in Tibet.


180, Reich - Rzewski - Melis - Szemző (Hungaroton, 1983)

[714] László Hortobágyi - Op. Transreplica Meccano


Label: Hungaropop

Catalog#: none
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 
Country: Hungary
Released: 1988
DISCOGS  OFFICIAL

A1 Intro-Kill 3:30

A2 Bass Cult 6:30
A3 Gregorianix 1:55
A4 Kiráņá-Barock 7:20 
A5 Bali-Si Gat 4:13 
B1 Harmologix 3:05
B2 Vocablá 1:55
B3 Ite Pravonix Est... 2:30
B4 Nono-Bol 89' 2:20 
B5 Reptiles' Temple 79' 8:10 
B6 Mirage 88' 3:50
listen sample

プダペスト生まれの作曲家、László Hortobágyi(ラースロー・ホルトバージ)。60年代より北インドを訪ねフィールドレコーディングを行い、現地の音楽学校で学び、インド最古の弦楽器であるルドラ・ヴィーナや、スルバハール(バス・シタール)、シタールやタブラなどの演奏法を修得。音楽スタジオや東洋音楽アーカイヴを設立し、学術的な書籍を出版。プレーヤーとしても数多くのレコーディングに参加していますが、本作「Op. Transreplica Meccano」はリーダー作として初期にあたる1989年作。ジャワのゴング、アドルフ・ヒトラー、バリのケチャ、スンダのサロン、ギリジャ・デヴィ、メッカのムアッジン(モスクの光塔から礼拝の時を告げる人)、ノヴゴロドの聖ソフィア大聖堂合唱団、IRCAM(フランス国立音響音楽研究所)のボコーダーデモなどの素材をサンプリング、Hortobágyiをメンバーに含むMeccanoのシタールやタブラ、シンセサイザーによって演奏される、インダストリアル/ジャズ/ミニマリズムを消化した異文化混成エスノ・アンビエンス。A4 "Kiráņá-Barock" にはミニマル・アンサンブルGroup 180の指揮者で同郷出身のTibor Szemző(ティボール・ツェムゾ)が参加しています。


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bio.
Modern industrial societies and their overwhelming superiority in technology and dynamic expansion are totally reorganizing the world. All traditional cultures that are alien to these technologically "homogeneous" societies are doomed to extinction. :: This means that there's a real possibility that traditional cultures will expire before they can enter "world-culture" circulation.
Bearing all of this in mind, Lāszlō Hortobāgyi set up the "Gāyan Uttejak Society" in Budapest, Hungary 1981. :: Since then it has been active - among other things - as a music studio and maintains a remarkable library of oriental music, the only one in eastern europe. :: It was named after the hindu-moslem musician's society (1884-1917) founded by V. N. Bhātkhānde. :: The members of the Gāyan Uttejak Society in Budapest have made it their duty to practice and to study classical indian music.

2013年6月18日火曜日

[713] Jabir - Vuelo Por Las Alturas De Alhambra


Label: Discos Esplendor Geométrico
Catalog#: EG 013
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 
Country: Spain
Released: 1988
DISCOGS

A1 ¿Dónde Están Tus Almas Moras? 19:30

A2 Y En Los Jardines, Primavera 4:00
B1 Origen 11:00
B2 Desfile De Las Tropas Del Emir 2:30
B3 ...Y Los Espacios Vacíos 8:30

It can be consideren within the "avant-noise-experimental" shelf. Their record was released by Esplendor Geométrico (ref. EG 013). To me is a acoustic-electronic re-creation of the granadian ambience of the nazari era. According to the recod credits, all the instrumentation was inspired in instruments and tunnings related to the arabian culture present in the Al-Andalus country by that time. (José Juan Gallego)

- The Spanish Progressive Rock Encyclopedia

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[712] Jacques Dudon - Lumières Audibles


Label: Mondes Harmoniques

Catalog#: MH1
Format: CD, Album
Country: France
Released: 1995
DISCOGS  OFFICIAL

-Fleurs De Lumière

1 Appel 8:22
2 Tournesols 8:26
3 Surakarta 7:49

-Sumer
4 Langues De Feu 2:48
5 Je Me Souviens D'Une Source 10:50
6 Aya 11:55
7 Our-Shanabi 1:26
8 Hexagrammes 5:02

 " I discovered these very particular waveforms from the beginning of my disk experimentations. Their sonorities, both complex and transparent, are among the oddest, reminding those of inharmonic tones or hisses. Their audition is often accompanied by very powerful psychic effects, the ear recognizing precise textures, paradoxically without being able to give them any determinated fundamental pitches. This comes from the fact that graphically, and by analogy with the fractal images, these waves are generated by laws of geometrical developpment, putting in action the same organizing principles whatever the scale they are being observed at. The synthesis, on a disk, of a white noise, sets a very interesting mathematical problem, which can't be resolved by shapes thrown in a hazardous way, neither by other aleatory parameters, which would only produce a buzz, while a white noise is the undifferenciated mixture of all frequencies. Fractal waveforms are up to this date what I found the most successful for a white noise imitation. In this CD are explored three of these fractal waveforms, with their related intonations : the "Clar" fractal waveform, and its first developpments, in "Hexagrammes" (track 8) ; the "Phi" fractal waveform, starting point of "Fleurs de lumière" (tracks 1-2-3) ; and the "Mohajira" fractal waveform, at the basis of "Sumer" (tracks 4-5-6-7)."
- Fractal waveforms (excerpt of the "Lumières audibles" booklet)

Selected discography:

‘Dedicace‘ LP w/ Sugar Blue, Larry Corryell, Didier Malherbe,Jean-Philippe Rykiel, Martin St-Pierre, etc. (Tin Pan Alley, 1979)
Alexandro Jodorowski’s movie ‘Tusk‘ original soundtrack, 1980.
‘Musiques De L’eau‘, 1983 cassette of aquaphonic music.
‘Lumières Audibles‘, CD, 1996
Contributes to ‘Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones‘,
the legendary Bart Hopkin compilation CD, 1996.
‘Noces Harmoniques‘, CD 2001.
via Continuo's weblog

[related links]

Lumières Audibles de Jacques Dudon
Photosonic disk : interactions between graphic research and gestural controls

2013年6月16日日曜日

[711] Gerard Stokkink - Music From Shusaku & Dormu Dance Theater


Label: Not On Label

Catalog#: Sps 0284
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1984
DISCOGS  OFFICIAL

A1 Ship, Worm, Bride

A2 Wall Workers
A3 Kalimba
A4 Yellow Turtles
A5 Sundaynight
B1 Husband Coming Home
B2 Rose
B3 2 M.J.'s
B4 O.A.F.
B5 Endless Cruise
B6 Journey Of Fish

Composed By – Gerard Stokkink

Drums, Marimba – Tommy Bachmann (tracks: A3 to B5)
Drums, Percussion – Alan "Gunga" Purves (tracks: A1, A2, A5)
Synthesizer, Piano, Kalimba – Gerard Stokkink
Recorded at the Spitsbergen Studios. (see also cat nr.)

1983年より打楽器奏者Tommy BachmannとのデュオOblique名義で、モダンダンスや映像の音楽を手掛ける鍵盤奏者Gerard Stokkink。“One of the Best Dutch Albums Ever“と讃えられる名作「Oblique」の前年、1984年にソロ名義で発表された本作は、竹内秀策率いるオランダのダンスカンパニー「Shusaku & Dormu Dance Theater」のためのサウンドトラックで、Stokkinkの操るシンセ/シーケンス、Bachmannによるマリンバなどの打楽器がミニマルなグルーヴを展開するニューエイジ・エレクトロニクス作品。1988年よりアムステルダムにあるスタジオを拠点に、Stokkink/Bachmannを中心としたObliqueプロダクション・チームとして、現在までテレビや劇場などのために多くのサウンドトラックを製作。ポートフォリオは「Oblique Music 4 Media」にて。


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Oblique (CBS, 1985)

2013年6月12日水曜日

[710] Jack Goldstein - Planets


Label: Neutral Records

Catalog#: NEUTRAL 7
Format: 6 × Vinyl, 33 ⅓ RPM, 10"
Country: US
Released: 1986
DISCOGS  OFFICIAL

Courtesy of UbuWeb. Suite of 6 records 10-inch 33 1/3 rpm black vinyl with black labels. Side 1 and Side 2 repeat or describe each other. 36 min. total duration.
The 45s form a large circle on a pointed yellow or red wall, as if they were planets themselves in our galaxy. Each record has to be played in order to locate from our memory what planet each record might suggest. The records are made up of found musical recording, from sci-films that have been remixed to suggest to the viewer what planet he or she might be listening to. Since 90% of the universe is in total blackness, and one needs a telescope to reveal what is out there, through meditation – one has to play the record to locate its identity – Jack Goldstein.
via LUXmovingimage

bio.

Canadian performance and conceptual artist, painter and filmmaker, born 27 September 1945 in Montreal, Canada and died 14 March 2003, San Bernadino, California, USA. A performance artist with roots in minimalist sculpture, a conceptual artist who made experimental films and their audio equivalent on vinyl records, Goldstein divided his time between Los Angeles and New York during the 1970s, eventually becoming one of the linchpins of the Pictures Group, which gained its first recognition at Artist's Space in New York City in the fall of 1977. Goldstein may be remembered for a certain conceptual/representational approach to picturemaking that helped shape a generation of artists and beyond, even though they might not even be aware of him.
discography




[related links]

The Sound and Vision of Jack Goldstein | Orange | Artbound | KCET
The Planets (1984) | Write Here at Nottingham Contemporary
UbuWeb Sound - Jack Goldstein

2013年6月10日月曜日

[709.1] tube 09


Nelson Angelo - Harmonia da água

from Violão e Outras Coisas (Estúdio Eldorado, 1988)

Albert Giménez - La Chistera D'Erik Satie

from Un Somni Petit (Filobus Records, 1981)

This Heat - Water

from This Heat (Piano, 1979)

Grupo D'alma - Lagoa Silenciosa

from D'alma (Som da Gente, 1981)

Charles Lloyd - Pole Star / Sea Angel / Dancin' Water

from Pathless Path (Unity Records, 1979)

2013年6月9日日曜日

[709] Terence McKenna & Zuvuya - Dream Matrix Telemetry


Label: Delerium Records

Catalog#: DELEC CD 2012
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1993
DISCOGS  AMAZON

Dream Matrix Telemetry 53:51

幻覚をもたらす植物と幻覚剤に関する研究で知られるアメリカの思想家Terence McKenna(テレンス・マッケナ)。意識のスパイラル的進化をマヤ暦の終わりと重ねあわせたビジョンをテーマにした、シャーマン/ニューエッジ・アンビエント。


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Tonight's Christmas party for Nation Records seems like an odd idea because Christianity is probably the least represented religion here. There are pagans at the bar, sons of Sikhs backstage, daughters of Islam on the dancefloor and rasta rhythms in the bass bin, but carol singers are thin on the ground. On a night where you start off watching a pair of day-glo voodoo dancers and end up listening to a demonstration of the Arabic chromatic scale (apparently) the real celebration is, of course, multiculturalism. Santa would only get in if he was wearing a bindi-dot. Nation's determination to place the golden mongrel of pan-ethnic pop in the mainstream has made it one of the most exciting labels this year, partly because label stars Fun-Da-Mental and Transglobal Underground have made such poerful records. But it's also based on the evidence of the three lesser known bands on show tonight and an audience that embraces everyone from hippy travellers to Japanese business men. Nation will have no trouble staying in credit next year. ZUVUYA are the label's digita cavemen. Their regular body-painted frontman Ju Ju Midget has gone native without leave tonight, so his place is taken by a skeletal figure who murmurs in tongues over the stormy brew of tribal beats and birthing groans emitting from two banks of synths and a didgeridoo. It isn't the most immidiate pop thrill. Almighty jungle pounders like the climatic "Grabbing Nandi By The Horn" should, ideally, be experienced in an Apocalypse Now - type scenario, preferably just before you meet Colonel Kurtz. Their dayglo cave-girl dancers may make their tribal point a little too forcibly, but Zuvuya are exploring a form of extreme dreamtime hypno-pop that might in time yield treasure. - Roger Morton
via Dream Matrix Telemetry



[708] Nenad Jelić / Laza Ristovski - Opera


Label: PGP RTB

Catalog#: 2122245
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Yugoslavia
Released: 1986
DISCOGS

A1 Rhinoceros II 3:07

A2 Gajeiro 4:40
A3 Lamentation 3:08
A4 Sometimes At Nine 4:10
B1 Rumba Balcana 4:48
B2 Gitanes 5:29
B3 In The Sky 5:15

Arranger - Lazar Ristovski, Nenad Jelić
Composer - Nenad Jelić
Computer [Ppg Computer Synthesizer] - Lazar Ristovski
Engineer [Recording] - Boban Petrovic
Producer - Boban Petrovic, Nenad Jelić
Vocals, Harmonica, Percussion, Zither, Piano - Nenad Jelić
Recorded at Studio VI RTB, December 1985.



[707] Gigi Masin & Alessandro Monti - The Wind Collector


Label: Divergo,  stella*nera

Catalog#: n. 3
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Italy
Released: 1991
DISCOGS  OFFICIAL

A1 Satellite

A2 Stella Maris
A3 She Wears Shades
A4 Snake Theory
A5 Swallows' Tempest
B1 O.A.L.
B2 Blue Weaver
B3 Random Security
B4 La Luna (demo)

1955年ヴェネチア出身の鍵盤奏者/プロデューサーGigi Masin。91年に発表された本作「The Wind Collector」は、盟友Alessandro Monti(aka Unfolk)との共作名義ですが、前スプリット作と変わらずRuinsの鍵盤奏者Alessandro Pizzinが加わったトリオ編成での演奏、DivergoのオーナーMarco Pandinによるプロデュース。ブルース/フォークからミニマルなコンテンポラリー・ミュージックにアプローチしたような哀愁/ロマンチシズムの漂うサウンドは、「Harold BuddがプロデュースしたJohn Martyn」と例えられるように、古くから敬愛するJohn Martynなどのギターサウンドがルーツに挙げられるようです。航海の指標(北極星)を意味するA2 "Stella Maris"、Laraajiを思わせるチターのオリエンタルな音色が基調になったA3 "She Wears Shades"、名曲 "Clouds" 路線の淡々としたPoly 800のシーケンスとピアノが織り重なるB2 "Blue Weaver" など、アドリア海やカナル・グランデに映る空、肌をなでる潮風、そんなヴェネチアの風景を知らずとも、どこか遠い記憶の海原が浮かぶ美しいトラックが並びます。初作よりタイトルに使われている「Wind」は、変化への意志。そして、船の行き交う港街の生活や風景(「Otto Prospettive Veneziane」ではその風景を8曲で描いている)を意味するポリシーでもあり、Pizzinを含むトリオで89年から90年にかけて行ったレコーディング/実験的なノイズセッション(Nick DrakeやJohn Martynの曲を取り上げている)のプロジェクトもWind Pjt.と呼ばれています。


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musica elettronica intimista, definita come "una lunga canzone d'amore spaziale". masin, pianista e compositore veneziano, è un autore "cult" il cui nome è stato improvvisamente scaraventato sulle riviste musicali dopo che l'islandese bjork ha utilizzato alcuni campionamenti dai suoi dischi...

soft and touching electronic music, described as "a long love song from outer space". venetian pianist and composer gigi masin seems to be best known for his samples and loops (see bjork's hit "it's in your hands").
via stella*nera catalogo

stella*nera:

Autonomous anarchistic label run by Marco Pandin under different guises since the early 80's. Early incarnations included Rockgarage Records (which evolved out of the Italian Fanzine), Catfood Press, P.E.A.C.E., Divergo and art as hammer until he settled with stella*nera in the 2000's. The various releases edited and produced since then were, and still are, not distributed in regular record shops: they are available only via mail order, and all proceeds go to a/rivista anarchica, an anarchopacifist monthly magazine published regularily since the early seventies. Marco Pandin is a contributing editor since 1984. Many of stella*nera most recent releases were produced in collaboration with the Venetian alternative art magazine aparte, whose members are involved in the organization of the anarchist art biennale exhibition. --Divergo is one of the old names of stella*nera. 

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O.A.L. digitally remastered version by unfolk alessandro monti


1990 interview: 
Pixel Party n.0 - Ranch 5, Mestre (Venice, Italy) by TheAlienodeBootes




[related links]

2013年6月8日土曜日

[706] Scott Fraser - The Water Album


Label: Fun Music

Catalog#: FMC 32
Format: Cassette, Album, C60
Country: US
Released: 1983
DISCOGS

A1 Surf - Shell Beach, California 

A2 Drizzle - Hamden, Connecticut
A3 Fishpond - Hollywood, California
A4 Creek - Acton, Massachusetts
A5 Wavelets - Marina Del Rey, California
A6 Vent - Kezar Falls, Maine
A7 Downpour - Los Angeles, California
A8 Trickle - Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire
A9 Drainpipe - Newton, Massachusetts
A10 Ripples - Concord, Massachusetts
B1 Rain - Miami, Florida
B2 Pier - Newport, Rhode Island
B3 Sprinklers - Beverley Hills, California
B4 Drips - Boston, Massachusetts
B5 Waves - San Francisco, California
B6 Fountain - New Haven, Connecticut
B7 Pool - San Diego, California
B8 Shower - Eastchester, New York
B9 Tidepools - Montana De Oro, California
B10 Stream - Middlebury, Vermont

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about Fun Music.

In 1979 four composers of vaguely electronic orientation decided that they needed a record label of their own to put out work that really had no way of being presented except as a recording.  Fun Music began as an outlet for Scott Fraser, David Ocker, "Blue" Gene Tyranny (his more obscure works not then available from Lovely Music) and me.  After a few years "Blue" and David lost interest in the label, and it continued on as a vehicle for recordings by Scott Fraser and myself.  The label more or less shut down in 1995 when Scott and I began releasing work on Artifact Records http://www.artifact.com/ When Artifact closed down in 2009 we restarted FUN MUSIC for our new work.
via Philip Perkins webpage

[705] Chris Watson - Cima Verde


Label: Fondazione Edmund Mach

Catalog#: siae80270cd
Format: CD, Album
Country: Italy
Released: 2008
DISCOGS  AMAZON

1 Soffi Di Vento 1:34

2 Cima Verde 3:27
3 Bucaneve 10:57
4 Aguane 6:48
5 Scanuppia 9:05
6 Le Crone 10:34
7 Valle Dei Venti 9:05

音響/インダストリアル・グループCabaret Voltaire(キャバレー・ボルテール)やThe Hafler Trio(ザ・ハフラー・トリオ)での活動を経て、BBCの音響技師としてネイチャー・ドキュメンタリーなどを手掛ける、自然録音界のマエストロChris Watson(クリス・ワトソン)。2008年「Cima Verde」は野生生物や気象の気配に満ちた、アルプス地域でのフィールド・レコーディング作。音を通じて視覚/嗅覚にまで訴えるほど高解像度にシューティングされた音の生態系記録。TouchのYoutubeチャンネル「touchmusic33」で全トラックが公開されています。


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[704] Kjell Samkopf - Aqua for Tape & 2 Percussion Players


Label: Pro Musica
Catalog#: PCC 9023
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1992
AMAZON  NAXOS

1 Tableau 1 (Tape) 06:13

2 Tableau 2 (Tape) 10:08
3 Tableau 3 (Tape and Percussion) 07:20
4 Tableau 4 (Tape and Percussion) 03:39
5 Tableau 6 (Tape and Percussion) 04:47
6 Tableau 7 (Tape and Percussion) 13:02
7 Tableau 8 (Tape and Percussion) 06:25
8 Tableau 10 (Tape and Percussion) 04:30
9 Epilogue (Tape) 02:04

ダンスやドキュメンタリー番組のための音楽を手掛けるほか、教育向けのパーカッション楽譜制作や、ドラムスクールの運営(打楽器専攻の教授としては国内初)まで広く関わる、ノルウェーの電子音響作曲家/打楽器奏者のKjell Samkopf(シェル・サムコフ)。1986年作の「Aqua」は「降る、揺らぐ、はねる、泡立つ、凍る」など水の様々な様態やサイクル、水の倍音スペクトルをテーマに、数秘術や占星術を用いながら作曲/編集。テープ加工された水音のコンクレート風アンビエンスと、同じく打楽器奏者のRob Waring(ロブ・ワリング)との2セット用意された数多くの打楽器によって、水の様態のようにテクスチュアの変化する9パートが収録されています。

Kjell Samkopf: Aqua for Tape & 2 Percussion Players by Kjell Samkopf was released Jan 19, 1992 on the Pro Musica label. Kjell Samkopf: Aqua for Tape & 2 Percussion Players contains a single disc.

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Water as a sound source has fascinated me for many years. Water appears in many different forms, and all these forms have their own sound: flowing water, dripping water, rain, waves, waterfalls, splashing, bubbling or cracking in the form of ice. We encounter all these different sounds in our everyday lives, as people have done throughout time. The sound and the experience of water have throughout history been used consciously. Many are aware of the calming effect of sitting and listening to waves breaking on a beach, or to the sound of a waterfall. Modern technology has made it possible for our generation to listen to the sounds of nature in a new way. The time element can be changed. We can listen to the sounds at a faster or slower tempo than the original, or we can even listen to them backwards. We can focus on certain parts of the overtone spectrum, we can change the order of the sounds, or we can just use the sounds as they are, but put them in an unfamiliar context. Abstracting sounds from our environment, such as water, and putting them into a musical context fascinates me. Thus we can experience the sound of a drop of water as pure sound, instead of a warning of leakage. As another main element of this piece I have let calculations from numerology decide how various musical parameters will develop. Numerology is an old occult science, which, on the basis of a person’s name and date of birth, can say something about his personality and destiny, as astrology can on the basis of the positions of stars and planets. I have used the word "water" in different languages as basic material: the Latin AQUA, the English WATER, the Norwegian VANN and the French EAU. Using the different combinations of numbers and pitches derived from these words, I have arrived at melody, chords, rhythm and form. I do not believe I have come closer to the phenomenon of Water by doing this, but numerology gives me a new way of thinking about music. I had two special instruments constructed for this piece, which I have called Sea Wheels. They are made of Plexiglas and were built by the sculptor Tor Hvammen. The tape for Aqua was realized in Ny York Studio in Oslo with technician Haakon Manheim. Kjetil Bjerkestrand assisted me as programmer and operator of the computer and synthesizer systems Fairlight and Emulator. I would like to express my deep gratitude to these people for their invaluable help during the making of the tape. The work Aqua was commissioned by the Collage Dance Company and choreographer Lise Nordal in 1986. The work was originally a part of a multi media performance consisting of dance, music, video, slide projections, light and sceneography. Aqua had its world premier at the Black Box Theatre in Oslo, November 21, 1986.

Kjell Samkopf / Translation Rob Waring
via Kjell Samkopf website

2013年6月6日木曜日

[703] flau Slumber Sessions


dreamy electoronic/ethereal mix by Yasuhiko Fukuzono aka Aus

tracklisting:
Part Timer - Closing the Opera House
Twigs & Yarn - Yuurei
El Fog - Mountain Dub
Cuushe - I Dreamt about Silence
Noah - Dune
Dale Berning - Piano
Novisad - Yappari
Liz Christine - Or Ten Pills at Three O'Clock
Cokiyu - In the Air
Geskia - 1977Ugly/2004IdealCopy
Colophon - 7 First Day Back fro Brooklyn/Fingers Through Your Hair
Orla Wren - Two Note Winter
0 - Sonando 2
Kanazu Tomoyuki - April
IKEBANA - Ikebana (version)
The Boats - The Melody Mosquito
aus - Urum (The World On Higher Downs Remix)
Christoph Berg - Notturno
Radiosonde - Windcoming
Masayoshi Fujita - Story of Forest
MayMay - If It Remains Light
Madegg - New Heads
SELA. - E Loop


check flau

[702.1] Julee Cruise

White Horse by Esao Andrews (2012) 

from Hosono Hallelujah/TV is Medicine Box (broadcast Nov 1992)

Live in London Palladium 17 Feb 1991

The Twink Peaks Orchestra And Chorus

from Ámame. Una Teleserie Inolvidable, 1993

Moodswings feat. Julee Cruise - Into The Blue

from Horizontal (Water Music Records, 2002)

from Dreams Top Rock (Karaoke Kalk, 2003)

[702] Berbel Nobodius - Wanton But Windblown


Label: Hamster Records And Tapes

Catalog#: HAM24
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1989
DISCOGS

-Sidle

A1 Leakage
A2 Miss My Leg When Skanking
A3 Leit-Motiv Vacuo
A4 Brushwood Epitaph
A5 Corridors Of Bureaucracy
A6 Cruise Into Oblivion
A7 Renal Birth
-Sidon
B1 Windblown Quiescence
B2 Beast Of Burden
B3 Be Our Late Arrival
B4 Primeval Awakening
B5 Deltoid Massacre
B6 Then Emancipation
B7 Wanton Ardour

Recorded and mixed at Melvynz Pad, Ipswich

Production and mixing: Terry Burrows hindered by Melvyn Z Pad
Publishing: Jung At Heart Music
Bass on track 2: Terry Burrows
Anything else: Melvyn Z Pad