Gave up looking for Guvera credits months ago. Can't imagine why I would go there now. And last time I looked the site had a link saying that there was a new way of earning credits, and it linked to a page that described the old way that is not working any more.
"EMERALD PARK will perform on January 28th on the world's largest music fair MIDEM in Cannes, in the context of the Jamendo Night and prove their skills live. And who knows, maybe some insiders will finally see, that success still is related to luck a lot, as well as to musical quality.
released 27 January 2012
A cautionary tale: this was a free netlabel release when I got it. The label is now no more, and it was re-released on CD. It's now $8.20 (!) on emusic.
Another nice free one from Resting Bell. (Not trying to bludgeon you, Craig, by the way - I was already on my way into an offthesky binge and you just reinforced the trajectory)
"Sung by a lovelorn psychologist, the songs in Lonely Motel are about perception, self-delusion and ultimately about the isolation created by the attachments we develop to our own fuzzy, personal views of reality.
The music is a dish by and for musical omnivores and while the ingredients have been diced quite finely (and there is no quotation), the songs are seasoned with homages to Dowland, Mozart, Stravinsky, Piazzola, and The Beatles."
- Steven Mackey.
- Nominated for 4 grammies including Best Contemporary Composition and Best Small Ensemble Performance.
BT, which album? Oh, do you just mean any single track album (as a reason to still pay attention to Guvera)? Yes, hadn't paid attention to that. Have managed to do that on CDUniverse with a couple of titles.
More from the depths of the AmieStreet directory....Amptek - Mikrokosmos. "Meditative and experimental music. A travel into the analog sounds and ambient atmospheres. Explorations in the possibilities of analog and digital synthesis. A travel into the deepness of the mind." Or so says CDBaby. Spacey, lots of found sounds and voices.
Maurizio Bianchi - Apokalypsis XXIII "In August 2010, Maurizio Bianchi officially announced his retirement from musical scene. "Apokalypsis XXIII" is his last ever electronic music album, recorded in Summer of 2010. All the latest albums appeared after that are in fact re-issues of older works or the collaborations with other artists using his sound sources. Like other solo albums of Maurizio Bianchi, "Apokalypsis XXIII" has religious roots and consists of four long tracks, each of those divided into further sections titled after verses taken from "Book of Revelation", the most mysterious and most scary part of New Testament. Many artists found the inspiration around these themes, apocalyptical images were used by painters and sculptors during the crisis periods of mankind history: Middle Ages, Renascence, end of XIX century etc. Hopefully, this album will drive attention to the world around us, and especially if keeping in mind the most recent accidents and disasters, these days it becomes more actual than ever."
- Nitkie.ru.
"Bianchi began to produce music in 1979, and since 1980 has used electronic equipment with the avowed goal "to produce technological sounds and in such a way to work on complete realising of the modern decadence".
In the beginning, he published tapes under the alias Sacher-Pelz. In 1981, William Bennett, head of the band Whitehouse and the British Come Org. label, offered Bianchi a record contract, which Bianchi signed unchecked. It was based on a "joke contract" that Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound had sketched. The contract assumed all rights to Bianchi's work. After delivery of the tapes Bennett edited-in speeches by Nazi leaders, and instead of the relatively unsensational name MB, it was published under the alias Leibstandarte SS MB, named after the SS unit that worked as bodyguards to Adolf Hitler.
Until 1984, Bianchi published on other labels intensively as either MB or simply Maurizio Bianchi, sometimes several albums and/or tapes per year, as well as numerous tracks to compilations.
Bianchi became religious and withdrew from the music business. Much of his work is sought today by collectors, especially as they appeared in extremely small editions. In 1998, encouraged by Alga Marghen label head Emanuele Carcano, who offered him a label of his own, Maurizio Bianchi started again to make music. The label is EEs'T Records, through which he released new editions of all old MB albums, as well as many new releases.
Therefore, since 1997, he was back on the underground scene, working on several projects both in solo or in collaboration with other Italian artists (Giuseppe Verticchio/NIMH, Arnaldo Pontis and Corrado Altieri/TH26, Davide Femia/MDT, Saverio Evangelista, Matteo "Hue" Uggeri/Sparkle in Grey, Emanuela De Angelis and Eugenio Maggi/Cr
- "Payne's musical imagination is vivid: she is interested in the surreal, the inward, the micro, and the accumulation of physical and psychological tension. Periods of silence gently evolve into flowing drones of complex resonances. Oozing drones evolve into dense and powerful peaks of short duration. On one cut, multi-tracked voices shift in and out of phase, creating alternately shimmering and percussive patterns; on another, digital delay and 32 separate flute tracks create a rain forest where instruments call to each other like chrome birds. The compositions and sounds on this CD have incredible depth, a profound logic and, though not "pretty," an irresistible beauty."
- Lovely Music 1989.
MAGGI PAYNE - "Composer of electronic music, flutist, video artist, and recording engineer, Maggie Payne is known for the elegance and complexity of her sounds. Her awards include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Mellon Foundation ... Her work has been performed at Sonic Circuits IV, Next Wave Festival, eXstatic Project (Australia), Prix Ars Electronica, SoundCulture '96, Siggraph, Bourges ... She has been Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
She is professor and co-director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College".
Comments
So great. Guvera's the way to go on this one, if you can cadge a credit!
Craig
offthesky - rare decay. Another free one.
offthesky - Subtle Trees
A cautionary tale: this was a free netlabel release when I got it. The label is now no more, and it was re-released on CD. It's now $8.20 (!) on emusic.
Craig
offthesky - du soleil
Another nice free one from Resting Bell. (Not trying to bludgeon you, Craig, by the way - I was already on my way into an offthesky binge and you just reinforced the trajectory)
No worries GP, the more options the better!
Craig
"Sung by a lovelorn psychologist, the songs in Lonely Motel are about perception, self-delusion and ultimately about the isolation created by the attachments we develop to our own fuzzy, personal views of reality.
The music is a dish by and for musical omnivores and while the ingredients have been diced quite finely (and there is no quotation), the songs are seasoned with homages to Dowland, Mozart, Stravinsky, Piazzola, and The Beatles."
- Steven Mackey.
- Nominated for 4 grammies including Best Contemporary Composition and Best Small Ensemble Performance.
http://www.eighthblackbird.org/ - http://stevenmackey.com/ - Cedille Records
Adlai Waxman, Pomona. AmieStreet purchase, a lifetime ago.
Craig
Pure, wonderful, cheese.
More from the depths of the AmieStreet directory....Amptek - Mikrokosmos. "Meditative and experimental music. A travel into the analog sounds and ambient atmospheres. Explorations in the possibilities of analog and digital synthesis. A travel into the deepness of the mind." Or so says CDBaby. Spacey, lots of found sounds and voices.
- CD 13 - 1962-1963 - Herbert Eimert, Josef Anton Riedl, Iannis Xenakis,
Jorge Antunes, Pierre Henry and Max Mathews
Maurizio Bianchi - Apokalypsis XXIII
"In August 2010, Maurizio Bianchi officially announced his retirement from musical scene. "Apokalypsis XXIII" is his last ever electronic music album, recorded in Summer of 2010. All the latest albums appeared after that are in fact re-issues of older works or the collaborations with other artists using his sound sources. Like other solo albums of Maurizio Bianchi, "Apokalypsis XXIII" has religious roots and consists of four long tracks, each of those divided into further sections titled after verses taken from "Book of Revelation", the most mysterious and most scary part of New Testament. Many artists found the inspiration around these themes, apocalyptical images were used by painters and sculptors during the crisis periods of mankind history: Middle Ages, Renascence, end of XIX century etc. Hopefully, this album will drive attention to the world around us, and especially if keeping in mind the most recent accidents and disasters, these days it becomes more actual than ever."
- Nitkie.ru.
Amie freebie. Borderline deletable.
Maggi Payne, flute, synthesizers and electronics
- "Payne's musical imagination is vivid: she is interested in the surreal, the inward, the micro, and the accumulation of physical and psychological tension. Periods of silence gently evolve into flowing drones of complex resonances. Oozing drones evolve into dense and powerful peaks of short duration. On one cut, multi-tracked voices shift in and out of phase, creating alternately shimmering and percussive patterns; on another, digital delay and 32 separate flute tracks create a rain forest where instruments call to each other like chrome birds. The compositions and sounds on this CD have incredible depth, a profound logic and, though not "pretty," an irresistible beauty."
- Lovely Music 1989.
MAGGI PAYNE
- "Composer of electronic music, flutist, video artist, and recording engineer, Maggie Payne is known for the elegance and complexity of her sounds. Her awards include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Mellon Foundation ... Her work has been performed at Sonic Circuits IV, Next Wave Festival, eXstatic Project (Australia), Prix Ars Electronica, SoundCulture '96, Siggraph, Bourges ... She has been Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
She is professor and co-director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College".
Kane Ikin - Contrail
(review coming soon at MiG)
Finally worked out a good way to do vinyl rips, and I have a great local used record store - this was in the dollar bin.
Another vinyl rip - this out of print double album cost me $5.
I'm always intrigued by the cover of this album - it looks like the Promenade des Anglaises in NIce, but I am sure it is not!!