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- "Egor Klochikhin (Foresteppe) evokes an idealized Russian past, filling Diafilms with field recordings, colorful instrumentation, cellophane static and sampled Russian monologues. At times the tape seems to wobble, but it’s not the tape – it’s the patina of memory, an imitation of an ancient cassette on a new cassette. The tape casts a spell similar to that of an ancient folk tale: a brook babbles, a bear turns in his den, the sound of bells is cast upon the wind. Somewhere, an old man and woman are making a child out of snow.
The music is a perfect reflection of a lost art. The diafilm – a series of 20-40 celluloid strips – was popular in the 50s and 60s, but only in the Eastern Bloc. Still images with dialogue, similar to those found in children’s books, were projected on the wall as a narrator read the accompanying story. The tape wobble is meant to evoke the often unsteady image. The physical package is a time capsule, a souvenir from a bygone era. It’s a gem of a release from Foresteppe and yet another triumph for Klammklang Tapes."
- So very charming . . . and with individual art for each track:
We're here because of Pete Namlook. We were the North American distributor of FAX and decided to pay tribute to him with an 8-CD boxed set entitled Die Welt ist Klang. Since we couldn't release that box on FAX, we started Carpe Sonum.
In Musicorum Sanitas
A selection of tracks from albums we plan to release in 2018/2019.
This 1983 cassette release continues D.D.A.A.'s exploration of anti-musique/submusique and their theories of the dispersion of reality. Clearly, as the name of their production company Illusion Production implies, our usual perceptions of things (time, geography, music, art) are illusion: shortsighted guesswork, ignorance of currents and change outside our normal way of thinking. We love D.D.A.A.'s use of the voice. This tape is filled with exaggerated vocal characterizations of seemingly tormented, demented souls roaming lost in a land of ever-shifting, crossing patterns of time and space. Funny, frightening tracks that also feature guitar, percussion, wind and keyboard instruments. Very medieval-sounding.
Latest blast from Jomi Massage. A dark row of hardcore gentle and gentle
hardcore songs. First album wirtten, recorded and mixed by the lady
herself, release on The Being Music, 2013
- For the record and to save it from "listening thread oblivion"
Musical Observations, Inc. is a non-profit corporation founded by Paul Zukofsky in 1975 to promote new music and support musical projects he felt would otherwise be ignored. Today Musical Observations, Inc. carries on his legacy by making available the recordings on his CP² label and his critical writings on (mostly) music available at our website.
Noiko -
"Honey" is a debut album with ten instrumental electroacoustic lo-fi
collages created from various samples, sounds of a clarinet, guitar,
drums, glockenspiel, piano and different electronic virtual instruments.
The material consists of productions created within 4 years. The author
recorded most of the sounds in his own house. Some productions were
recorded with the help of Łukasz Maciejewski (turntable).
The inspiration to creating this kind of sounds was the birth of the
artist's daughter, who was usually nearby during the sound recording.
This album was carefully mastered by Krzysztof Orluk with his analogue
equipment. One of them is the prototype tube saturator constructed by
Andrzej Starzyk, a Polish engineer and designer of the recording studio
gear. All analogue machines used during mastering process gave the album
a unique warmth and unusual dynamics.
In the mid
1960s only a handful of independent studios existed outside the control
of the major London record labels - RG Jones in Wimbledon, Joe Meek in
Holloway and Strawberry Studios in Manchester. In the East Riding of
Yorkshire local musician and electronics whizz kid Keith Herd started
Fairview Studios in his spare front room.
Front Room Masters tells the story of the first seven pioneering years
of Fairview and the local musicians who passed through the front door on
their way to fame or obscurity.
Great story about Fairview Studios, although this old .... prefers The Zombies original version of Track 31 (Time of the Season)! One of my all time favourites, as is She's Not There (both The Zombies and Santana's versions).
By the way, looking at the photo, the 60s must have come late to Yorkshire. I was going to Uni in Brighton from 1966-69 and it was all jeans, tie dye t-shirts and long hair!
Released in 2010 and freshly dropped (August 26, 2019) at Rova's Bandcamp page:
. . . .Following the success of their 2010 collaborative CD with Nels Cline Singers, Rova returned to the classic acoustic quartet format for the first time on CD since 2007. “Planetary” brings the listener to several of Rova’s music worlds and shows that the band, as always, was still refining that “Rova sound,” still pushing the envelope, and still looking for new sound worlds to inhabit and make their own. . . .
After years of resistance, Mississippi Records has at last launched a direct to customer retail website for its own label as well as some labels it distributes.
Though we encourage you to pick up as many of these records as you can from your local brick and mortar record shop, we have learned to accept that not everyone has a shop carrying our titles nearby. And so, we have launched this site in hopes of making the records we love more available. . . .
Elsewhere Records is having a 30% sale through Oct 31. It's the contemporary "classical" offshoot so-to-speak of Erstwhile, run by Yuko Zama, Erstwhile and Gravity Wave designer and co-producer (and wife of Jon Abbey).
Great music, well worthwhile. From her introduction:
My label will feature mainly contemporary works, specifically compositional works which has classical music aesthetics at its roots, but it may not have to strictly belong to the area of contemporary classical music.
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Electronic Series Vol 1 : Abstractions
The music is a perfect reflection of a lost art. The diafilm – a series of 20-40 celluloid strips – was popular in the 50s and 60s, but only in the Eastern Bloc. Still images with dialogue, similar to those found in children’s books, were projected on the wall as a narrator read the accompanying story. The tape wobble is meant to evoke the often unsteady image. The physical package is a time capsule, a souvenir from a bygone era. It’s a gem of a release from Foresteppe and yet another triumph for Klammklang Tapes."
- So very charming . . . and with individual art for each track:
- And a brand new Album right around the corner:
Déficit Des Années Antérieures
Torn to Ribbons NYOP
Created using a tape loop of "The Star-Spangled Banner" accidentally played upside-down, by Will Long, October 2018.
I hope the blood didn't rush to his head.
Torn To Ribbons
- An all together interesting Lady from Denmark.
released October 4, 2016
Michel Banabila - Sounds For Dissolve
- New on Bandcamp, posted on Ambient Blog in 2017 and also posted by yours truely on the free stuff thread, also in 2017.
The inspiration to creating this kind of sounds was the birth of the artist's daughter, who was usually nearby during the sound recording.
This album was carefully mastered by Krzysztof Orluk with his analogue equipment. One of them is the prototype tube saturator constructed by Andrzej Starzyk, a Polish engineer and designer of the recording studio gear. All analogue machines used during mastering process gave the album a unique warmth and unusual dynamics.
By the way, looking at the photo, the 60s must have come late to Yorkshire. I was going to Uni in Brighton from 1966-69 and it was all jeans, tie dye t-shirts and long hair!
Rune Kjær Rasmussen
released April 22, 2017
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp: September 2019
Great music, well worthwhile. From her introduction:
- So here is a list:
John Hollenbeck
Philip Sherburne
Helen Scarsdale
Robin Rimbaud - (aka Scanner)
Michel Pisaro
Nicolas Bernier
Peter Rehberg - (aka. Pita)
Glenn Kotche
Christopher Cerrone
Mind over MIDI
Michel Banabila
A Strangely Isolated Place
Florent Ghys
Quentin Rollet
Jon Whitney
Grzegorz Bojanek
Kyle Bruckmann
Continuo
Arlene and Larry Dunn
- And probably a few more . . . Will be added soon.
Bass – Bob Mair
Drums – Michael Preussner
Guitar – Nels Cline