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Vega - Wormsongs
 CD - Artek SoundsHere we find a vocal stuttering, a sort of gibberish where a series of hardly decipherable words are emitted, winning us over. We are talking about "Sermon On Wings And Tergal Lobes", the first track of "Wormsongs", a not-easily decipherable album, suspended between lyricisms and noise, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . experimental . free form
Gluid - Twee
 CD - esc.recDutchman Bram Van Den Oever, better known as Gluid, has already published a first solo cdr-album on esc.rec. For his second release he collaborated with Paul De Jong and MiaMia. Now Van Den Oever is back solo and with "Twee" the immersive and multiform sequences gain a musicality even richer in ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Philip Corner - Pieces from the Past
 CD - PogusPhilip Corner configured these five scores specially for the violinist Malcolm Goldstein, using a non-traditional notation (sometimes linear or with graphic and verbal notations). They were mostly recorded in live performance, leaving the residual noise of the public and of the environment in order to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Acoustic Bend - Evala
 Cd - PortEccentric, reverberating frequencies, unconventional propagations and resonances, environmental auditory influences and field recordings come together in a work that insists on unusual topological transformations that are suspended in an imaginative crescendo, poised between natural senses ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Bill Wells & Stefan Schneider - Pianotapes
 CD - Karaoke KalkGentle, fragile chords played by Bill Wells and Stefan Schneider, a form of "chamber music" we might say, digs up an old-fashioned stylistic category. The former engages with harmonic scales while the latter records everything on two old tape recorders and replays elements at ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic . drone . experimental . free form
Ignatz - Mort Aux Vaches
 CD - Mort Aux VachesIn Ignatz, floating guitar sequences merge with an exotic, repetitive score, creating melancholic and sensitive environments. Simultaneously lo-fi and yet of an unusually high technical caliber, this work generates dense drones that are infused with many influences (blues, postrock, improvisation, world ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Philippe Petit & Friends - A Scent Of Garambrosia
 CD - AagooElegant cinematic and orchestral movements, made using both acoustic and digital instruments, are unraveled in rarefied and narrative structures and juxtaposed with melancholic, anxious sequences by Philippe Petit. The artist has carefully coordinated an eclectic group of musicians, artists and sound-experimenters ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Ray Brassier, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Seijiro Murayama, Mattin - Idioms And Idiots
 Mp3 - w.m.o/rThe disturbing relations between philosophy and improvised music, a combination certainly not unusual for those into experimental music and other patient listeners, often produce a sense that the questions are more important the answers; that dynamic processes are more worthy than results. The "Idioms and Idiots" ensemble starts in an atypical way, combining ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . bastard pop . experimental . free form
Marina Rosenfeld - Plastic Materials
CD - Room40Marina Rosenfeld is rather famous in the underground New York scene (and not only there) for her compelling combination of an atypical conceptual turntablism along with more avant-garde and original experimentation. In "Plastic Materials", too, some of the electro-acoustic structures typical of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . experimental . free form . soundscapes
Nommo Ogo - Across Time And Space
CD - Record LabelRather emotional and psychedelic electronica, with strong melodic ingredients and space-future influences. Nommo Ogo, a combo hailing from the glacial latitudes of Alaska recorded this album in the United States, in California, Colorado and Oregon, arranging plots that are unraveled - contrarily - in a ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
experimental . folktronica . free form
Roj - Transactional Dharma Of Roj
CD - Ghost BoxStraight from Ghost Box, a label based in Surrey, and characterized by sophisticated electronic vintage, we happily welcome "Transactional Dharma of Roj", a vivid album with Burroughsian cut-ups and inspiring and imaginative conjunctions which underlie a cultural and psychic revolution in the English ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . electronica . ethnic . experimental . free form
Mice - World Tour
 CD - EcosonoAs a combo whose typical sounds are very wobbly and crooked, permeated with electronic, experimental and jazz influences, "Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble", traveling 30,000 miles by ship around the world, have created a successful series of concerts, collaborating with and connecting ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Piotr Kurek - Lectures
 CD - CronicaTangled instrumental sequences, dense and fascinating, are improvised by Piotr Kurek, a Polish producer and electronic musician. This work reveals a precisely organised, multilevel sound structure, which throbs with avant-garde jumps, jazzy shards and raw ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
drone . experimental . free form . noise
Audrey Chen + Robert Van Heumen - Abattoir
 CD - Evil RabbitAfter an disquieting start, modulating on shrill guttural vocalizations and innervated with noisy and improvisational acts, Robert van Heumen intervenes on laptops and controller. He generates instrumental arrangements, selected by highly noisy drones, with supplemental clicks, hums, sudden ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Denis Tricot / Eric Cordier - Orgue De Bois
CD - PreleNarrow strips of wood, roughly five inches long, thin, connected to each other to reach a considerable length (up to ten meters), totally suspended by special rods, shape sinuous undulations, as sculptural instruments and architectural installations, artistic and musical. This construction by Denis Tricot and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Tom Hamilton - Local Customs
CD - Mutable MusicThe elegant and modulated instrumental interventions of Jacqueline Martelle (flute), Richard Cohen (clarinet), James Martin (trombone), Terry Kippenberger (bass) and Rich O'Donnell (percussion) are twisted with electronic harmonic sequences dictated by Tom Hamilton, in a work similar to electro- ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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DNE - 47 Songs Humans Shouldn't Sing
CD - Room40The idea that it's impossible to sing some songs is persuasive. Do not expect - however - in these 47 small scores to face any 'synthetic' mixtures. The construction here is rather of avant-garde improvisations dating back to the second half of the 80s, when 'international post-punk' has almost ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . free form . microsound
Phroq - Connections, Opportunities For Mistake
 CD - Shiver SoundsIn this project Phroq, aka Francisco Meirino, uses malfunctioning minidiscs, cassettes and CD players in a work that investigates the glorious end of an amplification system. Together with continuous interferences and electrostatic noises - expressed in different forms and intensities - they reach the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
bastard pop . experimental . free form . mashup
Frank Rothkamm - Frank Genius is Star Struck
CD - FluxFollowing a multifarious talent, without either prejudices or gender barriers, Frank Rothkamm is back to bring his unique version of what today we could simply define as 'popular electronic music'. These kinds of sounds are well represented in 'Frank Genius is Star Struck' and they are also carefully ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . field recordings . free form
Thanos Chrysakis - A Scar In The Air
 CD - Aural TerrainsEthereal, synthetic and very fragmented sounds, field-recordings, drones and elegant acoustic treatments. Athenian composer Thanos Chrysakis, meticulously organises the structures and atmospheres of the project 'A Scar On The Air', a continuation of the Inscapes series (already selected ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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" "[sic] Tim Goldie - "Abjector"[sic]
![[sic] Tim Goldie - Abjector [sic], Hibari, audio-art, noise, experimental, free form, White Peristaltic Interrogations, Devocalised Fluchtverdachtiger/Blocksperre Refluxur, electronic dance, remix, house, techno, beats, electro, Jaurelio, Wicked Style, wickedstyle italiano, Aurelio Cianciotta, TimGoldie_Abjector.jpg](http://www.neural.it/sound/images4/TimGoldie_Abjector.jpg)
2CD - HibariHarsh digital sounds intertwine with improvisations structured as a percussive matrix. With audio-abuse, distortions and an extreme use of the human voice, Tim Goldie severely tests both the taste and analytical skills of those less accustomed to radical electronic and experimental music. The double ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Schurer - Parallax
 CD - DomizilEccentric passages, modulated in equally atypical waveforms, occasionally sound crooked and elastic. They are followed by more muffled and grainy concatenations; a chromatic addition of effect and perceptive starts. Decidedly uncommon aural experiences are imbued with synthetic laments, tonal ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Claudio Parodi - A Ritual Which Is Incomprehensible (To The Smile Of Pauline Oliveros)
 CD - ExtremeClaudio Parodi, inspired by the sounds of Pauline Oliveros (a sensitive composer and accordion virtuoso), takes up the theme of harmonic tuning procedures, producing a mix of assonant, gloomy, melancholic and fascinatingly repetitive sounds. The effects are realised by a limited number of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . experimental . free form . impro . laptop
David Bartel - Deep Sound Channel 1
 CD - Angry VeganRecorded at Brooklyn and Trenton (New York), Deep Sound Channel 1, for all its mixing of electronic bleeps, dub grooves and last generation clicks, certainly doesn’t surrender to strong electro-acoustic influences. The musician involved in this project (Adam Caine, Jeff Kaiser, Jacqui Carrasco) have ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Spyweirdos, Mourjopoulos And Floridis - Epistrophy At Utopia
 CD - Ad NoiseamRethinking jazz in the advent of digital; connecting old energies with new subgenres of glitch post-avant-garde. This is not an easy project – it isn’t enough to put together "free form" veterans (John Mourjopoulos e Floros Floridis), adding only minimal "destructurations" and synthetic rhythms, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic . audio art . experimental . field recordings . free form . impro
Kiko C. Esseiva - Sous Les Etoiles
CD - HinterzimmerOblique, hollow melodies, horror-movie-style audio samples, suspended atmospheres, elegant iterations, intermezzo organ, voice experiments, and - unmistakably - a taste for a certain pure mental automatism, which pierces the free flow of creativity. There are strong references to the historical avant ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . drone . experimental . field recordings . free form
Various Artists - Berlin Electronics
4 miniCD - AbsinthThis album's artwork is immediately striking and very original: it is made of a foldable cardboard of good quality, hand shellacked by Renkel (with a dense acrylic bluish color), supplemented by four mini-cd's in a diamond shape. It seems almost a punishment – the cd's are identical, there is no further ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Yoshio Machida - Hypernatural #3
 CD - BaskaruThis is the third and final episode of the Hypernatural series, which is inspired by research into Far Eastern organic sounds. It is distinguished by sensitive audio "transparencies", obtained through the interweaving of recordings, which are often ethereal and abstract. Yoshio Machida is incredibly skilled ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Kenneth Gaburo - Maledetto Antiphony VIII
CD - Pogus'Maledetto Antiphony VIII' is a project dating back to second half of the sixties. It is split into two tracks of dissimilar composition, which both experiment with complex interweaving and fascinating symbolic textual expressions within an improvisational framework. The author is Kenneth Gaburo, a radical ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . audio art . electronica . experimental . free form . glitch'n'cuts
A_dontigny - Geisteswissenschaften
CD - No-TypeAim&execute; Dontigny is based in Quebeq and is certainly a compositor who can't be easily categorized. He is the founding member of the free noise collective Napalm Jazz, and the animator for the No-Type label, which has released his second album. This is a work that brings together a decade ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . free form . noise
Erratum #4. Sound Review. Noise + Art + Poetry
 3 CD - ErratumAn anthological release, yet still very interesting, “Erratum # 4. Sound Review. Noise + Art + Poetry” was edited by the homonymous transalpine magazine and was compiled by Joachim Montessuis. This three-disc compilation brings together a consistent set of abstract and experimental sequences, which ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . free form . noise
Davor Mikan - Täushung
CD - Cronica ElectronicaGraphic tools and granular synthesis: this is Davor Mikan's compositional horizon, with twisted, surly and abstract radical sonorities, but once more modulated to construct a narrative with strong emotional characteristics. This seems to be the result of the arrangements and their complicated structures, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . free form . impro
Maja S.K. Ratkje - River Mouth Echoes
 CD - TzadikIn a nutshell: acoustics with tenuous electronica, edited traditional music instruments, sensitive sonorities, highly calibrated but destabilizing. The performance is heartfelt and there's an extreme diversity within the passages, improvisation, and in the creative continuum of its elements. It is ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . experimental . free form . impro . laptop
Yuta Segawa - Motiondecomposition
 CD - Cnc RecordGuitar improvisations, sensitive and cyclical, which were recorded during a special event at the Sendai's "Dotmov Festival", and subsequently edited. The flow is a very contemporary harmony of chips and used interfaces: common musical instruments as flutes, horns, and harps at madrigal time. It is really not the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Frank Rothkamm - Just 3 Organs
CD - FluxSince the early nineties Frank Rothkamm has crossed different music domains with sporadic releases. He was involved in artistic territories primarily devoted to the avant-garde with industrial or experimental influences. He can count on a traditional music background, so being comfortable in manipulating ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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