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César Bolaños - Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)

2CD - Pogus
A pioneer of avant-garde experiments, well defined between electroacoustic and improvisational influences, the Peruvian composer César Bolaños, in this double CD, releases the pieces composed in Argentina during his collaboration with the Latin-American Center of High Musical Studies (CLAEM). ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Aug 26/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . field recordings . impro

Trevor Wishart - Machine

CD - Paradigm Discs
The reprint of a pioneering project by Trevor Wishart, completed in 1971, "Machine" could easily be mistaken for a very recent release, so well outlined in its audio landscapes, with carefully combined spoken texts, backing vocals and pre-recorded sounds, thoroughly manipulated and with the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:57 AM - Apr 19/2010
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audio art . experimental . field recordings . impro

Lionel Marchetti & Olivier Capparos - Equus

CD - Pogus
"Equus", a collaborative project of concrete music, created by combining the strong personalities of Lionel Marchetti and Olivier Capparos. It may boast of being commissioned by the INA-GRM of Paris, the renowned music research institute founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1951, a place still very active and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:07 AM - Apr 15/2010
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acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . impro . laptop

Domenico Sciajno - Doves Days In Palermo

CD - Bowindo
From March to July 2008 Palermo held the 'Doves Days', 'Meetings of music, sounds and experimental electronic arts' – a festival organised for the third time by Antitesi. Works were selected for this edition for their ability to cultivate a sense of cultural exchange between artists, practitioners and a public of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:09 PM - Jun 19/2009
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ambient . electronica . impro

Israel M - Nareah

CD - Aagoo
Mexican Israel Martinez composes rarefied experimental electronic music, and he's careful in unravelling consistent and very sensitive sequences inspired by the minimalist canon. These sequences are quite iterated and melodic, and their development seems to be independent from both analog and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:49 PM - Jun 18/2009
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acoustic/digital . experimental . impro

Carrier Band - Voice Coil

CD - Deep Listening
A recording of Pauline Oliveros, Peer Bode and Andrew Deutsch's 2003 performance at the Deep Listening Space in Kingston (New York), 'Voice Coil' is structured as an extended suite. It is an experiment that merges rarefied accordion with the sounds of a particular vocoder, creating elegant ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:31 PM - Jan 16/2009
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experimental . free form . impro

Claudio Parodi - A Ritual Which Is Incomprehensible (To The Smile Of Pauline Oliveros)

CD - Extreme
Claudio 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 ]

Posted at 06:46 PM - Jan 8/2009
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acoustic/digital . experimental . free form . impro . laptop

David Bartel - Deep Sound Channel 1

CD - Angry Vegan
Recorded 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 ]

Posted at 03:30 PM - Dec 15/2008
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experimental . free form . impro

Spyweirdos, Mourjopoulos And Floridis - Epistrophy At Utopia

CD - Ad Noiseam
Rethinking 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 ]

Posted at 02:12 PM - Nov 24/2008
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acoustic . audio art . experimental . field recordings . free form . impro

Kiko C. Esseiva - Sous Les Etoiles

CD - Hinterzimmer
Oblique, 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 ]

Posted at 10:42 PM - Oct 14/2008
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experimental . free form . impro

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 ]

Posted at 07:21 PM - Sep 18/2008
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acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . free form . impro

Maja S.K. Ratkje - River Mouth Echoes

CD - Tzadik
In 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 ]

Posted at 10:52 AM - Jun 5/2008
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abstract . audio art . experimental . free form . impro . laptop

Yuta Segawa - Motiondecomposition

CD - Cnc Record
Guitar 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 ]

Posted at 12:36 PM - Jun 4/2008
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experimental . field recordings . free form . impro

Tanake - 3ree

CD - Ebria / Fratto 9 Under The Sky
Improvised audio-abuse and extreme poli-instrumentalism recorded live, without either overdubbing or editing, but modulating live radio field recordings (some funny samples of the right wing Italian leader maximo Berlusconi). A work with a radical outcome but also equipped with historical coordinates. It's ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:52 PM - Feb 13/2008
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acoustic/digital . experimental . impro

Al Margolis / If, Bwana - An Innocent Abroad

CD - Pogus
A project by Al Margolis, a veteran of the 'cassette scene' and the presence behind Pogus, Xi, Deep Listening and Mutable - also well-known as If, Bwana - a moniker under which he realized vocal mixes and manipulations with acoustic instruments. His latest work, 'An Innocent Abroad', follows this path, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:10 PM - Jan 14/2008
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acoustic/digital . experimental . impro

John Luther Adams - Red Arc / Blue Veil

CD - Cold Blue Music
Airy threads, piano melodies with percussions, played respectively by Stephen Drury and Scott Deal, in polyrhythmic constructions, with tempo variations and elegant improvisational overtones, divided in different combinations in the four tracks of this album, and joined in calibrated electronic grafts. The ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:31 PM - Dec 21/2007
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acoustic/digital . experimental . free form . impro

Roam The Hello Clouds - Near Misses

CD - Scape
Trumpets, drums, samples and electronic effects articulated in a minimalistic and experimental cut-and-paste. Jazzy frequencies, rebuilt in more contemporary forms, thanks to the help of Dave Miller's laptop, together with Laurent Pike and Phil Slater, skilled in combining in a more conceptual and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Nov 28/2007
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drone . experimental . impro

David Watson - Fingering An Idea

2CD - Xi
Extremely dilated drones, sounds obtained by modulating bagpipes in suggestive tonal harmonies, warm, tangled in the melancholic spires of the serial envelopes, often crossed by inscrutable side variations. It's an album of pure simplicity and grace, an ideal meditative background with its spatial ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Nov 7/2007
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acoustic/digital . ambient . free form . impro

Luca Formentini - Tacet

CD - Extreme
Improvisational atmospheric sequences, abstract and sensual, meticulously articulated by Luca Formentini, an experimenter and 'erudite' guitarist from Brescia, releasing for the Australian label Extreme. With guests such as Markus Stockhausen, Steve Lawson, Steve Jansen (ex Japan), Deborah ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Oct 8/2007
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ambient . free form . impro

Annea Lockwood - Thousand Year Dreaming / Floating World

CD - Pogus
Aboriginal didgeridoos, 'conch shells' (shells belonging to Hindu musical tradition, often played during religious ceremonies), 'waterphones' (water instruments, used in ambient music and derived from Tibetan musical instruments), and (but not only) 'pod rattles' (percussion instruments from Zimbabwe). ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:03 PM - Sep 27/2007
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acoustic/digital . experimental . impro . post rock

Mathias Delplanque - Le Pavillon Temoin

CD - Low Impedance
Between electronica and concrete music, glitch and improvisation, flows the inspiration of 'Le Pavillon Temoin', a delicate sound environment by Mathias Delplanque, a musician-producer from Burkina Faso, who used to go by the monikers of Bidlo and Lena. There are many levels this work can be ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:32 AM - Sep 21/2007
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acoustic/digital . experimental . glitch'n'cuts . impro

Burkhard Stangl / Taku Unami - I Was

CD - Hibari Music
This album was recorded partly in Cristoph Amann's studios in Wien and partly from live acts at the Kid Ailack Art Hall in Tokyo, in 2003 and 2004, then edited by Taku Unami herself, who designed all the musical structures in the interaction between computers and objects, seconded by Burkhard Stangl ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:10 PM - Aug 18/2007
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acoustic . experimental . impro

Greg Malcom & Tetuzi Akiyama - Six String

CD - Korm Plastics
These productions are the result of the collaborative work carried out in Extrapool's studios, in Nijmegen, Holland. They are eight delicate compositions, improvisational guitar sequences by Greg Malcom & Tetuzi Akiyama, juxtaposed in sensitive acoustic harmonies to follow the original spirit of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Aug 9/2007
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drone . experimental . field recordings . impro

Various Artists - A Private Shade Of Green

$Various Artists, A private shade of green, Gruenrekorder, Privatelektro, elettroacustica, experimental, minimal, CDR compilation, Yannick Dauby, c:\, Adriano Zanni, Reverend Benn Schipper, Parachute, Shintaro Miyazaki, Aurelio Cianciotta, aprivateshadeofgreen.jpg$ CDR - Gruenrekorder / Privatelektro
A CD-R compilation in limited edition (only 150 copies), the result of the collaboration of two experimental labels, Gruenrekorder of Frankfurt and Privatelektro of Leipzig. Fourteen tracks, starting with the electro-acoustic recordings of 'Rana Limnocharis', made by Yannick Dauby, and ending with ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Jul 17/2007
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acoustic/digital . experimental . impro

Vogel/Mayas/Renkel - Phono_Phono

CD - Absinth
A trio made up by Magda Mayas (piano and synthesizer) with Sabine Vogel (flute and electronic instruments) and Michael Renkel (guitar and electronics) is behind the extended recording (recorded at the Vivaldisaal in Berlin in 2005) which has then been renamed in seven different parts and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:10 PM - Jun 11/2007
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acoustic/digital . experimental . impro

Radicalfashion - Odori

CD - Hefty
Delicate experiments by Hirohito Ihara, the Japanese composer who founded Radicalfashion (maybe inspired by the exhibition bearing the same name, curated by David Toop at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2001), dilated in its piano chords and electro-acoustic structures, thanks also to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:10 PM - Jun 5/2007
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acoustic . ambient . experimental . impro . minimal

Yoshio Machida - Naada

CD - Amorfon
No electronic stuff, this time. Just an acoustic improvisation using different 'steel pans', very peculiar percussion instruments typical of the Caribbean, in Machida's first projects, turned into audio samples and processed with the Max/MSP software. In 'Naada', the result gives birth to more natural ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:45 PM - May 23/2007
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audio art . electronica . experimental . impro

Kotra & Zavoloka - Wag the Swing

CD - Kvitnu
This production, in an elegant and special edition made of ecologic cardboard with golden tints, is entitled 'Wag the Swing'. It's the latest work by the Ukrainian artists Dmytro Fedorenko (Kotra) and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:31 PM - May 4/2007
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audio art . experimental . impro . noise

Mattin - Proletarian Of Noise

CD - Hibari
"How can you believe everything they tell you?", this is the first text line after the beats, tapped on the table, or a keyboard or whatever in 'Computer Music/Post Fordism', the 'Proletarian Of Noise' intro. This is the last project by Mattin, a controversial experimenter and activist from Bilbao, yet happily ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:50 PM - Feb 22/2007
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acoustic/digital . electronica . experimental . field recording . impro . microsound

Flim - Ohne Titel, 1916

CD - Plinkity Plonk
After 'Holiday Diary' in 2003, this is Enrico Wuttke's, aka Flim, second release on Plinkity Plonk, a Korm Plastics parent label. It is made up of piano inspired music, an instrument played by Wuttke since his childhood. Here he intersects the improvisation attitude with minimal derives, meticulously diluted in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:56 AM - Feb 13/2007
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drone . impro . post rock

The Moglass - Sparrow Juice

CD - Nexsound
Moglass are an Ukrainian combination devoted to tangled improvised sounds, even thought they stem from elementary iterations, with drones and digital effects, who give birth to a really fascinating mix that can only loosely be ascribed to the post-rock ambit. The imaginative streak of Yuri Kulishenko, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:30 PM - Oct 2/2006
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electronica . impro . microsound . prepared piano

Gabriel Paiuk/Jason Kahn - Breathings

CD - Cut
Recorded in Gabriel Paiuk's home studio, in Buenos Aires, on November 30, 2004, "Breathings" marks the encounter of two different, but not too far apart, sensitivities: the "improvising" one of Gabriel, an eclectic musician who can use both traditional and electronic instruments, this time just the piano, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:18 PM - Sep 26/2006
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electronica . experimental . impro

John Hegre & Maja Ratkje - Ballads

CD - Dekorder / Risonanza Magnetica
This release is a tangled amalgamation of micro-sounds, impromptu sequences and very lean effects together with modulated effects, dissonances and sparse vocal elements. John Hegre & Maja Ratkje's 'ballads' are captivating in their articulated mastery of abstraction, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:03 AM - Apr 24/2006
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electronica . experimental . impro

Howard Stelzer, Giuseppe Ielasi - Brombron 08: Night Life

CD - Korm Plastics / Demos
Lean guitar elaborations, drones, field recordings and samples, experimental electronica of improvised character in this meeting of two musicians who worked a lot with unusual sounds and who, in this release, follow the ideal guidelines of the Brombron project by ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:59 PM - Apr 22/2006
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electronica . experimental . impro

Scatole Sonore / Impro Ensemble

CD - Idroscalodischi / L'antascorrevole
This is an improvised set recorded in December 2005 during the first edition of the Scatole Sonore festival at the Rialto Sant'Ambrogio in Rome. The artists are Logoplasm, Dr. Who, Anofele and Maath, all of them very active experimenters in the electronica-experimental ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:40 PM - Mar 21/2006
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