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the Ants, Animul,
C.U.E. , oaksmus,
Nonsequitur, Frog
Peak, GD Stereo labels and Anna
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 Decibel
- Stasis Ecstatic
DNM - LP, $15.00
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'Stasis Ecstatic' features new works performed by Perth new music
ensemble Decibel. Led by artistic director Cat Hope, Decibel is
unusual in the new music world for the way they blend the
aesthetic of classical music experimentation with noise, sound art
and song like sensibilities.
This gatefold album, with elegant design and artwork by When
Studio, features six tracks by Australian composers, and comes
with a 6 page booklet that features introductions to the pieces
contributed by the composers themselves, accompanying photos,
drawings and two essays. In addition to works by WA composers
Hope, Lindsay Vickery, Stuart James and Malcolm Riddoch, there is
a track by Julian Day (NSW) and the debut recording release of
Alan Lamb's 'Infinity Machine', an instrument made for Decibel by
Lamb and performed by Stuart James. Mixed and mastered at Sound
Field Studios. Each album comes with a download code for digital
copy.
Decibel won the APRA|AMC Inaugural Award for Excellence in
Experimental Music¬ in 2010.
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 The Styrenes - City of Women
Bone-3010-2 CD, $14.99
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Paul Marotta is an early riser - 5:30 isn’t unusual. The man
couldn’t be further away from the cliché of a wild rock and roll
animal. But that’s completely in character as the new album from
Marotta’s band, The Styrenes, is anything but a cliché. Hard,
rough, mean, unwashed, and slightly verminous; with bad breath and
nicotine teeth, City of Women is the kind of rock record we
haven’t heard in a long time.
The buzzsaw guitar snips away at the body of a song, nagging and
spitting, and the next minute it’s a tiny little melody that’s
neat as a pin. Bass and drums swoop and rumble, the vocals are
broken, like they’ve got screws in their jaws. The Eric Burdon
& The Animals’ classic When I Was Young is hardly
recognizable, engaging and expressive, while dispensing with the
romantic veneer of the original. Agitated is a malicious bark. I
Wish I Was High is pure fed up with life, and Mr. Handsome is that
really unpleasant guy – a fatal attraction – the one we all have
to encounter sooner or later.
Bright lights and long shadows, pills and booze, love,
alienation, and pure desperation, and (heavens, no) maybe even
something about your personal life. These Styrenes can be cunning.
Most of the songs were written by the New York based
singer-songwriter Tom Warnick. Marotta recalls, “We shared a bill
once with Tom’s band, and I found myself humming his tunes all the
way home. So we recorded a bunch of our favorites. And then added
a few tunes that we’d been playing live for years but hadn’t
gotten around to recording”. The Styrenes’ knack for turning most
anything into pure and straight energy keeps this cozy little trip
from going straight to hell. These guys aren’t youngsters and
there’s enough experience between them to create what might seem
like an impossible blend of urban rocksong, art-wave/art-punk,
maybe even some glam, in a consistent, consciously artistic
manner. The concept is simple, sophisticated music with punk
energy. No beer-filled sports fans chanting, no pseudo-provocative
nostalgia, no post-punk jigs. But something complex and truthful,
something both thought provoking and visceral. And then, just when
you think you’ve got it, the album takes another left turn.
This City of Women may not be an affable place, but it sure is
alive. - Rolf Jager, May 2007
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 Artefacts of Australian Experimental
Music: 1930 - 1973
SHAM050 CD, $14.99
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A landmark in the historical research of early
Australian innovative and exploratory music created and recorded
in Australia .
Over three years of research by Clinton Green has
resulted in this compilation CD that stretches over four decades,
a time previously thought by many to be barren of experimental
activity in Australian music.
Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music: 1930 -
1973 was launched as part of the 8th Liquid Architecture Festival.
The Melbourne launch included a panel discussion on the question
of whether there exists a tradition of experimental music that
influences contemporary practitoners. The panel featured Pauline
Oliveros, Warren Burt, Clinton Green, Rainer Linz and Robin Fox.
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| Ravenheart
Mysteria |
 OBJEKT 4
Her face among the shadows
RAVEN43 CD, 13.99
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Next dashing dark ambient album from Objekt4 "Her
Face Among the Shadows" including new never released 4 bonus
songs" Each track starts with gently undulating tones, building on
that base and adding swirling mists of sound and menacing
atmosphere that ultimately increases in anxiety. Dark horror,
thriller soundtrack andcombination of menacing atmosphere...drones
build before crashing beast and heavy bass. Rhytmic and
frame-chaotic and desperate trip to other side of light!
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 Alison
Knowles & Taketo Shimada
FLUXSWEET
RS024 CD/DVD, 14.99
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CD content:
1. PLAY PAPER by Alison Knowles (2003)
"Consider fragments of onion skins as musical notations. Perform
with handmade musical instruments and toys." Performed by Alison
Knowles, Larry Miller and Taketo Shimada
2. MUSIC BOX (homage to FLUX MUSIC BOX by Joe Jones) by Taketo
Shimada (2004)
"Modify two or more music boxes and play them simultaneously with
the recording of Joe Jones FLUX MUSIC BOX, if possible use
children to play the music box." Performed by Zora Gookin and
Robin Kahn + Clara Higgins Selman and Jessica Higgins on Toy Music
Box: + Taketo Shimada on Turntables
3. FINGER EXERCISE by Larry Miller (1982)
"Make sounds with fingers." Performed by Alison Knowles, Taketo
Shimada, Kirby Gookin and Larry Miller
4. DANGER MUSIC #2 by Dick Higgins (1961)
"Hat. Rags. Paper. Heave. Shave" Performed by Alison Knowles and
Nelson/Electric Chaircut
5. NIVEA CREAM by Alison Knowles (1962)
"First performer comes on stage with a jar of Nivea cream. The
performer massages hands in front of the microphone. Other
performers enter one at the time. They make a mass of massaging
hands and leave one at a time following the first performer."
Performed by Alison Knowles, Kirby Gookin, Beckett Gookin, Jessica
Higgins, Nancy Hwang, Noura Al-Salem on Nivea Cream: + Taketo
Shimada on Turntables
6. ONION SKIN SONG by Alison Knowles (1973)
Performed by Tim Barnes playing Paper Instruments made by Alison
Knowles (Bean Turner, Wrist Rubbers and Flax Paper shards) on top
of bass drums.
Track 1 through 5 recorded live from a Event Score concert
FLUXSWEET organized by Taketo Shimada, 02.14.2005 at Harvestworks,
NYC.
DVD content: track 1 to 5 of the CD
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 J.O.Mallander - Extended Play
MJO-1 CD, $15.00
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More Time - Hits & Variations 1968-1970
Anoema Recordings is proud to present a complete
collection of sound works by the influential Finnish artist
J.O.Mallander. More Time - Hits & Variations 1968-1970
collects two sought-after vinyl EP's Extended Play and
Decompositions (the only Finnish entries in Broken Music
catalog), and a previously unreleased piece. J.O.Mallander
began his artistic activities in 1960's within the blooming
Finnish Underground movement, taking part, amongst other
things, in the notorious music-performance collective Sperm.
He has since assumed a multitude of roles within the world
of art, operating as an artist, critic, writer, gallerist,
and curator. Through his international connections he became
a singular node of the Fluxus network in Finland. Extended
Play, released in 1968, was his debut as an artist. It is
simultaneously an intriguing aural ready-made, a mantra-like
tape piece, and a commentary echoing the Finnish cultural
climate of the day. It displays in torturing detail the
drama surrounding the presidential elections in 1962 and
1968. In these pieces the main protagonist is Urho Kaleva
Kekkonen, the president of Finland for a quarter of century,
and without question the most legendary politician in the
history of independent Finland. A caring father of the
nation to some, a democratically elected dictator to others,
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On the new Untitled (2005) CD the Spanish
composer Francisco López presents four recently composed
pieces which span a broad dynamic as well as stylistic
range. Together these constitute a fascinating and intense
research exploration into the deep essence of sound. From
sizzling jungle atmospheres to rumbling subterranean
drones and microscopic details, this is a Francisco López
tour de force. In addition to three pieces based on
environmental recordings, Untitled (2005) features also an
instrumental composition Untitled #111 (For Jani Christou)
performed by the noted German Zeitkratzer ensemble.
Unsuprisingly, either way the sound is 100% Francisco
López. On this release Mr. López might be unsually
forthcoming about the sound sources he uses (as specified
on the sleeve) but the dedication for the creation of
absolute music remains the same.
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Typewriting Aloud - Typoxxs
Allowed
Galéria umenia, Nové Zámky (SOUND OFF 2002, Slovakia),
Nov. 28 - Dec. 13
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Beams & Waves
MIYA MASAOKA/LENGOW & HEYERMEARS (Sound Off 003)
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SO-1 CD, $16.00
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SO-2 CD, $10.00
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Featuring works by The Lazy Anarchists, tEoRia OtraSu,
Gen Ken Montgomery, Jozef Cseres, Paul Panhuysen,
Carl Stone, Brandon LaBelle, Adnan Balcinovic, én, Michael
Delia, S.K.Y., Peter Strickland, gal and Al Margolis.
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Miya performs 34 minutes of solo
laser koto improvisations and the Slovakian unit of Ivan
Kamenicky and Heyermears perform live radio manipulations.
Fascinating and bizarre. We have a few limited edition
copies at $10. |
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De Bièvre |
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Manhattan [linear, circular,
lateral]
DG-1 CD, $10.00
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This CD is one of the results of two years of research on
pitch phenomena in the urban soundscape. It can be heard as
a sonorous scale model of the city.
Guy De Bièvre (born in Brussels, 1961) is a self-taught
composer, musician, theoretician, sound engineer and sound
designer. And a really nice guy.
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Bending the Tonic
DG-2 CD, $18.00 (2 CDs)
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Bending the Tonic by Guy De Bièvre is a blues in 144 bars
or what happens when you read Schoenberg while listening
to Bukka White. In analogy to the movie 'Fantastic Voyage'
(1966), the musicians are miniaturized on a temporal and
on a vertical harmonic scale and injected into 12 standard
blues bars.
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Very Slow Disco Suite
DG-3 CD, $14.00
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The Very Slow Disco Suite by Guy De Bièvre is a musical
exploration of extremely slowed down disco music. I found
that slowing down (preferably simple) musical events
causes otherwise very discrete properties to emerge.
Three musicians and a microcontroller are the explorers of
the score and of the material that runs as a backing
track. The microcontroller is hereby the central arranger.
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Jon Rose - Hermes Records
That world-traveling, multi-stringed, musician, composer and
inventor, Jon Rose, consistently surprises and
delights us with more mutant string manipulations.
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Violin Factory
An interactive new media performace.
Slovakian import CD
JR-2 CD, $14.00
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with Kaffe Matthews & The
Orchestra of Ancient Guts (Vienna) Theresa Schütz, Diana
Kiendl, Alexander Eberhard, Isabelle Frodl, Christine
Pawlik, Tobias Stosiek, Karin Schlechta, Petra Ackermann,
Melissa Coleman, Elisabeth Harringer, Margit Slosser,
Christoph Rothaler, Arthur Krachler, Levan Pagava, Tony
Burger, Aileen Dullaghan, Wang - Yü Ko, Michael Trabesing,
Il-Se-Ling, Luis Morais, Andrew Roots, Michael Pistelok,
Mirek Walega, Ciro Vigilaute, Yuko Aragaki
Hermes, 2001
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Small Music
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Rolf Julius
Small Music Vol. 1
SM-1001 CD, $14.00
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White - Yellow - Black
Electron buzzer instruments and nature sound from Brazil
and Japan.
Recorded and mixed at Small Music Studio.
Mastered at XEBEC Studio.
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- TC-1-CD
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Vacaciones por el Perimetro,
Cero Records |
- MH-1-CD
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Reflexion alternativa del Son
Jarocho, Cero Records |
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Sound of Pig - SOP
Cassette Mail Order Catalogue features hundreds of titles!
Sound of Pig (SOP) cassettes are back! From the early 1980's
through the 90's, Al Margolis earned the title "Cassette
Godfather" with his Sound of Pig cassette label by releasing
tapes and distributing them through a growing DIY music
underground. Releases include Amy Denio, Illusion of Safety,
Al Margolis, Merzbow, Jim O'Rourke, and many others.
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Untitled (2005)