George Christian – Longes
George Christian
“Longes”
“This album is the first work I’ve done in 2019 and also part of a series of instrumental works that reflect upon absence in different ways, in a pentalogy. All of them expresses what I felt after the latest political misfortunes in my country (Brazil) and overall social-political state of mind in the world. In “Insomniac Dreams” – the absence of rest and sleep to convey life in its existence. In “Antimanicomial” – the absence of sanity in its helplessness in a political system that doesn’t give a care. In “Duets for Balogh” – the absence of a friend, despite his presence in sound conversations. In “Cinzas” – the absence of care on nature, a mourn for dead rivers. And this, “Longes” is about absence of faith. However, there is no particular order, nor any sound similarities for this pentalogy, despite being linked thematically. “Insomniac Dreams” was the first published one, but “Longes” was the one recorded first, with later-on finalizations.
”Longes” is my second work in which I play electric guitar (a Telecaster) as a main instrument (first one was “Electric Ramblings” (2014) in most of the tracks). It was conceived as a series of variations on the final motif from the coda of the song “Muito Mais Longe do que o Bastante”, which was originally recorded for the album “La Géographie sans Regret” (2012), made in collaboration with Mehata Sentimental Legend. In this album, I explore on electric guitar both timbral and electronic experimentations whereas the themes are extended without regard on time and space, despite having their own implicit structure. Apart from the last track (X), the pieces were all improvised in their performances. Somehow, it’s a spiritual manifesto on struggling for survival, in electric mantras; against all odds, a life-affirming statement.”
Ethernet Orchestra – Oceans between Sound
Ethernet Orchestra
“Oceans between Sound”
REVIEW / RESEÑA
Oceans between Sound is a selection of live improvisations by the internet based music ensemble, Ethernet Orchestra. The album was recorded during located venue performances and online sessions between 2014-2019, featuring musicians from a diverse range of cultures, performing across international time-zones and physical locations in Brazil, the USA, Canada, UK, Germany and Australia. The music was inspired by the ebb and flow of network data as a metaphor for the world’s oceans and waterways separating the members of the ensemble, and their geographically dispersed lives.
Oceans between Sound includes performances by internationally acclaimed improvisers such as guitarist Chris Vine, best known for his work with the British post punk band Blurt (Factory Records), and Elliott Sharp and Bob Boilen in the downtown music scenes of New York and Washington D.C. The ensemble founder, trumpeter Roger Mills, came to prominence during the 1990s with his work with the Bristol-based free jazz ensemble Space Ways and the trip-hop collective Statik Sound System (Cup of Tea Records). Performing on many of the tracks is the UK based free improviser Hervé Perez, acclaimed German pianist Holger Deuter, as well as world-renowned Moorin Khuur player and throat singer, Bukhchuluun Ganburged. The album also features a performance by the late Richard Lainhart, who worked and performed with John Cage, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Rhys Chatham. His musical contributions to Seymareh ensure his presence continues to live on in our music.
A salient characteristic of the recordings on Oceans between Sound is how they reflect the materiality of the telematic performance medium. Musical sound travels through multiple networks, and is subject to a variety of operational conditions, latency, speeds, compression, and jitter. These phenomena imprint themselves on the sound as an aesthetic parameter within the music, rather like the crackle of an old vinyl album. These sonic qualities are also a testament to the incredible feat of musicians performing in real-time across distances of thousands of kilometres.
Roger Mills
(Sydney, Australia, marzo / March 2020)
All shall be well (and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well) – ZWARTGROEN
All shall be well (and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well)
“ZWARTGROEN”
ZWARTGROEN is our third full length album after releasing ROODBLAUW in 2011 and BLAUWGEEL in 2014 and releasing our EP GEELZWART in 2016.
credits
released February 20, 2020
ALL music by All Shall Be Well (and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well). Artwork by Bas. Many thanks to Tom Huissen, Henk Suurling, Jochem de Jong, Cedric Muyres, Mart, Darius, Antje, Blazenka, Marta, Meldody, Sanne and of course you (for your support). For Juno, Kess, Leah, Lukas, Omar and Niev.
elvii marten – naihtyme
elvii marten
“naihtyme”
M.A.K.T. Sono – Doozie-Doozzie
M.A.K.T. Sono
“Doozie-Doozzie”
¡No Pasarán! – Seize The Power !
¡No Pasarán!
“Seize The Power !”
Various Artist – We Are Grunge
Various Artist
“We Are Grunge”
Flavigula – Älläï
Flavigula
“Älläï”
CM & Tha Silent Partner – Problems
CM & Tha Silent Partner
“Problems”
Today we’ve got a little sumthin’ sumthin’ for you to enjoy. Not quite a Valentine’s gift, but you know the bloc loves you… right? So you’re thinking… “yo, blocSonic, get to the point… CM & TSP are back?!?”. Yup… today we’re dropping the first single from their forthcoming project! If you heard their 2014 EP “bloc Sonics”, then you know the combination of CM & TSP is magical. If you haven’t… sheeeeit… it’s never too late… check it out too. Anyway, this new joint promises that lightning does indeed strike twice… yup. Download… enjoy.
CM & TSP… yoooooo! Look at you coming back with that straight fire! Oh… I can’t wait to hear what you’ve got for us. Thanks, gents!
Of course, thanks once again to you for downloading & listening. We always strive to deliver the music you’ll love. Please spread the word about blocSonic, if you enjoy what we do. Remember… everything we release is cool to share! Always keep the music moving… share it… blog it… podcast it! If you’re in radio… support independent music and broadcast it!
John Holland Experience – II
John Holland Experience
“II”
Shinnosuke Sugata – 光目眩ませずとも、あれ (Let There Be Light, Even If It Doesn’t Dazzle The Eyes
Shinnosuke Sugata
“光目眩ませずとも、あれ (Let There Be Light, Even If It Doesn’t Dazzle The Eyes”
東京在住のストーリーテリング：シンガーソングライターShinnosuke Sugataの驚異の23曲入アルバム 「光目眩ませずとも、あれ (Let There Be Light, Even If It Doesn’t Dazzle The Eyes)
In Japan, like Sufyan StevensI don’t see storytelling unique folk singers.shinnosuke sugata is one of the few honest & unique japanese singer-songwriters.You are witnessing it now.
Various Artist – Nocturnal Reflections
Various Artist
“Nocturnal Reflections”
Blackmod – Red bat (Carlo Giustini drone rework)
Fingerflood – Scared (feat. Parmia Vaala) (Original Mix)
Fingerflood – Scared (feat. Parmia Vaala) (Claudio Iacono Mix)
Mas&Delayer – Monday (Original mix)
Mas&Delayer – Monday (B.kr. Dub mix)
Tijana Stanković – Freezer
Tijana Stanković
“Freezer”
Freezer is an album of raw and emotive improvisations by Serbian violinist-vocalist Tijana Stanković. Her chosen theme, the proverbial ‘freezer’, makes for a stark setting, serving as both a musical metaphor and literally the echoey meat freezer in Bratislava where the music was created and recorded. “Freezer is a place of cruelty and hope,” Stanković says. “It is a metaphor – an inner place where thoughts and feelings wait to be addressed.”
Though a dedicated free improviser, Stanković’s background in folk and Ethnomusicology puts her in touch with an ancient emotional syntax. Her key tools – violin and vocals – both yearn with an organic and creaking fragility, tied irrevocably to old cultures. As a means to express, they offer boundless possibilities (something Stanković has long explored in a vast array of collaborative groups, ensembles, and projects), but locker herself in the Freezer, on these recordings Stanković gains access to some potent introverted sonic realms, putting them in stasis to keep them at their most genuine, honest, and revealing. “To freeze,” she explains, ”is to preserve.”
Each of the four lengthy improvisations captured on Freezer takes its aesthetic to a logical endpoint. For example, ‘From dust and shine’ is a trip into gentle bow strokes over jarring and… more
credits
released February 2, 2020
Vocal, prepared violin and bow by Tijana Stanković
Recorded by Jonáš Gruska in LOM freezer in Petržalka
Mastered at The House of What You See
Cover by Jonáš Gruska and Lucia Kovaľová
Text by Tristan Bath
Released by LOM as LOM17 in 2020
The EyE – Wilt
The EyE
“Wilt”
Barely Hearable – Gewitter Home
Barely Hearable
“Gewitter Home”
OKAM – In Aching Sleep
OKAM
“In Aching Sleep”
Polwor – Mais
Polwor
“Mais”
Pueblo Nuevo Netlabel is pleased to present our first 2020 release: “Mais”, EP from Chilean electronic musician Pablo Guerra Pedroso aka Polwor.
“Mais”, Polwor’s new EP, is presented as a field of sound covered with psychedelic textures. An album where the sonic mutation is surprising, a conceptual work comprising a track and three remixes, that passes through a faint subtlety, while generating softness through melodic pads in combination with low and distorted tones, and a fierce stir of sounds seem that seem to be taken from some mad scientist’s laboratory. All this is complemented by a glitch, to the beat of a defined kick, in the characteristic formula of Polwor’s experimental techno.
René Roco‘s remix disfigures the entire main structure, leaving it in a dislocated polyrhythmic sequence, as if it were a digital error, assembling and disarming the track through a clean digital sound. A peculiar creativity that manages to offer a stylistic hybrid from the most innovative tendencies of the modern electronic music scene.
For his part, Ukyo brings “Mais” to delicacy. He uses the pad harmoniously and smoothly, generating an abysmal depth and innovating from the depths of the Deep through a versatile bass line, while syncopating everything and making this track a penetrating and seductive work.
Mika Martini achieves a spectral variation of the entire piece through continuous and independent sonorities, as if they were programs produced by artificial intelligence after their system has collapsed, still working even as it is falling apart. He manages this through a light pulse that moves towards a crisp rhythmic restoration and an ambient texture, as well as through acute perception in relation to percussion. Energizing and full of unexpected mutations, this is a lush and analog sound design.
In short, this work promises a work of ingenuity, invention and creativity in the hands of composers who have managed to deliver emotion, curiosity and topicality with their music, taking creativity to another level. A fusion between the digital and the analog, the new and the classic, under the banner of a brilliant genius.”
Gemelo Malvado
(Santiago, Chile. Enero / January, 2020)
Barely Hearable – Sturmwanderung
Barely Hearable
“Sturmwanderung”
various artist – PIKADON
various artist
“PIKADON”
PIKADON is a coproduction between the netlabels :
Cian Orbe Netlabel http://humanfobia.jimdo.com/cian-orbe-netlabel/
Earsheltering http://earsheltering.free.fr
Eg0cide Productions http://eg0cide.com
Murmure Intemporel https://archive.org/details/sillage-intemporel
The Necrophile Humingbird www.horsnorme.org
What is “PIKADON” :
A collective experiment of mutation ?
Or only a remix album of the3 Best Of de Yoshiwaku, the essential of his music since 2011 :
https://archive.org/details/Unsound_Territory_Yoshiwaku
https://archive.org/details/Insane_Territory_Yoshiwaku
https://archive.org/details/Unsafe_Territory_Yoshiwaku
- Both, at the same time, it depends of You : if You just listen…
Or if you choise to spend a little of your time to discover what is hidden behind the music… horsnorme.org/PIKADON/index.html - Why Pikadon pop up at the dawn of 2020 ?
- A distress rocket can also be used to draw attention to a solution particularly suited to the current situation…
Who is Yoshiwaku Mushotoku : A vaguely humanoid sound generator or a kind of synthetic shaman ? - It’s a solo project focus on electronic improvisation. It’s also the last mutation of “OresteS”, which was known as “TKno BeurK” in the beginning in 1998.
He’s also a member of the anarcho-post-situationist band “La 6ème République” and of the noise supergroupe “K/W/A/Y” and of the plunderphonic collective without head “Vivid Tribe Of Psychics”
More d’information here http://horsnorme.org/Yoshiwaku/shamanoise.html
VIDEO ART CLIPs :
Pikadon trailer v2 1/3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrHJDY5l8hg
Pikadon teaser 2/3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zxuv7m9HBI
Pikadon cinemix 3/3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLbqmnhyAuY
The playlist is mostly the same than the best of playlists.
Light Dedication :
Pikadon is dedicated to those who participated in Necktar 2017 and have died since : A few of your dreams is shining in our eyes. A bit of your spirits are vibrating in this music.
Burst Dedication :
Pikadon is dedicated to all the peoples who are trying to free themselves from the madness of their leaders. Who are trying to get rid of capitalism to save the planet, humanity and all living creatures.
Thanks :
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to each participant for the meeting of our sound universes.
Thanks to the netlabels without whom this project would have been a little too much ambitious for my frail shoulders.
Thanks to Sono Sion for the discovery of Pikadon in his film “Rabu & Pîsu”.
Tha Bloc Report Episode 17 – 2019 End of the Year Episode
Tha Bloc Report Episode 17
“2019 End of the Year Episode”
M.V.A – Wackywave (New Sonick Thee Hejhog Level) from the 2019 maxBloc release New Nostalgia: Game And Cartoon Music
Tha Silent Partner – Alone Drinking from the 2019 Original release Music To Hail Blue Whales To (Music Inspired By The Animated Series, Gulf City)
Moki Mcfly – wagyu from the 2019 Original release Addition Hills
Garmisch – City Sounds from the 2013 Original release Fishes
Timezone LaFontaine – Long Way Yet To Go (Instrumental) from the 2019 maxBloc release Smoketrails
The Impossebulls – The GetBack (C-Doc / Chuck D / Tah Phrum Duh Bush / Marcus J / Brother Mike Williams) from the 2014 Original release Everything Has Changed; Nothing Is Different
Viktor Van River – City on fire from the 2019 Original release Fake Detective
Tha Silent Partner – GULF CITY STREETS from the 2019 Original release Music To Hail Blue Whales To (Music Inspired By The Animated Series, Gulf City)
Tha Silent Partner – Dance With The Godfather from the 2012 fortyFive release Dance With The Godfather (Tha Godfather Complex, Part 1)
Pete Lund – Gypsy Cab from the 2014 fortyFive release Gypsy Cab
The Impossebulls – Runnin’ With The Bulls (Marcus J / Mported Flows / C-Doc / cheese) from the 2014 Original release Everything Has Changed; Nothing Is Different
Tha Silent Partner – Rocket from the 2018 Original release Platters, Act 8: A Beat Plate For Pete Rock
Nic Bommarito – Runaway Friction Tester from the 2015 Original release A Quiet Age
Gemischter Chor Waldenburg – Gemischter Chor Waldenburg EP
Gemischter Chor Waldenburg
“Gemischter Chor Waldenburg EP”
Gert 3000 – Pianofreunde
Gert 3000
“Pianofreunde”
Space Haz – Travel To Star X 2003
Space Haz
“Travel To Star X 2003”
Culture Deaf – Luminic
Culture Deaf
“Luminic”
New Release!
Tracks:
1. Gloinch Gloinch
2. Agressive Intellect (Limited Club Mix)
3. Retro Robots (Modern Mix)
