Haz – The Preview Album
[s65052]
Haz
“The Preview Album”
Final Fight Series Release #32
posted 15 March 2020
music tagged with: experimental
Stahl & Blech – Metallverarbeitung
[s65051]
Stahl & Blech
“Metallverarbeitung”
Fight Fight Series #31
posted 15 March 2020
Jude Cowan Montague – to India
Jude Cowan Montague
“to India”
Linear Obsessional is delighted to present a solo album by Jude Cowan Monague (of Montague Armstrong who released the acclaimed “Hammond Hits” on LinOb last year.
“To India” was originally self released as a very limited CDr – this re-issue includes the original CDr packaging as jpg files.
Mixing Jude’s trademark mix of quirky travel reportage, poetry and a fascination with archaic keyboard instruments, “To India” is a joyous collection of songs from this unstoppable and endlessly creative artist.
tracks 1 – 7 – written on an art residency on Goa India
tracks 7 – 9 – written in Mauritius and first published as poems in “The Groodoyals of Terre Rouge” (Dark Windows Press 2013)
Thanks to Rekha Sameer and my fellow artists and to Kiran Groodoyal and her brilliant family
credits
released March 14, 2020
tracks 1-6 recorded at J.C. Montague’s, London by Matt Armstrong
Jude Cowan Montague – Vocals, Hammond, Fender Rhodes, Min-Moog
Matt Armstrong – Bass, Backing Vocals, Philichorda
Tom Murrow – Drums
tracks 7-9 recorded and mixed at Bark Studios, London by Brian Ono
Jude Cowan Montague – Vocals/Alesis Micron
Matt Armstrong – Bass/Percussion/Vocals
Mark Braby – Vocals
posted 14 March 2020
King Elizabeth – The Awakening
[VULP-0162]
King Elizabeth
“The Awakening”
King Elizabeth – The Awakening (VULP-0162)
Picking up from where King Elizabeth left off in 2012 with Miami, The Awakening contains all of the mesmerizing synth hooks and passionate vocal lines you’d hope for. The sultry “Mother” and churning title track “The Awakening” are among my favorites in this dark gleam of brilliance — 7 years in the making! — that Vulpiano Records is delighted to present.
Words from the artist:
It’s been a long journey to get to this point with many songs being written and recorded but never feeling right for the time. A lot of songs were scrapped and others placed on the back burner to come back to with fresh ears. Maybe it was a quest for perfection when perfection doesn’t exist, or just falling out of love with the songs at the time! It’s all contributed to the 7 years it’s taken to complete this record.
I had a new experience with writing and recording songs for this album. I usually have a vision for the album with the songs interconnected in some way. This time, I was just writing one song at a time—the ideas were for the individual songs, I had no greater vision. I had the lyrics and the music in my mind for that song and that song only at the time, then I’d move onto the next.
Over time I realised that the songs that stood out for me fitted together as well as any other album I’ve ever made—if not better. The beauty of this is that each song can really hold its own and doesn’t need a ‘before’ song or an ‘after’ song. The process was lengthy, but then when they all did come together it was an awakening. I hope this album awakens something inside everyone who kindly takes the time to listen to it.
posted 13 March 2020
i – °
i
“°”
released February 16, 2020
feat Hugin at the guitar
posted 12 March 2020
Salomè Lego Playset – FAILURES
[SR217]
Salomè Lego Playset
“FAILURES”
Forgotten on a dying hard drive for years, FAILURES is Salomè’s latest, and last, work.
An utter failure, but we did the best we could.
Credits:
Tracks recorded in Bologna in 2013 and mixed by Salomè Lego Playset and Fabio Iaci in 2018/19.
Mastering by Fabio Iaci.
Salomè Lego Playset is:
Davide Landi (bass guitar)
Elia Dalla Casa (saxophone)
Jacopo Cinti (drums)
Nicola Boari (guitar and voice)
Track 2, Magenta Jealousy Blackened, features John Duncan on voice and his are the lyrics too.
Front photo by Davide Landi.
Back photo by Giancarlo Morieri
Inner photo by Nicola Boari
Art direction by Matteo Linari
posted 12 March 2020
Various Artist – TAR Class of 2020 Vol. I
Various Artist
“TAR Class of 2020 Vol. I”
Volume I of a II part compilation.
Artists from the past, present, and future of TAR. 20 tracks for 2020.
All new original material from the roster.
100% of the proceeds will be donated to aid local families affected by violence or domestic abuse:
www.peaceoverviolence.org
Original artwork by fvckrender
credits
released March 11, 2020
posted 11 March 2020
Cyff Gwawd – Cyff Gwawd
Cyff Gwawd
“Cyff Gwawd”
Cyff Gwawd is Stuart Estell, a piano, and a couple of barely-functional tape machines. The project draws on his love of Satie, Cage, Feldman and Basinski while also being a logical step from his compositions for drone/doom tuba outfit ORE, which he left in 2014. Cyff Gwawd is named in tribute to Mark Hollis. It means “Laughing Stock” in Welsh.
The pieces on this release started as miniatures, some of the material freely composed, and some of it restricted to sets of just four pitch classes. In performance, however, they took on a life of their own and didn’t seem to want to be constrained to what had been written down — resulting in what might be better described as planned improvisations.
The same side of the same C90 — an old and far-from-clean TDK SA90, naturally — was used to record all four pieces. The older cassette machine’s completely unreliable motor and faulty tape head resulted in some happy accidents (speed changes, incomplete erasure) that would be impossible to reproduce. Apart from EQ, some additional reverb and the occasional overlaying of additional tracks (from the same source material), the only editing here has been structural. Other than that, what you hear is how it… more
credits
released March 6, 2020
posted 09 March 2020
HaZ – The Album That Didn’t Exist
[s65050]
HaZ
“The Album That Didn’t Exist”
Release 27 of the Final Fight Series
posted 08 March 2020
V.A. – ruptured heretical yeasts talking hours more sensically
[ACPS 1037]
V.A.
“ruptured heretical yeasts talking hours more sensically”
01. RHYTHMIC LIFE PATTERNS – Rhythmic Life Patterns 11:44
02. INFINITY OF 6 – Where The Whipping Post Used To Be 07:38
03. LAMPREDONTO – Workout Worship 05:19
04. NIMBOSTRATA feat. IMAGES WITHOUT RESEMBLANCE – S†RɅTA (Sun God Mix) 07:13
05. MINÓY – A Process Of Growth And Decay 06:27
cover art by Claus Poulsen
design by EMERGE
posted 05 March 2020
Various Artists – Nostress Netlabel Anniversary Compilation Vol.9 – A.A. VV. A Minimal Step from the Decimal Metric
[NN_Comp009_03_20]
Various Artists
“Nostress Netlabel Anniversary Compilation Vol.9 – A.A. VV. A Minimal Step from the Decimal Metric”
Penultimate Anniversary Compilation that will end with the 10th volume in 2021? Who knows… difficult to say, difficult to plan. Nostress Netlabel, like many other netlabels, follows the difficult path of survival, remaining active mainly for releasing digital albums and for the “bootleg” recordings of the NN Performing catalog and maybe some special event to organize or to attend.
WE DON’T GIVE UP! WE DON’T CLOSE!
In full respect for all the artists who have chosen to take advantage of an additional channel of visibility, Nostress Netlabel, at the cost of appearing as an anomaly and / or an obsolescence, holds on. Maximum gratitude for those who follow us and who believe in small and independent reality like this.
posted 04 March 2020
Agia Monaxia – Analekta
[zen205]
Agia Monaxia
“Analekta”
Ανάλεκτα /analekta/ (greek) : analects, collection, travels, drones, selections, greatest hits, moments, drones, struggles, time, poems, peyote, being/not being, drones/not drones, third eye, self-realization, album, enjoy before sleeping.
posted 03 March 2020
t16c – re
t16c
“re”
t16c is a duo formed by underground Slovak musicians. Two friends, Peter Kudlička (16 colours, EGA) and Andrej Nechaj (Tatratank) have been making music for over 20 years. t16c is a natural result of their unceasing commitment to diverse sonics.
“re” is a debut collaborative album of t16c. Post-apocalyptic space exploration, transmitted over lo-fi radio signal back to the Earth. Grid-less, yet pulsating culmination of eerie field recordings, samples, and electronics. Alluring melancholic glimpses of an unclear future.
credits
released February 29, 2020
Cover by Andrej Nechaj
Photos by Andrej Nechaj and Peter Kudlička
Mastering by Angakok at Mydriasis
posted 03 March 2020
Hamandra – The Human Experience
[ST012]
Hamandra
“The Human Experience”
Hamandra [Lithuania, Germany]
Release Date: February 24 2020
Release Date: February 24 2020
posted 02 March 2020
Ethernet Orchestra – Oceans between Sound
[pn150]
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)
posted 01 March 2020
Gert 3000 – Reise in die innere Zufriedenheit
[s65048]
Gert 3000
“Reise in die innere Zufriedenheit”
Release number 25 of the Final Fight Series
posted 01 March 2020
You’re Wrong – Arbuckle
[LF112MP3]
You’re Wrong
“Arbuckle”
Track Listing:
01. I
02. II
03. III
04. IV
05. V
06. VI
07. VII
08. VIII
09. Untitled 1
10. Untitled 2
11. Untitled 3
All tracks taken from EP II except for 9-11, which are from EP I and unfinished EP III.
Originally released around March-April 2019.
Track #10 added 2/25/2020.
posted 29 February 2020
SOLIPSIS – Imaginary Soundscapes
[ACP 1242]
SOLIPSIS
“Imaginary Soundscapes”
design by EMERGE
posted 24 February 2020
the dissonant – senza titolo in quattro parti con decadenza
[diss029]
the dissonant
“senza titolo in quattro parti con decadenza”
posted 24 February 2020
Fabrizio Bozzi Fenu – Sant’Andrìa
[PT099]
Fabrizio Bozzi Fenu
“Sant’Andrìa”
Fabrizio Bozzi Fenu: guitar
recorded by Nicolò Terrasi
at Peintre de Lettres, Marseille
november 2019
mix and master by FBF
cover by Marta Anatra
posted 23 February 2020
elvii marten – naihtyme
elvii marten
“naihtyme”
bended spacetime dance music
posted 19 February 2020
Sinistra – I
[phokes139]
Sinistra
“I”
Dave & Suzan Vega Combo hit the minds,
bleak winds in the back,
rolling words of wisdom, techno style.
Out of the cold depths new art forms appear.
This year Phonocake presents sinistra,
first digitally, later on tape.
sinistra is a blend of dark ambient, techno and poetry made by
composer Daniel Williams and author Anne Seidel.
“Our aim is to head for the ritual and the hidden, and to open
everything up into a warm sonic and literary darkness. We do
not write or prepare the music for any of the tracks or material.
All performances in the combination of words and music are
improvised.” (Daniel Williams)
Track list:
01 abwesenheiten VII / stern um stern 1:51
02 ocean facile4:13
03 (is the genuine unintentional?) 4:40
04 nada te turbe 4:26
15:12 min
BONUS
05 erwartung der tiere 5:22
06 une autre presence 2:03
posted 19 February 2020
Nicolas Tourney – Ram
[BN_LP028_02_20]
Nicolas Tourney
“Ram”
Nicolas Tourney is a french experimental musician and sound designer, also owner of the label Snow in Water Records. With Ram, he offers us an electronic work focused on perception and act of listening, with the use of various sound devices and drones. Ram is a work in-progress with long-sustained tones. Ram submit to the listener some perceptual experience: there would be a “sound” as object of perception and source of this same perception. This held sound that we dress by calling it a soundscape, spacing exploration from the gesture. Look at what draws us to a sound, how listening gets caught up in it, and how it draws our attention to an experience. Ram sounds like a suspense that opens onto interiority. In this silence, the listener finds himself contemplating the act of listening, as if it is the constant noise of natural electricity.
posted 17 February 2020
M.A.K.T. Sono – Doozie-Doozzie
[Eg0_226]
M.A.K.T. Sono
“Doozie-Doozzie”
M.A.K.T. Sono ‘s new release Doozie-Doozzie consists of two improvisations recorded in November and December 2019 by Magali Albespy (analog synthesizer, soundbox, voice) & Kecap Tuyul (analog synthesizer, no-input mixer).
posted 16 February 2020
Various Artists – TLM presents Vol.1: "...should be feared" (?)
[TLM003]
Various Artists
“TLM presents Vol.1: “...should be feared” (?)”
a VA compilation that attempts to cover a wide spectrum of modern electro-acoustic experimentation.
posted 15 February 2020
