attenuation effect ° 1025 ° 2020
live @ villa, Augsburg, 23.04.18
photography by Felix Montfort
recording, mastering and design by EMERGE
Harald Lillmeyer: electronics
Sascha Stadlmeier: guitars, bass, effects
Seuil Optique, duo of Sig Valax and Nicolas Tourney, offers a unique experience of listening to music in the dark. Immersing the stage and the public in constant darkness, Seuil Optique creates soundscapes where electronic transmissions, acousmatic landscapes and refined drones intersect. By jostling the boundaries between listening, blind manipulation of machines and immersive experience offered to the audience, the two musicians explore new sound tracks, in permanent dialogue with hybrid musicalities and the practice of singular instruments: persephone, field recording, electro-acoustic devices, matrices and samples.
On stage, they use deliberately “open” improvisation strategies and defeat the boundaries between manipulating machines in the dark, harmonics tinged with noise-producing materials and the “eyes closed” hearing experience offered to the public.
Seuil Optique’s third album, Les Habitants, focuses on the practice of electronic improvisation. Recorded in three days and three nights, in Paris, in total darkness, Les Habitants aims to be a place of recognition of gesture as a creative act. No preparation beforehand, no benchmark, no intro or climax, only the interaction between two ways of producing spectral imprints. In this sound dialogue, electronics are the vector of total sincerity: the inhabitants target the listener, bringing them to live the experience of the moment that guides the “non-idiomatic” music of Seuil Optique, in which each sound, each transmitted waveform is dedicated to the inhabitants of the present.
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
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
“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.”
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)
Fabrizio Bozzi Fenu: guitar
recorded by Nicolò Terrasi
at Peintre de Lettres, Marseille
november 2019
mix and master by FBF
cover by Marta Anatra
Release date: January 15, 2020.
Luis Conde (clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone)
Luis Ianes (acoustic guitars)
Carlos Vega (double bass)
Recorded by Sam Nacht on March 3, 2019 at Leandra & Vega (Villa Pueyrredón, Buenos Aires)
Mixed y mastered by Sam Nacht in April of 2019 at Estudio Libres (Buenos Aires)
Art and design by Cecilia Ivanchevich
“…los sonidos intentan recuperar una narrativa de paisajes escuchados en la arqueología de otras músicas y otros discursos. No hay fusión. En todo caso, hay una épica. Los roles de voz principal y acompañamiento se disuelven y reconstruyen, jugando entre lo idiomatico y lo diferente en busca del extrañamiento…” – L. Conde
We are very pleased and grateful to share Huesos Secos (Dry Bones), by Mariano Rodríguez through Carbono Proyecto Records. The idea has been brewing for a long time now, but as we know, in our sound, musical and self-managed projects, if we have anything, it is the freedom to let the processes flow until the ideas and personal planets align.
It’s been already four years since we last published a disc by this guitar artist-craftsman-monk based in Bariloche for a couple of decades. It was Praise the Road, first edited by the American label Grass-Tops Recordings and currently available through his own bandcamp. Anyway, he frequently participates in various compilations that range from the experimental to specific tributes such as the recent one to Jack Rose, another of Mariano’s acoustic guitarists of reference.
In many ways inspired by the logic of the “American primitive guitar” (a term that designates a “transitional” genre according to Wikipedia, to which a legion of guitarists from pioneer John Fahey in the 50-60s, through Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho and the aforementioned Jack Rose until today), Mariano Rodríguez’s music does not focus on the technical deployment of the guitarist, but on the more spiritual or meditative dimension of it. And in connection with all this, although not as conditioning, of course, his deep Christian faith intervenes since his adherence to the theology of Third World liberation. Listen for example to Liberation Theology for beginners, described by him as a Christmas album.
Somehow the tracks that make up Huesos Secos synthesize the mental and sound journey that Mariano started with his family in southern Argentina. This experience was also rooted in half of his life living in Buenos Aires, forming part of different rock and punk bands, and projects with the excellent singer-songwriter Adrián Paoletti among others. But without a doubt his current music is an inseparable part of a Patagonia that he has made his own, resignifying a whole set of influences, which finally act as tools to establish a back and forth movement with his perception of those places of the Argentine interior and its story.
PLASTICITY
New Language Collaborative live@Suddenfest/Dorchester Art Project Boston
Ellwood Epps trumpet
Glynis Lomon cello, aquasonic and voice
Syd Smart drums
Eric Zinman synthesizer
1) Pulse
2) Propulsion
recorded by Dave Peck November 12 2019 Dorchester, Boston, MA USA
credits
released January 29, 2020
Adrian Northover (soprano saxophone)
Lukax Santana (percussions)
Daniel Thompson (acoustic guitar)
recorded at oxo studios, London – 05/12/2018
all music by Northover / Santana / Thompson
photo & cover design by Adrian Northover
saxophone/reeds, recording: Vladimir Luchansky
mastering: Ilia Belorukov
curating: Tiago Morais Morgado
Vladimir Luchansky (b. 1990) – composer and improviser from Saint Petersburg, Russia. He worked with musicians from all over the world such as Oliver Lake, William Parker, Assif Tsahar, Tim Hodgkinson, Glen Hall, Ilia Belorukov, Mia Zabelka, Matt Mottel, Kevin Shea, Alexander Markvart, Roman Stolyar, Sergey Belichenko, and many others. A member of International Society of Improvising Musicians, he performed in North America and Europe with solo gigs and in various combos. He interferes with all kinds of contemporary improvisational music from noise to free jazz and multidisciplinary arts.
Ilia Belorukov is a musician from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He works in the directions of improvised, noise and electroacoustic music. He’s a member of different projects with local and foreign musicians. He collaborates with artists who work in other musical directions (from hardcore and metal to academic contemporary music); with dancers and painters; with theater. Ilia practices an experimental approach of sound extraction on alto saxophone with objects, uses electronics and other instruments. Also he is a founder of Intonema label (www.intonema.org) and one of curators of Spina!Rec label (www.spinarec.bandcamp.com).
Tiago Morais Morgado | Violetista e laptoper, estudou música clássica, musicologia, informática música e sonologia na Artave, na Esart, nas universidades Nova de Lisboa e do Minho e no Conservatório de Haia. Curador da editora Nachtstuck Records, que criou em 2014. Seleção de concertos: Frequency, na final do Termómetro Unplugged 2005, Alfândega do Porto; Orquestra Artave (viola tutti), com António Rosado e Ernst Schelle, Coliseu do Porto, 2006; Quinteto Pedro Lopes, David Filipe, Tiago Morais Morgado, António José Oliveira e Denis Ferreira, Casa das Artes de Famalicão, 2006; Tiago Morais Solo, Teatro a Barraca, 2010; :papercutz, no Inslington Metal Works de Londres (Reino Unido), no SXSW Austin (EUA) e no Exit Festival (Sérvia), 2010; Encerramento do ciclo “Colaborações Improvisações”, Serralves, 2011; Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble, com Peter Evans, 2011; Com Yedo Gibson e Ofir Klemperer e como Tiago Morais Solo, no Studio Loos Den Haag, Holanda, 2011; Tiago Morais Morgado Solo, Fiber Festival Amsterdam, Holanda, 2012; Visuais, A First Approach to Morgenstra – Juan Marco Albarracin, 2012; Arnold Schoenbergzaal; Com Nicola Casetta, Maskarade Sinzine; Com James Hewitt e Renato Meganha Ferreira, Leo Svirsky House, Holanda, 2012; Tiago Morais Morgado solo, Kees van Barenzaal, Holanda, 2013; Com Teresa Matias, MNS, 2013; Com Stelios Manousakis, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, 2014; Festival O Mundo Somos Nos, 2014 e 2017; Festival Dias de Música Electroacústica, 2015 e 2016; Moita Mostra, 2016 e 2017; Serralves em Festa, 2017; Com Marcelo dos Reis e Sérgio Tavares, MNS, 2017; Jose Lencastre Nau Quartet, MNS, 2017; Ocupa #2, GNRation, 2017.
En octubre de 2019 se generó un estallido social en Santiago, a partir del alza de los pasajes de Metro. Primero fueron los estudiantes secundarios, con las evasiones masivas a este medio de transporte. La represión del gobierno fue creciendo, hasta que un día viernes la crisis estalló. El cierre del tren subterráneo generó que toda la población de Santiago se desbordara a las calles y generara protestas espontáneas y descentralizadas. Sin líderes, sin caudillos, las masas se tomaron las esquinas con barricadas y cacerolas, con la intención de hacerse oír. El gobierno y sus oídos sordos, con sus acciones autoritarias y patriarcales, reprimió fervientemente las acciones de protesta, llamando a estado de emergencia, entregándole el poder a los militares.
El pueblo no se asustó, y esta acción convocó al resto del país a sumarse a la batalla por una vida digna, por el fin del saqueo económico y medioambiental, contra la precarización de la salud, el trabajo y las personas, mientras el sector privilegiado se dedica a manipular los medios de información, a alimentar al gran monstruo del espectáculo, y a intentar hacer enfrentar a la gente contra la gente.
Hoy, 22 de octubre, las protestas no cesan, en medio de un toque de queda publicamos estos registros, como constancia y pequeño sample de la sonoridad que existe en Santiago en estos días, que habla también de lo que sucede en Valdivia, Concepción, Antofagasta, Valparaíso, Temuco, Puerto Montt, Rancagua, y en muchos pueblos más pequeños pero igualmente afectados por la avaricia y el desdén de una clase política al servicio del neoliberalismo.
Los cacerolazos se han convertido en la forma de protesta en las calles o en el interior de las casas, que reverbera por la ciudad, se multiplica y descentraliza, envolviendo a una ciudad, a un país, y que esperamos envuelva también a toda latinoamérica.
¡A las cacerolas!
Marco Olivieri – piano
Antonio Valente – vibraphone
Sanjay Kansa Banik – tabla
Photo : Matteo Bellomo
ilia belorukov – alto saxophone, objects, electronics
lauri hyvärinen – electric guitar, objects, electronics
recorded live in graz on november 16, 2017 and brussels on november 9, 2017
recorded by ilia belorukov, marufura fufunjiru and gerard daval
mixed and mastered by ilia belorukov
photo by henri antikainen
Recorded Live at Sala La Fusa (Valparaiso), Chile on March 2019.
Drums: Israel Tenor
Alto Saxophone: Lucas Pizarro
Front cover drawing: MÖÖL
George Cartwright – alto and tenor sax, guitar
Mauro Sambo – electronics, gong, percussion, contra-alto clarinet, zither, electric violin
Cover Art – From the series: “instabilità radicata” – Matilde Sambo 2019
a sonic absurdity around DT, and his friends, in 12 parts
based on the 12-cycle poem Innermost Outlandish Ego by frank ruf
all tracks arranged from live session recordings 2018/19
‘Every beat counts when explosive percussion verbosity is about pennies. Try asking Ben Franklin.’
#c4 #explosivepercussionverbosity #beatbox #breakbeat #lobit
