Canis Latrans – Conspiraciones
MIST055
Canis Latrans
“Co[i]nspiraciones”
New album from the chilean project of experimental music, with collaborations of Horror House, Rotten Smile and Tripulante 32.
posted 17 January 2014
music tagged with: improvisation
lucie vítková – ideas and techniques
[pyr100]
lucie vítková
“ideas and techniques”
lucie vítková is czech composer and performer. she graduated in accordion performance at brno conservatory in 2010 and composition at janáček academy of music and performing arts in brno (cz) in 2013. during her master’s degree, she studied at royal conservatory in the hague (nl) and at california institute of the arts in valencia (usa). she has studied with martin smolka, jaroslav šťastný, martijn padding, gillius van bergijk and michael pisaro. she is member of the ensemble marijan, dunami, dust in the groove, and prague improvisation orchestra.
lucie’s first album for pan y rosas, is a collection of ideas and techniques that she accumulated throughout her practice as an improviser. in each piece she tries to portray certain phenomena in their pure, concentrated form to make their individual characters clear. to create the pieces on this album, she used three different accordions, her voice, and a harmonica.
posted 15 January 2014
Various Artists – Button Box
LOR047
Various Artists
“Button Box”
Button Box” is a collection of 46 mixes constructed from elements taken from the Linear Obsessional album “Air Buttons” by Richard Sanderson (LOR046)
“After releasing my album of melodeon and electronics improvisations, I decided to ask my friends whether they would be interested in reworking any of the material- ‘Please take any music at all from the new release (“Air Buttons” by me) and do what you want with it – mangle it, remix it, add things to it, sing over it, play a duo with it, slow it down, turn it into a tune, cut it up, whatever. BUT please make your contribution EXACTLY TWO MINUTES LONG’.
I was astonished by the reaction- soon sound files were flying at me from all over the world, including from friends of friends of friends, as well as from people who I’ve known since school days- collaborators from my post-punk days, free improvisers, morris dancers, other Linear Obsessional artists, even my next-door neighbour! The results are amazingly varied in style – and all are fascinating, and of course, none of them outstay their welcome.
So- enormous thanks to all my friends in the UK, France, Spain,Ireland, Sweden, USA and Malaysia, you have made me very proud”
-Richard Sanderson 2013
All tracks include at least some elements taken from the album “Air Buttons” by Richard Sanderson.
posted 24 December 2013
bristophe – le fils de la prophétesse
pyr099
bristophe
“le fils de la prophétesse”
bristophe is brice catherin and christophe schweizer.
they play instruments like: cello, trombone, a bit of electronics, maybe some tuba, a touch of clarinet, plus e.g. recorder and other flutes, double bass, alpine horn, voice, bird calls, a few toys, and whatever else they come across that might produce some type of sound.
they improvise.
they are half swiss living in hamburg (germany), half french living in geneva (switzerland).
occasionally both halves meet in one place, and that’s when sound happens.
their first album for pyr, le fils de la prophétesse is a two disc set that clocks in at over two hours. the first disc contains almost sixty miniature improvisations the create a whole. the second disc is more long-form, but the two relate as one.
posted 20 December 2013
Richard Sanderson – Air Buttons
LOR046
Richard Sanderson
“Air Buttons”
Air Buttons” is an album of improvisations for melodeon and electronics. Download includes a PDF booklet of notes and images.
Richard Sanderson- Melodeon, Footpedals ElectronIcs, Wind-Up Gramophone,
Contact Microphone, Field Recordings.
These pieces were recorded at home in Hither Green, usually on Friday afternoons when the housework was done and before the kids came back from school. As with my previous album of melodeon improvisations the instrument was recorded in three different ways â using footpedals (wah, distortion and pitch change), pushing it through contraptions made with Audiomulch software on my laptop, or augmenting it with other sounds â in this case, field recordings and a wind-up gramophone. The gramophone was recorded with a contact microphone (made by Jez Riley French) attached to the needle, or to a toothbrush. âAbove The Breakersâ was played on pre-WW1 one-row melodeon, all the others were played on a D/G Hohner Pokerwork. The title of âFlim Flamingoâ was suggested by Gary Widdowfield.. âVelux Dopplerâ was created from two field recordings- one of Beckenham Parish Church Bells, the other of the rain falling on the roof window of my bedroom. The field recordings on âShadeâ were made in my garden. The tracks were recorded 2011-13 and assembled November 2013. Thank you for listening.
posted 28 November 2013
Gaetano Fontanazza – Music For Toys Meditation
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Gaetano Fontanazza
“Music For Toys Meditation”
Gaetano Fontanazza, a.k.a. Pseudo, guitarist and musician extraordinaire, offers his first release on Sucu Music, the beautifully entitled “Music for Toys Meditation”. As usual, he explores all of the most extreme and fantastic territories his guitar and his array of effects, musical skill and inventive, can take him (and us) to.
It is a short-length release, clocking off at 25 minutes, where ambient, glitch, noise and soundscapes create a unique aural and emotional experience in the listener. Not to forget some acoustic moments which, unexpected as they may sound, given the profoundly electronic feel of the work, do not appear strange or gratuitous at all.
It is a short-length release, clocking off at 25 minutes, where ambient, glitch, noise and soundscapes create a unique aural and emotional experience in the listener. Not to forget some acoustic moments which, unexpected as they may sound, given the profoundly electronic feel of the work, do not appear strange or gratuitous at all.
posted 19 November 2013
Canis Latrans – Anunciación EP
MIST048
Canis Latrans
“Anunciación EP”
Canis Latrans is an experimental project from Chile.
posted 16 November 2013
Purple Mountain Peal – The Maculate Conception
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Purple Mountain Peal
“The Maculate Conception”
‘The Maculate Conception’ is the first release by Purple Mountain Peal. Recorded by Gaetano Fontanazza and Tony Colina between 2012 and 2013, it features six tracks for about sixty-five minutes’ music in which piano and keyboards improvisations are processed live first, and subsequently enriched with guitars, drones, soundscapes and quirky rhythms.
posted 15 November 2013
Catalepsis – All my sisters demons
MIST044
Catalepsis
“All my sisters demons”
Chilean Noise/Ambient/Witch house
posted 13 November 2013
Cede – Agnec
PICPACK189
Cede
“Agnec”
01-Agnec001(5:19)
02-Agnecdrc(14:21)
03-Agneciy3(11:31)
04-Aspyreen(15:05)
05-Hlxst001(8:44)
06-Iitot001(9:24)
07-Jixst001(7:49)
08-Kiupq6a1(8:40)
09-Leather1(2:07)
10-Lyubimka(3:16)
11-Mixst001(3:16)
12-Mixst011(7:49)
13-Mlxxw641(9:24)
14-Pixstrak(3:19)
15-Qixst001(8:44)
02-Agnecdrc(14:21)
03-Agneciy3(11:31)
04-Aspyreen(15:05)
05-Hlxst001(8:44)
06-Iitot001(9:24)
07-Jixst001(7:49)
08-Kiupq6a1(8:40)
09-Leather1(2:07)
10-Lyubimka(3:16)
11-Mixst001(3:16)
12-Mixst011(7:49)
13-Mlxxw641(9:24)
14-Pixstrak(3:19)
15-Qixst001(8:44)
posted 12 November 2013
drmlgcc – treading
tonAtom.128
drmlgcc
“treading”
these are the darker sides of justin james a.k.a. drmlgcc: atmospheric and dense, yet spacious at the same time. three tracks, located somewhere between musical architecture and spontaneity, are the building blocks of “treading”. justin guides us through sounds as diverse as can be. they are at times repetitive and minimal, ambient and floating, experimental and playful. they are organic and synthetic, wild and fragile, and occasionally steeped in krautrock improvisation.
all of this forms the basis for drmlgcc’s sound stories – his slowly evolving, acoustic tales.
it took him quite some time to complete this release, let us spend all the time necessary to be taken away, to experience the three tracks thoroughly.
posted 04 November 2013
Daniele Pasini, Raffaele Pilia – Northern lights
[LBN022]
Daniele Pasini, Raffaele Pilia
“Northern lights”
“Northern Lights” flows from a common passion for Northern Europe landscapes, which freely inspired most of their songs. Recalling the fascinating phenomenon of the aurora borealis, the album offers a collection of eight instant composition pieces for flute and classical guitar.
posted 31 October 2013
Cherubim – The Joyful Shrieks of the Cherubim!
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Cherubim
“The Joyful Shrieks of the Cherubim!”
Cherubim makes noises, drones, pulses and melodies with guitars, trombones, trinkets and computers, sampling and swirling it all into an unearthly sound. After a few years of playing together in the 12,000 Trees collective, guitarist Yuko Pepe and laptop/trombonist Brett Sroka splintered off as a duo, with a strange, yet overlapping aesthetic.
Yuko Pepe is an experimental/noise/improvisational musician based in Brooklyn, NY, born in Tokyo. She started playing the guitar in 2001 at university in Tokyo, where she also received her nick name, Pepe. Currently, Yuko plays with 12000 Trees, Cherubim, Helioscope and has performed solo in NYC, Berlin and Tokyo.
Brett Sroka is a trombonist, computer musician and composer for film, dance, installations and his own ensembles. He has performed at BAMcafe, the Sonic Circuits Festival, the Guggenheim Museum and the Teatro Fondamenta Nueve in Venice, Italy. His minimal, electro-acoustic jazz trio Ergo released it’s third recording, “If Not Inertia”, on Cuneiform Records in 2012.
posted 24 October 2013
jim baker / sarah j. ritch – live at the surplus of options
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jim baker / sarah j. ritch
“live at the surplus of options”
jim baker is an improviser based in chicago who focuses on the keyboard arts – pianos, keyboards, synthesizers. since the 80′s baker has played in numerous groups in chicago’s free improv scene. he has performed throughout the united states and europe and plays almost weekly with the group, extraordinary popular delusions. his activities as a writer / composer have been ongoing during the past twenty years, and some of his compositions have been recorded by steam and broken wire.
along with classical training in cello and piano, sarah ritch also played guitar and bass in several punk and metal bands between 1996 and 2003 in las vegas, nv. existing in two aesthetic worlds, sarah’s work ranges from improvisational noise to tonal notated music. she has been the composer-in-residence for chicago classical ensembles the millennium chamber players and anaphora, and regularly performs solo and with her free improv band, sound collision alliance.
this album documents the first meeting of these two chicago improvisers that went down on january 15th of 2013 at the surplus of options in chicago. sarah played electric guitar and cello and jim played electronic keyboards. the sound is: modem scratch. mechanical wood. tone bits. crushed fragments. surprise skree. atlantis shred.
posted 23 October 2013
Projekt Luty – Rejestrator
UPL 055
Projekt Luty
“Rejestrator”
This is an important album for Projekt Luty for two reasons. It is the first album recorded in nine years; plus, it is the first one recorded in “studio” conditions so to speak, or at least was not recorded to casette tape like all the previous ones. Musically as always with Projekt Luty it is unpredictable, but at the same time surprisingly coherent. Songs are locked within a tornado of swirling effects, simple tranceful repetitions of guitars and keyboards and occasional freakouts. All music as always is improvised but thanks to studio magic, was reinforced after recording with additional synth and drum tracks. It is dense, all the time balancing between order and disorder, alternately fun and dark, noisy and dreamy, always exciting and full of diy charm and jangle.
posted 14 October 2013
Horror House – Pepper EP
MIST041
Horror House
“Pepper EP”
“Pepper” by Horror House.
Published by m.i.s.t. records.
Published by m.i.s.t. records.
posted 11 October 2013
Kraai, Bleak Fiction & Crimson Mourn – Preta (split)
MS002
Kraai, Bleak Fiction & Crimson Mourn
“Preta (split)”
Split realizado por Kraai (Argentina – GV Sound), Crimson Mourn (España – Pretty in Noise) y Bleak Fiction (Argentina – m.i.s.t. records).
Agradecemos a los respectivos netlabels y artistas involucrados por facilitar y posibilitar la publicación de este trabajo en nuestro sello.
Artwork -incluido en el archivo descargable- realizado por Janez Jot.
Agradecemos a los respectivos netlabels y artistas involucrados por facilitar y posibilitar la publicación de este trabajo en nuestro sello.
Artwork -incluido en el archivo descargable- realizado por Janez Jot.
posted 11 October 2013
chicago modern orchestra project – nappy hair’s best friend
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chicago modern orchestra project
“nappy hair’s best friend”
renée baker’s chicago modern orchestra project is revamping the traditional concert going experience by programming an eclectic genre mix, crossing grooves and roads where least expected. they look to build bridges between audience members of different backgrounds. part of their organizational mission is to adjust and transcend global viewpoints through ethnic human experimentation. to this end they seek out unusual and completely innovative scores from every genre of music – focusing on living composers.
nappy hair’s best friend, their first album for pan y rosas, is a document of a performance in lakeside, michigan in september of 2012. the album captures the performances of two pieces of conduction/comprovisations by aacm member renée baker.
posted 09 October 2013
Nothing Else But Suffering – Coping Mechanisms
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Nothing Else But Suffering
“Coping Mechanisms”
Recorded live, 08/10/2013, in Hägersten (Sweden).
posted 08 October 2013
auris and gino robair – rub
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auris and gino robair
“rub”
auris trio is composed of christopher preissing, eric leonardson and julia a. miller. they explore electroacoustic sound as an organic art of time and space. gino robair has created music for dance, theater, radio, television, silent film, and gamelan orchestra, and his works have been performed throughout north america, europe, and japan.
rub, their first album for pyr, is the result of a session at the experimental sound studio in chicago from 2010. the sound is: eric leonardson – springboard, electronics; julia miller – guitar, electronics; christopher preissing – flute, electronics; gino robair – percussion, electronics.
posted 01 October 2013
reid karris – creatio ex nihilo
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reid karris
“creatio ex nihilo”
reid karris is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound experimentalist and improviser hailing from chicago, illinois trying very hard to get all the music stuck in his head out for all the world to hear. after spending years as an odd guitarist trying to fit in with the world of rock music reid shifted his focus towards improvisation and noise. his primary instruments for doing so are prepared guitar and drum kit sent through electronics. he performs with various groups with guitar including set self on fire, hkm guitar trio and the chicago scratch orchestra. he also plays drums in the experimental duo step slow.
his first album for pan y rosas, creatio ex nihilo, is a series of percussion improvisations that reid created using his drum kit, little instruments and a guitar. he manipulated the drums with electronics in the moment as he improvised. the sound is: sub thunder radio explosion. psyché-bell tone. pitter patter. reverse. emergent rhythm. sonar search guitar fragment in the white room.
– See more at: http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/2013/09/pan-y-rosas-release-creatio-ex-nihilo-by-reid-karris/#sthash.44MAwGzy.dpuf
posted 01 October 2013
máquina solar – de escamas
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máquina solar
“de escamas”
máquina solar is a duo consisting of amanda irarrázabal (b. santiago, chile) on double bass and vocals and wenchi lazo (b. buenos aires, argentina) on guitars and vocals. they have been playing on and off for two years recording their first album de escamas in january of 2013. the music they play is based on free improvisations of concise and varied time lengths resulting in sounds that resemble, at times, short compositions.
their first album, de escamas, is a collection of twenty brief improvisations that were improvised and recorded in santiago, chile in january of 2013. short. noisy. dramatic. scratchy. singy.
their first album, de escamas, is a collection of twenty brief improvisations that were improvised and recorded in santiago, chile in january of 2013. short. noisy. dramatic. scratchy. singy.
posted 18 September 2013
shapes and monsters – chkm
[pyr090]
shapes and monsters
“chkm”
shapes and monsters is an international collaborative improvisation project with two members in barcelona and two members in chicago. diego caicedo and gabriel millan play in snorkel quintet and etermortifera among others. reid karris is a solo improviser and member of step slow. keith helt is a member of catholic witches.
their first album, chkm, was improvised recorded between november 2011 and february 2013. tracks were sent back and forth. limited takes were allowed in order to maintain an improvised feeling/aesthetic.
posted 18 September 2013
Proyecto Lazarus – Universe
MIST040 (A-B)
Proyecto Lazarus
“Universe”
Spanish noise/ambient.
Released by m.i.s.t. records.
Released by m.i.s.t. records.
Double disc.
posted 17 September 2013
Geometrie Variabili – the Breath
[LBN021]
Geometrie Variabili
“the Breath”
The lesson of Steve Lacy: starting from a single element like a scale, a broken chord, a sound, a breath in order to work it up by assembling and disassembling, tearing apart and rebuilding. Fragments of ideas taken freely in an exercise of rearrangement always looking for coherence, always trying to get back to basics.
posted 02 September 2013
