Why, who could these mysterious characters, the Fragilos, out to discover apparently unknown territories be? Take the time to follow their adventures through this UFO-reminiscent album that encapsulates a few instants of their stealthy existence in 13 pieces …
In the style of the illustrative discs of the seventies and eighties from which Philippe Brown draws inspiration, the titles of this cassette’s compositions are clues themselves designed to stimulate the listeners’ imaginations. Thus, by holding the sleeve drawn up by Man Oroa while listening, each will be able to make up his or her own little story and discover the naïve-sounding, yet far from obvious, melodies.
One will thus go from one moon to the next without ever fully landing, floating softly above the ground among the bossa, zouk, or oriental rhythms and cinematographic atmospheres imprinted as much with second degree as with light melancholy.
Attracted to a musical era he didn’t experience but of which he uses the codes with style, Philippe has the characters evolve well beyond the musical frontiers we sometimes burden ourselves with. With this fictional original sound track at the crossroads of genres and eras, he visibly goes very far away, so far that everything leads us to believe that this dreamer of a musician most certainly has his head in the moon!
L’Alunissage des fragilos, the 37th release of Da ! Heard It Records is distributes under a Creative Commons License Y-NC-ND. The album is available for free listening and downloading at the following address: http://www.daheardit-records.net/en/discography/dhr-37
and some noodlings by the fjord
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A mere moment,
realized by rr.gross.
records on the street
dialogues extracts
audiovisual edits and converts of radio signals
uses a shortwave radio to capture foreign broadcasts
uses EVP
911 calls
Transforms, relentlessly, curtails, beheads and sews sound works from different backgrounds and authors, providing the glue that comes from analog-digital instruments and audio processors and resulting in a “sound narration” split into parts.
His sound works do not drop below 20 minutes for just such narrative, where there is a development from defined introduction to epilogue.
Detests the “digital finishing” of sound with a computer. For that reason dirty, gnawing and saturated sounds prevail (but without spoiling the record), thus achieving kind of a sound archeology.
His creative concepts pursues mysticism, the occult, time, religions, the process that leads to contemplation, the silence, the pause, the suspension, death and upstarts.
Abuse of rhythm and melody is a necessary evil for those who can not handle a drift.
It’s like being in a large room without light. You need to touch the walls and artifacts that fill the room to feel welcome in the position and perspective.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Released December 24, 2016
Released on Underpolen Netlabel, home for the raw, weird, homemade lofi treasures.
La musique parle d’elle-même mais au même moment, la musique évoque la vie et les expériences de ses créateurs, ses musiciens. Dans cette perspective, la musique est l’expression d’un tout nouvel univers et d’une synthèse cosmique. Vous êtes invités à vous immerger dans cet océan où chaque humain est un artiste de cette compilation et poursuit le plaisir de l’écoute.
With themes of aAirial, Alacrán, Andrea Porcu, Audio Cephlon, AxBx, Capisconne, David Garner feat. Monolink Project, Eckul, Elypixa, In Vitro, Ivan Black, K.smith & Dio2xide, Lingua Lustra, Logical Disorder, Marasma Zibra, Marco Lucchi, Mendiak, Nick R 61, Nulix, Ohuican, Ray Garrido, Solef, Substak, Transmission 13, Triangular, Vate, Vela, Wenceslada.
C. has a huge catalog of work as an early champion of the Creative Commons movement, and even before that with mailing good old-fashioned cassette tapes around the world for years. To get a larger sense of his background, visit his bio page.
He is especially a believer of the sharing of music, and the creation of music from sharing. As we are here at Happy Puppy (with a small handful of exceptions), C. Licenses his music as derivative-friendly, hoping to encouraging more music creation, as you will also notice by the large attribution list below for the compositions on this release.
For more visit:
http://www.vuzhmusic.com/
sources
1. Tjurna
Sound source: wave generator
2. Twisted Bridge Dub
This one was done for Disquiet Junto #93 Netlabel Hybrid.
It contains sound samples by the following:
“Dark City” by Marc Pastco from the 12AX7 album released on the Inoquo netlabel
“Zamenhof Blues” by Digital_Me (Shay Librowski) from The Accordian E.P. on the Birdsong netlabel.
“Archean” by PlotKA from the Circulation of Deposits EP on the Qunabu netlabel
3. Deer Triangles
This one uses sounds provided by Sterile Garden for a remix project he was doing. Not sure if it was ever released.
4. Dirigible
This one was done for Disquiet Junto #81 Cheap Generative. It uses sounds sampled from Marsh and May’s 2013 album “Falling More Slowly” avaliable on the Linear Obsessional netlabel
5. Orchard and Resins
This was done for Linear Obsessional’s remix compilation “Button Box”
It uses sounds from Richard Sanderson’s 2013 album “Air Buttons”
6. Our pesticide
This one was done for Disquiet Junto #107 Aeolian Metrics
7. Unpermissive
8. A Harsh Bunny Town
This originally appeared on Wholeness Recordings’ 2012 compilation “Cracks Appear”
It uses sound sources supplied by The Implicit Order for the project.
9. Vaporizing Rain
Site recording.
10. Agape Calypso Rage
This was done for Dave Seidel’s Apocalypse Garage project. It uses sounds provided by Dave originating from his Mysterybear project.
Cover image: Relative, Etching, 10″x8″, 2014 by Mara Tegethoff – used by kind permission.
Thanks to:
Carrie Hodges, Lee Rosevere, Marc Weidenbaum, Dave Seidel, Anthony Washburn, Jacob DeRaadt, Richard Sanderson, Manuel Silva, Mara Tegethoff, Lily and Lumpy, Tricholoma magnivelare.
Also thanks to all of the artists I sampled, and to every artist out there who licenses their work to allow derivative work to be made from it. And to all netlabels everywhere who offer their work for free! Happy Netlabel Day!
