RE-UP : Thomas Ankersmit / Jim O'Rourke - Split (Tochnit Aleph, 2005)

Celui-là n'est resté en ligne que quelque semaines avant que l'hébergeur chez qui je l'avais uploadé ne soit réveillé au petit matin par des hommes en noir. Un disque qu'on ne croise pas tout les jours, et qui mérite donc une nouvelle chance, vous ne croyez pas?
Et pour mémoire, ma prose du post original :
Jim O'Rourke est un habitué de la maison, et le titre de sa pièce parle de lui-même. Le cas de Thomas Ankersmit est plus curieux, car sa musique est relativement peu documentée sur disque. Il attendra 2010 pour sortir son premier album solo sur Ash International - un beau drone enregistré live. Il travaille à la base avec le saxophone, qui à l'arrivée sonne peu comme un saxophone habituel. C'est aventureux, et finalement assez rock dans l'esprit.

Thomas Ankersmit / Jim O'Rourke
Weerzin / Oscillators and Guitars
LP Tochnit Aleph TA 054 (Germany, 2005)

a1. Thomas Ankersmit - Weerzin
b1. Jim O'Rourke - Oscillators and Guitars

Note : Weerzin composed and recorded by Thomas Ankersmit (computer, Serge and EMS Synthesizer, saxophone), 2004.
Oscillators and guitars composed and recorded by Jim O'Rourke, 1992.
Limited edition of 750 copies.

C'est par là (this way, please)

RE-UP : Wingdisk - Time Is Running Out (Isonauta, 2004)

Ce n'est peut-être pas le titre que vous auriez voulu voir reuploader en premier, mais c'est quand même par celui-ci que je commence, parce qu'il me tient tout particulièrement à coeur et que c'est vraiment trop bête qu'il ne soit plus disponible.
Et voilà ce que j'en disais l'automne dernier :
Attention, voici une vraie rareté, et une sacrée pépite! Wingdisk est le duo de rêve de Ian Masters (ex-tête chercheuse des Pale Saints exilé au Japon) et Mark Tranmer (Gnac et moitié de Montgolfier Brothers avec Quigley). Des chansons rêveuses et des intermèdes exotiques. C'est impossible à trouver aujourd'hui, c'est la seule trace discographique du duo, et c'est d'une poésie et d'une finesse rares. De l'impressionnisme en musique? Ben oui!

Wingdisk
Time Is Running Out
10'' Isonauta ISO020 (France, 2004)

a1. Rio
a2. Kuro Tamago
b1. Departure Lounge
b2. Tachibana Lament

Note : This record includes singing, temple bells, old people wailing, guitars, cicadas, trains, piano, Mark Tranmer and Ian Masters. Recorded on hot days sometime between 2000 and 2002 in Manchester, London and Osaka.
Wingdisk is a duo comprised of former members of Pale Saints and the Montgolfier Brothers, and anyone familiar with those bands wouldn't be too surprised at the sound and tone of this EP. Very pretty, haunted songs are sequenced with the shorter bits to make two whole pieces, one for each side of the vinyl. Like with ex-Montgolfier Brother Mark Tranmer's previous duo, these songs have the quality of a soundtrack, subtle enough to work as mood music for some bittersweet scene of people doing stuff and saying things yet more than just aural wallpaper. There is something defiant in the unwillingness of the music to be too demonstrative, which would be noble but boring if it wasn't so captivating.
The quiet bossa-nova inspired "Rio" is, if anything, too brief, introducing a lovely chord progression outlined by Spanish guitars, piano, and a cyclical phrase played on what sounds like a backwards marimba or xylophone. It builds to the seven-word vocal - "Why don't we go back to Rio?" - only to fade out again. Drifting like motes of dust in a sunbeam, it passes away before becoming anything more, but it is very beguiling. Is it pop? Yeah, but it's too impressionistic to be just that.

C'est par ici (this way, please)

Roland P. Young - Istet Serenade (EM Records, 2009)

L'incident Megaupload tombe à un mauvais moment. Vous avez noté que j'ai moins de temps pour le blog, si en plus je dois lancer une montagne de re-ups on n'en sortira pas. Donc sur cet album je serai bref: soyez curieux, allez-y et faites la découverte.

Roland P. Young
Istet Serenade
CD EM Records EM1087 (Japan, 2009)

01. Twirling
02.  Curls
03. Dearest
04. Wetness
05. Eclipse
06. Night Air
07. Airlessly
08. Dessert Cave
09. Chrome
10. Tea Bells

Note : 30 years since “Isophonic Boogie Woogie”, Em Records proudly presents Roland P. Young’s “Istet Serenade” – his first original material in as many years.
A foray into the area of music space that represents the core of Roland?s sound philosophy, ‘Isophonics’. The theory of composed improvisation of stillness in the fluidity of constant change. The thingness of actualized sound in the nothingness of acoustic evaporation and recreation from the source of the indwelling presence. This occurs at a speed which defies conscious comprehension but which reveals abundant spiritual revelatory aspects.
To quote mr Young: “The 10 pieces were chosen from 55 comprovisations created over the past year. My Travels to and playing in the atmospheres of Israel, Prague, Rome, London, Paris, Istanbul and Santa Fe, New Mexico combined with my formative years in Kansas City, Missouri then my years in the Bay Area of Northern California and my current residence in Brooklyn, New York inform my music with ever expanding inspirations and creative possibilities.”
This is a sound that is thusly described as spaced acid drones of intense acoustic chill, embracing electronic, ambient, world, avant garde, cosmic, free and chamber jazz music.

http://www.mediafire.com/?24b17b17o3s9dbk

Alan Licht - The Evan Dando of Noise? (Corpus Hermeticum, 1997)

On a déjà croisé ici le guitariste expérimental Alan Licht, en collaboration avec Oren Ambarchi ou Loren Connors. Sur cet album édité par le légendaire label néo-zélandais Corpus Hermeticum, la guitare est électrique à fond, hargneuse et fougueuse. Je ne sais pas ce que le pauvre Evan Dando des Lemonheads vient faire dans le titre - une blague de fin de soirée sans doute? Par contre, côté noise on est servi. Mais Alan Licht n'ira pas uniquement vous éclater les tympans contre un mur de feedback. Sur le troisième morceau, long de près de vingt minutes, c'est l'accalmie avec la rencontre d'un orgue et d'une clarinette basse. Si le boucan vous rebute, faites quand même un détour par cette oasis, belle parenthèse au beau milieu d'un album résolument bruitiste. Et profitez-en bien, car le fracas électrique revient dès ''For Jojo'', un titre très probablement en hommage au japonais Masayuki Takayanagi. Mon conseil: mettez le volume à fond et saluez vos voisins de ma part!

Alan Licht
The Evan Dando of Noise?
CD Corpus Hermeticum Hermes022 (New Zealand, 05-1997)

01. I Hate Gate (Part 3)
02. Ambulance Chaser
03. West Twenty
04. Lonesome Valley
05. For Jojo
06. Untitled

Ce qu'en disait le label :
Five blasts of Licht, from the excoriating to the spiritually uplifting. Mr Licht should need no introduction, this is minimalist mantra music for the end of the millennium. (Corpus Hermeticum)

Note : If the hilarious title is any indication, one would wonder if the former Run On guitarist's experimental music is savvy, inconsistent, elusive, and charming like that of the Lemonheads singer who is butt of the joke. The New Zealand noise label Corpus Hermenticum found a kinship with the New York noise king and released this collection of obtuse feedback experiments with accompanying pop musicology dossier on an unsuspecting and all too serious avant-garde music audience in the late '90s. Containing a series of somewhat humorous experiments, this CD documents some of the most thrilling divulgences into noise experimentation that the improviser released post his tenure in the legendary noise group Blue Humans. Throughout a rock sensibility prevails, and solo noise guitar dominates the album aside from a beautiful pipe organ and bass clarinet drone that touches on minimalism. Another great moment of lo-fi mayhem is "Lonesome Valley" where a tape recording of a South Carolina hollering contest is turned into a post-experimental sonic drama. (Dean McFarlane, All Music Guide)

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Noël Akchoté - Perpetual Joseph (Rectangle, 2002)

En cherchant, de temps en temps on parvient à trouver des titres du label Rectangle au compte-goutte sur la blogosphère. Alors voici une goutte de plus! Puisque cette musique n'a plus rien à voir avec le format pop, on dira de cette exploration de feedback de guitare qu'elle est expérimentale. Pourtant, je n'y vois rien de difficile. C'est calme, sobre et studieux, nocturne et apaisant, et ça reste toujours accessible. Le geste est économe, le résultat est accueillant, à découvrir.

Noël Akchoté
Perpetual Joseph
CD Rectangle Rec-AL2 (France, 11-2002)

01. 17.
02. 18.
03. 19.
04. 20.

Note : Recorded and mixed on June 28th, 2001 at Auditorium de Saint-Ouen, Saint-Ouen, France.
The third and final installment in a trilogy of solo albums, this Joseph explores a similar path as Alike Joseph and Simple Joseph, but it reaches a new level of purity and beauty. Noel Akchote is credited for guitar and amplifier. He works with feedback, producing delicate, sustained tones by gently touching the strings or flipping pickup switches. The sounds never get aggressive; on the contrary, the guitarist struggles to keep things quiet and pleasurable -- even though that last word may seem a bit odd. In "20" -- the four tracks are titled "17" through "20," but they don't add up with the tracks on the previous albums (four each) -- things get louder and noisier, but the first three pieces stand as little gems of control. "17," for instance, exerts quite a fascination on the listener, its delicate tones ringing endlessly, the guitarist exploring the rich possibilities of very limited gestures, even putting together a beat from the flipping of switches and foot pedals. The Joseph series is quite different from Akchote's work in improvising groups or rock/jazz outfits (see the Recyclers or his work with Katerine). Expect music that has more to do with sound art and the placement of a sound event in space and time than with something associated to the guitar. (François Couture, All Music Guide)

http://www.mediafire.com/?2tsj4b27zvn5hgd

Shelley, O'Rourke, Moore, Ranaldo - Melbourne Direct (Saucerlike, 2006)

Voyons... Je n'ai rien posté sur ce blog depuis une semaine, si mes calculs sont exacts ça doit donc faire une semaine qu'on n'a pas croisé Jim O'Rourke par ici. On retrouve Sonic Youth au quasi-complet, il n'y manque - déjà? - que Kim Gordon. Les habitués connaissent le principe : le groupe sort ses albums ''officiels'' sur un gros label, leurs projets plus expérimentaux sur leur propre structure, et quand ils vont réellement à l'aventure hors des grands axes du rock, ils retrouvent leurs noms en même temps que leur complète liberté. Démonstration une nouvelle fois sur cette livraison australienne.

Steve Shelley, Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo
Melbourne Direct
2x12'' Saucerlike Recordings SL 008 (Australia, 2006)

a1. Untitled
b1. Untitled
c1. Untitled
d1. Untitled

Note : Cut direct to disc in Melbourne, Australia, June 24, 2004 at Corduroy Records & Detective Agency. Limited edition of 800 copies.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zbnvzcqqxcvqm8w

Hazard - Wood (Ash International, 2000)

Dans le prolongement du message précédent, voici un autre magnifique album du Suédois BJ Nilsen à l'époque où il officiait en tant que Hazard. Cette fois-ci, cet objet à la fois vinyle et CD nous entraîne en forêt, comme le titre le laisse deviner. Encore une fois, c'est tout un univers sonore qui s'ouvre à nous. Un travail du - et au milieu des - bois particulièrement ciselé.

Hazard
Wood
CD+LP Ash International, 2000 ASH 5.4 / 5.5 (UK, 06-2000)

01. Fibre Test
02. Cut Out / Replay
03. Location South
04. Cords and Branches
05. Pylons
06. The Logfire
a1. Field
b1. Bridge

Note : Recorded in the forest of Kungs Norrby, Borensberg, Sweden.
The CD is in a printed slipcase inside the vinyl sleeve.

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Hazard - Wind (Ash International, 2001)

Avant de sortir des disques sous son nom ou en collaboration avec Stilluppsteypa - le double vinyle Space Finale étant un sommet dans son genre, le Suédois BJ Nilsen avançait sous l'identité de Hazard. Dans sa discographie remarquable et passionnante, voici un très bel album caractéristique de son art. Des paysages mystérieux et envoutants drapés dans des field recordings...

Hazard
Wind
CD Ash International ASH 6.5 (UK, 06-2001)

01. Stream
02. Barrier
03. Downslope (Foehn)
04. Village
05. Shear Line
06. Anemo
07. Sough
08. Landmass

Note : Recorded and mixed at Stockholm 2000-2001.
Original recordings made in the USA, Canada, UK and Sweden.
This is the fourth, and the most peaceful and beautiful release to date, by Hazard (aka Benny Jonas Nilsen). The artist's intent was to record an album that would blend technology with nature. He had already recorded some weather sounds in Canada, the U.S.A., and Sweden, but lacked the professional equipment necessary to capture raw wind in all its glory. He turned to Chris Watson (of the Touch label), who had just prepared a radio program about wind for the BBC. Using Watson's unaltered recordings, his own weather tapes (thunderstorms, wind in branches, etc.), and delicate electronic floorings, he created eight pieces. Wind deserves to be listened to attentively with headphones, otherwise the music will go by unnoticed. Each track develops an environment where the distinction between the natural and the artificial often becomes irrelevant. A faint pulse may occasionally arise, but it is not imposed as an alternative to nature's chaotic order. "Stream" unfolds cinematically through a succession of sound layers. A storm is preparing to strike in "Village": the listener can feel the tension and the pressure. During "Anemo," the longest track at 12 minutes, time simply stands still. The experimental electronica crowd will probably think this Hazard project lacks glitches and laptop tricks. Others will find in Wind a mind-expanding listening and meditative experience. Recommended. (François Couture, All Music Guide)

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Pac-Man - The Pac-Man Christmas Album (Kid Stuff, 1982)

Bon, sur celui-là, je ne ferai pas trop de commentaires! C'est moins cauchemardesque que ce qu'on pourrait craindre, c'est en priorité destiné aux enfants, mais est-ce une excuse pour autant?

Pac-Man
The Pac-Man Christmas Album
LP Kid Stuff Records KSS-5029 (1982)

01. The Magic of Christmas
02. Snowflakes and Frozen Lakes
03. Under the Tree
04. Deck the Halls
05. An Old Fashioned Christmas
06. Somedays Are More Important
07. Friends Again
08. We Wish You a Merry Christmas

http://www.mediafire.com/?o80vjnyoeeq8uu6

Michael Prime - Requiem (Die Stadt, 2002)

Ce très beau vinyle de Michael Prime est réellement une expérience d'écoute impressionnante. Un drone qui habite un espace immense, une masse sonore intense, et un aspect solennel comme son titre nous invite à le penser. Vraiment très fort.

Michael Prime
Requiem
LP Die Stadt DS42 (Germany, 2002)

a1. Requiem A
b1. Requiem B

Note : Featuring Len Lye (sound sculpture) & Negative Entropy (sound source improvisations).
Limited to 700 copies (first 100 copies include a numbered video CDR) Pressed on 180 gramm vinyl.
Recorded December 1998 to December 2000.

Ce qu'en disait le label :
A new album by Michael Prime who is another prolific sound composer for many years. Being an active member of Morphogenesis he also collaborated with among others: David Jackman/Organum, Jim O'Rourke, Eddie Prevost, David Toop, Adam Bohman. He's also one half of Negative Entropy a collaborational project with G. Feyton (Noise Makers Five). Recorded between December 1998 and December 2000 Requiem is one of his most intense works so far and quite different from his more inviromental studies. Dedicated to M, H and LL.

http://www.mediafire.com/?qxpnfhjjwgjwis5

Andreas Bertilsson - Paramount (Komplott, 2007)

Voici un bien beau disque, même s'il n'est pas le plus facile d'accès. Musique nocturne s'il en est, Paramount vous plongera dans des paysages sonores étranges et familiers à la fois. Une déambulation à base de field recordings, finalement assez cinématographique à sa façon, et d'une grande maîtrise.

Andreas Bertilsson
Paramount
CD Komplott escudre08 (Sweden, 2007)

01. Movement 1 (Plains of the Buffalo)
02. Movement 2 (Riding the Beast)
03. Movement 3 (A Moth to the Flame)

Note : In the early morning of September 16th 2006 I rapidly left the country house where I was staying to finish the production of Paramount. It was the culmination of several months work.
I began outlining the album in the fall of 2005 with the objective of describing society and the present while still trying to anchor it to something timeless and continuous that could be linked to any one period in time. Based on a linear schedule of events I then stipulated rules and guidelines for my musical process.
The following months were cursed with severe computer breakdowns which delayed the development of my musical tools. Meanwhile I started working with DAT and devoted the remainder of that spring to work my way through the massive checklist of sound components based on my schedule of events.
In May, I got stuck once again and to be able to continue I was forced to erase large parts of my project that was decelerating the work flow. I abandoned my notes and started working more freely and rapidly along a rough initial topographic sketch, and at the end of the summer the music was almost complete – one comprehensive 30 minute piece.
Early that fall I went out to the countryside to put the final touches to the album. As it turned out, the house where I was staying was haunted, and the spiritual activity increased as the work progressed. Footsteps, doors that suddenly opened, traces of EVP in my recordings and an overall intensed atmosphear affected my appearance in the house. After two weeks I couldn't take it anymore and felt I was about to lose my mind. I packed my equipment and fled. The album was finally finished in Malmoe shortly thereafter, as far as I know without any interference from the spiritual world.
- Andreas Bertilsson, February 2007.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zbw7qze789d2c6w

E. Jugend - Last Exit Wedding (Taping Desk O-phon Mania, 2007)

Où l'on retrouve notre groupe chéri, ou presque! En effet, E.Jugend est un projet parallèle de membres de Ma Chérie for Painting. Projet récréatif ou laboratoire, à vous de juger. Ce post-rock part une nouvelle fois dans toutes les directions - ambient ou folk suivant l'humeur dans le même morceau - d'une manière plus déconstruite que chez MCFP, pour ne pas dire plus décousue. Un foisonnement d'idées, qui parfois mériteraient d'être plus abouties, un laboratoire plein de promesses qui ne demanderaient qu'à être tenues. Vous l'aurez compris, avec cet album c'est à vous de faire preuve de curiosité.

E. Jugend
Last Exit Wedding
LP Taping Desk O-phon Mania taping desk 05 (Germany, 2007)

a1. Mary Harbour
a2. What We Call Entertainment
a3. Traurig, Aber Wahr
a4. K.O. in L.A.
a5. Balkan Express pt. 1
a6. Balkan Express pt. 2
b1. Antique
b2. National Geographic
b3. What About Those Bushfires, Mark?
b4. High Life & Hard Times in Kreuzberg
b5. A Tennis-Playing Tourist (Dedicated to Fame)
b6. Saber

Note : E Jugend is a susidiary of German experimentalists Ma Chérie For Painting and Baja and thus the concentrate of something particularly heavy (without being heavy metal).
Erratic. Sucking material without growing into a constant state. "Do you think they thought we knackered them?" Maybe then, at the Technical University festival (including beermug throwing) in times of experienced change of climate. Just like walking barefoot on hot concrete. With a wide grin. Tap-dancin´ on carribean instruments. And in one moment it all dissolves into - nothingness.
Stravinsky, Steve Reich, Sonic Youth, Gas, Godard. Quasi Rubber Soul without Exile On Main Street as basic to do music together. One-take. Or rather: live. Inbetween two acoustic guitars and laptop (featuring strawberry cake in springtime) on the one hand and successful battles of material while supporting 5-piece-bands on the other.
"These are people that, for sure, don´t live behind the woods."
"e jugend reminds me of cooking sessions"
"They sound like Pink Floyd after having played for three hours."
Music like a colliding accident. Field recording disposal this time from Dominican Republic via Kuala Lumpur, Venice, Pula, Stuttgart. Since 1998 e jugend have been no.5 and no.9. Happy to be here. As simple as that.

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Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma, The Signal Man's Mix (Touch, 2011)

Le dernier album de Chris Watson risque d'ici peu de se retrouver dans pas mal de bilans de fin d'année. Et ce ne sera que justice, tant cette traversée du Mexique d'Ouest en Est dans un train aujourd'hui disparu - donc un train fantôme - est de toute beauté. Et c'est aussi une surprise, puisque c'est de loin l'album le plus musical de son auteur, ce qui est logique si on considère qu'un train n'est rien d'autre qu'une grosse machine à produire du rythme. Autre nouveauté, cette fois l'album s'accompagne d'un maxi de remixes - une grande première! Mais s'agit-il vraiment de remixes? Plutôt des versions alternatives, un autre mix, où le train lui-même est davantage mis en avant. Et c'est une très bonne idée de nous proposer ces variations sur un maxi, puisque sur la durée d'un album ça aurait été plus convenu et sans doute trop long. Une belle occasion de prolonger un album magique!

Chris Watson
El Tren Fantasma - The Signal Man's Mix
12'' Touch TO:42V (UK, 11-2011)

a1.  El Divisadero - The Telegraph
b1. Veracruz - The Tunnel

Note : Recorded on location across Mexico.

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Fennesz - June (Table of the Elements, 2008)

Et ce troisième post pour clore - provisoirement? - notre série de picture discs. C'est pas tout ça, mais j'ai des albums de reprises à classer, moi! Fennesz n'est plus à présenter, lui qui a ouvert les musiques expérimentales à un plus large public avec son classique ''Endless Summer''. Toujours son travail de guitare subtil et scintillant. La particularité de ce vinyle monoface, c'est qu'on peut choisir la vitesse à laquelle on l'écoute. Vous trouverez donc ici les deux versions, tout le monde sera content!

Fennesz
June
Single-sided 12'' Table of the Elements TOE-LP-100 / Fm 100 (USA, 2008)

a. June (33rpm)
a. June (45rpm)

Note : Recorded: 2008 Amannstudios, Vienna.
Table of the Elements continues to celebrate its 15th anniversary with the ninth installment in its Guitar Series Vols. 3 & 4. It’s a 12xLP romp of deviant fretnoise by some of experimental music’s most prominent players, including Christian Fennesz.
Table of the Elements says: "Simply put, Christian Fennesz is a pioneer. As much as any artist, he is responsible for establishing the laptop computer as both a compositional tool and concert instrument. Subsuming electro-acoustic strategies into a bedrock of pop, he terraforms vast new worlds of sound, within which both AMM and the Beach Boys can cozily coexist. His Guitar Series contribution, June, is a suitably lush transformation, as electric guitars flow into deep streams of sound."

http://www.mediafire.com/?shb4vrb8z1jp81j

Kodama - Turning Leaf Migrations (Olde English Spelling Bee, 2008)

Le post expérimental du jour! Kodama est la collaboration de deux artistes sonores, Hitoshi Kojo et Michael Northam. Des enregistrements étalées sur plusieurs années qui sont ici assemblés et recollés en studio. Il y a de l'électronique, des field recordings, des improvisations, des voix qui peuvent évoquer Ghédalia Tazartes, beaucoup d'espace(s) aussi. En fait, je crois que c'est encore la pochette qui décrit le mieux la musique! Ceux qui accepteront de les suivre, de se laisser guider, seront je n'en doute pas absorbés par ce disque, envoûtant pour qui en franchira le seuil. Mais je n'en voudrai pas à ceux qui passeront prudemment leur tour cette fois-ci.

Kodama
Turning Leaf Migrations
LP Olde English Spelling Bee OESB018LP (USA, 2008)

01. Side A
02. Side B

Note : Kodama is the ongoing recording project of two well-known visual and sound artists - Hitoshi Kojo and Michael Northam - and this is their first widely available release as a duo. Recorded in various improbable locations whenever they crossed paths over the course of several years and then finally edited and assembled in a cluttered garage in the west side of Indianapolis. There is a decidedly more improvisational feel and crisp psychedelic aura to these recordings when compared to their other work and one can hear the influence of Ghedalia Tazartes in how the various recordings were stitched together. To quote Hitoshi Kojo: We are the spirit of forest. Our howling has been offered to the many goddesses of the valleys. Teething our emptiness they, licking the stars, until white holes appear in our sky through them towards regenerative guides of the tonal-morphic omni-verses. Using found objects to seduce voices from unlikely sources as well as traditional instruments of wind, wires and wood. Kodama weaves between emotional poetry and dynamic forces of noises. The recordings have a strong atmosphere of each location - the top of a mountain in Switzerland, a campground in Ohio, Lofoten Island in Norway, the arctic circle in Finland, Niagara Falls, etc. It includes a lot of the dirts of the raw recordings, but also incredibly beautiful moments such as the session with an owl in a Slovenian forest, an alpine summit singing meditation under the vast galaxy, and an encounter with the small people through strange ritual... - HK.

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Jim O'Rourke - Old News #6 (Editions Mego, 2011)

Nouvel épisode dans la série des Old News, où Jim O'Rourke fouille dans ses cartons. Les premiers volumes étaient sortis de manière confidentielle - éditions limitées ou tour CDs - mais depuis le Old News #5 c'est le prestigieux label autrichien Mego qui a pris le relais avec de classieux doubles albums en vinyle. Et les à-côtés de Jim O'Rourke sont tout sauf anecdotiques. Cette fois-ci, on aura droit à du drone qui se promène au milieu de paysages de musiques concrète... ou l'inverse!

Jim O'Rourke
Old News #6
2xLP Editions Mego Old News #6 (Austria, 08-2011)

a1. All That's Cold Is New Again Part 1
b1. All That's Cold Is New Again Part 2
c1. All That's Cold Is New Again Part 3
d1. All That's Cold Is New Again Part 4

Note : Recorded at Steamroom, Tokyo, 2009-2011.
Recorded in part as a commission for the "Présences électronique" festival.

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Janek Schaefer - Le Petit Theatre de Mercelis (Audiosphere, 2002)

Audiosphere était une sous-division du label Sub Rosa dédiée aux enregistrements live. Des instants uniques édités ensuite dans de solides packages au format DVD. Un voyage fantomatique expérimental mais pas rebutant, proche dans l'esprit du Philip Jeck que j'avais proposé le mois dernier. Envoûtant!

Janek Schaefer
Le Petit Theatre de Mercelis
CD Audiosphere AS03 (Belgium, 05-2002)

01. Le Petit Theatre de Mercelis

Note : Line mix recording of a concert to launch the "Pulled Under" CD.
Concert was held in the Petit Theatre de Mercelis, Brussels, April 21st 2002.
Sound spatialisation through the PA by Leo Kupper.

http://www.mediafire.com/?u4eoc1f3xl5zjur

Ilya Monosov - Architectures on Air and Other Works (Elevator Bath, 2005)

Voilà encore un disque très expérimental! Le genre où on préfère employer le terme d'artiste sonore plutôt que de musicien. Des objets, des instruments et des sons divers, des titres plus ou moins explicites - ''Autonomus Guitar Music'' est explicite mais ''Untitled'' nous éclaire peu - pour une expérience exigeante. Par endroits je me sens abandonné sur le bord de la route et j'attends que ça passe, mais d'autres moments justifient le voyage. A vous de juger, j'espère que vous y trouverez votre compte d'une façon ou d'une autre.

Ilya Monosov
Architectures on Air and Other Works
CD Elevator Bath eeaoa022 (USA, 0-2005)

01. Music for Electronics and Hurdy Gurdy (2)
02. Composition A
03. Autonomous Guitar Music for Marc Schulz
04. Performance 1
05. Untitled
06. Architectures on Air

Note : Elevator Bath proudly presents the first full-length CD from Ilya Monosov. Architectures on Air and Other Works is a challenging collection of recordings, perfectly summarizing the various interests of this inventive sound artist. The range of these works is tremendous: From harsh intensity to gorgeous drone to virtual silence, concluding with the deeply affecting title track. Monosov recorded three of the six pieces presented here as solo works, while the other half are collaborations. Two of these collaborative tracks feature conceptual sound artist Civyiu Kkliu (Banned Productions) and the third includes the work of veteran electronic composer Larry Polansky (Frog Peak).
Architectures on Air and Other Works displays the fruits of several years' worth of activity, and though each piece is distinct in concept and execution, the album offers a solid block of organic sound, compelling from beginning to end. Ilya Monosov's sound works have been released by Bremsstrahlung, Eclipse, & Elevator Bath. (Elevator Bath)

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William Basinski / Andreas Martin - Untitled (Robot Records, 2003)

L'ambient de William Basinski et les jolies guitares d'Andreas Martin se croisent sur ce split, et Christoph Heemann orchestre la rencontre en remixant le tout. Le titre d'Andreas Martin apporte de la lumière dans cet univers brumeux. Le contraste avec les deux précédents posts est d'autant plus saisissant, l'époque n'est résolument plus la même. Mélancolie d'une innocence à jamais perdue?

William Basinski / Andreas Martin
Untitled
2x7'' Robot Records RR-29 (USA, 03-2003)

a1. William Basinski - Cloes Remix 1 (Christoph Heemann Remix)
b1. Andreas Martin - Untitled
c1. William Basinski - Cloes Remix 2 (Christoph Heemann Remix)
d1. Andreas Martin - Untitled Remix (Christoph Heemann Remix)

Note : Records pressed on clear vinyl with full color labels. Includes a clear acetate insert, all packaged in a transparent sleeve. Edition of 400 copies.

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Daphne Oram - Electronic Sound Patterns (His Master's Voice, 1962)

Ah, ces petits bidouillages électroniques de nos ainés! On en trouve régulièrement au fil de ce blog, j'en raffole. Il est intéressant de noter que ces choses avant-gardistes n'étaient pas coupées du grand public, qu'il s'agisse de la musique concrète accompagnant les Shadoks ou de ces vignettes destinées aux enfants.

Daphne Oram
Electronic Sound Patterns
7'' His Master's Voice 7EG 8762 (UK, 1962)

a1. Melodic Group Shapes 1
a2. Melodic Group Shapes 2
a3. Three Single Sounds Taken in Canon
a4. Rhythmic Variation 1
a5. Rhythmic Variation 2
b1. Ascending and Descending Sequences of Varying Nature

Note : Composed and created by Daphne Oram. Released as part of the Listen, move and dance series (Volume 3) and BBC programme to help children dance.
"Teachers seeking original material have found this new approach exciting and stimulating in their creative work for music, movement and drama. The Sound patterns are intended for children to enjoy and may lead them into movement of dance-like character, or involve them in imaginative situations. People who are interested in sound production may like to know that these sound patterns were created by Daphne Oram at her Electronic Studio in Kent. By using audio generators, many tape recorders, filters, ring modulators and other electronic devices she built up the tone colours, pitched each of the notes separately, gave them duration and dynamics and finally spliced the notes together to obtain the required rhythms and sequences." (sleevenotes)

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