Winter promotion: buy one, get another

It’s that time of the year once again… Until December 31st 2010, order any Crónica release and choose a second one to receive free of charge! This offer is good on any available CD or DVD and includes the free “Crónica L” compilation, if you still don’t have it. Just order any release(s) and send …

Futurónica #22

Episode 22 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Zero (every two weeks, on Friday nights, repeating on Tuesdays at 01h) airs tomorrow, November 19th at 21h (GMT). The playlist for Futurónica #22 is: Alvin Curran, Canti Illuminati (1978, OHM+: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music, Ellipsis Arts) Mika Vainio, Nachts: Schnee remix (2008, Popol Vuh …

“The Mediterranean Drift” reviewed by Blow Up

Pronunciata essenza acustica, a dispetto del gran lavorio digitale, pure per l’album dell’israeliano Ran Slavin scaricabile gratuitamente dal sito della Crónica. Prima sezione d’impianto nostalgico e meditativo, vieppiù pervasa da un forte senso di allagamento, di quieto rimestare di acque, seconda leggermente più ostica, assaltata dall’infernale paesaggio marittimo di Vernet in copertina quale esplicito riferimento …

Ephraim Wegner, Gilles Aubry & Bertrand Sombsthay live in Freiburg

ON/OFF_Elektronik von zwei Seiten Ensemble chronophonie performs: Roman Pfeifer: the sleep the mouth and the dream Screen für Flöte, CD und Talkbox Alvin Lucier: Bird and Person Dyning für Performer, Lautsprecher und Mikrofone Mathias Spahlinger: aus: “vorschläge. konzepte zur verüberflüssigung der rolle des komponisten” Peter Ablinger: Weiß/Weißlich 17 Ephraim Wegner, Gilles Aubry & Bertrand Sombsthay …

Twentytwentyone live in Brugge

Next November 13th, Twentytwentyone with guest Anton Lukoszevieze play their own compositions at the Festival of Baltic Arts in Concertgebouw Brugge. Twentytwentyone this time are Arturas BumÅ¡teinas (piano, electronics), Piotr Kurek (prepared guitar, modular synth, laptop), Vilius Siaulys (laptop), Antanas Dombrovskij (laptop, circuit-bent synth). Anton Lukoszevieze plays 17th century Italian master’s cello and lithuanian folk …

“The Mediterranean Drift” reviewed by Cyclic Defrost

Ran Slavin, ‘Film Maker / Artist / Director-Writer / Sound Producer’, rhymes with Dan Flavin, the late American neon minimalist, but there the similarities end, at least as concerns his latest album, the free-to-download The Mediterranean Drift on the criminally underrated Cronica label. Based partly around the threat and turmoil of the present day middle …

New podcast: o.blaat, Ran Slavin, Vitor Joaquim

Almost three years to the date, this long due recording documents the third of the three performances at the ICA curated by Crónica for the 2007 Atlantic Waves festival on November 10, 2007. This performance was a collaboration between o.blaat, Ran Slavin and Vitor Joaquim, with live visuals by Mud. Download here or subscribe to …

“Passeports” reviewed by Ondarock

Dopo le “Parcelles”, il francese Mathias Delplanque estremizza la sua tecnica mista di field recordings “narrativi” e ambient digitale nei “Passeports”, un’eccezionale prosecuzione post-cosmica degli “Airports” di Brian Eno. Il primo “Passeport” calibra il tono delle sue “cosmicomiche”. Una scenografia sia subliminale che ipnotica (o, meglio ancora, onirica) espone con coerenza le possibilità liriche della …