“Home, Sweet Home” reviewed by Monsieur Délire

A free release from the superior Portuguese electroacoustic label Crónica (use the link below to download it). Home, Sweet Home shares seagulls with Sleppet. Duran Vazquez has put together a fine record of treated filed recordings. It doesn’t have the sophisticated aesthetics of Marc Behrens’ album, but it remains a strong work of ambiant electroacoustics …

Vote for Marc Behrens’s “Compilation Works 1996-2005”

Marc Behrens’s “Compilation Works 1996-2005” has been nominated for the Qwartz 6 Music Award (in the “Anthologies” category). The public voting has already opened and will remain open until March 15. The awards will be announced in April 2, 2010 in Paris. To vote for Marc Behrens, all you need to do is to send …

New CD release: “Passeports” by Mathias Delplanque

Crónica is very proud to release the new CD from Mathias Delplanque, “Passeports” in association with Bruit Clair. “Passeports” is composed from various field-recordings realized in transport-related locations across France: train stations, harbors, parking lots and other areas of transit, weaved into dense ambient compositions. “Passeport 3 (Dieppe)” further includes recordings made in a call …

@c + Pierre Alexandre Tremblay live

Next Saturday, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay performs in a trio with @c (Pedro Tudela + Miguel Carvalhais). Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (Montréal, 1975) is involved on a variety of projects, manipulating sound and playing bass guitar. He teaches composition and improvisation at the University of Huddersfield in England. He is a member of the ensembles ars circa …

“Erotikon” reviewed by Etherreal

Il y a tout juste un mois on vous parlait d’une collaboration entre le Portugais The Beautiful Schizophonic et le Japonais Yui Onodera publiée chez Basses Fréquences. Comme promis, nous revenons ici sur le dernier album du romantique Jorge Mantas qui nous propose ici 11 pièces qui sont ses propres interprétations de la chanson d’amour. …

“Lectures” reviewed by Le Son du Grisli

Compositeur mythique pour une série de musiciens actuels, Cornelius Cardew (1936 – 1981) ne cesse de stimuler les collaborations et de transcender les genres. Enregistré dans le cadre d’une performance donnée en 2007, Lectures s’inspire largement de l’esprit libertaire du Britannique, ami d’Eddie Prevost. Å’uvre du Polonais Piotr Kurek, le disque se base sur une …