A short album from electroacoustician Marc Behrens. Sleppet evolved from a field recording trip to Norway with other artists. The four-movement work was realized in June 2008 for broadcast on the German radio. It’s a relatively simple piece, but it’s powerful and evocative. Everything and the kitchen sink’s in there: nature’s elements (water, snow, stone), …
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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 …
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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. …
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 …
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Its been a while, I think, since I last heard music by Marc Behrens. Perhaps he is not as active anymore when it comes to releasing records? And perhaps more doing commissioned works by, say, German radio? Like this one, which was made for Deutschlandradio Kultur. Unless I am mistaken, I think I heard him …
Tangled instrumental sequences, dense and fascinating, are improvised by Piotr Kurek, a Polish producer and electronic musician who now lives in Portugal. This work reveals a precisely organised, multilevel sound structure, which throbs with avant-garde jumps, jazzy shards and raw iterations. Kurek is mainly known for his breakcore works, created together with Marcin Stefanski, in …
Il y a des initiatives comme celle-là qui font toujours plaisir. Alors que d’autres vous font casquer le prix fort un malheureux best-of de morceaux entendus quinze milles fois dans tous les supermarchés et les galleries marchandes, le label Cronica se propose d’offrir en téléchargement libre une double compilation des travaux de Marc Behrens. D’ailleurs …
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Après avoir sorti une longue pièce électronique de 54 minutes (Frozen Time) sur mOAR (sous label de and/OAR) disponible en téléchargement, Gintas Kraptavicius aka Gintas K s’est mis en tête de donner une consistance artistique à ces moments du quotidien, ces sons auxquels on ne fait attention qu’inconsciemment tellement ils sont ancrés en nous et …
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Piotr Kurek wrote the music and composed the structure of his work ‚Lectures‘ like a surrealistic novel. And most of the time a novel has a hero. In this case that hero is the late Cornelius Cardew. Being a scholar and gifted contributor to the world famous Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, with whom he collaborated for a …
Ten pieces originally composed by this Warsaw-based artist for a festival in the very same city in 2007, created in honour of Cornelius Cardew. Using previously unreleased sounds culled from performances, lectures and rehearsals by Cardew (and passed onto Piotr by his son, Walter), Kurek has subsequently developed them during the time since to simultaneously …
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