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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

kambang adzan / augenmusik



~ kambang adzan is the first time release of some beautiful and eerie field recordings from Bandung, Indonesia ~

"this recording was made while living in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, around 1997 or 1998. using a Sony DAT recorder and stereo microphone I had sought out the highest place where I lived to record one of the many thunderstorms that happen during monsoon season. I ended up recording on a rooftop where there were several caged and unhappy house-cats pleading with me (they can be heard on the recording) to let them out. I hit record and a few hours later, returned to collect my equipment.  by happy coincidence I had also recorded the many Adzans, or call to prayers, from the nearby mosques." kambang adzan


augenmusik ~ augenmusik (eiderdown, 205)

"Augenmusik is comprised of Samara Lubelski (Tower Recordings, Thurston Moore Band) and Werner Nötzel and Thilo Kuhn from Stuttgart's sweet freak collective Metabolismus. together these three will take you on a night train of sliding electric violin and gurgling analog electronics. amazing material from three sensitive musicians, a complete mental zone to soundtrack the shapes on the inside of your eyeballs. plucking tones and drones out of the air like so many ripe fruits, Augenmusik presents an audio feast of the highest form. time stops as the violin and electronics melt together and slide across your synapses like a knife through warm butter. dig in..." eiderdown

 Samara Lubelski : amplified violin & effects
Thilo Kuhn : thyllotronics
Werner Nötzel: tapes & modulations


listen ~ buy 

se acumulan cintas favoritas pero también reseñas... Komodo Haunts, Former Selves, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Babexo, Opaline, Pines, Adderall Canyonly, Paa Annandalii, Ondness, Sarah Louise, Seth Kasselman... así que para reducirla nada mejor que una pequeña mención a la nueva hornada de Eiderdown. Augenmusik es una colaboración de ensueño entre Samara Lubelski y dos miembros de Metabolismus (mmm 'sprießwärtsdrall'): el violín de Samara revoloteando en primer plano, de fondo la atmósfera asfixiante de Thilo y Werner manipulando cintas sobre un colchón de teclados analógicos.

pero mi debilidad son las grabaciones de campo de Kambang Adzan, que no pueden ser más evocadoras y la vez más tristes...lluvia, tormentas grabadas en una azotea durante la temporada del monzón, numerosos cánticos indonesios apenas audibles, que son llamadas a la oración (adzan) desde las mezquitas a lo largo del día. de fondo, 'maullidos de gatitos enjaulados, infelices'. junto a 'cambodian field recordings' de Stephen Molyneux, los field recordings más 'aquí, ahora' del mundo.

 

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

dream/aktion unit

dream/aktion unit - blood shadow rampage (volcanic tongue, 2006)

"Volcanic Tongue is proud to present the first ever release by the Dream/Aktion Unit, a free-thinking avant garage Ur-kestra based around the central kernel of guitarist Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), saxophonist Paul Flaherty and drummer Chris Corsano (Six Organs Of Admittance, Sunburned Hand Of The Man et al) and featuring Heather Leigh Murray (Taurpis Tula/Jandek/Charalambides) on pedal steel and vocals and Matt Heyner (No-Neck Blues Band/Test/Angelblood) on upright bass.

The Dream/Aktion Unit were originally birthed as a side-project to allow Thurston Moore and Jim O’Rourke to fully explore the kind of ecstatic power blues that their work in Sonic Youth repeatedly implied. The addition of legendary New England saxophonist Paul Flaherty and powerhouse drummer Chris Corsano provided them with an umbilical connection straight to the source of modern musical freedom, while working to liberate them from previously articulated modes of known rock-speak. As a quartet, the group tore through a bunch of the USA’s most winning festival spaces - their ground-levelling F/X pedal assault at the De Stijl/Freedom FromParticular mention must be made of the classic horror artwork, courtesy of Karen Constance (Blood Stereo). An Edgar Allan Poe short story come to life, the images and the gore-filled track titles (my particular favourite being “Here Come the Fucking Dead”) compliment the unearthly sonics contained on disc. “Blood Shadow Rampage” is a prime example of what the commercial music industry is lacking: exquisite packaging, originality, and good fucking music! 9/10 bash in Minneapolis in 2003 being a particular landmark - with both guitarists drawing creative sustenance from the kind of ego-obliterating drums/horn interaction previously articulated by players like The Reverend Frank Wright, Glenn Spearman, Denis Charles and Albert Ayler..." volcanic tongue
"Particular mention must be made of the classic horror artwork, courtesy of Karen Constance (Blood Stereo). An Edgar Allan Poe short story come to life, the images and the gore-filled track titles (my particular favourite being “Here Come the Fucking Dead”) compliment the unearthly sonics contained on disc. “Blood Shadow Rampage” is a prime example of what the commercial music industry is lacking: exquisite packaging, originality, and good fucking music! 9/10" foxy digitalis
"...grabado en vivo en escocia durante el 2005, "blood shadow rampage" es un esfuerzo forjado a punta de destrucción de acordes de guitarra, pérfidas líneas de saxo y baterías a destiempo. existe una suerte de naturaleza destructiva que lo hace un disco lleno de agudismos y chillidos que simulan una mente rabiosa en plena explosión delirante. muy en los momentos explosivos y desbordados de henry cow o glenn branca. todo coronado con nombres como 'el nacimiento del enjendro', 'aquí viene la maldita/puta muerte', 'enterrado vivo y disfrutándolo', etc. no es difícil imaginarse a donde va todo. riéndose de la muerte a través de la experimentación y enseñándole a toda una legión de metaleros que se puede hacer música brutal, sin utilizar si quiera un mísero riff de guitarra. sin embargo, la cacofonía es solo la forma superficial de un núcleo de improvisación bastante consistente. la soltura con que interactúan los instrumentos siempre fluye creando un sostenido diálogo que hace que el disco ya termine cuando recién quedaba mucho por disfrutarlo. destaca ciertamente el trabajo de flaherty en los vientos, que de cierta forma, es el protagonista conductor de estas siete piezas abrasivas, chillonas y fantasmagóricas al cohesionar todo el ritual drónico-apocalíptico que envuelve y caracteriza al disco..." no-wave!
thurston moore guitar
paul flaherty alto saxophone
chris corsano drums
count heinowski contrabass
heather leigh murray pedal steel guitar