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"The West African country of Mali is a birthplace of the blues, a musical tradition later carried by the transatlantic slave trade to America's cotton fields. Yet today, the music and musicians of Mali are in grave danger. As fundamentalist Islam and sharia law become ...
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"Double Negative follows the path that Robert Schwarz has pursued with The Scale of Things. Field recordings render the core and compositional starting points around which modular synthesizers are built to complex structures that resemble nature's contingency as their ...
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"Parvenu is a work about authoritarian structures and developments. The narrative is abstract, all sounds are concrete. Every single sound on this recording is based on recordings from three bee hives." (label info)
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"The field recordings of "F.Guyana" have been realized in the forests and the costal regions of French Guiana between the dry season and the "little rainy season" (November/December 2014, 2015 and 2016)." (label info)
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"Mali, situated in the heart of West Africa, is the cradle of today's Blues and Jazz. It is believed that slaves brought their traditional African rhythms and sounds to the North American cotton fields. For centuries music has strengthened Mali's cultural identity, with ...
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GR174 | GRUENREKORDER
"In 2014, I spent nine weeks in Belgrade, focusing on the questions, "What does this city sound like? Is it possible to portray it using sounds?" In numerous excursions to different areas of the city, I collected sounds and noises. In addition, I conducted several ...
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GR173 | GRUENREKORDER
"Annea and I first met in New York in 1975. I was writing an article about the experimental music scene in New York for an Italian magazine. We soon found out that we had a lot of common interests and ideas. In 1979 she came to Italy and together we performed her piece ...
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"I work very slowly, hence songs for forgetting has been in development for a very long time. The first element, a large sand timer, was recorded in Cologne, Germany in August, 2007. Further field recordings were made of rain dripping through Soviet-era gutter spouts in ...
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GR172 | GRUENREKORDER
"while field recording in autumn 2014, CLUBbleu dived into the pulsating multi-cultural metropolis of Singapore, trying to catch the most characteristic urban sound scapes. CLUBbleu translated their overwhelming impressions of this city into 10 compositions at the ...
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GR165 | GRUENREKORDER
"The sounds that comprise this album were recorded in the Picentini mountain range in Southern Italy from 2012 to 2015, mostly during the early spring of each of those years. The compositions from these fieldtrips work in parallel to fifty 100-word texts and a number of ...
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"The artist group Augenstern (Christiane Prehn and Wolfgang Meyer) have lived and worked on the ship Anuschka for many years. In July 2014 the MS Anuschka left Berlin in the direction of Paris before reaching their final destination in the south of France in November ...
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GR170 | GRUENREKORDER
"The book contains Ecopolitik, an introduction as an epilogue by Jose´ Luis Espejo, a letter to the Huaorani people, two research texts and one bertso, descriptive texts and photos of recordings, a possible chronology, a glossary, a compilation of several texts with ...
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GR167 | GRUENREKORDER
"We perceive many things with our eyes. Many visual impressions are engraved in our memories. But, all the things that are going on around us, can also be detected by the ear; can be listened to with various feelings. What effects do silence and noise have? The sonic ...
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GR166 | GRUENREKORDER
"How can we as humans in this day and age foster a relationship with the Rhine River, without lapsing back into modes of romanticism, when witnessing its remaining beauty in some rare places; without turning away in frustration and disillusionment, when confronted with ...
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GR163 | GRUENREKORDER
"Christina Kubisch's site-specific sound installations are based on retrieving parallel worlds. She often responds to structures and atmospheres of places and their unheralded vibrancy which she turns into concrete perception and imagination by the recipient. For the ...
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"Since 2009 the composer Uwe Rasch has been working on a body of works called 'Out of Twenty-Four' (aus vierundzwanzig). It is a contemporary adaptation of Franz Schubert's original 1827 song cycle, "Die Winterreise". This project is about a modern, creative and, at the ...
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GR161 | GRUENREKORDER
"The Stuttgart-based saxophonists Mark Lorenz Kysela and Nikola Lutz are tenacious advocates of experimentation with saxophones and electronics. "Is there anything that one cannot produce with a saxophone?" This question haunts them and every day they discover something ...
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GR156 | GRUENREKORDER
"Based in the Okinawa Prefecture and former part of the Yaeyama archipelago and Ryukyus islands, Iriomote-Jima is the most southern island in Japan and 90% of it ground is covered by jungle and mangrove. Even during its short period of coal mining, the island was never ...
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GR158 | GRUENREKORDER
"The contributions collected in Landscapes of Fear cover the participants' different methods and experiences from specifically developed projects on the connection of sound, space and emotion. Multi-layered overlappings of inner and outer spaces, interconnections of ...
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GR153 | GRUENREKORDER
"Ever since the accidental discovery of whale song in 1967, the idea of complex animal sentience has been gaining strength within the scientific community. A growing number of researchers and academics are exploring the idea that animals enjoy music on a similar level ...
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"The project was created over two years in Seydisfjördur, Iceland and in Berlin, Germany, and is an evolving conversation between Döring's improvisation on acoustic instruments such as clarinet and saxophones, and Korabiewski's electronic live treatment and ...
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"Distantly rooted in musique concrete, "The Scale Of Things" discloses an uncanny, multilayered sonic universe of its own. The seven compositions are based on the exploration of nature recordings for unheard details and hidden layers, focused on patterns of stochastic ...
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GR154 | GRUENREKORDER
"There are three distinct ways nightingales sing and countersing to each other, beginning late at night and ending by dawn in the first weeks of spring. Most males are 'inserters,' meaning that they wait about one second after a neighbor's song finishes before starting ...
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GR159 | GRUENREKORDER
"This recording takes you on a round trip of Iceland. The aural journey starts westward from the island's south in the cold early spring. After a side trip into the West Fjords, our route traverses the north of the country at the height of summer, followed by an ...
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GR157 | GRUENREKORDER
"3:45 AM. Time to get up. The Bushveld is already awake. Slavek and I are both dragging a bit, rushing to get out the door and deploy. After almost two weeks of nonstop recording, we are both tired and a little homesick. At this point in the residency we have already ...
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