"John Avery, a member of Sheffield electro-funk group Hula, is an English composer and sound designer for theatre. He has been a collaborator with the theatre group Forced Entertainment since a long time and many of his solo projects fed into music for their ...
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"Palo Alto is a French group formed in Paris, France in 1989 by Jacques Barbéri, Denis Frajerman, Philippe Masson and Philippe Perreaudin. In their early interviews the group insisted on their musical filiation with Tuxedomoon, and on drawing their inspiration from ...
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"Snakefinger surely needs not much of an introduction. Born Philip Charles Lithman in London, he moved to San Francisco in 1971. His roots lie in the British blues scene, but he soon became friends with The Residents who also gave him the name Snakefinger based on a ...
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"Thrown into the creation of music with no goal beyond the act itself, the sessions held by the four members of Supersordo in their rehearsal room during the first half of the 1990s were creative conquests in their own right. Hours and hours of electricity in a corner ...
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"Even though only being fully terminated 50 years after its conception, 'Azabu' can be regarded as the starting point of Michael Ranta's creative self-discovery. The recordings that form the base of 'Azabu' were mostly made in the Tokyo district with the same name ...
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"Three previously unreleased works from the 1970's recorded and mixed in Japan and Taiwan. More than any other of Ranta's releases this album shows his multiple roots and ideas as a composer, percussionist and concrete/electronic musician, building a seamless bridge ...
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"16 track composition for pre recorded sounds and live percussion performed by Michael Ranta (entirely different work from the Yuen Shan CD released in 2005). All material previously unreleased. CD version: 1 CD in gatefold cardboard wallet with 12 page booklet. Edition ...
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"Metallic Life Review is the sound of two people who have collected field recordings of metal objects from around the world for years of their lives together, collaging their magpie hoard into rhythmic patterns, sometimes writing melodies and basslines, but sometimes ...
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"Dalibert who hides badly behind the simplicity of facade of these eight pieces all the rare elegance which emerges from this set. The pianist goes well beyond the codes of the genre, certainly one will think sometimes of harold bad of avalon sutra to philipp glass of ...
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"After her debut Picture a frame (Hallow Ground, 2023), Belgian electroacoustic artist Elisabeth Klinck now enters into a deeper dialogue with herself. On Chronotopia, she takes a more song-oriented approach, embracing her voice as a vital counterpart to her violin, ...
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If we are to judge by the common, very fine musical sensibility demonstrated in this recording, it was inevitable that the three would meet. And perhaps it was also logical that they constituted a group with equal responsibilities; the music we listen to is in fact ...
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