"Where do we direct our attention then, which direction shall the next step lead to? I mean, to an abstract sound, to a technology devoid of obstacles, to a tonal non-delimination." (Feruccio Busoni, Entwurf einer neuen Ästhetik der Tonkunst, 1907/1916). XVth CD by the ...
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ED06 | EDITION DEGEM
"Ariha is a combination of 3 of the most innovating figures of modern day trumpet playing with tuba virtuoso Carl Ludwig Hubsch. The practitioners here, three trumpeters, Axel Dörner, Franz Hautzinger, Mazen Kerbaj, and Carl Ludwig Hübsch hoisting a tuba, practice a ...
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CREP46 | DISCREPANT
"YAGOW is a psychedelic space rock trio based in Saarbrücken, Germany. Loud guitars, drones and ghost-like vocals build up other-wordly soundscapes reminiscent of Seventies' avantgarde acts and the shoegazing sounds of the past decades. Yet, rather than dwelling on the ...
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CSR004 | CRAZYSANE RECORDS
"Recorded within the last 3 years, these improv jams were never intended to be released as an album, but, as it often happens within improvisation, sometimes things just click. While being locked away in a wooden hut in the middle of nowhere, northeast France, with ...
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#4 | OTOMATIK MUZIEK
"Exercise indicates relatively shorter pieces in which the process of work, of practicing and of trying things out within specified limits, in short a kind of discipline in process, are being attempted. I regard them as both exercises in composing and for performers, ...
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GOD41 | GOD RECORDS
"HIGH BOYS suffers a deep passion for old school acid and techno, back to back with an obsession for bad vibes, dub 7"s, William S Burroughs and 80s industrial music. These common interests made Jean-Louis Huhta (Dungeon Acid / Brommage Dub) and Joachim Nordwall (iDEAL) ...
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IDEAL147 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"iDEAL is proud to present the debut album by Gothenburg-based artist Johan Zetterquist (b.1968). It contains three monuments, pieces that should probably be seen more like sound sculptures or documentations than compositions. The shape they come in is profound drone ...
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IDEAL159 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"The first time I heard of Mattes Schwarz, someone called him "Stecken-Mattes". Stecken was a defining, if almost secret, Cologne dance music venue of the 2000s and early 2010s, a minuscule basement without curfew and seemingly any other restrictions, where the up to ...
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MAGAZINE017 | MAGAZINE
"Not long ago, the Belgian label, Meakusma, released Exchange - an EP featuring two Viola Klein arrangements of a sabar/beats session with performances by Family Diop of St. Louis, Senegal, and Whodat of Detroit, MI, USA, recorded at the Diop's home, where Whodat lay ...
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QUEENMUM'SMAILNO1 | QUEEN MUM'S MAIL
"Finnish visual artist and filmmaker Hannu Karjalainen's music draws inspiration from ambient, drone, modern classical and dream pop. His first album Worms In My Piano was released in 2007 on Osaka Records and the second album, Hintergarten in 2009 on Simon Scott's Kesh ...
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KK101 | KARAOKE KALK
"Jason van Wyk has been releasing music since he was just 14 years old. Whilst he continues to produce electronic music, in the past few years he has turned his attention to more piano-based work. In 2016 he first caught our attention with the limited edition release of ...
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HOMEN088 | HOME NORMAL
"Jason van Wyk has been releasing music since he was just 14 years old. Whilst he continues to produce electronic music, in the past few years he has turned his attention to more piano-based work. In 2016 he first caught our attention with the limited edition release of ...
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HOMEN089 | HOME NORMAL
"There are far too many piano albums doing the rounds these days. We try to listen to every demo that comes in to the label, and in the past few years probably fifty percent of these are solo piano albums. We've released ONE dedicated solo piano record in all that time, ...
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HOMEN101 | HOME NORMAL
augustin brousseloux (electric guitar), jean-marc foussat (VCS3, voice), quentin rollet (alto and soprano saxophones) Recorded October 30, 2015 at Pyjama Studio and October 31, 2015 at Espace En Cours, Paris.
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IB54 | IMROVISING BEINGS
