Avantgarde

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A mystifying work of Japanese avant-garde shamanism, Toho Sara's 1995 debut introduced a radical new sound from Asahito Nanjo (High Rise), Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple) and Hisashi Yasuda - playing an array of ancient instruments including tabla, piri, harmonium, biwa, shakujo and hansho the group evokes otherworldly ritual music, meditative and haunting.

The Acid Lands, created by the Prague-based Opening Performance Orchestra, was first heard in public in 2014 at the Movement-Sound-Space festival in Ostrava, to mark the centenary of William S. Burroughs's birth. The piece was performed live by Opening Performance Orchestra and their guests, the theremin player Martina Potucková, and the poet, musician, and performer Pavel Z as the narrator. The studio version of The Acid Lands was made in late 2019/early 2020 in collaboration with Bill Laswell and Iggy Pop, who undertook the role of the narrator. The piece, which pays tribute to William S. Burroughs, features fragments from the novels The Western Lands (1987) and Junkie (1953). In addition to the title composition, The Acid Lands, the record contains Bill Laswell's instrumental remix, as well as the collective piece "Naming Seven Souls", featuring samples of William S. Burroughs reading his own work.

GO HIRANO's third album, Corridor of Daylights, is a quiet work of dreamlike brilliance. A home field recording where fragile piano melodies float alongside wind-chimes and wistful melodicas _ insects hum in the distance and a breeze gently rustles as summer day eases toward evening. Originally released in Japan by P.S.F. Records in 2004, Corridor of Daylights is a beautiful, soulful dispatch from early aughts Tokyo. In the already eclectic spectrum of music released by the revered Tokyo based P.S.F. label, Go Hirano's three releases are true outliers in the catalog's thirty year history. In contrast to the loud or more maximalist rock releases by Keiji Haino and High Rise or the wild historical free jazz of Kaoru Abe and Masayuki Takayanagi, Go Hirano's music floats in the gentler waters of the sonic palate. Hirano's work emerges from a more intimate kind of intensity; he creates sparsely contemplative and alternately playful music that at times evokes Erik Satie or even Hiroshi Yoshimura. A multi-instrumentalist and composer, Hirano's main tools are piano, melodica, percussion and the spaces in between the repetitions. He utilizes slight variations of gently mapped out introspection while embracing a more organic sense of openness and feeling. Speaking of his approach when he first starting out Hirano states "It seemed like a lot of musicians were aiming for perfection, but the more they applied themselves to that pursuit, the less interesting the music became. The most important thing for me was that initial, unadorned expression, regardless of whether or not the playing was technically impressive or not." From an early age Hirano immersed himself in a Japanese musical underground that seemed to embrace the entirety of radical and new musics emerging around the world during the 1970's and 80's. From new wave to noise, ambient industrial and the avant garde and his eventual discovery of P.S.F.'s record store Modern Music, Hirano began to develop an intensely perceptive ear. In one of his earliest musical forays, Hirano created music for an experimental butoh dance troupe that toured in Japan and overseas in Canada and the U.S. during the late 80's/ early 90's. Later he would collaborate with White Heaven, one of Japan's most legendary psychedelic rock groups. His first album Distance released on P.S.F. in 1993 reflected a more avant garde, free form approach. During this time Hirano began to realize that his truest form of musical expression lay along a different path from that of his peers. He set aside rock's raw energies and the draw of abstract dissonance for more melodic, quiet sounds. "I felt like jazz and classical were too excessive, or packed too tightly with the requirements of the genre. So I thought there should be a simpler approach that integrated elements of classical and jazz but only as needed, in moderation," Hirano said of his musical intentions. To his surprise, Hirano found that P.S.F. founder Hideo Ikeezumi, embraced this new direction music and offered to release his second album 1995's beautifully melodic, minimalist Reflection of Dreams. Released nearly a decade later the music found on Hirano's third and final album for P.S.F. Corridor of Daylights presents a deeply developed but deceptively simple musical vision. The songs are compact and stripped down to an elegant simplicity, melodic sketches emerging from domestic country-side field recordings. Speaking of his approach on the album Hirano says "I wanted to present each song as a sketch, in the sense that I was whittling down the feeling of each space I recorded in. The recording process was fragmentary - I recorded each song in a different space at a different time - but I wanted the songs to play off of one another in a way that made the album resonate as a whole."

Sunshine" Yellow colored vinyl limited to 500 copies. Camila Fuchs creates experimental electronic pop with spectral vocals and avant-garde sensibilities. Currently based in Lisbon, the project was formed by Camila De Laborde (Mexico City) and Daniel Hermann-Collini (Munich) in London in 2012. The band released their debut album Singing From Fixed Rung in 2016, followed by 2018's Heart Pressed Between Stones on ATP Recordings. Met with international praise, Camila Fuchs has performed at numerous well-regarded festivals including Mutek Mexico, Primavera Sound and All Tomorrow's Parties Festival. They have also supported and shared the stage with Plaid, Actress, Aleksi Perälä, Starcrawler, Charles Hayward, William Basinski, Braids and The Orb. Kids Talk Sun is the duo's third full-length album. It was produced and mixed by Peter Kember (Sonic Boom, Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Experimental Audio Research), whose mixing credits include artists such as Panda Bear, Beach House, Moon Duo and MGMT. With an imaginative, child-like approach, Camila Fuchs have managed to harness a transformational space of exploration and experimentation. Filled with a youthful sense of wonder, Kids Talk Sun is a meditation on childhood, as well as the exchanges between humans, between humans and nature, and within nature itself. A textural, drumless offering, "Sun" opens the album with a slow-tempo arpeggiation guided by Laborde's transporting voice. The words "heat me up, heat them up" conjures warmth that radiates throughout the album. "There was no way, no need to be careful," Laborde sings in "Moon Mountain." Mirroring the lyrics in approach, the band taps into a playful psychedelia with dense, hypnotizing instrumentation. Synths contract and swell punctuated by bleeps, bloops, and spaced-out effects beautifully articulated by Kember's production. A step into darker territory, "Come About" shows the band's breadth of range with Laborde's voice soaring over a driving downtempo rhythm, pleading for love and dedication to be taken and received, with a haunting effect. Kids Talk Sun was recorded near the sea and wilderness outside of Lisbon, with the band shifting back and forth from the natural world to the studio. The result is an ecosystem of complex, ever-evolving sounds working together, with generosity given to the process itself; the biomimicry of plants, insects, the sun and moon, earth, seasons, and cycles gorgeously reimagined in sonic form. There is a sense of multiplicity, a reassurance on change deeply rooted in transformation, on things disintegrating, decomposing, and something new coming to ground us, arms open, and ready for hope.

The Acid Lands, created by the Prague-based Opening Performance Orchestra, was first heard in public in 2014 at the Movement-Sound-Space festival in Ostrava, to mark the centenary of William S. Burroughs's birth. The piece was performed live by Opening Performance Orchestra and their guests, the theremin player Martina Potucková, and the poet, musician, and performer Pavel Z as the narrator. The studio version of The Acid Lands was made in late 2019/early 2020 in collaboration with Bill Laswell and Iggy Pop, who undertook the role of the narrator. The piece, which pays tribute to William S. Burroughs, features fragments from the novels The Western Lands (1987) and Junkie (1953). In addition to the title composition, The Acid Lands, the record contains Bill Laswell's instrumental remix, as well as the collective piece "Naming Seven Souls", featuring samples of William S. Burroughs reading his own work.

Camila Fuchs creates experimental electronic pop with spectral vocals and avant-garde sensibilities. Currently based in Lisbon, the project was formed by Camila De Laborde (Mexico City) and Daniel Hermann-Collini (Munich) in London in 2012. The band released their debut album Singing From Fixed Rung in 2016, followed by 2018's Heart Pressed Between Stones on ATP Recordings. Met with international praise, Camila Fuchs has performed at numerous well-regarded festivals including Mutek Mexico, Primavera Sound and All Tomorrow's Parties Festival. They have also supported and shared the stage with Plaid, Actress, Aleksi Perälä, Starcrawler, Charles Hayward, William Basinski, Braids and The Orb. Kids Talk Sun is the duo's third full-length album. It was produced and mixed by Peter Kember (Sonic Boom, Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Experimental Audio Research), whose mixing credits include artists such as Panda Bear, Beach House, Moon Duo and MGMT. With an imaginative, child-like approach, Camila Fuchs have managed to harness a transformational space of exploration and experimentation. Filled with a youthful sense of wonder, Kids Talk Sun is a meditation on childhood, as well as the exchanges between humans, between humans and nature, and within nature itself. A textural, drumless offering, "Sun" opens the album with a slow-tempo arpeggiation guided by Laborde's transporting voice. The words "heat me up, heat them up" conjures warmth that radiates throughout the album. "There was no way, no need to be careful," Laborde sings in "Moon Mountain." Mirroring the lyrics in approach, the band taps into a playful psychedelia with dense, hypnotizing instrumentation. Synths contract and swell punctuated by bleeps, bloops, and spaced-out effects beautifully articulated by Kember's production. A step into darker territory, "Come About" shows the band's breadth of range with Laborde's voice soaring over a driving downtempo rhythm, pleading for love and dedication to be taken and received, with a haunting effect. Kids Talk Sun was recorded near the sea and wilderness outside of Lisbon, with the band shifting back and forth from the natural world to the studio. The result is an ecosystem of complex, ever-evolving sounds working together, with generosity given to the process itself; the biomimicry of plants, insects, the sun and moon, earth, seasons, and cycles gorgeously reimagined in sonic form. There is a sense of multiplicity, a reassurance on change deeply rooted in transformation, on things disintegrating, decomposing, and something new coming to ground us, arms open, and ready for hope.

Official Release #107

K R A F T W E R K ВЫПУСКАЮТ НОВЫЕ ЦВЕТНЫЕ ВИНИЛОВЫЕ ПЕРЕИЗДАНИЯ РЕЛИЗОВ 2009 ГОДА РЕМАСТИРОВАННЫЕ ВЕРСИИ ВЫХОДЯТ 9 ОКТЯБРЯ НА PARLOPHONE RECORDS Британские и немецкие версии альбомов выйдут на 180-граммовом «тяжелом» виниле с иллюстрированным буклетом «Die Mensch-Maschine» (немецкая версия) - Полупрозрачный красный винил, 16-страничный буклет

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THE BRAND NEW ALBUM FROM SAN FRANCISCO’S INCREASINGLY CURIOUS EYEBALL COLLECTIVE. THE RESIDENTS EXPLORE THE SONGS OF LONG-LOST SOUTHERN BLUESMAN ALVIN ‘DYIN’ DOG’ SNOW. 2CD, 26 TRACK SET INCLUDES 16 NEW RESIDENTS RECORDINGS – THEIR DYIN’ DOG INTERPRETATIONS PLUS 6 NEW SONGS INSPIRED BY DYIN’ DOG – PLUS THE 10 ORIGINAL DYIN’ DOG DEMOS. EXTENSIVE HARDBACK BOOK PACKAGE INCLUDES THE STORY OF DYIN’ DOG, THE RESIDENTS’ DYIN’ DOG BIOGRAPHY AND A WEALTH OF RELATED IMAGERY. FEATURES GUESTS ERIC DREW FELDMAN, NOLAN COOK, CARLA FABRIZIO, SIVAN LIONCUB, PETER WHITEHEAD AND BLACK FRANCIS. Realising a career-long ambition, The Residents finally explore The Blues! Having been turned on to the music of lost bluesman Alvin Snow, aka Dyin’ Dog, the group presents their interpretations of all ten of Snow’s known recordings, alongside several new compositions inspired by his work. Fans will be familiar with The Residents’ love of cover versions and imposing themselves on the material of countless seminal artists. “Metal, Meat & Bone” sees the group take that approach a step further, having discovered a previously unknown artist on their own doorstep and found themselves moved to record their own tribute to his work. The result is a collision of the pain of the wounded bluesman and the subversive and unpredictable sound of this most unique of bands.

The composition Radio Music Extended, performed by Opening Performance Orchestra, draws upon the concept John Cage brought to bear in his piece Radio Music from 1956. In collaboration with the Tesla Museum in Trest, whose collections include unique exhibits of radio electronic and audio-visual devices, the 72-minute piece Radio Music Extended came into being during a private live performance in July 2018. The seven members of Opening Performance Orchestra and two alternating guests operated 13 historical radio sets, dating from between 1935 and 1961. Over the past 60 years or so, the content of the broadcast band of the airwaves has significantly changed, yet the acoustic environment has remained highly variegated, providing a novel quality of sound. Used radios at eight workstations for the performers: Empo Radio, Major 413 (1940) Tesla Jalta 28063 'T61' (1961) Bezdra Special 47 (1947) Philips 450 A-14 (1938) Tesla 420U (1956) Iron Brno, Penta (1941) Blaupunkt Ideal Radio, S6640 (1940) Microphona MK304 (1935/36) Philips BA21 1U Grandezza (1954) Tesla 306U Talisman (1954) Tesla 406U Vlatva (1952) Resla Copélia 1107A (1961) Resla 409U (1954).

Sariina Tani channels the depths of the cosmos through the vessel of Vesperith. On her self-titled debut album, Tani meditates on the nature of shadows and emptiness, stating that This new album is a pilgrimage to the abyss. For many, shadows, dark

Early electronic music from 1959 to 1969 produced by the Institute of Sonology / Instituut voor sonologie, in Utrecht, Holland. Imagined with the great help of Konrad Boehmer. BRAND NEW FORMS These electronic works, composed between 1959 and 1969 a

THY CATAFALQUE deliver another spectacular musical mosaic with ninth full-length album ‘Naiv, inspired by the Naïve Art movement. The project's sole mastermind, Tamás Kátai has once again assembled pieces out of such diverse genres as ambient, fol