Tomas Phillips & Luigi Turra – Vignettes AmplifiéLabel: Nitkie – patch fiveFormat: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: RussiaReleased: 20 Apr 2011Style: Experimental Limited edition of 500 copies in a digisleeve.The first ever collaboration between prolific american composer Tomas Phillips and prominent italian newcomer Luigi Turra, “Vignettes Amplifie” presents a sequence of subtle sound constructions characterized by minimalistic and contemplative approach. Quiet field recordings, soft acoustic sounds and organic electronic arrangements builds panoramic view on two levels. The acoustic gestures like bells, manipulated objects and drone fragments are coming from silence and disappearing after some time. On the other hand, there is a kind of reflection of these sonic events in the…
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Francisco López + Novi_sad – Titans
Francisco López + Novi_sad – TitansLabel: Gradual Hate Records – GH 112 CDFormat: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: SpainReleased: 15 Sep 2011Style: Experimental Sound artists Francisco López (Spain) and Novi_sad (Greece) have explored together the blurred territory between reality and the creation of self-contained sound enviornments through a long process of transformation f sonic materials. Working with the same shared field recordings carried out in the region of Ancient Olympia in Greece, they have created two individual pieces with extreme dynamics, at times obscure and dense, but laden with hidden complexity and a few surprised for the most adventurous listeners. Video by Diego Arandojo
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Martin Bladh’s & Bo I. Cavefors’s -The Island of Death
Martin Bladh & Bo I. Cavefors – The Island Of DeathLabel: Freak Animal RecordsFormat: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: FinlandReleased: Jan 2012Style: Abstract, Experimental, Power Electronics Album of Martin Bladh is his best and most challenging. Many of the known elements of his works are there. Amazing tones of bow / string instruments. wailing yelling voice known from IRM. usage of samples/spoken word collages like on “Dirge”. rhythms. musical patterns and electronic noise. But simply everything goes further. Leaving all expectation behind. what should qualify as “genre album”. Less of noise. more of experimental disturbing elements. often avoiding playing it safe. This work is most definitely recommended for anyone who…
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David E. Williams – Ensemble Experience Project
David E. Williams – Ensemble Experience ProjectLabel: Tesco USA – NATO003, Ur Muzik – UR004Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Limited EditionCountry: USReleased: 01 Dec 2010Style: Art Rock, Experimental Nearly a quarter-century into a staggering solo career, David E. Williams has decided to join a band. Granted, the David E. Williams Ensemble Experience Project is a band that bears his name, but it still signifies the first time the noir singer-songwriter has collaborated so freely on new songs with other musicians. He wrote these tunes as he normally does – at the piano, in the kitchen, under heavy sorrow – but the final arrangements represent the creative contribution of five…
