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Agalloch – The Mantle
Label: Grau – Grau 001 LP
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Repress, Clear
Country: Germany
Released: 2011
Style: Black Metal, Experimental, Neofolk
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“The Mantle” is a grand multi-dimensional opus of 70 minutes featuring their dark melancholic metal with post rock and neo-folk elements. References range from Pink Floyd, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sol Invictus, Ulver, Dissection, Fields Of The Nephilim and a lot more.
V/A – RUIDOS Y SUSURROS DE LAS VANGUARDIAS (DVD)
Label: Dpto. de Escultura-Facultad de Bellas Artes. Valencia, 2008
Format: 2 DVD, Textos: Español/English, Limit Edition: 300 ejemplares
Country: Spain
Released:14 Oct 2008
Style: Abstract, Musique Concrète, Experimental
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Noises and whispers in Avant Gardes (1909-1945) by Laboratory of Intermedia Creations of The Dept. of Sculpture, BBAA, University San Carlos Valencia (Spain).
The contents of the DVD-Video are the results of the research project “Noises and Whispers….: a remake. These results have been showed in some expositions, concerts and publications, compiled in this double DVD-Video.
with sound sculptures, phonetic poems, art-radio, experiments with gramophon (pioneers of the present DJ’s) and Bruitism, Italian Futurism (specially Fortunato Depero), Russian Constructivism, Bauhaus and la Orden de Toledo by Luis Buñuel and Front Loudspeaker (Spanish Civil War)
Texts in Spanish and English.
El contenido de este doble DVD-Vídeo recoge los resultados del proyecto de investigación “Reconstrucción de obras artístico-sonoras de la Vanguardia Histórica (1909-1945)”, realizado por el grupo de investigación Laboratorio de Creaciones Intermedia (LCI) del Dpto. de Escultura de la Facultad de Bellas Artes San Carlos de Valencia. En el primer DVD se pueden ver y oír las distintas obras de la exposición “Ruidos y Susurros de las Vanguardias (1909-1945)”, con esculturas sonoras, poesía fonética, radio-arte, experimentación con discos de gramófono (que antecede a los actuales Dj’s) y otras manifestaciones pioneras del llamado “Ruidismo” y “Arte Sonoro”. Quedan representados movimientos de vanguardia como el Futurismo italiano (especialmente Fortunato Depero), Constructivismo ruso, Escuela de la Bauhaus y del entorno español como fueron la Orden de Toledo (fundada por Buñuel) y el Altavoz del Frente. Este primer DVD queda completado con entrevistas a los autores de las reconstrucciones y un resumen de los conciertos realizados sobre este tema, donde en uno de ellos se rememora la Bauhauskapelle (o Bauhaus Jazz Band) que era la banda de estudiantes de la Escuela de la Bauhaus que tocaban en sus fiestas creativas pervirtiendo temas de jazz bailable de los años veinte, introduciendo elementos ruidosos como cencerros, pistolas o instrumentos fabricados por ellos, que les servía de catarsis para las diferentes tensiones que se producían entre profesores y alumnos.
Finalmente, el segundo DVD recoge en archivos pdf y mp3, las diferentes publicaciones derivadas de este proyecto y que actualmente están agotadas, como el catálogo y doble-cd “Ruidos y Susurros de las Vanguardias” (Allegro Records, 2004), que ya se distribuyó en su día por Diskpol y que tanto para los que lo tienen, como los que no, es ampliado con nuevos textos y documentos sonoros y visuales, que completan este proyecto caleidoscópico sobre las múltiples aportaciones que plantearon la vanguardia histórica de la primera mitad del siglo XX dentro de la experimentación sonora y musical.
Textos: Español/English Edición limitada: 300 ejemplares
Edita: Dpto. de Escultura-Facultad de Bellas Artes. Valencia, 2008
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Marc Behrens – Sleppet
Label: Crónica
Format:CD, Album
Country: Portugal
Released: 14 Oct 2009
Style: Abstract, Musique Concrète, Experimental
Sleppet originated from a sound art project in 2007, when six renowned artists — Natasha Barrett, Bjarne Kvinnsland, Steve Roden, Chris Watson, Jana Winderen and Marc Behrens — recorded sounds on a 10-day trip through the Norwegian Westlandet region and used the nature experience for a couple of sound installations and music pieces.
Sleppet leads back to Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, for whom contemplation of nature and its influence on the artistic creation had high significance.
Sleppet deals with the energy and the transformation processes of the early springtime.
In the frame of the composition, realized exclusively with concrete sound material, Behrens created several parentheses: the first part starts with an unaltered field recording of a clamouring flock of seagulls as exposition, from which this part is further developed. The final part ends with an equally unaltered recording of a springlike forest patch with various songbirds, a few kilometers up the hill in the fjord valley — in which seagulls can be discerned in the distance. Bird song can be heard at other points within the piece, as by-products of recording other sounds, as sound windows into spring.
The second parenthesis consists of the sonic intensity of drones used in the first and the last part — in the first part sounding like a string group alongside acute cymbals, in the last part sounding purely electronic, but always displaying a certain sonority. Such nearly tonal quality does not exist in the middle parts of the piece. Instead of that, the third, rather noisy parenthesis depicts movements of tilting, slipping off and falling, as culminations within the internal structure: a rubble avalanche (the loudest one in a sequence in part 2), and a collapsing part of a glacier (which closely missed Behrens when he recorded melt water drops), after or framed by audible melting.
Acoustic utterances of animal impatience, which belong to nordic spring like the melting of snow and ice, bring forward the composition: besides the clamour of seagulls there is the noise of impatient cattle, still chained inside their stable. The atmosphere of a sheep shed in the final part picks up the theme again, but is almost completely warped by noises from a hydroelectric powerplant and a ferry.
Phases of contraction (loud, dense) and expansion (quieter, sometimes permeable) define the structures of parts 4 and 5. The first three parts show a somewhat more consistent sound impression. At many points in parts 1–4, figure/ground and foreground/background relations are fathomed out.
The great movements throughout the course of the 41-minute piece put focus onto the rendering conscious of accumulating and discharging energies.
Buy: 13 € http://www.gh-records.com/128-marc-behrens-sleppet.html
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Various Artists – Looking for Europe – The Neofolk Compendium
Label: Index Verlag
Format: 4 × CD, Compilation, Reissue
Country: Germany
Released: 03 Aug 2007
Style: Pop Rock, Modern Classical, Avantgarde, Neofolk, Minimal, Electro, Experimental
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Compilation released in tandem with the same-titled book
In tandem with the book “Looking For Europe”, we released this 4-CD compilation featuring artists such as Scott Walker, Nico, Death In June, The Strawbs, Sol Invictus, Laibach, Test Department, Fire + Ice, Blood Axis, Genesis P. Orridge, Changes, Ordo Equitum Solis, Empyrium, Hagalaz’ Runedance, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, The Royal Family And The Poor feat. Peter Hook (New Order, Joy Division), Der Blutharsch, Allerseelen, Tenhi, Boyd Rice, Kirlian Camera, Paul Giovanni/Magnet, Orplid, Ataraxia, Ernte, SiebenPop Rock, Modern Classical, Avantgarde, Neofolk, Minimal, Electro, Experimental , and many more.
A deep journey into the forms. Pixels as doors to other realities. Horizon backwards. The sun never existed. Only the moon.
Art and direction by Diego Arandojo
Sound art by Darío Martínez
Copyright 2005
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Francisco López + Novi_sad – Titans
Label: Gradual Hate Records – GH 112 CD
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: Spain
Released: 15 Sep 2011
Style: 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.
Buy: 12 € http://www.gh-records.com/108-francisco-lopez-novisad-titans.html
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DsorDNE – 24 O 25 Gru/o/mo
Buy: http://www.gh-records.com/697-dsordne-24-o-25-gru-o-mo.html
DsorDNE (read Disordine) are a tight group of people deeply involved with how to experiment with electronics and lyrics, therefore they’re not terribly “in” in Italy at the moment, believing as they do in personal communication rather than in market strategies.
They started to get some recognition around 1987 with the single “Premonition 11”, shared with “Legendary Pink Dots”.
The next big-scale project has been the compilation Lp “Tecnologie Del Movimento”, a side of very spacey and yet structured electronics and a flip-side of weird contamination between rock and classical music, rock-noise and decadent ballads finishing off with a rather surprising electrodance hit by DsorDNE themselves.
Now DsorDNE release their first full-scals Lp “È Un Sole” (It’s a sun), after several tracks on tape compilations all around the place and a couple of solo-projects by Marco Milanesio
Francisco López – untitled #205
Buy: http://www.gh-records.com/157-francisco-lopez-untitled-205.html
10” VINYL
release date: 25.08.2011
artist: FRANCISCO LÓPEZ
title: untitled #205
order no.: aatp31
Label code (LC): 01291
time: ca. 18 mins + 20 locked grooves
clear vinyl in clear plastic sleeve, with 20 locked grooves for DJs on
B-side. Limited to 300 copies
Price: 15 Euros
On “untitled #205”:
Francisco López states: “Based exclusively on end grooves from vintage records, ‘untitled #205’ is a straightforward and joyful exploration of the potential for eincarnation of these unintended sonic structures into new life. More a tool than a final product, it delves into static, noise and rhythm with a hopeful perspective.”
The untitled #205 mix on the a-side brings us 18 minutes of hissy, textural
sound in dissolution, ranging from ryhthm to noise. The b-side has the 20 original loops López constructed out of old vintage 78s so if you buy 20 copies of this 10” you might be able to recreate the track….
On Francisco López
Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of
the sound art and experimental music scene. Over the past 30 years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge
and open to sensory and spiritual expansion.
He has realized hundreds of concerts, projects with field recordings, workshops and sound installations in 60 countries of the five continents. His extensive catalog of sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with over 100 international artists) has been released by more than 200 record labels worldwide, and he has been awarded three times with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival. [Pedro Higueras, Sonom Studios]