Francisco López & Xabier Erkizia – Elektra Bidasoa
Label: Ferns Recordings – stem_02 Format: CD Country: France Released: 15 Sep 2011 Style: Field Recording
A collaborative project between two seasoned sound artists dedicated to a profound listening of sonic phenomena. Created with original recordings from power plants along the Bidasoa river in the Basque Country, Erkizia and López have built vivid straighforward and transformed sound environments from a myriad hums, rattles, crackles, and drones from the wide variety of machinery and industrial electrical facilities inside the power plants. A macro and microscopic journey into a detailed and crisp virtual sound world from the generation of electricity.
Label: Reverse Alignment – RA-16 Format: CDr, Album, Limited Edition Country: Sweden Released: 23 Oct 2015 Style: Drone, Experimental, Field Recording
Longtimer drone act Moljebka Pvlse, mainly headed by sound artist Mathias Josefson (Skare, Negru Pvlse), found himself travelling to Israel in 2008 to perform and to scavenge for sounds in the field with co-worker Karin Widin. On A Tranformation the collection from that travel has been thoroughly examined, dismantled and restructured together with freshly added material that has trancended it’s older form to a new being finalized.
Recorded east of a concrete sea by Mathias Josefson and Karin Widin. Reconstructed, produced and mastered by Mathias Josefson at Eleventh Planet. Packaged in a 6-panel digipak, limited to 100 copies.
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]
