JGRZINICH - MIMEMA

JGRZINICH - MIMEMA
(Maaheli Editions, 2007)

“Mimema consists of two minimal and exteneded drone pieces of electronically processed samples of organ music. Mimema is intended for low volume listening.
Mimema is a work dedicated to the understanding of transcendence, in the personal and collective sense of our being. It is the light that imitates darkness and the reason that imitates dreams.
The night is long, but not eternal. When I was a child I used to journey into the darkness of night through metaphysical states of being. To enter the dream world or the world of the subconscious being, I used to project myself into a state of weightlessness. While lying in the middle of the bed I would concentrate and focus on the center of the earth and imagine I could feel the force of gravity. After a certain period of time the sense feeling of the body was diminished and a different sense took over. The bed would be transformed into a floating surface on which I lay in a flat position to navigate the great void of space. At first this space constituted of the three dimensional definable space we are mostly familiar with, which could be understood through the shifting plane of the bed. Over time however, this becomes a literal inversion of the cognitive process, as other "dimensions" would unfold. The new dimensions were not exponents of the initial three so much as they were leaps into a dimensionless field, a state beyond time and space. Time and space become transcendent conditions and are navigable by relative association of thought, memory and sensory energy. Much of my youth was spent in fear of the night, a fear for being alone in the unknown. I can see that this searching would help me find comfort and consolation in transforming fear into a journey, from my waking life to sleeping and back again.”

01. Mimema I (24'30")
02. Mimema II (23'48")

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MUHR - THE FOREVER TUNNELS

MUHR - THE FOREVER TUNNELS
(Miasmah, 2007)

"Muhr (Vincent Fugère) has been producing electronic music for the last 8 years and has started this project to create music that moreso represents him. His music is somewhere between ambient and electronica, sometimes melding some aspects of film-scores and classical. Music favorites and inspirations: Stars Of The Lid, Julien Neto, Dead Texan, Bjork, Pan American, World's End Girlfriend, Radiohead, Godspeed You Black Emperor..."

Muhr - The Forever Tunnels

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DAN WARBURTON - A WALK THROUGH D

DAN WARBURTON - A WALK THROUGH D
(Stasisfield, 2006)

"Paris-based Dan Warburton's "Walk Through" series of compositions based on ambulatory field recordings began here on Stasisfield back in 2004 with "A Walk Through L" and continued with a CD-R release of walks through "R" and "V" on Why Not Ltd. The walks continue as Stasisfield simultaneously releases "A Walk Through D" with Con-V's release of "A Walk Through M". The "D" in question here is is the village of Domecy-sur-le-vault in Burgundy, France, where the original source recordings were made one evening in April 2004. This entry in Warburton's Walk series may display slightly more overt electronic manipulations to the source material, but it loses none of the dream-like immersive qualities of its forerunners". Stasisfield.

Dan Warburton - A Walk Through D

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KEVIN DRUMM, JESSICA RYLAN & JOE COLLEY - PURE

KEVIN DRUMM * JESSICA RYLAN * JOE COLLEY - PURE
(Musica Excentrica, 2006)

“Pure” is a compilation of strictly complicated experimental music from United States of America, provided by artists that are known as pure experimentalists without any admissions. Joe Colley base his sound on the studying of various randomized processes, static noise and urban objects. Jessica Rylan designs her own synthesizers and accomplishs audacious voice performances. Kevin Drumm is fond of playing guitar by everything he is able to get in his hands: from piece of glass to electromagnet.

The result can be listened as hard, but rather charm liveset, that took place in Moscow DOM club." Musica Excentrica.

01. Joe Colley - "Pure One" (12:13)
02. Jessica Rylan - "Pure Two" (12:02)
03. Kevin Drumm - "Pure Three" (12:23)

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ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI - UEXKULL

ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI - UEXKULL
(AudioTONG, 2007)

El netlabel polaco AudioTONG ha reeditado hace poco “Uexkull”, uno de los primeros trabajos publicados por Zbigniew Karkowski, y que hace bastante tiempo que dejó de estar disponible. “Uexkull” fue compuesto entre 1988 y 1989 en Gotemburgo y París, y fue editado originalmente en 1990 por el sello Anckarstrom (Gotemburgo). Se llevó a cabo en el Les Ateliers Upic de París, el estudio EAM de la State Collage of Music y el Computer Music Studio de la Chalmers University of Technology, ambas situadas en Gotemburgo.

Zbigniew Karkowski - Uexkull

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PETR DRKULA - 2

PETR DRKULA - 2
(Test Tube, 2007)

“Nacido y educado en la República Checa, Petr Drkula posee un fino sentido sobre la repetición en la música. Puedes respirar con facilidad todo lo que ha aprendido durante los últimos años sobre esos aspectos gracias a su trabajo “2”. Compositores contemporáneos como Terry Riley (“A Rainbow In Curved Air”, “Poppy Nogood”), Steve Reich, Erik Satie o las cadencias de Brian Eno son influencia evidente en su trabajo. Aunque no de manera explícita, la música folk de Europa del Este desempeña un importante papel en este disco: hace funcionar el mapa de melodías que se perciben y construye la base para que cualquiera de las otras referencias arriba mencionadas pueda identificarse.

Por ello, “2” es un estudio de dos piezas acerca de la importancia de la composición tradicional vs. composición contemporánea en el ámbito del folk electrónico. “Duality” y “Polarity” funcionan como una sola pieza que se enfrenta a un efecto especular. Ambas evolucionan desde un drone que noquea, crudo y casi ‘infantil’, sobreproducido a base de falsas e incompletas melodías que, al final, confluyen en una, sola y amablemente hermosa. “Duality” es de mayor simplicidad tonal, transparente y directa, una sinfonía sumergida que emerge poco a poco mediante la repetición. “Polarity”, por el contrario, es justo lo opuesto. Fácilmente se puede soñar despierto a través de sus casi treinta minutos de duración sin nada que motive a moverse. Tan sólo quieres permanecer quieto y presenciar lo que ocurre o en lo que puedes o no puedes pensar. Es un juguete de niño para adultos que persigue la realización a través de la relajación. Puede sonar perezoso, pero nada de eso. Todo se centra en los mecanismos básicos de repetición en la música, en la complejidad de un movimiento sobre otro, incluso si éste suena, primeramente, siempre del mismo modo.

Petr Drkula consigue en “2” aproximarse a lo que se ha estado explorando en algunos campos de la música durante los últimos cincuenta años, y está tan endemoniadamente cerca de la perfección que lo lamentarías si te lo pierdes”. André Santos, Test Tube Records.

01. Duality (17'13'')
02. Polarity (26'58'')

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