Spheruleus - Debris (Audio Gourmet, 2011)

1 Debris #1 06:27
2 Debris #2 06:03
3 Debris #3 07:29
4 Debris #4 03:51

For the first Spheruleus outing of 2011, Audio Gourmet label curator Harry Towell has scoured his hard-drive to put together a collection of tracks that are born out of unfinished samples and discarded parts of previous projects. They have been presented as a four track EP which is aptly titled 'Debris'.

The source material was drawn from the usual collection of instrument samples that Towell's work typically comprises of, although heavily processed with 'vintage' style ambient production techniques. The resulting soundtrack is loose and drifting with moments of hiss and static - a production style that you might not always associate with the work of Spheruleus.
The aim was to draw out the near 24 minute duration as long as possible, giving the impression of time standing still and allowing these otherwise unused sounds a chance to have their 'day'.

2011 is to be a big year for Spheruleus, with CD album 'Voyage' scheduled for release on Hibernate this summer and another short album coming out on Resting Bell at the end of February. Not to mention the debut Paper Relics album recorded with brother Stuart due out in March/April...
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Spheruleus – Forgotten Outland (Resting Bell, 2011)

1 Wilting Bounds
2 Grey Haze
3 Grass Stands Green

The sound-art of Spheruleus is produced by British artist Harry Towell with a previous discography including releases on the likes of Under The Spire, Earth Mantra and Test Tube as well as his own label Audio Gourmet. Intrigued by all things old and rustic, his music is often inspired by the rural Lincolnshire surroundings in which he lives and his first outing of 2011, here on Resting Bell, is intended to really captured this.

A short collection of deliberately loose and degraded instrument samples and field recordings, ‘Forgotten Outland’ is presented as if it were an old record found discarded inside a derelict farm building on disused land.
It comprises of blurred melodic passages and offers a faded insight into times gone by when the farmland thrived. Just like the physical state of the farm itself, the record sounds timeworn, warped and a shadow of its former self.

The instrument leads and various sounds climb over one another as if fighting for a voice. Nothing seems structured or in order, although amidst the deluge of disjointed melody, subtle detail can be focused upon to reveal parts of this purposefully concealed soundtrack.
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Michael Delia & Simon Whetham - Live At Školská 28 (Crónica, 2011)

1 Live At Školská 28 23:14

Michael Delia and Simon Whetham collaborative performance recorded at the Školská 28 gallery space in Prague Saturday 20th November 2010.

Simon Whetham was invited to perform at Školská 28, Prague, on 20th November 2010. In addition to playing his signature solo field recording composition, using only recordings captured in Prague in the week preceding the concert, he also requested to be introduced to local musicians in order to collaborate and improvise with them. Miloš Vojtěchovský, Director of Školská 28 put Simon in contact with US artist and sometime Prague resident Michael Delia.

After a brief meeting and an exchange of CD's they played an improvised collaborative set, Michael playing various instruments through effects and Simon playing field recordings and processing some of Michael's sounds.
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Simon Whetham - Cold Shoulder (Audio Gourmet, 2011)

1 Cold Shoulder (Part 1.1) 02:51
2 Cold Shoulder (Part 1.3) 07:19
3 Cold Shoulder (Part 2) 06:45

Simon Whetham has been capturing and composing almost primarily with field recordings since taking part in a research trip to Iceland in 2005.
Since then he has been gaining a steadily increasing profile: exhibiting in Iceland; recording in the Amazon Rainforest of Brazil; performing at a large number of festivals and events, both nationally and internationally, notably the recent Madeiradig 2010; having work accepted for release by labels such as Cronica, And/OAR, Dragon's Eye, Con-V, Trente Oiseaux, 1000fussler, Mystery Sea, Entr’acte, Install, Lens and Gruenrekorder; commissioned by Creative Labs to build a surround sound installation to demonstrate their equipment and software; commissioned by painter Kathryn Thomas to compose a surround soundtrack to accompany her ‘Lightyears’ series of exhibitions; producing radio works for Resonance FM, Overlap.org and Kunst Radio Austria; and invited to participate in two residencies at the Art Container in Tallinn, Estonia, the second to compose new work, collaborate with other artists using sound and run deep listening, field recording and compostion workshops.
This residency has resulted in ‘Active Crossover’, a touring exhibition and exchange project which continues to tour through 2011 in four further exhibition spaces across the UK.
Future events and projects also include a performance at Experimental Intermedia in New York, and running field recording workshops in Bogota, Columbia.

Simon is based in Bristol, UK, where he has lived on and off for 14 years. Whilst much of his work is based around his travels, Simon took time out to record some sounds within his locality to make up an Audio Gourmet EP called 'Cold Shoulder'...
For four months Simon lived facing an industrial area of Bristol called St. Philips, where on quiet evenings he would wander around the buildings, listening to the city, but from somewhere very still and lifeless compared to it's daytime activity. Of course, as we all know, these areas are never silent. These nocturnal sounds of an area, normally crashingly loud, are the raw materials of 'Cold Shoulder (Parts 1 and 2)'
Simon has also put together a bonus track continuing from where he left off with this EP and it will be available to download as part of a forthcoming compilation album here on Audio Gourmet.
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Listening Mirror - Wet Roads (Audio Gourmet, 2011)

1 Wet Roads 09:04
2 The Organist 08:44

In just a year of operation, Listening Mirror's Jeff Stonehouse and Kate Tustain have managed to put together a solid foundation to their discography with EPs out on Rural Colours and Heat Death Records. Their debut album then followed on Somehow Recordings later in 2010.

Sadly for the duo, Kate has decided to call it a day as part of Listening Mirror for personal reasons, leaving Jeff to carry forward the project. For one last excursion as the Listening Mirror duo, Jeff and Kate have assembled a two track EP called 'Wet Roads' to commemorate their work. The pieces act as bookends, with 'Wet Roads' being the very first piece of music they recorded together and 'The Organist' being the last.
To some of you, 'The Organist' in particular may feel quite familiar; this could be because a one minute edit was featured on the Audio Gourmet Coffee Break Ambient EP released last year.

Whilst this EP will always serve as space to reflect on how their sound first started out, we can thankfully anticipate a bright future for Listening Mirror as Jeff fully intends to carry forward the project.
The first solo excursion penned for release is to be a 3" cdr EP in an A3 folded poster, recorded as a tribute to the late Throbbing Gristle legend Peter Christopherson.This will be out very soon on Heat Death Records:
www.heatdeathrecords.co.uk

A final word from Jeff on this EP: "I'll miss Kate's input, the beauty and talent of which is evident in both of these tracks. We remain good friends, and I wish her the very best in her new adventures."
(Jeff Stonehouse, January 2011)
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out soon on Heat Death Records!

Ex Confusion from Japan providing ambient guitar soundscapes. Check out previous releases on U-Cover and Somehow Recordings, soon on Rural Colours.
Zvuku from Ireland chips in 20 minutes of stunning strings and piano, a future classic that is definitely not to be missed. Previous releases on Rural Colours.
And last but by no means least, Listening Mirror returns with another EP of piano drones. Anyone familiar with the previous releases on Heat Death, Rural Colours, Somehow Recordings, Audio Gourment and aRew know this will be good, but my tip for you all is to also invest some listening time in the source material for 'Glass Slopes'. The track is by Sophie Kazandjian and is also entitled Glass Slopes, beautiful music.
These are all limited to 75 copies each in the usual 3" CDr format.

EPs will sell at about £6 each, or £15 for the set (that includes shipping to whereever you are). The £15 offer is only available at the link below and is limited to 50 copies just on the off-chance they are all snapped up before I get the chance to advertise the rest to the general public!
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Wavespan & The Ghost Between the Strings – From Our Hands a Darkling Light (Webbed Hand Records, 2011)

01 Ghostwave Theorem 37:20
02 Valley of the Stones 07:08

In many ways, a collaboration between Wavespan and The Ghost Between the Strings is long overdue. Both artists have released music on Treetrunk and Webbed Hand, both artists specialize in ambient drone, and both use organic sounds as the sources for these drones. While Wavespan has utilized gongs, bridges, bells, Tibetan singing bowls, pianos, and metal sculptures to produce his drone works, TGBTS has focused on the guitar as his primary sound source.

“Wavespan contacted TGBTS several months ago about a collaboration, and received a series of guitar improvisations in early January (2011). Excerpts of these improvisations were processed by Wavespan and treated to various forms of signal processing, including: time stretching, reverb, delay, distortion, amp/cabinet emulation, and filtering. Next, Wavespan went to work on the centerpiece of the album, ‘Ghostwave Theorem.’ After assembling a rough structure for the piece, he began adding some of his own processed field recordings to the mix. At this point, Wavespan cut-up a gritty jazz loop, to which he applied further processing. For the finishing touch, excerpts from Michael Saunders’ The Labyrinth of Music Theory podcast were processed and added to the mix.

“The second, shorter piece, ‘Valley of the Stones,’ was assembled from some of the remaining improvisations that were not utilized for the first. In addition, Wavespan added some processed field recordings to complete the mix.

“Wavespan would like to extend a special thank you to Rurik Leffanta (xoxos), whose ‘23_words’ VST was utilized to create the endlessly varying permutations of the jazz loop you hear throughout the piece. In addition, Wavespan and TGBTS are grateful to Michael Saunders (Metatheseus), who graciously permitted the sampling of his podcast.
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mystified – Return of Plunderman (Webbed Hand Records, 2011)

“Return Of Plunderman” is the exciting sequel to “Adventures Of Plunderman”. Tight loops plundered from vinyl were embellished with rhythms, sequences and other sounds to create an excellent aural experience. Hear the old and new meshed together, combined in synchronous ecstasy! All mastered from 24-bit audio.
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No-xygen – …Entry to a Defiled Reverie… (Webbed Hand Records, 2011)

01 The Deserted 05:00
02 Shadows of Oblivion 06:45
03 Move To An Entry To A Defiled Reverie 09:32
04 Surrounded By Solitude 06:58

No-xygen is dark/ambient project from Greece which started in 2007 by Manos F. and Thanos M. The first release “towards the sun” was recorded in 2008 and it was a sample of space/ambient music. After more experimentations the music changed to something new, dark and eerie. In 2010 No-xygen released the second release entitled “u-235″ a more dark ambient/industrial album. This one led the project to release in 2011 the third album so far “…entry to a defiled reverie…” which is also the landmark of no-xygen’s sound and of the direction we follow so far.
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Moljebka Pvlse - The Leaves Of Their Songs (Fin De Siècle Media, 2004)

1 Suriak 6:16
2 Nyogen 7:14
3 Chotan 7:47
4 Chorei 17:39
5 Anzan 27:28
6 Mugen 6:28

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The Omega Core - Massive Black (Earth Mantra, 2011)

01 - Maleficence Approaches 1:11
02 - They Look Back Upon the Burning 2:17
03 - Trepidation 5:13
04 - Artwork Forbade 4:04
05 - Pending the Morning Sun 3:42
06 - Four Billion Cubic Kilometres of Shining Papyrus 1:30
07 - The Sun Rises 2:15
08 - Clockwork Fascinates 1:48
09 - As it Began, I Looked to the Sky 4:31
10 - Entropy 4:57
11 - Unfathom 2:28
12 - The Greenhouse of Abject Horrors 1:43
13 - Modulation of the Last 4:48
14 - Eons Away, They Looked to the Stars 3:31
15 - Far 1:29

We have oft mentioned how much we enjoy meeting new folks and bringing their music to our listening audience. Today, we have the pleasure of welcoming Matt Shepherd of The Omega Core to our family of artists, with his fascinating release Massive Black.

We find it difficult to categorize this captivating album. Certainly much of the music could be labeled dark ambient, replete with foreboding abstract sound sculpture and baleful waves of texture crashing all around. But much more lurks in this album than darkness, including movements of beautiful melody and radiant light. Somehow Matt found a way to blend all of these disparate elements into a cohesive whole that hangs together in a truly hypnotic fashion.

For this reason, we think that Massive Black will speak to lovers of many schools of ambient thought. Those who seek epic scope and haunting vistas will find much to love here. But likewise, those who eschew the darkness and instead crave concrete musical elements, even melody, will find parts of this album deeply satisfying. For our part, we find this fusion of ambient styles to be a novel and holistic form unto itself, a clever combination of pieces that yields a unity that stands firmly on its own, a whole whose value exceeds the sum of its parts. Truly well done.

Matt himself describes the album thus: "Being a fan of drone, and huge, dreamy soundscapes, I thought I'd have a bash at creating my own. I wanted to make something that would make my spine tingle, even after listening to it countless times during the 'inspiration' sessions. Massive Black isn't exactly that, as it's rather more abstract than I would have ultimately wanted, but an entire album full of ear-bending symphonic ambient might get a bit tiring after a while. You need to have intervals of peace and WHAM, into the climax."

If this album weren't enough, Matt has released a great deal of other music directly through The Omega Core's web site, and we encourage our audience to not only grab Massive Black for your collections, but to investigate his other work as well. Earth Mantra is very happy to bring Massive Black to our listeners, and we certainly look forward to Matt's future releases, both via Earth Mantra and beyond. Highly recommended.
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Aairria - Katharsis (Earth Mantra, 2011)

01 - Imipramine 10:20
02 - Amoxapine 9:36
03 - A Waterclock, A Ball-Jointed Doll, A Broken Piano 47:54

After a long time away, ambient prodigy Marcin Drabot returns to Earth Mantra with another collection of fathomless textural music, this time a trio of captivating pieces from his Aairria project called Katharsis.

We will confess from the outset that our admiration for Drabot's music extends very far and very deep. We consider him nothing less than one of the premier ambient artists active today, having created several pieces that we would call classics, essential listening for anyone who claims to love this genre. Needless to say, when Marcin gave us the opportunity to release another album by him, we literally jumped at the chance.

And what a release we have in store for our listeners. Perhaps unlike the artist's excellent 2007 Earth Mantra release Nasti, the music of Katharsis covers a surprisingly broad swath of the ambient landscape, at times dark and mildly foreboding, other times mellow and contemplative, and still other times textural and abstract. Our amazement at Marcin's mastery of so many ambient forms never ceases, and we think Katharsis makes a particularly apt introduction to his music for those who are unfamiliar, as well as a singularly welcome addition to his catalogue for those who have long enjoyed his work. Remarkably well done.

In fact, though we may never cherish anything Marcin produces as much as his magnum opus Inside My Room, Watching The Rain, a release that we consider to be the penultimate ambient composition ever made by anyone anywhere. we find the music of Katharsis to stand up very strongly against even this towering standard. Such a lovely collection of colors, mingled together so tastefully, that we have to say this is one of the best releases Marcin has ever produced. The compositions are especially well crafted, and complement each other aesthetically on multiple levels. This is the kind of music that suspends time, the sort of experience that speaks to a deeper consciousness well below the surface, something that you will want to hear again and again.

So it is with great pleasure that we announce the second release by Aairria on Earth Mantra, the brilliant and evocative Katharsis. It has been much too long since the last time Marcin Drabot has shared his music with our audience, and we hope that it will not be nearly so long until we again have the privilege. Highly, highly recommended.
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RIP Lucette Bourdin

The late Lucette Bourdin was a visual and music artist who was a native of France, having grown up in the villages and towns near the Doubs River in the eastern part of the country. The childhood phase of scribbling and coloring never ended for Lucette nor could several years of law school diminish her desire to become an artist. So, when she married an American and moved to the United States she felt her life was going to start over and her art would begin. Always an independent and self-disciplined individual, and feeling that the art programs available would only limit her expression, Lucette embarked upon a rigorous study of artists, color and design which eventually resulted in her own unique style.

Using watercolor/gouache as her media, Lucette developed a painting style which both expresses and evokes the subtlety of the soul. The outer landscape is a metaphor for the spirit that seeks expression as the light of transformation and redemption.

As accomplished at visual art as she was, Lucette was also a master of the ambient music genre, producing a wide ranging collection of albums that can only be described as masterworks. Lucette saw an interesting duality between the two forms of art, where the practice of one reinforces the practice of the other.

Lucette once said: "The closest analogy to how I experience both the act of painting and a finished work of art is music. While I am painting I feel like music is streaming through me on to the paper. It is difficult to say whether I am playing the music or the instrument being played. My experience is the reverse of music however, because the performance is done privately in my studio while the completed score in its entirety is what I show the public. There is another interesting distinction between the two mediums for me as well. Music is played in a line, it is linear, but it creates an atmosphere that continues after it has been played. A painting is a whole piece of music sounding all at once and which the viewer replays by looking at it. As the eye wanders around a painting the colors, forms, textures and their relationships are "sounding" within the viewer creating an experience or mood or atmosphere."

Lucette passed away in February of 2011, but her unique perspective on music and art lives on. Earth Mantra is very proud to have brought Lucette's music to our listeners and to have helped ensure that her music continues to inspire for many, many years to come.
Earth Mantra

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Loopool – Troposphere (Webbed Hand Records, 2011)

01 troposphere [00:29:54]

“loopool is committed to perpetual change and movement, using music as a medium for the power of the brain to reshape itself and rewire the synapses.”

“About: loopool has been active since 1998, releasing records continuously since 1999 and performing once every year since then. He has collaborated with the following artist for recording and live material: Oneirothopter, 100 Pieces, Danse Perdue, Alex Crockett, Stabbings and Robedoor.” — the artist

loopool is Jean-Paul Garnier
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Blue Albatross – Sunset and the Palm Trees (Webbed Hand records, 2011)

01 Dreamscapes [02:34]
02 Pamplemousse [02:53]
03 Walt Whitman [03:22]
04 City of Elves [04:37]
05 Craftsman [02:48]
06 Shipwrecked [02:41]
07 Banquets [02:32]
08 I’ll Meet You in France [05:13]
09 Morphosis [2:36]
10 Willow Tree [03:27]
11 Greatest Voyager [01:34]
12 Violet Transistor Bridge [02:48]
13 Cerulean Sky [02:15]

Blue Albatross is Rendi Pahlefi
About Sunset And The Palm Trees:
“it’s all about my imagination of Dreamland, Fantasy and Deep Sky in the Night Blue.”

Credit:
Rendi plays Synthesizer, Keyboard, Glockenspiel and Laptop
Mixing, Mastering, Engineering by Rendi @ Theater Airship
Artwork by Summerstar07
Bandung, West Java, Indonesia

“thank you for support me, listen to my sounds and appreciate my work”

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[mikra] – Attalla2 (Webbed Hand Records, 2011)

01 Attalla2 [01:59:17]

“Now it is a little about itself and about the given two-hour material. Was born and live in the city of Minsk which is capital of last dictatorial state of Europe (at present) @ Belarus. To me 34 years. It is dissolved. There is a daughter who is called by Nastya, and its voice is on ATTALLA2. There is a girlfriend with whom I want to connect all remained life. Her name is Nadya – and is present its image on a cover to music. ATTALLA2 – very personal intimate (for me) work. In it I tell about myself, by means of the primitive computer and analog old Soviet synthesizers. I haven’t dared to divide all sounding into separate parts as it is often accepted because then integrity of my history and the concept put in music would be broken. I can only advise – to perceive the given work as film viewing … a film about me, my life and my love.. Thanks for attention)))” —
Pavel [mikra]

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Obscure Visions – Four Roads (Webbed Hand Records, 2011)

01 Road I [03:12]
02 Road II [06:00]
03 Road III [10:02]
04 RoadIV [07:50]

Fabián Ramírez (México City, 1987) began producing at the age of 13. Also he has played his music in several parties of Mexico City. He runs his own netlabel, Heromlabs Records.

Heromlabs Records starts on january 2001 with the main objective, share his music all around the world. His headquarters are established in Mexico city. He is mainly dedicated to Hardcore Techno, Noise, Ambient, Dark Ambient, Experimental, IDM, EBM, 8-Bits, Neo-Classic and Trance music.

He runs the netlabel and various of his projects like: 101001010101 [Noise], Dr. Herom [Hardcore Techno], Obscure Visions [Dark Ambient], Button A [8-bits], Ündich [EBM] & Yspco [Trance], are part of the catalogue.

He was invited to collaborate with Toxicpro Records on 2003, there he worked in some radio programs, event production and compilations.

Then he joined to Gabbermex Crew on the same year. He is the youngest member from Gabbermex.

Fabián was influenced by a lot of artists, like Aghast, Yen Pox, Ophidian, Bit Shifter, Front 242, Converter.
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ZMG – The Sect (Webbed Hand Records / Black Square, 2011)

01 The Sect – p0 [01:25]
02 The Sect – p1 [03:36]
03 The Sect – p2 [02:52]
04 The Sect – p3 [01:24]
05 The Sect – p4 [04:15]
06 The Sect – p5 [02:34]
07 The Sect – p6 [04:27]

About the album:
A descent through the cracks of the end of the world,the cry of souls trapped between the weight of a sky full of sulphur and lead that falls down on earth, not leaving a single ray of light cross the membrane of a dying sun.

About ZMG:
ZMG is a contemporary composer of incidental music for films and videogames, who based his career in genres of terror, horror, suspense and impact.
He lives in Argentina. Throughout all these years he has created countless sound designs making himself a place in the national scene and also he worked for USA, Colombia, Spain, Chile, France and others.
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Bo Becker - Transpiritus (self release, 2011)

1 Transpiritus I 10:45
2 Transpiritus II 13:15
3 Transpiritus III 08:33

This is something I have wanted to do for a long time. It is one, consistent journey. Much work and time was put into it. It is meant to be played loud, with eyes closed and mind open. I hope you enjoy.
Bo Becker

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released 28 February 2011
bo becker - guitars / arrangement / engineering / artwork
eliza smith - cello / harp

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Nicholas Szczepanik - An Underside soon ready for shipping

Ante Algo Azul consists of 12 pieces; each will be released on a 3" CDr limited to 100 copies. The set will be sold as a subscription and each piece will be mailed individually, as it is finished. Each piece will be handwrapped in paper and, at times, a piece may also include other keepsakes like photographs, poetry, etc...

I will primarily be selling this as a subscription, but perhaps I will sell individual copies without the extra fun stuff; I'm not sure yet. If you have any questions, please email me at naszczepanik@gmail.com. Your support is greatly appreciated.
Nicholas Szczepanik

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1000schøen - Yoshiwara (Kafue Systeme, 2007)

1 Sow 1:36
2 Bear Around 9:02
3 So Long 26:41
4 Followed Your Steps 17:24
5 Yoshiwara 20:07

"Yoshiwara" is also the name of a prostitute area of the 17 th century's Tokyo just like it was the name of the nightclub in Fritz Lang's movie "Metropolis" (1927) where the main character Maria worked as an exotic dancer. This very interesting album by German composer 1000Schøen could well be the soundtrack for a 21 st century's edition of the Fritz Lang's legendary futuristic movie. Taking its starting point in the world of ambience the intense work circulates in sonic worlds of buzzing noise drones and otherworldly spheres of melodic beauty. Thus being both dramatic and harmonic in expression the album changes between short tracks and long conceptual tracks with the third track (all tracks are untitled!) clocking 26+ minutes. "Yoshiwara" is a remarkable work of experimental ambient.
Niels Mark, Vital Weekly

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Mysterybear - Following A Line (self release, 2011)

1 Following A Line Part 1
2 Following A Line Part 2

I have started a little netlabel as a way to distribute my improvisation electronic music. The first release is a set of two recent improvisations called Following A Line. These pieces feature Auduino, Buddha Machines (FM1, FM2, and FM3), MoogerFooger ring modulator, Deluxe Memory Man, and RC-2 looper. I recorded them live using a Zoom H4 recorder, and they are unedited except to clean up the beginnings and endings.

Both tracks were previously released (and are still available) on SoundCloud: Following A Line, Part 1 and Following A Line, Part 2. Marc Weidenbaum of was kind enough to mention it on Disquiet.

I may also make this release available as a CD-R.
Mysterybear

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Luke Bacon - Equivalence #3 (self release, 2011)

1 Equivalence #3

Recorded on a rainy night in December 2010, this is an improvised piece, the first thing that happened when I sat down at the piano.
Luke Bacon

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Luke Bacon - Equivalence (self release, 2010)

1 Equivalence #1
2 Equivalence #2

Two pieces built around recorded improvised performances.
Luke Bacon

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Nacht Und Nebel - Shapeless (self release, 2011)

1 irem (city of a thousand pillars) 12:28
2 saprophyte (live at chameleon 200409) 12:11

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Alexei Borisov & Olga Nosova - Live At Staalplaat (Electronic Musik, 2011)

Borisov/Nosova duo was formed in Moscow (RF), april 2009.
Music components: free improvized, live electronics, noise, electroacoustic, spoken word, tape music, ambient, soundtracks, field recordings etc.

The duo collaborates with different musicians, sound artists, video-artists, dancers and poets from different countries: Anton Nikkila (Finland), Dave Phillips (Switzerland), Matthieu Werchowsky (France), Dora Bleu (Canada), Thomas Buckner (USA), Tom Smith (USA), Jandek (USA), Edyta Fil (Poland), Kim_Nasung (Poland), Ilya Belorukov (Russia), Fear Konstruktor (Russia), Sergei Letov (Russia), Yuri Yaremtchuk (Ukrain), Volga (Russia), Rafal Mazur (Poland), Alexei Rafiev (Russia), Oleg Kornev (France), Nikita Tsymbal (Russia), Mitya Fedorenko (France) and more....

Produces music for silent movies ("The 11th" by Dziga Vertov), art exhibitions, theatrical and multi-media events and actions. International events and festivals: The 10th Anniversary of GEZ-21 International Music Fest (St.Petersburg, Russia, 2009), Spektro Fest (Istanbul, Turkey 2009), Jauna Muzika (Vilnius, Lithuania 2010), Sonic Circuits (Washington DC, USA 2010), Interpretations (NYC, USA 2010), joint tour with Dora Bleu in Russia, Latvia, Estonia and Finland, Borisov/Nosova/Belorukov/Nasung Tour in Poland 2009, Salvador Dali art exhibition at Inartis Gallery (Moscow, Russia 2009), live at Staalplaat record store in Berlin, concerts in Ljubljana, Vienna, Amsterdam, Paris, Hannover, Prague, Riga, Dusseldorf, Providence, NYC and more...

Showcases and lectures at Berklee Music Collage (Boston), George Washington University (Washington DC) Releases: "Istanbul Kebap" (Live at Spektro 2009) (net-album by www.top-40.org) "No No Music" (net-album by www.kroogi.com - (2010) CD-R releases by Bornos produkt: "Selected works, vol. 1" (2009) "Selected works, vol 2" (2010) "Live recordings" (2009-2010) "Grundig" (2010) CD: "Elektrokooperativ" (Industrial Culture, UK 2010.
Electronic Musik

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Madame B / Wehwalt - Madame B / Wehwalt (Otorragie, 2011)

1 Madame B - Don't separate my body from my soul - 05:50
2 Wehwalt - Phalloïde - 07:52
3 Madame B & Wehwalt - Body Shock - 08:47

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Otto Von Rhinau / Wehwalt - Otto Von Rhinau / Wehwalt (Otorragie, 2011)

1 Otto von Rhinau - Le cauchemar de Galatée. 09:00
2 Wehwalt - Dix minutes de la vision auditive de Polyphème. 10:00
3 Otto Von Rhinau & Wehwalt - Rimes sonores énucluéées. 10:15

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Oren Ambarchi, Günter Müller & Voice Crack - Oystered (Audiosphere, 2003)

1 Walking Oysters 10:51
2 Briefing Oysters 13:11
3 Grounding Oysters 7:57
4 Oystered 9:47

Debates continue to rage about what to call the ever more important genre of AMM-influenced electronics. Still freely improvised, the music has variously been called lowercase improv, egoless improv, electro-acoustic improv, post-AMM improv, glitch-prov, and more. I don’t know what in the world to call it, but if anyone is even remotely familiar with the genre then the names of the musicians on Oystered will be instantly recognizable. Australian guitar experimentalist Oren Ambarchi – one of the more interesting young players in this scene – met up with Swiss masters Voice Crack (Andy Guhl and Norbert Moslang on "cracked everyday electronics"), who have recently disbanded, and Günter Müller, who plays electronics and selected percussion. Apparently gorged on oysters and wine, they headed into the disturbingly named Big Jesus Burger studio in Sydney. It’s a very rich meeting, comprised of four tracks over 41 minutes, and doesn’t sound much like what one might expect from a Müller/Voice Crack summit.

"Walking Oysters" opens with processed drum throbbing away, a gentle catalyst for some jarring, almost serrated electronic sounds. Perhaps no surprise here, since Voice Crack have always struck me as among the more rhythmically oriented electronics improvisers. The Müller’s and Ambarchi’s strategies work well in concert with this approach – somewhere in this piece it sounds like a helicopter flying above a crowd involved in ritual incantations (with somebody playing a contrabass clarinet). As always with this music, one has very little idea about the source of the sound; that’s part of the intrigue, as is trying to describe it. On "Briefing Oysters," muffles and subdued whines try to keep down flinty scraping noises, but fail beautifully. The slowly changing frequencies – tones being altered in pitch – create some delicious tension, as the crackles and rustles suggest tiny animals clawing their way out of your speakers. "Grounding Oysters" is the most nervous and claustrophobic track, with its insistent pulse and sounds of a robot’s indigestion. On the closing title track, Ambarchi’s processed and treated guitars are very eerie. Though this is a one-off meeting, ultimately the group sounds very coherent, a single-celled sonic organism that might well have emerged from the same muck as the group’s beloved oysters. In general this is subdued music which might appeal to fans of Ambarchi’s work with Keith Rowe, some of Müller’s duets (with, say, Taku Sugimoto or Lê Quan Ninh), or sound artist Ralf Wehowsky.
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