NEW RELEASES / October 2008
BiP_HOp Generation vol.9 [bleep 37]
A new volume in the now established series of what has become an essential collection of contemporary sound-design which illustrate perfectly the contemporary alliance of acoustic instruments and digital technologies in music.
Almost 80 minutes from:
Kammerflimmer Kollektief
Spaceheads
Andrey Kiritchenko
Illàchime Quartet
Hauschka & Antenna Farm
Adrian Klumpes
Bela Emerson : hespera [bleep 38]
4th album from the pioneering electric cellist who builds layers of rhythm and sound from every part of her instrument: sounds are looped, take on lives of their own, bounce off each other...the effect, as anyone who’s heard her will testify, is mesmeric.
SELECTED REVIEWS :
present Emerson as a skilled and eclectically minded performer. Boomkat / UK
RELEASED IN MAY 2007:
Spaceheads & Max Eastley : a very long way from anywhere else [bleep 35]
Spaceheads are a unique duo of trumpet (Andy Diagram) played through electronics and looped with drums (Richard Harrison). Max Eastley is a sound sculptor, artist, and musician who plays an instrument he invented and made himself called The Arc. It is a monochord of wood and wire, which is scraped, bent and flexed into an orbit of amplified effects. This new CD was recorded live, improving at two very different locations, one an island of the south of France during Mimi festival, and the other a remote village on the North Yorkshire moors, both venues a very long way from anywhere else.
"A fascinating meeting of surreal improv strategies and electronic abstraction, A Very Long Way From Anywhere Else, is, as the title suggests, a pretty unique piece of work. Recommended." BOOMKAT / UK
Rothko : eleven stages of intervention [bleep 36]
Following releases on such visionary labels as Lo Recordings, Simon Raymonde’s Bella Union, Too Pure and Kraak, Bip_Hop is pleased to welcome the release of Rothko's new album. Mark Beazley (bass), Michael Donnelly (bass), Ben Page (keyboards/percussion) and Tom Page (drums) continue to create a warm and inviting sound, where solitary keyboard melodies transition from exploratory passages and fragile beauty intertwines effortlessly through somber basslines. The music of Rothko at equal turns challenges and comforts the listener. At first perhaps confrontational, yet ultimately nurturing, the band's eleventh fulllength release -- adds to Rothko's already innovative and impressive catalogue.
"It’s like a more melancholy, more muted Godspeed You! Black Emperor, without the hint of post-rock cliché, or at times even like Southern Lord’s slow rockers Earth without the metallic subtext – this is cinematic and evocative music in the best possible way... Quite hauntingly beautiful… recommended!" BOOMKAT / UK
ROTHKO video:
Check out this video: rothko - give everything
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[reciprocess : +/vs.]
documenting the process of musical reciprocality between Philippe Petit & friends
[bleep 39]
A few years ago BiP_HOp had started a series called "Reciprocess".
To celebrate 10 years since the inception of the label + my 25 years of activism/DJing, I composed a 70+ minute soundtrack, cut it into pieces which were sent to friends to add their spices to.
The Wire magazine liked the idea and agreed to give it away with their issue 301, in March 2009.
The Cd will offer 80 minutes of exclusive music by:
01) BELA EMERSON (feat. vocals from RANDALL FRAZIER) & Philippe Petit
02) AIDAN BAKER & Philippe Petit
03) CHAPTER 24 & Philippe Petit
04) COSEY FANNI TUTTI & Philippe Petit
05) SIMON FISHER TURNER & Philippe Petit
06) KLANGWART & Philippe Petit
07) DOUGLAS BENFORD & Philippe Petit
08) dDAMAGE & Philippe Petit
09) MARKOVO & Philippe Petit
10) KUMO & Philippe Petit
11) EUGENE S. ROBINSON (courtesy of OXBOW) & Philippe Petit
12) SEVERIN 24 (feat. vocals from KATHY COMPTON) & Philippe Petit
13) JASON FORREST & Philippe Petit
14) LYDIA LUNCH & Philippe Petit
15) JEAN-HERVÉ PERON (art-Errorist/Faust) & Philippe Petit
16) JUSTIN K. BROADRICK & Philippe Petit
17) STRINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Hervé Vincenti & Philippe Petit)
18) SYBARITE & Philippe Petit
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