I'm influenced by everything that's ever been done, everything I ever heard, but anyway... this is the stuff I gave repeated listenings: Bernard Herrmann, Ennio Morricone's 70's period in Italy, J.S. Bach, Morton Feldman, Sun Ra, Mick Harris (Scorn), Alan Lomax, Dmitri Shostakovich, Burnt Friedman & Nonplace Urban Field, John Zorn (almost all his work from Masada to Naked City), Radian, John Cage, Badawi, early Mo Wax & Ninja stuff, Charles Mingus, Alice & John Coltrane, ESP Records, early Four Tet, late period Talk Talk & Mark Hollis' solo record, Dictaphone, John Barry, Tom Waits, Diamanda Galas, Max Steiner, The Necks, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Tied + Tickled Trio, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Coil, Lightning Bolt
, Pan Sonic, Mike Patton, composers of 50's 'till 70's sci-fi & horror movies, people with tape-recorders everywhere...
etc..
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Discography
Kreng - L'Autopsie Phénoménale De Dieu - CD (Miasmah Records)
Kreng released an exclusive EP titled 'The Pleiades (aka The Seven Sisters)' for the excellent Fant00m-crew. The entire EP is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD.
Kreng started as a strictly sample-based project, working with sounds from various sources: free-jazz, first generation electronics, improv, classical modernism, vintage ethnomusical fieldrecordings, etc... The project mutated into a cinematic, theatrical device that has been used by various film and theater directors. Kreng scored more that 20 theatre- & danceproductions, most of them produced by the Belgian theatre-company Abattoir Fermé.
Kreng produced a remix for Badawi's Unit Of Resistance Album (Badawi = Raz Mesinai who also records for John Zorn's Tzadik label)
The debut album, titled ' L'Autopsie Phenomenale De Dieu' is now released on the excellent Miasmah label (artistic co-ordination by Erik Skodvin, aka Svarte Greiner / Deaf Center).
all pictures by Stef Lernous, taken from the play 'Mythobarbital'. Scored by Kreng.
check http://www.abattoirferme.be/ for more info
Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental short film (3'20") anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…what is he searching for?
Production : Condor Director / editor / compositing : Jean-Paul Frenay Main 3D artist / compositing : Sandro Paoli 3D artists : Sylvain Jorget and Sébastien Desmet Additional 3D operators : Otto Heinen and Okke Voerman Sound Design : Seal Phüric feat. Neptunian8
Tickets SELLING FAST! £7 adv avaliable from (more on the door): wegottickets.com seetickets.com Ticketline Picadilly Records
Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
Imagine: You are an North-African immigrant to Spain or a South-American trying to get into US who has not much more than a few suitcases, his ability to work hard, willing to pay with slavery and to do dirty work - work that no inhabitant of the country you want to go to would even think of considering.
You already travelled a far way and left many good friends behind that you maybe never will see again.
You stumble out of the nearly falling apart bus or the smuggler boat, where you had to pay your income of a half year to that grim looking people with hearts of stone - just to take you aboard.
You are sighing gladly that you survived the travel and now take your first steps in your new home country.
And you are soon aware: You are disrespected, treated badly, your woman is seen as a kind of cheap prostitute, other people's children don't want to play with your children.
You are thinking of your former homecountry with feelings of sentimentality and you know there is no hope: you cannot go back...
Hey, hope you don't mind a shameless plug for my latest release. "Occam's Razor" is my 2nd album, and it's up for free download on my page! I've worked and poured myself into this project so much for the last 3 months, so I hope you enjoy it, and I would love to hear back about it :)
Thank you for accepting our friend request!! Really appreciate it. Wish you an awesome Saturday night! Rock and Rollon!! =) Very best regards from Merlin’s Company!
“Beware of the armadilloes whose dark shadows sweeps the streets”
Imagine: you are in a small space vessel. Lightyears and lightyears from home. You came closer to the gravitational abyss of a black hole than sane.
Your vessel is not powerful enough, you are drawn into that hole. You're trying to call home. You only get incoming alien conversation but no help.
This are the last minutes before the big squash - of that you know you won't even notice - too fast. You are desperate ! And then the only choice left - is to take what comes and not to die like a looser. You die head up.
The track is called "Hello Earth", a LoFi-classic from the mid 80s of mine and I hope: You're curios now :)
Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
Ik heb eindelijk via de post je cd binnen gekregen en geluisterd. Wat ben je toch een sampletovenaar, een prachtige reis! Was tof je te ontmoeten in dordrecht een tijdje terug.. mooie dag!
After the success of the first in our series of concerts, we are now pleased to announce the second installment. EM #2 will act as a showcase for the Miasmah label, who have been rapidly gaining fans and critical acclaim since their debut CD release in 2006. Held in the beautiful location of the Theaterkapelle in Friedrichshain, expect an evening of darkly-lit atmospheres and Lynchian soundscapes!
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9PM September 5th, 2009
Elevator Music #2 - A Miasmah label showcase starring:
Dag Rosenqvist, aka Jasper TX, has played his beautiful blend of droning guitars and simple instruments internationally, but suprisingly this will be his debut solo show in Berlin.
At Theaterkapelle (Boxhagner Str. 99, Fhain / U-bahn Samariterstr.)
Brought to you by Elevator Music & schall + raum.
04.09.09 / 7PM / Liondialer (Greg Haines & Danny Saul) @ Staalplaat
06.09.09 / 8PM / Danny Saul + VERY SPECIAL GUEST @ Loophole
16.09.09 / 8PM / Greg Haines solo @ Maria am Ostbahnhof