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Sonoris is a label of experimental music (electroacoustic, musique concrete, minimalist, field recordings, improvisation, drone, sound art, ...). We started in 1998 and we have released 26 records so far. We were silent during a 4 years period but we were back in 07. You'll find details about the label at www.sonoris.org.
We release compact disc records (no cdr - no mp3).
June 09 : New !
SETH NEHIL - Flock & tumble
CD
Seth Nehil is an American artist involved in various projects ranging from compositions for dance, installations, multimedia performances, publications and visual art. Over the years, he has collaborated with other significant sound researchers (John Grzinich, Olivia Block, Michael Northam, Matt Marble and Brendan Murray) and has released many CDs on international labels such as Kaon, Alluvial and ...Edition.
It's not so easy to describe the music of Seth Nehil: like a compound of several substances, obtained by capturing natural and urban sounds, manipulated instruments, as well as by electronic treatments and textured objects.
Flock & Tumble is another fine example of his new direction : shorter tracks with an almost song-like structure and a large sound palette that includes the human voice as material. Flock & Tumble explores haphazard clusters, abrupt shifts, percussive rattles and gentle clouds.
December 08 :
FRANCISCO LOPEZ - MICHAEL GENDREAU - TDDM
2xCD
This 2CD set gathers two compositions each by Michael Gendreau and Francisco Lopez. TDDM is based on sound materials recorded in factories in Asia. The 2 Michael Gendreau tracks focus on factories sound environment meanwhile Francisco Lopez works more on machinery and engines.
The result is a strong and intense body of work, a total immersion into industrial estates sounds. This isn't a work on microsound or lowercase music but a real physical experience.
Michael Gendreau (San Francisco), former member of the underground duo Crawling with Tarts,studied composition at Mills College and now works as an acoustician specialized in machinery vibration isolation and environmental noise studies (among other things). He released records under his own name since the beginning of the 00's.
Francisco Lopez (Madrid) : "Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the underground experimental music scene. Over the last twenty five 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."
"Let's walk together through a great modern capital, with the ear more attentive
than the eye, and we will vary the pleasures of our sensibilities by distinguishing
among the gurglings of water, air and gas inside metallic pipes, the rumblings and rattlings
of engines breathing with obvious animal spirits, the rising and falling of pistons,
the stridency of mechanical saws, the loud jumping of trolleys on their rails, the
snapping of whips, the whipping of flags. We will have fun imagining our orchestration
of department stores' sliding doors, the hubbub of the crowds, the different roars
of railroad stations, iron foundries, textile mills, printing houses, power plants and
subways."
Luigi Russolo - The Art of noise (1916)
December 07:
BOWLINE - st
Bowline is :
David Maranha - hammond organ, violin, vox amplifier (with Francesco cello signal), glass harmonica, tremolo and distortion pedals
(details about DM here)
Francisco Dillon - cello
(details about FD here)
" Behind Bowline we find the more and more present musician David
Maranha, who was once best known as Osso Exotico, and these days also
works as a solo musician and one Francesco Dillon. He is from Italy and
studied the cello. These days he is a member of Alter-Ego (see Vital
Weekly 602 for their work with Gavin Bryars) as well as playing with
people like Matmos, Pan Sonic and Scanner. A man of many talents. Here
too Dillon plays cello, whereas Maranha gets credit for 'hammond organ,
violin, vox amplifier (with Francesco cello signal), glass harmonica,
tremolo and distortion pedals'. Of the four tracks , the first is the
most silent one, taking several minutes to get started. Like with so
many other projects of David Maranha, in which ever form it takes, this
is a work of minimalism. Of sheer, utter minimalism and what beauty,
once again. The careful strumming of various string instruments, the
drones added, sparsely of course, from the other instruments. Three
short tracks which
eventually culminate in the fourth track, which takes up about
two-third of the CD and in which the three previous excursions return
but glorified. Everything comes together here. If you love Osso Exotico
or any of the works Maranha did after that, this is will be a most
welcome addition. Also fans of traditional minimal music, especially
Lamonte Young will find this a great release, I'm sure of that." (Frans de Waard - Vital Weekly 605)
"Bowline : Francisco Dillon, violoncelle, et David Maranha, orgue
hammond, violon, électroniques et traitement du signal. Le premier joue
dans l'ensemble Alter Ego (voir leur travail récent avec Gavin Bryars),
le second au sein de Osso Exotico, et de plus en plus actif aujourd'hui
sous son nom ou dans d'autres projets. Encore une
fois, il s'agit de minimalisme dans la grande tradition états-unienne,
bourdonnements et nuages d'harmoniques, accumulations et textures
résonantes, sans nier la puissance du sonore et l'expression du musical." Metamkine
Orders are welcome through our website.
Previous releases (feb. 07) :
Kozo Inada - J[]
A densely layered and strong sound work, with slow rises and falls, hypnotic loops and some ruptures that give texture to silence. A sonic journey into aerial and hypnotic universes sometimes also visited by Phil Niblock or Hafler trio.
« Inada's music sucks you really into it when played loud, it hardly leaves you anything other to do. It's sound that really locks you in.» (Vital weekly)
Steve Roden / In Be Tween Noise - The radio (reissue)
"Perhaps I exaggerate, but this is a magical, beautiful piece that should not be missed." (Ampersand Etcetera)
« A particularly modest form of genius » (The Wire, included in best of 2000 experimental cd's)
David Maranha - Piano suspenso (reissue)
"This is a great and physically affecting slab of sound, where the slightest minimal shift causes tectonic plates to groan. It's gravy train stuff for fans of Maryanne Amacher, Arnold Dreyblatt and – perhaps Maranha's major influence – Phill Niblock." (The Wire)
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