Peter Wright : "An Angel Fell Where the Kestrel Hover"
release date : OCTOBER 2009 (WORLDWIDE)
cat : KK022 / format : CD
Peter Wright is a highly acclaimed artist based in New Zealand known for his marvelous guitar works. He has been experimenting with the guitar for 20 years having released 7 full albums from labels around the world. Again marvelous guitar-drone pieces.
An Angel Fell Where The Kestrels Hover started life as the second part of a two album reflection on my emotive responses to seasonal changes, both in a personal sense and also a more social and geographical sense. My double CD Snow Blind, recorded at the same time and released earlier this year on Install, captures the foreboding darkness and gloom of winter, whilst An Angel Fell... focusses on the spring and summer months, and as a result has a generally sunnier disposition.
Obviously there's a direct literal interpretation at work here, the music is brighter and more melodic, perhaps even sensual, without as much harsh discordance that is predominant on Snow Blind. On 'Lavender Buzz' the seasonal inspiration is most literal, where the foundation of the piece is from a strategically placed microphone in the middle of a clump of lavender plants recording bees collecting nectar from the flowers. But also, as the music was actually recorded during the summer I only had to look out the window or take a walk in the nearby Streatham Common to get a sense of the type of almost lazy sounds I wanted to create. Ironically, this was also one of the wettest July's on record in the UK and the frequency of the often violent thunderstorms also tainted my creative thoughts, neatly juxtaposing light and dark textures.
Aside from the weather, location was also an important factor. I made these recordings in London, England, where my wife and myself were living at the time. This is an album heavily influenced by living in that sprawling, chaotic urban jungle, as most of my last few releases have been. Reflections on physical and mental space are frequently wrapped up in the sounds I make, even at their most abstract. London was my home for nearly 6 years and this was the last recording I made consciously referencing and musing on the city before we moved back to New Zealand in 2008. In many ways it represents the closing of a circle that started with my first UK-based recordings that appeared on Yellow Horizon (PseudoArcana, 2004).
The titles I come up with for my music can be fairly oblique, often abstract and meaningless, but they can reflect my mood at the time I make the sounds themselves. Sometimes they are socially or politically motivated, sometimes very personal and inward-looking. At their most poetic they can be a substitute for lyrics, but the titles are not necessarily designed to lead the listener into a particular train of thought when listening to the sounds. The album title, An Angel Fell Where The Kestrels Hover, was one of the first I came up with when previewing my early mixes on headphones sitting in a South London meadow watching a kestrel circling high above looking for field mice in the long grass. I could immediately see a connection to the birds movements and the way my music drifts and floats. The kestrel's hovering flight, almost like a hummingbird, beating it's wings and making minute adjustments in the wind, allowing it's head to remain absolutely still to enable it's sharp eyes to spot movement in the ground metres below is amazing to watch. And I liked the idea that maybe it could see something in the grass that us mere mortals can not, like a fallen angel.
Dirac : "Emphasis"
release date : OCTOBER 2009 (WORLDWIDE)
cat : KK021 / format : CD
Dirac consists of Peter Kutin, Daniel Lercher and Florian Kindlinger based in Vienna, Austria. Their music is minimal yet containing variety of imaginative sounds from guitar to field recordings. Silent emotional music.
Our way to create a record is based on the simple principle of direct-recording – which means the shape and form of our music is basically created within one moment. It is not only about meeting in a studio to do the recordings, but to stay together at one place with a focus on creating music and concentrated listening each day.The isolation from other musical inputs and the reduced input in general, being far off from bigger cities, far off an everyday-live takes you to the point when you don’t want to sound like something you know, you just want to search, experiment and play.
John Cage said, that experimental music is where the outcome can’t be foreseen. These things happen through passion and not ambition.
For ‘emphasis’, we again went to Salzburg, where we could set up our gear in the basement of Florian’s parents house for one week – the same place we recorded our first album ‘dirac’.We recorded about 4 hours everyday , experimenting with different materials and instruments. We later listened to the results at the studio garnison7 in Vienna and did more editing work in a small hut up in the snowy austrian mountains in February 2008 – it was cold, electricity was short, but it was silent.
Tetuzi Akiyama + Toshimaru Nakamura : "Semi-Impressionism"
release date : OCTOBER 2009 (WORLDWIDE)
cat : KK020 / format : CD
Probably the most well-known figures in the international impro-scene hailing from Tokyo, Japan. They have toured extensively through the world leaving countless publications from labels worldwide. This is officially their 1st album as a duo based on 3 live recordings taken at Sweden and Austria.
While me and Tetuzi were playing in a city called Novisad, a local journalist came up to us. He seemed pretty drunk and we wanted to keep distance from him but the guy insisted "Let me speak one more word".
At first with a tweaking voice and then loudly he claims "Zen Noise". He probably meant "the Zen" noise but we were wondering what his point was at first. After few days, me and Tetuzi were on the land of Sweden. One morning, in a hotel lobby, we found a review of our performance on some newspaper. They noted our duo "Zen Impressionism".
Comparing (if that is possible in the first place..) to the Zen knowledge of the average Japanese, mine is poor so I felt a little guilty being rewarded with such a magnificent word. At the same time, I felt the word "Zen" is being used so convenient and easily..
To tell the truth, we are used to playing abroad so I would say this isn't the first time being expressed in that manner. When I was young, I felt sometimes irritated being said in this way. But now, I would just think "oh, just like always" or "haven't been struck like this for a long time" and these comments wouldn't really hurt or itch myself at all. But then again, and somehow this time, we got excited with a morning coffee discussing "we must not let this go, we have to drop a message to this". So our action was to release a CD entitled "Zen Impressionist". How brave! Anyway, so it means this CD existed before the quality of the sound.
We decided to express the "Zen" letter in calligraphy so we asked a calligrapher to draw the letter. Our hope was to have it drawn in a dynamic stroke to express the excellence of the word. And if it was written by a calligraphy brush, we also thought it would give foreigners an impression that they might have seen the word somewhere. When looking at the result of the drawing, we found out that the left part of the "Zen" letter was slightly different and instead formed the word "Semi (=cicadas)".
Cicadas are noisy insects in the summertime. It turned out that the sample letter we provided to the calligrapher was miswritten. I guess the calligrapher also shook his head wondering why we had him write just the word "Semi".
Established in January 2004 by Nao Sugimoto (aka mondii) based in Tokyo, Japan. Spekk explores and focuses on various interpretations of minimalism ranging from experimental electronics, electro-acoustic to field recordings ... All the artwork is designed by mondii & uison in custom made book-shaped paper packs.
+ DISCOGRPAHY
KK001 "January" Taylor Deupree
KK002 William Basinski + Richard Chartier
KK003 "Room with sky" John Hudak
KK004 "Enzo/Further" Boca Raton
KK005 "Small Melodies" V.A
KK006 "True Delusion" Andrey kiritchenko
KK007 "Cycla" Level
KK008 "Jewelt Galaxies/Spirit Shambles" The Alps
KK009 "The Garden of Forking Paths" Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
KK010 "Mist on the Window" Ken Ikeda
KK011 "Hau" Opitope
KK012 "Texture in Glass Tubes and Reed Organ" Minoru Sato (m/s, SASW) + ASUNA
KK013 "Flawed" YAir Etziony
KK014 "Mesoscaphe" Mathieu Ruhlmann + Celer
KK015 "Brain Cloud" Joe Grimm
KK016 "Opale" Level
KK017 "Misterrious" Andrey Kiritchenko
KK018 "La La La" Felicia Atkinson
KK019 "Transcriptions" Stephan Mathieu + Taylor Deupree
KK022 "An Angel Fell Where the Kestrel Hover" Peter Wright
more music to follow by Federico Durand, Ken Ikeda, Celer etc.
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SPEKK is my life work so I'm willing to release up to catalog KK100..
Anyway, we are constantly looking for fresh minimalist sounds from all over the world.
If you're interested, please send your works on a CDR to the below address.
Please note that I don't check via myspace nor download links as there are so many inquiries and I prefer listening carefully to all demos at once in my studio.
Nao Sugimoto
001, 2-43-16 Chuo, Nakano-ku
Tokyo, 164-0011
Japan
Adviruz is the artist psedonym of Istanbul’s Pinar Gurcan, whose growing passion for sound is translated through her music. Since an early age, she has been listening and mimicking opera singers, writing melodies, songs and poems in which she spoke her mind and reflected her soul. All of which are evident on "Nightly Sounds", an 8 track album which is the equivilent of having a glimpse into a diary, learning of love lost, gained, a snapshot of the human condition from which we can all draw experience... All of these things are developed musically into minimalistic glitch, noise, idm, experimental music and microsounds, its influences reminiscent of work by artists like Tujiko Noriko, Mira Calix, Plaid and Björk.
Adviruz and Section 27 present "Nightly Sounds", an intricately woven and rewarding musical tapestry. Available now for free download.
Pending the new release "Melotonine" (release date coming soon), i decided to offer you a part of my best recent works in a free EP, "Cupboard Replacement", downloadable in all numeric formats with special graphic art works by Flint on Music AutOmatiK's Website :
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Almost Tomorrow is the third full length collaboration album from Section 27 Netlabel founders Tam Ferrans and Andrew Paterson, under their Nonima & theAudiologist guise. This time around the sound is more melodic, and has a definite feeling of a complete and more mature sound than heard on the previous LP's "Dystopian Battle Hymns" and "Ceremony After Amputation". If you are familiar with their individual projects you may even be in for a slight surprise, as the tracks are not as beat driven like before, but are more atmospheric and sound, well... "bigger". In its 75 minutes, Almost Tomorrow takes you on a trip from the digital rain-soaked cavernous scraping in "Thoughtograph", the ethereal beat jittering of "The Colour of Rain", intercepted transmissions from unknown places in "Com-Intercept", "Ganzfeld"s huge yet strangely insect-like beats until everything you knew comes crashing around you in "Almost Tomorrow". Burning pianos, glitched out soundscapes and intricately programmed beatplay, this may well be their best work to date. Consider it the soundtrack to a rainy overcast day, but with just that glimmer of sunshine peeking from the clouds. "Almost Tomorrow" wears its heart on its sleeve.
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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.
small melodies pass in my head.... i know what u saying, big love and respect to spekk! I hope i can see u someday... Well, I just try my best, but u know... If I have a chance... anyway, have a nice day and music! cheers, shota
After the majestic powerhouse of an LP that was [Audissect], Ventolyn & Becotyde delivers another 7 tracks of electronic nourishment. "Neuro Torque" expands upon the ideas of [Audissect], ups the ante, and adds complex rhythms, complete with tasty melodies and added crunch. It also flows like a dream with every track complimenting the next, this EP delivers the goods then takes your face off. Ventolyn & Becotyde and Section 27 are proud to give you "Neuro Torque", now available for free download. Like all good things should be.
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