21 March 2011
Three new releases out now!!
FRIEDER BUTZMANN 'Wie Zeit Vergeht' (PAN 14)
Berlin's
berserk Frieder Butzmann composes an uninterrupted stream of timbre
changing and alternating sounds. Taking influence from aspects of
Karlheinz Stockhausen's work, albeit certainly far from Serielle
Komposition methods, using an entirely different array of equipment and
caring less for technical finesse, a raw and sometimes absurd quality
emerges. In spite of the dramatic character of the compositions,
Butzmann works with the same joy and intuition of when he first heard
them almost 40 years ago. Manipulating analogue sounds culled from old
electronic recordings that he made at STEIM in Amsterdam back in 1995
(using the infamous 'Black Box' modular system), a dadaistic influence
shines through in the semi-naive use of electronics, vocals and
undefined sound sources - the basic idea is always more important than
the perfect realization. The lyrics are excerpts of articles ... wie die
Zeit vergeht ..., Telemusik and Kurzwellen by Stockhausen plus
re-writings of lyrics used in the first section of the composer's
concrete and electronic composition Hymnen.
Frieder Butzmann is a veteran German composer, radio play author and
performance artist. He has been playing overt eccentricity for quite
some time (since the end of the 60s), though he would find his true
metier during the NDW zeitgeist, a period during which his work was
hugely influential, having been an early member of D.A.F as well as
Din-A Testbild. A self-proclaimed "spokesman of the people," more
specifically of the Berlin underground, at a time when electronic music
was taking over punk, dada and new wave, replacing teenage angst.
Butzmann's work threw longer and more disturbing shades out of the
Berlin behind the wall - not unlike Die Tödliche Doris or Minus Delta T.
He has collaborated with artists such as Genesis P. Orridge, Malaria! /
Gudrun Gut, Martin Kippenberger, Thomas Kapielski and most notable is
his ongoing work with Wolfgang Müller. His 'Vertrauensmann des Volkes,'
debut album often states as the cornerstone of the German experimental
and electronic scene.
The Lp is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited
edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined
inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is
housed in a silk screened pvc sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis
& Bill Kouligas.
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HECKER 'Sun Pandämonium' (PAN 15)
"One of the most beautifully recorded bits of unpleasantness" - William Bennet (Whitehouse)
Deluxe
vinyl issue of one of the most important albums of modern music and
quite simply some of the finest computer audio excursions unleashed in
recent years. Sun Pandämonium is the third full- length album from
Florian Hecker, originally released in CD format on Mego in 2003. Sun
Pandämonium also received the Award of Distinction Digital Music at the
Prix Ars Electronica - the "International Competition for CyberArts" -
the same year.
Striking the listener from many angles with a diverse range of
fiercely dynamic electronic scenarios, Hecker utilizes the computer to
materialize new compositional strategies, leaving behind standard
musical structures and seeking out unusual timbral and textural effects.
As one reviewer stated, "This record is electronic music as psilocybin
science." Or, as the American online journal Pitchforkmedia states:
"Loud and overwhelming at any volume setting," Sun Pandämonium contains
"the sounds and frequencies not only of diamonds being sharpened, but
then being used to etch directly on the lenses of your optical readers.
Call him a sick fuck, a genius, or even Mister Antichrist, but this will
cleanse the audio palate as it blows your teeth out."
Florian Hecker's releases under his own name contain some of the
most subtle, nebulous computer music. His extensive discography
includes: NEU CD, Galerie Neu, Berlin, 2010; Acid in the Style of David
Tudor, Editions Mego, Vienna, 2009; Haswell & Hecker: Blackest Ever
Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Recordings), Warner Classics, London, 2007;
Recordings for Rephlex, Rephlex, London, 2006. Recent solo exhibitions
include MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2010), Chisenhale
Gallery, London (2010), Bawag Contemporary, Vienna (2009) and Sadie
Coles HQ London (2008).
The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited
edition of 800 copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly- lined
inner sleeve. It is packaged with six monochrome lacquered sheets which
are housed in a silk screened PVC sleeve with the original artwork by
Tina Frank & Florian Hecker.
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THOMAS ANKERSMIT / VALERIO TRICOLI 'Forma II' (PAN 16)
'Forma II' is the first collaborative output by Thomas Ankersmit and Valerio Tricoli.
Composed
and recorded in Berlin from 2008 to 2010 the music consists of four
electroacoustic pieces based largely on analogue synthesizer material
and one long-form swarm-like composition for multiple overdubbed
saxophones. Additional sounds range from metal foil floating on
ultrasonic sound-beams to mechanical clickers recorded in the abandoned
radar domes at Teufelsberg. The raw materials have been extensively
processed and re-constructed using analogue tape and digital methods.
The five pieces shift between sharply detailed blizzards of electronic
interference to passages of delicate balance, between calm and
turbulence, between stasis and rapid shape-shifting, between multiple
virtual spaces and non-spaces.
Thomas Ankersmit is a saxophonist, electronic musician and
installation artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam, who combines
abstract, intensely focused acoustic saxophone work with hyper-kinetic
analogue synth and computer improvisation. He also creates installation
pieces that use sound, infrasound and "modifications to the acoustic
characters of spaces" that disrupt the viewer/listener's perception of
the exhibition space and their presence within it. He frequently works
together with New York minimalist Phill Niblock. Other recent
collaborators have included Kevin Drumm and Borbetomagus.
Valerio Tricoli is a Berlin-based composer, improviser, sound
installation artist, producer, sound engineer and curator bridging
musique concrète and conceptual forms of sound with a radical interest
in how reality, virtuality and memory relate to each other during the
acoustic event. He mostly uses analogue electronic devices (reel-to-reel
tape recorders, synthesizers, microphones, light effects, ultrasonic
speakers). The structure of the setup is ever-changing however, seeking
multiple relations between the performers, the device and the space in
which the event takes place. He is one of the founders of
3/4HadBeenEliminated and the Bowindo label/collective.
The CD is mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk, in a limited edition
of 1000 copies. It is packaged in a pro-press digisleeve jacket which
itself is housed in a one-tone silk screened pvc sleeve with
interweaving geometric designs, with artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill
Kouligas.
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still available:
KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN 'Disingenuity b/w Disingenuousness' (PAN 13)
TREVOR WISHART 'Fanfare & Contrapunctus / Imago' (PAN 12)
EVAN PARKER / JOHN WIESE 'C-Section' (PAN 9)
JOSEPH HAMMER 'I Love You, Please Love Me Too' (PAN 8)
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News:
Hecker live at Tate Modern: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/musicperform/23031.htm
Thomas Ankersmit tour dates with Kevin Drumm and Phill Niblock here: www.thomasankersmit.com
Frieder Butzmann on Martin Kippenberger and on the newly reissued BerlinSuper80 here: www.kroethenhayn.de and www.monitorpop.de/?cat=products&subcat=147&id=121
Valerio Tricoli live with John Duncan, Robert Piotrowicz and more here: www.nkprojekt.de
Michel Chion, Ghédalia Tazartès, Rashad Becker live in London: http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/ghedelia-tazartes-michel-chion.shtm
Borderline Festival feat. Alva
Noto, Phill Niblock & Thomas Ankersmit, Pierre Bastien &
Phonophani, Family Battle Snake, Hildur Gudnadóttir & BJ Nilsen, +
more here:
www.sgt.gr/en/programme/event/131 - www.sgt.gr/en/programme/event/201 - www.sgt.gr/en/programme/event/203
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