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Tristan Perich: Surface Image (Excerpt 1; Vicky Chow, piano)

Tristan Perich: Surface Image (Excerpt 2; Vicky Chow, piano)

recorded by Zach Miley at San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Nick Vasallo - Elements Of Metal; I. Collapsing Obsidian Sun

Tight Sweater IV- Pickle Trousers - Tight Sweater - Mellits, Marc (Real Quiet)

Beth hart  am i the one (live at paradiso)

March 6, 2014
Live at the RISD Museum
Providence, RI


Philip Glass - Two Pages (live at the RISD museum)

Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Don't Explain (2011)

Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - I'll Take Care Of You (2011)

world premiere in park city, ut on 7/31/14

Frictive Grit by Anthony Suter

Infinite Greyscale is delighted to present a new long-form composition by Stara Rzeka. The Polish village of Stara Rzeka and its surrounding countryside were devastated by a huge tornado on the 14th of July 2012. Stara Rzeka is where musician Kuba Ziołek, who adopted the name as one of several artistic projects, spends his summers, and the morning following the storm Ziołek was present to witness the aftermath. 
 
This self-titled piece opens to the crackle of electricity in the air and a distinct impression of menace. The distortion softens, but never truly fades, as it gives way to song; a graceful and melancholy ode to what nature has been divested of in the storm. Eventually this human presence, like the tornado, departs to leave the composition sounding like the land itself; wounded but brimming with life, buzzing and psychedelic. 

The fact that the artist, music, and location all exist under one heading suggests that these elements are interdependent and inseparable. This is music as elegiac at it is sanguine, at perpetual as it is fixed in time, and here Stara Rzeka is all of those things.



Single sided 10”, pressed on dark green vinyl with screen-printed b-side. Numbered edition of 300.  
Handmade artwork by Paul McDevitt and Cornelius Quabeck. Screenprint by Ulrich Schmidt-Novak. 
Includes numbered insert, photograph, and download code.
Mastered & cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin.


Stara Rzeka – Stara Rzeka IGR05

Purchase here: geographic-north.com/cassette/m-sage/
Catalog #: GN21
Rosso Corsa cassette, limited to 100

Born and raised in Ft. Collins, Co, Matthew Sage established himself as a formidable player in the greater experimental scene as a producer of utterly monumental works of processed ambient music using anything and everything at his disposal as M. Sage, along a bevy of other pseudonyms. From guitar, pedals, cello, field recordings, and severe but tasteful post-production, sound takes shape in a carefully focused but altogether organic way. Sage's acts of grandeur don't simply fall back on piling on just any noise or sound. Tones are sifted out of the ether naturally, separating themselves with the ease of an inherent belonging, best heard earlier this year on the sprawling A Singular Continent LP, wherein Sage created sonic worlds, fabricating entire geographies, geologies, latitudes, and histories. 

With Data in the Details, Sage turns the focus inward, pulling from a series of deeply personal scenes in his final two months in Ft. Collins doing data entry and moving high-end furniture into high-end mountain homes. The resulting two tracks process the experiences in disparate but inextricably linked ways. A-side’s “Data in the Details (heads up extended edit)” routes an amorphous and elusive trail of textured ambient modes. Glitched and muted melodies fold on top of one another in ways only Vladislav Delay previously mastered, while frigid patterns of sound ice over similar to Fennesz’s alluringly processed tones.

B-side’s “Data in the Details (mover isuzu dub edit)” repurposes the ample washes of the original track into more rhythmic and minimal acid-dub. Calling to mind Porter Ricks’ sub-aquatic dubbiness, traversing Jan Jelinek’s mutant, kraut techno, Sage revels in a sort of muted throb that flows through the entire side with both nothing and everything to lose.


02 Data In The Details (Mover Isuzu Dub Edit)

work for piano, electronics, and 2 transducers
2014
Composed by Adam Basanta
Performed by Vicky Chow
Commissioned by Vicky Chow with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts


this machine breaths to the rhythms of its own heartbeat (2014)

Aruna Sairam (vocal), Reggie Workman (bass), Anjna Swaminathan (violin), Vijay Iyer (piano). Recorded May 27, 2014. 

Kantamam

This is a concert from Nov 21st 2014 at The Black Diamond - The Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was also transmitted by National Broadcasting Denmarks Radio live. We are Katrine Ring laptop, cdplayers & efx, Andreas Bennetzen on double bass with efx and Kristian Flagstad on the clarinet. We did a program based on Igor Tchaikovkij including a lot of our own material.
1. Bennetzen: Atrium with Andreas Bennetzen and Kristian Flagstad
2. Ring/Bennetzen: Morfars Sang with Katrine Ring og Andreas Bennetzen
3. Stravinsky: Excerpts from The Firebird live mix by Katrine
4. Stravinsky Three solo clarinet pieces 1 + 2 with Kristian Flagstad 
5. Stravinsky solo clarinet piece no 1 with Kristian Flagstad and Katrine Ring
6. Stravinsky solo clarinet piece no 3 with Kristian Flagstad
7. Ring/Bennetzen: Tøbrud with Katrine Ring and Andreas Bennetzen
8. Stravinsky: Pulcinella bass solo with Andreas Bennetzen and Katrine Ring
9. Ring/Bennetzen: Diamantens kaffebar. Real sounds from the coffee shop at The Black Diamond. With Katrine Ring and Andreas Bennetzen.


Live Concert with Ring and Bennetzen

Juiced is a piece about the impossibility of physical ideals and the weird things people to try to achieve them. 

Premiere by Friction Quartet at the Center for New Music on 12/5/2014.
Violins - Kevin Rogers and Otis Harriel
Viola - Taija Warbelow
Cello - Doug Machiz

Juiced (excerpt)

David Lang: cheating, lying, stealing

Track from NE15 Född Död - Studie I Närhet, Längtan Och Besvikelse LP

Order here: http://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com
https://clone.nl/item34101.html

Född Död -  I smärtan, fri

04 Psyche

Song cycle for low voice, cimbalom, violin, bass, & percussion. Premiered on December 8, 2015 at the Princeton Sound Kitchen by Annika Socolofsky, Nick Tolle, Courtney Orlando, Florent Ghys, and Mark Eichenberger.

About the piece:
Every moment is permanent. Every person is permanent. They shape us. They define us. We are us.

This short song cycle is based on poems by two very dear friends, written across two relentless winters. The first poem is a haiku by Samiah Haque. The second and third poems were written by poet Molly Moses. 


II – Loves don’t / go

Loves don’t
go away they
just disappear
under new loves
like snowfall,
even grayed,
under snowfall

- Molly Moses 


beneath the snow, II. Loves don't / go (2015) // Annika Socolofsky

Song cycle for low voice, cimbalom, violin, bass, & percussion. Premiered on December 8, 2015 at the Princeton Sound Kitchen by Annika Socolofsky, Nick Tolle, Courtney Orlando, Florent Ghys, and Mark Eichenberger.

About the piece:
Every moment is permanent. Every person is permanent. They shape us. They define us. We are us.

This short song cycle is based on poems by two very dear friends, written across two relentless winters. The first poem is a haiku by Samiah Haque. The second and third poems were written by poet Molly Moses.

III - Counting

Count trees
in rings, poems
in stanzas, snow
in layers of white
and car fume gray,
stars in progressions
of emissions, humans
in successions of noises
erupting deep from within us,
from decades deep from within us,
deep, deep in the middle of the night

-	Molly Moses


beneath the snow, III. Counting (2015) // Annika Socolofsky

Riley Lee, shakuhachi
"Give It Time," for shakuhachi and fixed media
Composed by Annika K. Socolofsky, 2016

Recorded by Andres Villalta at Princeton University - Taplin Auditorium on May 12, 2016

Inspired by "Give It Time," a poem by Wendell Berry:
Give It Time
The river is of the earth
and it is free. It is rigorously
embanked and bound,
and yet is free. “To hell
with restraint,” it says.
“I have got to be going.”
It will grind out its dams.
It will go over or around them.
They will become little pieces.
- Wendell Berry

Music Copyright © Annika K. Socolofsky 2016. ASCAP. All rights reserved.

Give It Time (2015) // Riley Lee, shakuhachi

The tale of the mythic pentaki mountain has been engraved on a two-sided circular piece of wax.

the north face of the peak is steep, abrasive, and has been the subject of many legends in the region. it is said that whoever would manage to climb it would find a plateau, leading to a place called “the single source of truth”.

considered as the ultimate goal by both psychedelic gurus and database o
ptimization corporations, and as an ideal retirement destination for a couple of lost souls in search for coherence and objectivity, the source diffuses endless loops of haunted voices, apparently sampled from a discarded call center, running low on power, encouraging listeners to shorten cycles, deliver requests and improve user experience.

it is also said that anyone climbing from the south side would never reach the summit or find his way to the plateau, and would always end up on a lower altitude than where he started.

this topographical anomaly is probably the reason why the south face of the pentaki has always been favorited by locals, with its sunny weather and its luxurious vegetation flourishing along the soft downward slope, leading to a slow and peaceful end.

Kangding Ray . The Pentaki Slopes . 12" E.P
r-n 145 . raster-noton

A1 : North
A2 : Plateau ( a single source of truth )
B1 : South

Plateau ( a single source of truth )

Vicky Chow and Saskia Lankhoorn

November
Korzo Theatre
Den Haag, Netherlands


David Lang: cheating, lying, stealing

Bang on a Can