holdien

Skeletons and Bones.../...

1977

Tart Tinctures

A1 XVII - Movies For The Blind (codeislaw003)

Here's a free sampler of releases coming out on Cuneiform Records in Spring/Summer 2011. The tracks found on this sampler are taken from the following releases:

Artist: Afuche -  Album: Highly Publicized Digital Boxing
Artist: CHEER-ACCIDENT - Album: No Ifs, Ands or Dogs
Artist: Gösta Berlings Saga - Album: Glue Works
Artist: Richard Pinhas &amp; Merzbow - Album: Rhizome
Artist: Richard Pinhas &amp; Merzbow - Album: Paris 2008
Artist: Wadada Leo Smith - Album: Heart's Reflections

Artist: Richard Pinhas and Merzbow - Song: Paris One - Album: Paris 2008

Here's a free sampler of releases coming out on Cuneiform Records in Spring/Summer 2011. The tracks found on this sampler are taken from the following releases:

Artist: Afuche -  Album: Highly Publicized Digital Boxing
Artist: CHEER-ACCIDENT - Album: No Ifs, Ands or Dogs
Artist: Gösta Berlings Saga - Album: Glue Works
Artist: Richard Pinhas &amp; Merzbow - Album: Rhizome
Artist: Richard Pinhas &amp; Merzbow - Album: Paris 2008
Artist: Wadada Leo Smith - Album: Heart's Reflections

Artist: Richard Pinhas and Merzbow - Song: Rhizome 4 - Album: Rhizome

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Echoes Of Songs (Luke Abbott Remix)

Echoes Of Songs (DÖDEN Remix)

Birth of a Phenomenon: Culture was one of the seminal reggae harmony groups and the 1977 single, "Two Sevens Clash," was huge in Jamaica. The title refers to apocalyptic prophecies by Marcus Garvey. The song was so influential that on 7/7/77, the city of Kingston shut down. The full album was just reissued — on 7/7/07. The record inspired the likes of the Sex Pistols and prompted Richard Branson to fly to Jamaica to sign the band to Virgin.

Culture - Two Sevens Clash  ( Fadil cover )

"...two pioneers of fringe music, with the rapport of the two as the driving force behind this album" – Something Else!

On 'Welcome In The Void,' Richard Pinhas again pushes sonic and compositional boundaries, this time in a very special collaboration with the legendary Yoshida Tatsuya, "the indisputable master drummer of the Japanese underground." Yoshida is one of the most important musicians of the Japanese experimental music scene for the last 35 years, spearheading at least a half dozen of that country's most important and best known experimental groups, including Ruins, Koenji Hyakkei and Korekyojinn.

'Welcome In The Void' is the second album in Pinhas' Devolution Trilogy, concerned with mankind's ideological and physical devolution at the hands of our modern socio-politcal world and technology. For the past several years, Pinhas the musician/philosopher has given thought to, in his words, the "Devolution of mankind, civilization, Capitalism's devolution, and mainly devolution of [human/biolgical] faculties related to the rise of machines". He describes 'Welcome In The Void' as "a kind of journey, not more into the being but into the void - the nothingness that is now the "center" or the absence-of- center of our societies." The first album in Pinhas' Devolution Trilogy was 2013's Desolation Row, a sonic protest against the rise of neoliberalism, the global economic crisis and rising social unrest. 

Teaming up for their first duo recording, Pinhas and Tatsuya push each others' creative limits to make something that even for the experimental master Pinhas, is a new experience: a single, 64-minute, all-instrumental track consisting solely of guitar, percussion and electronics. The spontaneity, intensity, and sheer force of the music created by the duo is a marvel of musical give and take. The Pinhas/Tatsuya collaboration is an ongoing one, and the duo has plans to tour and record more material in Japan in the near future.

Richard Pinhas & Yoshida Tatsuya, "Part One - Intro" from 'Welcome In The Void' (Cuneiform Records)

Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi - San Francisco T2V2 (excerpt)

Ariel (Dean Friedman)

I Feel Love

I Feel Love (Live)

In Metal/Crystal, French experimental guitarist and electronic musician Richard Pinhas summons the assistance of noise artists Merzbow (Masami Akita) from Japan and Wolf Eyes from USA to weave a spellbinding aural web. Over the years, many artists in the 'noise arena' have expressed interest in his pioneering use of synthesizers and electronics in rock and contemporary music. Pinhas has likewise been intrigued by various areas of the ‘noise’ scene and Metal/Crystal, recorded "during these two worst years of my life" reflects these influences strongly. Metal/Crystal also intertwines some of the most radical electro-acoustic sonic innovations to emerge from three different continents: Europe, Asia and North America. Pinhas has been ceaselessly innovative in a career spanning more than 30 years, and recently has been exploring areas of the international ‘noise’ scene. His newest release shows him working with two of that scene’s highest profile artists; Merzbow and Wolf Eyes are considered to be the premier ‘noise artists’ of their respective countries. Metal/Crystal is Pinhas’ second collaboration with Merzbow, the originator of Japanese noise music. It is Pinhas’ first release with Michigan's Wolf Eyes, whom he’s worked with since 2007. In addition to Merzbow and Wolf Eyes, Metal/Crystal features several of Pinhas’ longtime collaborators: Antoine Paganotti (drums), Didier Batard (bass), Patrick Gauthier (mini-Moog) (all ex members of Heldon and/or Magma); Jerome Schmidt (electronics), whom Pinhas has recorded and toured extensively with for 2 decades; and his son Duncan Pinhas (electronics), who also helped mix the album with Laurent Peyron and Francis Gernet. The album’s artwork, by Yann Legendre and Joy Burke, features intricate, back-and-white cartoon-like drawings, with images hidden inside larger forms. The 6 lengthy tracks on Metal/Crystal features some of Pinhas’ most melodic guitar riffs in recent years, as well as his ‘noisiest’ sonic abstractions ever.

Richard Pinhas, "Bi-Polarity (Gold)" (excerpt) from 'Metal/Crystal' (Cuneiform Records)

Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart (Patrik Fitzgerald Cover)

This classic minimal music album is now available again on vinyl for the first time since the 70s.

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Californian composer Terry Riley’s In C, first issued on vinyl in 1968, is widely acknowledged as a Minimalist landmark that altered the course of twentieth-century music. His influential album A Rainbow In Curved Air, which appeared the following year, is a vivid fusion of rock and raga, jazz and psychedelia realised through overdubbing on an 8-track machine which had recently been installed at the studios of Columbia Records.  

By the early 70s Riley had come to feel that scores were a distraction. Faithful interpretation of an already written piece was a deviation from the true purpose of making music, which was spiritual quest. Fortunately, some of those live performances, personal journeys towards a state of transcendence, were captured on tape. Persian Surgery Dervishes, issued initially on the French label Shandar, features two such concerts for electric organ and reel-to-reel delay, one recorded in Los Angeles on 18th April 1971, the other in Paris on 24th May 1972.

At the start of that decade Riley became a dedicated student of the great Hindustani singer Pandit Pran Nath. Looking into North Indian classical tradition he found correspondences to modal and cyclic ideas that he was already working on. In 1971, as a way to learn more, Riley himself started teaching Indian music at Mills College, in Oakland. That experience fed directly into his solo keyboard performances, but other influences were also shaping the music heard on Persian Surgery Dervishes. Personal research into ancient Persian culture and the poetry of Rumi lit up his imagination, while the repetitive swirling of Sufi devotional music from North Africa, which Riley had first encountered in Europe during the early 60s, reverberates through these performances. Jazz, as conceived by such masters such as Bill Evans and John Coltrane, is also present as an enduring source of inspiration. 

The Californian version of Persian Surgery Dervishes starts with low dark tones, dense and brooding like a huddled human figure, deep in introspection. But as the improvisation unfolds Riley’s buoyant spirit asserts itself, spiralling out in ecstatic coils, as though liberated from the grip of body consciousness. The Parisian concert conveys a different mood, brighter and more open in texture, more relaxed from the outset and breathing with greater freedom as it takes flight. 

Echoes of Terry Riley’s inspired music have spread far and wide - into progressive rock, New Age and ambient soundings, film soundtracks, blissed-out electronica and dance-floor trance. His fluent and hypnotic keyboard playing can be heard as part of a continuum, transmitting energies from ancient and distant musical sources into the living here and now. Persian Surgery Dervishes is a significant part of that picture, a mesmerising record of a vital stage in Riley’s ongoing quest for connection with the universal mind and the sublime music that flows ceaselessly from it. 

“Music is my spiritual path. It’s my way of finding out who I am.”  Terry Riley, in 1976

Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes - Performance 02 Part 1

Abstraxion's single "Jaipur Elephant EP"! Also includes a Jus Acid Cosmo Vitelli remix.

Jaipur's Elephant EP already championed by :
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Len Faki, Richard Dorfmeister, Laurent Garnier, Boris Dlugosch, Eskimo Twins, Tim Paris, Brodinski, Punks Jump Up, DPPLGNGRS, Jerry Bouthier, Daisy Heartbreaker, Shinichi Osawa, justin robertson, boggy riotous, Mustang, Fusty Delights,....

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Released by: differentrecordings
Release/catalogue number: DIFU244DS1
Release date: Sep 12, 2011
ISRC: GB-ENL-11-00535 

Abstraxion - Jaipur's Elephant (Original Mix)

The Man In The Desert

The Big Combo - The Man In The Desert

"Don't worry, you won't feel a thing, hopefully" by Flogging A Dead One Horse Town.

From the forthcoming album, Listening Will Cause Death, released through MUZAI Records from December 8th 2017 on CD and digitally.

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Listening Will Cause Death

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Flogging A Dead One Horse Town - Don't worry, you won't feel a thing, hopefully

Written in Berkeley Vale, NSW and Northcote, Vic
Recorded in West Geelong, Vic
Mastered in Rye, Vic
Pressed in East Brunswick, Vic

Family Dinner

Richard Pinhas is one of the most important French electronic space rock musicians. Following five albums with HELDON, his band, he released his first solo record in 1977. Backed by Heldon’s congenial drummer François Auger but no longer bound by the group dynamic, he explores his freshly purchased Moog Modular system in search of new sounds. It marked a departure into new realms! Out February 2nd, 2018

Richard Pinhas "Rhizosphere". Reissue (1977) Out Feb 2, 2018. Album preview

03 So Goes The Story - Eddie Hazel

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Bureau B is a Hamburg based label which releases past and future classics unearthed from genres including (but not limited to) electronica, avant-garde, Kraut(rock) – a colourful spectrum of diverse, yet contigiuous musical genres. Applying the expertise deployed in trawling the archives, Bureau B has gone on to champion new and contemporary acts with similar musical sensibilities to their pioneering antecedents.