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Throwing a Spoon 
Takeo Toyama (piano)
Seigen Tokuzawa (cello)

Throwing a spoon was founded 2012 by pianist Takeo Toyama and cellist Seigen Tokuzawa.
release the first album"awakening" in February, 2014. They recorded it early in the morning in a small hut in the heart of a mountain.
www.cotelabo.com/peleandzicobio.html

Throwing a Spoon / 名もつかぬ銅像

This is the intro track from my debut album 'A Good Land, An Excellent Land' released last year. The piece was written as a graphic score for harmonics on Cello, Violin & Double-bass, accompanied by bowed guitar & electric bass. It was ironically the last track recorded on the album & a really special moment when all the parts were first heard together, extending beyond my expectation for the opener. If you buy the CD you also get the seamless design by which this runs directly into track two & the last track runs back into this when on looped playback. It could well be my favourite moment of the albums conception. Cover photo is by Oscar May at Union Chapel.
To buy the album go here :- http://tinyleaves.bandcamp.com/


Beginning

I was asked by Daniel Blumin of WFMU to choose a track that I loved when I was young and still resonates with me. I picked my first encounter with stereolab and krautrock: stereolab's blue milk.
Here is a part of what I made of it...

Wouter Van Veldhoven - Blue Milk (stereolab cover for WFMU, excerpt)

the act of self-resemblance

Solid Steel (19th December) Coldcut return with a special 2 hour mix to end another great year on Solid Steel and a late contender for Mix of the Year. Matt Black steps up with a suitably broad selection starting with a laid back opening from Tokimonsta, Thundercat, Slugabed and The Free Design. Proceedings pick up with Cid Rim, Instra:mental and classic Smith & Mighty. Recent guests Distal and Peverelist both feature, alongside Untold, The Bug and Oneohtrix Point Never. Then we go deep with Miles Davis, David Axelrod and even Beethoven, before closing the show with Mr Fingers, Four Tet and Basic Channel. 


Coldcut   https://twitter.com/Coldcut

TOKiMONSTA	_	Fallen Arches	_	Brainfeeder
Thundercat	_	We'll Die	_	Brainfeeder
Zo!	_	Playing Your Game, Baby feat Anthony David	_	unknown
Wayne Kounty	_	Saturn Rain	_	Third Ear Recordings
Beats Antique	_	The Lantern	_	Copeland International Arts
Emanative	_	Black Enchantment	_	unknown
Slugabed	_	New Worlds	_	Ninja Tune
theRobust	_	Atlantarctica	_	Saturate!Records
The Free Design	_	Listen	_	LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
Bersarin Quartett 	_	Geschichten Von Interesse	_	Denovali Records
Elektriktus	_	Flying At Sunset	_	ICTUS Records
Jesse Boykins III & MeLo-X	_	Zulu Guru I ft Trae Harris	_	Ninja Tune 
My Dry Wet Mess	_	Words I Didn't	_	Brainfeeder 
Cid Rim	_	Bear Hug Love	_	Affine
Instra:mental	_	delta zone	_	Nonplus Records
Taylor McFerrin	_	Degrees of Light	_	Brainfeeder 
Teebs	_	Bern Rhythm	_	Brainfeeder 
Smith & Mighty	_	unknown	_	unknown
John Lawrence	_	Bass is Maternal	_	Three Stripe
DISTAL	_	Got The Block Hot	_	Embassy Recordings
Untold	_	Stop What You're Doing	_	Hemlock
Peverelist	_	Infinity Is Now	_	Tectonic
The Bug	_	Void feat Liz Harris	_	Ninja Tune 
Offshore	_	Breeze	_	Big Dada
Underworld	_	Sola Sistim	_	unknown
Brock Van Wey	_	Too Little Too Late	_	unknown
Daniel Kobialka	_	Blue Spirals	_	LiSem Records 
Oneohtrix Point Never	_	Emil Cioran	_	Arbor
The Miles Davis Quintet 	_	Round Midnight	_	Columbia
David Axelrod	_	The Human Abstract	_	Capitol
Beethoven	_	Piano Concerto No 3	_	La Voix De Son Maître
Annette Peacock	_	Pony	_	RCA Victor
Tes La Rok	_	Intanationalz	_	Argon 
Mr Fingers	_	Slam Dance	_	Alleviated Records
L-Vis 1990	_	Lost In Love - Night Slugs Allstars Street Dub	_	PMR
Sabres of Paradise	_	Smoke Belch Beatless	_	Warp
Fredo Viola	_	The Sad Song	_	unknown
Four Tet	_	This Unfolds	_	Domino
Danny Norbury	_	All The Stars Are Out Tonight	_	flau
The Toids	_	Whisper Hungarian in My Ear	_	Odd Shaped Case
Basic Channel	_	Radiance I	_	Basic Channel
Anita Baker 	_	My Funny Valentine	_	Elektra

Solid Steel Radio Show 19/12/2014 - Coldcut

From the album Zorya. Mixed and mastered by Matouš Godík (www.zka4t.com). Released by Minority Records in cooperation with Amanita Design.

11 Zorya Polunochnaya

Soundtrack I scored for an episode of the BBC Worldwide series, The Genius Behind, "Printing a Robotic Arm"

Film: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151026-a-teens-mind-controlled-arm-could-make-prosthetics-cheaper

Prosthesis | BBC Worldwide

Hidden Shoal is proud to announce the release of ‘Towards Tragedy and Dissolution’, the stunning new single by acclaimed neo-classical ambient artist Antonymes, taken from the forthcoming album "(For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly".
 
Sonically minimal yet emotionally formidable, ‘Towards Tragedy and Dissolution’ features the stirring string arrangements of James Banbury (The Auteurs) and Christoph Berg (Field Rotation), which engage in reflective conversation with Ian M. Hazeldine's plaintive piano. Its emotional potency and compositional dexterity draws you into an evocative world, demanding engagement.
 
In addition to James Banbury and Christoph Berg, "(For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly" also includes contributions from composer Stefano Guzzetti, Joanna Swan (Ilya) and writer Paul Morley. Mixed by Stefano Guzzetti and Paul Humphreys (OMD), and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri (The Sight Below), the album’s depth of sound is awe-inspiring. It is released by Hidden Shoal on 21st April 2016.

http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/antonymes/

This music is available for licensing. Email Cam at Hidden Shoal for more details: cam[@]hiddenshoal.com | www.hiddenshoal.com/licensing

Antonymes - Towards Tragedy And Dissolution

My personal contribution in Celebration of a declared annual holiday by Nils Frahm.  "Piano Day".
The 88th day of this year 28th March 2016
You can also enjoy the fitting visuals created for the piece here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujg4YXWaAT4&feature=youtu.be

Enjoy x

'In The Wake' - Piano Day 2016

Release date 29.04.16 
www.fac-ture.co.uk

“Work with the intention of slowly fading from sight.”

Returning to the light from the darkness of 2012’s ‘In a Lonely Place’, The Tape Loop Orchestra and Facture present ‘Go Straight To The Light Of All That You Love’, a landmark intersection of music and visual media. Interrogating the contradictory dualism in the life that inspires art, this unique project displays the panoramic influence of Ozu, Neuer Deutscher Film, Weldon Kees and Yves Klein, as well as forming of a larger arch with TLO’s ongoing body of work.

“Distortions are inherent to representation.”

Examining the multiple philosophical strands found 'In Search Of The Miraculous' - Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader’s intended trio of art actions, P D Ouspensky's book of the same name, Gurdjieff's early teachings - TLO pay homage to the artist’s continual search, even when the camera isn’t looking; searching for miracles, or simply an answer to the metaphysical why...

If life is art, can the artist decide where art ends and art life begins? Can they co-exist in one form? Do we celebrate the art or the artist?

“Death isn’t about judgement, it collects us all.”

As with all TLO releases, the material was recorded after development in live performance, with the new approach of using multi-track control over trademark tape disintegration for the first time. Edited, sequenced and mastered by James Plotkin for both CD and vinyl, with both formats offering different versions of the same work, ‘Go Straight To The Light Of All That You Love’ is an ambitious and densely rewarding entry in a sequence that fiercely questions the collective human failure to unravel complexity.

Performed by Tape Loop Orchestra with Beth Roberts, aus and Cuushe... Mastering: James Plotkin
Photography: Azra Haracic
Design: Craig Tattersall
Inspiration: Bas Jan Ader 

With love to:

Craig, Beth, Yasuhiko, Cuushe, Dan & Jess, Alice, Danny, Dean, Miles, Thomas, Michael, Russell, Richard, Joe, Masami and team Bookman

Packaging:

Deluxe 4 panel gatefold covers printed on reverse board Printed inner sleeves
Clear vinyl
Letter-pressed CD cover
Glass mastered (not CD-R) CD
16 page photographic booklet
2 x limited edition prints
CD/Booklet/Prints all rest inside hand stiched/sealed oversized glassine bags Hand Tagged/Typed/Individually numbered
All of the above rests inside sealed oversized black metallic photographic bags Download code
Scent
CD and vinyl hold different recordings of the material

Tape Loop Orchestra - Go Straight Towards The Light Of All That You Love

Pianomusic both new and old, collection of unreleased material.

Leifur

flower   (electric piano arr. - akira kosemura)

06 By night

25.ii.13

KITCHEN. LABEL SHOWCASE 2012
"EPILOGUE OF AUTUMN"
8th December 2012 at Fujimigaoka Church, Shimokitazawa, Tokyo

April Lee (vocals)
Ricks Ang (guitar & programming)

With special guests 
Janis Crunch(chorus) 
Junya Yanagidaira (piano)
haruka nakamura (guitar)

Live mix by Ken Inamori
Additional production by Ricks Ang

Originally from the album "i hold a wish for you" by ASPIDISTRAFLY (2008, KITCHEN. LABEL) 

http://www.kitchen-label.com
http://www.aspidistrafly.com
http://www.ironomi.com
http://www.janiscrunch.com
http://www.harukanakamura.com

25.ii.13

Danny Norbury

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