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Artist: Elko B.
Title: I Bambini Di Basilisco
Format: 12 inch vinyl (incl. download)
Release date: 8th of February 2017
Cat no: EKS013
Edition: 500

Pre-order here: https://eksterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/i-bambini-di-basilisco

Introducing Elko B.’s debut on Ekster: “I Bambini Di Basilisco”. Twelve tracks pressed on 180g vinyl with pantone printed sleeves and silk screened (glow in the dark) plastic over-sleeve.

Considering Elko Blijweert's been active in the Belgian music scene for about fifteen years now, it comes as quite a surprise that "I Bambini Di Basilisco"is only his first ever solo album. Known mainly for his virtuoso yet ever idiosyncratic guitar playing, Elko B. treats the listener to much more than just that. With the exception of the heavily guitar-driven western pastiche "Cochon Torrero", the emphasis here lies on dark Carpenteresque synthesizer sounds as well as jolly child-friendly melodies. The twelve pleasantly concise songs, mainly based on compositions Blijweert made as soundtrack material for contemporary dance theatre and children's puppet theatre, beautifully blend together into a whole as the listener is presented with a unique glimpse inside the wide-ranging imagery that is Elko B.'s ever-expanding musical world.


Track list:

A1: Une Fille Dansante
A2: Krokodil
A3: Afrikakat
A4: Crawling Night Bears
A5: Aurelia
A6: Save The Knight

B1: Chyena
B2: Une Fille A La Plage
B3: Nachtelijke Verwelkoming
B4: Cochon Torrero
B5: Karabair (solo)
B6: Basilisco

I Bambini Di Basilisco

Elko B. - I Bambini Di Basilisco (preview)

Each installment of this ongoing portfolio series features an original audio recording by a musician, composer, or sound artist along with their commentary. Projects range from raw documentation of live performances to sound collage and experiments with aleatory music. Click here for more details: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/field-recording-3/

Lea Bertucci: Field Recording #8

Purchase: ilyasahmed.bandcamp.com/album/behold-killers
Catalog #: GN56
November 22, 2019
CASSETTE+DIGI

Since embarking on an enchantingly forlorn run of musical activity, Ilyas Ahmed has remained incredibly active both as a visual artist and an incredibly versatile musician. Ahmed has cultivated vibrantly esoteric collaborations with Liz Harris (Grouper) and Matt Carlson & Jonathan Sielaff (both of Golden Retriever), among others, is an active member of heady, genre-defying experimental instrumental band Grails, and steadfastly issued quiet epics of psych-minimalism. Now, the Pakistan-born, Portland, Or.-based musician returns with 'Behold Killers,' perhaps his most alluring and distantly seething work to date. 

"Pass No Jazz" unfurls its tattered but tranquil tapestry over the entire A-side, tracing each step with unhurried care and curious composure. "Metal Freedom" leads the B-side in a synth-laden cloud of shimmering tragedy and seething hope. "Mad Love" dials things down for a modest symphony of gritted minimalism and soot-covered, negative space. Closing piece "Wild Violet" shimmers in a desolate dance of eerie weightlessness and wretched resolve.

Best consumed in the dead of night or frosted isolation, ‘Behold Killers’ is an aural yarn explicitly woven for the trodden.

Ilyas Ahmed - "Wild Violet"

https://moontown.bandcamp.com/album/our-opaque-wreath

Out Opaque Wreath

Troth - Valley Of Palms (Undergrowth)

Christina Kubisch
Italienische Stücke / Italian Pieces (1974-1984)
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CD, Tochnit Aleph TA158, November 2019
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soundfile incudes:
00'00 - 01'23 min - Liquid Piece (1975)excerpt
01'25 - 03'28 min - Circles 1 (1984)excerpt
03'30 - 08'18 min - Costante Variabile (1981)excerpt
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Special pre-order edition of 50 copies now available!
http://www.tochnit-aleph.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=4546
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Italienische Stücke / Italian Pieces (1974-1984) TA158

Christina Kubisch (TA158) excerpts

Taken from the album 'Metabolist Meter (Foster, Cottin, Caetani and a Fly)' released as LP and Digital.

Max Eilbacher 'Metabolist Meter (Foster, Cottin, Caetani and a Fly)' (excerpt) (SPGRM 002)

Ever Empty

Ned Lagin's Seastones is a pioneering electronic composition interweaving metaphors from nature, science, art and music and the origins of music. Reflecting the technology, science, modern art, new ecological awareness and optimism of the times and culture, Seastones embodies the history of electronic music by taking full advantage of tape music, analog synthesizers and computer technology to create pieces that are dynamic, rich and deep.

Originally released by the Grateful Dead's Round Records in 1975, Seastones' reputation as a gem of electronic music was further enhanced by the celebrity of the musicians who contributed to the source material. Seastones musicians include Ned Lagin (processed piano, clavichord, organ, prepared piano, electric piano, synthesizers), Jerry Garcia (processed electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, voice), Phil Lesh (processed electric bass), David Crosby processed electric guitar and vocals), Grace Slick and David Freiberg (processed vocals), and Mickey Hart and Spencer Dryden (percussion).

This new LP presents two crafted Seastones sets (Sets 4 and 5, 18 tracks) drawn from the entire Seastones composition and contains gorgeous extended processed vocals by Garcia, Crosby, Slick and Freiberg, and beautiful abstract instrumental passages by Lagin and all.

Ned Lagin - Seastones - Seastones 03 - LP available Nov. 3, 2020

forthcoming in Feb 2021, contact abby@cafeoto.co.uk

Double CD documenting the magic meeting of one of the all-time great rhythm sections in jazz: percussionist Hamid Drake and bassist William Parker, with London’s brilliant Black Top (Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas) and Elaine Mitchener. Across two sets the quintet are infectiously energetic and inspired, striding from synchronised heavy groove to star bright solos, whilst incorporating dub effects, guimbri and sumptuous blues piano playing. 
 
Formed by Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas but always realised with an ever changing number of invited musicians, Black Top's blend of lo-fi samples, dub effects and experimental electronics has been daring free improvisation since 2011. Their virtuoso performances draw on their Afro-Caribbean roots with delicious spontienty and humour; the histories of Ridley Road Market, the LIO and Islamic West Africa are sounded out side by side on iPad, marimba and vibraphone. Having met in 2006, Black Top played with bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake as part of their residency at Cafe OTO in 2016; forming a quartet grounded in transatlantic kinship but which looked outward to the Carribean, calypso music and Saharan gnawa rhythms. When Parker and Drake returned to OTO in 2019 Black Top reformed again, but this time with the brilliant addition of vocalist Elaine Mitchener. 
Over the last few years the clarity with which Mitchener has explored vocal expression in the global Black Avant Garde has been stunning, but here the range in her influences is manifest, moving effortlessly between phonetic and poetic experimentation and spoken word, all the while at ease with soul soaked jazz and dissonant free fall. A hand drum duet with Hamid Drake astonishes before being laced perfectly with cosmic theremin and Parker’s fantastic acid shehnai. 

Recorded live at Cafe OTO on Sunday 28th July 2019 by Paul Skinner and mixed and mastered by James Dunn. Photos by Dawid Laskowski and artwork by Oliver Pitt. 

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Hamid Drake / percussion

Elaine Mitchener / vocals

William Parker / double bass, guimbri

Orphy Robinson / marimba, electronics

Pat Thomas / piano, electronics

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CD1
Put the Brakes On - 50:08

CD2
Some Good News - 56:43

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