Notice Recordings is pleased to present the release of Portland, Oregon-based percussionist Matt Hannafin’s “John Cage: Four Realizations for Solo Percussion”, which offers attentive, probing interpretations of pieces that bookend the final thirty years of the composer’s work. Simultaneously restless and nuanced, Hannafin’s performance demonstrates Cage’s continued relevance and enduring ability to push performers beyond their performative biases and toward the unexpected.

Written with no instrumentation, “Variations II” (1961) and “Variations III” (1963) both provide toolkit-like sets of marked-up transparencies which are allowed to fall into random overlapping patterns. “c Ȼomposed Improvisation for One-Sided Drums with or without Jangles” and “One4” (both 1990) are two of only five pieces Cage wrote specifically for solo percussion, and explore Cage’s late-career interest in directed improvisation. “c Ȼomposed Improvisation” was written for percussionist Glen Velez, with whom Matt Hannafin studied just three years after the piece was created.

Commissioned by Notice Recordings, these four performances are in dialogue not only with each other but with Notice itself, which has its roots in the underground/DIY realm while also exploring contemporary/academic composition. The accessibility, inventiveness, and challenge of compositions like these make Cage a unique pivot point between these two worlds.

NTR049 - John Cage & Matt Hannafin - Sided Drums With Or Without Jangles

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Inoperative System - Vari Cont Gross [coming soon new release] 2022

Orikum Vault is a showcase for underground artists on Drymades in Dub Recordings.

Based in Albania, it is a showcase for the growing underground scene now emerging from Europe's most reclusive corner.

Deep, dub-inspired, minimalist house and techno music that reflects the mountainous vistas and rocky beaches which are so far from the established club culture scenes of other places on the continent with grooves that take their time, as if they are being broadcast from another planet.

@drymadesindubrecordings

9:00 – 10:00pm
Monthly on the fourth Sunday

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Orikum Vault - 28.08.22

from the album Little Pink Fluffy Clouds A
released August 11, 2022
Mixed/Produced by Karen Vogt
Mastered by Mark Beazley/Trace Recordings
Artwork by Caro Mikalef (Cabina)
Physical and digital items can be purchased from my Bandcamp: https://karenvogt.bandcamp.com/album/little-pink-fluffy-clouds-a

cloud one Karen Vogt

Composed and produced by Francesco Vitti Registered in the studios of EKOS records (Italy)

LOGIC (Extended Version)

Chamber piece for clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello & piano performed by Apartment House. Composed during Covid 19 pandemic, finished and recorded in 2022. Thanks to Simon Reynell.

Mira Benjamin, violin
Bridget Carey, viola
Anton Lukoszevieze, cello
Heather Roche, clarinet
Raymond Brien, bass clarinet
Kerry Yong, piano

My Mind Is Twelve Bells - Apartment House

LULL 'That Space Somewhere' CD

Cold Spring proudly present the first new album in 14 years from LULL - the pioneering, isolationist dark ambient project of MICK HARRIS (SCORN, FRET, ex-NAPALM DEATH).

EXCLUSIVE FULL ALBUM STREAM AT THE SLEEPING SHAMAN: https://www.thesleepingshaman.com/streams/premiere-lull-that-space-somewhere

LULL was conceived by Mick Harris in 1990, in an attempt to create music that would stretch, if not forsake entirely, the structures of conventional music by developing and exploring sound without beats.

MICK HARRIS ON LULL: 

"I finally heard the way of recording, making profound sounds. Lull is purely something I can get lost in, as far as trying to create these imaginary spaces. And that’s what I always tried to do – to create. I'm a lover of sounds. I love collecting sounds. Playing with those sounds using various software until I created something new from that sound. Which for me end being what I call "a droner" or "a drift",  I’d use those to create a piece of music, or a sound-scape. That's what I’m doing with Lull. Just trying to create soundscapes. And to this day, still, absolutely love doing that". 

THAT SPACE SOMEWHERE:

"I haven't made Lull records since 2007 so... with this pandemic, I have time on my hands. I've used that time, I think, to the best. Going to the music-room is pretty much an everyday thing to me. Which has been the best thing because I’ve not been able to do this since the 90's when I had various studios... Since the lockdown I had all this time on my hands and I created a lot of good music, which I'm actually happy with.

I'm a fisherman. It gives me a lot of space. It gives me immense pleasure. For me it's about going to the river. I like moving water. The seasons change, the river changes with the seasons. It clears my mind, gives me ideas, gives me the space to be by myself and with nature... just listening to the sounds around me.

LULL is quite natural for me. It's an extension of me. Drifting. Just going to darkness. Into a space. LULL is drifting and droning, discovering more and more what can be done with sound. These soundscapes hugely appeal to me".

Mick Harris interview August 2020, courtesy of Peek-A-Boo Magazine.

http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/en/interviews/mick-harris-scorn-lull-ex-napalm-death-2020

Matt-laminate digipak with majestic artwork by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja). Out 2nd December 2022.

Order: https://coldspring.co.uk/csr321cd

Order: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/that-space-somewhere-csr321cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr321cd

Watch: https://bit.ly/LULL-TSS

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/lull-that-space-somewhere


LULL / MICK HARRIS:

https://mickharris.bandcamp.com
https://coldspring.co.uk/Lull

"Though this is dark ambient, the tone here is more meditative than menacing, something the name of the project has always made obvious and which always set Harris' work apart" (The Sleeping Shaman)

"The first really minimal music I encountered that really captivated me... It seems to exist somewhere on the threshold between consciousness and the unconscious" (Aaron Turner).

LULL Unplumbed (Excerpt)

first and second studies in collaboration with Sarah Saviet and Joseph Houston, created during Fall 2022

piano harmonically aligned with the open violin tuning

realized by Sarah and Joe

recording is taken from the live concert recording, December 2nd, 2022, KM28, Berlin

violin/piano study 1 & 2 for Sarah and Joe (by Catherine Lamb)

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Seventh - Air

Cover photo: Laura Hilliard / an assembly
Profile photo: Luar Klinghofer Bar Dov / eavesdropping
Sketch book of pieces and excerpts by artist Eleanor Cully Boehringer.

My Mind Is Twelve Bells - Apartment House

Eleanor Cully Boehringer

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