listened your tracks 10 years ago, and I’m glad that you continue to create transcendence, respect!

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V/A - RECUERDOS DEL FUTURO - UN HOMENAJE AL SONIDO DE VALENCIA
(Rectangle Astral, # Angle02, LP, black vinyl, 9 tracks, limited to 250 hand-numbered copies)

Featuring: A2, ANTONI MAIOVVI, CORNFLAKES 808, MAKiNA GiRGiR, OJALA PUDIERA, PACHA KING feat. JOTA, SABLE ET SCIURE, TEATRO SATANICO, TZII feat. SAMANTHA C. After “Todesblei Salonfähig gemacht” and “Retours d’Acide”, here comes the third volume in TuT/RuR’s tribute compilation series, this time on Rectangle Astral. When, at the end of the 80s, the wave of Techno washed over Europe, it not only revolutionized the world of music at large…. it also created a multitude of local genres and subgenres, some of which became universal references, while others remain little known to this day. In Valencia, on the Spanish Riviera, one did not only move to the hardcore rhythms of Mákina in those days. As early as 1989, Julio Nexus and his label Megabeat, later joined by German Bou and Nezkabel Records, began to produce the first records of what was to become “El Sonido De Valencia”. Influenced by Synth Pop, New Wave and EBM, the Sound of Valencia is an unidentified object in the story of techno music: with its baroque synthetic saxophones, its Spanish Twin Peaks samples, its subtle electro beats and its almost kitsch melodies, it has little in common with the 140+ BPM hardcore Tekkno happening everywhere else at the time. Today, almost 25 years later, it is high time to pay tribute to a mostly forgotten and totally underrated scene, which had nonetheless an everlasting impact on many South-European ravers. High time to „remember the future“, with nine contemporary reenactments of the Valencian magic. 

Get It!

MAKiNA GiRGiR - And I Wept

Never Gonna Die

K7 "au supermarché" de Claude Barbara en vente chez Indian Redhead : https://indianredhead.bandcamp.com/album/au-supermarch

Claude Barbara - Hotesse (Tendresse)

Somber

From the "Basement Blues" 7" EP, now available!

Science Project - Beautiful Human

Moon Wheel — Patience

Crossing over

Face [Glimpse] (with Oren Ambarchi & James Rushford)

Unreleased work included on the "A Turn of Breath: Deluxe Edition" 2xLP
Available to pre-order now, available on June 29th, 2018
www.recitalprogram.com/a-turn-of-breath
www.recitalprogram.com/purchase

R8 - Ian William Craig - "Heaviness Sketch in Winter" from A Turn of Breath 2xLP

Recorded in the hollow body of Deutzer Bridge, Koln, for brass ensemble, electronics, 8-channel sound. For Bruckenmusik 2018. Listen on good speakers.

Acoustic Shadows - brass (Excerpt)

Tyyni is the third album by Finnish-born sound artist and musician Cucina Povera aka Maria Rossi. The second album recorded using a more studio-based scenario – as opposed to last year’s Zoom, a collection of in-situ, spontaneous recordings – Tyyni feels like a slowly unfurling mediation on the clash between nature and mechanical living, a rumination on the complexities of modern life that begin to unveil more about the inner landscape of the artist as it progresses. A Finnish word referring to still, serene weather, the title belies a new note of turmoil in Cucina Povera’s soundworld.  Tyyni represents a more detailed focus on the sculpting of sounds that curl around Rossi’s hymnal vocal performances. It’s a more adventurous work than Rossi’s previous output that goes further into noise elements and vocal abstraction while maintaining the balance and ecclesiastical ecstasy of her debut Hilja.
While tension at the core of Cucina Povera is always prevalent, previously it was organic sounds that were used to counterpoint Rossi’s singing but on Tyyni these are often replaced with aggressive synths and distortion, profane clashes with the seemingly sacred hymns. Whether close mic’d and intoning in a loop or in full flight, Maria Rossi’s voice remains in the foreground, set here against a more synthetic backdrop.  This development builds new worlds for Cucina Povera, a digital environment which brings in a sense of the alien for Rossi’s vocal to duel. The effect is often dazzling. On Salvia Salvatrix, an ode to the medicinal plant used to ward off evil spirits, Rossi’s invocation is encircled by a distorted synth sound tearing at the fabric of the composition. It’s an inspired juxtaposition, leaving the listener to appreciate both sounds as separate and as a duet.  Anarkian kuvajainen embraces a sense of chaos, an accidental transmitting mobile phone’s pulse is swept up gently with looped synth swells as Rossi’s prayer-like vocal rhythmically teases the composition into loops that embrace and then drift apart. Teerenpeli flirts with a minimal beat rendered by sampler and processed, layered field recordings of capercaillies, while Side A ends with one of Rossi’s most beautiful, simple tracks yet recorded. Varjokuvatanssi is an a cappela recording built on top of a wordless glossolalia, a shadowy interplay which foregrounds the solo vocal.
Pölytön nurkka is the most melodic song yet recorded by Cucina Povera. While it still maintains an off-the-cuff performance style, the synthesized chimes and 4/4 beat are smothered by a distorted synthesizer which almost replicates the bravado of an electric guitar feedbacking into the night. Rossi’s subject matter talks of trying to start anew, getting rid of extraneous material, perhaps still feeling powerless to affect positive change. On Haaksirikkoutunut, the protagonist vocal is lost, a vessel rudderless on the ocean, buffeted by waves metaphorical or real, digital, atonal chords gurgling and splashing against the bow, a storm forever brewing on the horizon. Saniaiset recalls Coil in its eldritch, nocturnal tone and digital-bell like synth, Rossi’s half-spoken/half-sung voice attaining a creepy tone before flipping into flight. Album closer Jolkottelureitti uses an escalating, sequenced synth that splinters into both abrasive tones and harmonising chords creating a kosmische effect, reminding the listener of Kluster or synth-era Popol Vuh, all the while elevated by Rossi’s searching vocalising.
 For an artist with such a singularly unique musical language, Cucina Povera is continually teasing new strands and emotive tones from an evolving palette. Most importantly, Tyyni appears to be pulling back the veil to uncover an artist finding a synergy between her own emotional inner world and practice. As such, on her third album, Maria Rossi has found a third way between abstraction and extraneous emotion, personal experience turned inside out to reveal more about the listener.

Cucina Povera - Salvia Salvatrix

A piece that I had been working on for a year. It never quite found a place within other works on an album, as it seemed unusual for me. 

Elements were incorporated into the DUO live performances. 

But not as an entity on its own. so here it is... 

isolated, dark, but hopeful. 
for these trying and anxious times. 

stay safe.


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Absention

Here's a 80's synth remake of the Rolling Stones hit.  

Polyphonic Size - Mother's Little Helper

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