Alva Noto & Blixa Bargeld - Once Again

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"Lowe" On Mary Anne Hobbs

I need you- work tape

Taken from "Tardis" out February 12th 2016
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Weaver's Cave

A vivid aural voyage with clever panning, bouncing chords & whirling lead lines. Taken from the collaborative album between @gigi-masin-official & @tempelhof on @hell-yeah and @cascine. 

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Gigi Masin & Tempelhof - Labyrinth (STW Premiere)

ŠIROM - I.

Release date:
- Europe: 12.01.2016, ZARŠ Rec. / KLOPOTEC Rec. (CD / DL)
- Japan: 17.07.2016, AMORFON Rec. (CD / DL)

Download:
https://zars.bandcamp.com/album/i
https://amorfon.bandcamp.com/album/i

I. is the debut album of the Širom trio, comprised of Ana Kravanja, Samo Kutin and Iztok Koren, who stem from the Slovenian regions of Kras, Tolminsko and Prekmurje and are members of various other groups, such as Najoua or ŠKM banda. 

Their form of expression is original, stylistically homogeneous, incorporating a wide array of folk sounds on one side and contemporary acoustic rock style meditations on the other. The end result is grounded yet still mystical minimalism. 

Širom's music is contemplative, but can get harder when necessary, it is closer to being band- than chamber-like, to being street as opposed to urban in nature. It is mostly instrumental and features miniature combinations of folk, classical and improvisational elements to make for an original and very moving experience. It is already interesting enough to look at the building blocs of Širom's sound, since the musicians use a wide range of instruments from around the world, including the banjo, ukulele and balafon, as well as homemade instruments and bells. It is unbelievable what a world of sound they conjure up, how many nuances of sound, how quickly this penetrates the ears and cuts into the subconscious. 

The creating of patterns and entwining of delicate musical pastels calls for a focused listener, since there is a feeling that the fragile edifice can be blown away in any moment. The lyrical and sophisticated album reveals an unfathomable beauty of dichotomies – it is sophisticated but at the same time never finished, unobtrusive but still principled, improvisational and collective, curious and simultaneously fatigued, restless and ethereal. 

Širom have released a record which unveils the personal while discovering new worlds and which deserves to be celebrated as a gem of the Slovenian music scene, notwithstanding or maybe precisely because of all the misguided attempts at defining “slovenianhood”. 

Tracklist:
1. Samotni mora dehteti / The Lonesome Has to Scent 05:32 
2. Svetlobni prelaz čez vrnitev / A Passage of Light on Return 15:31 3. Trilogija / Trilogy 17:44 
4. Mehki koraki rjovenja / Roar's Soft Steps 07:27 
5. Vsak dan je jutri nov dan / Tomorrow, Each Day is a New Day 02:12 

Iztok Koren - banjo, bass drum, chimes, balafon 
Ana Kravanja - violin, viola, ribab, kalimba, bendir, balafon 
Samo Kutin - ukulele, kalimba, homemade harps and steel drum, balafon 

Painting Marko Jakše 
Photo Nada Žgank, Noemi De Pas, Tit Brecelj
Cover design Eva Kosel, Yoshio Machida
Recording, mixing and mastering Iztok Zupan 
Recorded without overdubbing in Posavec, Slovenia 2015

03 Trilogija

Vinyl available now via HYMN and Vinyl Factory >>

https://thevinylfactory.com/product/to-corpse/

In July 2017, the city of Naples and The Sicilian island of Stromboli hosted I Polpi, a festival of contemporary art presented by Fiorucci Art Trust and curated by Milovan Farronato, in partnership with The Vinyl Factory and spearheaded by Eddie Peake.

Electronic producer Actress, musician Gwilym Gold, interdisciplinary artists Evan Ifekoya and Victoria Sin, poet and writer Holly Pester and the natural sound of the island of Stromboli each created unique compositions to accompany Peake’s performance in five variations, To Corpse, performed live by the composers along with the dancers Valeria D’Antonio, Kieram Corrin Mitchell, Emma Fisher, Sara Lupoli and Francesco Russo across five different locations in Naples and Stromboli.

* Gatefold sleeve and two printed inner sleeves
* Double heavyweight 180-gram clear vinyl
* Limited edition of 500 copies worldwide

Romance Layers Cadenza // To Corpse 2

from 'Reflections' [CD|LP|Digital]
Denovali Records · den291
available on all formats at
[http://denovali.com/philipprumsch]

Philipp Rumsch, born in 1994, is a composer, pianist, and sound designer from Leipzig, Germany. He was a student at the secondary school „Clara Wieck“, with a special focus on music, and the „Robert Schumann Conservatory“ between 2011 and 2013 and was trained in piano both in classical and popular music as well as in composition. A year later he was  accepted in the junior development program at the Academy of Music and Theatre „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ in Leipzig. Since October 2013, Philipp has been studying jazz piano in Leipzig and spent two semesters studying Music Performance at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen from 2016 to 2017. During his studies he specialized on the fields of composition and sound design/music production.

In his conceptual work he transfers the sound aesthetic and compositional principles of Minimal, Pop and Electronic Music into an acoustic and orchestral format. The debut album of his twelve-person ensemble, „reflections“, will be released in February 2018 on Denovali Records.

Reflections

Philipp Rumsch Ensemble - Reflections - Part IV

Taken from 'Drama' Single by HTRK, out July 6, 2018.

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Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends - Fanfare

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Chandra Oppenheim was a child star like no other. As the daughter of famed conceptual artist Dennis Oppenheim. By age nine, Chandra was staying up late at her parents’ art-world parties, collaborating in her father’s projects, and performing her own plays at downtown hotspots such as The Kitchen and Franklin Furnace.

This set the stage for Chandra’s course-altering collaboration with members of The Dance, who were looking to form yet another project and found their muse/fuse in 10-year-old Chandra. Transportation EP, originally released in 1980 by The Dance’s own label, ON/GoGo. Balancing on razor- wire guitars, liquid bass lines, and dub-style melodica, the Chandra band unveiled their first four songs: “Opposite”, “Concentration”, “Subways”, and “Kate.”

At age 12, the post-punk pre-teen took the stage with her band for the first
time at New York’s legendary Mudd Club. A whirlwind of press coverage
ensued from glossy magazines like Vogue and Paris Match to the influential underground zine Non LP B Side and a Soho News cover story.

The infectious, propulsive “Get It Out Of Your System” opens Chandra’s second EP with one of her most commanding performances. “Stranger” slows the pace with stop-start rhythms, woozy synths, and the harmonized return of the melodica, while its lyrics find her being followed by a mysterious character revealed to be a woman. “Tish Le Dire” sounds like The B-52s in an eerie alternate universe with instructions on speaking up to your parents or authorities to the point of threatening suicide.

Chandra stepped away from the band at age 14 to focus on her education. Sadly, the second EP was shelved and would not see the light of day for decades.

Chandra’s trip continues with this new deluxe reissue from Telephone Explosion Records. Returning her debut EP to its original four- song, single-record release at a dancefloor-ready remastered 45 RPM, the expanded edition also adds to the second EP with a pair of never released songs from her 1983 four-track cassette demos. “Day Without Success” and “They’re All Alike” find Chandra’s dreamlike vocals driven by minimal wave synth zaps and pulsating drum machines. 

Words by Jesse Locke. 

“Transportation EPs" will be released on gatefold 2xLP / digital on December 7th, 2018.

Chandra - Day Without Success (Previously Unreleased)

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