Patrícia Bizzotto, Fogo/Fôlego

TR192 - Paul Abbott - 'Deorlaf Z (version) for XT Deorlaf X Live' [excerpt]

TR191 - Taku Unami - 'Stardust 3'

Atsuko Hatano is a contemporay classical Viola player who works with electronics to add textures and layers to her sound. Located in Tokyo, Japan, she is a commanding instrumentalist and composer who constructs innovative compositions with strings and layered electronics.

Cells #5 is an orchestral collection and sequel to her previous album Cells #2 which will also be released on cassette via Imprec’s Cassauna label. Cells #5 required three years to complete and the work features the artist’s signature methodology where the instrumental performances are gradually enveloped by multiple layers of a string orchestration. 

When not playing solo Atsuko is extremely active recording, collaborating and playing live with Jim O’ Rourke, Eiko Ishibashi, Mocky and many more acts.  


Atsuko Hatano: Violin, Viola, Cello, Contrabass, Piano (track 1), Xylophone, Oscillator and Chorus
Guest Musicians: 
Eiko Ishibashi: Piano, Marimba, Vibraphone
Yuko Ikoma: Accordion 
Natsumi Kudo: Horn and flugelhorn
Icchie: Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Piccolo Trumpet
Tatsuhisa Yamamoto: Snare Drum
Composed and Mixed by Atsuko Hatano
Mastered by Jim O’Rourke 
Cover by Saskia Griepink

Atsuko Hatano  - Tidal Currents - from Cells #5 cassette

mental concept 333
sublabel of @mindcolormusic, devoted to breaks oriented idm and jungle
limited edition of 77 copies on recycled vinyl with 29x29 insert 
more info – https://mindcolormusic.bandcamp.com/

artwork by: geometric love

a1. bromic - mbira boards of
a2. nike vomita - arrakis_brk_v8
a3. ®adår - julietta runup
a4. snack master - amen, brother
a5. whø - zest[home]
b1. utopia cloak - getting drunk and falling in love
b2. omni - al1end1sc0
b3. thugwidow - coping mechanism
b4. faff - sun surge
b5. bromic - 1300 u

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mental concept 333 | A2. Arrakis Brk V8 | Ltd. Ed. 12" Vinyl

Live recording of O Yama O at les ateliers claus 9th May 2019.
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Keiko Yamamoto / voice
Rie Nakajima / objects
Marie Roux / drum
Billy Steiger / violin

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Recorded by Christophe Albertijn at les ateliers claus 9 May 2019
Mixed and produced by David Cunningham during the summer of 2021.

All titles composed by Nakajima/Roux/Steiger/Yamamoto apart from My Body (David Toop/Steve Beresford)

Photo by Laurent Orseau

Live Ateliers Claus - O Yama O "Namekuji"

Lea B + Ben Vida

The scars soften - the silver knife melts. 
Sad-sack and cracked hearts, forever reaching the distorted harmony, 
never ceasing, beyond sight - sentimental, coarse reverie eats into euphony.

Each and all, we believe in our deities; although we may not tell, we worship in fear and in inspiration; although we may not feel it, we have our sacred places; although we may not see our idols, they are true in our dreams. Even as our prayer falls silent, these words of Voltaire will be, for us, forever true: if there were no God, it would be necessary to invent Him.

'Hedonistic Idols' is an album of six works by Volunteer Coroner, the avant-garde noise-and-ambient fusing project of artist and composer Preston Weippert. Through contrasts of harshness and fragility, the album explores truth in faith, and hope in decay.

Hedonistic Idols

Volunteer Coroner - Acts of Devotion

Cassette ltd 200. Also digi filez if needed.

Vanligt Folk - Swedish Dad (iDEAL227 CS)

In 1974, Robert Morris and Daniel Starr famously enumerated every all-interval twelve-tone row. 

Inspired by their work, and in around 1979 in unpublished works, I generated an analogous catalog of what one might call the all-trichord rows, meaning rows, which together with two of their untransposed rotations, and in "first-species counterpoint," produce a sequence of all twelve distinct trichord classes.  By the standards of the day, this 
involved very substantial computational search.  But lately I have vastly expanded that calculation, now allowing transposition, retrograde and inversion of the rotations. Some of these new rows provide the basis of my recent pieces.   

The catalog of all-trichord rows runs to about 300 more or less, depending upon the accounting for symmetries.  That makes these rows quite rare among all the twelve-tone rows.  This rarity suggests my original compositional conception but unrealized at the time: a museum-like installation where a listener might walk in a large space from sonic exhibit to sonic exhibit, and experience the different ways these rows fit together and do their thing.  

So here are just three typical exhibits, realized now as works for chamber orchestra.  In each, the basic row first gets a plain but lapidary statement, and then the rotated forms fade in, statistically speaking, and eventually the rows likewise fade out in the order in which they entered, leaving finally a statement of the basic row.  By design, this treatment could loop seamlessly as one "display," as per my original conception.

Atsuko Hatano - Tidal Currents - from Cells #5 cassette

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