This is the repress of ‘Dreams of Falling’, the first album by musician and poet Sandra Bell, from New Zealand. "The record was born after a discussion with Peter Jefferies in Dunedin, about rerecording the song ‘Industrial Night ‘.I had known Peter vaguely from Auckland but never worked with him. ‘Industrial Night’ was on my first vinyl release the EP “Blackbirds” which I had recorded in Auckland, and I wanted to reinterpret it. For the next year, from the end of 1990 until the end of 1991, we also recorded a back log of my other songs on and off at our home in Maitland St, and also Fish St and Studio 13. Peter was a master of the Teac 4 track, and of musical arrangement. I was able to experiment and realise the potential of each song with his advanced skills. It seems miraculous looking back now that it was all done on 4 tracks, bouncing down at times and using two 4 tracks at one time for other tracks. I remember a cut in a song meant an actual cut of the tape, which Peter did with precision and skill. The wonderful musicians who played on the album took the songs from mundane to sublime- David Mitchells lead break on Industrial Night was exhilarating and exciting, Kathy Bull added clever bass lines, Peter’s industrial drumming was a constant force, Alastair Galbraith’s violin, Bruce Bluchers guitar, and the unmistakable distorted keyboards of Peter Gutteridge all added intrinsically to the final sound . Actually Peter Gutteridge recently said to me about Subway Nihilism” I should have got a co- writing credit for that song” as it was created in a session at Maitland St, when I put a poem to his riff, so he was right about that. A couple of the songs where influenced by a spell living alone in the Queensland rain forest- Manai is influenced by aboriginal music and legend, as was Waitawhile, which is the name of a spikey rainforest plant. The Country girls is a song for my sister Jean, about the loss of our mother when we were young. Floating aground was written about Aramoana- Peter and I had been inside for a few days totally absorbed in recording-I was speaking to my elderly neighbour who told me 13 people had been killed at Aramoana, I thought she was completely mad, but so sadly it was true. We were at Aramoana for a memorial service, and walking along the beach there were flowers in the water, which reminded me of St Marie De La Mere in the Sth of France, where the gypsys take an effigy of St Marie into the sea each year. Dreams of Falling was picked up by Xpressway who had released Peter’s album, then by Turbulence in Belgium, and opened up a new world for me which led on to another 3 albums, tours of America and Europe."

Sandra Bell 

In loving memory of Peter Gutteridge (1962 - 2014)

Körper / Leib 002: Sandra Bell - Dreams Of Falling C42 (excerpt)

This is the first proper album of Eks, beatmaker from Naples, south Italy. More a cohesive work than a collection of beats, "EksM" ranges from obscure beatmaking, oriental meditative confusion and tons of vinyl hiss. The approach to sampling is here more indebted with tape manipulation than with the "regular" Hip Hop method, but the roots are equally strong in both the practice. Instead of focusing on one or two sonic goals, the songs - after all they're properly - disperse itself in a large amount of moods, but their unity is the whole sound chamber, hazy and in the red. The instrument used on this records are: Roland Sp404, Vestax Handy-Trax, an handmade 8bit synthesizer, Monacor Echo Delay EEM 2000, Tascam Portastudio 414 and Ableton Live 8. All the tracks were written between August and December 2014. The track "Violator Kush" features Krokodil White People, the tracks "127" and "Pile Di Fumo" features Mario [Aspect(t)/Aspirale] and Kaspar NonNewton.

Körper / Leib 003: Eks - EksM C42 (excerpt)

This is the first installment of the Part Two of Launch Pad series, made by Talibam! and it's called "Free World". The Launch Pad series was created by Talibam! to explore new sound relationships in the digital world. Using recent album releases by contemporary artists as the launching pad, Talibam! feels inspired to paint and mold their music into a new species, blurring the lines between inconspicuous and conspicuous consumption/appropriation. Part 1 of the Launch Pad series is to improve an album by a contemporary artist by improvising on top of it using live instruments, midi, electronics, tape manipulation and then to release this composite dialogue. In Part 2 of the Launch Pad series, we filter our improvisations from of the composite, and use that material to lightly tweak and make a new sonic environment -- a cultural improvement over the artist's original work by directly engaging with it through corporeal interpretation rather than mere psychical interpretation. Musically speaking - but the aim is not merely musical - one of the main goal's of the Launch Pad series is to create new ways of making and creating music, and to arrive at musical landscapes that they may not have stumbled on before.

Körper / Leib 004: Talibam! - Free World C40 (excerpt)

This is the first album of Polveriera, solo project of Fabrizio Vatieri an artist who mainly works with photography, previously member of  neapolitan prog-punk band Ne Travaillez Jamais. "From 143 to 236" is a record that tells about the change of civic number of the house where he grew up occurred after he left this house. He decided to use this event as a way to combine biography and topography, using field recordings, photographs, percussions. "From 143 to 236" has been composed between 2012 and 2014, using tape-recorders, Roland SP-404, Space Echo, Piezo electric, Roland Alpha Juno II, Oud, Drums, Voice, found-objects, 6x7 negative films and a Fuji 670 GWIII. All photographs were taken by the author in via Polveriera 236 between 2014 and 2015. Please, listen to it with your friends in the car, as loud as possible, in the parking lot of the mall, in the late afternoon on a Monday autumn.

Körper / Leib 005: Polveriera - From 143 To 236 C35 (excerpt)

This is the first chapter of the Bitcoin saga, it's called "Different Traces In Fictional Languages".  The fascination with the world is here regarding more the simulation of it as an "instrument" than with its concrete free and autonomous manifestation. We usually represent this as Library music, but in its pure sense we had to correctly call it This age: there aren't aleatory effects to evoke the ghosts of the samples, they speak their own language. This age music takes away the implicit vagueness in the now of the "new" of the term New age. Bitcoin in its first apparition is focused on circular Gamelan rhythm and eternal loops of low-key electronics. No physical instruments were used on this record. Side A is called "Joyous Sound Of Sebatu", Side B is called "Western Shadows On Batur". More contributions to this research will be produced in the second volume of the saga, called "Fondamento". <<"Mondo” è il titolo per il gioco giocato dalla trascendenza. L’essere-nel-mondo è questo originario giocare del gioco, nel quale ogni esserci effettivo deve esercitarsi per poter aver luogo, in modo tale da essere effettivamente giocato dagli altri per la durata della sua esistenza>>

Körper / Leib 006: Bitcoin - Different Traces In Fictional Languages C30 (excerpt)

This is "Things Of Outtakes", an improv record made by MANAS, an american duo consisting of Tashi Dorji and Thom Nguyen. All tracks were recorded by Patrick Kukucka. The first and the fourth at Toy Boat Community Arts Center in Asheville, 2014. The second and the third at Hi Z lo z Studio, 2014. The photo on the inside cover was made by Meredith Bliss Silver. MANAS are guitar and drums, with nothing more than guitar and drums. It's easy to think about the historicization process of this form of non-Rock music in America, but it's very difficult to think this record as "canonic". Nowadays this form remains strong and communicative like the day 0, probably because improvisation is extratemporal, slumped in the "now". They call every song with the name "Thing". We meet things in the modality of the meeting or the things encounters us. So, the thing (a thing is always some-thing) needs a vital interplay to be called "thing". MANAS can encounter things, create significance of things and disintegrate things.

Körper / Leib 007: MANAS - Things Of Outtakes C35 (excerpt)

2016 has not started in the best way for the guys as they have faced several legal problems: an assault by four french stalkers and a fight in a room that didn't have a happy ending for the beatmaker Eks. Four stalkers called "Les afghanes on tour" obsessively followed the guys for six months (lurking beneath their house, threatening them and going so far as to threaten L., the mother of one the guys). April 15, 2015, guitarist Aaron Rumore was in a gas station in Hamburg in his Audi and, tired of provocations, he struck one of them (the twenty years old Perrine D.) after she blew out a cigarette on the window of his car. Everything was filmed by a security camera and Rumore was denounced and then fined € 1,000. Against Perrine it was instead issued a restraining order that ordered to stay at least one kilometer away from the guys, facing a fine of € 25,000.

Körper / Leib 008: Radford Electronics C30 (excerpt)

"Ogni Giorno Eccitazione". This words are full of lust, glitter and soft-erotism, in a kind of italian-raucous humour. As well, Italy is part of this fiction. This thug named Luxardo is the chansonnier of all that. Imagine an obscure mid-eighties-Serge Gainsbourg croonin' in fake italian on the tracks orchestrated by Armando Trovajoli, or at least a soft-porn comment for an italian porn comedy, which "Ogni Giorno Eccitazione" actually is.  It was 1978, and Luxardo ruled that scenario, in certain ways you can find the same directions Battisti/Mogol reached and spawned in that years. In another life or another level of reality, the deliquente named Luxardo could be also the bass player of a noise-funk band or the director of a cult orchestra named Tredici Bacci. But here what's real it's transfigurated by his double mirror: let's have a Martini and listen to this Romantico jams.

Körper / Leib 009: Luxardo - Ogni Giorno Eccitazione. (1978) C40 (excerpt)

Found in a lead box, this is the last electro-mechanically functioning audio cassette left on the planet. In spite of the Gaia-wobble and switched poles, every pathetic particle desperately and thankfully remains clinging to this dysfunctional globe. The magnetic data remains here encoded in high-bias chrome. No it cannot be played on a garden computer. It’s after the end of the world, don’t you know that yet? A primitive mix tape cut from slices of time segmented samples recreated with binary yes no machines copying reprinting pushing back into analogs and copying the reprints, removing and overdubbing, but mostly accumulating, replaying, and reperforming. Bromp Treb listened to digital machines but with analog ears and made a cast of those ears and then buried the casts in magnetically-charged metal shavings. The result was plastic and tangible, illegible but lost, until now. Tape collages from recordings made with many devices from 2013 - 2016. 

Körper / Leib 010: Bromp Treb - The Last Functioning Audio Cassette Left On The Planet C60(excerpt)

Perhaps the Curse Purse CURSE is real? We opened the clasp in 2014 and chaos was inflicted in several forms -  two automobile break-ins, one towed automobile, one totally destroyed automobile, one border entry denied, a few poor restaurant choices.  We tried a counter-spell on stage at a witch museum in Salem, Massachusetts but to no avail.  We lie dormant at the foot of the Poet’s Seat until the curse passed over us.  We could only walk the 1.1 miles between each other’s house for practice and at that had to watch the ice.  We returned to recording and performing in anticipation that the spell had finally worn off, and it appears it has.  Herein lies the record of that dormancy, under the sandstone seat that could erode at any moment…

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