HMV – EALP 1334

India - Dagar Brothers - master Dhrupad singers (1968)


Produced and mixed by Martin Bowes (Attrition).

www.attrition.co.uk/thecage/thecage.htm

www.facebook.com/thecagestudios



Rise Of A Future Generator

Recorded over their two day residency, 9.9.16 picks the best of the weekend and compresses it into a heavy slab of DIY-trance-progge-reared-on-minimalism. Their seemingly endless, ritualistic riffs follow their own rhythm and their own harmony to the roots of some far-away gnarled tree. Includes 'Stina' - a lilting folk-rock track written by close friend Mats G Bengtsson.

9.9.16 DS072 - Trad Gras Och Stenar - "Kaffe Med Tårta" from 9.9.16

An affectionate homage to the dude. It's actually a song called Fashion Fever, but my kid asked "Why are you singing Justin Bieber...?" The original will be on the Running In The Family @ 25, Acoustic re-interpretations.... catchy title eh?, all coming soon from Universal Music.

MK Ode to Justin Bieber

Satori

A song to remind you to put your clocks forward,
Recorded live with my friends at Ronnie Scott’s

7 Clocks Go Forward.wav

Barney and I with another noodle to hopefully keep you amused in lockdown. Stay well sweethearts! X

Tower.mp3

The last offering from Gary Barnacle and I.
Happy Easter Monday guys! Enjoy x

A.T.'s.aif

Giovanni di Domenico, L'inutile

LISTEn or BUY: https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/bow-down-thine-ear-i-bring-you-glad-tidings

Among the musicians whose work closely reflects the reduced forms in experimental music, perhaps the most interesting is Cristián Alvear, a Chilean guitarist performing formally radical post-Cagean music, as well as Laurent Peter aka @dincise, a composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer, one of the key figures of the eclectic scene in Geneva. The numerous projects in which they participate prove their strictly defined artistic vision and active involvement in networking the music community, so it’s appropriate to consider them as transitory elements between several scenes on different continents. They have collaborated, among others, with Ryoko Akama, Cyril Bondi, Michael Pisaro, Sarah Hennies, Seijiro Murayama, Taku Sugimoto, Lance Austin Olsen and The Pitch.

Bow Down Thine Ear, I Bring You Glad Tidings is a good example of the refinement of the style developed by Alvear and d’incise in recent years. One can observe here how their musical language and range of instrumental techniques in the use of guitar and idiophones got crystallised.

The classical form of a musical piece organized in time and characterized by a set of elements that create a coherent narrative is replaced here by the primacy of repetition, pitch, precise articulation and reverberation. Sounds seem to be clearly rooted in specific acoustic spaces, which allows the space itself to be treated as a real instrument that adds another layer of meaning. Repetitive sound sequences operate in a similar way to the metronome, determining an obsessive rhythmic pattern, a kind of matrix on which all the details are inscribed. The static structure of the pieces allows the music to function as a sound sculpture - breaking time constraints in favour of continuous duration and acting in a multi-perspective way. This material, does not promise any solution, but strictly accompanies the listener and tries to close itself in the continuous present.

At the same time Bow Down Thine Ear, I Bring You Glad Tidings is a clear dialogue with the work of Henry Purcell. The title of the album is a reference to the anthems written by the British composer (Z11, Z2) and the titles of the pieces refer to his sacred songs (Z192, Z342). Apart from a skillful attempt to decontextualize the lyrics (biblical or rooted in the tradition of baroque religious poetry), we can see here not so much an attempt to give the music a metaphysical character, but certainly Alvear and d’incise tend to replicate a similar mode of listening, as in the case of Purcell's compositions - meditative and at the same time oriented to all elements of the musical situation. 


released October 5, 2020

Cristián Alvear: guitar
cristianalvear.com

d'incise: percussion (2 series of "tuned objects"), post-processings recorded in a different space
dincise.net

Recorded at Insub.studio, Geneva, May 2019
Processings recorded at La Senne, Bruxelles, May & September 2019
Edited & mixed by d’incise

Cover art by Nick Hoffman
www.pilgrimtalk.bandcamp.com

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
www.abdonoval.com

Words by Paweł Szroniak
www.rozkurz.tumblr.com

Photography by Leontína Berková
www.leontinaberkova.com

Released by mappa as MAP020 in 2020

MK Ode to Justin Bieber

Mark King Level 42