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Moga Harra - SAYED & SHAHINDA

The world has become bombastic. Ironically, even among the most minimalist and ambient communities. The labels trying to out-shout one another: “listen to meeee!” they proclaim, sometimes in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, with descriptions in press releases spanning multiple pages of concepts and tales. And I don’t really blame them for that – it’s impossible to stand out these days, to “capture” your attention (the most important currency we “pay”), and to turn that focus into plays [what comes after, is a whole other story]. And then there are artists (and labels) that seem to continue their modest and humble quest for the essence that we may extract from this wonder we call ‘music’. They come unexpecting to share the love. One of such imprints remains the Québec-based Moderna, which searches the globe for the next hidden gem. It has introduced me to many new and up-and-coming composers, which have remained on my playlists and Best of the Year lists. Their latest small gift comes in a form of a four-track EP from a Dutch musician Jeroen Dirrix (he’s put out some singles and appeared on Moderna’s compilations before). It’s a 20-minute glimpse into a place behind the space that occupies the concrete jungle of the cities where we dwell. In this particular case, it is his city of Rotterdam (which I find to be architecturally beautiful, by the way), that quietly yearns for the nature which has since receded in urban defeat.

"Jeroen Dirrix dreams up an imaginary escape from his urban studio centred around the acoustic piano, with the soothing sounds of analog synthesizers and field recordings weaving their way meditatively through the soundscape."

A Hidden Place

TRACK PREMIERE : Jeroen Dirrix - Call the Flood

We Move Lightly

'Dance, Aurora' is from the album 'Music to an unborn film'. More information here: http://bit.ly/TcoJCq

Petur Jonsson | Dance, Aurora

Music from the contemporary dance-theatre-piece "Don Nadie- Herr Niemand" by the COOPERATIVA MAURA MORALES
Foto: Klaus Handner
Check out also the clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBz_1aTCWkU&feature=youtu.be

Methadone

To celebrate Piano Day I recorded a cover version of a piece from one of my favorite piano composers/performers, Michael Nyman.  This piece is titled "Molly" off of the wonderful score to the Michael Winterbottom film "Wonderland". 

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Molly - (Goldmund Cover)

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Musical excerpts of the contemporary dance production "Stadt der Blinden" by COOPERATIVA MAURA MORALES.
Check also the video clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDgqTYlo43A&feature=youtu.be
Foto: Klaus Handner

Small Spaces (Excerpt)

Musical excerpts of the contemporary dance production "Stadt der Blinden" by COOPERATIVA MAURA MORALES.
Check also the video clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs3uEiRN208&feature=youtu.be
Foto: Klaus Handner

The Rape (Excerpt)

An excerpt of the music of the contemporary dance theater piece "Phaidra- The Virtuosity of Pain" of COOPERATIVA MAURA MORALES.
Composition, Recording, Arranging, Mixing, Programming such as all instruments played  by Michio 
Photo: Klaus Handner

Fear (Excerpt)

MURCOF + PHILIPPE PETIT: 1st chapter
(LP + CD + Digital / Rev. Lab. - Aagoo)

Release date: September 2013

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Fernando Corona
Hailing from Tijuana, on the Mexico/US border, and now a Barcelona resident, Fernando Corona rose to attention as part of Mexican collective Nortec, mostly for his work as Terrestre, but it is with another project, Murcof, that he has made an extremely strong impact. Merging micro-beats with samples of contemporary classical music, his work, often crystallised into sweeping haunting pieces, bridges the gap between Arvo Pärt or Henryk Górecki and part of the electronic scene of today. He is credited with being one of the main influences of the likes of Erik Skodvin and of many of the artists who have appeared on Miasmah in recent years.
www.murcof.com

Philippe Petit
This self-styled musical activist began his career as a journalist and DJ in his native Marseille, and went on to form Pandemonium Rdz., a label with which he explored the outer reaches of experimental rock, before turning his interest to electronic music by setting up BiP_HOp Records at the beginning of the noughties. Since 2009, his focus has shifted once again, this time on his own music, a refined blend which can incorporate elements of experimental rock rock or classical music and can take the form of complex electronic, electro-acousticism, experimentation or turntablism. Although Petit occasionally works alone, it is in the collaborative space where he truly thrives, casting his sonic world against that of the likes of Eugene S. Robinson, Lydia Lunch, Pietro Riparbelli, Bella Emerson, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Asva & loads more... 
www.philippepetit.info

The album
The meeting of such unconventional musicians was always going to result in a pretty incredible piece of work, but confronting such strong identities and getting them to work together was not a given. For the past three years, Philippe Petit and Fernando Corona have regularly played live together, undoubtedly refining their collaboration with each new performance and finding the right balance between their respective sound worlds. The result is this album which equally finds its roots in Murcof’s modern classical influences and Petit’s coarse post modernist soundscaping.
The album may barely reach the forty minute mark, but in the space of three tracks, Corona and Petit create a magnificent soundtrack which teems with haunting choral chants, lush string work and unsettling atmospherics. This album is rooted in ancient myths and legends, borrowing from Greek mythology for "The Call Of Circé", daughter of Helios and powerful enchantress, and winged divine horse "Pegasus", or from Nordic tales of giant squid-like sea monsters on "The Summoning Of The Kraken". This very much characterises the epic proportions of this album, echoing in parts the amplitude of Murcof’s "Cosmos" (Leaf, 2007), and in others Petit’s equally ambitious "Off To Titan" (Karlrecords 2010), but they temper this with much more delicate moments, for which they assemble incredibly detailed and refined atmospheric passages.
Clocking at just over twenty minutes, the opening piece "The Call Of Circé" is articulated around a series of sequences which range from stern, doom-like guitar stabs and harsh percussive noises to eerie choral laments and theatrical vocal flourishes. The haunting melodies and ambiences of the first half are slowly broken apart by the recurring thuds of metallic percussions. When these recede, the mood has become darker, grittier, more oppressive, and remains as such for much of the remainder.
"Pegasus" recalls some of the more baroque treatment Murcof experimented with on his commissioned work for Les Grandes Eaux Nocturnes de Versailles, especially through his use of the viola de gamba as a primary sound source, but this sound source becomes corrupted as the track progresses, perhaps subject to Philippe Petit’s radical decay processing, until only a few distorted strands of grating bowed strings remain.
With the last track, Corona and Petit opt for an overall softer, warmer atmosphere, but there is a lingering feeling of impending danger lurking below the surface of the whole piece. This is marked by the use of sparse percussions, magnified vinyl crackles and processed guitars and textures which, assembled in various combinations, weight heavily on the otherwise almost pastoral nature of the composition.
Philippe Petit knows how to find collaborators with whom he can go beyond his own sonic universe and make them venture into unfamiliar territories, and he is an expert in making these collaborations gel perfectly. And this is one hell of a collaboration: two artists, each with this visionary approach, working together to create a truly magnificent piece.
WRITTEN BY Bruno Lasnier / January 2013 (www.themilkfactory.co.uk/st/)

MURCOF & PHILIPPE PETIT : The call of Circé

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Akira Kosemura - Asymptote

Alex Streliski - Plus Tôt / Felt Piano Cover

Out now :: Strelitzia by @manosmilonakismusic

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Dedicated to spring, uniqueness, and equality. The story of "the paradise bird" that was doomed to be transformed into a plant reminds us that despite one's special characteristics, differences and/or achievements, we breathe the same air and are thus designed to be equal and to live in harmony. 'Strelitzia' is a story told with piano, strings and some synths of the 80's.

Strelitzia

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Manos Milonakis - Strelitzia

Guitarist, composer and sound artist MICHIO studied both at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, and the Saarland Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
As a guitarist, he regularly tours Europe and Japan, both as a soloist and with various ensembles, appearing as a guest musician at various prestigious international guitar festivals. A prize winner of numerous guitar competitions, he has also worked both as guest and stage musician with renowned orchestras as well as state theatres like the Saarland State Theatre, the Darmstadt State Theatre, the Lohorchester Sondershausen, the Oldenburg State Theatre, and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
Michio’s compositional work ranges from commissioned works for classical ensembles and soloists, over stage music for ballet pieces, to film scores and contemporary dance theatre projects in the independent scene.
His work therefore includes compositions for the Darmstadt State Theatre Ballet Ensemble, the Linz State Theatre Ballett Ensemble, for the Saarland State Theatre Ballet Ensemble, for Landerer & Companie, for the choreographers Mei Hong Lin, Stijn Celis, Massimo Gerardi, Maura Morales and for the Swiss harpsichordist Vital Frey. 
Since 2010 he has been composer and co-director of the contemporary dance company COOPERATIVA MAURA MORALES, which was in 2013 awarded the prestigious "Kurt Jooss-Prize" and 2014 with the Culture Prize of the City Dusseldorf.

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Small Spaces (Excerpt)

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