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from T(h)ree vol.3
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H. Wakabayashi
words and music, Vocals, guitars, electronics
JyuneticA
vocals, piano

cover illustration by Kotaro Chiba


Not Just Me ( H. Wakabayashi + JyuneticA )

Semi Precious - All Night

RELEASED 24th MARCH  -  12" VINYL + DIGITAL  -  ACCIDENTAL JNR

Following his first ep for Accidental Jnr in the summer​ Bambooman is now back with something entirely different. The downtempo experimental designs of the ‘Feel EP’ give way to his latest offering ‘Shudder’. Available on 12” and digital the 4 tracks of Shudder weave through a club music tapestry like a chainsaw through custard. The opening and title track is hard to describe, a mix of off kilter synth stabs and hammering snare that routes you to the floor - it’s one of those tracks to whip out of your bag to remind the crowd they have no idea what is coming next. Track 2 ‘Grasp’ with a blissful Detroit groove under deep rich melting chords is a perfect blend of early funk house style and super crisp new production.

Side B opens with ‘M1’ a lazy floor track with washes of bells, static and detuned synth above a bed of solid kick and shuffling bass. Finally ‘Kyrian’ closes proceedings, another club friendly slice (despite being in a 7⁄8 time signature), the track could have led the EP in its own right but feels like the perfect bookend with its shifting almost garage like 2-step feel and glancing vocal hook.

‘Bambooman wields refined live recordings, warm exquisite melodies and a silvery vocal into the track’s rich musical fabric. It’s hard to suppress the emotions with this one’ - Boiler Room on ‘Feel EP’

Bambooman - SHUDDER

Night Dream Island

Taken from the 'Lines' EP. Released 8th September.
Pre-order - smarturl.it/mbc-lines

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Meeting By Chance AKA Skalpel’s Marcin Cichy debuts on Apollo with a gorgeous EP of soulful atmospheric electronica, suffused with aching negative space, softly ticking rhythms and dulcet piano.

Classically trained on piano since his youth and one of the youngest Polish National TV music composers ever, Marcin quickly developed a taste for electronic music, composing soundtracks for some of Poland’s influential and pioneering video artists throughout the 80s and 90s.

But it was when he founded the acclaimed jazz duo Skalpel with Igor Pudło in 1998 that things really got going.  Over the course of their three albums and many EPs to date Scalpel have won huge acclaim, signing to Ninja Tune, and, winning Poland’s most prestigious cultural award Paszport POLITYKI as well as performing with Mira Calix, Clark, Kronos Quartet and AUKSO Orchestra among many others.

Following a serious skateboarding accident, Marcin backbone was broken in two places which meant a year spent between a bed and on a wheelchair. This period saw the beginning of his solo career as Meeting by Chance (the name inspired by a series of pictures by Duane Michals showing the reaction of two men crossing in an alley). 

In contrast to Skalpel’s more jazz infused upbeat vibe MBC finds Marcin exploring the combination of delicate textural sound design with enveloping billowy pads and ethereal piano chords. Cichy displays an introspective lightness of touch that is quite rare in today’s bombastic modern electronica which is most welcome and perfectly fits in with Apollo Records.

Meeting By Chance - Wait For Me

From the first live "Aliens 8 Views" by manpower formation (excerpt). 2017/8/22 at Shibuya The ROOM.

 "Aliens 8 Views" Composed by Masayasu Tzboguchi & Naruyoshi Kikuchi

「Tokyo Zawinul Bach・Special」are
Masayasu Tzboguchi：Leader, Fender Rhodes, Prophet6 Synthesizer
David Negrete：Alt Sax, Flute
Yosuke Miyajima：Guitar
Ryoji Orihara：Fretless Bass
Masato Mori：Drums
Yoco：Dance (Guest)

170822@TheROOM

Aliens 8 Views（Tokyo Zawinul Bach・Special）

Recorded in 1978

Taken from the album 'Tremblements...' released as LP and Download

François Bayle 'Tremblement De Terre Très Doux' (excerpt) (REGRM 019)

Cassette edition of 100 via Cassauna/Imprec

The Buchla 100 experimental session begins with a documentary recording of the noise generators. Something I find endlessly fascinating is listening to different noise sources, so I always feel compelled to record them. The remaining tracks are sequenced by my MANIAC Cellular Automata sequencer. First up are three little sequenced ditties that also incorporate the ARP 2600 modular interconnected to the Buchla 100. After this is an ultra-minimal setup using MANIAC and the mind-numbingly rare Waveform Synthesizer Model 132 module. As far as I'm aware this is the only one of these modules that Buchla ever built! A truly unique module where you have 32 pots that setup the output waveform, and an FM input as well.. The last two tracks are a Cellular Automata / FM crossmod oscillator stereo setup, lots of crunchy high pitched stuff with some deep bass notes thrown in too :]

NYZ
MILLZ EXPZ


A1 BUCHLA100 HI-NOISE
A2 BUCHLA100 LO-NOISE
A3 BUCHLA100+ARP2600+MANIAC TRK4 cellklunka
A4 BUCHLA100+ARP2600+MANIAC TRK2b simplcellseq
A5 BUCHLA100+ARP2600+MANIAC TRK3 celldrnr
A6 BUCHLA100 WAVEFORM SYNTHESIZER MODEL 132 + MANIAC [2CHAN-VERSION]
A7 BUCHLA100 MANIAC_1#9_PREAMBLE
B1 BUCHLA100 MANIAC_1#9

Recorded at Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA on 5th April 2015

Mixed and arranged at Noyzelab, NSW, Australia between July 2015 & February 2016 
www.noyzelab.com


Sound Source: Buchla 100 / ARP 2600 
Sequencer: MANIAC cellular automata sequencer


Thanks:


John Bischoff and Chris Brown at Mills for studio access

Doug Khan and Warren Burt for suggesting I write to John Bischoff

Jesse Austin at Mills for tech support

Robbie & Laurie Martin at Record Label Records in Oakland for lifts, food and putting me up!

Sarah Last at The Wired Lab

Richard D James for Buchla 100 natterings

NYZ - BUCHLA - WAVEFORM - SYNTHESIZER MODEL 132+MANIAC - MILLZ EXPZ Cassette

Olivier Alary and Johannes Malfatti join forces on their collaborative album ‘u,i ’, a brilliant exploration of mediated modern communication and a timely release that strikes a powerful resonance with our recently heightened experiences of connection and isolation under pandemic conditions. ‘u, i ’ was recorded over VOIP (voice over internet protocol), using the technology as both creative tool and conceptual frame.

Recorded in Berlin and Montreal and the strange virtual space in between, ‘u,i’ was pieced together between 2017-2019, though its genesis dates back fifteen years, to when Olivier and Johannes began dreaming of a network-based studio that could bridge the 6,000 km geographical distance between them. When early public forms of VOIP such as Skype appeared in the early ‘00s, the pair quickly took to the platform to talk and exchange ideas. Whilst it enabled the building of both a friendship and musical collaboration, they quickly noticed its limitations. Poking fun at its often distorted and unintelligible transmission quality, they began accumulating recordings of its strange sonic by-products. As the pair increasingly used VOIP through the years, the musical potential of these recordings and the concept behind ‘u,I’ began to emerge. Spending more time together online than in the same physical space, they noticed their personal experience was widely shared. With contemporary lives increasingly atomised, social interaction is becoming more and more mediated. Meanwhile, an explosion of personal video feeds has given us access to millions of intimate lives online, a raw and fragile glimpse on human existence. This new paradigm gave Olivier and Johannes the idea that it might be possible to build the narrative of a whole life via disconnected fragments posted online.

A reflection on human existence glimpsed through the prism of VOIP, 'u,i' encapsulates our vaporized social existence via a multitude of disconnected ghostly fragments and offers a bittersweet celebration of our interconnection – simultaneously close and detached. Ultimately, the album itself is a dichotomy – it mourns this gap whilst at the same time recognising it as the sole reason for its existence.

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