Cascades of electronic noise, a psychedelic touch and vocal belching mixed together constitute the ingredients of Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé, the double-barreled name for Masonna. Maso Yamazaki founded his project in 1987, with a charismatic and glamorous personality who become a cult figure in “Japanoise” scene. Masonna’s abundant productions on his own legendary and astonishing label Coquette were presented in very limited edition, sometime totally confidential (one sole copy), and reflect his predilection for 60’s psychedelic music revisited in its own very peculiar way. He transforms his voice into noise, feeding the microphone back through a process of extreme distortion. His shouts become clipped bursts of overloaded sound, doubled and extended by a delay that displace the sounds into stuttered blasts of static.
Filled with unquestionable feelings along with Freak is an ultra-rare cassette originally released in 1995 by Coquette in an edition of only 36 copies and now return for the first time in a stunning vinyl format fully remastered!
The two sides of the cassette / vinyl are completely different from each other. Side A can be considered a classic Masonna piece, where it reaches its full artistic maturity here. This side is very brash, earsplitting and mad. The distortion and effects on the vocals are top notch, they in combination with his awesome screaming create a complete audio assault. Remind also to his first period as Open your cunt and Like a vagina tapes. Everything is scraped, fast and beautiful and focuses an electrically overcharged universe, punctuating the thrilling and vocal sonorous power with some quite moments and brief interruptions, conferring a very particular dynamic to work. Side B is completely different. The voice disappears (or is no longer heard because it is covered or transformed by feedback). The structure is more compact and organized but eventually becomes far wilder, building up to pointillistic bleeps and dense layers of electronic fizz that unexpectedly cut to near-silence; these bear many uncanny resemblances to the simple melodic improvs and incessant ostinatos of Terry Riley.
At once beautiful and remarkably challenging, Filled with unquestionable feelings, is an absolutely revelation in the wide discography of Masonna and easily one of the early contenders for the best artist release.  It is reissued on black vinyl in a limited edition of 299 copies. Original tape copies are virtually unobtainable, skirting well into the three figure realm, so this one Lp is not to be missed!

Masonna - Part 1 Excerpt (from Filled with unquestionable feelings)

taken from the forthcoming 5LP / 5CD box set "Electroacoustic Works" celebrating Iannis Xenakis' 100th anniversay on May 29th, 2022. 

Newly mixed by longtime zeitkratzer sound engineer Martin Wurmnest, mastered by Rashad Becker.

Out in January 2022

IANNIS XENAKIS - Mycenae Alpha

Bipociwipajojog

Xakoaabetakeielerap

Excerpts from the 2016 C20 Tape, released by Lead Lozenges.

Coerce I - Side B - Excerpt

to release a series of fanzines in A5 format. The first was The pleasure agony, followed by Sick and Murders. The aesthetics of these first fanzines were very sophisticated and the content deals with topics that will follow Marco Corbelli throughout his artistic career: sadism, schizophrenia, insanity, murder, psychosis, necrophilia, diseases, and most importantly death. In 1993, heavily influenced by his obsessions, he began his musical activities creating the Slaughter Productions label  and the Atrax Morgue project. Greatly inspired by Italian Power Electronics act The Sodality, with their 1987 LP Beyond Unknown Pleasures and from projects as Whitehouse and Brighter Death Now, pioneers of a minimal, evil and visceral electronic, Atrax Morgue released his first tape In search of death which will be followed by a series of amazing cassettes in the following years.
In 1996, with the only help of his analog synthesizer Sequential Circuits Six-Trak, Marco Corbelli recorded four tracks of pure improvisation for the legendary noise label BloodLust! run by Mark Solotroff. The tracks are released in cassette with the title of Autoerotic Death and limited to 50 copies. The putrescence is palpable, and one could almost smell and taste the miasma of decay that pervades the entire work. The psychopathological sound is white, painful and horrific. Crosses terrifying rooms lit by neon lights, corridors filled with gruesome tools, machines of blood and bits of human tissue floating in jars of formalin. The hum of the synth is often repeated loops, where each track has a compact structure, following the main theme (of autoerotic death).
The record has been pressed on 140gr black vinyl with black label and black inner sleeve and comes in a deluxe black cardboard sleeve with logo in silver silk screen plus double side pictures (from original tape cover art) fixed on front cover LP and a small insert. Limited edition of 199 copies.

Atrax Morgue - A.D. Pt.1 Extract (from Autoerotic Death)

something pt.3

Assuming There is No Friction

Thirteen alto saxophones, performed by the 13 members of the student-collective Kug-Sax-Sippia in Graz, Austria, occupy the entire field of “Odd Music,” the first track on Julien Malaussena’s album Articulated Sound Energy. They operate like a single instrument—or organism—delivering serial, droning noir. The Paris-based composer has engaged deeply with the continental academic scene, studying composition and orchestration with various eminent teachers, including composer Jean Luc Hervé; but this album illustrates those ideas being worked on by a new generation of classical composers. Influenced by the organic sensuality of Chaya Czernowin and the unique points of musical departure explored by composer Pierluigi Billone, Malaussena’s scores proceed from the artist’s concept behind the title: the event of a physical, non-musical sound, which then gets articulated, or elaborated upon. This album contains recordings of three concerts, three distinct paths that this approach can take. On “Concerning articulated sound energy,” the kinetic philosophy results in an almost incomprehensible din far from standard chamber fare: sounds of stretched out balloons, lips puckering, and great, big wobblings. Indeed, rather than strict instrumentation, Malaussena’s compositions allow for chance, following in the footsteps of modern epistemes such as the Darmstadt School, while breaking new ground.


Release Date:
March 26, 2021

Format:
Vinyl LP; covers are printed with water-based ink on recycled paper; strictly limited to 100 copies worldwide.

Buy link: https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/articulated-sound-energy 

Audio/Artwork Credits:
Mastering: Jack Callahan
Lacquer cut: Amy Dragon
Photo: Florent Carron Darras
Design and layout: Sam Lubicz
Liner notes: Max Erwin
Silkscreening: Mark Rice

“Odd Music” performed by Kug-Sax-Sippia
"Concerning Articulated Sound Energy" performed by ECCE Ensemble
"A View on Michelle Agnes Ritual" performed by Ensemble l'imaginaire

Artist Bio:
Julien Malaussena considers his compositional prism to be sound energy–not timbre nor time; not dynamics, pitch, nor the sound space, but rather this element straddling all of these, one less palpable, less quantifiable. By setting up a range of entities embodying different stages of such energy, he focuses on the direction–or absence of direction– inherent in each entity. With this conception of directionality, he articulates these entities and the relations amongst them in a musical form, in which entities interact either in a dialectical structure of tension and release, or in a system generated by subtle gradations of tension. His recent work has been an inquiry into the relationship between form (this dialectic) and material (the articulated sound entities).

He was already played by ensembles like Ensemble Nikel, Ensemble 2E2M, Court-Circuit, Xasax, les Cris de Paris, Ensemble l'imaginaire, Ensemble Fractales, le Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Kug-sax-sippia, Ecce ensemble, Les solistes du Balcon, ensemble interface, ensemble Surplus, Duo XAMP (microtonal accordions),20 degrés dans le noir, Schallfeld, Barcelona Modern Ensemble, Wet ink, Ensemble Nemø, Tak ensemble, Ensemble S201 performed in France, Israel, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Russia, Austria, Brazil, USA, Turkey, mexico, Italie, Japan and Spain.

He was also involved in the founding of an ensemble dedicated to contemporary music: soundinitiative.

Julien Malaussena - Odd Music (ENM09)

0:00 lightreception
3:29 seepingwand
5:35 howlofacortex
6:56 geomutation
9:14 jaggedformsvanishabovetribesofdenial
10:33 thepalegeraniums

https://sleepdial.bandcamp.com/album/palegeranium

palegeranium

neu+nervous is a Vienna/Austria based conceptual-electroacoustic-noise-project.

discography:
WE ARE
THE POLE VAULTER'S MODESTY
VITAL SIGNS (split with "I,Eternal")
ALONG THE CUSHION

I am happy to present my latest album "ALONG THE CUSHION“ and some samples of the other albums.

All albums and tracks can be found here:
https://neunervous.bandcamp.com/

Assuming There is No Friction

neu+nervous

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