Countersing_37_thrushmix

opener for our new album on Staubgold, featuring Julie Christmas on vocals and Helen Money on cello

http://www.discogs.com/buy/Vinyl/Strings-Of-Consciousness-From-Beyond-Love/56172682?ev=bp_rel_det

STRINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: The Drone From Beyond Love

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

Do Humans Dream of Electronic Ships

The Journey

a piece for looping.
适合循环聆听。

2016-10-12 Sidrolz + Plumbutter

This is one of my original songs 'Chaos' which I arranged to play on my acoustic travel guitar by Journey Instruments and my BOSS loop station. The original arrangement was a piano riff and an electronic drum beat I came up with in Logic X that looped over and over again so I could rap and sing over it. I still have this version saved on my computer as it is how I envision the produced version so I will work on it and eventually release it! I wrote this song in an hour which is rare for me; my songs take ages to write but it was probably because I was in a weird mental state and I just needed to release all of the emotions I was dealing with at the time.
You can watch the video of the performance on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B39rFbRWuyU

Chaos (Original - Loop Pedal Performance)

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Dandy - The Kid Laroi *Type Beat*

Some "Buchla modular Swing" going intergalactic…?! Pushing further my hommage to Lewis Carroll's Alice being trapped in a wonderland where nothing is as it would seem... "Find a pleasure in all simple joys, remembering my own child-life, and the happy summer days."...

Philippe Petit - Whereas Itchy Gets Scratchy

In 2019 a probe took to the Moon about a thousand tardigrades, the only known animal resistant to space vacuum and lack of oxygen.
Where most small invertebrates move in all directions, tardigrades move calmly scaling tiny debris in a nonchalant and clumsy gait… Feeling inspired to soundtrack that breaking news and convey such atmosphere, I chose to use sounds emitting from only one source the mighty Benjolin module adaptated for Buchla by Anthony Capelli based on Rob Hordijk’s clever design… 
Modular moonwalk?!

Tardigrades On The Moon

Slowly evolving, building up BUCHLASONIX Groove playing the 259 Buchla Oscillator in the Metasonix RK4 Filter/VCO to obtain a microsoundimensional dancefloor… Hands on FMin’, filtering to change the traditional Buchla sound and "listen outside the box"… 

For more infos on the possibilities offered by that part of the « Triple Sublime Assheater » module which Metasonix adapted to the Buchla format please check:
http://www.metasonix.com/index.php/rk4-filter-vco-new

and the full adaptation for BUCHLA and Serge systems...
http://www.metasonix.com/index.php/4u-modules-new

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