IDM or else ? - part 2

Francesco Cavaliere and Tomoko Sauvage embody a tactile audio visual display, radiating the colour green into sounds and painting meditative music. By transforming collected objects into invented instruments and scenography, each motif becomes a dedication to a specific situation, an anecdote or a symbol, sometimes real and other times absurd, that the artists have encountered through their travels and conversations: the Chinese myth about a man wearing a green hat, the naming convention of Japanese traffic lights, or even the imaginary chants of frolicking twin dolphins. This inspired the duo’s personal research on experimenting with raw and synthesized idiophones, stage landscape design, spontaneous field recording and organized improvisation.

For their installation and performance, Cavaliere and Sauvage assemble a green cabinet of curiosities - an instrumentarium combining water, glass, clay, bamboo xylophones, metallophones and synthesizers. Tomoko describes in an interview: “When you are actually surrounded by green musical instruments, it has a calming effect as if you were looking at a forest or mountain.” Surrounding themselves with amulets and fluorescent fluids, the duo transcend into a musical imagination that connects scores, choreography and sculpture. Motions like crisscrossing the stage, feeling the presence of a perfectly plump leaf as it strikes a glass bowl, minerals slipping through fingers, all resonate to the soothing sounds of splashing water. There’s an intuitive yet methodical nature to this conceptual approach to composition reminiscent of the fluxus art movement. The pair’s initial motif was to play Henning Christiansen’s Green Music, whose score turned out to be nonexistent. By then, their green dream was already flourishing in their mind, retracing the path of so-called environmental music from Walter Tilgner and Knud Viktor to the likes of Kankyo-Ongaku and Hiroshi Yoshimura.

Since there is a strong visual element to their work, witnessing this captivating site specific performance may be imperative in understanding the range and influence of the colour green and the impact on the sounds they create together. On ‘Viridescens’, the first release by Cavaliere and Sauvage, we are invited to experience these recordings in a more musical context. Acting like an intermediary, the duo transport us to their special planet, enlivened by animal voices, wind, and aquatic creatures dancing across a luminous aurora.

Tracks A1, B1 and B2 were recorded by
Pratik Dasgupta at the Empty Gallery, Hong Kong in 2017.
Track A3 was initially composed for the installation work
≒ AO presented as part of the festival Infra, Tokyo in 2017.
Special thanks to the Empty Gallery, Hong Kong;
Q-O2, Brussels; Yuri Landman (electric xylophones)

Composed and arranged by
Francesco Cavaliere and Tomoko Sauvage
Mastered and cut by Noel Summerville
Artwork by Benjamin Kilchhofer

Viridescens

Francesco Cavaliere & Tomoko Sauvage - Viridescens (Preview)

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1. Danny Playamaqui - Milk Moon FM
2. Jerry La Flim - LAST OF THE JUNO CHORDS
3. Quadrawulf - mmountain rivers
4. Jerohme - optimism
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7. Anitta - fd
8. Dollarstore Keyboard - Chordata
9. lee - Unseen
10. Mause - k4_SIDmldy
11. Anitta & Placa Acero - TR BS CR MM
12. WHRK - Dozboks [140]
13. Greystar - Linker
14. Florian Förster - political
15. Rave Liotta - Grover
16. fxbip - Phasma Corollata
17. Isobutane - Fifi and I
18. utopia cloak - Late at night
19. Retape - Yindy

Mastered by Danny Playamaqui
Artwork by Jerohme
Tracklist curation by Purpledaughter 

released April 22, 2022 

Hot on the heels of 🛸 comes 🌻 
Sowing the seeds in mid-April and hoping for beautiful flowers for better times in the future. 
Featuring all of your favourites and some super special guests. 
This compilation is pay what you want and all proceeds will be donated to UAnimals: https://linktr.ee/uanimals
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However, on February 24, 2022, Russia attacked Ukraine and now the main efforts of UAnimals are focused on rescuing animals in this situation. We help shelters financially, we provide them with food and try to evacuate animals to other countries. 
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Released by Geraeuschmanufaktur

Limited Edition CD available at

geraeuschmanufaktur.bandcamp.com/album/19-strings

From the label:

With "19 Strings" Geräuschmanufaktur presents a new release by the Copenhagen resident artist and musician Paw Grabowski, the man behind øjeRum.

19 quiet, almost fragile-sounding strings resonate into a poetic soundscape and slowly increase to a hypnotizing, expressive and droning ambient piece. The result reveals both rousing and enraptured moments that lure every listener to immerse themselves into the piece's isolated melancholy nature.
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19 Strings

Mix by @nixtrove
<This mix contains only original tracks made by Nixtrove and features a lot of unreleased tracks!>
Born in Vancouver in 1999, sound engineer, drummer and music producer Matthew Coulombe has since settled in Montréal. Under the moniker Nixtrove, Matthew Coulombe overlaps layers upon layers of syncopated beats, delves into polyrhythmic structures, splinters and deconstructs cadences and melodies in order to create electronic music that integrates and blends shades of IDM, Acid, Drum and bass, Breakbeat, Ambient, Dub and Bass music into a uniquely left field sound. Supremely prolific, Nixtrove has self-released nearly 20 albums and EPs in the last four years.

Check out his bandcamp here >> https://nixtrove.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:

Nixtrove - Unreleased
Nixtrove - Love msg
Nixtrove - Dark road
Nixtrove - Unreleased
Nixtrove - Decay
Nixtrove - Unreleased
Nixtrove - Unreleased
Nixtrove - Nyctophile
Nixtrove - Bouncd
Nixtrove - Yuldub

Nixtrove >>

INDEx Mix #26 - Nixtrove

https://mezame.bandcamp.com/album/bedroom-improvisation
Mezame is Muzan Editions new sub-label, dedicated to showcasing live and improvised music from the Kansai area in Japan. All proceeds from each release go to a charity of the artist's choice.

First up is our friend Hirotaka Shirotsubaki ( @infection ) , who created a long-form drone piece that develops with clarity and smoothness as layers of slowly cascading reverb overtake each other. Meditative music for your mind and soul.
To listen to the full set, please visit the Mezame Bandcamp.

Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Bedroom Improvisation (sampler)

Released September 19th, 2022

Lorenzo Abattoir, Angelo Bignamini, Andrea Borghi, Devid Ciampalini, Marco Ferrazza, Nicola Fumo Frattegiani, Giovanni Lami, Fabio Perletta, Nàresh Ran, Gaspare Sammartano, Dominique Vaccaro

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FLAU w/ Federico Madeddu Giuntoli - 28/10/2022

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ML697: Mabui Music

しかし、自然の美しさを味わうこと、人を愛すること、自分を深く理解すること、このような経験は測定できないのだ。~~  However, appreciating the beauty of nature, loving someone, understanding oneself deeply - these are not measurable experiences.

Umé Records presents the new album from PJS (@pjs11) "Malahat", out December 18th, 2022.

Listen: https://umerecords.bandcamp.com/album/malahat

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Trailblazing glitch masterpieces (1990s), delicate, hyperreal, futuristic post-rock vignettes (after 2010) and now abstract club bangers with a twist - Oval continues to be a celebration of innovation, skill & sensibility. 

With an undeniable instinct for the pleasantly irritating, the drastic & the dreamy, M. Popp keeps on pushing the envelope. No one out there plays the computer quite like him.

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