[p*dis] distribution sampler for October 2015


p*dis sampler 2015.10

christina vantzou 'shadow sun'

Ron Morelli-A Gathering Together
from the upcoming "A Gathering Together" lp/cd
to be released Sept 25th on Hospital Productions

Ron Morelli-A Gathering Together (HOS-447)

Luke Vibert is back on Planet Mu with a new album called ‘Bizarster'. It's his seventh full-length under his own name with others having been released on Mo Wax, Warp and most recently Hypercolour. Luke first came to prominence in 1994 with his debut Wagon Christ album 'Phat Lab Nightmare' on Rising High records which was quickly followed by the evergreen classic 'Throbbing Pouch' with which he cemented both his sound and reputation. He has released on Rephlex and Ninja Tune as well as major label Virgin too.

What makes Luke's music so essential is his rare ability to blur the boundaries between genres by combining his irresistibly wonky dayglo funk with a British sensibility. Put another way, Luke's music is informed by UK dance's history. But 'Bizarster' is no empty eulogy, it’s a hall of mirrors with a happy bounce, re-tooled with skill, and always with a sense of fun.

It's these things that make the hip-hop speed bleep 'n' bass of opener 'Knockout' seems completely natural, or 'Officer's Club' with it's funky disco samples, reggae vocals and joyous synths sounding like the kind of delirious idea no one else could come up with. A track like 'I Can Phil It' is a piece of sampladelic hip hop with a punning title, but that's not to say he can't play it serious. 'Manalog' for instance, which is sharp spiralling low-slung synth funk, a gloriously deep track, while something like 'L-Tronic' is top draw spaced-out electro. The title track's cut and paste space-age samples remind one of his Jean-Jacques Perrey collaboration and 'War' is the type of groovy instrumental hip-hop reminiscent of DJ Shadow at his peak. The album finishes on the fun-filled vortex of ‘Don’t Fuck Around’, a cut-up jungle masterpiece with heart in throat chords. Enjoy the ride.

Bizarster

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Luke Vibert - Bizarster

Ekster is thrilled to present EKS006, BE ME, by Belgian composer Ssaliva. This 13-track album pressed on black 12” 180 grams vinyl will be released in an edition of 300 with printed inner sleeves & silk-screened transparent over-sleeves. Download cards included. Mastered by Frederic Alstadt at Ångstrom mastering. Cover photo by François Boulanger & graphics by Victor Robyn.

EKS006 / Ssaliva / BE ME / 12inch preview / Out 6 Sept 2015

Taken from As Sure As Night Follows Day - full details here: http://www.factmag.com/2015/08/27/russell-haswell-as-sure-as-night-follows-day-diagonal/

Russell Haswell - HARDWAX FLASHBACK

Slowly but o-so-surely, Emmanuel Mieville is building an impressive body of work, where each new album seems to make the previous one pale in comparison. And the music press would be wise to catch on to him. The man is discreet and unassertive, so is his music, but he – like it – cannot be dismissed as just another proponent of the field recording. For Mieville, music is some of the most spellbinding art for the ear out there in the aether.

"Ethers" is Mieville's second album for Baskaru, and though the previous one certainly stands the test of time, this new opus pushes the bar higher, much higher. In the composer's own words, "Ethers is an attempt to give an earthy quality, a dense texture to drone music, to lower it from the 'skies'."

Mieville first trained as a sound engineer, and then studied musique concrète at GRM. He grew up listening to creative radio programs and embraced field recording as a form of art. His latest works fully realized a synthesis of all these elements: the attentive ear to one's surroundings, the abstract approach to sound, the sense of drama that makes a field recording composition take life.

Mieville has worked with Buto dancers, video artists, and like-minded musicians like Eric Cordier, Guido Huebner, and Benjamin Thigpen. After appearances on compilations albums, he released two CDs in Malaysia (on Herbal Records and XingWu), followed by his Western full-length debut "Four Wanderings in Tropical Lands" on Baskaru in 2011. Since then he released two thematic albums: "Buddha – Anima – Asia" (Obs*, 2012) on Buddhism, and "Concret-Sens" (Crónica, 2014), a homage to early musique concrète.

Emmanuel Mieville - Watt Station

Dreamy, melancholic, peaceful, or just plain gorgeous? As long as your ears are open, the sound world of Yui Onodera will take you where YOU want to go. From simple means (piano, guitar, computer), Onodera draws complex materials, and then mixes them back into deceptively simple results. The work draws inspiration (and its title) from an abstract structure thought up by architect Christopher Alexander. What you get is quiet background music if you leave it at that or, if you are willing to take the time to listen, a deep immersive journey.

Hailing from Tokyo, Japan, Yui Onodera is a musician, a composer, and the founder of Critical Path. He studied both music and architecture, which explains his uncanny grasp of spatiality in music. His method consists in blending delicate instrumental lines with field recordings and computer treatments to create quiet, ambient electroacoustic pieces. This approach is akin to artists like Machinefabriek, Stephen Vitiello, and Chihei Hatakeyama.

"Semi Lattice" is Onodera's second solo album to be released in 2015 (the first one was "sinkai" on Japanese label Arctic Tone), after eight years of solo silence. In the interval, Onodera pursued several fruitful collaborations with musicians and groups like The Beautiful Schizophonic, Pjusk, Vadim Bondarenko, Mizkami Ryuta, and Baskaru recording artist Celer. All these projects seem to have informed "Semi Lattice" in some way, Onodera's solo works having grown lusher, fuller, and more fully-formed.

Yui Onodera - Semi Lattice 2

Simon Whetham is an acute listener, a field recorder, a thinker, a globetrotter, and a mobilizer. However, he is also a sonic cook. Wherever he goes, he picks up sounds and atmospheres as if they were exotic ingredients. And for "What Matters Is That It Matters", he made us a stew, slowly simmered until all the flavours come through.

"What Matters Is That It Matters", Whetham's first album for Baskaru, is slow music. And slow music deserves to be taken in slowly – you don't wolf comfort food down, you savour it, relishing its complexity, absorbing its warmth. Unlike most of Whetham's previous works, this album is not focused on a specific geographical location. As if the artist had given himself free reign. The resulting music has a career-encompassing feel, as Whetham touches base with pure field recordings, elongated instrumental textures, and treated snippets of melodies (piano, banjo). "What Matters Is That It Matters" provides an incredibly rich listening experience, pairing relevant esthetical concerns and listening enjoyment.

Englishman Simon Whetham has been exploring the art of composing with field recordings and found sounds for a decade, a period during which he released music on labels such as Crónica, Entr'acte, Helen Scarsdale Agency, and Line. He is perhaps best known for "Active Crossover," a workshop/collaboration/installation project with which he is travelling the world.

Simon Whetham - You Can't Escape The Past

Order 7"/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP073
or via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/lifestoryloveandglory

Erased Tapes artists and friends Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm have separately carved out a musical career that defies genres both with their unique live shows and a loyal fan base that’s always eager to hear what their prolific output will bring. 

Their latest collaborative 2-track release ‘Life Story Love and Glory’ is a live improv affair on two pianos, recorded in 2012 at Nils’s Durton Studio in Berlin. Fans may wonder why they have waited until 2015 to release these tracks, but having revealed a new website www.arnaldsfrahm.com you may think this may not be the end to their musical story this year. 

“We would meet in Reykjavik or Berlin with the intention to share some days off work, hiking, swimming or eating pizza. That is great for a couple days, but after a while we would always end up back in the studio, fiddling with synths or pianos.” – Nils Frahm 
“You can hear in the beginning of ‘Life Story’ how I have already started playing the piano whilst Nils is still moving microphones around and preparing everything. It was all kept in!“ – Ólafur Arnalds 

‘Life Story Love and Glory’ will be released as a 7” on Erased Tapes – exclusively through record stores only on August 21, 2015 ahead of its digital release later on – as an ode to this classic and beloved format. 

More info: www.arnaldsfrahm.com · www.erasedtapes.com

Life Story Love And Glory

Life Story

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Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – Life Story

‘Loon’ will be released on Erased Tapes as a 12” vinyl as well as digitally on October 2nd. 
Pre-order it here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP072
or via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/loon

Containing five synthesiser-led pieces, ‘Loon’ was recorded in autumn 2014 across five days at Nils’s Durton Studio in Berlin, and continues on from the ambient sounds of ‘Stare’ but with the addition of more percussive elements and dub influences. For this new EP the duo wired an Oberheim 4 Voice and a Korg PS3100 to the mixing desk and performed live takes on both instruments. With all four hands on its pots, all mixes were recorded straight onto 2-track ½-inch tape.

Like on ‘Stare’, their first collaborative affair in 2012, they simply followed what was laying in front of them, and this time they were driven by some new synths, a kick drum and tape effects. Indulging in dub, the tracks where all performed rather than engineered, with Ólafur riding a few elements on faders and Nils bringing effects in and out. After running several mixes, they went for the five strongest moments from this session. The release was announced on a joint website www.arnaldsfrahm.com together with the launch of an intimate 45-minute studio film titled ‘Trance Frendz’, featuring another seven improvisations.

“Nils got some new synths and we thought we’d try them out. We loved them so much that we didn’t actually end up using anything else to make these songs.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“When I was young I was smuggled to Goa parties by my brother. The music played there in the late nineties had a somewhat deep effect on me. ‘Loon’ is almost a blurry memory of these times. In other words, it is what I’d like to remember that music sounded like back then. In fact it sounded probably really cheesy.” – Nils Frahm

Loon

Four

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Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – Four

more info : www.brocoli.org 

----- français -----

Le nouvel album solo, instrumental, de Sylvain Chauveau, How To Live In Small Spaces, sortira le 2 octobre 2015 sur Brocoli. Deux longues pièces donnent à l'album son titre ; des versions inédites de compositions pour une chorégraphie de Christian Rizzo : réminiscence de Morton Feldman, le temps est suspendu aux accords irrésolus du piano. A la suite de chacune d'elle, deux pièces électroniques minimales - composées elles aussi pour un spectacle chorégraphique, cette fois pour Cécile Loyer - échos du mini album S. (Type, 2007) et de sa collaboration avec Stephan Mathieu, Palimpsest (Schwebung, 2012).

----- english -----

Sylvain Chauveau new solo instrumental album, How To Live In Small Spaces, will be released on October 2nd 2015. The album title is taken from two long pieces in the work; new versions of compositions for Christian Rizzo choreography. Reminiscent of Morton Feldman, time is suspended to the unresolved piano chords. Each one if followed by a minimal electronic piece. They were also composed for a dance performance by Cécile Loyer, recalling Sylvain's works on S. (Type 2007) and his collaboration with Stephan Mathieu, Palimpsest (Schwebung, 2012).

----- japanese -----

彼の新しい楽器ソロのアルバムです。 このアルバムタイトル名は二つの長いピアノの章から取られています。 １曲目と３曲目は、モートン・フェルドマンを偲ばせる曲風（ピアノの未解決な和音で時が止まる）で 振付家クリスチャン・リッツォのために作られました。 ２曲目と４曲目は、エレクトリック・ミニマル音楽に追従しています。 これらの作品は、セシル・ロイエのダンス・パフォーマンスのためとしても作曲されており、シルヴァンのミニアルバムS. (Type 2007)とステファン　マチューとのコラボのPalimpsest (Schuwebung, 2012)を思い出させます。

Sylvain Chauveau - How To Live In Small Spaces (brocoli 017, excerpts)

from the album 'pitch, paper & foil' available 11/6

christopher bissonnette 'epoch'

Taken from the album 'Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle Vol. 1' released as 2LP / 2CD and Download

Anthony Child 'All Around And Inside' (EMEGO 215)

Mark Lyken | Emma Dove, "Mirror Lands"... Fishing For Rigs Part II

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Hieroglyphic Being & J.I.T.U. Ahn-Sahm-Buhl - Civilization That Is Dying

‘Rivers and Streams’ will be released by Erased Tapes in LP/CD/DL format on November 27th, 2015.

Pre-order LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP077
or digitally on iTunes here: http://snip.ftpromo.net/riversandstreams

Ukrainian pianist Lubomyr Melnyk has often felt that his unique Continuous Music playing is akin to water – flowing and ever connected. As he further developed his technique, and the more the notes flowed, the closer to water he felt. “I found my hands and arms and everything inside them changing from normal muscle and flesh to well... water.”

With his latest album, ‘Rivers and Streams’, Lubomyr focuses deeply on this connection to water, to the point where the music itself begins to embody its liquid form. Produced by Robert Raths and Jamie Perera, the album flows seamlessly from the live recordings of ‘The Pool of Memories’, captured in a church, to pieces entirely born in the studio, such as ‘Sunshimmers’ and ‘Ripples in a Water Scene’, which feature Perera on acoustic and electric guitar.

Amorphous, ever-changing, Lubomyr as performer becomes subsumed into the natural ebb and flow of the keys as the album drifts between nascent upstream trickles and deeply reflective passages through winding river valleys. The album reaches its climax in ‘The Amazon’, a 20-minute piece dedicated to the world’s largest river. Raths invited Korean flautist Hyelim Kim to guest on the first part, before Lubomyr closes the album with cascades of arpeggio figures, stretching across the breadth of the keyboard with rapid virtuosity.

Following on from 2013’s ‘Corollaries’ album and last year’s ‘Evertina’ EP, Lubomyr’s latest offering compounds upon his existing fluid signature style, and breathes an organic vitality, both nuanced and thoughtful. 

"In the body of the Continuous Piano Master, the fingers and the hands turn into Water, Air and Stone. These are the three manifestations of the Continuous Technique. And for the Continuous Pianist, the fingers physically transform the music into one of these three elements.

The greatest of all miracles in the universe is Water. It is also, I believe, the rarest of all physical things in the universe. Water is the most magical and the most mysterious of all things we know! And so I dedicate this album to the Rivers and Streams of this world – in gratitude for their Beauty!“ – Lubomyr Melnyk

The cover artwork shows the surface of vines captured with macro photography by French artist Marion Benoit, which Lubomyr discovered in early 2015 as the perfect visual counterpart.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Parasol
2. The Pool of Memories
3. Sunshimmers
4. Ripples in a Water Scene	
5. The Amazon: The Highlands
6. The Amazon: The Lowlands

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: lubomyr.com · erasedtapes.com · marion-benoit.com

Rivers And Stream

Parasol

Lubomyr Melnyk – Parasol (excerpt)

品番 : MBIP-5561
アーティスト：Luke Vibert (ルーク・ヴァイバート)
タイトル：Bizarster (ビザースター)
発売日：2015年10月 15日（木)【日本先行発売】 
フォーマット：国内盤CD 
定価：2000円 + 税
発売元：melting bot / Planet Mu
ジャンル : Breakbeats / House / Bass
バーコード：4532813635613

【国内盤特典】
■未発表ボーナストラック3曲
■解説 / ライナーノーツ : 河村 祐介 

【Tracklist】

01. Knockout
02. Officer's Club
03. Hey Go
04. Ghetto Blast Ya
05. I Can Phil It
06. Manalog
07. War
08. Bizarster
09. Power Press
10. L Tronic
11. Doozit
12. Don't Fuck Around
13. Disgard *
14. Tribal Work *
15. We Are So Good *

*Bonus Track

Luke Vibert が〈Planet Mu〉に6年ぶりにカムバック！
ヒップホップとレイヴを繋ぎ、そのハイブリッドなセンスで90年代よりビート〜ベース〜エレクトロニカを更新して来た唯一無二の才人による最新”ブレイク”アルバム！！

ソウル、ファンク、ディスコをネタに数々のヒットを生み出すその卓越した
スキルとセンスで、ブレイクビーツ、エレクトロ、ジャングル、 DnBなど
古き良きUKクラブ・ミュージックを現代へと蘇らせた華麗なる復活作！！

Aphex Twin、Squarepusher、µ-Ziqを筆頭とするUKテクノの源であるコンウォール一派としてキャリアをスタート、 様々な名義で〈Mo Wax〉、〈Rephlex〉、〈WARP〉、〈Ninja Tune〉 などの名門を渡り歩くUK屈指の重鎮による最新作！

80年代ヒップホップのサンプリング・マナーと90年代初頭のアシッド・ハウスを中心としたレイヴ・ミュージックにおけるリズム・マシーンを駆使し、今も尚そのオールドスクールな手法で独走を続けるLuke Vibertによる本命儀では9枚目の最新作が〈Planet Mu〉より登場。 今作でもその手法は変わることなく、これまで以上に大ネタのソウル、ファンク、ディスコ、レゲエ、ダブのサンプリングを交えながら、 ブリーピーなドラムンベース、ファンキーなディスコ、レイヴィーなハウス、スペーシーなエレクトロ、 サイケデリックなヒップホップ、カットアップしたジャングルなど、生音のサンプリングとリ・サンプリングで音を抜き差しながら次々と展開するLuke Vibertのヒップホップとレイヴ・ミュージックのセンスを併せ持つ遊び心のあるユーモアとハイ・クオリティーなスキルが全面に出た、カラフルな音色とグルーヴのブレイクビーツ・アルバムが完成。

▼ ルーク・ヴァイバート・バイオグラフィー  

イギリスの南西端に位置する半島コンウォール出身のプロデューサー/DJ。90年代初期に 友人であったJeremy SimmondsとのコラボレーションVibert / Simmonsで地元の〈Rephlex〉よりデビュー、サンプリングとリズム・マシーンを駆使したトラックを量産し、Wagon Christ (ヒップホップ / ブレイクビーツ)、Plug / Amen Andrews (ジャングル / ドラムンベース)、Kerrier District (ハウス / ディスコ）、Ace Of Clubs (アシッド / テクノ)といった様々な名義で90年代よりUKのエレクトロニック・ミュージック代表するレーベル、〈WARP〉、〈Ninja Tune〉、〈Rephlex〉、〈Planet Mu〉からアルバムをリリース、UKクラブ・ミュージックのハイブリッドなサウンドとユーモアを体現した数々のヒットを生み出してる。デビュー当初よりジャンル、シーン、レーベルに属することを嫌い、またトレンドに染まることなく、ヒップホップやブレイクビーツの感性を軸に我が道を突き進む、現在もUKを代表する唯一無二のアーティストとして健在するベテラン。

Planet Mu: http://www.planet.mu

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(P)&(C) 2015 Planet Mu Records
Under exclusive license from Planet Mu Records
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Luke Vibert - Ghetto Blast Ya

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Bing & Ruth - Rails

Multifunktionsebene

Title track from my new Goldmund album, "Sometimes", out  November 14th on Western Vinyl.

Mastered by Taylor Duepree.

www.unseen-music.com
www.westernvinyl.com

Goldmund - Sometimes

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