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Symbiosis

Anti Shift - "Intertwine"

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Otomo Yoshihide - Guitar 
Sachiko M - Sine Waves 
Evan Parker - Saxophones 
John Edwards - Double Bass 
Tony Marsh - Drums 
John Butcher - Saxophones (Side B)

Recorded during Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M's first residency at Cafe OTO in 2009. The excerpt above is from the second (Sextet) side of the LP.

Otomo is in residency again at Cafe OTO on 20 & 21st September and also joins FIRE! as a special guest (alongside Mariam Wallentin) on the 19th! 

More info: http://cafeoto.co.uk/fire-with-special-guests-otomo-yoshihide-mariam-wallentin.shtm

Otomo Yoshihide / Sachiko M / Evan Parker / John Edwards / Tony Marsh / John Butcher

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Unreleased / Live Edit Exclusive, Kindred London.

Hssn Chop (Kindred LDN Live Edit)

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Audio from upcoming C.C.C.C. - Reflexive Universe LP out on 24 March, 2023 - link in bio

C.C.C.C. (Cosmic Coincidence Control Center) is a legendary Japanese noise music collective that was founded in Tokyo in 1989. The group originally had four members - Mayuko Hino, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Fumio Kosakai, and Ryuichi Nagakubo - who are known for their unique approach to noise music, and quickly gained a reputation for their intense and chaotic live performances. The group's sound is characterized by its use of high-volume, distorted noise, feedback, and electronics, as well as their incorporation of unconventional instruments and objects. Beyond their music, members of C.C.C.C. has also been involved in a variety of artistic endeavors, including film, performance and installation art.
C.C.C.C.'s "Reflexive Universe" cassette, released on the Japanese label Vanilla Records in 1991, is a must-have for fans of Japanese noise music. The cassette features one track intense and immersive noise, showcasing the group's unique approach to sound and experimentation. The album is a 23-minute epic that builds from a fast, almost hypersonic opening to a wall of noise that seems to encompass the entire universe. Recorded live at Maya in Kobe on September 15th, 1991 only with two members performing - Mayuko Hino at electronics and voice  plus Hiroshi Hasegawa at synthesizer and electronics. The performance is a testament to the group's innovative and boundary-pushing approach to sound, and a reminder of the enduring power of noise music as an art form and Vanilla Records label has done an excellent job of capturing the raw and visceral sound of the group's live performance.
Reissue for the first time in vinyl in a limited edition of 199 copies with added an amazing live performance on other side, recorded one month before Reflexive Universe at Donzoko House in Kyoto with all four member. The vinyl is housed in a deluxe sleeve with a glossy finish using original pictures  by Hidenobu Kaneda and an insert with a photo of the band performing live. Whether you're a longtime fan of C.C.C.C. or a newcomer to their unique brand of noise music, this vinyl reissue of Reflexive Universe is an essential addition to any record collection.

C.C.C.C. - Reflexive Universe Excerpt (from Reflexive Universe)

Penultimate Press is pleased to present A Sunset for Walter, the first duo release from long-time collaborators Jérôme Noetinger and Anthony Pateras. Having worked together in a number of different collaborative contexts over the years, the pair used Pateras’ 2018 residency at Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart as an opportunity to develop a major durational work for Steinway piano and multiple Revox tape machines. Presenting four excerpts from a three-hour concert, the LP’s opening moments immediately establish its distinctive sound-world: an austere sequence of octaves slowly sounded by the piano gradually develops into passages of fragmentary lyricism as Noetinger’s tape manipulations dilate the sonic space with rumbling sub-bass, distant echoes, and hints of uncanny backmasking.
 
A Sunset for Walter was conceived as a loose tribute to the piano works of Walter Marchetti, particularly the slowed-down subaquatic expanse of Nel Mari Del Sud. As Marchetti described his own work, A Sunset for Walter is ‘music without beginning, or end, or development’, where the lack of obvious structural divisions creates something like an endless present. But where the monochrome surface of Marchetti’s work – in its willingness to descend, in his own words  to the ‘pits of aesthetic poverty’ – often approaches total stasis, A Sunset for Walter is calmly immovable in its overall texture but perpetually changing in detail, as the performers respond intuitively to each other, their instruments, and the environment. Noetinger’s tape manipulations range from nearly imperceptible shadowing of the live piano to anarchic bursts of rewinding tape, floating wisps of feedback, and dreamlike concrète interjections of children’s voices and splashing water. Pateras’ piano performance moves from single pitches left hanging over a backdrop of silence to almost Messiaen-esque sequences of complex chords and arpeggios, all sounded within a temporal framework that seems to follow internal rhythms of breath and bodily movements.
 
Caught in this hall of mirrors, the listener is often unable to distinguish the live piano from its tape-manipulated reflection. Like the sunset of the title, here outlines blur into a crepuscular haze, as fleeting effects of light and shade catch our attention just as they disappear.

A Sunset for Walter

Jérôme Noetinger and Anthony Pateras - 19h39 / 19H46

As featured on AQNB's 'Between two stars' art & music mini-compendium.

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