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Facial Asymmetry

Satanic Daisies

2017

Audio One is:
Jason Adasiewicz: Vibraphone
Jeb Bishop: Trombone
Josh Berman: Cornet
Tim Daisy: Drums
Nick Macri: Acoustic & electric bass
Nick Mazzarella: Alto saxophone
Jen Paulson: Viola
Dave Rempis: Saxophones
Ken Vandermark: Reeds
Mars Williams: Reeds
credits
released 15 May 2014
Recorded and mixed by Dave Zuchowski.
Performed by Audio One at the Green Mill, Chicago, on January 31st and February 1, 2014.
Mastered by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service.
Produced by Ken Vandermark for Audiographic Records.

Album design and cover photograph by Federico Peñalva.

Thanks to the musicians; to Dave Zuchowski for work above and beyond, and Wendy V.; to Dave Jemilo, Chris Anderson, and the staff of the Green Mill; to Matt Doenges for helping to instigate the idea; to Steve Marquette for his ongoing assistance; to Kate Dumbleton for trying to help me find a way to continue; and to all the listeners.

Special thanks to Sheila Major for her belief in this project and her generous support. 

Audio One : Theme De Yoyo

[...] lightly explosive rhythmically, but with a somewhat dark
textural centre. The You Had Me At Hello trio sound great on their own, but the conceptual basis of these singles is pretty massive. It'd be great to have a jukebox full of them.
Byron Coley // The Wire (UK)

You Had Me At Hello - Waiting For Sunday

Artist: TOMAGA
Album: The Shape of the Dance

HITD 030
LP / CD / DL
 Release date: 19th September 2016
Released in partnership with Negative Days

Label, orders: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com

All songs written and performed by Valentina Magaletti and Tom Relleen

TOMAGA - A Perspective With No End

Written and Recorded 2016-2017, Berlin.
Additional Vocals - "Wrestle All the Way Home" - MAUD
Mixing/Mastering/Additional Recordings (Drums) - Joseph Kelly
Special Thanks: Thea, Car, Mark, Tim, The Real Kelly Family, Iris, Everett, Phil.

I Know It's Not Funny

Another track from Köhn's new album 'Kreis Plön', out on KRAAK, on the 9th of June. Pre-order at kraak.bandcamp.com.

Almost 20 years ago Jürgen De Blonde debuted on KRAAK with the nowadays unfindable and almost visionary album köhn 1. It was the starting point for a vital and wondrous exploration that lead him over paths of glitch, idm, shoe gaze, hypnagogic pop, improvised music, straight forward synth music, field recordings and kraut. 

In the middle of this ungraspable adventure through contemporary electronic music, Köhn stands as a genuine artist that stayed true to the curious spirit of the DIY knob twiddling and boggling boy he once was. 

KRAAK is proud to present his 7th album on KRAAK — Kreis Plön, which documents and envisions 20 years of exploring. It’s an album that is about a fusion of the past and the future, of separation and reconfiguration, of mourning and rejoicing, of noise and peace. Kreis Plön is about geolocation. It’s about probable fiction and looking for bits of different puzzles that fit together. An exercise in linear and perpendicular coherence devoid of any objective logic. 

In the middle of the album an artist is envisioning his place in the Now, questioning how or when he got there, as he links memories to imaginary places, and real places to imaginary histories. Kreis Plön stands as such a masterpiece that bluntly envisions the future of electronic music.

Klinker

Joe McPhee: B-flat and E-flat alto clarinet, Roland MC202 Micro Composer synthesizer
 
Bryan Eubanks: Open-circuit electronics (sinetones)
 
 
 
What constitutes an unidentified sighting, the rarely heard ‘alien’ clarinet playing of Joe McPhee and the ineffable electronics of Bryan Eubanks? Penultimate Press is extremely proud to produce My Undocumented Alien Clarinet: a strange sensual addition to the ever inquisitive McPhee canon. My Undocumented Alien Clarinet is a beguiling document of a performance held at Alternative Books, Kingston, NY, Sunday, August 6, 2006 under the auspices of the Pauline Oliveros Foundation’s New Vanguard Series. My Undocumented Alien Clarinet captures a unique intimate improvisation exploring the outer reaches of the form. 
 
Joe McPhee, (b.1939 USA) is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, conceptualist and theoretician. He has collaborated with Pauline Oliveros, Graham Lambkin, Peter Brotzmann, Evan Parker, Raymond Boni among many others. With a career spanning nearly 50 years and over 100 recordings, he continues to tour internationally, forge new connections and reach for music’s outer limits.
 
.. His magical take on avant-garde sax remains one of the wonders of the scene. He still has one of the most beautiful tones on the planet, even when he’s reaching for jazz’s outer limits." - Time Out NY
 
Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977, USA) is a musician composing electronic and acoustic works for small ensembles, solo instruments, and custom generative software; improvising in collaboration; and working with acoustic holography, a stereophonic recording and diffusion technique.
 
Artwork by Jerry Starpoli
Liner notes by Joe McPhee 
In memory of Jerry Starpoli 
 
http://www.penultimatepress.com

Joe McPhee and Bryan Eubanks - My Undocumented Alien Clarinet (excerpt)

Serge 606

LP out july 21st 2017
Limited to 500 LPs

2nd album from Danish synth-improv duo Videodrones, dives deeper their brand of throbbing synth themes from the goriest movies that never was. 
 
It’s easy to hear the starting point of Videodrones: From italian composers such as Fabio Frizzi, Marcello Giombini, Riz Ortolani - or even Morricone & Alessandroni at their most industrial. But Videodrones adds a touch of previously unheard madness to their Giallo-themed synth-gasms. Based largely on improvisation, Videodrones tosses and turns - it’s like the thing is ALIVE: leaving slimy trail of electronic musical styles in their wake: there’s toxic levels of italio disco, german kosmiche musik, new age, even some stabs at holy grails of 70’s and 80’s pop. The record culminates in a Synth-proto-doom track - Nattens Hævn (Revenge of the Night): too weird to live, yet too rare to die.
 
Videodrones improvisations are far from boring: chopped into smaller bits the album is of a suite-like nature - keeping the odd, jagged energy of improvisation, every part adds to a whole, larger narrative. The result is a suite-like walkthru, often changing pace, dropping notes or drifting in scale. The images Videodrones convey is collectedly strangely solemn - almost uplifting at times, in their maddening state of constant synth flux.

Videodrones: A Blade In Your Mind

Impressionistic Boogaloo

from the Richie Records Summer Singles Series, coming out Summer 2017

Live in Philadelphia:
Thursday July 27
@ Kung Fu Necktie
w/ Writhing Squares & Hothead

DAVID KENNETH NANCE - Amethyst (Fucked)

from the Trendees cassette Barmaid b/w Flat tac on a mooney night

www.albertsbasement.net

The Trendees Barmaid

from "Abraham's Sausage Pot" CS
moonglyph.com/releases/mg92

Henry the Rabbit - "Conjunction Day"

taken from:
dEN015 RARA AVIS "Mutations / Multicellulars Mutations"

Personnel:
Ken Vandermark: reeds
Stefano Ferrian: saxophones
Simone Quatrana: piano 
Luca Pissavini: double bass 
SEC_: analogue tape revox / instant sound treatment

dEN015 RARA AVIS - Adaptation

Nikolay Rubanov - sax
Anton Kolosov - bass
Alexet Bobrovsky - drums

#2 - 8marta @ Dead Whiskey studio

The Ex & Brass Unbound featuring Roy Paci -tpt, Ken Vandermark -bar. &ten. sax, mats gustafsson -bar. sax and wolter wierbos  trombone ...play their version of a classic Konono No,1 riff recorded at Posada Negro studios in Lecce .

The Ex & Brass Unbound -Theme From Konono No.2

The most daring, audacious and amazing record label on the planet - Le Monde