from 'Cause and Effect' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den185
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/saffronkeira]

Our universe may have been born in the Big Bang. If this was the case, the Big Bang was the beginning of space and time. Nothing existed before, not even the very concept of "before". With the birth of space and time, another important notion entered the arena: the concept of cause and effect. The Big Bang had no cause, but everything which happened after did, thus being a cause and effect at the same time. This is at the heart of SAFFRONKEIRA's third album and his first collaboration record 'CAUSE AND EFFECT'.

Saffronkeira is the project of the Sardinian sound researcher EUGENIO CARIA. His first meeting with the Sardinian trumpet player MARIO MASSA was at a distance. Caria saw Massa playing on a regional TV program and was immediately caught by the immersed playing style of this musician which was unknown to him at that time. Eager to meet him, he asked several other Sardinian musicians and was lucky. He got Massa's name and phone number, immediately called him and proposed a meeting. Massa had always dreamt of a collaboration with an electronic music artist, while Caria had always been eager to work with a trumpet player, being fascinated by this instrument since his childhood. Thus, the meeting was a big success, indeed it was love at first sight. 

Since then Caria and Massa met every weekend at Caria's studio and ideas bounced back and forth between the two musicians. Massa improvised over Caria's compositions, Caria added layers to Massa's play, there was not the slightest disagreement about the sound and dynamics of their tracks. Just as we can only marvel at the complexity of Nature which emerged only from this simple principle of cause and effect, we can only be astonished at the result of this collaboration.

The instruments of the two musicians wander unerringly through the musical landscape, from warm ambient sounds to rather abstract pieces, from thrilling hymns to threatening sound storms, but they never loose contact. Indeed, Massa trumpet play and Caria's electronics intertwine so well that at times it is difficult to distinguish them. Exploring the entire spectrum of their instruments and displaying their full virtuosity, Caria and Massa have created a unique masterpiece.

Cause and Effect

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Saffronkeira + Mario Massa - Pity

John Tilbury and Philip Thomas playing Morton Feldman's 1957 work 'Two Pianos'. From the double CD of Feldman works for multiple pianos: 'Two Pianos and other pieces 1953-1969' on Another Timbre.

Morton Feldman - Two Pianos

The Summoning Of The Kraken

Epic Collection Vol. 1 - Mastered Edition - 19

Nils Frahm & Olafur Arnalds : An excerpt from Trance Frendz 3

Karlheinz Stockhausen
PLUS-MINUS
Ives Ensemble

From the sleeve:
"Perhaps more than any other composer of his generation, Stockhausen realised that serialism had an expressive potential which went far beyond the method of twelve-tone composition devised by Schoenberg. In these three key works from the 1950s and early 1960s he found ways of using the serial principle to govern not just pitch, but every aspect of sound-types and their distribution in time and space, culminating in Plus-Minus, a score which specified not sounds but rather a system of organising sounds." Christopher Fox 

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN (1928-2007)
PLUS-MINUS

1. Refrain No. 11 (1959) 09:53
2. Kreuzspiel No. 1/7 (1951) 11:43
3. Plus-Minus* No. 14 (1963) 51:02
Total time 72:41

First recording* by Ives Ensemble:
Rik Andriessen - flute (3), Esther Probst - Oboe (2, 3), Hans Petra - bass clarinet (2, 3), Jan Willem van der Ham - bassoon (3), Fons Verspaandonk - horn (3), Jan Bastiani - trombone (3), John Snijders - piano (1, 2, 3), Reinier van Houdt - piano/celesta (1, 3), Arnold Marinissen - percussion (1, 2, 3), Wilbert Grootenboer - percussion (2, 3), Fedor Teunisse - percussion 2), Josje ter Haar - violin (3), Ruben Sanderse - viola (3), Job ter Haar - cello (3), Diederik Meijnckens - double bass (3), Richard Rijnvos - conductor (3).

Recorded in Theater Romein, Leeuwarden (Netherlands) 29th June - 2nd July 2002; Sound engineers: Sem de Jongh &amp; Arjan van Asselt; Editing: Sem de Jongh; Recording supervisors: Richard Rijnvos &amp; Christopher Fox; CD-master by Peter Pfister; Liner notes by Christopher Fox; Graphic concept by fuhrer vienna; Produced by Ives Ensemble &amp; Werner X. Uehlinger.

With kind support the Willy A. and Hedwig Bachofen-Henn Foundation.

http://www.ives-ensemble.nl
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Karlheinz Stockhausen / 2. Kreuzspiel No.1/7 (1951)

From Radio Martiko's upcoming release "Music from the Soundtrack 'Respectable Families' by Abderrahman El Khamissi".

Pre-order your copy here (DL+10"EP+limited edition):
abdal-rahmanal-khamissi-music.bandcamp.com

RMEP001 Music from the Soundtrack "Respectable Families" by Abdel Rahman El Khamissi - Faten

It seems French musician and photographer Frédéric D. Oberland might be able to play more instruments than I can name. Mentioned in the creation of his latest album, Labyrinth, are electric guitar, Dark Energy Doepfer, harmonic pipe, critter, Guitari Organelle, hurdy gurdy, pantophone, alto saxophone, duduk and flute, just to state a few. 

With the release due for the 26th October, we were kindly offered an exclusive stream of 'La Part Du Feu', an achingly sparse piece of meandering electronics. 

Read more here: http://straylandings.co.uk/news/premiere-frederic-d-oberland-nahal

Labyrinth

Premiere: Frédéric D. Oberland - La Part Du Feu [Nahal Recordings]

Artist: Nick Zammuto
Title: Tonight We'll Go For A Ride
Album: We The Animals: An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Release Date: November 9, 2018 Digital / February 8, 2019 Physical

Pre-Order: www.temporaryresidence.com/products/trr308

We The Animals is the award-winning new film from Jeremiah Zagar (In A Dream). Based on the best-selling novel by Justin Torres, We The Animals is Zagar’s first narrative feature. It reunites Zagar with Nick Zammuto, the renowned composer and co-founder of beloved collage-pop pioneers, the Books. Inspired by the film’s setting in rural upstate New York – and influenced by the early ambient electronic music that galvanized the Books two decades ago – Zammuto pairs that earthen, wooded isolation with dynamic pulses of customized electronics and sparse, crystalline layers of melodic soft synths. The juxtaposition is arresting, and gives the soundtrack a unique heft befitting of its subject matter – and betraying of its minimal instrumentation. Beautifully edited and sequenced to act as both a companion to the film and a standalone album, We The Animals: An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is as subtle as it is startling, and succeeds in making even the heaviest emotions feel momentarily weightless.

We The Animals: An Official Motion Picture Soundtrack

Nick Zammuto - Tonight We'll Go For A Ride

From the new album, 'A Few Scattered Hours,' out now on Second Language Music.  Info/listen here : https://memorydrawings.bandcamp.com/album/a-few-scattered-hours

Memory Drawings - The Same Indifference (Brendan Perry Remix)

Piano instrumental, composed & recorded some time in July 2020.

Composed & Recorded by Hadi Zeidan
Mixed & Mastered by Konstantin Semionov
Artwork by Karen Keyrouz
Releases March 30, 2021

PURCHASE TRACK

Variations Mineures

Independent record label based in London.  2009 - present day.

Memory Drawings - The Same Indifference (Brendan Perry Remix)

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