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From Caterina Barbieri's debut album Vertical (Important Records/Cassauna, 8 October 2014) composed for Buchla modular synthesizer and vocals.

This version of Undular is a stereo mix from the original 8 channel one.

Vertical is a meditation on primary waveforms and the polyrhythm of harmonics in synthetic sounds, stretching the boundaries between drone, minimalism and techno. Barbieri's minimalist focus arises from the exploration of the stratigraphic potential of voltage-controlled sequencers, in terms of polyrhythm and polyphony. Employing synthesis, psychoacoustics and repetition as key concepts, the italian composer stylizes the dancing of wave cycles in severe geometries of time and space.
All the tracks were played, recorded and produced in Stockholm, at EMS (Electroacoustic Music Studios) and KMH (Royal University of Music) in Summer 2013.

Released by:
Cassauna/Important Records
Release date:
8 October 2014

Vertical has been reissued in February 2016: 
importantrecords.com/imprec/sauna22
bandcamp cassauna.bandcamp.com/album/vertical

www.importantrecords.com
www.caterinabarbieri.com

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Side A

Undular
Pneuma
Limen

Side B

Perspectiva
Traum_abc

Music composed and performed by Caterina Barbieri in Summer 2013
Recorded at EMS and KMH in Stockholm (SE)
Mixed in Bologna (IT)

Buchla Modular Synthesizer + vocals
Traum_abc vocals by Ellen Arkbro









Undular

From Caterina Barbieri's debut album Vertical (Important Records/Cassauna, October 2014) composed for Buchla Synthesizer and vocals.
Vertical is a meditation on primary waveforms and the polyrhythm of harmonics in synthetic sounds, stretching the boundaries between drone, minimalism and techno. Barbieri's minimalist focus arises from the exploration of the stratigraphic potential of voltage-controlled sequencers, in terms of polyrhythm and polyphony. Employing synthesis, psychoacoustics and repetition as key concepts, the italian composer stylizes the dancing of wave cycles in severe geometries of time and space.
All the tracks were played, recorded and produced in Stockholm, at EMS (Electroacoustic Music Studios) and KMH (Royal University of Music) in Summer 2013.

Released by:
    Cassauna/Important Records
Release date:
    8 October 2014


Vertical has been reissued in February 2016:
importantrecords.com/imprec/sauna22
cassauna.bandcamp.com/album/vertical

www.importantrecords.com
www.caterinabarbieri.com

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Side A

Undular
Pneuma
Limen

Side B

Perspectiva
Traum_abc

Music composed and performed by Caterina Barbieri in Summer 2013
Recorded at EMS and KMH in Stockholm (SE)
Mixed in Bologna (IT)

Buchla Modular Synthesizer + vocals
Traum_abc vocals by Ellen Arkbro









Traum_abc

Taken from the upcoming LUST FOR YOUTH &amp; CROATIAN AMOR ”SISTER” 7”&#13;
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Two reworked tracks from the <i>Pomegranate</i> collaboration from last year in brand new club versions. Ambivalent synthetic sex music from the masters of romance.&#13;


Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor - "Sister"

Taken from the album 'Quixotism' released as CD and Download.

Oren Ambarchi 'Quixotism Part 5' (eMEGO 202)

"The Continuing Story of Counterpoint, Part Nine" by David Borden from "Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments" originally released on Red Records, 1981. Forthcoming Spectrum Spools reissue due out early Spring 2015.

"The Continuing Story of Counterpoint, Part Nine"

Order FR & Wrld :itunes.apple.com/album/id955893478
Order UK: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/mirage/id961055206

Saycet is a name that’s been on an increasing number of lips over the last few years, like a secret too precious to keep to oneself. With just a few releases to his name, the project by Parisian producer Pierre Lefeuvre has elegantly evolved in a resolutely modern fashion, attracting attention more or less everywhere around the world from people who like their music electronic and heavy with organic emotion. Using electronic music as his original inspiration, and influenced by the hypnotising, minimal sounds of both Germany and Iceland, Saycet has matured his sound thanks to intensive touring of Europe, Russia and Asia, gaining international fans at every stop. His new (third) album, due for release in early 2015, was nourished by this experience of travelling and playing live over the past few years. More directly, the new Saycet has taken inspiration from images and forms (a certain interest for design, architecture, and visits to Le Corbusier’s ‘Cité radieuse’), widening his style to include pop and radiant sonic mirages in which one can get deeply, deeply lost. The aim is no longer to choose between black and white and spirals of colours, but to stimulate emotion and take you on a journey, without or without a return ticket.
He has worked in close collaboration with vocalist & lyricist Phoene Somsavath on several songs from his upcoming album, adding a complementary dimension to his craft.

On stage, Pierre is accompanied by Louise Roam (vocals, violin, keyboards) and Zita Cochet (stage design, video projection)

https://facebook.com/saycet
https://twitter.com/saycet
https://youtube.com/saycet

VOLCANO (feat. Phoene Somsavath)

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Order UK: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/mirage/id961055206

Saycet is a name that’s been on an increasing number of lips over the last few years, like a secret too precious to keep to oneself. With just a few releases to his name, the project by Parisian producer Pierre Lefeuvre has elegantly evolved in a resolutely modern fashion, attracting attention more or less everywhere around the world from people who like their music electronic and heavy with organic emotion. Using electronic music as his original inspiration, and influenced by the hypnotising, minimal sounds of both Germany and Iceland, Saycet has matured his sound thanks to intensive touring of Europe, Russia and Asia, gaining international fans at every stop. His new (third) album, due for release in early 2015, was nourished by this experience of travelling and playing live over the past few years. More directly, the new Saycet has taken inspiration from images and forms (a certain interest for design, architecture, and visits to Le Corbusier’s ‘Cité radieuse’), widening his style to include pop and radiant sonic mirages in which one can get deeply, deeply lost. The aim is no longer to choose between black and white and spirals of colours, but to stimulate emotion and take you on a journey, without or without a return ticket.
He has worked in close collaboration with vocalist & lyricist Phoene Somsavath on several songs from his upcoming album, adding a complementary dimension to his craft.

On stage, Pierre is accompanied by Louise Roam (vocals, violin, keyboards) and Zita Cochet (stage design, video projection)

https://facebook.com/saycet
https://twitter.com/saycet
https://youtube.com/saycet


CITE RADIEUSE

"Apologia’ was written on a cheap Yamaha guitar with a ridiculously high action over the course a couple of months in 2002 and recorded in February 2003, a few months before I picked up a 12-string guitar for the first time and wrote and recorded my first release, ‘Celeste’. I’d just started fingerpicking and had gotten comfortable enough with some techniques to experiment with open tunings of my own devising and write my own compositions, which were at that time very inspired by the musicians I adored – John Fahey, Robbie Basho and lots of old country blues players like Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Blake and Reverend Gary Davis.

I burned about 30 CD-Rs with homemade covers in jewel cases, gave most to friends and family and sold a few in the record shop I used to work in Soho. I felt for some time afterward like I was only just starting to find my own voice with ‘Apologia’ – the songs are shorter and more straightforward and the cyclical structures and appreciation of drones and overtones really came to the fore later on, as did my appreciation of adding other instrumentation and experimenting with sounds generally. Plus, I wasn’t entirely happy with the sound of the recording (some small EQ changes and reverb was added for this edition) and let’s just say the situation in the studio was far from ideal, but that’s another story. For that reason, I never chose to reissue ‘Apologia’. Now, almost 12 years later, I’m hearing them in a different way, realising the songs’ charms rather than simply concentrating on the flaws. It doesn’t sound quite like anything I’ve ever done since and there’s a simplicity and raw energy about them that I’ve grown to appreciate. It’s an interesting snapshot of where I was then and how things have changed.

It is an absolute pleasure for me to work with Bladud Flies! to release ‘Apologia’ as a limited edition LP now – something I would never have dreamed of back in 2003."

– James Blackshaw

James Blackshaw - Soul Sucked Dry

Single off of his upcoming album "Tangier Sessions"

Pre- Order Now:
http://www.dragcity.com/products/tangier-sessions

Sir Richard Bishop- "Frontier"

Crisis

Taken from the album 'Behold' released as LP and Download

Oren Ambarchi & Jim O'Rourke: 'Behold A (exceprt)' (EMEGO 176)

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Context

In the wet heat of a Japanese summer, legendary musician Ryuichi Sakamoto was joined on stage by Taylor Deupree and the duo of Corey Fuller and Tomoyoshi Date, known as Illuha. The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media hosted the event as part of their 10 year anniversary which also included a captivating installation by Sakamoto called Forest Symphony. The days surrounding the concert brought the artists together for food, talk and exploration. Informal but meaningful moods that prepared them for performing together.

The performance, an improvised set for piano, guitar, pump organ, and synthesizers, ended up affecting the artists in a deep way. The four, having never played all together before, were taken aback by the level of listening and restraint that flowed between them. The audience sat in a breathless silence, the music offering a respite from the thick July air. As the last hushed note faded into blackness the artists knew right away it had been a deep journey.

It is a fortunate event when a moment like this is captured, as this concert was ( recorded in high quality DSD). Perpetual, named for the eternal and ageless quality of the music, is presented in three movements that traverse from soft layers of synthesizer and processed guitar, to open, airy sections of prepared piano and silence, to finally coming to rest in a most hauntingly delicate lullaby of lonely piano, crackling found objects and field recordings and tones suspended like mists.

Perpetual not only surrounds us and stretches through time but collects that expanse into a single memory, a record of a brief moment where time stood still and four musicians merged into one.

Perpetual

Movement, 3

a brief exploration of the soft and delicate sounds of the Buchla Music Easel.  a video of a similar performance can be found here: http://youtu.be/pb9JRG5fX-4

Homage-Morton Feldman

RM/FM patterns on Buchla 200 & Kyma
Studio 4
EMS Stockholm
Patched by Roland Kuit
Quadraphonic

#7D7F7D (excerpt)

RM/FM patterns on Buchla 200 & Kyma FX
Studio 4
EMS Stockholm
Patched by Roland Kuit
Quadraphonic

Karin Schomaker: photography

#CDA434 (excerpt)

Hexis - Odium

「情動と精妙の響き。」 京都在住の電子音楽家、糸魚健一が掲げるサウンドデザインフィロソフィー、PsysEx(サイセクス)。 

PはPolyrhythm(ポリリズム)=世界各国の民族音楽にもみられる拍の一致しないリズムが同時に演奏されることによる独特のリズム感。 sysEx(システム・エクスクルーシブ・メッセージ)=80年代初頭発案されたメーカーを超えた共通の通信プロトコルMIDIにおいてシステムセッ ティングをコントロールする為のパラメータ。PsysExとは感性や直感からの身体入力と、コンピュータから得るランダムを自然現象と解釈し、融 合させることで偶然性を重んじたインプロヴァイズされたポリリズムを生むことを意味している。 感覚や情緒に重きを置き精妙な技術で描き出した作品、それが「Apex」である。思想・技術を優先して表現してきたが、今作品では進化から深 化へ洗練された深みを合わせもつ「情動と精妙の響」を3年ぶり6thアルバム作品としてアンベールされる。独創的なサウンドデザインへの探 求はディテールからシルエットまでに及び、電子音楽が魅力としてもつユニークとスリリングをミニマルでバランスの取れた音分布が効果的に 印象づけ、結果として艶をさらに輝かせるラグジュアリーで新感覚オーサムなサウンドへと昇華させている。
<糸魚健一(PsysEx) プロフィール> エレクトロニカファンクネスを再定義しつづける日本におけるマイクロスコピックの雄。 PsysEx(サイセクス)名義でのアルバムリリース(*1,*2)、コンピレーション作品への参加、リミックス、プロデュースや、積極的なライブ活動(*3)を 経て、国内外で高い評価を得ている電子音楽家。更に関わるユニットも多岐にわたり、トラックメーカーDJ iToy、ノイズユニットavant-gals、ドローンラップトップデュオattic plan、空間系ジャムバンドplan+e等がある。京都にて電子音楽パーティpodを主催し、現在の京都電子音 楽シーンにつながる礎を築いた。 '97年発足の電子音響実験音楽レーベルshrine.jp <http://shrine.jp/> を主宰し、'11~'13年にかけて月刊でCDをリリースし、京都の新鋭 アーティストの窓口となった。現在も不定期にCDをリリースすると同時に'14年iTunes Storeを使った新シリーズが始動させ日本の新しい実 験音楽の一端を世界に向けて月刊で紹介している。老舗でありながら今最も動向を注目されるレーベルである。 そして「、電子文化の茶と禅」をコンセプトに活動する電子音楽レーベル涼音堂茶舗を星憲一朗氏と共に主宰し、新たな空間のための音楽、郷 土文化との融合を構想している。

*1)主なレーベル 細野晴臣氏率いるdaisyworld ,涼音堂茶舗 ,shrine.jp <http://shrine.jp> *2)主なリミキサー、コラボレーション AOKI takamasa ,atomTM ,alva noto ,So Takahashi

Ken'ichi Itoi a.k.a. PsysEx 『Apex』(SRCD040)
発売日:2015年3月26日 定価:¥2,400 + 税JAN:4562293380840
発売元:shrine.jp 
流通:p*dis / 株式会社インパートメント	



Ken'ichi Itoi a.k.a. PsysEx - 1013_2

Buy HTH040 (limited edition white vinyl): http://store.houndstoothlabel.com/hth040.html
Buy HTH035 (limited edition 8 track CD): http://store.houndstoothlabel.com/hth035.html
Download from iTunes: http://found.ee/HTH035D
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2au85WS
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2auedVo



Buy white vinyl

Akkord - Gravure / Continuum (Fis Hayfield To New Mills Version)

Buy here: http://store.houndstoothlabel.com/lumen.html
iTunes: http://found.ee/Lumen

Paint By Numbers

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (a.k.a. Forbidden Colours) by Ryuichi Sakamoto (1983)

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_v_pbd-O8U

Soundtrack from the movie Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (戦場のメリークリスマス), a.k.a. Furyo in Europe, directed by Nagisa Oshima, and starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Takeshi Kitano.

The instrument is a Kawai VPC1 controlling a Clavia Nord Stage 2, using a sampled Yamaha C7 grand piano, and... straight from the 80's a sampled preset named "Touch Perco" from the Yamaha DX7 mk2 synth.

Spotify

Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence [live cover]

The Sheltering Sky theme, composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto (1990).

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlxAEmGmK-s

Soundtrack from the movie The Sheltering Sky (Il tè nel deserto) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Debra Winger and John Malkovich.

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Stage 2, using a sampled Yamaha studio C7 grand piano, with pedal noise and string resonance, and sampled orchestral strings.

Video

Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一 The Sheltering Sky

Commissioned by Groovescooter for the 2nd volume in our JJJ Album Of The Week series, 'Re-fashioned', this stunning cover of David Sylvian and Japan's early 80's classic 'Ghosts' features Gotye on vocals & music programming/production by Yum Cha Sessions. It was recorded at Creative Vibes, York St studios behind the QVB building in Sydney.  Now finally available digitally in high qual wav or mp3 from Bandcamp: https://groovescooter.bandcamp.com/track/ghosts

Produced by J. Bourne and Biseaux (Yum Cha Sessions)
Vocals: Gotye / Wally De Backer (credited as WDB)
Mastered by Kathy Naunton @ dB Mastering, Sydney
Commissioned /A&Rd by: Georgie Zuzak & Paris Pompor
Released: 2004, exclusively for Groovescooter's 'Re-fashioned British Airwaves' album.

Ghosts GOTYE + YUM CHA SESSIONS - Groovescooter Records (Japan/David Sylvian cover)

David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees (Live)

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