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Klabb is taken from the debut EP of Deena Abdelwahed https://soundcloud.com/deenaabdelwahed - Klabb EP
Out March 8th

More infos : http://infine-music.com/news/2957/deena-first-ep-klabb

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Deena Abdelwahed - Klabb V2

Wohnungssuche

Welcome to the first volume of 'Astral Meditations' a new mixtape series by composer, saxophonist and DJ https://soundcloud.com/nubya-garcia

Find out more here: http://bit.ly/2r9OkAY

Tracklist:

Francis Bebey - Sunny Crypt
Shabaka and the Ancestors - Mzwandile
Alice Coltrane ft. Pharoah Sanders - Journey in Satchidananda 
Dayme Arocena - Eleggua
United Vibrations - Grow
Jeen Bassa - Time Waves
Theo Croker - Alapa (For Doc)
Dorothy Ashby - Essence of Sapphire
Makaya McCraven - The Jaunt
Eric Lau - Lau's Lament
Georgia Ann Muldrow - Run Away
Hiatus Kaiyote - Jekyll

www.musicamacondo.com

Nubya Garcia's  'Astral Meditations' Vol. 1

Till Stellmacher - Helfen Danken Tut Mir Leid

Artist: Jonathan Scherk & Daniel Majer
Album: It's Counterpart
Label#: Faitiche19
Format: LP/DL

Faitiche is delighted to welcome two young artists from Canada: Jonathan Scherk and Daniel Majer hail from the post-rock and experimental scene in Vancouver, where they shared a studio for several years. In artistic terms, too, there is a surprising coherence: on It’s Counterpart, their solo work naturally blends to create a joint album, making it hard to distinguish between their contributions. Majer describes his part as a shadow-like reflection to Scherk’s brightly meandering collages. The album’s title refers to this: It's Counterpart presents two solo artists who have met their match in one another.

Scherk and Majer produce contemporary sound collages on samplers, laptops etc. using raw material drawn from YouTube videos, field recordings, cassettes, and LPs from the dollar bin – the kind of rightly forgotten obscurities that have long since lost their audience, if they ever had one. In the hands of Scherk and Majer, they become abstract sound objects. The two artists don't concern themselves with the material's original context – the sound's character is most important. This sets them apart from other collage artists. Their work might be called a contemporary upgrade of the classic tape collage: here, channelling a wealth of information is the main focus. So are these collages that trigger neither associations nor contexts? Au contraire! It’s Counterpart is like an overheated centrifuge whose spinning extracts and joins together all of the harmonies ever pressed on vinyl. Melodies run amok.

Jonathan Scherk: Get a Little s / Daniel Majer:  She Barely Spoke (excerpt)

https://lorainejames.bandcamp.com/album/bangers-and-mash

So Much Time

Artist: Frank Bretschneider
Album: abtasten_halten
Label#: faitiche21
Format: LP/DL
Release: Sept 18th 2020

Faitiche is delighted to present a new album by Frank Bretschneider. abtasten_halten was made as part of the raster.labor installation first presented at CTM Festival in 2019. It is perhaps the most radical work in Bretschneider’s distinctive oeuvre: abtasten_halten is a self-generating composition for synthesizer modules whose sole sound source is the movement of two VU meter needles. The resulting percussive sounds coalesce into rhythmic combinations – all random, without repetition. The album resembles a meditation on infinite rhythmic variation. abtasten_halten is Frank Bretschneider’s first release on Faitiche.

"One sound can give birth to thousands of tones through self-fertilization." Pierre Henry, 1982

Frank Bretschneider on abtasten_halten:
abtasten_halten (sample_hold) is a largely self-generating composition for a modular synthesizer system. Self-generating here means that as soon as a current flows, the various modules interact, but within limits set by the composer via the connections between the modules (patches): timing, tempo, timbres, dynamics. These conditions are kept variable to a certain extent or left to chance, so that the composition created is always similar but never the same. On the one hand, the use of random generators opens up possibilities that would not otherwise have been considered. On the other, it offers the fascination of the unfinished and the unique: totally unexpected musical events that you might hear only once.
abtasten_halten combines my preferences for percussive music in general and electronic music in particular. Largely avoiding repetitive structures, the piece is more like a free improvisation, quiet and diffuse, but also extremely dense, in ever-changing contrasts and transformations.
The tone generators are two modified VU meters whose needles, driven by trigger impulses, create a simple one-bar pattern by hitting against a metal spring that is connected to a piezo element (thanks to Gijs Gieskes / Gieskes.NL). The tempo is continuously varied over a period of about ten minutes by several mutually modulating LFOs, ranging from about 0.06 Hz up to the lower audio range of about 18Hz.
The percussive sounds thus obtained are then passed through low-pass filters with moderate resonance and random frequency modulation to additionally colour the sound. Further processing is then executed by an echo module whose tempo and repetitions are again determined by random parameters. Finally the audio signal is occasionally enriched with reverb to add more spaciousness to the sound.
The concept for the installation raster.labor was developed by Olaf Bender, Frank Bretschneider and David Letellier. Many thanks to raster - artistic platform.

On Frank Bretschneider:

Frank Bretschneider works as a musician, composer and video artist in Berlin, making mainly electronic work based on complex rhythmic structures and interlocking textures, whose many-layered sound is inspired by the experimental set-ups of modern physics, often supplemented by perfectly synchronized computer-generated visualizations. In 1986, he founded AG Geige, one of the most influential underground bands in East Germany. In 1996, he co-founded the label raster-noton and has since released many solo albums.

Frank Bretschneider: abtasten_halten C

From the forthcoming compilation "Each Of Us Was Several: Volume 2"
Release date: September 29th, 2020
BandCamp: engramrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/each…l-volume-2
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KAOSMOS - Quis Sum? ( Engram Records )

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