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'Indented Head' – an hour of family music hosted monthly by Scott and Lew

Indented Head Episode #6 w. Scott and Lew

Tusagi is back to Mutant for some swamp insect music and beyond

Tusagi [10.06.2022]

(Rekem 14)

Back in 1998, and starting as a play on the big operas of American Minimalism (Philip Glass’ Einstein on the Beach and John Adams’ Nixon in China), Costis Drygianakis, together with Thanasis Chondros and Alexandra Katsiani (two thirds of the group Dimosioypalliliko Retire), devised a radio opera based on their own exotic studio travels and throughout the musics of the world. Built around an improvised libretto by Thanasis and Alexandra, Costis’ work develops emphatically though with a light-hearted touch, oscillating between lengthy piano-based structures, powerful instrumental crescendos and a creative use of early digital tools. Chondros and Katsiani on the Mountain is an intricate, rich, and quietly profound piece, yet one that avoids the hybris that comes together with the notion of the “grand work”. In this it stands apart from its contemporaries in 1998, as much as it does today. It also provides a high benchmark for the artists’ careers, as well as for listeners invested in all sorts of sonic explorations.

Whether it be through Optical Musics, his subsequent compositional work, occasional collaborations, or his rich contemporary ethnomusicological research, Costis Drygianakis’ name is nowadays firmly established within the Greek music scene and beyond. Through an equally rich trajectory, Thanasis Chondros and Alexandra Katsiani appear at times as musicians, artists or performers, maintaining a fresh and subversive approach towards artistic expression and work. One of the many non-conformist ideas that came as a result of the meeting of the two is contained in this CD. The work first appeared in Volos’ Municipal Radio in 1998 and in a limited edition on Alli Poli in 2006. It is reissued here in an extensive bilingual edition containing the libretto and freshly commissioned texts. 

Audio remastered by Stephan Mathieu. Accompanying texts by Areti Leopoulou, Costis Drygianakis, Thanasis Chondros and Alexandra Katsiani, Kostis Kilymis.

rekem.org/Costis-Drygianakis-Chondros-and-Katsiani-on-the-Mountain

Costis Drygianakis - Chondros and Katsiani on the Mountain (excerpts)

info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/pba-korea-undok-group-cnc-fellowship
https://www.discogs.com/label/897626-Korea-Undok-Group
https://soundcloud.com/korea-undok-group

PBA – Korea Undok Group: CNC fellowship

Jane Doe
live at Maudi
Tbilisi
28.06.2019

photo by Jan Chudozilov

28.06.19 - Jane Doe

Taken from the God Bless the Death Drive LP (PP45)

Literally taking off where the acclaimed Precious Waste in our Wake LP finished off, London based outfit Triple Negative return with another exemplary amplified jigsaw puzzle. The playback of this reality is garnished with humour, bedlam, beauty and a robust fear of the predictable. As payback for your acknowledgment our international line-up deliver a disparate mix of genres and histographies rendered into a devious dish of rhythm, song, balladry and nerve. 
 
This is Not This Heat.  A.Kostis/Kostas Bezos’ ‘Stin Ypoga’ (1930) is the template for Bad emotional investments whilst the haunting Fine Cargo Lacquer takes flight from the morbidly on point novel The Death Ship by B. Traven. 

God Bless the Death Drive could be construed as a compass to navigate the wayward wonder we inhabit or it can just be enjoyed. This second full length steers into scathed realms of everyday junk and poignant punk, all pressed down on the lowest quality ethylene and chlorine. 

Triple Negative return with another stamped digest of hope as joke, noise and song, rollicking rhythm and seasick soul. 

Edition of 500 copies in high gloss sleeve with printed comic book inner sleeve. 

Reviews for Precious Waste in our Wake :

"Passages of abstract, energetic garage-psych and a previously unimaginable range of unexplored tone and texture (both electronic and acoustic) are weaved together with sensitive, understated jumble-sale genius!! Every ounce of this trio equipped with jaws capable of delivering the same level of writhing combustible haunting BITE and rhythm as This Heat." An endearingly honest and outrageously artful sense of seemingly forgetful prowess - having played together for seventeen years (!) and only now releasing their debut album, “Precious Waste..” really gives weight to the idea that it can take a long time to sound like yourself. Triple Negative's entirely unique breed of dynamic chaos providing the thrill and bewilderment of observing that which is so close to collapse, evolve into a fully realised slab of INFINITE potential. Favourite thing we’ve heard in ages, cannot recommend highly enough." - Low Company

"Three foreign sorts – a Kiwi, a German and a Romanian it says here – converge in London and make dough-thick improv rock-not-rock that sounds like they got all their mates in the studio to hoedown, holler and proclaim. In fact, I think there are just a lot of instruments, although I couldn’t say for certain what most of them are: things stringed and folky, reeded and snakecharmy, samplers, shakers and racket-makers. Voices are abundant, but the words could be in any or none of the languages Triple Negative speak. Gets pretty trancey and ritualistic at times, albeit with plenty of change-ups to pop your joints out, and it all amounts to Precious Waste In Our Wake being potent red diesel for fans of Royal Trux’s Twin Infinitives, Faust, Sun City Girls, Vibracathedral Orchestra and Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides." The Quietus

Melted alien fug and scattered dust cloud punk from inglorious crew of London by way of NZ reprobates - 2 Bridges Music Arts

Straggling, wheezing klatter and klang. i’d apply some elastically stretched rockist reductionism but really, it’s sound as collection / collectivism and all the ugly beauty that entails - Cows are just food.

God Bless the Death Drive

Triple Negative - Bad Grace

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'Indented Head' an hour of family music hosted monthly by Scott and Lew on MutantRadio.net

Indented Head Ep: 1 [Monthly Show]

Selected recordings of Ashiq music curated by Stefan Williamson Fa for EastEast's Music Atlas 

Tracklist: 
Aşıq Kamandar (Marneuli, Georgia) - Aşıq Qərib Dastanı
Aşıq Ədalət Nəsibov (Qazax, Azerbaijan)- Şahsevəni
Aşık Feyzullah Çınar (Sivas, Turkey)- Geldim Şu Alemi Islah Edeyim
Aşıq Nargilə Mehdiyeva (Tbilisi, Georgia)- Qaraçı
Aşık Mahzuni Şerif (Maraş, Turkey)- Nem Kaldı
Ашукь Шемшир (Avadan, Dagestan)- Красавица
Aşıq Əli Tapdıqoğlu (Şamaxı, Azerbaijan)- Ordubadi
Aşıq Məhəmməd Fərzənəqan (Tabriz, Iran) - Araz Araz
Aşık Şahturna (Sivas, Turkey)- Bush Bush America 
Aşıq Zülfiyyə (Tovuz, Azerbaijan)- Yandım Allah

Ashiqs – A Music Atlas Genre Mix

"Third day. Third time. In a stone seat. I feel quite tired. It's the last day in Härjedalen. I have been wandering a lot."

Concrete, feedback, field recordings, drunks, rituals, radio plays, oral civilisations, alternate tunings, agrarian rites, bad acid, backroads, scavengers, hillbillies, trees, scrap metal, loner-folk, tape journals, still life, personal computer, stasis, trance, motion, ice...

'Indented Head' an hour of family music hosted monthly by Scott and Lew is back on MutantRadio.net with the second episode.

'Indented Head' w. Scott and Lew Ep:2 [Monthly Show]

Fourth episode of Indented Head, featuring a 'mini-mix' with the show's first special guest, Gwyn. https://soundcloud.com/user-130205156
'Indented Head' an hour of family music hosted monthly by Scott and Lew is back on MutantRadio.net with new episode and their guest Gwyn.

Indented Head Episode: 4 Feat. Gwyn Mixdown

Bromo Soil

online archive of live performances and sound works at Maudi Art Space
140 Tsereteli ave
Tbilisi, Georgia
www.atmaudi.com

28.06.19 - Jane Doe

MAUDI

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