soundcastles : : field-recordings : : experimental  




NOTON – founded by Carsten Nicolai as a small imprint in 1994 – began its activities in 1996 with the release of noto’s “spin”. a collaboration with RasterMusic began the same year, and by 1999 the two labels had merged into Raster-Noton. In 2017, NOTON will start working independently again by releasing Alva Noto’s entire back catalogue, and the label is currently planning releases for the future too. Ongoing projects and collaborations include: Noto, Alva Noto, Opto (Thomas Knak + Alva Noto), cyclo.  (Ryoji Ikeda + Alva Noto), ANBB: Alva Noto + Blixa Bargeld, Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto, Anne-James Chaton + Alva Noto + Andy Moore, ø + Noto.

Alexandra Zerner is a solo artist, guitar player, multi-instrumentalist and composer from Brno, Czech Republic.
She has been working as a session musician, sound engineer and guitar teacher since 2001 and she's currently endorsed by EMG Pickups, Kahler Tremolo Systems, and Lizard Spit Music Care Products.
Her solo works include the albums "9 Stories" (2014), "Aspects" (2015), "An Evening Walk" EP, (2016), "Opus 1880" (2018), "Kartinche" Single (2019). 
Alexandra participated as a guest musician in "Thoughtscanning" (2014) by We All Die (Laughing) (guitarist), "The Path To Atlas" (2015) by Aurora Borealis (guitarist, keyboardist, and composer), "The Four Seasons" (2016) by Vivaldi Metal Project (guitarist), "Follow Me" (2019) by Sevi (guitarist, keyboardist, and composer).
In mid-August 2016 Alexandra won Nili Brosh's "A Matter of Perception" Melody Contest, picked by a jury of guitar greats - Nili Brosh, Jason Becker, Greg Howe, and Marco Sfogli, and was awarded an EMG pickups endorsement deal.
On 14th of April, 2018 Alexandra participated in "Female Guitarist Round Table Discussion" with Jennifer Batten, Gretchen Menn, Nili Brosh, Nikki Stringfield, and Yvette Young.
Alexandra appeared in many charts, sites, and magazines including "Top 15 Hard Rock & Metal Female Guitar Shredders" chart by Metalholic.com (2014), "Independent Shredder of the Month" at AllThatShreds.com (2016), "Top 10 Female Shredders" chart by AllThatShreds.com (2017), she's been mentioned by Jason Becker in the October 2015 edition of "Guitar Player" magazine, along with Jeff Loomis, about her cover of Jason Becker's classic "Perpetual Burn". Her last album "Opus 1880" receives numerous highly positive reviews in many sites and magazines.
She performed as a support act in Sofia Bulgaria for Stu Hamm and Greg Howe (November 2016) and  Dream Theater (July 2019).
On the 23rd December 2019, Alexandra released her single "Kartinche" which is a guitar and flute duet and marks her 1-year anniversary of playing the flute.
In February 2020 she joins Alberto Rigoni and Marco Minnemann for Alberto's new project "Odd Times" as a guitarist and keyboardist.

This music can be described as sound-journeying, tale telling, experimental, evolving. 

GeNeS was founded in October 2018 to explore a freely improvised music in the vibrant city of Berlin.

The musicians are:

    Gidi Farhi - Contrabass, fretless electric Bass
    Nishad Pandey - Electric and acoustic guitars
    Steve Schofield - Acoustic and electronic wind instruments, Keyboards

NB: Copyright - If you replicate any of these works or make them available to the public for download, listening or by linking to it in any manner what so ever, you must audibly or visibly attribute them to the artists involved .. thx

Electroacoustic is the experimental playground of Ewan Stefani and friends. 
Final releases and downloadable tracks also on bandcamp: https://ewanstefani.bandcamp.com

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