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Studio Electronic Music, recorded in two passes at Ash Van, Cambridge, MA, USA, August 20th, 2014. Layered & assembled with the benefit of hindsight & a reasonable pause, August 25th, 2014.

Apologies to Angelo Badalamenti.

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Alternate Music for Performances in London & Toronto, Ontario (2014)

"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"

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

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

Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major composed in 1929. This is the beginning of the 2nd movement, an adagio assai, much quieter than the rest of this work.

Live video: http://youtu.be/2sMmZvRb_D8

The instrument is a Kawai VPC1 controlling a Nord Stage 2 using a sampled Bösendorfer upright piano, and a hint of Mellotron flute at the end. I also used ambient mics capturing my breath sound.

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Ravel - Concerto In G, Adagio assai, opening

Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet, composed by Nino Rota for Franco Zeffirelli's film in 1968. The song based on this theme is called "What Is A Youth" in the album.

Live video: http://youtu.be/4b4oFp7yYbM

This has been covered so many times, as an instrumental by Henry Mancini in 1969, and as a song called "A Time For Us" by numerous artists. Lana Del Rey also did a very nice cover with a different chorus called "Old Money" in her album "Ultraviolence".

The instrument is a Kawai VPC1 controlling a Nord Stage 2, using a Bösendorfer sampled grand piano with some delay effect, sampled mandola and orchestra strings.

Updated on Feb 26 with a better take.

Nino Rota - Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet (A Time For Us) [piano + synth]

Live diffusion, as performed at the opening of the INA-GRM's "Présences électronique 2015" festival at Le CENTQUATRE-PARIS, March 6th, 2015, followed by a performance of Ilhan Mimaroglu's "Tract." 

See the preview "Trailer" for the conert here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IidK1CCtw4o

Also, here's an interview conducted before the performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naxsH4ftt5o

To purchase the "Studio" version of the first section:
http://www.mimaroglumusic.com/store/p259/KFW_-_Tokyo.html

"Trilogie d'Erreur"

"Eject" by Container from "LP" due out March 2015.

"Eject" by Container

Artist: CARL MICHAEL VON HAUSSWOLFF
TITLE: PLAYS JOHN CAGE II
FORMAT: WHITE, SQUARE 7" FLEXI DISC
EDITION: 200
AVAILABLE: NOW

CM von Hausswolff plays John Cage II

When John Cage was about to celebrate his 80th birthday in 1992, the Stockholm electronic Music Festival invited CM von Hausswolff to interpret Cage’s piece Imaginary Landscape #5. At the time of the performance Cage had already passed away a month earlier. The piece was recorded and Joe Colley’s label Povertech Industries agreed to release it. The second side contained Hausswolff’s first version of Cage’s legendary work 4’33”. The 7” was released in 1996.

In 1995 Hausswolff dedicated a second work to John Cage composed in Berlin and released on an LP by London based Ash International in 1997. The piece was called As Quiet As A Campfire Or Analogue Motoric And Electro-Magnetic Silence Disturbed By Intuitive Slumber.

In 2010 CM von Hausswolff and Petri Kuljuntausta performed 4’33” at IHME Contemporary Art Festival in Helsinki, Finland. This version was for two electric guitars and amplifiers.

CM von Hausswolff Plays John Cage II contains a new recorded version: 4’33” - for electric guitar (broken amplifier version) and was recorded as an hommage to Cage’s 100 years anniversary in 2012.

CM VON HAUSSWOLFF - PLAYS JOHN CAGE II (iDEAL126 FLEXI 7")

DIAG023 — EVOL — 'FLAPPER THAT'

RIYL BELGIAN TECHNO, LICKING BATTERIES, COLOURED PLASTIC DISCS.

12" + Digital 

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DIAG023 EVOL 'Flapper That'

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Fenton is the guitar-based side project of Shuttle358 (California-based Dan Abrams). In 2005, he released the debut Pup on the Japanese imprint Plop. Mythic Failures is a download-only release to celebrate the digital re-release of Pup.

Mythic Failures follows shortly after the creation of Shuttle358's latest Can You Prove I Was Born. On Mythic, Dan takes his performances and processing techniques deeper with personal themes of mystery, dissonance, imperfection, and surrender. The guitar, while the main source of sound, is subject to his refined electronic manipulations that leave the ghost of the instrument afloat in a sea of new textures.

Mythic Failures

Wolf

Also known as the critically acclaimed artist Shuttle358 on the ny based label 12k and of Germany's Mille Plateaux fame, Dan Abrams created quite a stir in the minimal electronic scene with his releases like Frame, Understanding Wildlife, and Chessa.

Fenton turns a page for Dan, adding acoustic and processed electric guitars to his signature microsound aesthetic. This yields a familiar sound, perhaps even more accessible than his earlier work.

Forever Awkward

Taken from the album 'Erda / Suite N' released as LP and Download

Jean Schwarz 'Suite N' (excerpt) (REGRM 016)

Vindicatrix
Al-Bashariyya
Picture-Disc LP (Hybrid Vinyl)
Dekorder 079

Release Date: March 18, 2016

https://dekorder.bandcamp.com/album/al-bashariyya

Dekorder 10-Year Anniversary Hybrid-Vinyl Series

Pye Corner Audio
Excepter
Le Révélateur
Experimental Audio Research
Vindicatrix
Black To Comm
Kemialliset Ystävät
Ensemble Economique
Alien Radio

https://dekorder.bandcamp.com/album/10-year-anniversary-hybrid-vinyl-series

Vindicatrix "body 2 let" (Dekorder 079)

Le Révélateur
Hyper
Picture-Disc LP (Hybrid Vinyl)
Dekorder 080

Release Date: March 18, 2016

https://dekorder.bandcamp.com/album/hyper

Dekorder 10-Year Anniversary Hybrid-Vinyl Series

Pye Corner Audio
Excepter
Le Révélateur
Experimental Audio Research
Vindicatrix
Black To Comm
Kemialliset Ystävät
Ensemble Economique
Alien Radio

https://dekorder.bandcamp.com/album/10-year-anniversary-hybrid-vinyl-series

Le Révélateur - Fakeaway Haptics (Dekorder 080)

Last piece on the upcoming Mika Vainio CD on iDEAL entitled "Mannerlaatta". This is the original soundtrack to the Mika Taanila film with the same title. Edition of 500 copies will be available in August 2016, or earlier.

FILM CREDITS:
Mannerlaatta (Tectonic Plate)

director: Mika Taanila

text: Harry Salmenniemi

English translation: Lola Rogers

music: Mika Vainio

graphic design: Markus Pyörälä

sound design: Olli Huhtanen

producer: Jussi Eerola

production company: Elokuvayhtiö Testifilmi Oy, Helsinki

MIKA VAINIO - Muisto Palaa Selittämättömästi/A Memory Returning Inexplicably (iDEAL149 CD)

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.

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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.

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.

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