Honey Pie
Live recording, Musique Action Festival, Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy, France, May 26, 2001. Thanks to Dominique Répécaud and Nicolas Franer. C+P GROB 2004 Packaged in a six-panel Digipak.
Duos for Doris
This word - improvisation - no longer seems adequate to describe the forms that emerge from playing without a score or pre-determined structure. These categories are invidious anyway, but improvised music history, or that part has its roots in communality and spontaneity, raises certain expectations in the listener that may have become anachronistic or simply naive. Take Duos For Doris, dedicated to Tilbury's mother, who died two days before this recording was made. A double CD containing three …
Dial: log-rhythm
Two concerts of experimental improvisation from Eddie Prevost and Christian Wolff, two giants of conceptual improvisation and composition, recorded at Ikletick in London in 2015 and at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire in 2016; with superb pacing and brilliant execution, these dialogs between keyboard and percussive instruments explore unique sound worlds with depth, inquisitiveness, and a sense of wonder.
"The set documents two concerts - 1, recorded at Iklectik in London in Septembe…
Live at the LU
Recorded in May of 2002, almost a year after Fennesz' surprisingly successful (commercially) release, Endless Summer, one might have expected that this pairing would produce an intriguing collision of opposing forces. On the one hand you have all the pop-influenced, steamily melodic and erotic explorations that Fennesz had developed in the prior years. Countering that, one could readily imagine Keith Rowe as saboteur, finding rifts in the smooth mass to deviously penetrate and deflate. This does…
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ErstLive is a new series of releases from Erstwhile Records, documenting notable live sets associated with the label. The discs are designed to simulate a concert experience, each in the same template design using two colors chosen by the musicians involved, with a photo of the concert on the back cover. Each will be in an edition of 800 CDs and not reprinted. The initial releases will be chosen from the AMPLIFY 2004 festival which took place in Cologne and Berlin in May 2004. ErstLive …
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ErstLive 005 is from the quartet of Keith Rowe, Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura, and Otomo Yoshihide, the centerpiece show of AMPLIFY 2004: addition, the "four hour quartet". ErstLive 005 contains three individually packaged slimline CDs in a slipcase with original artwork by Keith Rowe, which wraps around the entire box, front, side, and back, as well as liner notes from all four musicians and numerous pictures from Yuko Zama. ErstLive 005 documents only the second performance of this quartet, a…
The room
"This was one of the first occasions on which I worked with Keith Rowe, who bore more or less the same relation to the electric guitar as David Tudor did to the piano (I put that in the past tense because by no stretch of the imagination could you now call them guitarist or pianist respectively)."-Cornelius Cardew, 1966 More than forty years later, Keith Rowe is still adding to his remarkable legacy of sound and color. This latest release, The Room, marks the third full-length solo recording of …
Global ancient atmosphere
Rhythm, duration and silence lie at the foundation of all of Haino's music. After a clutch of documents of his hair-raising solo performances for both acoustic and electric percussion, this latest album presents Haino's first recorded outing behind a regular drumkit. Haino has long desired to release a solo drum album, and he has been playing a regular kit occasionally live for several decades now. Global Ancient Atmosphere contains nine tracks that showcase an austere yet thrilling investigatio…
Hikari yami uchitokeaishi kono hibiki
First album of solo guitar by Keiji Haino in quite some time, but very much a departure from the mountain-levelling, continent-sundering, weather-system huge electric guitar releases of years past. The title roughly translates as 'Light darkness melting into one this vibration'. Haino advises the listener to play as loud as possible - surely a first on an album of acoustic guitar.
The 21st century hard-y-guide-y man
Haino uses a hurdy gurdy, runs it through his battery of effects and winds up with a large whoosh of noise not unlike Tony Conrd's violin.
Nijiumu
Keiji Haino is Fushitsusha's mainman. Dark Avant-garde experimental music with various ancient instruments and metal. Complete black package.
Misenlian
Julien Ottavi and Dion Workman are two of the most extreme of the younger wave of sonic explorers, pushing the boundaries of sound and art. Ottavi hails from Nantes, France and Workman from New Zealand, but their overlapping concerns and aesthetics have drawn them together, and misenlian contains the results of their initial collaborations. Julien Ottavi studied sound and photography at the art school of Nantes. He is a founding member of Formanex, an electroacoustic quartet performing graphic s…
Temperament
A selection of improvisations using differing tunings (Pythagoran, Just intonation, Meantone 1/4 comma, Equal, and Rosenberg Augmented) derived from science, history and the imagination - featuring Rose on various violins, and Weston on various keyboards (piano, fortepiano, harpsichord, organ, harmonium & electronics), recorded in various locations in Europe.
What’s lost...
Jon Mueller either spent the necessary time to teach his drums how to actually sustain something, or he found them lying in the same swamp as the Warner Bros. frog. In any case, he has coaxed a gorgeous CD out of them: complex textures of sustained snares, nocturnal bells, and asymmetrical rhythms arising as if from within the drums; all subtly ordered, sometimes melting from passage to passage, sometimes popping with tape-edit precision. The pieces have the gravity of fine drone work, but they …
Contes de la memoire
Jon Appleton brought a lot to electroacoustic music. As well as realizing tape pieces, he has pioneered live computer music, hitting the road in the seventies with the Synclavier, the first digital synthesizer, which he had designed in close collaboration with Sydney Alonso. His activity extends beyond traditional categories. He has worked with instruments, dance (especially the …
Black magic pond
Compounded recycling report from the East Coast and debut solo outing on Blossoming Noise, following LHD's release 'Young & Restless'. In Wiese's output, Black magic Pond sits somewhere between the density of Arrhythmia Wave Burst and Panner Crash but working within the same conceptual framework of his recycling trilogy magical Crystal Blah. Housed in a digipak.
Discrete Moments
Matchless Recordings presents a live concert by Eddie Prévost and John Tilbury recorded at Gateway Studios, Kingston-upon-Thames, England on the 6th of January, 2004. The album includes eight tracks performed by John Tilbury - piano, prepared piano and organ and Eddie Prévost - stringled barrel, tam-tam, percussion.
"Some of their music is delicate and pointillistic with wide spaces between sounds, but there are also rich, thick webs and, as indicated, Cage/Kleeube Goldberg thunkity-thunk machin…
Two Chapters and an Epilogue
Matchless Recordings presents a live concert by Evan Parker and John Tilbury recorded at Gateway Studios, Kingston-upon-Thames, England on Monday 3rd August 1998. The album includes three tracks performed by Evan Parker - tenor & soprano saxophones and John Tilbury - piano.
"These musicians have chosen to eschew the given media of jazz, from whence Evan Parker received much of his initial inspiration, and the classical world from which John Tilbury received his early and formative training, in o…
Barcelone piano solo
Barcelona - a piano solo piece: 36:49:00 - Recorded during Improvisa 2003 Festival in Barcelona (Spain) the 3th of December at L'ESPAI de Musica i Dansa de la Generalitat de Catalunya. Recorded and mastered by Ferran Conangla.
Plays Samuel Beckett
With Christina Jones and Sebastian Lexer. Features the following pieces: Cascando (a radio piece for music and voice). Voices by John Tilbury. Music composed and performed by John Tilbury with electronic modulations by Sebastian Lexer. Rough for Radio 1 (for music and voices). Voices: Christina Jones and John Tilbury. Music composed and performed by Sebastian Lexer, Eddie Prévost and John Tilbury. Studio recordings from 2004-5.