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Detriti
2007 release ** Re-issue of 1993 album. "Detriti was founded in 1984 as a trio: voice (Tomaj), Drums (Mauro) and bass (Mario) and continuing with this training for some years. then continuing in the form of a duo (vocals and drums) until 1989, when Hector comes as a bassist. Detriti were essentially a hardcore punk with a markedly distinctly free jazz. Music angular, frenetic, caused by improvised but composed and performed with rigorous technique, singing screaming fast or mumbled to the limit,…
Farben Raum
2008 release ** Cardboard sleeve. "Sun of the seventh sister is a collective of artists-musicians from Australia and New Zealand ranging in number from 10-25 players. Their rack of instruments is pretty immense including multiple drummers, electrified chordophones, horns, vocals, oscillators, electric guitars and pretty much everything they can put their hands on. This hord of nomad musicians reminds me of the nomadic artists of the middle-ages with everything that this brings to mind, the madne…
Tipping Point
2012 release ** Edition of 100 hand-numbered copies in folded cardboard sleeve. "MIE Music is very excited to announce the first release in its new CDr series 'Tipping Point' by the Birchall/Cheetham Duo. Andrew and David met when they performed as part of Rhys Chatham’s G3 ensemble in Manchester early 2011 which MIE put on. Since then they have developed a sound exploring the deconstruction of rock music within the wider context of free improvisation. Both musicians are committed to the explora…
Hidden Or Just Gone
2006 release ** "A crossroads between jazz representation and experimental post-rock, "Hidden Or Just Gone" is perhaps Caboto's test of maturity. More than five years after their debut, the Bologna-based instrumental combo has arguably reached its peak, transfiguring its avant-garde writing within refined yet extremely neurotic and obscure environments. An intense and accomplished album. It features a subtle alternation between improvised figures and reasoned structures. A marked aptitude for fr…
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2009 release ** Strongly Imploded is the supergroup composed by part of One Starving Day (Beta-Lactam Ring) A Spirale (Fratto9/ Deserted Factory) and Weltraum (Lona e Toxo Records), a blend of electro-acoustic, free improvisation and elements from heavy sounding music styles such as noise, hardcore and power electronics, that results in improvised /new obscure music. "In their radical improvisations they mix sources of acoustic and electronic origin. In the quiet and open passages their music f…
Cosmic Debris V. 4
2008 release ** CD re-issue of the fourth volume in the ongoing "Cosmic Debris" series of split ART-LP releases set up by the Opalio brothers, aka My Cat Is An Alien (MCIAA), on their own Opax Records. This time the space improv duo from Torino, Italy, shares one side of the vinyl with Swedish radical saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, whose twenty-year career boasts collaborations that range widely over the contemporary improvised music world, from masters of the free jazz such as Peter Brotzmann, De…