Okura 73N - 42E
Musica Genera presents another album from French musique concrète composer Lionel Marchetti (in 2005 MG had released the CD Docteur Kramer (You Are Not You) by Marchetti and Emmanuel Petit), this time realised together with his artistic partner Yôko Higashi, Japanese performer, dancer and vocalist. The album contains three compositions of musique concrète, one by Marchetti, one by Higashi and a collaborative work by both artists.Each of the tracks is an elaborate sound construction of individual…
Mauve Cycles
"Mauve Cycles by Anny Zaradny is a significant release. It is the first solo CD by the artist with already considerable output, including improvised music, composing for theatres, collaborations with visual artists and sound installations. Also, the involvement of women in the contemporary experimental music still seems to be perceived as unusual (hence the compilation releases such as Women in Electronic Music from 1977 or Her Noise exhibition from 2005) and in Poland it is a marginal phenomena…
Lasting Clinamen
"Lasting Clinamen is another step further in one of the most adventurous Polish experimental musician's quest for new sounds. In the four pieces on this CD Robert Piotrowicz takes his explorations of modular analogue synthesiser to a new level. While his previous releases were action packed experiments with the possibilities of the instrument, the new one is a statement from an artist who knows exactly what he wants to achieve. Robert has mastered his skills and feels confident with his tools, e…
Docteur Kramer
Two pieces of musique concrete. Docteur Kramer (2002-2004). One composition of Lionel Marchetti. Zizi (2001-2002). One composition of Emmanuel Petit and Lionel Marchetti.
Attuning / attending
The first release of Musica Genera's new series which is dedicated to music of from improvisation of improvisers contexts.Zbigniew Karkowski's solo album brings one over 50 minutes long piece. On this CD Karkowski shows himself on composition and more minimal field, but his strong energetical and dynamic attitude is still clearly present.
Connector
Tracks 1. 2. 3 recorded Aug., Sept. 2004 at studio NOEMA Buenos Aires, performed/composed by Alan Courtis, Jaime Genovart, Zbigniew Karkowski and Pablo Reche.Track 4 recorded Aug., Sept. 2004 at studio NOEMA Buenos Aires, performed/composed by Jaime Genovart, Zbigniew Karkowski and Pablo Reche.Track 5 recorded sept 2004 at LIPM [Laboratory of Investigation and Musical Production], Buenos Aires, performed/composed by Jorge Haro and Zbigniew Karkowski.Additional edits Zbigniew Karkowski, mastered …
RFG Inventions for Cello and Computer
Remarkable collaboration between inventor, synth pioneer and EMS co-founder Peter Zinovieff and preeminent cellist Lucy Railton, capturing a life-altering dialogue between two figures with a more than 50-year age gap between them, and with very little shared musical vocabulary. Pursuing common ground through an open-ended series of conversations and experiments, the pair somehow produce what we can only describe as creative alchemy; transforming banal conceptual triggers into a work seeping into…
Not Linear
**100 copies, coloured vinyl** The collaboration between Gino Pavan and Guido Frezzato began in 1995, with the creation of the soundtrack of Giancarlo Marinelli's movie Scano Boa - Dannazione.Gino Pavan recorded and produced, in his own "Noi Studio", the music of Frezzato, then given to an ensemble of 15 musicians, among them a strings quintet, and the folk ensemble Marmaja, along with the ethnic suggestions of the percussions by African Brothers. In the following two years, their collaboration …
Weird Times
**2020 stock, highly recommended** Matt Jencik is a musician based in Chicago. His most recent band, Implodes, released two albums with the label Kranky earlier on this decade and Jencik has been performing and recording since the early nineties in bands such as Hurl, Don Caballero, and more recently Slint, Papa M and Circuit Des Yeux.Weird Times is Matt Jencik’s debut solo album, in which he presents ten pure ambient, abstract drone tracks. Each song has been written using samples of his old, u…
Violostries
Another remarkable reissue from the hallowed GRM archive, three major works of ultra-vivid, immersive and inventive music by Bernard Parmegiani, one of the 20th century's most revered and important electro-acoustic composers
Microphone Permission
Editions Mego release the new album by Australian producer Jasmine Guffond. Developed over a two-year period, Microphone Permission is an unsettling musical journey utilizing contemporary tools of communication to display Guffond's ongoing research into online surveillance and sound as a method of investigation. Source material on Microphone Permission are from various projects Guffond has been working on; a commission to sonify the data of the city of Melbourne, a dance performance about the fu…
Ferrum
Ferrum is a large-scale exploration of inharmonic timbres, oscillating between brutal grinding textures and intricate percussive singularities, created by digitally transforming recordings of various metallic objects. Susanne Kirchmayr's new album takes a close personal look at the spectral richness of iron and other metals, in various shapes and sizes, recorded, processed, and arranged to a carefully curated selection of musical miniatures. Some of the results are an obvious nod to her Electric…
Silence in that Time
**300 copies** A new work by David Jackman (Organum), The follow up to last year’s critically acclaimed album Herbstonne, Silence in that Time is a direct offshot of the former album, adding more sounds to the overall sound palette. Recorded at RMS Studios South London in 2019, the single 42 min. long track stands as another distinctively beautiful and haunting work in the artist’s discography. Artwork by Jonathan Coleclough.Excellent artwork by Jonathan Coleclough.
"David Jackman’s latest see…
Farol
**200 copies** "Farol is the sound portrait of a monumental architecture : the 25 Abril bridge in Lisbon. The 25 Abril bridge is a symbol for the Portuguese capital. Visible to tens kilometers around, it serves as a visual and noisy landmark. As we come closer, the buzz becomes stronger until it gets blatant, like the light from a lighthouse which becomes blinding when the coast is near. Farol est le portrait sonore d’une architecture monumentale. Ce field recording nous emmène au cœur du pont d…
Woodland Sigil
**200 copies** "During the summer of 2017 my girlfriend and I drove through the heart of Sweden. For the first time ever on a holiday, I took my hand-held recorder with me to record some of the sounds Sweden had to offer. In the course of 2 weeks we saw many beautiful vistas, viking graves and ancient woods and it’s no surprise that I made a lot of recordings at those most beautiful locations.For nearly a year, these recordings were collecting digital dust on my hard drive. I just listened to th…
Being There
**170 copies** "This album is a field recording. It’s a field recording of me recording music. It’s a recording of my room and the street outside. One track was recorded in the morning during a holiday, the other on a weekday afternoon. In a way, all of my albums since Ghosts are field recordings. Most of them weren’t planned to be, but I don’t really have a choice. I’ve been recording onto a Zoom digital recorder since I moved here. Sometimes I try to eliminate the outside noise, but my apartme…
Something Veiled
**175 copies** "This work consists of recorded materials at ‘Abukuma’ and ‘Irimizu’ limestone caves on Abukuma highland, Fukushima. Water is plentiful there, and we can see a long waterfall near our route in Irimizu limestone cave. Both caves are developed and open for public as tourist spots, however, there are some areas that require a guide to enter, and some others prohibited. And also, they are still under survey and possibilities are pointed out that deeper spaces than the deepest spots we…
Mountains and Waters
**200 copies** "Mountains and Waters is an elegy to the Holocene epoch and to the quiet places that have been lost. The Holocene reaches back some 11,700 years when the last of the glacial cycles began to fade and the planet began to warm again. Since that time as we know, humans have dominated the landscape leaving very few places unchanged in some aspect. There is still debate as to when the Anthropocene began among the scientific community and no official epoch has been established. The recor…
Tombland
**200 copies** "Tombland at night or day, at certain times, feels like a ghost-town. One moment I am swept up by the passing traffic, in another I have turned into a side street and there is nothing but a throbbing stillness that meanders through the cobblestones. Here, there is the blend of old and modern; traffic noise, people with chaotic lives, cobbled paths, vintage shops, forgotten history to some. There are moments even in the most chaotic of places where there is a quietude, a tranquilit…
Reclaim
**150 copies** "Reclaim brings to mind two classic pop songs: Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” (1970) and Talking Heads’ “Nothing But Flowers” (1988). In the first, “they paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” In the second, “this used to be real estate, now it’s only fields and trees.” Nature has a way of reclaiming her own, which is the point of the new album by Kevin Wilkinson, who goes by the unwieldy moniker of brb>voicecoil.In Wilkinson’s words, “10 years ago I walked through crops,…