Tapetopia 002: GDR Underground Tapes (1984-1989)
To release a tape in East Germany in 1986 called Ihre großen Erfolge (Their Great Successes) illustrates how every situation produces people that are unwilling to accept that situation. Claus Löser and Florian Merkel were two such people. Their band Die Gehirne and their many side-projects ensured that their hometown of Karl-Marx-Stadt, today's Chemnitz, could assert its role in the independent art world of the GDR. Inspirations included Frank Bretschneider from the experimental electronic band …
Tapetopia 001: GDR Underground Tapes (1984-1989)
Tapetopia 001 -- A Collection of East German Underground Tapes. In 1988, the legendary freak wave outfit Ornament & Verbrechen handed out some 20 to 30 copies of their Rotmaul-Tape to friends. The band, formed by the Lippok brothers, emerged from the first East Berlin punk group Rosa Extra and the avant-wave project Fünf Wochen im Ballon. From the moment of O&V's inception, the band was the wellspring for many acts that would subsequently branch off as tributaries and streams in the East Berlin …
Im Lungau
About this record and how Limpe and Paul Fuchs got together with Friedrich Gulda: In 1968, the Austrian classical and jazz pianist Friedrich Gulda organized the First International Music Forum of Ossiachersee with the theme "Improvisation in Music -- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow". During the third edition of the festival, Gulda got to know the band Anima Sound and was fascinated by their "absolute free music", which they played on home-made instruments. Anima Sound was Limpe and Paul Fuchs, who…
Intuitive Mathematics
“Intuitive Mathematics” is illustrative improvisation registered with the use of percussion instruments amplified by piezoelectric sensors and an instrument I constructed myself called the Soundboard. I mounted metal springs, screws and tongues onto a pine board. Highly enhanced piezo amplification brings all sounds closer to the audience’s ears and allows them to hear rich harmonies of the percussion set as well as “non-musical” elements such as friction, shrieking or vibrations that occur insi…
Pedestal’s Complement
Pedestal's Complement is a recording of a concert from the Ambient Festival in Gorlice, which took place in July 2019. "All our performances are pure improvisation from scratch. I use the piano and the guitar, on which I play the e-bow bow. A lot of the sounds come from inside the piano, which is prepared. Jurek supports the Eurorack and Buchla modular system" - Andrzej Karałow.
Nights Are Numbered
"Nights Are Numbered" LP forms a world of apparent apocalyptic ambience of sounds which are produced mainly with conventional instruments such as double bass, grand piano or accordion, however, located outside their classical use, but also with some contrasting, organic and archetypal objects such as bones or dried plants, amplified in studio conditions. This specific accord of dissonances coming from various sources shifts the listener into the realm of sonoric experiment [...] The rich, meticu…
Mineral
The Red Trio: Rodrigo Pinheiro (piano), Hernani Faustino (bass) and Gabriel Ferrandini (percussion), plus two guests; Gerard Lebik (tenor saxophone), and Piotr b (trumpet). Sweeping from turbulent to intimate with with a fluid sort of dialogue that could only come from players well versed in the art of improvisation.
My Favorite Things - Graz 1962
What these performances then, and those in Impression Graz 1962, reveal is a great artist in a period of continued exploration and uncertainties, committed to integrating the exactness of order and the abandon of ecstasy, and reconfirming his improvisational quest as a spiritual discipline. But there were profound changes still to come. - Art Longe
The four tracks on this release have been selected from the 1962 concert tape which Hat Hut Records has licensed from ORF Stelemark, Graz, Austria. I…
Breaking News - Studio Dan
Temporary Super Offer! Founded in 2005, Studio Dan is a flexible ensemble, operating on the borders between diverse subgenres of contemporary music: improvisation, new music, jazz, art-rock, and others. The ensemble tours internationally. Appearances include concerts at Wien Modern and Ostava Music Days, and venuse such as Kampnagel Hamburg, Kimmel Center Philadelphia, and the legendary Roulette in Brooklyn/NYC. Past guest soloist and collaborations with Studio Dan include also Vinko Globokar, E…
Extended for Strings and Piano
A live album at Kunstraum Walcheturm from Swiss double bassist Daniel Studer's quintet of strings and piano, with Harald Kimmig on violin, Frantz Loriot on viola, Alfred Zimmerlin on violoncello, and Philip Zoubek on piano, performing an inventive set of Studer compositions extending string improvisation to extremes through unorthodox structures and techniques.
Kimmig-Studer-Zimmerlin and George Lewis
The innovative string trio of Daniel Studer on double bass, Harald Kimmig on violin, and Alfred Zimmerlin on cello, develop focused environments of timbre, texture, dynamic and space, seemingly abstract yet incredibly concentrative and virtuosic interaction, here joined by Chicago trombonist and electronics artist George Lewis adding a 4th profound layer to their incredible conversation.
Cum Raio
**100 copies** Zarabatana with Bernardo Álvares, Carlos Godinho, Norberto Lobo & Yaw Tembe . Recorded, mixed and mastered by Mestre André. ”The emotion flows from this improv, while maintaining a heterogeneous sound that makes its origins intriguingly difficult to triangulate."
Bistre
**100 copies** Anne-F Jacques: rotating devices, Tim Olive: magnetic pick-ups. Recorded in Montreal, May 2019 Anne-F Jacques and Tim Olive use handmade, idiosyncratic instrumentation to produce and amplify detailed sound textures, from fine-grained to coarse. They share a tactile, lo-tech approach to improvised sound composition, manipulating diverse objects and materials in conjunction with somewhat unpredictable audio pickup/amplification systems to create a music in turns serene and agitated,…
An Index of Textures
**100 copies** Danny Clay: metal bells, combs, paper, broken light, piano, music box, marbles, cassette tapes, pebbles, plastic bells, small percussion, transducers, wooden blocks Matt Atkins: chopstick on drumhead, crowd murmur, drum filled with seeds, dry plant leaves, homemade banjo strings, jingle bell stick, karma piano, large bell, marbles in drum head, newspaper, piano notes on cassette tape, ping pong ball in drum and saucepan lid, plastic packaging, push flute, sheet of paper, small an…
Globuskorbmaschine
**100 copies** In this album the percussionists Salis and Sanna collaborate with the sound artist and electroacoustic composer Andrea Borghi. Borghi's work is based on targeted and multidisciplinary research processes and includes sculptural objects, installations, obsolete media and electronics. In the trio execution, abstraction is not pushed too far and melodic elements are allowed. Electronic components and the percussive sounds are subtly integrated.
Andrea Borghi: prepared turntable, elec…
Mot
**100 copies** In this album the percussionists Salis and Sanna collaborate with the sound artist and electroacoustic composer Andrea Borghi.
Borghi's work is based on targeted and multidisciplinary research processes and includes sculptural objects, installations, obsolete media and electronics.
In the trio execution, abstraction is not pushed too far and melodic elements are allowed. Electronic components and the percussive sounds are subtly integrated.
Andrea Borghi: prepared turntable, elec…
Days and Other Days
Majkowski returns to Astral Spirits, after his brilliant "Neighbouring Objects" tape that came out in 2015! "Days and Other Days" is Majkowski's 7th proper solo release following on the heels of the equally magnificent releases "Bright Astonishment of the Night" on Bocian Records and "Swimming in Light" on Entr'acte Records.
Quite possibly the most astounding and darkest (in a good way) album we've heard from Majkowski yet! He continues to explore the intersection between acoustic instruments an…
Gunesh (Гунеш)
**High class ethno jazzrock with Central Asian and Turkmen elements**Unique 1980 album, progressive, yet traditional style, lyrics in Turkmen language.The Gunesh Ensemble was founded in 1970 in Ashkhabad, Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, then part of the Soviet Union. They started out as a vocal group with supporting musicians from Turkmenistan State Radio and TV. Later several young musicians came to play with them and the band’s music became much more modern. The group began to play jazz-roc…
Vocal Studies #6
Volume 6 in Econore’s Vocal Studies series. Edition of 50 numbered copies. Milan Sandbleistift also known as Licht-ung is a noise / anti-sound artist from Burscheid
Vocal Studies #5
Volume 5 in Econore’s Vocal Studies series. Edition of 50 numbered copies. Darcy Spidle has long used the moniker chik white for various art projects. His latest efforts centre around the jaw harp, a pancultural, ancient instrument steeped in mystical allure. Inspired by sound poetry, noise, free improvisation, Dada, nature, and the human voice, chik white harp explorations aim to conjure visceral experiences.