Legions in the walls
It's very difficult to explain or interpret what my music conveys – so that's why I work hard so that the music can speak for itself - no matter how vague the message or imagery - the energy of what it's communicating is what remains most evident."Daniel menche
Drunk gods
Timestretched whirrs, large insect buzzes, boats bumping into each other in a stormy harbour, muffled mechanical loops, a distressed organ like tone that mutates into a buzz saw before changing again in to a thousand factory horns. These are some of the sounds and associations delivered up in this intense, 20 minute work by Oregon based sound artist, Daniel menche. 'Drunk Gods' is a piece of savage, physical beauty that Lapilli is pleased to present as it's second release
The face of vehemence
A much welcomed new release from this American artist who has produced some of the best recordings in the experimental music scene. Although this is a Series II recording, do not assume any of the power that Daniel menche can marshal has been lost. Quiet at times, strong and full in others, this release constructs its moods with powerful bass pulses, full spectrum harmonic drones and vibrating tones along with the scratching, raspy organic textures that Daniel menche is famous for. Each piece st…
Animality
The final Daniel Menche's solo drum excursion is one hour futuristic shaman's flight. The Native American drum, both recorded clean and processed beyond recognition, pulses with the primal beat of the earth. Packaged in black, hand assembled, emd.pl-records boxes, with screenprinted graphics in white and gold by our friend Wojtek Bednarski.' Daniel Menche "Native American drums are superb for rich resonating sounds due to the animal skin used. For Animality I used a large drum with moose skin fo…
Bleeding heavens
Brand new studio compositions from Portland's corporal sound purveyor Daniel Menche. Comprised of deconstructed organ and trumpets. Recorded from 2006 to 2007 at House of Menche.
Flaming tongues
Beautiful densely layered frantic percussions & rhythmic soundscapes, pushing Daniel Menche's work even further into new territories of sound and performance.
Skadha
Sounds compiled and scathed fall and winter of 2003 at House of menche and mixed and mastered at Private Studio Recordings,Portland
Invoker
Sounds compiled and mutated winter and spring of 2003 at "House of menche" and mixed and mastered at Private Studio Recordings,Portland. "...All hell is breaking loose... (Graeme Rowland)" Brainwshed (USA)
Earle Brown Chamber Music
Matchless Recordings presents a collection of early works by Brown, written 1952-64.
The album includes eight tracks performed by Dal Niente projects: Simon Allen - vibraphone, marimba, percussion harmonicas, various sound-producing media; Peter Bevan - trombone; Bridget Carey - viola; Tania Chen - piano; Robert Coleridge - piano; Francesca Hanley - flute; Nicolas Hodges - piano; Mieko Kanno - violin; Lore Lixenburg - voice; Zoe Martlew - cello; Mannon Morris - harp; Fiona Ritchie - vibraphonem…
Tears
Sachiko M and Ami Yoshida, both from Tokyo, met in 1997 and formed the duo of Cosmos the following year. Sachiko M has developed a unique style utilizing a memory-free sampler, creating pure, piercing sine waves with the device's built-in test tones and noise. She has also recently begun exploring the use of contact microphones, as documented on the second track of Tears. Sachiko has worked extensively as a solo artist, in groups such as Filament, I.S.O., and Hoahio, and in duo with Toshimaru Na…
In memory ov John Balance and homage to Coil
CD Compact disc album, cardboard cover, limited edition. '17 french bands from the genesis of industrial, experimental, free jazz musics, for the most part unclassable underground musics, and more recent and emergent artists from the same vein, form COILECTIF. These artists explore and express, openly and without limits, what Coil's heritage suggests to them, an opportunity to make an homage to Geff Rushton aka John Balance or Jhon[n] who left us on November 13th 2004. Coilectif is also an homag…
Hex Vex And The Lavender Mink
Edition of 400 copies.
Hex Vex And The Lavender Mink compiles the group's musical obsessions at the turn of the century, droll Brit drone, the magnificent Arthur Doyle, extremely dangerous onstage pyrotechnics, the fabulous Raymond Scott, cheesy electro dub effects and, most of all, competitive and confusing American free improvisation. David Cross and Tim Poland with their friends Arthur Doyle, Nuuj (of Hilkka and Sheet), Neil Campbell (of Vibracathedral Ochestra), Phil Marshall (o…
The glass sponge
Coelacanth is 23five's very own Loren Chasse and Jim Haynes. On their debut 23five release,The Glass Sponge, Coelacanth sets textural flutters, squeaks, and scrabblings in motion. These brittle events punctuate the boundless excursions of minimalism brought to life through elegaic bell tones, ghostly feedback, and tuning fork resonance, all spiralling together into translucent drones.
Two Films
Including the films 'Hashima, Japan 2002' (installation and documentary versions) and 'Al Qasr, Bahriyah Oasis, Egypt 2005'. Plus 'filmmakers in conversation'. 'Straddling the line between documentary and audio-visual meditations on landscape, the Hausswolff-Nordanstad filmic partnership taps both the detritus of human civilization and its uncanny ability to withstand the forces of nature. In 'Hashima, Japan 2002' we are given a portrait of the Battleship Island off the coast of Nagasaki, a form…
Solo
Waves of polytonal freedom and poetic beauty... lines of noise clusters and complex patterns... She is sculpting her sounds around a microtonal hub, transforming slow melodies into free improvised structures and drama (...) a new language - with a totally new concept on how to produce sounds and noises from an acoustic instrument (...) making electronic music on acoustic instrument..." Mats Gustaffson
Fennesz plays
This is seen by many as the "turning point" between early Fennesz electronic abstract works such as the Instrument 12" and Hotel Paral.lel CD, and the more guitar-based works such as Endless Summer and Venice. The two tracks, "Paint It Black" and "Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)," were initially released as cover versions of songs by The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys, respectively. Since then, via the relevant mechanical and publishing rights, the world has ruled that these tracks …
Radio roadmovies
From Montreal across the Prairies to the North-Western Arctic, down to the Pacific and back through the Badlands. The Mercury minivan took to the road, loaded with recording equipment, tools, DAT cassettes, tent, Coleman burner, sleeping bags and cooking apparatus, spare tires, beer and camera, boots, books and maps. In 'The little man in the ear', materials are presented with little transformation. Only to better the listening clarity did we apply some processing. On the other hand, we took at …
Percussionist songs
Matchless Recordings presents a live concert by Christian Wolff and Robin Schulkowsky recorded at Poggiolo fram, Pozzuolo, Umbria, Italy on April 22-24 2003.
The album includes fifteen tracks performed by Christian Wolff - composition, melodica, Robin Schulkowsky - percussion.
"Rooms talk to me. I send out a sound, the space answers. The first message I picked up from the old barn in Umbria was 'yes'.Christian Wolff and I had been thinking, speaking about, even planning a CD with his solo percus…
Outside the circle of fire
The purr of a leopard close up against a baobab tree, waiting. Whales surfacing, breathing in cold air. Coll starling imitate the noise of farm machinery from the hollow ring of a ruined bothy. The rattle of wood over a black stream... Chris Watson's second CD is a dramatic contrast to the spacious atmospheres of "Stepping into the Dark" (touch TO:27, 1996). Featuring 22 close-up recordings of animals, birds and insect life, "Outside the Circle of Fire" enlarges our awareness of the sound univer…
Neuland
For her second solo album, Hug (pronounced 'hoog') concentrates on solo viola without any electronics in a series of pieces inspired by her recent visits to London. Her strong musical personality and original extended techniques ensure that this is a solo recital unlike any other.