John Zorn - Filmworks XX & XXI [2008]

John Zorn (born 2 September 1953 in New York City) is an American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist. He owns the Tzadik record label and has worked with a large number of experimental musicians, particularly in improvised music, incorporating modern classical music, jazz and even death metal and grindcore as well as having produced music to include most styles.

As a child, he played piano, guitar and flute. He went to college in St. Louis, Missouri at Webster College (now Webster University) where he discovered free jazz, before dropping out and moving to Manhattan. There he gave concerts in his small apartment, playing a variety of reeds, duck calls, tapes, etc; almost anything (sometimes he played “musical optics” which involved no instruments or sounds at all, but rather the arrangement of lights and objects in a dark room). In the mid 1980s he signed to the Elektra-Nonesuch label. Since then, Zorn has been quite prolific, usually putting out several new records each year. His breakthrough recording was perhaps 1985’s The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone, wherein Zorn offered a number of often radical arrangements of Morricone’s famed songs from various movies. The Big Gundown was endorsed by Morricone, and incorporated elements of traditional Japanese music, soul jazz, and other diverse musical genres.

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Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem [2008]

Filmworks XXI: Belle de Nature and The New Rijksmuseum [2008]

John Zorn + Fred Frith@Gulbenkian Anfiteatro 3/8/2008 part 1/2

Arrington de Dionyso - Breath of Fire [2006]

Arrington de Dionyso (b. January 4th, 1975) of Olympia, Washington uses performance as a vehicle for driving through the nameless territories held between surrealist automatism, shamanic seance, and the folk imagery of rock and roll.

After living in Chicago, Arkansas, and Spokane, Arrington moved to Olympia in 1992 to attend the Evergreen State College, where he studied Ethnomusicology, Music Therapy, and Butoh dance theater. In 1995 he founded the avant-rock group Old Time Relijun, which has since toured and recorded throughout the US, Europe, and Israel, and has released eight albums on the K Records label from Olympia, enthralling audiences with an approach to performance described as deep hermetic practice and/or "some fuckin' scary shit" by critics in the know.

As a solo artist, Arrington performs on the bass clarinet, jaw harps, and his voice with a distinctly multiphonic ability inspired by Tuvan throatsinging and the ecclesiastics of Albert Ayler and Don Van Vliet. Pushing the envelope between musicality and pure energy, between shamanic ecstacy and lunacy, he enwraps rooms with resonant sound. His devotion to bringing traditional Tuvan musics into an experimental music context has been acknowledged by Tran Quan Hai, the famous ethnomusicologist and the world's leading expert on throatsinging.

In addition to Old Time Relijun and his solo projects, Arrington devotes a significant amount of his time to furthering the cause of free improvisation. He is the founder and curator of the Olympia Festival of Experimental Musics, in its twelth year. Arrington tours constantly, and has performed or/and recorded with notable improvisers throughout the U.S.A., Canada, Italy, France, Israel and Lithuania. He presents workshops on improvising with the human voice in conjunction with his touring around the world.

Arrington has received increased attention for his visual artwork, which deals with many of the same themes of spirit, sensation, and improvisation as his music. Recent exhibits have been held in Los Angeles, New York City, Vancouver BC, Paris, Bologna, and Beijing, China. A series of several dozen ink drawings is on view at www.krecs.com/oldtimerelijun. His work is represented in Paris by Atelier Cardenas Bellanger. (www.ateliercardenasbellanger.com)

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Breath of Fire [2006]

ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO - LIVE AT UPSET THE RHYTHM

Blank Dogs - On Two Sides [2008]

Blank Dogs Interview :

Flying under the radar for most of 2007, Blank Dogs went relatively unnoticed, even though Mr. Blank Dog was releasing material at an astoundingly rapid pace, which set the bar higher for what defines a prolific songwriter. But that period didn’t last for long as people began to detect the immense talent in the bedroom rock of Blank Dogs and embrace the mystery. Bloggers hurriedly slotted Blank Dogs into their year-end best of lists, while others are just starting to rave about the band now. The likeability of the band is immediate. Washes of synth fuzz, strident guitars, indifferent vocals and undeniably catchy bass lines, Mr. Blank Dog fuses these elements into haunting, atmospheric songs. He has an innate ability to write psych rock melodies with pop touches that fixate listeners for days. Though he is releasing material at a daring speed, he consistently delivers quality, perspective-changing songs. He shows no signs of stopping now as 12 releases are planned for this year alone.

You are extremely prolific with recording and releasing material. Would you tell me about your recording process, and how you choose which labels and forms to release your music through?

I record from home. I just write some melodies and record them. I get a bit perfectionist when it comes down to mixing and adding effects, but they tend to wash out into some blur. I guess that's a process? As far as labels, mainly I like to work with people whose prior output is stuff I like a lot, but I also like to help people starting up labels too. As far as format, I think vinyl is the best way to listen to music. CDs have no intrinsic value, it's just data. Also, it seems like they just fall out of magazines whenever you pick them up, these days. Giveaway junk. It cheapens the music, in my opinion. Besides, it all winds up on SoulSeek anyway, that's why I have everything that's already out downloadable from the website. Cassettes are cheap and easy for people who don't have enough money to start a label but love music, that's why I've agreed to do a bunch. They also require active listening instead of clicking on a link. Some people just prefer the analog format too.

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On Two Sides [2008]

Blank Dogs - Scenes From A New Town

The Legendary Pink Dots - Plutonium Blonde [2008]

The Legendary Pink Dots formed in August 1980 in London. In 1984 the band transplanted itself to Amsterdam which led to a shift in the original lineup, the original bassist Roland Callaway leaving at this time.

The core members of the group are vocalist/songwriter/keyboardist Edward Ka-Spel and keyboardist Phil Knight. Many others have passed through the group over the years. As of 2007 the group is comprised of:

* Edward Ka-Spel - vocals, keyboards, songwriter
* Phil Knight (a.k.a. The Silverman) - keyboards, electronics
* Martijn de Kleer - guitars
* Niels van Hoorn (a.k.a. Niels Van Hoornblower) - saxophones, clarinets, flutes, MIDI wind controller
* Raymond Steeg - live sound engineer

The story behind the band's name is a source of speculation because Edward has given multiple explanations behind its origins. The most plausible and common explanation traces back to the mysterious pink dots on certain keys of the bands main recording studio piano named "Osbert", the dots that can be found at either end of the keys do not make any particular chord or scale pattern and the reason for them remains unknown to this day. The piano itself is still owned by one of the founding band members April White, and can be found at her home recording studio in Cambridgeshire.

Their music touches on elements of neo-psychedelia, ambient music, electronic music, tape music, industrial, psych folk, synth-pop and goth rock, with a distinctly experimental/avant-garde bent; their sound has evolved over time and remains distinctive, making it difficult to place the group into a concise style or genre. The groups overall sound combined with Ka-Spel's distinct lyrics and singing have earned comparisons to Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett; the group has also been compared to classics Seventies deranged bands as Can , Faust, Brainticket, Magma or Neu! (whose "Super" they covered on the 1999 tribute album "A Homage to NEU!").

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Plutonium Blonde [2008]

The Legendary Pink Dots - M'era Luna 2008

MV,EE and Gabriel Walsh - Temptation To Zoology [2003]

Un impulso de sus reflejos han capturado las escenas mágicas que abstractas dan forma a esta obra "Temptation To Zoology" bajo la cuna de Children of Microtones en el año 2003, Matt Valentine, Erika Elder y ahora la colaboración de Gabriel Walsh.
Historia orgánica custodiada por las hievas, es medicina natural, cual es el similar efecto que se riega en amor a la distancia para emerger en los colores de su isla?, en continuidad sonora y sensorial profunda de oídos atentos, observando las frecuencias que activan el baile de la mar, un paso en el cielo que mantuvo con fé, ahora estas preparado para flotar!.

El formato de video en el cual lo he subido es avi.
The format of video in which I have raised it is avi.


Matt Valentine Interview / Dream Magazine

Matt Valentine has made some of the most enjoyable acoustic based psychedelic improvisational music ever recorded, both in his several solo albums (usually with Erika Elder aka EE, pictured above with MV), and work with the band Tower Recordings (with folks like: P.G. Six, Helen Rush, Erika Elder, and Tim Barnes among others). Matt’s solo albums tend towards the more spare and spectral end of the spectrum; acoustic explorations that show their Fahey roots as well as a deep love of Indian classical music and much more. The music he makes with Tower Recordings fuses a Takoma Records acoustic based organic folk sensibility with a spaceman/caveman psychedelic tribalism that employs: various (mostly) acoustic and electric guitars, percussion, marimba, tin whistle, Wurlitzer electric piano, ring modulator, shakuhachi, cello, piano, tapes, primitive electronics, autoharp, oscillator, drums, and more with a sense that they are also playing the acoustics of the given space they are reverberating within. There is some Incredible String Band in the mix as well; along with, the earliest recorded blues, ESP Disk outsider vibes, and clouds and clouds of smoke. Some of Matt’s finest solo outings include: Tonight! One Night Only! MV & EE in Heaven (originally issued on Matt’s Child of Microtones imprint, and later on vinyl by Time-Lag), Space Chanties (Fringes Recordings), and Glorious Group Therapy (Ecstatic Yod). A couple essential TR releases are: Furniture Music for Evening Shuttles (Siltbreeze), and Folk Scene (Communion).

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Temptation To Zoology [2003] (part1/part2)

MV + EE w/ Willie Lane - East Mountain Joint

Larkin Grimm - Parplar [2008]

You proposed to raise this disc, the wait I end, now it can enjoy, do not forget to comment!.

"Larkin Grimm is a force of nature, a self-made woman with an elemental voice from somewhere under the earth. Depending on her mood, she moans like a woman-in-full, wails like a banshee, or coos like a crazed little girl. Born 26 years ago in Memphis, Tennessee, to hippie devotees of the religious cult The Holy Order Of MANS, raised by multiple “parents in the commune environment of the cult until age six, Grimm spent the remainder of her youth in the Appalachian mountains of Georgia after the cult disbanded. With five siblings and challenged economic circumstances, she won a full scholarship to Yale to study art. During her time at the Ivy League university, she also traveled in Thailand, Guatemala, and spent a few months hitchhiking and living by herself in a tent in Alaska. After temporarily dropping out of school to hang out for a couple years with eco warriors, vagabonds, and sexual deviants in Olympia, Washington, Grimm returned to Yale, where she was a member of Dirty Projectors for a while. Upon graduation, she moved to Providence, where she was an active participant in the city’s noise scene and made a few albums of improv/free-form songs for Secret Eye Records. Grimm books her own tours, travels light by herself, and lives in a tent during the warmer months. She has no permanent address and doesn’t want one. Grimm’s taste for music comes from her old-time fiddler and singer father and her folksinger mother. She naturally developed into an absolutely gifted singer, fingerpicker, and multi-instrumentalist. She’s shared bills with Devendra Banhart,Spires That In The Sunset Rise, Espers, Brightblack Morning Light, Entrance, Viking Moses, The Microphones, and Old Time Relijun. Parplar was co-produced by Michael Gira and was recorded at Old Soul Studio in Catskill, NY, and Seizure’s Palace in Brooklyn, and mixed at Trout Recording. Grimm truly rises to the occasion on the album, which features absolutely stellar vocal performances of songs that are soulful, whimsical, sensual, and bizarre. The production is as varied and unpredictable as Grimm herself. The list of guest musicians includes Young God’s new luminaries Fire on Fire, members of Boston’s Beat Circus, and Old Time Relijun, as well as various revolving members of Angels of Light."

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Parplar [2008]

The Last Tree

Wondrous Horse - Cavallo Meraviglioso [2008]

Para distinguir la real naturaleza de los elementos que Wondrous Horse presenta en vías del trayecto recorrido dentro de las atmósferas llenas de implementos que se interponen en una danza sonora con la propiedad de traer consigo diversidad en los detalles impresos del unisono, folk de la tierra bajo el eclipse de sol, palabras de espíritu errante, ritmos y rituales minimalistas que evocan desafíos importantes de la conciencia sin prejuicios, y, paralelos los pies del usuario a los del congelador en torno al perfecto ciclo orgánico residido, se alejan por diferentes estados de vigilia bajo el efecto narcótico que representa la voz mágica invitándolo a frenar su galope y disfrutar del etéreo dilatado de imágenes de su bosque.

Welcome one and all to the world of Wondrous Horse! Cavallo Meraviglisio is the debut offering of the transatlantic (Italy/U.S.) duo of Vanessa Rossetto (Pulga, The Mighty Acts of God, etc.) and Salvatore Borrelli ((etre) & Harps of Fuchsia Kalmia). These two musicians continue to evolve in fascinating ways, and the sounds to be found on Cavallo Meravigliso may come as a surprise to some, which makes it all the more exciting to hear.

An avant folk tour de force combining elements of electroacoustic music, glitch and many other experimental forms, Cavallo Meraviglisio gallops upon the scene assured and ready. Performing with an arsenal of instrumentation at the ready (violin, viola, balalaika, theremin, guitar, dulcetina, concertina, autoharp, bells, xylophone, voice, baritone guitar, tablas, darbukas, turkish saz, xylophone, esraj, dulcimer, resonant ukulele, celtic "droned" harp, banjo, kalimba, shruti box, irish bouzouki, lap steel guitar, toys, & drum machine since you asked) the duo have crafted a recording that successfully combines the myriad of influences of its creators into an organic and unique whole.

It takes a wondrous horse such as this to take the intelligent listener on a trip through such a unique and appealing sonic journey, so hop on and ride away today!

Special Guest on “Questi Orizzonti Scomparsi”: Valerio Cosi

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Cavallo Meraviglioso [2008] (part1/part2)

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Windy & Carl - Songs For The Broken Hearted [2008]

songs for the broken hearted

Cover Imagethis is an album about love. everyone has known love, and everyone has known loss. love is not just about warm fuzzy feelings, although that would be the part people say they like the best. and in any span of time, love changes and means different things to different people.

i never thought this would be an album. we started these recordings the same weekend i started I Hate People. it was a dark time, and when the tapes were taken off the reels i really thought that was the end of them. they were just going to sit and rot away somewhere.

but between christmas and new year of 2007, carl pulled them out and decided to finish them. he became obsessed with them somehow, i suppose in much the same way i had become obbsessed with finishing my own album earlier in the year. he worked every night for weeks, and as i wandered around the house i heard those songs everytime they played. and some of them made me cry, everytime. they sounded sad to me, because they were started in such a sad time. carl kept talking about wanting to have a new record out for 2008, and i told him only if it was named Songs For The Broken Hearted. he said fine, he just wanted it done.

so in early 2008 he gave me a cdr with what he felt were finished tracks, and asked me to write words for them. i had no ideas, i just kept crying when they were on. it really did not seem important to me to get them done because they only reminded me of things..........and then, one night, i started writing. i wrote words for 4 or 5 songs that night, and started singing the next evening. and we did rough mixes that i listened to for a week or so, and then i pulled out my journals, the gang of them that i had been filling since the fall of 2007, and i picked a few pieces that seemed like they would go with the music. i rerecorded some of the tracks with the new words, and resang some vocals i thought could be better. and the songs went from being all sad to being a reflection of how love works. how we are affected - by ourselves and others. how love makes you swoon and lonliness makes you cry. how when you love someone in this world you love them no matter where they are, and the connections you feel to and with them. love can make you blind, both when things are good and when they are not, and how do you react to being blind? what choices do you make and how do they change the world around you............

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Songs For The Broken Hearted [2008]

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Magik Markers - Gucci Rapidshare Download [2008]

magik markers — gucci rapidshare download CD

released september 8, 2008 as an installment in the oscillation III series. sold only as a part of the set.

gucci rapidshare download is the magik markers at their most intense and subversive. ready to rock your ass with more than just guitar and drums, the markers are coming at you this time around with violins, manipulated dumpster-dived hip hop tapes, synths, joshua burkett on organ, ben chasny on acoustic guitar and all sorts of other fun. despite all of these other diverse elements, the old-style guitar/drum freak out "the clement, the concealing" is the single most shredding moment in the band's complete catalog. grab a six pack and enjoy.

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Gucci Rapidshare Download [2008]

Magik Markers - Triptych Festival Aberdeen Tunnels

Tau Emerald - Travellers Two [2008]

Travellers Two is a full length recording from the duo of Tara Burke (Fursaxa) and Sharron Kraus. Togerther Kraus & Burke create an ethereal record of dark-folk magic.
Tara Burke and Sharron Kraus were due to travel to Finland together for a week but missed the flight, so instead they decided to spend the week recording together and Travellers Two is the result. The time was spent out in the fields, visiting burial mounds, and then coming back to Sharron's home studio to work. They had played previously together and done some recording but this is the first time an album was conceived.

Fursaxa is Tara Burke. Formerly a member of the Silbreeze band UN, Tara started her Fursaxa project in 1999 after UN disbanded. After being a long time resident of Philadelphia, Tara decided to leave the "city of brotherly love" for the touring life. So from April 2005-April 2006 she toured extensively throughout the UK, the USA, and Europe with friends and fellow musicians Jack Rose, Sharron Kraus, Alexander Tucker, Christina Carter, Marcia Bassett, and the Spires that in the Sunset rise, to name a few. For her live performances she uses mostly looped vocals, flutes, and percussion, a casio keyboard, guitar, and mandolin, in an attempt to transport her audience into the ethereal realms. On her forthcoming album Alone in the Dark Wood she employs a myriad of instruments such as mandolin, guitar, violin, banjo, balalaika, organ, bells,, flute, percussion, and voice. This album was recorded and mixed in Finland and Pennsylvania. Tara has recently been collaborating with several other musicians. Espers member Helena Espvall and Tara have a duo called Anahita, and in 2006 released Arcana en Cantos on the Deserted Village label from Ireland. They are currently working on their second release. Currently, Fursaxa is playing and recording her music in the rural hills of Pennsylvania.

Sharron Kraus is a singer/musician/songwriter who creates music rooted in the folk traditions of England and Appalachia. Her work is characterized by soil-rich vocals, haunting banjo, fine acoustic guitar and visionary wordcraft. Her songs are populated by a carnival array of fatally charismatic characters, telling tales of enslavement, perversion, incest, obsession, love and death. Sharron’s live performances are stark, compelling, and delicate. As with her music, her performance continues the tradition of the balladeer. She is like the roving storyteller, bringing tales of terror, sadness and joy to a stranger’s hearth on a dark and stormy night.

Sharron’s debut album Beautiful Twisted was released by Australian psych label Camera Obscura in 2002 and received rave reviews around the world. It was listed in Rolling Stone Magazine’s Critics’ Top Albums of 2002. After touring with US psychedelic folk band The Iditarod, she collaborated with them on an album of wintry songs and soundscapes entitled Yuletide and released by avant/experimental label Elsie and Jack in 2003

Sharron’s second solo album, Songs of Love and Loss, was recorded at home in Oxford and at Dungeon Studios in the Cotswolds. The album features Jane Griffiths on fiddle and viola, Jon Fletcher on harmonica and occasional guitar, banjo and vocals, Colin Fletcher on bass, as well as BBC Folk Award-winning fiddler Jon Boden and Grammy-nominated early music violinist Giles Lewin. The album was finished in Providence and mixed with Jeffrey Alexander (The Iditarod, Black Forest/Black Sea). Songs of Love and Loss is a natural follow-up to Beautiful Twisted, in places darker and more discordant, in others gentler and sweeter.

Other recent and ongoing collaborations include The Black Dove, an album written and recorded with Californian folk songsmith Christian Kiefer; Tau Emerald, a duo with Tara Burke (Fursaxa) and Leaves From Off the Tree, an album of traditional songs recorded with Meg Baird and Helena Espvall released on Bo’ Weavil Recordings.

Sharron has been featured in The Wire, Dirty Linen, New Folk Sounds, Arthur Magazine, Ptolemaic Terrascope and Broken Face. She has been interviewed on BBC Radio 3 for ‘A Place Called England’ discussing the future of English folk music and recorded sessions for BBC Radio Scotland, Freakzone on Radio 6, and independent radio stations across the US. Her fanbase includes veteran folkies Shirley Collins and Archie Fisher as well as indie figureheads Michael Gira, David Tibet and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore

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Travellers Two [2008]

FURSAXA- LIVE AT THE HALL MALL- IOWA CITY, IOWA

Bark Haze - One For Merz [2008]

bark haze — one for merz CD

released march 3, 2008 as an installment in the oscillation III series. sold only as a part of the set.

over the course of the thirty-six minute one for merz, thurston moore (sonic youth, et al) and andrew macgregor (gown, the bastard wing) present the listener with just that - a dense and heady brew of squall and fury. the duo gets down and really gets dirty. seriously, little more is needed by way of description. recorded live by andrew kesin on january 19, 2007 at the issue project room in brooklyn.

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One For Merz [2008]

Thurston Moore, Pete Nolan, and Gown

Merzbow - Dolphin Sonar [2008]

Author, activist, painter and sound artist Masami Akita had been at the foreground of experimental music for over 25 years. Inspired by psycedelic rock, free jazz, early electronic composition as well the physical arts, especial Kurt Schwitters'
Merzbau, Masami Akita has created a musical language all his own.

Dolphin Sonar is Merzbow's full length protest album against the annual brutal slaughtering of some 2,500 dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture Japan. This is an angry album full of beats, blasts and broken glass. Clattering smashes are pursued by by pulsing analog whirls like the heart of a dolphin being chased through the bloodied waters of Taiji. Filtered blasts of pummel and sound slaughter. Another Merzbow classic with the finest cover art money can buy by Jenny Akita. Liner notes from Captain Paul Watson.

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Dolphin Sonar [2008]

Merzbow, ULU London 19.04.08

Oren Ambarchi x 3

Oren Ambarchi is an electronic guitarist and drummer with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. Born in Sydney, Australia in 1969 to a Sephardi Jewish family originally from Iraq, he has been performing live since 1986. He was a member of noise band Phlegm with Robbie Avenaim, with whom he now co-organises the What Is Music Festival. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, though he also plays percussion in some of his live performances. Recently, he has toured with drone doom band Sunn O))) as well as releasing an EP with Attila Csihar and Sunn O)))'s Greg Anderson under the name Burial Chamber Trio. Ambarchi also works in popular music contexts and is a drummer for the group Sun with vocalist Chris Townend formerly of Kiss My Poodles Donkey.

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Oren Ambarchi and z'ev - Spirit Transform Me [2008]

Destinationless Desire [2008]

In the Pendulum's Embrace [2007]

Oren Ambarchi Live @ Non Event

Loren MazzaCane Connors - Night Through: Singles and Collected Works 1976-2004

To continue forward in to think, an idea to catalogue Connors's music regenerates other one, for what to catalogue his music is complicated, in the surface. It is a radical contribution to the deep tuning in of environment, stands out the deep relation that exists among the sound to the meeting of the heart and a storm of sensations strongly adhered to signs of the nature for harmony of the ambiguous cycles, acoustic crafts of contemporary guitar, as John Fahey or Derek Bailey, venturing the persons' solid training for one to come in good, of children to the Sun the channels are overturned in the horizon, the hand demonstrates his passion in every new support of the rock, is that!, to the height the blues in the streets for colds postulated to the future.
Night Through: Singles and Collected Works 1976-2004 it´s an essential box of 3 cds with a collection of singles and other works by Loren Connors remastered from the original tapes by Jim O'Rourke.
For those who are already Connors fans and don´t have this box you can expect nothing but pure avant blues heaven. To those who are not aware of the musical genius of Loren Connors this is one of the ideal points to begin to discover his music. Spacial music, the true weird America before even that tag appeared. Every human being should listen to his music. the world would be a better place, that´s for sure.

Seguir adelante en el pensar, una idea para catalogar la música de Connors regenera otra, por lo que catalogar su música sera complicado, en la superficie. Es un aporte radical a la profunda sintonía de entorno, destaca la profunda relación que existe entre el sonido al encuentro del corazón y una tormenta de sensaciones fuertemente adherida a señales de la naturaleza por la armonía de los ciclos ambiguos, artesanía acústica de guitarra contemporánea, como John Fahey o Derek Bailey, aventurando la solida capacitación de personas por un venir en bien, de hijos al sol se vuelcan los canales en el horizonte, la mano manifiesta su pasión en cada nuevo apoyo de la roca, es que!, a la altura del blues, en las calles por fríos postulados al porvenir.
Night Through: Singles and Collected Works 1976-2004, esto es una caja esencial de 3 cds con una colección de Eps y otros trabajos por Loren Connors dominaron de nuevo de las cintas originales por Jim O'Rourke.
Para los que son ya Connors admiradores y no tienen esta caja usted puede esperar el cielo de blues nada más que puro avant. A los que no son conscientes del genio musical de Loren ConnorsSpacial la música, América verdadera extraña antes aún que la etiqueta apareció. Cada ser humano debería escuchar a su música. el mundo sería un mejor lugar, esto es seguro. o esto es uno de los puntos ideales para comenzar a descubrir su música.

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Glenn Branca - Symphony No.1 (Tonal Plexus) [1983]

" Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Plexus) premiered at the Performing Garage that summer. It was Branca's largest piece yet employing 16 musicians including, horn, trumpet, sax, keyboards and in one movement a large oil drum played with a 2x4, as well as some guitars strung with untempered steel wire from a hardware store, and Branca's usual complement of octave tuned guitars sometimes stroked with drumsticks. The crude sound of the piece was thought of as a kind of punk rock noise music. Just two months later he would premiere another new piece "Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses" at Art on the Beach in lower Manhattan. This piece, for 10 guitars and drums, would become one of his most controversial when performed at The New Music America Festival 1982 in Chicago. Although the 35 minute piece had been a success John Cage had intensely disliked it and created a furor at the festival and in the press. A recording of Cage's inflammatory remarks has been released on Atavistic along with the first recording of the piece (which had gone unreleased for 25 years).

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Glenn Branca - The Ascencion [1980]

This music was labeled by the press as "rock minimalism" and in some cases "maximalism".
Branca would eventually form a band to tour and record this music. Sometimes thought of as "The Ascension Band" the group included: Lee Ranaldo, Ned Sublette, David Rosenbloom and Branca on guitars, Jeffery Glenn on bass and Stephen Wischerth on drums (later Thurston Moore would join on guitar). It was with this music that Branca introduced his newest octave and unison tunings in which the guitars were divided into soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass. By the start of 1980 Branca was desperate to release a recording of his new extended instrumental work. Singles were no longer possible with pieces running from 8 to 12 minutes.
He approached Ed Bahlman who had a small record store in the Village and suggested that he consider starting a record company with Branca's music as the first record. Drawing from Branca's experience with producing, manufacturing and distributing records Balhman started 99 Records. The EP LESSON NO. 1 came out soon after, with the album THE ASCENSION following a year later.

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Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1 [1979]

In the spring of 1979 Branca premiered his first multi-guitar piece "Instrumental for Six Guitars" at Max's Kansas City Easter Festival. The piece was an immediate success and led to series of extended instrumental pieces written over the next one and a half years: "The Spectacular Commodity", "Dissonance", "Lesson No. 1", "The Ascension", "Light Field" and "Mambo Diabolique", each piece defining a different approach to writing for loud guitars.

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Glenn Branca - Songs '77-'79 [1996]

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Glenn Branca - Symphony No. 9 L'Eve Future [1995]

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'Hallucination city symphony for 100 guitars'

Merzbow - 1930 [1998]

The border that the saturation defines to give life to electronic entities is not visible by means of the structural concepts that the western music in his path throughout the time us to left as impressive fingerprint inside the perception, the advanced maneuvers realized by Merzbow are projected from them industrially, experimentally, black metal, noise, is one to discover of modern traffic, from the center of the chaos to answer to the continuous senseless one of the life I joust now!, present that expands your pupils.

La frontera que la saturación define para dar vida a entes electrónicos no es visible por medio de los conceptos estructurales que la música occidental en su trayectoria a lo largo del tiempo nos a dejado como huella imponente dentro de la percepción, las avanzadas maniobras realizadas por Merzbow se proyectan desde los industrial, experimental, black metal, noise, es un descubrir de circulación moderna, desde el centro del caos para responder al continuo sin sentido de la vida justo ahora!, presente que dilata tus pupilas.

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1930 [1998]















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1930 - Merzbow