Onda Sonora

2004: MAYO

26-05-04

01. FRED FRITH
Track: Hirschen Mit Goldenen Hufen
Album: Eye To Ear II
Label: Tzadik
Segundo volumen de Eye To Ear, coleccion de piezas para cine compuestas por un artista con más de 30 años de carrera en el universo experimental. Este es su quinto trabajo para Tzadik en otros tantos años

02. DEREK BAILEY AND MILO FINE
Track: Extract Before
Album: Scale Points On The Fever Curve
Label: Emanem
Album grabado en directo en Londres durante la segunda visita a Inglaterra del multi-instrumentista Milo Fine, invitado por uno de los guitarristas más prestigiosos de nuestro días como es Derek Bailey. Los dos artistas se conocieron en 1983 durante la visita de Bailey a los Estados Unidos. Este disco, sin embargo, dos decadas despues documenta el primer concierto en el que ambos musicos se organizan como duo

03. KLIMEK
Track: Klimek
Album: Mils And Honey
Label: Kompakt
Primer trabajo del artista aleman Sebastian Meisner bajo el sobrenombre Klimek, tras varios discos como Random Inc, Bizz Circuits o Autopoises [con Ekkehard Ehlers] para sellos como Mille Plateaux, Sub Rosa, Beta Bodega o Crónica

04. TURNER OF WHEELS
Track: Halcyon View (Reprise)
Album: Misses the Cocktail Party
Label: Panospria
Panospria era en sus inicios un colectivo de artistas canadienses de vanguardia. Ahora desde principios de año funciona también como Net Label, sello a través de Internet desde cuya pagina y por un tiempo limitado, puedes descargar gratuitamente la música creada por el colectivo o por artistas independientes adheridos a la causa para la ocasión. Este es el caso de Turner Of Wheels

05. KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN
Track: Twin Guitar Rhodes Viola Drone (For La Monte Young)
Album: Antithesis
Label: Kranky
Segundo álbum de Keith Fullerton Whitman para el sello Kranky, que ha compuesto un álbum utilizando solamente materiales acústicos, sin intervención alguna del ordenador. Habiendo ejercido hasta ahora de músico electrónico no es extraño que el título del disco, solo disponible en vinilo, se llame Antithesis

06. STRATEGY
Track: Cascadian Nights
Album: Drumsolo's Delight
Label: Kranky
Debut de Paul Dickow, aka Strategy, en Kranky. Un álbum agradable entre el ambient y el dub

07. HELIOS
Track: Cullin Hill / Nine Blacks Alp
Album: Unomia
Label: Merk
Primer trabajo para el sello de Miami Merck de Helios, un disco de armonías sugerentes y rico en ambientes densos, repletos de sonidos y todo tipo de elementos acústicos

08. WILLIAM BASINSKI
Track: 2.1/1.3
Album: The Disintegration Loops
Label: 2062
Esta semana nos despedimos con los Disintegration Loops del compositor experimental norteamericano William Basinski, así llamados porque las cintas en las que fueron grabados hace más de 20 años por el autor se encontraban en mal estado. Basinski ha ido publicando a través de su sello 2062, un volumen de sus disintegration loops por año desde 2001

2004: MAY

26-05-04

01. FRED FRITH
Track: Hirschen Mit Goldenen Hufen
Album: Eye To Ear II
Label: Tzadik
The opening for today's session is this second voume of Eye to Ear, a collection of pieces for cinema composed by an artist with a career of more than 30 years in the experimental universe: Fred Frith. This is his fifth work for Tzadik

02. DEREK BAILEY AND MILO FINE
Track: Extract Before
Album: Scale Points On The Fever Curve
Label: Emanem
Scale Points on the Fever Curve was recorded live in London last year, during [North-American multi-instrumentist] Milo Fine's second visit to England, invited by one of today's most pretigious guitarrists, Derek Bailey. Both artists met first in 1983 while Bailey was touring the United States. Anyway, this album, two decades later, documents the first time they organise as a duo

03. KLIMEK
Track: Klimek
Album: Mils And Honey
Label: Kompakt
From Kompakt label offices in Cologne comes the new release by Sebastan Meissner under the moniker Klimek. Meissner was already well known in the electronic scene for his works as Random Inc, Bizz Circuits or Autopoises [with Ekkehard Ehlers] in labels such as Mille Plateaux, cronica, Beta Bodega or SubRosa

04. TURNER OF WHEELS
Track: Halcyon View (Reprise)
Album: Misses the Cocktail Party
Label: Panospria
Panospria was in its beginnings a collective of Canadian avantgarde artists. From early this year, it works as well as a net label, from whose site, and for a limited period of time, it's possible to download for free the music created by the collective or by independent artists joining the cause, like Turner of Wheels

05. KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN
Track: Twin Guitar Rhodes Viola Drone (For La Monte Young)
Album: Antithesis
Label: Kranky
New releases coming straight from Chicago's most active company, Kranky. Keith Fullerton Whitman, also known as Hrvatski, has composed an album using strictly acoustic elements, without computer interaction. As he has exercised until now as an electronic artist, there's nothing strange in having titled this work as Antithesis -only vinyl

06. STRATEGY
Track: Cascadian Nights
Album: Drumsolo's Delight
Label: Kranky
Another release from Kranky after Keith Fullerton Whitman's debut without laptop. This is Paul Dicklow's Strategy. New album by Loscil next week

07. HELIOS
Track: Cullin Hill / Nine Blacks Alp
Album: Unomia
Label: Merk
After Kranky news, we listen to the first Helios release on Miami's Merck label, an album full of suggested harmonies and rich in dense ambients plenty of found sounds and a large sort of acoustic elements

08. WILLIAM BASINSKI
Track: 2.1/1.3
Album: The Disintegration Loops
Label: 2062
We close today with North-American experimental composer William Basinski and his Disintegration Loops, so called because the tapes in which they where recorded twenty years ago by the author were corrupting as the time passed. William Basinski has released a new volume of the Disintegration Loops each year since 2001 in his own label 2062

18/19/20-05-04

01. VOLCANO THE BEAR
Track: She Whistles I Cough Like A Tiger
Album: The idea of Wood
Label: Textile Records
Cuarteto inglés de improvisación cuyo quinto disco acaba de ser publicado por la compañia parisina Textile Records

02. GORDON MUMMA
Track: School Work
Album: The Kitchen cd 1
Label: -
Rescatamos algunos de los mejores momentos de nuestra reciente visita a New York con la conmemoracion del festival New Music, New York celebrado hace ahora 25 años y que marcó un acontecimiento para la nueva música contemporanea con autores tan importantes como Laurie Anderson, Pauline Oliveros, Philip Glass, Steve Reich o quien va a sonar, Gordon Mumma, uno de los primeros compositores en diseñar circuitos electricos para sus propias composiciones o actuaciones en directo, artistas todos ellos muy cercanos a The Kitchen, una galeria de arte neoyorquina que se mantiene desde su fundacion en 1971 a la cabeza de la vanguardia en varias disciplinas artisticas

03. PHIL NIBLOCK
Track: Four Arthurs
Album: The Kitchen cd 2
Label: -
The Kitchen se encuentra actualmente inmersa en un proceso de remasterización del amplisimo material grabado en los ultimos 30 años, lo que va a sonar es uno de los cortes que forma parte del doble cd de una serie de grabaciones ineditas de artistas tan importantes como Pauline Oliveros, Charlemagne Palestine, Michael Nyman o Phil Niblock, el que va a sonar, importante artista multidiscplinar americano, compositor y organizador de conciertos de música experimental de larga trayectoria

04. PHIL NIBLOCK
Track: Live In New York
Album: -
Track: -
Grabacion exclusiva de su actuacion el pasado 28 de abril en New York junto a Frank Hautzinger, Patrick Pulsinger, Werner Daffeldecker y Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster, Harmonia) , es decir , la crema de la experimentacion austriaca que se reunió con motivo de la muestra Moving Patterns, que llevó a Nueva York algunos de los proyectos más interesantes nacidos en Austria y relacionados con el arte electrónico

05. DANIEL MENCHE
Track: 1
Album: Eye On The Steel
Label: Substractif
Otro artista sonoro norteamericano, en este caso Daniel Menche con su segundo trabajo para el sello canadiense Substractif, que ha abierto sus horizontes tras unos primeros años dedicados principalmente a la escena electronica canadiense, publicando los debuts de Tim Hecker, Mitchell Akiyama o Polmo Polpo

06. KEVIN DRUMM
Track: 1
Album: Impish Tyrant
Label: Spite
De Portland, Oregon, lugar de origen de Daniel Menche nos trasladamos a Chicago para atender el ultimo trabajo del guitarrista y compositor electrónico Kevin Drumm, uno de los grandes nombres del noise actual mas maniaco

07. MR.76IX
Track: Meet My Beat
Album: Hits Of 76ix
Label: Skam
Novedad del sello britanico Skam, Mr.76ix, misterioso artista que oscila entre la Idm y el noise que se dio a conocer en la pasada edicion del festival All Tomorrows Parties en el sur de Inglaterra. Esta es la primera de las compilaciones de material de Mr.76ix que pretende lanzar Skam en los proximos meses

08. BRAIN TRANSPLANT
Track: -
Album: Time Disturbance
Label: American Tapes
Ultimo recopilatorio del sello norteamericano American Tapes, del que sobresale este tema de Brain Transplant, del que disponemos de nula informacion

09. PRURIENT
Track: -
Album: Body Language LP (peelbackthesky
Label: peelbackthesky
Proyecto bandera de Dominick Fernow de Hospital Productions, una pequeña compañia especializada en musica experimental y ruidista. Proximamente sonarán también los ultimos trabajos publicados recientemente por este artista en los sellos Load y Ground Fault

10. DEATHPROD
Track: Orgone Donor
Album: Morals And Dogma
Label: Rune Grammofon
Primer trabajo del noruego Helge Sten en los ultimos ocho años si no contamos su split de remezclas con Biosphere. Es miembro fundador de Supersilent aunque lo que escuchamos es su proyecto en solitario Deathprod con este Morals and Dogma, que recientemente ha editado el irregular sello Rune Grammofon

11. KINSKI
Track: There's_Nothing_Sexy_About_Time / Never Compete With Small Girls
Album: Don't Climb on and Take the Holy Water
Label: Strange Attractors
Nuevo trabajo de Kinski, trio de Seattle, en el sello Strange Attractors, un album que profundiza en el apartado más ambiental cultivado por una banda que tan pronto se aproxima al rock experimental como se aleja de él

18/19/20-05-04

01. VOLCANO THE BEAR
Track: She Whistles I Cough Like A Tiger
Album: The idea of Wood
Label: Textile Records
English quartet whose fifth album "the idea of word" has just been released by Parisian label Textile Records, between music and no-music, melodies and free expression

02. GORDON MUMMA
Track: School Work
Album: The Kitchen cd 1
Label: -
A look backwards to April to rescue some of the best moments in our recent visit to New York, with the commemoration of the festival New Music New York, held 25 years ago marking an event for the new contemporary music from authors such as Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk... and Gordon Mumma, one of the first composers designing electric circuitry for his own pieces and live performances. Artists all of them close to The Kitchen, an art gallery in NYC that keeps itself in the vanguard in a number of artistic fields from its foundation in 1971

03. PHIL NIBLOCK
Track: Four Arthurs
Album: The Kitchen cd 2
Label: -
The Kitchen is actually inmerse in a process of remastering the vast material recorded along the last 30 years. This is one of the tracks included in the first cd of New Sound New York 1979, the first volume in a series of undiscovered recordings from some of the masters in the genre. On the first cd, between others, pieces from Pauline Oliveros, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Michael Nyman or Gordon Mumma. The second cd includes this track by Phil Niblock, multidisciplinar North-American artist in his seventies, but also works from Tony Conrad, Steve reich, Charlemagne Palestine...

04. PHIL NIBLOCK
Track: Live In New York
Album: -
Track: -
Still into Phil Niblock's music -but not from The Kitchen archives, this is an exclusive recording documenting a live performance on April 28th in New York, sharing line-up with Franz Hautzinger, Patrick Pulsinger, Werner Daffeldecker and Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster, Harmonia) as a part of the Moving Patterns festival, that took New York some of the most interesting projects born in Austria and related with electronic arts

05. DANIEL MENCHE
Track: 1
Album: Eye On The Steel
Label: Substractif
Another sound artist from the United States, with his second work for Canadian label Substractif, its horizons open more than ever after some tears of main dedication to the Canadian electronic scene, releasing the debuts of Tim Hecker, Mitchell Akiyama or Polmo Polpo

06. KEVIN DRUMM
Track: 1
Album: Impish Tyrant
Label: Spite
From Portland OR to Chicago IL, to attend to one of the most important names in today's most manic noise. It is Kevin Drumm's last work, released by the Spite label

07. MR.76IX
Track: Meet My Beat
Album: Hits Of 76ix
Label: Skam
New from Skam (Manchester, UK). A compilation of material by Mr.76IX, misterious artist better known after the last edition of All Tomorrows Parties festival in Southern England due to a celebrated live noise session. Skam is on its way to release some more material of Mr.76IX in the next months

08. BRAIN TRANSPLANT
Track: -
Album: Time Disturbance
Label: American Tapes
From American Tapes' last sampler, Time Disturbance

09. PRURIENT
Track: -
Album: Body Language LP (peelbackthesky
Label: peelbackthesky
Dominick Fernow of Hospital Productions, small company specialised in limited edition releases of noise an experimental music, runs Prurient. He has some more works to release later this year in labels such as Load, RRR or Ground Fault

10. DEATHPROD
Track: Orgone Donor
Album: Morals And Dogma
Label: Rune Grammofon
First release of Norwegian Helge Sten in the last 8 years -without considering the remixes on the split album with Biosphere. Sten is member of Supersilent, though Deathprod is his solo project

11. KINSKI
Track: There's_Nothing_Sexy_About_Time / Never Compete With Small Girls
Album: Don't Climb on and Take the Holy Water
Label: Strange Attractors
Kinski is a trio from Seattle. This second album in the Strange Attractors Audio House label penetrates deep into the ambient side of a band that approaches to rock as soon as it escapes from it

11/12/13-05-04

01. ANDY MOOR / YANNIS KYRIAKIDES
Track: Luther
Album: Red v Green
Label: Unsounds
Duos improvisados de Andy Moor (Guitar / Radio) y Yannis Kyriakides (Live Electronics) tras cinco años de colaboracion entre los dos artistas. Publica el sello holandés Unsounds

02. JOHN BUTCHER
Track: Bells And Clappers
Album: 13 Friendly Numbers
Label: Unsounds
Continuamos en el sello Unsounds, desde Amsterdam, con la reedicion del debut en solitario del saxofonista y musico electronico londinense John Butcher que data de 1992, el primer documento de su peculiar lenguaje en el saxo

03 CHRISTIAN BOUCHARD
Track: Tonicité
Album: Fractures
Label: Empreintes Digitales
Debut en disco de Christian Bouchard tras más de una decada de dedicacion a la creacion de obras de arte radiofónico y diseños de sonido en cine e instalaciones

04. FRANCIS DHOMONT
Track: En Cuerdas
Album: Jalons
Label: Empreintes Digitales
Otra novedad del sello canadiense Empreintes Digitales, Piedras angulares de Francis Dhomont, un maestro en el campo de la música acusmática que también cultiva campos más oscuros como reciclador de su propio material

05. AKE PARMERUD
Track: Repulse
Album: Jeu D'ombres
Label: Empreintes Digitales
Compositor sueco afincado en Canadá que lleva más de 30 años trabajando en el campo de la música electroacústica

06. MARGARETH KAMMERER (CHRISTOF KURZMANN REMIX)
Track: I Carry Your Heart With Me
Album: To Be An Animal Of Real Flesh
Label: Charhizma
Nuevo disco de la guitarrista y cantante Margareth Kammerer cuya credibilidad se ve por momentos supeditada a un gran elenco de nombres ilustres entre sus colaboradores, de Philip Jeck a B.fleischman pasando por Fred Frith y por quien firma la remezcla que va a sonar, Christof Kurzmann. director del sello Charhizma, que se ha encargado de publicar este trabajo

07. AGF
Track: DelayOnmyPillow
Album: DelayOnmyPillow
Label: Stichting Mixer
Desde Alemania nos llega el ultimo trabajo de Agf con una obra para el sello de la asociacion holandesa Stichting Mixer centrada en la promocion de pequeños trabajos innovativos en el campo de la electronica minimal y la electroacústica

08. LIONEL MARCHETTI
Track: L'incandescence De L'Etoile
Album: L'incandescence De L'Etoile
Label: Stichting Mixer
Vibrante y marciana pieza del compositor francés Lionel Marchetti. Publica también Stichting Mixer

09. BLACK DICE
Track: Miles Of Smiles
Album: Miles Of Smiles
Label: Fat Cat
Regreso del combo de New York Black Dice, concebido originalmente como acompañamiento musical a una instalacion japonesa en una galeria de arte. Este Ep de dos temas se recomienda escucharlo a un volumen extremadamente alto

10. BLACK DICE
Track: Creature
Album: Creature Comforts
Label: Fat Cat / Dfa
Fat Cat es el sello britanico que se encarga de que podamos escuchar en Europa cada nuevo lanzamiento del grupo norteamericao experimental más aclamado de los ultimos tiempos. Lo que sonará será una muestra de su nuevo disco, Creature Comforts, a publicar a mediados de junio

11. LANGAGE COMPUTER
Track: Offset
Album: Mouse Back Riding
Label: Quatermass
Novedad desde el sello belga Quatermass, un duo de Hip Hop experimental que esta formado por John Bloug, que se encarga de la composicion y Detect a los platos

12. KID SPATULA
Track: Peg
Album: Meast
Label: Planet Mu
Mike Paradinas, aka Uziq, Jake Slazenger o, como en este caso, Kid Spatula presenta desde su propio sello Planet Mu una coleccion de más de 30 cortes de material inedito procedente del periodo comprendido entre 1994 y 1998, un doble cd titulado Meast

13. AUTISTICI (INCORPORATING ANDREA POLLI)
Track: Attaching Softness To A Shell
Album: Attaching Softness To A Shell
Label: Stroem
Pieza de microsonidos ambientales a cargo del colectivo Autistici en colaboracion con la artista digital Andrea Polli, un corte que puedes descargar gratuitamente desde la pagina www.stroem.se

11/12/13-05-04

01. ANDY MOOR / YANNIS KYRIAKIDES
Track: Luther
Album: Red v Green
Label: Unsounds
The session for this week begins with the collaboration between Andy Moor (The Ex) and Yannis Kyriakides (MIMEO), two active improvisers with a different approach to music that recorded this album as a result of three sessions last year

02. JOHN BUTCHER
Track: Bells And Clappers
Album: 13 Friendly Numbers
Label: Unsounds
Re-release of John Butcher's debut album, first document of his particular view of the saxophone

03 CHRISTIAN BOUCHARD
Track: Tonicité
Album: Fractures
Label: Empreintes Digitales
Fresh from this excellent Canadian label, this work by Christian Bouchard, his first CD after a decade of dedication to create art works for radio and designs for installations and cinema

04. FRANCIS DHOMONT
Track: En Cuerdas
Album: Jalons
Label: Empreintes Digitales
Another release by Empreintes Digitales. Francis Dhomont is considered a master in the field of acousmatic music, though he also labours darker terrains as a recycler of his own materials

05. AKE PARMERUD
Track: Repulse
Album: Jeu D'ombres
Label: Empreintes Digitales
Still in Montreal, site for Empreintes Digitales' home office, more electroacoustic music with a work whose author is the Sweddish composer Ake Parmerud, working in Canada after more than 30 years of investigations on electroacoustic music

06. MARGARETH KAMMERER (CHRISTOF KURZMANN REMIX)
Track: I Carry Your Heart With Me
Album: To Be An Animal Of Real Flesh
Label: Charhizma
Interesting debut of guitarrist and singer Margareth Kammerer, with a bunch of pretigious colaborators playing or remixing in this album: from Philip Jeck to Fred Frith and Berhard Fleischmann

07. AGF
Track: DelayOnmyPillow
Album: DelayOnmyPillow
Label: Stichting Mixer
Thanks to our friends of Dense Distribution we can finally listen to the last work published by Antye Greie Fuchs, recently in Madrid, a German sound poet that melts sound and speech into one, in this work for Dutch association Stichting Mixer, centered in the promotion of minimal electronic-acoustic sounds

08. LIONEL MARCHETTI
Track: L'incandescence De L'Etoile
Album: L'incandescence De L'Etoile
Label: Stichting Mixer
Young Frech composer Lionel Marchetti with a vibrant piece of concrete music released as a limited edition mini CD by Stichting Mixer

09. BLACK DICE
Track: Miles Of Smiles
Album: Miles Of Smiles
Label: Fat Cat
British label Fat Cat is watching over for bringing Europe every new release from the last times' most acclaimed art group of the United States, Black Dice. This is a sample from their last ep, Miles of Smiles, composed as a contribution to a sound installation in an art gallery

10. BLACK DICE
Track: Creature
Album: Creature Comforts
Label: Fat Cat / Dfa
Fat Cat is soon releasing across Europe the new full length by Rhode Island's noisy quartet Black Dice

11. LANGAGE COMPUTER
Track: Offset
Album: Mouse Back Riding
Label: Quatermass
A new release from the Belgian label Quatermass, the album Mouse Back Rising by Langage Computer, experimental hip-hop duo consisting of two members: John Bloug (composition) and Dj Detect (turntables)

12. KID SPATULA
Track: Peg
Album: Meast
Label: Planet Mu
Mike Paradinas, M-Ziq... Kid Spatula in this concrete occasion, presents in his own imprint Planet Mu a collection of more than 30 tracks of material proceeding from the period between 1994 and 1998, a double CD titled Meast with some unnecessary moments but also great tracks like this one

13. AUTISTICI (INCORPORATING ANDREA POLLI)
Track: Attaching Softness To A Shell
Album: Attaching Softness To A Shell
Label: Stroem
Ambiental microsounds from Autistici collective in collaboration with digital artist Andrea Polli. Free download at Stroem.se

04/05/06-05-04

01. TRAJECT
Track: Water For Muddy People
Album: Strengir Hrynja
Label: Spezial Material
Novedad desde Zürich, en Suiza, del sello Spezial Material, la música electrónica del islandés Gisli Thor Gudmundsson con su proyecto Traject, muy influido por la tradición más oscura de la Idm

02. ERIC LA CASA, JEAN-LUC GUIONNET, DAN WARBURTON
Track: Music Station
Album: Insight
Label: Xing-wu
Tres grandes artistas europeos del mundo de la improvisación con su aportación a una compilación titulada "insight", recién editada desde Malaysia por la compañía Xing-Wu. Se trata de Eric La Casa, Jean-luc Guionnet y Dan Warburton, en un doble album del que también forman parte artistas como Tetuzi Akiyama, Janek Schaeffer, Oren Ambarchi, Thuja o Reynols, entre otros

03. 1/3 OCTAVE BAND
Track: Coherer
Album: The System Likes You and Wants to be Your Friend
Label: Pseudo Arcana
Notable grupo formado por el inquieto Bill Wood y amigos desde Nueva Zelanda. Este es su debut para el sello Pseudo-Arcana, The system likes you and wants to be your friend, con un largo corte que escucharemos en su totalidad

04. ROSY PARLANE
Track: 1
Album: Iris
Label: Touch
Miembro del grupo de avant-garde Thela -cuyas grabaciones puedes encontrar en el sello Ecstatic Peace- pero también autor de varias obras en solitario para Sigma Editions y una colaboración con Christian Fennesz en la compañía australiana Synaesthesia. Su nuevo trabajo para Touch se titula "Iris"

05. FENNESZ
Track: City Of Light
Album: Venice
Label: Touch
Cuarto álbum de estudio de Christian Fennesz, editado por la excelente compañía británica Touch. Este nuevo disco contiene temas que se acercan cada vez más a la parte más ambiental y abstracta de grupos como My Bloody Valentine, y otros más en la senda de los primeros trabajos de este sobresaliente músico

06. DUUL_DRV
Track: Following Inside A Wave
Album: Object Set And Motion
Label: Apestaartje
Nuevo Recopilatorio desde Apestaartje en el que colaboran, desde diversos rincones del planeta, artistas tan interesantes como Sebastien Roux, Asuna, Tu-m o quien va a sonar, Duul_drv, alias del canadiense Arden Hill

07. AERO
Track: Coast
Album: Rises And Falls
Label: Apestaartje
Segundo album de Koen Holtkamp, alias Aero, co-fundador del sello de Chicago Apestaartje, una nueva incursion dentro del psicodélico minimalismo de esta interesante compañía fundada en 1998

08. SHADOW HUNTAZ
Track: Fasho
Album: Vampire
Label: Skam
Nuevo 12" del interesante combo de Mcs norteamericanos Shadow Huntaz tras su album Corrupt Data, el mini lp "Vampire" que se publicará a mediados de mayo

04/05/06-05-04

01. TRAJECT
Track: Water For Muddy People
Album: Strengir Hrynja
Label: Spezial Material
New release from Spezial Material label, from Zürich, Schwitzerland, electronic music from Icelandic Gisli Thor Gudmundsson with his project Traject, quite influenced by the darker traditions in IDM

02. ERIC LA CASA, JEAN-LUC GUIONNET, DAN WARBURTON
Track: Music Station
Album: Insight
Label: Xing-wu
Three great artists in the field of improvisation with their contribution to a compilation named "insight", just released from Malaysia's Xing-Wu label. A double album with tracks from Eric La Casa, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Dan Warburton, Tetuzi Akiyama, Janek Schaeffer and Oren Ambarchi, between a larger roster

03. 1/3 OCTAVE BAND
Track: Coherer
Album: The System Likes You and Wants to be Your Friends
Label: Pseudo Arcana
Epic debut in Pseudo-Arcana label for the 1/3 Octave Band of New Zealand

04. ROSY PARLANE
Track: 1
Album: Iris
Label: Touch
Still in New Zealand with Rosy Parlane, member of Thela (Ecstatic Peace) but also author of various solo works for Sigma Editions and a collaboration with Christian Fennesz in Australian company Synaesthesia. Iris is his new album for British label Touch

05. FENNESZ
Track: City Of Light
Album: Venice
Label: Touch
Fourth studio album by Christian Fennesz, released in the excellent British company Touch. This record contains new tracks reaching the more ambiental and abstract side of band like My Bloody Valentine, though some other tracks sound tipically Fennesz

06. DUUL_DRV
Track: Following Inside A Wave
Album: Object Set And Motion
Label: Apestaartje
From the Apestaartje company, born in Chicago though currently located in Brooklyn, New York. This new release is leaded by artists from all around the world: Sebastien Roux (Fr), Asuna (Jp), Tu-m (It) or Duul_Drv (Ca), between them

07. AERO
Track: Coast
Album: Rises And Falls
Label: Apestaartje
This is another Apestaartje's release, the new work by its co-founder Koen Holtkamp, known for his nickname AERO. It's his second release, "Rises and Falls

08. SHADOW HUNTAZ
Track: Fasho
Album: Vampire
Label: Skam
Last release by Manchester label Skam, a new 12" from Shadow Huntaz, interesting outfit of North-American Mc's, after their album "Corrupt Data"