Browse by Label: ALLUVIAL RECORDINGS

Artist:	LLOYD, DALE
Title:	Semper
Label:	ALLUVIAL RECORDINGS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ALL 019CD

"Seattle-based composer Dale Lloyd has collaborated in the past with people such as Yannick Dauby and Michael Northam, and has had work released by labels such as Bremsstrahlung Recordings, Staalplaat and Sirr.ecords. The first piece entitled 'Semper,' is mostly a quiet and contemplative work, yet it contains sprawling builds from near-silent ebbs and flows to thunderous crescendos. Also heard are delicate field recordings and found objects transformed and woven into intricate electronic tapestries. The second and shorter piece titled 'Magnesian Recumbit' is a slowly building ambient work with a unique sense of melancholy that makes for a perfect ending."

Artist:	ZARDO, GINO
Title:	Walking East
Label:	ALLUVIAL RECORDINGS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ALL 022CD

"Gino Zardo is a photographer and field recordist born to Italian parents in Australia in 1968. He lives In New York and has worked with some of the world's most prominent photographers for 18 years. Walking East is his debut release. Janek Schaefer is a sound artist/musician from London Walking East is a photographic sound portrait of my travels through the North Western provinces of India, the Himalayas of Nepal and the Island of Papua New Guinea I set out to explore, through the people I met, the way in which my photographs and sound recordings could magnify a sense of time and place. I began the project in January 1999, covering 50,000 miles through the vast contrasting landscapes over the next year. I found myself trekking for days before I would reach a remote village, a western desert, a tropical monsoon, or a dense jungle. Camping along the way and living amongst the families and tribes, I was able to experience their daily lives and acquire an understanding of their histories and cultures. I found many similarities as I documented a variety of people as they performed in music festivals, worked in steel mills, sold their wares in markets, and celebrated their tribal rituals together. The presence of community, hardship, joy and survival are universal."

Artist:	BRADLEY, PAUL
Title:	Memorias Extranjeras
Label:	ALLUVIAL RECORDINGS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ALL 023CD

"An unbelievably great new work from Paul Bradley, one of the new UK masters of drone music. With Memorias Extranjeras, Paul works with very festive field recordings from Valencia, Spain. We hear the smooth, complex drone sounds which are his signature along with field recordings which he uses in ways which are perhaps not 'typical' of his work. The single 41-minute piece actually sounds like two separate but related pieces, each with its own mood. This work strikes a perfect balance between darkness and light, somberness and celebration. The music will satisfy the familiar while also introducing Paul's work to an entirely new fan base with its excellent use of rhythm and other elements which are best left heard rather than described."

Artist:	TONIUTTI, GIANCARLO
Title:	(And Now He Almost Did Make Himself Into Hemlock Needles...
Label:	ALLUVIAL RECORDINGS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	ALL 027CD

...It Is Said): Sound-Field For Rattle-Harp. "Comes in an LP-style sleeve with a 16-page booklet. A single, hour-long work. Recorded on January 18, 2001 in Udine, the Red Room [Sound-source: Rattle-harp (drift metal, string, wire, bells, bone, wood)]. Treated & composed on February 9-12, 2002 in Udine, the Black Room. All photos have been taken at Caneo natural reserve, Fossalon di Grado, Isonzo River Mouth, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, 0 m. asl. The very occasional faint crackles are digital faults from the original recording; as part of the document, they have not been erased."

Artist:	KOJO, HITOSHI
Title:	Ezo
Label:	ALLUVIAL RECORDINGS
Format:	10"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	ALL 029EP

"The title of the pieces of this record, 'Hiruko' and 'Ebisu,' are the two names of one mythical being in Japanese mythology. 'Hiruko' is a firstborn child of the god, who was deserted in the sea, because he could not stand up by three years old. He drifted ashore to the land of human beings, and was cherished by the people. Then he was brought up as a god, and was worshipped by the people as 'Ebisu.' Somehow I was haunted by the story all the time during the working period. Therefore the names naturally became the titles. Afterwards I knew that 'Ebisu' is also an alias of Ezo which was the old name of northern part of Japan. So it was adopted as the album title. Although the theory that Ezo equate with Ainu seems to be disputed sometime, I chose the name as a tribute to my favorite Ainu mythologies, and to the folks. The image on the cover is 'Ebisu' which has visited in my mind at the time. Although it's quite different from the traditional image, the sound source of the pieces were all produced by 'found-object' which were mostly found from daily commodities. The resonance of the inside of objects and the resonance of the recorded spaces were also treated as the material. The process to find an object which is usually not used as a musical instrument was considered as a part of the execution. Therefore the founder's name of some of the objects were mentioned in the cover. Also the vinyl record was fatally chosen for the album as an 'object' which must be worn and be degraded by the condition and the frequency of the use. The noises by dusts and surface scratches on the disk should be listened as a part of the piece". --Hitoshi Kojo

Artist:	BRADLEY, PAUL
Title:	Más Memorias Extranjeras
Label:	ALLUVIAL RECORDINGS
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	ALL 030CD

"A new section of the great work based on field recordings from Spain. Limited edition. From Paul: 'On returning to Memorias Extranjeras (and to the Spanish city of Valencia), the foggy, dark somberness that punctuated the first CD had gone. A fundamental change had occurred in the 12 months between Memorias Extranjeras and Más Memorias Extranjeras and there was a desire to reflect this and re-work the piece to match this clearer change in perspective. The two releases are two sides of the same coin, one darker, more detached and the other, calmer and more open. Memories that had changed and warped, softened and melded together, the same experience revisited through different eyes." Same cover art as ALL 023CD.

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