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Artist:	AGF
Title:	Words Are Missing
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	AGF 008CD

Berlin-based AGF (aka Antye Greie) is a vocalist, software musician, producer, label-owner and e-poet. With her fourth solo album, Words Are Missing, she leaves words behind, instead using voice, beats and drones to create a huge palette of unique sounds to work around the phenomenon of silence, speechlessness, deconstructed language and impeded communication. The subjects in which the wordlessness is expressed are carefully chosen and vary from dark-memory experiences like visiting the concentration camp in Buchenwald (when the artist was 16) to beat-driven humorous content, like the track called "Kreuzwortraetsel ("crossword"). The listener witnesses a recorded alphabet turning into a trilogy of compositions called "Letters Make No Meaning (Weapons No War Germs No Disease) I," "Cognitive Modules Party II" and "Ooops For Understanding III," and the differences between recorded silences in tracks 8A. "Present" and 8B. "Absent." The album's artwork delivers a deeper insight into the meaning of the compositions which features a total of 16 works of calligraphy, drawings and photography by AGF designed into an elaborate book format by the renowned designer, Alorenz. The CD comes in an upright digipack with a 20-page booklet that distracts the origin of words into a conceptual letter play derived from abstract calligraphy. Exploring a personal form of poetry into electronic music, pop songs, calligraphy and the world wide web, AGF's entrancing live performances and sound installations have taken place all over the world in museums, auditoriums, theaters, concert halls and clubs.

Artist:	AGF
Title:	DelayONmyPILLOW
Label:	MIXER (NETHERLANDS)
Format:	3" CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	MIXER 003CD

"Over the past few years AGF has been critically well acclaimed for her poetry-based music and soundworks. Sound and speech have melted into one unique entity. The delicacy and intimacy AGF displays in her work knows very little equals in todays electronic and digital musics. delayOnmyPillow is no exception and simply is a great piece. Stichting Mixer is very proud to release this excellent work of integration of the human touch in the clinical digital domain of sound."

Artist:	AGF
Title:	Language Is The Most
Label:	QUECKSILBER (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	QUECK 006CD

"How code made its way into my music. As a singer and producer, I rely primarily on content, and that can get to be a real encumbrance. After many years of creating music, I feel that I'm being confronted over and over again with the fact that listeners -- and especially when it comes to Germans dealing with the German language -- have problems getting to the music. Content always comes first -- the message, the brain. In cutting the tracks for my album Head Slash Bauch (head slash gut), I wanted to free myself from this coercive pressure to have to say something understandable. On my way to becoming an independent producer, I geeked my way through the process of self-education in matters of hardware, software, user's manuals and all the other stuff that goes with it. And that's how the computer/laptop came to exert an extremely positive -- except for the chronic back pain -- influence on my working and lifestyle options, my communication and production possibilities, and makes possible more and more flexibility, speed and personal control. So that's how I discovered the poetry and beauty of this technically practical programming language. Since then I've been experimenting with this tension between technical coolness and rhythm and melody in connection with reality, feeling, vision. For the opening of the Ars Electronica Klangpark 2003, I presented a live performance featuring some of this work and my recent album Westernization Completed and integrated into it a composition especially based on the dictionary entry for 'code'." -- AGF

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