Browse by Artist: COH

Artist:	COH
Title:	IIRON
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	EMEGO 114CD

It would be too easy to simply call IIRON the COH metal album, as it goes way beyond that. True, this album of classic Ivan Pavlov stompers contains more than its fair share of guitars both acoustic and electric, yet it still maintains that sense of power and purpose through electronic music which stands out as the COH "raison d'être." Coming 11 years after IRON (Wavetrap, 2000), which also tackled the sound of rock with alarming results, the new album features not only recent guitar tracks recorded at Music Research Centre at York University, but also recordings made during Soviet-era Russia, which refer to Pavlov's underground music activities in the early '80s when making or even consuming of "metal music" was forbidden. IIRON is a powerful, well-executed electronic rock record, with just a dash a humor to keep it from becoming pompous, as so much of that kind of music can be sometimes. Packaged in a 4-panel digipack for CD, and lavish gatefold for the vinyl, with stunning artwork by Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O)))). Vinyl cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, November 29th, 2010. HAIL TO WORLD PEACE AND DEATH TO FALSE METAL. In memoriam: Satoshi Kon and Peter Christopherson.

Artist:	COH
Title:	IIRON
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$25.00
Catalog #:	EMEGO 114LP

Lavish gatefold for the vinyl 2LP version. It would be too easy to simply call IIRON the COH metal album, as it goes way beyond that. True, this album of classic Ivan Pavlov stompers contains more than its fair share of guitars both acoustic and electric, yet it still maintains that sense of power and purpose through electronic music which stands out as the COH "raison d'être." Coming 11 years after IRON (Wavetrap, 2000), which also tackled the sound of rock with alarming results, the new album features not only recent guitar tracks recorded at Music Research Centre at York University, but also recordings made during Soviet-era Russia, which refer to Pavlov's underground music activities in the early '80s when making or even consuming of "metal music" was forbidden. IIRON is a powerful, well-executed electronic rock record, with just a dash a humor to keep it from becoming pompous, as so much of that kind of music can be sometimes. With stunning artwork by Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O)))). Vinyl cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, November 29th, 2010. HAIL TO WORLD PEACE AND DEATH TO FALSE METAL. In memoriam: Satoshi Kon and Peter Christopherson.

Artist:	COH
Title:	Mask Of Birth
Label:	MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MEGO 055CD

"CD re-release of one of the first works from Ivan Pavlov aka COH, recorded in 1997 and 1998. Originally released (and now out of print) as a vinyl only album on Raster Noton in 1999, as part of their Static Series. Remastered in sparkling digital quality and featuring 2 tasty bonus tracks recorded around the same time ('Komputer Trilogik für Or' & 'Waltz Nuevo No. 1'). Born in Russia, Ivan Pavlov lives and works in Sweden. However, his cultural roots are in his mother country, and he seems to be more a rapport to the Russian avant-garde rather than to the Western rock-pop tradition. As a qualified acoustic researcher he is involved in developing different possibilities for sound synthesis, yet he has a way to compose single tones to an ensemble which provides both lyrical and comic associations. Mask Of Birth is largely inspired by the late 70-es/early 80ies dance music: as stated on the cover, it is 'new disco for the new human'."

Artist:	COH
Title:	Patherns EP
Label:	RASTER-NOTON (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	R-N 071CD

Originally released in 2006. The Raster-Post series winds up with a pop release by label regular and favorite Coh aka Ivan Pavlov. Entitled Patherns, this 4-track CD-EP creates a picture-puzzle-like effect, while at the same time, there are four exercises in constructive melancholy. Coh seems to recall the times of pushing rhythms and propulsive club music of the '80s and '90s (as we all know his love for the "Moroder" sound), but the past appears digitalized here... nothing would make you think that this is not a product of the 21st century! The Patherns EP presents Coh's sonic speculation in humorous and almost lyrical terms. The texture varies from piece to piece, but the basic structure stays the same and creates a diabolic drive which is a force in itself. While frisky and playful in some parts, this release never loses its depth. In this respect, the listener should follow the instructions on the inside: PLAY LOUD IF YOU CAN! 23-minute EP, housed in a die-cut digipak.

Artist:	COH
Title:	Strings
Label:	RASTER-NOTON (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	R-N 085CD

This is Stockholm-based Ivan Pavlov's (COH) fifth release for Raster Music. Born in Russia, Ivan Pavlov lives and works in Sweden. He is an inimitable acoustic sound researcher, with a decade of work that combines beautifully minimal electronics with surrealist, abstract humor. Strings is primarily an attempt to reconcile the aesthetics of digital sound with that of more traditional musical instruments and to enrich their respective domains with certain qualities that each singularly possesses. On a larger scale, the album targets the stereotypes in today's perception of music, trying to smooth out the borders between academic and popular, traditional and contemporary, serious and amusing -- all in favor of music. The choice of instrumentation on Strings (piano, guitar, saz, and oud) follows COH's own experience in music: from his years of piano lessons as a child, to playing in a heavy metal band during his teenage years, further to his most recent years of work in the area of digital sound and composition. Part I uses recordings made with a Yamaha grand piano in 2001, part II uses an electric guitar purchased in the USSR in 1988, and part III was first recorded as a quadraphonic installation piece and is inspired by the improvised recordings of saz and oud played by Andrej Abu Kolesov.

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