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Artist:	REFAT, MAHMOUD
Title:	Miramar
Label:	100COPIES (EGYPT)
Format:	CDR
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	100COPIES 001CD

"100COPIES is a music label based in Cairo/Egypt, releasing music from Egypt, the Arab world and International. 100COPIES is focusing on experimental music, noise and sound. Including other genres will be active with the local artists from Egypt. The recent work of Mahmoud Refat is based on memories of locations and situations that have been experienced between 2002 and 2005. Working with the raw sound material and field recordings that have been recorded in the past 3 years, and dealing with them in the present time and state of mind. 'It is is always fascinating what I find in my older sound material, and how I recognize them. It opens all possibilities to those hidden aspects and emotions of one regular reality,' Refat says. In Miramar Refat wants to pay attention to the inconsiderable sounds and patterns that has been part of his/other's daily life at the time. As you hear a call for prayer or a voice of a woman passing by, or the sound of a portable power station drifting in through the window on a normal day, then hearing it through speakers after some years. Would you react in the same way? It is to expand a person's perception of the surrounding space. Using the drum patterns in Track 3 ('Miramari') and track 7 ('2nd April2006') and keeping them on a repetitive loop. Was a slight drift towards the recognizable and familiarity. In Miramar Refat found a new language to present a musical abstraction and make it possible to the common listeners." This is a professionaly made CDR release. Limited stock.

Artist:	REFAT, MAHMOUD
Title:	Mort Aux Vaches
Label:	STAALPLAAT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	MAV MR

"Mahmoud Refat is from Egypt, who previously released on Leerraum. He's not a player of traditional instruments, but is a 'normal' (??) artist with sound installations, field recordings -- following a career in funk/acid jazz/experimental music. I must say I had no expectations whatsoever. I can't say I'm disappointed. The whole notion that it should be ethnic (inspired) is of course bullshit. It proves that whatever we call microsound (for the lack of any better term) is much more a global thing that we knew. Refat plays laptop music, using sounds of whatever field nearby or far away, but he adds low humming beats -- think Ikeda or Noto but on a much more subdued level -- which work well as a creepy undercurrent for the music. The rhythmical notion he puts on makes this perhaps more clicks 'n cuts (for the lack of any better term) than plain microsound, but the addition of field recordings is certainly a refreshing look on the subject matter. Meelkop meets Noto, Chartier meet Pan Sonic -- if you catch my fantasy running wild on the subject. For me an entirely new artist, but certainly someone to watch for the future." (FDW)

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