Browse by Label: A BRUIT SECRET (FRANCE)

Artist:	LABELLE, BRANDON
Title:	Techné
Label:	A BRUIT SECRET (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	ABS 004CD

"Brandon LaBelle lives and works in LA. A musician, performer, critic, sound artist, publisher, he stands at the cross-roads of various artistic disciplines, mixing his practices in a singular work articulating sound and social space. Through his use of contact mics, the human body turns into a complex sound source, and the space where the action takes place becomes a musical instrument by itself. Brandon LaBelle builds his sound performance to reflect the site and the objects he finds there, found-art seen as a highly conceptual reasoning as well as a play in improvisation. The music of Brandon LaBelle reveals the social context in which it exists, or more precisely, it's the context itself that is designated as a musical event, through the displacement of the concept of authorship on an active social space. Techné presents itself like the trace of a process where the physical body interacts with architecture via micro contacts. The technology is the interface of this contact built both on desire and the architectural constraint of the place (and its subconscious). A recording of situationist poetry where the politics project gives its shape to the musical project, a radical noise."

Artist:	AKIYAMA, TETUZI
Title:	Resophonie
Label:	A BRUIT SECRET (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	ABS 008CD

"The name Tetuzi Akiyama may not be very well-known, but he is part of the large improvised music in Tokyo where he plays with Taku Sugimoto (together they have a CD on Bottrop Boy, with a guitar quartet, including Yoshihide and Nakamura), Utah Kawasaki, Sachiko M and also various European people. Tetuzi plays mainly the guitar, the one with steel strings and he explores the possibilities of creating overtones within the metallic string sounds. In these eight solo tracks, recorded directly to DAT he plays with a high end feedback like sound, and indeed metallic scrapings, with microscopic changes, but do be called minimal music this might not be appropriate either. In some tracks the guitar sounds very much like a guitar (like in 'Primitif' for instance), but in 'Disscociation' the scrapings prevail and the guitar sounds like so far away. This CD is a fine example of the sheer unlimited possibilities of using the six strings in yet another vein."

Artist:	M, SACHIKO
Title:	1:2
Label:	A BRUIT SECRET (FRANCE)
Format:	3" CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	ABS 009CD

"Sachiko M plays a No-sampler (with sine-waves) as her unique instrument, thus creating her own abruitsecret. In the after of sampling, diverting her digital sampler from its specific use, erasing all memories, voiding it from all samples that could be taken from our record collections or cultural databanks, she listens to the internal sound of the machine, designing the sound in a both abstract and radical approach. She wants her music to have no memory, she claims no influence, forms are taken as ephemeral proposals, she draws an aesthetics of disappearance from her sine-waves. Sachiko M has played in Ground Zero, before taking part of the Filament (with Yoshihide Otomo), ISO (with Otomo and Yoshimitsu Ichiraku) and Cosmos projects (with Ami Yoshida). She plays improv with Toshimaru Nakamura, Taku Sugimoto, Andrea Neumann, Kaffe Matthews and John Tilbury, and many more."

Artist:	CHARLES, XAVIER
Title:	La Neige Attend La Neige
Label:	A BRUIT SECRET (FRANCE)
Format:	3" CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	ABS 010CD

Instruments : surfaces vibrantes. Recorded by Francois Dietz, CCAM, Vand'uvre. "Xavier Charles is well-known on the French improvisation scene for being an active militant (he is the co-founder of the Densités Festival) and a multi-instrumentalist (clarinet, bass, electroacoustic device). He has played in numerous improvisation and electroacoustic groups with Axel Dörner, John Butcher, Yoshihide Otomo, Martin Tétreault, Kristoff K.Roll, Frédéric Le Junter, Jacques Di Donato 'La neige attend la neige' ('Snow waiting for the snow') is a piece for vibrating surfaces, in which various objects that have been chosen for their resonance capacity are arranged, added to or subtracted from the vibrations of the loudspeakers. This is a radical gesture of turnaround and deconstruction of the domestic diffusion, a poetical proposal opening on unheard plays of matters. Loudspeakers are used as instruments, after such a similar use has been applied to the mixing desk by Toshimaru Nakamura and to the microphone by Max Neuhaus, Jérôme Noetinger, Lionel Marchetti, thus closing the loop."

Artist:	LARNER/TAKU SUGIMOTO/BURKHARD STANGL, BRETT
Title:	Compositions For Guitars
Label:	A BRUIT SECRET (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	ABS 103CD

"Three compositions for guitars by Brett Larner, Burkhard Stangl and Taku Sugimoto. Different propositions questioning the limits of the instrument through radical and oblique approaches. Close minimalist electronic experience in Larner's piece, games on detuning in Stangl's piece, and a Cagian questioning of silence in Sugimoto's piece 'Hum' Beyond the instrumental stakes, it is a question of our relation with space and time. The guitar is only the vector through which we apprehend our musical object."

Artist:	VA
Title:	From: / To:
Label:	A BRUIT SECRET (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ABS 201CD

A series of 8 duets, featuring: Taku Unami/ Norman D.Mayer; Masafumi Ezaki/Hugo Roussel; Utah Kawasaki/Jean-Philippe Gross ; Yasuo Totsuka/Quentin Dubost; Masahiko Okura/Sharif Shanaoui; Yoichiro Shin/Olivier Brisson; Ami Yoshida/Alfredo Costa Monteiro; Kazushige Kinoshita/Fabrice Eglin. "Depicted on record is an a-topics meeting in music in the open space between two scenes. The 8 duets open on experimental proposals: 8 improvised musical meetings in the suspended time of mail exchanges. East to the West, Japan & France. 1+1 = 3. The musical arithmetic differs from what we were taught at school. Each duet creates a sonic hybrid with a third element born out of the encounter of the musical identities. From: / To: found its source in the will of 5 labels Hibari / Abruitsecret / Fragment / Pricilia / Vertpituite to gather young musicians from Lebanon, France and Japan playing in the fields of electroacoustic and improvised music. To renew them."

Artist:	EGLIN & JEROME NOETINGER, FABRICE
Title:	Psychotic Reactions & Lightnin, Rag
Label:	A BRUIT SECRET (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	ABSBLUE 001CD

Blue Series pays homage to the blue note walking from the Delta to the DIY of the utmost contemporary. Guitarists with six strings on a plank, 78-rpm spinning endlessly, and also revox and sound are all playing the Voice of our Ghosts. "Guitar-input Revox. Here an hybrid instrumentation entangling blues and electro-acoustic music re-plays for us the complete history of recorded music. There is no deferred time between the instrument being played and the reworking of the recording parameters. All movements are connected in real time, as close as possible to the body. Hands on the tapes, fingers on the strings, fresh blood is springing, free from conventions, as if to abolish the principle of separation our society is built on. It's a beautiful confusion of sound, casual towards linear time, dazzling movements, the past is mixed with the present of doing. Feedback. The insurrection is blowing all codes. Two workers of noise, or call it music, are presented here, gifted with the appropriate good manners to add some dirt to it all. We stand between harshness and sensuality, quotes and abstractions. The guitar is plugged on the Revox and each actor accepts willingly to be dispossessed from his sounds as sonic twins would do."

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Artist:	SUGIMOTO, TAKU
Title:	Italia
Label:	A BRUIT SECRET (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	ABS 001CD