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Artist:	DEUPREE/KENNETH KIRSCHNER/TOMAS KORBER/STEINBRUCHEL/AARON XIMM, TAYLOR
Title:	May 6, 2001
Label:	AND/OAR
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	AND 024CD

2006 release. "On the night of Sunday, May 6, 2001, composer Kenneth Kirschner, as part of a series of pieces documenting the sounds of different New York City neighborhoods, took his tape recorder to the Financial District of Lower Manhattan to begin field recordings for a new piece. The resulting low-resolution portrait captured the sounds of a deserted urban landscape: the empty, winding streets of old Dutch New Amsterdam, its modern, towering skyscrapers -- and a region of the city that, several months later, would be renamed Ground Zero. and/OAR is proud to present May 6, 2001, a collection of five interpretations by five renowned contemporary composers of the aforementioned field recording portrait. With excerpts from Kirschner's original 2001 composition based on the field recording, the CD also includes pieces by Taylor Deupree (USA), Tomas Korber (Switzerland), Ralph Steinbrüchel (Switzerland), and Aaron Ximm (aka Quiet American; USA), all utilizing the 2001 Financial District field recording as their sole source material. The result is a project that obliquely and subtly evokes the source recording and its subsequent meanings, while also standing on its own as an estimable example of each artist's mastery of his craft."

Artist:	BEHRENS & PAULO RAPOSO, MARC
Title:	Hades
Label:	AND/OAR
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	AND 025CD

2006 release. "After their first successful collaboration Further Consequences of Reinterpretation (premiered in May 2003 at the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon, released as a CD album by the Portugal-based label Crónica), and the project's appendix release entitled Product, the sound artists Paulo Raposo and Marc Behrens have created a new dynamic sound work entitled Hades. Hades is based on sound recordings made aboard Lisbon ferries and at the quays of Cais do Sodré, Trafaria and Cacilhas 2001-2005. Both artists had initially set out to record independently, being fascinated with the sounds of the ship hull and landing gear, as well as with the actual passage on the river, which gives a magnificent (maybe the best) view on large parts of the old city of Lisbon. During the course of the work which took three years to complete, some more precisely directed recordings were made together. Understanding the actual crossing as a symbolic passage, and once it was reduced to sound and memory, it became associated to the crossing of the mythic river Styx to enter Hades, the ancient Greek underworld. As the different sound recordings provide the artists with very diverse material (for example low frequencies from the ship's hulls and motors, high frequencies and beats from the gates at Cais do Sodré), they understand the composition as hovering on the delicate borderline between a soundscape portrait and a multi-strata arrangement, in which things happen in parallel, and individual layers move on more than one path simultaneously. In the opinion of and/OAR, Hades is not only one of the strongest works to surface from either artist, a/O will go out on a limb to state that it could very well set a new precedent of quality for collaboration work of its ilk. Needless to say, a/O is highly honored to be releasing it. Please give it a very attentive listen. Especially in headphones!"

Artist:	VA
Title:	Yasujiro Ozu - Hitokomakura
Label:	AND/OAR
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	AND 026CD

"This is the second of a series of label projects pertaining to film directors. The first one was for Andrei Tarkovsky, the third one is currently in progress and pertains to Michelangelo Antonioni's Tetralogy (L'Avventura/La Notte/L'Eclisse/Deserto Rosso). This second release turns its focus upon martirano 's use of 'pillow shots' (i.e. short poetic pauses that appear between the acting segments of his films. The term 'pillow shot' was not coined by Ozu himself, but several years after his passing in the early 1960s by a Japanese journalist who was trying to draw a comparison of the intermediate scenes to 'pillow words' found in traditional Japanese poetry. This is a double CD release with both CDs featuring audio plus a cross-platform compatible PDF booklet containing pillow shots (courtesy of Criterion Collection) and liner notes. Each artist who appears on this release was asked to choose one or more 'pillow shots' to use as inspiration for their pieces. A link to web pages containing a large assortment of pillow shots was provided, and accordingly, the pillow shots were reserved on a first come, first served basis. The artists also watched the films from which the pillow shots came from in order to get a sense of how their chosen pillow shots were employed by Ozu. The sound work featured represents a wide range of artistic approaches, but as always with these projects, the artists were chosen specifically, based on their previous work and on how it might contribute to the collective whole of each project." Artists include: Alejandra & Aeron, Aono Jikken Ensemble, Asuna, Marc Behrens, Keith Berry, Lawrence English, Heribert Friedl, Bernhard Gunter, Haco, John Hudak, Jason Kahn, Hitoshi Kojo, Koura, Dale Lloyd, Yoshio Machida, Roel Meelkop, Kiyoshi Mizutani, Dean Moore (with Michael Shannon), Steve Roden, Sawako, Michael Shannon, Steinbruchel, Taku Sugimoto, Sukora, Toshiya Tsunoda.

Artist:	ONODERA, YUI
Title:	Suisei
Label:	AND/OAR
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	AND 028CD

"Suisei is a work composed from field recordings and pump organ. Edited and re-mastered by Dale Lloyd. With Suisei, each listener's inner cinema will find its camera lens slowly panning and cross-fading from one enigmatic location to another, as if unveiling ambiguous visual clues pertaining to some wondrous culminating event that many might not fully understand, yet it will still manage to leave an indelible impression upon the subconscious mind and a very subtle pull on the emotions. A mystery drone soundscape journey along the shores of an unfathomable glistening sea. Packaged in four-color digipak. Very limited at 300 copies."

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Artist:	LOPEZ, FRANCISCO
Title:	Wind [Patagonia]
Label:	AND/OAR
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	AND 027CD