Browse by Label: APESTAARTJE

Artist:	ANDEREGG
Title:	When Rectangles Roll Under Cities
Label:	APESTAARTJE
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	APE 005CD

"Eschewing conventional song structures while retaining his pop sensibilities, Anderegg presents a debut album both beautiful and engaging. The sounds themselves reference the familiar, evoking a sense of environmental space and structure. At times flirting with melody, the tracks imply a sense of song, which both draws the listener in, while giving room for interpretation. Moments and gestures fracture and decay, while subtle contrasts hint at the concrete."

Artist:	AERO
Title:	Pretend
Label:	APESTAARTJE
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	APE 009CD

"Pretend engages the listener on various levels, carefully and deliberately unfolding over the course of thirty-five minutes. With a strong focus on composition, each piece stands out, yet retains its own identity within the context of a larger whole, upon closer inspection, minute gestures and single events become apparent. Subtle details mark each moment of the album, which slowly reveals itself over multiple listens. Taking an aural step back presents the listener with a different perspective; the individual tracks come into focus, while contrasts and larger movements within the album become apparent. With sounds ranging from microtonal clicks and pops to warm organic tones and waves, the juxtaposition and transformation of certain musical elements cause the listener to focus on the individual sounds themselves. Playing with ideas of how space and sound interact with the listener, the album directly engages and confronts the audience at certain moments, the physicality of the music forcing one to be aware of themselves as listeners in their own personal environment." Last copies of this now deleted item.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Object Set and Motion
Label:	APESTAARTJE
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	APE 014CD

"Full length CD featuring exclusive tracks by Sebastien Roux, Ausna, Tu m' and Duul_Drv. Four entities brought together under one title to explore the sculptural aspects of air moving through space. Sound, not just as a physical phenomenon, but as an intrinsically musical environment. Sebastien Roux (Paris) contributes two beautifully understated pieces of digitally processed guitar that brittle and burst with a fascinating spectrum of intricate details. Naoyuki Arashi aka Asuna (Tokyo) extends his harmonium through various computer processing in his intensely thick and amazingly hypnotic drone piece 'Plural Rooms'. The duo of Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli, Tu-m' (Pescara) continue their adventures in plundered melodic fragmentation with two tracks of stuttering simplicity that are among their catchiest works. Unlike anything, yet instantly familiar Arden Hill aka Duul_Drv (Winnepeg) creates quiet environments where field recordings co-exist with electronics in such a natural way that one wonders if he has done anything at all. Object set, and motion."

Artist:	ROSNER, M.
Title:	Morning Tones
Label:	APESTAARTJE
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	APE 020CD

"Last year's Alluvial introduced the world to M. Rosner's subtle blend of acoustic sampling and sonic exploration. On his follow up Morning Tones, the Australian sound artist utilizes acoustic guitar, recordings of his father playing violin, electronics, field recordings and computer to create quietly ferocious meditations in sound falling somewhere between texture and melody. Six lengthy pieces stretch and compress, shifting the listener's attention gradually from one thing to the next. Intimate, dark and beautiful."

Artist:	TOWN AND COUNTRY
Title:	Town and Country
Label:	APESTAARTJE
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	APE 021CD

"Originally released in 1998, Town and Country's s/t debut is an essential document in long form acoustic composition that combines elements of John Fahey, Morton Feldman and Tony Conrad to create an intensely focused and extremely dynamic listening experience. Features Liz Payne on double bass, Josh Abrams (Prefuse 73, Fred Anderson, Sam Prekop, etc.) on double bass, Ben Vida (Birdshow, Singer, etc.) on acoustic guitar and trumpet and Jim Dorling on harmonium."

Artist:	COLLINS, NICOLAS
Title:	Pea Soup
Label:	APESTAARTJE
Format:	3" CD
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	LISTEN 002

"I composed Pea Soup while a student of Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University. A self-stabilizing network of circuitry (originally three Countrymen Phase Shifters) nudges the pitch of audio feedback to different resonant frequency every time the feedback starts to build. The familiar shriek is replaced with unstable patterns of hollow tones, a site-specific raga reflecting the acoustical personality of the room. These architectural melodies can be influenced by moving in the space, making other sounds, or even by letting in a draft of cold air. The piece existed both as an installation, responding to visitors, and in a concert version, in which people performed activities intended to influence the feedback." -- Nicolas Collins.

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