Browse by Label: MOSZ RECORDS (AUSTRIA)

Artist:	KAPITAL BAND 1
Title:	2CD
Label:	MOSZ RECORDS (AUSTRIA)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MOSZ 001CD

"Nicholas Bussmann (Beige Oscillator, Ich schwitze nie) and Martin Brandlmayr (Radian, Trapist) are two of the most active musicians along the Vienna-Berlin axis. Quickly they found out that they share the same feelings about things they themselves call (not irony-free)'pop' or 'funk'. Listening to the tracks on 2 CD it seems to be the abstraction of pop or funk that is of interest for them. You will not find a regular pop track on it, but in a mathematical sense 2 CD works as a function of pop. Pop that is somehow stripped down to its basic idea which gives room for new aesthetics. As the album was recorded in two or three sessions with only a few concrete ideas for the tracks, it is astonishing how dense and structured the album appears. Bussmann's electronics interact with Brandlmayr's drums in a way which often makes it impossible to say who plays what. Cascades of small electronic particles spin round a drum pattern, but you still have the feeling that there is a strong sense behind...not to forget about Bussmann's heavy bass-lines and particles of melody, which support the beat with an additional drive and a spatial and/or emotional dimension.... a kind of unique pop-bastard."

Artist:	SIEWERT, MARTIN
Title:	No Need To Be Lonesome
Label:	MOSZ RECORDS (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MOSZ 002CD

"Martin Siewert´s first solo record, which is not only his first solo recording, but also what we would call another side of Martin Siewert: In contrast to his work to date, No Need To Be Lonesome focuses on melodies and, most importantly, grooves, and can be considered pop music to a certain degree. Basically generated in the studio with an obscure selection of analogue synthesizers, electronic equipment and guitars, this album is more about the beauty of songlike structures than about abstraction itself. This might be confusing for the ones who know Siewert´s discography, but simply shows an artist, who is active in different domains of contemporary music."

Artist:	SZELY, PETER
Title:	Welcome to My World
Label:	MOSZ RECORDS (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MOSZ 003CD

"Peter Szely is better known for his sound installations, works for radio art, sound interventions in public spaces (in cooperation with Christof Cargnelli, the artist group Viennese lounge, Andres Bosshard, Christoph Hinterhuber, Elisabeth Penker, Gelatin, Schumacher/Clavadetscher, etc.), Peter Szely is coming up with Welcome To My World on Mosz introducing himself as composer of subtle pop sounds in the wide field of electronic music. Szely has been working as a sound architect creating sound environments for theatre, concerts, performances and interventions/installations in public spaces. Welcome To My World is regarded by the artist himself as a dense result of his previous work put into new shape and dramaturgy. It fits perfectly in the tradition of Mosz' releases for it is also melodic and rhythmic."

Artist:	METALYCEE
Title:	Another White Album
Label:	MOSZ RECORDS (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MOSZ 004CD

"Armin Steiner and Nik Hummer are primarily known for their longtime project Thilges3 (Steiner, Hummer, Gammon). In this context their mission is the acoustic introduction of public places like museums, galleries, theatres and clubs to social transformation-triggering and visual sound innovations. Metalycée is a very new project with the aim to salve, recover, transform and put metal into the field of electronic music without respecting any borderlines. Another White Album, their debut is basically made of digitally processed guitar and drum samples, which Steiner and Hummer merge with their modular synth sounds into a unique construction. The metal-like sounding samples are cut and arranged precisely in an almost breakbeat kind of style, always ready for an unexpected change between harsh & abrasive and floating forms. In addition friends and fans of the band like Didi Bruckmayr from Fuckhead (Mego) and John Norman from Radian (Thrill Jockey) contribute as guests on '21H39' and '5H17'. A harsh Viennese Melange and a vivid proof that there are still new paths within electronica, which can be discovered."

Artist:	GUSTAV
Title:	Rettet die Wale
Label:	MOSZ RECORDS (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MOSZ 005CD

"Like all previous Mosz releases Rettet die Wale is an artist's first album. Behind the name Gustav hides a female musician with mainly a Fine Arts background. Though the Rettet die Wale is quite the opposite of Metalycée's Another White Album it can also be considered a pop album in a wider sense. Each piece on this CD is electronically based, but structured like a classic pop song. They are put into perspective by the fragile voice of Gustav herself. The title of the CD might seem kitschy and concerned but in fact Gustav wittily uses both, political facts and poetic elements. In a way all the tracks contain more or less serious lyrics -- basically German and English -- but they are composed with a good sense of humour."

Artist:	LOKAI
Title:	7 Million
Label:	MOSZ RECORDS (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MOSZ 006CD

"In Lokai's music tunes and tones merge and diverge. Guitar and software combine in compositions that stray to and fro across the borders between analogue and digital, structure and instability, music and sound. Parts of songs -- loops, melodies, chords -- float like moody jellyfish in electronic space. Musical threads fly apart and reconvene in unresolved clusters. There's always another twist of the kaleidoscope to come." (Will Montgomery). Stefan Németh is a member of Thrill Jockey/Mego artists Radian, and is the founder and co-director of Mosz. Németh and Kmet have collaborated with many of Europe's top electro-acoustic experimenters, including Wolfgang Mitterer, Christian Fennesz, Otomo Yoshihide, and Sachiko M.

Artist:	REHBERG, PETER
Title:	Fremdkoerper
Label:	MOSZ RECORDS (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MOSZ 007CD

"If the sounds emanating from this disc seem alien, do not be alarmed. Fremdkoerper, or 'alienated bodies,' is culled from a series of compositions Peter Rehberg constructed in collaboration with choreographer Chris Haring for a soundtrack to a live dance performance. You can't see the dancers, but you're invited into their alien world where bodies are absent, leaving behind shadows of their sweeping gestures, gentle flourishes, and violent peregrination. The music on this record is the infrastructure of the human body; at times it is pleasant, at others, horrifying. Since Fremdkoerper was originally intended as a companion to the dance performance, it lacks the typical structure of his more conventional releases. Epic drones lead into dramatic scores. Moods change without warning. Glitchy textures give way into thick, heavy tones. The transition from the subterranean rumble of opening track 'Mutisil' to the distorted raygun blast of 'Scream' is enough to reset your heartbeat (in fact, you can consider this press release fair warning). The hulking sine-wave drone of '1407' is quickly invaded by hungry extraterrestrials on 'Bite Double.' This is the record with which to test out your new stereo."

Artist:	HAUF, BORIS
Title:	Soft Left Onto Westland
Label:	MOSZ RECORDS (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MOSZ 008CD

"Boris Hauf, born 1974 in UK, currently living in Berlin, as founder of EFZEG (Boris Hauf, Burkhard Stangl, Dieb13, Billy Roisz, Martin Siewert), part-time member of Chicago based bands TVpow and Lozenge, he is better known as improvising musician -- he works with acoustic (mainly saxophone) and electronic instruments. Soft Left Onto Westland is the label's 6th release. Like Martin Siewert, Boris Hauf -- primarily introduced and known as an improv musician -- produced a rather nontypical CD on Mosz which is actually 'sax-free' and only made of electronic sounds ranging from very subtle and minimal to kind of techno-like. Skillful and with great musicality Hauf mounted all these samples to a surprising result, meaning a groovy, funky and atmospheric album with some ambient parts in between. Soft Left Onto Westland is another kind of 'pop' release on Mosz which takes the listener to a relaxed state without being cheesy just one single second."

Artist:	JACKSON, FOREST
Title:	Cymbalism
Label:	MOSZ RECORDS (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MOSZ 009CD

"Cymbals are probably the most complex part of a drum set. Not only do they serve as a rhythmic layer, they produce a whole range of frequencies and sounds, from noise to indicated melodies. Carefully treated they expose a nearly orchestral microcosm of their own. These qualities have served as prominent elements in structuring Cymbalism, the debut album by Berlin's Hanno Leichtmann under the moniker Forest Jackson. Combining his work as a drummer (i.e. with Jan Jelinek) and as an electronic musician (Static, Vulva String Quartett), Leichtmann comes up with a synthesis of both, the beat-driven track and the exploration of sound. The rhythmic framework, derived from real drums and generated percussions, serves as an accessible basis, which allows enough headroom for soundscapes, which easily could be references to filmscores or a ride through Berlin by night, accompanied by almost dark orchestral samples or dub-like motives. An invisible map of urban sceneries, drawn by strings and beats, guides the listener from the center of town to the suburbs and back. The logical finale seems to be the pushing 'cymbalism' remix by Rechenzentrum."

Artist:	PAN AMERICAN
Title:	For Waiting, For Chasing
Label:	MOSZ RECORDS (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MOSZ 010CD

"For Waiting, For Chasing is the fifth release by Pan.American, which is the solo project of Mark Nelson, also of Labradford. From a technical point of view the album is a sensitive combination of the electronic domain (synthesizers, computer) and acoustic instruments (guitars, percussion, flugelhorn), with the latter involving friends and musicians like Steven Hess (percussion) and David Max Crawford (Flugelhorn). But it is not about the process or the media, which have been used. It is about how elements and structures are put in a detailed relation to each other...ending up in a slow-moving, breathing organism. Filaments of percussive elements condense to polyrhythmic elements, layers of sound, instruments and field recordings merge to build up a mystic parallel, not so much fictional, world. As Lexie Macchi wrote about a previous Pan.American album: 'The songs don't progress so much as emerge from a substrate of silence and blank tape, carving pale shapes out of a dark canvas'."

Artist:	RASHIM
Title:	suns.shadows
Label:	MOSZ RECORDS (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MOSZ 011CD

"'Initially we wanted to bring Xenakis and techno together... well, in the end it sounded really different....' With some irony, Gina Hell from the female duo Rashim states what has led to their surprisingly fresh and unconventional debut. Suns.Shadows is the result of a longtime cooperation with Yasmina Haddad as Rashim, a relationship which started with dee-jaying and works for video artists or fashion designers. The album delivers more than a handful of ideas for those who have been looking after analogue warmth and tricky rhythms. Snippets of acoustic guitars built up a steady pattern, a jazz kit merges with a drum-synth, or a repeated stroke on something like a cello could keep you tapping on your table while you listen to a piano chord or a vocal phrase. Rashim's cosm is definitely eclectic regarding its source material -- pop culture can meet an orchestral drum solo -- but the music is always coherent in its results. Maybe this is because of the duo's convincing and conscious handling of instruments, sounds and samples, but more likely it is their intuitive approach and the focus on rhythm, a basic and still vivid expression."

Artist:	RASHIM
Title:	suns.shadows
Label:	MOSZ RECORDS (AUSTRIA)
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MOSZ 011LP

Vinyl LP version. "Snippets of acoustic guitars built up a steady pattern, a jazz kit merges with a drum-synth, or a repeated stroke on something like a cello could keep you tapping on your table while you listen to a piano chord or a vocal phrase. Rashim's cosm is definitely eclectic regarding its source material -- pop culture can meet an orchestral drum solo -- but the music is always coherent in its results. Maybe this is because of the duo's convincing and conscious handling of instruments, sounds and samples, but more likely it is their intuitive approach and the focus on rhythm, a basic and still vivid expression."

Artist:	SEPTEMBER COLLECTIVE
Title:	All The Birds Were Anarchists
Label:	MOSZ RECORDS (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MOSZ 014CD

"All The Birds Were Anarchists has been created over a period of two years. It was not a continuous flow of work, as all activities of Barbara Morgenstern, Paul Wirkus and Stefan Schneider are simply too extensive (Barbara Morgenstern/Robert Lippok; Wirkus Trzaska Frisch Trio; To Rococo Rot/Mapstation), but influenced this record as well. In the summer of 2005, the first recordings were made at a holiday home in Gardna Wielka, which is located in the middle of a national park close to the Baltic Sea in Poland. The open windows served as a welcome connection to the sounds of the ambience. Wind, frogs, birds, the neighbors' dogs, their own dog, insects were in subtle interaction with the band's laptops or acoustic instruments. Everybody just played without too many restrictions or agreements. One could be awake or tired, fast or slow, out of sync... mainly listening to the other person, sometimes becoming absorbed. Nature has not been experienced as a silent and calm place of retreat, but as a motivating space, which is connected to technology anyway -- regardless of its function as a wildlife reservation."

Artist:	SZELY
Title:	Processing Other Perspectives
Label:	MOSZ RECORDS (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MOSZ 015CD

"Processing Other Perspectives is the second release from Szely on Mosz after his debut Welcome To My World from 2004. For this album, Szely has asked some of his friends and music mates for bits and bytes and parts which he later recorded and processed according to the idea of field recording. The result is a composition that can be heard as one whole part. But for CD listening it is divided into 8 themes that can be edited separately. Among the contributors are numerous well-known musicians like Thilges' Nik Hummer, longtime music activist Wolfgang Kopper, Bernhard Loibner, Martin Siewert, Ulrich Troyer and fantastic singer and performer, Melita Jurisic from Australia. Szely developed his multichannel composing and became more complex on this second album. The recorded and processed instrumental and voice parts are arranged in a more structured manner so that the particular themes get dominantly rhythmic, vivid, drifting, atmospheric and sometimes pictorial or melancholic. Some parts within the several themes are repeated in some other theme slightly altered. The whole album demonstrates Szely's approach to pop music in the context of electronic music with a background of multichannel sound architectural work."

Artist:	KAPITAL BAND 1
Title:	Playing By Numbers
Label:	MOSZ RECORDS (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MOSZ 017CD

"Kapital Band 1 is Nicholas Bussmann and Martin Brandlmayr. After their first release 2CD from 2004, there was a second album in the works already nearing completion, which the musicians decided to trash completely and go a step further. Playing By Numbers is the result, the third album. Now electronics have been set a bit aside; in the foreground are acoustic instruments: cello, guitar, vibraphone and marimba, voice, flute and of course, drums. The three parts of the composition play around with playing by numbers. All instruments are played by Martin Brandlmayr and Nicholas Bussmann, except the flute which Erik Drescher contributed."

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