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Artist:	CHARLES/ALMA FURY/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE/OTANI YASUHIRO, XAVIER
Title:	High Tones For Winter Fashion
Label:	TEXTILE (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	TXT 001CD

"High Tones for Winter Fashion is a collaboration CD, a match up between french and Japanese established improvisers. Xavier Charles: As a clarinettist, bassist and DIY enthusiast, Xavier Charles played with several noisy, electronica and sonic poetry activists : Frédéric Le Junter, Martin Tétreault, The Ex, Pierre Berthet, Étage 34, Axel Dörner, Jérôme Jeanmart, John Butcher, Jean Pallandre, Marc Pichelin, Cris Cutler, Martine Altenburger, Camel Zekri, Emmanuelle Pellegrini, Michel Doneda, Frédéric Blondy. Actually, his musical searches include clarinet, prepared bass and vibrating loudspeakers for a sonic universe somewhere between improved music, noisy rock and electroacoustic. Otomo Yoshihide: After 8 years spent as Ground Zero's leader, Otomo Yoshihide is now involved in various projects mixing turntables and guitar, known as DJ Tranquillizer, Filament or Microcosmos. Following the example of Erik M, Martin Tétreault or Christian Marclay (and even if he admits their influence) but also Pierre Schaeffer, Derek Bailey and the very first Hip Hop DJs, his use of turntables is such incredible that he can't be considered as a proper DJ. Alma Fury: These days, Almá Fury are sculpting a shifting soundscape of electric and electronic noise, letting fantasy guide them, as they mix varied and tangential sonic materiel. With a setup includes ; moog, voice, guitar, cassettes, samples, drum machine and percussion ; sonic experimentation and playful creativity are all-important."

Artist:	JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER
Title:	Change
Label:	TEXTILE (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	TXT 002CD

"Inspiration is drawn from an impossibly diverse array of sound and vision: free jazz, noise rock, graffiti, space rock, folk music, Xeroxed art, the list goes on. It's safe to say, however, that the underground experiments of the 60s are a key touchstone -- musically, especially the NY loft avant-garde; visually, including Harry Smith's film loops; socially, in their grubby, seat-of-the-pants approach to life and personal politics. The amazing quality of Jackie-O Motherfucker is their ability to color experimental music and noise with more candor and emotional sophistication than most turtlenecked troubadours. The fresh creative input and enthusiasm for experimentation and sound exploration combined with strong roots in Americana has created a vital records. Change is organic, an emotionally cohesive path that starts with ecstatic disorientation and ends with an elevated calm. JOMF are indisputably self-aware and muse at length upon their process and goals, but in the end, instinct overrules calculation. The yield is a rich, multivalent music that reflects and refracts the larger world."

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