New Releases for September 2007

Index of New Releases for September 2007

12K

Artist:	IELASI, GIUSEPPE
Title:	August
Label:	12K
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	12K 044CD

"12k presents the latest solo work from Italian composer Giuseppe Ielasi. August is the 4th full-length CD from Ielasi following his critically-acclaimed debut, Plans (Sedimental, 2003) and the stunning Gesine and Untitled (Häpna, 2005, 2006). August takes a more linear approach to Ielasi's composing with sounds stretched like layers of gauze forming a thick, soft blanket. Utilizing piano, Hammond organ, guitars, dobro, synthesizers and shortwave radio, Ielasi creates deep, warm drones and suspended, scratchy melodies with a hint of despair and melancholy that make this a very introspective album. His trademark guitar and live approach to instrumentation are in the forefront, yet set behind an expertly processed veil of subtle electronics. The textures are unabashedly acoustic but buried and moody enough as to question their origin. August is a haunting, but beautiful album that falls neatly between the starkness of Gesine and the scattering rhythmic complexity of Untitled. Like music for a farewell, an ending of ends, August is moody, static, slow and emotional."

7TH CITY

Artist:	TEJADA/CABANNE, JOHN
Title:	7th City Classics Vol. 2
Label:	7TH CITY
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	7TH 023EP

"This is Volume 2 of 7th City's Classic series. It features one of Seventh City's best selling releases, John Tejada's funky anthem 'Timebomb.' When originally released in 2001, it became a massive track played in all the top clubs worldwide. Despite having a incredibly prolific catalog of releases, 'Timebomb' still remains one of John Tejada's biggest and best-known records. Also included is a special edit of Paris-based producer Jean Guillaume Cabanne's (better known just as Cabanne) 'Can't Stand.' As with so many Seventh City artists, his release on the label established him with a wider audience and he continues to have success to this day with his own-imprint Minibar and as well with his collaborations with Ark and David Gluck. This version of 'Can't Stand' is an edit by Daniel Bell, which emphasizes the track's loopy flow. The original version of the track was released in 2002."

ABATON BOOK COMPANY

Artist:	NOWOTTNY, MARIANNE
Title:	What Is She Doing?
Label:	ABATON BOOK COMPANY
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ABA 026CD

"Ms. Nowottny came to the attention of New York avant garde music and art circles in 1998, at the age of sixteen, with the release of Afraid of Me, described as 'one of the most astonishing debuts ever' by New York Press. She has since released CDs on Camera Obscura, Foxy Digitalis, Barl Fire and Celestial Jars. With the desire to record an album that was, in her own words, 'as much Fleetwood Mac as Lil' Kim,' Nowottny set out to construct a homemade R&B/pop CD. The resulting What Is She Doing? is packed with primitive electro beats, low budget keyboards, spacey electronics and Nowottny's own inimitable voice. This long overdue update serves as a travelog of exotic themes, musical styles and textures adapted by the artist during her now decade-long career. What Is She Doing? was engineered by Mark Dagley (Pothole Skinny, Hi Sheriffs of Blue, Girls) and features Ben Miller (X-Destroy All Monsters, Third Border) on saxophone."

AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)

Artist:	QUIO
Title:	Phiu!
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AGF 007CD

Quio, the MC and singer based in Berlin's buzzing club scene, has finished her second album with electronic producer, AGF. She is one of the few female MCs in Germany, and she drops her rhymes over drum'n'bass, garage and dubstep. With Phiu!, she continues to follow her own path. She is already highly acclaimed by critics for her first album, Like Oooh!, released in 2005. On this record, the versatile vocalist shows once again how multi-faceted her styles can be. From the angry rapper to the delicate singer, from the light-hearted MC to the serious speaking artist. Be assured, with Quio's vibrating mixture of hip-hop, club, electronica and pop you will never get bored! She plunges readily in and out of her collected influences: from Ol' Dirty Bastard over the Beastie Boys to Tanya Stevens, Lady Saw and Sovereign, from The Smiths to Phoenix. All these are minced up, recombined and given the unique electronic flavor of Quio's producer, AGF aka Antye Greie. Strong beats support high-impact rap, and deep bass brings out the tangent fragility of Quio's vocal lines. Quio has also invited some prominent guests to support her crazy styles: Nicolette, Edu K, Audiotaxi, Lise, Afia, Kwaku, Nanie, Lempapa, Dr. Data and Al Haca.

AKARMA (ITALY)

Artist:	MOBY GRAPE
Title:	Live Grape
Label:	AKARMA (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	AK 381CD

"Issued in 1978 without any mention of Moby Grape anywhere (no pictures either), it was a record that fell into the bins because it was released by a small label with no promotion. This features all the original Grape guitarists together again for 'Must Be Goin' Now Dear,' a new Skip Spence track, and was recorded some 10 years after he left the band (discounting the reunion in 1971). Also featuring Cornelius Bumpus and John Oxendine on drums. The record sounds part studio, part warm-up, some live." Also: part asleep, but that goes without saying for any kind of late 70s blues project. The one Skip Spence track is sorta worth it for completists.

ALGA MARGHEN (ITALY)

Artist:	DUFRENE, FRANÇOIS
Title:	Oeuvre Désintégrale
Label:	ALGA MARGHEN (ITALY)
Format:	4LP
Price:	$95.00
Catalog #:	ALGA 070LP

Staggering sound poetry document, in deluxe boxset. "Alga Marghen presents one of the most impressive sound poetry anthologies ever published, introducing you to the sound works of the Nouveau Realiste artist, Francois Dufrene. His work, along with that of Gil J Wolman and Brion Gysin, was a strong influence for experimental poets like Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck and Ake Hodell. François Dufrene could be considered the younger of the first generation sound poets. Already in the Lettrist Group when he was only 16 years old, with his own style marked by an hyper-powerful voice. In 1953, at the age of 23, he became Ultra-Lettrist, starting his first Crirhythms by overpassing the alphabet in the perspective of the physical improvised scream. With the Crirhythms sound poetry enters for the first time in the factory of projective sounds. In the beginning Dufrene uses the tape recorder only to document his creations. These recordings show him that through the tape machine his poems could reach deeper and wider creative dynamics. Since the mid-1950s, the tape-machine became for him a poetical and experimental tool and Dufrene fully develops its potentials with stereophonic recordings as well as with the superimposition of his Crirhythms. The loudspeakers amplifies sounds while the microphone captures even the most detailed concrete sound produced by his voice. The physical tempest he produces is a real concrete electronic sound attack. Dufrene produced primitive, brutal poems opening the path of vocal sounds to contemporary composers: it's known that Pierre Henry was deeply inspired by Dufrene. The anthology presented here includes 10 Crirhythms from different periods dating from 1965 to 1976. Also included is 'Osmose-Art,' a long piece from 1969 divided in two suites where Dufrene superimposes his Crirhythms to classical music. A similar technique was applied a few years earlier adding jazz music (specially drum and percussion pieces) to poems marked by strong lettristic aesthetic. Two of those 'Lecture-collage' dating from 1965 are presented here, as well as two 'Comptinuum' from his early on-progress works started in 1958. François Dufrene also developed unique performances, with a live reading of his written text. The most famous is Tombeau de Pierre Larousse, published in 1958. This is a work half way between the written text and the sound poem whose unity is achieved through Dufrene performing it. It's a masterpiece of synthesis of active poetry. 'Eryximaque, suite choreographique au Tombeau Pierre Larusse' is also included in this anthology. Apart from the crirythmes that Henri Chopin issued on his Revue OU disc magazine (the complete OU anthology is available from Alga Marghen as a 4CD set) and a few short pieces issued on obscure sound poetry anthologies in the end of the 1960s, François Dufrene's work is practically unavailable. This 4LP anthology, conceived by the same author and privately issued as a 3 cassette edition in the mid-1970s, includes only previously unpublished sound works that finally fully documents the creativity of such a radical artist. Deluxe heavy boxset edition limited to 345 copies."

Artist:	DUFRENE, FRANÇOIS
Title:	François Dufrêne
Label:	ALGA MARGHEN (ITALY)
Format:	Book w/CD
Price:	$65.00
Catalog #:	MARGHEN 024BK

"François Dufrêne (1930-1982) is one of the leading artists from the post-war European and French art scene. He played a key role in many of the initiatives of Lettrism, Nouveau Réalisme and sound poetry. In François Dufrêne's oeuvre, art and poetry intersect in a reciprocal experimentation of the possibilities of transgression of their specific grammars. His oeuvre constitutes a singular example of this special relationship between art and language, which throughout the 20th century proved to be one of the most fertile grounds for expanding the limits seemingly imposed on Western art via the history of artistic genres. Many of his artistic creations use objects retrieved from the urban context, such as posters or stencils, or use the voice in non-linguistic contexts. Examples of the latter include his creation of the crirhythm, wherein he reinvented sound poetry and the relationship between performance and text. The present catalog attempts to present François Dufrêne's work as a totality, wherein it would be artificial to separate his status as a poet from that as a visual artist. Poems, books, records, recordings, reverse sides of posters, stencils, films and photographs documenting the artist's actions are combined together in a mosaic that makes it possible to reinterpret François Dufrêne's work as one of the most singular adventures of his epoch, and also re-evaluate the relevance of the challenges he posed to contemporary culture. The CD offered in the catalogue includes the fantastic crirhythm from 1970 titled 'Belle nuisances hantez nos nuits,' the complete 'Osmose-Art' from 1969 where crirhythms are superimposed to classical music, 'Eryximaque' and two 'Lecture-collage' from 1965 as well as the 1958-70 'Comptinuum.' All the sound works presented on the CD are also included in the 4LP boxset anthology issued by Alga Marghen and titled Oeuvre Desintegrale. Full colour catalogue in A4 size, 250 pages, all texts translated in English, French and Portuguese. The book includes a large selection of experimental visual works dating from 1957 to 1981 as well as the biography, essays and original texts (among them 'Pragmatics of Crirhythm' and 'The Crirhythm and the Rest' both from the mid-1960s). Full discography and filmography are also included. First edition of this large catalog, the first ever to fully document the work of François Dufrêne."

ALLYOUCANBEAT (GERMANY)

Artist:	HOUSEMEISTER
Title:	Radio For You
Label:	ALLYOUCANBEAT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	AYCB 008EP

"Housemeister set a high value on this 4 tracker 12". Just like with the attractive 4-color cover. About the music: 01_ bassline and bass drum are really pumpin' fat, nevertheless you can find classical song structures here. 02_ is a pretty soft but very groovy dancefloor track with the voice of Housemeister & good friend and muse Katrin Turner. 03_ 'Likelike' was arranged, composed and programmed with Playstation Portable at the beaches of Thailand. With the Rhythm 7 free software you are able to control everything with the joystick. You can find a 303, filters, sequencers and many more. Plus you are able to turn the knobs and involve your own samples... check that crazy shit. 04_ 'Radio4you' is not a classic dancefloor track, but has a bit of disco feeling in a industrialish and morbid style, more EBM than anything else -- featuring the romantic voice snippets of Katrin and that deep bassy voice of Housemeister himself."

AND/OAR

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!"

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