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CD BOX
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ALA 005CD
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CD box, clamshell. "Recorded in January 2022 in Brooklyn, NY, this album traces the map of an extraordinary musical dialogue. Two guitars, two territories, a moment suspended in time. Loren Connors, an iconic figure in avant-garde blues for 50 years, and Alessandra Novaga, a unique voice in experimentation, come together here for an improvised performance that is both fragile and intense. A moment of deep listening to be shared beyond the boundaries of sound: in the communication between two artists of great sensitivity. A live event captured on record: mystery, emotion and improvisation combine to create the magic of this improvisational piece The concert was part of a season-opening evening at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, New York, which also featured Kim Gordon alongside Loren Connors seven years after their first duo, already immortalized on record in 2022 by the same label, Alara. This duet between Connors and Novaga is like an almost whispered conversation between two guitars, opening up spaces for listening, suspension and revelation. What this record captures is not simply a concert -- it is an immersion in the solemnity of silence, the tension of almost nothingness, the delicacy of sound gestures that are sometimes as if sprinkled. On stage, Connors and Novaga's interventions are overlapped and calibrated, with each silence itself becoming material. The guitars sometimes align in a beam of micro-details: quivering harmonics, subtle glides, dissolving attacks, minimal melodic droplets almost like piano notes. Their timbres blend -- Novaga's high-pitched grains, Connors' spectral depth -- to create a soundscape of subtle density. These emotions, bordering on the infinitesimal, do not impose themselves through intensity or crescendo, but through contained tension, attentive listening, and suspended moments."
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LP+CD
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ALARA 2102LP
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"Alara Music (France) is releasing the new album of OXY, the new stunning electronic project by Ivan Pavlov (COH) and Sasha Galianov (Shortparis). OXY is a transient project combining talents of Ivan Pavlov, major electronic artist better known as CoH who has collaborated with Coil, and Sasha Galianov, the main force behind the electronic sound of the avant-garde performance collective Shortparis. The two once met at a festival where they performed a semi-improvised live set. The first performance sparked mutual interest in continuing joint experimentation, which, after a series of concerts, eventually led to this studio recording. The name of the album is constructed of the two titles presented each on one side of the LP. The first side, 'AETHER,' delivers a powerfully charged contemplative exploration, in which the two seem to carefully study the sound of each other's instruments. The search for balance between the analogue and the digital reveals a murky terrain of focused sonic pressure interwoven with potent silence filled with echoes. Towards the end, 'AETHER,' amorphous in the beginning, gains structure and rhythm, as if preparing the listener to its more agitated sequel, 'GUST.' Side two, starting with trademark minimalistic patterns of CoH quickly picks up in intensity and wanders into the domains of digital heavy-metal, in which Sasha's menacing guitar riffs are meticulously disjointed in favor of power focus. Then 'GUST' takes the listener through a minor apocalypse, past a few relieving joyful moments of temporal enlightenment, and towards a strange peace found in a disorienting, synth-framed collage of acoustic guitar sounds. Aether Gust is a record that requires listener's full attention, offering in return a captivating journey though peculiar landscapes at the intersection of the worlds of two adventurous music explorers, exchanging their sonic beliefs and passions. An intense journey through a landscape of contrasts, between the warmth of analogue sounds and the aridity of demanding electro, both minimalist and abundant. This journey, these intersections, but also this permanent encounter between analogue and digital, are magnified by the physical version of Aether Gust: it comes as a bundle of both Vinyl and CD versions of the album, all in a 12" vinyl sleeve then nestled in a thick crafted carboard black embossed sheath. Limited edition of 300 copies.
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2x10"
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ALA 141LP
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"2015 reissue. Originally released on FBWL in 2000. Remastered in 2014 by Taylor Deupree at 12k." "... For those who believe they've heard all Connors has to offer, seek this out because it will astonish and mystify you while simultaneously changing your mind. For the rest who are fans, this is one of the man's records you need, because it, more than any other, expresses who he was during its recording. Painfully honest, vulnerable, raw, and graceful, Portrait of a Soul is unlike any record ever made." --AllMusic
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