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ASPH 3009DVD
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"Asphodel's premiere DVD release features the Australian duo, turntablist Martin Ng and guitarist Oren Ambarchi in collaboration with visual artists Tina Frank and Robin Fox for an AV expedition into the sublime and fascinating worlds of Fateless. Since their teens, the Australian electronic composers have produced with congruent obsessions in mind. Their convergent interest in weird sound led to a long-lasting, musically productive friendship. In the summer of 2000 after Ambarchi's own What Is Music Festival, the two began formally producing together as respite from what they refer to as 'a particularly long hot summer of antipodean improv noise fests.' Like the harmonic meditations, space is filled with bold resonance, expanding and contracting in tandem with Tina Frank and Robin Fox's visual interpretations." NTSC: 0; Stereo + 5.1; 4:3 ratio. Total running time, 84:19.
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ASPH 2033CD
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"Fe-mail, Maja Ratkje and Hild Sofie Tafjord, have crafted a site-specific survey of the chaparrals of noise music. As half of the Scandinavian female improv quartet, Spunk, they began to adapt their mediums of French horn and voice to multiple formats for musical arrangements. In working for film, installation, studio, and performance they began to evolve their musical process to a compulsive physical act, opposing their classically trained standards. Exposure to distorted live sampling and field recordings allowed Maja and Hild to grab the limit and make it their instrument. Through synched communication and developed improvisation, their project further evolved into their newest release for Asphodel, Blixter Toad. This two disc set is best described as the taxonomic designation of feminine conviction through gadgetry and acoustic archaeology. Two embryonic visual studies (videos) by Masako Tinaka are included, featuring shot surveillance from the live sessions for the recording of Blixter Toad. The chromatic genus of the species call is best known by its vocal sac that blows up like a balloon and bellows 'scheweeeeeeeee' riffs. Their cut up crescendos of piercing frequencies appear like rattle snakes you find under the rocks, as you search for a jewel-encrusted music box, unsure if they'll poison you or cure you. A voice screams like an effected guitar in the distance, reminding you to come home from the thicket before the animals become more aggressive. Blixter Toad's final track coalesces into the Sunday morning dew collecting on the surface of Fe-mail's electro-acoustic lily-pads."
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ASPH 2027CD
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"DACM is a collaboration between the musician Peter Rehberg / Pita, and the singer Tujiko Noriko, whose songs bring softness and melody, and punctuate Stéréotypie with moments of solace . Stéréotypie is a choreographic and theatrical proposal which presents a world where setting and human bodies can belong to the same visual intention. This is a place where fiction permeates reality through the fantasy of perfection; where the friction between perfection and imperfection seems more attractive than ever. As the body, seen as a draft, is made to strive towards perfection -- the perfection of a dreamed body. This ideal, as a conglomeration of homemade fantasies, seems to unveil the limitations and the obsolescence of making a fantasy of physical and mechanical perfection come true, and also uncovers all the excitement attached to this fantasy, by fulfilling obsessions about norms and evenness together with a certain imperfection."
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