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The new collaboration between Christine Hanson and Dave Formula has been established to explore and record the range of opportunities and possibilities within a variety of acoustic and electro-acoustic landscapes. Their new album presents the results of these musical explorations. The music will be presented in a series of live shows, often featuring guests appearing on the recordings. These include: Howard Devoto and Noko (both from Magazine and previously in Luxuria), Giorgio Li Calzi (award-winning jazz trumpet player), Michael Marra (acclaimed Scottish singer and songwriter) and Pat McCarthy (UK leading jazz guitarist), among others. Dave Formula: "We met in 2009 and quickly realized that we'd both had a recurring dream about a series of adventurous and diverse musical themes. We decided to record them all and wanted these sensory themes to enter your ears. Allow yourself to have a similar adventure as us -- but it can be your version of it and you can have it whenever you like -- and when you're awake! Please keep your clothes on throughout." Christine is a cello player with a rich and varied career on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2008, she wrote scores for the wildlife documentary series Beasties -- aired on BBC2 UK and Canadian national TV. She was also invited, as a composer, to participate in the IRCAM week, hosted by the BBC in Glasgow. Dave rejoined his Magazine colleagues for five sold-out shows in February 2009 to great critical acclaim. In summer 2009 Magazine played several European festivals and an acclaimed show at London's Royal Festival Hall. The band closed the year with TV appearances on Later With Jools Holland and BBC Electric Proms.
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This is the debut album by Israeli opera/pop vocalist, Mai Lev. Lev has been singing, playing and composing music since early childhood, and grew up listening mainly to Debussy, Ravel, Björk, The Beatles, Bach, Philip Glass, Nirvana, Kate Bush, Depeche Mode and Pink Floyd. By the time she was 14, she was leading a punk band, performing her music in clubs all over the Galilee. Later, she turned to performing classical music, and making electronic music with The Sweep. Their album Voicemail came out in 2006 on Hataklit Records in Israel. For Birthday, she focuses on the musical roots of her childhood -- classical music with rock, pop and electronic flavors. Mai Lev wrote and composed all the songs while Nir Maimon produced and arranged the album. Van Dyke Parks, well-known for his arrangements for the Beach Boys, The Byrds, Loudon Wainwright III and Joanna Newsom, became a fan. Theatrical, slanted orchestral pop/opera arias.
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This is the debut full-length release by Jesse Elder -- a NYC-based professional jazz pianist, composer, and band leader. He studied at Interlochen Arts Academy, Oberlin Conservatory & New School University and is a 3-time winner of the national "ASCAP Young Jazz Composer's Competition." He has performed at top NYC jazz venues including the Blue Note, the Jazz Standard, Fat Cat, Small's, BargeMusic, Top of the Rock, Town Hall, Minton's Playhouse, and many others. He currently performs 7 gigs per week in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Fellow performers on this record include: Logan Richardson (alto saxophone), who has performed in major jazz festivals and venues all over the world. He has released two albums as a leader; the legendary Gary Thomas (tenor saxophone), who has played amongst the very best including Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, John Scofield, Sam Rivers, Pat Metheny, and countless others. For the last ten years, he has been the Director and Chair of Jazz Studies at The Peabody Institute in Baltimore, MD; Chris Cheek (tenor saxophone), who has appeared as a sideman on over 60 records and has released four of his own; Jeremy Viner (tenor saxophone), who has performed with some of the leading ensembles in New York City, including the Steve Lehman Octet, the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, and others. He has performed on Saturday Night Live, the David Letterman Show, Jay Leno and NPR's "From the Top"; Chris Tordini (acoustic bass), who is one of the most in-demand bassists in the New York City jazz and creative music scene, and has performed throughout the world with artists/bands such as Ari Hoenig, Jean-Michel Pilc, Dapp Theory, MK Groove Orchestra, and many others; Shawn Sorey (drums), a composer and performer who has worked with Wadada Leo Smith, Steve Coleman, John Zorn, Mario Pavone, among many others, and finally, Aya Nishina (piano), a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic vocal music who has worked with artists including John Zorn, Cyro Baptista and Lukas Ligeti.
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This is the debut full-length release by France's SLuG, a collaboration between former members of the legendary Magma (Emmanuel Borghi, Himiko Paganotti) and John Trap. Borghi played in Magma from 1987 to 2008, and also performed with a lot of jazz musicians such as Steve Grossman, Sunny Murray, Sonny Simons, and many others. In 1996, he moved to Macon to be part of the Collectif Mü and also started another electric project called One Shot, in addition to joining NHX, an experimental electro-jazz band. Himiko Paganotti has sung with the Senegalese band Touré Touré and has worked with different artists such as Ousmane Touré Kunda, Sixtun, Rido Bayonne, Patrick Gautier, Serah, Régis Ceccarelli, 13NRV, Juan Rozoff, Coco m'Bassi and Nicoletta. From 2001 to 2008, she also became a member of Magma. In 2004, she started Paghistree with Emmanuel Borghi where some of the songs became the base for the SLuG project. Their encounter with Thomas Lucas, aka John Trap for his solo project, gave birth to SLuG. A cinematic, darkly abstract mix between avant-garde, prog and folk-rock, with tinges of electro-pop, like Eels meeting Kate Bush and John Williams.
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This is the second release in Stilll's "P.V. Presents" series, curated by the Brussels-based producer/avant-garde guitarist/composer, Pierre Vervloesem, following 2008's Not Even Close (OPV 001CD). This time, P.V. presents Kings Of Belgium, a powerful trio of atomic jazz-punk-disco-reggae pop-trashcore music. Members include Pierre Vervloesem (X-Legged Sally, dEUS, Flat Earth Society, A Group, Wim Vandekeybus, etc.), Gil Mortio (Attica, Bruno Vansina, etc.) and Didier Fontaine (A Group, Salvatore Adamo, dEUS, BJ Scott, etc.). The project is based on a free-spirited musical approach and was recorded during two crazy days in August of 2007. There is no composition as such, and the music is therefore totally spontaneous -- an outrageous blend of heavy, light, thunderous, comical, and mentally ill -- depending on the moods explored by the band. Simultaneously invoking John Zorn, The Residents, and Frank Zappa, Unchained Melodies is a zany storm full of abrupt jumps in style and genre and feels like driving a video game car across countless landscapes, around monstrous obstructions.
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Comfort was started in 2000 in Pisa, Italy by Alessandro Baris, Leonardo Chirulli and Fabio Elia. They released their first record Eclipse in 2006 on Psychotica Records. While recording the tracks for Sleep Talking Shared, they also collaborated with Pulseprogramming, Mauro Orselli, Roberto Bellatalla, Costa Music, Vonneumann and Caboto. Their influences range from a lot of different music, from jazz to classical to soundtracks. Radian, Fred Frith, Four Tet, The Cinematic Orchestra, Mr. Bungle, Ornette Coleman, Arnold Schoenberg, Robert Schumann, Ennio Morricone, Tortoise, and Naked City are bands and musicians they find inspirational, and are definitively roots you can recognize here and there on this release. They manage to give us music full of light, even though, at times, the electronics and percussion surprise with dark and mysterious meanderings. A modern soundtrack for a modern-day Fellini movie, filled with spaced-out post-rock, dark indie, and throbbing experimental leanings.
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This is the second full-length release by Colorlist for the Stilll label. Colorlist is an ongoing compositional project based in Chicago, developed piece-by-piece in an honest and improvisational way. The community explores current hybrid musical territory, concerned with structure and intuition. This new album is a reconstructed version of the Lists debut that was released in February 2008. Remixers include: 3+ (Masami Shiraishi from Japan); Reminder (Joshua Abrams, bassist for Sam Prekop, Savath & Savalas, Prefuse 73, etc. ); Phantom Crew Of Intelligent Robots (Anthony Abbinanti, drummer for Chicago-based dub reggae greats, The Drastics); Slava; The Mercury Effect (Tommy Faulds, the other half of Silences Sumire); Reaction (Brian Bullard, recording engineer and working studio member of Colorlist); Fred Lonberg-Holm (played with everyone from Telefon Tel Aviv, Costa Music, L'Altra, Wilco, Freakwater, Archer Prewitt); Halflife (Chris Merrill, bassist for The Drastics); Gamial Trio (Gabriel Sévérin, Michel Duyck, Alinovsky, etc.).
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This is the first release in a new "P.V. Presents" series, and the Brussels-based producer/avant-garde guitarist/composer Pierre Vervloesem's first solo album since 2005 and where he does absolutely everything except for some vocals by his wife. He has previously recorded 7 CDs with X-Legged Sally and two CDs with A Group. He has performed live musical accompaniment for pieces by choreographer Wim Vandekeybus, released six CDs either alone or sometimes with musicians as various as Guy Segers (Univers Zero) or Charles Hayward (This Heat), and has mixed and/or produced too many bands to be cited here (around 100), including dEUS and Flat Earth Society. He has played with David Byrne, Bill Laswell and Marc Ribot and many others, and also has a release on the Off label with Teun Verbruggen as the duo P.V.T.V.. Not Even Close is a cacophony of drum beats, noodly keyboards and other electronics, percussive vocals and glitch-y videogame/carnivalesque squawls that will completely befuddle the brain. "P.V. Presents" is an exclusive series directed by Pierre Vervloesem, with future releases including The Kings Of Belgium, and The Claude Zac Ensemble.
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This is the debut full-length release by Japan's Robert Edwin. When one hears a Robert Edwin song, the first thing that comes to mind is the individuality that is present in the music. It is not the same old repetitive rehashing of old ideas that is so often heard these days, it is the creative work of someone who truly understands what music is all about, and it is obvious that the music is coming from the soul of the musician, not just the hands or head. Although not a member of a band, Robert has undertaken many musical projects with several musicians throughout the world, and has an incredible ability to adapt his sound and ideas, to seamlessly blend his vision with those of others. This is an intimidating release, full of electronic thunder and lightning, from glitch scrawl to proggy guitar over sampled voices, mixed with addled drum & bass and trip-hop mayhem. This is music that comes from the true feelings of the heart, translated into soul-moving sounds. Everything has been impeccably composed by Robert Edwin -- he played keys, guitar, sang vocals and did the production. During all this, he invited guests such as Miurn, Phonetiks, Brankal, Deft Aphid, Ajlovett, 444, and Kam Stick. Charming and deliriously confusing -- a rare journey.
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This is the second full-length release by international electro/rock/jazz collective, Strings of Consciousness. Uniting acoustic music and digital technology, the collective is comprised of 14 well-seasoned musicians, though the heart of Strings of Consciousness is a string quartet, as its name makes clear. It is also a direct literary reference to "stream of consciousness," a term coined in the 20th century to illustrate an organic flow of words devoid of conventional narrative structure that reflects a protagonist's or narrator's inner monologue. This narrative technique deeply resonates with the collective: they believe that music should be freely-formed, with plenty of space, improvisation and willful creativity. However, since the release of their first album on the Central Control label in 2007, they have noticed that more and more experimentalists are expressing less and less concern for their potential listeners, forgetting to respect some structures/directions in their composition. Strings of Consciousness choose to craft their music with a lot of focus on detail, with days and days of conscientious editing and honing. Fantomastique Acoustica features four new tracks and a stream of remixes by artists including Rothko, Scanner, si-cut.db, Marsen Jules, Sutekh, Gamial Trio, Mira Calix, Kammerflimmer Kollektief and Leafcutter John. This release also features two videos made by Anne Sulikowski and Oxygen. Band members include Hervé Vincenti (guitars/samplers/keys), Perceval Bellone (saxophone/piano/harmonium/Tibetan bowls) and Philippe Petit (laptop/turntables).
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Italy's El Topo presents their debut full-length for the Off label. The group was founded in 2006, performing a mixture of rock, jazz and electronica with Krautrock, minimalist and psychedelic elements. Adriano Lanzi and Omar Sodano have been working collaboratively since 2000, releasing some tracks on compilation albums as well as a full album (La Vita Perfetta, 2004) on the German Klangbad label. After some live gigs as a duo, they felt the need to expand into a larger band format. After a series of one-off collaborations, they found like-minded conspirators in Francesco Mendolia, a drummer with the ability to perform in a wide range of styles from jazz/funk to electronic music (Chester Harlan, Alessandro Gwiss, Mino Freda) and Andrea Biondi, vibist and percussionist active in jazz and contemporary music (Gianluigi Trovesi, Ennio Morricone & Roma Sinfonietta, Ars Ludi). The group is often joined on stage by Neumax, a team of visual artists (Simone Palma, Mirko Bruner, Alessandro Quintino) operating in mixed media (theater, video, photography, net-art, VJ-set) in a real-time interaction of images and sounds. Pigiama Psicoattivo also features guest musicians Amy Denio, Mike Cooper, Riccardo Lay and Anadi Mishra. This is Italian space-jazz with a touch of Morricone, post-rock, Chicago indie lounge and weirdo, skronky German Kraut all pieced together in a dramatic pattern. Band members: Adriano Lanzi (guitar, electronics), Omar Sodano (bass, electronics), Andrea Biondi (vibes, percussion), Francesco Mendolia (drums).
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The debut release by Colorlist is an ongoing compositional project based in Chicago, developed piece-by-piece in an honest and improvisational way. The community explores current hybrid musical territory, concerned with structure and intuition. Charles Rumback and Charles Gorzcynski have performed live duo sets with saxophones, percussion, and electronics. Their new album Lists delves farther into programming and collaboration, welcoming engineers Brian Bullard and Matthew Gagnon into the group, as well as guest bassists Matt Lux and Jason Ajemian, cellists Ellen O'Hayer and Sarah Biber, bass clarinetist Jason Stein, guitarist Bill Mackay, as well as Erhu and mastering by Josh Eustis. Lists is a mixture of repetitive sax and synths, organic drums and percussion, ranging stylistically from avant-jazz and improvised music to post-rock.
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This is Sven Dohse's second full-length release under his Don Shtone alias. Pioneering as resident DJ in Germany's first after-hour club "6 AM Eternal Afterhour" in Hamburg in 1992, Dohse is one of the most popular and renowned techno artists in Northern Germany today. Performing at numerous techno events, Sven's drifting acid and intense techno sound is highly popular, particularly in the techno bass scene. Experimenting with diverse rhythms in electronica led to his first recording of the Emojonal project together with Gary D for Hamburg's Container Records. In 1995, Sven embarked on his first solo project, Greenman and released the first 12" on Superstition, followed by a number of successful singles. Sven's Greenman debut long-player Greenmania was released in 2000 and highly recognized. While working on his techno career, Sven realized further break and freestyle projects like Conzooma together with drum and bass DJ Waldmeista, Don Shtone as well as Don and Dirty with Dirk Wagner. His current style can be described as a melange of rocking tech-house mixed with hard-edged break beats. Under this particular project name, a more relaxed sound is presented to the dancefloor, sometimes humorous, sometimes strange and always full of genius experimentation.
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This is the debut collaborative release by Brussels-based P.V.T.V.. Wing-Chester is the chaotic meeting between the critical beats and mad rhythms of Teun Verbruggen (who improvised for two hours in a studio) and the avant-garde melodies and heavy guitars of Pierre Vervloesem (who built all the rest in a few days at home). It is the meeting of carnival music, Max Roach, Zappa and the off-kilter jazz from the Japanese anime show, Cowboy Bebop. Vervloesem has collaborated with such musicians as X-Legged Sally, A Group, Wim Vandekeybus and Charles Hayward (This Heat). Verbruggen has worked as a sideman in lots of different bands and musical styles: Jef Neve Trio, Fes, Futhark, an eclectic jazz band with Tobias Klein and Nozzle Slag (Electric Masada, Mr Bungle), and many more. Wing-Chester is a far-out journey of crunchy, high-end beats, walking bass melodies and angular weird-jazz meanderings that will make you feel like an astronaut.
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This is the debut release from the brand-new Stilll side-label, Off. Blaine L. Reininger is an American composer and performer born in 1953 in Pueblo, Colorado. In 1977, he started the legendary American cult band Tuxedomoon together with Steven Brown in San Francisco. Over the course of the next 26 years, many artistic collaborations took place and many CDs were recorded. These collaborations, while mostly musical in nature, often moved into other fields such as dance, theatre, and film. Since 1998, Reininger has been living in Athens, Greece, where Glossolalia was born. "Glos·so·la·li·a from Gk. glossa 'tongue, language' + lalia 'a speaking,' from lalein 'to speak, prattle,' of echoic origin. 1. Fabricated and nonmeaningful speech, especially such speech associated with a trance state or certain schizophrenic syndromes. 2. the gift of tongues." Glossolalia is Blaine's first solo album since 1999, and probably his best-ever so far. Close your eyes and travel through old black and white Italian and Greek movies from the '60s, or cross the ocean and feel the colors and the heat from Mexico. Glossololia is a mixture of all the places and people that Blaine has encountered in the last 10 years. It is full of poetry and faith in the world -- a musical journey that is magic for the ears.
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