Savvas Ysatis + Taylor Deupree - The Sleeping Morning

from Vital Weekly # 597:

This release entirely took me by surprise. Of course we know Taylor Deupree as a man of careful digital delight, and with some hard thinking we may remember Savvas Ysatis as the man behind SETI, Futique and Arc and recording for Tresor.
But you would surely check the CD again when you start playing this. Deupree and Ysatis hadn't been working for ten years, but recently Ysatis was back in the USA and during a week they recorded the four tracks on this CDEP. Delicate for sure, but the last thing I expected from these two is folktronic, yet it's exactly that. Folktronic.
Loose drums sounds, a bass line, some rattling percussion, a harmonium loop, a slide guitar, all embedded in a warm sound. And oh vocals! Apart from the releases on Happy, did we ever encounter vocals on a 12K release? Not that I can't remember.
The voice of Ysatis remember me of Peter van Vliet of Mekanik Kommando/Use Of Ashes; held back, controlled, psychedelic. Songs! Vocals!! Folktronic!!! on 12K? Yes, on 12K.
This could have as easily be on Häpna, if you catch my drift. What a great move and of course this comes with an entirely new line of packaging.

(Frans de Waard)

Label: 12k
Cat. #: 12k2007
Format: CD, EP
Release date: 2007

Tracklisting:
01 - Reservoir (4:11)
02 - Listen To The Morning Sleeping (5:24)
03 - Under Your Breath (6:03)
04 - The Youthful Sea (3:32)

Links:
Savvas Ysatis
Taylor Deupree
12k

VV.AA. - Extract - Portraits Of Soundartists

from Non Visual Objects website:

"Extract" contains interviews, essays, photos, drawings and 22 tracks...

Label: Non Visual Objects
Cat. #: nvo 011
Format: 2xCD + book
Release date: 2007

Tracklisting:
1-1 - Keith Berry - Finger Pointing At The Moon (6:02)
1-2 - Richard Chartier - A Field For Recordings 2 (8:45)
1-3 - Taylor Deupree - Live In Osaka (6:01)
1-4 - Heribert Friedl - Nbvto (5:54)
1-5 - Richard Garet - Précis (6:02)
1-6 - Andy Graydon - Microclimates For Paliku (5:59)
1-7 - Bernhard Günter - Listen To What You See (Audio Sample Of Location Of All Koblenz Photos (6:02)
1-8 - John Hudak - Radio (6:01)
1-9 - I8U - Steganography (4:24)
1-10 - Dean King - In Absentia (5:54)
1-11 - Dale Lloyd - Provisional (4:06)
2-1 - Roel Meelkop - 1 (Hole In A Heap) (5:32)
2-2 - Will Montgomery - Split Chance (5:56)
2-3 - Tomas Phillips - Each More Melodious Note (6:02)
2-4 - Steve Roden - Air Into Form / Voice Into Breath (6:50)
2-5 - Jos Smolders - Aiolos (Vangsaa Interior) (6:02)
2-6 - Steinbrüchel - Parallel (7:04)
2-7 - Mondii - Nature Out (5:35)
2-8 - Asmus Tietchens - Vierte Beisetzung In Wien (4:39)
2-9 - Toshiya Tsunoda - Scenery Of Vibration / Listening To The Reflection Of Points (@Wetspace) (5:38)
2-10 - Ubeboet - Lux Vivens (3:45)
2-11 - Michael Vorfeld - Geste (5:29)

Links:
Non Visual Objects