John Butcher - The Geometry Of Sentiment

John Butcher continues to show his great interest to reseach, to innovate in music.
In this collection of live recordings from Japan (2004) and Europe (2006), each location reserves a surprise since Butcher adapts the saxophones to the acoustic environments of his performances.
Some tracks are “treated” using amplification and electronic feedback, some effects are obtained utilizing the natural echo of the space.
This disc really describes a perfect combination between space and sound.

Label: Emanem
Cat. #: Emanem 4142
Format: CD
Release date: 2007

Notes:
Tracks 1& 2: 2004, Tochigi, Utsunomiya (Oya Stone Museum)
Tracks 3 & 6: 2006, London (LMC at Candid Arts)
Track 4: 2006, Paris, Montreuil (Les Instants Chavirés)
Track 5: 2006, London (Red Rose Club)
Track 7: 2006, Oberhausen (Gazometer)

Tracklisting:
01 - First Zizoku (08:00)
02 - Second Zizoku (11:06)
03 - A Short Time To Sing (05:58)
04 - But More So (For Derek Bailey) (07:02)
05 - Action Theory Blues (12:42)
06 - Soft Logic (04:56)
07 - Tragerfrequenz (09:08)

Links:
John Butcher
Emanem

Supersilent - 8

The appreciated return of an unconventional group, whose music is very difficult to categorize.
Supersilent are Arve Henriksen on trumpet, Helge Sten (aka Deathprod) on synth and electronic, Jarle Vespestad on drums and Stale Storløkken on keyboards.
Eight tracks, always untitled (like in the past), that range from ambient/drone (8.1) to improvisation (8.2, 8.3), from electro-jazz (8.4) to psychedelic/progressive atmospheres (8.5) from electronic (8.6, 8.8) to metal (8.7).
A quartet with enormous expressive capabilities.

Label: Rune Grammofon
Cat. #: RCD 2067
Format: CD
Release date: 2007

Tracklisting:
01 - 8.1 (11:12)
02 - 8.2 (07:40)
03 - 8.3 (07:54)
04 - 8.4 (07:16)
05 - 8.5 (12:12)
06 - 8.6 (08:43)
07 - 8.7 (09:17)
08 - 8.8 (04:03)

Links:
Supersilent (unofficial site)
Rune Grammofon

Art: François Dufrêne (1930-1982)

Date Of Birth: 1930, Paris, France
Date Of Death: 1982, Paris, France

François Dufrêne was a french poet and plastic artist, considered the younger of the first generation sound poets.

In 1946 he adhered to Isidore Isou's Mouvement Lettriste and took part in all the manifestations of the movement from 1946 to 1953.
In 1953 he created the “Ultralettrisme", a form of electro-acoustic extended vocal technique which he described as crirythme which had no 'score' and existed for recording tape alone.
The crirythme explored the voice as a noise source revealing the nonabstracted essence of things much in the tradition of Antonin Artaud's Pour en finir avec le Jugement de Dieu, the brutist orchestras of Dada, and Luigi Russolo's L'arte dei rumori.

In the fifties, as plastic artist, his friends were Yves Klein, Raymond Hains and Jacques Villeglé.

For many of his artistic creations he used objects retrieved from the urban context, such as posters or stencils.
In 1959 he exposed at "Première Biennale de Paris", in 1960 he was invited to create a "Salle d'Art dit Expérimental" into the "Salon Comparaisons” and gave his contribution (with Klein, Tinguely, Arman, Hains and Villeglé) to found the “Premier groupe nouveau réaliste”.

Dufrêne’s crirythmes were presented at numerous sound poetry festivals and about a dozen were recorded on gramophone records between 1962 and 1975.
Since 1973 he has also exhibited "Dessous de stencils" and "Bibliothèques" in cellulose.

Discography:

• VV.AA. - Panorama Des Musiques Expérimentales (1962, Philips, 835 485/486 AY) contains: “U 47” (collaboration w/ J. Baronnet)

• VV.AA. - Panorama Of Experimental Music: Electronic Music And Musique Concrete (Mercury, SR 29123) contains: “U 47” (collaboration w/ J. Baronnet)

• VV.AA. - Images Fantastiques: Electronic Experimental Music (1968, Limelight, LS 86047) contains: “U 47” (collaboration w/ J. Baronnet)

• VV.AA. - Text-Sound Compositions: A Stockholm Festival 1968 (1968, Sveriges Radio, RELP 1049) contains: “Paris-Stockholm”

• VV.AA. - Phonetische Poésie (1970, Luchterhand) contains: "Crirythme", "Avril-déjà"

• VV.AA. - L'Autonomatopek 1 (1972, Editions Georges Fall, 40-41) contains: "Crirythme En Bref"

• VV.AA. - Poesia Sonora (1975, CBS, CBS 69145) (2001, Recorthings & Zona Archives, RT9002) contains: "Crirythme dédié à Henri Chopin" (1968)

• Oeuvre Désintégrale (1976, Guy Schraenen, GSCH 005/006/008)

• VV.AA. - Futura: Poesia Sonora (1989, Cramps Records, CRSCD 091-095) contains: "Un Retour À Mes Sources", “La Valse”

• VV.AA. - Licences n° 0 (1999, Licences, L0) contains: "Est-Ouest"

• VV.AA. - Lunapark 0,10 (1999, Sub Rosa, SR 80) contains: " Ouverture Sans Fin, Post-Scriptum Au Tombeau De Pierre Larousse (PS Au TLP)"

• VV.AA. (Edited By Henri Chopin) - Revue OU (2002, Alga Marghen, 15vocson045.1) contains: "Batteries Vocales" (1958) , "Paix en Algérie" (1958) , "Ténu Ténu" (1964), "Triptycrirythme" (1966) , "Crirythme dédié à Henri Chopin" (1968) , "Haut-Satur" (1968)

• VV.AA. - Polyphonix 1 (Première Anthologie Sonore) (2002, Get Back, GET418) contains: "Crirythme Exprès"

• VV.AA. - Text-Sound Compositions: A Stockholm Festival (2006, Fylkingen Records, FYCD 1024) contains: “Paris-Stockholm”

• Oeuvre Désintégrale (2007, Alga Marghen, 19vocson070 LP)

• François Dufrêne (2007, Alga Marghen, Plana-D ALGA 024)

(Art)Works:

• "Au 136 du Boulevard St-Germain, zone bleue", 1966
• "Entre-Deux-Mers", 1971
• "Appollo", 1972
• "A l'Asger coma à l'Asger", 1973
• "La cirque", 1973
• "Thé + odorat... qui s'ébaudit ?-Nono !", 1973
• "Cantate des Mots Camés", 1977

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Links:
UbuWeb Sound: François Dufrêne

Labels: spekk

Founder: Nao Sugimoto (aka Mondii)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Area: Experimental Electronic, Minimal
Links: http://www.spekk.net

Catalogue:

Cat. #	Artist	Title	Format
KK001	Taylor Deupree	January	(CD, Album)
KK002	William Basinski + Richard Chartier	Untitled	(CD, Album)
KK003	John Hudak	Room With Sky	(CD, Album, RE)
KK004	Boca Raton	Enzo / Further	(CD)
KK005	Various	Small Melodies	(CD)
KK006	Andrey Kiritchenko	True Delusion	(CD, Album, Ltd)
KK007	Level	Cycla	(CD)
KK008	The Alps	Jewelt Galaxies / Spirit Shambles	(CD, Album, Dig)
KK009	Jefre Cantu-Ledesma	The Garden Of Forking Paths	(CD, Album)
KK010	Ken Ikeda	Mist On The Window	(CD, Album, Dig)
KK011	Opitope	Hau	(CD, Album, Dig)
KK012	Minoru Sato (m-s, SASW) + ASUNA	Textures In Glass Tubes And Reed Organ	(CD, Album, Dig)
KK013	Yair Etziony	Flawed	(CD, Album)
KK014	Mathieu Ruhlmann + Celer	Mesoscaphe	(CD, Album)
KK015	Joe Grimm	Brain Cloud	(CD, Album)
KK016	Level	Opale	(CD, Album)
KK017	Andrey Kiritchenko	Misterrious	(CD, Album)
KK018	Felicia Atkinson	La La La	(CD, Album)
KK019	Stephan Mathieu + Taylor Deupree	Transcriptions	(CD, Album)
KK020	Tetuzi Akiyama + Toshimaru Nakamura	Semi-Impressionism	(CD, Album)
KK021	Dirac	Emphasis	(CD, Album)
KK022	Peter Wright	An Angel Fell Where The Kestrels Hover	(CD, Album)
KK023	Federico Durand	La Siesta Del Ciprés	(CD, Album)
KK024	Ken Ikeda	Kosame	(CD, Album)
KK025 KK026 KK027 KK028 KK029 KK030 KK031 KK032 KK033  KK034 KK035 KK036 KK037 KK038	Janek Schaefer Opitope Celer Federico Durand Piiptsjilling Kazuya Matsumoto Steve Roden Federico Durand   Alejandro Franov Kazuya Matsumoto Federico Durand & Hofli  Andrey Kiritchenko Taylor Deupree Sleepland	Phoenix & Phaedra Holding Patterns Physis Zigzag El Estanque Esmeralda Molkedrippen Mizu No Katachi Striations  Jardín De Invierno Suspendido En El Aire OchiruChiruMichiru Niebla Y Jardines Tomados Por Las Plantas Overt  Fallen  Out Of Hue	(CD, Album) (CD, Album) (CD, Album + CD-R) (CD, Album) (CD, Album) (CD, Album) (CD, Album)  (CD, Album)  (CD, Album)  (CD, Album) (CD, Album) (CD, Album)  (CD, Album) (CD, Album)

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Evan Parker & Ned Nothenberg - Live At Roulette

Parker and Rothenberg are undoubtedly a well-matched duo, able to produce extraordinary moments of improvisation in music.
This CD documents their live performance at Roulette in NYC, in October 2006.
"Freeimprovisedhypnoticmusic".

Personnel:
Evan Parker: soprano, tenor saxophones
Ned Rothenberg: alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet

Label: Animul
Cat. #: ANI 106
Format: CD
Release date: 2007

Tracklisting:
01 - Who Asked Racine? (13:08)
02 - Brew For The Birds (12:18)
03 - Stick, Twist Or Bust (10:33)
04 - On Alto On Tenor (09:45)
05 - The Artist's Response? (10:21)
06 - On Core En Cours (05:44)

other Evan Parker's releases on this blog:

• Hook, Drift & Shuffle (2007, Psi, psi 07.07) (here)
• A Glancing Blow (2007, Clean Feed, CF 085) (w/ John Edwards, Chris Corsano) (here)
• Free Zone Appleby 2006 (2007, Psi, psi 07.04) (w/ various artists) (here)
• La Lumière De Pierres (2007, Psi, psi 07.02) (w/ François Houle, Benoît Delbecq) (here)
• Abbey Road Duos (2007, Treader, trd 009) (w/ Matthew Shipp) (here)
• Trio With Interludes (2004, Treader, trd 002) (w/ Mark Sanders, Ashley Wales) (here)
• For Steve Lacy (2004, Treader, trd 001) (w/ John Coxon, Ashley Wales) (here)

Links:
Evan Parker
Ned Rothenberg
Animul

Move D - Tonspuren 1-10

A new release of Move D (David Moufang), again for the BineMusic Label.
Recorded at the Sonic Arts festival in Erlangen, 2003, these tracks can be considered a single (sound)track.
With the use of laptop and some instruments, Moufang creates fascinating electronic passages, with both rhythmic and melodic elements.

Label: BineMusic
Cat. #: BINE 014CD
Format: CD
Release date: 2007

Tracklisting:
01 - Hagel In Berlin / Snowflakes In Vermont (03:28)
02 - Brückenstrasse, Heidelberg (04:32)
03 - Dial-A-Tone (07:21)
04 - How Do You Want It? (02:46)
05 - Rote Zone (04:40)
06 - ...Bis Zum... (03:33)
07 - Ein Soundfoto Aus Dem Goldenen Dreieck (03:31)
08 - Weimar-Heidelberg Hbf (03:05)
09 - Son Of A Hippie (04:42)
10 - Zeit / Haben Wollen (06:35)

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Links:
Move D
BineMusic

Opitope - Hau

Opitope is a duo active since 2002: Date Tomoyoshi and Chihei Hatakeyama.
They operate also separately (see Hatakeyama’s solo album realised in 2006 on the Kranky label).
This work confirms their proclivity for delicate atmospheres and ethereal sounds, produced using instruments like guitars, electronic, piano, vibraphone etc.
Melodies that surround you, float and then evaporate…

Label: Spekk
Cat. #: KK011
Format: CD
Release date: 2007

Tracklisting:
01 - A White Cloth Falling From The Snow Branches (01:45)
02 - Trees Reflecting On The Surface Of The Lake (06:46)
03 - Goat's Horn (07:05)
04 - A Far Room (10:02)
05 - A Quiet Morning Arriving To The Valley (02:06)
06 - Bird Standing On The Fall (04:53)
07 - Coral Sand's Backside (07:04)
08 - Mist On The Sea (07:30)
09 - A Place Under The Paired Sal Tree (05:52)

Links:
Opitope
Spekk