Paris-based electroacoustic musician Eric Cordier was noted in issue 15 for his 2006 CD Breizhiselad, a fine and bewitching record made through sampling and layering old Brittany folk song from 78 records. He wrote to us recently and sent these six items, pretty much the entire catalogue of his own micro label Prêle Records,...
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Kousokuya, ‘The Dark Spot’ (1989) From 1st, JAPAN PSFD-132 CD (2003) Altered States, ‘Travis’ From 6, JAPAN ZENBEI RECORD ZEN-005 CD (1997) LSD-March, ‘The Lamp – Tomorrow’s Godard’ From Suddenly, Like Flames, USA LAST VISIBLE DOG 064 CD Syzygys, ‘Le Fonce (3)’ From Drive to Heaven, Welcome to Chaos, JAPAN WAVE EVA 2010 CD...
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We’ve been receiving some fairly dark and opaque releases from the excellent Fang Bomb label in Sweden these last few weeks…much of it just perfect fodder to feed my brooding soul…but here comes Jasper TX, whose Singing Stones (FB010) is a sunlit, melodic antidote to much of that industrialised gloom. However, Dag Rosenqvist’s musical...
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From the ESP-Disk’ label this month, we have Don Cherry from 1966 with Live at Cafe Montmartre (ESP 4051). It’s the third volume from the Cafe Montmartre recordings, a venue which despite its Parisian name was actually located in Copenhagen. Cherry’s pan-international group during this residency included the Argentinian tenorman Gato Barbieri and the...
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Three new vinyl objects from the German DEKORDER label, whose identity might be emerging as a European equivalent of America’s Last Visible Dog when it comes to showcasing massive drone-works from the international underground. Our Love Will Destroy The World is Campbell Kneale from New Zealand, a country that has been developing its own...
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A box of considerable size arrived from the Escho record label in Denmark. In it, a number of limited-pressing vinyl LPs in brightly-coloured and sumptuous packages. The mission of this small independent label is to ‘document moments of spontaneity’ and to ‘offer new, unusual and vibrant sounds from Denmark and beyond’. As far as...
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Touch has been curating a series of excellent seven-inch singles, with the promise of more goodies to come. There is an underlying mission statement which has something to do with reclaiming a format which, some would say, is almost an endangered species, the vinyl equivalent of one of the doomed seabirds whose ailing cries...
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Our Love Will Destroy The World, ‘Stillborn Plague Angels’ (fade) From Stillborn Plague Angels, GERMANY DEKORDER 30 LP (2009) Naked on the Vague, ‘Lonely Boys’ From The Blood Pressure Sessions, AUSTRALIA DUAL PLOVER UQU719 CD (2008) Franck Vigroux and Matthew Bourne, ‘Die Deume’ From Call Me Madame (Good News from Wonderland), FRANCE D’AUTRES CORDES...
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Recovery / Discovery: 40 Years of Surround Electronic Music in the UK (SAM 0801) is the debut release on the UK Sound And Music label, the publishing wing of what will soon be replacing the British Music Information Centre. I was intrigued to receive a copy as the centrepiece is the lengthy electronic composition...
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