Monthly Archives: April 2011

Conseguito Silenzio

April 29, 2011

Excellent CD reissue of Fifteen Saxophones (UNSEEN WORLDS RECORDS UW06), a solo record by Dickie Landry who was a founding member of the Philip Glass Ensemble. There are a couple of his solo records on Chatham Square which predate this (and I suppose you’ll be lucky to see original copies of those), but this...

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Bestial Confessions

April 27, 2011

Men in robes chanting over groaning electric metal noise with hands of flame…it can only mean a new release by Nernes/Skagen, the Norwegian duo of Kjetil Nernes and Stian Skagen who deliberately restrict their instrumental choices the better to realise their infernal vistas and Dante-inspired dirges. Confession (FYSISK FORMAT FY033), realised mostly with a...

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Morton Feldman on Good Friday

April 22, 2011

The Sound Projector Radio Show Good Friday 2011

  1. Ensemble Recherce, ‘The Viola in My Life’
    From MONTAIGNE MO 782126 CD (2000)
  2. UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus, ‘Rothko Chapel I’
    From NEW ALBION RECORDS NA039CD (1991)
  3. The Barton Workshop, ‘Between Categories’
    From MODE RECORDS 107 CD (2002)
  4. I B Hausmann / Pellegrini Quartet, ‘Two Pieces for Clarinet and String Quartet’
    a) No 1
    b) No 2
    From HAT ART CD 6166 CD (1995)
  5. Ensemble Recherce, ‘For Franck O’Hara’
    From MONTAIGNE MO 782126 CD (2000)
  6. The Barton Workshop, ‘Three Clarinets, Cello and Piano’
    From MODE RECORDS 107 CD (2002)
  7. Eberhard Blum / Nils Vigeland / Jan Williams, ‘Why Patterns?’
    From HAT ART CD 2-6080 2 x CD (1991)
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Paulina Semilionva, the Lion of Belfort

April 20, 2011

Took in five CDRs from the netlabel Dark Meadow Recordings which is a home to various marginal musics of a supernal nature…Ian Holloway‘s Silent Spring (DMRF07) is a single 45-minute piece of sinister drone-working intended to keep listener in a perpetual state of tension and achieves its disquieting effects with great economy. In an...

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Impressions of a Golden Age

April 19, 2011

How about these three Cardiff freaks who call themselves Bear-Man and produce a startling and vital jolt using drums, guitar and electronics…self-titled cassette tape of their unkempt live music is Phantomhead Recordings N.18 and the great line drawing cover depicts a fantasy version of the three young players depicted as hairy wildmen or semi-apes...

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Band Limiter Impulse

April 17, 2011

The Resipiscent label in San Francisco seems to specialise in two modes of music releases – outrageous shocking humour or utterly grim post-industrial electronics. I’m generalising of course, but if I was half-accurate in my assertion then Antimatter‘s Reset (RSPT 041) assuredly belongs in the second category. Over an hour of pulsating stern and...

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Electrical Shake

April 15, 2011

The Sound Projector Radio Show 15th April 2011 Tracker, (Track 07) From How I Became An Alien, GERMANY SULATRON ST ST1004 CD (2011) Other Vultures, ‘Going Cut’ From The Guilt Groupe EP, USA COPY FOR YOUR RECORDS CFYR004 CDR (2011) Vibravoid, ‘You Keep On Falling’ From Minddrugs, GERMANY SULATRON ST 1101 CD (2011) dsic,...

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Going Cut / Lost Intensity

April 12, 2011

Dave Schmidt’s Sulatron Records label has moved out of Austria and gone back to Germany, and from that address two recent releases winged like hot oatcakes into my awaiting mouthpiece. Tracker are a trio from somewhere in the Tyrolean range, who made quite a stir with their 2009 EP and have now had a...

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Perspective of the Symptom

April 9, 2011

We last heard from American composer Michael Gardiner when he collaborated with John Latartara on the fascinating and uncategorisable Beethoven Hammerklavier project. Here he is with an equally unique solo record Source Of The Symptom (VISCERAL MEDIA VMR 005), which amazingly began life as a piano recording of sorts, yet at first blow appears...

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American Art Music

April 8, 2011

The Sound Projector Radio Show 8th April 2011 Dickie Landry, ‘Fifteen Saxophones’ From Fifteen Saxophones, USA UNSEEN WORLDS UW06 CD (2011) Recorded in 1974. Alvin Curran, ‘Canti Illuminati II’ From Solo Works: The 70s, USA NEW WORLD RECORDS 80713-2 3 x CD (2010) Recorded in 1982. Zeitkratzer, ‘Four 6‘ From Old School: John Cage,...

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