well… to be honest the last 2-3 months have been busy enough, weird enough as well… as life is as usual full of surprises….
absurd has (thanks to magnus schaefer, jos smolders & earlabs) an interview online @ http://www.earlabs.org/text/label.asp?labelID=16
had a great time & fun doing it & is kinda a joint effort w/ magnus scaefer… i provided the raw material which was later mixed and served as a game of silence out of which various sounds are born… starting it from scratch while spending some trully intense moments travelling during daytime and working till late at night then in my home in phokis (www.kaloskopi.gr – the village where my home / absurd central lies) is an ascend/descend to a manipulated field recordings/noisy (or not) intense electroacoustics or seen from another view a trip through bizarre & spontaneous free musics soundscapes. well visit, download and decide whether it was an intense collaboration (as i see it) or not…
regarding other news… just out is the jeff gburek cdr ‘virtuous circles’, a kinda field recordings set using subtle improvised electronics to create his documentation or better say his own view/approach to the cultural pastiche (allow me to use this term) of our times… blasting it as an idea from the area he lives, kreuzberg, berlin and expand it. starting point his remarkable set in small music theatre, in athens a couple of years ago (seeing greece also as the point where east meets west) and goes further to it…
in the pipeline are the long delayed matthew sansom/rhodri davis cdr (mid november) and jacob smigel cdr. plus the extremely delayed cd of werner durand. guess these 2 will be out around mid december / early january 08.
details to follow. also don’t miss the sonic catering band / bohman brothers split/collab. cdr. i know it was meant to be a joint lathe-cut 10″ w/ gold soundz back in 2004. shelved for long as both sindre and i had been busy enough but finally here comes a tiny handmade maxi-cdr version of it. still lovely!
plus keep an eye for more surprises that might follow in mid/late november. and also in the ‘toys in the room’ cdr that is due for release on editions_zero sometime in november/december. one of the most bizarre and totally ‘out’ lo-fi recordings from my friend dimitris in amphissa (where also the editions_zero central lies in the province of phokis) and friends. a recording not only to bring in mind some of the most intense & insane moments of last summer spent mostly on motherland (www.fokida.gr) but also a slight idea of meetings in dimitris’s loft or further sporadic collective meetings in phokis or other places around greece.
love & noise
nicolas
