hhhmm… like the good ol’ days… every week a new release…
at least that’s how it worked the last 2-3 weeks over here. below’s the info on the new ones. including an antoine chessex 1sided LP, an al margolis / dan burke cdr on absurd and on little orion’s ‘okko’ records a cdr of larry gus.
upcoming there’s still plenty of stuff… next week in berlin for the 20th sudden infant anniversary (www.suddeninfant.com for infos) will come out a vinyl reissue of the rudolv eb.er / joke lanz ‘akustiche aktion’. a limited lp issued by pan records (www.pan-act.com) and absurd’s ‘all noises swell together in landscapes’ blog.
may / june sees an incredible nokalypse LP co-released with entracte (www.entracte.co.uk).
more’s in the pipeline too (of course)… a cdr by none is also in mind / works but gotta meet mr. 1000+1 (www.tiltrecordings.org) tilt first to get the master that ashley handed him a couple of months ago… keeping in mind that i should hand jason also a design for a noise-below.org t-shirt guess that we’ll meet for those 2 specific releases and we’ll end discussing for more…
also keep an eye on nikos veliotis’s ‘cello powder’ limited edition cd. document of his instal performance. for more infos pls visit here www.cellopowder.com. should you wish a promo copy feel free to email me, ‘ve got a handful of promo sleeves rotting on my room’s floor…
last but not least as i chanced yesterday at a live set @ kinky kong (http://kinkykong.blogspot.com) and saw a great sax / electronics pal performing keep an eye on his work http://www.ilanmanouach.com/. he’s having a cdr on triple bath (www.triplebath.gr) in a week or two.
ahhhh if you find the time too check also http://excretemusic.blogspot.com mostly uploading stuff i like. guess i shoulda upload all my fave violent onsen geisha stuff too as is thanks to the master’s same titled cd the blog named after.
no more no less
love & noise
nicolas
(ed - releases info below, to be added in the absurd page in the coming days)
al margolis & dan burke ‘live april 5, 2008 – le bonheur, brussels, belgium’
(absurd #76)
guess i owe it to mecha/orga who upon landing in athens after a mini european tour phoned and asked for a usual meeting at varsos in kifissia to combine our recent news with our beloved sweets and coffee…. it was a pleasant shock to find a raw live cdr recording of the margolis / burke set waiting for me as a surprise from al & dan. and no matter that i might long some 15 more or less years to see (mostly out of my stupidity of not asking earlier) an if,bwana (al margolis) / illusion of safety (dan burke) release on absurd but the result is a documentation of an enchanting evening in a space that was full of those soundscapes that landmark & explore the sounds of al & dan’s universe as we know it so far… why don’t you go in search of it?
antoine chessex ‘terra incognita’ 1sided LP (absurd #77)
striked accidentally to do a 1sided LP of antoine’s work a couple of months ago. turned out to be no more no less but a documentation of recent live stuff recorded in berlin and in asia. 2 sax / electronics blasts and a more frequency like one capturing as much as possible of antoine’s live energy and atmosphere. while working on it we found a mutual interest in ancient and medieval maps therefore is housed as such… as if you are opening a map and start examaning an unknown sound origin that lies in front of you with all its known, unknown, hidden or not places… simply play loud and get sucked into it!
larry gus ‘iasmos’ (okko records)
we were scratching our heads of what the hell to set up for orion’s 2nd birthday… almost no idea was coming ’till accidentally chris carras
dropped the name of ‘larry gus’ . he was doing back then his military service in xanthi and was already a name in the greek electronica scene. without 2nd thoughts we asked him for a live set at the party and mix his sounds with children’s and our sounds. without hesitation
agreed. did a lovely set but an evil eye managed to erase almost all of the recordings from our machines but an hour’s field recording set done via another machine. the 3rd birthday was near too, any kind of magic we performed couldn’t restore the erased digital files so larry spent less than 24 hours locked in his studio working on new material and using part of that field recording document of the party. the result is an 18 track cdr of fresh, joyous sounds where larry’s ideas & tracks and field recordings extracts are mixed in a blend of a gorgeous electronica! taste it!
