saturday november the 6th @ knot gallery (mihalakopoulou 206 st & pyrrou st,
athens)

as usual it was born out of a joke, better say a question while arranging ideas for 2011 w/ dimitra, michalis, giannis & danai during a hot august night when michalis wondered of what shall we do till 2011? the idea for an ash nav live was dropped by giannis a couple of months ago and as we both share the enthusiasm for the project’s work we were for it waiting for the right place & right time to materialize it.

the idea of prequel of absurd’s ‘bye bye butterfly’  in athens but in slight different sounds was also in mind as some friends wanted an athens thing too, so w/out second thoughts within seconds the line up was almost ready as all drove crazy w/ a line up we came up.

so add  the enthusiasm for the all girl garage sounds of the mongrelettes and the psych out ones of ashtray navigations plus a blend of earzumba’s psychotic sampladelia
and you get a freak out compendium to infinity!!!!

the mongrelettes
www.myspace.com/themongrelettes

ashtray navigations
www.myspace.com/ashtraynavigations

earzumba
www.earzumba.com

more infos soon, also through knot at http://knotarts.blogspot.com

* title taken from the john coltrane ‘infinity’ LP (being the record we’ve been listening at the moment the idea was dropped & the decision was taken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane:_Infinity and hell couldn’t fit a better title to this ‘party’!!!!)

Tags: ashtray navigations, athens, earzumba, knot gallery, the mongrelettes

maybe you remember how a couple of months ago the noise-below crew participated as “nn+” in the tot festival that took place at knot gallery in athens (related posts here, here and here). well, nicolas already wrote about the whole thing, and today i wrote about it on my own blog (because you can never have enough of those…) here:

http://syndromesrandomcontent.blogspot.com/2010/08/nn-soundcheck.html

i also put up a recording of myself fumbling with the available equipment during the soundcheck. i ended up with a charming piece of noise + room ambience

enjoy,
kostis

NN+ soundcheck by syndromesuploadcloud

Tags: knot gallery, kostis kilymis, sites/blogs

Costis Drygianakis sent us his thoughts on the brand new Cranc album, copper fields. And in turn we thought we’d make a big deal out of it, seeing that Costis was the man who chose, back in the year 2000, to release the trio’s first album (All Angels) on his own ΕΔΩ (EDO) label.

It’s been a whole decade since the first release of the Cranc trio (All angels, ΕΔΩ 2000). Today, it’s clear that that first album marked the end of a phase. Since 2001, all three musicians (Rhodri and Angharad Davis from Wales, UK and Nikos Veliotis from Greece) have abandoned the twelve-tone jargon and the instrumental musique concrete and dedicated themselves, with an impressive self-discipline, to the research of slow, long, droning sounds. After a decade of independent, personal orbits and casual meetings, here they join their forces once again, more mature and more essential than ever. And they succeed to catch exactly what is missing in the vast majority of projects of this kind: They manage to keep the interest at a top level from the first till the last minutes of the album, neither hanging around nor sinking to any minimalist coma. Cause, as it gets finally obvious, it’s of great importance that these long and sustained sounds raise not from automatic generators, but from strings pulsating under human fingers. Needless to say, under great human fingers.

~ costis drygianakis

copper fields is available from organized music from thessaloniki, as well as absurd

Tags: costis drygianakis, cranc

a quick note to say that there are 2 new posts on ‘outside my window’ a ‘bell’s field recording by yiorgis sakellariou and a documentation of a memorable night with the fairytales of anthi thanou & panagiotis koulelis, recorded by nikos kyriazopoulos.

http://thenoisehitthemastheyopenedthedoor.blogspot.com/

love & noise
nicolas

Tags: anthi thanou & panagiotis koulelis, fairytales, mecha/orga, nikos kyriazopoulos, outside my window

Residency at Polymer Culture Factory, Tallinn-Estonia
From August 16 to September 8

Upcoming concerts
August 25: Helikoosolek @ MoKS, Tartu-Estonia
August 27: Kultuuritehase Festival, Tallinn-Estonia
September 2: XI20, Vilnius-Lithuania (presented by Arma)
September 3: Insait, Kaunas-Lithuania (presented by Arma)
September 4: Andrejsala, Riga-Latvia
September 6: Servataguse Muusika, Tallinn-Estonia

Workshop
August 28 at Kultuuritehase Festival

more info:www.mecha-orga.com

Tags: mecha/orga

Tags: absurd, xanthi

tasos stamou’s kukuruku recordings label, home to quite a few improv and outsider cdr editions, is now available through the excellent metamkine distribution in france. time you checked out some of those obscure sides that always seemed hard to get, ok?

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http://www.kukurukurecordings.com/
http://www.metamkine.com/?partiste=1&monlabel=1495

Tags: kukuruku

as absurd’s life circle comes to its end deja vu flashes strike. as happened with harsh dept and some perverse series releases happens this time too. the tasos stamou 10″ is cancelled. there won’t be any absurd #81 replacement. and am not sure about the format this recordings that will see daylight as long as it has to deal with little nefeli and her birthday’s recording. perhaps a cd or cdr under nefeli’s own record label according to our tradition of blasting a label for every kid whose birthday we celebrate.
just for the record and absurd completists, 5 test pressings of the 10″ were made.

also a note to any motherfucker who might pop up in the future and demands the entire control as the administrator of noise-below and its basic projects (organized music from thessaloniki, allnoisesswelltogetherinlandscapes, excrete music blog, outside my window blog, editions_zero, hrysallida, etc) is that we fankly don’t object to it as it’ll save us money and most important we’ll have more free time BUT at least make sure you know out of which thomas pynchon book the quote ‘noise a few decks below’ was lifted. (to the day only larry gus has found it, with kostis we were astound as he almost found not only the exact chapter but almost the exact line and paperback edition! larrygus.blogspot.com).

Tags: absurd, tasos stamou