by yiorgis sakellariou

For the past four months I’ve been living in this rather small (population: 180.00 and decreasing) city in the west of Lithuania, right on the shore of the Baltic Sea. Almost since Day 1, I’ve been exploring and recording my new sound environment and I dare to say that the place is, perhaps surprisingly, a sonic paradise. Forests, beaches, harbors, ferry boats, plus the fact that the city has an extended industrial area, provides me with a great variety of sounds and I still find myself -pretty often I might add- walking around with the recorder at hand. For this post I used the more compositional approach of an audio montage, instead of presenting one recording from a specific location. Nonetheless, the recordings are untreated. The aim is to give a more wide-ranging feeling of Klaipeda’s splendid soundscape.

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Tags: field recording mini-series, mecha/orga, yiorgis sakellariou

hey, we’ve mentioned before xysm as one of the more promising new projects coming out of greece haven’t we? [Yes, we have: case in point -though that one was in greek, sorry]. Anyway, they now have a bandcamp up, with three of their past cdr releases up for download. I suggest you indulge yourselves, I myself have ‘yagna’ on my shelves and it’s not half bad, no it’s not. Apparently, they have a new one coming up soon as well…

http://xysm.bandcamp.com/

Tags: xysm

nicolas lays exposed in the intransitive online magazine, in the latest installment of Howard Stelzer’s “put me on the guest list’ column, in which Howard interviews people around the world about their work they put in setting up concerts, mobilizing scenes, etc. Of course, this being nicolas, the conversation goes further and in myriad directions. And this being the internet, I myself am again renamed (twice) in the process. All good clean fun. Start following the Intransitive mag, if you don’t do so already, it’s a treasure-trove. Even has a Lasse Marhaug film column!

http://www.intransitiverecordings.com/

Tags: howard stelzer, intransitive recordings, nicolas malevitsis

EVENTS

Hana + ton @ Facta Non Verba, Thursday 13/10/2011
Ionos Dragoumi 65, Thessaloniki

Granny DJ Set @ Coo Bar, Friday 14/10/2011
Vasileos Irakleiou 4, Thessaloniki

Good Luck Mr. Gorsky + Inverz @ 1os orofos, Saturday 15/10/2011
Olympiou Diamanti 20, Thessaloniki

Good Luck Mr. Gorsky @ Rhythm & Event Symposium, Saturday 29/10/2011
The London Graduate School, London
More info here

Granny DJ Set @ The Residents Bar Saturday, 5/11/2011
Stratigou Kallari 4a, Thessaloniki

Granny Showcase:

Inverz + ton @ KNOT Gallery, Thursday 10/11/2011
Good Luck Mr. Gorsky + Eventless Plot @ KNOT Gallery, Friday 11/11/2011
Mixalakopoulou 206 & Pyrrou, Ampelokipoi, Athens
http://knotarts.blogspot.com/
Hana + Free Piece Of Tape @ SIX D.O.G.S, Saturday 12/11/2011
Avramiotou 6-8, Monastiraki, Athens
http://sixdogs.gr/
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NEWS

2 New Releases Coming Out Soon on Granny:
Inverz – My Machines (LP)
ton – No Need To Go So Far (CD)
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DISTRIBUTION

Check Granny’s catalogue at Experimedia.net

Tags: eventless plot, free piece of tape, good luck mr. gorsky, granny records, hana, inverz, ton

repost from nicolas’ new blog, just to help people keep track (as he’s known to be somewhat elusive, heh)

‘μια επιθυμητή εγκυμοσύνη ύστερα απο τόσα χρόνια πορνείας’ τουλάχιστον αυτή τη ατάκα απο τα ‘51 σάββατα’ των χονδρού / κατσιάνη μου ‘ρχεται στο μυαλό για να περιγράψω αυτό το νέο ταξίδι το οποίο ξεκίνησε απότομα μέσα στο καλοκαίρι του 11 χάρη στο στυλιανό, όταν σαν κομήτης χτύπησε ζητώντας μια στήλη για ένα νέο fanzine που ετοιμάζει.

ως άλλος μπάρτλεμπι απάντησα ‘θα προτιμούσα να μην το κάνω’ για να αυτοαναιρεθώ σε λίγη ώρα με την ιδέα ενός νέου οχήματος και τίτλο παρμένο απο ομώνυμη διάλεξη των hafler trio το 1985 που αλιεύτηκε διαβάζοντας το ‘force mental rvstd’ τόμο που συλλέγει όλα τα τεύχη του ομώνυμου ιστορικού fanzine της δεκαετίας του 80.

έντυπο και διαδικτυακό για να υπάρχει και ο χώρος για άλλες εμμονές (διαδικτυακές κυκλοφορίες & κριτικές δίσκων που αδιάλειπτα έρχονται στη θυρίδα μου) και ότι άλλο προκύψει στη διάρκεια αυτής της νέας αναζήτησης.

love & noise

νικόλας

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Tags: nicolas malevitsis

today’s event at KNOT Gallery, Athens, which was to see Belgian pianist Fred Van Hove present a solo concert, is unfortunately canceled. With special thanks to the Athens International Airport and Olympic Airways.

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by yiorgis sakellariou

Lousios is located near the village of Karytaina, at the heart of the Peloponnese region. The flow of the river is very powerful and many people visit it for rafting. Unfortunately, some never get to go back home; the monument built near a bridge did not leave any doubts: a poor fellow drowned there. If you don’t intend to go in the water you still need to be careful not to slip on some narrow paths or wet rocks and try to avoid destroying spider webs. The landscape was impressive but of course the main focus was on the sound, an excellent mix of mighty water floating and the singing of cicadas –typical Greek summer “soundtrack”. At several locations, where the water was hitting on stones, the volume was so loud that we had to shout so we could hear each other. Pure noise…

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note: this recording comprises of three seperate parts. track breaks at: 01:21. 03:15

Tags: field recording mini-series, mecha/orga, yiorgis sakellariou

by yiorgis sakellariou

On April 23, 2011 I played a concert in Dresden and the next day I had enough time to explore the city. After walking around in the old town, which is on UNESCO’s world heritage list, I started checking out the new part of the city, and the main pedestrian road led me directly to the train station. I’m totally attracted by the sounds of train stations and as I was approaching the big south station of Dresden I was pretty sure I’d record something interesting. The acoustic environment of the station constantly changes because trains come and go all the time. There is also a more permanent layer of sound, that reverberates everywhere and having a high roof transforms the building into a big speaker.

I just googled it: The old town of Dresden has been deleted from UNESCO’s list. Anyhow, minor detail. The sounds of the station are fascinating nonetheless.

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note: this recording comprises of three seperate parts. track breaks at: 01:34. 03:17

Tags: field recording mini-series, mecha/orga, yiorgis sakellariou

a couple of months ago, the fine athenian label orila, first uploaded this interesting trailer for a document of their ‘vounorila’ project. five bands leave athens and take to the mountains, for a special concert with only themselves the trees and the birds as an audience…

Vounorila trailer (Orl 2011) from orila.net on Vimeo.

http://www.orila.net/

Tags: orila

(a short memento from one of the bye-bye butterfly events that took place back in december 2010 in xanthi, as documented by Thanasis Chondros & Alexandra Katsiani, more info at sokratis’ blog here)

γάμος και το αρνητικό, στιγμιότυπα από την εικαστική δράση που παρουσίασαν ο Σωκράτης Μαρτίνης και η Ηλέκτρα Παπαθανασοπούλου στο πλαίσιο του bye bye butterfly (Ξάνθη 4 Δεκεμβρίου 2010, στο Σπίτι Πολιτισμού της ΦΕΞ).
Πρώτα σε βίντεο ο ορίζοντας ορίζεται από δυο ανοικτά γυναικεία πόδια. Ο Σ.Μ. σχεδιάζει το περίγραμμα των ποδιών της Η.Π. ώστε μετά να πετύχει να δώσει την προβολή του αιδοίου της με διαβήτη.

wedding and the negative, excerpt from a performance by Socrates Martinis and Electra Papathanasopoulou as part of bye bye butterfly (Xanthi 4th of December 2010).
Video projection with the distance between two wide-open woman legs as horizon, and the projection of the vulva, set between the parentheses of the inner foot arches.

Tags: bye bye butterfly, electra papathanasopoulou, socrates martinis

this is a line to thank all the pals that made it to the ‘bye bye butterfly’ fest either as audience, participants, artists, whatever. it was a great moment and as larry gus got it from the first moment it was a chance for a nice ‘family’ reunion.
a great pitty due to weather problems in north europe was the cancellation of blood stereo, jerome noetinger and bill kouligas but sooner or later we’ll have the chance for more lives,etc.
details for future activities, etc are to be posted sometime in early january 2011 till then be it a relaxing time…

however here’s the programm of upcoming live sets that are set up by noise-below in the first 3 months on 2011…
hope to see you there
love & noise
nicolas

sudden infant @ bye bye butterfly. photo by alexandros martigopoulos

january

giuseppe ielasi
14/1 athens @ knot gallery (http://knotarts.blogspot.com/) probably with anastasis grivas opening.
15/1 thessaloniki  @ facta non verba

february

12/1
xysm (athens) (www.myspace.com/xysmath)
jooklo duo (italy) (http://jooklo.altervista.org/)
blood stereo (uk) (www.chocolatemonk.co.uk)

athens @ knot gallery (http://knotarts.blogspot.com/)

march

black to comm (germany) dates & full line up to be announced but probably sunday the 13th in thessaloniki, during that week probably a live set in amphissa and then friday or saturday the 19th in athens.

Tags: black to comm, blood stereo, bye bye butterfly, giuseppe ielasi, jooklo duo, xysm

hi

just a short note to say that just out is a stunning c_utter / dead peni split / colllab LP as a four label co-prod and totally rocks! call it doom call it experimental call it whatever i’m nuts with it! sincerely!!! i play it loud and loud since i got the first mp3 unmastered and more and more now that the LP is out.

[release page here, though it doesn't contain any additional info - ed.]

so here are the rest of the partners in crime

knife cult (spain)
http://entredosinfiernos.blogspot.com/

blossoming noise (usa)
www.blossomingnoise.com

heart & crossbone (israel)
www.hcbrecords.com

regarding more news… as of the upcoming absurd #84 news are to be posted on its page and on the site later.

the final absurd releases are also on the way some info on them

absurd #83 is the replacement actually of the tasos stamou 10″ and is a split 10″ between family battle snake (www.pan-act.com) and balinese beast (www.ilanmanouach.com and http://www.freepieceoftape.blogspot.com)

absurd #85 though initially was supposed to be an aux release made and assembled during absurd #84 has been modified and will be released / distributed during absurd #84 on december the 4th however i prefer to keep it as a secret. will be a cdr handed at the door while buying your ticket.

plus the connection between absurd and the new baby πτώματα κάτω από το κρεββάτι (aka corpses underneath the bed) a split 7″ by torn tongue or beter say frans de waard and howard stelzer.

details upon release of each of them plus soon to launch the first infos on the new label.

love & noise
nicolas

Tags: absurd, c_utter, dead peni