yiorgis sakellariou’s (mecha/orga) work can be heard, amongst other artists, in the new entr’acte release, E84
Mecha/Orga, Adam Asnan,
Pauwel De Buck, Joshua Convey,
Adrián Democ
CD (E84)
this is a “various artists” release
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more info here
larry gus, new album & sighting in the overground press
the buzz has been on for quite some time now around Veroia’s finest beat-maker Larry Gus (Panagiotis Melidis). While he’s no stranger to these underground waters (see older posts here), he’s been steadily making a name for himself as a (non-exclusively) hip-hop artist. Just released on the Greek ‘cast-a-blast’ label is his smashing sampladelic summer trip called ‘Stitches’. Great as the album is (close to fucking fantastic), panagiotis is -in some circles- loved even more for his inimitable, border-like neurotic, train-of-thought talk. On the occasion of his new album, you have a taste of those ramblings in an interview he gave to the greek music zine mic.gr here
if you want more, there’s always his blog
of course, a taste of his music is even better. More info on his label’s site here
complete re_entry
details on the latest absurd batch came to us in irregular intervals, so we only had the tasos stamou/ilan manouach cdr online up till now. At last though, we have notes and actual pictures of all the rest…
left to right:
matt weston ‘for alexandros grigoropoulos’, cdr
feline desmond ’seg fridge’, 7″ [rekem records]
joke lanz & rudolf eb.er ‘Akustische Aktion’ (Essen) – Zurich 1991, LP [co-released with PAN]
fire away…
tasos stamou, ilan manouach cdr
on a question of re_entry
tasos stamou, ilan manouach cdr
a varied duel between the two that took place in amfissa earlier this year. ilan sticks to soprano and sopranino saxophones while tasos circles him with all kinds of small & toy instruments and loops. exploratory at first, tuneful when it needs to ride to the occasion, a very nice and breezy document.
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http://absurd.noise-below.org
http://www.myspace.com/ilanmanouach
http://tasosstamou.wordpress.com/
SLW - Fifteen point nine grams
a brand new release on organized music from thessaloniki
SLW - Fifteen point nine grams
this is the second album from the international quartet of Burkhard Beins, Lucio Capece, Rhodri Davies & Toshimaru Nakamura; it is a particularly engrossing listen, recorded live and presented here for your aural pleasure. SLW, the name of the group, stands for ‘Sounds Like Water’ and it’s an analogy that describes pretty well the flow and the sheer presence of this music. Beyond boundaries, listen loud and often.
CD edition, sleeve design by QQ
new discs from kukuruku
two recent offerings from tasos stamou’s label, first one is ‘Two Fields and a Snowflake’ -a recent recording by the athens-based duo of Free Piece of Tape. While the band’s usual palette of sound consists of amplified objects, percussion, electronics and the like, this disc is different since it consists of purely acoustic recordings made in and around a city apartment. One finds folk-tinged percussion and guitar alongside domestic object manipulation, environmental sounds and some mildly claustrophobic natural reverb; delicate colours and an interesting trip along the way.
number 7 in the label’s catalogue is ‘vague’, the duo of Scillia Lorage & Kiko C. Esseiva. Kiko is known from some previous electroacoustic recordings on hinterzimmer, 1000+1 Tilt and echomusic, which ranged from quite good to exquisite. Here we find him in an open collaborative setting with ms. Lorage. Haven’t heard this one yet, but from what i gather it’s largely in the same direction as him previous offerings.
new PAN wave: Lanz + Eb.Er, ilios, Blood Stereo, Das Synthetische Mischegewebe LPs
vinyl porn again, 4 new LPs from bill kouligas’ PAN label
JOKE LANZ & RUDOLF EB.ER
‘Akustische Aktion’ (Essen) – Zurich 1991
historical document of an early Schimpfluch Gruppe performance by Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant) & Rudolf Eb.er (Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock). limited edition of 200 copies, co-produced with absurd
ILIOS
‘Kenrimono’ LP
new ilios material, this time entirely based on field recordings and manipulations made from sounds in pachinko parlors in Kansai area, Japan in 2007. intense stuff
BLOOD STEREO
‘Your Snakelike King’ LP
more sounds from the duo of Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance, featuring their own unmistakable mix of tape collage, free vocals and electro-acoustic mischief
DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE
‘Frequency Conquistadors’ LP
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new dynasty zines
RALF ZIERVOGEL
16 pages
28 x 37 cm
b/w Offset
edition of 200
ASHLEY SNOW MACOMBER
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE NOT
12 pages
28 x 37 cm
b/w Offset
edition of 200
2009
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nokalypse on wax
nokalypse - repeated in an indefinitely alternating series of thoughts LP
co-published by absurd & entr’acte in the uk, comes the latest work from Themistoklis Pantelopoulos. Mostly known around these offices as the head of the triple bath label, he really excels himself as a kick-ass laptop musician on this one, brewing a strong blend of electroacoustic elements with a classic feel written all over them. The sounds drift and swell in large masses, providing serious healing for all senses considered. The music also benefits from a quite loose but definitely very considered structure (no dry sequencing here) which a very strong and dynamic direction to the two compositions in the record.
hurry and get your copy from absurd (250 pressed, and they won’t stick around waiting)
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summer haze batch from triple bath
yet another string of cdrs from triple bath. the sax/guitar duo of regular rules, soundscape work from mystified on ‘frigid radiance‘ and a second triple bath release from the quartet of Mike Johnston, Mike Gilmore, Mike Khoury & Kirk Lucas, titled ‘impermanence‘. since i neither have any of the discs at hand, nor any sort of promo text to plagiarize, you’ll be better of clicking here to go to triple bath’s own webpage where you can get a pretty good taste of the albums (online samples and the lot…)
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in a related note, triple bath’s driving force, Themistoklis Pantelopoulos, has yet another release now out, following a cdr that echomusic put out only a month ago. this time it’s an lp, co-released by uk’s entr’acte and our very own absurd. i’ll be posting the details on that one in the coming days but, really, don’t wait for me to do so before going ahead and ordering one; it’s only 250 copies and pretty smokin’
on echomusic: if, bwana / francisco meirino & kiko c. esseiva / nokalypse
three new cdr editions from echomusic, this has started to look like a very prolific year for some labels around here. this batch contains a small-run reissue of a recording by al margolis’ ‘if, bwana‘ project, that according to the info at hand involves some serious composition (106.476 clarinets manipulated in order to compose one static, rumbly, dark and deep track? damn…) next there is a disc of electroacoustic music by francisco meirino & kiko c. esseiva, i’ve been wanting to check out esseiva’s work for some time now and this disc (and a solo one pretty soon i’ve heard), makes it so much easier. last but not least is one by nokalypse, aka themistoklis pantelopoulos, aka the buzz of the town in athens in the areas close to drone-noisy-computer music. rumour has it that he kicked ass in a support slot for tim hecker a week ago, but since i wasn’t in athens to witness this, i’ll make do with the cdr.
keep ‘em coming
ap´strophe “objects sense objectes”
heads-up for the first release of the duo ap’strophe (Ferran Fages and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga) on Etude Records. besides championing the work of Ferran Fages since god knows when, this release is even more noteworthy for us for being the first full-length work to apear from the collaboration between Ferran & our very own Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga. Dimitra has sailed far into the lands of improvised music, but her actual work has only recently surfaced (see also here). we now -officially- expect great things from her
Ferran Fages : Acoustic guitar
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga : Zither
ap’strophe is the duo of Ferran Fages and Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga. They began working together in 2006, when Ferran Fages recorded his last guitar album “Cançons per a un lent retard”, where Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga collaborated in the track Paraula clau, which they composed and interpreted together. After recording the album they realized the impossibility of re-interpreting this piece, which is based on the detuning(s) of the guitar, but they decided to continue working together. They decided to treat the piece Paraula clau as finished and started to search for a common sonoric space. The result of this survey gave shape to their present collaboration, which consists of a duo of acoustic guitar and zither. With their music they investigate the perception of the distinctive timbre of the guitar and the zither alongside the differences and similarities of their string instruments.
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Commenting on the title he gave to the first album by ap’strophe, Michalis Kyratsous writes (read this after the jump):
