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).
http://butterfly.noise-below.org/
πτώματα κάτω από το κρεβάτι records [corpses underneath the bed records]. New imprint, soon to rise from the ashes of the ‘absurd’ universe. First signs of life expected this fall.
yep, title’s taken from pauline oliveros’s same titled track and couldn’t find better for the final absurd release.
so below’s some info on the upcoming final absurd thing full schedule / details are to follow later but announce the first details of the absurd #84 scrapbook in case anyone’s interested in crashin’ in xanthi on december the 4th.
the idea is as follows, a final release or at least an effort for a final release but as i’ve never had a straight online release (perhaps the thu 20 piece might be an exception or an ‘odyssey’ depending on the angle you see it) thought as a nice idea to set up a mini fest to say goodbye to fellow coneptualists and end absurd there and at the same time this mini fest to be an a release in process. that simple.
so as i don’t wanna beat about the bush as mentioned earlier on saturday the 4th at the ’spiti politismou’ of f.e.x. in xanthi this ‘release’ / adieau absurd mini fest will take place.
further schedule details are to follow as 90% a date in thessaloniki on friday the 3rd is also possible to take place if the pals up there find a place to set it up.
the line-up so far includes:
- leif elggren (as leif elggren) & bill kouligas (a.k.a. family battle snake) (live electronics)
- jerome noetinger
- blood stereo (including ellka reign nyoukis?)
- sudden infant
- adieAUX a special aux performance as a goodbye thing that during the process of absurd #84 we’ll publish the final release absurd #85 but details on this performance will folow later)
- ilan manouach (sax & electronics) / george axiotis (live electronics) / chris carras (dj) no comments simply my heroes!
this is it so far.
further details to follow also details regarding how to reach xanthi from various places from greece or around the balkans.
love & noise
nicolas
thanks to the knot crew
nothing but a short post to mention a small fragment of the nn+ set that took place during the tot festival held in knot gallery on the 26th & 27th of june.
nn+ turned to be the ‘line-up’ of nektarios (a strange attractor record store), nicolas (πτώματα κάτω από το κρεββάτι records), kostis kilymis (organized music from thessaloniki). with nektarios we feel grateful somehow to mihalis kyratsous & dimitra lazaridou-hatzigoga as they dropped the idea for this set and turned to be great chacnce to do finally a duo we longed nearly 18 years to do since the last days of the greek grind/noisecore scene’s heyday back in early 90’s. back then he as a member of the grind group ‘industry of crashed conceptions’ i as ’sickness’. then wishing a kinda whitehouse tone generator noise thing that never materialized now something we liked much more to be honest as we had a host of participants like otomo hava, ilan manouach, e.a.
also just for the history and the arhives of absurd completists…during the set were smashed some 150 looper cds. for the record the cd was to be an edition of 500, i ordered back then some 600 sleeves and anastasis (of the small music theatre fame) helped w/ the cd order/ manufacturing. well i only left athens for a 4 days visit to budapest upon landin’ back the 500 cd ordered had turned to a 1000 cd one and luckily instead of 600 sleeves approx for the first time in absurd’s history had some close to 700 printed. not sure how the final edition was however some 20-30 were smashed during the old fashioned donkeys electrograph performance 4 years ago. some 100-150 were thrown into a recycle bin outside my house and some 100-120 more or less left were smashed during the nn+ thing. since then was too bored to print again sleeves for the remaining copies you see.
same holds for the tasos stamou ‘infant’ cd. by the time it was out some 60 – 70 copies were left without sleeve. if am not mistaken when the sleeves we initially bought were some 400-450 for an edition of 500-520 cds. so for 4 years too they were collecting dust in my bedroom and as i need room now for more records of my collection i simply recycled them. guess there’s more tasos stamou to be recycled sooner or later….
enjoy
hi
long since the last update or at least i think so.
so just out is cranc’s ‘copper fields’ cd co-produced with organized music from thessaloniki. in brief a noise-below release.
marks the 2nd cranc release exactly after a decade since their first ‘all angels’ cd on edo records and is far more different in style. listening both of them you may see the difference and progress (depnends on your opinion if is progress or whatever) the trio did in their sound search the last decade.
it also marks the end of absurd and an almost 14 year journey comes to its end.
there are various plans in mind for future projects not as intense as absurd at least at the moment (well absurd started like that in 96 you might say and then…). in early / mid july a new project starts and will be the main vehicle for this decade. also important as a vehicle is the ‘outside my window’ blog. my greatest interest wth it is field recordings but never sayno for proper mp3/flac releases. already a dead gum mp3 is uploaded also a binaural field recording of a specific site of the city of kalamata as recorded by nikos kyriazopoulos last april while cycling in the city.
check http://thenoisehitthemastheyopenedthedoor.blogspot.com
slowly will keep upldating the ’story so far’ blog http://allnoisesswelltogetherinlandscapes.blogspot.com as still there are shitloads waiting to be uploaded.
also a kind of posthumous release is a 10″ by tasos stamou. a recording of a party held for the birthday of a friend’s daughter last july in the village of nea triglia in halkidiki, north greece. guess sometime in july will be out too.
as has happened with any project unearthed from the genital grinder zine saga and on a ‘link’ between absurd and the new project that is in the works will be a special release somehow the ‘official’ final a 7″ by howard stelzer & frans de waard which is nothing else than another brick on the ‘torn tongue’ wall they slowly built. i assume that it’ll be out sometime in september or october.
speaking of posthumous releases as well the ‘adieu absurd’ party thing will take place on saturday the 4th in the city of xanthi. further details to be announced sometime later during the year.
also ‘a question of re_entry’ has almost fulfilled its idea. a final co-production cdr is due for release sometime in 2010 and will mark its end as well.
hhmm guess that’s all for now. sometime in july will email infos on the new project, its first release, etc.
love & noise
nicolas
Angharad Davies: violin
Rhodri Davies: electric harp
Nikos Veliotis: cello
organized music from thessaloniki #9 / absurd #82
research center for the definition of happiness (istanbul branch)
the new album by this greek-welsh trio is now available, just 11 years after their debut ‘All Angels’ on Costis Drygianakis’ EDO label. An expansive piece for bowed and e-bowed tones, pulsating drones in an unbroken (?) continuum.
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available now, through organized music from thessaloniki & absurd
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http://www.rhodridavies.com/
http://www.angharaddavies.com/
http://www.nikosveliotis.com/
for oscillators and internal combustion engine vibrations
[absurd #80]
document of a live performance at the athens bienalle of 2009. Edition of 25, clear 12″ vinyl
inquiries: nicolas.malevitsis _ |at| _ gmail _ com
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in the biggest fuck-up in a series of major fuck-ups (see below about our non-functioning mailing lists), absurd has lost its long-standing email address.
long story short, the absurd _ |at| _ otenet _ gr address is no longer working. if you happened to send an email to this address in the past month or so, chances are it has failed to reach us.
please direct all future communication to:
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the old address may eventually return, but it seems best to keep an independent host for now
apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused
here’s one that’s been available for a while, but i hesitated to write about it
i hesitated because it’s bloody good, and i wanted to spend some time and write something more substantial about it
(but as it usually happens, i have yet to dedicate the time, and i fear it will unceremoniously disappear in the torrents of online information)
so without further ado, here’s the latest release by Socrates Martinis. After many aliases (each for every record actually; nixilx.nijilx, Hélice Pied and blanco estira nuestro (+), hermana Hélice were the previous ones) this one comes without a discernible artist name, with only the work’s title to mark its territory. But this is unimportant
the 7″ comes in coloured vinyl, it contains “field recordings & objects composed by Martinis”. I’d attempt to descibe it as raw (though not really violent), unpredictable and visceral. But like most works that contain this kind of material one cannot really anticipate what’s contained within, in terms of direction, quality, approach, etc -merely by description. Though the true gems in the area always seem to shine through, and this is one of those gems. Wish i had a portable vinyl player to blast it through the afternoon
au seuil de la liberté (diptych)
absurd #79
7″ edition
our mailing lists are down
having less time to dedicate on the site these past few months, i only recently realised that the database behind our mailing lists has ceased to function. This means that both the ‘absurd’ and the ‘organized music from thessaloniki’ labels’ mailing lists are not in operation. I have tried in vain to fix this problem, but at the moment i cannot even salvage the subscribers’ email addresses. Which means that those people who will not read this entry, might have to wait a long time befor they receive anything new from those lists. My apologies for this.
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