thanks to the knot crew
nn+ @ knot gallery, 25/06/10 [absurd self-cancelation, part 1]
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
absurdities
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
cranc – copper fields
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/
ILIOS / symphony n.1…
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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absurd’s contact (email) address has changed
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:
nicolas.malevitsis _ |at| _ gmail _ com
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
au seuil de la liberté (diptych)
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
mailing list meltdown
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.
For the time being, you are encouraged to subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed as an alternative. It will contain any info that would have apeared in those lists, as well as other news from related labels and artists. Or just keep an eye on our pages, the old-fashioned way.
Even though i myself still favor mailing lists and their succinct notifications, maybe this will prove to be a way forward since more and more people today seem to depend on automatic notifications. I’m afraid we don’t have another choice for now
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…
absurd communication
long since the last piece of news… perhaps the reason why is that my life goes under rapid changes the last 2-3 months and reorganise things down here at the central.
on the other hand thanks to these changes found the proper time to rearrange my space and try to organize absurd’s archive (or at least i tried to).
and in the meantime new releases… 3 in a row on ‘a question of re_entry’ plus the vinyl issue of ‘akustiche aktion’ in conjuction with pan records to celebrate sudden infant’s 20th anniversary.
the blogs have remained silent too but is a matter of time to reactivate them and upload a hell of stuff…
apologies also to those whose emails i might have forgotten to answer.. if you are one of them pls drop a line again!
hhhmm… guess that’s all… not much in the pipeline either. plans are to try to reduce releases in 2010 to some 3 or 5 maximum. we’ll see.
next week also sees daylight a stellar electroacoustic 7″ by socrates martinis (aka blanco estira nuestra, helice pied, nixilx nijilx, etc – well changes names faster than the speed of light so i won’t be suprised to see in the future a sign quoted as ‘the artist formely knows as socrates martinis’)
also together with my friends thalia & aggelos of 0600am blog http://0600am.blogspot.com/ we issued a limited to 100 7″ on our fictional rekem records (infos on what rekem stands for can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra) influenced thanks to this book http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/8-10-2005-74577.asp of a fridge recording done in weimar sometime earlier this year. you can download the track from their blog. 7″s were handed for free and not sure where you can track them down or not (‘ve got very few even for me) however drop a line and you can never know.
guess that’s all for now. more news to come in november/december with more surprises as well….
love & noise
nicolas
[release details coming up -admin]
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://www.myspace.com/ilanmanouach
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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