By the bug

...it's been a while now that i had an mp3-download overdose syndrom,meaning i find every album i listen to boring and uninteresting so i decided to stop downloading for a while
and listen one-or two albums a day,which so far has the same effects because still i find most
of the things i listen to ..boring!!!...after all maybe my music taste is absolutely shitty and that's
the reason i can't find anything good,that's why the best music news i've heard lately was that
the Russian Futurists(one of my favorite bands) are having a new record out this summer...
hope it will be as sunny and lovingly naive as the previous ones!!!
 

By the bug

Το live θα ακολουθήσει την πετυχημένη συνταγή αναπαραγωγής ηχογραφήσεων του Άγγελου και την πρωτότυπη αντίστοιχα συνταγή εκτέλεσης τραγουδιών των Κτιρίων. Η διάθεση των λέξεων πετυχημενος και πρωτότυπος θα λάβει μέρος πιο ενεργά κατά τη σύζευξη των δύο μετά το πέρας των εμφανίσεων τους, ώστε να αναπτυχθεί υλικό το οποίο δούλεψαν από απόσταση δίχως επικοινωνία την τελευταία βδομάδα πριν την συνάντηση τους στη ΚΝΟΤ.


Άγγελος κυρίου/ http://angeloskyriou.blogspot.com/

Κτίρια τη Νύχτα/ http://buildingsatnight.blogspot.com/


KNOT Gallery

Mιχαλακοπούλου 206 & Πύρρου (εις. από Πύρρου)
πλησιέστερος σταθμός Μετρό: Αμπελόκηποι
Λεωφορεία: Α5, Β5 (στάση ΖΑΓΟΡΑ)
 

Category: By the bug

''A full hour of sonic gunk recorded mostly by Damon, the head puffy and bass player, Dusty. Insanely fresh and concise release for one of the most insanely off-kilter rock projects going right now. Absolutely in the zone four-track recordings that capture lo-fi psych scum basement rock and a wide variety of instrumental tracks that really make this entire release HIGHLY ADDICTIVE. Heavy guitar fuzz explorations of cosmic kraut'esque realms. Beautiful synth gnarl and killer jams through and through. Sonic experiments that leave you feeling as if you are being flushed down some giant neon green polka-dotted toilet bowl. You may have checked them out with their recent additions of Cleveland radio psych guru, Steve Newton (Krauty McKraut) on vocals and John Elliot of Emeralds on synthesizer but you've likely never heard them as fully realized as they are on "Harrigan's Blues". ''
harrigan'sblues
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Category: By the bug

''...Those who are afraid that pianist Matthew Shipp is getting soft after he released Pastoral Composure (Thirsty Ear) will rest assured with this release: he's featured in an extreme outer-limits dialogue with this all-star ecstatic-jazz ensemble. Shipp's quaking low-end rumbles and wayward lyricism is underpinned by William Parker's prowling bass lines and Rashid Bakr's sparse drumming. On top, trumpeter Roy Campbell and reedman Daniel Carter alternate between full-blast screeching textures, secretive slurs and intricate cross-dialogues....''
TIME....
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''

Is TOP FLOOR ENCOUNTER part of the revenge of Generation Y musicians?

For the past 15 years or so, Gen X jazzers -- the so-called Young Lions -- have dominated the musical agenda, limiting improvisation to that involving swing, tonality and conventional interaction. But now, as many of the Young Lions are revealed to be little more than toothless tigers, even younger players are throwing those conventions aside and discovering how such techniques as speech-like inflection and dissonance, first utilized by neo-con mocked avant gardists gives them additional freedom.

The two American and one German musician featured here, who are all on either side of 30, demonstrate how well this rediscovered musical independence can be used.

Link between sensibilities, is American bassist John Hughes, 29. While going to university in Baltimore he was part of an shifting group of experimental improvisers, which included drummer Jeff Arnal, 30. Arnal, who studied composition at the University of Baltimore also played with Vattel Cherry, a former Charles Gayle sideman, with whom Hughes studied bass. Moving to Hamburg in 1999, he began an association with local alto saxophonist Lars Scherzberg, 29. When Arnal visited Germany in the summer of 2000 the three got together to record this skillful CD.

Existing in a common improv zone, where they're certainly not a group, but no longer strangers, the three range through a mixed program rooted firmly in what could be called the EuroImprov tradition.

Although working in the time-honored horn and rhythm section trio preferred by committed jazz saxophonists as different as Ornette Coleman and Branford Marsalis, this is no soloist-plus-back-up date. While parallels could be made with the trios put together by improvisers like Briton Evan Parker, the three certainly haven't reached the level of extrasensory perception that sometimes characterize the interaction in those bands.

Instead what you see is what you get: three young musicians working together to achieve a certain congruence and mutual solving of different theoretical challenges. Although the sleeve lists nine selections, you could just as easily see the entire disc as one subdivided suite. Flowing one tune into another, only interrupted near the end for some scattered applause from the small audience, this is music of diminutive hand movements and quick responses.

Scherzberg, a saxophone student of King Übü mainman Wolgang Fuchs, plays in a style that implies sounds as much as expels them. A compendium of extended techniques, his favorites seem to be rolling flutter tonguing, false fingering and protracted pain-flecked shrieks. Near the end he does try some honking as well as circular breathing, but that's also the only time anything resembling a regular plucked bass pulse appears.

Reticent most of the time, Hughes usually confines himself to lightening quick arco attacks, quick bass guitar-like strums or bass stave accents. While Arnal, favoring brushes, mostly confines himself to the lightest parts of his kit, sometime introducing the odd bell-like cymbal tone.

Having set out their parameters, the three still reveal themselves Gen Yers on most pieces and the CD itself really lack a definitive ending. But, then again, who beside the neo-cons ever assumed that a young musician's definitive statement was made first time out? Extraordinary improvisation comes from many years of familiarity with your own instrument and your thoughts about music making.

This encounter is a fine record of a stop along that road. As the promise exhibited here is realized, the three may arrive at a place that's even higher than the top floor.''
topfloorencounter
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Category: By the bug

''The recordings came about as a result of a project instigated in late 1999, which bears witness to a long held fascination with how the environment generates and shapes culture, memory and myth. There was no desire to conduct any scientific or anthropological field work, but to collect a set of recordings which would serve to illustrate how precious the sonic environment can be, and to act as founding materials for a soundscape collection at the British Library Sound Archive.''
mythsoforiginsonicephemerafromeastasia
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...τεσσερις κορυφαιοι μουσικοι αυτοσχεδιαζουν,αναδομουν και διασταυρωνονται αλλοτε
σε free jazz μονοπατια και αλλες φορες στα γκριζα τοπια τις Ευρωπαικης μοντερνας και
νεοκλασσικης μουσικης...
περιφερεια
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Category: By the bug

Contemporary Kagura Metaphysics
''..Nanjo, leader & bass player from High Rise. He formed this group specifically to explore any minimalism/occult overlap & to use instruments both eastern & western. He also forced the musicians to remain anonymous & requred more than 400 overdubs in the studio. Mixed by Kawabata from Acid Moms.. ..''
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Category: By the bug

...δυο Ελληνικα συγκροτηματα με κοινο χαρακτηριστικο την synth-pop ταυτοτητα τους
αν και με μεγαλες διαφορες στον ηχο,οι Proxies απο την Θεσσαλονικη ενα απο τα πρωτα
synth γκρουπ της χωρας μας που εκαναν μαλιστα μια σχετικη επιτυχια με το 12'' που
παρουσιαζουμε εδω και λεω φυσικα για το Fishin' Boat τη διασκευη στο γνωστο νησιωτικο
''Θα Παρω Μια Ψαροβαρκα'' ενω το αλλο γκρουπ οι In Trance 95 οι οποιοι υπαρχουν μεχρι σημερα αν δεν κανω λαθος(σε αντιθεση με τους Proxies) με εναν Sheffield oriented ηχο
κυκλοφορησαν το μοναδικο ''μεγαλο '' τους δισκο το 1990 απο την Wipe Out με τιτλο
Code Of Obsession:The Trance Dance Alternatives Vol.1

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Category: By the bug

''ADOLF FILTER is Daniel Persson and Conny Klenze from Gothenburg, Sweden. Inspired by analogue synthesizers, drum machines and cassette recordings, and they started playing in various electronic bands over the years since 1986. Having started as ADOLF FILTER in 2004, they eventually appeared on various compilations, amongst them the “Doppelhertz” 2LP, the “Festival der Genialen Dilettanten” LP and “Vågform Volym 1” CD (all available in this shop). The whole concept is to keep the music free from any software synthesisers what so ever thus using only physical instruments. In general they do sound a lot like early FRONT 242 (thus in their best era 1981 to 1983) making use of a lot of Roland SH-101 and TR-606. Very nostalgic, thus very good!''
theotherhandontheknob
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''...It’s a music that makes striking use of aural perspective. Across a background wash of out-of-focus electronics or detuned radio burble, crisp and sometimes violent exchanges shoot like comets. Agnel’s clipped phrases are often very widely spaced, and on occasion wobble disconcertingly, as if being shaken back and forth. The piano is sometimes right in front of you, but just as often sounds like it’s playing on a distant radio. As with Phosphor, conventions of musical dialogue and interaction are almost completely displaced, though there are flashes of wit and the whole thing is anything but austere. Rather than as “free improvisation,” this needs to be listened to as a sonic artifact, possessing an indubitable but almost alien internal logic. Excellent....''
Rouge Gris Brut
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Category: By the bug

''.... Myelin Sheaths have found a perfect platform to desecrate the chill and melt the frozen wilderness around them. The endlessly reverberated dual male/female vocals blend together on the B-side's “Drugstore Pharmacy” so well that you can feel the sky open up and suck you straight into heaven, as it washes away the troubles clouding your weary consciousness. Like if someone plugged the entire C86 sound into a fried-out supergenerator, Myelin Sheaths have the potential to skyrocket straight to the top of your list of new favorites...''
DOTHEMENTALTWIST
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Category: By the bug

''....Despite the crap artwork that looks tailor-made for clearance bins nationwide, this M/F two piece from Sacto (that's Sacramento to you) serves up some delightfully raucous lo-fi DIY garage/pop that could have been cranked out by Jad Fair's old (circa "Half Gentlemen") production studio. Sweet stuff indeed...''
easterqueen
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