[PHCH013] Inverz – Slow (2009)

Inverz is Thessaloniki-born Savvas Metaxas, who runs the excellent Granny Records stable. Influenced by the likes of Fennesz, Pan American, Alva Noto and My Bloody Valentine, Metaxas utilizes acoustic & electric guitars and an arsenal of pedal effects and field recordings, to create a sound rich in texture and panoramic in depth.

http://www.archive.org/details/Inverz-Slowphch013/

http://www.phantomchannel.co.uk/webreleases.html

[ARGREC06] Nasta Labada & Vladislav Buben – The Piano Concerto (2009)

Argali Records is proud to present “The Piano Concerto”, a long-form avant-garde piano composition augmented with industrial atmospherics. In the words of the composers:

“Imagine a thunderstorm over the mountains near the sea, a stream of piano sounds flowing into the wilderness of nature from a house on the mountain slope, a lonely soul expressing the amazement caused by the mighty forces of Nature.

The Piano Concerto, by Buben and Nasta Labada, is a combination of the old piano improvisation along with industrial sounds, noises, and elements of field recordings. Altogether, they create a volumetric picture surrounding you and taking you away to a different world where your mind opens and senses sharpen.

Vladislav Buben: www.myspace.com/48704278
Nasta Labada: www.myspace.com/nasta.labada

Discover the beauty and float away for a while!”

This is ARGREC06.

www.archive.org/details/ARGREC06

http://argalirecordsnetlabel.wordpress.com

rec72[027] Monopole Net control (2009)

Net control is the latest concept album by artist Monopole (a.k.a. Richard Sudney). The whole idea of this album was taken from the natural occurrence of electromagnetic wave propagating through the ether. Like the waves being generated on the waters surface from a stone being thrown into it; this album takes these wave disturbances and mimics it over 6 tracks.

http://rec72.net/?p=545

[orl03] Amnesia – Absurd Fiction (2009)

Through the use of a back yard studio and an array of analogue instruments Sifantos produces his fourth official album; DIY aesthetics, noise tactics and pagan field recordings make up for Absurd Fiction.

www.archive.org/details/orl03

[ca324] Morgan Craft – The Silver Bullet (2009)

All sounds made by, on, or through solo electric guitar, with the
exceptions of tracks 1 & 11 which are field recordings.
All tracks improvised and recorded live.
Copyright 2009 / Morgan Craft

www.archive.org/details/ca324_mc

www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com

[pc0909-01] Stig Inge Oy – 39 68 99 09 (2009)

Stig Inge Oy from Poland incorporates acoustic instruments field recordings and post processed audio signals not commonly associated with music as primary sources for his close-in-the-box electroacoustic music, as he would call it. In the case of 39 68 99 09, the first release for the Petcord netlabel, this equates to tension ridden cinematic soundscapes that confront listeners with gloomy feelings of despair. The title refers to years that Maciej Miskiewicz, the man behind Stig Inge Oy, consider corner stones of the Western civilisation, though it remains unclear which events the composer had in mind. The work is characterised by a chilly feeling of hopelessness that does not entirely go away even at the lighter and more accessible parts. Sombre piano lines are contrasted with glassy drones, ecclectic string parts, guitars drowning in reverberation and processing artifacts like distortion, skipping sources or plain white noise. Caught in between tension and desperation, the listener is confronted with intense feelings that seem to be at odds with today’s tendency of drowning dissent in a sea of political correctness.

Olliver Wichmann

www.archive.org/details/pc0909-01/

www.petcord.com/releases/pc0909-01-stig-inge-oy-39-68-99-09/

[we010] Mike Hallenbeck Just Before Diwali – Field Recordings from North India (2009)

India is a wondrous cacophony of cultures, faiths, languages, politics, and — not surpisingly — sounds. I recently had the chance to find this out for myself. A marriage gave me new relatives in the north of India, so I had the chance to meet my new family and travel a bit, recording gear in
tow… [...]

http://wanderingear.com/we010.html

[ca300] VA – Clinical Anthology (2006-2009) (2009)

Eclectic and illogical compilation from different releases of a netlabel Clinical Archives of the period with 2006 for 2009.

Total time: 379:08

www.archive.org/details/ca300_ca

www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com

[ca298] Phillip Wilkerson – Secret (2009)

Dark ambient and experimental tracks, field recordings, and drones.

Phillip Wilkerson creates ambient and experimental music. His work has appeared on a number of netlabels. This is is fourth release for Clinical Archives.

www.archive.org/details/ca298_pw

www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com

[HAZE066] AORTHA – Was sleeping (2009)

was sleeping
intermingling with the wind in a line
sometimes straightening herself up to warm puffs
was running in tiny waves
dissolving in the night air
coming back in cool drops in the morning

www.archive.org/details/HAZE066

http://h-a-z-e.org/archives/1032

[EMP075] VA – Field Notes (2009)

We are very proud to present to you our new compilation album Field Notes, featuring some exceptional sound artists from accross the globe.

All the artists were asked to submit work that incorporated field recordings and we have 24 of the best for you for free download.

www.archive.org/details/emp075

www.earthmp.com

[SF-7004] Mysterybear – Elementals (2009)

Manchester, New Hampshire’s Dave Seidel offers a microtonal ode to the four primal elements. Water, fire, earth and air are represented here by elegant synthetic sounds and digitally manipulated field recordings. Working primarily in Csound, Seidel sculpts swathing drones and digital flutters into monolithic representations of his natural subjects. Technicians will undoubtedly consult Seidel’s notes included in the album’s digital packaging as well as the more extensive essays on his personal website for details of these tracks’ construction, while aesthetes will simply lose themselves in their overwhelming beauty.

http://stasisfield.com/releases/year07/sf-7004.html

[JNN050] VA – no-R-mal (2009)

Celebrating the 50th release on JNN I’ve invited some of the best (netlabel)artists from around the globe to join this massive compilationalbum.

In total 52 artists joined to create the finest in what is available in experimental music these days. Much of what you hear is unreleased work with the exception of a handful. These tracks have been carefully mastered and put together to present to you a 4 CD epic journey into sound. Together with the artwork the puzzle lies ahead to find out what exactly is ‘normal’.
A tip of the veil; … there is no one answer. What one considers normal another may disagree on with totally different standards.
Or in short; we are all just not normal and we all are!

no R mal!

http://www.archive.org/details/JNN050-variousartists-no-R-mal

http://justnotnormal.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/jnn050-various-artists-no-r-mal/

[xs63] subterminal – filled with light (2009)

With eyes wide open.
Like in a reawakening. A strange awake that repeats itself every night; every passing day, or so it seems. Like a virtual experience; or maybe not. Maybe it is just a normal but scary awakening. … “Filled With Light”.

“Filled With Light” awakens us in two different ways. The first, because it is only an EP which is part of an album yet to be released; the second, because in that album, poetry, a core element always present in Subterminal’s work, makes an eulogy to digital life. “Filled With Light” is like a trailer of a full movie that we anticipate; a summary with a beginning middle and end. For now, the awakening is what matters most and “Filled With Light” awakes; awakes us.

In that slow awake, “With You” introduces us to the theme, to the electronic principle that conducts the EP. However, “Filled With Light” is the track that captures our attention; because of the movement; the layers of sound; the excellent alto viola played by Tiago Morgado. There is a slight techno-industrial mood coloring Leonardo Rosado’s words, the man behind Subterminal. At last, “For the First Time” definitely introduces us to what’s coming. A confrontation with a different reality; or, an almost-reality. “For the First Time” introduces us to a confrontation between poetry and technology, created by dense sound ambiences, images, differing in rhythm and form. They are different lines of the same life; parallel or perpendicular. The exhaustion of conflict.

“Filled With Light” was composed and played almost entirely with an iPhone, with some extra sounds from other objects. After “Alumina” and “Insight”, released in 2009, the reawakening of Subterminal is of happiness. “Filled With Light” is a great step forward when comparing with prior releases, which leads to the expectation of a very interesting conceptual album. Coupled with the refinement of his personal electronic universe, the author added a better voice treatment. The production of the EP was made by Tiago Morgado.

… to keep the eyes wide open.

Press Review by Rui Dinis, A Trompa

http://www.archive.org/details/xs63Subterminal-FilledWithLight

http://xsrecordsptnetlabel.blogspot.com/2009/03/xs-13-lights-on-save-world-ep.html

Dallas Simpson – Braye Harbour (2009)

‘Braye Harbour – Harbouring Desires of Transcendence is an environmental sound work recorded in the summer of 2000 on the island of Alderney in the Channel Islands. It is an experimental improvisation featuring found objects and surfaces at Braye Harbour about 7am in the morning. The objects used for sound improvisation are, abandoned motor trucks, several small yachts and abandoned sailing equipment, metal storage container, road bollards, small crane and metal objects, quayside crane, and a variety of other objects.

The somewhat naive improvisation reveals the sonic nature of silent objects and surfaces at the location and occasionally excursions into ‘musicality’ occur. This bringing forth and revealing the presence of silent objects through intuitive sonic improvisation is an important aspect of ’Transcendence’ – and is a theme running through much of my work’.

http://konkretourist.de/?p=241

[PSFR01] Quarter Bit – The Antarctica Files (2009)

|[PSFR01] Quarter Bit – The Antartica Files | field recording | Format: mp3 320 kbp/s | Download | 00:31:07h |

12 Tracks …

Collection of Field Recordings made in Santiago, Chile; Ushuaia, Argentina and at the Antarctica. November 2008.

http://www.archive.org/details/psfr01QuarterBit-TheAntarcticaFiles

http://lab.pubspaces.com/2009/07/quarterbit-the-antarctica-files/

[BP039] Luís Antero – Watermill EP (2009)

Credits:
All field recordings by Luís Antero

Locations:
Watermill 1 | Quinta do Moinho, Oliveira do Hospital, Portugal
Watermill 2 | Quinta da Tapada, Seia, Portugal
Watermill 3 | Quinta da Moenda, Alvoco das Várzeas, Portugal

Thanks:
Mr. José, from Quinta do Moinho; Mrs. Isabel, from Quinta da Tapada; Mr. Hans & Mrs. Josephine, from Quinta da Moenda; Family (Bé, Isaac and Samuel) and Bypass Label

http://www.archive.org/details/bp039

bp.bai-hua.org

[birdsong031] Kauders – Brian invited June… (2009)

kauders is an austrian guitarist and music-maker who plays in bands like the striggles (experimental blues), code inconnu (noise rock), automassage (ambient rock) or duo adé (conceptual music, impro).

In his solo works he allows himself to do all the things he can’t do, or better he doesn’t dare to do in his band projects, which means sometimes being shamelessly lofty and sometimes leaving the path of good taste.

His new album „Brian invited June…“ is based on sequencer-tracks that were originally very close to the aesthetics of dance music, but then treated by effects, pitched and filtered, overlayed with vocals, guitars and field recordings and sometimes put into a song structure. The audible result is a very personal and ambivalent commentary or maybe even anti- pole to pattern structured party and easy listening music.

Though this all sounds pretty conceptual, kauders doesn’t intend to produce some kind of intellectual meta-music, if you dig inside you might find a foolishly romantic core, always aiming for some beauty besides of spotlessness.

http://birdsong.co.il/#kauders

PacoAlvarez – Domestic Landscapes (2009)

PacoAlvarez draws an acoustic painting free of objects but full of space for the listener’s own thoughts and interpretation when left alone at home with Domestic Landscapes.

You may travel with slow motion or dubbish drive to be right on time. Arriving at different places where ambience, microtonality and soft fieldrecordings wait for contemplation. Walk those sonic ranges, swim in these melodic seas and fly on top the  droning mountains you shall explore in Domestic Landscapes. PacoAlvarez’s debut album on rec72 is a continuous monument of sophisticated downtempo music.

http://rec72.net/?p=153

highly recommended! [dg]

[cnv54] C.McFall & B.Fleury-Steiner – the dirty and the clean (2009)

my work is a process of combining field recordings made on a dreary
Sunday morning in the poorest sections of inner city Wilmington,
Delaware–essentially these recordings were of empty spaces of wind
moving through tight graffiti covered alley ways and rows of
government housing located on the outer fringe of the city–the
recordings primarily consist of a sudden clatter of debris, strange
chiming noises but mostly a stretch of ghostly silences. I combined
these recordings with processed electric guitar and electric mbira.
everything was recorded live in the studio to create a series of
textural works–this process of creating a musical environment I
intended throughout to be a kind of reclaiming of what lay beneath the
taken-for-granted, indeed, “dirty” city underbelly. that is, I wanted
to bring out the beauty in all landscapes and natural phenomenon
(i.e., wind), however, disguised and dirtied they may be by government
neglect and public indifference to longstanding segregation….

[ Ben Fleury-Steiner ]

I’ve really enjoyed listening to Ben Steiner’s compositions. They’re wonderfully layered in depth and exhibit an exqusite density that comes across in a pristine way, one of which that really captivates my ears. Last summer I began talking with Ben about the possibility of collaborating and things began to fall into place really quickly, which was great. At the time we were also talking about the cities we live in and about the variety of sounds we come across as a result. To me these works represent the artistic culmination of treated sound extracts of the urban display. They exemplify a hybrid of the urban experince rendered through sound, built and broken, the dirty and the clean…

[ Christopher McFall ]

http://www.archive.org/details/cnv54

http://www.con-v.org/

[mi110] Luis Antero – Sound Narratives Vol.6 (2009)

Luis Antero has a passion for abstraction of natural and ethnographic content. “Sound Narratives Vol 6″ is the result of these recordings during a trip from Oliveira do Hospital to the city of Coimbra.

http://www.archive.org/details/mi110_LuisAntero_SoundNarratives_Vol6

http://www.clubotaku.org/mimi/uk/album110.php

[JNN045] Anton Mobin – Frequence (2009)

Original soundwork by Anton Mobin
release under creative commons license for JustNotNormal netlabel in 2009, 7th June.
(cc-nc-nd)

http://justnotnormal.wordpress.com/

Release name : Fréquence ep
Author: Anton Mobin
Title : Fréquence
Total duration : 11′26”
#JNN045

Field recordings, edit & mix by Anton Mobin
Mastering by Mark “Mysthar” Stolk

Artwork : Anton Mobin

http://www.archive.org/details/JNN045-AntonMobin-Frequence

http://justnotnormal.wordpress.com/

[JNN044] Pighood – To Patch a creditor (2009)

Hymn: Why don’t you have a seat right over there?

P*gh**d: These cookies are delicious…did you hatch them on your own?

Hymn: Keep your hands where I can see them.

P*gh**d: Is that a Neumann in your pocket, or are you just extremely pumped about your job?

Hymn: Soooooo….what was your plan for tonight?

P*gh**d: To pee on thy forehead until there ain’t no more pee in mee.

Hymn: What do you think should happen to you?

P*gh**d: BRAAAAMP

Hymn: Oh, for gross!

P*gh**d: I blame Bush.

Hymn: Don’t we all?

BOTH: BWAAAHAAAAHAAAAA

http://www.archive.org/details/JNN044-Pighood-Topatchacreditor

http://justnotnormal.wordpress.com/

[JNN046] Stream69 – Souvenirs from Earth (2009)

“This album is dedicated to Souvenirs From Earth TV”

The Way of Creed – “Dedicated to a certain Jesus”
First Prayer – “Meditation, Saintliness & Philosophy”
Infinite Garden – “Green Kingdom’s Garden, Cosmic Expand”
Souvenirs From Earth – “Dedicated to Souvenirs From Earth (French/German TV)”
Sisleep – “Dedicated to our Micro-Sleeps”
Voyage Au Bout De La Nuit – “Dedicated to a certain French TV-Show carrying this name”
Better & Faster – “Doin’ Music only when it calls me”
Quartet Works – “Dedicated to any soulmen who use machines and computers like an orchestra”
Profond Sommeil – “Sleepy Noises”
The Highway Close of Cemetery – “Dedicated to the Cemetery of my town*”
Mur Du Son – “Undedicated to 1933-1945, Dedicated to The Right Stuff (Movie)”
To Fall – “Undedicated to the loss controls, Dedicated to the gravity”
Scratched Vynils – “Dedicated to Vynil’s Children”

http://www.archive.org/details/JNN046-Stream69-SouvenirsfromEarth

http://justnotnormal.wordpress.com/

NORMAN FAIRBANKS – One American Second » The Base

[zym022] Nicola Ratti – èsope (2009)