CODES: - Drone Records

* PYLONES AND TELEGRAPH POLES CD-R (Evelyn Records
eve09, 2001) € 8.00
Excellent british Compilation with KARINA ESP, DUAL, NIXXOS
LEXXOS, iD, CULVER, JOHANN WLIGHT, ROB GALPIN,
AMBERLIGHT, ARABELLA'S PARADE, solely british experimental
drone & ambient-noise-artists. Professional full-colour cover & label
printing. Sold out at the label, absolutely last copies !
* SURROUNDING: AN EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC COMPILATION
CD-R (TRAquetO RECords TQ:006, 2004) [lim. 100] € 10.00
Gute Übersicht über experimentellen Drone & Ambient aus UK, auf
dem RYN-Label! Neben RYN gibt es Material von VIOLENCE BEYOND
THE SNOWLINE (extreme sub-bass drones), TENHORNEDBEAST
(sinister noise-ambience), HARM (dark guitar drones & low feedbacks),
TROLLMAN AV ILDTOPPBERG, CULVER (great low-fi hypnosis), LEO
SLAYER, und SNOTNOSED.
Das Material liegt überwiegend im düster-dröhnigen, gitarrenbasierten
Bereich, das label nennt das „Post-Isolationism“.... damn...
Kommt als DVD-Box mit Booklet.
Good overview about the new experimental drone & ambientdevelopments
from UK, on the label run by RYN !!
Lim. 100 in DVD box with booklet.
3.2. VISUALS : DVDs / Video-CDRs / VHS /
Åke HODELL -Lågsniff DVD (Hall Tjäften TJÄFT 001, 2002)
€ 15.00
Extremely rare obscure HODELL-DVD, back in stock !!
“Directed by: Åke Hodell and Per Wiklund
Photo: Per Wiklund
Performers: Åke Hodell, Torsten Ekbom, Bengt Emil Johnson,
Leif Nylén, Sissi Nilsson and Elisabeth Nylén.
Running time: 20 minutes
“This is one of the most essential DVD-releases of 2002, by the
controversial Swedish text-sound poet Åke Hodell (1919-2000).
"Lågsniff" is only screened once on Swedish television in 1965, and
then creating such a stir that the film immediately was put into the dark
vaults of SVT, where it has been hidden since. Now the amazing visual
recording of the event has been made available on DVD, 37 years after.
This experimental stageplay is a masterpiece in the use of live voices,
(by fellow leading avantgardists of the time, Bengt-Emil Johnson, Leif
Nylén a.o.) black and white cut ups and an innovative use of the
camera.” [label description]
* RABELAIS, AKIRA / STEPHAN MATHIEU - Quién era aquella que
te amó DVD-R (Conv CNVR09, 2006) [lim. 100] € 12.50
Ultra spheric drones and a mind-blowing dia-show with ultrafast
subsequently appearing pictures, once you saw this in full you are
overflooded with thousands of visuals, taken from all kinds of sources,
this is one whole world on one piece, or thousand worlds in one world.
After a while this has a stunning, hypnotic effect. The brain is simply too
overloaded to « think » about what it perceives... Nearly 50 minutes of
music and visuals...
“Conv is proud to present this unique collaborative audiovisual work
between Akira Rabelais (video) and Stephan Mathieu (audio). As with
all of Rabelais' oeuvre, this one is again a deep, fundamental semiotic
intrigue - or rather, an indeterable rumble with Aporia; a looking-glass
tumble down a dead-end street; a non-stop magic-lantern show with the
epic dimensions of the platonic cave-parabel (or of a non-stop erotic
cinema program). With only the poet's initiatory words for sustenance
one steps into the looking glass - the empty frame - to fall smack in the
realm of the blind, unyielding and uni-directional 'drone' of life (whether
lived or googled is of no essential consequence within this realm of
existence). This movement though is but the substratum of a gentler
phenomenology introduced by Mathieu's vibrant search for the minute
detail, for the ghost in the machine, adding a new sense of perspective:
a sense of the gradual calibration of the moved to the mover. The alien
mechanics perpetuating the weaving-loom finally become instances of
encounter with oneself - not as in a looking glass, but in an experience
of unreflected recognition.” [label info]
* THE SPACE VOYAGE (SOUND DESIGN BY VETROPHONIA)
DVD-R [lim. 250] (Zhelezobeton ZF-1, 2006) € 12.00
Der legendäre russische Science Fiction-Stummfilm SPACE VOYAGE
über eine Reise zum Mond von 1936 mit zeitgemässen „retrofuturistischem“
Soundtrack von VETROPHONIA (das sind die St.
Petersburger NICK SOUDNICK & ALEXANDER LEBEDEV-FRONTOV
- ex ZGA und LINIJA MASS). Alle Stummfilm-Untertitel sind auf
kyrillisch & wahlweise englisch, der neue Soundtrack untermalt sehr
passend die einzelnen Abschnitte in neo-klassisch / pompös-heroisch /
post-industrieller Weise, Cover & begleitendes Booklet sind liebevoll
gestaltet. Länge: 65 Minuten.
“The science fiction film "The Space Voyage" was first shown in Soviet
cinema theatres in January 1936. The showing was preceded by two
years of work at Mosfilm studio done on a firm scientific basis - the
consultant of the project was Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. With his help
Soviet cinematographers managed to create a surprisingly realistic
image of a journey to the Moon for that time - long before the beginning
of real space research. The film narrates about the bravery of young
pioneers, the willingness of Soviet women to always come to aid, the
fearlessness of scientists and their determination to sacrifice their lives
in the name of science. Serious approach to shooting didn't prevent the
director V. Zhuravliov and the screenwriter A. Filimonov from treating
the plot with humour, but in general the picture is just saturated with
powerful heroic spirit!
The original film had a soundtrack compiled of various classical music
compositions. But what can be more appropriate to the constructivist
spirit of Soviet time than the retro-futurism of St. Petersburg's noise
scene classics? The Vetrophonia duet consisting of Nickolay Soudnick
(ZGA) and Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (Linija Mass, Stalnoy Pakt,
Veprisuicida, etc.) solved this task with enthusiasm. During 2005 while
working in the ZGA studio they laboriously collected samples, recorded
the parts of electronic and acoustic instruments and composed collages
for each specific scene of the film. The result turned out to be beyond
all praise.
The DVD-R with the movie has an option of turning on English subtitles,
comes with a booklet containing an article about the shooting process
and is packed in a special cardboard sleeve.
The release page: http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zf-i.html
Screenshots: http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zf-i-screen.html“ [label
description]
4. CDs
* AFFLUX – Bordeaux TNT CD (Alluvial Recordings / and/OAR
and/all1, 2006) € 12.00
Der französische field recording-Meister ERIC LA CASA widmet sich in
letzter Zeit verstärkt Kollaborationen mit anderen Musikern, wo er dann
im eher improvisatorischen Kontext arbeitet. Auf ‚Bordeaux TNT’ ist er
im Zusammenspiel mit ERIC CORDIER und JEAN-LUC GUIONNET zu
hören. Der gesamte Raum des Kulturzentrums TNT in Bordeaux wurde
von den dreien mit Kontakt- und Feld-Mikros bestückt, und in „real time“
zu einer 6-stündigen Performance gemixt. Eine unbeschreibbare,
schwelende Klanglandschaft aus konkreten Material und
langgezogenen Geräuschen ist daraus entstanden, das wirkt wie das
unbewusste aurale Abbild eines von menschlichen Aktivitäten
bevölkerten riesigen Gebäudes … One-tracker, ca. 50 min.
“Your ear is an excellent microphone. Imagine to be in a crowded place,
close your eyes and listen. You will pay attention to detailed sounds
around you, simply because your mind allows you to ignore the
surrounding sounds, those you don't want to hear. Afflux does
something like that, except that they use real microphones and contact
microphones in a location. TNT cultural centre in Bordeaux is
apparently a big building with a bar/restaurant, offices, concert space
and a top floor. Afflux attached many contact microphones to all of
these places and they were connected to a 32 channel mixer and the
resultant mix was played over eight speakers in the concert half. The
whole concert lasted six hours. Afflux is the collaboration of Eric
Cordier, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Eric La Casa, all three composers in
their own right. From the six hours of recordings, Eric La Casa edited
this fifty one minute CD, with just one piece. We hear sounds that we
recognize, like people talking, the elevator, maybe the coffee machine,
but they all appear to be far away, or embedded in a strange
environment - maybe like we would hear this when we would inside
such a big environment ourselves, but now the ears don't select: the
selection has been made for us, by La Casa. Our ears are now
focussed on this CD, and not the rain outside, or own coffee machine.
This makes this into quite a strange listening affair, since we recognize
the daily sounds that we would always recognize but also all these
other sounds. It makes this however not an uneasy affair, but rather a
fascinating one: what are these sounds, and where are they going to?
It's a highly captivating soundscape that is captured here. Not so much
with a 'story' or a 'composition', but ambient music in the true meaning
of the word: music made of the ambience. Gorgeous music.” [FdW /
Vital Weekly]
* AGHIATRIAS – Ethos CD (Epidemie Records EPR054, 2006)
[lim. 500] € 13.00
Sehr wuchtiger, dämonisch-orchestraler Katakomben-Industrial aus
Prag, ins Atonale driftender Bombast... for friends of dark neo-classic