CODES: - Drone Records

artists with the oddest names ever presenting youvery great tracks in an
amazing new sound of unusual creative music. With a cover -artwork as
special as the music itself it emerges the tracks such as DBPITs: “the
long night of the falling nuts”, “Donna”, “fff”, “Giùsù”, “V”, ”Headache”
and ”paint me with sorrow” while FTBPD gives a 22 minutes
interpretation of “ Klabusterbeeren der Todestrinker”! A fantastic
release on WRR that you shouldn’t miss.” [label press release]
* Mark FELL – Ten Types of Elsewhere CD (Line_019) € 14.00
Last copies, deleted item. "Topology is a branch of mathematics
concerning possible spaces and spatial objects -- curves, surfaces,
knots, manifolds, phase spaces, symmetrical groups, etc. The work
explores a link between objects and alterity through spatial and
temporal deformations, twistings, rotatings, reflections and stretchings.
Here spaces and objects are not self-evident and singular, but multiple,
irregular, anomalous. The work began as a documentation of recent
installations -- some in public spaces, some gallery works, some large
works, some small etc. Inspired by the problems brought up by this
activity, instead of using recordings to document these, ten processes
came about each of which relates to the spaces and works in a different
way -- a recording, or system used to run the work, a pattern, a method
or technique, a way of working, a name, or a reference point outside the
work. This is Mark Fell's first solo full length release in the United States
and is a exciting new departure for LINE." [label info]
* FIRST LAW – Chaos Structure CD (LOKI Foundation LOKI43,
2006) € 13.00
“The 5th full-time album of FIR§T LAW surprises once again with a
huge amount of stylistic variety and proofs that he is the ultimate
cosmonaut of the inner spheres. "Chaos Structure" is a hallucinetic
maelstrom, every note and sound tells a different story and guide the
listener to a journey through unseen areas of modulation and alienated
reality where the time stands still. The hieroglyphic soundforms are
structuring an audible world of an acoustic language. All compositions
are cautious built to create a majestic flowing of a soundworld full of
structures and outstanding melodies layered with percussion tracks.
FIR§T LAW's music implicates inner spheres to build a new vision of a
structured chaos with very intense and irresistible sounds. The
complete release melts into an organic symbiotically ensemble and the
world is shivering from beyond - Aural Innovasions at it's best!” [label
description]
* FIVE THOUSAND SPIRITS – Quantum Consciousness CD
(Sempiterna Mutatio SM 008, 2006) € 13.50
PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR REALITY SHATTERED ! 5000 SPIRITS
beziehen sich aufs holistische Quanten-Bewusstsein und widmen ihr
Album dem LSD-Erfinder ALBERT HOFMANN, der am 11. Januar 2006
100 Jahre alt geworden ist. Hier tauchen sie tief ein in „atmende“
Strukturen, eine spirituelle ambience wie sie für ALIO DIE so typisch ist,
angereichert durch fremdartige aurale Essenzen, wie Stimmen und
leichte elektronische Effekte…
“After seven years of silence they will recurred to be heard again ...with
'Quantum Consciousness' they will not only overflowing the passed
times but will leave frightened not only some listeners. Five tracks built
in an unbroken journey of great intensity that Raffaele Serra ed Alio Die
have characterized with an electronic refine touch and a flood vitality,
always at the threshold of a mystery's whirlpool, some powerful
electronic mantra that in these lands have already given some kind of
dependance. Great artwork in gold print on dark green.” [label info]
* FJERNLYS – Ascending Triads & Luminous Arcs do-CD (LOKI
Foundation LOKI42, 2006) € 15.00
„Schwarz, bordeaux und weiß sind die Grundfarben des Covers, der
Schrifttyp lässt auf einen Bezug zum Jugendstil des frühen 20.
Jahrhunderts schließen. Packt man die CD-Hülle aus dem
Pappschuber, zeigt sich das Foto einer nordischen Seenlandschaft, die
sich mittig spiegelt - ein Motiv, das das gesamte Artwork bestimmt. Wer
Knut Enderleins bisheriges Schaffen in der Ritual-Ambient-Formation
Inade verfolgt hat, wird hier einige vertraute Elemente wiederfinden,
musikalisch jedoch beschreitet das neue Projekt Fjernlys neue Pfade.
Während Inade thematisch von Ideen kosmischer Spiritualität und dem
Okkultismus des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts handelt, entfaltet Fjernlys in
Titeln wie "Intermediate Nature", "Trunkene Flut" oder "Nocturnal Wine"
einen mystischen Pantheismus, die All-Einheit von Existenz und Welt.
Am Arrangement wirkten diesmal neben Knut Enderlein auch noch eine
weibliche Vokalistin sowie zwei weitere Musiker mit. Für das Mastering
zeichnete Andreas Wahnmann von Fir§t Law verantwortlich, dessen
neue CD dieser Tage ebenfalls erscheint. Stilistisch bewegt man sich
nicht mehr in dronigen Darkambient-Gefilden, sondern bemüht sich
deutlich um Songstrukturen und eingängige Melodien - mit
minimalistischen Mitteln versteht sich: Gearbeitet wird mit dezenten
elektronischen Beatstrukturen,synthetischen Sphären, aber auch
akustischen Elementen wie einem Bass. Drei verschiedene Stimmen
tauchen auf, wobei der düstere Aspekt von Inade durchscheint, aber
auch eine gelegentliche Leichtigkeit, u.a. durch die Präsenz einer
Frauenstimme. Die Texte auf Deutsch und Englisch sind leider nicht
durchweg verständlich und werden auch im Booklet nicht reproduziert -
man bettet sich im Geheimnisvollen.
Mit pochenden Rhythmen, elegischen Sphären und finsterem Gesang
füllt man eine Lücke, die Predominance nach ihrer Auflösung auf dem
Loki-Label hinterlassen haben. "Flash Crimson", "All Sun's Ceaseless
Falling" und "Rising Challenge" arbeiten auf diese Weise: Kosmischapokalyptische
Chill-Out-Hymnen. Rituelle Drums tauchen bei "Lunar
Sphere" und "Solar Loka" auf, während "Nocturnal Wine" wirklich
poppige Qualitäten hat und darauf shließen lässt, dass sich die
Hörgwohnheiten der Musiker nicht mit alten Lustmord-Scheiben
erschöpften... Hier meint man durchaus einen Nachhall von
Minimalelektronik der 1980er Jahre zu hören, oder die unterkühlte
Melancholie früher Wavemusik.
Die zweite CD enthält Remixe des Materials, und zwar von Antlers
Mulm, Bad Sector, Fir§t Law und Lovespell, allesamt aus dem
Freundeskreis des Loki-Labels bzw. auf diesem Label verlegt. Dabei ist
erstaunlich zu beobachten, wie diese Gruppen das Basismaterial ihrer
eigenen Klangwelt angleichen: Bad Sector geht eher kalt-noisig vor,
Antlers Mulm und Lovespell dagegen gestalten ihre Stücke eher
relaxed-poppig. Und Fir§t Law führt eine spacig-trancige Not ein...“
[Ikonen mag]
“On their first album FJERNLYS emerges marvelous sounds and voices
organically in songs and arrange a pleasant and relaxed sound to pure
benefit with highest recognizing value. The songs layer cosmic and
synthetic sounds and go on tracing according to the principle harmony
in the music, their acoustic space seems very expansive, it is by no
means over-crowded. The voices creep crosswise into sounds and
effects to lunar spheres and solar places, exactly the correct nuance at
refinement not only to remain in the ear but also simply very charming.
Sometimes the central sequence takes surprising twists in some
recordings and the density of sounds became touchable. Behind this
project hides one of the INADE Masterminds, who recorded nine tracks
supported from several musicians, those clearly possesses more
songcharacter than the work which appeared from the Lightchannel so
far. Fjernlys' attitude to music remains unfettered by stylistic frames and
the album targets the style-encompassing essence of sounds. The five
remixes and interpretations of ANTLERS MULM, BAD SECTOR, FIRST
LAW and LOVESPELL on the second CD support the complex
character of the whole release and expand the border to a new style of
Ambient Songs. Ace - Clear - Pure.“ [label info]
* FOVEA HEX – Neither speak or remain silent part 2: Huge maxi-
CD (Die Stadt DS86 / JR 002, 2006) € 13.00
Zweiter Teil der Trilogie, drei weitere ätherisch-entrückte Stücke von
CLODAGH SIMONDS mit ihrer transzendentalen Folk-Ambience, die
mit Hilfe diverser illustrer Gastmusiker enstanden ist !
“Following the critical acclaim which has greeted ep 1 «Bloom», Die
Stadt and Janet Records are proud to announce that «Huge» ep 2 in
the NEITHER SPEAK NOR REMAIN SILENT limited edition series by
FOVEA HEX is out. FOVEA HEX continues to shape-shift and to evade
& confound those who bray «what exactly IS it?», and «where does it
BELONG exactly?», and «who exactly belongs to IT?». If you must
bang on the table like that, you won't hear a thing. If this music can be
described as «up-to-the-moment», then perhaps we could use an up-tothe-moment
term like «collective». But eschewing all Fashion
Accessory stalls, it lives as many miles away from the shock'n'awe
factory beloved of the avantgarde, as it does from the souvenir-strewn
temple of the new nostalgics. All in all, FOVEA HEX is something more
akin to a labrynthine ensemble of associates, some recent, some
ancient, some close to the core, some distant, some very heard-of and
some never-heard-of, all of whom showed willing and able, at some
point in time (and for reasons best known to themselves) to slither in
and help prepare and perform these songs and quasi-songs written —
or at least started-off — by CLODAGH SIMONDS. «Songs that don't go
where you think. With voices to match...» somebody said recently. At
the end of the day, that's about all that CAN be said with any kind of
certainty. If you need a better idea of what this means, visit the Janet
Records website now, where you'll find some treats we prepaired earlier
— three mixes (by Andrew McKenzie) of near-moment excerpts from
the songs from ep 1 «Bloom» and three (by Colin Potter and Clodagh
Simonds) from new songs from ep 2 «Huge». Players on «Huge»:
Clodagh Simonds, Colin Potter, Roger Doyle, Cora Venus Lunny, Brian
Eno, Laura Sheeran, Percy Jones, Carter Burwell, Lydia Sasse, Hugh
O'Neill, Sarah McQuaid. The CD comes in a full colour embossed
cover. Edition of 2000 copies.” [label info]
* Ellen FULLMAN - Staggered Stasis CD (Anomalous Records
NOM 29, 2004) € 15.00
Einer der letzten Veröffentlichungen des Seattler Labels ANOMALOUS
war diese CD von ELLEN FULLMAN, die hier mit ihrem “long string