CODES: - Drone Records

* MNORTHAM & JUDITH EGGER – Andapa Garten mCD & object
(Edition Graphon 01, 2003) [ed. of 50] € 42.00
Im Grenzbereich zwischen experimenteller Musik und Objektkunst
angesiedelt bewegen sich die Veröffentlichungen dieses neuen
Münchner Verlages / SoundArt-Labels. Der erste Release ist eine mCD
von MICHAEL NORTHAM und ein kunstvoller Letterpress-Druck mit
Originalradierung von JUDITH EGGER, die auch das Label betreibt.
„andapa garten. sounds from an abandoned house in forest of
Epesses/Lac Léman, may 2003. etching by Judith Egger on 300g
Hahnemühle, letterpress, with embossed black case.
"..Sound substrata of the inner garden. Underground sound wide open.
Trees and bushes as a long, sustained hollow music.
Birds, butterflies and other animals seen only in sounding forms by the
internal eye, entering the night in an ecstatic sleep state, dreaming with
the sound of a human hidden light. Leaves with tiny little poems of
sound written on it, the drone-flowers of a secret floral language....
A cd not just to hear to but also to plant in the cd player, to let its
roots grow deep in the electronic filaments of the equipment and watch
patiently the blossom of beautiful digital flowers of sound.
A small musical herbal. Organic music in the true sense of the word..“
Michael Northam is a musician who represents in a certain way
the intellingent side of experimental music. His conceptual approach
to the sound explores in depth the resonance of unusual places or
uses the sound of objects or living things in an almost alchemical way.
Judith Egger his collaborator, has been involved with experimental
music and performance since a few years. She comes from a visual
background and co-founded the no longer active "living score theater"
where she explored, stretched and overlapped the boudaries between
music, performance and the visual arts.“ [Jorge Mantas]
* MOLJEBKA PVLSE - DVNKL CD (Fifth Week, 2006) [lim.
500] € 13.00
Beim bereits siebten M.P.-Album arbeitet MATHIAS JOSEFSON mit
der Sängerin & Schlagzeugerin (von LES ISSAMBRES) KARIN
JACOBSON zusammen.... DVNKL ist ein berauschender Drone-Epos,
trance-induzierende Rausch- & Fieldrecording-Flächen erscheinen, die
Stimme von Karin wird als helles Pfeifen & Atmen und murmelnde
Klangfelder hörbar.... intelligent & experimental based dark ambience!
“Not all of the previous releases by Mathias Josefsons project Moljebka
Pvlse have been reviewed in Vital Weekly, but some made their way.
His works were previously released on Cold Meat Industry, Segerhuva,
Mystery Sea and Fin de Siecle and now on the unknown label Fifth
Week. For 'Dvnkl', his seventh release, Josefson works with Karin
Jacobson, singer of Les Issambres, but I must admit that I read this in
the press blurb, since the voice is as much twisted around, and placed
upside down inside out, as the field recordings that form the usual basis
of this music, that it is hard to recognize as a voice. Sometimes the
looped voice is to be recognized, speaking, humming or just producing
sound, but it's never made easy. Moljebka Pvlse plays music that is
best categorized as dark ambient, but the element field recording
becomes more and more a clear thing, just as with the elsewhere
mentioned new Paul Bradley. The original sources are not easy to
recognize, but there is a very good element of darkness involved - the
ongoing feature in the music of Moljebka Pvlse I guess. 'Dvnkl'
somewhat sidesteps the previous work, being the collaboration with
vocal related material, but on the other hand it entirely fits the Moljebka
Pvlse sound perfectly. This is indeed another fine work.” [FdW / Vital
Weekly]
* MONSTRARE / WILT – Graveflowers CD (Angle Records
A.R.05.02, 2004) [ed. of 500] € 13.50
Hervorragender dark-ambient / post-industrial split-release auf dem
kanadischen ANGLE Records-Label. Sechs Stücke von MONSTRARE,
wie immer sehr hallend, monumental & pulsierend, aber mit vielen
interessant konkreteren Sounds & Analog-Effektengespickt;
vier von WILT; weitaus direkte und “industrieller”, nicht minder
abgründig und mitreissend...
“500 COPIES. .ANGLE.REC. .A.R.05.02. deluxe cardboard sleeve
For the last few years, the enthusiasts have been enjoying the
evolutionary sound creations of CORDELL KLIER (MONSTRARE) and
JAMES KEELER (WILT). The first, very often, in his solo adventures,
works in a register which one could hail as ‘’dark glitch’’, or a close
encounter of the third kind between modern technology and the abyss,
as the second builds us somber sonic monoliths, raw blocks of black
bruitist matter and dark lo-fi atmospherics …
It was no doubt that the collision, or fusion, between these two
aesthetics tinged with psychotropism was going to give way to a
genuine journey, a unique and peculiar epic, in the image of the
respective projects of the two creators. There is a natural fit between
these projects as both focus on dark mathematical projections. In this
monumental production, MONSTRARE feeds us with new-school
sonorities as WILT opts for old-school sounds, an it goes without saying
that one used the source sound material of the other to crystallize his
own visions, and vice versa. Side by side, the intemporal,
uncompromising and often arrhythmic sonic fluids secreted here
sometimes have a textured minimalistic feel, sometimes reflect a will of
nuanced saturation … Here one will easily recognize the traditional
ambient and subtle black noise WILT feel, just pushed to the utmost
level, with MONSTRARE doing the dark-clicked drone he is renowned
for, but in an especially demented way.
Alternately, the listener finds himself wandering through the uneven
meanders of subterranean cathedrals and flying over futurist cities
radiant with an aura of strangely coloured neons. But there are a
thousand and one other possible interpretations. Organic yet bleak, the
music presented here symbolizes the passing of life into subharmonic
spirituality. Now is your turn to make yourself your own interior movie
while listening to this album!” [label description]
“...Monstrare here offers 6 tracks and Wilt 4. It's quite absorbing music,
in an industrial ambient style, to lose yourself in it, if that's your thing.
Careful and close listening recommended, otherwise it'll lose it's point,
and may become just a background buzz without a point. This music
sucks you into it's own world, which may be worlds apart from any
reference point in the reality or elsewhere. No concrete connection to a
strict tradition in music or art, besides the general ambient-industrial
sound, instead this music prefers to be on it's own ground. Wilt brings in
more intensity with the wonderful track 'Hemophilic root plow'. The
cover design is reminding of a Van Gogh painting in a darkened
industrialised manner. Impressionistic industrial ambience, of a fine
kind.” [BR / Vital Weekly]
* MOORE, AARON – The Accidental CD (Elsie & Jack # 017,
2006) € 14.00
Erste Solo-CD des VOLCANO THE BEAR – Mitglieds, 7 Stücke mit
betörenden Drone-Texturen, Piano-Minimalismen, Keyboard-Drones,
Vibraphon & Becken-Tupfer, alles sehr “privat”, intim und ruhig...
perfekte Mitternachts-Musik.
“elsie and jack are proud to present the debut recording from aaron
moore. this represents a welcome return to the e+j fold after volcano the
bear contributed a track to the ‘rewriting the book’ 2cd.
as a founding member of the english experimental group volcano the
bear, aaron moore has been a part of creating some of the most
stimulating and diverse music of the last 10 years with releases on
nurse with wound’s united dairies label, and the american label, betalactam
ring records, to name but two. ‘the accidental’ is moore’s first
solo release and is in stark contrast to his drumming and vocal work
with volcano the bear. using such instrumentation as bowed and beaten
vibraphone, cymbal, chord organ, thumb piano and keyboard, mainly
concentrating with one instrument per track, moore has created an
album of mesmerizing beauty. shifting, woozy soundscapes, blurred
drones, soft conjuring, and deep meditations - perfect for late night
headphone trips. on ‘three guineas’, a keyboard is used to create a new
lullaby in which we are reminded of years past. the majority of these
recordings, made at his home in leicester on a digital 8 track and one
microphone in 2003 were intended for an aborted collaboration with
oren ambarchi. they then sat on his machine for a year or so until, with
the nagging of friends, he set about doing something with them.
some of the tracks, he felt, needed the hand of another so he sent
some tracks to friends andrew liles, luke fowler and alex neilson to
collaborate on. they in turn sent the finished tracks back to moore
where he set about editing them for inclusion on ‘the accidental’.
the title, ‘the accidental’ comes from the fact that were it not for the
original aborted collaboration attempt with ambarchi, moore would not
have recorded this music. moore is continuing his work with volcano the
bear and his new duo, dragon or emperor, as well as planning several
collaborations in the coming months. if a follow up to ‘the accidental’ is
to happen, then maybe it will be on purpose next time?!
on hearing ‘the accidental’, italian filmmaker francesco paladino set
about creating a film to accompany the album. this is to be found as an
extra dvd (which also features an unreleased tune) with the first 100
copies of the cd.” [press release]
* MUSTERION – The Black Lodge CD (Horus Cyclic Daemon HCD
6, 2005) [ed. of 500] € 17.50
Uns bisher unbekanntes Projekt auf HORUS, mit erster (?)
Veröffentlichung unter diesem Namen. THE BLACK LODGE ist keine
einfache Zusammenstellung von Musikstücken, sondern eher ein
theatralisch-szenischer Soundtrack zu einer dunklen Geschichte oder
Vision, mit Bezug zu LOVECRAFT, BURROUGHS, KEROUAC,
GINSBERG. Das klingt sehr neoklassisch & dunkel instrumental, ist
aber auch in elektro-akustischer Weise mit Stimmen & allen möglichen
Geräuschen versehen, liegt also zwischen Neo-Klassik /
Filmsoundtrack und Elektro-Akustik. Das ganze Werk wirkt wie in einem
Traum oder einer Halluzination gehört… Grossformatige Hülle &
Kunstdruck-Booklet, nummerierte Auflage von 500 Stück !