Lezrod

Lezrod è il nick del colombiano David Velez.

In questo album, Exploraciones sonoras de paisajes surreales y espacios infinitos, Lezrod ci introduce in una atmosfera acquatica in cui suoni liquidi si mescolano a rumori meccanici come quelli che potrebbero generarsi nella sala macchine di un ipotetico Nautilus…

L’album è pubblicato dalla netlabel Test Tube e scaricabile da questa pagina.
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Had David Velez, in his Lezrod disguise, inspired himself in the works of Jules Verne for this release, and I would say that he was showing us around the mighty submarine Nautilus, and then taking us in a guided journey through the deep sea.
Is the name “Submar” an abbreviation for Submarine? Only David will know for sure. But in this first piece, everything is dark. Sounds that could almost be labeled industrial group together and are splintered with samples of water moving. Almost no rhythm, apart from the waves of static and the flow and ebb of distant echoes of dark sounds. A gloomy landscape, with the comforting melancholy that only Lezrod can achieve.
The title says it all: sonic explorations of surreal landscapes and infinite spaces. This is the best description one could give.
[Luís Marta]

Lezrod – Exploraciones sonoras de paisajes surreales y espacios infinitos (2006)

Full download from Test Tube

L’uomo approssimato

Bello come il primo (le project flou), “L’homme approximatif“, nuovo lavoro di Daniel Palomo Vinuesa + collettivo serendipity.

Pseudo jazz con influenze elettroacustiche, ma Vinuesa spazia fra molti generi e crea un concept album che trae la sua ispirazione dai lati meno ovvi della scienza: l’incommensurabilità fra il raggio e la circonferenza, fra il lato e la diagonale del quadrato, grande disastro e rovina di Pitagora. Ma anche Darwin e Galileo e poi Tesla, scienziato e apprendista stregone e il caos: Poincaré.

Music for Elevators

coverLa netlabel bulgara Mahorka pubblica ben tre volumi di musica per ascensori.
Non so in Bulgaria, ma negli USA, complice anche l’altezza degli edifici, la musichetta negli ascensori è molto diffusa e quasi sempre è idiota, irritante, insipida. Fa pensare che il suo unico fine sia quello di far sì che la gente esca in gran fretta dall’ascensore, una volta raggiunto il piano.
E forse è proprio così, ma, nel mio caso, sebbene questi pezzi non siano né grandi novità, né colpi di genio, se mi trovassi ad sentirli in un ascensore, forse continuerei a vagare fra i piani per la curiosità di ascoltare il brano seguente.

Alcuni estratti dal terzo volume

Potete scaricare i 3 volumi dall’internet archive / Download site
Music for Elevators Vol. 1
Music for Elevators Vol. 2
Music for Elevators Vol. 3

nest

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Nest is the collaborative project of Otto Totland and Huw Roberts. The two started working together after forging a strong friendship as former members of the Miasmah label. This self-titled EP is their first work publicly released.
Both pianists, there is little wonder that after exploring a plethora of musical styles, the two find themselves most at home writing traditionally structured pieces, with the ivories a major element throughout. The EP demonstrates clearly the innate ability the two have for song writing, borrowing from the world of film soundtracks and contemporary classical composers to craft delicate instrumental compositions.
Alongside their favoured instrument can be variously heard the plucked strings of the Welsh harp, violins, woodwind instruments, field recordings, percussion and a heady dose of mind wobbling effects.

The album is available from the Serein netlabel in 320kbps MP3

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Lodge
Trans Siberian

Floating Under Ice

Floating Under Ice (aka Contemplating the Great Whale).

Un nuovo brano del nostro duo.
È un pezzo un po’ trance in cui una serie di oggetti sonori fluttua su una fascia continua.

NB: ancora una volta devo sconsigliarvi di ascoltarlo con gli schifosissimi altoparlantini del computer. Devo dire che sono stato molto indeciso se metterlo qui o meno, pensando a come sarà ascoltato nella maggior parte dei casi. Il problema è che, con altoparlanti di bassa qualità, la fascia in background maschera vari suoni e alcune frasi spariscono quasi completamente; il pezzo perde di definizione e profondità e tutto si confonde. Piuttosto scaricatelo e mettetelo su un cd. Sorry.

A trance piece by our free improvisation duo.
Please don’t listen through the little computer’s speakers.

Federico Mosconi: electric guitar, various effect processing
Mauro Graziani: Max/MSP laptop

Floating Under Ice (aka Contemplating the Great Whale)
Floating Under Ice

Sawako

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Sawako is a sound sculptor and timeline-based artist who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. Beginning in video art, Sawako shifted her focus from the video camera to sound. Once through the processor named Sawako, fragments in everyday life – field recordings, instruments, voice and electronic sounds – float in space vividly with a digital yet organic texture. Her unique sonic world has been called “post romantic sound” by Boston’s Weekly Dig.

Quest.Room.Project

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Un altro interessante gruppo russo.

A gentle flute motive introduces us to the world of Quest.Room.Project from Russia, and one might at first expect a relaxed listening experience. But by the time more voices chime in, it becomes obvious that these spotlights are going to be swallowed by shadows of tragic compassion. “Room Number: Fiducial Banality” is organised in 4 parts (one could as well define them as movements, because there are some key themes occuring throughout the entire release) and each of them features a room with distinct acoustic characteristics:
“The reason for surfacing” appears like a shadow of a doubt that gradually turns into overwhelming certainty. Almost inaudible at the beginning, “Assemblage” soon escalates to several emotional outbursts, before exhaustion will take its tribute in “Possession” and create a haunted, threatening atmosphere. As reminiscence of the beginning, “Combined Exercises” begins with a flute solo and continues to pick up previous motives to escalate them to a wall of sound. Finally the dissonances wither away and make room for the last remnants of the ever occuring flute theme. A cycle has been completed and we are at the beginning again…
Bogdan Dullsky, the creative head behind the Quest.Room.Project, describes his intentions as “a search of space for the life leaving for borders of habitual linearity”. But “Room Number: Fiducial Banality” doesn’t attempt to descibe a solution to break free: It’s left up to the listeners themselves to recognise their personal ever returning patterns of life and change them by their own strategy. or – as Bogdan concludes – as an “attempt to live by some own rules on which borders it is possible to breathe freely”.

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Zen Savauge

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Zen Savauge fa una specie di psychedelic dub avvolgendo l’ascoltatore con ritmi lenti, suoni riverberati e scratch da vinile. Di questo album, Inconnu, dice:

Inconnu, which stands for “unknown” in french, is conceptually based around the idea of finding and exploiting the unknown beauty in the chaos of nature. One major interpretive theme is that of the microscopic, macroscopic, and melancholic world in which we are connected to holistically. That idea was expressed through the use of random molecule-esque sounds bits layered underneath turbulent, looming dubbed-out melodies flowing about a motion of beat (which in my mind reflects the animation of life). The overall emotion of the tracks as a whole is that of a stark, beautiful, melancholy which is how i subjectively view the state of world.
These ideas and concepts as well as most all the track titles were derived from my reading the book “Chaos” written by James Gleick.

Zen Savauge – Inconnu play or download

Dancing in the S.N.O.W. with Tanks

Dancing in the S.N.O.W. with Tanks (danzando nella neve con carri armati) è un altro brano del nostro duo che accosta le vibrazioni delle campanine ortodosse a sonorità di tipo industriale.
Il titolo viene da un mio antico ricordo: quello di un monastero ortodosso con intorno un parco, la neve alta, il vento e il fruscio dei passi della gente che si avvia verso la chiesa mentre diverse campanine suonano ripetutamente creando un sottofondo continuo, ma fuori, subito al di là del parco, si muovono carri armati.
Alla fine, quando i carri hanno preso posizione e i soldati entrano nel parco, io e la mia interprete siamo gli unici rimasti fuori ed è calata una pace minacciosa, ma sensibile, tanto che anche i soldati avanzano lentamente, attenti a non fare rumore…
(ciò non toglie che immediatamente dopo sequestrano la mia macchina fotografica e riducono la pellicola a un groviglio di plastica accartocciata)

NB: con la banda ridotta degli schifosissimi altoparlantini del computer se ne sente metà (forse meno). Mancano i bassi e gli acuti estremi e sia le fasce continue che gli intermezzi rumoristici perdono completamente di profondità. Sorry.

Federico Mosconi: electric guitar, various effect processing
Mauro Graziani: Max/MSP laptop

Dancing in the S.N.O.W. with Tanks