Matana Roberts - "In the garden" - sept 2023
"Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden…" is the latest instalment in composer, improviser, saxophonist, and visual artist Matana Roberts’ visionary project exploring African-American history through ancestry, archive and place.
"The full album is a warning. These times are returning. Women
are being stripped of their humanity, context removed, reduced to
talking points, caricatures and placards. Even Genesis contains two
creation stories, dueling views of what happened in the garden. The Coin Coin project challenges assumptions, saying, don’t always believe the narrative you’ve been taught." - Richard Allen
Each part of the complete "Coin Coin" opus (5 parts) explores radically different musical settings, from the free jazz and post-rock eruptions of Chapter One to the solo noise collage of Chapter Three. Featuring a new ensemble steeped in jazz, improvisation, new music and avant-rock, helping to expand the project’s existing sonic palette, Chapter Five is no exception with folk and spoken word. Matana Roberts is joined by fellow alto saxophonist Darius Jones, violinist Mazz Swift (Silkroad Ensemble, D’Angelo), bass...
from "Coin Coin suite" chapter 2
& Matana Roberts' interview on Tone Glow
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Siavash Amini is an iranian electronic composer who connects microsound, noise and sketch of melodies, drifts between the concrete and the abstract, drones, discussions of tuning in the maqam system, collective subconscious, intoxicating abastraction,
"Eidolon",
un disque composé de trois titres, qui approfondit ses recherches
autour de l'accordage, des timbres. Il se dit obsédé par la théorie de
Safi-Al-Din Urmavi (musicien érudit mort à Bagdad, connu pour sa
division de l'octave en 17 tons) sur l'accordage, le rythme, le maqam,
ce qui le conduit vers une musique microtonale, spectrale.
" Siavash Amini has consistently provided room for reflection through creation of space – set between both buoyant and melancholy planes of noise in amicable juxtaposition. " The Quietus
"Instantia" in the 2017 "Eilodon"
"...Comme une corde, un tressage serré, pour monter
ou rester suspendu dans le vide... Un rideau bouge lentement, dévoile d'autres sons, des hurlements de
loups électroniques avec échos. Nous sommes entrés dans une caverne,
habitée par des créatures inconnues. Quelque chose nous happe, menace de
nous submerger, une force tellurique à peine tourbillonnante, elle
irradie dans le noir, et c'est au fond très doux." - source: inactuelles.over-blog
"rivers of tar" in the 2017 "Tar"
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Filipe Felizardo and Yann Gourdon's duo, called FFYG, releases its third opus as a 100 copies limited cassette recorded during their last live shows in Brussels. Filipe plays electric guitar and Yann hurdy-gurdy. After "La langue de l'Ophiolite", first meeting in 2020 with our friends of Trás-os-Montes Records, they persist to commit hypnotic drones resulting from a study of duration, harmonic thermodynamics, and the delicious errors that come from endurance and stubborn repetition, but always converging the density of the timbric and poetic languages of both their very idiosyncratic instrumentation into a point of all returns.
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Radian is Martin Brandlmayr (drums, electronics), John Norman (bass), and Martin Siewert (guitars, electronics), who have
been influenced by
and shaped Vienna's vivid scene of electronica in the early 2000s.
Vienna is currently a wide open creative home to many new music
composers and innovators. Today, the members of Radian are pillars of
that community. The trio’s collective experience finds an
expansive and egoless outlet in "Distorted Rooms", uncovering new sonic
universes. After nearly 30 years of making music together, their
excitement for sonic experimentation is palpable.
"Radian is a machine, their music the sum of body hydraulics and fuzzy logic."
Will Montgomery, The Wire
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