Heiner Goebbels - Surrogate

 

 

 

A piece composed by Heiner Goebbels titled "Surrogate" (1994)

 

 

 

 

a trio version in 2014  for piano, percussion & voice with a text by Hugo Hamilton

Laura Mikkola, piano, Kazutaka Morita, percussion & Hannu-Pekka Björkman,voice

 

more about Heiner Goebbels

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Khorshid Dadbeh & setar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Khorshid Dadbeh is a great Iranian Tanbour, Setar and Tar's player. She grew up in an artistic family and started at seven years old her musical journey playing Setar with her father. She uses to teach music.

More music to listen to HERE

 

 

& in trio with her father and a brother : Jansouz Ensemble

 

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Cartographie de Rythmes

 

"Cartographie de rythmes - Vitesses approchantes" est un étonnant duo composé de deux batteurs explorateurs de chemins rythmiques très personnels, une composition du compositeur français Karl Naegelen.

Pour Toma Gouband, ce chemin est semé de pierres, de végétaux et d'éléments de batterie plus traditionnels qui induisent un monde polyphoniques à la fois complexe et direct. Pour Sylvain Darrifourcq l'exploration instrumentale est nourrie par l'esthétique des machines et les questions de temporalité, d'espace et de rupture.

 

"Cartography of Rhythm - Approximating Speeds" is a startling duo comprised of two drummers following their own respective rhythmic paths, a piece by the french composer Karl Naegelen.  

Toma Gouband’s path is littered with stones, plants and traditional drum elements, all leading him into a complex and direct polyphonic world. Sylvain Darrifourcq’s instrumental exploration is rife with machine esthetics and questions on temporality, space and rupture.

 

Ces travaux sont publiés par le collectif Umlaut , et le CD "Cartographie des rythmes" est sorti le 22 novembre.

These works are published by the collective Umlaut and the CD "Cartographie des rythmes" is released just these days. 

 

  

 

 

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Silhouettes

  

Justina Jaruševičiūtė is a Lithuanian composer based in Berlin. Back in September 2019, Justina Jaruševičiūtė attended an Echo Collective show at Funkhaus Berlin, where Jóhann Jóhannsson’s album 12 conversations with Thilo Heinzmann was being premiered. This concert, which she described as one of the most touching performances she had ever attended, was what inspired her to write music for string quartet.

A review by A closer listen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let it go

 

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Sikasso, Kénédougou

La ville de Sikasso au Mali a été fondée au début du XIXe siècle par Mansa Daoula Traoré. Elle fut la capitale du royaume du Kénédougou. Une muraille défensive fut construite en 1890 par Tiéba Traoré, roi du Kénédougou, afin de protéger la ville contre les attaques de Samory Touré puis celles des troupes coloniales françaises. La muraille a été agrandie et renforcée par  Babemba Traoré qui lui succéde. En avril 1898, le colonel Audéoud prend prétexte du refus de Babemba Traoré, successeur de Tiéba Traoré, à l'établissement d'une garnison française pour attaquer la ville. Les trois enceintes de la muraille défensive n'ont pas résisté aux obus modernes et malgré les violentes contre-attaques des défenseurs, la ville est prise et mise à sac au terme de deux jours de siège, le 1er mai 1898. Babemba Traoré, préférant la mort à la honte, se suicide. Environ quatre mille captifs furent alors "déplacés" par l'armée française et cette déportation donna elle-même lieu à de nombreuses exactions.

 

 

 
 

Babemba Traoré et Tiéba Traoré. Sikasso (Mali), circa 1892. 

 

Derrière les personnages, les fameuses fortifications de Sikasso, battues en brèche par l’armée française en 1898. 

 

Avec l’aimable autorisation des Archives nationales de la République du Sénégal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

En 1970, avec l'Orchestre Régional De Sikasso (devenu le Kéné-Star de Sikasso en 1976) dans le LP (de la formidable collection "Mali Kunkan")  "Les meilleurs souvenirs de la 1ere Biennale Artistique et culturelle de la Jeunesse " , écoutez un pan d'histoire de Sikasso et du Mali avec Baba Barry comme chef d'orchestre: "Récital"
... ou comment la tradition parlait encore aux "Jeunes d'Afrique" dans les années 70s. 
 

Une archive historique à écouter!
Ici la première partie du disque original dirigé par Baba Barry

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Vocals - Salif Touré, Abdoulaye Diabaté, Mamadou Diakité, Mamadou Touré, Cheick Sadibou Diabaté 

Guitar - Massambou Wélé Diallo, Madou "Guitare" Sangaré 

 

 

et deux autres extraits de la face B à écouter: "Mali Sènèkèlaw" & "Batuta Mori"

 

 

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Eclectic musical news

 

A few issues from these days and this past year...

from minimalism to psyche-fuzzy, fieldworks to story telling, film score and medieval ambiant.

 

 

 

REVOLVER New compositions by Kate Moore on Unsounds' dutch label

cool and unfurling melodies for violin (Anna McMichael), harp (Genevieve Huppert), cello  (Rowena MacNeish), dble bass (Kirsty McCahon) and percussion (Bob Scott) - october 2021

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ENVY by Triinu 

alternative psyche-fuzzy and dreaming songs with the Estonian singer Triinu Tammsalu (guitar & vocal), Juliette Sedes (Violin), Brent Olds (bass) and Justin Dagot & Emmanuel Demangeon (drums) - december 2020

 

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OCTOBER SOUNDS by Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis with Adrian Crowley, Milène Larsson & Chris Watson

incredible nocturnal forest recorded by Chris Watson, a new and specially written chilling New York based story from Adrian Crowley and a trio for a retelling of a Swedish folk tale - October 2021

 

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FOSCADH , a movie score by Sin Fang, the Icelandic musician and member of the band Seabear

the film’s plot: a man alone after the death of his overprotective parents, suddenly forced to navigate life on his own. movie' details & a music's review on a closer listen - december 2021

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SEN by the Slovak composer Adrián Demoč

using a medieval instrumentation (cornetto muto, viola da gamba, organ, gittern, plectrum lute and gothic harp), 3 peacefull pieces under the influence of Morton Feldman - november 2021

 

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DIDONE by Alessandro Bosetti

The new LP "Didone" is a work articulated around the voice(s), the reconfiguration and recombination of identities, where every specific sense of belonging melts into an indistinct swarming of possibilities - march 2021

With Giulia Zaniboni (voice), Dan Kinzelman (tenor sax, flute), Luca Perciballi (electric guitar and acoustic guitar), Glauco Salvo (electric guitar, banjo), Simone Sferruzza & Andrea Grillini (drums)

 

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Tellus cassette story

 

 

Obviously, the Tellus Cassette Audio Magazine publishers (visual artist and composer Joseph Nechvatal, curator Claudia Gould and composer Carol Parkinson) never considered running an underground publication, rather envisaging the cassette medium as an art form in itself. A quite unique point of view at a time (the 1980s) when many self released cassettes blossomed through mail order or trade between artists, and when the cassette milieu was promoting DIY technique, even anti-art as a motto. 

 

The famous Audio Cassette Magazine never indulged into amateurism, their releases always focused, well researched and aptly curated. From the start, the founding members deliberately aimed at raising the profile of their cassette releases, sending issues to US public libraries and museums, for instance. The Tellus team launched the Harvestworks Artist-In- Residence Program along the cassette series, to promote independent artists’ projects and provide them with a professional recording facility, named Studio PASS.

Annoncing Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine Party at Paradise Garage (1983) - by Joseph Nechvatal 

 

Nechvatal talks to Robert Barry about viral symphonies, cassette magazines, and art squats on The Quietus

& a link to listen the Tellus issues here on UbuWeb

 

 

Over the last half-century, Joseph Nechvatal’s Zelig-like career in the arts has taken him from working as La Monte Young’s archivist and squatting in Laurie Anderson’s building in Lower Manhattan to the Documenta festival in Kassel and the Lascaux Caves deep in the Dordogne. He’s worked with Jenny Holzer and Rhys Chatham, studied with Roy Ascott and Arthur Danto, and published his own work in almost every conceivable medium. In 1983, he founded Tellus, an audio magazine for the sonic arts, produced on cassette, and featuring, over its decade-long run, contributions from Sonic Youth, Glenn Branca, Wharton Tiers, Julius Eastman, Ellen Fullman, Christian Marclay, Woody Vasulka, Alison Knowles, and many, many more. In later years, he became a pioneer of virtual reality and artificial life, making work for concert halls, poetry imprints, and art galleries inspired by the likes of Antonin Artaud and Virginia Woolf.

 

 

pretend painful IOngO (with the voice of Marianne Faithfull) - by Joseph Nechvatal

 

 Nechvatal’ sélected sound works (1981 - 2021)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Jazz et Tango

 

 Julio Cortázar a toujours entretenu un rapport intéressé et particulier avec la musique, et plus spécifiquement le jazz et, naturellement, le tango de son pays natal, l'Argentine. Ainsi dans les "Entretiens avec Omar Prego" en 1984, quelques semaines avant son décès.

cf. le formidable chef d'orchestre Juan d'Arienzo

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et, concernant le monde du jazz, quelques-uns des goûts de Julio Cortázar, 

dans le chapitre 17 de son roman "Marelle"  - "Rayuela" (1967)

  Quelques notes à propos de certaines références de musique jazz et classique, de tango, de leur interprètes et (ou) créateurs, recensées dans le roman "Marelle"

à télécharger ICI

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Un chien andalou

"Szenario"  est une pièce pour orchestre et bande magnétique 

composée par Mauricio Kagel en 1982.

Sur une commande de la Télévision Suisse DRS, "Szenario" est une adaptation musicale 

pour le film "Un chien andalou" de Luis Buñuel.

Ce film accompagné de la musique de Kagel fut montré à l'occasion 

du Festival d'Automne à Paris en 1983. (cf prog.)

 

 

"Szenario" is a piece for orchestra and tape composed by Mauricio Kagel in 1982. Commissioned by Swiss Television DRS, "Szenario" is a musical adaptation for the film "Un chien andalou" by Luis Buñuel. This movie, including the musical soundtrack of Kagel, was shown in the Festival d'Automne de Paris in 1983 (see program) 

 

dans le livre de ses écrits  "Parcours avec l'orchestre", Kagel parle de ce projet.

 

in his book "Parcours avec l'orchestre", Kagel evocate this project

 

Une autre version musicale de ce film est celle composée par le compositeur argentin Martin Matalon. On peut écouter cette oeuvre intitulée "Las siete vidas de un gato" (1996) et remarquablement interprétée par l'Ensemble Ictus dans le CD "De tiempo y de arena" publié en 2003. Il est vivement conseillé de synchroniser cette musique et le film de Bunuel.

 

Another musical version of that movie was composed by the Argentinian composer Martin Matalon. You can listen to this work entitled "Las siete vidas de un gato" (1996), emarkably interpreted by the Ensemble Ictus, in the CD "De tiempo y de arena" published in 2003. It is strongly advised to synchronize this music and the film by Bunuel. 

 

 

 

 

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Rare Noise Records

 

The London' s label "Rare Noise Records" was founded in 2008 by Giacomo Bruzzo and the producer Eraldo Bernocchi. Its mission is to detect and amplify contemporary trends in progressive music, by highlighting their relation to the history of the art-form, while choosing not to be bound by pre-conceptions of genre. 

 

3 new releases this last weeks:

 

 

 

Norwegian bassist, composer and producer Jo Berger Myhre has long thrived on collaboration, bringing his distinctive voice to a wide variety of adventurous projects. His captivating and mysterious solo debut is titled "Unheimlich Manoeuvre". The title is an obvious play on the life-saving technique, though whether the added negation makes the threatening or simply subverted remains ambiguous. More to the point, the English translation of unheimlich is “uncanny” or “eerie” – an apt descriptor for the sounds that Myhre creates.

 

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 The Budapest-based trio Jü seems to investigate exponentially larger territories, encompassing an ever-expanding range of vibrant and startling influences. In the fields of blistering rock, dizzying prog, free jazz, mesmerizing ambient textures and alluring Eastern European rhythms,  their last opus is their third album : "III"

 

 

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The German electro-acoustic composer L.Peter Schwalm and Markus Reuter had a collaboration for a project called "Aufbruch", which means departure, or begining. Their music feels like both an awe-inspiring journey of discovery and a welling up from the murkiest depths of the subconscious. Don't miss it!

 

 

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Many others artists were released by this label, as Masami Akita (aka Merzbow), Mats Gustasfsson, Bobby Previte, the band Mumbeak, Keiji Haino ...etc... To notice the presence of the famous trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith with others for the album "Red Hill".

& to come soon

2 new releases to be publish on the 19th november : "Apophenian bliss"  by the Norvegian quartet  Red Kite   & "I hate work" by the american drummer and vocalist  Mike Pride 

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