Omni is a Latin prefix meaning “all” or “every.” Omni the album is two tracks, one coming in at 40:10 and one coming in at 05:02 minutes long. The trio of musicians are Japanese, Kato Hideki, Tetuzi Akiyama and Toshimaru Nakamura. Hideki plays electric bass with prime number tuning, bass synthesizer. Akiyama plays prepared electric […]
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November
13
Omni – Hideki, Akiyama and Nakamura move away from the conventional aspects of time. (music review)
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November
12
Your Breath on my Lips – Jim Denley and the intimacies of the natural.
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One of the most exciting things about watching Jim Denley live is that he practises “circular breathing”. That’s something we’re familiar with in Australia because our Aborigines use it when playing the didgeridoo. For those of you who are not so familiar, here’s the wiki: Circular breathing is a technique used by players of some wind instruments to […]
November
10
That Overt Desire of Object – Leandre and Greenlief produce sound as longing.
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In the cover of That Overt Desire of Object, Phillip Greenlief explains conversations between him and collaborator Joelle Leandre often turn to the subject of greed and the way it impacts the world and the “malaise” it causes. (his words) This is the general feeling of unease or “feeling out of sorts” that greed and […]
In Box drops – some music and stuff that’s landed on me this week.
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I thought I would toss a couple of sounds your way, seeing as a bit of stuff has been landing on me recently. I won’t be able to review all of the below – some of it is happening next week… but here are some tasties that will be around over the next few weeks […]
Strangers – Kane Ikin and David Wenngren speak across the miles.
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I try not to do too many write-ups on this blog about music that is no longer available. But I picked this up at a Keith Fullerton Whitman concert earlier this year (fantastic, amazing concert) so I guess some copies are still in circulation. Either way, I like the disc so much I wanted to […]
King Dude: Burning Daylight – a little dark / a little light.
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I’ve always been slightly uncomfortable with the “bad boy” image in Rock. It all seems so white bread, like the worst these “rebels” can conjure up is taking drugs, trashing a hotel room and cheating on their spouses. And this extends to other genres as well. Ambiguity is meant to be carried through; the “words” […]
Alex White – Genuine Instability: Intensity pushed to the edge
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Justice Yeldham @ Alex White’s ‘Genuine Instability’ album launch (AVANT WHATEVER), Serial Space 18.02.11 from Records: Experimental Sydney on Vimeo. Alex White is a laptop musician from my hometown, Sydney Australia. This is a true noise musician in the electronic style, taking pure sound and attempting to order it into some vague coherency we can […]
Farmers By Nature: Out of this world Distortions
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It’s not very fashionable le to imagine there is a lot of good in the world. It never has been. From Plato through to Shakespeare the lamentations have been about our own failure to perform our highest good. We hold our back hand against our forehead and cry “I try! God knows I try! But […]
as is – Monica Brooks and Laura Altman push sound around a room.
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as is is another stunning little gem from the prophetically titled It’ll be awesome label. This time we have Monica Brooks and Laura Altman playing accordion and clarinet respectively. Five tracks, each pressing the instruments as far as they can go with the shrieks of the clarinet posited in perfect balance against the dark wind-infused accordion each track […]
Wedding Ceremony – experiencing sound detached from its source.
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Wedding Ceremony Lucio Capece/Julia Eckhardt/Christian Kesten/Radu Malfatti/Toshimaru Nakamura/Taku Sugimoto Cathnor Wedding Ceremony is a collection of performances primarily relating to the positioning of sound within a room. Each of the five pieces were recorded live, apparently culled from two sets in Belgium, May 2007. Art is primarily a social experience a relationship between giving voice to something and being […]
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