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| New Mikroton Recordings releases — November 2016 mikroton cd 50 George Lewis & Splitter Ochester Creative Construction Set CD | Digital The Splitter Orchester is a Berlin-based collection of internationally respected Composer-Performers which draws inspiration from many genres and is most comfortable in the creative borderland between composed and improvised music.It is a defiant musical organism that has developed an extraordinary artistic profile - uniting across continents, generations and aesthetics. Utilising a broad variety of extended techniques on traditional, electronic, and especially constructed and tailored instruments, the ensemble's main focus in their artistic practice is the production of sound and how to diffuse it in space - creating an ocean of sound rich in texture, dynamics and unexpected power. What brings this ensemble of incredible musicians together is a dedication to discovering together the untarnished face of a new, sonic experience: something bold, radical, political and beautiful all at once. AACM member George Lewis is a seminal figure - a musician, artist and thinker whose humanistic visions and work on artistic process has significantly influenced a broad swathe of artists internationally. The collaborative nature of musical creation within a Composer-Performer context is integral to both Lewis and Splitter. Especially conceived for the Splitter Orchester, Lewis' Creative Construction Set is more a facilitation than a composition, bringing these two global forces together in synergistic partnership that resulted in a lucid improvisational experience. This album is a partial document of this mutual exploration, mesmerizing the listeners with the stunning transparency of its sound. The very first concert of the Splitter Orchester (in Berlin's main train station in 2010), was documented on a Echtzeitmusik compilation published by Mikroton Recordings in 2012. This compilation was a milestone in the long-term relationship between Mikroton Recordings and the diverse Echtzeitmusik-Scene in Berlin. Since then, many members of the Splitter Orchester have released their music on Mikroton Recordings (amongst them Burkhard Beins, Werner Dafeldecker, Michael Thieke, Simon J. Phillips, and many more). Creative Construction Set is the first full-length release of the Splitter Orchester. It will be presented to the public during the first Splitter Music Festival, taking place in Berlin from November 24 to November 27, 2016. A second album of the Splitter Orchester, a Split-LP with Felix Kubin ("Shine on you crazy Diagram"), will be released on Kubin's Gagarin Records in December 2016. BUY — http://www.mikroton.net/recordings/index.php/catalog/mikroton-cd-50/ mikroton cd 51 MKM: Jason Kahn / Günter Müller / Norbert Möslang Instants // Paris CD | Digital Jason Kahn, Günter Müller and Norbert Möslang, all from Switzerland, comprise MKM trio, spontaneously founded in 2006 in Tokyo during their Japanese tour. They immediately achieved very fine results and collaborate since then. Their sound hovers between the at times harsh rhythmic noise of Norbert Möslang's cracked everyday electronics and the rich sonorities of Günter Müller's percussion-based samples and electronics. Jason Kahn's work on analog synthesizer bridges these two worlds, adding high frequency interference and processed short wave radio input. Günter Müller launched Mikroton with his beautiful and rich Cym_Bowl and featured later on Limmat along with Jason Kahn and Christian Wolfarth, which was also Kahn's second project following Planes with Asher, and later on Five Lines which was Möslang's second project after Stodgy, a duo with eRikm. Instants // Paris, their second release after msa in 2008 on For 4 Ears, takes you into the world of thudding pulse, noisy intermissions, tonal atmospheric drones and changing layers of sounds slipping in and out of consciousness. BUY — http://www.mikroton.net/recordings/index.php/catalog/mikroton-cd-51/ mikroton cd 52 Ease: Klaus Filip / Noid No No No, No CD | Digital Among the many collaborations between Klaus Filip and Noid Ease is the only band, performing continuously over the last 10 years. For this anniversary they release a CD with two tracks from live recordings: 1: Never: live @ Teni Zvuka Festival, ESG21, St. Petersburg, 08.06.2014 2: Ever: live @ KLINGT.ORG Festival, Brut, Vienna, 10.1.2015 Their music generates a hypnotic atmosphere out of musical atoms: sine waves, noise and clicks. Very pure, very fragile, beautifully restrained, creating abstract spaces and voids of many dimensions. Both perform on ppooll, a freeware-project driven by Klaus Filip with contributions from various users, including Noid. The instruments they use for Ease are very much tailored to their needs, but freely available to anyone. Klaus Filip's sine wave synth and 2D interface is a result of a more that 20 years of research and development in pure, generated sounds. Noid's approach starts from field recording: noises from various mechanical devices like fans, AC's and so on as well as nature recordings from wind, geysirs, water, and more, revealing only microscopic traces of their origin. Although the starting points are very different the two musicians meet in a shared understanding of aesthetics, an antithesis to analogue. Two musicians face to face on a table - two laptops - no nonsense - quasi acousmatic, the beauty of genuine truth. BUY — http://www.mikroton.net/recordings/index.php/catalog/mikroton-cd-52/ write your comments about the article :: © 2016 Jazz News :: home page |