Dale Cooper Quartet And The Dictaphones – Parole De Navarre (Denovali Records 2010)

Formed for the improvisation nights Dynamo in Brest, France, this quartet made of musicians covering a wide variety of musical styles creates a sound that mixes electronic (samples, cuts, sound treatments) and acoustic elements (guitars, saxophone, trumpet). They're playing moody ballads that sound as if they would come out from one of David Lynch's movies. Like in the films of Hollywood's master of bizarre pieces, there is something like a dark and poisonous colour broken by red thunderlights and blue cigarette smoke. The music spawnes some odd characters and landscapes while the listener makes out some more friendly faces that loom up out of this nowhere place: the voice of Zalie Bellaccico, Milanese streets sounds, a lazy flute, or some distant breathing swim on the surface of this deep troubled waters. "Paroles de Navarre" is an invitation for opening the red curtain of this Dark Jazz cabaret made of shimmering and whirling walls. 

For pop listeners without a feeling for depressive soundscapes it might be boring – for us it's one of the best musical outputs we've discovered in the past years. If you like BOHREN UND DER CLUB OF GORE or THE KILIMANJARO DARKJAZZ ENSEMBLE, you should be all ears.  *Denovali Records

Parole De Navarre

Thrush Metal EP (SDM records 2010)

Riot Girl perverted violence with a twist! Not your average lesbo girl trigger-happy band...

Mix this up with endless joyrides in hair salones and rumours about vogue magazine and you'll get the ultimate post glam punk attitude. A must!

The only thing a true metalhead will get out of this it's the cover only.

Thrush Metal

Συνθετικοί - Προσωπεία - Εφιάλτες (Δανάη 2010)

I have a thing about 80's greek bands as you can sometimes see by yourself in my blog-junkyard. Especialy for the desent ones. The band SYNTHETIKI was created in 1985, in Piraeus (Greece), consisting of 3 members - Apostolis Loverdos (lyrics, music, guitar) Dionysis Avgerinos (lyrics, music, keyboards) Dimosthenis Tsanetoglou ( technician) Their LP "SYNTHETIKI" was recorded in 1990 and only 500 copies of this album were circulated at the time. In 1993 the band broke up. In 2010 they released their second album "PROSOPEIA - EFIALTES" which was another landmark in the greek scene that has been dried for more than 15 years in the dark wave, post punk and minimal synth releases.

Anyways i really like these guys so i will repost the link that they gave earlier to their fans for getting their latest album for free and i am looking forward to hear anything new from them and hopefully before another 17 years passing by. Cheers :)

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Alvin Lucier - Almost New York (Pogus 2010)

Almost New York represents the latest chapter in Alvin Lucier’s migration away from the world of experimental electronic music, a move he began in the 1980s. Mr. Lucier chronicles the challenges he faced achieving working with acoustic instruments in the CD’s liner notes, ultimately discussing the microtonal impulses at the heart of the music featured on this album. The four works on the recordings two discs – Twonings, Almost New York, Broken Line and Coda Variations – are thoughtful explorations in extreme subtlety. The slow transformation typifying these pieces comes as no surprise reading the end of Mr. Lucier’s prose introduction to the CD: one of his principal inspirations was the natural out-of-tune-ness symptomatic to performances of Morton Feldman’s protracted String Quartet #2, “by the end…the instruments have drifted a little out of tune – there being now time to re-tune during a live performance – acquiring a patina that comes with age.”

Twonings, the CD’s first track, exemplifies the techniques Mr. Lucier applies in the album’s other compositions. The work is written for cello and piano and explores the slight discrepancies in pitch between the piano’s equal temperament and the assigned just intonation in the cello part. The notes for this work specifically site the, “acoustic phenomena” and “audible beating” that should result from the music’s attempted unisons. Indeed, the performance serves this goal with loyalty: cellist Charles Curtis and pianist Joseph Kubera deliver the music in a disciplined manner devoid of traditional expressivity, which makes the friction between the two instrument’s tunings more dramatic.

The album’s title track, Almost New York, sadly seems like the kind of piece I wish I could witness in a concert. Written for one flutist rotating between five flutes, this piece uses pure wave oscillators to create a kind of synthetic drone against which the flutist plays long tones. After each note, the performer is supposed to switch to a different type of flute, walking around the performance space as he or she cycles through instruments. Clearly, this is the kind of thing you want to be in the room for, but sound engineer Tom Hamilton simulates the spatial effects very well with panning. Like Twonings before it, Almost New York focuses on the microtonal differences between multiple voices, in this case the flute and slowly sliding up and down oscillators. Flutist Robert Dick delivers a performance similar in its sparse character to that of the previous track. As we have seen, of course, this style is important to Mr. Lucier’s compositions given the subtle ideas he transforms over the course of each work.

The third tack, Broken Line, is the most rhythmically active of the whole album and is scored for Vibraphone, piano and Flute. Rhetorically, however, the work is a duo inasmuch as Joseph Kubera’s piano and percussionist Danny Tunick‘s vibraphone are used in tandem as a fixed-pitch wall against which the extended glissandi Robert Dick’s modified flute constantly abrades. Broken Line essentially represents a role-reversal from Almost New York as the flute challenges the fixed intonation of the piano and vibraphone. The most concise work on the CD at 12:21, Broken Line’s instrumentation alludes to Morton Feldman’s Why Patterns?. Though it possesses a different process than Mr. Feldman’s work, Broken Line is a similarly persuasive advocate for moment-form music and – thanks to its rhythmic activity – is the most accessible representative of this compositional style on the album.

Mr. Lucier’s connection to Morton Feldman’s music and philosophy coalesces in Almost New York’s final track, Coda Variations, which is based on the solo tuba coda from Mr. Feldman’s Durations 3. Mr. Lucier’s Variations takes the eight notes and double fermata from Durations and, “[subjects them] to seven sets of permutations of sixty three notes each.” The variations incorporate special microtonal fingerings on the tuba developed by the performer, Robin Hayward, and composer Marc Sabat. As you can see, Coda Variations plays on the same subtle theme of intonation as the rest of the album, but presents the changes in a slowly unfolding melodic line, not in the vertical dissonances of the earlier tracks. This makes listening to Coda Variations an exercise in concentration, much like it must be performing a composition that develops so subtly over such a long period of time.  *Sequenza 21

Almost New York

William S. Burroughs - A Man Within (2010)

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within is a feature-length independent documentary by Chicago Director Yony Leyser, in collaboration with BulletProof Film, Inc.

The film features never before seen footage of William S. Burroughs, as well as exclusive interviews with his closest friends and colleagues including John Waters, Genesis P-Orridge, Laurie Anderson, Peter Weller, David Cronenberg, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Gus Van Sant, Sonic Youth, Anne Waldman, Hal Willner, James Grauerholz, Amiri Baraka, Jello Biafra, V. Vale, Diane DiPrima, with narration by actor Peter Weller and soundtrack by Patti Smith and Sonic Youth.

The film investigates the life of legendary beat author and American icon, William S. Burroughs. Born the heir of the Burroughs’ adding machine estate, he struggled throughout his life with addiction, control systems and self. He was forced to deal with the tragedy of killing his wife and the repercussions of neglecting his son. His novel, Naked Lunch, was one of the last books to be banned by the U.S. government. Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer testified on behalf of the book. The courts eventually overturned their decision in 1966, ruling that the book had important socialvalue. It remains one of the most recognized literary works of the 20th century.

William Burroughs was one of the first to cross the dangerous boundaries of queer and drug culture in the 1950s, and write about his experiences. Eventually he was hailed the godfather of the beat generation and influenced artists for generations to come. However, his friends were left wondering, did William ever find happiness? This extremely personal documentary breaks the surface of the troubled and brilliant world of one of the greatest authors of all time.

A Man Within

Winter Drones - Blood In The Coffin (weird forest 2010)

Leon Dufficy is primarily known as guitarist in the hippie-jam outfit, Hush Arbors but now, he steps into his own as the driving force behind Winter Drones. Sounding like the perfect combination of fuzzed-out ambient drift, shoegaze swirl and propulsive pop sensibilities, Winter Drones have slowly gained attention in their native UK with a handful of obscure CDr/cassette releases and compilation appearances. Earlier this year, the band's debut album,BLOOD IN THE COFFIN, came out as a limited-edition tape on UK micro-label, Sexbeat Records.

While legions of artists are mining the ambient style, Dufficy stands out because of his ability to develop his soundscapes, infusing them with a touch of melody to impart a sense of emotion. Songs like the lead-off track, "Watch Your Eyes", set the mood perfectly while "Bongs Dream" shows Dufficy's intuitive understanding that the perfectly weighted note/chord can add tremendous emotional resonance to an atmospheric piece.

But Dufficy isn't some common Nu-Age denizen and the album really shines when the drums come in and the band rocks out. "Winnie Cooper's Bones" and "Two Long Weeks Part 2" find Dufficy perfectly capable of crafting memorable songs that stick with the listener. The album's centerpiece, "Stiff Wizard", serves as a thesis statement for the entire album. Over 10+ minutes, the track starts with flanged/fuzzed guitars swishing about and sounding like jet engines on a runway. As the piece builds towards take-off, a simple radar-like melody begins pinging and the song takes flight when the drums and driving guitar chords launch in -- a perfect microcosm of the whole record.

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Various Artists - Persian Underground - Garage Rock, Beat and Psychedelic Sounds from The Iranian 60's & 70's Scene (Persianna 2010)

Amazing collection that gathers some of the rarest Persian 45s, totally unknown outside of Iran until now. Here you'll find an eclectic mix of styles, from garage nuggets to cool Persian beat, exotic rock&roll and prog/psych. Featuring female drummer & singer Zangoleah with some killer garage / rockin' tracks, obscure bands like Takkhalha doing a fab cover of the Stones "Play with fire" and an amazing take on the Persian traditional song "Mastom, Mastom", Golden Ring styled beat by Big Boys, exotic Persian beat by Saeed and Tigers, terrific garage-beat by Ojubeha and the two sides of the Kambiz 45, probably the major discovery from Iran in the recent years and one of the few, if not the only truly Persian prog/psych 45s ever recorded.

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Στυλιανός Τζιρίτας UNIT - Ηχοβολές εναντίον του αυτοσυστήματος 3/12 Knot Gallery

Οι Σ .Τ. UNIT προσπαθούν να μετουσιώσουν αστικές νευρώσεις σε ηχητικά πεδία. Εκφραζόμενοι σε ελληνική γλώσσα προσπαθούν να περιπλέξουν την ανάμνηση του χωμάτινου εδάφους, τη λαογραφία, τον εκτενή φουτουρισμό και τα ηθικά ερωτήματα με ηχοδομές που αντανακλούν την προθανάτια αγωνία.

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Οι Σ. Τ. UNIT ποιούν σύγχρονη ελληνική μουσική και όχι avant garde και διάφορες άλλες αστικές κουταμάρες. Αφήνουν τα ηνία των τεχνών σε προύχοντες και διάττοντες.
Ενδιαφέρονται για τη φήμη, το ακραιφνή σαρκισμό και την Καντιανή σκέψη.




Έργα & Ηχογραφήσεις σε εξέλιξη > *Σκυλόψαρα εν Διαστάσει
*Προκρούστης
*Τέλμα Αστικών Συνηθειών


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Στυλιανός Τζιρίτας > Κλαρινέττο/Λαρύγγι/Διεύθυνση

*Αποκλειστικώς Μουσικά Βιογραφικά Στοιχεία
(Ο Στυλιανός Τζιρίτας είναι κλαρινετίστας με συμμετοχή σε πολλά σχήματα (Κοψωκέφαλοι/Trypanosoma/Feedbacking the Grass/Bayouda ανάμεσα σε άλλα) και δίσκους από τα τέλη της δεκαετίας του 80 έως και σήμερα/ Ο Βαγγέλης Κουτσιούρης είναι κιθαρίστας και μπασίστας τα τελευταία 25 χρόνια/με τον Στυλιανό Τζιρίτα έχουν συνεργαστεί πολλάκις κάτω από διάφορα σχηματα και σε πολλούς δίσκους/ Ο Θωμάς Χαβαλές επεξεργάζεται μαγνητοταινίες και με τον Στυλιανό Τζιρίτα έχουν το παράλληλο μουσικό σχήμα των Betomo/Ο Στέλιος Εφεντάκης διατηρεί επίσης το σχήμα των Gardebox, είναι ηχολήπτης/παραγωγός και διδάσκει μουσική τεχνολογία)

ως ειδκός προσκεκλημένος των παραπάνω κυρίων τη συναυλία θα ξεκινήσει ο επίσης εξαίρετος κύριος...

Stephen Fleming (Cosmic Rough Riders)
Ως τραγουδιστης και κιθαριστας των Cosmic Rough Riders ο Stephen Fleming συνδυάζει τις Βρετανικές και ειδικότερα Σκωτσέζικες μουσικές παραδόσεις με vintage Americana και West Coast ήχους. Με την Poptones του θρυλικού Alan McGee (Oasis, The Hives etc) και τη Warner Music κάνουν 4 UK top 40 επιτυχίες, πωλούν πάνω από 150,000 δίσκους και περιοδεύουν σε όλη την Ευρώπη, Αμερική και Ιαπωνία παίζοντας στα μεγαλύτερα παγκόσμια festival αλλά και ως support με τους: Black Crowes, Ocean Colour Scene, Stereophonics, Paul Weller, Robert Plant, Lenny Kravitz και U2.


Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες στα Ελληνικά για τον Stephen αλλά και τους Cosmic Rough Riders υπάρχει και το website: http://www.stephenfleming.info/

Metro Decay- Official re-release party of their debut Lp "Υπέρβαση" 3/12 at Seven Sins Club

Ανάμεσα στα κρεσσέντα του 1984 και του 2010

H “Ειρκτή” με περηφάνεια παρουσιάζει, στις 3 Δεκεμβρίου στο Seven Sins Club στις 24:00 και με ελεύθερη είσοδο, την επίσημη επανακυκλοφορία σε βινύλιο της «Υπέρβασης» των Metro Decay, συνοδευόμενης από ένα πρόσθετο 7” single, που περιλαμβάνει το χαμένο demo του συγκροτήματος “Brand New Day”.

Special DJ set θα αναλάβει ο Κ. Π. Mάστορης, ενώ το LP της «Υπέρβασης» (+ «Brand New Day» 7”) όπως και πρόσθετα βινύλια από την «Ειρκτή» θα βρίσκονται σε διάθεση.
Κοντά μας θα βρίσκονται και τρία από τα μέλη των Metro Decay,
οι: Γιάννης Μανιάτης, Κώστας Π. Μάστορης και Στέλιος Μαστρόκαλος.

Κινούμενοι χρονικά και ηχητικά «Ανάμεσα Σε Δύο Κρεσσέντα», κατά τη διάρκεια του event, οι φίλοι των Metro Decay θα έχουν την ευκαιρία, πέρα από τη μουσική, να δουν και σπάνιο οπτικό υλικό, όπως πολλές φωτογραφίες από συναυλίες και το μοναδικό video που υπάρχει από live εμφάνισή τους. 

Seven Sins Club
Θεμιστοκλέους & Γαμβέτα 5, Πλατεία Κάνιγγος, Αθήνα
Τηλ : 6993103044 
Πρόσβαση : Μετρό - Στάση Ομόνοιας
www.sevensinsclub.gr - info@sevensinsclub.gr


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Scorpion Violente - s/t 12" (Bruit Direct 2010)

New mindless electro minimalism from France, part of the whole crew with the logo (I suppose it is called “La Grande Triple Alliance Internationale de l’Est,” an umbrella operation for A.H. Kraken, the Anals, the Feeling of Love and related parties). It took a few listens to grok whether this duo was taking the piss, but there is a method here, even if it’s one that sets the drum pattern apart from the speed of the notes played on the synth, either to disorient, or to show the listener that they don’t know/don’t care how to make it work like everybody else. That little difference is what makes “Roma Violente,” a long-ish, static disco-minimal melody into the serious track that it is. Examples on the flipside are more spare and with somewhat of an industrial bend – “Mi Pute Mi Soumise” marches along with distortion and death in tow, while “Ich Kann Nicht” delivers the Germanic, stark yelling and murderous shocks you might expect from such a title. Another great record from B-D that doesn’t fit neatly into any one style or category. 500 copies.

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CCCANDY - Lonesome Berlin (Avant Records 2010)

AVANT RECORDS: Lonesome Berlin is the long time coming first LP from this German guy solo project CCCANDY. After the debut 7'' on Eat! and the tape on Neue Stra?en, we now have a proper full-length featuring twelve dark minimal synth pop songs. This is the sounds of the old Europe during the Eighties, when the Berlin Wall was still real: cold and catchy at once, minimal yet groovy. Greyscale bedroom electronics. Fans of early synth stuff such as The Normal, R.L. Crutchfield's Dark Day, French cold wave bands (Charles de Goal,Trop Tard, Asylum Party) as well as of FactoryMen and Nice Face, take note!


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RIP: Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson 1955 - 2010

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Peter Christopherson, a.k.a. Sleazy, member of such seminal groups as Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, and Coil. He reportedly died in his sleep yesterday, November 24, at the age of 55.

The initial announcement came roughly an hour ago, at around 4 AM EST, when Throbbing Gristle members Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter tweeted the same message:

Our dearest beautiful Sleazy left this mortal coil as he slept in peace last night.words cannot express our grief...

Sun Of Nothing - The Guilt Of Feeling Alive (2010)

Limited vinyl edition looks sexy...

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Ynos - Shadow Priest (2010)

Stare into the eye of the storm and the shadow priest will consume your soul...Sludge freshly squized from the swamp is the only words that can describe this hypnotic vortex.
Behind this hides Master Tefkros on swamp bass and sexy solos, Witchburner Crowley who knocks on wooden coffins and Cultist Brother Ray on black chants...

Tartarus - Epimetheus Bootleg (new track 2010)

Just a bootleg from one man band Tartarus... Recorded live with session members...

No trendy ass fuckin' swedish crap here... only pure darkness and EVOOOOOL!!!!!!

Here it is an older track from this true black metal occult band... enjoy!

Mv & Ee - Muskie & Manitou (brave mysteries 2010)

...this tape presents the mv & ee tour of Summer 2009, fresh from the sweetest spot in the taper's pit. As last Summer was coming to a cool simmer, mv & ee strolled into the collegiate utopia of Madison, Wisconsin; to perform at a tiny art gallery for their faithful Midwestern brethren. The room was packed with flannel-clad friendlies and the atmosphere was thick and balmy, as Matt mumbled his way to the opening heatstroke of "Summer Magic", the micro-brewed smiles crept across all our faces, and we were all real gone for a change. This tape effortlessly captures the magic of that evening and and opens the portal, gazing back into the hypnotic waves of Matt and Erika's secret mountain bonfire. *brave mysteries

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Various Artists - Turkish Freakout (bouzouki joe 2010)

Turkey is often referred to as the meeting point between East and West, a statement verified by this 18 track selection of choice Turkish grooves. The western rock, psych, funk and jazz influences that began to be incorporated into traditional Turkish sounds during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s can be heard here, as the Anadolu pop sound of Turkeyma balanced these new elements with the complex sounds and rhythms developed over many years. All tracks are referenced from their original 7" releases, painstakingly tracked down from various sources in and around Istanbul, with extensive liner notes to boot. The marriage of these styles is original, captivating and bound to freak you out, big time. First 1,000 copies of double-vinyl pressing include a limited edition Arif Sag 7” single with vintage sleeve artwork. Essential listening for anyone already whirling dervishly to the output of Sublime Frequencies, World Psychedelic Funk Classics, or Finders Keepers.

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Pocahaunted - Threshold 7'' (not not fun 2010)

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, bands to solo projects, it’s all the same arc. And here it is, the final RIP action by star-crossed Not Not Fun institution Pocahaunted and the only recorded document of the final triforce-vocal line-up featuring Leyna Noel on keys/crooning/dance magic. The results blaze/amaze. “Threshold” was written on the road and melts through a river mistress intro before revving into a tense kraut-funk burner with catchy femme-soul vocables cascading down from every side. The B, “Echolocation,” is a tranced ghost-reggae comedown ballad and classic slow-dance live staple. Nimble bass maneuvering by whimsy princess Diva Dompe leads the melody up through the choruses into the torch-song bridge climax that leaves everybody on the floor...*not not fun

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Head Of Wantastiquet - Dead Seas (conspiracy 2010)

Head Of Wantastiquet is the alter ego of Paul Labrecque, an American musician, songwriter now residing in Belgium. He has recorded with Chris Corsano and Valerie Webb, and he plays and records with the bohemian group Sunburned Hand Of the Man. Historically, aesthetically and sonically his new work bears genuinely comparison with merican primitivism', a mix of psychedelic banjo hymns, apocalyptic space folk and incredible drugged out soul-whispers. It layers banjos, guitars and smoke as though they were shimmering veins of black pearls, pulsing against the scarlet dawn. *conspiracy

...we need to learn how to fly. The birds know it. The albatross, as if painting a flawless hyper-realistic seascape, crosses the ocean without rippling the water. Slow-motion. With a wingspan of 340 cm, wider than any other bird in the world, he can float almost without flapping his wings. It is easy to imagine him dying of old age while flying and after some period of decay still having it's skeleton carried along by rising air-streams. Somewhere, over the ocean, there must be a sort of air- suspended bird sanctuary where all the albatrosses gather to die when they know their time has come; a flock of soaring skeletons..

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Marika Papagika - The Further the Flame, the Worse It Burns Me (Mississippi Records 2010)

One of the first generation of Greek women singers to be heard on sound recordings, Marika Papagika was born on the island of Kos on September 1, 1890.
Her family moved to Egypt, probably Alexandria, when she was young. She began her career in this country, working in nightspots that catered for the large resident Greek community. It is likely that she made her first recordings here as well.
Around 1915 she emigrated to the USA where she continued performing and recording. By the mid-1920's she and her husband Kostas ['Gus'],  a cembalo player, had their own club in New York. She regularly worked with the fine violinist Athanasios Makedonas. Marika's versatile repertory included folksongs, 'light', European-style songs, but she became a noted exponent of the Smyrnaic style of the rebetiko tragoudi.
She and her husband apparently lost the nightspot in the great financial crisis of 1929, and her recording career ended in the late 1930's. She recorded 225 performances between 1918 & 1929. This LP features some of her most mystical & moving. Instrumental accompaniment is provided by various combinations of cymbalon, cello, violin & clarinet. Includes a booklet featuring all known photographs of Marika & extensive liner notes by Ian Nagoski, which shed much deserved light on one of the deepest artists of the Rembetika & Greek folk music scene. Record is housed in an old school tip on sleeve. Includes 12-page booklet.
Marika died in New York in 1943; it has been said that she died of disappointment.


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