LITTLE ANNIE & FABRIZIO MODONESE PALUMBO
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Blue Xmas ep 7” / DD, - limited to 300 copies (art edition limited to 50 copies) - Tourette Records 028
Side A. Chinatown Blues
Side B1. Blue Moon - B2. The Ballad Of Blue Obsessions
Music by Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo
Lyrics by Little Annie
Except for “Blue Moon” by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo: guitars, electric viola, vocals
Little Annie: vocals
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Marco Milanesio at O.F.F. Torino, Italy
www.off.to.it
Blue Vinyl Art Edition Samples
Original artwork by Little Annie
Layout by Bellissimo
Original artwork by Little Annie
Layout by Bellissimo
Fabrizio dedicates “Blue Moon” to the memory of his grandfather Antenore Modonese, it was his favourite song.
Conceived as part of the Tourette Records "We Dream In Colour" series, Little Annie and Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo celebrate the winter solstice festivities by following in the footsteps of Phil Spector and releasing their own Christmas single. Two illustrious artsits: dud-diva Little Annie plus Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo active as ( r ) and as a member of Blind Cave Salamander, and Almagest!; both also partners in the avant rock cult band Larsen.
Sporting an original artwork by Little Annie, the "Blue Xmas ep" includes the tracks "Blue Moon" - an acoustically deranged cover version of the crooner standard, "Chinatown Blues" - Little Annie's ultimate quietly opiated fantasy drenched in Fabrizio's obsessive layers of distorted treated guitars and "The Ballad Of Blue Obsessions" - Fabrizio & Annie's dreamy duet a la Nancy & Lee.
An edition of 300 copies of the Little Annie & Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo "Blue Xmas ep" on royal-blue transparent vinyl will be released by Tourette Records on Black Friday the 25th of Nov 2011 plus an exclusive limited edition (on blue transparent vinyl as well) including individual pieces of canvas print numbered 1 thru 50, no two alike, doctored and designed by Little Annie and signed by both artists.
The "Blue Xmas ep" will also be available as a digital single on iTunes via Tunecore starting on Christmas eve 2011.
Links
www.deathtripper.com
www.facebook.com/littleanniesings
October 26, 2011
Dear followers,
tourette is proud to announce the second release in the "we dream in colour" series !
This time the 7" is from COH featuring Little Annie.
Please learn more below...Thanks for your attention,
Joseph
COH feat. Little Annie
We Dream In Colour Series
yellow 7" - limited to 300 copies - tourette 024side A : Curious yellow
side B : 46 things i did today (2011 edit)Original version of side B recorded in 1999 and appears on COH "VOX_TINNITUS" EP.
Voice & Lyrics by Little Annie
Music by Ivan Pavlov/COH
OUT NOW !
DEAD VOICES ON AIR @ 20
2oth Anniversary Series 7 Inch Singles
001.Simon Fisher Turner and Dead Voices On Air, "MzMzLaLaLa"
tourette 025 - limited to 350 copies
This single is a double A side and is the first of the DVOA@20 series.
Side A is entitled, ‘MzMzLaLaLa for Peace,’ and Side A is entitled, ‘MzMzLaLaLa Sing-Song-Sing.’
Simon Fisher Turner
Simon had a highly successful career as a child/young hopeful actor, appearing in movie and TV roles from Black Beauty, Tom Brown’s Schooldays to The Big Sleep (re-made with Robert Mitchum). Aged 17 he signed to Jonathan King’s UK Records and released the album “Simon Turner” in 1969. He then discovered tape recorders and ended up playing with the legendary Portsmouth Symphonia with musicians such as Brian Eno.
Simon first worked as a runner on the sets of films by Derek Jarman, before becoming Jarman’s favoured soundtrack composer. Simon’s association with Jarman was lasting and massively fruitful. “Caravaggio”, “The Last Of England” (with contributions from Barry Adamson and Diamanda Galas), “The Garden” (with the Balanescu Quartet), and “Edward II”, were amongst the most innovative film sound projects of the ’80s and early ’90s, most of them surfacing as CDs though Mute. His final film with Jarman was the powerful, poignant “Blue”, where a soundscape recorded by Simon at Eno’s country house, plus Jarman’s AIDs inspired spoken words, stood in for the visuals - only a blue screen was projected. Simon also worked under the name of The King Of Luxembourg and has collaborated extensively. He has released many albums and in addition to his work with Jarman has contributed to numerous other film soundtracks for directors such as David Lynch.
Simon and Mark Spybey first met backstage at a Can concert at the Barbican in London in 1999. They work together, in spurts and fits, under the name MzMzLaLaLa and this single is their first release. They recently played a concert in London together under a railway arch.
DVOA @ 20 Anniversary Series
Since leaving :zoviet-france: in the late eighties Mark Spybey has released fifteen albums as Dead Voices On Air. He’s appeared on over 80 releases in the past twenty years. When the late Michael Karoli, the seminal guitarist, put together a band in the late nineties to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Can, it was Spybey who he asked to help him.. He has made a career out of collaborating extensively with a wide range of musicians, film- makers and visual artists. He was a member of Download and formed Beehatch with Phil Western of Download and Reformed Faction with ex-:zoviet-france: members, including Robin Storey of Rapoon. Between 1992 and 2000 he lived and worked in Vancouver, Canada and has toured extensively around the world with a variety of collaborators including Karoli and Damo Suzuki of Can, The Legendary Pink Dots, Pigface, Michael Rother of Neu! and Dieter Moebius of Cluster. He’s remixed Neu! and Faust amongst others. His has worked with labels such as Kranky, Nettwerk, Soleilmoon Recordings, Invisible, Spoon, Scratch, Cleopatra, Lens and for the 20th anniversary seven inch single series, Tourette Records of Houston Texas.
Each of the singles in this series will feature a different collaborator, working with Spybey to create entirely new pieces of music. At the time of writing, artists that have agreed to take part include:
• Simon Fisher Turner of Mute Records
• James Plotkin, of Flux, Old, Khanate, Scorn
• Troum, Germany’s finest drone band
• Edward Kaspel, of the Legendary Pink Dots
• cEvin Key, of Skinny Puppy and Download
• Robert Hampson, of Main, Loop
• Robin Storey of Rapoon
• Jochen Arbeit, of Neubaten and Die Haut
• Dave Wright of Not Breathing
• Ryan Moore of Twilight Circus Dub Sound System
• Orbit Service, from Denver, Colorado
The sleeves are designed by David Babbitt with art commissioned by Paul Bilger. The final release will be housed in a commemorative box to house all of the singles.
NURSE WITH WOUND / ARANOS : OUT NOW !
Acts of Senseless Beauty
2xLP
tourette Records 002
limited to 440 copies on transparent vinyl & art edition of 60 copies with hand made sleeves(prices include shipment)
Standard edition
Art edition (60 copies)
SOLD OUT
As hinted on a cover artwork, original CD documented sketchily research into humanisation of fish in rivers and bodies of water surrounded by large clots of humans - Thames <> London, Hudson<> New York, LIffy<>Dublin, Vltava<>Prague and so forth an on and on and over and out.
It also constituted the first publicly documented collaboration of the aforementioned grouping of psycho-acoustic researchers. To fill the side d of the double LP with vibrations appropriate to the occasion, NWW/a revisited underwater lay-line tangents and discovered, not altogether to their surprise, that humanised fish has evolved in the intervening time gap and x-bread with squirrel fearing krustations, thus acquiring a defense mechanism against cosmic fluons constantly passing through their minds causing formation of irritating ideas.
As these highly evolved creatures resent being photographed and punish transgressors by their sharp mind teeth, we present an artist impression on the front page of the gatefold. These creatures constantly shape shift as they move between dimensions 6 and 7, so other artist impressions will be presented in the art series of this release. Music/noise on the track describes in some details conversations and revelations of these Piscus Sapiens Emoticus.
Revelations important to humankind and their pets. Plants of various species and specialities benefit too, some normously, some enormously, mostly succulently, spinally, thornily or smoothly greening.
Links
www.discogs.com/artist/Nurse+With+Wound
New Release
limited Edition 7” of 300 copies as part of the “We Dream In Colour” series
tourette 023We dream in colour, is the title of the new Live music project, curetted by six d.o.g.s (www.sixdogs.gr) and Angelos Petroutsas (Prince of Poverty), that consists of seven live concerts in the Gig Space of six d.o.g.s venue in Athens Greece, starting from February 2011 and ending in December 2011 of seven music artists, and the release of seven 7” byTourette Records, in which the artists shall contribute music for the project.
Each artist has been assigned with one colour in a “journey” from the moon to the sun, and each 7” is considered as a blooming coloured flower and as seen in the art work of the jacket a bee dancing in coordinates with the sun showing to other “bees” where the “nectar” music can be found and a solar clock pointing the time of each live concert taking place in Athens.
Each 7” vinyl shall be released in the colour assigned to each artist in 300 limited edition copies and the artistic direction is by Pindaros (www.arsondpi.gr), the first seven vinyls from each release will be all united in a limited edition box of seven copies in the form of a bee hive made from black non see through Plexiglas, with a surprised art work inside to be revealed to the ones that acquire them, plus as each box will be dedicated to each artist taking part in this will include also the test press for each one.
The artists that are participating in the project and their colours are as follows :
Silver - Cindytalk
Yellow - COH
Red - ?
Green - Troum
Violet - ?
Blue - ?
Orange - ?
The art edition will not continue as concerts are called off due to the crisis in Greece. The series may continue.
New Release
ARBEIT/ PAUL BEAUCHAMP/ FABRIZIO MODONESE PALUMBO
Torino 012010 (2xCD, Tourette Records 022)
Limited to 500 copies
Torino 012010 is the second release of a series documenting the collaboration between
Jochen Arbeit (guitar player of Die Haut and Einstuerzende Neubauten) Paul Beauchamp and Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (the duo known as Blind Cave Salamander).
This collaboration started as part of Arbeit's “Soundscapes” improvisation live project.
The focus being on the moment of the spontaneous meeting of different systems of soundscaping, the task and challenge of exchanging the results of individual sound research in a public space.The Torino 012010 double cd release on Tourette Records follows the vinyl only live album Halle 27022010 (released by the German label Behind s.r.b.) and presents two different sessions recorded by the trio in January 2010 in Torino Italy: a studio session at O.F.F. studios reecorded, mixed and edited by producer and sound engineer Marco Milanesio and a recording of a live performance in the historical chapel of the San Pietro In Vincoli ex-cemetery as recorded by Larsen's Paolo Dellapiana and edited by Jochen Arbeit.
Even though this collaboration is an integral part of Blind Cave Salamander's activity and discography the musicians have decided to release these albums under their individual names to emphasize the project's collaborative nature based on improvisation and composing as a real time emotional and musical reaction to each other's inputs/outputs.Credits
Jochen Arbeit : guitar, electronics
Paul Beauchamp : electronics, musical saw
Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo : guitar, electric violaLinks
www.jochenarbeit.com
www.myspace.com/paulbeauchamp
www.deathtripper.com
www.blindcavesalamander.com
New Release
GNOME & SPYBEY "Beyond Willie's place" / CD digipak, limited to 600 copies, tourette 020
New Release
ANDREW LILES "Muldjewangk, Morgawr And Other Monsters" / CD digipak / tourette 021
Nurse With Wound
RUSHKOFF COERCION is a 2 track 45rpm 7" released in two editions.
It is available as a purple vinyl 7" in a deluxe 14"x14" card fold out poster sleeve.
Also available as a very limited edition of 100 copies as a picture disc (already sold out) which also comes in a deluxe 14"x14" card fold out poster sleeve.
Red translucent vinyl (sold out)
Picture disc (sold out)
Troum - Mare Idiophonika / CD-DIGIPAK / tourette 019
Tourette Records is very proud to present the new full-length album by Troum, the first part of the "Power Romantic" series. This is the studio version of Troum's live-programme from 2007, performed in several European cities, together with NADJA, ASIA NOVA and VOICE OF EYE. A new ending has been added later. Limited to 500 copies.
< Listen to an excerpt here
CD - tourette 017 - ltd. ed. of 400
SOLD OUTtrack list
the false prophets
in the colour of the red bull
gold to water
tetsusaygo
spacelec
gnome entrance
knoll exit
middle roads
quiet noise
tonycango"I get the honor of announcing Mark Spybey's collaborative release with Gnome (aka Tony D'Oporto). Gnome and Spybey's At Willie's Place on Tourette Records in a limited edition of 400 copies. It's a gorgeous journey from the heights of the clouds to the forest floor. It's an album of detailed synthetic warmth populated by remotely ethnic melodic figures which roam the tracks like living creatures. The album reminds of Ariel Kalma, the Residents at their most serene, Coil at their most reflective, Aphex at his most ambient, and Eno at his most melodious. It's mood music for those times when you just aren't quite sure what mood you're in, a beam of welcome morning light pouring through the window after a sleepless night of worry. At Willie's Place is the most vibrant record of electronic music I've heard in quite some time.
Hear some of it yourself at the Gnome and Spybey Myspace and find out more via the Gnome and Spybey Facebook."
CoreySTILL AVAILABLE
GNOME AND SPYBEY : "At Willie's place"
CD - tourette 017 - ltd. ed. of 400 - 12$
track list :
the false prophets
in the colour of the red bull
gold to water
tetsusaygo
spacelec
gnome entrance
knoll exit
middle roads
quiet noise
tonycango"I get the honor of announcing Mark Spybey's collaborative release with Gnome (aka Tony D'Oporto). Gnome and Spybey's At Willie's Place on Tourette Records in a limited edition of 400 copies. It's a gorgeous journey from the heights of the clouds to the forest floor. It's an album of detailed synthetic warmth populated by remotely ethnic melodic figures which roam the tracks like living creatures. The album reminds of Ariel Kalma, the Residents at their most serene, Coil at their most reflective, Aphex at his most ambient, and Eno at his most melodious. It's mood music for those times when you just aren't quite sure what mood you're in, a beam of welcome morning light pouring through the window after a sleepless night of worry. At Willie's Place is the most vibrant record of electronic music I've heard in quite some time.
Hear some of it yourself at the Gnome and Spybey Myspace and find out more via the Gnome and Spybey Facebook."
Corey
OUT NOW !!!
ANDREW LILES
MONSTER MUNCH E.P
tourette 016
7" EP - ltd. ed. of 300 copies, candy coloured red vinyl
New in the shop is the first audio release in Andrew Liles' 'MONSTER' series. The ‘MONSTER’ banner will be a continuous, interrelated, cross referenced and rolling project that will employ the ‘MONSTER’ theme in some way. It will run concurrently with other Andrew Liles releases.The first musical release in the 'MONSTER' series is the 'MONSTER MUNCH E.P.'
The 'MONSTER MUNCH E.P' is an 8 track 7". Side one of the single is playable at both 45 and 33.3. The single comes in a beautiful card fold out sleeve that measures 14" by 14" with 'exotic' artwork by Andrew Liles. The record is pressed on candy coloured red vinyl and is limited to 300 copies.‘MONSTER’ started in 2009 with the ‘GONZO’ download and t-shirt and two button badges. Planned for the coming months are a book and CD called 'DREAMY GORGEOUS MONSTER and a DVD ‘THE PHANTASMOGORICAL MONSTER THEY CALL TOKOLOSHE’. The first LP 'THE MIRACULOUS MECHANICAL MONSTER' will be released in May and a Mini LP 'THE MULDJEWANGK' in the summer months. The 'MONSTER' series of recordings and ephemera are unexpected musical adventures and all tie together as one cohesive 'MONSTROUS' anthology.
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ANTOINE CHESSEX
FOOLS
tourette 015
LP - ltd. ed. 200 copies
[listen to an extract by clicking on the player above]
Brand new solo release by Antoine Chessex, FOOLS presents studio material recorded in 2008 in Berlin.Perhaps the most amazing thing about Chessex is his ability to take a single instrument —a tenor saxophone— and seamlessly move between the hallmarks of musical genres that many others simply get stuck in.
As an immersive journey into the physicality of sounds, FOOLS features phasing microtonal explorations of time and space, dense layers of harsh electrified explosions, deep droning textures and moments of ecstatic sound poetry screamed into the mouthpiece. Wall of sounds, abrupt ruptures and fragile static tension coexisitng to create a varied and intense piece of challenging music.
Chessex created a highly personal work, pushing the tenor saxophone into unique territories and revealing a dedicated personnality for sonic research and experimentations.
Expertly recorded and mastered by Rashad Becker. Full colors artwork provided by the great Lasse Marhaug.
Chessex is involved internationaly with experimental music since more than a decade. His sonic researches range from compositions for ensembles towards solo performances and collaborations with fellow artists like Lasse Marhaug, Zbigniew Karkowski, C. Spencer Yeh, Chris Corsano, Valerio Tricoli, Axel Dörner, Robin Hayward, Lucio Capece and Monno.
DEAD VOICES ON AIR
THE SILENT WING
tourette 014
LP, ltd. ed. of 400 copies on black vinyl
[listen to a full track by clicking on the player above]
“The Silent Wing,” is the third release by Dead Voices on Air in the past year and is the 13th release by Mark Spybey under the Dead Voices on Air name and only the second to be released on vinyl.About Dead Voices On Air
Spybey started his career in the North-East of England with postindustrialists Zoviet France in the late eighties before moving to Vancouver. It was here that Dead Voices On Air were formed. Spybey also worked under the name Propeller and was an original member of Download, who were formed out of the ashes of Skinny Puppy. Of late he has formed two bands, Beehatch with Phil Western of Download, and Reformed Faction, a duo with founding member of Zoviet France and Rapoon mainstay Robin Storey.
Yet, it is his work as Dead Voices on Air that perhaps most accurately defines the essence of his sound and the techniques that he has developed in a career spanning more than two decades. Spybey continues to make music with real instruments; rhythms cultivated by hand from his love of ethnological music and the usual array of grainy sounds and effected vocals. He describes it as “music for the eyes.”
“Spybey works hard at his art so you don’t have to: rather, as the listener, the participant, the absorber, it’s more important you ignore such now pat genre appellations as “industrial”, “ambient”, “soundscape”, et al, and instead gorge deeply on a wriggling, prickly, sometimes confrontational puzzle box of sounds”. Darren Bergstein.
MAURIZIO BIANCHI / M.B.
>>YNOHPMYS<<
digipak cd - tourette 013
[listen to a full track by clicking on the player above]
"This Italian electronics maestro seems to be still going strong after around 30 years with his latest release. Opener 'Ortini' is like the hazey recollection of a long train journey being put through an analogue filter bank. 'The Inflammatory Sesor' has a kind of feeling of nostalgia or distant memory that recalls William Basinski or The Caretaker. 'Oigada' sounds like two decomposing tape loops slightly out of sync creating a disorientating phasing effect. There are some very absorbing sounds here to get lost in. One for a late night in near darkness. Recommended." [Norman Records]
"After several works focused on electronic brainwaves, here you can find a seclusionist opera in which the microscopic sonic particles compress neurovegetative modulations for a symphonic photocoagulation. An altruistic sermon for spiritual requirement." [Soleilmoon Recordings]
SOLD OUT
COLUMN ONE / IDPA / MZ.412
LIVE ACTION / VODOO BUMBLE BEE
tourette 012
LP - ltd. ed. of 412 copies
(listen to a full track by clicking on the player above)
Nearly 10 years after the memorable collaboration between MZ.412, IDPA, and COLUMN ONE and recorded at the event of the Collapse Festival, held in Rostock, Germany, comes a document of this event. What you hear is a manifestation of opposites, the submerging into the alternate universes of the collaborators, bound to a closed auditorium. Distorted screams, noise loops and sound manipulations meet bells, field recordings, natural sounds, piano passages and harmonious arrangements. A claustrophobic scenario, this 24-minute piece comprises the live-action in its entirety.The other side of this album marks the return of COLUMN ONE after a 2-year hiatus and is a monument of power - a radical clean slate. The first 15-minute piece (Shake Hands with Mr. Ringling) was recorded in Berlin with various classical musicians and evolves from an open electro-acoustic space into a massive orchestral drone, comparable with Organum, Penderecki, Hermann Nitsch, or NWW. The second piece (Voodoo Bumble Bee), based on a loop from the 1920s, marches forth as a tiny, amusing machine.
LP, ltd ed. 500
tourette011
(unreleased version of track 1)
Russia has had an incredibly interesting and mostly uncredited underground electronic scene for some time. One of its flag bearers has been Ivan Pavlov who has been a longtime contributor to Raster-Noton as well as running the obscure Wavetrap label. He has collaborated with Cosey Fanny Tutti and currently works with other Throbbing Gristle member Peter Christopherson as Soi Song. The LP I’m currently listening to is called DZERZHINSK-9 and is pulled from 1996 recordings which were made with DAO which is Andrej Dao Kolesov. DAO + CoH uses bass, guitars and custom ZX Spectrum and the results are pretty damn awesome. The beats are really energizing while the bass comes through like Jack Dangers in fine form. There is a distinct 90‘s flavour and yet it retains a freshness. ‘Propharadeia’ is a really driving track that makes me shake my body from finger to toe. ‘Oka’ is dark and sinister coming through like an Autechre/Muslimgauze hybrid, seething with eastern paranoia. ‘Sung In Sand' continues the eastern flavour with its building intricate yet subtle percussion and swooping synths. Out on Tourette records. Great stuff!
[Review by Normanrecords]
BLACK SUN PRODUCTIONS & VAL DENHAM : Somewhere Between Desire And Despair
digipak cd
tourette010
"After a couple of collaborations on tracks, Black Sun Productions finally get together with Val Denham for a full length release. Val Denham might be best known for her paintings that have appeared on releases by Marc and the Mambas, Psychic TV... but over the past few years she has been releasing short-run CD-Rs of her lo-fi sounds. Homosexual overtones inform much of Black Sun Productions material but with Val Denham, a transgendered figure, the focus moves on to a new form of sexuality.Somewhere Between Desire and Despair opens with the haunting atmospheric drone of 'A Tale of Two Cities' with Denham reciting lines from Charles Dickens. From then on much of the first half of Somewhere Between Desire and Despair flirts with various forms of electronic music. It's clear from 'Cobalt Blue' that Massimo and Pierce haven't forgotten their past association with Coil, as it picks up on the rhythmic shuddering Coil-like electronics with Denham's voice pitched deep and treated, alongside passages of sped-up processed vocals. Val Denham is something of a character and, at times, she sounds like a Northern housewife reared on a diet of glam records. 'Stars', a Denham collaboration with Testing Vault, goes all downbeat with dark electronics, featuring Denham's idiosyncratic take on a pop vocal. Denhams' voice is almost helium-fuelled on the disco-chug of 'We Are The Hydrogen'. 'Eat Us Mother!' foregoes the electronics for a surprisingly sparkly run through post-punk dynamics. Denham picks up on a rock persona teasing the listener with her shrieky and screechy vocal careering over booming bass and discordant guitar scrapes from her longtime collaborator Oli Novadniek.
Things slow down in the next half with a collection of evocative tracks, much in the vein of Black Sun Productions fantastic OperettAmoralle. The disorientating queasy electronics of 'Absinthe' has Denham relating a tale of alcohol abuse, evoking the Green fairy alongside some effective harmonium and harmonica drone. Many of the tracks here use mournful orchestration taken from a track called 'Morphium' - though the source isn't given. 'Andromeda' taps into the mind of the transgendered artist. It's almost poetic as Denham delivers a spoken vocal in her homely Northern tones. Much more poignant is 'Flowers In The Trenches' which tells of transgendered and transexual soldiers who fought in WWI. Amidst sombre strings and military snare drum rolls Denham speaks of those unnamed and forgotten soldiers who were, in fact, "women in their heads" fighting in another "man-made catastrophe" and "suffered for nothing". Enlightening stuff.
Val Denham really shines on the campy theatrics of 'I Try To Kill The Man' over the Weimar Berlin cabaret sounds of 'Das Lila Lied', an early 20th century homosexual anthem, here performed by the Ophelia Orchestra. Similarly 'Emerald Green' uses the score of Marlene Dietrich's 'Such Trying Times'. Denham is finely positioned to evoke the decadence, sexual transgression and dark wit with her sarcasm and style. Black Sun Productions have, of course, produced their own musical tribute on the works of Bertolt Brecht to tremendous effect and Denham's contributions don't disappoint.
Somewhere Between Desire and Despair is much more fun-filled than previous Black Sun Productions. It strikes a balance between electronic music and cabaret music, and a balance between poignancy and absurdity. It's not the most coherent release, partly due to the varied list of collaborators, but Val Denham manages to carry it all off with a verve and panache, informed by her strength of character, her honesty and humour. Somewhere Between Desire and Despair comes in a 6-panel digipak with wonderful representations of Val Denham's artwork."
[Review by Compulsion]
more info : myspace.com/blacksunproductions + www.myspace.com/valdenham
ANDREW ZEALLEY: THEMES & VARIATIONS
SELECT FILM, VIDEO, INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE MUSIC 2005-2009
black vinyl LP with insert, 31 x 31 cm, signed/numbered edition of 300
tourette009
ANDREW ZEALLEY: THEMES & VARIATIONS is the third installment in Zealley's "How To Explain Silence To A Dead Hare" series of vinyl project editions. The album showcases selected film, video, installation and performance music by Zealley, commissioned by visual artists - including Luis Jacob, Joey Medaglia, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, and Scott Treleaven. Produced by PSBEUYS, THEMES & VARIATIONS is released on Tourette Records (USA). This vinyl-only edition of 300 numbered LP's launches at Art Metropole on Saturday April 25, 1-3 PM.
On THEMES & VARIATIONS, Zealley intersects various aspects of his sound practise: field recordings, audio art, existential house, tonal mantra, and musical form/composition. At the center of THEMES & VARIATIONS are the scores for Scott Treleaven's trilogy of short films: GOLD, SILVER and LUSTRE. Composed and produced in 2005-2006, this group of instrumental compositions is punctuated, for the album, by four thematically-related works: APOTHEOSIS II, HABITAT THEME 2, SIGNAL, and ARENA.
TRACK NOTES:
The score to Treleaven's film on pandrogyny (starring Genesis P'Orridge and the late Lady Jaye Breyer), GOLD's cycling vortex of digital and acoustic sounds is followed by two variations on the same melodic and tonal themes: APOTHEOSIS II (an early audio sketch for GOLD), and HABITAT THEME 2 (developed for Luis Jacob's HABITAT installation at AGO). The plaintive love-pop electronics of SIGNAL, originally produced for Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay's CONSTELLATION performance piece, is newly remixed by PSBEUYS for the album. The swirling dream-scape of SILVER, the score to Treleaven's homage to John Dee (starring AA Bronson), is a seemingly endless sustain of electronics, violin and bell tones. ARENA, featuring the "beatbox" vocals of Luis Jacob, is the audio score to Joey Medaglia's video RE: FORM (BECOMING VISIBLE). An alternate version of ARENA's motifs can be heard on Zealley's exhibition soundtrack, AA Bronson School For Young Shamans. THEMES & VARIATIONS concludes with the 3-part score for LUSTRE, Treleaven's super8 tryptich starring Massimo & Pierce (Black Sun Productions). Here Zealley turns to a more classical interpretation of "themes and variations," literally voicing the score's tender melodic main theme (written for a local violin busker), through a series of pastoral string and oscillating electronic deconstructions.
ANDREW ZEALLEY: THEMES & VARIATIONS is mastered for vinyl at The E Room, by Peter J. Moore, and features performances by Luis Jacob, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, violinist Adm Shedden, and the PSBEUYS-directed Prospect Cottage Strings.
THEMES & VARIATIONS is released on Tourette Records (USA), catalogue number TOURETTE009, and is available online at www.artmetropole.com and directly from the artist's site.
more info : www.andrewzealley.com
ESCAMA SERRADA - LA REINA ESTA MALA
digipak cd (sold together with tourette007)
tourette008
The debut album of Sergio Méndez comes through Tourette Records as part of the pack “La Corte Del Rey Pescador/La Reina Está Mala”. Sergio and Demian from Ô Paradis have a friendship that has culminated in the release of this double work, in which they have actually worked together on some tracks. However, don’t be mistaken, Escama Serrada doesn’t sound like Ô Paradis except maybe with some ingredients of the music production. But, hey, bread and cake also share ingredients yet they taste quite differently. Samplers, parchments of songs, melodies� but especially noise, sometimes thick, sometimes hard, are present as well. Always undulating and pulsing, creating the main bases for each song. Escama Serrada basically presents a sort of dark ambient, adding some martial spice at times and a lot of dark punk attitude at others. Perhaps the music is similar to a modern day nihilistic version of Einstürzende Neubauten, or deconstructed rock stricken through a machinery surface. I love the way the songs are connected to each other, and it seems the hand of Demian is visible here, since his Tourette release is perhaps also the one in which the fluidity of the record is the best in his career. Also, both records have seven songs, mirroring each other. My personal favorite is track “IV” with its haunting guitar that is slowly shaded by the atmosphere around it. Promising ambient, with ample possibilities and, appreciatively, a distinct personality.
[Review by Side-Line]
more info : www.myspace.com/caballoamor
Ô PARADIS - LA CORTE DEL REY PESCADOR
digipak cd (sold together with tourette008)
tourette007
I have been a follower of Ô Paradis since I purchased “El Juego Negro” a couple of years ago. Demian has always managed to present groovy, Mediterranean neo folk, with a large assortment of samplers, noises and improvised instruments, and most always caressed by Demian’s voice. Frankly, “La Corte Del Rey Pescador” is, in my opinion, one if his best results yet. He seems to have polished the sometimes crude angles of his previous records. The fluidity of the record is astounding, and the music has become riper, settled, like a fruit fills with juice in the spring sunlight. “La Corte Del Rey Pescador” reminds me more than ever of Corcobado, with a darker, more experimental sound. Especially the use of the bass and the introduction of diverse experimental melodies take the music that step further. The lyrics seem to have also developed, into an intimate world, full of metaphors and sparkled with direct statements. The swing of “La Verdad De Los Peces” is transformed into the dark pop ballad of “El Paraiso Perdido”. The languid “Solo Un Desierto”, with a naïve piano melody, becomes a folk masterpiece that disintegrates into the violent dark tune “El Trono De La Razon” to then let the record close with the brilliant, moving, “Mi Dios”. Twenty minutes definitely come out as being too scarce. A must for true folk, experimental pop and simply great music lovers.
[review by Side-Line]
more info : www.myspace.com/oparadis
RETARDER - ENQUIRIES
digipak cd
tourette006
I’ve been waiting for this one to come for quite a while. The solo debut of Lloyd James, known for what he has done in NAEVUS for the last decade.
Rumors about this commitment found their way to me shortly after ”Silent Life” and I thought to myself that ”gotta sound like Clapton” but no no no. As RETARDER, Lloyd sets out on a very edgy and stormy voyage, full of obstacles to overcome. It’s very experimental, most of this material could possibly destroy a NAEVUS album and sometimes, it’s even more weird than that LARK BLAMES album he did together with Marc Blackie (SLEEPING PICTURES). Not two tracks sound the same but that’s just a statement I establish and, it’s neither positive nor negative, it’s just the way it is.
The intro is a long and exhausting piano improvisation with some horns hidden underneath. Could probably call it arty or something. It doesn’t sound too good, which is probably the whole idea, but it does something with you and you will feel like... Empty afterwards.
The second track has a slightly proto post-punk feeling, a simple, mechanic riff and a vocal loop is the core and I must say it sounds quite cool.
”Tongue in the Wind” takes the listener on a multi-layered ambient trip, where spacey sounds are mixed with something that resembles a theremin.
Track four is called ”Father Duncan” and it’s probably the least experimental one, actually, it could be a NAEVUS song with that strummed guitar and simple drum pattern. We’re also given some Lloyd-singing and pretty nice lyrics as usual when he’s the author. A nice track and a well deserved break between all the madness that went by and that awaits; ten seconds into the fifth track you’ll succumb to the feberish nightmare sounds, could probably go under the parole noise lite. ’Tis really lots of deranged and distorted sounds swirling around and around for about, what it feels like, half the day, and it’s a really scary track if you ask me.
”Superman’s Cave” is another ambient one and once again with lots of mysterious bleeps that sounds like something from my childhood, can’t tell what though, but it’s certainly has a nostalgic feeling.
”Modern Evening” is nice, maybe my favorite, and sounds very apocalyptic and atmospheric and we get some singing again, over slow and brooding electric guitar harmonies and strange effects, and then finally we have ”Chalk is Valuable, Keep it in Your Hand” that could as well be a tribute to CABARET VOLTAIRE and their mysterious ”Exhaust” with a deranged voice popping up at random going ”Chalk... Hand...”, after a while accompanied by some garage guitars and a monologue by Lloyd. The end.So, that was the album I’ve been waiting for? Did it fill my expectation? Sure did. It’s awesome to hear Lloyd in such a different context than what I’m getting used to. It feels fresh and the entire album is awfully well done. It may not be the first choice for everyone and just because you fancy NAEVUS, I can’t guarantee that this will work you you. Open up all your senses and prepare for a while. Give it a shot. And then another. Personally, I think this shows that mr. James is an artist capable of doing almost anything with success.
[review by The Shadows Commence]
more info : www.myspace.com/retarderSOLD OUT
Ô PARADIS - PEQUENAS CANCIONES DE AMOR
digipak cd
tourette005
Ah, another little slice of velvety smoothness from the fine lad at Tourette Records. And from Ô Paradis, no less. I’ve always been very influenced by music and there’s something about listening to his CD’s that makes it impossible to be in a bad mood. There’s just something about Demian’s voice that always has a visual impact with me. It’s the sound of a life less complicated, the breeze blowing warm from the Mediterranean Sea and sultry Spanish women. And one would expect nothing less from an album entitled “Pequeñas Canciones De Amor”, or “Little Songs of Love” for we gringos.The album features quite a variety of instrumentation: keyboards, various percussion, accordion, acoustic guitar, lots of samples and on several tracks Demian is joined on vocals by what I’m assuming is his significant other, known only as Conny. Regardless, she has a beautiful voice and it works well with his smoky baritone pipes. Also making another appearance here after 2006’s “Las Nubes Que Mueren” is Oriol Saña on violin.
The musical styles are as varied as the instruments producing them, but I’d say they all fall somewhere in the traditional Neo-folk genre, but at times with some strange looping percussion, more than a passing nod towards more industrial sounds. If you’ve never been exposed to Ô Paradis, it’s tough to describe. I’m assuming a lot of the influences come from traditional Catalonian music as they are usually very proud of that heritage, but also straight 60’s EuroPop, flamenco and even jazzy moments. This release also includes a very original cover of Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me, Babe”.
If I had to reference other projects, Allerseelen immediately comes to mind and the man behind that group, Gerhard Petak, has also put out a couple of Ô Paradis on his own Aorta label. Spiritual Front is another band I’d compare to or maybe Novy Svet, whose Jürgen Weber wrote one of the tracks, “Como Una Nube”. And I balked when I first saw the 17 track listing, but most of the songs are short and varied enough to keep you from losing interest. The whole disc clocks in around 52 minutes. The 4 panel digipak comes with simple artwork and a great picture of the man himself and an attractive female in her underwear (Conny?). Definitely worth checking out a great disc for my (few & far between) sunny moods.
[review by plaguehaus]
more info : www.myspace.com/oparadis
[-HYPH-] – ALTER.TENACIO
digipak cd
tourette004
[-hyph-] is Nicolas Wiese (not related to John) who records under this banner. He is from Berlin where he composes his electro-acoustic music using instruments played by others. There is xylophone, double bass, alto saxophone, bass clarinet (which he plays himself, actually) as well as field recordings from Canada, police helicopter and human voices. Before I compared this with the 'never quiet' music of Brume. There is always something happening here. No second silence seems to be permitted. Wiese uses the computer to treat his sounds beyond belief, or rather : beyond recognition. It seems to me that he tries to tell us a story, as there is a multitude of voices to be detected in this work, but it's not easy to grasp that story. The titles seem to give a clue however: Pulverize Dreams, Reset Barriers, Upgrade Sirens and Suspend Values (the latter is called track 5 on the cover, meaning there is one track without a title). Maybe it has to do with idealism versus state control (or perhaps any sort of control really), I don't know. What I do know is that the music is very much along the lines of @C : very vibrant, very free in approach and result, composed from the original ideas of musique concrete, but with a strong touch of his own. Perhaps not entirely new (either), but it's all done with great care and style. Before I said good to see it released and not just a radio piece, now I can safely say : great to see this on CD.
[Review by FdW]
more info : www.myspace.com/nicolaswww
MUSLIMGAUZE VS SPECIES OF FISHES
digipak cd
tourette003
SOLD OUT
Bryn [Jones] took 2 different albums of Species of Fishes to create this album. Because this is a remix, we get some different sounds than usual for a Muslimgauze release, which is nice! There are still occasional Arabic voices, and overall this release has a pleasant sound to it overall, not as challenging as some Muslimgauze can be, but there are still spots that make you take hold, like, wow, what an ear piercing first song! This looped whistle gets into your head and makes the world a different place. Dubby sounds on track 2 with the trademark dropouts of Muslimgauze. There are other tracks with sharp sounds, but they arent distorted like on some other releases - just the sharp without the static. This is a cool release for Muslimgauze. Some are take it or leave it, but this one is worth hearing. [EAR/Rational] Previously released in 1999 on Species Of Fishes (FCD 01). The original tracks from Species Of Fishes albums "Songs Of A Dumb World" and "Trip Trap" were used for this remix project. All remixes, summer/autumn 1998.
[Review by help.me]
more info : www.libfl.ru/specifishSOLD OUT
NO – MOONGOON
cdr, limited edition
tourette001
Tourette Records' first release is a collection of older material by Jan Iwers project No, co-released with No Rekords. Some of the tracks date as far back as the late 1990s and in parts the material has been previously released (on the 7" of the same name on Drone and the Schmoll compilation on Dhyana). No is all over the place here. There is a short piano improvisation, a reverie of quietly dancing notes. There are far stretched sub-bass drones, combined with airy high frequencies and hints of melodies. There are tracks built from contrasting blocks and fragments of sound, rumbling just above the threshold of audibility, spiraling upwards and downwards, moving like soft clouds in the sky. Some field recordings, both processed and unprocessed are to be spotted now and then, but mostly No moves in abstract terrains. He manages to keep a remarkable coherence in all these pieces, a sense of structure and tension and a sound that is all soft and gentle but keeps a certain jagged quality below the surface. So this CD-R presents a nice collection of tracks, making older, probably long gone material available again and serving as a good introduction as well as a highly welcome retrospective.
[Review by MSS]
more info : www.myspace.com/novsvasiasuperstar
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