Tracklist:
1 Summer (Later In The Dark) (Delay Configuration 2) by Pub
2 Truly (Vladislav Delay Remix) by Rhythm & Sound
3 Restructure 2 (Digital Mystikz Rebuild) by Moritz Von Oswald Trio
4 Almodrama by Drama Society with Vladislav Delay
5 All Lies On Us by AGF+Delay
6 Tessio by Luomo
7 Serti by Uusitalo
8 Viite by Vladislav Delay
9 Killing The Water Bed by Vladislav Delay Quartet
10 Kukkuu by The Dolls
11 Hac (Alva Noto Remix) by Sistol
Directed and edited by Phil Hopkins, with interviews conducted by Nick Luscombe, Amplified Gesture (2009) takes us to the studios and workspaces of eleven leading improvisers across Europe and Japan – from legends like saxophonist Evan Parker to rising stars including Christian Fennesz. Their conversations teach us about improvisation as a practice and as a culture. “The aim was to pique the interest of the audience in the hope that they would wish to find out more,” says Hopkins. “I do think there are insights in this film which apply to anyone concerned or connected with other kinds of artistic endeavour. By focussing principally on the ideas and philosophies, I think we arrived at something quite ‘pure’.”
“There’s isn’t, to my knowledge, a comprehensive film on this subject, these musicians, the history of free improvisation as seen through the eyes and ears of its European practitioners,” says David Sylvian whose label made this film. “It’s a unique branch of the evolution of free jazz through to free improv, a story that’s not adequately been told on film. We attempt to touch upon the opening of the East to these influences and the significant impact artists such as Otomo Yoshihide and Toshimaru Nakamura have had upon the scene, and how that exchange broadens the conversation, contributing to an ongoing evolution of ideas.”
Keith Rowe and Eddie Prévost recall the birth of England’s groundbreaking ensemble AMM, while in Japan’s younger onkyo scene, practitioners such as Yoshihide, Nakamura, and Sachiko M describe their relationship with machines that defy mastery, like Nakamura’s no-input mixing board. Their discussions range from how they first began this practice – leaving behind old idioms and popular music in pursuit of the unknown – to the unending process of learning from their collaborators, their instruments, and the ever-changing circumstances in which they find themselves. As saxophonist John Butcher explains in the film, “It wasn’t an idiomatic choice you were making. It was a life choice, about how you wanted to approach life, and how you wanted to approach creativity, and how you wanted to approach music.”
Instrumental outtakes from Manafon provide the score, but the documentary eschews that project to focus on the musicians, and the almost fifty years of history and discovery that they represent.
Free improvisation is a field that is rarely documented and often misunderstood. This gorgeously-filmed and quietly intriguing documentary will lure in new listeners, while rewarding fans with new insights and rare glimpses into the hearts and minds of these musicians – the pioneers who commit to improv as a form, a challenge, and a lifelong journey
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Debut album from EX EYE, the instrumental, post-everything quartet led
by renowned saxophonist Colin Stetson and featuring the otherworldly
drumming of Greg Fox. EX EYE seamlessly weave between precise, clockwork
intricacy and aggressive, ecstatic abandon while taking the listener on
a cathartic, thrilling journey to total transcendence. Recorded live at
EX EYE member Shahzad Ismaily's Figure 8 Studios in Brooklyn, NY
(Blonde Redhead, Damien Rice, Okkervil River, Son Lux, Pussy Riot), the
self-titled debut showcases a band that is without question the sum of
its parts, as each player contributes not only their own particular
technical prowess and expertise but also their signature compositional
character. EX EYE make incredibly complex yet beautifully dramatic and
emotive music which eclipses usual expectation of style or genre and is
sure to be talked about for many years to come In my book Colin Stetson can do no wrong
Tracklist:
1 Louis Kappa by Voice
2 Gaprindi Shavo Mertskhalo by Hamlet Gonashvili
3 Improvisation by Maggie Nicols/Phil Minton
4 Sabodisho by The Rustavi Choir
5 Mayruli by The Tsinandali Choir
6 Alfred Scnittke's Concerto For Choir (1) by Swedish Radio Choir
7 Une Coup de Des by The Hilliard Ensemble/Barry Guy
8 The Men of Barra Know How To Drink But The Women Know How To Sing by Talisker/Voice
Here we encounter a series of figures – including Alexander Trocchi, R. D. Laing, Joseph Berke, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs and Genesis P-Orridge – that blurred the lines between inner and outer, the invisible and the material. Four singular forms of speculative techniques for igniting an invisible insurrection with cultural means make up the central case studies: the sigma project, London Anti-University, Academy 23 and thee Temple ov Psychick Youth
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For Paul in Japan with love X
Tracklist
1 A Gentle Hand To Hold by Brock Van Wey
2 New Horizons by Netherworld
3 Sonorous [Variant Reduction] by Echospace
4 Drones & Viola (Part IV: Material In A Long Cadence) by Nico Muhly
5 Defined Horizons by Ian Hawgood & Wil Bolton
6 Erik Satie's Gnossienne No. 3 [Album Version] by Murcof X Vanessa Wagner
7 Waste Land 1 by Shinichi Atobe
8 A Piece of Forgotten Song Drifting Across the Water [Haad Rin Sunrise Mix] by Makyo
9 Chrystalline by Zonal
10 Beauty In The Breakage by Ian Hawgood
A piece originally written for a friend who's son was dying of cancer. Never published before, written in 2009. It's an appropriate piece to raise funds for the families affected by the Grenfell Tower fire. Please set your own price. All proceeds go to my neighbours and/or to work on campaigns and legal representation to instigate change in building regulations. This is the most appalling tragedy that was totally avoidable, a vanity project in order to make the Grenfell Tower more in keeping with the brand new Academy built around its' foot. The school should never have been there anyway. There was a much larger site in Kensal, where the Eurostar was housed before it terminated at Kings Cross, but the Council chose to squeeze it into what were football pitches and a car park in order for the school to be in the right area. How can you spend £10M on upgrading a 27 story tower bock and not add sprinklers? Massive disregard for safety as you probably know...I live on the estate in one of the 'finger blocks', the chickens foot as i liked to call it. now we have lost our leg...life will never be the same in this pocket of North Kensington. Please support me in supporting the victims and/or helping support the Lancaster West Residents Association. Any amount will be most welcome. Thank you. Love G
Four tracks from the artists appearing at Supersonic 2017 as part of the Nawa Recordings showcase, plus a few tracks from previous Nawa Recordings releases
Sculpture to be unveiled in Cork to remember generosity of the Choctaw Nation, Native American tribe that sent famine aid to Ireland in 1847 pic.twitter.com/UMDTC0fjQB