Celer - Tropical (Mystery Sea, 2008)

1 Normal Sadness (The Softness Of The Sea Hibiscus) (13:29)
2 Stipulated Morning Beside The Wreckage (First Sight) (6:46)
3 The Second In A Sequence Of Glances And Introductions (6:58)
4 Heart Shapes And Requiems At The Height Of LamLam (6:55)
5 Empty Hum (An Open, Empty Ocean) (18:03)

"With little more than uneasy tension, a short existence in a humid paradise left our
untrained ears listening to the falling-apart.
The surrounding pink sand beaches, dancing palms, on the edge of
decayed reefs, leading us, swimming in stillness, and lying on the tip of the trench.
We’re left inside sweating jungles, dripping.

Pouring out a summer spent in mint swims, everything that happened left the rush
nowhere to fall. Drives through one-lane mountain roads, plane skeletons tattered
remains in the hidden hills, all inactive and silent; there is little remembered. With
unaware farewells, we’d rather remember the slow-motion dances under the soft glow
of paper lanterns, the tracers from lightning bugs drifting into the endless blackness
of the hidden inland.

The ending, with an arduous voyage home, left signs in the churning water,
but they disappeared into the deep blue depth, as the island fell with the sunset.
The naval ship hum, dooming any hope of silence, left only the moonlit decks
to mimic the loss. Unexposed film of the lost loves that we didn’t have time to fall for,
still and lifeless, swaying with diaphoresis in the humid wind."

- Celer, August 2008

CELER is a fast growing in reputation entity, and also the main artistic expression of lovely couple of Will Thomas Long & Danielle Baquet-Long, currently based on the coast of Southern California... Both have jobs in the educational domain, are versed into literature, and have common interests in Poetry, Painting, Photography, History & Philosophy...
CELER carries out its ceaseless thirst for beauty & emotion through sound, merging techniques of analog and digital world via the use of field recordings, custom software, real instruments, effects + manipulation, and concepts...
Since inception, CELER has been extremely prolific and generous, overflowing the independent market with numerous hand-made releases, soundtracks for installations & art exhibitions, & works for various labels across North America, Japan & Europe...
As a result of their sheer passion, they didn't have to wait that long before seeing unfurling waves of praise... as an example, their collab with Mathieu Ruhlmann, "Mesoscaphe" is now permanently archived in Vancouver's Maritime Museum...

As symbolic celebration of reaching its 50th release, MS is proud to serve as a showcase for their highly personal album "Tropical"

"Tropical" is all muggy heat,
an intimate pulse swelling,
raising from the depths, the scars of past...
The sound of an invisible river
reaching out and afar,
while palm trees cry some golden tears...
The sound of a slow breeze
making twigs dance...
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"Tropical" touches you, reads you,
leaves you forlorn and naked,
rough, unpolished as lava rocks
close to burst into pieces, flakes of pure wonder...
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The torn landscape is aglow,
eyes are wild, and truth is in the air...
And a single flower crystallizes all hope,
hands open, all sand fleeing...
A notion of eternity,
or just perennial Father's traces...
Mystery Sea

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Ninth Desert - Zone (Mystery Sea, 2007)

1 Strate (4:35)
2 Marhbe (7:30)
3 Green (3:04)
4 Gathe (6:35)
5 Alke (7:05)
6 Ghorg (4:14)
7 Kollected (7:33)

My first wish when working with sound is to carve a landscape ; an open mental space which will change while going from one ear to an other.
This work in itself offers an infinite number of possibilities specific to the way the sound material is processed. For "zone", this landscape is directly bound to the visuals & to the name "Mystery Sea".
Each tone had to vehicle a feeling of immersion within the visual material, through its texture, in depth. It was thus a question of shaping a landscape from a graphic landscape, organizing a link between the two supports, into time & space, in motion, like two extensions responding to themselves.
Like with image, the sound appears to me like a porous body with multiple entries. Everything is a choice regarding the processing of the texture, and the combinations between the different gained results.
This version of "zone" (the 4th one) is the closest to what Mystery Sea evokes to me in visuals & sound terms : mental wanderings into graphic surfaces & through sound fluxes in constant transformation.

There are seven sequences : seven possibilities to wander into a same landscape."

- Cyril Herry , April 2007

Currently installed with minimum comfort in Creuse, in a secluded hamlet, Cyril Herry is dedicating most of his time to various forms of art (writing, graphics, photography, video...) and their intercombination...
Also veteran of the french experimental music scene, he had co-founded SECHRES MOUND (with Cédric peyronnet/TOY BIZARRE) EXOTOENDO, and expressed himself through various solo projects, LECANORA being the most known...
NINTH DESERT is his latest one with works released on TAÂLEM, VERATO & AFE... let's also mention that Cyril creates all the beautiful graphics for the TAÂLEM 3"cd-r series and the KOKESHIDISK sister-label... he also realized a special video which has been used by TROUM on tour...

ninth desert's "zone" is an invitation to merge into the layers of sound,
extending in a sea of intimate sensations & recycled memories,
opening up a myriad of universes, existing like small vortexes of condensed energy...
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Cyril Herry fashions sound as clay, exploring interstices, variations of recurrent motifs, echoing a process of permanent elemental mutation...
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"zone" attempts to freeze the quintessence of an experienced moment, building a sort of shelter... a place of reflection & ultimate contact...
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Listen to these aural sculptures, apprehend their outlines & inner vibrations, and possibly, you'll get far deeper into the understanding of our surrounding world...
Mystery Sea

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Moth Electret - Lil (Mystery Sea, 2007)

1 Cygal (6:51)
2 Kalaa (10:53)
3 Lyel (6:36)
4 Isal I (3:08)
5 Isal II (5:56)
6 Aelia I (4:42)
7 Aelia II (5:29)
8 Aelia III (8:08)

"the giant shimmering blades against the ancient landscape seemed more like a tribute. it would be a few hours before we reached the island sand. typically a colin archer will float in the water like a nut, but this one – she said – was a rare species.

we loved those early hours, before the day drove the mystery away. people that venture out early share a secret unspoken bond, and a question.

it was a spur of the moment thing. she reached eureka late in the afternoon and settled at that victorian by the harbor. it channeled the spirit of the old winston. a train was stranded in the middle of the rusty industrial, sentenced without trial. gazing north it all seemed so impenetrable, like some final outpost."

- Stig Berg, February 2007

Already a long time ago, Norwegian/US man Stig Berg released under the R|A|A|N moniker "The Nacrasti" on Malignant Antibody, an influential dark ambient work of epic proportion inspired by desert views...
Now, after years of patient maturation & experimentation in subdued mode, he comes to the surface again with an even more poignant & less categorizable sound which will undoubtedly arouse interest among a new type of audience...
For this sloughing, Stig has adequately opted to work under another name : moth electret...
After years of crossed correspondence with my humble self, moth electret has given birth to "lil" which has been based around impressions & field recordings made in sea/fish industry areas, mainly gathered from a trip to Eureka on the northern californian coast, but also from Barcelona harbor & the island of Sandøy, as well as some specific related digigraphic vignettes created by me as impulse elements...
"lil" is a Mayan word for vibration... the one you can feel passing through the whole piece, and which brings it to life...

"lil" is like running on an imaginary river
swollen & stripped with copper & rusty tones,
bracing scraps & scoria
in a mysterious underflow...

scintillations & gleams eddy
in an imperturbable metallic ringing choreography
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"lil" makes you listen
to an emerging dense inner song
along which we drift effortlessly,
trying to catch some primal dormant energy
relocating us to an higher & more sensitive plane...
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"lil" has enough evocative power
to drag you along its torrent
till you osmotically become it...
Mystery Sea

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Gydja - Umbilicus Maris (Mystery Sea, 2007)

1 Beyond The Earth's Edge (8:47)
2 The Wave, With Red Stain Running (6:52)
3 Snakestone (11:29)
4 A Siren Stood Hymning Upon Each Circle (11:23)
5 Cold Water Flowing Forth (10:59)

"Nec satis procul ab hoc de quo praemisimus litore, contra occidentalem partem, profundissima aquarum illa vorago est, quam usitato nomine maris umbilicum vocamus. Quae bis in die fluctus absorbere et rursum evomere dicitur, sicut per universa illa litora accedentibus ac recedentibus fluctibus celeritate nimia fieri comprobatur.
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Not very far from this shore of which we have spoken, towards the western side, on which the ocean main lies open without end, is that very deep abyss of waters which we call 'the navel of the sea'. It is said twice a day to suck the waves into itself and spew them out again."

- Paulus Diaconus (Historia gentis Langobardorum)

Gydja (old Norse word for priestess) officiates since 1995, led by New Zealand muse Abby Helasdottir, also active in design & performance art, creating supernatural soundscapes with transforming potential.
Having contributed to various compilations, online projects, and rich in some collaborations (including one with Aidan Baker "Corpus Callosum", and another with Austrian musician Marunfura Fufunjiru "Ma-mo Rbad Gtong"), Gydja has also under its belt a series of self-released works ("Liber babalon", "Cold Seed", "Rivers..." to name, but a few...)... close to all are soaked with magical/shamanic connotations, obeying to some peculiar inner laws, merging electro-acoustic & experimental techniques, and formally often based on abstracted field-recordings...

On "umbilicus maris", Gydja drags us along a quest for a lost mythic world beyond frontier...

After a dazed drift in a foggy mangrove,
we reach an unmapped regio of concentric superimposing circles
& endless ripples
preparing us for a sheer descent into murky waters...
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adorning the dive,
huge, drowned thousand years stones
seem to betray an ancient ceremony,
a passage through Time
to a supreme Essence...
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Small lights flicker in the cold current,
and thoughts snake along the moss walls
whispering lunar tales...
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immersed in this strange universe, we grow
in constant mutation
at the mercy of the waves
towards a better Self...
Mystery Sea

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Cherry Beach Project - Silo 11 (Mystery Sea, 2006)

1 Untitled (14:07)
2 Untitled (6:55)
3 Untitled (5:46)
4 Untitled (2:18)
5 Untitled (6:45)
6 Untitled (4:11)

"Cherry Beach is located at the end of a small, artificially created peninsula on which various heavy industrial facilities and toxic no-man’s lands decay. The area is infamous as a site out of public sight for police to engage in ‘off the record’ activities. Our location was within a complex of vacant waste oil storage facilities on Cherry Beach. While recording on the night of June 5th, 2004, we were forced to abandon our equipment after discerning that violent activities were taking place in one of the seemingly abandoned structures nearby. We returned at dawn to retrieve our equipment, which we were able to do successfully, only to be pursued out of the area and down the beach by two unidentified men. Fortunately we escaped unharmed, with our recordings intact. Since this time the entire compound and all of its reverberant structures have been demolished, leaving only an empty lot. The material presented here has been selected from two days of recording on site, but otherwise left untreated and unprocessed."
- Joda Clément/Nigel Craig, November 2006

Joda Clément is a young canadian composer of great promise, as already emphasized in some reviews related to his debut disc for ALLUVIAL, "Movement + Rest"...
With an acute ear for details, Joda blends subtly ambient sounds with processed ones stemming from analog or acoustic instruments...
Here with his friend Nigel Craig who gave the impulse to this work by pointing out the specific used location, he pushes everything a step further, rooting out the spirit of the place, while manipulating objects & instruments in situ... this quasi "animist" approach & revisitation makes us enter into another dimension, as Joda & Nigel channel unknown & unvoiced forces, going deep into the invisible universe...

Sometimes everything merges
to an astonishing extent
Listening to the pulse of the night,
full of silver shades,
the air is filled with threat
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Bent in "Silo 11"
We absorb its decaying aura,
a body of strange connections,
inner engraved memories,
vague but intense feelings
letting the inky sea flow within...
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Bringing back all what's lingering
those tranquil ghosts still singing
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"Silo 11" is a fount of knowledge
a training locus
a ford to acumen
enabling you to circle the Instant
and catch the long gone by...
an antenna into the world of meaningful silences...
Mystery Sea

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Exit In Grey - Nameless Droplet (Mystery Sea, 2006)

1 Part I (36:51)
2 Part II (11:41)

"Nameless Droplet – a peculiar object, inspired by the connection with a location of a sort. It travels through this location like a droplet through air, inevitably catching its reflections and vibrations, which flow into this object taking a new place. And we can see new reflections and another million of things in them - lost whisper, fluid crackle, unseen wall of frozen sound..."

exit in grey is an enigmatic duo composed of Sergey & Stas, or rather [S] & (S) their preferred signatures, originating from the Moscow region, and almost the same area as fellow Chistov Dmitry (HUM)...
Functioning since a while already as a complete autonomous entity, they have released a solid bunch of works as ltd cd-rs on their own imprint STILL SLEEP...
Mixing mainly emotional guitar drone ambient with field recordings, or sounds emanating from analog devices, they nurture an undeniable fascination for elemental phenomena, body and nature languages...
Their personal path seem to lead them more and more towards abstract & concrete aural territories, such as in the solo venture of [S], FIVE ELEMENTS MUSIC where processed field recordings have become pivotal... (a future MS work is besides upcoming !)...

Capturing atmospheres from some specific on site peregrinations, "nameless droplet" is their debut on an outside label, and hopefully the start of some new itinerary, as well as an opportunity of arousing more well-deserved interest...

Along an obscure stream as only guide,
we glide in a sensory drift
amplifying the world...
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A copper light makes water breathe
and even in a nameless droplet
all memories are trapped...
all words are sealed...
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On the verge of silence,
things rustle and buzz
in a constant underlying murmur...
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And in the last scent of rain,
all the nascent puddles
are just mirrors
in which we dissolve,
disappearing in acute communion...
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Lost in the wind tales,
we move like ripples on the liquid surface
drinking from this Fountain of Life...
Mystery Sea

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Richard Chartier - Direct, Incidental, Consequential. (Intransitive Recordings, 1998)

1 Digisc (5:39)
2 Section (13:38)
3 Compakt Lo (4:58)
4 Lens (4:00)
5 Signal (5:24)
6 Slow End (4:43)
7 Archival (6:25)
8 Test & Duration (6:07)
9 Tonetint (10:19)

Intransitive's second CD release is a trademark for the label: handmade digipacks, each with the own coloured paper and sticker with info. This label concept is developed by one R. Chartier, a designer who makes music too.
If I was a rude boy, which I am not, I could eaily describe this as 'Ikeda on acid': harsh bleeps, utter deep bass, but luckily more is happening. Chartier moves with several minutes into more passages then the average Ikeda (so it is less minimal), the average Guenter (so it is more audible), or the average Meelkop (so it may be less composed), or the average Rehberg (so it is less beat oriented noise). You may get the picture. Chartier takes inspiration from these people, but adds his own voice, one that is at times more industrial, and certainly throughout more varied in the sounds and compositions used here. A nice cross-over between anything on Trente
Oiseaux and Mego, so the hypy boys 'n girls know where to be.
Vital Weekly

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Richard Chartier - A Hesitant Fold (Meme, 1999)

*** sorry, no cover art ***

1 (01:02) (1:04)
2 Compliment (5:02)
3 Arranging Between Patterns (19:38)
4 Internal Analogy (4:31)
5 Variation (8:08)
6 (6) (10:25)
7 A Hesitant Fold (7:59)
8 Second End (3:39)

Chartier has had quite a few releases lately, all of them in the same 'microwavy' style. This one is no exception; 8 tracks of quiet pulses and waves, once again best listened to with your headphones on. It is remarkable how Chartier's music has its own very personal character. In
that sense he is defenitely on the same level as Ikeda or Noto. But in comparison with them, Chartier's music has got an intimacy, that is not easily associated with this kind of music. This is probably partly due to the low volume of the tracks, but also has something to do with the way his work sounds. The stereo panorama is extensively used for all those pulses and bleeps and there are no FX to distract from the original synthetic sounds. So it is the pure nature of this synthetic material, that creates the intimacy, because of its directness. The tracks have a slow and steady development, with some breaks here and there, but not any harsh ones. Chartier makes very clever use of the different qualities of pulses and waves, alternating or combining them in such a way, that their character is changing all the time. And that is exactly why this CD is so fascinating: he is able to make strong compositions with a very limited amount of
material. And I think that deserves a lot of credit.
Vital Weekly

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Parmentier - Luxsound (Sigma Editions, 1998)

1 Untitled
2 Untitled
3 Untitled
4 Untitled
5 Untitled

This 1998 release is the debut of a post-Thela project from the New Zealand underground. Those expecting a progression on the minimal post-rock sound of that group may be surprised to hear two of the group's members taking steps in a minimal electronica direction. However, this is not a digital emancipation of noise, as the duo created this series of short, repetitious vignettes with primitive electronics of a bygone era, resulting in a hazy, almost dub atmosphere which is as close to early Cabaret Voltaire and Coil as it is to Oval or Gas. Parmentier could be the missing link in lo-fi noise and avant-garde electronica of the late '90s.
All Music Guide

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Small Cruel Party - Before The Dream (Drone Records, 1995)

A Before The Dream (4:46)
B Of The Still Earth (5:45)

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Tam Quam Tabula Rasa - Cotidie Morimur (Drone Records, 1995)

A Dyskrasía (9:54)
B Ataxía (9:12)

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Voice Of Eye - Sprocket (Drone Records, 1994)

A1 Belladonna (7:10)
A2 Echoes In The Empire (2:03)
B1 Zirkel (5:03)
B2 Bike (4:03)

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RM74 & RLW - Pirouetten (Crouton, 2006)

1 Hanswurst, Lethargisch, Aber Guter Dinge (8:34)
2 Abwege (7:31)
3 Kontrollpunkt Am Herzen Der Volksseele (7:50)
4 Sturmangriff Zur Austreibung Der Wintergeister Und Anderer Geistlicher (3:37)
5 Folklore Off (6:03)
6 Sack Im Fegefeuer (2:55)
7 Herz Schlägt Noch (5:51)
8 Maestro Zungenpflug (5:43)

PIROUETTEN was started in September 2003, when Reto Mäder a.k.a. RM74 wanted to visit Ralf Wehowsky a.k.a. RLW in his solid green middle-class garden. On his way to RLW’s single-family-house, RM74 became a victim of the german control paranoia, as embodied by a sturdy female Karlsruhe tram-warden. Influenced by the folkloristic stubbornness of present-day control authorities, a sustained penance resulted in mutual musical pieces.

Early results of the RM74/RLW collaboration can be found on the “Epitaph For John” CD (”Seeking Perfection - Somewhere Else” on Korm Plastics KP3016), the Wire’s website (”Zungenschlitz & Spontane Deflagration” www.thewire.co.uk) and on the “Fireproof In 8 Parts” CD by RM74 (”Scharlach In Saldo” on Hinterzimmer hint02). PIROUETTEN exploits the authors’ long-lasting dedication to the unpure tradition of centurial folkways. The 8 pieces were developed by juxtaposing crude instrumental raw materials under strict electro-acoustic control. They are songs of songs about loyalty to the grey area between music and noise, Lacan and Freud, stubbornness and penance, grey burgundy and Rolf Benz. Recorded March 2004 - May 2006 in Bern/Switzerland and Eggenstein/Germany.

RM74: organ, accordeon, piano, cello, (bass-) guitar, harmonica, transformations, composition.
RLW: gamelan, sitar, paper, guitar, trombone, chimes, recordings of populated fields, transformations, composition.

Crouton

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Emerge - Immersion (Mystery Sea, 2006)

1 Immersion Part 1 (6:47)
2 Immersion Part 2 (5:55)
3 Immersion Part 3 (11:44)
4 Immersion Part 4 (5:38)
5 Immersion Part 5 (8:48)
6 Immersion Part 6 (8:26)
7 Immersion Part 7 (7:10)
8 Deprivation (12:20)

Drones sous-marins, relecture abstraite de matériaux d'Amir Baghiri...

"The aim was to create a journey into the unknown depths as synonym for the listeners personal interpretations.
The immersion starts with a light surface world and dives deeper and deeper into more strange regions until we finally are confronted with a collapse of the whole surrounding. this gives way to other yet unknown directions waiting for being discovered"
- Sascha Stadlmeier , September 2005

emerge is Sascha Stadlmeier from Augsburg (South-Germany), an ambient experimentalist whose hollow organic drones play around with an holistic notion of resonance & rumble, inhabiting a space within...
After several self-released cd-rs on his own ATTENUATION CIRCUIT imprint, a 7" for DRONE, a 3" cd-r for VERATO, and another 3"cd-r holding a collaborative work with Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf, emerge explores here new unidentified liquid depths, proposing a complete re-reading & readaptation of some Amir Baghiri sounds...

Along the sea spray
run echoing prayers,
an alluvial litany
spreading in shell rooms,
absorbed by stones...
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Our hands full of sand
let time go
in a tidal motion
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Murmured, aqueous,
Recomposed & singular,
our drift is eternal,
and even with a broken ascent,
all streams trace everything back to a unique origin,
the only beating heart,
a primary focus of vital energy...
Mystery Sea

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Spiracle - Ananta (Mystery Sea, 2006)

1 Ananta (Mystery Sea Mix) (62:22)

Hitoshi Kojo, ici sous son alias Spiracle, nous livre un drone en forme de long mantra centré sur une simple tonalité modulée...

" Riding on currents of the atmosphere. Collecting the radiance of infinite stars. And listening closely...

To the subtle howling of flames, the genetic suns in the flow of blood.

To the caresses of the membrane of gravity by your spiral tentacles.

To the wounds being filled with magma, the splashes becoming the Milky Way in the flesh of the sky.

To your blink-of-an-eye, each a scale of Ananta, each a lifetime of omnipresent stars."
- Hitoshi Kojo, January 2006

Hitoshi Kojo (b. 1969, Japan) has worked in various artistic branches such as music, painting, installation & performance, using both a traditional & contemporary methodology...
Brought up with the influence of ancient asian culture, he exposed himself recently to Europe where he currently has most of his activities, absorbing old myths & customs, & collaborating with other like-minded artists
(mnortham [under the KODAMA moniker], John Grzinich, Nobu Kasahara, Loren Chasse to name but a few...). The theme of his projects often drifts from scanning daily matters, trying to catch that elusive spark at the very core of a momentum...
Hitoshi Kojo manages also his own label : OCTPIA, since 2000...
Several of his titles were created under the "spiracle" name, his main solo project)...
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For Mystery Sea, spiracle has weaved an original/special mix of a new piece entitled "ananta"...
Listening to "ananta" is like inhaling a cloud of stars at twilight, drinking up all its creeping flow of energy... breathing like a snake undulating under the dark primal waves... channelling unknown forces...
"ananta" is being within the stream, living it from the inside, becoming it, reaching that impossible oneness, if only in the phosphorescence of a unique moment...
"ananta" is a key to universal empathy...
a bridge to a world waiting hidden, there behind the curtain...
a deep essential vibe captured just for you...
Mystery Sea

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Cheapmachines - "...A Short Narrative Of An Extraordinary Delivery Of Rabbits..." (CMX, 2008)

1 "...A Short Narrative Of An Extraordinary Delivery Of Rabbits..." (38:54)

Live performance in London on 7th September 2008, came with the first 25 copies of Displacement cassette...

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Ea - R (Ignis, 2002)

1 Untitled (56:02)

Longue pièce de musique concrète à base de field recordings manipulés, pas de point sur lequel se focaliser, tout est dans le voyage, pas le but du voyage....

Another fine release from the Ignis Projekt label in Poland - here be Patryk Zakrocki, Viön, and Membrana marching purposely into town with their boxload of 'manipulated field recordings' and producing a highly successful modern take on musique concrete. The care and attention they put into the work is clear - what really comes across is their concern to realise a properly-composed, thought-through piece of music. A combination of chimes, tones, buzzes and many mysterious narrative fragments - footsteps on floorboards, voices, heavy passionate breathing, figures vaguely moving from one room to another, a cocktail party. Perhaps this is the soundtrack to a virtual game of Cluedo come to life; you certainly get this sense of being
inside a room-like space, but not knowing quite where you are, or where you' re going to end up next. A haunted house, with secret passages, distorting mirrors and floors that drop away. Then there's the more abstract components, a swelling ocean of 'growing harmonic noise' all around you. Much listening pleasure is afforded by these continuous, grinding noises long rumblings and groanings, all proceeding at a very slow pace and maintaining a steady tension throughout. Towards the end the piece becomes gradually more attenuated; all recognisable sound events drop away, leaving only small abstract sounds, little electronic tones and the remnants of
loop effects sadly spinning away.

Previously this Polish group had been making guitar-based ambient drone-works of some kind or other - never heard any, but there's a seven-inch on the German Drone label. Here, they use virtually no instruments - just a bunch of field recordings and found sounds from their international jaunts to Span, Norway, Morocco, Austria - plus some fragments plucked from parts of Poland. These were combined with pure electronic noises, sine waves and white noise. Then came the usual filtering and treatment work using laptops and 8-track, so that they now boast 'nothing on this record is what it seems'. Amazingly, they completed this spellbinding
semi-narrative mystery novel live in the studio in one session, with no overdubs. Perhaps this discipline is what gives r its coherence.
Soundprojector

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Phonography.org 3 (phonography.org, 2002)

1 Mark Griswold Wasp Nest (5:49)
2 Murmer Burning Charcoal (2:11)
3 Josh Russel Transgenic Bacteria Freezing In A Dry Ice / Methanol Bath (5:02)
4 Mark Taylor-Canfield Ion Transmission And Beam Transport (2:32)
5 Dale Lloyd Stairwell Acoustics (Former Spl Building) (5:51)
6 John Hudak Cloister 4, May 2001 (4:48)
7 Phillip Pietruschka Tract (3:34)
8 Jon Tulchin Wind, Power Lines, And Birds (5:50)
9 Marcos Fernandes Freight Train, Jasper, B.C. (7:58)
10 Eric La Casa Lozere (9:49)
11 Yannick Dauby Bois De Caravagne (5:10)
12 Mike Marlin Howler Monkey Troupe (3:43)
13 Toby Paddock Night Bugs And Watthour Meter (4:35)
14 Saw Trigge Sailboat Anchored At Night, My Father Snoring (4:28)

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