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Laurin Huber – Dog Mountain

30 Saturday Oct 2021

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Dog Mountain« is the second release by the Zurich-based producer and composer Laurin Huber on Hallow Ground. After last year’s »Juncture« saw the Edipo Re co-founder work mostly with synthesizers and programmed rhythms, the four tracks are much more restrained, drawing on tape loops and feedback, recordings of acoustic guitar and synthesizers such as the Korg MS-10 as well as field recordings that relate to the overarching topic that informed the making of the record. While »Juncture« had previously aimed at deconstructing the binaries and dualities that shape our lives and thinking, »Dog Mountain« is dedicated to geographical divisions that result from political processes and social constructions. »›Here‹ means one nation, ›there‹ another,« writes Huber in a literary piece that accompanies the record. »Being in sound, such a separation seems odd.«

While treating the metaphor of the border as a »membrane, registering and translating the vibrations of its surroundings« and thus as something that is constantly (re-)defined, maintained and defended however, the artist also takes into consideration that »one cannot escape one’s standpoint,« as he puts it. The music on »Dog Mountain« may transcend and overcome certain borders, but it does not deny the realities that they impose on each and every one of us – whether in our political lives or in the realm of sound. This is mirrored in Huber’s engaging in the structural and sonic interplay of repetition and difference. Working with slowly evolving and modulating elements that are exposed to slight shifts, »Dog Mountain« puts a focus on the interaction between small elements that together form a bigger whole which is marked by constant evolution and change.

Opener »Raja« (»border« in Northern Sami and Finnish) starts off with a two-note melody played on an out-of-tune guitar. Different field recordings and synthesizer sounds drop in and out of the mix until the dynamic shifts and Huber starts playing more notes on his instrument, thus increasing the tension. It’s a meditation on minimalism, but also a piece that mediates between notions of what constitutes the difference between noise and music or referentiality and abstraction in sound. After »Nickel« (named after a Russian monotown near the border to Norway) dedicates itself to explore the friction between hissing white noise and melancholic tape loops, »A Town Is Not a Town« (a phrase taken from the documentary »Kiruna – Rymdvägen«) structurally mirrors the experiment of »Raja« with very different sonic means.

Closing the record, »Storskog-Borisoglebsk« (the title refers to the northernmost land border between Schengen-Europe and Russia) is the longest and most challenging piece, working with both long-form drones and musique concrète elements. It proposes a synthesis of the opposites that are explored patiently and with much attention to detail throughout this record. 

Credits

Released July 30, 2021

Composed and recorded by Laurin Huber
Mixed by Rolf Laureijs
Mastering by Lawrence English
Artwork by Michael Bodenmann


Live At Lokerse Jazzclub: Peter Jacquemyn / Dirk Serries

25 Monday Oct 2021

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Released on Raw Tonk Records; more squelchy goodness & cacophonous din as you embark upon an extended, avant-garde musical “conversation” between Dirk Serries’ guitar ramblings & Peter Jacquemyn’s double bass plucks & slides (and a few string-bending squeaks & groans!).

This live outing embraces both moments of quietude as well as gale-force instrumentation and is quite satisfying for the avant-noise aficionado.

It’s fascinating what Dirk Serries & Raw Tonk (along with Mr. Serries’ Jazz label, A New Wave of Jazz) have done to transform the improvised jazz space in just a few short years!

Get thee hence & procure a copy!


Robert Rich & Markus Reuter,Flood Expeditions: Streamside

24 Sunday Oct 2021

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GEORGE’S ROAD DIARY
Date: 17 MAY 2018
Venue: Streamside Concerts, Asheville NC

(16 May) Still ecstatic from last night’s successful Farmington CT show, we left for the long road trip to Asheville NC, where tomorrow night we’ll play Streamside Concerts; this is a beautiful venue with a great vibe and outstanding hosts – we’re very much looking forward to going back! (Markus and I have been to Streamside before for centrozoon’s 2016 20th Anniversary Tour, and Robert, also a “Streamside alumnus”, currently holds the distinction of Streamside’s quickest sell-out). We’ll split the drive across two days, spending the night in Staunton VA (roughly the half-way point) before continuing on the next day.

(17 May) North of Asheville we pulled in to Moe’s Original for some tasty barbecue for lunch (because when you’re in the area, you just have to!).

Once at Streamside we lost no time loading in, setting up, and sound checking…then off for some great dinner & drink, courtesy of our gracious hosts, Sally & Lora!

still pieces, by Ian Vine

18 Monday Oct 2021

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Recently I have written a series of pieces that are concerned in one way or another with the presentation of unique, and yet similar, events or objects. 
In this work there are twenty-four pieces for flute(s), accordion, acoustic guitar(s), piano, electronics, which combine to form an hour-long work. The pieces can be played in any order; there are 620,448,401,733,239,439,360,000 permutations. 

total time: [60:00]

Released December 24, 2018 

flutes: Jennifer George 
accordion, guitars, piano: Ian Vine 

flutes and guitars recorded at first moon, UK, September 2018 
accordion and piano recorded by lunar module in Oregon, USA, August 2018 

mixed and mastered at first moon by Ian Vine, November-December 2018 

many thanks to KAG for the use of her accordion and piano 



24​-​45, by France Jobin

16 Saturday Oct 2021

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This is a live multichannel concert presented during the opening of the second season of Substrat at SAT with Akousma in 2017. I rendered the file in stereo for your enjoyment.

“Substrat invites you to dive again into the creative worlds of Montreal-based sound artists ! Through a series of performances in the Satosphere’s 157-speaker dome, Substrat offers an exclusive listening experience, between sound spatialization, experimental, electroacoustic and acousmatic music.”

Released December 4, 2020
All sounds captured, processed and manipulated by France Jobin. Track composed for the Substrat evening.



Healing Sound Propogandist

12 Tuesday Oct 2021

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Sound fractals & crisp atmospheres . . .

https://healingsoundpropagandist.bandcamp.com/

ドリフト

07 Thursday Oct 2021

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ド リ フ ト (the drift) | experimental ambient | 81:28

Wanderings & meanderings across an ambient aural landscape . . .

. . . driven by the 20 year anniversary release of Shuttle358’s Frame; & mixed in with some recently acquired sounds.

We broke from our standard slowest-to-fastest mix methodology to “drift” with the sonance & speed play; nothing outlandish, but the landscape ducks & weaves (slightly) between beatless drifts & then back again.

Tested on more than one occasion via earbuds . . . we think you’ll like it!

Listen via Mixcloud
https://www.mixcloud.com/gab_labs/%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%95%E3%83%88/
(the Japanese letters in the title are preventing the graphic from showing on some site links)

01 Riverrun – Hamworthy Common II
02 Carlo Giustini – Preghiera Su Walkman (Zolfo)
03 Brian Eno – Strange Quiet
04 Taylor Deupree – Minism (m)ORPH Mix (edit)
05 The Rain Dogs – Light
06 Shuttle358 – Fissure
07 Nico Guerrero – Materiae Melancholia (edit)
08 Iluiteq – A Sylvan Elegy
09 Shuttle358 – Cavalry
10 Micah Frank – Traverse
11 J. Peter Schwalm & Markus Reuter – Ein Riss
12 Lammergeyer – All This Time
13 AES DANA – Period 09; Ambivalent
14 The Grid & Robert Fripp – Loom

The Night Has Lost Its Shade, by Disturbed Earth

05 Tuesday Oct 2021

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Catching up with Dean Richards, a.k.a. ‘Disturbed Earth’
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Released May 15, 2021

Disturbed Earth: guitar and pedals
Cover layout and design by pixyblink
Recorded May, 2021 behind The Guildford Post Office, Victoria, Australia


STRANDS, by Radiant Mind

01 Friday Oct 2021

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Strands is the second transmission from the enigmatic electronic artist Radiant Mind (who enjoys the privilege of brushing Steve Roach’s teeth every morning ;- ) ). Choosing to work in anonymity with Steve as the producer and interface this artist draws from elongated space music forms and textures – long unfolding drifts and slow suspensions. On this new release of deep in the night travels, Strands unfurls into a purely atmospheric set, probing into the darker regions and outer edges of sonic space.

All the sounds and textures are created specifically for each piece. Along with the mastering of the music Steve adds spacial processing enhancements and subtle looping in the final stages.

Released October 31, 2014

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