Ćpuny moje kochane, mam coś dla Was, dekadencją podlane. With all lyrics. Absolute rarity. Insanity.

Tomasz Stańko - Peyotl - Witkacy

1995 / 2 x cd / Polonia Records [US]. polonia cd 037&038
free jazz, experimental, contemporary jazz, avant-garde, psychedelic rock
razor-blade, trippy, fucked up, mind changing


[10.0] diamond
Rarytas prosto z ripa, którego przedstawiać nie muszę.


Belzebub ożył

Passion for a cassette.

photo from my room
Pawlacz Perski Tapes
Poland
experimental electronic, avant-garde
from the left:

Dot Dot - City Animal

(download)
experimental dub techno

Mastered by the same label which mastered Skalpel, Hexstatic. W gęstej otulinie nieumytego brzmienia low-fidelity ponownie rozkoszuję się dźwiękami sonicznie niedalekiego kuzyna Ursuli Bogner - Artura Śleziaka. Magnetofon podświetla kasetę konstruując erotyczny efekt. Sięgam rękoma po zrodzone z zamiłowania minimalem, wywijające wraz z dubem laboratoryjne eksperymenty. Głowa Villalobosa po transplantacji czarnej skóry zanurzona w formalinie. Głowa do wycierania śladów palców z szyb miejskiej dżungli.

Duy Gebord - Kelp
(download)
guitar, glitch, avant-garde

Another connection can then be made to Kelp, which continues the watery theme.  Duy Gebord’s work isn’t typical ocean or beach fare; it’s thick and troubled, cluttered with sonic debris.  Listening is a lot like swimming through kelp.  Tendrils constrict the arms and legs.  Panic ensues.  The pretty cover hides the fact that the work “echoes a story of an imaginary sea garbage patch (that) travels through cold seeps, encounters ghost snails and green anemones (and) mixes kelps with magnetic tape”.  The artist’s lovely description is matched by intricate sonics.  “Suncup” offers cars, conversation and carnivorous electronics, while “Diopside” is nearly industrial, filled with peeps and clanks.  Water floods the far side of the song, submerging small surges of melody.

More sea and brine continues to enter throughout the cassette, until the entire tape is waterlogged.  Little noises float on this sonic ocean: meows, cymbal taps, flips and ejections of the cassette itself.  A richness of sound is crushed into a floating entity, reflecting its subject matter.  We begin to cheer for this mass of garbage as it continues its journey.  The only irony is that the collection makes one eager to make more garbage, not less, and to throw it into the sea.  That’s the power of a great recording: it leads one to unexpected thoughts and desires.  As for the tape itself, as well as the Nienartowicz / Wolski split: no one is going to toss these.  They are buoys on a turbulent sea.  (Richard Allen)

Promieniowanie - Luty

(download)
electroacoustic

Taśma „Luty” to dwie dwudziestominutowe improwizacje na syntezator modularny, gitarę, perkusjonalia i obiekty. Bartek Kalinka i Wojciech Kwapisiński proponują nam muzykę pełną subtelnych rozstrojeń i efemerycznych zdarzeń dźwiękowych, powoli oscylujących między wyciszeniem a intensywnością.

Giuseppe Ielasi - Tools [2010, cd, 12k]

15 june 2010

lbl: 12k

#: 12K2018

electronic, acoustic

electroacoustic, experimental, avant-garde, glitch, abstract, sampling

320kbps

1. Cooking Pan

2. Rubber Band

3. Polystyrene Box

4. Metal Rod

5. Aluminium Foil

6. Paper Lamp

_
total time: 19:47

note: "Tools is the latest creation from Italian experimentalist Giuseppe Ielasi. While Ielasi’s work over the years as a guitarist and drone artist has become highly regarded…

his work on 2009’s Aix (12k1051) completely broke that mold, turned heads, and quickly became one of his most critically acclaimed releases. The fractured, almost jazz-like rhythms pieced together from sampled fragments that graced Aix has been taken one step further in concept with Tools.

Created as singular studies into the physicality of everyday objects, each track on Tools, named for the object from which it was made (“Cooking Pan,” “Rubber Band,” “Paper Lamp”), is a wonderfully playful trip into new ways of listening and experiencing our everyday.

With a title such as Tools, Ielasi has set no preconceptions or metaphors with his music except for the idea to make an experimental (and somewhat ironic) play on the traditional “DJ-tools” type of record that contains buiding blocks to allow a DJ to layer and combine with other records. In Ielasi’s case, however, the twist is in the fact that these tracks, despite being simple and stark, are complex,captivating structures and explorations of physical objects, composed in a way that is becoming signature Ielasi, that becomes perfect experimental music for hazy summertime listening. – 12k"

elektroakustycznej zabawy ciąg dalszy, szkoda tylko, że to co dobre szybko się kończy.

[7.8]

it's fu****' dark!

& buy it here.

[Boomkat, £6.99]

Tin Hat - The Sad Machinery Of Spring [2007, cd, hannibal records]

23 january 2007

lbl: Hannibal Records

#: HNCD 1524

folk, jazz

instrumental, avant-garde

~192kbps

1. Old World

2. The Secret Fluid Of Dusk

3. Blind Paper Dragon

4. Dionysus

5. Daisy Bell

6. Drawing Lessons

7. The Book

8. Dead Season

9. Black Thursday

10. The Tailor's Dummies

11. Dionysus II

12. The Land Of Perpetual Sleep

13. Janissary Band

14. The Comet

15. Intractable

Clarinet [B-flat, Alto, Contra Alto] - Ben Goldberg
Guitar, Guitar [Prepared, Dobro], Banjo - Mark Orton
Harp, Accordion - Zeena Parkins
Producer - Carla Kihlstedt , Mark Orton
Trumpet, Horns [Baritone], Organ [Pump], Piano [Toy], Celesta - Ara Anderson
Violin, Viola, Violin [Trumpet], Voice, Piano, Celesta, Vibraphone [Bowed], Bass - Carla Kihlstedt

note: "Despite the departure of founder member Rob Burger, Tin Hat have produced possibly their deepest, most beguiling work with The Sad Machinery of Spring; their fifth album released in their ten years together. Violinist/vocalist and multi instrumentalist Carla Kihlstedt and guitarist/multi instrumentalist Mark Orton have added trumpeter Ara Anderson (of Tom Waits fame) and clarinettist Ben Goldberg to the mix, plus they’ve upgraded the extraordinary harpist Zeena Parkins to full-time status. With instrumentation ranging from dobro to the massive contra alto clarinet (everyone except Parkins seems to play about 15 different instruments), Tin Hat have increased their already expansive and totally acoustic palette into something even richer and stranger.

The inspiration for this album is the work of Polish writer Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), whose dark, Kafka-esque surrealism makes a nice fit with Tin Hat's lush yet disturbing mix of Eastern European folk, 20th century classical and free improvisation. Titles like "The Secret Fluid of Dusk", "Dead Season" and "Black Thursday" give some idea of the mood. Even during the sprightliest moments, there’s a finely honed dissonance at work which suggests that something not quite right may be lurking in the shadows. This is made most obvious on Kihlstedt’s urgent, breathy rendition of "Daisy Bell" (aka "Daisy, Daisy"), which suggests that Daisy would be best advised to avoid hopping on the back of a bicycle built for two and taking out a restraining order on her would-be suitor instead. Elsewhere the mix of beauty and creeping dread is more subtle. "The Land of Perpetual Sleep" manages to be sinister and dreamily beautiful simultaneously; violin and clarinet trace a wounded, sickly melody over a gentle ripple of harps, dobro and drones, while "Janissary Band" sounds like Stravinsky played by a strangely infernal clockwork machine.

Amazingly accomplished and beautifully recorded work from a group of preternaturally talented musicians. Record of the year material, and it's only January..." - Peter Marsh, 2007-01-23, BBC Music.

[8.5]

my beautiful daisy bell

[4shared]

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METAxU - Rumors Of War [2003, cd, no type]

october 2003

lbl: No Type

#: IMNT 089

electronic, avant-garde

experimental, dark ambient, electroacoustic, glitch, noise, minimal, microsampling

192kbps

chrysoberyl [8.5]

1. 28061914 Sarajevo

2. 25031999 Belgrade

3. 01041939 Alicant

4. 07021964 Saigon

5. 06091945 Hiroshima

6. 07121941 Pearl Harbour

7. 25061950 Seoul

8. 01091939 Warsaw

9. 08031917 St. Petersberg

10. 02051982 Falkland

11. 11092001 New York

12. 09041948 Deir Yassin

Filippo Paolini & Maurizio Martusciello

note: "Metaxu is a new project by Filippo Paolini and Maurizio Martusciello. This Italian duo have made important political statements on their rumors of war release. This album features tracks examining the thin line that exists between war & peace. Through their compositions it is evident that they have concerned themselves with pivotal moments of recent World History....especially the times when History itself seemed to end all at once. They examine chaos and violence through tones, loops, microtones and strangely composed drones and arranged keyboard lines. They examine the many tragedies of the world including those that have happened at Hiroshima, New York City and Sarajevo. These tracks are drenched with hints of darkness, pain and hope. The quietly interwoven clips of news and other spoken word statements scattered around the tracks makes it even more intense.

As a whole this CD is a relaxing yet challenging listen. The track titles are clearly pointing out the meanings behind the music, directing your attentions to events that we should be clearly remembering in the world. The music can be easily played in a set with Jeremy Boyle, Takagi Masakatsu, Tetsue Innoue and newer pieces by Donnachea Costello." - Anne Sulikowski; Dec 15, 2003.

splitted convulsions

[4shared]

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Alva Noto - For 2 [2010, cd, line / 12k]

march 2010 [collects music made between 2003 and 2008]

lbl: LINE [Line is a division of 12k]

#: LINE_044

electronic

minimal, ambient, field recording, experimental, avant-garde, drone

320kbps

carborundum [9.3]

1. Garment

2. Villa Aurora

3. Pax

4. Argonaut

5. Stalker

6. Sonolumi

7. Interim

8. T3

9. Early Winter

10. Anthem Berlin

11. Ans

12. Argonaut-Version

producer: Carsten Nikolai [DE]

note: "A second album of dedications from Carsten Nicolai, once again presented by 12k offshoot label Line. Perhaps reflective of how varied this artist's output has become over recent years 'For 2' represents an incredibly broad range of styles and approaches, though the music always manages to retain the all-important sonic signatures unique to the Alva Noto sound. Over the past decade or so Nicolai's music has transcended the hyper-minimal rhythmic motifs that defined so much of his early work, exploring the possibilities of collaboration, live instrumentation and reconstituted orchestral ambience among other things. Accordingly, on For 2 (which collects music made between 2003 and 2008) you can expect surely the most expansive repertoire of sounds than has ever been gathered for a single Alva Noto album, something that's in-keeping with the diverse set of dedications - works for Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, fellow minimalist composer Phill Niblock, industrial designer Dieter Rams and dramatist Heiner Muller are all included, prompting greatly diverging works from Nicolai."

calculated field

[fixed / 28 march 2010, 4shared]

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Ruins - Hyderomastgroningem [1995, cd, tzadik]

1995
lbl: Tzadik
#: TZ 7202
rock
experimental, math, avant-garde
192kbps
mohs hubscale: chrysoberyl

1.		Hyderomastgroningem
2.		Brixon Varromiks
3.		0'33"
4.		Economic Mond Possa
5.		Pig Brag Crack
6.		Prrifth
7		Pontemcorary Music #1
8.		Zurna Taksim
9.		Comme A La Radio
10.		Gravestone
11.		Memories Of Zworrisdeh
12.		Skyscraper
13.		Dolnnen Vlast
14		Stone Eater
15.		Pontemcorary Music #2
16.		Del Fanci Kant
17.		Bonze From Hell
18.		Speed Ball
19.		Ordinary People In Idaho
20.		Bliezzaning Moltz

Bass, Vocals - Ryuichi Masuda
Drums, Percussion, Vocals - Tatsuya Yoshida
Engineer - Martin Bisi
Mastered By - Allan Tucker

note: "Along with the Boredoms, Naked City and very few others, this amazing drums/bass duo are masters of quick-change, stop/start tempos, time-signatures and textures. Ruins' explosive and intricately composed tunes are sung in a peculiar language of their own invention. Hardcore, art rock, psych, heavy metal, funk and lots more - if Ruins have heard it, they are likely to incorporate it into their music. Yoshida cites Magma, This Heat, Debussy and Webern as influences. Masuda's favorites are James Brown and Fred Frith." -Tzadik.

gravestone of growling zombies



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Ground-Zero - Plays Standards [2002, cd, rer megacorp]

"Refuse"and"Trash" by Morris Norvin

2002
lbl: ReR Megacorp
#: ReR GZ3
electronic, rock
future jazz, experimental, avant-garde
224kbps
mohs hubscale: diamond

1.		El Derecho De Vivir En Paz / Shinoshin 3/4
2.		Ultra Q
3.		Those Were The Days
4.		Folhas Secas
5.		Washington Post March / Japan Dissolution
6.		Akashia No Ame Ga Yamu Toki
7.		Bones
8.		Where Is The Police? / The Bath Of Surprise
9.		Miagetegoran, Yoru No Hoshi Wo
10.		Yume No Hansyu
11.		Die Papple Vom Karlsplatz
12.		A Better Tomorrow / I Say A Little Prayer

Yoshihide Otomo: turntables (1-5, 7-12), self-made guitar (2, 6, 12), electric guitar (9), voice (3, 5), whistling (8, 10), surdo (4), agogo bell (4), bath water (8), toothbrush (8), body (8), tubes (8), euphonium (8), reeds (8), toys (8)
Sachiko Matsubara: sampler (1-3, 5, 7-12), omnichord (4), voice (5)
Yumiko Tanaka: futozao-shamisen (1, 7, 8, 11), hosozao-shamisen (5, 10, 12), kokyu (2), koto (9), taisho-koto (3), voice (1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12), toys (5)
Masahiro Uemura: kit drums (1-3, 5, 7, 9-12), shaker (4), tambourine (4), gong (12), voice (5)
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: kit drums (1-3, 5, 7, 9-12), djembe (1), bass drums (2, 11), cymbals (2, 11), congas (2), pandeiro (4), quica (4, 5), caixa (4), gong (5, 9, 12), goat-hoof jingle (5), tambourines (12), klaxon (12), whistle (12), acme siren (12), vocie (3, 5)
Naruyoshi Kikuchi: tenor sax (1-3, 5, 10, 12), soprano sax (4, 7-10), baritone sax (4, 7, 11), voice (5)
Mitsuru Nasuno: electric bass (1-5, 7, 9-12), voice (5, 10)
Kazuhisa Uchihashi: electric guitar and effects (1-6, 8-12), acoustic guitar (7), voice (5)

note: "Just when you thought it would be safe... Ground Zero are back with a CD of extraordinary covers, some are massive, others strange, all add something to their originals and were selected because of their importance to founder Otomo Yoshihide's personal musical biography - all explained in his excellent accompanying notes."

kilka słów

el derecho, slow down!

Zu - Igneo [2005, cd, frenetic records]

2005
lbl: Frenetic Records
#: FR024
rock, jazz
free-improv, free jazz, punk, grindcore, math rock, avant-garde
320kbps
mohs hubscale: carborundum

1.		The Elusive Character Of Victory
2.		Solar Anus
3.		Eli, Eli, Elu
4.		Arbol De La Esperanza Mantente Firme
5.		Monte Zu
6.		Untitled Samba For Kat Ex
7.		Muro Torto
8.		Tikkun Olam
9.		Mar Glaciale Artico

Cello - Fred Lomberg-Holm
Mixed By - Steve Albini
Recorded By - Steve Albini
Saxophone - Ken Vandermark
Trombone - Jeb Bishop

note: " Zu are an Italian sax-bass-drums trio that consistently push the boundaries of jazz, often by liberally injecting aggressive doses of other musical genres into the mix: noise, electronics, punk, hip-hop, funk and more. On Igneo, the "punk-jazz" descriptor (which is often glibly applied to, say, a good bit of John Zorn's work) is apt, as the trio blaze through nine mostly short, hyperactive, spiky compositions." - ground and sky.

vandermark without tortures



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Iva Bittová - Bílé inferno [1997, 2 x cd, indies scope records]

1997
lbl: Indies Scope Records
#: MAM0552
folk, jazz, rock
avant-garde, acoustic
~192kbps
mohs hubscale: alundum


CD1
1. Vzpominka
2. Uspavanka
3. Sirka V Louzi
4. Sto Let
5. Kdoule
6. Zeleny Vinecek
7. Moucha


CD2
1. More
2. Stary Mlyn
3. Je Tma
4. Chury Churuj
5. Avon
6. Huljet

note: "After a few years passed collaborating with drummer Pavel Fajt, Iva Bittová teamed up with Rale guitarist Vladimír Václavek to write and record the beautiful two-CD set Bílé Inferno (White Inferno). The singer remains true to her stripped-down aesthetics, keeping arrangements sparse, letting the songs show their power with as little embellishments as possible. Václavek's acoustic guitar and vocals are often enough to accompany Bittová's sensual (and very creative) vocals and violin playing. Tom Cora may add a bit of cello, Frantisek Kucera a touch of trumpet, or children some singalong lines. The songs are long, repetitive in a way similar to nursery rhymes. The mood is kept quiet, Bittová often whispering in our ears the words of lyricist Bohuslav Reynek. The childlike playfulness of "Kdoule" and "Moucha," the more defiant "Vzpominka," the overdubbed vocals at the end of "Zvon" -- all constitute highlights. Each song seems to be the result of a labor of love between the two protagonists, no detail having been left to chance. And yet, spontaneity permeates the album, mostly thanks to Bittová's many groans, shouts, yelps, and other strange exclamations and techniques she derives from Eastern European cultures and the playground. For a double album, Bílé Inferno is short. The total duration of 77 minutes and 14 seconds would have fit on a single CD, but -- and even though the price of this Czech import gets beefed up because of the two-CD status -- the idea to split the set in two works wonderfully. Listened to as one big chunk, Bílé Inferno would sound a bit linear, become tiresome, and lose part of its appeal. Taken in two helpings, it is one stunning piece of art. The label Indies made up for the short duration with lavish artwork and photographs. This is the Iva Bittová record, timeless and essential to any fan of Czech alternative pop/rock."

a little fly burnt in a fireplace



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Exmagma - Exmagma & Goldball [1973-4, 2 x lp]

1973-1974
lbl: Neusi Records, Urus Records
electronic, jazz, rock
krautrock, fusion, free improvisation, space rock, avant-garde, psychedelic rock
192kbps



From Exmagma album (1973):
01.The First Tune (7:37)
02.Tönjès Dream Interruption (4:17)
03.Interessante Olè (2:50)
04.Two Times (2:25)
05.Trippin With Birds / Kudu / Horny (18:48)

From Goldball album (1974):
06.Marilyn F. Kennedy (2:30)
07.Dada (3:36)
08.Adventures With Long S.tea (2:53)
09.25 Two Seconds Before Sunrise (4:53)
10.Groove Tango Wolperaiso (2:35)
11.Jam Factory For People Insane (4:04)
12.Habits (5:57)
13.Dance Of The Crabs (0:53)
14.Greetings To The Maroccan Farmers (6:36)
15.Last But One Train To Amsterdam (0:56)

Exmagma:
*Thomas Balluff / organ, electric piano, clavinett-c effects
*Fred Braceful / sonor drums, percussion extraordinaire
*Andy Goldner / fretless electric bass, electric guitar, alto sax, tape recorder



note: "If you love krautrock dementia and jazz rock fusion eccentries these albums are for you.

Exmagma is a captivating german rock collective that published only two albums in their entire career but believe me all their compositions are highly inspired, catchy, playful and cearly accomplished in term of technical skills.

These albums delivering an impressive free form jazzy rock with lot of energy and an immense feeling for improvisation.

The 1973 eponymous debut album is an outstanding example of experimental jazz-rock with a high degree of psychedelic heat and a lucid progressive-oriented awareness."

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