18.6.13

BS080 BOOL - I eat phantom




"Style of this album is a Poem core.
Based on the impact of the Japanese sub-culture (anime, music, comedy, game, radio) it was created in a room of small dark home.
It is said to emerge from the magnificent strain of day-to-day trivial matters.
In this album, abstract language has been used in addition to the Japanese.
Even a man speaking in Japanese when listening will not understand half.
I believe that there is value in that kind of chaos." - BOOL

01 - after dark 
02 - cloud of heaven 
03 - Ancient city emerge 
04 - tacon÷tacon 
05 - vivi

24.5.13

BS079 Alexei Biryukoff - Train Chase




"This album is a collection of arriving and departing trains at the station in a small Siberian town Talmenka" - Alexei Biryukoff

01 - chase #001
02 - chase #002
03 - chase #003
04 - chase #004
05 - chase #005
06 - chase #006
07 - chase #007
08 - chase #008
09 - chase #009
10 - chase #010
11 - chase #011
12 - chase #012
13 - chase #013
14 - chase #014
15 - chase #015
16 - chase #016
17 - chase #017
18 - chase #018

2.5.13

BS078 Black Square Cloudcast - back to Avant-Garde IX


“He who has cast off the world has linked it to yellow dust
Your body is like unto a wound, and you are like unto a madman.
This entire world is a yellow arrow which has pierced you through
The yellow arrow is the train on which you ride towards a ruined bridge” - Victor Pelevin "The Yellow Arrow"

Photo: "Untitled" by Jodi DeGerlia

00:00 Aram Saroyan - Crickets [recorded in the wind-off grooves of side two] (1965)
01:55 Dariush Dolat-Shahi - Shabistan (Sehtar and Electronic) (1985)
08:18 Alexander Mossolov - Zavod, Symphony Of Machines (1926-28)
11:14 John Cage - Imaginary Landscape No.1 (1939)
18:43 Lawrence Weiner - Nothing to Lose, Side 1 (1976)
34:38 Walter Steding - Entry (1980)
36:59 Remko Scha - Guitar Mural 1 (featuring The Machines), Side A (1981)
46:22 Victor Pelevin - The Yellow Arrow (1993) 

15.4.13

BS077 Viktar Siamashka & Co - BIOTOPE




"Free music from “the last dictatorship in Europe”. Spontaneous improvisation. Operative composing. Something at the intercrossing of free-jazz, folk, academic and electronic music. All compositions were created together, alive, "here and now" and without the using of phonograms or rehearse fragments." - Viktar Siamashka & Co

Viktar Siamashka – winds, percussion 
Eryk Arlou-Shymus – double-bass 
Maxim Iukin – vocal, percussion
Raman Jarash – big drum 

Recorded 08/11/2012 in anticafe "Fisher House", 
Miensk, Bielarus. 

Art – Viktar Siamashka Sr.
Design - Ales Siamashka.

01 - Biotope (I, II) 
       part I (00:00 - 08:30), 
       part II (08:30 - 16:19)
02 - Risky men
03 - Without M.
04 - Thesis
05 - Dudaryki

25.3.13

BS076 Victor Ivaniv & MOLOTOK Ensemble - BROKEN WITH A HAMMER




BROKEN WITH A HAMMER - is a co-production album. The music of MOLOTOK Ensemble is arranged with original prose and poetry reading by Victor Ivaniv. This album reading is a part of stories from last book of Victor, “Awake Dreamer”, published in New-York`s Ailuros Publishing. The music tracks is original summa of avant-guard and classics for chamber orchestra and a piano pieces. The sharp sound of glass and the scream of violins meets here the bullfrog of storyteller. A bucklet is illustrated by photos of Nikolai Zaikov, Pavel Proskuriakov and Tatiana Suvirko. The mastering is by Alexey Muhmood Biriukov.

01 - Rothko
02 - Znamenki
03 - Sonata For Flute And Cello
04 - Sonate For Glass

11.3.13

BS075 Ak'chamel, The Giver of Illness - The Divine Vine Tapes




Icaro chants and yaje incantations for the spirit's journey to the other realm. All songs by AK'CHAMEL. Recorded to cassette tape.

01 - The Purge
02 - Syrian Rue
03 - Hoodoo Blood Lore 
04 - El Curandero (Native Ghost Chant)
05 - The Man Who Drank God 
06 - Infierno Verde 
07 - Money Burn 
08 - The Rebirth

25.2.13

BS074 Cagey House - This Flag Means be Still




"These tracks are about stasis. 

"Living Grass on I-70" started as a short percussion solo. I slowed it way down--something like 800%--until the sound became really degraded. Then I kept altering the pitch until the sonic degradations became the main voice in the track.

"The Finger Can't See" is an experiment with out of phase repetition, boredom, and annoyance.

"Delicate Clock Runs the Street" is the result of a set of rules that force harmonic motion while simultaneously preventing resolution." 

"The Second Fawn" is an arrangement of a single sample (at different pitches and durations) of a Thor's Hammer virtual synthesizer being turned off in mid-note." - Cagey House 

cover art by Brandi Strickland

01 - Living Grass on I-70
02 - The Finger Can't See
03 - Delicate Clock Runs the Street
04 - The Second Fawn