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formed.records (usa) #formed 105 cd

giuseppe ielasi / ekggroup” compact disc

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formed 05: giuseppe ielasi / ekg : group

reworked from live material captured on their 2005 tour of the us, group documents the creative possibilites of post-composing from improvised music. the result is a refinement of the group's live playing, preserving the dialogic quality of the original music while carefully underscoring the underlying ideas that animate it.

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musica genera (poland) #mg 001 cd

kyle bruckmannand” compact disc

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  • and jeb (4:52)
  • and jim (4:38)
  • and scott (3:22)
  • and michael (4:04)
  • and gene (2:55)
  • and jeb (8:14)
  • and michael (3:13)
  • and jim (2:52)
  • and fred (3:38)
  • and gene (4:44)
  • and weasel (7:10)
musica genera press release...
mg 001 : kyle bruckmann
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kyle bruckmann - oboe, english horn, suona, raita
jim baker - synthesizer
jeb bishop - trombone
gene coleman - bass clarinet
fred lonberg-holm - cello
scott rosenberg - contrabass clarinet
weasel walter - percussion
michael zerang - multiple percussion

total time 54:11

mastered by: savage sound syndicate
produced by: robert piotrowicz

kyle bruckmann: as an oboist and electronic musician has become a fixture in chicago's thriving experimental music underground. with a history of conservatory training gone awry, bruckmann combines the discipline of a classical foundation with the raucous sensibilities of dada and punk in adizzying variety of artistic endeavors. he has lived in chicago since 1996, teaching and free-lancing as a classical musician while playing regularly with some of the city's most creative improvisers and sound artists, including jeb bishop, jim baker, bhob rainey, fred lonberg-holm, bob marsh, robbie hunsinger, michael zerang, guillermo gregorio, and olivia block. ongoing affiliations include ekg, an electroacoustic duo with ernst karel, the rosenberg skronktet ("anyone interested in how creative music develops will want to keep an ear on their progress," kevin whitehead, chicago sun-times), and the experimental punk powerhouse lozenge. as a member of composer gene coleman's ensemble noamnesia, he has collaborated with polwechsel and performed works by george crumb, john cage, charles ives, cornelius cardew, malcolm goldstein, and salvatore sciarrino, among others.his debut cd of solo improvisations, "entymology," available through barely auditable records, has been hailed as "an enchanting experience that expands thepossibilities (and the comprehension) of the double reed family" (françois couture, all-music guide). ekg's "shift or latch" was recently released by crank satori; lozenge's recordings are available through toyo and farrago records.

jim baker (synthesizer) has performed & recorded (as either a pianist or synthesist) in various situations which have included various people, some of whom are also on this record, and others who are not. more specifically, mr. baker has previously performed with mr. bruckmann in situations organized by guillermo gregorio, fred lonberg-holm, scott rosenberg, ernst karel, robbie hunsinger, and michael zerang.

jeb bishop plays trombone with, among others, the vandermark five, the peter brotzmann chicago tentet, the chicago-scandinavia quintet school days, and fred lonberg-holm's terminal four, as well as leading his own trio. he often plays ad hoc free-improvisation gigs in chicago and lsewhere. the chicago label okkadisk has released two cds by the jeb bishop trio, and bishop's cd 98 duets is available on the label wobbly rail.

cellist fred lonberg-holm has performed and recorded extensively throughout north america and europe. while based out of nyc, he performed in and led various ensembles including his quartet peep, anthonybraxton's creative orchestra, god is my co-pilot, and anthony coleman's selfhaters. in the late '90s,lonberg-holm relocated to chicago where he has since become heavily involved in the free music scene. his projects there include the improvisational light box orchestra, pillow, terminal 4, and the peter brotzmann tentet.

gene coleman is a composer, bass clarinetist and artistic director of ensemble noamnesia. his compositions are explorations of possible relationships between noise and what is normally called "music", as well as spatial and temporal perception. with ensemble noamnesia and the yearly festival "sound field" he has had collaborations in chicago with many important composers, including helmut lachenmann, vinko globokar, george crumb, gerhard staebler, kunsu shim, roscoe mitchell, salvatore sciarrino, malcolm goldstein, luc ferrari, karlheinz essl, mathias spahlinger, burkhard stangl, john wolf brennan, guillermo gregorio and others. in the area of improvised music, he has played in concert with evan parker, derek bailey, william parker, roscoe mitchell, jim o'rourke, mats gustafson, taku sugimoto, carl stone, werner dafeldecker, otomo yoshihide, radu malfatti and many others. his recordings include several projects with jim o'rourke and gastr del sol, as well as tony conrad, john wolf brennan and christian wolfarth, gulliermo gregorio, anthony braxton, mats gustafsonand others.

scott rosenberg is a multi-reed player and composer, and the founder of barely auditable records. over the past several years, rosenberg has performed all over the u.s. and in europe with the likes of: pauline oliveros, anthony braxton, christian wolff, helen thorington, eugene chadbourne, fred lonberg-holm, glenn spearman, dan plonsey, gino robair, chris brown, matt ingalls, brenda hutchinson, jeb bishop, luc hautkamp, ralph carney, marco eneidi, maggi payne, tim perkis, toshi makihara, and many others. he currently resides in paris.

weasel walter b. 1972 composer/multi-instrumentalist specializing in confrontation, chaos and asymmetry of form. founding member of chicago-based no wave/free jazz/death metal ensemble the flying luttenbachers (since 1991). has appeared on more than 50 recordings as a leader, band member or side person and performed more than 600 concerts throughout the u.s. and europe. has made and/or recorded improvised music with kevin drumm, fred lonberg-holm, jeb bishop, nandor nevai, jim o'rourke, michael zerang, jeff parker, ken vandermark, hal russell a.o.

percussionist, improvisor and composer michael zerang was born in 1958 in chicago, illinois. he has co-founded and performed with the musical groups liof munimula, the neutrino orchestra, trio troppo, the wonderfuls, the blue angels, sam pappas' tumbling strains, frozen lucy, the quirt quintet, musica menta, the vandermark quartet, dream cheese, the sputter ensemble, in zenith, and broken wire . in addition to these ensembles, zerang currently performs with many innovative musicians including aacm co-founder fred anderson, mats gustafsson, raymond strid, sten sandell, don meckley, jaap blonk, daniel scanlan, peter brötzmann, kent kessler, barre phillips, jim baker, hamid drake, ken vandermark, luc hautkamp, and fred lonberg-holm. he has recorded for okka disc, boxmedia, kontrans, southport, quinnah, eighth day music, garlic, and platypus, labels as well as many others.

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sedimental (usa) #sed 041 cd

ekgno sign” compact disc

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third album from the duo of ernst karel and kyle bruckmann following their “object series” entry on locust from last year.

the pair play oboe & english horn (kyle) and trumpet (ernst) through all manner of “analog electronics” (these days ernst uses a doepfer modular), yielding what amounts to a real-time musique concrète... not far from the whole erstwhile universe but retaining its own orbit (i find their music much less “scrabbly” and/or “droning” and more “through-composed” feeling, closer to contemporary classical music than to jazz per se.)

minimal, challenging, and ultimately quite rewarding... an excellent place to begin with the work of either artist.
sedimental press release...
kyle bruckmann oboe, english horn, analog electronics
ernst karel trumpet analog electronics

ekg is the duo of kyle bruckmann and ernst karel. ekg's music is situated between acoustic and electronic, improvised and premeditated, disruptive and meditative; it crackles and hums with precariously restrained potential energy. combining traditional and extended wind techniques with anachronistic (non-digital) electronic processing, they carefully sculpt a bizarre yet organic soundworld of shifting tones, sudden and creeping textures, elusive suggestions of possible melody, and microscopic noise.

no sign is their third release, combining sessions from makeshift studios amidst chicago snow and san francisco fog.

during the late 1990s in chicago, bruckmann and karel found themselves repeatedly performing alongside each other on oboe and trumpet respectively, integral to the "horn section" of olivia block and within gene coleman's ensemble noamnesia. in such environments, they performed semi-improvised, graphic, and fully notated works by composers including guillermo gregorio, werner dafeldecker, cornelius cardew, john cage, and christian wolff. by 2000, they had begun working as an independent unit, processing, complementing, or replacing their wind instruments with extensive analog electronics. their first recording as ekg is shift or latch on crank satori (2001). 2003 saw the release of a full length album on locust music's object series, as well as tours of both the east and west coasts. their work continues despite bruckmann's late 2003 relocation to san francisco; 2005 will see further touring of the u.s. and europe.

as ekg, they have been joined on stage by bhob rainey, chris cooper, nicole bindler, vic rawlings, larry marotta, the jeffrey allport-tim olive duo, kurt johnson, ben bracken, matt ingalls, chris heenan, and david rothbaum. individually, their extensive collaborative credits include jim baker, jeb bishop, olivia block, blowhole, anthony braxton, cheer-accident, bobby conn,ernesto diaz-infante, djalma primordial science, tom djll, kevin drumm, gunda gottschalk, lance grabmiller, philip greenlief, david grubbs, boris hauf, robbie hunsinger, giuseppe ielasi, greg kelley, fred lonberg-holm, bob marsh, helen mirra, my name is rar-rar, toshimaru nakamura, tatsuya nakatani, negativland, dan plonsey, polwechsel, gino robair, scott rosenberg, aiko shimada, john shiurba, jason soliday, karen stackpole, tv pow, ken vandermark, weasel walter, jack wright, otomo yoshihide, and michael zerang.

bruckmann's ongoing projects also include wrack, his quintet with jeb bishop, tim daisy, kurt johnson and jen clare paulson; oakland air, a trio with aurora josephson and jacob lindsay; sfsound group, bay area new music specialists with whom he has so far performed his own compositions as well as those of berio, braxton, ingalls, stockhausen, webern, and xenakis; and long-standing experimental punk monstrosity lozenge.

karel's other ongoing projects include unclocked, his quartet with tim daisy, jason ajemian, and aram shelton; flockterkit, a quintet with fred lonberg-holm, aram shelton, jason roebke, and frank rosaly; television power electric, an occasional extension of tv pow; a collaboration with helen mirra; and solo performing and recording.

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