black to comm “earth ” long playing record

• stickstoff ii
  
• water
  
• thrones
  
  
• the children
  
• mirror

black to comm “earth ” compact disc

• stickstoff ii (9:27)
  
• water (4:11)
  
• thrones (4:40)
  
• the children (14:25)
  
• mirror (4:30)

de stijl press release...

black to comm earth ind 098 cd release date 6 march 2012 de stijl is proud to announce the march 6 release of earth, black to comm’s music for the film of the same name. earth is a 2009 silent film by ho tzu nyen, one of singapore’s foremost artists. the visually arresting film has been live-soundtracked by a number of artists (including oren ambarchi) in several locales, and after black to comm, a.k.a. marc richter’s accompaniment at berlin’s asian film festival and the unsound festival in krakow (both in 2010), he decided to commit it to record. in marc’s own words: most of the music was composed under the influence of heavy pain killers while recovering from a broken leg. the music (like the film) is about slowness and decay, states of unconsciousness, sleeping and waking up, dying and being reborn. the film basically is a post-apocalyptic collage based on paintings by classical european painters (caravaggio, delacroix, rembrandt, géricault) — the music tries to translate that concept employing similar collage-based sampling techniques using loops made from vintage vinyl and shellac records combined with acoustic and electronic instrumentation and voice. richter’s already formidable expressive power stretches over all of earth. reflecting the countless cyclical forces that make up, oh, more or less everything we know and are, the music on earth is bracing, lovely, bustling and still, and at times bittersweet, a commingling of sensations and emotions that can’t be neatly separated from one another. (earth is complex, as you know.) guests on earth include david aird, a.k.a vindicatrix (on the mordant music label), contributing startling vocal work; renate nikolaus on an array of instruments and noise devices; rutger zuydervelt (singing bowls); and christopher kline (singing saw). earth is black to comm’s seventh album and his debut for de stijl, following the acclaimed alphabet 1968 (on type) and last year’s vinyl-only collaboration with mike kelley of destroy all monsters (on the en/of label).

machinefabriek / gareth davis “ghost lanes” long playing record

• ghost lanes
  
  
• mackerel sky

machinefabriek “dauw” compact disc

• porselein (7:03)
  
• fonograaf (3:27)
  
• engineer (6:11)
  
• dauw (5:17)
  
• singel (25:12)

machinefabriek “huiswerk” seven inch single record

• huiswerk (1) (3:58)
  
  
• huiswerk (2) (4:22)

freiband / machinefabriek “oahu” compact disc

• martin luiten - oahu 1 (1:23)
  
• freiband & machinefabriek - oahu 2.1 (21:52)
  
• freiband & machinefabriek - oahu 2.2 (19:56)

machinefabriek / freiband “kilauea” three inch compact disc-recordable

• kilauea (20:37)

my own little label press release...

035 machinefabriek & freiband - kilauea on february 14th 2010 machinefabriek and frans de waard played each a solo concert at berlin's rote salon. afterwards they played a collaborative concert as machinefabriek and freiband. taking the material from their previous collaboration a bit further, adding new sounds to the whole.

aaron martin / machinefabriek “cello recycling / cello drowning” compact disc

• cello recycling (11:41)
  
• cello drowning (10:11)

“geluidpost” double compact disc-recordable set

• machinefabriek - cello recycling (11:47)
  
• janek schaefer - come on up... (19:00)
  
• rudolf eb.er's runzelstirn & gurgelstøck - schlechte musik (10:19)
  
• merzbow - bloody sea of taiji. stop the mass slaughter of dolphine in japan. (9:37)
  
  
• (ad)vance(d) - 4chairs+bats (10:47)
  
• studenten sonologie - phonography (11:36)
  
• steve roden - to these four horizons (14:00)
  
• francisco lópez - untitled #0908 (10:17)
  
• staplerfahrer - mode of perception (12:47)

october 2009 release ; neat fold-out double-disc edition covering a series of pieces curated by martijn hohmann for a “listening room at art gallery lokaal01” in breda, nl ... the set ships flat (actually smaller than your average dorado gatefold) but opens up like so :: some great work here, including all-exclusive pieces from machinefabriek (crackly, cheap-reverb plugin rework of aaron martin’s cello), janek schaefer (neat, plunderphonic flamenco piece), runzelstirn & gurgelstøck (classic, aktion-heavy rudolf), merzbow (washing-machine rhythms into a synth blow-out) ... ... then (ad)vance(d) (formant-filter drones & assorted static), justin bennett’s students (ground-hum rich field recording overlay), steve roden (automatic-feeling mystery clank & reed drones - get lost in the long sound-sample), francisco lópez (rainforest hiss), and staplerfahrer (grainy, noisy grisple) ... most pieces hover around the 10-minute mark, as such there’s enough room for them to say what they need to without feeling hurried ... as site-specific compilations go this one’s a keeper ; highly recommended !!!

universaal kunst press release...

various artists - geluidpost 2cdr featuring exclusive tracks by: machinefabriek janek schaefer rudolf eb.er merzbow (ad)vance(d) sonologie studenten steve roden francisco lopez staplerfahrer geluidpost (sound post in dutch) is a listening room at art gallery lokaal01 breda the netherlands. it's basically a room with a three-seat sofa and a set of speakers. you can't get any closer to the primary principle of listening.. every two months a soundartist or composer is invited to create a new piece for geluidpost. during 2007 and 2008 geluidpost was curated by martijn hohmann. all nine works created during this period are compiled on this 2cdr. it's limited to 250 copies. nice multi-foldout cover.