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previous artist: andreas brandal		there are 3 titles featuring martin brandlmayr in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: kjetil d. brandsdal

$13.44

back in stock as of
november 15th, 2011

first in stock on
december 18th, 2003

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
guitar-themed

erstwhile (usa) #erstwhile 031 cd

martin siewert / martin brandlmayr “too beautiful to burn” compact disc

form (6:45)
source (11:50)
is this love? (6:05)
axis (8:19)
hold (12:03)

erstwhile press release...

martin siewert: acoustic & electric guitars, lap steel, electronics, synthesizers
martin brandlmayr: drums, percussion, vibraphone

martin siewert and martin brandlmayr are two of the most active musicians in the ever-evolving viennese music scene, in both improvised and composed settings. they have been performing together in various groupings since the summer of 2000, but too beautiful to burn marks their initial meetings as a duo.

siewert has been quite prolific recently, in projects such as efzeg (grob, durian), sssd (grob), and the seminal all-star collaborative orange cd on charhizma, along with werner dafeldecker, christof kurzmann, christian fennesz, kevin drumm and jim o'rourke. brandlmayr is best known for his riveting percussion work as the linchpin in the superb trio radian, who have released records on rhiz, mego and thrill jockey. radian performs meticulous compositions with a remarkably fluidly and relaxed approach, forever poised on the edge of the groove. both siewert and brandlmayr are also members of the improvising trio trapist (along with bassist joe williamson), who have released a superb record on hatology, with their next coming out on thrill jockey in early 2004.

too beautiful to burn was recorded by christoph amann in his studio in vienna (his fourth erstwhile project, following schnee, wrapped islands, and eh) in january 2003. both musicians display relentless ingenuity, combining melodic guitar figures and cascades of impeccably bowed cymbals with a wide range of other acoustic and electronic elements, crafting a record that is at once resolutely abstract yet precisely musical. erstwhile designer friederike paetzold has shaped photographer corinna reicher's images of the aftermath of the march 2003 fire which consumed brighton's historic west pier, creating a elegiac testament which perfectly matches the music as well as the current state of the world.

$12.96

new to stock as of
may 23rd, 2008

threads:
modern-composition
film-video
electro-acoustic-composition
digital-musics

thrill jockey (usa) #thrill 194 cd

németh “film” compact disc

via l4 norte
field
luukkaankangas
soprus
transitions
ortem ende

may 2008 release ; solo album from radian’s stefan németh ...

thrill jockey press release...

film
by németh
thrill jockey thrill 194 2008

film is the first solo album by stefan németh, member of radian and lokai and the co-founder of mosz records. the album developed out of his years of work creating soundscapes for experimental filmmakers and installation artists, but it was only after years of creating this work that he had he idea to repurpose it for an album under his own name.

since around 2001, stefan németh has been working with the creators of short films and experimental videos, most intended for special film festival programs. he had long considered releasing music as a solo artist, and eventually németh realized that the music he was making for those films was just what he wanted to be making as a solo musician, but just putting the music on a cd would not have been the proper way to do it. when these pieces were created, németh was working on a variety of projects, each of them with its own life and intent, always with the music being created to serve the movie, as opposed to creating a single album where his process could have been more linear. his idea for film was to take this material and re-structure and develop these soundtracks into autonomous pieces of music, while keeping the cinematic spirit alive.

the consequence of his method is a range of evolutionary levels between the different tracks, between some that are very similar to the versions used in the various film projects, to those that have been more heavily reworked or were not used in the final versions of the original projects. for instance, field was based on the sound design németh created for the architectural film domino. he had martin brandlmayr (radian, trapist) add drums to his original rough sketches, to which stefan further added guitars, synthesizers and percussion.

luukkaankangas and soprus are basically identical to the original versions in the films and even retain the titles of those films. transitions was written as the main theme for ortem, but in the end was supplanted by something more abstract. via l4-norte is the soundtrack to a film of németh’s own, still under construction, about the utopian ideals at work in brasilia and how the reality there compares to the rest of brazil. technically, film is a blend of electronic sounds and acoustic instruments where it is often difficult to distinguish between real and generated sounds, and similarly combines free and conventional forms. the electronics function just as any other instrument, and are almost solely analogue synths. there are digitally generated sounds, but only from genuinely digital processes, and not replicas or recreations of the analogue world.

$12.96

back in stock as of
may 23rd, 2008

first in stock on
september 7th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation

thrill jockey (usa) #thrill 141 cd

trapist “ballroom” compact disc

time axis manipulation (part 1) (12:33)
time axis manipulation (part 2) (7:15)
observations took place (4:57)
the meaning of flowers (5:21)
for all the time spent in this room (18:24)

thrill jockey press release...

ballroom
by trapist
thrill jockey
thrill 141 • 2004

trapist is the vienna based trio comprised of joe williamson on bass, martin siewert on guitar and martin brandlmayr on drums. the trio formed when a friend invited them to play a concert at the famed venue, rhiz in vienna. the show, largely an improvised affair with each member bringing pieces not songs to the show, relied largely on the give and take most often seen by jazz and experimental musicians. the three were so pleased with the results that a few weeks later they decided to continue working together and their debut performance at the rhiz became their debut record on hat hut. ballroom is their second record. trapist take their name from the trappist fraternity who devote themselves to silence. restraint is a key word in the trapist musical vocabulary, thus the name makes for a good fit. the band also decided to drop the second "p" allowing the word to also make an obtuse reference to trapez, the german word for the free flowing trapeze. trapist came to us through martin brandlmayr who also plays drums in the thrill jockey band, radian. on a recent visit to vienna, martin passed a long a tape of new trapist recordings to label founder, bettina richards and she immediately fell in love with it.

the band recorded the basic tracks for ballroom in one day, once again relying on improvisation for the direction of the songs. trapist then brought the recording into their home studio where they overdubbed and drastically edited the resulting record. using are variety of instruments including the vibraphone, a collection of synthesizers and modulators, as well as a few software-based treatments, the band gave even more life to their improvised recordings.

together the members of trapist are a group of experienced improvisers who collectively like to explore and question familiar surroundings and contexts for both art and music. thinking not only of melody and emotional elements in music, trapist look additionally at structures and forms. though relatively young, the members of trapist have collaborated with a list of impressive players including han bennink, evan parker, paul lovens, eugene chadbourne, elliot sharp, ken vandermark, christian fennesz, kevin drumm, dean roberts and stefan schneider among others. trapist may be deliberate and sparse in nature, but ballroom is a record that speaks volumes. their unique blend of improvisation and delicate electronics is a welcome and refreshing change for fans of electronic, jazz and improvisational music.

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