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editions mego (austria) #demego 023 lp
demand (austria) #demego 023 lp

dieb13 / mats gustafsson / martin siewert “(fake) the facts” long playing record

  • fact (15:23)
  • rat (7:32)

  • zoom (21:31)
november 2011 release ; ... exceedingly noisy trio improvisations by recent vienna transplant mats gustafsson (sax, electronics), dieter “dieb13” kovacic (turntable), and martin siewert (guitar, electronics) ...
editions mego press release...
demego 023 /  dieb13 / gustafsson / siewert
(fake) the facts
lp

release date 22.11.2011

dieb13: turntables, cigar box
mats gustafsson: soprano, slide and tenor sax, live electronics
martin siewert: guitars, ring stinger, electronics

recorded at garnisongasse 7 / vienna, march 2011 and rhiz / vienna, april 2011
mixed by dieter kovacic and martin siewert
mastered by martin siewert
cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin, september 2011
cover art by dieter kovacic and billy roisz

after the runaway success of the akita / gustafsson / o’rourke lp , ‘one bird two bird’ (demego 022), swedish sax legend mast gustafsson returns to editions mego with another storming collaboration. now resident in vienna he teamed up with experimental artists dieb13 and martin siewert for a live and studio session. (fake) the facts is the result.

a dense fog of sound coming from all directions, but whereas the general impetus is a full on attack the trio do find restraint to create a deeper dynamic and open the spaces between the walls of noise.

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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.

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kranky (usa) #krank 115 cd

autistic daughters “uneasy flowers” compact disc

  • rehana's theme (5:35)
  • uneasy flower (5:30)
  • liquid and starch (4:32)
  • gin over sour milk (5:05)
  • bird in the curtain (3:05)
  • richest woman in the world (6:18)
  • hotel exter dining room (6:02)
march 2008 release ; second title from this trio led by dean roberts, featuring electro-acoustic improvisers werner dafeldecker & martin brandlmayr ...

slow, languorous songs, rife with impressionistic flair ; these guys are on island rarely visited by most, but the isolation has yield some very unique music ...
kranky press release...
artist: autistic daughters
title: uneasy flowers
catalog #: krank115
formats available: cd
release date: march 3, 2008

uneasy flowers is the second album by autistic daughters, the intercontinental trio of dean roberts (guitar, vocals), martin brandlmayr (percussion, computer) and werner dafeldecker (guitar, bass). it is also the fourth in a series of records in which roberts, having begun in more abstract territory in new zealand's mid-1990s 'free noise' ferment, has embraced song, lyric and voice as vessels for topographic and psychoanalytic tracings of the impacts of territory and nomadism on the subject. this is reflected by the shape-shifting nature of the outfit: while autistic daughters, whose name comes from a lyric from their first record jealousy and diamond, are resolutely a trio, they also work in cinematic format, with ancillary players - in this instance, chris abrahams of the necks, martin siewert and valerio tricoli - as part of both cast and crew, foley artists behind the trio’s complex, worm-turning arrangements.

with uneasy flowers, roberts traces the internal and external workings of one protagonist: or, rather, a protagonist who 'contains multitudes,' a figure that dissolves the unified self. rather, this character, rehana, embodies multiplicity and fragmentation in order to both a) address loss and b) aim toward transfiguration, transcendence. there are traces in the lyrics - traces of addiction and desire, myth and transformation - that are obliquely reflected in the music’s structure, its uneasy tension between the pop song (the 'moment') and experiment (the 'process'). in some ways, it reminds of the structural, loop-based cinema of figures like malcolm legrice: taking one moment and stretching it, the better to capture its nuances and to draw out all the repressed material caught in the mise-en-scene, the hidden, cloaked content that erupts when your world spirals out of your own control and gets caught in webs of interpersonal politic. the move from intimacy to capture of the 'greater picture' enacted by both lyric and music here resembles a camera dollying out, a shift of perspective unsettling for its vertigo-inducing qualities.

- jon dale

a long time in coming, this new album continues the group's development of their literate sonic architecture, touching on elements of jazz within the skeletal, open spaces of minimalist composition.

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mosz (austria) #mosz 015 cd

szely “processing other perspectives” compact disc

  • theme-1 (7:36)
  • theme-2 (8:19)
  • theme-3 (5:35)
  • theme-4 (5:36)
  • theme-5 (6:15)
  • theme-6 (4:26)
  • theme-7 (7:11)
  • theme-8 (backtrack the brain) (20:25)
mosz press release...
processing other perspectives
by szely
mosz
mosz015 • 2007

processing other perspectives is the second release on mosz after his debut 'welcome to my world' from 2004. for this album szely has asked some of his friends and music mates for bits and bytes and parts which he later recorded and processed according to the idea of field recording. the result is a composition that can be heard as one whole part. but for cd listening it is divided into 8 themes that can be edited separately.

among the contributors are numerous well-known musicians like thilges' nik hummer, longtime music activist wolfgang kopper, bernhard loibner, martin siewert, ulrich troyer and fantastic singer and performer melita jurisic from australia. she sings on theme-8 which is a remittance work for austrian fine artist thomas feuerstein who recently curated the exhibition 'daemons' at magazin4 in bregenz, austria. szely composed this highly passionate piece based on the lyrics written by feuerstein himself. melita jurisic's marvellous timbre that is able to turn from daemon-like to angelic tones gives this piece this very dramatic note that hasn't been heard before within the work of szely.

szely developed his multichannel composing and became more complex on his second album.the recorded and processed instrumental and voice parts are arranged in a more structured manner so that the particular themes get dominantly rhythmic, vivid, drifting, atmospheric and sometimes pictoral or melancholic. some parts within the several themes are repeated in some other theme slightly altered. the whole album demonstrates szely's approach to pop music in the context of electronic music with a background of multichannel sound architectural work. for szely popular music has always meant the idea of expedition, expansion of borders and search for new sound synthesis. it was only a logic consequence to give room to this searching on the new album. 'processing other perspectives' is the result of an important decision of szely - instead of working alone, in a solipstic way, in the studio for months, he invited friends and collegues to provide sound material [samples, voice], basically as a communicative act, also in the way of field recording out of which szely created his themes. szely's 'processing other perspectives' is an attempt to go new paths, an attempt to re-define the concept of popular music apart from the mainstream. [mosz 2007]

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staubgold (germany) #staub 077 lp

kammerflimmer kollektief “jinx” long playing record

  • palimpsest (6:27)
  • jinx (7:20)
  • live at the cactus tree motel (4:14)
  • gammler, zen & hohe berge (3:55)

  • both eyes tight shut (3:26)
  • jinx (version) (7:10)
  • nest (2:26)
  • subnarkotisch (10:46)
staubgold press release...
staubgold 77 - kammerflimmer kollektief - "jinx" cd/lp

whispering, a laid back pop rhythm and something that sounds like an overwound gramophone – thus begins "jinx", the new album by the kammerflimmer kollektief. recorded by tobias levin at electric avenue studio, it is their sixth longplayer.

this band is still a "collective", although within the last years and extensive touring through europe, a group of three core members emerged from the original line-up: thomas weber (guitar, electronics, piano), heike aumüller (harmonium, vocals, synthesizer, percussion) and johannes frisch (double bass and percussion).

the eight songs on "jinx" leave the wide-screen cinemascope soundscapes of the previous albums behind. with their serenity, these songs sound almost like a sediment of the band's earlier approach. this becomes evident in a track like "nest" (which is reminiscent of the folk-jazz-approach of early pentangle albums), or the beautifully minimalist yet very touching country-epic "live at the cactus tree motel".

faced with this music, the usual groping for stylistic comparisons and genre attributions appears more helpless than ever. this is mainly due to the focused use of instrumental improvisation on this album. in their dialogue with the sound impulse, the musicians re-endow data folk with a body and electronic music with its metaphysics. this becomes evident in both the title track and in "both eyes tight shut", where in a repetitive swing heike aumüller's voice persistently fishes half-words from the vortex of sound particles.

in "gammler, zen & hohe berge", a tiny echo from the beat on a small wood block which is electronically slowed down, dies away. time drips through the spheres, quietly. this is not an escape into esotericism but rather the attempt at reflection and clarification, a catharsis somewhere between a constructed reality and karma.

jinx – the mythological bird that heralds bad luck - comes to you when you return from the quest for happiness in the computer game world of virtual identities. with "jinx", the kammerflimmer kollektief has created a touching soundtrack for these moments – when you leave the simulated wonderworld of commerce like "second life", when you log off your atavar and suddenly find yourself confronted with the disdainful universality of your own thinking.

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kammerflimmer kollektief “jinx” compact disc

  • palimpsest (6:27)
  • jinx (7:20)
  • live at the cactus tree motel (4:14)
  • gammler
  • zen & hohe berge (3:55)
  • both eyes tight shut (3:26)
  • jinx (version) (7:10)
  • nest (2:26)
  • subnarkotisch (10:46)
staubgold press release...
staubgold 77 - kammerflimmer kollektief - "jinx" cd/lp

whispering, a laid back pop rhythm and something that sounds like an overwound gramophone – thus begins "jinx", the new album by the kammerflimmer kollektief. recorded by tobias levin at electric avenue studio, it is their sixth longplayer.

this band is still a "collective", although within the last years and extensive touring through europe, a group of three core members emerged from the original line-up: thomas weber (guitar, electronics, piano), heike aumüller (harmonium, vocals, synthesizer, percussion) and johannes frisch (double bass and percussion).

the eight songs on "jinx" leave the wide-screen cinemascope soundscapes of the previous albums behind. with their serenity, these songs sound almost like a sediment of the band's earlier approach. this becomes evident in a track like "nest" (which is reminiscent of the folk-jazz-approach of early pentangle albums), or the beautifully minimalist yet very touching country-epic "live at the cactus tree motel".

faced with this music, the usual groping for stylistic comparisons and genre attributions appears more helpless than ever. this is mainly due to the focused use of instrumental improvisation on this album. in their dialogue with the sound impulse, the musicians re-endow data folk with a body and electronic music with its metaphysics. this becomes evident in both the title track and in "both eyes tight shut", where in a repetitive swing heike aumüller's voice persistently fishes half-words from the vortex of sound particles.

in "gammler, zen & hohe berge", a tiny echo from the beat on a small wood block which is electronically slowed down, dies away. time drips through the spheres, quietly. this is not an escape into esotericism but rather the attempt at reflection and clarification, a catharsis somewhere between a constructed reality and karma.

jinx – the mythological bird that heralds bad luck - comes to you when you return from the quest for happiness in the computer game world of virtual identities. with "jinx", the kammerflimmer kollektief has created a touching soundtrack for these moments – when you leave the simulated wonderworld of commerce like "second life", when you log off your atavar and suddenly find yourself confronted with the disdainful universality of your own thinking.

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substance (austria) #sss 005 ep

dieb13 / mats gustafsson / martin siewert “(fake) the facts” seven inch single record

  • the fake

  • the fact
april 2013 release ; ... i’ll say it again & again (as it warrants repeating) :: i love experimental music on the 7” format ; here we get two concise statements from this trio of vienna improv veterans that strike fire shortly after launch & never overstay their welcome / premise ...
substance press release...
recorded at martin siewert's studio garnison 7 in vienna.
cover art by dieter kovacic.

first and final pressing of 400.

mats gustafsson (bass sax): one of the shining names in the current avant-garde / free jazz scene. projects: the thing, sonore, chicago tentet, duos with colin stetson, thurston moore.

martin siewert (guitar): improv and composing work in acoustic and electronic contexts, projects: radian, trapist, etc.

dieb13 (turntables, cigar box): viennese turntablist, releases on mego and erstwhile.

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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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