oren ambarchi / fennesz / pimmon / peter rehberg / keith rowe “afternoon tea” compact disc

• afternoon tea 1 (19:15)
  
• afternoon tea 2 (24:37)
  
• no title (3:33)
  
• live tea 1 (12:44)
  
• live tea 2 (8:27)

black truffle press release...

ambarchi / fennesz / pimmon / rehberg / rowe afternoon tea label: black truffle format: cd catalogue number: bt03 who would have thought a relaxed sunny afternoon, newfound friendships and some spur-of-the-moment would have resulted in what’s been described as ’one of the most compelling documents of both free improvisation and electronica’ (all music guide) ? it’s the people involved in ’afternoon tea’ - originally released in 2000 on german label ritornell and now reissued on black truffle with a new master, bonus tracks and newly discovered live recordings after years of being out of print - that ensured it as more than a happy accident. the twin guitar presence of amm’s keith rowe and oren ambarchi and kindred spirits of the laptop - sydney’s pimmon, vienna’s christian fennesz and peter rehberg - made it a momentous day. with all the players coming together during the 2000 what is music? festival, ’afternoon tea’ stands as a highpoint of the then-emerging intersection between powerbook performance and guitar improvisation. all subtlety, nuance and detail, it is a revelation of restraint. built on a steadying flow of burbling rhythm, the quintet slowly weave around each others’ sonics in layers to create a tonal palette immersive in its atmosphere and magnetic in its compulsion. hindsight clearly reveals the heart of these pieces - important to note considering they were recorded at a time when laptop performance was an alien concept to many in experimental music, suffering controversy and backlash as well as an over-abundance of pale approaches from many who took it on as novelty as opposed to serious musical pursuit. those involved in the 'afternoon tea' session left their australian tour inspired, citing their merry time in the country eating, drinking and hanging out at the beach as well as their performances as a direct influence on their following work. many great live recordings were spawned from the tour itself including rehberg & bauer's 'passt', fennesz' 'live at revolver' (both on touch) and a collaboration between him and new zealand's rosy parlane (released on synaesthesia). additionally the seeds were sown for the fennesz classic 'endless summer' from 2001 (mego). ’afternoon tea’ remains one of the quiet and real achievers for experimental music of the past decade. remastered in may 2009 and with artwork designed by stephen o'malley.

oren ambarchi / fennesz / pimmon / peter rehberg / keith rowe “afternoon tea” double long playing record set

• afternoon tea 1
  
  
• afternoon tea 2
  
  
• no title
  
• live tea 1
  
  
• live tea 2

weird forest press release...

ambarchi/fennesz/pimmon/rehberg/rowe afternoon tea 2xlp who would have thought a relaxed sunny afternoon, newfound friendships and some spur-of-the-moment would have resulted in what's been described as 'one of the most compelling documents of both free improvisation and electronica' ? it's the people involved in 'afternoon tea' - originally released in 2000 on german label ritornell and now available on vinyl for the first time with a new master, bonus tracks and newly discovered live recordings - that ensured it as more than a happy accident. the twin guitar presence of amm's keith rowe and oren ambarchi and kindred spirits of the laptop - sydney's pimmon, vienna's christian fennesz and peter rehberg - made it a momentous day. with all the players coming together during the 2000 what is music? festival, 'afternoon tea' stands as a highpoint of the then-emerging intersection between powerbook performance and guitar improvisation. all subtlety, nuance and detail, it is a revelation of restraint. built on a steadying flow of burbling rhythm, the quintet slowly weave around each others' sonics in layers to create a tonal palette immersive in its atmosphere and magnetic in its compulsion. hindsight clearly reveals the heart of these pieces - important to note considering they were recorded at a time when laptop performance was an alien concept to many in experimental music, suffering controversy and backlash as well as an over-abundance of pale approaches from many who took it on as novelty as opposed to serious musical pursuit. those involved in the 'afternoon tea' session left their australian tour inspired, citing their merry time in the country eating, drinking and hanging out at the beach as well as their performances as a direct influence on their following work. 'afternoon tea' remains one of the quiet and real achievers for experimental music of the past decade. remastered in may 2009 with artwork designed by stephen o'malley. deluxe double-vinyl edition with stoughton tip-on gatefolds. one-time pressing limited to 500, no repress.

“variable resistance • ten hours of sound from australia” compact disc

• oren ambarchi - stactedit (2000)
  
• robbie avenaim - impulse control disorder (2002)
  
• philip samartzis - soft and loud (2001)
  
• david brown - were holes mended? (2002)
  
• jim knox (xonk) - never mind the ruddocks (2002)
  
• jim knox (xonk) - fuck to mandatory detention (2002)
  
• jim knox (xonk) - prophylactic liquidation of our pig government (2002)
  
• thembi soddell - violation (2002)
  
• darrin verhagen - p2 (2002)
  
• pimmon - steps gaps (flicker) (2002)
  
• délire - fxcr_2_r2 (2002)

23five incorporated press release...

variable resistance: 10 hours of sound from australia 23f/sfm 902, compact disc over the past three or four years, the australian experimental musical community has flourished, thanks in part to the tireless globetrotting from artists like oren ambarchi, pimmon, and philip samartzis. variable resistance — a co-presentation between 23five incorporated and the san francisco museum of modern art — originally celebrated this australian renaissance with a 10 hour ‘listening event’ in september of 2002. from those ten hours, curator philip samartzis distilled the best tracks to be featured on this cd compendium. variable resistance is a title that encapsulates the tone and extent of the work on hand, referencing not only the electronic gizmo (the variable resistor) as key to many of the featured homespun constructions filtered through state of the art dsp filters, but also as an applicable non-definition of those artists who “offer variable resistance in how they are defined and the positions they occupy in a broader cultural context, fragmented, and dispersed among remote cities and divided by enormous physical and psychological space.” within this disc, the australian aesthetic finds itself reflecting a number of ideas previously mined throughout the history of electronic music from mego’s fascination with the streaming micro-textures of digital fragmentation to metamkine’s conceptual riddles within their cinema pour l’oreille series to the brazen noise-junk collages from merzbow and otomo yoshihide. yet, variable resistance resolves its uniqueness by smashing these references with brutish noise and demonstrative force applied to the stereotypically delicate sensibilities of electro-acoustic composition. for instance, samartzis’ collages of environmental, plundered, and digitized sound meld into psychologically abrasive narrative scalded by toxic agents; pimmon transforms agitated chunks of granular synthesis into cybersonic lullabies; and david brown’s jarringly angular duet between a prepared guitar and a squeaking door stands as a steroid injected homage to pierre henry’s musique concrete classic variations pour une porte et un soupir. along with samartzis, brown, and pimmon, variable resistance also features exclusive compositions from oren ambarchi, robbie avenaim, philip samartzis, xonk, thembi soddell, darrin verhagen, and delire.

“x+y = xy 10 blind dates” compact disc recordable

• team doyobi + safety scissors
  
• errorsmith + opopop
  
• joel ongthorne + discom
  
• jliat + vger
  
• needle + thomas dimuzio
  
• beige + mainpal
  
• kevin drumm + francisco lópez
  
• plank + kubin/garland
  
• venoz tks + pimmon
  
• time's up + wobbly

“find more hits” compact disc

• sandra - piano - michigan
  
• alejandra & aeron - near the town
  
• barcelona bells
  
• pimmon - telot
  
• rain and hail - x-mas eve
  
• sachiko m - xs
  
• aerospace soundwise - the soft d of the honey bee supercedes me
  
• to rococo rot - meet the lucky kitchen
  
• guitar & nintendo
  
• roll playing - big & heavy josh
  
• suetsu - is danny singing?. steven marcus taylor - from lk001
  
• aeron plays xylophone
  
• semiconductor - magnes trail
  
• b&h diner nyc (hardboiledegg)
  
• goodiepal & tordis - fem-delt
  
• washing up - e 21st street - nyc
  
• eceltric sheep - from lk001
  
• steve plays this land
  
• i-sound - fool
  
• pena ruido - little natural disaster
  
• jansky noise - plays this land
  
• campfire talk - clarkston mi
  
• nick birmingham - pick up the spoons steve
  
• renaissance flutes
  
• leo (from rio) - spot_24_sys_beep
  
• jeswa - transportative restaurant cubicle
  
• matmos - hot tub remix
  
• hrvatski - la cathedral
  
• pena ruido - quiet l
  
• pena ruido - quiet r
  
• pena ruido - end beep

“it’s over, we don’t care” compact disc

• hi-god people - egil rotunda mural
  
• pimmon - sea boy koi koi
  
• ii - there were lakes
  
• brothers of the occult sisterhood - circle of eyes
  
• keith mason - vtr
  
• htrk - rumour
  
• hiss - burning easter
  
• the garbage & the flowers - elisabeth
  
• north atlantic - amber
  
• castings - missive; aside
  
• anthony guerra & peter blamey - #3
  
• rand and holland - shanghai lady?

“wrong application” compact disc

• wrongapplogo.bmp
  
• anonymous - m.90
  
• no human intervention - tracks.a01
  
• farmers manual - m4
  
• pimmon - etude_per.dll[rmx]
  
• blitter - that perceptrons
  
• anonymous - m0.9
  
• underwood - image of my grandmother's backyard
  
• blitter - cannot do
  
• farmers manual - m2
  
• no human intervention - tracks.a02
  
• 6562372
  
• electric company - valencia 14
  
• no human intervention - tracks.a05
  
• lesser - 182041 dae error encountered
  
• anonymous - m0.6
  
• no human intervention - tracks.arj
  
• anonymous - m1.7
  
• suetsu - dodgy pesto
  
• blitter - there are simple tasks
  
• viratone ballad - residual fault #1
  
• phthalocyanine - txt1
  
• farmers manual - m1
  
• anonymous - m0.4
  
• viratone ballad - residual fault #2
  
• kid606 - so.nk.izz.obtuse.and.unneccessary
  
• anonymous - m0.01
  
• farmers manual - m3h
  
• (bonus track)