yek koo “oh woman b/w flame creation” seven inch single record

• oh woman
  
  
• flame creation

emerald cocoon press release...

yek koo alone together #3 - oh woman / flame creation 7" [ec005] helga fassonaki (of metal rouge) returns as yek koo with her first new release since last years 'i saw myself' on stunned records. gone are the horizontal string-sprawl epics of past, replaced by a new density and compositional focus. dictaphone guitar-swirl and declamatory vocal preaching atop loping nod-out rhythm samples, you could almost say yek koo has gone pop …. until the b-side hits: a sheet of live industrial slamming recorded at la's now defunct spiritual hub, the echo curio, that sounds like a realtime channelling of kali. as hard to pin down as ever, the closest point of comparison would be the morley / russell split 7" lathe on corpus hermeticum left to percolate in the merciless californian sun and even that sounds nothing like it. confusing, enticing, nuanced and brutal. part 3 of the 'alone together' series. mastered by pete swanson. edition of 300.

yek koo “i saw myself ” c28 cassette

• ring of bone (4:31)
  
• yellow fever dance (7:16)
  
  
• last lust lost (14:05)

stunned press release...

yek koo — i saw myself c27 (stunned no. 69) a lone voice etches straight to dictaphone the vibrations which have been petrified far too long in mere stone & silicone. identity awoken in a night of raw fidelity, this oracle’s expression inhabits trance tones and punk-chant poesis. gouge out your eye and trade it in for better ears, because helga fassonaki’s solo project yek koo is back after a nearly two-year hiatus. quite a spirited fever has accumulated since this half of la’s metal rouge performed her ‘psychic atonement for land deaths’ on digitalis. ‘i saw myself’ shatters any restricting mirror of our species with yek koo’s dynamically expanded vocal range and we are left freed, finding peace among the shards and surrender in the pieces. special hand numbered edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c27 tapes with double-sided die cut color jcard and insert.

“s3d (ear & eye) • live at galatos / ak07” compact disc and digital versatile disc set

• deluxe cd / dvd set of experimental-instrument performances & group-improvisations !!!

• empirical / bart hopkin / james mccarthy (10:06)
  
• walter kitundu (4:25)
  
• phil dadson (8:13)
  
• adam willetts / ernie althoff / james mccarthy (9:13)
  
• tom nunn (1) (4:05)
  
• tom nunn (2) (11:48)
  
• akio suzuki / sam morrisson / walter kitundu (4:06)
  
• sam morrisson / walter kitundu / phil dadson / akio suzuki / ernie althoff / bart hopkin / tom nunn (9:43)
  
• yek koo (7:57)
  
• graeme leak / yek koo / empirical (10:21)

• empirical / adam willetts / graeme leak (7:33)
  
• yek koo (8:08)
  
• sam morrison (6:41)
  
• tom nunn (8:57)
  
• walter kitundu / sam morrison / bart hopkin (15:14)
  
• akio suzuki (7:23)
  
• empirical (w/ rosy parlane) (9:51)
  
• graeme leak (3:12)
  
• yek koo / tom nunn / james mccarthy (8:01)
  
• ernie althoff (11:44)
  
• bart hopkin (4:50)
  
• james mccarthy (4:53)
  
• phil dadson / akio suzuki / ernie althoff (16:12)
  
• adam willetts (9:30)

atoll press release...

s3d (ear & eye) presented a world of fresh sonics from new and unexpected sources with names as idiosyncratic and offbeat as the players and their inventions; analopos, blue, mothics, shimsaw, zitherum, gloopspring, crustacean, savart's wheel . . & the list goes on. seven innovators in their field of experimental musical instrument building and performance travelled to auckland to join with 5 local practitioners for three packed days of public workshops and performances, where acoustical, physical, electronic and virtual worlds came together in a unique chemistry. akio suzuki (japan), bart hopkin, yek koo (helga fassonaki), tom nunn (usa), walter kitundu (tanzania / us), graeme leak, ernie althoff (australia), with marcel bear, sam morrison, james mccarthy, adam willetts & phil dadson (new zealand). s3d has its genesis in rev, a 5 day worlds-first festival, celebrating musical instrument invention and performance at the power house in brisbane in 2003, where international contributors bart hopkins (usa), david toop, scanner (uk) & phil dadson (nz) were invited to join with local artists for a week of performances, seminars, exhibitions and installations. s3d differs by focussing on builder/performers with improvising skills to work solo and collaboratively through the three days of sonic exploration. s3d celebrates the magic of the new and unexpected with musical instruments and sounds that blur boundaries between art and music. generously supported by: the nz/japan exchange foundation, creative nz, auckland city & deloitte held march 17, 18, 19, 2007, galatos theatre, as part of ak07.