kiko c. esseiva “sous les étoiles” compact disc

• prélude
  
• voyage en brise-glace
  
• quelque part sous les etoiles
  
• tout tourne
  
• dans des toupilles
  
• en rêve
  
• le grand plongeon
  
• pont
  
• sous les étoiles tojours
  
• fanfare de fin

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kiko c. esseiva – sous les etoiles (cd hint 04) cd comes in great looking chipboard sleeve kiko c. esseiva is a young composer with swiss and spanish roots who lives in lausanne, switzerland. he creates electroacoustic sound pieces that are, not unlike those of the french master of the genre, luc ferrari, warm, non-academic and colourful, spreading a humanity and richness that is far away from the sterility of a lot of todays electronic compositions. he creates very diversified atmospheres which combine acoustic instruments, noise, human voices, field recordings and static sheets of sound with a stunning freshness and musicality that also brings to mind the very narrative nature of some older nurse with wound works. according to the title of his first album ‘musiques pour haut-parleurs’ (music for loudspeakers) his live shows are adventurous installations of speakers in different sizes and qualities, that are all separately controlled by esseiva at the mixing desk, making his compositions even more transparent, vital and expanded.  hinterzimmer records releases - four years after his debut longplayer on canadian imprint ‘manufracture’ - his second album ‘sous les étoiles’, which goes a step further than ‘musiques pour haut-parleurs’, the tracks being audibly held together by leitmotifs, making it one big opus instead of being just a collection of tracks.

rlw / tito “mahlzeit” compact disc

• eingedampft: nichts da
  
• aufdemweg (the fall of public man)
  
• haha super specialiteiten
  
• fressen, vergessen
  
• s&m maaltijdroddel
  
• gabentisch grossstadt
  
• dode varkens en mooie moraal
  
• geschissen ist nicht gemalt
  
• vertering
  
• hin
  
• baerenplatte
  
• bauernfruestueck, labskaus und gulaschsuppe

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rlw & tito – mahlzeit (cd hint 03) cd comes in great looking chipboard sleeve hinterzimmers reto mäder (rm74) and german sound artist ralf wehowksy (rlw) have been in contact since many years, resulting in the collaborative cd ‘pirouetten’ (2006) on north american label ‘crouton’. wehowsky, creator of highly influential industrial improv-group p16.d4 and labelmanager of ‘selektion’, released solo- and collaborative albums on various international labels (table of the elements, beta-lactam ring, streamline, trente oiseaux, anomalous…) since the early nineties. for his new ambitious project ‘mahlzeit’ (german for ‘meal’) he worked together with transindustrial toy orchestra (tito), a loose collective of people from hamburg and amsterdam, working in music and other art forms. current members peter kastner, ine ophof and jan van wissen created their part of the conceptual work with their vast collection of toys and kitchen tools, using electronic devices to transform them into bizarre acoustic situations while wehowsky contributes another strange mix of electronics, instruments, voice and body functions. all in all ‘mahlzeit’ is a collaborative release, but in a special way as some tracks were created by ralf wehowsky using sounds by tito and vice versa, but some were just done by one part of the project, assimilating suggestions from the other part. it mixes electroacoustic composition, early electronic music and bizarre kraut-era avantgarde. the heterogeneous but totally coherent and self-contained ‘mahlzeit’ is not just a great experience and expansion of the musical activity of all involved, but also an album of fine music that is not easy to label..

rm74 “fireproof in 8 parts” compact disc and compact disc-recordable set

• a stroke of lightning
  
• passionate
  
• exaudi!
  
• quirk
  
• unearth
  
• orchulence ii
  
• involve
  
• morbus fidel
  
  
• night enfold
  
• mellow
  
• e-s-r-e-v-e-r
  
• klavtarups
  
• temporary undo
  
• zweitagsfliege
  
• scharlach in saldo

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rm74 - fireproof in 8 parts (cd hint 02) nothing is holy! with his fourth solo-release, reto mäder aka rm74 takes us on a fevery missionary journey which is driven by an unholy quest for saturation and leads us into the dark places where tortured souls dwell. unpredictably muckraking in the shoals of timeless abysses, rm74 seeks to kindle the supressed fires of passion. nothing less! to do justice to this mission, mäder interweaves acoustic instruments such as an organ, a piano, a bassguitar or a harp with analogue and digital treatments into 8 firey and frivolous revelations. the symbiotical relation on "fireproof in 8 parts" is clearly in favour of the beatified instruments, which are re-discovered as liberating tools: "the dusty organ winds itself ecstatically in purgatory. the rickety piano holds confused and atonal soliloquies. the detuned strings of the bassguitar gleefully dance to the song of wantonness, and the harp calls for the exorcism of charaded awe!" "fireproof in 8 parts" also contains a bonus-cdr titled "part 9: lofire". this goodie offers additional insight into the works of rm74, concentrating on his lofi-inspired songwriter drafts. guest musicians: ralf wehowsky (rlw), dave phillips, roger ziegler (herpes ö deluxe), alexei borisov and reverend lester knox (archived by tom smith).

herpes ö deluxe “keilholen” compact disc

• fern der hoffnung
  
• funkenflug
  
• tief unten
  
• ruhig stellen
  
• im moos
  
• boiled rice
  
• nichsdestotrotz