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incunabulum (netherlands) #inc 005 cd

dan warburton / frederick farryl goodwincompendium maleficarium iii” compact disc

  • id (2:30)
  • mclean hospital (1:26)
  • hells angels in a bar (2:38)
  • woyzeck in limbo [in floating aquatic tutu] (1:35)
  • atheist (1:42)
  • woyzeck in the inferno [in burning saffron robe] (2:15)
  • cannibal rector (1:34)
  • the cardinal (3:51)
  • the cardinal (2:49)
  • virgil’s cow (1:06)
  • ophelia (2:12)
  • violence (5:48)
  • mcgowan’s bull (0:52)
  • loose strife (1:30)
  • the crows (4:14)
  • the porno booth (4:27)
  • the death camps (6:02)
  • dr. death (5:11)
  • a history primer (3:35)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "a history primer"
january 2008 release ; a text-sound project featuring the words of “american poet and former hardcore singerfred goodwin w/music composed by dan warburton (w/a huge list of contributors... philip samartzis, aki onda, jac berrocal, jean-luc guionnet, etc... )
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dan warburton / fred goodwin
compendium maleficiarum iii

twenty years in the making, compendium maleficarum iii is the extraordinary and totally unclassifiable encounter between the apocalyptic writing of american poet and former hardcore singer fred goodwin and the music of english composer / violinist dan warburton.

featuring appearances by pascal battus, alexandre bellenger, jac berrocal, frédéric blondy, françois fuchs, bertrand gauguet, jean-luc guionnet, bruno meillier, aki onda, philip samartzis and fabrizio spera.

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threads:
folk
electro-acoustic-improvisation
modern-composition
minimalism-drones
field-recordings

incunabulum (netherlands) #inc 004 cd

jozef van wissemthe stations of the cross” compact disc

  • dew drops fall like tears at eventide (5:28)
  • propempticon (3:24)
  • low mass (2:15)
  • the weeping virgin
  • trembling
  • kneels before the rising sun (3:19)
  • you can't go home again (1:20)
  • smokeless altar (4:20)
  • beyond the veil (2:17)
  • all day within the dreamy house the doors upon their hinges creaked (3:48)
  • the way of the cross (2:42)
  • the great wheel (1:43)
  • without the rose (2:54)
  • pilgrim talk (4:50)
  • the lowering (1:32)
  • all earth was black, all heaven was blind (3:18)
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2007 release, the most recent recording by jozef van wissem. a suite of pieces for solo lute with occasional forays into field recording and mild electronic processing...

lovely stuff, much in the way sandy bull recast luis bonfa’s “mahana de carnival” for oud, jozef here works a series of repetitive, often doubled-up lines not too far removed from the fahey / takoma universe; the deep bass of the ringing lower strings sounds rich & full, the travis-like arpeggiations work perfectly to lull the listener into a nice alpha state...
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jozef van wissem
the stations of the cross

jozef van wissem - 10 course renaissance lute, 13 course baroque lute, tape

recordings concluded at locksley hall on easter 7-4-7
other material taped at grand central station, nyc, heathrow airport, london and liberty international airport, newark, new jersey on various occasions.

instruments built by michael schreiner, toronto, canada in 1998 and 2005 respectively

barcode: 6 89076 54864 9

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incunabulum (netherlands) #inc 003 cd

tetuzi akiyama / jozef van wissemhymn for a fallen angel” compact disc

  • it never rains but it pours (14:49)
  • silver angels across the way (5:52)
  • the cry of the hawk (3:04)
  • the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom (3:27)
  • southern cross (7:16)
  • dark is the sun (9:41)
  • no murmur at the door, so frequent on its hinge before (8:08)
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second disc from the improv duo of tetuzi akiyama (acoustic guitar) and jozef van wissem (lute) ; as the pair begin to have more of an understanding for each other’s modus, the music relies less on their individual roles and more on shared vocabulary...

sparkling, intimate recording; you can almost hear the tiny glass shards from tetuzi’s bottleneck fly off & assault the mic in regular intervals...
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tetuzi akiyama / jozef van wissem
hymn for a fallen angel

tetuzi akiyama - martin hd-28 guitar, bottle neck
jozef van wissem - baroque lute, bottle neck, edits

barcode: 6 89076 54794 9

minimal classical contemporary folk blues played by japanese rising improv star guitarist tetuzi akiyama and dutch / american lute player / composer jozef van wissem, their second cd as a duo.

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jozef van wissem / tetuzi akiyama

many guitar-players in the contemporary scene take a restrained, not-in-your-face approach to playing the guitar, an approach that is often highly personal and seemingly anti-virtuoso. they bring the guitar in new directions, in areas that maybe even derek bailey and keith rowe did not touch upon, drawing us even further into the specific sound of the guitar. one could think for instance of anette krebs, taku sugimoto or olaf rupp. and, of course, one should mention the tetuzi akiyama.

tetuzi akiyama initiated the famous off-site series of improvised music in tokyo (together with toshio nakamura), a series that became one of the birth-places of 'silent' electro-acoustic improvisation. as a guitar player akiyama has performed solo, and cooperated and recorded with amongst others taku sugimoto, günther müller, jason kahn and bo wiget. sometimes these collaborations lead to very sparse improvisations, with sounds that are on the brink of silence; sometimes they resulted in a layering of sound combining bleeps, clicks, shrieking electronics with relentless, yet not necessarily loud, sounds from akiyama's guitar. in his playing of both nylon- and steelstring acoustic guitars, and various electric guitars, akiyama focusses very much on resonance and timbre. this is most apparent on what is without doubt his most appealing release until now: the aptly titled don't forget to boogie (2004). on this cd akiyama plays the most rudimentary blues-licks often using a distorted guitar sound. he repeats the same lick over and over again, until it begins to 'boogie', and in the monotony of the repeated lick he brings out various overtones and rhythmic figures and little noises that are idiomatic to this type of guitar playing, but would normally be suppressed. the result is pure rapture and hypnotizes the listener, it is exuberant, restrained and minimal at the same time. although in his duo with van wissem we probably will not hear the 'rock 'n roll'-side of akiyama (his latest band seems to be called the satanic abandoned rock 'n roll society), there is even in akiyama's playing of the nylon string guitar, some sort of grainy, rudimentary influence of the blues – filtered through 40 years of improvised music.

jozef van wissem probably plays the most unlikely instrument in the world of contemporary improvised music: the renaissance lute. he has accomplished the strange feat of bridging the idiom of seventeenth century lute literature and twenty-first century free improv of the silent type – especially in his working duo with tetuzi akiyama. although van wissem uses subtle electronic sound manipulation, he has largely stayed faithful to the particular timbre, resonance and playing technique of the lute. this turns out to blend particularly well with akiyama's prepared guitar. van wissem first came to be noticed a few years ago because of his radical conceptual approach to renaissance lute music: he deconstructed existing compositions, for instance by playing them backwards. he also composed his own pieces for lute, using palindromes and mirrored structures. his music therefore does not have a traditional linear progression, nor leads to a climax, it rather stays on the same level of intensity. his music is quiet and not so much demands concentrated listening, as it will bring the listener in a state of concentrated listening – an aspect that makes van wissem a natural ally of the current post-reductionist improvising musicians. van wissem also manages the bv/haast label, and performs regularly around the world in duo with guitar-wizard of captain beefheart-fame, gary lucas.

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musique-concrète

incunabulum (netherlands) #inc 002 cd

maurizio bianchi / m.b.das platinzeitalter” compact disc

  • aura aetas (15:40)
  • die erbsuende (12:51)
  • decadence (6:51)
  • the promised seed (10:19)
  • new heavens new earth (9:57)
  • das platinzeitalter (17:25)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "aura aetas"
just superb disc of creaking low-end drone work from maurizio bianchi comprised solely of recordings of incunabulum-head jozef van wissem’s renaissance lute playing; in my mind the best m.b.-related release in years... huge walls of sound veering close to andrew chalk / ora / mirror territory - highly recommended !!!
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maurizio bianchi / m. b.

das platinzeitalter

maurizio bianchi / m. b. - archaic waves, ancient loops, primitive electronics
jozef van wissem - renaissance lute

barcode: 6 89076 54804 5

bianchi began to produce music in 1979, at the peak of the industrial scene, since 1980 using electronic equipment with the avowed goal “to produce technological sounds and in such a way to work on complete realizing of the modern decadance,” but his works harked back to the musique concrete of the 1950s.

this cd is a return to his early work.

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incunabulum (netherlands) #inc 001 cd
bvhaast (netherlands) #bvhaast 0606 cd

jozef van wissema rose by any other name • anonymous lute solos of the golden age” compact disc

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  • maggae hamfor
  • untitled
  • katherines bairdie
  • untitled
  • corne yards
  • lamento di tristano - rotta
  • whip my toudie
  • hench me malie gray
  • a port
  • woe betyd thy wearie body
  • canaries
  • robin is to the greenwood gone
  • bransle
  • en me revenant
  • general leslys godnight
  • i choys to ly my lon
  • lady lie near me
  • blue ribbon
  • lilt milne
  • packingtones pound
  • sick
  • sick and very sick
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jozef van wissem
a rose by any other name

anonymous lute solos of the golden age

jozef van wissem - renaissance lute

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