tom hamilton “pieces for kohn • formal and informal music” double compact disc set

• modhera
  
• bonampak
  
• girnar
  
• fatehpur
  
  
• formal & informal music
  
• crimson sterling mvt. 1
  
• crimson sterling mvt. 2
  
• crimson sterling mvt. 3

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kvist006 - tom hamilton - pieces for kohn/formal & informal music artist: tom hamilton release date: fall 2009 limited run of 500 on 2xcd reissue of 2 out-of-print works originally released on the artist’s own somnath label. formal and informal music contains the title piece formal and informal music (1980), and crimson sterling (1973) for electronics, winds and percussion, and also features jd parran, woodwinds and saxes, and rich o’donnell, percussion. pieces for kohn is comprised of four electronic pieces, musical responses to four paintings by artist bill kohn. disc one – pieces for kohn disc two – formal and informal music tom hamilton – arp 2500 synthesizer, e-mu microprocessor keyboard, serge synthesizer, custom electronics. rich o’donnell – bass drums, bowed cow bells, tabla, gamelan gongs, talking drum, marimba bars, timpani, cymbals, tubalum, koto-veen, aqua-lips, sprahng, chinese cymbal, tom-toms, timpani, roto-toms. jd parran – flute, clarinet, alto flute, alto clarinet, nagaswaram, alto saxophone. the “pieces for kohn” celebrate the process of an extremely gratifying collaboration. it has been a constant challenge to work with artistic concepts that have been first defined by another form. that is, the “intangibles” came first from the paintings, rather than from just own own fantasies. the titles of the pieces correspond to the titles of four selected paintings. in each of the four pieces, i have considered expression of both the general style and the specifics of that painting. in this way. i was able to let each piece develop its own character while still complementing the painting. bill’s paintings are warm, vibrant, and best of all, have a personal identity that is all-kohn! i hope a little bit of it rubbed off on me.” t.h. ... thomas hamilton is the director of the washington university electronic music/recording studio. he was born in 1946 and received early musical training from thelma taglin and thom davis mason. he attended the university of wisconsin and studied there with john downey. he holds an m.a. from washington university and studied composition with robert wykes. his favorite food is cheese. bill kohn is a painter and printmaker who teaches at the washington university school of fine arts. the original tapes were performed at the opening of bill kohn’s exhibit at the terry moore gallery in st. louis, in january, 1976. the recording was supported by a research grant from washington university. bill schulenburg assisted the re-mix and did the mastering.

guillaume gargaud “here” compact disc

• sève brute
  
• noir animal
  
• un vent tiède
  
• traces du temps
  
• fleurs lumineuses
  
• tache de suie
  
• aedeiinae
  
• les chevaux
  
• sans corps

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kvist005 - guillaume gargaud - here artist: guillaume gargaud release date: august 2009 limited run of 500 on cd improvised guitar and electronics.

eod “kvist003” long playing record

• ditriac
  
• tiny trollop
  
• stroidef
  
  
• bastard!
  
• hard gummi
  
• tarbreath

joe raglani “web of light • part i” long playing record

• the last ride (11:55)
  
  
• bardophasing (7:45)
  
• impossible love (4:55)

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kvist 002: web of light part i info artist: joe raglani to be released december 2007 description: noise and field recordings. the a side is comprised of a 12 minute monster with a guitar line, eerie chorus, and a fog of psychedelic folk noise. side b is spit into two tracks. the first track starts off loud and swirling before finding its peace at the end. track 2 is campfire concrète. ... about raglani by mike ferrer. raglani's use of analogue electronics is tied to traditional krautrock by a thread of dark romanticism extending, in germany, back to the work of caspar david friedrich. epic and tumultuous landscapes as images of psychic space; hazardous journeys through awesome and forbidding worlds; the hair-blown viewer looking down onto incredible canyons ... the entire extended metaphor of friedrich's work, linking the arc of a spiritual journey to the beautiful and tumultuous work of nature, is conserved in the work of the kosmische school. raglani's relationship with the music of schulze or fricke is not 'retrospective,' but contemporary. the musical commonalities proceed from a shared commitment to the elaboration of exotic musical spaces, pursued chiefly through melody, adorned by figurative electronic flourishes and concrète motifs. what is missed in alot of drone and noise is the ability of the sound to paint a scene; too often, we're presented with a blandly ecstatic wash of lo-fi murk, more stoned than psychedelic. raglani avoids these generic limitations by engaging more directly with the tradition to which his peers owe, arguably, the most considerable debt. what he deepens in that tradition is in the abstraction and development of themes -- spreading out the narrative through textural variation, rather than driving ever forward through arpeggios and circular rhythms. this might give him more in common with friedrich's wanderer above the sea of fog than with the cataclysm of his sea of ice; the voyage charted in raglani's of sirens born proceeds warily, but doesn't end in wreckage. if raglani avoids the ascending freakouts of early kosmische music, however, it is because everyday life today is freaked out enough on its own. what is needed, rather, are sounds that can address our already-piqued uncertainty by involving it in a story it might recognize as its own. so there is little here, also, to tether raglani to the generic vibrations of noise and drone, though he uses some of the machines that make them; instead of any massive simultaneous display, secrets are revealed gradually and cumulatively. raglani's voice may sound familiar at first, and there is no doubting its context and sources, but the events described by his music trickle out in shapes, and at a pace, uniquely his. the scenes he composes, surreal but distinct, have all the luster of real paint.

john tamm-buckle “untitled” long playing record

• old man
  
• remiped
  
  
• pavulon & on
  
• jökel

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kvist 001: untitled info artist: john tamm-buckle release date: 25 aug 2007 tracks written between 2003 and 2007 2 tracks of breakcore, 1 track music-box style idm, 1 track sequenced field recordings ... john julius tamm-buckle john julius tamm-buckle was born in stockholm, sweden. he spent his childhood years living in norway and denmark, and then moved to england where he spent 8 years developing his love of strange noises. he has been in the u.s. since 1997, and currently lives in st. louis with his wife and parrot. his music has many influences, ranging from electronic dance music to improvisational music and modern classical. tamm-buckle has many talents. one involves capturing low-quality field recordings, running them through a many-cabled blender of indescribable technological tools, and modification of the resulting sounds with difficult-to-use computer programs. another involves wearing headphones, pushing buttons, and twiddling knobs. his parrot is even noisier than his music.