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taiga (usa) #taiga 06 lp
schoolmap (italy) #school 6 lp

giuseppe ielasi(another) stunt” long playing record

  • (another) stunt (1)
  • (another) stunt (2)
  • (another) stunt (3)

  • (another) stunt (4)
  • (another) stunt (5)
  • (another) stunt (6)
february 2009 release ; second entry in giuseppe’s “stunt” series, co-released by his own schoolmap and the domestic taiga imprint ...

six more takes on disjointed digital sound ; all sounds & sources derived, plunderphonic style, from lp records, and manipulated/mutated in real time in software ... as a measure of “antidance music, it’s hugely successful ; not a straight rhythm to be found anywhere ...
taiga press release...
the second in a series of 3 eps by giuseppe ielasi focuses on the use of one turntable and vinyl records as the source for raw material, with pulses as the main organizational principle. short segments and loops or longer and more complex improvisations were collected via "turntablism" rather than through traditional sampling.

mastered and cut to lacquer at dubplates & mastering, berlin. pressed on 200g virgin vinyl and packaged in a full-color gloss-varnished jacket printed on heavy stock. photo by italian artist amedeo martegani. limited edition of 500.

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experimental-instruments
concert-recordings
lo-fi

schoolmap (italy) #school 5 cd

nestor figueras / david toop / paul burwellcholagogues” compact disc

  • cholagogues (41:15)
february 2009 release ; reissue of this 1977 bead-label lp, featuring a set of music collectively improvised by dancer nestor figueras & uk-improv stalwarts david toop & paul burwell ...

the immaculately lo-fi cassette recording adds a certain charm to the proceedings, with burwell’s often gamelan-like drumming & percussion right front & center, augmented by toop’s array of whistles, flutes, and metals (figueras, on the other hand, is mostly inaudible, his contributions largely in the domain of motion, with the occasion vocal interjection) ...

a much-needed time-capsule from these early london musicians collective days ...
schoolmap press release...

schoolmap records proudly presents:
nestor figueras, david toop, paul burwell cholagogues

format: cd in jewel-box, edition of 500 copies
cat no: school5
release date: april 15th, 2009

cholagogues” is a re-issue of the lp released by the musicians’ collective label bead in 1977 and, since then, out of stock. the re-mastered album is composed of a single long track based on a performance at action space in london, 1st of april 1977. the performance, reported to be the first and possibly the last of this trio, was recorded by david toop on a sony tc164a cassette tape machine and was created with a variety of music instruments and sound producing devices including different kind of flutes, trumpets, whistles, panpipes, drums, cymbals, fiddles, respiratory and vocal sounds, body percussion.

described by musics’ critic peter riley as a prime example of “slow music(music that shows slowness in its reception, conception and execution)cholagogues”, musically speaking, is a very unique affair: alternating ritualistic sparseness with denser moments, mixing hints from various non-european music styles with a minimalist economy of means and a overall sense of playfulness, the record is a lost gem of european improvisation and anticipates not only different styles of experimental music but also some weird rock to come.

the cd version of “cholagogues” has been digitally re-mastered by dave hunt with david toop and comes with a reproduction of the original lp artwork.

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digital-musics
sound-art

 best of 2008 !!! 
schoolmap (italy) #school 4 lp

giuseppe ielasistunt” twelve inch single record

  • stunt (1) (3:30)
  • stunt (2) (5:05)
  • stunt (3) (2:50)

  • stunt (4) (4:10)
  • stunt (5) (4:10)
  • stunt (6) (2:00)
july 2008 release ; excellent ep of deconstructed turntablism from composer giuseppe ielasi ...

this is pretty far removed from giuseppe’s overall modus of guitar-centric compositions, although i do recognize some of the polyrhythmic underpinnings from his last few häpna-label outings (that indescribably woozy, almost free-time feeling lilt is here in droves) ... some of this material comes off as a purely anti-dancefloor take on the whole basic channel / chain reaction oeuvre (w/schoolmap even going so far as to have d&m master the record !!!) or even the automatic pulse/beat-finding efforts of other berlinite producers such as errorsmith / smith n’ hack et.al ... really nice stuff.
schoolmap press release...
schoolmap records proudly presents:

giuseppe ielasistunt

format: 12” vinyl ep, full color cover, 6 tracks, 22 minutes, edition of 500 copies
cat no: school4
release date: july 7th, 2008

stunt’ is the first in a series of three ep’s which represent an interesting stylistic departure from ielasi’s previous work. the series is focused on the use of one turntable and a large selection of vinyl records as sources for raw material, and pulses/rhythm as main organisational principle. the basic sound material, in the form of short segments and loops or longer and more complex improvisations, was collected over the course of three months, using techniques influenced more by “turntablism”, than traditional sampling or plunderphonics. the raw sequences have then been edited and assembled in 6 tracks (more to follow...), whose structures are probably closer to house music productions than to ielasi’s more atmospheric and layered compositons from his earlier releases.

stunt was mastered and cut by rashad becker at dubplates & mastering, berlin. full color cover photo by italian artist amedeo martegani.

giuseppe ielasi, born in 1974, lives and works in milan, italy. he started playing guitar in 1988, and worked for many years in the area of ‘improvised music(long term collaborations with alessandro bosetti, michel doneda, ingar zach, dean roberts, thomas ankersmit). he has performed live with taku sugimoto, jerome noetinger, mark wastell, martin siewert, brandon labelle, nikos veliotis, gert-jan prins, phill niblock, oren ambarchi and many others. apart from extensive solo activities, ielasi is one half of bellows (with nicola ratti) and oreledigneur (with renato rinaldi). he released music on various labels such as erstwhile, bowindo, kning disk, sedimental (his first solo ‘plans’), hapna (‘gesine’ and ‘s/t’), 12k (the critically acclaimed ‘august’, also featured in the ‘best of 2007’ list for the wire magazine).

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schoolmap (italy) #school 3 cd

akira rabelaishollywood” compact disc

  • hollywood (56:48)
may 2008 release ; the first music from akira rabelais since 2004’s “spellewauerynsherde(released by david sylvian & steve jansen on samadhisound) ... essentially a deftly edited hour-long suite comprised solely of field recordings ; specifically those made in & around the back-alleys & bywaters of hollywood boulevard ::


definitely in & of the “presque rien” tradition, and, as much as i hate l.a., an intriguing listen ...
schoolmap press release...
schoolmap records proudly presents:
akira rabelaishollywood

format: cd in jewel-box, edition of 500 copies
cat no: school3
release date: april 10th, 2008

the birth of akira rabelais’ “hollywood” has its roots in the composer’s lifelong interest in field recordings and in the desire to create a piece of work dedicated to los angeles: texas born rabelais has used a tascam recorder to capture almost four hours worth of sounds on hollywood boulevard, between betty grable’s and of rod serling’s stars. these original recordings have been lightly edited, cut and mastered into a composition that encapsulates the sounds of casual chats, drunken tourists, peddlers, passing cars, music coming from surrounding shops. an extremely dynamic and always changing soundscape dedicated to “the pleasure of being present”.

akira rabelais, composer and software developer based in los angeles, has released records on ritornell, orthlorng musork and samadhisound. he has collaborated, among others, with björk, david sylvian, harold budd and stephan mathieu.

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