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theEARLofSWIRL on 05/06/2013 at 01:42AM

Acoustic Guitars are a cancer

THE METAPHONE, an instrument I made out of some metal table legs

Getting tired of seeing all the attention heaped on anyone who can strum a few chords.

Music is about creativity, and too many guitarists fall into tedious ruts, repeating those same old barchord cliches and dragging music down. It's funny how much of the guitarist's lexicon comes from Chuck Berry's piano player Johnnie Johnson- they are often unaware those riffs came from a piano first.

I once saw at a music festival a guy who had made a marimba-like instrument out of several lengths of 4X4's !!! He was laying down really interesting interplay with a Sax player and a Tabla player. I've quit several bands in my life because the guiatr player insisted that music "had to be done this way and no other" Often I would retort my pet project would be a Sax, Conga, Drums, Bass, and Keys - NO GUITARS.They have a difficult time subsuming themselves into the mix to make the group sound better as a whole, always turning up their amps. Other instruments in a group more easily grasp the concept of working together, because they are usually forced to co-operate behind a guitar ego.

If you disagree with me, just ask a guitarist who his favourite band is, they will usually answer RUSH or LED ZEPPELIN or other guitar-centric bands. Hardly ever a band with multiple or esoteric instruments, or jazz, or experimental, etc., etc.

 

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solrezza on 04/12/2013 at 05:43PM

Shorts for Radio Review by Radio Papesse!

16 - 22 APRILE 2012 Pepite: C’è chi la chiama sound-art, musica contemporanea, suoni di ricerca, sperimentazioni acustiche o suoni di confine, noi le chiamiamo Pepite: piccoli semi di ricerca sul suono, elementi preziosi della nostra programmazione. Ogni settimana selezionati e messi in evidenza all’interno del flusso freeform della nostra programmazione.Some call it sound-art, new music, research sounds, acoustic experimentations or liminal sounds, we just call them Pepite, golden nuggets: tips on sound research, precious bits of our programming. Each week we select few Pepite and highlight them into our freefrom streaming.Gli ascolti di questa settimana arrivano da un luogo davvero particolare e raccolgono suoni che viaggiano sulla rete, voci senza corpo, senza spazio, tempo o lingua ben definita.Sono suoni che vivono di nuova vita in un progetto dell’artista argentina Sol Rezza, sono suoni e voci ricomposti in racconti radiofonici.“La Radio è un medium che prende la forma di quello che rappresenta: una voce, un suono dietro una tenda scura, un senso di solitudine nel mezzo della notte, uno sguardo senza occhi. Talvolta è qualche cosa al di fuori della nostra portata, eppure lì, vicino; un qualche cosa capace di andare oltre il linguaggio delle parole, un linguaggio di suono” Con queste Pepite porgiamo il nostro orecchio a SHORTS for radio un progetto dedicato a archive.org da Panz4 TroupéSHORTS for radio è programmato nello streaming notturno di Radio Papesse—This week listening tips come from a very peculiar place and collect sounds from the web, disembodied voices from another world without time, no space, no language.Sounds that get a new life into a project by artgentinian artist Sol Rezza, sounds and voices restructured into radiphonic pieces.”Radio is a medium that takes the form of what it represents, a voice, a sound behind a black curtain, a solitude in the middle of the night, a gaze without eyes. Something that is beyond our reach, but it’s there. Understand something beyond the language of words, a language that extends through the sounds.”With this golden nuggets we turn our ear to SHORTS for radio a project dedicated to archive.org by Panz4 TroupéSHORTS for radio is programmed in the night streaming of Radio Papesse

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solrezza on 04/12/2013 at 05:37PM

Reviewed Music on Tnt : Sol Rezza: SPIT by Loris Gualdi

It is recommended to listen to it as a journey: with earphones if possible, and in a comfortable location. Dopo qualche tempo torniamo ad occuparci della netlabel Acustronica, opificio di note sintetiche, che da qualche anno propone un buon panorama artistico legato all’elettronica più pura. Il progetto, partito da Perugia, propone periodicamente interessanti progetti musicali, capaci di legare l’anima sintetica con quella alternativa. Tra le new release l’etichetta umbra propone il fascino estetico musicale di Sol Rezza uscita con Split, quattro lunghe tracce di buone ambientazioni soniche, tra loop ed ipnotismo. L’artista argentina, cresciuta come sound artist, sound designer e sound jockey, arriva a definire i suoi ideali sonori attraverso una approfondita conoscenza musicale applicata alla poliedricità del suono, fagocitando intuizioni e sensazioni tradotte in suoni talvolta persuasivi, talvolta disturbanti ed magnetici. La tracklist offre un insieme combinato di strutture sonore per certi versi partecipi di un continuum narrativo, ricreato attraverso modificazioni virtuali di suoni, nature sampler ed evoluzioni schematizzate, in una diluizione di tempi atti a rilassare e turbare all’unisono, aprendo l’uscio ad un attento ascoltatore pronto a lasciare i propri pensiere fuori da quella porta, per alimentare il proprio immaginifico. La track battezzata da un controllato sampler rumoristico e da loop sonori si rende capace di definire un immaginario cognitivo legato al titolo della traccia (Paradox) ed i in parte alle immagini oniriche che trapelano da una partitura che offre un prorio scheletro portante sul quale si adagiano eliche costruttive che subiscono cambi, spostamenti, deviazioni, mutamenti, e rinascite, attraverso un costrutto attento ma pressochè libero. Le composizioni di Sol Rezza rappresentano esempi di suite elettroniche che si raccolgono al di sotto di una pioggia di note bagnate nel loro volo pindarico. Sensazioni orientaleggianti e tribali aprono ad un’anima sonora non troppo lontana da alcune devianti forme Burzumiche, nei suoi cicli elettronici scarni e minimalisti, porti ad un noise che congloba il rumorismo funzionale con un elettrornica pura. Con Aerangis Confusa, l’artista si propone nella sua prima parte con una sorta di Sign of life pinkfloydiana, adatta nel suo andamento ad una mescolanza di inquietudine artistica e visioni filmiche. La traccia, Nonostante una ridondanza di termini, non annoia, ma coinvolge in un placido crescendo ipnotico e disturbante.Un incubo narrativo in cui ci si sente trascinati come similmente accade in Revolution as a Loop, in cui una voce kubrikiana, lascia trapelare la confusione reale in un ansiolitico movimento sonoro. Un a sorta di insomnia musicale in fusione con una struttura modernista dei suoni, che non lascia nessun tipo di spiraglio alla tipicità armonica che molti generi hall tendono a sviluppare. A chiudere il full lenght è l’alternative The Cat, che chiude le porte intraprendendo un riuscito incontro tra classicismo e elettronica, per poi virare su di una splendida chiusura nebbiosa, in cui un accrescitivo sonoro ci trascina dentro ad un nero e disorientante paesaggio oscuro. Quindi… lasciate libere le vostre menti, accostatevi dai pensieri quotidiani e datevi completamete a questo Split, per perdervi in un mondo parallelo. Tracklist Paradox Aerangis Confusa Revolution as a Loop The Cat

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jason on 03/29/2013 at 02:00AM

Ak'chamel's Hexas: Houston, Texas Under a Spell

Ak'Chamel in traditional garb during a live performance at Minicine Shreveport. Photo by Stan Carpenter (via fb)

Ak'chamel, The Giver of Illness hail from Hexas. That's Houston, Texas, under a spell. 

Inspired by Sun City Girls, Master Musicians of Bukkake, Hayvanlar Alemi and related strains of psychedelic improv and raw international music, the collective's self-released cassettes would sound right at home on Sublime Frequencies ("Radio Hexas?"). Tune into Old Norse Mara and The Divine Vine Tapes as throat singing and mysterious glossolalia meld with analog percussion, wind instruments, metal strings and chimes to cast a malevolent witch-doctor spell.

Houston may not be the most receptive environment for Ak'chamel's shamanic performances, but they have graced a handful of unconventional venues around town, including a laundromat, a clothing store, and an attic. Formerly known as Chairs, you may encounter Ak'chamel at FMABandcampFacebook and beyond.

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newweirdaustralia on 03/25/2013 at 09:00AM

New Australian Experimental Electronic Releases from Drill Folly and Hollow Press

This month on Wood & Wire we're delivering new, experimental Australian music from two exceptional solo artists, Melbourne's Drill Folly and Hollow Press from Adelaide.

No Love Lost (WW15) is the debut release from electronic producer Sarah Phelan, under the name Drill Folly. Sarah has been making music for a number of years as a founding member of Melbourne's Tantrums, whose debut EP Anomie was released on New Weird Australia in 2010, featuring remixes from Collarbones & Worng. As part of Tantrums, Sarah has played live supporting Unkle, Mount Kimbie, Caribou, Four Tet, PVT, Xiu Xiu, My Disco, Jason Forrest and more.

This debut release is designed to be listened to on your own, in headphones. Sarah notes: "This is about expressing human emotion through machines. This is about therapy ... immersion ... escape ... about words being insufficient ... about trying to remember and remembering to forget. This is about not letting things sit on your hard drive until you die."

Beginning in early 2012, Adelaide’s Hollow Press has been using drone, glitches, field recordings, voices and industrial sounds to create his work. His first two albums, Fleeting Joy and Between Us were released digitally and on CD by US label Drug Arts. A remix album of his work was released in early 2013 with reworks from The Atlas Room, Shisd, Delphine Coma, Amanda Schoepflin and more.

The third Hollow Press album in the span of a year, Heads in Dust (WW16) is a collection of blissful and at times unsettling songs - an abstract soundtrack to someone’s innermost, darkest thoughts, as it drifts seamlessly though sonic atmospheres. Clearly Hollow Press loves the darker shades of experimentalism, exploring ambience, mingling sounds, wave-like-synths, bells, and distorted voices, resulting in a captivating and significant Australian experimental album.

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