multiple Otomo
"On Monochrome Otomo presents 18 pieces that illustrate the entire range of his solo work from pieces constructed entirely of feedback, static and randomly generated radio noise, to sine wave experiments that bring to mind the humming of the solar wind as it wafts through intergalactic space. There are also rhythmic bursts of feedback and percussion that are almost danceable and subtle Zen like meditations full of slow sustained notes that fill the air with otherworldly overtones. The Mult…
divide by zero
+ Zbigniew KARKOWSKIReleased : September 2007. Co-release together with a carrier (San Francisco). Antimatter (Xopher Davidson) from San Francisco and Zbigniew Karkowski from Tokyo have joined their forces once again to present a third part in a trilogy that started in 2002 with their release "function generator" on sirr and "KHz" on auscultare-ground fault 2 years later. Now they show "Divide by Zero" on Antifrost with collaboration of a carrier The thick - more analogue than digital -…
Watch me getting back the end
Christa Pfangen are Andrea Belfi and Mattia Coletti. The name is an homage to Nico, although the music has obviously no relation with the icon of the New York avant garde scene. They belong to the new electroacoustic/improv/avant-rock scene which is taking shape in Italy and includes such names as 3/4 Had Been Eliminated, Valerio Tricoli, Å, Stefano Pilia and others. Working with percussion, treated guitar and an array of different objects and noises, they have given birth to a dynamic wo…
A year of the aural gauge operation
3/4's new album, A Year Of The Aural Gauge Operation, was recorded in their own studio in Bologna along 2004. It features nine songs composed after live improvisations, all of them quite different in genre, but again 3/4's aim is to create a psychedelic musical flow, one in which new elements and different styles can be superimposed to enrich and develop the peculiar narrative of the album. We generally think of it as a opera.
"A collection of off-centre songs verging on…