★Creative Sources
Ordinary music vol.3
#1 for string trio & double bass. Nikolaus Gerszewski (violin, composer), Ernesto Rodrigues (viola), Guilherme Rodrigues (cello) and Hernâni Faustino (double bass). Recorded in 2008 at Goethe Institut, Lissabon.
Blinzeln
Birgit ULHER, trumpet. Heiner METZGER, sound table. Recorded 2007 in Hamburg. Born 1961 in Nuremberg, she studied the visual arts, which still have an important influence on her music. Since moving to Hamburg in 1982 she has been involved in free improvisation and experimental music. Since then she has “established a distinguished grammar of sounds beyond the open trumpet” (jazzdimensions.de). She performs solo, with dancers, working ensembles, and one-time collaborations with musicians from aro…
Rot
Udo SCHINDLER, soprano saxophone, bassclarinet. Margarita HOLZBAUER, cello. Harald LILLMEYER, electric guitar. Udo SCHINDLER, soprano saxophone, bassclarinet. Margarita HOLZBAUER, cello. Harald LILLMEYER, electric guitar. Udo Schindler studied flute on conservatory and architecture on university. starting as guitarist + saxplayer with rock and rockjazz. after moving to munich, performing free jazz, experimental and improvised music, Neue Musik, compositions for stage- and radio-play, lyric-publi…
Gold
Magda Mayas, piano. Tony Buck, percussion. Recorded 21st December 2007. Magda Mayas is a pianist and curator currently based in Berlin, Germany. Mayas studied jazz and improvisation at Universität der Künste, Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2001 under Misha Mengelberg and completed a diploma at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler under Georg Graewe in 2005. During this time she began developing a specific set of techniques for inside-piano performance. Mayas has concentrated her musical investigat…
between love and hate
an awesome debut by Luca Mari, the I/O band guitarist: elaborate doomy guitar-themed minimalism-drones, with quiet electro-acoustic pieces atmospheres and some abstract digitalia. As said, it's awesome!Luca Mauri, attuale chitarrista degli I/o e polistrumentista dei Two Dead Bodies, già batterista dei Kokoro Mayikibo e detentore dei progetti personali a nome 00 e Looke, è giunto pienamente alla carriera solista con il suo album di debutto, “Between Love And Hate”, per chitarra, piatti e editing …
Fabrikraum
Sound design recorded at National Sculpture Factory, Cork November 2007. Mark O'Leary was born in Cork City Ireland. Being mainly auto didactic on guitar he moved to Los Angeles at the age of 17 to study at Musicians Institute,from where he later graduated. He has presented his music in 29 countries and has played at some of the worlds top Jazz festivals and contemporary Jazz venues.
Habitat
Maximilian Marcoll, electronics. Hannes Galette Seidl, electronics. The piece 'Ian W. Coel' is built around the video installation 'MSTM Wall' (Short Time Memory Wall) by british media artist Ian W. Coel (*1952) from 1988. 'STM Wall&rduo' is a video wall, equiped with cameras and set up in a public space, taking pictures of its surrounding in front and behind the wall and displaying these pictures on its video screens. Newer pictures are drawn on top of older ones, which are still visible. So, o…
Alle Neune : Rheinländer Partie
Martin Küchen: prepared and non prepared alto saxophone. David Stackens: guitar, low-budget electronics. Recorded at Fylkingen, Stockholm by Andreas Berthling, 16th of May 2004. Mastered by Andreas Berthling, David Stackens and Martin Küchen.
Pollen
Recorded on 20/21 December 2006 and 2 January 2007 at Studio Z, Berlin
Jason KHAN, Utah KAWASAKI, Ailack
Tetuzi Akyiama: tape delayed electric guitar ; Jason Kahn: analogue synthesizer, percussion ; Utah Kawasaki: dismanteled roland synthesizer, cell phone. Recorded on 22 April 2004, Tokyo, Japan. 'No less than six new releases on the Creative Sources label, placing the label right in the centre of improvised music. East meets west on the disc of Tetuzi Akiyama (tape-delayed electric guitar), Jason Kahn (analogue synthesizer and percussion) and Utah Kawasaki (dismantled roland synthesizer and cell …
7x4x7
Alessandro Bosetti: soprano sax. Michael Thieke: clarinet. Sabine Vogel: flute. Michael Griener: percussion. Recorded 9/2/2003 by Ronny Trocker at studio P4, Berlin. 'Space as a musical parameter is something that has long been neglected in recordings of acoustic improvised music. Since, dynamic, attack, sound-color, rythm and duration are commonly regarded as the elements that constitute and give form to what you find in such a recording, the feeling and the use of space has been seldom fully c…
Amber
Rhodri Davies : harp. Robin Hayward : tuba. Julia Eckhardt : viola. Lucio Capecce : soprano saxophone, bass clarinet. Recorded on April 2004 in Berlin.
A constant migration (between reality and fiction)
The last release might be a bit of a surprise, since Adriano Zanni, also known as Punck, is not exactly the man I would expect on this all improvisation label. So far his releases were all stuck in the microsound corner, but perhaps he's opening new territories. Zanni uses laptop, field recordings, found sound and sampling to create his music. It proofs indeed to be the odd ball of this batch of his releases, even when the first track sound like an improvised affair. Zanni finely waves field rec…