LEZET’S "MELD" SERIES

LEZET-MELD(Sept2007),released with B&R RECORDS (USA)
Lezet's new album "MELD" is a set of collaborations and remixes with artists from various countries and of various collaborative styles.The album is released with "B&R Records"(USA) as a free mp3 download album.The link: http://www.brrecords.com/meld.htm
the collaborators:
feeel (USA) FEEL is an evolving, growing, learning, and member-changing experimental/noise/rawking/freeform music group from Northern California, USA. we layer and jam freely........featuring guitar, bass, trumpet, synth, flute, percussion, keyboard, voice, and all kinds of stuff - including other instruments and things that probably shouldn't ever be used in the way we use them/mold them/etc...... www.brrecords.com
ZMA (Serbia) Belgrade's finest metal drummer, currently working with "Draconic" and "Consecration" has a Lezetish side to his solo work (or Lezet has a Zma-ish side to his work).His "Zma" efforts will hopefully be released with an independent label sometimes somewhere.
TRACY LEE SUMMERS (France) when flowers overgrown with wretched microphone starts to miaow something about prog/ambientism-avantgarde/rock in opposition, digital-field-electro and pataphysical rythms**** influences:some artists from: apestaartje, progressive form, ante-zen, warp, type, textile, domino, island, adozen.org, arbouzerecordings, thrill jocket, laboratory instinct, leaf, multicolor, chemikal underground, intr version, constellation, skam, lex, mush, !k7, nonplace, tigersushi, dsa, compost, city slang, mental groove, touch, kranky, reflex, mute, anti, rhymesayers, fat-cat, mego, ninja tune, alien 8, anticon, def jux, load, merge, roir, chronowax, hymen, active suspension, 75ark, plug research, scape, schematic, op.disc, goom, bip hop, kioon records, rune grammofon, raster noton, sub rosa, for 4 ears, mosz, b pitch control, kompact, wavetrap, elektra, too pure, quatermass, chocolate industries, rump-recordings, clapping music, mo wax, dirty loop, big dada, stones throw, logistic, acuareladiscos.. & Guérasim Luca Website :leuropeparisien.free.fr
BIOMUSE (England/Italy) At the beginning of 1995 roman duo stefano curti and mauro ruvolo awoke a ferocious beast that would become known the world over as bio muse. After being picked up by Tony Thorpe’s acclaimed Language imprint they proceeded to release their debut album “Wrong”, hailed as a “startling debut of growling, fucked-up feedback dementia from the brilliant Italian low-end extremists” by i-D magazine. With further rave reviews from NME, Muzik and Mixmag, it became clear the beast was here to stay. The impeccable production skills showcased on their landmark debut also helped establish them as prolific remixers throughout the tail end of the 90’s, only finding time to develop compilation tracks at the request of luminaries like Kevin Martin. In early 2000 the beast was put back to bed as stefano embarked on a new project distributing experimental cinema and video art (www.rarovideo.com) and mauro immersed himself in scoring films, studying jazz guitar and fine tuning various audio restoration projects including Andy Warhol’s “Vinyl” and “The Velvet Underground and Nico”. In 2003 the beast came calling again and the pair started writing new material, this time with new blood in the shape of Nina Walsh. The experimental electronica label boss of Sabrettes and guitarist/vocalist and writer with “Slab” can be found singing on the new “Two Lone Swordsmen” album or taming the machines in her studio finishing her debut solo album. The result of this collaboration is a bass-heavy, rip snorting two track 7” that is sure to scare all but the most hardened experimentalists. It’s a full on attack of the eardrums, from Occasionally in a Way’s gut churning bass line to the relentless feedback screams of Tacky Piranha, this is truly a record you’ll either love or hate, but those who love it will f*cking worship it! This grisly package also includes a DVD featuring the videos of the vinyl tracks, composed of footage taken from director Paolo Gioli's old films - stitched together in pure analogue fashion. There is also a bonus nasty Sporanex, a filthy slice of twisted metal, dominated by Nina’s distinctive vocal and who’s video contains exclusive footage shot during the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa. Gioli and Bio Muse met by coincidence and the relationship was formed when by mistake Stefano brought some of Gioli's film works in to the studio while the band were recording a track and immediately they recognised an interaction between the music and images. Although Gioli's a 60 year old who usually listens to classical music, he surprisingly liked what Bio Muse were doing and commissioned them to write the soundtrack for a new 20 minute short movie of his based on the animation of some Marilyn Monroe rare photographs. With an album scheduled for release early next year expect some more “electronic adventures of the seriously twisted kind…” “…combine the fury of Aphex with a twisted funk-rock jam. Trip-hop’s answer to Led Zep” (NME) “Takes the concept of metal-funk to ultra-intense extremes… more demanding than a Baader-Meinhof ransom note” (MUZIK) “S eriously twisted… hypnotic in an ugly kind of way, a bit like the way you can’t tear your eyes away from a serious accident” (MIXMAG) "occasionally in a way" and "tacky piranha" video's have been made using no computer or digital filming - all 100% pure anolog productions). website: www.biom-use.com/
DR PLEASE AKA TIGERTIGER UPPERCUT(USA) http://www.myspace.com/tigertigeruppercutband
CONTROL ONE REMOTE *(USA) In early 2004 this project was conceived by guitarist/bassist Joel Osborne. Combining material he had written over the past 3 years the skeletal structure of these songs sparked life. Joseph Hopkins was recruited to add sonic corrosion and atmospheres to the already distorted melodic structuring. "Project001" was complete later that year and is to date the only Control One Remote offering but 2006 may hold new visits to this dissonant plain of awareness. New material is in production for 2007 demo. http://www.myspace.com/controloneremote
ENIGMATIKO (Brasil) a guy setting standards in South American hiphop.Visit him at myspace or google him.
IGORRR(France) an amazing,eclectic ensemble drawing upon jazz, classical music (treating baroque a bit burlesque in particular), native American music, and French tango music.Please visit them at: http://www.myspace.com/eumolpe www.igorrr-music.com
LARVA 108 (Italy) ]--Honestly, I do music for myself... especially I need a soundtrack for my evenings, when I'm alone, sad and drunk a bit. I try to do the right music for that kind of night. 108 = visual art, LARVA = "music". Born in Alessandria (north west of Italy). As 108 I started to do "public art" in the end of the 90's (after years of classic graffiti and other stuff) and I put my stuff everywhere around the planet, from my town Alessandria to Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Reykiavik, Zaragoza, Barcelona, Palermo, London, Munich, New York, San Francisco, Turkey, Switzerland, New Zeland, ecc... Some 108 art exhibitions: 2006, Genova (eves 2006) 2006 Zaragoza (Segundo Asalto - En la frontera) 2006 Milano - (Spazio Xpo') 2005, Milano (Urban Edge Show) 2005, Washington (Street art show) 2004, Paris (Nusign 2.4) 2003, UK (Leeds) 2003, Modena (Icone) 2003, Milano (Hiu)......... LARVA is noise made for myself expecially (as for the art), anyway check the infos elsewhere... homepage: www.myspace.com/larvario
+THROUROOF (Lezet's favourite Italian collaborator)-we'll pursue our collaborative work further on, my friend!!!!!! www.myspace.com/throuroof
LEZET-MELD2 (August2008),released with AUDIO TONG (Poland)[tng1043]word on the release from the AUDIO TONG label site: "Lezet is one-man experimental project from Serbia. He has released quite an impressive bunch of recordings on various netlabels and we are happy to have him here in our catalogue as well. "Meld2" was conceived as a set of experimental collaborative pieces with artists from different countries and of somewhat different avantgarde sensibilities."Conversing in The Universal Language - says Lezet - gave birth to this EP and the stretching itself was a reward.Lezet was able to learn and grow from his fellow comrades as he progressed with this EP." This is the second part of Lezet's collaborative project in which he explores various techniques and possibilities of interactions and collaborations between artists usually not working physically together. The music is a mixture of avant-garde,electroacoustic, jazz, world music etc. At some points it sounds like improv, at other it reminds of contemporary academic pieces. Intriguing and intelligent, demanding lots of attention from the listener but rewarding with its quality. Great stuff, listen to it on a good sound system to get as much from this music as possible."
tracklist: 1. Lezet + Isaac De La Concha - Gulliver's Travails 2
2. Ensemble Phase 3 + Lezet - Nexus (excerpt)
3. Leo Alves Vieira + Lezet - Chain Reaction
4. John Colin Conass + Jimmy Bandit + Manji + Lezet - L'urgence d'un rechange de couac
5. F! + Lezet - An Adonis (Alternative Piano Take)
artwork by Vojkan Nedeljkovic
Here is some info concerning the authors/ensembles/bands that have collaborated with Lezet on "Meld2": fellow contributors and co-authors:
I ISAAC DE LA CONCHA -Ciudad de México, DF,Mexico
Composer, Improviser and Music Teacher. (Mexico City, DF, 1971). ____________________________________________________________ __ Keyboard improvisation: I had represented all kind of emotions and imitated my imagination movements with the keyboard free improvisation. Through the improvisation I found my own voice and left the copy my favorites composers and improvisers methods. ____________________________________________________________ __ He studied piano and guitar with private teachers. Took composition classes with Julio Estrada in Escuela Nacional de Música, ENM-UNAM, and obtained the composer license. He took composition courses with François Bernard Mache, Patrick Butin, Tristan Murail and Stefano Scodanibbio. He has been searching the improvisation with the midi keyboard, guitar, flute and percussions with a creative objetive. Taught music in kindergarden, primary school, secundary school, high school, and university. He has been improvising with another musicians in ENM, CNA and Pasagüero..s Bar in México City. He..s member of the improvisation group Generación Espontánea. Your work was performed at Mexico City and Ensenada, transmited for radio in Barcelona Spain, and sound everyday in MySpace. ____________________________________________________________ __ Mainly Keyboard Improvisations: El leopardo, 2001; La rubia, 2002; Recuerdos de en el camino de Jack Kerouac, 2003; Improvisación para percusiones electrónicas, 2003; Varadero, 2004; Sueños, 2004; Caminos, 2004; DF, 2005; Italia, 2007. influences:Julio Estrada, Iannis Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Keith Jarret, Jimi Hendrix y Ravi Shankar
http://www.myspace.com/isaacdelaconcha2 laimprovisacinmusical.blogspot.com/
II ENSEMBLE PHASE DREI -Leipzig, Germany
The Ensemble Phase 3 devotes itself to the performance of intuitive music. Common intersection of three musicians of the ensemble phase three is the composition lessons with professor Bernd Franke. Here the idea originated to just such project. It was realized for the first time for the opening of the exhibit "dot comma line" in the gallery stair work Leipzig. Other appearances followed with the Veranstaltung " concert and reading in the Krochhochhaus " as well as in the German literature institute of Leipzig. E.P.3 are: Christoph Beyer, Horn Frank Hilpert, Elektronik Torsten Krause, Klavier
www.phase-drei.com http://myspace.com/phasedrei
III LEO ALVES VIEIRA-Rio de Janeiro ,Brazil
influences and musicians that he admires: Gyorgy Ligeti, Pixinguinha, Chico Buarque de Holanda, Penderecki, Zbigniew Preisner, Villa-Lobos, Edgard Varèse, Tom Jobim, Stockhausen, Steve Reich, John Cage, Phillip Glass, Cartola, Nelson Cavaquinho, Vivaldi, Aphex Twin, Rodolfo Caesar, Marisa Rezende, Alexandre Shubert, Yahn Wagner, Paulo Dantas, Marcos Campello, Olavo Vianna and Victor Neves (Paralax), Marco Vinício Nogueira, Genesis, Mario Travassos, Led Zeppelin, Cynic, Ismael Silva, Noel Rosa, Friendly Bears, Elma, Mr. Bungle, Brahms and Beethoven, Henry Threadgill, Nicky Skopelitis, Eric Satie
Leo Alves Vieira (biography): Brazilian, born in February 13th, 1978, at Rio de Janeiro, Leo Alves Vieira's parents both had musical experience. Portuguese father, Diniz, used to play the violin in a priest school orchestra in Portugal, and Brazilian mother, Lucia, used to play the acoustic guitar and sing along with her friends, a successful Brazilian group called "Clube da Esquina", that recorded their first record with Milton Nascimento on vocals. She gave up her instrument to the MPB guitar player Francisco Horta, at that time a political prisoner of Brazilian dictatorship. Leo's grandfather, Mario Alves de Souza Vieira, father of Lucia, was killed by that dictatorship, tortured (impaled) to death. It seems that his revolutionary grandfather's blood runs in his veins. His musical energy is filled with struggles to musical patterns of all sorts, especially the so-called avant-garde academic scene around the western musical world... Though his influences relates to various avant-garde composers, as well as popular Brazilian and worldwide 'folk' traditions, Leo Alves Vieira tried to develop a intuitional composition process that flows equally between rational and emotional boundaries. He began his musical instruction in primary school at Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil along this school's choir, conducted by Hermano Vianna. Since then, he has had acoustic and electric guitar lessons with teachers from Rio and São Paulo as well (when he lived there from 1988 to 1992). In 1994, he entered a full musical education at the Rio de Janeiro State Conservatory, that included Classical Guitar lessons, Traditional and Functional Harmony. After a 2 year period in Philosophy unfinished graduation (1998-2000) at the Brazilian Federal University (UFRJ), he entered the Composition Graduation Course at the same institution (2001) where he continues his studies and also works as a researcher. His first professional artistic work was a musical score composed for a short movie called "O Fantasma do Theatro Municipal" written and directed by Luis Carlos Lacerda (1994). After some rock bands demo-tapes recorded, and a CD from band called GORE, shows an etc, he began a steady career into composing, signing musical directions, conducting and eventually playing for theater and short movies scores. Composing for theatre has given Vieira a great opportunity to study and establish a new musical language research within this medium. The organicity between the text, especially the ones written for children, and music is always the goal, without transforming the musical score primary to the theatrical performance, as it happens in musicals or plays for children, where 'all of the sudden' everything (named, the dramatical flow of the theatrical text) stops so that the music comes in and so forth. The compositional writing process developed by Leo at the academia scenario has the objective to filtrate the historical composing techniques into a personal writing style that blends the 'music for concerto' expression with the other media ways of listening and expressing music such as electroacoustic, jazz, traditional (popular) and rock/pop music. Using the standard instrumental formations of the 'music for concerto', chamber, orchestra or solo, this blending effect is a result not only of exploring new gestures (execution and feeling), taken from these other musical genres, but also from literally mixing up pre-recorded chamber sounds (electronically altered or not), for instance, with electroacoustic fabrics. Or even the other way round where we have electroacoustic timbres played live, in a chamber concerto format. In this case, either acoustic instruments altered in real-time or MIDI / Plugged electronic instruments are used. That was done by the time of his debut as a composer at the XV Biennial of Brazilian Contemporary Music, 2003, with the piece "Estilhaços-Constante Volta ao Indeterminado" (2002) for acoustic and electronic instruments, played by electroacoustic orchestra OFELEX. Another musical aspect has a very important role in Leo's music making and experimentations: rhythm. Polyrhythmical grids, exploring different rhythmical accents and variations, and, above them all, bringing some Brazilian feel to this so European influenced format that is the 'music for concerto', are among of the best results Leo Alves Vieira's music has achieved. Leo Alves Vieira's debut solo album "Sounds of the Orange Coloured Forest" was released September 2006 by Brooklyn, NY based Pralaya Records, and brings mostly his electroacoustic work between 2003 / 2006, which pairs chamber music and Brazilian rhythms. Some of the 11 pieces of this album has been featured in festivals, concerts and several radio shows around the globe, focused on electroacoustic music or even rock/pop music. Leo Alves' interest in video and image manipulation began in 1994, when he started composing for short-movies, in Lacerda's film "O Fantasma do Theatro Municipal". Until he had his own little digital camera, he did several experimentations with VHS, besides working as a producer in some other short-movies too, all of them shown at cinemas and movie clubs. He also studied acting with great Brazilian movie and theatrical play directors such as Moacir Chaves, Marcus Vinicius Faustini and Carlos Augusto Nazareth. Such experimentations involved collages and real time documentation on day-by-day living of anonymous normal people from the streets of Niterói, São Paulo, São Tomé das Letras (Minas Gerais) and Rio de Janeiro. The documentary aspect was always influenced by the ideas of Brazilian movie director Arnaldo Jabor, and his documentary technique in the '60s (by the time of Cinema Novo movement) called Cinema Verdade ("Truthful Cinema"). Nowadays, Leo Alves Vieira's production is focused on digital means of filming, especially, the exploration of light and texture on cheap digital equipment, which can result in many interesting effects one almost cannot capture on hi-tech sources. The editing work would either not interfere on these capturing effects or would enhance it creativity, seeking always a great variety of tasteful plasticity and form structure. Subjects are still connected to routine actions, only now we have other than people as players/actors (always anonymous, non-professionals), objects and places. His last video project was done with assistance and music of several great fretless guitar players around the globe, "Kronosonic Spheres". It's a collection of great fretless and microtonal works and a video installation, a philosophical research over the main theme that surrounds and structures the whole 13 video pieces: "The Elements of Reality". These 'elements' are, in sequence: Fire / Air / Mutation / Speed / Work / Addiction / Obsession / Unknown / Consciousness / Truth / Death / Silence. The video installation features the musical works of Dan Stearns, Marco Oppedisano, 3 Pups Music (Newbie Brad & Pantha), Chris Shaeffer, Vincent Bergeron, The Carousel Painter, Sonic Deviant, Leo Alves Vieira and has just received an offer to be shown at museums and video clubs from Washington DC and Nashville, Tennessee. Recently, a video piece has been commissioned to Leo Alves Vieira, over a musical work of his debut solo electroacoustic album "Sounds of the Orange Coloured Forest" and will be screened at Bydgoszcz, Poland. Beside all his musical career as composer, conductor, instrumentalist (acoustic guitar, clarinet, flute, percussion), and video maker, Leo Alves Vieira makes his day-by-day living teaching acoustic guitar to young children up to 17 years old at local schools. Recently he became involved with a non-profit project at the poor community of Grota do Surucucu (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro). In that internationally accomplished enterprise he's responsible for teaching composition, harmony, counterpoint and instrumental arrangements to poor young wood house community inhabitants.
zebox.com/leoalvesvieira http://www.myspace.com/leoalvesvieira
IV COLIN JOHN CONASS -Paris, France
about johnco: member of courtaud, larmes magnétiques, moukabarô, lem preo, the starpocks, love tracy, leo lenzio. He likes pink clothes........ He 's looking at the data machine............ He can't explain why.... Discography: 2007 : La véritable histoire de CJC : L'architecture du casque V et VI (avec Hopen & Dorian Danielsen) 2006 : L'architecture du casque BOX (november) : L'architecture du casque IV (november) : Ed Rolll (november) : Antique solution to coco presto (august) : Conass motel (april) : L'architecture du casque III (march) : L'architecture du casque II (march) : Nu (janvier) 2005 : Effroissé (december) : Tracy Lee Summers (december) : Mo..ion (november) : The end of the second trial theme (september) : L'architecture du casque (october
http://leuropeparisien.free.fr http://www.myspace.com/leepcolinjohnconass http://john-conass.blogspot.com
V F! -Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,United States
The music of F! pulls from influences around the world. From classical composers such as Bartok and Grieg, to Italian Opera, Parisian Polka, Balkan or Klezmer music. F! paints an atmosphere akin to a Fellini film or a Man Ray dream - the ultimate cartoon score for high society. Music for the villain. Nostalgic God Jazz. F! is: Nicky Cardillo-- upright bass Elliott Hasiuk -- drums, percussion David Romberg -- percussion, projections Justin Berger-- guitar Nick Lerman -- guitar Shinjoo Cho -- accordian, piano
http://www.myspace.com/fmusic
you can download the whole album in flac and mp3 formats at:http://audiotong.net/cmsms/index.php?page=tng1043 or at: http://www.archive.org/details/tng1043
LEZET-"MELD3"(NOV2008);released with COLIN JOHNCO RECORDS (Paris,France).
"Meld3" is the third in a series of Lezet's albums of collaborations with various innovative musicians/bands/ensembles around the globe.It showcases tracks distinctly electronic in their making and adventurous in their design. The list of collaborators on "Meld3" (in order of appearance):
1 HOM (Northampton, Midlands,United Kingdom) When Tom Dinsdale's HOM debut album was released through HEADPHONICA RECORDS,I doubt he thought of being a constant source of inspiration to all the open-minded musicians around the world.If you ever asked yourself what was the next big thing out there that should have become a part of the NINJA TUNE or WARP catalogue, the answer is "HOM!".Formative influences include:Four Tet Jaga Jazzist,Tom Waits,Einsturzende Neubauten,Bjork,Boards Of Canada,Miles Davis,John Cage,The Mars Volta,Phillip Glass,Pharoh Sanders,Masada,Cabaret Voltaire,Depeche Mode,Bauhaus,Faust... http://www.myspace.com/homsound the link to HOM's debut: http://headphonica.net/?contend=releasemore&id=hpcd024
2 CHRIST PHYR BLYR aka CHRISTOPHER BYLER aka ON THE RIM OF THE WHEEL A NAIL aka INDUSTRY RIVALS (?,The United States of America)-one of the most innovative composers and movie-makers Lezer ever came across in his pursuit of collaborators.Images and sounds speak louder than words: http://soundclick.com/christopherbyler http://music.download.com/christphyrblyrendfrnds http://abdicatecell.net/index.php?option=com_content&tas k=view&id=85&Itemid=29 http://www.bleepwatch.com/2007/04/08/p012-christ-phyr-blyr-g utta-percha/ http://www.deepwhitesound.com/three/index.html http://proc-records.net/
3 NEUBAU (Niederösterreich ,Austria) ... born 1978 in Austria ... composing since the age of 12, fascinated by algorithmic composing that time and ever since then, playing whatever produces sound waves in some improvisational projects. Doing tape music. ... evermore into electronic music and the implementation of scientific models in composition. ...generally more interested in processes than outcomes - and simultaneously in the outcome, that causes process... ...sounds/unsounds of nature and the sounds/unsounds i have in mind when being amidst impressive sceneries. Silence. ...And concepts and methods in life sciences: selforganisation, microscopy, chemical analysis, evolutionary models, molecular biology etc. ..trying to grow in being influenced, so: to be continued. "I am a sound artist, with and without instruments, with and without teachers, other musicians, microphones, scores. Placements, settings and developments of sounds that just seem to happen, to occur without compositional intentions fascinated me ever since. The focus of my actual works is the implementation of scientific models and ideas into music. Not just to translate them: hopefully to dance them through sounds, to let them shine through. As well i am very interested in sounds as a source and an end of visual impressions. so my projects lead to collaborations with visual artists and film producers." http://www.arnosteinacher.com/ http://www.myspace.com/rymdmyr
4 SINK (Fremantle,Australia) influences:classical music, grunge, heavy rock, the music on old role playing games of the super nintendo, the urge to be original, life and it’s dealings. Those who are original inspire. Biography of Brief: The land is grey with the tiring of growth and melodic descents are in complete order. The sequence to land and the sky to graze, sandlings flitter (flitter) flap and crap. Strappy and strong the spoonbills raise their cheeks, songs of glitter and eloquence. Cry and complain, lace and demane, our truly heart reason be weavels. Weavels to bleed, mosquitos to suck and cranberries to juice for the purification. So slap on your goiter and rip out the cheese, wine for the diners and mold for the weeds. Spat at and caught for; a dinner for two, rand and rand and mullah and dime. Call the birds, tweet, tweet, tweet. Scaring the angular cloud dispersements into a flipping frenzy of grief, and question. Question the ground you walk on, nothing is certain. Constantly changing belief and erroneous spacey blossom tips from friends so friendly as to deceive. Be mindful of this but, remember to... breathe, and breathing means smiling. A happy life of balanced worry and discontentment, but positively certain the scale can be set and reached. Love the pixies and fae creatures bounding, lounging. Play with the mites of magicks and create your whirlpools of desires. Living this time for now, this effervescent love is lore and law. Please.. me? I’m breathing fairy gold dust and it makes my nose blacken, blackened. Just breathe.. (yet another rambling about breathing) =) - Matt www.sinkband.com http://www.myspace.com/sinktheband
5 ME RAABENSTEIN (Berlin,Germany) Having a filmmakers and painters background, me raabenstein investigates in overlaping structures and the lamination of inappropiate ingredients. constituted with impatience and intrusiveness the process of producing asks for constant conversion and unsung modus operandi. the unconsciousness is often recalled as a perfect working method of artists from this genre, materialising and structuring voids to be freed and filled with advanced and cutting edged content. analysing different layers of proceeding structures, me guides his musical textures towards an adulteration of unaccustomed sonances, cluttering cacophanys and rhytmic paragon. www.nonine.com http://www.myspace.com/meraabenstein
6 J EDGAR COOKIE (OMAHA, Nebraska,The United States) aka DOWHOWER.Influences:Rhea Dee, Louis Andriessen, Johnny Cash, Humphrey Searle, Bernard Herrmann, Alexander Courage, Dominic Frontiere, Steppenwolf, Black Sabbath, Grand Funk Railroad, Ennio Morricone, Jimi Hendrix, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Yes, Frank Zappa, John McLaughlin, Wendy Carlos, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Sidney Bechet, Blind Lemmon Jefferson, Thelonious Monk, All the Modal Counterpoint Masters, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Arnold Schoenberg, Bela Bartok, Anton Webern, John Cage, Elliot Carter, John Coltrane, Anthony Braxton, George Crumb, Peter Maxwell Davies, Gustav Mahler, Ella Fitzgerald, Ruth Crawford Seeger. http://www.myspace.com/jedgarcookie
7 TRAKUR(Botoš,Vojvodina,Serbia) Trakur is Bojan Dojkic's brainchild.This one-man experimental gem transcends and outgrows individual genres.The work he put out so far is amazing, innovative,visceral,energetic,unique.Check TRAKUR out at: http://www.myspace.com/trakur
8 ER SELBST (Germany) "er selbst" is a reflexive pronoun for the 3rd person singular, maskulinum in german. er selbst refers to himself absolutly and totally, but doen's mean anything else then this. the sounds that seem to come from er selbst do not belong to music or art or whatever - they just belong to themselves. if you'd like to know more about "er selbst" just google it or go straight to headphonica.net and download the stuff itself.
9 BLANK DISC (Zrenjanin,Vojvodina,Serbia) BLANK DISC are Srdan Muc (1965; guitar) and Robert Roža (1972; no-input electronics, objects), from Zrenjanin (Vojvodina, Serbia) founded in 1997. Active in the field of free improvisation, and also electronic/electroacoustic experimental music. Take part in some international “new music” festivals: RING RING-Beograd (1999, 2000, 2001 & 2005) ALTERNATIVA festival-Prague (2001) EX EU festival-Vienna (2001) EXIT festival with Erik Satie Vexation Project-Novi Sad (2006) Workshops: Kazuhisa Uchihashi-Japan (1999) Otomo Yoshihide-Japan (2000) George Cremashi, Matthew Ostrovsky-USA (2005) Swiss-Balkan Creative Music I & II-Switzerland (2007, 2008) In 2006 founded BLANKDISC TRIO with German saxophon player Georg Wissel. From 2007 collaboration with Zoran Mirkovic. Works, performing with: Rascep, Aleksandar Jecmenica, Svetlana Spajic, Andrej Gigic, Milan Aleksic, Pascal Baltazar, Georg Wissel, Zoran Mirkovic, Jonas Kocher, Benoît Moreau, John Menoud, Anne Gillot, Laurent Bruttin, Dragos Tara,Nikola Radenovic, Stefan Kovacevic, Richard Brinka, Bojan Dojkic, Nhandan Chirco, Branko Popovic DISCOGRAPHY: BLANK DISC edition: I (CD 1998) II (CD 1999) III, IV (CD’s 2000) V, VI, VII (CD’s 2001) VIII, IX (CD’s 2002) X (CD 2003) XI (CD 2005) XII (CD 2006) Acoustics By Zoran Mirkovic (CD 2008) On compilation: "ExEu-Tended Rope" (CD Salon Elise, Austria 2003) “New music from Central & Eastern Europe Vol.2 - Breath:Deep” (CD Tamizdat, US 2000) "Compilation" soundtrack-background music for Vladan Nikolic's exhibition (CD La Bobine-Grenoble, France 2006) "Postindustrial Changes" (CD Downtown rec., Slovenia 2008) As BLANKDISC TRIO: “im KomikerLand” ( CD Nurnichtnur, Germany 2007) “Live @ Klupce” (netlabel Otompotom, Serbia 2008) Some links: www.tamizdat.org http://www.skug.at/index.php?page=6&limit=50&List_ID =14 http://www.jazzword.com/reviews/102769 http://spazioinwind.libero.it/extremes/touchinghome.htm http://balkanimprov.addlimb.org/pages/artists/groups/Blank_D isc.html http://otompotom.addlimb.org/pages/releases/BDTrio_-_Live_at _Klupce.html www.fluxeuropa.com/exeu-tended_rope.htm http://www.myspace.com/duoblankdisc
10 NOAH ROTT (Hamburg,Hamburg,Germany)- a 17-year old jazzzz wizzzz who put out one of the most impressive debut releases I've ever stumbled upon.Drawing upon jazz,lounge and a multitude of other electronic genres and approaches, his work is both pleasing the inner ear and engaging the listener. WWW.noahrott.de.vu http://www.myspace.com/noahrott SUPERSMILE - by Noah Rott: http://www.headphonica.net/?contend=releasemore&id=hpcd0 28
11 PLAN KOREN IZ 9 (Belgrade,Serbia) "Srpski: U ovom formatu drndaju od kraja 2006. Trenutno su svi punoleetnii. Ako nekoo ima neshto da doda nek kazhEe: Iz ove poljoprivredne stanice apeluju da proizvodjachi treba da zatvore sve brazde, ... plan nije ostvaren jer je od predvidjenih 9.000 hektara slatki koren ... English: 3 18year old geeks doing something like music" band members:Jovgen(gitara)Simbad(klavijatura/bas)Krsto(kompjuter /takoto) influences:mike patton,tricky, massive attack,mountain men anonymous, portishead, epic45,residents,pat metheny, morphine, sigur ros, dose one, aesop rock, low,tuxedomoon,16horsepower,mogwai,air,ministry,65dos,boc,mi sphits,slowdive,ramones,autechre,stranglers, bauhaus,klaxons,fearfactory,the fog, seefeel,absent without leave,simon & garfunkel,slowblow... iii red:vis idoli, sharlo akrobata, obojeni program,darkwood dub,goribor,block out, bjesovi, vuneny,boje,damir avdic igre:fallout1,2,abes odyssey/exodus,rayman,american mcgees alice,simcity3000 izuzetni soundtrackovi.. zx spectrum!! dalje:neki filmovi i tresh svake vrste http://www.myspace.com/plankoreniz9
12 PROTECIOUS (Perigord/Morningsdale,Ohio,The United States) "Say what you will about my art, that's fine, but you will never say that it isnt unique or that it isnt original or that I didnt take a long time making things, because I did take endless hours of work making art, very proudly, very passionatly and the only insult I give myself is the day I make art or music for the wrong reasons, my reasons have always been and always will be encouragment, optimism, creativity, imagination, motivation, originality, and dedication to art like the artist that I am... I dont seek to be mozart, beethoven, I dont want to be famous or on television, I have always just been Protecious, and that puts a smile on my face... now what about you? are you doing what you were meant to do? are you doing with your talents what you were meant to do? im not judging, im just encouraging, put the video games away, dont get drunk another night, when you are 75 years old dont you want to look back and see all you left behind and made and did, or do you want to look back and remember defeating people in video games, or getting trashed every night?...your choice..." www.myspace.com/protecious
13 LITMUS0001 (Madison, Wisconsin,The United States) Jonathan Ewald's (LITMUS0001)words:"Litmus0001 grew up in a small town in the 216, but now it's the 330. When he turned 18, he went to the 513 to learn how life works. He also helped invent/mimic shoegazer in the band Sinker, which somehow still gets press there once in a while. 4 yr later, he went to the 615 to continue his study of how life works at a much finer, more detailed level. Additionally he began his study of how to channel emotion by spontaneous expressionist/impressionist sonic surrender using various modes and methods in the bands Electric Mayhem, Local Anesthetic, Waywards Legs, and Simple Circuits. He was also a contributing member of the Kirkwood Arts and Social Collective and it's semi-official Ensemble Chamber Orchestra. In 2001, he moved to the 509 to develop new ways of looking at how life works, paying attention to everything all at once without knowing what you're looking it, describing it all with a limited-variable equation. Unfortunately, he really wanted to be in the 206 and the 503 during this time. It was here, in the desolate high desert rain shaddow of Mt Adams, Mt Ranier and Mt Stuart that litmus0001 developed in earnest as a method to combat crippling depression and near-terminal psychosis. In 2004, he returned east, this time landing in the 608, to figure out how life goes haywire in that thing called cancer, and how to drug this haywire so it goes quiet and benign. Here, he has also further developed his spontaneous transitory expressionist/impressionist sub-mental channeling methods to chisel sonic sculptures and soundscapes out of thin air. He continues to perform these experiments in self-imposed isolation in the presence of select audiences. ***************** He is married, and has two dogs that he communicates with empathically; they are his familiars. *********** All litmus0001 music is absolutely free. Just like you should be, think you are, but probably aren't. For me, the creative process is cathartic. I have to have my mind in the right place when I consider performing and while I am performing. The process is meditative. Ideally, the mind is blank, open only to the immediate, thoughtfully considering the present situation and potential optional ideas to pursue from that time forward. A tentative step is taken in that direction, and either it catches or it does not. Either it catches an d is pursued, or it is developed further into a theme or a direction, whether it be melodic or textural." WWW.geocities.com/litmus0001 http://www.myspace.com/litmus0001music
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