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Dirk Serries Newsletter May 2011 1. Dirk Serries - Microphonics May/June tour with MONO In the light of preparing himself to perfection for his long-awaited 2nd studio album, Dirk Serries continues to tour this year with his project of sheer minimalism. After a series of scattered concerts here and there, incl. a late-night slot at the Polish Asymmetry Festival, we're extremely proud to announce that Microphonics is the official support for the renowned Japanese Mono on their European (mainland) tour. This is the complete tour, hope to see you out there ! May 24th - Feierwerk, München/Germany Watch the tour trailer, courtesy of Ronald Mariën here We will also update our website regular with concertimpressions, tourphotos and stories from on the road, so bookmark www.dirkserries.com if you want to keep yourself updated. 2. Dirk Serries - Microphonics XIX (one-sided lp, Tonefloat) In tie with the upcoming European tour, Tonefloat is releasing the fourth and penultimate intallment of the series of live albums that mark the journey from Dirk Serries' 2008 Microphonics debut and its follow-up that is slated for 2012/2013. Microphonics XIX was recorded on the final night of a tour with N at Mex/Künstlerhaus, Dortmund, on December 11, 2011. Microphonics XIX is issued in three editions of golden, white and silver vinyl, limited to 100 copies each. Available to pre-order from the Tonefloat store. Due to a technical failure at the pressing plant, we still hope to have the new album available at the upcoming concerts from May 24th on but only if the express courier service succeeds to deliver the goods on time. It's currently beyond our control. Listen to an excerpt from this live performance here Manikin News May 23, 2011 Hello, A lot of our CDs are now available for download via CDBaby, Musiczeit, Amazon MP3, ITunes etc. Some not physical continued CDs are available for download too. Please fellow the actual list on www.manikin.de . More titles will be added soon. New CD(R)s are Broekhuis, Keller & Schönwälder - Musique des machines (a rerelease of on private CDR edition full with 68 minutes sequencer based electronic in techno/trance style) and Schönwälder & Rothe - FilterKaffee 101. FilterKaffee is a new side project from mario Schönwälder together with Frank Rothe. The CD is a wonderfull nearly 70 minutes long trip into the world of analogue soundsscapes and Berlin School sequences. Both CD(R)s are available at www.syngate.net Please find here an interview with Rainbow Serpent: http://synthsequences.blogspot.com/2011/01/interview-with-rainbow-serpent.html Broekhuis, Keller & Schönwälder will play on Liquid Sound Festival 2011 at 5th November 2011 in Bad Orb. First concert in 2012 will be a double concert at 11th and 12th February 2012 in Repelen/Germany. Watch out for further informations. More concerts are planned for May 2012. Coming CD releases in 2011 are a Keller & Schönwälder CD (the title is not known yet) and the CD/DVD Berlin - Culemborg" from Broekhuis, Keller & Schönwälder. More releases are in work. Have a nice time! Kite Radio on Summer Hiatus 24 May 2011 Hello all, just a quick note to let you know of my plans
to put my radio show, Kite Radio, on a brief hiatus this summer as I deal with
a variety of issues both personal and Dark Duck Records related. The last show before the hiatus will be in 2
weeks, on May 31st. I have found over the last few years that the amount of
time I can dedicate to Dark Duck Records and other music-related activities has
diminished drastically. My number one
priority in the musical world has always been Dark Duck Records and I think it
has suffered a bit over the last few years as releases have gotten backed up
and delayed. Over the summer,
I’m hoping to get caught up on these issues that are behind schedule including
website updates, releases, and finalizing some other recordings that have been
sitting in the hopper for way too long.
At this time I am working on the assumption that the show would be
resumed this fall, September or October but no time is set as of yet. I would like to thank the folks who have supported the show
over the years and those that tune into the show and hang out in the chatroom,
thanks. I encourage you to check out the
other excellent shows on Stillstream.com. --------------------- Stephen Philips Dark Duck Records [Ambient and Otherwise] | http://www.darkduck.net Ambient Poetry http://www.ambientpoetry.com Kite
Radio, tune in, drone on, chill out http://www.kite-radio.com Just Announced! Update on Little White Church Concerts Singer Songwriter Carol Noonan joins Dana Cunningham for the December 5th show at the Little White Church in Eaton, NH. Back together again for what was once an annual Christmas visit to the prettiest little Church in New England. Adding Max Dyer on cello and Julia Hendrickson on flute, this will be a festive night not to be missed! Please see below for details: Two Shows at The Little White Church: Sunday, Dec. 6th 4:00 p.m. The Little White Church in Eaton, NH for directions - http://www.LittleWhiteChurch.com/ Available at: White Birch Books, North Conway Village, 603.356.3200 DiN New release Information DiN33 Having first worked together on the
enigmatic ambience of Distant Rituals (1999) and the melodic
complexities of Pure (2003), Dervish is Ian Boddy and Markus
Reuter’s most challenging studio collaboration to date. Recorded in
England and Austria, the album contains a guest appearance by
King Crimson’s drumming and electronics wizard, Pat
Mastelotto. Inspired in part by the musical theories of 20th Century
composer Olivier Messiaen, there’s a terse angularity to the compositions whose
unexpected textures feature the appearances of a string quartet and a
recorder player. At a personal level, the music of
Dervish and the creative methods used in its composition, have pushed
both Boddy and Reuter into markedly different places, forcing each
one to change their usual approaches. At a 2008 recording session in
Austria, having sampled Reuter’s Touch Guitar loops, Boddy then
effectively “plays” the notes. The result is a mirage of shades
and colors in which it is impossible to determine the respective
roles of the players. At times Dervish occasionally flirts
with playful but punchy dance beats, off-kilter funk and stabbing
percussive blasts that manage to be both unsettling in their
apparently anarchic deployment whilst also providing a startling
focal point. Their microscopic attention to the
album’s sound design ensures every track sparkles with intriguing
detail that include the spiraling patterns of the Hang (a hybrid
steel drum). Enthusiasts of vintage electronic
instruments will also appreciate Boddy’s recreation of
the theremin-like Ondes Martenot via a modern keyboard equivalent and
his modular synthesizer by way of an oblique tribute to Messiaen who
famously included it’s eerie tones in his Turangalia Symphony. Dervish’s sound-world is constantly
evolving and always in motion. Atmospheric loops, cross-picking
arpeggios, unresolved sequences that hang in the air, and some
metallic-edged soloing that carves its own unique space. All add
extra layers of momentum and tension to a music already brimming with
invention and mystery. The muscular dynamics on this
recording were achieved by acclaimed engineer Clemens Schleiwies, who
translated the digital recordings back onto analogue tape. These were
then run through a vintage sound desk that was used by the likes
of David Bowie and Brian Eno during their legendary sessions in Hansa
Studios, Berlin. This “new meets old” approach with
its combination of 20th Century post-production techniques and up to
date tech-savvy gives Dervish some of its a freshness and undeniable
presence. Across its seven tracks, Dervish pushes way beyond the
usual comfort zones of electronic and ambient music. You may have
heard Boddy and Reuter before but you’ve not heard them sound like
this. Biographical notes Markus Reuter and Ian Boddy first
met in 1999. Ian Boddy released his first album of electronic music in 1983. In
1999 he founded his DiN label which has since gone on to release over 30 CD
titles and numerous downloads, featuring a range of international artists at
the cutting edge of electronic music. Boddy is one the UK’s leading
sound-designers and providers of library music and his music has been used in
films & documentaries all over the world. Boddy has collaborated with
musicians such as Chris Carter (Throbbing Gristle), American ambient guru
Robert Rich, and with leading UK electronic music composer Mark Shreeve. Ian’s
live performances have seen him play numerous festivals in Europe and America
and in such unlikely venues as the UK’s famous Jodrell Bank Observatory and the
Bochum Planetarium in Germany. Markus Reuter has released and/or
appeared on well over 40 albums since his recording debut in 1997. Markus is a
composer and guitarist, but now becoming a sought-after producer having worked
on ground-breaking albums by The Season Standard, Tovah and the singer Chrysta
Bell (for David Lynch‘s label Strange World Music) as well as various others in
both the USA and Europe. He also spends time in the USA
playing with a variety of musicians, including Philadelphia based nu-jazz
guitarist Tim Motzer. Markus has released 3 albums with King Crimson drummer,
Pat Mastelotto under the name of TUNER. Their record POLE was voted as one of
the top 50 prog recordings of all time by Modern Drummer magazine. Visit http://www.din.org.uk/news.html for
more information, cover art, track listing & 5 MP3 edits to audition. Promo copies can be delivered either
digitally via download ( 61.1 Mb as 160 kbps MP3's ) from the DiN web site or
if you prefer a promo CD can be mailed to you. Please reply to Ian Boddy
at din@selse.demon.co.uk requesting
either the download link URL or sending your address for a promo CD to be
mailed to you. DiN Press
Release September 2009 DiN34
Arcadia Borealis by Erik Wøllo & Bernhard Wöstheinrich Release
Date October 20th 2009 DiN has
always offered the opportunity for diverse artists to form interesting and
unexpected collaborations. Bernhard The basic
premise for the music on Arcadia Borealis was to look at the 18th Century
when Artic explorers were like the The 12
tracks cover a range of atmospheres with many environmental sounds providing an
aural backdrop over which Further
details including track list and 5 MP3 samples @ http://www.din.org.uk/news.html Biographical
notes: Erik
Wøllo and Bernhard Wöstheinrich first met in 2007 at the E-Live festival in
Eindhoven (The Netherlands), Erik
Wøllo is a professional musician and composer who released his first album in
1983. Since then he has released He is one
of Norway’s leading electronic composers, and his music has been used in films &
documentaries all over the world. As a
guitarist he has been leading his own groups, playing at clubs, concert halls
and festivals in Europe, the USA and Canada. Wøllo has
also previously collaborated with other musicians, such as Steve Roach on their
highly acclaimed album Bernhard
Wöstheinrich has a formal training in graphic design and has been working in the
fields of electronic music and painting since 1988. In the
early 1990’s he formed the duo Subsonic Experience with Thorsten Niestrath and
performed at several In 1999
he teamed up with touch guitarist Markus Reuter to form the experimental
electronic duo Centrozoon. Dervish Ian Boddy & Markus Reuter Remix the track 'Dervish' If you'd like to submit a remix to
us, please send a 256kbit mp3 to din@selse.demon.co.uk (or
send a .wav-file via yousendit). Ian Boddy 2009 Concerts AD:2009 Electronic Music
Festival Electronic Circus
Festival http://www.electronic-circus.net/ The Gatherings : performing as ARC
(Ian Boddy & Mark Shreeve) http://www.thegatherings.org/2009.html Ian Boddy Ambient/Improv duo
5turns25 officially announces their release of four debut albums. After
forming on the 25th anniversary of the Landsat 5 satellite launch
[3.1.2009], John Kasiewicz and Dan Tressler spent several cold winter's
nights in a Connecticut barn surrounded with instruments, looping pedals and a
straight-to-stereo-mix recording device. Their collaboration resulted in
four albums: Cloud Unfolded, Origin Of Claws, Elephant Platform, and Hamsters
On Treadmills [all four released on Scattered Disc/April 2009]. In
addition to these recordings, 5turns25 also performs live as part of a monthly
residency every fourth Wednesday at the Georgetown Saloon in Georgetown,
Connecticut [USA]. Social Networks: Third and final volume of Janet Robbins’ electronic music collection: Carrying the Bag of Hearts, Interpreting the Birth of Stars When Janet Robbins started working on what became Carrying the Bag of Hearts, Interpreting the Birth of Stars she was in “a period of much transition and exploration” in Woodstock, New York. Inspired by the “deep timelessness” of the area she created a variety of musical parts, ideas and sections that were later completed in Asheville, North Carolina, where she now resides. The pieces all reflected “a sort of soul retrieval nature, journeying through various realms of timeless states/consciousness to regain parts of yourself.” A track from Carrying the Bag of Hearts, Volume I received the First Place Award in Just Plain Folks Music Awards’ Ambient Songwriters category. Praise for Volumes I and II included: “Robbins masterfully makes good use of varying intensity, special effects and thematic developments to fill her compositions with passion and color” (Morpheus Music); "...riveting and compelling look deep inside the spaced out world of ambient music..." (Smother.net), “The music remains engaging even after repeated listenings,” (Star’s End); “…I recommend the EP if you want to hear someone who strikes out in new ambient directions” (Wind and Wire). Carrying the Bag of Hearts, Volume III, released November 11, 2008, is the last CD in this series of “space, ambient, soundscape musings.” Track description: “Nibiru’s Crossing,” a mid-groove deep space symphonic track, about the planet first observed by the ancient Sumerians; “Ascension” an ambient groove space track; “Walking The Milky Janet grew up playing classical piano and later picked up guitar. The songs from her 1998 release All The Worlds were written on guitar, piano and keyboards, influenced by Kate Bush, Tori Amos and compared to Jim Morrison. Always venturing beyond the traditional, her music was described as “she is as poetic in her prose as she is with her music.” A world traveler her compositions are as equally influenced by the imagery of ancient sacred sites in Turkey, England, Egypt or the mountains of upstate New York and Asheville. Equipment list: Mackie D8B console, Logic Pro 7.2.3 on a Mac Pro, Genelec monitors, Spectrasonic's Stylus RMX, Distorted Reality, and Liquid Grooves plus various software synths and plug-ins, Lexicon reverb units. An Electrix Filter Factory and Electrix Repeater, Digitech 2101 processor, various Emu synth modules and samplers, a Korg Wavestation, Fender guitars for loops as well as Tibetan singing bowls, tuning forks, assorted household noises and Mom’s Lowry organ. All artwork by Janet Robbins. The CD is available through Amazon.com, CDBaby, http://www.janetrobbins.net , or for download through iTunes. Richard Bone News & Updates 2-6-2009 Just wanted to let you know about some new items Richard has on iTunes. First off, there is a wonderful free video Podcast available entitled "Recombinant - a Series of Brief Video Experiments" consisting of 3 short videos Richard created by assembling individual brushstroke jpegs. And on the music side you will find much of Richard's recent catalog, as well as three of his very early 80's Survival albums. Incredibly Richard's early synthpop recordings "Brave Tales", "Exspectacle", and his 1982 EP "The Beat is Elite" are all available there in wonderfully remastered form. Simply do a search for Richard Bone on the iTunes homepage and enjoy! Out now: New album by Antonio Testa called Ecosphere Antonio Testa & Susana Beatriz Alvear ECOSPHERE is an alchemic project of ancestral sounds full of tribal rhythms, performed for an underground language, creating a balance between biosphere and technosphere. The sounds, music and dancing make us come back to the past, offering us the view of a world deeply rooted in our unconscious. The music spreads all its energy and its little/ big melodies; its hidden atmosphere help to find a balance between the electronic and the acoustic sound. The voice evokes angelical moments between the imperceptible evolution of celestial sound and the ethnic roots of human soul, mixed to world, electronic, ambient, reggae and dub music, creating atmospheres which evoke in our imaginary visions and images of afar places. 1Rapanui 2Recuerdos 3Rajasthan 4Subterranean Dream 5Peuls 6Dance to Bobo 7Sealand 8Maya Prayer 9Tecnosphere 10Bamouni Dub 11Joao 12Spiritualwater Antonio Testa / organic instruments, Kalabash, talking drum, udu, bamboo, teponaztli, horn, wood and bone flutes, mbira, darabukke, stones, shell, stalagmites, voice, piano, keyboards, samples, textures and drones, programming, Fields recording from Burkina Faso, Mexico, Italy. mixed by Antonio Testa. Susana Beatriz Alvear / effects, instruments, lyrics, classic and ethnic voices. All composition by A. Testa except: track 2 - 4 A. Testa, Tito Rinesi Track 11 A. Testa, U.De Souza, Raphael Scinia, guest musician & artists who contributed to this project: on track 11 live recording at tribe studio via A. Aleardi, 9 Milano Italy in the 1995, U. De Souza / lyric, voice and classic guitar, Raphael Scinia /electric guitar, Susana Beatriz Alvear / effect, Rosana Santos agogo. Photo cover / By Rahién Testa Ecosphere release's are available to purchase online@ Click the link below to listen to audio samples mp3: DiN32 - 'Shade' by Parallel Worlds new cd album Release date 23rd March 2009 Shade is the studio album follow-up to Obsessive Surrealism
(DiN26 - 2007) and is the fifth CD release by Parallel Worlds (the main
musical project of Greek electronic musician Bakis Sirros).
Parallel Worlds employ a vast arsenal of both vintage and modern
analogue modular synthesisers with extensive use of classic sequencing
techniques to produce a sonic world that combines modern electronica
and ambient music styles with the feel of retro electronic music. His
attention to detail is astonishing and his careful sculpting of sounds
and textures produce an organic, ever evolving atmosphere full of half
glimpsed meanings and subdued emotions. The purely electronic rhythms
and beats seem to have a life of their own and showcase a musician who
is a virtuoso with these types of instruments that are the antithesis
of the quick fix pick-a-preset mind set of much of todays society.
Musically he likes to explore various states of mind, no doubt
influenced by his medical background and this adds a tension and
darkness to his compositions that are punctuated by disarmingly simple
and wistful melodies.
With Shade Parallel Worlds show a musical maturity and command
of sonic atmospherics that takes the music on a journey, moving through
dreams and shades, aiming for the light.
CD announcement:
Darkened Soul - Bathys
Artist: Darkened Soul Galactic Travels stream URL changes The stream URL used for listening to Galactic Travels on WDIY has changed to the following: iTunes, JetAudio, WinAmp: Windows Media Player: Real Player:
Host of Galactic Travels dw046 - Mystified - Altered Signals "Altered Signals" is a series of pieces based
on the alteration of a relatively simple original sound or set of sounds. Most
sounds treated for this release involve some form of broadcast, such as radio.
The tracks are much more ambient than most of mystified's recent work, but they
do call on his studies of noise. The centerpiece of the album is a 30-minute
piece called "The Science Of Change"-- a longform piece that moves
back and forth but never repeats, sounding a bit like one of Roach's
"Immersion" pieces. http://www.darkwinter.com/dw046.html Robert Carty videos on YouTube Hello Everyone, Hope you all are enjoying the spring. I have uploaded new videos, just wanted to share this with. the addresses are: www.youtube.com/robertcarty Enjoy..... |