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ca300 - Various - Clinical Anthology (2006-2009)

ca299 - Johann Merrich - Fricadelique! (how to be a flower-power nihilist)

Artist: Johann Merrich
Title: Fricadelique! (how to be a flower-power nihilist)
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Date: 2009-08-25
Keywords: electronic, ambient, drone, experimental, other
Tracklist:
01 - Fricadelique! - 3:03 (320 kbps)
02 - Hyperion - 3:15 (320 kbps)
03 - Electronoisette - 3:06 (320 kbps)
04 - La belle exposure - 3:18 (320 kbps)
05 - Du bist der lenz - 3:04 (320 kbps)
06 - Silent blindness - 3:55 (320 kbps)

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Italian young electronic artist, previously member of the indie band Love in elevator. In 2008 she made her first (solo) concept album “USSR vs Paradise (in six movements)” for the italian netlabel vuoto.
http://www.otouv.org

Contact:
http://www.myspace.com/johannmerrich

How to be a flower-power nihilist.
Photo by Antonio Campanella
http://www.antoniocampanella.com

ca298 - Phillip Wilkerson - Secret

Artist: Phillip Wilkerson
Title: Secret
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Date: 2009-08-22
Keywords: experimental, dark ambient, ambient, field recordings, drone
Tracklist:
01 - Impetus - 10:27 (320 kbps)
02 - Hidden - 6:30 (320 kbps)
03 - Thin - 7:25 (320 kbps)
04 - Glade - 4:40 (320 kbps)
05 - Secret - 15:37 (320 kbps)

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Dark ambient and experimental tracks, field recordings, and drones.

Phillip Wilkerson creates ambient and experimental music. His work has appeared on a number of netlabels. This is is fourth release for Clinical Archives.

Contact:
http://www.phillipwilkerson.net
http://www.myspace.com/philwilkerson

ca297 - Various - The Synthi Group Vol. 1

Artist: Various
Title: The Synthi Group Vol. 1
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Date: 2009-08-16
Keywords: irritating; 50-60’s electroacoustic music; live electronics; psychedelic; experimental; avant electronics; electronic; space music; ambient drone; drone; glitch; improv; psychedelic rock; noise; electro; other

Tracklist:

Track 1
Artist: Don Hassler
Title: No Subsequent Interaction Synthi Recording No. 1 - 2:04 (320 kbps)
Device: EMS Synthi A MK1
Genre: irritating
Contact: http://www.donhassler.com
Location: USA

Track 2
Artist: The Vegan Surgeons
Title : VCS3ImprovC - 6:53 (320 kbps)
Device: EMS VCS3 Mark I, recorded and processed
digitally through Audiomulch
Genre: 50-60’s electroacoustic music
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/thevegansurgeons
Location: Scotland

Track 3
Artist : Trap & Zoid
Title : Gnomes evasion - 5:26 (320 kbps)
Device : EMS Synthi A + Aria AD10 analog delay,
recorded live in one take with Edirol R-09HR, unprocessed.
Genre : live electronics / psychedelic / experimental
Contact : http://www.myspace.com/trapandzoid
Location : Brussels, Belgium

Track 4
Artist: Cray
Title: 29days laterrr - 6:15 (320 kbps)
Device: EMS Synthi AKS, Pencils,
live improvising into Audiomulch.
Genre: Avant Electronics
Contact: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Cray
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Track 5
Artist: Sam Samshuijzen
Title: Simple - 2:55 (320 kbps)
Device: Modified EMS Synthi AKS
Randrum pulse generator/divider for the returned ES
triggering of the synthi 4 track analog tape recorder
Remixed with a digital system into a 4 channel composition (4C).
This is the stereo mix of those 4 (2C).
Done in Studio Denkraam, Ede NL, 1980.
It's called simple, because it makes basic use of a
sequence voltage for one oscillator, while playing
the realtime voltage to another oscillator simultaneously.
Genre: Electronic
Contact: http://www.xs4all.nl/~samzen/
Location: Netherlands

Track 6
Artist: Pin
Title: Can the sound change - 6:40 (320 kbps)
Device: EMS Synthi AKS, multilayering of sounds, recorded and processed
digitally through ProTools.
Genre: Experimental
Contact: http://www.thesynthi.de
Location: Germany

Track 7
Artist: Mono-Poly
Title: Do you observe? - 6:01 (320 kbps)
Device: EMS Synthi AKS cv-ed by Blippoo Box witch processes
audio + Delay and Reverb
Genre: Experimental
Contact: http://mono-poly.blogspot.com
Location: Netherlands

Track 8
Artist: Werd
Title: Smirk - 1:44 (320 kbps)
Device: EMS Synthi A & Roland Space Echo 201
Genre: Exp.,broadcasted in 1979 by radio KRO Hilversum 4
"Collage van Alledaags en Zeldzaam"
Contact: http://werdav.tripod.com/index.html
Location: Netherlands

Track 9
Artist: Johan Schurer
Title: FrogWaltz - 2:05 (320 kbps)
Device: EMS Synthi AKS
Genre: Experimental
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/johanschurer
Location: The Netherlands

Track 10
Artist: Impulsantwort
Title: Ich kann den Strom in der Wand hören - 7:00 (320 kbps)
Device: EMS Synthi AKS 80 treated by EMS Soundbeam recorded via RME
Fireface,
processed digitally through ProTools.
Genre: Drone
Contact: http://www.impulsantwort.com
Location: Germany

Track 11
Artist: THM
Title: Setting Sun - 6:45 (320 kbps)
Device: EMS Synthi AKS (London UK model from 1975), only some Roland
RE-301
Chorus Echo and SRV-330 Reverb added; recorded and processed digitally
via Cubase 4
Genre: Space Music / Ambient Drone
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/thmsynthfreak
thm[at]pandora.be
Location: Belgium

Track 12
Artist: Delia (Leo Learchi - Luca Isabella - Daniele De Rossi)
Title: Trilogia per Delia (live excerpt) - 5:18 (320 kbps)
Device: EMS Synthi A, AKS, E, Digisound 80 modular synthesizer,
field recordings, PC.
Genre: Experimental
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/leomodular
Location: Italy

Track 13
Artist: Alka
Title: Interrupt Structure - 3:57 (320 kbps)
Device: EMS Synthi Mk1 AKS partially processed through the Elektron
Machinedrum
SPS1 UW Mk2. Further processing and recording through Apple Logic Pro.
Genre: Electronic / Glitch / Experimental
Contact: http://www.reverbnation.com/buryn
Location: USA

Track 14
Artist: Tunnel
Title: Descent - 6:08 (320 kbps)
Device: EMS VCS3 Mk II, Boss DD-3 Delay
Genre: Improv / Experimental
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/tunnelx
Location: Australia

Track 15
Artist: D. Skevington
Title: Block I - 5:10 (320 kbps)
Device: Layers of direct and amplified Synthi A.
Genre: Psychedelic/Rock
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/danielskevington
Location: UK

Track 16
Artist: Synthiaks
Title: Bump - 3:30 (320 kbps)
Device: EMS Synthi AKS, live recording.
Genre: Experimental
Contact: baby_tog[at]hotmail.com
Location: UK

Track 17
Artist: Maelem
Title: Dripping party - 6:59 (320 kbps)
Device: EMS Synthi A
Genre: Noise
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/maelem
Location: France

Track 18
Artist: Splitradix
Title: Harmony Suitcase - 4:37 (320 kbps)
Devices: EMS Synthi A, Roland TR808, Sequential Circuits Pro One,
Roland System 100 101, Roland SH101, Roland MKS80, Roland RE301
Genre: Electro
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/splitradix
Location: Berlin, Germany

Track 19
Artist: Level-Repeat
Title: Syncophant - 5:32 (320 kbps)
Device: Live Performance using a modified EMS Synthi AKS.
Making heavy use of oscillator sync.
Genre: Experimental
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/levelrepeat
Location: United Kingdom

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Synopsis:
Formed in 1969, Electronic Music Studios (EMS) quickly became innovators for the recording, production and advancement of electronic music. The ideas and designs that bubbled forth out of the ingenuitive minds of Peter Zinovieff, Tristram Cary, David Cockerell and others, led to the creation of some of the most wildly original musical / sound design equipment ever conceived. The VCS3, Synthi A + AKS, Synthi 100, Synthi E, Synthi Logik and the Soundbeam are among these, almost unworldly, devices.

It is often said EMS gear has attained cult status, reaching a fervor of near worship among its users. The Synthi Group is an example and collection of such users. United through the Synthi blog and forum (www.thesynthi.de) and located throughout the world, the group's members have come together for a planned series of compilation volume releases where the individuality and approach of each member towards their EMS instrument is showcased and broadcasted for all to experience. The listener will hear wildly different examples of styles and sounds that this original, and oft times, vintage equipment can create.

EMS were true pioneers from the very beginning, always looking beyond the culture and times they were surrounded and seemingly trapped in. Still around today, thanks to Robin Wood and Ludwig Rehberg, they are one of the few companies involved with electronic instrument production that have had a continued run since their inception. The Synthi Group have honed the original pioneering spirit and DIY ethic of EMS with their Volume series, a collection of sounds encompassing beautiful dreamscapes, synaesthetic visions, dark ambience, aural abstractions, sonic absurdities, pulsating analog, glitch, ring modulators, and envelope shapers generating trapezoidal geometry. Beginning with Volume 1, the Synthi Group compilations aim to ensure the story of EMS continues well into the future of electronic music production.
(Synopsis by Alka)

Contacts:
http://www.thesynthi.de
http://thesynthigroup.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thesynthigroup

ca296 - Windowbox Ensemble - Will of the Wood

Artist: Windowbox Ensemble
Title: Will of the Wood
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Date: 2009-08-15
Keywords: neo chamber, minimal, meditative, holistic, contemporary, other
Tracklist:
01 - Bubble Rain: A. Prologue - 0:50 (320 kbps)
02 - Bubble Rain: B. Yiwirocean - 3:13 (320 kbps)
03 - Natural Facts: A. Whispers the Wood - 4:57 (320 kbps)
04 - Natural Facts: B. Bee My Neighbor - 3:33 (320 kbps)
05 - Natural Facts: C. Light Bright - 1:36 (320 kbps)
06 - A Thousand Starry - 5:57 (320 kbps)

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Sparse chamber music with an ear toward relaxation and introspectivity... did you ever have a lite brite? Explore our worlds together. Including some current favorite instruments; piano, cello, clarinet, oboe, french horn, english horn, trumpet, violin.

Robert Demes II
Contact:
dmyra@robertdemes.net
http://www.metaforr.org

ca295 - Yoko Absorbing - Vinyl

Artist: Yoko Absorbing
Title: Vinyl
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Date: 2009-08-07
Keywords: avant-garage, experimental, sound collage, free jazz, post-funk, minimalist, funk, other, eclectic
Tracklist:
01 - Intro - 0:23 (320 kbps)
02 - Vinyl Blues Part 1 - 6:50 (320 kbps)
03 - Lady GaGa And Miroslav Tichy - 0:53 (320 kbps)
04 - Mina-Mi-Ra - 1:49 (320 kbps)
05 - Beats-Beats - 1:23 (320 kbps)
06 - Dirty Indie Sound - 2:54 (320 kbps)
07 - Solar Nail - 2:07 (320 kbps)
08 - Mirskontsa - 2:16 (320 kbps)
09 - Hobo Blues - 7:04 (320 kbps)
10 - Lo-Fi Concept - 1:41 (320 kbps)
11 - On A Tree - 0:58 (320 kbps)
12 - Vinyl Blues Intro - 1:17 (320 kbps)
13 - Saucepan - 4:04 (320 kbps)
14 - Hoffnung - 2:11 (320 kbps)
15 - To Be More Specific - 1:03 (320 kbps)
16 - Lo-Fi Theory - 3:26 (320 kbps)
17 - The Enigma Theories - 2:26 (320 kbps)
18 - Vinyl Blues Part 2 - 2:40 (320 kbps)
19 - We Encourage - 2:01 (320 kbps)

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Evgenij V. Kharitonov - music, samples, guitars, keyboards, percussion, sounds;
Mikhail Lezin - music, samples, guitars, bass, keyboards, percussion, sounds;

Feat.
Evgeniy Khalilov - drums (3, 7, 9, 11, 13, 17)
Anton Kasatkin - guitar (17)
Vladimir Donkin - drums (2· 12· 18)
Alexey Pryahin - bass, keyboards, guitar

In an album are used as fragments of rehearsal records, vinyl disks and tape loops.
Recorded: 2009
[c] All music by Yoko Absorbing, 2009
Artworks by Mikhail Lezin
Photo by Mikhail Lezin and Oleg Tarasov

"Это очень странный альбом. Наверное, самый странный из всех альбомов проекта и самый дадаистский по духу, учитывая, что оба соавтора дуэта активные участники авангардного арт- и литературного процессов в России и Европе. В основе творчества Yoko Absorbing абсолютная спонтанность в написании музыки. Мы пытаемся подчинить этот процесс жесткой драматурги, но лишь на финальной стадии работы – в период сведения всего материала. В записи данного альбома, помимо работы с инструментами в студиях и сэмплами на компьютерах, мы во множестве использовали обрывки старых пленочных записей с репетиций наших прошлых рок-проектов (80-90-х годов), а так же звуки виниловых пластинок. Это альбом-ностальгия, поэтому и назвали просто и незатейливо “Vinyl”. Стиль сложно определить. Весь 47-минутный альбом - этакий коллаж из киномузыки, поп-фанка, блюза, фри-джаза, музыки "конкрет" и минималистских пост-панк выкрутасов. В итоге – некий абсолют Дадаизма, организованная эклектика." (Евгений Харитонов)

Contacts:
http://www.myspace.com/yokoabsorbing
http://lautpoesie.narod2.ru/
http://www.mikhail-lezin.com/m-lezin_cv.html

ca294 - Bernardo Barros, Henrique Iwao & Mario Del Nunzio - Musica Eletronica 2004

Artist: Bernardo Barros, Henrique Iwao & Mario Del Nunzio
Title: Musica Eletronica 2004
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Date: 2009-08-04
Keywords: electroacoustic, experimental, electronic, noise, glitch
Tracklist:
01 - Improviso em Branco e Preto (Carta as Videntes) [Mario Del Nunzio] - 7:42 (320 kbps)
02 - Libidinagens Neuro-sentimentais [Mario Del Nunzio] - 7:58 (320 kbps)
03 - O Cha [Mario Del Nunzio] - 1:00 (320 kbps)
04 - Nec Spe Nec Metu [Mario Del Nunzio] - 5:57 (320 kbps)
05 - Waari [Bernardo Barros] - 13:18 (320 kbps)
06 - Frankfurt, Frankfurt [Bernardo Barros] - 5:32 (320 kbps)
07 - Metabolismo Mental Bizarro [Bernardo Barros] - 3:23 (320 kbps)
08 - Escrito Com o Corpo [Bernardo Barros] - 4:18 (320 kbps)
09 - Mas Tenho Consciencia? Nao, Nao Tenho Consciencia, Nao Estou Consciente! [Henrique Iwao] - 6:09 (320 kbps)
10 - Estudo Para Um Instante Vazio [Henrique Iwao] - 13:27 (320 kbps)
11 - Contrabandistas de Jeans Furiosos Ate as Narinas [Henrique Iwao] - 9:20 (320 kbps)

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That all the pieces in this compilation were composed in 2004 (exceptions being Frankfurt, Frankfurt & Nec Spe Nec Metu, both composed in 2003), is far from being a curiosity. In such period of time, Bernardo Barros, Mario Del Nunzio & Henrique Iwao were living in the same city, Campinas, and studying at the Music Department of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), where they had the rare opportunity of being in a creative environment, full of exchanges between the participants and of occasions to show and discuss new works. From the last months of 2002 till the end of 2004, the university was open to new propositions and behaving as an open and living space. This fact resulted, in the works of these composers, in the pieces here presented (and others premiered during the same period), in which there are clear mutual influences (denoted by the use of similar sound materials and by sharing technical procedures), but also preoccupations and predispositions of a highly individual character (the improvisational gesturality of Del Nunzio, the automated procedures of Barros, the structural rigidity of Iwao).

Nec Spe Nec Metu, by Del Nunzio, ìwithout hope nor fearî, begins the exploration of digital noises and ìextended electronic techniquesî, also with a dynamic and tense gestural quality, and a will to give a notion of corporeality to the music. The piece uses many non-conventional compositional procedures, such as the creation of digital flaws by the consecutive application of a great quantity of sound processes with opposite functions. In a very different way, this intention of a physicality is also present in some other pieces here presented, such as in Escrito com o Corpo (Written with the Body), by Barros, in which the ultra-low sounds, perceived or not, may proportionate the opportunity to 'let the stomach vibrate'.

Back from Europe, after being in contact with the german breakbeat, Barros composed Frankfurt, Frankfurt, taking rhythmical and timbrical elements from the pop culture. The piece has a homogeneous material and intends to develop a significant musical structure, through tempo variations and density control. Meanwhile, Del Nunzio, in his Improviso em Branco & Preto (Carta as Videntes), uses samples from many different sources (mainly from percussion excerpts of works by contemporary composers, and drum solos by rock drummers), with its intrinsic gersturality, having the specificities of the samples conducting in an almost improvisatory way the development of the piece. Anyway, there is a perceptible thematic proximity of both pieces.

The pieces by Iwao here presented have some of the characteristics which define his actuation as a composer (at least during this period), such as: an attention to the pre-compositional formal plans, rigorously; the way he deals with layers, sculpted during the realization of the piece; a certain obsessiveness. In the laborious Estudo para um Instante Vazio, the imperfections of an extensive and problematic technically manual work constitute the main body of the piece, being such characteristics on one hand determined by the chosen technique for the sound generation (synthesis by graphical representation) and, on the other hand, by one practical result of this technique (appearance of clicks - and the compositional option of accepting these clicks). The sections and materials used in the piece are pre-defined abstractly and treated with maximum rigidity a avoiding, thus, any didatism (meaning a direct induced correspondence between the compositional plans and an intended comprehension of the music).
(Henrique Iwao and Mario Del Nunzio. Translation: Mario Del Nunzio)

All musics composed in 2004, except "Frankfurt, Frankfurt" and "Nec Spe Nec Metu", composed in 2003.
Album Art: Henrique Iwao
Album Photographs: Bruno Yanagizawa

Bios:
Bernardo Barros (born Maceio, 1980). Is dedicated to the creation and promotion of contemporary music as composer, performer and technician on productions that focus solely on modern artistic trends. As a composer he has projects that involve chamber music and electronic music. As a performer he has focused on interactive performance, improvisation and live-electronics. As a technician he can assist projects involving programming languages for computer music, specially SuperCollider 3 and LisaX. In 2007 he founded 'Cyclone' with Mario del Nunzio (electric guitar and live-electronics), a group dedicated to improvisation and collaborative composition projects. He has studied composition at Unicamp (Bachelor Degree, State University of Campinas) with Jose Augusto Mannis and Silvio Ferraz. And at the Institute for Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague (Holland). During these years he also had the opportunity to have composition lessons with Richard Barrett, Mark Andre, Brian Ferneyhough and Helmut Lachenmann. He is currently a Masters candidate at USP (Sao Paulo University).

Henrique Iwao (1983, Botucato, Brazil). Composes electroacoustic and instrumental music; plays with improvisation and non-written music groups (piano, keyboards and electronics); composes soundtracks for dance. Produces experimental music events in Sao Paulo, and is director of the Ibrasotope, together with M·rio Del Nunzio. Interests include plundephonics, circuit bending and glitch music.

Mario Del Nunzio (1983, Sao Paulo, Brazil). Composes electroacoustic and instrumental music; plays with improvisation and non-written music groups (electric guitar and electronics); also works with installations and multimedia creations. Produces experimental music events in Sao Paulo, and is director of the Ibrasotope, together with Henrique Iwao. Recent works include the multimedia performance / installation "Corpos Urbanos", co-authored by the dancer Melina Scialom, and a piece for electric guitar quartet, commissioned by the Zwerm quartet, from Brussels, Belgium.

Contacts:
http://www.myspace.com/bbarros
http://www.myspace.com/henriqueiwao
http://www.myspace.com/mariodelnunzio
http://www.myspace.com/ibrasotope

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