29 Haziran 2011 Çarşamba

26 Haziran 2011 Pazar

Arve Henriksen - Cartography (2008)


4 Temmuz'da Arve Henriksen'in 123 ile gerçekleştireceği konsere yaklaşmışken, Arve Henriksen'i en iyi albümlerinden biriyle anmak iyi bir fikir olabilir.

24 Haziran 2011 Cuma

Hakim Bey - T.A.Z. (1994)


«The TAZ (Temporary Autonomous Zone) is like an uprising which does not engage directly with the state, a guerrilla operation which liberates an area (of land, of time, of imagination) and then dissolves itself, to re-form elsewhere / elsewhen, before the state can crush it.» - Hakim Bey

12 Haziran 2011 Pazar

John Cage - Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake (1979)


Well, what to say about this? A masterpiece, and it is not at all an exaggeration. Mastermind of John Cage, madcap text of James Joyce and the lure of Uilleann pipes blossom into a (rather much green) clover dream. Here are the liner notes by John Cage himself, which explains it all.

Jacques Doyen & Jacques Lasry - Poésie à mi-voix (1966)



Tracklist



1 La Ballade Des Pendus
Music By – Jacques Lasry
Lyrics By – François Villon
3:20


2 Annabel-Lee
Music By – Jacques Lasry
Lyrics By – Edgar Poë
4:20


3 Batterie
Music By – Jacques Lasry
Lyrics By – Jean Cocteau
2:25


4 La Femme Infidèle
Music By – Jacques Lasry
Lyrics By – Federico Garcia Lorca
3:02


5 Nonoche
Music By – Jacques Lasry
Lyrics By – Colette
4:30


6 Gui Chante Pour Lou
Lyrics By – Guillaume Apollinaire
1:30


7 Chant De La Grand'Route
Lyrics By – Walt Whitman
2:20


8 Je Sais
Lyrics By – Pierre Emmanuel
2:12


9 Un Feu Vivant
Lyrics By – Luc Bérimont
2:50


10 Visite
Lyrics By – Charles Vildrac
4:49


11 Tarendol
Music By – Jacques Lasry
Lyrics By – René Barjavel
2:42


12 Le Dit De La Force D'Amour
Lyrics By – Paul Eluard
1:35


14 Le Rachdingue
Lyrics By – Henri-François Rey
3:31

9 Haziran 2011 Perşembe

Akira Rabelais - Spellewauerynsherde (2004)



the music on spellewauerynsherde is as unusual as its title which, redefined, reads ‘spell.wavering.shard.’―‘spell’ alluding to the effect cast by its hypnotic incantatory voices, ‘wavering’ their shivering quality once filtered through Rabelais’ Argeïphontes Lyre software and ‘shard’ their fragmentary character. After Rabelais discovered forgotten tape recordings of traditional Icelandic a cappella singing, he found himself so transfixed by the female voices’ heartbreaking sound that he decided to digitally weave them into pulsating drones. By exhuming these phantom, siren-like voices and digitally reconfiguring them, Rabelais’ haunting recording straddles medieval and modern eras. Don’t think that he smothers the remnants with distracting treatments, though. His approach is far subtler; in some cases, voices seemingly stand unadorned of any added embellishment. (source)

2 Haziran 2011 Perşembe

Michaël Lévinas - Voûtes (2001)

I was surprised to learn that the philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas has a son who is a composer in the genre of experimental electronic music and one of the leading names in the spectralism.