gianni giublena rosacroce

gianni giublena rosacroce - la mia africa (no=fi, 2013)

Stefano Isaia's Gianni Giublena Rosacroce is back with new recordings: the great first cassette, "La Piramide di Sangue" released by Yerevan Tapes one year ago, laid the foundation of the kraut-psych rock ensemble La Piramide di Sangue (with the "Tebe" LP out on Boring Machines / Sound Of Cobra).Now he's back with his solo project, few nice mates helping (Dedalo666, Vernon, Jena) and two Tuareg girls reading Isaia's poetries in fulfulde (fula language).The setting of La Mia Africa is a psych mid-eastern landscape, desert at sunset, ancient temples and a far far shore. GGR keeps us in these atmospheres with a mysterious clarinet, tenebrous acoustic guitars, dreamy voices talking in a language that sounds far but fascinating and simple rare percussions give us the beat for a walk on the sand dunes. Following this charming music, we'll find the oasis in this desert...

Tengo que reconocer que el proyecto paralelo de Stefano Isaia es con el que más conecto de todas la nueva psicodelia ocultista italiana en la que me he ido surmegiendo tras las primeras grabaciones de Sound of Cobra, y que sigo de cerca pues siempre está el kraut en el horizonte. Las latitudes, afortunadamente, siguen siendo las mismas, pero aquí todo es más sugerente, tribal y polvoriento. Hipnóticos trances a baja fidelidad cruzando el desierto rumbo al middle east, viajo acompañado con la percusión de un solitario tuareg. Veo espejismos a los lejos trazados por un clarinete que evoca a Third Ear Band, no sé si encontraremos un oasis, pero seguro que Maurice McIntyre ya está en el.   

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the lone garage massacre

 

the lone garage masacre - nag-khung-sa-cha (sloow tapes, 2012)

Healing music to change your head space by way of trance induced astral traveling and devic beings. Ethereal psychedelic folk music channeling spirits from the dark land and influenced by Native American rituals, shamanism and Americana. 80 copies. sloow tapes

  

Regreso con un preferido del año que ya se fue. Sloow tapes continúa editando cassettes imperdibles, miniaturas que no deberíamos dejar escapar. De primeras 'nag-khung-sa-cha' podría habitar en un dimensión paralela a la psicodelia ocultista italiana de reciente implosión (cannibal movie, gianni guiblena rosacroce) aunque más folkie y éterea. Un disco para recorrer los montes appalaches con la hipnotizante 'rain comes' y  el psych-folk de 'the land of the spirits'. Podrían ser feathers desde un aquellare. Siguiendo los senderos empiezo a levitar con la meditativa 'almis to the birds' y la ensoñadora ' live no more die no more' de efectos rendetores y sanadores.  Lo cierto, es que al final del camino, me viene a la mente el siempre especial nombre de jens unosson (the spacious mind).

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ibliss (rare earth XXIX)

 ibliss - supernova (spiegelei-aamok, 1972)

Borne out of the confused Kraftwerk history, and taken under the wing of Conny Plank, Ibliss were one of the most remarkable one album wonders. Featuring Basil Hammoudi (from Organisation) and Andreas Hohmann (one of the two drummers on the first Kraftwerk album) augmenting a trio of no less talent, Ibliss created a logical jazz-fusion diversion on the Organisation sound, heavily featuring flutes, saxes and an overdose of percussion. All this in a typically Teutonic cosmic concoction, kinda Kraftwerk meets Miles Davis and Rocksession era Embryo, and also hinting at the later Kollektiv. It's a great shame they only released the one album!  the crack in the cosmic egg

Al rastrear en los primeros y geniales Kraftwerk y, en sus electrificantes y experimentales sesiones es recurrente recuperar el mágico 'Tone Float' de Organisation. Entre aquellos restos (Andreas Hohmann, Basil Hammoudi) también quedó uno de los tesoros mejor escondidos del krautrock, que dejaría sorprendido al explorador de ideas preconcebidas, pues si hubiéramos de situar su contenido serían Annexus Quam, Ikarus, Niagara o Embryo símiles de excepción. Percusiones repetitivas y tribales con exploraciones de saxo y guitarra en la infecciosa 'Margah', el trance ya ha comenzado. Sigue el interludio cósmico de 'Drops', puro y sinuoso jazz cósmico sobre el que levitar de la mano del saxo de Rainer Buechel. 'High life' continúa por esa senda evocadora, dominada por una eterna línea de bajo e improvisaciones flautiles. La mántrica 'Athir' supone el despertar, veo la India a lo lejos cuando el chamán nos invoca de vuelta a la quietud de la noche y a sus extraños moradores.

 

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atelier o divino

atelier o divino - trevas redux (pan y rosas, 2012)

atelier o divino is mysterious and resides in brasil. atelier o divino is an art studio engaged in a wide diversity of practices ranging from painting and independent publishing to web art, video and recorded sound. the tracks produced by atelier o divino aim to construct atmospheres and imaginary landscapes rather than melodies. most of the records so far are made with the reprocessed sound of the recorded tenor sax. but divino's investigations are soon to be broadened to a wider range of sound sources.

pyr is a small netlabel based in chicago that focuses on experimental: noise, improvisation, and weirdo rock. pan y rosas began putting out music in 2008 as a way to make often overlooked music available to the public and as a way of building a community of artists, musicians and listeners. we believe that as media consolidation continues to reduce the avenues available to musicians, it is increasingly important to open up new paths for the dissemination of new music. we see pan y rosas discos, and netlabels in general, as offering one more path for artists to utilize. 

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erkki kurenniemi (rare earth XXVIII)

erkki kurenniemi - äänityksiä [recordings 1963-1973] (love records, 2002)

One of the undeniable pioneers of Finnish electronic music is Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941), who founded The University of Helsinki Electronic Music Studio in the early 1960's. Kurenniemi built his own series of synthesizers, named as DIMI, which are nowadays mostly possessed by Swedish collector and electronic musician Ralph Lundsten, and published some of his experimental compositions like 'Dance of the Antropoids'. Alongside such Finnish pioneers as Eino Ruutsalo (for whose short films Kurenniemi composed music), Kurenniemi also did some early work on the field of Finnish media art and contributed to Finnish video art and happenings. These days Kurenniemi works as an independent researcher, specialising in such subjects as artificial intelligence. finnscene

A former nuclear scientist who composed computer-based music and designed his own instruments founding the University Of Helsinki Electronic Music Studio in 1962.  Kurenniemi's pioneering work included microprocessor-based digital synthesizers built in the early 1970's. discogs

Siempre he sentido una especial atracción hacia los primeros aventureros de la música electrónica, más allá incluso de sus propias grabaciones, sólo el hecho antropológico de indagar en sus técnicas, instrumentos y creaciones ya me fascina. Desde visionarios creadores y académicos como Stockhausen, Moondog, Morton Subtonick o el propio Erkki a inefables exploradores del underground como Brucke Haack o Silver Apples, estos nombres son fiel reflejo de la libertad creativa del momento y de su desarrollo al margen de la industria y sus tendencias. Esta recopilación de grabaciones del finlandés nos tranpsortará a un solitario collage sónico lleno de sugerentes improvisaciones y cintas maniupaladas en 'hana', 'antropoidien tanssi' o ' mix master universe 2' y hasta alguna melodía presa de inteferencias en 'invention'. 

Para los curiosos, en el siguiente paper encontraréis una revisión de los sintes y secuenciadores que Erkki construyó durante este período y que llegó a utilizar en sus grabaciones o directos, tales como su mítico Dimi.

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sir irchard bishop

sir richard bishop - intermezzo (ideologic organ, 2012)

Intermezzo parades this variety in its myriad forms. Bishop has always been a capable purveyor of the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink “genre” as exemplified in Sun City Girls’ many albums. We recognize strains as disparate as Spaghetti Western soundtrack, flamenco, long-form epic, Southern-fried folk, and delay-laden shambolic noise. If you need your dose of transcendental acoustic glory, you’ll find it on “Inner Redoubt.” If you’re looking for a front porch stomp with a little bit of Spanish flavor, check “Hump Tulip.” Want a dusky raga with a tense mood? The next track “Dhumavati” will provide. Those who see the solo guitar as reaching its limits must be turning deaf ear towards Sir Richard.

The puzzling thing about this work is not the differences in its tracks, but the title. Each of these pieces can stand on their own merit, and none of them feel like an interlude between the two songs that surround them. There seem to be two options here: either Intermezzo is a threshold between Bishop’s other works, or each of these pieces stands on its own as a bridge between experiences, connecting what came before it with what comes after (...) Intermezzo displays Bishop in top form, and if this is an interlude, the next act should be spectacular. tiny mix tapes

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matt valentine and erika elder

Live in Mon 10 Copenhagen 2012, Huset KBH

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peter howell & john ferdinando (rare earth XXVII)

peter howell and john ferdinando - alice through the looking glass (uk, 1969)

Alice... is a charming, ornate slice of English whimsy with an appeal that surely extends beyond the limited audience at which it was aimed back in 1969. Much of the attraction obviously delves from Lewis Carroll's surreal poetry, but some of the musical templates are genuinely inspired, end the project is clearly coloured by the more melodic English psychedelic acts of the late 1960s such as the Moody blues and the Pink Floyd (indeed, Alice has been compared else were to a more pastoral equivalent of "Piper At The Gates of Dawn"). There are numerous highlights scattered throughout the album, but pride of place must go to Jabberwocky, an impressive melange of treated vocals and backward tapes that is worth the price of admission alone. With its drowsy atmosphere, myriad sound effects and languid organ-based sound, Alice certainly invokes the spirit of the psychedelic age, albeit from the perspective or photogenic Middle England rather than hallucinogenic Middle Earth. Rarely can an album or book have ended with a more apposite line. Life - what is it but a dream?". David Wells - psychedelic folk

Han sido muchas las veces en que he pensado hablar Ithaca o Agincourt pero que mejor que empezar la historia de peter y john desde el princpio. No creo que muchos nombres representen mejor el espíritu de estos rare earth que el dúo surgido de la pequeña villa de Ditchlinf en Sussex. Hasta la reedición y recuperación de las cintas orginales a mediados de los ochenta con 'A game for All Who Know', sus grabaciones no fueron más allá de, en el mejor de los casos, prensajes privados de 100-200 copias, quedándose su debut en unas 70. Más tarde fueron llegando las reediciones de acme, background o lion.  

Psych-folk desde la inglaterra medieval en clave naif y con el aroma inconfudible a home recording, la magia imperfecta que el dúo imprimió a todas sus grabaciones se combina con la poesía surrealista de Lewis Caroll. Además se intercalan fragmentos hablados que rompen la estructura de canciones, dejándome sensanciones al estilo de Mayo Thompson. Así es difícil describir que se siente con 'the march of the chessmen', 'dam and dee' o 'jabberwocky', quizá sea eso, un sueño. Para los curiosos el sinfín de instrumentos que desfilan en 'alice through the looking glass'  son: órganos, chirimías, mandolinas, glockenspiel, guitarras, bajos, pianos, auto-arpas, varios instrumentos de percusión extraños y un número de técnicas peculiares de grabación.

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