El desconocido sello de Jerusalem AK DUCK ha publicado este fantastico disco de lo que ahora llaman IDM (intelligent dance music) y que en realidad es el estilo heredero de las legendarias artificial intelligence series que WARP publico en los primeros noventa (Black Dog, B12, Autechre, Aphex Twin…). AMBIDEXTROUS ya ha estado en nuestros boletines y es uno de los mas brillantes grupos rusos electronicos actuales, y en este disco colaboran con los tambien reconocidos GRUNDIK & SLAVA. Hay temas realizados conjuntamente entre ambos y otros por separado. Si te gustan los artistas citados, no lo dejes pasar pues es un disco dificil de conseguir. RECOMENDADO
Betsa Meshel Azman, Kol Ha-Ir, Frogs
Outsider Noesh 2, Qube, Frogs
| Grundik + Slava – Frogsזו היא הוצאה משותפת של תופת פרופ? ושל אוריס מדיה, שהייתי צריך לחשוב ?וב מאוד מה אני כותב עליה.
בואו נתחיל בתופת פרופ? (כי את אוריס מדיה אני לא כ”כ מכיר), תופת הוא מפעל של איש אחד שעושה רבות בשביל המוסיקה הניסיונית והאובר-אל?רנ?יבית בישראל (והפצתה בחו”ל). ועכשיו נניח את הלשון שלי בצד (או לפחות ננסה). כמו כל יוצר ?וב, הם התבגרו עם הזמן ועברו כמה וכמה מיני ז’אנרים של אלק?רוניקה לא קונבנציונאלית בכדי להגיע לאזור שהם נמצאים בו באלבום הזה. אני לא רוצה לחזור על עצמי יותר מדי, אבל אם אצ?רך להגדיר את מה ששמעתי באלבום הזה (משהו שאני מתחמק ממנו מרגע שהתחלתם לקרוא), המילה “?בעי” תחזור על עצמה. ?בעי. המו?יב – אם לא ברור מהשם או מה?ראק-ליס? או מהע?יפה – הוא צפרדעים. המופע שהתחיל בצורה מלהיבה (חומם ע”י אנ? וייס – פורמה) , הפך אחרי שעתיים למשהו שנראה כמו מבחן לסיבולת הקהל, תוך כדי התעסקות עצמית מע? מופרזת של המופיעים. |
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01.04.05 11pm. Grundik (radios, baby theremin, contact mic, computer fan, ipod) and Shige Moriya (live video mixing)
01.04.05 11pm. Grundik (radios, baby theremin, contact mic, computer fan, ipod) and Shige Moriya (live video mixing): improvisation @ Slavas SnowShow FilmFestival, Union square theatre at 100 east 17th St. NYNY. corner of Park Ave. & 17th.
“Frogs” 2005 (aum009/TP004)
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| “Frogs” 2005 (aum009/TP004): 01. the forest made of rain and frogs, 02. a frog gets over his fear of water, 03. the frog gone away with the wind, 04. women of rain forest, 05. one more song about frog, 06. the woman of the forest and clouds like sheep, 07. the forest’s song for big red frog, 08. the old frog’s dream, 09. the travel of water frog to neighbour’s forest through the rains, 10. wet frog getting cold |
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“I have been listening again to your “Frogs” album because I have to compile my top ten for the year and it is definately one of the most incredible things I’ve ever heard. I think it’s fantastic, just a joy…” (Mark Rayne) |
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This release is dedicated to the frogs and represent our collaboration with Victoria Hanna, Igor Krutogolov and Chaos As Shelter. This is a joint release between Auris Media and Topheth Prophet labels. The Frogs is our most recent project. It is the second installment in the Fauna series coming step after for electronics and birds (Stateart). As it says in the title this album is dedicated to the frogs and represent our collaboration with singer Victoria Hanna. We met Victoria, amazing vocal artist from Jerusalem, a couple of years ago and from the very first time it was obvious for us that well do something together. We played several concerts of chants vs. electronics in Israel and USA. One day Victoria sent us a tape with her vocal improvisations that she has recorded using some of our casual live recordings as a playback. She wrote: Do with that what ever you want. So we did. We decided to create a totally new piece from this material. We used a lot of different techniques: from field environmental recordings to live electronics, from electroacoustics to pure synthesizer music, from free noise improvisation to endless drones. There were no compositional or conceptual limits except one thing: we tried to reconstruct that amazing feeling of infinite astonishment that probably Tutuolas palm-wine drinkard felt traveling to the town of ghosts. Something we felt every time we got together with Victoria and started to produce sounds. In the same time one can consider album as an audio book about The Frogs, their friends the forest and the clouds, their women, their fears and their feats. We would also like to mention and greatly thank our other collaborators: Vadim Gusis aka Chaos As Shelter and Igor Krutogolov aka Igor18. 15$ (shipping included) securely payment with Visa, MasterCard, Discover or American Express card through PayPal |
Zookeeper, Grundik+Slava and Ambidextrous split
Jon Barnes
Reviewed 2005-03-28 A+ outing from Grundik & Slava teamed up with Ambidextrous. Some of the tunes are by G & S, some by Ambidextrous, and others are one team remixing the other. All-around stellar electronic compositions, at times leaning toward experimental. Some of the more complex experimental drum patterns are beyond my taste, but even with that said, this album is a gem start to finish. PLAY!
Best tracks: 1, 2, 9
**Track 1: BEAUTIFUL and spacey intro with touches of acid and bleepy percussion. Gets dark and more drummy around minute 4.
**Track 2: More absolutely stunning mellow synth work and astonishingly creative drum patterns. Play this anywhere, anytime, any mood – it will SET the mood.
Track 3: If there were such a thing as “industrial ambient,” this would be it. Another home run.
Track 4: OK here comes the complex meter and drum patterns. Sparse and dominated by a bouncing low-end sound that might be a talking drum.
Track 5: Dark feel with distorted complex drum patterns. Not my fav but well done.
*Track 6: Deep electronic percussion; succeeds even without a discernable melody.
Track 7: Interesting contrast of skittish drum patterns under soothing, ringing vibraphone chords
Track 8: First straight-up dance beat emerges 1:30 into this song. Melody stays lush.
***Track 9: PLAY!! Starts off sinister and ends in bliss. The perfect comedown track to end the album (or your show…)
10.03.05-22.04.05 at Andrea Meislin Gallery
10.03.05-22.04.05 at Andrea Meislin Gallery (526 West 26th Street #214, NYC)
Ofri Cnaani video installation
Grundik Kasyansky audio installation
05.03.05 7pm at the Cave gallery opening
05.03.05 7pm at the Cave gallery opening (58 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Naoki Iwakawa action painting; Shige Moriya action video; Grundik Kasyansky improvised sound
01.02.05 Grundik Kasyansky (radios, baby theremin, prepared computer fan, contact microphone, ipod) at Cave gallery
01.02.05 Grundik Kasyansky (radios, baby theremin, prepared computer fan, contact microphone, ipod) at Cave gallery
Actions Through Senses: Open improvisation series held the first Tuesday of every month (excluding March due to the gallery exhibition). For musicians, dancers, video-artists or anyone who would like to explore creative collaboration in an environment provided by CAVE.
20.01.05 WOW Theatre 59-61 East 4th Street @ Bowery
20.01.05 WOW Theatre 59-61 East 4th Street @ Bowery
January 10, 21 and 22
Elegy #1: A little of the Sea A dance/physical theatre piece is inspired by Zen monks and Haiku poetic tradition of writing their last words on the edge of death. Elegy # 1: A little of the Seais a death poem that reflects the ambiguous and ephemeral nature of mens existence; an elegy as a farewell to life and a salute to death.
Conceived and Directed by: Ximena Garnica and Juan Merchan
Music by: Grundik+Slava and Benjamin Marcantoni