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A heavy duty box, printed with metallic inks, holds the 11 discs as well as a 100 page book containing a lengthy historic essay, Smithsonian interview with Harry Bertoia, exclusive Sonambient era material from the Bertoia archive, modern and archival photos of the Bertoia barn as well as reflections on Bertoia from David Sefton, Tom Welsh, David Harrington (Kronos Quartet) and all three of Bertoia's children. The Complete Sonambient Collection celebrates 100 years of Harry Bertoia in 2015, the centennial of his birth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1950s Harry Bertoia (1915-1978), already a renowned American sculptor, began creating long-form, improvised pieces of music utilizing pure acoustic tones evoked from his sound sculptures. Around this time Bertoia came up with the term \"Sonambient\" to describe the music and environment created by his tonal sculptures and their lush harmonic overtones. In a renovated barn on his property deep in the Pennsylvania woods Harry curated a harmonious selection of his sculptures and gongs, often recording his frequent, intuitive sound experiments using fout overhead microphones and a 1\/4\" tape recorder. Bertoia dedicated the last twenty years of his life to his Sonambient work and in 1970 he released the first Sonambient LP. In 1978, in the final months of his life, he selected recordings from his archive and produced ten more Sonambient records. He would not live long enough to see or hear these records himself. Bertoia died in 1978, at age 63, and was buried beneath a giant gong behind his Sonabmient barn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBertoia's recordings are as much a celebration of sustained tones, slow decay, healing vibrations and shimmering harmonics as Indian Classical music, singing bowls, The Well Tuned Piano or Benjamin Franklin's glass armonica. Through these rich harmonics, pulsing tones and pure gongs Bertoia was able to more clearly articulate his inner spirit than he could with sculpture alone – a point he made himself many times in interview. Harry's single greatest piece of art is the totality of his life which is nearly impossible to measure but easy to feel. It's our hope that somehow this box set evokes some of the same sacred, personal feeling that one has in Bertoia's barn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYour purchase directly supports the preservation of Harry Bertoia's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSonambient\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e archive. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe height=\"315\" width=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zS-YQ0-Rmmk\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe height=\"315\" width=\"560\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jAFsSyJkDWU\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/224957747\u0026amp;color=ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResources: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.harrybertoia.org\/\"\u003eBertoia Foundation\u003c\/a\u003e          \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.arietobertoia.org\/\"\u003eBertoia Italy\u003c\/a\u003e          \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bertoiasounds.com\/\"\u003eBertoia Studios\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/26\/468881945\/sound-sculptor-harry-bertoia-created-musical-meditative-art\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNPR\u003c\/a\u003e feature\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/style-blog\/wp\/2015\/03\/27\/sculptures-you-can-hear-why-harry-bertoias-sonambient-art-still-resonates\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWashington Post feature article\u003c\/a\u003e by Marc Masters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.factmag.com\/2016\/02\/21\/harry-bertoia-sounding-sculptures-sonambient-important-records\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSonambient interview\u003c\/a\u003e ~ Fact Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is the real deal, pure art in all manifestations, and it's possibly the quintessential collection of ambient music ever made.\" ~ \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.factmag.com\/2016\/02\/24\/february-reissues-susumu-yokota-harry-bertoia\/11\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eFact Magazine\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"'When I know a man's sound, that's this man,' stated John Coltrane in a 1966 interview. He was speaking of what he called music of the individual, and no better example can be found than sculptor and improviser Harry Bertoia. This massive and expertly documented set encapsulates the work of Bertoia's last 20 years, when he built what he came to call his sonambient sculptures, and there is absolutely no other music like it.\" ~ Fanfare \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Complete Sonambient Collection offers deep listening of the highest order. These are sounds which are as worthy of heavy contemplation as any, but they're even better when you just let go and feel them like so much sand between your toes, as an eternal sound for which there can be no words.\" ~ \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/thequietus.com\/articles\/19517-harry-bertoia-the-complete-sonambient-recordings-review\"\u003eThe Quietus \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cspan\u003eOne hears not just the rumble and reverberation of stroked gongs, struck metal sheets, or colliding rides, but the dimensions of Bertoia's studio. The experience is not merely sensual, but follows hearing and feeling back to the conscious and unconscious sentiments stirred by them.\" ~ \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/dustedmagazine.tumblr.com\/post\/139497454610\/harry-bertoia-sonambient-the-recordings-of\"\u003eDusted\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The supremely well-curated and tirelessly hard-working Important Records finally present one of the most important and anticipated editions in their enviably impressive catalogue to date, a staggering, lushly packaged box-set with the complete Sonambient Collection, featuring all 11 Bertoia Sonambient releases newly restored from the original master reels.\" ~ SoundOhm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.frastuoni.it\/?p=3105\"\u003eFrastuoni \u003c\/a\u003e (Italian)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"reviews\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Imprec","offers":[{"title":"11xCD Boxset","offer_id":9806976900,"sku":"imprec419","price":98.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11 LP Box - Gold Vinyl","offer_id":39641705250890,"sku":"","price":300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11 LP Box - Black Vinyl","offer_id":39641707151434,"sku":"","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0972\/4654\/products\/ScreenShot2023-03-28at9.59.39AM.png?v=1680013012"},{"product_id":"imprec421","title":"Duane Pitre - Bayou Electric - CD \/ LP","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"details\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor synthesizers, sine tones, amplified violin\/viola\/cello, field recording and custom software. \u003cbr\u003eWritten\/recorded\/reconfigured\/mixed July-October 2014, New Orleans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDedicated to Pitre's family: past, present and future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Bayou Electric\"\u003c\/em\u003e is the final installment in an unplanned trilogy, with \"\u003cem\u003eFeel Free\u003c\/em\u003e \"and \"\u003cem\u003eBridges\"\u003c\/em\u003e making up the first and second installments in the series, respectfully. All three works share similar characteristics, compositional processes, alternate tuning schemes, instrumentation and a certain ethos that the composer views as cohesive whole. There is a progression toward refinement over the course of this trilogy, in the overall \"sound\" of the albums and in their dependence on other musicians to realize them (each less dependent than its predecessor). \"\u003cem\u003eBayou Electric,\"\u003c\/em\u003e which contains a single, calming and cathartic composition (of the same title), brings this cycle to a gentle and unhurried finale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe field recording utilized in \"\u003cem\u003eBayou Electric\" \u003c\/em\u003e was captured on a late night in August, 2010 at the edge of Four Mile Bayou; Louisiana land that has been in Pitre's family since January 14, 1922. Upon listening to what he'd captured, Pitre become enthralled by the fabric of sound that the wildlife on this waterway had created. It evoked many feelings - such as how past generations of his relatives lived amongst these same sounds and walked the same land - creating a powerful connection and a sense of timelessness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePitre was set on finding a way to use this field recording in his music, but wanted to do so without simply adding it to a composition as just another layer of sound or by molding it (via 'processing') into something easier to work with. Instead, Pitre decided to start with the unaltered field recording and build the instrumentation around it, in a highly sympathetic manner, with the musical portion becoming accompaniment to the sounds of this remote land. This was the catalyst of \"\u003cem\u003eBayou Electric\"\u003c\/em\u003e and of primary importance to him, as a way to connect to his Cajun heritage in his own artistic way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"At the base of Bayou Electric is a field recording that Pitre made in Louisiana back in August 2010. It's unmistakably the sound of the night; the soundscape of wildlife filling the empty spaces where light and landscape used to be, with insects purring and chirping like water flow and electric fences. There's a sense of rural, open space as the chorus fills up the sky. No doubt the view during the day extends for miles on all sides, spilling down the sides of lush hills and rising upward to touch the clouds. Instead of carving up this recording and dispersing it amongst other instrumentation, Pitre keeps it intact. The landscape exists as a whole, and the instruments sprout upon it like plant life. Violins and organs linger like late evening fog, spreading into eachother with unconscious movement, and with the same grace and ecological cohesion that his environment exists and interacts, Pitre embeds a music that swerves and sways as the wind and weather dictate.\" ~ \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.attnmagazine.co.uk\/music\/9137\"\u003eAttn Magazine\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Pitre's swelling tones evoke frankly emotional grandeur.\" ~ \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/importantrecords.com\/imprec\/Pitre%E2%80%99s%20swelling%20tones%20evoke%20frankly%20emotional%20grandeur.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDusted\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It's easy to bathe in Bayou Electric as an atmosphere, a replication of time and place. But it's also hard to listen without the subtle musicality and undercurrent of composition seeping into your brain, making you hear this 48-minute piece not as nature nor artifice nor even something in between, but a third thing - one which naming would likely oversimplify. Throughout his 'unplanned trilogy' Pitre has been adept at creating experience, making something exist that wasn't there before and encompass what wasn't surrounded before. In that sense, Bayou Electric might be his greatest triumph, because its source material existed since before any of us, yet what Pitre does with it is genuinely new.\" ~ \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/importantrecords.com\/imprec\/It%E2%80%99s%20easy%20to%20bathe%20in%20Bayou%20Electric%20as%20an%20atmosphere,%20a%20replication%20of%20time%20and%20place.%20But%20it%E2%80%99s%20also%20hard%20to%20listen%20without%20the%20subtle%20musicality%20and%20undercurrent%20of%20composition%20seeping%20into%20your%20brain,%20making%20you%20hear%20this%2048-minute%20piece%20not%20as%20nature%20nor%20artifice%20nor%20even%20something%20in%20between,%20but%20a%20third%20thing%20-%20one%20which%20naming%20would%20likely%20oversimplify.%20Throughout%20his%20%E2%80%9Cunplanned%20trilogy%E2%80%9D%20Pitre%20has%20been%20adept%20at%20creating%20experience,%20making%20something%20exist%20that%20wasn%E2%80%99t%20there%20before%20and%20encompass%20what%20wasn%E2%80%99t%20surrounded%20before.%20In%20that%20sense,%20Bayou%20Electric%20might%20be%20his%20greatest%20triumph,%20because%20its%20source%20material%20existed%20since%20before%20any%20of%20us,%20yet%20what%20Pitre%20does%20with%20it%20is%20genuinely%20new.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eMarc Masters\/The Out Door\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If that genre often seems chilly and academic, Pitre's slow and graceful arcs have substantially more emotional heft. 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The obligatory Eno comparison would be to 'Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks,' but maybe think of this is an accidental adjunct to the 'Ambient' series: not 'Music For Airports,' but 'Music For Bayous'....\" \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.uncut.co.uk\/uncut-editors-diary\/reviewed-dave-heumann-gospelbeach-duane-pitre-ballake-sissokovincent-segal-70958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eUncut\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Imprec","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":9806978116,"sku":"imprec421","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":12569967812,"sku":"imprec421","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Clear LP","offer_id":12569967876,"sku":"imprec421","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0972\/4654\/products\/be-cover-mockup.jpeg?v=1446135892"},{"product_id":"imprec418","title":"Alessandro Cortini - Forse 3 - 2LP  + RED VINYL +  LTD. 250 +","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"details\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e++++++++\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdition of 250 on RED VINYL. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2015 factory mis-press on red vinyl instead of purple vinyl. Your purchase helps us make space and renovate the downstairs of our barn. Thank you!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e++++++++\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails, How To Destroy Angels) recorded Forse using a Buchla Music Easel, of which only 13 are known to exist. Forse, meaning \"maybe\" In Italian, is a series of 3 double LP releases.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"All pieces were written and performed live on a Buchla Music Easel, in the span of one month. I found that the limited array of modules that the instrument offers sparked my creativity. Most pieces consist of a repeating chord progression, where the real change happens at a spectral\/dynamic level, as opposed to the harmonic\/chordal one. 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This minimalistic focus arises from the polyrhythmic and stratigraphic potential of voltage-controlled sequencers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSynthesis, drone and immersive listening are three fundamental conditions to enhance an advanced auditory art, not based on extrinsic links, but solely built on the experience of the spectrum, able to develop our very limited ability of perceiving the vertical domain of music, involving us in a holistic way. Caterina Barbieri is a composer and performer of electro-acoustic music. 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The compositions on this album consider notions of sustenance, shifting harmonic spectra, psycho-acoustic derivation of artificial resultant tones, and interior movement within a semblance of stasis. Over the past five years, Davachi's compositional projects have been primarily concerned with disclosing the antiquated instruments and forgotten sonics of a bygone era in analog synthesis; her work on August Harp puts forth offerings from Buchla \u0026amp; Associates, Sequential Circuits, and EMS (London), subsuming transitions that took place between 1968 and 1981. Informed by the lush electronic tapestries of experimentalist-era synthesis pioneers, her music often exudes the sorts of wandering transformations inherent in real-time performance with analog equipment. August Harp exploits the innate instabilities of these instruments, constructing layers of texture that seem to pull each other apart as the discrepancies in frequency of the merged sound gradually swell and wane. Coupled with acoustic instruments such as cello and organ, Davachi seeks to direct the experience of timbral coalescence: mutual acoustic identities are brought together; cocooning the listener into a space that is at once physical, yet invariably out of reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a composer of electronic and electro-acoustic music, Sarah Davachi engages in practices of analog and modular synthesis and psycho-acoustic manipulations. 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The arrangements shift gracefully from floods of lush string texture to driving guitar and drum motif; from ebbs of brass and deep electric sine wave to thick hazes of clanging din and steely whine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally from the crystalline shores of northern New Zealand, Jeff now resides in New York City's torrid Lower East Side. 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Inspiration is drawn directly from vibrational waves (sound, gravity, water).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe electronics, of which both pieces are constructed, are tuned using Pure Intonation which utilizes the prime numbers: 1-3-5-7.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn art edition of 300, available exclusively from Imprec, will be packaged in a 5 color, screen printed jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ravd7K_n-zs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTRACK LISTING\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tracklist\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSide A: Vibration: Sine Pools\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSide B: Enclosure: Wave Ramp \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/still-single.tumblr.com\/post\/79235070637\/pitreleh-s-t-lp-important\"\u003eBill Meyer\/Still Single\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Imprec","offers":[{"title":"Leftover edition","offer_id":29144936906826,"sku":"imprec384","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Black Vinyl","offer_id":9807105156,"sku":"imprec384","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Art Edition - Clear LP","offer_id":12586302603338,"sku":"imprec384","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0972\/4654\/products\/IMG_6931.jpg?v=1564595690"},{"product_id":"imprec028","title":"Eliane Radigue - Adnos I-III - 3CD","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"details\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEliane Radigue's Adnos trilogy was composed between 1973 and 1980 and is among her finest compositions. 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Not just in an era, or genre-specific way (in this case: minimalism), but in the sense that when listening to these 70-minute-long drone-based pieces, time seems suspended.\" ~ \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/importantrecords.com\/imprec\/French%20composer%20Eliane%20Radigue's%20Adnos%20I-III%20trilogy%20may%20have%20been%20composed%20between%201973%20and%201980,%20but%20these%20related%20works%20are%20timeless.%20Not%20just%20in%20an%20era,%20or%20genre-specific%20way%20(in%20this%20case:%20minimalism),%20but%20in%20the%20sense%20that%20when%20listening%20to%20these%2070-minute-long%20drone-based%20pieces,%20time%20seems%20suspended.\"\u003eExclaim\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Imprec","offers":[{"title":"3xCD","offer_id":9807107780,"sku":"imprec028","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0972\/4654\/products\/imprec028_web.jpeg?v=1446135992"},{"product_id":"imprec387","title":"Born of Six - Svapiti - CD","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"details\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn of Six, featuring Amelia Cuni, Catherine Christer Hennix and Werner Durand, create exemplary drone compositions rooted in the traditions of Dhrupad, Early Minimalism and Just Intonation. 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Urgent CD reissue of the sold out LP containing a beautiful and exclusive 15-minute bonus track not included on the LP release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElse Marie Pade (born December 2, 1924 in Aarhus) is a Danish composer who pioneered electronic and concrete music in Denmark beginning in 1954 . Pade was active in the resistance movement during the Second World War, and was interned at the Frøslev prison camp from 1944 till the end of the war. An archival collection of Else Marie Pade's electronic work is now available on Important Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDanish artist Jacob Kirkegaard's works are focused on scientific and aesthetic aspects of sonic perception. He explores acoustic spaces and phenomena that usually remain imperceptible to the immediate ear. Kirkegaard's installations, compositions \u0026amp; photographs are created from within a variety of environments such as subterranean geyser vibrations, empty rooms in Chernobyl, a rotating TV tower, and even sounds from the human inner ear itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased in Berlin, Germany, Kirkegaard is a graduate of the Academy for Media Arts in Cologne. Since 1995, Kirkegaard has presented his works at galleries, museums, venues \u0026amp; conferences throughout the world. His sound works are primarily released by the British record label Touch and he is a member of the sound art collective freq-out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite an age difference of 51 years, Else Marie Pade and Jacob Kirkegaard speak a similar musical language and are prominent listeners and communicators of sounds that we tend to overhear. For the first time these two pioneers are collaborating on a new work: SVÆVNINGER investigates the variations that one can hear when sound waves collide. Both artists have previously worked on this phenomenon; Jacob Kirkegaard in his work Labyrinthitis (2007) and Else Marie Pade in her work Faust Suite (1962). For their new joint piece SVÆVINGER, they remixed some of Pade's early (and hitherto unreleased) sound experiments with some of Kirkegaard's recordings from his own ear, thus leading the audience straight into the undiscovered labyrinths of their own hearing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTRACK LISTING\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tracklist\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Cirrocumulus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Cirrostratus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Stratus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e4. Altocumulus\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5. Cumulonimbus\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e6. 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Like Englishwomen Delia Derbyshire and Daphne Oram, Pade is enjoying a measure of appreciation denied her during her pioneering days - in this case, the middle of the 20th century, when she was her country's first electronic composer. Unlike them, she's not only still alive but also still working. Svævninger features long, glassy tones close enough to each other in pitch that they induce beating tones and lively otoacoustic emissions (sounds that occur only inside the ear). 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Hand numbered edition of 500, with 100 copies on red vinyl - to be played at 33rpm. Intended for high volume playback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf Eliane Radigue and Kevin Drumm made a record together it might sound something like Total Life. Kevin Doria creates a sound world with deep inner dynamics shrouded by distortion. Whether you stay on the surface or listen deeply, the energy in this work is vivid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded and mixed at home in the Winter of 2012, Radiator represents the first proper full length release by Total Life for Important Records. \u003cspan\u003eRadiator \u003c\/span\u003eis inspired by standing on the gas and pushing forward by any means necessary in a fog of high volume and hazy memories, true love and terminal velocity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKevin Doria plays the Endangered Audio Research AD4096 analog delay, pedal modulated and tweaked by the GRIZLA Gristleizer through Ampeg Amplification as loud as possible with the aide of Ninkasi Brewing\u003cbr\u003eCompany India Pale Ales. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VrRNsr6RP0k?list=UUnpPhRN6vKUee6wL2WdCEZw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTRACK LISTING\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tracklist\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. 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The two pieces that comprise the album are meant to work together in sequence as a composite work; or they can be isolated and listened to on their own. The title derives its name from the original concept for this work, which was to bring together aspects of traditional Eastern music (such as compositional form and tuning) with Western musical traditions (such as in the church music of the Middle Ages and modern classical music). The result is an album that merges the ancient with the new, while creating a sound that is wholly its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD is housed in a 6-panel digipack on thick board stock with a matte laminate coating \u0026amp; spot-gloss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuane Pitre - compositions, cumbus, ukelin, mandolin, computer, \u0026amp; electronics\u003cbr\u003eOliver Barrett - cello\u003cbr\u003eBhob Rainey - soprano saxophone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten\/arranged\/recorded\/mixed August - November 2012. Mastered by Altered Ear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4gvOcVyFO5c?list=UUnpPhRN6vKUee6wL2WdCEZw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTRACK LISTING\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tracklist\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Bridges: Earth\/Ember\/Serpent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. 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The withdrawal of Feel Free's random elements reasserts compositional control, and in doing so, makes clear that Pitre is a creator of systems rather than an artist beholden to a particular system.\"  ~ \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dustedmagazine.com\/reviews\/7728\"\u003eDusted\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"More confident than Feel Free, he may quote in the style of the avant-garde's history and vernacular, but compared to most lifeless \"New Music\" nowadays, this album moves intuitively, and actually breathes. It's almost like a punk album: we have the sound of someone developing their own language by studying and then casting aside lineage, history, and theory – and just doing it. I'm curious to hear how he evolves.\" ~ \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/importantrecords.com\/imprec\/%20http:\/\/www.theliminal.co.uk\/2013\/07\/duane-pitre-bridges\/#sthash.DSiBmfh9.dpuf\"\u003eThe Liminal\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eBridges displays an impressive evolution\u003cem\u003e.\" ~ \u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/brainwashed.com\/index.php?option=com_content\u0026amp;view=article\u0026amp;id=9770%3Aduane-pitre-qbridgesq\u0026amp;catid=13%3Aalbums-and-singles\u0026amp;Itemid=133\"\u003eBrainwashed\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"'My hope is that this compilation, both its sound and its text, will shed light on what is indeed another beautiful facet of the world of music,'\" he wrote. His goal, then, has long been to illuminate and not to obscure. He is an outsider who became an insider without forgetting that most of us were beginners once, too.\" ~ \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indyweek.com\/indyweek\/duane-pitre-and-the-simple-spell-of-seemingly-difficult-music\/Content?oid=3695718\u0026amp;issue=3695406\"\u003eIndy Week\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/blog.lividinstruments.com\/2013\/08\/12\/duane-pitre-interview-expressing-the-avant-garde-with-code-and-alias8\/\"\u003eBest of 2013 ~ \u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoreader.com\/Bleader\/archives\/2014\/01\/07\/my-favorite-albums-of-2013-numbers-40-through-31\"\u003eChicago Reader\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eINTERVIEWS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/blog.lividinstruments.com\/2013\/08\/12\/duane-pitre-interview-expressing-the-avant-garde-with-code-and-alias8\/\"\u003eLivid Instruments\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/theberrics.com\/interrogation\/duane-pitre-interrogated.html\"\u003eThe Berrics\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Imprec","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":9807116612,"sku":"imprec390","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":12570921348,"sku":"imprec390","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Clear LP","offer_id":12579040591946,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0972\/4654\/products\/pitre_highres_copy.jpeg?v=1446136002"},{"product_id":"imprec373","title":"Alessandro Cortini - Forse 1 - 2LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e2023 repress\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e100 copies on red splatter vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails\/How To Destroy Angels) composed the Forse series using a Buchla Music Easel, \u003cspan\u003eof which only 13 are known to exist\u003c\/span\u003e. 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Dreyblatt was fortunate to gain rare permission to record this device in operation without patients being involved. A technician from Siemens manned the machine especially for these recordings, searching for software settings related to their resulting sonic output rather than for scanning particular body areas. Dreyblatt treated the device as a giant \"Tesla coil,\" in which the alignment and resonances of a powerful magnetic field is gradually altered by rotating radio frequencies. Dreyblatt analysed and deconstructed the original recordings and grouped the audio segments by pitch, rhythm and density. 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First 100 copies are on violet vinyl.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew minimalist composition from Lawrence English composed and recorded over the month of July in 2011 - whilst nursing his newly arrived daughter between the hours of 11pm and 4am. \u003cspan\u003eRecorded entirely with an elka 30 organ and given a gentle toasting through LPE's analog mastering set up.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe room around it is filled with a dusty ash; smoke in haze-like proportions. Eyes are blood shot, sunken below the rim of a glass. \u003cspan\u003eThe organ's speakers cough vibrations into the room, smoke plumes spinning and spiralling into dissipation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo one speaks though the room is crowded, there is nothing to say and no one cares to hear it. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIs there ever a time for last drinks? 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With his newly found treasure, Hoolboom began working on a film consisting of still images, slowly dissolving one into another. Intensifying the slow, hypnotic pace and transitions, the musical score follows the three parts of the film (black \u0026amp; white, color, black \u0026amp; white) with dream-like, barely moving sonic structures. In the film (which is still in the making, working title Secret Photographs), the music will be accompanied by a voice-over and additional field recordings. On this album though, the original score is presented in it's pure, unhurried form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlvin Karpis (born Albin Francis Karpowicz; August 10, 1907) was one of the most notorious bank robbers of the twentieth century. He was named public enemy number one and arrested by J. Edgar Hoover in 1936. He was sent to the then recently formed Alcatraz penitentiary, where he became its longest serving prisoner. Karpis was released on parole in 1969, and wrote a best-selling memoir. 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From his interest in sound phenomena and harmonics Rabe was able to make one of the most deep, moving pieces of sustained sound generated in this formative era of minimalist electronic composition. Initially reissued on Dexter's Cigar in 1997 and now available on Important with expanded packaging including archival materials furnished by the composer. Amplified infinity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"My interest in the makeup of various sound phenomena began many years ago. The basic physical preconditions were familiar to me, but I wanted to experience the components of the sound with my hearing. I attempted to 'hear into' the different sounds in order to grasp the components that made them up. I experienced how the overtones in a tone sounding on the piano change slowly as they die away. I also attempted to grasp the brittle arpeggio of formants that arises when a vowel is slowly changed at a particular pitch. 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Side A features two new tracks from the legendary German sound artist Asmus Tietchens. Side B features two new pieces from Kouhei Matsunaga. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLast Summer, Important released some highly praised records with Kouhei Matsunaga, including a collaborative CD with Sean Booth (Autechre) and Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic), a split LP with Mika Vainio and a full length CD of his own solo work. The breadth and quality of Kouhei's work was apparent across these three releases, and his compositions for this split LP serve to create connections between his beat based work and his more abstract soundscapes. Kouhei's most recent solo work was just released by Skam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAsmus Tietchen's contributions to contemporary electronic music is immense. The two pieces making up his side of the record have been sculpted from stochastic sequences of pure sine waves as well as guitar samples given to him by Dirk Serries (Fear Falls Burning) not for the purpose of collaboration, but for processing purposes. Sonic events orchestrated by a sonic master.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTRACK LISTING\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tracklist\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAsmus Tietchens: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Die kopflosen Frauen von Unger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Gitter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKouhei Matsunaga:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Margin Sequence #1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Chasing the Night \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"TMT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tinymixtapes.com\/chocolate-grinder\/listen-asmus-tietchens-kouhei-matsunaga-a1\"\u003eTiny Mix Tapes\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/importantrecords.com\/imprec\/Kouhei%20Matsunaga\/Asmus%20Tietchens%20split%20LP%20review%20via%20Paris%20Transatlantic:%20http:\/\/www.paristransatlantic.com\/magazine\/monthly2012\/03mar_text.html#7\"\u003eParis Transatlantic\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Imprec","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":9807197508,"sku":"imprec334","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"White LP","offer_id":12579083419722,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0972\/4654\/products\/asmuskouhei.jpeg?v=1446136072"},{"product_id":"imprec337","title":"Eliane Radigue - Transamorem - Transmortem - CD","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"details\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTransamorem - Transmortem (1973); ARP Synthesizer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Before the greatest achievement\u003cbr\u003eBefore the greatest detachment. \u003cbr\u003eAt the limit of the frontier space of the unconscious - tuned waves - 'consonant things vibrate together.'\u003cbr\u003eWhere does the change happen? In the inner field of perception or the exterior reality of moving things in the course of becoming.\u003cbr\u003eAnd time is no longer an obstacle, but the means by which the possible is achieved.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e~ Eliane Radigue - June 20, 1973\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTransamorem - Transmortem was premiered on March 9, 1974 at The Kitchen in NYC, where the music programmer at the time was Rhys Chatham - this was right before his guitar phase. During this period, Transamorem - Transmortem was presented along with other compositions by Eliane Radigue in a linear mode of listening, although the piece had originally been conceived, during its composition, as a sound installation. Of course, both modes of listening are possible, and each works marvelously in its own way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn their original form, Eliane Radigue's works are magnetic tapes. After being played a few times in public, the tape disappears to its case until a release proposal makes it available again through a disc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring this period Eliane Radigue's compositions became fairly long, some lasting over an hour. Because the tracks could not be edited for some obvious reasons, a vinyl release was unthinkable. It was only in the 90s, with the advent of the CD format, that the long compositions of Eliane Radigue were made available (with the exception of the Song of Milarepa LP on Lovely Music, a work already divided into multiple movements and thus able to be fit onto two sides of an LP).  For these reasons, the work of Eliane Radigue remained virtually unknown for twenty years - from the 70s to the 90s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was in 2004, when she accepted my aid in digitizing her archives, along with Lionel Marchetti, that I discovered Transamoren - Transmortem.  Immediately, I was awed by the majestic grace of this very long tangle of frequencies, this set of seemingly unchanging tones, whose variations are of a delicate subtlety.  Transamoren - Transmorten is recognizable as one of the most radical of Radigue's compositions, comparable to the first Adnos, the work that follows Transamoren - Transmortem chronologically.  Very few transformations, an apparent formal aridity that is then contradicted by the physical play of the frequencies as the listener turns her head gently from right to left, or better yet as the listener moves slowly throughout the music space.  Moving through zones of specific frequencies, the listener's body experiences localized zones of low, medium and treble frequencies which vary according to the acoustic properties of the space.  As Radigue wrote of Adnos: \"to displace stones in the bed of a river does not affect the course of water, but rather modifies the way the water flows.\"  Here, we find the same meditative tension proposing a peaceful movement through the spaces created by the different frequencies that compose Transamoren - Transmortem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVery well-organized, Eliane Radigue's archives are a pleasure to explore, and Transamorem - Transmortem's case contained a mine of information. What excited me most was the short text entitled Inner Space, which described the ideal conditions under which Transamorem - Transmortem should be presented. That is to say, as a sound installation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Inner Space -\u003cbr\u003eThis monophonic tape should be played on 4 speakers placed in the four corners of an empty room.  Carpet on the floor. The impression of different points of origin of the sound is produced by the localization of the various zones of frequencies, and by the displacements produced by simple movements of the head within the acoustic space of the room.  A low point of light on the ceiling, in the center of the room, produced by indirect lighting.  Several white light projectors of very weak intensity whose rays, coming from different angles, meet at a single point.\" ~ Eliane Radigue, 1973\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI immediately felt that it was necessary to make Transamoren-Transmorten available once again, and this time in its ideal form, in trying to follow Radigue's recommendations word for word. It was with this idea in mind that the Cumulus collective (also responsible for the contemporary music festival Why Note) organized the Continuum festival in Dijon along with the art space Le Consortium (one of the founders of which had persuaded the group Circle X to record their first, mythic EP in Dijon in 1979 - but that's another story!).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe goal was to correctly present some of Eliane Radigue's sound installations, an aspect of her work now completely forgotten.  And yet, between 1967 and 1971 her work was often exhibited in galleries of contemporary art, mostly in Paris (Lara Vincy, Yvon Lambert, etc.), a reflection of the fact that French people have had a harder time than Americans placing the work of Radigue.  She herself hesitated for quite a while to use the word \"music\" to describe her work, a complex that is familiar to this generation of musicians, and which is now no longer really a problem.  Who would claim that the work of Eliane Radigue is not musical?  That would be strange .... \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 2006 Continuum festival in Dijon saved four sound installations from the dust (an expression that Radigue uses to describe her archives): S=a=b=a+b (1969), Omnht (1970), Labyrinthe Sonore (1970) and Transamorem - Transmortem (1973).  The first two installations are composed with feedback, the two others with the sounds of the ARP 2500 synthesizer.  Each one is based on a strategy of specific spatial presentation, but that's also another story ....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow it's your turn to enjoy this enveloping electronic space ....  \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e~ Manu Holterbach (translated by Maxime Guitton)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTRACK LISTING\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tracklist\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTransamorem - Transmortem\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"Tiny Mix Tapes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tinymixtapes.com\/music-review\/eliane-radigue-thransamorem-thransmortem\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTiny Mix Tapes\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"ATTN\" href=\"http:\/\/www.attnmagazine.co.uk\/music\/4174\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAttn: Magazine\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"brainwashed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brainwashed.com\/index.php?option=com_content\u0026amp;view=article\u0026amp;id=8857:elaine-radigue-qtranamorem-transmortemq\u0026amp;catid=13:albums-and-singles\u0026amp;Itemid=133\"\u003eBrainwashed\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"radigue\" href=\"http:\/\/grisli.canalblog.com\/archives\/2011\/07\/21\/21649710.html\"\u003eLe Son Du Grisli (in French)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Imprec","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":9807199364,"sku":"imprec337","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0972\/4654\/products\/imprec337.jpeg?v=1446136075"},{"product_id":"imprec279","title":"Asva - Presences of Absences - CD","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"details\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Intention. The thing I'd always felt deep down about Asva recordings was that sense of... intention.  Good as they have been, they rang hollow, as if the truth of what nature borne those tracks was hidden behind a veneer of having to 'be' a definable thing, genre specific, a way to 'belong' somewhere in the midst of other musics. The intention behind Presences of Absences has been to make something real and unbiased, an honest effort at reproducing what is Asva's nature as a band and as individuals. Not heavy in the traditional sense of 'heavy,' but emotive and powerful, not quirky, not elusive or exclusive, but  a different breed entirely. Presences of Absences is about sincerity, goodwill and compassion, honesty, hard work and in the deepest sense, thanks and reflection at the end of the day. It's a discussion in music utilizing traditional elements (liturgical, plain chant, tintinnabuli musics, folk and gospel musics, acoustic organ and wind instruments, etc.) and contemporary electric instrumentation and playing methods  to expose our shared origins, our pasts, presents and futures, and the common thread passing through our relationships to all of it.... Presences of Absences is a big work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"P of A  began as a singularly personal project. I had envisioned creating a solo work and had recorded the basis for these tracks (reed and electric organs, electric bass and guitar, bells) over the course of perhaps a hundred and fifty early morning sessions in my rehearsal room. As the concept grew, and after a lot of deliberation, I realized that involving other creative minds to form a true collaborative we could, together, push P of A  into a whole new arena with considerable added dimension. Greg Gilmore, Toby Driver, and Jake Weller are musicians and composers of whom I have long admired and feel possess an intuitive sensitivity towards music and who, like myself, are not afraid of exposing themselves as truly individual voices unencumbered by any need to 'be' anything nameable. Presences of Absences speaks the naked truth about it's creators, and ultimately about us as people. \" ~ G. Stuart Dahlquist February, 2011\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTRACK LISTING\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tracklist\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. A Bomb In That Suitcase\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Birds\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Presences of Absences\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. New World Order Rising\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.musiquemachine.com\/reviews\/reviews_template.php?id=3250\" target=\"_self\"\u003eMusique Machine\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e (5 stars)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca title=\"Brainwashed\" href=\"http:\/\/brainwashed.com\/index.php?option=com_content\u0026amp;view=article\u0026amp;id=8840%3Aasva-qpresences-of-absencesq\u0026amp;catid=13%3Aalbums-and-singles\u0026amp;Itemid=133\"\u003eBrainwashed\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"Asva Interview\" href=\"http:\/\/importantrecords.com\/imprec\/Interview%20with%20Stuart%20Dahlquist%20about%20the%20%22highly%20innovative%22%20new%20Asva%20record:%20http:\/\/www.foxydigitalis.com\/foxyd\/?p=12082\"\u003eFoxy Digitalis Interview\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"asva\" href=\"http:\/\/hammersmashedsound.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/asva-presences-of-absences-review.html\"\u003eHammer Smashed Sound\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/importantrecords.com\/imprec\/Lengthy%20review%20for%20Asva's%20Presences%20Of%20Absences:%20http:\/\/meatmeadmetal.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/18\/outer-edges-asva-transcend-transform-on-enlightening-presences-of-absences\/\"\u003eMeatMeadMetal\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"G. Stuart Dahlquist (founding member of Burning Witch and Sunn O))) – erm – how to close parentheses after THAT band name – ) is soon to deliver to the world the third ASVA record.  Whereas the previous records featured Secret Chief 3’s Trey Spruance and various member of Master Musicians of Bukkake, this new work is built upon stripped-down instrumentation – creaking reed organs, bass guitar, Greg Gilmore’s drums, trumpet, and sublime vocal work by the aforementioned Toby Driver.  Dahlquist’s composition has always been unique unto itself, having to my ears very little in common with a doom aesthetic save for its patient pacing, and here he may well have produced on of 2011s masterpieces – his compositions unwind slowly, across modulations that soothe and intrigue with a melancholic thrust – if it sounds like anything, one can hear shades of Robert Wyatt, \u003cspan\u003eArvo Pärt\u003c\/span\u003e, and Radiohead’s more ambient constructs, and yet these only provide an entry-point into Dahlquist’s singular and compelling soundworld.  I urge every reader to seek this out upon its release.\" ~ Foxy Digitalis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Only on their 3rd album, the continuing evolution of G Stuart Dalquist's Asva is joy to behold. Their debut, Futurists, marked a significant development in the then burgeoning field of Ambient Metal pioneered by Earth, whose Dylan Carlson was a member of the first Asva line-up, and taken to new extremes by Sunn)))). The incorporation of Jessica Kenney's clarion vocal and Troy Swanson's Hammond organ into its solemn crawl added an angelic sublimity and earthy warmth respectively, paving the way for 2008s What You Don't Know Is Frontier. It is a gloriously cathartic exploration of grief whose heaviness felt somehow human rather than purely mythic, distinguishing it from from the theatrical witchery of, say, Sunn))))'s Black One.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Presences feels like a new dawn of sorts, but then so did Futurists and Frontier. Presences could be ambient Metal's response to Talk Talk's Laughing Stock - Dalquist is a Mark Hollis fan, and there's comparably contemplative air breathing through even the more riff-based numbers here, and there are times when Dalquist seems to reach back to some of the sources that inspired Hollis. The organ work for example occasionally hints at Steve Winwood's Traffic days, and that can't be said of many groups who feature an ex-member of Burning Witch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"To date, Asva have benefited from Dalquists rigorous process of addition and subtraction, altering line-ups from album to album. The recruitment of Toby Driver on vocals further expands the band's scope sonically and emotionally. His falsetto invests 'Birds' with a graceful androgyny comparable to Anthony Hegarty's, as it blends with tracks voluminous drone before poking melodic holes in what sounds like a decelerated Terry Riley circa Shri Camel. The folding in of Ora DEll Graham's rendition of 'Shortenin' Bread' from the Alan Lomax archives blends delicacy to the title track, which punctuates wave upon blissful wave of organ with crashing guitars. NWO Rising closes the album on a note of determination, its initial drone essaying a stillness born of stoicism before reverting to a defensive stance as the riff crashes in ahead of a cinematic fade. Here Asva maintain their poise while facing down the uncertain future. Brave.\" ~ The Wire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Imprec","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":9807201476,"sku":"imprec279","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0972\/4654\/products\/51xKOsFLFwL.jpeg?v=1446136077"},{"product_id":"imprec336","title":"Ellen Fullman - Through Glass Panes - CD","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"details\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEllen Fullmans' first proper full length for Important Records follows her collaborative work with Barn Owl (IMPREC277) and a split LP with Eleh (IMPREC318). She was also featured on The Harmonic Series: A Collection Of Work In Just Intonation (IMPREC272).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1981 Ellen Fullman began developing the Long String Instrument, an installation of dozens of wires fifty feet or more in length, tuned in Just Intonation and \"bowed\" with rosin coated fingers. Fullman has developed a unique notation system to choreograph the performer’s movements, exploring sonic events that occur at specific nodal point locations along the string-length of the instrument. She has recorded extensively with this unusual instrument and has collaborated with such luminary figures as composer Pauline Oliveros, choreographer Deborah Hay, the Kronos Quartet, and Keiji Haino. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, commissions and residencies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In composing Event Locations No. 2, I set out to focus more strictly than I ever had on detail in the choreography of my notation. Through writing the piece I designed ways to add more specific information in the score. The tuning uses a set of pitches based in the key of A, in combination with Arnold Dreyblatt’s tuning system based on F. These two roots generate tones in common but also complex or 'dissonant' tones. I wanted to find a way to incorporate more dissonance into my sound and intentionally worked with beating frequencies in this piece. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Never Gets Out of Me, a duet with cellist Theresa Wong, and Flowers, a trio recorded with Travis Weller and Henna Cho, are adaptations from Stratified Bands: Last Kind Words, originally composed for the Kronos Quartet in the Other Minds Festival. The composition is based on Last  Kind Words Blues, a haunting song by Geeshie Wiley recorded in 1930. An excerpt of the lyrics:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'If I get killed, if I get killed, please don’t bury my soul,\u003cbr\u003eI’d pro’bly just leave me out, let the buzzards eat me whole.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The cello and violin writing for these pieces was influenced by my study of North Indian vocal music. My intention is that the sounds of all instruments mesh into an undulation like water flowing. Composed melodic phrases are based on fragments from the song lyrics in combination with impressions from the overtone melodies produced by the long string instrument. Flowers was recorded at Seaholm, a decommissioned electric power plant in Austin, Texas. A flock of sparrows that nest inside the cathedral-like cast-concrete space can be heard chirping on this recording. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Through Glass Panes is constructed around a sequence of rhythmic patterns played using the box bow. Homage to the harmonica, the box bow is a hand held hollow wooden box with a curved lower surface used to play my instrument percussively. Techniques based on hand drumming inform the articulations of the tool used to strike groupings of strings tuned to chords. Two box bow performers stand facing each other at a double-sided resonator to play hocketed parts providing a stable framework from which to measure spectral changes in the sustained texture.\" ~ Ellen Fullman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTRACK LISTING\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tracklist\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Never Gets Out of Me\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Flowers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Through Glass Panes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Event Locations No. 2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"brain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brainwashed.com\/index.php?option=com_content\u0026amp;view=article\u0026amp;id=8865:ellen-fullmann-qthrough-glass-panesq\u0026amp;catid=13:albums-and-singles\u0026amp;Itemid=133\"\u003eBrainwashed\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"The Liminal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theliminal.co.uk\/2011\/06\/ellen-fullman-through-glass-panes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eThe Liminal\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"TMT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tinymixtapes.com\/music-review\/ellen-fullman-through-glass-panes\"\u003eTiny Mix Tapes\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"Fullman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.attnmagazine.co.uk\/music\/4213\"\u003eATTN:Magaine\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"Future Sequence\" href=\"http:\/\/www.futuresequence.com\/article\/ellen-fullman-through-glass-panes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eFuture Sequence\u003c\/a\u003e article \u0026amp; images:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mainFeature\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.futuresequence.com\/Uploads\/ellen-fullman-large.jpg\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEllen Fullman is quite a lady. Having invented her own instrument, the 21 metre Long Stringed Instrument which is played by rubbing the strings with rosin coated hands, and part of the experimental music avant-garde, much covered and admired by Wire magazine, she has played with Pauline Oliveros' infamous Deep Listening Band, Dutch sound art-ist Paul Panhuysen and the Kronos Quartet among others.  Her influence can be heard in the work of many modern classical, ambient and drone artists operating today, such as Richard Skelton, or Erik Skodwin for example.  Her recent split release with the mysterious electronic outfit Eleh, also on Important Records, reiterates the importance and timelessness of her work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNamed after Margaret Rabb's poem (from the book Granite Dives) 'Through Glass Panes' sees Fullman putting to work the long stringed instrument, the metallic rub of the strings on opener 'Never Get Out of Me' is complimented perfectly by electronic treatments similar in intonation to Gareth Hardwicks's Sunday Afternoon - and wavers in the same air bending heat too. Singular sine waves of the mysterious Eleh worked perfectly with Fullmans instrumental setup.  Here the instrument seems to emulate the sitar, an instrument with much history behind it. I remember spending one summer listening to Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin 'East Meets West' collaboration on my flat mates' charity shop vinyl and drinking copious amounts of tea. As a first experience of the raga what struck me was its majestic air, the never-ending shifting forms, and turning pace in the melody and percussion. Owing much to the intonation of the sitar, its metallic twang with lingering notes - a kind of natural decaying drone - the word 'raga' translates literally as 'colour' or 'hue.' Far from being left in the mist of rambling extended pentatonic scales though, there are passages in this, and next track 'Flowers' which touch on beautiful melodies, reached as if discovered through patient meditation. A kind of sonic secret garden. Recordings of birds provide a sweetly tuned back drop that is deeply satisfying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.futuresequence.com\/userfiles\/image\/ellen-fullman-detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough Glass Panes and Event Locations 2 both weigh in at over 20 minutes in length, sitting aside from the preceding tracks in temperament also - these are more rhythmically focused, and technically structured - acutely centred around Fullman's experiments with keys and tuning systems with a view to incorporate more dissonance in her work. The other difference being that the first two tracks are adapted from Stratified Bands: Last Kind Words - written for Kronos Quartet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe air then that surrounds Fullman's every work is live, electric and fundamentally humanist - if the computer has a part in the process of these sounds it is certainly not overt and if anything nothing more than a means to an end. In creating an instrument so intrinsically physical, she stamps a freedom of expression, but at the same time removes the importance of the resulting work on the process. If it is by a need for control, for understanding the root of creation then so be it, the output is remarkable, earthy and classical - and yet modern also.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Imprec","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":9807201860,"sku":"imprec336","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0972\/4654\/products\/336_fullman.jpeg?v=1446136077"},{"product_id":"imprec328","title":"Christina Kubisch - Magnetic Flights - CD","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"details\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo brand new pieces from one of the most exciting, active \u0026amp; relevant members of the first generation sound artists. Magnetic Flights is a perfect follow up to Five Electrical Walks (IMPREC167) and it is being released at the same time as a collection of two of Kubisch's unreleased archival pieces, also on Important.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMagnetic Flights is entirely made of electromagnetic field recordings of international airports and inside  airplanes. The recordings of this piece were made by Christina Kubisch on her travels in 2007 from and to the airports of Bukarest, Manchester, Chicago, Seoul, Munich, Amsterdam, Zurich, Frankfort, Paris, Lisbon, Berlin, Pisa, Milan and London. The sounds were neither altered electronically nor changed in any other way. The only tool which was used, and only for a part of it, was a filtering program (DINR).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll recordings were made with the help of special sensitive wireless headphones, by which the aboveground and underground electromagnetic fields are detected, amplified and made audible. The headphones are custom made, developed by Kubisch, and constructed by the engineer Manfred Fox, Berlin. The sounds are much more musical than one could expect. There are complex layers of high and low frequencies, loops of rhythmic sequences, groups of tiny signals, long drones and many things which change constantly and are hard to describe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMagnetic flights consists of three parts with a short special sound at the beginning, and another one at the end. The piece starts with an electromagnetic sound recorded just before departure, and continues with the material of flight radiations recorded inside different airplanes. These electromagnetic fields slightly change pitch during departure and arrival, but remain quite constant during the flight itself. The relatively high and compact sounds gradually build up a dense layer of vibrations with continuous minimal variations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the second part, some of the previous flight radiations gradually become filtered. The single signals mingle into a mix of small, short, nervous and very rhythmic signals. Their origin might be radio waves, communication signals with the tower, internet and atmospheric disturbances, but these are only guesses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe third part, the situation of arrival or transition, is a mix of typical electromagnetic sounds in the waiting areas of airports such as the deep vibrations of the screens of monitors which slowly fade in and out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe piece ends with the electrical flickering of an electromagnetic field of unknown origin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTRACK LISTING\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tracklist\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Magnetic Flights\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Double Scanning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest of 2011: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.magnetmagazine.com\/2011\/12\/08\/best-of-2011-noise\/\"\u003eMagnet Magazine\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Imprec","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":9807202948,"sku":"imprec328","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0972\/4654\/products\/imprec328_ku.jpeg?v=1446136079"}],"url":"https:\/\/importantrecords.com\/collections\/minimalism-drone.oembed?page=11","provider":"Imprec","version":"1.0","type":"link"}