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[Jan. 20th, 2009|11:02 am] |
After IBM 1401, A User's Manual, Fordlândia is the second instalment in a proposed trilogy based on technology and iconic American brand names. Whereas IBM 1401, A User's Manual was a personal response to technology and its inevitable obsolescence (inspired by his father's work with mainframe computers in 1960s Iceland), Fordlândia springs out of a far more diffuse set of influences. It brings together the soaring grandeur of its predecessor – some sections were recorded with the same orchestra in Prague – and the intimacy of Englabörn, moving between heady, melting cadences and crystalline motifs with gorgeous, dreamlike logic - http://www.myspace.com/johannjohannsson |
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| Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 2 |
[Jan. 20th, 2009|05:11 pm] |
While 2007's Xerrox Vol. 1 was concerned with notions of the "old world" and firmly rooted in the classical tradition, according to Raster-Noton Vol. 2 strives to access a "new world", working with samples that have been gathered and developed in the USA.
With a linear aeshetic that references the strategies of film music ("a journey without a predetermined target"), Xerrox Vol. 2 is an album which needs to be treated as a whole. The first four tracks are really one entity, and make use of samples of Michael Nyman and Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley, while 'Sora' is based on a fragment Nicolai and Ryuichi Sakamoto's 2004 Insen tour. |
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| Crocodile Steve - Demo (2009) |
[Jan. 20th, 2009|05:49 pm] |
Jaunums pašmāju skatuves un koncertu dzīvē "īru folkpanka" grupa Crocodile Steve.
Interesentiem pieejams uz neskaitāmu un sabiedrībā zināmu grupu "pelniem" (piemērams, Guerilla Habits, Loco Locals) 2008.gada nogalē izveidotās īru folk punk grupas Crocodile Steve studijā Pārdaugava mēģinājumu laikā veiktais četru dziesmu demo ieraksts, par kuru iespējams lepns būtu pat Šeins Makgovans.
Crocodile Steve - Demo (2009) |
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