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Y.E.R.M.O. - Collision Zone CD
This album is a musical extension of a soundtrack produced by Y.E.R.M.O. in collaboration with conceptual and visual artists Nadine Hilbert & Gast Bouschet for the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale (running till november 2009). For more infos about the project, please see the official website.
The music is an invocation of the coldness and cruelty of a borderzone between two worlds and a transmutation of fear into euphoria. The album is a unique piece of immersive ritual sounds, dominated by loud, distorded guitars, hypnotic percussions and industrial drones within rain-soaked Mediterranean landscapes.
-Field recordings & artwork by Nadine Hilbert & Gast Bouschet
-Additional drums by Jason Van Gulick
-Mastered by James Plotkin
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Hapsburg Braganza - Hatchling CD
Phil Begg is a young british improviser and composer based in Newcastle. He became known in Belgium for the improvisation sessions that he was playing in every corner of the country during the summer of 2006. Armed with a few effect pedals, loopers and microphones, various objects and his mobile mono soundsystem, Phil amazed us with his intense improvisations. Whether brutal and powerful, whether quiet, flirting with some lowercase and minimal electronics influences.
Since we invited Phil to play at idioLABOAT festival in 2006 under the name of Chalfont, where he brought us his instant dives into abyssal psycho-active soundscapes and lightful envolées, we absolutely wanted to release one of his works on Idiosyncratics.
Hatchling is a slow-burning electroacoustic piece, integrating dense atmospheric collage of field recordings and concrete sound source
with highly textural drones and warm subtle harmonics. A very personal and breathtaking piece, both in the heritage of Francisco López and Charlemagne Palestine.
Artwork by Yannick Franck.
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Phil Maggi - Blue Fields in Paramount CD
Blue Fields in Paramount is a very personal and fascinating opus, a beautiful introduction to the style of this talented artist, that could be qualified as 'dark psychedelia for daydream believers'. It has been mastered by James Plotkin (Khlyst, Khanate, Old, Phantom) and is out now as a limited to 300 copies ekopack release with a fantastic artwork by czech artist Jan Karpisek.
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PenelopeX - Fragment of a landscape MP3 SOON
Yui Onodera & Junji Koyanagi - Topophilia MP3
"Topophilia is described in Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language as literally love of place. It is a term used to describe the strong sense of place or identity among certain peoples.
It combines the Greek word topo- or top-, meaning place, with the ending -philia, meaning love of/for.
It is generally believed that it was coined by Chinese-American geographer Yi-Fu Tuan in his 1974 book entitled Topophilia: a study of environmental perception, attitudes, and values. Tuan claims that topophilia "can be defined widely so as to include all emotional connections between physical environment and human beings." But W.H.Auden used the term already in his 1948 introduction to John Betjeman's poetry title Slick but Not Streamlined." Wikipedia
Yui Onodera is a composer and a multi instrumentist from Japan, his music is made of digitally processed acoustic instruments, voice and field recordings. He founded the electronic & experimental music label Critikal Path in 2003 and composes music for experimental films, contemporary dance and butoh. He has composed Topophilia with his friend Junji Koyanagi.
Soon on Idiosyncratics Netlabel!!
Yui Onodera on myspace
Junji Koyanagi on myspace
Critical Path
Y.E.R.M.O. - Bazagra MP3
Y.E.R.M.O. provides powerful dark ambient, noise and post industrial rituals since 2004. The duet is formed by Yannick Franck (sound artist and performer, co-founder of Idiosyncratics Records lately installed in Gent, Belgium) and Xavier Dubois (wild guitar player and electroacoustic experimentalist from Brussels, member of Ultraphallus & Jesus is my Son).
Bazagra, originally part of an album project called Curse, begins with some envouting voices and daunting atmospheres that progressively lead to some hypnotic loops of incisive electric guitar riffs and noisy drones. Play loud!
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Y.E.R.M.O. on myspace
Dronæment - Shamanic Breakfast MP3
Owner of the great label dedicated to field recording, experimental music and sound art Field Muzick, Marcus Obst brings transcendental ambient drone solo works since 1997 under the name of Dronæment (the name is a contraction between the words drone and ornament). He has released music on the best labels in the genre such as EE tapes, Afe Records, Drone Records and Taâlem. The german composer is providing a great 20'01'' track here, inspired by a morning of shamanic experiments on caffeine overdose. Beautiful!
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Dronæment's website
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