ODG015 : The Camping Group / So Wie Wir Heute Dastehn Zeitgenössische Tanzmusik

Art cover by Kiekebiche

ODG015 : The Camping Group / So Wie Wir Heute Dastehn Zeitgenössische Tanzmusik

The Camping Group (tCG) is Daniel Vujanic, the man behind so many different projects such as Baja (  SCD007: Maps/Systemalheur ), Nervous Lovers ( ODG001: Corpes for the Discodawn ), Ixtar, Gaop, Höhlenmusik or Mutterberg and his long time good friend Johannes Finke.

The band was founded in Stuttgart and is now based between Stuttgart (Vujanic) and Berlin (Finke).

They know each other since they were young teens playing Tennis and listening to Terence Trent D'Arbys "Wishing Well". Three Years later they ended up watching Babes In Toyland and began to talk seriously. They started producing Art in many ways, exhibitions, books, records, having

a publishing company, working on plays and installations throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Johannes says about the band: " tCG is just bringing it together, for a small unique piece of unity and friendship. We are both collecting artefacts of life so working in tCG is sharing it all and earning this moments of pure awareness and revolutionary thoughts."

This album is a compilation of their first released album and remixes/bonus tracks that were never released before.
German pop/ electro/ krautrock at his best!

Digital release only on the 30th of September 2013.

More about tCG: www.dieneuengesetze.tumblr.com

More about Daniel Vujanic: Discogs bio

More about Johannes Finke: www.dasbiestberlin.blogspot.com

Track listing:

1) 1000 Jahre (remix)
2) Vertrauen & Wohlstand (Humanismus remix)
3) Null Null Europa
4) Regenbrauen
5) Wellengang
6) Seemanslied (remix)
7) Azoth
8) Feuerball
9) Alles Bleibt Nichts Geht (schädlings remix)
10) Dreckwasser Dub
11) Humanistenhorde / Jakobsmusghelweg
12) Wir Sind (geld funktionert)

OVD002 : Pierre Vervloesem / Silence Science

Cover art by Kiekebiche

OVD002 : Pierre Vervloesem / Silence Science

The new solo effort from Pierre Vervloesem ( Bio ) on his P.V. Presents digital only series is radically different from his previous albums, though typically Vervloesemesque!
What he is saying about it:
" The idea was (and still is) to use only one guitar and one bass connected directly to the computer without any additional effects but a reverb.
As for the guitar, I wanted to play the note one by one leaving them dying one after the other, but without limiting the number of overdubs.
The notes evolve like an animated movie, picture after picture. It was a fastidious work but I like that!"

The result is totally peaceful, almost restful! Like Wallace and Gromit meeting Brian Eno!

Digital release only on the 13th of September 2013.

Tracklisting:
1) Krill
2) Choco Russe
3) Spring
4) Tube
5) Gallerie
6) Silence
7) Sucres
8) Rubber Tea

And on Bandcamp:

ODX001 : Roedelius and Morgan Fisher / Neverless + Live at Porgy and Bess - Vienna

Cover art By Kiekebiche

ODX001 : Roedelius and Morgan Fisher / Neverless + Live at Porgy and Bess - Vienna

For those of you who missed the two separate releases Neverless and Live at Porgy and Bess - Vienna , this is another occasion to discover both records in a digital only box at a bargain price.

Digital only release on the 9th of September 2013.

Track listing:

Cd one:
1) Always           : 8,03 min
2) Whatelse        : 7,10 min
3) However        : 7,52 min
4) Inparticular     : 19,47 min
5) Wherefrom     : 15,14 min
Cd two:
1) Live at Porgy and Bess - Vienna : 47 min

ODG014 : Adriano Lanzi / You are never alone with the Lemurian Broadcasting Company

ODG014 : Adriano Lanzi / You are never alone with the Lemurian Broadcasting Company

In 2008 I had the luck to discover an Italian band called El Topo and to release their first and only album ( have a listen here: El Topo / Pigiama Psicoattivo ) and it is my pleasure to release now a solo effort by the main leader Adriano Lanzi ( bio ).

This composer- improviser, plays guitar, electronics and bass. He used to be half of the Lanzi & Sodano duo which released some tracks and later a full album (La Vita Perfetta, 2004) on the german Klangbad label run by Faust organist Hans-Joachim Irmler.

He founded El Topo, a contemporary jazz rock band with Sodano, Andrea Biondi, and  Francesco Mendolia. 

There was also a long collaboration (1996 -2003), live and studio, in a world music / afro-jazz project with Siriman Pape Kanouté who's the first musician to have promoted and popularized the kora (west-african harp/lute) in Italy.

From 2001 to now, Adriano has been playing frequent solo performances with live soundtracks to classic silent movies like Der Golem, Man with the Movie Camera, Nanook of The North, Sunrise, Nosferatu, Tabu, The Lodger, The Passion of Joan of Arc, October, a.o.

Occasionally, you will see him also on stage guesting with Welsh post-punk/ noise/ psychedelic band Ectogram and with progressive rock / improvised music veteran Geoff Leigh.

More collaborations: LE GRAND LUNAIRE (duo with oboist / thereminist Paolo Di Cioccio), Davide Piersanti, Tiziana Lo Conte, Recover Band, Le Borg.

What Adriano wrote me about his album:
"I polished out a number of tracks for my solo project. I must say it might turn to be a not-so-long album, some 39 minutes like in the old days.
Anyway it will consist of tracks made just with one instrument (a polyphonic synth, with arpeggiators, variously modulated) and there will be just one piece with external sounds too (a guitar drone, very "thin", and a processed drum loop from a jazz drum solo, from god knows where now). Nevertheless, even if I have set the loudness peaks at more or less the same level for all pieces, they are all rather different in terms of the "fatness" of sound and dynamic range. Some of them "pump" more (and continuously), others less, and they are meant to be like that because they are made of much more spacious and sparse layers of sounds. "

Digital release on the 2nd of September 2013.

Track listing:

1) Gotcha

2) Fontana

3) Leibniz

4) Little Robot Waltz

5) Lemurian Broadcasting Company

6) Complicazioni Tropicali III

7) Amniotica (a Philip K. Dick)

8) Dentro, un poco nervosamente

9) More Knobs to twirl

10) Formaggio poco americano

11) Un'altra strada

And on Bandcamp:

OPV007 : Les Boucles Absurdes / Boîtes à tartines

OPV007 : Les Boucles Absurdes / Boîtes à tartines

This is a story going back in 1982 when Pierre Vervloesem used to play with a band called Itza Uchen.
Jean-Pierre Jonckheere was the guitar player and since then never really stopped playing music and composing dozen of tracks at his own studio Zottecrolle.
In 2012 he finally selected 15 of them and asked different players to join him and add what was needed to finish them.
He gave the result to Pierre who added a little bit of everything everywhere and did the mixing and the mastering.
Pierre is happy now to release it on his P.V.Presents Series.
Digital and physical releases on the 5th of August 2013.

Les Boucles Absurdes are Jean-Pierre Jonckheere featuring:
Pierre Vervloesem: a little bit of everything everywhere
Valentine Garand, Isabelle Bats & Mariam Ben Ajiba: additional vocals and lyrics
Albert Marcoeur: loop
Morgan Ägren: additional drums
Serge Michiels: additional guitar

From United Mutations bogspot: here

" I mentioned this new album by Les Boucles Absurdes a bit over a month ago in a short newsflash. In the meantime, I've received the shiny disc and I have played it like crazy.
"Boîte à Tartines" ('Brooddoos' in Dutch, or 'Bread Box' in English) is collection of catchy melodies. All of the melodies and its variations are repeated in loops (Boucles = Loops). Performed on guitar, synthesizer and tuned percussion. Strange Music. I love it."

Here's what my friend Harry replied after he had given the album a listen:
"having listened to the entire "Boite a tartines" album - let me say, it's one of the craziest albums I have ever listended to in my entire life:-) But I love it -  it's funny, crazy and beautiful. Fuck - forget about the Residents, Arthur Barrow and Marcoeur influences I mentioned in my Email earlier - it's beyond categorization. I heard a lot of Marcour references throughout the album on various pieces, but not him participating on the piece he is mentioned - it's probably just a "boucle" - the ringtones he offers on his site and that's on my mobile...But I heard a lot of Trent Reznor influences on the album as well. Some songs reminded me of "How to destroy angels" - Trent Reznor's side project...Goddammit,  we fucking Germans try to analyse things over...Analyzing is - auf gut deutsch: für'n ARSCH!"

 Website:
http://www.lesbouclesabsurdes.com

Track listing:

01. Purple Line
02. Dartagnan 
03. Crac
04. Pervertion
05. Pique-Nique
06. Boîte à tartines
07. Ballade pour un apprenti
08. Old complaining beast
09. Jazz de schiste ( Feat. Morgan Ägren )
10. Absurde Gunzor 
11. No place to learn ( Feat. Albert Marcoeur )
12. Foggy Morning
13. Ballade pour un expat
14. Date de péremption
15. La Petite Maison dans les cailloux ( only available on the digital release)

And on Bandcamp:

Price

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ODG013 : Roedelius and Morgan Fisher / Live at Porgy and Bess - Vienna

Cover art by Kiekebiche

ODG013 : Roedelius and Morgan Fisher / Live at Porgy and Bess - Vienna

After the re release of the album Neverless on Off, this one sees finally the never released fantastic concert they gave at Porgy and Bess in 2005.

After the pleasurable experience of recording the "Neverless" album together "via email," between Roedelius' home near Vienna, and Morgan's longtime personal studio in Tokyo, they decided to meet in Vienna and continue the music, this time in real time. Morgan flew from Japan bearing a large suitcase packed with small and unusual keyboards, acoustic, analogue and digital, with devices that let him expand their tones into panoramic soundscapes. On October 30th, 2005, the two took to the stage and gave a memorable concert at one of Vienna's finest jazz clubs, Porgy and Bess. The performance was intuitive, exploratory, heartfelt improvisation - the keyboards, loops and percussion weaving intricate patterns that resonated between the alluring red walls of what had, years ago, been an erotic cinema, a wartime military headquarters, an art theater, and on this night, a temple of music.

www.roedelius.com

www.morgan-fisher.com

The album will be released on the Digital only series on the 22th of July 2013.

Track listing:

1: Live at Porgy and Bess    47min

ODG012 : Roedelius and Morgan Fisher / Neverless

ODG012 : Roedelius and Morgan Fisher / Neverless

Hans-Joachim Roedelius has long been regarded as a subtle and contemplative pioneer of ambient music. It was inevitable that one day his path would cross with Morgan Fisher, who by the 21st century had reached a similar tranquil plateau of creativity, having moved far from his roots in 60's soul and rock music. The album was recorded "via emails" sending audio files back and forth between Roedelius' home near Vienna, and Morgan's longtime personal studio in Tokyo and was released originally in 2005. It's been sold out for more than 7 years now and it's my pleasure to re release it now on the Digital only series.
Out on the 1th of July 2013.

                                                                Morgan Fisher

                                                                                      Hans-Joachim Roedelius

Track Listing:

1. Always                 8:03

2. Whatelse              7:10

3. However                7:52

4. Inparticular          19:47

5. Wherefrom          15:14

Roedelius: Synthesizers, pre-prepared sound material.

Morgan Fisher: Sampler, variophon, clavinet, percussion, voice.

Fabio Capanni: Guitar Track 3.

Felix Jay: Guitar Track 4.

Composed/improvised by Roedelius/Fisher, except:

Track 3: Roedelius/Fisher/Capanni.

Track 4: Roedelius/Fisher/Jay.

Basic tracks recorded at Roedelius studio, Austria and The Handmade Studio, Tokyo.

Overdubbed and mixed by Morgan Fisher at The Handmade Studio, Tokyo, July 2002 to August 2003.

“Gold” photographs by Morgan Fisher. Cover by Kiekebiche

Photograph of Roedelius by Nadine Blanchard.

Photograph of Morgan Fisher by Virginie Aussedat.