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Saturday, 9 April 2011

OCD005 : Colorlist / Lists

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OCD005 : Colorlist / Lists

COLORLIST (see alsoOCD009) is an ongoing compositional project based in Chicago, developed piece by piece in an honest and improvisational way. the community explores current hybrid musical territory, concerned with structure and intuition.

CHARLES RUMBACK & CHARLES GORZCYNSKI have performed live duo sets with saxophones, percussion, and electronics.

There new album Lists delves farther into programming and collaboration, welcoming engineers BRIAN BULLARD (bio) and MATTHEW GAGNON into the group, as well as guest bassists MATT LUX ( discogs, bio,discography) and JASON AJEMIAN, cellists ELLEN O’HAYER and SARAH BIBER, bass clarinetist JASON STEIN (bio), guitarist BILL MACKAY (bio), and JOSH EUSTIS (bio) for mastering... thus members from Isotope 217, Telefon Tel Aviv, Broken Things and Who Cares How Long you sink.

This is their first release, a mixture of repetitive sax and synths, organic drums and percussion, ranging stylistically from avant jazz and improvised music to post-rock.

Band members : Charles Rumback: bio
Charles Gorzcynski: bio
Brian Bullard: bio
Matthew Gagnon

extended family: Jason Stein/ Matt Lux/ Josh

Eustis/ Jason Ajemian/ Bill Mackay/ Elien O’hayer/

Sarah Biber

Physical and digital release on the 1st of March 2008.

Track listing :

1 : Lluvia

2 : Orchid

3 : These complimentary

4 : Carbon monoxide

5 : Living mausoleum

6 : The swim around

7 : Rewinding sunday

8 : Ferm Room

9 : City life

OCD004 : Toshinori Kondo / Silent Melodies

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OCD004 : Toshinori Kondo / Silent Melodies

Toshinori Kondo, a highly acclaimed Japanese electric trumpeter, has been playing and recording all over the world with musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell[bass], John Zorn[saxophone], Derek Bailey[guitar], Herbie Hancock[keyboard], Peter Brotzmann[saxophone], DJ-KRUSH, Hotei Taizo[guitar] and Eishiba (the greatest Japanese samisen player), to name but a few.

In 1984, he formed a band called IMA (International Music Activities) in Japan and went on a world tour. The band's sound, fusing all sorts of musical elements such as Rock 'n Roll, jazz and DJing, gained great attention and was used for several commercial spots in Japan. He disbanded IMA in 1993 and moved to Amsterdam.

He has been pursuing and sharpening his own musical style since then and started a project called "Blow the Earth", playing electric trumpet in outdoor natural environments.

In 2001 Kondo was requested by the 14th Dalai Lama to produce one part of the international peace festival called "The World Festival of Sacred Music " held in Hiroshima, Japan. In 2003 he was awarded Kikaku-sho (Best Project) at the 45th Japan Record Award and in 2005 he started the “PIKADON Project” for the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Since 2006 he is based in Amsterdam and Tokyo. Always enthusiastic about collaborating with many different artists, regardless of artistic genres, he is continuously searching for new sounds.

For the first time, ‘Silent Melodies’ is a collection of songs using only his electric trumpet and nothing else. There are no overdubs and no other instruments but his breathing power, some effects and his fantastic playing technique

Toshinori Kondo

Physical and digital release on the 9th of April 2007.

Track listing :

1. Clear Water

2. Gone Dream-1

3. Gone Dream-2

4. Resonant Space

5. Mountain Shadow

6. Song for the Small Planet

7. Sky Cry

8. Moon Cloud

9. Wind Temptation

10.Stars Night

11.Melting Stone

12.First Light

And on Bandcamp:

OCD003 : Don Shtone / Beware of the cat

Pioneering as resident DJ in Germanys first After Hour Club "6 am Eternal Afterhour" in Hamburg in 1992, Sven Dohse set off to be one of the most popular and renowned techno artists of Northern Germany today. Performing on numerous techno-events, Svens drifting acid- and intense techno sound has proved highly popular, particularly in the techno bass scene.

Experimenting with diverse rhythms of Electronica, led to his first recording of the Emojonal project together with Gary D for Hamburgs Container Records. In 1995 Sven embarked on his first solo project GREENMAN and released the first 12" on Superstition, followed by a number of successful singles of which "Discordia" attained extraordinary attention through a dazzling remix by the well known project "Der Dritte Raum". Svens GREENMAN debut longplayer "Greenmania" was released in 2000 and highly recognised. Whilst working on his techno career Sven realized further break and freestyle projects like "Conzooma" together with drum and bass DJ Waldmeista, "Don Shtone" as well as "Don and Dirty" with Dirk Wagner.His current style can be described as a melange of rocking tech-house mixed with hard edged break beats.

The second face of Sven Dohse is his Don Shtone project: for years he produces under this project name a more relaxed and electronic sound, even for the dancefloor, sometimes strange in a positive way, full with his musical humour and you can hear his experience as a dj and maniac music freak, melting with his musicality and his love for experiments.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Don+Shtone

Band members :

Sven Dohse

Track listing :

1. Sheepcontent

2. Am I blue

3. Boy and Girl

4. Golly Gosh

5. Rot

6. Some feel fine

7. Miracles

8. It’s time

9. Beware of the cat

10.Da b

11.Drunkable

Bandcamp bonus tracks:

12. Casting Allee

13. Frantic

14. Kollaps

15. Moon Toujours

Bandcamp download here under:

The rest of the pack here under:

OCD002 : P.V.T.V. / Wing-Chester

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OCD002 : P.V.T.V. / Wing-Chester

Wing –Chester is the chaotic meeting between the critical beats and mad rhythms of Teun ( who improvised for two hours in a studio) and the avant-garde melodies and heavy guitars of Pierre ( who builded all the rest in a few days at home).

It is the meeting of the ‘Gilles de Binche’, Max Roach, Zappa and Cowboy Bebop !

Band members :

Pierre Vervloesem: performing

Teun Verbruggen : drumming

Pierre Vervloesem: Born in 1964. 7 cd with X-Legged Sally. 2 cd with A Group. Participate to the music of 5 shows for Wim Vandekeybus. 6 solos cd either alone or sometimes with musicians as various as Guy Segers (univers zero pointe) or Charles Hayward (This Heat). Mixed and/ or produced too many bands to be cited here.

Teun Verbruggen: Born in 1975. Since 1999 he started working as a sideman in lots of different bands and musical styles: Alexi Tuomarila 4tet and Trio, Jef Neve Trio, FES, Othin Spake, Futhark, an eclectic jazzband with Tobias Klein, Raphael Vanolie en Gulli Gudmundsson Nozzle Slag featuring Trevor Dunn (Fantomâs, Trio Convulsant, Electric Masada, Mr Bungle,...), Hilmar Jensson (Thyft, Alas No Axis,...) and Jozef Dumoulin.

Pierre Vervloesem website: http://www.pierrevervloesem.be/

Track listing :

1: 100

2: 40

3: 65 bis

4: 70

5: 40 bis

6: 70 bis

7: 130

8: 120

9: 60

10 :72

11 :80

12 :85

13 :65

Pierre Vervloesem and Teun Verbruggen

Band camp download here:

The rest of the pack here:

OCD001 : Blaine L. Reininger / Glossolalia

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OCD001: Blaine L. Reininger / Glossolalia

Glossolalia is the first solo album of Blaine since 1999, and probably his best ever so far !

Close your eyes and travel through old black and white Italian and Greek movies from the 60ties,

or cross the ocean and feel again the colours and the heat from Mexico !

Glossololia is a mixture of all the places and people that Blaine encountered in the last 10 years. It is full of poetry and faith in the world !

As a musical journey it is magic for the ears !

Blaine L. Reininger is an American composer and performer born in 1953 in Pueblo, Colorado. In 1977 he started the legendary American cult band Tuxedomoon together with Steven Brown in San Francisco.

Over the course of the next 26 years, many artistic collaborations took place and many cd’s were recorded. These collaborations, while mostly musical in nature, often moved into other fields such as dance, theatre, and film.

Since 1998, he lives in Athens Greece.

glos·so·la·li·a from Gk. glossa "tongue, language" + lalia "a speaking," from lalein "to speak, prattle," of echoic origin

1. Fabricated and nonmeaningful speech, especially such speech associated with a trance state or certain schizophrenic syndromes.

2. the gift of tongues

Blaine L. Reininger website: http://www.mundoblaineo.org/

Physical and digital release on the 5th of May 2007

Track listing :

1. Throatsinging

2. Glossolalia

3. No Need To Move The Camera

4. Lemonaki

5. Ici Salvador Dali

6. Hank and Haudrey

7. Lunar Rose Oubliette

8. Cowboy Electra

9. Drippy

10.Dance in Your Blood

11.Ich Will Musik

12.Look Like a Rube