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Diatribes with Dragos Tara and Piero Sk - l'instant d'après (mm06) cd-r [4,00€]

Diatribes, a strongly libertarian ensemeble, began its existence in a Geneva basement in Winter 2004. Their idea was to mix three distinct types of sound (electronic, wind and percussion), in order to develop a malleable musical mass. The saxophone and drums merge into each other in a primary dance, where construction and deconstruction coexist, and envy and disgust unite. There are no limits to their sound, where rhythms, melodies and noise meet sporadically, merging into each other until they are almost forgotten. Free jazz in its approach, acoustic and electronic in its execution, the trio is capable of exploring the minute like the intense. Their relationship with the public is intimate and profound. Dreams and fears become noise and silence...

Initialy a trio with Gaël Riondel on saxophone, diatribes became a polymorphous fromation, extending its spectrum to other musicians such as the guitarist Christian Graf, the electroacoustician Nicolas Sordet, the pianists Jacques Demierre and Johann Bourquenez,

Dragos Tara was born in 1976 in Bucarest, but has lived in Switzerland since the age of 5. He studied double bass at the conseratory in Montreux and Lausanne, From to 2002 to 2007, he studied composition and electroacoustics at the conservatory in Geneva.
After discovering many different musics (rock, jazz, classical, balkan music) he he is now active in many groups of improvised music : Hibiki (Laurent Bruttin, cl./CH, Kim Myhr., gt/ Norw.), a duo with Sébastien Roux (FR/electronic.), l'Ensemble Silence (live music for silent movies), KikU*2 4tet.
Dragos has realized different projects: Performance for musiciens, dancers et electronics in the former jails of Vevey (2005) ; Jeu : duel musical pour double-quartet (2004), solo concerts and a doublebass quartet.
He has also written music for various ensembles: Ensemble Vortex, compagnie CH.AU, íllorkestra, Bolouris 5tet, Ostermundigen symphonic Orchestra .

Piero SK is a personage born approximately 10 years ago, on a table of writing. He is an autodidact and work in theatre, writing and music. He collaborated in particular with Monsieur Jean, Noël Akchoté, Saadet Türköz, Jacques Demierre, Jacques Roman, Wilbert de Joode, Obaké, AbSTRAL compost, la Gale, Vernacular, Jeudi, Rue du Nord. Its biography is variable, its room is populated by shadows.

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Inverz - Variations On Hold (mm05) cd-r [3,00€]

Inverz is a founding member of good luck mr gorsky (check out their split cd with eventless plot on granny records) and the eg.g collective. he has also collaborated and performed with freon, one mile tar, opora and a pleiad of underground musicians active in greece. "variations on hold" is inverz's first solo album and we were expecting it with real enthusiasm as what we already had listen to was very promising. but not as promising as it turn out to be. this is one of the most esoteric and atmospheric things that we have listen to for quite some time. structures emerge and dissolve as fast as mellodies appear and disappear. loops of meelodica follow guitar glitches and notes from an electric piano and all these merge in an organic body of sound soaked in feedback that u feel that will vanish in the background till the momment that  something happens. always something happens and it is always hard to describe it in means of words. this is what sounds and music is for. this is what inverz is up to. (sounds), (read reviews)

Tracy Lee Summers - My Favourite Color (mm04) cd-r [3,50€]

tracy lee summers' music selfdescription. "...when flowers overgrown with wretched microphone starts to miaow something about prog/ambientism- avantgarde/rock in opposition, digital-field-electro and pataphysical rythms...". when we listen to TLS's works on LEEP ["p color" (w lezet), "mass creation machine" (feat k-the-i???), "acidoulus pink and grils from uranus", "phonographie" (w mark rira)] we were fascinated with the incredible approach to rythm and how easily   avant-garde approaches were mixed with pop and rock, hip-hop and everything else that someone might think that is almost impossible to mix. "my favourite color" summerizes all these in 10 tracks that run almost for 30 minutes ranging from abstraction to rock and from new wave to musique concrete. a taboo-less classic.   (sounds), (read reviews)

va - deconstructive music (mm03) 3 cd-rs [9,00 €]

A large scale project came to its end. "deconstuctive music" is heavy and serious conceptual project questioning the standards and shaking the prompts of contemporary music

28 artists were invited to contribute their artistic suggestions of what seems to be the music of the 21st century, music deconstucted to its initial elements or constructed from various fragments of sound, art and physical activity. Far beyond our expectations, the whole project ended up as a deep theoretical study on experimental music, covering every possible aspect! Incredible music works ranging from field recordings, tape collage, contemporary improvisations, reductionism, new industrial, laptop experimentation, glitch electronica, bizzare lo-fi, guitar noise to ambient and white noise...

Every work is supported by graphic designs, theoretical texts, artistic creations or photos, all packed in a deluxe seven inch case, making it a real art-object release. 3 cd-rs containing almost 3 hours of pure Futuristic music!

deconstructive music compilation includes the following artists:
anthonny guerra, as11, ilios, ateleia, bill horist, carlos giffoni, chris forsyth + chris heenan, cpu, danny l, darkroom, david daniell, fervent, hood & rodgers, julien ottavi, kalorifeur, manuel mota, margarida garcia & alfredo costa monteiro, massaccesi, mattin, omnid, osso bucco, sean meehan, sinistri vs dimcoast, stasis duo,  threnody ensemble, tmp, xabier erkizia, zeitkratzer and ktirio b.                                                                                      (read reviews)

fervent - conjestion (mm02) cd-r [3,00€]

"instead of being worried with what is something, u should ask yourself what can u do with it". this aphorism is always a central theme to fervent's music and in a way it kind of summerizes "conjestion", fervent's first album. if u add to this that our world is much more complicated than in the past (in Koolhaas' words we live in a culture of "congestion") u have a fast answer to the eclectisism of this work that goes beyond "musical styles". a wide variety of instruments and a variety of approaches to them is used. if u add to this a bunch of different styles (from electronica to mush up and from modern composition to chaotic guitars) what u have as a result is a strange and totally idiosyncratic amalgam. conceptually driven works with a drop of "mainstream". in a parallel universe this could be a top ten record but for now this is respectfully the second release by the more mars team.

Guitar, numb keyboards, ackward field recordings + silly talks. (sounds), (read reviews)                                                                 

this is now / death tv (mm01) cd-r [3,00€]

A unique combination of noise and physical torture. Layers of guitars, distorted voices, that, just this once, actually mean IT. Intense and totally out there, a choice not for the faint hearted.

Inspired more by the writings of William Burroughs, shamanic rituals, ecstasy through commitment in the mighty SOUND,  than any band, singer, musician or whatever, out there. Nobody human anyway (so Helios Creed can be mentioned).

It was recorded live in the studio. No overdubs, or any kind of mix followed. No digital effect boxes, no microphone enhancers, nothing. Just a couple of prepared guitars, with their amps turned on to ear splitting volume.

It’s actually a performance. A performance few had the chance to watch, but keep busting my balls about it to this day. A one time inspiration that led to a maelstrom.

That was the Death TV. A band, now, no more. After another concert which evolved to an iconoclastic ritual, they split, rather messy. Boo – hoo.