The clarinet
in jazz seems to go in and out of fashion every couple of decades. This may be in part because its subtle sounds don‘t necessarily fit with the high-volume, over-miked and often heavily electronic ensembles of our contemporary music culture; and partly also, I suspect, because in its understated way the clarinet conveys [...]
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Et si “l´oeil écoute”, comme le voulait Claudel, j´ajouterai que l´oreille peut aussi voir. B.Parmegiani
Metropolis proudly presents Etude Records, Pau Torres label from Barcelona, Spain. Created on 2006 and focused on experimental and obscure sound archives and now located in Toronto/Canada. Pau Torres edited four releases which can be found now in our Metropolis [...]
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The title of the work refers to adaptive radiation, a term indicating the rapid evolution of a single ancestral organism into numerous other organisms that are each adaptively specialized to occupy particular environmental conditions…
14 Euro inclusive shipment worldwide for this pre-release of Daniel Blinkhorn’s surround-sound DVD
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A duality exists in the piece [...]
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The Mercelis Concert (Brussels 2006)
inaudible cd 006
Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg | voice
John Russell | acoustic guitar
Jean Demey | double bass
Tracklist: Light Staging’ – 13:10 | The First One – 15:25 | The Mercelis Trio – 11:15 | The 50th Birthday Party – 6:30 | Zen Garden Gift – 6:46
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Moe! Staiano founded the Moe!kestra! project back in the beginning of 1997. The idea came from a show he did in 1996 in Berkeley at a place called Beanbenders where he gathered some dozen or so musicians to do a simple instruction, playing a one sustained note from soft, quite, crescendoing into a loud frenzy [...]
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Tony Moffeit is the blues poet and blues singer from Pueblo, Colorado, who was the winner of the prestigious Jack Kerouac Award from Cherry Valley Editions for his volume of poetry, PUEBLO BLUES, now rare and out-of-print. He is also the author of two other volumes from Cherry Valley Editions: LUMINOUS ANIMAL (New Orleans poems) [...]
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Pata Music or the Concept of Composed Spheres
If you want to know the meaning of “pata” you will have to learn that your dictionary stubbornly refuses to reveal any information in this respect. To illuminate the origin of the little word we need a short literary excursion into the fascinating world of Doctor Faustroll. Because [...]
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Tape – Milieu plus – 2LP
minority records
Tape is a trio from Stockholm, building their music from a whole array of acoustic instruments, computer and field recordings. Their first CD “Opera” got excellent reviews in international press and was compared to artists such as Talk Talk, Gastr del Sol, Fennesz, John Fahey and Faust. “Milieu [...]
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Mark Weber about Mark Weber:
Mark Weber grew up in Cucamonga, California, where he threw rocks at freight trains and has the distinct memory of hearing Sam the Sham singing “Wholly Bully” off in the distance, a mile away, over the loudspeakers at Upland Memorial Park’s baseball field, on summer afternoons watching the orange-purple Martian sunsets [...]
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Mark Weber Photo: Eric Breitbart
Now, Before you start thinking Zerx is nothing but Mark Weber + a CD Burner in his garage let me say that most of the CDs on Zerx come out in editions of 1,050 copies and are not, even then, strictly limited. Whenever Zerx uses the term “ limited edition” it’s [...]
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