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ABSBLUE 001CD
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Blue Series pays homage to the blue note walking from the Delta to the DIY of the utmost contemporary. Guitarists with six strings on a plank, 78-rpm spinning endlessly, and also revox and sound are all playing the Voice of our Ghosts. "Guitar-input Revox. Here an hybrid instrumentation entangling blues and electro-acoustic music re-plays for us the complete history of recorded music. There is no deferred time between the instrument being played and the reworking of the recording parameters. All movements are connected in real time, as close as possible to the body. Hands on the tapes, fingers on the strings, fresh blood is springing, free from conventions, as if to abolish the principle of separation our society is built on. It's a beautiful confusion of sound, casual towards linear time, dazzling movements, the past is mixed with the present of doing. Feedback. The insurrection is blowing all codes. Two workers of noise, or call it music, are presented here, gifted with the appropriate good manners to add some dirt to it all. We stand between harshness and sensuality, quotes and abstractions. The guitar is plugged on the Revox and each actor accepts willingly to be dispossessed from his sounds as sonic twins would do."
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ABS 201CD
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A series of 8 duets, featuring: Taku Unami/ Norman D.Mayer; Masafumi Ezaki/Hugo Roussel; Utah Kawasaki/Jean-Philippe Gross ; Yasuo Totsuka/Quentin Dubost; Masahiko Okura/Sharif Shanaoui; Yoichiro Shin/Olivier Brisson; Ami Yoshida/Alfredo Costa Monteiro; Kazushige Kinoshita/Fabrice Eglin. "Depicted on record is an a-topics meeting in music in the open space between two scenes. The 8 duets open on experimental proposals: 8 improvised musical meetings in the suspended time of mail exchanges. East to the West, Japan & France. 1+1 = 3. The musical arithmetic differs from what we were taught at school. Each duet creates a sonic hybrid with a third element born out of the encounter of the musical identities. From: / To: found its source in the will of 5 labels Hibari / Abruitsecret / Fragment / Pricilia / Vertpituite to gather young musicians from Lebanon, France and Japan playing in the fields of electroacoustic and improvised music. To renew them."
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ABS 004CD
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"Brandon LaBelle lives and works in LA. A musician, performer, critic, sound artist, publisher, he stands at the cross-roads of various artistic disciplines, mixing his practices in a singular work articulating sound and social space. Through his use of contact mics, the human body turns into a complex sound source, and the space where the action takes place becomes a musical instrument by itself. Brandon LaBelle builds his sound performance to reflect the site and the objects he finds there, found-art seen as a highly conceptual reasoning as well as a play in improvisation. The music of Brandon LaBelle reveals the social context in which it exists, or more precisely, it's the context itself that is designated as a musical event, through the displacement of the concept of authorship on an active social space. Techné presents itself like the trace of a process where the physical body interacts with architecture via micro contacts. The technology is the interface of this contact built both on desire and the architectural constraint of the place (and its subconscious). A recording of situationist poetry where the politics project gives its shape to the musical project, a radical noise."
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ABS 103CD
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"Three compositions for guitars by Brett Larner, Burkhard Stangl and Taku Sugimoto. Different propositions questioning the limits of the instrument through radical and oblique approaches. Close minimalist electronic experience in Larner's piece, games on detuning in Stangl's piece, and a Cagian questioning of silence in Sugimoto's piece 'Hum' Beyond the instrumental stakes, it is a question of our relation with space and time. The guitar is only the vector through which we apprehend our musical object."
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