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"Jason Kahn: analog synthesizer, percussion; Norbert Möslang: cracked everyday electronics; Günter Müller: iPod, percussion, electronics. Fresh from an extensive tour through Latin America this trio of electronic improvisers of the first hour returns with recordings made in 2006 at Tokyo University and the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media. Intense, pulsating music."
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"Tomas Korber: guitar, electronics Christian Weber: contrabass Katsura Yamauchi: sax. Second volume of the Signal To Noise series with recordings from the 2006 tour in Japan and Korea. Here two thirds of the group Mersault collaborate with saxophonist Katsura Yamauchi, yielding a highly concentrated music of fine particles and wispy noise. Recorded at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media."
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Norbert Möslang: cracked everyday_electronics; Günter Müller: ipod, electronics. "Wild_Suzuki is the result of Möslang and Müller's extensive Japan tour in 2004, right after their release of boom_box on Grob. On this second CD of the duo you can smell the different places of this culinary tour."
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Norbert Möslang: cracked everyday_electronics processed. "Norbert Möslang, ex Voice Crack, took the first three tracks from his CD lat_nc_, processed them extensively, and built six new tracks out of these files in the studio. A step further in his distillation."
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"Together with the album Oystered of Ambarchi - Müller - Voice Crack on Audiosphere, wireless_within are the very last recordings of the legendary Voice Crack. Together with Müller and Melbourne-based Philip Samartzis they create stunning atmospheric soundscapes -- recorded one day after they visited together a rain forest in South Australia."
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"On this CD, his second as a solo artist, we hear Swiss percussionist Christian Wolfarth at his most focused and restrained. Unlike many contemporary drummers, Wolfarth has never expanded his instrument with electronic devices, nevertheless he explores an aesthetic that could be called 'electronic' in some respects. Reduction plays an important role in Wolfarth's music as does an almost obsessive love for the detail and an impressive palette of sonic possibilities that the drummer has been developing over the past 15 years of intense solo-playing."
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"This is the 4th volume of Studer's series of duos with woman-improvisors. This time he met the amazing voice of the young Japanese singer Ami Yoshida. Remarkable Studer's subtle playing of cymbals and gongs, and Yoshida's voice knocks you out anyway."
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Phil Minton: voice / Günter Müller: iPod, mds, sel perc, electronics; ErikM: 3k_pad.system; Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl: cracked everyday-electronics. "The last CD by that successful band, and the last concert they have been playing together. As a guest they invited someone with an instrument as far as possible from their own setup: the vocalist Phil Minton. But be sure you will get difficulties to figure out what are poire_z's sounds or Minton's."
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"Long expected, finally it's here: the first entire solo-CD ever done by the one half of former Voice Crack Norbert Möslang. Recorded in studio and afterwards processed by himself, Möslang offers here beautiful and hypnotic soundscapes."
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Oren Ambarchi: (guitar, electronics); Günter Müller: (selected perc, mds, iPod, electronics); Philip Samartzis: (electronics and environmental sounds). "The first piece 'Cooler' was recorded at the festival 'What Is Music?' in Melbourne in 2002. The second piece was individually recorded in Melbourne, Itingen und Sydney and conceived by Günter Müller as 'Warmer'."
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Charlotte Hug: viola and electronics / Chantale Laplante: laptop. "Charlotte Hug, from Zurich, and Chantale Laplante, from Montreal, met in London in 2001. Hug is a viola performer who also composes works using 3D graphic scores and multi-channels sound installations. Laplante is a composer of contemporary instrumental and electroacoustic music. On Brilliant Days Hug plays viola with the unique bow techniques she has developed and manipulates her sounds with electronics; Laplante uses her own sounds which she transforms during the performance. Brilliant Days focuses on the playfulness between acoustic and electroacoustic sounds, exploring their contrast and fusion; it invites the listener into a journey of 'sons inouïs'."
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Urs Leimgruber: (composition, soprano, tenorsax); Günter Müller: (processing, selected drums, mds, ipod, electronics); Beat Hofstettler: (soprano sax); Sascha Armbruster: (alto, electric sax); Andrea Formenti: (tenor sax); Beat Kappeler: (baritone, alto sax). Urs Leimgruber wrote his composition e_a.sonata.02 for the Arte Quartet, a sax quartet based in Basel Switzerland that is known for its collaborations with Tim Berne, Pierre Favre, Thomas Dimunzio a.o. Günter Müller plays with sounds from the Arte Quartet that he had processed before."
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Guenter Mueller (MDs, sel. drums, electronics, processing). "16 years after releasing two solo-k7's and 13 years after starting his label For4Ears, Guenter Mueller is now releasing his first solo-CD. Eight improvisations were recorded directly to hard-disc and afterwards carefully processed, eight soundscapes of stunning beauty."
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"Dieb 13: turntable, Jason Kahn: drums, metals, electronics, Guenter Mueller: mds, sel. drums, electronics. After the turntable-players Christian Marclay in 1994, Otomo Yoshihide and Erik M in 1999, For4Ears records proudly presents today Dieb 13. He produces together with Jason Kahn and Guenter Mueller, who both are playing selected parts of acoustic drums modulated with electronics, soundscapes where quiet parts are as important as (low) noise. A new example of electro-acoustic improvisation in the label's catalogue."
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"A stripped down duo version of the 'Roots and Wires' group (personnel: Hans Koch, Martin Schütz, I-Sound, Studer & Singe) recorded late February 2000 in Zurich, with additional remixes by Singe recorded in the spring of 2001. An interesting and often challenging multi-disciplinary meeting; each clearly stemming from different sides of the tracks (Fredy being the master Euro-improviser percussionist legend, Singe being the Soundlab co-founder collagist junglist turntablist). Anything but what you'd preconceive ('You play some crazy free improv scatter beats and I'll drop an amen... check it!'), actually a rather vital and surprising mix, from Singe's chansons-plunder and electro-body-rock to Fredy's prog-jams and falling sheets of metal. A section of skratch-found vocals and bowed cymbals brings to mind nothing less than Bob Ashley's tell-all intimates or Nurse With Wound. Pretty cool." -- Hrvatski.
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Frédéric Blondy (Piano), Bertrand Denzler (Tenor Saxophone), Jean-Luc Guionnet (Alto and Soprano Saxophone), Jean-Sébastien Mariage (Electric Guitar), Edward Perraud (Drums). "Hubbub works on the sound matter and creates an expanded space inhabited by stripes, interlaced designs, resonances, tanglings, points and strokes, at the border of acoustic and electric worlds. Founded in 1999, Hubbub is a gathering of improvisers with various backgrounds who play since a few years with some of the most important musicians of the actual scene."
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"The German trombone player Guenter Heinz had already released on for4ears some CDs as The Wetware Trombone and Drumbone2. Now comes his new album Trombone On M.A.R.S., where the sounds of his trombone were processed by Wolfgang Heiniger and Jochen Bohnes, both using their software M.A.R.S.."
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Helene Breschand (harp), Michel Doneda (sax), Gerald Zbinden (guitar). "Based on long time collaboration between Doneda (sax) and Zbinden (guitar), this trio with harpplayer Hélène Breschand continues exploring wonderful soundscapes. The mix of the extraordinary harp -- unplugged -- with the really heavy stuff of the electric guitar gives kind of special fragility and a new dimension to every instrument."
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Fredy Studer (drums, percussion), Jin Hi Kim (komungo), Joëlle Léandre (bass, voice), Dorothea Schürch (voice). "The new CD Duos 3-13 is the second in a series of duo recordings for the label For 4 Ears after Duos 1,2 with percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky, featuring Fredy Studer together with various female musicians. Drummer and percussionist Fredy Studer plays on Duos 3-13 in combinations with the Korean komungo player Jin Hi Kim, the French bass player Joëlle Léandre, and with the Swiss singer Dorothea Schürch."
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Studer (drums, perc.) with Robyn Schulkowsky (drums, perc.) recorded live in Switzerland, 1996. "Schulkowsky and Studer work and research at the farthest spiritual frontiers of our society. It seems to me that they have a real, vivid grasp of the world of the acoustic field (itself a special case of the field of gravitation), extending to the furthest reaches of theoretical physics; and that they give such terms as emerge out of that active cognizance flesh and context upon their own body." -- René Stettler.
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