Minus Pilots is percussionist Matt Pittori and bassist Adam Barringer. Together they weave sparse textures, crumbling atmospheres and fractured drones with currents of gentle crackle. Between post-rock and ambient, their music incline towards a form of refined abstraction, but always keeps a strong emotional side. And once again, on their new EP South Late Winter Dream/My Stars, My Perfect Silence, the duo masterfully mixes dreamy melodies with a complex work on sound textures and rhythmic micro-events.
Half Evidence (a french free improvisation duo formed in 2012 by Charles premier & Kecap Tuyul) is currently on hiatus since summer 2016 but their story isn’t finished. Some new material will be published in 2019. Before finalizing these projects, the duo has selected four of their favorite tracks that were given to various compilations (namely Necktar 2017 curated by Ed End on his netlabel Le Colibri Nécrophile and Classwar Karaoke). The resulting album Épiphytes brings four insights on the duo’s works and can be a good way to discover their sound universe and its evolution across the years.
We are proud to present the second edition of the Solo Duo Trio project co-organized by labels Apocope & eg0cide productions. This serie of live concerts follows a simple format: three parts, one solo, one duo, one trio. Artists are invited to present new projects, and to try to new encounters (for one live set or more). All concerts are later published jointly by Apocope & eg0cide. The 2nd event of the serie took place on may 29 at Les Instants Chavirés (Montreuil), one of the most lasting and notable venues devoted to free improvisation and experimental music around Paris.
This show featured 6 french experimental musicians active in the free improvisation and noise scene (more info on the artists below)
Début 2018, Egocide Production s’est associé au label Apocope (fondé par Paul-André Landes et Xavier Mussat) pour développer un projet initié par Xavier Mussat : organiser des soirées concerts selon un format simple : trois parties, un solo, un duo, un trio. Les artistes sont invités à tester des projets inédits, à tenter des rencontres le temps d’un live (et plus si affinité). La 3ème édition sera une spéciale guitare et aura lieu le 5 octobre, aux Instants Chavirés comme la seconde (29 mai 2018) dont nous publions aujourd’hui les enregistrements.
Click on the picture to visit the download page on archive.org :
Recorded by Benjamin Pagier
Track 1 mixed by Laurent Di Biase. Due to technical problems during the recording, this is only a short excerpt of the live set, edited by the artist.
Track 2 et 3 mixed and mastered by Benjamin Pagier
Artwork by Xavier Mussat
Special Thanks to
– JF Pichard and all the crew of Les Instants Chavirés
– Aurélien Digard for the pictures : full album here
– Annie Zivkovic for the videos
Laurent Di Biase
Interdisciplinary and sound artist, graduated from Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris and attached to the Locus Sonus audio in art research laboratory, lives and works in Paris. He develops a research and creation work based on mobility and new medias concepts, such as streaming, by the elaboration of new scripts forms linked to the practice of performance, with fiction and real time notions. His approach questions principally the nature of the artwork between space, time and public relationship. His artworks take shape of AV performances concerts, sculptures installations, sound creations. Strongly inspired by the avant-garde culture, he oriented his practice toward the probable links between media art and experimental music.
Sig Valax & ZARAZ WAM ZAGRAM
From left to right : Sig Valax & ZARAZ WAM ZAGRAM
Sig Valax
Multimedia artists interested in digital & interactive, ecology and DIY electronics. Studied electroacoustic music in the Pantin conservatory. She composed pieces & created installations comissioned by various institutuions. She is also active as an improviser, using analog synthesizer and DIY electronics. She is a member of the bands Sysma (whose first album Revenances was published by eg0cide productions in 2016) under the X-pharmaka moniker, and also Vierge Noire, Mesce Basse, Elek Ember.
ZARAZ WAM ZAGRAM
Very active noisician / improviser since the 90s in Paris, JZ aka ZARAZ WAM ZAGRAM Plays / played in many bands and is the core member of the free improv / noise ensemble Friponnes de Porc. Also involved in the organization of experimental musics, he curates the live events series Le Non_Jazz.
Camille Émaille, Nina Garcia & Arnaud Rivière
From left to right : Arnaud Rivière, Camille Emaille, Nina Garcia
Camille Émaille
Camille Émaille, a percusionnist, studied at the Musik-Akademie of Basel (Switzerland) with Christian Dierstein on contemporary music and with Fred Frith on free improvisation. She works with many artists from varying fields, such as video, muppet theatre, shadow theater and plays in the musical projects Oxke Fixu (duo with clarinet), Ghoast (duo with american saxophonist Tom Weeks), ESCARGOT (her quintet with Timothée Quost on trumpet, Xavière Fertin on clarinet, Louis Frères on e-bass and Tom Malmendier on drums).
Nina Garcia
Nina Garcia plays guitar with a minimal set up (1 guitar, 1 pedal, 1 amp) and focuses on the gesture and the sound research on the instrument : its resonances, limits, expansions, impurities, all the audibles parts of the guitar. She performs in solo as Mariachi, in the band Mamiedaragon (no lagos musique label), in duo with trombonist Maria Bertel, and in trio with Qonicho B ! (Blanche Lafuente, Morgane Carnet).
Arnaud Rivière
Arnaud Rivière is an experimental electroacoustic musician, free improviser, instrument designer, sound installation artist, co-founder and director of Sonic Protest Festival, and a member of ONCEIM ensemble. Currently based in Paris and active since the late 1990s, Rivière plays on DIY-electroacoustic device (built around a repaired turntable’s pick-up), prepared mixer, and other primitive sound tools, performing solo, in groups, and with numerous improvisers.
Ayato & Kecap Tuyul met in 2008 and then started to collaborate regularily, mostly by file exchange. Flowers in the Trashbin was their first common work of this kind, a psychedelic sonic trip haunted by whispers and noises from weirdly tuned/prepared guitars, lo-fi electronics, & ghostly voices. Sometimes melodic, sometimes more abstract, always imaginative, these tracks were recorded and mixed between 2008 and 2009. The resulting album was released in march 2010 by HAK lo-fi record as a limited edition CD-R with a special rectangular cardboard cover that has been out of print since a long time. 8 years after both musicians still like a lot this album and would like it to share it with a broader audience.
Almost 10 years after their first meeting, the two busy guys keep working together besides their several other projects. It took them some time, but their new album, “The Shaman won’t come back” has been completed this summer and will finally be published in the near future.
Click on the picture to visit the download page on archive.org
We welcome the first release of french artist (writer and musician) Aloyse. His refined electronic music evolves between ambiguous shifts and clear lines, using fuzzy textures, subdued melodies and sparse, fragmented beats. This diversity of approaches is also reflected in the reinterpretations by 8 other artists who remixed the 4 original tracks : Canse Demoiselle Döner Doedelzak Eg0n Kecap Tuyul
Luxalove No3sis Stoé Orkéo
Presentation of the project by Aloyse : ” Sound of the selves is a sound project between field recording and the art of sampling designed to be listened to during a stage performance. Shown in various places in Paris the performance “Parachute”, presented by the theatre company Machine, consists in a mobile dome under which one comedian faces one spectator. A couple of minutes to save the world from its delusions, a moment of intense intimacy before the world and its chaotic noise repeat themselves.
Sound of the selves is also an invitation to think and recreate the bound between the voices of the world and the voice of the machine: 8 musicians with variegated backgrounds offered an edit of one of the tracks in order to push one step ahead the endless communication between the creative forms of life.”
Frozen Clinamen is a new serie of works started by Failure Circle (a solo project of Kecap Tuyul) in autumn 2017. It follows a simple method inspired by the the possibilities of his no-input mixer set-up and the will to use a limited sound material in a posteriori compositions : all the sounds included in these works are recordings of moments that feature no human intervention. Frozen Clinamen #1 was recorded and mixed between november 2017 & june 2018.
Methodology step (1) Tweaking the set-up until it produces some seemingly autonomously self-sustained sound sequences. step (2) Stopping tweaking and recording for at least 20 minutes without any intervention on the set-up. step (3) Repeating steps (1) & (2) several times. step (4) Using the generated sounds as only source in a posteriori compositions. The only variations used while mixing are equalization, panoramics and volume levels. step (5) play it at low/high volume with open/closed window while completely asleep / fully conscious.
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Review by Borealiscape on “Recent Music Heroes” Blog http://agier.blogspot.com/2018/10/failure-circle-frozen-clinamen-1-2018.html
Comment: previously I have said many words about noise music. Noise is something which arouses my mind. It is like a wicked desire to get involved in the life of strangers, in the life of machines in this case. What the machines used to say, what is their singular way to perceive other artefacts and subjects around them. Yet, their singular language may be indecipherable because of consisting of highly galvanized voltage, uncountable chains of broken chords, anonymous hisses and hazy penumbras. Kecap Tuyul aka Failure Circle`s 63-minute track/album embraces all those interrupted chains and disturbed phase changes getting power from every day life`s suppressed anxiety. The machines are created by the human being yet the more a human being gets subjugated to the artificial satellite, the more he/she will be enslaved by it. A history of the human being can be viewed as the coexistence of the aforementioned ones. Could you get rid of this addictive relationship given that the machines help you outdo (I mean, forget) your own mortality. You meet Grim Reaper with a motorised scythe. The throbbing sonic issue is a part of the discography of Eg0cide Productions.
Stillborn Blues‘ 3rd album features tracks recorded between 2008 and 2010 and was firstly released 8 years ago as an edition of 15 cd-r. 2 or 3 have been sold to some bad-advised speculators turned on by the “limited edition” words , 4 or 5 have been traded with other weirdos or given to polite friends, the rest of them were damaged in some various domestic accidents. One of the few readable ones was ripped to create this digital version.
This album has the same old typical Stillborn Blues style : plaintive melancholy, detuned guitars, lo-fi recording, awkward playing muffled by the abuse of reverb and delay – all the ingredients for a low-profile soundtrack for lazy dreamers and restless losers in need of a pretext for spending the day watching the ceiling. Now that the music is on you can close the curtains and go back in your bed.
After years of sparse and mostly indirect contacts, we are glad to welcome Unattributed, a solo project of George de Bruin, who is completely at home on eg0cide productions as an experimental musician and netlabel activist (George curates the Cerebral Audio netlabel, which specialized in experimental electronic music). The Unattributed project is based on the concepts of transformation and generative music, using manipulated images that are processed using an ANS synthesizer emulation.
023EE was recorded during the same session as the 07E2DA release. This track steps deeper into exploring multi-layered noise constructs that are at once shifting and changing, and always on the edge of breaking apart in a digital bit-melting breakdown.
This work is created by using image transformation. The image is run through a series of filters to produce an image that is at once representative of the original, yet bears out structures and elements of the image that are not easily seen within it. The image is transformed into sound using a photoelectric synthesizer based on the concepts of the ANS synthesizer.
The sound from the ANS synthesizer are manipulated through equalization, filters and envelopes to shape and form the pure noise signal into a sonic sculpture that interprets the image in a new dimension.
French sound activist JKP (who used to run the antisocial netlabel) comes back on eg0cide with a new conceptual audiovisual work based on the Pieter Bruegel painting “The Triumph of Death”. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Full album download links:
Avi video file (this release is a video and has no audio files)
Youtube link provided as temporary stream version due to a temporary problem on archive.org
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