| November 2005 news
November 25, 2005
TEST TUBE À LA UNE
Test Tube is on focus this month at French portal Musique Libre (noted last week). Look at what they wrote about us:
«A very busy Portuguese netlabel led by Pedro Leitão, Test Tube presents a whole wide and eclectic panorama of today's electro, from Lisbon & Porto, to New York and Frankfurt via Japan, France or Sweden. From etheral ambiant Elian or saturated with guitars AO, improbable white noise sal.. Test Tube catalogue is generous of melodic and rhythmic jewels with the keens of Embark, Gamma Ray Blast, Minus Pilots, or :Papercutz, then folk territory is explored with Bacanal Intruder & Aitänna77, and Frango are on the side of destructured rock. Then it's time for electro-acoustic DIY, with Plumb and Plumber or the amusing Japanstoryboardformulaoneracing from Con 7. An eclecticism that surely will encourage you to test the many other albums... Hard to imagine missing Ubeboet...»
Many thanks
to our french friends for this opportunity.
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November 22, 2005
COLOMBIAN JAZZ
• tube'|028 - Lezrod - Seleccion Natural
«The music scene is really a beautiful thing. There are plenty of interesting things to find, even in the underground scene in which test tube is moving, the netlabel scene.
We're very proud here, at test tube's, to release each and every artist that comes to us with a really original and captivating work, but occasionally, there is one that really stands out of the crowd.
We proudly present Lezrod's 'Seleccion Natural', a four piece EP by Colombian man David Velez, artist and friend, who crafts fantastic electronic constructions, pretty much in the way architects craft houses and buildings.
David loves classic Jazz and Funk, IDM electronics, Contemporary Music and Film music. And it shows.
'Dubid' and its laidback jazz drums, cinematic ambient streams and software glitches is a bliss to our senses. We just let go, gently, watching the movie, tasting the stuff, until 'Apoc' comes forward. 'Apoc' pays a little homage to an IDM artist, who introduced David to synths and to the sounds widely known as electronic music. Its first seconds contain a vocal sample from him. From there it goes to the heart of the machine. This one is technologically cold, with static noises bursting everywhere. Impressively strong and strict and experimental. 'Re' keeps trailing the 'Apoc' path. More experimental noise and IDM crossover, glitches abound, impromptus with religious weight. Awesome, this one, strong personality and heavy as ever. Finally, 'Adios' sends us home. David returns to the beginning, and to where he's strong and at his best. Jazz flows again. The drums, people, the drums! With a deliberate melancholic tone, 'Adios' returns the listener to the starting point. The harmonic tones, the drum breaks, the digital glitches. This is what makes Lezrod's music Lezrod's music. The question that comes to mind now is: Are we ready for Lezrod's music?»
- Pedro Leitão
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November 13, 2005
MUSIQUE LIBRE POUR LE MONDE
Musique-Libre.org is a French portal (Un portail pour la communauté Musique Libre) that supports and divulges free music under Creative Common licenses and such. Musique Libre is also a cultural association. Check here.
Test Tube has been working to have its catalogue featured at their website. And its almost complete. Take a look.
You can stream or download directly from musique-libre. Thanks Bituur!
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November 04, 2005
SOUNDTRACK FOR PLANET EARTH
• tube'|027 - Elian - We are all visitors here
«test tube proudly presents 'We are all visitors here', an ambient masterpiece by Michael Ferrell a.k.a. Elian, U.S.A. born and bred.
This work is inspired by mortality, in the literal sense of the word. Mortality and
efemerity, because we are all visitors here on this planet, on this universe. We are just passing by, leaving a trail of destruction most of the time, but also of beautiful things that will last longer than us.
When we were talking about the artwork - which is by Seth White, an amateur photographer - Michael and I discussed many things about the greatness of this planet, its mountains and rivers, its gigantic mass and strenght, its destructive and creative power in everything, and how we are microscopically small, we humans and all living things that populate it. Seth's antarctica photo illustrates perfectly Michael's idea for this album. It encapsulates all that greatness, all that power. And on the other hand, our smallness, our efemerous life here. We're all just visitors for a limited amount of time.
This album also encapsulates those cosmic concepts in its long and drony pieces. Some
with suggestive titles such as 'Being on the phone during a thunderstorm' and 'Origin or
Profile'. But the title theme is the real keeper, in its more than 20 minutes of growing drone delicacy.
Absolutely gorgeous.»
- Pedro Leitão
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