| August 2008 news
August 25, 2008
ICE DRONES
• tube'|136 - .at/on - fon / scape
«.at/on is musician and composer Anton Holota from Ukraine, and after releasing with several well known labels like -N, Plex, Telescope and Nishi (among others) since 2004, .at/on comes to test tube with a special EP containing 4 rarities from his repertoire. The 'fon' pieces were previously released through Cifrarec. Project, a long gone and closed for good netlabel from Russia, so they were both unavailable until now. 'Products of Passed Days' and 'scape-01' on the other hand, were previously released in a very limited CD-r edition of 30 copies and also long gone. This was a great oportunity of re-releasing all four pieces.
.at/on main soundwork is offered through electroacoustic ambient and glitch and drone flavors. 'fon a' and 'fon b' are two small pieces of glitch ambient and experimental noise that together make up one complete story. 'scape-01' and 'Products of Passed Days' are much more on the ambient drone side, lenghtier and more spatious pieces, with a twist of dark ambient throughout.
.at/on has great works and a diverse discography and if you happen to enjoy this EP you should investigate the rest.»
- Pedro Leitão
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August 22, 2008
TWITTERING
Yeah, I surrendered myself to Twitter after getting my own iPhone 3G the other day. The iPhone is not THAT great but nevertheless it shines because of the amount of awesome apps you can fit into it. I use Twitterrific when I'm mobile.
Anyway, I created a test tube Twitter account under my name here. If you use Twitter, follow us and be updated in realtime about new releases, rants and other personal findings. See you on Twitter then!
And stay tuned for a new release this weekend...
Peace,
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August 16, 2008
A JOURNEY'S TALE
• tube'|135 - Ilia Belorukov + Philip Croaton - Un[view]mask[ed]
«Saint Petersburg native Sax player Ilia Belorukov teams up with fellow russian musician Philip Croaton to create a single-piece long player of Improv. Jazzy ambient.
Philip speaks about 'Un[view]mask[ed]' project: «Generally, every composition is a tale. A tale about past, feelings, emotions, etc. And here we have a complete story. I had an idea to create a journey, where some instruments went along with the listener. And the goal was that the listener could see about what happened to composition during this trip. Un[view]mask[ed] – it's a game without masks, witch remains indiscernible.
(Unmasked, but unviewed).»
Philip has been a constant in Ilia's musical work, as producer, musician and sound engineer. This particular work was also graced with the collaboration of trombone player Dmitriy Krotevich.
'Un[view]mask[ed]' is in essence a long, dronesy downtempo-style tapestry of pre-built rhythmic patterns based on bass and ambient loops, that get complemented by several layers of improv. playing of sax, flute, trombone, harmonica and several levels of noise elements and drum loops, culminating in a contemporary electro-acoustic piece of rare beauty. Enjoy the journey.» - Pedro Leitão
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August 11, 2008
NEUBAU REVIEWED
Here's a review for Neubau's latest work 'Definitions of Nowhere', done by our good friend and supporter Eduardo Chagas (sorry, portuguese readers only):
«Nascido em 1978, na Áustria, Neubau (conhecido nas horas normais de expediente por Arno Steinacher) desenvolve ideias ligadas ao pós-serialismo, que têm a ver com a aplicação de modelos matemáticos à criação musical, numa perspectiva menos laboratorial que aquela em cujo modelo se inspira - Studio für Elektronische Musik, Colónia, Alemanha, anos 50. Neubau procura conciliar este tipo de visão com outra em que é notória uma maior flexibilidade e variedade tímbrica e textural, com um desenho sonoro menos artificial e mais humanizado, que conjuga elementos dos mundos campestre e industrial, temperados de melancolia crepuscular. A ideia do compositor é criar impressões sonoras e visuais no ouvinte à boleia de clusters de sons naturais e fabricados pelo homem (as "mathematical sound rooms", além da presença da voz humana), nascidos de processos idênticos aos que se encontram na análise microscópica, na biologia molecular, nos modelos evolutivos, etc. Serialismo de rosto humano para o Séc. XXI? Pode ser.»
Stay tuned for more news soon...
Peace,
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August 09, 2008
WIND POWERED
• tube'|134 - Tüsüri - Aizeola
«In native basque - Euskara - language, an 'Ola' is a forge or a mill, used in ancient times to melt the ore which was abundant in that northeastern part of Iberia. There were several types of 'Olas', 'Urolas' - your typical water-mill, 'Jentiolas' - related to basque mythology, and 'Aizeolas' which are perhaps the most common of 'Olas', powered by the wind. Yes, wind mills, like the ones Don Quijote fought in his dreams, which were actually giants that the basque people called 'Jentils'.
Anyway, basque mythology aside, this piece that basque artist Oier Iruretagoiena offers us is pretty much made from wind field recordings that Oier captured in the coastal region of Uribe-Kosta, part of the Bizkaia province, hence the title 'Aizeola'.
This piece, while short, has several parts interconnected through moments of tense silence and suspended dramatism. The first moment is the most visceral one as we are left in the middle of a hurricane of unimaginable strenght. We can almost feel the earth shattering beneath this nature's power, rocks being thrown away into space, chaos everywhere we turn to. After that, the calm, and then again. A short but very intense experience.» - Pedro Leitão
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