| November 2009 news
November 30, 2009
EXPLORING
• tube'|191 - Mikroben Krieg - Concret Exploratoire
«'Exploratório' was the name of a radio show from local radio inside deep Portugal. That program played frequently ambient electronics, leftfield electronica as well as a wide range of experimental stuff. It seems that this piece was one of the last ones that went live before the radio was bought by a big media corporation and then closed down.
'Concret Exploratoire', by Mikroben Krieg (real name Nelson Brites, a portuguese musician), was broadcasted February 03, 2008 and is an hour long experimental ambient piece, where the musician explores a plethora of moods and sounds from beginning to end. Real exploratory stuff.»
- Pedro Leitão
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November 16, 2009
KILLING TIME
• tube'|190 - The Cherry Blues Project - Dead Hours
«The Cherry Blues Project is a well known two-people-project from Argentina. They have released a handful of works on the excellent Resting Bell netlabel, touching the experimental genre and folk music languages, as well as heavily relying on field recordings to build their works.
'Dead Hours' is their brand new album, a refreshing collection of compositions going well over a hour and covering pretty much all the territories that are familiar to the duo's sound geography. Some pieces are more on the field recordings side, while some others are clearly experimental works, while others yet have distinct folk arrangements and acoustic treatment. There are also some alternative mixes and remixes thrown into the bag, showing that Cherry and Blues are very confortable doing what they do best: designing specific audio environments.
The tone set throughout 'Dead Hours' is obviously dark, sometimes even dark ambient-like, which as far as I know isn't what they are used to do. However they're very convincing doing it, and 'Dead Hours' is a beautifully patchworked album that you shouldn't miss out.»
- Pedro Leitão
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November 11, 2009
IMPULSIVE HABITAT IS GO!
After several months of hard work we are proud and enthusiast to officially unwrap Impulsive Habitat - a division of test tube netlabel - a publishing project label conceived with the purpose of publishing field recording-based sound works. We also encourage multidisciplinary projects that link sound projects with visuals and video work.
Impulsive label is a project originated by David Vélez and Juan José Calarco both sound artists who joined forces with test tube netlabel manager Pedro Leitâo to finally come up with Impulsive Habitat.
For our first release we have the fortune to publish 'Vending machine', the first official release of Joaquín Gutiérrez Hadid, a promising young artist from Argentina whose sound and visual work is noteworthy. 'Vending machine' is a very powerful piece of work that very likely will mark the beginning of an extensive series of releases by Joaquín around the world.
For our second release (available pretty soon) we will have the honor to publish 'The alarming blend of three arches' by Dallas Simpson, an emblematic figure on the world of sound art and field recordings who has been working with binaural sounds for more than a decade.
Make yourself part of our project in any way you want.
TAKE ME THERE!
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November 04, 2009
HEX-CHOREOGRAPHY
• tube'|189 - A Million Billion - Cavity Care
«A Million Billion is Ryan Smith based out of Queens, NYC. 'Cavity Care' is a collection of compositions that Ryan wrote in collaboration with several choreographers over the last 6 years.
These works are distinctively experimental in nature (especially the first four pieces), but also extremely dramatic and cinematographic in tone, and as a result most of the time they transport us to movie-like settings and places.
To me, the real keeper is 'Kettering and Corby'. That one really hits the spot here, with a blend of domesticated sinewaves and sci-fi guitar playing-like (hello Cliff Martinez!) nostalgia momentum. Ryan hit the jackpot right here.» - Pedro Leitão
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