The latest Machinist record was released last month as the second release on the Betontoon roster. Entitled Viens avec Moi dans le Vide ['come with me into the void'], it is built around a reading of the poem by the same name written by Yves Klein [wiki].
'Viens avec Moi dans le Vide' [...]
Only recently, after reading his necrology for a local bookstore, we complimented him on the way he was able to fill such memorial texts with true poetry and touching words. “Yes,” he said, “but why does it always have to be necrologies?” Perhaps because we only realise what we’ve lost until [...]
Machinist & Mendel Kaelen side label
The State-X New Forms festival for experimental music, based in The Hague, introduced its very own band and artist contest in 2009: X-Vektor. Two aspiring Dutch artists were the winners of the contest, and the reward was not only a performance on the festival itself, last December, but also [...]
Get ready for 2010. We’ve got something coming for you!
The new album by Finnish progressive folk masters Tenhi is due to appear in summer 2010, according to the label, Prophecy Productions. A teaser for the album has been put online on YouTube recently:
The clip is, of course, not as impressive as the previous complete video for “Kausienranta”, but it’s nice [...]
The new Dutch experimental music label Betontoon was launched recently. It was first used as a label for the Cyclus I EP by Machinist in 2008, but with the release of 8pmcityscapes by Hystersis this fall, the label truly saw the light of day.
Betontoon focuses on experimental music that explores the dynamics between sound and [...]
Irish label Rusted Rail have released a new Agitated Radio Pilot EP, entitled A Field Day.
It contains six tracks in a style that reminds me a bit of Dave’s earlier Australia-inspired works, with a bit of Holt thrown in as well. Summery feelings, a bit of the usual melancholia, and a nice [...]
Suite for Hippolyte is a new piece for solo piano by English composer and painter Richard Moult, who has released several solo records, and has worked with artists like David Tibet, United Bible Studies, Far Black Furlong and Agitated Radio Pilot.
This suite is one of a set of shorter works released by small independent labels, [...]
artist: Mathias Delplanque
release: Ma Chambre Quand Je N’Y Suis Pas [Montréal]
format: CD
year of release: 2006
label: Mondes Elliptiques
duration: 45:14
detailed info: discogs.com
Ma Chambre… is a concept album, based on a sound installation Mathias Delplanque made for an exhibition. The sounds are created in their entirety from recordings made in the exhibition studio when [...]
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