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ASH 9.5CD
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Christian Fennesz's score of the film AUN: The Beginning And The End Of All Things -- a 100 min., 35mm feature drama written/directed by the Austrian artist/filmmaker, Edgar Honetschläger. It is an Austrian/Japanese co-production realized by Edoko Institute, Vienna and Ribo Ltd., Tokyo in cooperation with KGP Vienna. AUN was supported by the Austrian Film Institute, the Vienna Film Fund, the ORF (Austrian TV), the province of Upper Austria, the City of Tokyo, Tochigi Province, Shizuoka province, Yamanashi province. AUN: The Beginning And The End Of All Things tells the story of mankind's quest for the future, his desire to create the tomorrow, his fear of and loathing for the apocalypse. It spins the Faustian theme twice and lays bare open the inexhaustible Judea/Christian believe in progress, which by the 21st century has taken over the entire world and has succeeded in maneuvering the globe into a situation that can't be solved by means of economics and science anymore. Enlightenment's merits have taken the West's ability to sense what is not to be seen, what is only to be felt. Beliefs are so much more than religion, than monotheistic concepts. Souls and spirits exist not only in film. Denial and neglect of eternal laws lead to extinction -- of the individual and the entire human race. AUN invents rituals as well as mythologies and worships the creator of it all -- nature -- by playfully laying out its dichotomy with human culture. The film equals mankind's beauty with nature by announcing that "everything mankind creates is nature." Sadly, the hubris ends and gives the audience the chance to heartily weep for the world. Director's statement: "AUN: The Beginning And The End Of All Things follows the strings of thoughts the late Claude Lévi-Strauss revealed in his anthropological essays throughout the 20th century, as well as those of Japan's unique Shintoism, whose millions of gods inhabit and preserve nature. The film focuses on the dichotomy of man/nature and envisions a future world where life will be nothing but sensual. It contains references to Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, Italian anthropologist Fosco Maraini and the Japanese writer Yoko Tawada."
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ASH 8.9CD
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Joachim Nordwall is deeply interested in the power of sound, and how sound can create certain states of mind, but also the other way around; how certain states of mind can create sound. Since his teens in the late '80s, growing up in the remote, crude southeast Sweden, he has experimented with something he prefers to call "Psychic Broadcasting" rather than composition, at first in the still almost-active analog synth drone duo Alvars Orkester. Nordwall went on to play in various experimental music projects and spent time in Paris and London. Back in Sweden, he formed iDEAL Recordings in 1998 and joined the sweaty avant-punk rock group Kid Commando the year after, touring like mad, eventually hitting rock-bottom in 2005. After the death of KC, he formed the ritual rock/drone band The Skull Defekts, which has kept him busy ever since (recently releasing records on Chicago-based Thrill Jockey Records). In 2006, his first solo album was released under his The Idealist moniker. A few years in the making, the album offered was a deep study of Nordwall's interior life, during a time when everything was pitch-black inside. Today, Joachim Nordwall is very active curating his iDEAL label and organization for festivals, concert series and sound art exhibitions. He is also the chairman of the legendary Stockholm venue for experimental stage art, Fylkingen. Nordwall is a man that lives and breathes sound. A few years have passed and Ignition is here, Joachim Nordwall's second solo album. Recorded under brighter circumstances but still with many shadows present. Ignition is on one hand a solid, highly electronic trip, on the other hand, a very sensitive, analog and warm drone symphony. Ignition was released (and is still available) on cassette in 2010, thus asserting the primacy of the analog format. Received and recorded by Joachim Nordwall at Morgan Avenue (Brooklyn), Lampo (Chicago), iDEAL (Gothenburg), EMS (Stockholm) 2006-2010. Technical specifications: RITM-2, iDEALIST DRONE MACHINE, LITTLE BLACK BOY, GLAMOUR BOX, KORG MS-20, iDEALIST NOISE MACHINE, MacBook Pro (various software) and various effects. Analog sound sources, sometimes processed digitally.
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ASH 010.1EP
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Four new tracks from Purity Supreme, a collaboration between French musician, composer and producer Christophe Van Huffel and American writer, musician and composer Leslie Winer. Always Already was recorded in France at Studio7Love in May 2011. Leslie Winer's '90s album Witch, released under the artist name ©, is a genuine lost classic, pioneering many of the sounds that have followed. Christophe Van Huffel, ex-guitarist of Tanger, has recently produced legendary French singer, Christophe.
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ASH 9.1CS
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Ash International presents a cassette-only release of 2008 live tracks from Swedish sound recordist BJ Nilsen. BJ Nilsen was born in 1975 and he has been active with experimental music for over 20 years. For the past 10 years, he has been releasing albums on Touch, and making music and doing sound design for documentary film, television and commercials. He is focused on field recordings and on the sound of nature and its effect on humans and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound, often electronically treated. Nilsen has collaborated with artists such as Chris Watson, Hildur Gudnadóttir, Philip Jeck and Stilluppsteypa, amongst others. Illustration by Sav X, entitled Dead Flowerz 1 (first in a series of 6).
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ASH 8.9CS
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Sweden's Joachim Nordwall runs iDEAL Recordings and is a member of The Skull Defekts. Received and recorded in Brooklyn, Chicago, Gothenberg and Stockholm between 2006 and 2010. Equipment used: analog synthesizers, effects and computer. This cassette was mastered by BJNilsen and edited by Philip Marshall. Program repeats on both sides. Limited edition of 500 copies only.
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ASH 8.8CD
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Ash International presents a live recorded performance by Thomas Ankersmit in Utrecht from late in 2007. Live In Utrecht is his first official CD album release. Thomas Ankersmit is a 30 year-old saxophonist, electronic musician and installation artist born and raised in the Netherlands and now primarily based in Berlin who combines abstract, intensely-focused saxophone playing with hyper-kinetic analog synth and computer improvisation. He also creates installation pieces that use sound, infrasound and "modifications to the acoustic characters of spaces" that disrupt the viewer/listener's perception of the exhibition space and their presence within it. He frequently works together with New York minimalist Phill Niblock and Sicilian electroacoustic improviser Valerio Tricoli, and as well as other collaborators, mostly for live performances, including Tony Conrad, Maryanne Amacher, Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Drumm and Borbetomagus. Thomas Ankersmit: Serge analog modular synthesizer, computer, alto saxophone. Pre-recorded saxophone and reel-to-reel parts composed by Valerio Tricoli, with source material by Ankersmit.
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ASH 8.7LP
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Vinyl release. On November 19, 2009, there took part at Café Oto, London, the first-ever "The Night Of The Long Worms" -- a label night held by the cassette label, The Tapeworm. Presented here is a track each by Tapeworm artists Meltaot (UK artist/musician/broadcaster Sharon Gal and artist/writer/musician SavX aka Savage Pencil aka Edwin Pouncey) and mystery group Souls On Board (featuring Bruce Gilbert). Meltaot features Savage Pencil on electric guitar scree/cymbal and Sharon Gal thrumming a bass guitar while she produces some serious guttural horror. Souls On Board provide some black-hearted electronic throb/drone/pulse with a "Pirates Mix" by Bruce Gilbert. Comes with a Meltaot sticker.
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ASH 7.8EP
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This 7" is the fourth in a series of vinyl acoustic versions for the National Anthems of Elgaland-Vargaland. These recordings were regally made during the unofficial inauguration of the KREV Ministry of Bankrupt Shopping Malls in Porto, Portugal, on October 10, 2008, in the presence of the KREV Ambassadors Michael Harding and Heitor Alvelos. Genuflections to the Future Places digital media festival, University of Porto Masters in Image Design, and the University of Texas at Austin and Transmedia Brussels.
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ASH 8.1CS
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Cassette only, in an edition of 500 copies. Second edition, with alternate inlay. Recorded by Norwegian sound recordist, Jana Winderen, who also provided the illustration. Winderen writes that The Noisiest Guys On The Planet is "an ongoing investigation into the use and production of sound by decapods." The decapods or Decapoda ("ten-footed") are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crayfish, crabs, lobsters, prawns and shrimp. Most decapods are scavengers. As their name implies, all decapods have ten legs; these are the last five of the eight pairs of thoracic appendages characteristic of crustaceans. The front three pairs function as mouthparts and are generally referred to as maxillipeds, the remainder being pereiopods. In many decapods, however, one pair of legs has enlarged pincers; the claws are called chelae, so those legs may be called chelipeds. Jana Winderen researches the hidden depths of the sea with the latest technology; her work reveals the complexity and strangeness of the unseen world beneath. The audio topography of the oceans and the depth of glacier crevasses are brought to the surface. She is occupied with finding sound from its hidden source, like blind field recording.
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ASH 7.6EP
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This is the third in a series of vinyl acoustic versions of the National Anthems of Elgaland-Vargaland. See also the mariachi and the klezmer/Afrobeat versions, both issued in 2007 via Ash International. Kampen Skoles Musikkorps consists of around 24 musicians aged from 9 to 16. It was founded in 1906 and is the third oldest school marching band in Norway. Recorded on March 12, 2008 at Kampen Skole in Oslo. The "KREV Underwater National Anthem" was recorded under MS Reichenau on the occasion of the Annexation of the Bodensee (Lake Constance) including Überlinger See, Zeller See, Gnadensee, Untersee and the Insel Mainau (Island of Mainau), formerly a part of Switzerland, Austria, Germany, by the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland on May 28, 2008. Recorded using Dolphin Ear hydrophones and a Nagra Ares P-11 flash recorder while The Emmishofer Brass Band and The Diessenhofen Yodelling Choir performed.
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