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TRES 008CD
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This is the third CD by The Vegetable Orchestra, an ensemble unique to the world of music which is committed to the exploration of the acoustic qualities of vegetables! In addition to performing on the international concert circuit, the 12-person collective from Vienna has spent the last dozen years experimenting with the building of vegetable instruments, industriously unearthing the acoustic universe of roots and legumes, cabbages and courgettes. All the instruments used are exclusively made from vegetables: from fresh as well as dried plant material such as carrot, leek, celery root, artichoke, dried pumpkin and onion skin. All these components are used for building organic instruments and sound generators which usually only last for one concert or one day in the studio. In addition to the vegetables, various utensils like record players or power drills are used to create unusual noises and to add unexpected texture to the music. The sounds produced by the vegetable instruments are amazingly multi-layered: transparent & crackling, shrill & massive, dark & hypnotic, funky & groovy... a heterogeneous multitude of acoustic gems and strange, unfamiliar sounds whose organic origin is not always immediately recognizable. The compositions are tailored to suit the specific characteristics of the vegetable instruments being used, in terms of their sonic attributes and practical considerations to optimize performance. Stylistically the music oscillates between organic pop music and aural sound experiments, with inspiration from various sources: minimal techno, ambient, noise, pop, new and electro-acoustic music. This CD is an aural voyage through phantasmagorical continents of sound and imaginary gardens. Living music: multi-layered and idiosyncratic. The elaborate digipak also includes a poster.
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KARMA 034CD
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The Vegetable Orchestra are from Vienna and they use musical instruments made out of vegetables: using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos, the orchestra creates its own extraordinary and vegetable sound universe. The ensemble overcomes preserved and marinated sound conceptions or tirelessly re-stewed listening habits, putting its focus on expanding the variety of vegetable instruments, developing novel musical ideas and exploring fresh vegetable sound gardens. The music represents an isomorphism of electronic music and the structure of the sounds produced by the vegetables. The concept of this remix project is the interpretation and reconstruction of electronic music with organic means by using the original vegetable sounds and samples. Karmarouge Records has invited well-respected international artists such as Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano, Gabriel Ananda, Frank Martiniq, Oliver Hacke, Märtini Brös, Anja Schneider, Basteroid and Sian to take part and create their individual vegetable sound interpretation. Armed with vegetable samples, a sequencer and a hand-held blender, it's up to them to show the world how to brew a large portion of minimal techno out of ginger, leek and onions, how to buzz the pumpkin bass and cook a delicate celery soup. Listen to the vegetables!
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KARMA 014EP
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Remixes of the Vegetable Orchestra from Vienna, this time by Villalobos and Luciano! From the Automate album. Extended minimal tracks, as good as any Cadenza release. "For a crowning conclusion of this funny but outstanding remix series it's now up to Luciano and Ricardo Villalobos to buzz the pumpkin bass and cook a delicate celery soup. In his 'Ciboulette Mix' Luciano composes one of his dreamful and dodgy grooving soundscapes and crafts a vegetable universe out of the various tomato-cucumber-fennel-frezzels. Completely different on the other hand the 'Atavismus Mix' by Ricardo Villalobos. The chewing smack which adheres to this 17-minute epic sublimes a passionate vegetarian. In a lustful and soulful way Ricardo Villalobos fragments and squelchs, mashes and penetrates the whole range of the vegetable garden."
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