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ERST 077CD
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"Kawaguchi, previously on Erstwhile with Taku Unami (Teatro Assente), is captured here in his first duo meetings with longtime synth virtuoso Utah Kawasaki, making his long-awaited Erstwhile debut. The two recorded in the summer of 2015, combining a sense of 'object' performance with an improv/noise aesthetic, all impeccably documented by the aforementioned Taku Unami, and not even slowed down by a massive earthquake in the midst of their session. 'The first recording day was at Ftarri, an open live recording. Although there was a big earthquake during the recording session, we kept recording our performances while the room was shaking badly. On the second day, we recorded at pool, creating the atmosphere of an organic reverb driving through the underground drainage tank like a motorbike runs through a mountain path aggressively. The heavy bass sounds of analog synthesizer made the metal walls of the ditch sound amazing. Everything was recorded perfectly by the wonderful engineer Taku Unami. After the session, we went to eat ramen at Maruyoshi Store. I am a kind of person who listens to anything from improvisation, experimental music, hip hop to J-pop of idol singers, but I can recommend this album as something that anyone will find interesting with some strange impression.' --Takahiro Kawaguchi"
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ERST 078CD
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"These two titans of noise/improv return for their second release, following 2014's highly acclaimed The Abyss (Erstwhile 073-2). This time they confine themselves to a single disc, making for a very focused and intense listen that will certainly please their fans as well as any fans of immersive and overwhelming dense yet thoughtful sonic explorations. 'This album is a meditation on the inner mental environments that one encounters and endures during times of work-related travel. The music contained herein should be well suited for headphone distraction in airports, bus stations, train stations, subway terminals, and in the confines of the sears related to these methods of mass transportation.' --Jason Lescalleet"
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ERST 076CD
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"I'm really happy to have Taku back on Erstwhile after the stellar motubachii and Teatro Assente, and of course to have Éric make his Erstwhile debut. Parazoan Mapping documents the initial duo meetings of these two long-time friends and collaborators." 15 tracks, 48 minutes. The great photography is by Éric Coisel.
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ERST 075CD
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"Schwarze Riesenfalter, a project Graham Lambkin and I worked on throughout the last year, is now available. One of the darkest, funniest, strangest projects in which I've ever had a part. Black butterflies, fragmented mouths, dead kings: you get the idea. Fantastic cover art by Graham as well" --Michael Pisaro. Five tracks, 49 minutes, mastered by Jason Lescalleet.
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ERST 074CD
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"I'm really excited to finally have Jeph and Tim on Erstwhile, as I have long been inspired by both. In July 2004, I saw a night of solos and duos by Jeph, Tim, Sean Meehan, and David Daniell at Clemente Soto Velez in Manhattan, and that night inspired me to start the ErstQuake series with Tim, which we kicked off a few months later, also at Clemente Soto Velez. So in a way this has been in the works since then, although all of the material was newly recorded in 2014." Five tracks, 68 minutes, recorded by Barry Weisblat along with Jeph/Tim and mastered by Jason Lescalleet.
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ERST 069CD
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"5 tracks, 55 minutes. 'Parrots and tigers take a hacksaw to your automobile and then attempt to drive the remaining parts around with defective radio controls. (Whatever is actually happening, this record rocks.)' - Michael Pisaro"
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ERST 072CD
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"2 CDs, each containing one piece lasting just over an hour, each performed by the duo and recorded (remarkably as always) by Christoph Amann in Vienna, CD 1 is 'shoguu' by Radu, CD 2 is 'instruments, field recordings, counterpoints' by Jurg, design and photography by Yuko Zama, much of it around Amann Studios. 'shoguu' features Jurg on clarinet and Radu on trombone, 'instruments, field recordings, counterpoints' features Jurg on field recordings/electronics and Radu on trombone."
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ERST 073CD
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"2 CDs, just over two hours of material, including the 33:33 title track and the 49:49 'The Echo of Your Past' (the latter takes up all of CD 2). 'After 13 months of creative effort between us, Kevin and I were finally able to call this project complete. 120 minutes of music spread over two discs, The Abyss sometimes feels you've been listening to it for an entire day. It's like staring at the whirlpool of the drain of your bathroom sink, a meditation on circling the drain that we know as The Abyss.' - Jason Lescalleet"
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ERST 068CD
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"The work begins in very un-Wandelweiser fashion, with a strong note played on, I think, a harpsichord (prepared spinet?), quite forthrightly. After several identical notes, a recording of an interior space enters and a surprising sequence of chords occurs, four of them, very romantic in nature. Four more follow, belying the first quartet, somewhat sour, then three more, ambiguously between the first two sets in feeling. So begins This Place/Is Love, a kind of quiet epic (76 minutes in length) that, as with much or Pisaro's recent work, resists easy encapsulation or structural grasp. For listeners familiar with the work of either creator, especially Pisaro, the various sounds employed will be familiar: smoothly modulated sine tones, nondescript (but fascinating) field recordings, single, pristine guitar notes, extended silences; that harpsichord is the one that stands out as unusual. But of course it's not about audio novelty but the sequencing and layering of those sounds and, here especially, their resonance with [Beuger's] text. To my ears this is brilliantly accomplished, in a, for lack of a better term, poetic manner that's next to impossible to quantify." -- Brian Olewnick, Just Outside
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"This was the much anticipated final set of Keith Rowe's week in NYC, following five duo sets with various collaborators. It took place on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, and the Manhattan atmosphere was uniquely charged. As he almost always does, Rowe rose to the challenge of the occasion, creating a moving, dense, and virtuosic set in the lineage of his 2004 set with Burkhard Beins in Berlin (ErstLive 001) and his 2008 solo set in Tokyo (ErstLive 007). The recording quality is remarkable, both recorded and mastered by Taku Unami for maximum impact, this is truly a special recording."
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"This was the 10 PM set on 9/11/11, and makes for a perfect pair with the Rowe solo -- two very different extremes. Where the Rowe set is in your face visceral, Unami and Malfatti created a gentle atmosphere within the pitch-black room (lit solely by Unami's visuals) and an overarching cumulative feeling in the listener. The too-perfect-to-be-scripted intro and outro frame a set that's almost not there, a radical recording even by ultra-minimal standards."
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"In September 2011, Erstwhile producer Jon Abbey was invited to curate two weeks of shows at John Zorn's legendary Manhattan venue The Stone, which he used as an opportunity to invite many of his favorite musicians from Japan, Europe and the US to perform. Four of those thirty-five sets will now be available in the ErstLive series. This world premiere piece, written by German composer (and Wandelweiser founder) Antoine Beuger specifically for this festival and these musicians (Ben Owen, Barry Chabala and Dominic Lash) and dedicated to Abbey, opened the first night of the festival, setting a fantastic tone and high standard for the weeks of music to follow."
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"In September 2011, Erstwhile producer Jon Abbey was invited to curate two weeks of shows at John Zorn's legendary Manhattan venue The Stone, which he used as an opportunity to invite many of his favorite musicians from Japan, Europe and the US to perform. Four of those thirty-five sets will now be available in the ErstLive series. This set was the first ever full-length duo set from these two longtime masters, bringing Rowe together with one of his early influences, New York School stalwart and John Cage collaborator Christian Wolff. This show coincidentally occurred on September 4, ending after 11 PM, so almost precisely one year before Cage's 100th birthday."
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ERST 063CD
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"For this album Greg Kelley plays trumpet and Olivia Block plays electronics and piano."
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ERST 064CD
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"Jerome Noetinger plays tape machine Revox, and electronics; Will Guthrie plays drums, percussion, microphones, and electronics."
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ERST 062CD
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"Recorded in Tokyo in December 2010, the six panel digipak features photos by noted cinematographer Akiko Ashizawa (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)."
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ERST 055CD
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"Since the early nineties, Vienna-based Radu Malfatti has been investigating the edges of ultraminimalism in both his composed and improvised work. On Imaoto, he is joined by empathetic explorer Klaus Filip to create an instant classic. Malfatti and Filip have performed a handful of duo concerts over the years, with the first in 2003. In 2006, they played a remarkable set in Maria Chavez's Houndstooth store in NYC, a very memorable show for the couple of dozen listeners in attendance as well as for the musicians themselves. In October 2008, they spent a day at Amann Studios and recorded the two pieces that make up Imaoto. The results are undeniably gorgeous, musical, and impeccably recorded. The ultraminimalist aesthetic of the music is echoed in Yuko Zama's sparse design. 'This is probably the most beautiful Radu Malfatti's trombone has ever sounded on a recording. It is deep but not heavy, attaining, in Christoph Amann's studio, a very personal, nearly vocal presence. Klaus Filip works miracles of intuition with his sine tones, seemingly knowing the precise harmonic answer even before the question is asked. The two are exploring a world of hidden contours and curves, quietly, step-by-step; never hurried, never tedious.' - Michael Pisaro."
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ERST 057CD
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"Burkhard Stangl and Kai Fagaschinski both are masters at fluidly combining melodicism and abstraction. Musik-Ein Porträt in Sehnsucht showcases their work as a duo, carefully composed pieces intertwined with judiciously placed field recordings and meticulously sequenced to create a record that is more than the sum of its parts. Stangl and Fagaschinski first met in the summer of 2002, when Christof Kurzmann suggested Kai should join the ensemble performing Stangl's opera Venusmond in Berlin. They clicked both musically and personally and decided to work as a duo in the future, with their initial concert being part of the mammoth AMPLIFY 2004: Addition festival. Over the next three years, they sporadically worked together, playing two concerts in Vienna and one in NYC (in the ErstQuake 3 festival), and in 2007, recorded Musik-Ein Porträt in Sehnsucht in two separate sessions at Amann Studios in Vienna. The record occupies a unique area between composition and folk music, classical and jazz/improv, tension and serenity. The design is again from Berlin designer Marion Gerth, previously responsible for the two ErstPop releases."
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Keith Rowe's concluding set, with longtime partner Toshimaru Nakamura, at the AMPLIFY 2008: Light festival, recorded on September 21, 2008 by Taku Unami. "AMPLIFY 2008: Light was an intense and deeply immersive experience for all who were lucky enough to be present, and quite a bit of that was attributable to Rowe's four sets, which are now available for all to hear."
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ERST 054CD
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"Keith Rowe and Sachiko M are two of the most pivotal and crucial musicians in experimental music today. Contact marks their first meeting as a duo, consisting of their complete unedited sessions, both live and studio. Rowe and Sachiko have primarily travelled parallel paths over the last decade, occasionally intersecting. They both recorded crucial duo CDs with Toshi Nakamura in 2000-2001, first Sachiko with Do, then Keith soon after with Weather Sky. In 2004, they both took part in the 230 minute long quartet set documented on ErstLive 005, along with Nakamura and Otomo Yoshihide. In September 2008, Rowe played four sets in three nights in the AMPLIFY 2008: light festival in Tokyo. The festival marked Rowe's fourth trip to Japan in his 40+ year career, and the primary purpose behind his visit was to record in duo for the first time with Sachiko. Contact contains the full unedited sessions from these two widely admired musicians who have deeply respected each other for the last decade. The two CDs include the full AMPLIFY 2008: light performance, along with three additional pieces recorded in the same room two days later. Contact covers a range of approaches over its two hour length, with the common factor being the always impeccable touch of these two gifted artists. The outside three panels of the digipak are a white on black drip painting from Rowe, one of a series of six, two others of which can be seen on the CDs themselves."
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Second in Erstwhile's four-part live series documenting Keith Rowe's performances in Tokyo for the Amplify 2008: light festival. Entitled 'Cultural Templates,' this is Rowe's first solo set ever in Tokyo. "The ErstLive series is an attempt to capture the uncapturable: unedited, unpolished concert recordings packaged in a template design using two colors chosen by the musicians involved, with a photo of the concert on the back inside cover."
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"In September 2008, legendary guitarist Keith Rowe played four sets in three nights in the Amplify 2008: light festival in Tokyo. The festival marked Rowe's fourth trip to Japan in his 40+ year career and the first time he was able to work closely with so many Tokyo musicians on their home turf. As the only non-Japanese participant in the festival, Rowe took the opportunity to both move his aesthetic towards his collaborators (in the duo sets), as well as to make a strongly contrasting individual statement in his solo set, which he later titled 'Cultural Templates.' The first two of those four sets are now available in the ErstLive series: the premiere meeting of Rowe and Taku Unami and the aforementioned 'Cultural Templates,' Rowe's first solo set ever in Tokyo. The two sets from the final night of the festival, duos with Sachiko M and Toshimaru Nakamura, will be released in 2009, completing the tetralogy. Amplify 2008: light was an intense and deeply immersive experience for all who were lucky enough to be present, and quite a bit of that was attributable to Rowe's four sets, which will now be available for all to hear. The ErstLive series is an attempt to capture the uncapturable: unedited, unpolished concert recordings packaged in a template design using two colors chosen by the musicians involved, with a photo of the concert on the back inside cover."
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"ErstLive 005 is from the quartet of Keith Rowe, Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura, and Otomo Yoshihide, the centerpiece show of AMPLIFY 2004: addition, the 'four hour quartet'. ErstLive 005 contains three individually packaged slimline CDs in a slipcase with original artwork by Keith Rowe, which wraps around the entire box, front, side, and back, as well as liner notes from all four musicians and numerous pictures from Yuko Zama. ErstLive 005 documents only the second performance of this quartet, after a brief set in Cologne the week before. One thing I can say for sure is that the boundary between listening to this CD and playing this music is totally dissolved, and there is only a difference of time and space where the sounds are heard." -- Otomo Yoshihide.
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ErstLive 002 is from the quartet of Keith Rowe, Toshimaru Nakamura, Thomas Lehn and Marcus Schmickler, the final quartet performance in the Cologne half of AMPLIFY 2004: addition, also in May 2004. This was the quartet's first performance together. Personnel: Keith Rowe: guitar, electronics; Toshimaru Nakamura: no-input mixing board; Thomas Lehn: analogue synthesizer; Marcus Schmickler: synthesizer, computer.
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ERST 032CD
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"Arising from these intensive rehearsals was a new group aesthetic and a shift in focus from acoustic to electronic based material. By this stage, Durrant had developed a personal language using software synths and treatments and Wastell had begun investigating a sound source comprising what he refers to as 'amplified textures', into which Davis' newfound interest in field recordings and electronics fit perfectly. open documents this exciting period in the group's evolution, with enough groundwork having been laid to develop a strong and unique musical identity but without the all-too-identifiable sound of a group overfamiliar with itself. Open was recorded in two sessions at LMC sound in March and May 2003, both superbly engineered by Tom Wallace. It represents the first recording of Durrant exclusively using a computer, and points to a new direction for the London scene, one more organic and less directly rooted in the free improvisation of the 1980's. open largely consists of tiny, connected events, never drifting into excessive caution, always taking risks and ceaselessly pressing against the overhanging silence." Matt Davis: (field recordings, electronics, trumpet); Phil Durrant: (software synths and treatments); Mark Wastell: (amplified textures).
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