VOLUME II 2008-2009
Etude Records artists releases!!!
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Climax Golden Twins "Eerie Fragrance" etude020 12"vinyl A lovely vinyl reissue on Etude Records of a long obscure Climax Golden Twins gem. Originally issued in 1995, on cassette, Eerie Fragrance or Eyeless Fabrication or Exclude Frank or Eat Fuck or etc (forever) was Climax Golden Twins second official issue after a self-released double seven inch gatefold record. Cassettes--the cockroach of the industry--were a necessity at the poorer end of the music spectrum prior to CDRs and file sharing…the good old days…EF was a collage of noise, found sounds, punk rock disasters, Chinese climaxes, broken records, and tape failures mastered directly to cassette on a reverberant wooden floor in an old building in Seattle, Washington. It seemed an inauspicious start and little presaged the ambient/dreamy/art installation/field recording/Anomalous Records darlings CGT were to become with releases such as Lovely, Dream Cut Short in the Mysterious Clouds, Locations, etc. However, secret free hillbilly noise epilepsy has always lurked under the button up shirts, white wine sipping and gallery-opening snack-munching. The noise informs the dreams which informs the ambiance which informs the chaos and so back to the beginning and vice-versa. Etude Records discovered CGT through their work on the horror film Session Nine and have been wanting to release something ever since. Price:19$ usa/can; 18€ eur/world (shipping included in both prices)
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ap´strophe "objects sense objectes " etude019 CD/Jewelbox ap’strophe is the duo of Ferran Fages and Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga. They began working together in 2006, when Ferran Fages recorded his last guitar album “Cançons per a un lent retard”, where Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga collaborated in the track Paraula clau, which they composed and interpreted together. After recording the album they realized the impossibility of re-interpreting this piece, which is based on the detuning(s) of the guitar, but they decided to continue working together. They decided to treat the piece Paraula clau as finished and started to search for a common sonoric space. The result of this survey gave shape to their present collaboration, which consists of a duo of acoustic guitar and zither. With their music they investigate the perception of the distinctive timbre of the guitar and the zither alongside the differences and similarities of their string instruments. Price: 15$ usa/can; 12€ eur/world |
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Robert Millis "120" etude018 CD/Digipack Robert Millis: a Climax Golden Twin, a collector '78s resulting in the impeccable Victrola Favorites book & compilation, purveyor of searing avant-scum-noise-rock in AFCGT, a world traveler in search of esoterica for Sublime Frequencies…Despite his many activities, Millis' recorded output has almost entirely been by way of collaboration, making this gem of a solo album all the more special. This is closer related to the collage work that Millis has contributed to the Climax Golden Twins, bridging all of those aforementioned interests in a polyglot of psychedelic smear pocked with snippets of conversation, poetic extracts from his collection of '78s, and a judicious amount of vinyl crackling. An album such as this would easily be confused for the hermetic revelations that Philip Jeck extracts from his rough shod vinyl and turntables; but Millis seems to counterpoint the crackle and the clean with more drama than Jeck, almost positing the crackle like a punch line in a joke that breaks through one of Millis' blissed out shimmers constructed from loops and drones from guitar, bells, and glass harmonica, where haunted melodies from times long gone whisper through the mix. Price: 15$ usa/can; 12€ eur/world
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Ferran Fages "Al voltant d´un paral.lel" etude017 CD Jewelbox “Al voltant d´un paral.lel ” brings to light a tension, which matches that of the previous two guitar albums of Ferran Fages. It’s probably because a parallel could also be thought of as the lanes of a horse race, as a permanent conflict, or as a trait of one’s character that never disappears. This album makes one think the interior of a room. The reverberations give us its size, the latitudes of uneasiness. In the meantime, these harmonic sparks are kept by the ceiling, before they fall to the ground, taking the form of ashes. A consumed acoustic flight.
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Jose Luis Redondo "La reponse est aux pieds " etude016 CD "In Josep's Hands: Perhaps a new chameleon.these arco,pizzicato glissandi of enveloped harmonically rich durations that struggle against the tyranny of fourths. Tempered with blue frequencies and at times free of the tonic it is an instrument of silence as well. But, alas it is also an instrument of massive contrasts and bound by string theory. Josep's implimentation of string theory that is." -Eugene Martynec (London 2008) Price: 10$ usa/can; 7€ eur/world |
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Tomasz Krakowiak "La ciutat ets tu " etude015 CD Did Krakowiak place old screws and nails on top of an old window air-conditioning unit and let the microphones pick up gyrations? Is that a fan that I'm hearing or are my ears being tricked into false sense of reality? "Drgacze" features light tickling of cymbals and possibly chains that are rattled in a subtly pleasing way, while "Sink" is a mystery piece altogether. Is the composer rubbing against a metal object or is he scraping nails on a chalkboard? The whole lot ends on a high note with "Diners per N". It's full of gentle trickling of water on a steel pan or perhaps fingers tapped in succession on the cymbals or perhaps something else altogether. The record's greatest merit is the guesswork that goes into the listening session. Would one even hazard to guess that this is the work of a percussionist or was it really made by somebody who understands the aesthetic qualities of his surroundings to the fullest. Listener is left alone with no clues as to source of the sounds at hand. Audio soundtrack to a movie that has yet to be produced, "La Ciutat Ets Tu" is perfectly satisfying and conducive to praise every minute of its duration. Price: 10$ usa/can; 7€ eur/world |
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Alfredo Costa Monteiro "Épicycle" etude014 CD Even in the rarified, difficult to define world of contemporary electro-acoustic improvisation there are artists who can be said to fall into one of two general categories: for some, the listener has a fairly good idea what to expect from a new recording; for others not. There’s no qualitative judgment being made here —certain musicians can mine a narrow area very profitably—but Alfredo Costa Monteiro definitely falls into the latter grouping. From works for prepared accordion to creative abuses of turntables to at least two recordings where the sole sound source is paper, he’s rendered it futile to approach a new offering with any particular sonic expectations. And with “Epicycle”, he does so once again. Price: 10$ usa/can; 7€ eur/world |
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Ferran Fages "Cançons per a un lent retard" etude014 CD Digipack
Price: 12$ usa/can; 9€ eur/world |
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Lngtché "Music for an untitled film by T.Zarkkof " etude012 CD I’ve been spending probably too much time on the edge of righteous oblivion by making repeated listens to MUSIC FOR AN UNTITLED FILM BY T. ZARKKOF by the strangely-monickered Lngtché. Released on the Barcelona record label Etude, Lngtché’s music is herein presented as a single 44-minute track that issues forth from the speakers like one continuous and unrestrained flow of lava bursting out from under the floorboards and seeping out of the walls, like bubbling plasma from the mind of Roky Erikson.-Julian Cope (Head Heritage | Adress Drudion) Price: 11$ usa/can; 8€ eur/world |
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Agustí Martínez "Are spirits what I hear?" etude011 CD/Jewelbox Etude Records is proud to present the first release by composer Agustí Martínez,born 1960 in Barcelona, this is the first ever released record of some of his minimal,graphic scores and homemade compositions for alto saxophone. "Are spirits what I hear" has been recently included in the book "Best Musicians, Singers, Albums and Entertainment Personalities of the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries", Volume V of World Who's Who in Jazz, Cabaret, Music and Entertainment. Published by the Federation of American Musicians, Singers and Performing Artists (FAMSPA.) Price: 12$ usa/can; 9€ eur/world |
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Mike Hansen "At every point " etude010 CD/Digipack With Mike Hansen’s “At Every Point,” the Toronto-based musician steps out of his familiar role of turntablist-improviser to explore thepossibilities of a purely digital medium. While each of these five compositions is clearly sequenced, the improviser’s sense of openness and play consistently comes through. The raw materials of Hansen’s compositions are the sounds of cowbells, harmonicas, Vietnamese drums, an electric guitar and amp, and of course sounds and samples captured off a set up of prepared turntables, reassembled from thekind of rugged record players kids played with in grade schools across Canadain the 1970s. Price: 12$ usa/can; 9€ eur/world |
