昨日の日記で告知したSIGNAL TO NOISE VOL.1のCD、多数の購入ありがとうございます。
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申し込みと同時に非常に有り難いメッセージなども頂いていて嬉しいす。どうもありがと。
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まだ在庫あるようなのでぜひ。008とは大分違う印象です。あ、で全5曲ですね。
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GOEMのフランス・デワードがやっているvital weeklyというメルマガがあるのですがそれに出てた評です。
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OREN AMBARCHI & KEITH ROWE – SQUIRE (CD by For4Ears Records)
KAHN, MO¨SLANG, MU¨LLER, SHIBUYA, MARA – SIGNAL TO NOISE VOL.1 (CD by For4Ears Records)
As far as I know there has been an Oren Ambarchi and Keith Rowe collaborative disc before, or perhaps even more, or perhaps in combination with others. Ambarchi plays his guitar with two hands and some boxes on the floor, whereas Keith Rowe places the six stringed monster on the table and plays it with a lot of objects, combs, wires and even a radio. Both are highly skilled and both are highly imaginative in what they are doing. The work present on ‘Squire’ is already a couple of years old, and is from the first time they were playing together. Starting very subtle, they move through various stages of their playing, but throughout they stage on a very gentle side of things. Objects don’t clatter around, but are brought in with care and detail, whereas Ambarchi puts on his finest textured playing. A great work, where the listener can’t go wrong: two masters at work.
The second new release on For4Ears is the first of five of various works by Jason Kahn, Tomas Korber, Norbert Mo¨slang, Gu¨nter Mu¨ller and Christian Weber with others. On volume one it’s Mo¨slang, Mu¨ller and Kahn who during their spring 2006 tour in Japan recorded a session with Keiichiro Shibuya and Maria, both founders of the Atak label, at Tokyo University. Chopped into five pieces, this is an entirely different recording that the Ambarchi & Rowe one. All five plays electronics in whatever form (synthesizer, laptop, cracked everyday electronics, keyboard) and despite the fullness of such a line up they come up with something that is at times as sparse as the other two on their guitars, but also can be a thick thunderous cloud of sound, such as in the final piece. All is quite coherent, and there were times were I didn’t had the impression of listening to a concert of improvised music, but rather a well-composed piece. The only thing which I didn’t like was it’s use of reverb, which at times was a bit annoying, but otherwise: hats off. (FdW)
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