March 20, 2009 at 9:28 · news
I know. It has been quiet here for some time now. Too long probably. But now spring is in the air, and so is esc.rec…
The long awaited release of Newly Refurbished and Tussock Moth by Apricot My Lady has finally arrived. You can order it right here! Apricot My Lady is: The Bohman Brothers, Lukas Simonis and Anne La Berge. Some interesting cd presentations coming up with this one. More on this soon.
New releases by Transfolmer and Robert Witt are in the pipeline. I’m working with ON on an innovating way of releasing the POKE20 remix project. And there are also some new ass-crack stage-hacks coming up shortly in Havenkwartier Deventer.
I’ll get back to you soon with more valuable intel.
March 20, 2009 at 8:44 · news
And this was another overdue addition to the esc.rec. site…
March 18, 2009 at 8:39 · news
Just added a shopping cart to the esc.rec. website. And about time. I’ve been wanting to do that for years now… just never got round to it. As it turns out it was actually quite simple. So here you are.
March 16, 2009 at 10:18 · esc.rec.21
Title: Newly Refurbished and Tussock moth
By: Apricot My Lady
Format: CD-R (in home-made digipak)
Catalog#: esc.rec.21
Price: 8 euro
If for some reason you do not want to use Paypal, esc.rec. also accepts payment through bank transfer. Send an email with you order to mailorder@escrec.com.
01 Dog At First Bite (1.31)
02 Curly Cocks (1.23) (mp3)
03 Ice My Lire (2.40)
04 Power That Speaks Softly (3.16)
05 Chest Hair Day (1.42)
06 The Inside Of Your Hand (3.49)
07 The Usable Aspects (3.33)
08 Inedible As Cake (1.36)
09 Keep Its Bits (1.47)
10 Sooth West (0.54)
11 Time Stretching But (1.50)
12 Suspicious (4.00)
13 Tinkobread (1.54) (mp3)
14 Genital Giant (2.49)
15 Wav My Socks (5.22)
16 Stop The Panic Seduction (2.41)
17 My Rubber Gloves Leak (2.49)
18 Show Me Your Tears (2.46)
All songs by Apricot My Lady
Adam Bohman – eviscerated violin, giant comb, eternal springs, light bulb, kitchenware, rack
Jonathan Bohman – boxed oscillators, black marble, Twickenham Singing Bowls, short guitar, string,
Lukas Simonis – guitar with at least 10 pedals
Anne La Berge – flutes, filters and samples
Recorded and mixed by Lukas Simonis at L6S Studio
Artwork and sleeve design by Harco Rutgers
Special thanks to Fonds Voor De Scheppende Toonkunst
Sound artists Adam and Jonathan Bohman, Lukas Simonis and Anne La Berge formed the band APRICOT MY LADY in 2003. Since then they played some rare performances and recorded a lot of material. This CD ‘Newly Refurbished and Tussock Moth’ is only the top of that iceberg! The particular songs on this CD are chosen because they seem to form a sort of ’song cycle’ with an implicit logic and all that.
They are using found objects, text, voice, samples, filters, mixers, pedals, violins, guitars and flutes to make the music they make. It might be (un)interesting to know whether this music is supposed to be ‘improvised’ or ‘composed’ or ‘heavily processed’ or even ’spontaneously erected’. It’s all that and less, or none of that and more.
About the people involved:
The Bohman Brothers are the creators of a unique and impure experimental music. Traces of Fluxus japery, musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation can be detected, yet ultimately the whole is greater and more arcane than the sum of it’s parts. As a performing duo Adam and Jonathan Bohman have been operative since 1996(Adam Bohman is also a member of Morphogenesis and The London Improvisers Orchestra). Their sound art oscillates between states of the absurd and (sonically)grotesque to highly articulate explorations of extra-musical sound. One can hear various traces of out-noise lurking in the undergrowth of their 2002 debut album ‘A Twist For All Pockets’.
Lukas Simonis has been playing his version of rock & noise & improvised music for some time now. He cooperated ao. with Pierre Bastien, Goh Lee Kwang, Ivan Palacky and Peter Stampfel. Some of his bands: Coolhaven, Dull Schicksal, Liana Flu Winks, Vril, Faces. He makes sound & music for films, makes (& curates) radio plays and composes for various groups. He also works for WORM, a centre for experimental arts in Rotterdam.
Anne La Berge is a pioneer flutist/composer, working her entire career with interactive computer systems, micro tonality, improvisation and as a leading interpreter of contemporary chamber music. She creates and commissions artists to compose works with interactive/improvised music and video. The last few years have seen a new addition to her work: self-penned enigmatic short stories which slide seamlessly in and out of her compositions and improvisations.
If you feel compelled to share your opinion after listening to this release, please feel free to leave your review in the comments below.
March 1, 2009 at 21:19 · news
March 14 – June 14: Grannittin features in Knitted Worlds, an exhibition in the Audax Textile Museum in Tilburg. It’s an exhibition about knitting in modern art, experimental fashion, photography and video from European and American artists. Knitted worlds is curated by Suzan Rüsseler.
Update: Knitted Worlds has a weblog.
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