+ ALEJANDRO FRANOV's "Khali" cd/lp out on Staubgold
+ STAUBGOLD FEATURES at soundofcities.com and qwartz.org
+ KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF's "Jinx": selected reviews
+ INTERFACE festival for music and related arts
+ LIVE DATES
+ FORTHCOMING RELEASES
* * * ALEJANDRO FRANOV's "Khali" cd/lp out on Staubgold * * *
+ order from http://www.staubgold.com
+ pre-listen and download from finetunes.net
@ http://snipurl.com/staubgold
+ visit Alejandro Franov @
http://www.ale.franov.com.ar and
http://www.myspace.com/alefranov
+ staubgold 78 Alejandro Franov - Khali cd/lp
Argentinian songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Alejandro Franov is one
of the key figures of the alternative folk and world music scene of his
country, brought to worldwide critical acclaim by singer/sonwriter and
actress Juana Molina. Franov collaborated with Juana Molina on three of
her albums, "Segundo" (2000), "Tres Cosas" (2002) and "Son" (2006).
With "Khali" Staubgold is proud to present his first worldwide release,
after five solo albums which have only been released in South America
and Japan.
"Khali" which is mainly based on three instruments - the African mbira,
the Paraguayan harp arpa and the Indian sitar - is the result of
Franov's studies in African and Arabic music, especially the music of
the Shona from Zimwbabwe. He carefully combines these unique instruments
with percussion, voices and minimal electronics in order to create a
comfortably floating stream of world music in the purest sense, hardly
relating to any certain country or region.
On the one hand "Khali" is the name of the Croatian island where
Franov's grandfather was born, on the other hand it's taken from the
tabla rhythm cycle of Hindustani music, and it's the name of a Hindu
goddess.
Born in 1972, today Alejandro Franov is one of the most important
musicians in Argentina. His unique musical talent has attracted many
artists and led to collaborations with Juana Molina, Liliana Herrero,
Fernando Kabusacki, Mono Fontana, Santiago Vasquez, Seiichi Yamamoto
(Rovo, ex-Boredoms), Yuji Katsui (Rovo), Kama Aina and many more.
discography (solo albums):
2000 Accesorion cd
2002 Yusuy cd
2003 Rio cd
2004 Opsigno cd
2005 Melodia cd
2007 Khali cd/lp
* * * STAUBGOLD FEATURES at soundofcities.com and qwartz.org * * *
Check qwartz.org for a Staubgold label feature on occasion of
Staubgold winning the Qwartz label award 2007 (by Laurent Catala):
http://snipurl.com/qwartzfeature
"There are few labels as eclectic as Staubgold. And only few of them let
their mentor's personality appear so clearly in the artistic choices.
Staubgold, which has been founded in 1998 in Köln and moved to Berlin in
2003, is a real piece of work of its own, and more precisely, Markus
Detmer's one. This activist musician became manager of one of the most
singular labels of the last decade thanks to his experiences but also
thanks to his risk-taking."
Listen to the "La Grande Illusion" compilation (Staubgold 2007) on
Qwartz Radio:
http://snipurl.com/qwartzradio
--
Check the electronic music magazine of soundofcities.com for a feature
about
Staubgold and Klangwart (by Henry Stag):
http://www.soundofcities.com/Magazine/Staubgold.html
Includes streams and free mp3s of Cluster, Amon Duul II, Big City
Orchestra,
Klangwart, Reuber, Andrew Pekler and Nista Nije Nista among others.
* * * KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF's "Jinx": selected reviews * * *
"Jinx is one of Kammerflimmer Kollektief's finest and most intimate
releases yet."
(François Couture, allmusic.com)
"Der Hörer gewinnt auf »Jinx«, dem neuen Album des Trios, den Eindruck
einer Gesamtheit, die endgültig neu ist. Farbenfroh und organisch wirkt
das Album der Karlsruher. Es hat jeglichen Ansatz von »Art«, im Sinne
von »erkünstelt», verloren und ist, variantenreich instrumentiert,
wieder mit zahlreichen Einflüssen spielend und durch das Mitwirken
zahlreicher Gäste, wie etwa Martin Siewert, ein aus einer Stimmung
heraus gespieltes Ganzes geworden. Wo Robert Wyatt nie Art-Rocker im
landläufigen Sinne war und auch nie Jazz gemacht hat, und doch alle
Elemente dieser Stile in seiner Musik als das Seine auffing, um seine
wunderbare »Wyatt-Musik« zu schaffen, hat das Kammerflimmer Kollektief
nun die seine, die »Kammerflimmer-Musik«, gefunden. Einige Momente auf
»Jinx«, insbesondere die mit »mouth«, könnten direkt dem Wyatt-Album
»Rock Bottom« entsprungen sein: Es ist kein Zufall, dass die Vocals von
Heike Aumüller in den Credits der Platte, etwa in »Both Eyes Tight
Shut«, so benannt wurden wie schon damals bei Wyatt. Wo früher Kürzel
standen, kleine Ideen und oben erwähnte Rohheit, instrumentieren Thomas
Weber, Johannes Frisch und Heike Aumüller heute zu Ende. Mit Cale'scher
Violine, Saxophon, Pedal und Lap-Steel-Gitarren, getragen von Samples,
Elektronik und Harmonium, kommentiert von einem in diesem musikalischen
Genre an Gewandtheit und melodischer Prägnanz seinesgleichen suchenden
akustischen Bass, wird das sechste Album des Kammerflimmer Kollektiefs
zu einem weiteren Glanzstück im Katalog des avancierten Labels Staubgold
und seines Betreibers Markus Detmer."
(Christof Kurzmann, Spex)
"Das Album entzieht sich aller möglichen Kategorisierungen und zeigt
eine 'Band', die zu einer vollkommen eigenen Stimme gefunden hat. (...)
Sie spielen es nocheinmal, das alte Lied von künstlerischer
Neuerfindung. Absolut idiosynkratisches Meisterwerk! Play it again,
Karlsruhe. "
(Ralf bei der Kellen, Jazzthetik)
"Epic soundscapes dotted with detailed intricacy."
(Tom Ridge, The Wire)
"The Kammerflimmer Kollektief makes the future shimmer with sweetness
and passion."
(Philip Cheah, BigO)
"Immerzu wird der Hörer in den Bann gezogen von einem drone-Sog, der die
Musik astral abgehoben schimmern lässt."
(Alfred Pranzl, skug)
"Still grounded in peculiar and chimerical rhythms, the disc combines
Kollektief's traditional synthetic beats with unexampled organic and
rhapsodic harmonies, often in the form of unintelligible, seemingly
tribal female vocals ("Jinx" and "Both Eyes Tight Shut" are prime
examples). The blending of these rather cross-culture techniques spin
the sound into an entirely different direction, hypnotizing the listener
into melodious pictorial hallucinations of rainforest walkways sprouting
up down the main boulevard. As the jungle bursts through the sidewalk
tearing towards the sky, cars and houses are overturned in slow,
intentional patterns, as the listener strolls in omnipotent fashion
through newfound nature. Whereas a lot of electronica/ambient music
tends to assist in creating an atmosphere within established identity,
the depth displayed throughout Jinx actually helps transport the
listener somewhere else entirely. It's an out of body experience
squeezed onto a single compact disc. (...) Jinx is a goldmine for fans
of underworld electronica in search of something with a little more
life, a little more bite. Scattered with some of the most goose bump
inducing passages heard this year, the album still retains its ambient
identity and seems to know exactly when to scream and when only to
whisper."
(Jonathan Brooks, The Silent Ballet)
"...erinnert an nordamerikanische Indianergesänge oder Yoko Ono."
(Andreas Brüning, Intro)
* * * INTERFACE festival for music and related arts * * *
40 Years of Speed and Space: Los Angeles - Berlin
September 14 to 30, 2007 @ Ballhaus Naunynstr., Berlin
program details @ http://www.ballhausnaunyn.de
The sister-city status of Los Angeles - Berlin offers the opportunity
for Berlin, European and Californian artists to participate in an
artistic exchange. Works for the Ballhaus Naunynstraße are being created
whose particular architectonic and acoustic conditions offer special
inspiration for new formats for concerts, performances and
installations. In the first edition of the Festival INTERFACE 2006, the
idea of using the entire potential of house's space proved to be a
success. Thus, the main hall, studio, gallery, café, stairwells,
terrace, courtyard and alleyway - three floors of space - will once
again be made available for projects.
The music program of INTERFACE spans an arc that began approximately 40
years ago and ends with new and recent projects - from the legendary Los
Angeles Free Music Society, LAFMS (Tom Recchion) to the Californian
interpretation of ambient and minimal music (Harold Budd, Rick Cox),
representatives of sophisticated tuning systems and homemade instruments
in the tradition of Harry Partch and Erv Wilson (Kraig Grady), a pioneer
of electronic and computer music (David Rosenboom), including, among
others, electronica performers and composers of the younger generation
(DNTEL, Carlos Nino & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, The Gaslamp Killer,
Nobody, John Wiese, Scott Arford, Daedelus, Daniel Rothman).
Complementing and accompanying these artists throughout the festival
will be projects by Berlin and European artists and composers including
Cluster, Los Glissandinos/AMM, David Toop, Trio Nexus/Dror Feiler,
Cornelius Schwer, Hauke Harder, Michael Pinter/Ensemble Zwischentöne,
Werner Dafeldecker, Boris Hauf, Werner Durand, Markus Detmer, Tim
Tetzner, September Collective/Barbara Morgenstern, Stefan Schneider,
Paul Wirkus, Quatuor Bozzini/Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, Daniel Rothman;
transatlantic collaborations will come into being.
The program will be framed with installations by artists from California
and Berlin including Bernhard Gal, Daniel Rothman, Mark Trayle, James
Higginson, 17 Hippies, Holger Lippmann, Christian Kesten and a project
with music films on Los Angeles/LAFMS (Tim Tetzner).
* * * LIVE DATES * * *
RAFAEL TORAL
15 september @ contemporary art center, usa- cincinatti
29 september @ inversion festival, pt- barreiro
current releases:
staubgold 69 space cd
quecksilber 11 space solo 1 cd
http://www.rafaeltoral.net
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HARALD SACK ZIEGLER
16 september @ pips im künstlerforum, de- bonn
Harald Sack Ziegler on Staubgold:
staubgold 28 kopf zahl bauch cd/lp
staubgold 59 punkt cd
http://www.haraldsackziegler.de
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PAUL WIRKUS with September Collective
19 september @ dqlik, lux- luxemburg
20 september @ berger kirche, de- dusseldorf
30 september @ ballhaus naunynstrasse, de- berlin
current album:
staubgold 71 déformation professionnelle cd
http://www.paulwirkus.com
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LEAFCUTTER JOHN
21 september @ club beap, the bakery, aus- perth
27 september @ open frame, powerhouse, aus- brisbane
29 september @ electrofringe, cambridge hotel, aus- newcastle
04 october @ the last bastion of civilisation, aus- sydney
06 october @ the front cafe, aus- canberra
08 october @ the toff in town, aus- melbourne
11 october @ tba, aus- adelaide
12 october @ the jade monkey, aus- adelaide
current album:
staubgold 68 the forest and the sea cd/lp
http://www.leafcutterjohn.com
* * * FORTHCOMING RELEASES * * *
staubgold 79 sun - i'll be the same cd
staubgold 80 klangwart - I O cd/lp
staubgold 81 autistic daughters - uneasy flowers cd/lp
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