pan y rosas releases lanificus by reid karris!

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pan y rosas releases lanificus by reid karris!

reid karris is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound experimentalist and improviser hailing from chicago, illinois trying very hard to get all the music stuck in his head out for all the world to hear. after spending years as an odd guitarist trying to fit in with the world of rock music reid shifted his focus towards improvisation and noise. his primary instruments for doing so are prepared guitar and drum kit sent through electronics.

on reid’s newest album he continues to explore his concepts for improvisationally composed music. on lanificus he used: a prepared zither and a drum kit augmented with metal bowls and bells. the sounds were created and captured acoustically without processing. “although the sounds are audible the sound waves also exist on a physical plane which then enter into the listener and takes shape within their consciousness. it is then up to the listener to construct the album within their mind.”

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pan y rosas release entoptic landscape by lauren redhead!

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lauren redhead is an internationally performed composer and a performer who specialises in experimental music as an organist and a vocalist. she is a founder member of the collective ‘automatronic’ who produce a concert series for organ and electronics in london each autumn and who commission and collaborate with composers to create new works for the combination. her compositional work increasingly focuses on graphic, conceptual, and open approaches to music and performance, and collaboration — with other composers and artists — forms an important part of this approach.

the music on entoptic landscape is “slow moving, partially entering into ‘view’ and then gone again. the attempt to focus has the effect of obscuring it. all of the performances of this music respond in some way to open notation. as such, no two performances of this music are alike, but all hold much in common. open notation has been employed not for reasons of accessibility but as a means of inviting the performers into the specific soundworld of the piece.”

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pan y rosas release formato inferior by eduardo f. rosario

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eduardo rosario lives in san juan, puerto rico. he studied composition at the conservatory of music, puerto rico. his musical interest began with prepared/modified guitar but he now is interested in programming, found objects, and places wind and unwind. doom guitar.

formato inferior is his third album for pan y rosas. composed feedback tones. high shimmer. slow build patience. cut percussion winds and unwinds. doom guitar. grain glitch.

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pan y rosas discos release trevas redux by atelier o divino

atelier o divino is mysterious and resides in brasil. he paints, publishes, creates web art, video and recorded sound. he aims to construct atmospheres and imaginary landscapes rather than melodies and focuses on reprocessed sound.

on trevas redux, his first album for pan y rosas, o divino reprocesses the sound of his saxophone and adds intermittent percussion and electronics to create a dark dream world. black lodge jazz club silencio action. a ship at sea. wood under duress. riverbed percussion. low throb of the old ones. glacial pack ice friction. radio transmissions to and from. get it here!

pan y rosas release winterreise by brice catherin

brice catherin is a composer, cellist, electronicist, performance artist and improviser based in france. he has participated in the festivals: de la bâtie (geneva, 2008, 2010 and 2011); akouphène (geneva, 2005 to 2010); angoulême (2008); archipel (geneva, 2008); la cité (lausanne, 2005); etc. amongst many others, catherin is influenced by jean-luc godard and karlheinz stockhausen.

his first album for pan y rosas discos, winterreise, is a concerto for cello and free ensemble. the orchestra part of the concerto is conceived for a “free ensemble,” wherein the different parts, entirely written, can be played on many different instruments – invented, traditional, or otherwise (as long as it exists). sounds like – instant action. thump glissando murmur. string pulse. swirl breath taps. rise fall tones. build repetition drone. get the album here!

pan y rosas release (auto/anti)nomía by eduardo f. rosario

eduardo f. rosario grew up in puerto rico’s punk scene and later discovered experimental music. he began playing a prepared and modified guitar and experimented with engineering/production as well. he is interested in the juxtaposition of time layers and parallel phenomenon as well as the paradigm between aesthetics and politics. eduardo studied musical composition at the conservatory of music of puerto rico and became a member of the multimedia project the a/v machinist collective; the ensemble in residence of the conservatory of music of puerto rico, alea 21; and composer for the upr contemporary dance group hincapié.

eduardo’s debut album, (auto/anti)autonomía, consists of three compositions that were created with found percussion, prepared/destroyed piano, tuba, trumpet, controlled feedback, circuit bent junktronics, and pedals. the sound is: loose rattle percussion. tube crash inside the piano. metal scrape construction. objects falling. electronic feedback language. long tone brass breath conversation. squelch vibrations. swarm echo. bass sweep drone. treble feedback sculptures. get it here!

pan y rosas release lp1 by marina poleukhina

hey everyone, the april newness is here! courtesy of marina poleukhina, a moscow based composer and improviser. marina’s musical focus lies in composition and improvisation on various objects and the instability of sound; silence and silence as the sound; real life and real life as sound. amongst others she is inspired by ligeti, nono, feldman, waits, yoshihide, and hosseini.

her first album, simply titled lp1, is a collection of improvisations and compositions. it sounds kind of like: pulse flute flutter and trills. warble pops and muttering percussion. dropped cymbals. conversation in cries and rolls. natural space. quiet exploration of scraped vibrations. surface areas calculated. squeaks and hoarse voicings. thunder and roar, guttural friction and noise. everything at once. voice in the woods. quiet patience. strum rewards. go get it here.