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pan y rosas release blood pink noise by pat moonchy

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pat moonchy has been performing for twenty years as a dj and experimental musician. she is an existentialist and versatile personality in a state of constant evolution; a developer of an intensely personal musical language. she first played the electric bass, then non-western philosophies inspired further self evolution and she explored vocal techniques – harmonic singing and circular breathing. as her interest in electronic music grew she learned to play the theremin with barbara buchholz. she also runs the club, the moonshine, in milan.

she recorded her second album, blood pink noise, in 2016 using her voice and various electronics noises.

the sound is –

depth croon. cavern pulse. spheres. torchlight. ripple delay. secret waterfalls. a computer brain to communicate with the world. cracks.

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pan y rosas release durga puja by pat moonchy and angelo contini!

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pat moonchy has been performing for twenty years as a dj and experimental musician. she is an existentialist and versatile personality in a state of constant evolution; a developer of an intensely personal musical language. she first played the electric bass, then non-western philosophies inspired further self evolution and she explored vocal techniques – harmonic singing and circular breathing. as her interest in electronic music grew she learned to play the theremin with barbara buchholz. she also runs the club, the moonshine, in milan.

angelo contini began playing the trombone when he was twelve in his hometown’s marching band. his interest in the italian jazz and free jazz scene led him to a collaboration with the trumpet player guido mazzon and percussionist tony rusconi. in the early 1980’s he was part of the gruppo contemporaneo, whose aspettando i dinosauri is considered one of the seminal records of italian improvised music. over the years he has developed a deep knowledge of the trombone’s various sonorous possibilities as well as a highly personal playing style. he plays in several projects including multi-media, theatre and dance and has played throughout europe, the uk and usa.

pat and angelo recorded their album, durga puja, in piacenza in may of 2015. they used voices, electronics, trombones, recorders and shells. in nepal, durga puja is a holiday celebrating the goddess, durga and her triumph over evil. durga is pure shakti with a dual character that embodies both constructive and destructive energy.

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lauren redhead, live!

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lauren redhead, live! with alistair zaldua! 3.30 pm, saturday, november 1, di_stanze at leeds!

“This programme showcases some of the recent developments for the combination of organ+electronics, including networked performance, live electronics, and the combination of organ+voice. It also showcases some collaborations between Lauren Redhead and composers with a link to Leeds, her interest in open notation and her duo with electronics performer Alistair Zaldua.”

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pan y rosas release derrière by ce françois couture!

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ce françois couture is an experimental musician, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist based in st-faustin, quebec, canada. he came out of the music closet at age 38. he plays keyboards, theremin, percussion, and ukulele, but his main instrument is the no-input mixing desk, which he uses to sculpt rivers of controlled feedback.

françois’ first album for pan y rosas is a 39-minute improvisation performed using no-input mixers. it was recorded direct to disc. the sound is reverbed drone wave flow with shimmers.

do you need this monolith of controlled feedback? yes! get it here!

pan y rosas release take a sound by daniel barbiero and steve hilmy!

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a native of new haven, ct, double bassist and composer daniel barbiero has been active in improvised and experimental music and dance in the baltimore-washington area for several years as a performer, composer and ensemble leader. his music reflects his background in minimal, modal and non-genre specific improvisation, and interest in verbal, graphic and other non-standard methods of scoring for small ensembles. in addition to his solo work, he currently is a member of the free improvisation trio colla parte (with saxophonist perry conticchio and percussionist rich o’meara) and is music director for the nancy havlik dance performance group.

steve hilmy has been on the faculty of the george washington university music department since 1992 where he is the director of the electronic and computer music studio. he has won awards from such organizations as the southeastern composers league, ascap, bmi, the peabody conservatory, and the virginia center for creative arts, including first prize in the philip slates memorial composition contest for icarus falling (piano and electronics, 1989); the gustav klemm prize for composition at the peabody conservatory in 1991; and 2nd place prize in the prix d’ete II composition competition at the peabody conservatory for us (tenor saxophone and electronics, 1999). much of steve’s recent works have been cross-medium collaborations for dance, video, and live electronics.

their first album for pan y rosas, take a sound, consists of two improvisations for amplified double bass and realtime-electronic processing that daniel barbiero and steve hilmy performed in january and june of 2012. daniel also adds a solo bass improvisation that he later processed with a granular synthesizer and dedicated to steve.

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pan y rosas double release! morti fire by agnès pe and rocks and feathers by cagey house!

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agnès pe works on sound beyond the limits enshrined by any genre. her work is characterized by a fun and overwhelming attitude – an all or nothing style that covers the parameters of lo-fi music. this self-taught musicologist is a multidisciplinary researcher that is encapsulated by mystifying melodies and is always seeking new ways of relating to the elements she re-composes. she is interested in the non-common, regardless of their label.

Rocks and Feathers

cagey house has been releasing music since 2005. the tracks generally start as sets of doodles and noodles, and are later edited together into semi-coherent selections. whenever possible, chance, accident, mistake, poor judgment, random acts, misguided notions, uninformed risk, and general ineptitude are incorporated into the compositional environment. cagey house always aspires to the sublime, gladly accepts the humorous, and in the absence of either, tries to at least be noisy.

both of the albums albums are based on electronics and samples but the end results differ greatly. morti fire – beats, mechanics, factory work, pummel. rocks and feathers – clockwinding, videogame free jazz, toy matrix pop standards.

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pan y rosas discos release nombradía pt.1: en desuso by román ramón!

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happy new year to those on the gregorian calendar! to start 2012 off, the newness comes from the trio román ramón. the group consists of agnès pe, po poy and lucía c. pino, who have backgrounds in both the plastic and sonic art worlds and who collaborate long-distance stylee and in person whenever the opportunity arises. their primary instrument is a computer that they use to manipulate recordings of them creating other sounds as well as field recordings. they then modify the recordings with simple programming.

their first album for pyr, nombradía pt.1: en desuso, is approximately fifteen minutes of structured sample manipulations and raw electronics. a sort of travelogue. noise over background of real life. electronics blip by. pleasant strum guitar. throat singing carnival. tap. reed stream glitch. mescalin mix growl beats. organ stab reverb. sampladelics. heaven vocals. get it here!

pan y rosas release stormy castles by last king of poland

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the end of the month newness is from last king of poland who presents a three track single called stormy castles. it’s a noisey affair, but with vocals prominently featured in the mix. so much so that this release also includes a little contest. the first person who submits the correct lyrics to tomasz (lkop) will win his roland sp-808. listen deeply and then send an email to lkop. get the album here.

pan y rosas release prague bratislava by 900piesek and rbnx

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with his experimental/psych/noise project 900piesek, matúš mikula, searches out the relationships between chaos and linearity. he’s fascinated by clashes of anti-poles and inhumanity. he is currently a member of the czech-based collective of like-minded freaks, hluková sekce. rbnx is tobias potocny’s one man project that has been in existence since early 2001. tobias uses his self-constructed instruments rbnxtronics to create his take on improvised electronic noise composition. both mikula and potocny are from bratislava, slovakia.

prague bratislava is a split release that documents two separate improvised performances from 2012 – one by 900piesek (prague) and one by rbnx (bratislava). air fades in to reverbed nothing, raw electricity underneath. metal chimes in a cathedral. space-ominous foreshadowing. melt/pierce into grind/crunch. buzzing drone and liquid metal over rocket roar. approach the forbidden planet and fall into the sun. get it here!