Online il Teaser del nuovo album dei Father Murphy, “Anyway, your children will deny it”, album che uscirà in Europa il prossimo 1 marzo, mentre in Nord America e Giappone il 17 (dell’album potete tra l’altro trovare la primissima recensione sul numero di febbraio del mensile inglese The Wire).

Questo il link: http://vimeo.com/35089141

Il video è stato girato da Luigi Dalla Riva e Simone Piva, a partire da un set realizzato da Ba Abat (www.baabat.com).

THE CONSEQUENCES OF A DYNAMIC LIFESTYLE
30 COUNTRIES – 37 CONCERTS – 37 DAYS

ZACK KOUNS (DEATH JAZZ -  USA)

Zack Kouns describes his music as Modern Liturgical, and Apocalyptic/Hermetic in its aesthetic. Recent work, including his Concealed History of Coming Races takes on a form of dark Appalachian bluegrass. Content to blur the lines between conventional genres, especially through the use of saxophone, harmonium, electronics, violin, vocals and many other tools, the unifying principle of Kouns’ work is undoubtedly found in the soulful and passionate delivery of the songs themselves.
Undoubtedly one of the busiest and most insightful individuals in the realm of contemporary outsider art, Zack Kouns carries out activities as bandleader, performer, author, visual artist, researcher, prankster, and composer.
www.ownness.org

ALPHA STRATEGY (MANIC POP – CANADA)

Utilizing primitive oscillating circuits, vintage synthesizers, shouted vocals, and loops lifted from 1960s schlager, Alpha Strategy delivers music which is volatile and convulsive, yet meticulously arranged. Through the use of elements of pop structure, Alpha Strategy’s music tips a hat to the frantic energy of Patrick Miller’s Minimal Man, the unusual compositional directions found on the early singles of SPK, and the dark humor conveyed in the recordings of The Birthday Party.
A musician, label operator, interviewer and deejay, Rory Hinchey of Alpha Strategy has been active in these and many other capacities for over a decade.
www.alphastrategy.net

Nicola Ratti vive e lavora a Milano. L’utilizzo e la creazione quasi artigianale del suono caratterizzano il lavoro … del musicista, che fa sua una ricerca elettroacustica per arrivare a composizioni ritmicho-melodiche lontane da un ambito facilmente definibile che vanno dalla musica concreta alla minimal techno attraverso un uso generativo dell’improvvisazione. Oggi affianca alla sua carriera solista, con dischi prodotti per Anticipate (US), Preservation (AU), Megaplomb (IT), Die Schachtel (IT) e concerti in Europa e Nord America, a collaborazioni preziose quali la soundtrack-band Ronin in cui suona la chitarra dal 2006, il duo Bellows con Giuseppe Ielasi e il duo FaravelliRatti con Attila Faravelli.
Con loro ha realizzato diversi dischi per labels italiane ed estere. Collabora continuativamente con Fatima Bianchi, con la quale ha fondato nel 2011 FeN Bureau, un bureau d’arte per la creazione e produzione di installazioni audio/video e video d’arte. Nicola Ratti lavora anche come architetto in Gru Architetti, un team multidisciplinare di base a Milano all’interno del quale gestisce la parte artistica del gruppo.

Burial Hex is a dark noise project founded in 2004 by Clay Ruby of Wisconsin, United States.
Burial Hex performs “horror electronics to prepare for the final mystery in the twilight of the Kali Yuga”, which incorporate influences ranging from Tangerine Dream to power electronics.
Burial Hex has released a stunning amount of CDs, CDRs and cassettes in the underground noise scene, both solo and in splits or collaborations with artists such as Sylvester Anfang II, Oath, Mumber Toes, Karen Eliot, Joshua Norton Cabal and Skin Graft for the Aurora Borealis…

burialhex.bandcamp.com/ 

HOW MUCH WOOD WOULD A WOODCHUCK CHUCK IF A WOODCHUCK COULD CHUCK WOOD? (TO)

ETERNAL ZIO (MI)
(semi-acoustic/ psych-drone)
Ghironda, violino, organo, tamburi, voci, chitarre.
Il suono acustico non è mai stato così elettrico, gli strumenti antichi mai così contemporanei. Cosa vuol dire? Niente. Piacevole shakeraggio del cervello, lunghi drone elettro e/o acustici, mantra dance quanto basta per ridare un senso alla parola ritmo.
Eternal Zio è Rella the Woodcutter, Raubaus, Maurizio Abate, Valla.
cablase.noblogs.org/post/category/eternal-zio/
www.sodapop.it/rbrth/content/view/1264/9/

T.C.O. aka Mirco Magnani is a music composer and video artist based in Berlin, co-founder and composer of Minox, Technophonic Chamber Orchestra, 4Dkiller, also producer for various artists from his own independent music label Suite inc. co-founded in 1996.
Since 1984 he has produced music and mixed-media events by the band Minox. In 2000 was created Suitevision,  sublabel dedicated to images and visuals, Mirco Magnani has produced by himself and with the label partner several visuals and installations.
He has worked with Steven Brown, Blaine L. Reininger and Luc Van Lieschout of Tuxedomoon, Lydia Lunch, Krisma, Mad Professor, Nobukazu Takemura, The Gentle People, Murcof, Daedelus.
In 2004 Mirco started his solo project T.C.O by Decompositio Sonata an audio visual for a remixing project of classical composers from the past century. In 2009 he moved to Berlin developing his projects between exhibitions, live shows and dj sets.
www.mircomagnani.com