Showing posts with label avant-garde. Show all posts
Showing posts with label avant-garde. Show all posts

[xs-72] Agnes Heginger and Karlheinz Essl - Out of the Blue

THIS IS OFFICIALLY THE LAST XS RECORDS release

artist: agnes heginger and karlheinz essl
album: out of the blue

release date: 31/03/2010
contact: webpage
cover: front

On December 9th, 2010 I made my way to the Essl Museum in search of the lost spirit of Advent. It was there that Agnes Heginger and Karlheinz Essl performed for the first time as a duo, developing an improvised musical dialogue 'out of the blue'. Somehow 'out of the blue' fit perfectly for me because I was looking for a way out of my melancholy December mood. Instead of chairs there were cushions spread out on the floor that seemed to invite the audience to a direct, unconventional and comfortable listening experience.
The Essl/Heginger performance: responsive, unpretentious and focused. There was a positive feeling of closeness and a friendly attentiveness towards the audience.

From the very first moment I was stunned and amazed, and at the same time touched and fascinated with what then happened. As I sank deeper into my floor cushion, I felt almost embarrassed by a let's say 'complete sense of happiness'. Two highly sensitive personalities engaged each other in a dialogue that should go down in history as a prime example of musical interaction.

There were many innovative moments, alternating quite willingly the musicians pulled each other into reflection, with clear sighted independence, fusing things into perspective. With a dramatic climax at the perfect moment, they communicated affectionately with virtuoso clarity to a spellbound audience. Whether it was 'out of the blue' or carefully planned, the opportunity to listen to Agnes Heginger's and Karlheinz Essl's musical dialogue was indeed my good fortune.

You were certainly left hoping that this musical conversation will be continued.

Press review by Jörg Duit


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[xs-71] cage cabarrett - covil radiophonic workshop

artist: cage cabarrett
album: covil radiophonic workshop

release date: 31/03/2010
more details and stream
contacts: myspace
cover art: front

Cage Cabarrett explores notions of indeterminacy in art. We encourage a DIY aesthetic and we value simplicity over complexity. Like Dada before, Cage Cabarrett stands for a strong anti-commercialism attitude and an anti-art sensibility, disparaging the conventional market-driven art world in favor of an artist-centered creative practice.
We believe in the creation of art by chance, exploiting the principle of randomness. The word derives from the Latin word alea, the rolling of dice. We give you the sound of that rolling dice. It sounds like Cage Cabarrett!

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[xs-70] hui-chun lin - selected improvisation works

artist: hui-chun lin
album: selected improvisations work

release date: 31/03/2010
contacts: myspace
cover art: front

Hui-Chun Lin, is a Solo cellist. She works with improvisation, theatrical music, world music, and contemporary music interpretation. Born in 1979 in Taiwan, she plays violoncello, on which she received a classical education. Since 2006, she finished her study in Leipzig, Germany, she lives also in the same city as a cello player and an artist.
Her artistic versatility appears in the co-operation in numerous projects with theatre, dance performance, contemporary and classical music and also world music. She also had appearances with different music festivals, like: the Leipzig Jazz Festival 2007 with Beat Freisens Spelunkenorchester.
After her postgraduate study in improvisation, she received a teaching assignment for improvisation in the university for music and theatre in Leipzig.


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[xs-49] rainbows - universal compassion

artist: rainbows
album: universal compassion

release date:
contact: myspace

Universal compassion is one more registry of the solo project of tiago morgado, this time with two small experiments in the style of christian fennesz (some sort of shoegazze noise, where piano drones, are processed over the time).
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[xs-46] pangea - vital error [feat kenji siratori]

artist: pangea
album: vital error

release date:
contact: myspace & blog

Today we have a spoken word lp to present to all of you guys.. it's called vital error and it's the last aparition of pangea, a friend of ours callled juan nieto (he has previously released some stuff in test tube), and which features the colab of kenji siratori, a japanese cyber punk poet well known in the web and which has featured colaborations in my project uncle bart comes to have breakfast.
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[xs-45] jorge nunes - comprimido

artist: jorge nunes
album: comprimido

release date:
contact: myspace & blog

Jorge Nunes abre o ano de 2009 com uma bomba em estilo "Comprimido"; qual complexo químico ou arma de arremesso a lembrar o Dr. Robert Moog - esteja ele onde estiver desejando que esteja em paz - que continua a valer a pena ter criado nos idos 60 aquele extraordinário aparelho de som sintetizado. O Moog. É ele que serve de primeiro veículo transmissor ao universo em turbilhone que aqui vem comprimido. Ele e mais alguns pedaços arrecadados ao espaço e ao tempo por um moderno iPod de toque. Mas adiante que a loucura não espera; Desespera.
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[xs-44] moreu - gong music

artist: moreu
album: gong music

release date:
contact: myspace

Suyoshi kanda is a Japanese Composer / Eight Strings Instrument Player. in this 44th release in xs records [pt netlabel] - the very last one of 2008, he presents himself with a work for gong, a percursion instruments of huge dimension used early by percussionists and drummers, ranging from percursion ensembles, to classical sinphonyc orchestras, and which has been introduced in contemporary music by the visionary karlheinz stockhausen in his works Mikrophonie.
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[xs-43] 10konekt - telekom

artist: 10konekt
album: telekom

release date:
contact: myspace

Today I present you with this fine industrial project from france, 10konekt, which works in the base of circuit bending stuff.. an ep to be listened with care and open mind.
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[xs-42] ziur - concretement

artist: ziur
album: concretement

release date:
contact: myspace

Ziur is the artistic name of Andre Ruiz. Originally from Maia, Portugal, is a composer who has made creations for movie pictures, animation films, video games and musical orchestral arrangements and collaborated with several artist performers. He lives in Braga where he teachs composition at the local Music school. For many years is working in classical music as teacher and composer. Ziur's project (created in 2005) is an escape for his believes and is an atempt to expand his music ideas and share with all his musical visions.
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[xs-26] cláudio moreira - showcase @ fnac bragaparque 02-06-08

artist: cláudio moreira
album: showcase @ fnac bragaparque 02-06-08

release date:
contact: myspace

Steping aside presentations to those ones that have someway been inside the work of the netlabel, claudio moreira presents himsfelf in this new recording registry this time, in a small showcase in the braga's fnac, a small city in the north of Portugal
With an aesthetic aproach completely avant gard and influences which come from Boulez to Stockhausen to John Cage and so on, Claudio Moreira (horn compostion and radios) presents himself in this registry together with virigilio oliveira (basson and radios), with who performs his own works, and tiago morgado which joins them to make an intercourse between works of tiago morgado as a composer and improviser adn to the aesthetic of the instrumental writting of claudio moreira.
Even minding that it's a small work, it allows us to have a more clear wider and more concret and precise vision of the work of claudio moreira while composer and performer and eventually to reveal a future and promiser member of the next generation of portuguese musicians and composers.
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[xs-22] necrostilet, minson, uncle bart comes to have breakfast - split

artist: necrostilet, minson and uncle bart comes to have breakfast
album: split

release date:

Tiago Morgado met Marco Ramos accidentally met in college (FCSH). They shared their avant-garde music passion and sometime after they where working on something Tiago had in mind, which was the experimental project necrostilet. They made music together during one year, and after it they were forced by their own destiny to pursuit their lives separately on far locations in Portugal. But they did not stoped working on necrostilet, and they continued to essay some sound experiences with something that their friendship gave them and helped them to grow. Marco has continued working on Minson but with an aesthetic much closer to necrostilet (two releases came then - the first one in enough records and the other one in this same netlabel), and Tiago created a new project called Uncle Bart comes to Have Breakfast, which has lead him to make experimental music among with some friends and people who he admires a lot (will be soonly released in test tube) and alone. Some of the work of the late home studio sessions of necrostilet among some material unreleased by minson and uncle bart is here represented which allows to communicate more then a end of a chapter in a friendship a page turning to a new one.
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[xs-15] emanuel salvador - selected performances

artist: emanuel salvador
album: selected performances

release date:
contact: myspace

We are glad to announce this new release by Emanuel Salvador, one of Portugal's most promising young violinist.

Emanuel Salvador, one of the finest Portuguese violinists of his generation.
Strad Magazine, Agosto de 2007

Born in 1981, Emanuel Salvador has already performed as a soloist and chamber musician in many important venues including St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Southwark Cathedral (London), Philharmonic Hall (Uralsk - Kazakhstan), Gulbenkian Museum, Rivoli Theatre and Bank of Portugal Hall (Lisbon), Principe Filipe Hall (Oviedo, Spain), Centro de las Artes Escenicas y de la Musica (Salamanca, Spain), Sto. Antonio Church (Rome) and Manoel Theatre (Malta). He has been awarded several prizes such as: first prize at Isolde Menges (RCM) and Beckenham Festival competitions; Barbirolli Memorial and Wolfson Foundation Award; second prize at Jovens Musicos competition; Honours Mention at Julio Cardona International Competition - Portugal; Gulbenkian Foundation Scholarship (2000-2003), amongst others. In 1999 Emanuel graduated from Artave (a specialist music school) as the best student of the year. During this time he studied with Costa Santos, Sergei Aroutiounian and Yakow Marr. He then moved to London, where he got a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (studying with Professor John Glickman) and a Masters Degree in Advanced Performance at the Royal College of Music, where he studied with Dr. Felix Andrievsky. Other professors with whom Emanuel studied include Ulf Hoelscher, Alberto Lysy, Vadim Brodsky, David Takeno, Gerardo Ribeiro and Ilya Grubert. As a concerto soloist Emanuel has played with Artave, do Norte, Nonesuch, Morley College, Vitalis, Newbury Symphony and Nova Amadeus orchestras, under Antonio Soares, Ferreira Lobo, Vi tor Matos, Chris Dawe, David Drummond and Massimo Scapin. His festival appearances include Encontros da Primavera e O violino por (Portugal), Proms in St. Judes and Ampthill (U.K.) and at the International String Orchestra Festival (Malta). Some of his performances have been recorded for the Portuguese Radio and Khabar TV (Kazakhstan). The Violin Concerto by Joaquim dos Santos, was written for, and premiered by Emanuel in Rome in June 2005 and later in Portugal. The first performance was recorded for the Portuguese Institute in Rome. Karl Fiorini's Violin Concerto, also written for Emanuel, which was premiered in Rotterdam in March 2008. Emanuel is an active chamber musician and has studied in masterclasses with Bernard Greenhouse (Beaux Arts), Florestan and Peabody trios and the Borodin, Takacs and Vellinger Quartets. He was a founder member of the Vianna da Motta Piano Trio, with whom he performed extensively in the U.K. and Portugal and recorded a CD for Centro Atlantico label. In 2003, he formed a violin and harp Duo with Ieuan Jones, playing regularly in the U.K. Since September 2005 Emanuel is the leader of Orquestra do Norte in Portugal. In June 2006 he played second solo violin in Gulbenkian Foundation's project Uma Pequena Flauta Magica (Lisbon). He plays on a tonal copy of a Guarnerius del Gesu, by Martin Schleske (Munich, 2004), which he acquired with the help of a Loan Fund for Musical Instruments' grant.
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[xs-11] tiago morgado - 363

artist: tiago morgado
album: 363

release date: 2008-04-10
contact: myspace

Another release of the netlabel founder a set of three performances where he uses mighty moogerfoogers to generate both psycadelic noise textures on drum machines, and smooth drones to his viola. A vintage analogue hardcore registry.
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[xs-07] C R Moreira - sauroposeidon

artist: CR Moreira
album: sauroposeidon

release date: 2008-03-07
contact: myspace

C R Moreira was born in 1989, in Oporto. In 2003, he starts to study music in Musical Academy Of Lousada, where he studied horn with Filipe Fonseca and Ricardo Matosinhos. In 2005, he enter in ARTAVE - Escola Profissional Artistica do Vale do Ave, in the horn class of professor Helder Vales. In 2006, he starts to compose by himself learning composition by himself. In 2007, his works have been performed by 10 times. Right now, he is working in seminary with Emmanuel Nunes. He is finishing the winds programme in ARTAVE 

Sauroposeidon is a work of the young composer, that makes part of a cycle of pieces which leads us into the origins of the existence in this planet. Although this release is intended to promote this young talented and devoted portuguese composer, we do not Intend to make it represent a serious performance of it - the prove of that is that what you will hear is some sort of sampled orchestra which audio has been remastered, and then if although this is extremely impressive, imagine what would be a performance of professional instrumentists working during 1 intense work-week on it.
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xs records editions

  • [xs-72] Agnes Heginger and Karlheinz Essl - Out of the Blue
  • [xs-71] cage cabarrett - covil radiophonic workshop
  • [xs-70] hui-chun lin-selected improvisation works
  • [xs-69] heitor alves - gimme some more sounds
  • [xs-68] essl.ostrovski - flechtwerk
  • [xs-67] zuramone - the spiders dance
  • [xs-66] BpOlar - subversive vespers
  • [xs-64] ziur - granular world
  • [xs-63] subterminal - filled with light
  • [xs-62] hola one and elka brown - visitors
  • [xs-61] carlos d. perales - acousmotion
  • [xs-60] poros - labass
  • [xs-59] essl.burger - live!
  • [xs-58] v.a. - past present and future
  • [xs-57] hola one - hygh
  • [xs-56] egotron - egotron
  • [xs-55] lotus mecanica - the live sessions and jack d
  • [xs-54] emanuel casimiro - a revolta das plaquetas
  • [xs-53] emanuel casimiro - o rei do power pimba
  • [xs-52] AAM! - ojodoro
  • [xs-50] grupo porco de grindcore interpretativo - the rala o pinto massacre
  • [xs-47] nata - stormy weather
  • [xs-46] pangea - vital error [feat kenji siratori]
  • [xs-45] jorge nunes - comprimido
  • [xs-44] moreu - gong music
  • [xs-43] 10konekt - telekom
  • [xs-42] ziur - concretement
  • [xs-41] engenho - amazónia
  • [xs-40] mezcup - 2008
  • [xs-39] exportion - stream of conciousness
  • [xs-38] beautiful venom - prologue
  • [xs-37] outlevel - estrela
  • [xs-36] salad - ubiquo
  • [xs-35] jackpooote - jackpooote
  • [xs-34] tiago morgado & adamned.age - EHF: collaboration works
  • [xs-33] gabran - anthem
  • [xs-32] ruins winter - natural
  • [xs-31] aaldo - selected works
  • [xs-30] palindromic resonance - voidfuck sessions
  • [xs-29] lights on - words of nature
  • [xs-28] die minimalistin - isolator
  • [xs-27] renato folgado - late
  • [xs-26] cláudio moreira - showcase @ fnac bragaparque 02-06-08
  • [xs-25] la stanza bianca - cristina bardo thodol
  • [xs-24] algo - there will never be another you
  • [xs-23] the oniric - the oniric
  • [xs-21] forgotten ruins - forgotten ruins
  • [xs-18] youth and student travel - copy me copy you
  • [xs-17] landerim - shallow draw
  • [xs-16] EXurban - leerstand untergrund
  • [xs-15] emanuel salvador - selected performances
  • [xs-13] lights on - save the world
  • [xs-12] adamned.age - photosphaere
  • [xs-10] tet open ensamble - zen trip
  • [xs-09] minson - hidden monsters
  • [xs-07] C R Moreira - sauroposeidon

    • What's a netlabel?


    I won’t obviously explain you that in here but you can easily find that information in wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netlabel and information about creative commons in http://creativecommons.org

    Is this music really free? Just download?.. Do i need to pay to play it in clubs?


    Yes it's free. All tracks are released under a by-nc-nd creative commons license (unless otherwise specified), and are also all unsigned from any of those artist royalties ripoff associations. That means that it's free to download, distribute and broadcast without needing to pay anything to anyone, not even to the GEMA / RIAA / SPA / SGAE / TEOSTO / whatever. The only thing you can't do with it is claim ownership or release any derivatives commercially without the artists permission. All broadcasting and non profit distribution activity is perfectly legal and legislated.

    Can i share these releases using bittorrent or other p2p applications?


    Yes. We want our releases and artists to be known across the whole multiverse and beyond. So please _do_ abuse whatever independent distributing technology you see fit, including http, ftp, dcc, fserver, cdr, radiocast, webcast, bittorrent and whatever other p2p solution you can imagine. Just as long as you are not collecting money from our artists work, you're free to re-distribute it in any way you see fit.

    This is great, how can i support you guys?


    If you like a specific artist we encourage you to support them directly, check their myspace pages for special contributions and upcoming events. We will prepare ourselves to receive also paypals donatives to help promote de musicians (printing CDRs and DVDs to sell at a symbolic price, and so on).

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