Artists: veliotis/ sugimoto/ kinoshita/ unami
Title: “quartet”
Price: $15.00
Catalog #: hibari-06
Released: 2005

 

Tracklisting and preview MP3s:

01 music for 4 stringed instruments (taku sugimoto)
02 aceghd (nikos veliotis)
03 improvisation

comment from david grubbs
I was there, and this is exactly how it went down.
But how does it come back in recorded form? This isn�ft how it went down.
Taku Sugimoto�fs piece remains an exceedingly thin strip of single notesswallowed by the near-silence of Kid Ailack. The near-silence that inrecorded form now bristles with activity. I spent much of the concerttrying to imagine a chord or simultaneous playing being added to Sugimoto�fsmusic. The mental exercise failed�\it wouldn�ft have been the same music, thesame rigorously horizontal motion through each listener�fs increasinglysubjective sense of time. (I studied the other listeners; it waseasy--their eyes were closed.) In recorded form, I don�ft have to imaginethis music containing counterpoint�\there it is, in the interplay ofKazushige Kinoshita�fs scratchy violin and the dulled roar of trafficoutside.
Nikos Veliotis�fs "acedghd" by contrast makes solo performance multiplethrough his cello technique. It�fs such a lovely unfolding of sound, suchthe sequence of delicate textures, such the sustained release. It�fs everybit as effective in recorded form. Why is that? The experiences come toseem more and more different from one another. The recorded version isstripped of the intensity of the concert�fs visual austerity. My apartmentis too much of a mess to add to the music�fs strictness, its straitenedcircumstances. In recorded form, the sound comes out of nowhere, returns .. . nowhere . . . not returns . . . ceases.

Artist: mattin / taku unami
Title: shiryo no computer
Price: $15.00
Catalog #: h.m.o/r 01
Released: 2004

 

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01 666
02 666
03 666
04 666
05 666
06 666
07 666
08 666
09 666

if love is colder than death as Fassbinder says,
zombies are warmer than life.
this two musicians are questioning the whole aesthetics surrounding digital music: upgrading software & hardware, programing virtuoism, better quality of sound. this is done by playing with the margins of digital music and transgressing clitches injected by computer gigs. (taku unami playing with surface of speaker vibrated by computer generated inaudible sound and mattin playing with selfgenerated feedback.)
in fact are bringing the concept of " Zombie computer music"for their practice, that means trying to kill their computer sound as much as possible, break the grave of digital music open, and re-animate the corpse. but this is not the kind of life healthy & hygienic as you can imagine. this is the living dead sounds that is never afraid of constantly commiting suicide in the world of digital ferocity.

Artist: Various Artists
Title: from:/to:
Price: $15.00
Catalog #: hibari-04
Released: 2003

 

Tracklisting and preview MP3s;

01 Jean-Philippe Gross + Utah Kawazaki
02 Olivier Brisson + Yoichiro Shin
03 Hugo Roussel + Masafumi Ezaki
04 Quentin Dubost + Yasuo Totsuka
05 Masahiko Okura + Sharif Sehnaoui
06 Masahiko Okura + Sharif Sehnaoui
07 Taku Unami + Norman D. Mayer
08 Kazushige Kinoshita + Fabrice Eglin
 

Depicted on record is an a-topics meeting in music in the open space between two scenes. The 8 duets open on experimental proposals: 8 improvised musical meetings in the suspended time of mail exchanges. East to the West, Japan & France. 1+1 = 3. The musical arithmetic differs from what we were taught at school. Each duet creates a sonic hybrid with a third element born out of the encounter of the musical identities.
hibari / abruitsecret / fragment / pricilia / vertpituite : FROM_TO found its source in the will of 5 labels to gather young musicians from Lebanon, France and Japan playing in the fields of electroacoustic and improvised music. To renew them.