============ VITAL WEEKLY ============ number 413 ------------ week 10 ------------ contents: MAX RICHTER - THE BLUE NOTEBOOKS (CD by Fat Cat/130701) MINIMAL SELF - FORMULA OF REVERSAL (CD by Wavetrap) COURTIS & MARHAUG - NORTH AND SOUTH NEUTRINO (CD by Antifrost) LASSE MARHAUG - THE SHAPE OF ROCK TO COME (CD by Small Town Supersound) CATHODE - SPECIAL MEASURES (CD by Expanding Records) BATTERY OPERATED & MADE - APROTIC (CD by Cocosolodciti) PAULO RAPOSO & MARC BEHRENS - FURTHER CONSEQUENCES OF REINTERPRETATION (CD by Cronica) JOERG PIRINGER - VOKAI (CD by Transacoustic Research) CHARLES RICE GOFF III & DON CAMPAU - REUPHOLSTERED VINYL (CDR by Taped Rugs Productions) ERNESTO RODRIGUEZ & ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO & GUILHERME RODRIGUEZ & MARGARIDA GARCIA - CESURA (CD by Creative Sources) BORIS BALTSCHUN & AXEL DORNER & KAI FAGASCHINKSI - NO FURNITURE (CD by Creative Sources) INSTRUMENTALS (CD compilation by List) FON - DEN REICHEN ZUR MAHNUNG DEN ARMEN ZUM TROSTE ALLEN ZUM HEILE (3"CD by Werkzeug) KK NULL/OVO SPLIT EP (3"CD by Bar La Muerte) FREIBAND - SIJIS RMX (CDR by Sijis) HEARSE - DEAD ON AUDIO (3"CDR by Scarcelight) SPRAGGADAT & PIRRE - ENDING (3"CDR by Scarcelight) EVOL - PUNANI SHELL (CD by Scarcelight) AMM - AT THE ROUNDHOUSE (CD by Anomalous Records) THE LOOP ORCHESTRA - NOT OVERTLY ORCHESTRAL (CD by Quecksilber) ROBERT MILLIS - RECORDINGS FROM LAOS, CAMBODIA, THAILAND AND MYANMAR (CD by Anomalous Records) HILARY JEFFERY - SOLO TROMBONE & ELECTRONICS (CD by FMR Records) EL CAMINO/ZOPPO (split 7" by Muze Records/Drowning Man) HENRIK RYLANDER - FORMATION (CD by Firework Edition) EMULSION - DEATH OF THE AUTHOR (CDEP by Emulsionmusic) RLW - VIEWS (CD by Anomalous Records) MENU:EXIT - VOOL EP (10" by Underscan Records) ANDREW DEUTSCH - LUNG CLEANER (CD by Anomalous Records) YITUEY - ESPACIO = VIDA (3"CDR by Paralelo 18) BIOTA/MNEMONISTS - MUSIQUE ACTUELLE 1990 (CD by Anomalous Records) EARZUMBA - HERMOSO MOVIMIENTO/FLORECE ESCONDIDO (CD by Dialsinfin) EARZUMBA - PLAYBACK EMOTIVO (3"CDR by The Locus Of Assemblage) THOMAS MOORE - THE PACE/THE PERIPHERY (3"CDR by Mark Of Pins) WECHSEL GARLAND & WORLD STANDARD - THE ISLE (CD by Staubgold) IMBECIL (CDrom by Alku/Imbecil) PURE/DEKAM - REQUOIL DISPLACED PEACEOFF (DVD by dOc) MAX RICHTER - THE BLUE NOTEBOOKS (CD by Fat Cat/130701) Max Richter is a classical composer who studied composition and piano in Scotland in Florence with the late Luciano Berio. He co-founded an ensemble called Piano Circus, performing the works of Arvo Part, Brian Eno, Philip Glass and Steve Reich. Richter also introduced the group to using samples and worked later on with Future Sound Of London and Roni Size. On 130701, Fat Cat's more classical imprint, he produces a CD that combines both electronic and ensemble pieces - consisting of piano, violin and cello. There is some pieces a narration, with texts from Kafka and Milosz, but there are kind of hard to follow. Overal the music is quite melancholical which at one point tends to be modern classical (in 'On The Nature Of Daylight') at other points totally electronic in 'Arboretum'. In 'Shadow Journal' both worlds meet. Field recordings, synth lines and loosely playing on the instruments. Strangely enough both worlds do seem to mix pretty well and the album is much more coherent than it may sound on paper. Sometimes the atmosphere gets a little to esoteric for my taste, such as the organ/choir piece 'Iconography' and I thought that in some pieces the ghost of Arvo Part was a little too present but on this morning with snow gently falling it's quite a nice release of melancholic music. Music for autumn and winter times. Address: http://www.fat-cat.co.uk MINIMAL SELF - FORMULA OF REVERSAL (CD by Wavetrap) Behind Minimal Self we find John Everall, also formerly known as Tactile and man from the Sentrax label. His solo CD 'is an attempt to document via sound a period of intense psychological turmoil' and 'to achieve this end Everall uses samples of his own speech which are manipulated and mutilated as an act of concealment which in itself is revealing in much the same way as the 'unspeech' of schizophrenics'. Everall uses as inspiration the notion of 'direct film' by Len Lye, who scratched direct onto celluloid to map out his own nervous system. I must say it all sounds mighty interesting, at least in writing. The fifty or so minute piece on the other hand doesn't sound very inspiring to hear. Low resolution samples of what seems to be voice manipulations, fed through a bunch of effects, but which never grasp the listener in anyway, at least not to me. Maybe as a personal purge, the end result of psychological turmoil, or maybe even music brut it might work and even appeal to some listener, to me it just didn't do very much. I think music should be powerful also if you don't know the story behind it, and that is sadly not the case here. (FdW) Address: http://www.post-pop.org COURTIS & MARHAUG - NORTH AND SOUTH NEUTRINO (CD by Antifrost) LASSE MARHAUG - THE SHAPE OF ROCK TO COME (CD by Small Town Supersound) Of course you know Lasse Marhaug. From all things Norwegian he is probably the most active player on the scene, with his bands Jazzkammer but also with his numerous collaborations with people like Kevin Drumm, Aube, Merzbow, Kim Cascone, Maja Ratkje, Tore Boe, Francisco Lopez and that's not even half the list. Here he teams up with Anla Courtis, the guitarist and main composer of the Argentinian group Reynols. Over the last five years they have been working on this piece, which is about forty-five minutes in duration. Things evolve very high and very low pitches of sound, but they are divided. Over the course of the pieces things move from the higher end of the sound spectrum to the lower end of the spectrum in a very gentle way. These two composers take their time to let things take their own way and make a sort of natural evolvement of the piece. It moves in a rather majestical way. Maybe soundwise not the most innovative piece but certainly in it's kind a very strong piece. Good sturdy experimental music, just the way it should be. With all his collaborative works and band efforts you might forget that Mr. Marhaug is also a solo artist even when little solo works seem to appear. On this new solo CD - the title being a pun at Cornette Oleman's 'The Shape Of Jazz To Come' - Marhaug takes a look at extreme music from the last four decades from free jazz via Velvet Underground and heavy metal to Whitehouse and Merzbow. Primarily Marhaug uses the guitar as his source instrument, coupled with his computer and his effect boxes. Marhaug offers what is to expected: a full range blast of noise, but there are moments of almost ambient music, such as the ending of 'Magmadiver'. But these are sparse moments. For maybe 95% this is a true orgy of noise. However Marhaug is one of the better players in the field of noise music - he controlls his material like only a few others can do and this CD should be an example for those who try their hands at noise music. (FdW) Address: http://www.antifrost.gr Address: http://www.smalltownsupersound.com CATHODE - SPECIAL MEASURES (CD by Expanding Records) From the world of such fine electronica labels as Static Caravan, Awkward Silence, Unbearable and of course Expanding Records, comes the first full length album by Cathode, aka Steve Jefferis from Newcastle Upon-Tyne. This is the world of technoid rhythms, grainy samples and melancholic keyboards, spread out over eight tracks. Rhythms bounce all over the place, nice spacious synthlines and sampled guitars, bring joy to the world. Joyful and uptempo with relaxing moments. Not entirely smooth but the rougher edges make this into quite a nice experience. Also there is a film by Rob Kennedy with Cathode's music - a pattern of abstract lines follow the music quite nicely. Nice work throughout, pleasent afternoon work music. (FdW) Address: http://www.expandingrecords.com BATTERY OPERATED & MADE - APROTIC (CD by Cocosolodciti) Battery Operated might be known for their two previous CD releases (see Vital Weekly 258 and 270), in which they combine musique concrete with more techno related musics, here they team up with Made, aka Mike Wiliamson, who was once a member of Gescom and who had several 12"s on Skam. On their joint record they step into the world of electro(-nic) music with traces of a lot of different sorts of dance music - from electro to hip hop to techno. Mostly uptempo music which towards the end of the disc is a little tiring - too much is sometimes just too much. They feed their basic rhythm tracks through a whole bunch of effects and the music is loaded with effects all over the place. The rhythms might be classified as minimal but it's dense layered, so the minimalist trend is reversed into a maximalist piece of music. As said, it might be a little bit too much to take on at once, but it will make a few spins on the more adventurous DJs around. (FdW) Address: http://www.cocosolidciti.com PAULO RAPOSO & MARC BEHRENS - FURTHER CONSEQUENCES OF REINTERPRETATION (CD by Cronica) To describe what led to this CD is not an easy task. It started with the artist *0 (Nosei Sakata) who invited a bunch of people to remix his CD 'O.000' (which delt in many ways with silence, or at least sounds outside the hearing range) and among them was Marc Behrens. After the results were released, Marc Behrens continued to recycle the results of others and here is where Paulo Raposo comes in. This Portugese composer is mostly known as the owner of that other fine Portugese label, Sirr-ecords. The result is a CD with no less than twenty-one tracks, which however seem to be mostly one piece with various index points. The silent *0 CD is being scanned by using the fast word button of the CD player and the actual sounds it produces is just throughout this CD as source material. Needles to say that this is a very 'microsounding' work: it glitches in many ways, plug ins are applied, the dynamic range is kept wide - ranging from soft to loud and makes this into quite an enjoyable CD. Completed with a conceptual cover design I was very much reminded of P16.D4: extensive recycling of similar sounds and images, from a previous, finished project moving to the next one. A fine but somewaht neglected tradition. It's good to see people doing that again. (FdW) Address: http://www.cronicaelectronica.org JOERG PIRINGER - VOKAI (CD by Transacoustic Research) You may, just as me, never heard of Joerg Piringer, but this Austrian guy is a founding member of the Institute For Transacoustic Research and a member of the First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra (and yes, they play only real vegetables!). For his first solo CD, Joerg uses stolen voice samples from radio and TV. On this Cd he has sixteen tracks which are a pretty varied bunch of musics. Noise in 'Pixo', minimal techno in 'Cmd No' (in a sort of Wolfgang Voigt kind of way), clicks in 'Olaaatst'. But the main thing about all of these tracks is that they are all based around rhythmical samples and loops. Words or sentences are heard to decypher throughout this release and it's probably the idea that we don't understand a word of it. But overall this is quite a nice release, although, like many others these days, maybe a bit too lengthy for my taste. (FdW) Address: http://www.transacoustic-research.com CHARLES RICE GOFF III & DON CAMPAU - REUPHOLSTERED VINYL (CDR by Taped Rugs Productions) The recentely unearthed name of Charles Rice Goff III has a new release with Don Campau (also recentely reviewed a couple of times in Vital Weekly). Together they cover ten songs from well-known artists such as David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, The Animals, Talking Heads, Robert Wyatt (well, actually it's Costello's 'Shipbuilding') and more. Other than 'Shipbuilding' I didn't know any of these songs, but in my defense I can state I am remotely away from popmusic for at least twenty years, so please forgive me. This makes reviewing this CD not an easy task, since I am not really familiar with the originals. I however believe they stay, playing their instruments and adding samples, close to a rock band. Which is actually quite nice, since it's quite a coherent bunch of songs, even when the originals come from various musical backgrounds. Whoever is singing here, the voice sounds most like Bowie's! Quite a nice and coherent collection of songs, that will be appealling to those of love alternative rock music that for once is not lo-fi but excellentely produced. (FdW) Address: http://www.geocities.com/padukem ERNESTO RODRIGUEZ & ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO & GUILHERME RODRIGUEZ & MARGARIDA GARCIA - CESURA (CD by Creative Sources) Improvisor and composer Ernesto Rodrigues (1959) has over 20 twenty years of experience on playing the violin in the context of contemporaty and improvised music. He is a leading figure on the Portuguese scene for improvised music. In 1999 he began the Creative Sources Recordings label as an outlet for improvised music he is (often) involved in. As earlier work shows, he is mainly interested in sound and texture. With his new one 'Cesura' this is also the case. Nothing new in this respect. He is accompanied by his son Guilherme (1988), who choose cello and pocket trumpet as his instrument and cooperates often with his father. Alfredo Costa Monteiro (1964) is a visual artist as well as an music improvisor. Since 1995 he plays electric guitar and accordion in a diversity of collaborarions. Here on 'Cesura' he plays accordion. Margarida Garcia (1977) is a double-bas player from Lisbon, and cooperated with Sei Miguel and Manuel Mota. On a day in july, 2003 they together recorded 'Cesura' at the Tcha tcha tcha Studio in Lisbon. "This music is cut with a flick knife over the surface of silence, which is why Ernesto boasts that this is his 'least musical' work. Each stab of sound, each sudden construction dug into the sequentiality is a mark left in time and a move, a gesture, against inertia. A poetry of remainings, in a word" Rui Eduardo Paes writes in the liner notes. Because of their focus on sound, painting is the metaphor that I find most fitting for what they are doing. Carefully and concentrated they produce little patterns on the white canvas of silence. They are not afraid of the white canvas. Silence remains their best friend, as their playing is sparse and non-spectacular. Concerning their playing, of course they do not play their instruments in a conventional way. The instruments serve as a soundsource to be generated in any thinkable way. And I must say the musicians are capable of distracting of great diversity of sounds from their instruments. We do have here a kind of music that is 'complete'. But on the other hand this kind of soundimprovisation does not deliver the kind of dynamics and tension we know from more conventional music. That's why I like more the shorter pieces (DM) Address: http://www.geocities.com/creativesources_rec/ BORIS BALTSCHUN & AXEL DORNER & KAI FAGASCHINKSI - NO FURNITURE (CD by Creative Sources) 'No Furniture' unites three young german musicians, who all have there base in Berlin on a cd released by the portuguese label Creative Sources. Baltschun (1974) studied composition and electronic music in The Hague (Netherlands). Worked and works with people like Dror Feiler, Günter Christmann, Conny Bauer and Wolfgang Fuchs. Composer and clarinetplayer Kai Fagaschinski (1974) is focused on the musicality of noise phenomena. His many collaboartions include a quartet with Burkhard Beins (percussion), Serge Baghdassarians (electric guitar) and Boris Baltschun (sampler), and very recent a duo work with gitarist Michael Renkel ('Rebecca'). Axel Dörner (1964) studied trumpet subsequently in Arnhem (Netherlands) and Cologne. Originally he stayed in Cologne, but his activities increased whem he moved to Berlin in 1994. To name a few: Robert Rutman, Annette Krebs, Butch Morris, Jim Denley and so on. Berlin is also the place where they recorded 'No Furniture' between november 2002 and oktober 2003. So they worked steady on a first sign of life, since their start in 2001. No idea why it is relased on Creative Sources, but it's evident that this trio has a familiar approach to improvised music as the circle around Ernesto Rodrigues. That's to say these improvisors have there main interest in soundresearch and texture. The clarinet produces long, clean notes. The trumpet sputters and grumbles. The sample makes all kinds of noisy excursions. How abstract the music may be, the 'titles' are very basic, simple and represented pictographic: 'Chair', 'Table' and 'Bed'. Compared to the improvisations of Rodrigues and friends, these improvisations are less turning and changing. Instead they chose for duration of sounds so that they get a real 'body' and can make a stronger impression on the listener (DM). Address: http://www.geocities.com/creativesources_rec INSTRUMENTALS (CD compilation by List) The small French label List maybe be small but their releases so far fill me with you. Their second compilation explores 'the relations between acoustic instruments and digital process'. It features a wide range of musicians and composers, with different backgrounds. Janek Schaeffer for instance uses a 'record player for the blind, mixer, pedals and on screen collage', so that hardly sounds like an instrument. At the other end we find Matthieu Saladin and Ivan Soland who do a blass clarinet duo. However most others play instruments (or have them played) and process them digitally. Steinbruchel for instance process guitar playing by Herve Boghossian (label head honcho). In many of the eleven pieces here there is some careful playing and processing going on. Each piece takes a fair amount of time and the acoustic element is never lost whilst the digital element is always present somewhere. Take Andrea Gabriele's piano, double and electric bass and percussion piece: sounding glitchy and ambient, the real instrumental touch is not lost. Lastly the combination of somewhat more known and unknown players make this into a fine introduction aswell something to recognize and be surprised of. Mitchell Akiyama (nice violin piece!), Gunter Muller, Werner Dafeldecker, martin Siewert and Sebastian Roux may sell the CD but Julien Tardieu, Colleen or Herve Boghossian are certainly names to watch out. A very nice compilation. (FdW) Address: http://www.list-en.com FON - DEN REICHEN ZUR MAHNUNG DEN ARMEN ZUM TROSTE ALLEN ZUM HEILE (3"CD by Werkzeug) Huge title for a 3" CD. I wonder what it means? It's the 6th release from Werkzeug, a label based in Vienna, Austria, that puts out mostly releases from Formation Ohne Name or just FON. This is the first release I've heard from FON and I'm most pleasantly surprised. All 4 short audio pieces sound great, and there's also additional mp3-data recording of 60 minutes mostly talking about something in german language I don't understand. The sound of the audio pieces, which are 12 and a half minutes altogether, is mainly in the interesting edgy ambient area, with pulsating droney backgrounds sometimes. It's very well done, sounds fresh, clever, clear and challenging. Short but effective. I'm definitely interested to hear more from FON. Funny, the last track from this EP, titled Wir Alle, starts with a voice sample that sounds like a shorter version of the voice sample used in the Bovine Life remix of Self-Seal Mishap by Tennis that can be found on the bonus CD with remixes that goes with their album Furlines (released by Bip Hop). I don't know if FON know about this. But that's my favourite remix there and I like that sample very much. If someone knows where those 2 extremely similar voice-samples in Bovine Life remix and in this FON track are taken from, please let me know. (BR) Address: http://www.wrkzg.net KK NULL/OVO SPLIT EP (3"CD by Bar La Muerte) A 3"CD is a great thing to review. I've mentioned OVO once before when I reviewed some releases from Bar La Muerte, check Vital 397. OVO are the italian hardcore musicians (Stefania on vocals + guitar, Jacopo/sax, Bruno/guitar and Capoccia on drums) who have played live in many places touring around, they've been even in Skopje, Macedonia on 24.03.2001. I like their Vaevictis EP released by Bar La Muerte in 2002. Even though I don't like this kind of guitar/rock based hardcore music very much, they easily managed to become my favourite hardcore band. I don't even see them as hardcore, more just as a band that makes really great music with a rougher edge. Vaevictis is often close to jazz. On this short EP there are 2 tracks from OVO remixed by Miniwagonwheel. They both sound very good: Claws is like the electronic version of the original OVO sound, or how OVO would sound if they were making their music with computers instead of the instruments they use; and Tails is much closer to their original sound. KK Null offers one nice piece of his 'cosmic noise minimalism'. But I think the OVO tracks is what I'd go for. Keep on rockin! Both OVO and KK Null. (BR) Address: http://www.barlamuerte.com + http://www.kknull.com FREIBAND - SIJIS RMX (CDR by Sijis) This is the 8th release from the label Sijis. It's called Sijis Rmx, but it's not actually a classic remix. Frans de Waard aka Freiband has taken some sounds from the previous Sijis releases to make a 15 minutes long atmospheric drone. The sound of this new piece is stretched, layered, very calm and linear, the only rumblings appear at the very beginning, in the first 5 seconds. It sounds like all 15 minutes after that are catapulted from those 5 seconds at the start. I like that. Nice EP. (BR) Address: http://www.sijis.com HEARSE - DEAD ON AUDIO (3"CDR by Scarcelight) SPRAGGADAT & PIRRE - ENDING (3"CDR by Scarcelight) EVOL - PUNANI SHELL (CD by Scarcelight) Scarcelight is a label run by Chris Jeely, also known as Accelera Deck, and there are more 3" and regular size (or is it the other way around?) CDs and CDRs released by this label recently. One of them is the 3"EP from Hearse: 20 minutes in 2 tracks, of which the first is much longer, 19 minutes. The music is explained by the label as "a no-fi destroyed bliss masterpiece". This is new to me, no-fi, I like this term. I haven't been exposed to no-fi music much, at least not consciously. I'd call this music no-fi ambience, it is there, surrounding you, in a no-wave atmospheric way, you're safe but still don't know what to expect, so better listen carefully. This is a nice release. The other 3"EP by Spraggadat & Pirre is divided in 4 untitled tracks with various lengths. It's also more noisy. The first track is build of stretched intense noise-drone. But it's not just harsh noise, the atmosphere calms down in the other tracks, and other softly distorted sounds appear. This is rougher music, obviously Scarcelight likes to cover those musical fields with a rawer edge. Now, prepare to meet the evil Evol. Or maybe you already know them from their Principio EP on Mego released in 1999? Here they are again, with another EP release on Scarcelight, their first release since the Mego EP. OK well, the first longer release, because they also have a track on the Full compilation released by Antifrost. That track is like a smaller part of this almost 22-min EP which completely fulfills the idea of 'full music'. It's very different from their Mego release. Evol are Roc, Anna and their chinchilla (www.cavyrescue.co.uk/chinchilla_guide.htm) pet Perkele. They also run the nice label Alku from Barcelona. The chinchilla info page says: "Loud voices and sudden noises will also disturb chinchilla‚s, so keep them out of busy hallways, and the clicking sound normally made to budgies will only worry and confuse them, so always talk to them using a soft and soothing tone." Anna, Roc, do you know this? What Evol offer here is furious, loud and mad music, and I like it! Constantly shifting fragments of sound, fractured all the time. That's good, the noise is broken and there are many short moments of silence that allow some rest in this fully present music, total opposite of Ronnie Sundin's music for example. (BR) Address: http://scarcelight.com AMM - AT THE ROUNDHOUSE (CD by Anomalous Records) AMM have been around since probably a lot of readers where not born or still in diapers - and that includes me. Since the mid sixties AMM is a group including Eddie Prevost, Keith Rowe, Lou Gare and Lawrence Sheaff, later versions included also Cornelius Cardew, Christopher Hobbs and Christian Wolff. By 1972, when this recording was made, AMM was only Prevost on percussion and Gare on tenor saxophone. Today AMM still exists of Prevost, Rowe (guitar) and John Tilbury (piano). In August 1972 a festival was held in London called the International Carnival of Experimental Sound, short ICES 72, organised by Harvey "Job" Matusow, which included some 300 artists from over 21 countries. The festival included films, dance, happenings but the main thing was music. Anomalous Records, no longer an excellent mailorder service, now unearthed the recordings of the festival and AMM kick off what will hopefully be an excellent series of unusual, improvised music. This is the first time that the entire concert is released (there was a 7" of some of this concert by Incus in the seventies). Although a line up of drums and a sxaophone might ring a 'jazz' bell, Prevost states in the liner notes that their work was 'decidedly non jazz' - but for the untrained ear, this might be hard to believe. The free improvised music here (and more from the same period), I think, is the most jazz work of the entire AMM work - the element of silence that has become a later trademark of AMM, is present here already, but only for shorter periods. The liner notes also recall the indifference of the audience during the concert. That might be so, but luckily enough the concert was recorded and now we can enjoy it. This is an essential recording to understand more about the development of AMMusic and should be part of anyone's collection of improvised music (like, I must add, all other AMM releases). (FdW) Address: http://www.anomalousrecords.com THE LOOP ORCHESTRA - NOT OVERTLY ORCHESTRAL (CD by Quecksilber) A loop is a piece of sound that is continuously repeated. You knew that from your musicsoftware, but before the days of computer, loops were made of magnetic tape. At a workshop I learned they should be cut with a demagnetized razorblade and that you use special sticky tape and put that on the side with no music. The Loop Orchestra from Australia have been around for maybe fifteen or more years, but never released that much. The odd LP or cassette, but maybe this will change with the release of this CD; this actually being their third official release. The Loop Orchestra consists of five players, each armed with tape-loops and reel-to-reel machines. Because the loops have a varying length, things come and go in varying monents, some sounds in a short time span and the others in a longer time span. It's hard to tell what exactely is the input of the sounds - musique concrete, bird calls, a sigh etc. Sounds fade in and out, and make up minimal sound pieces with strange atmospheres. The only problem I have with this is that the sounds themselves are a bit undynamic. Everything stays on the same level throughout and therefore no real tension is created. That's a pity because the ideas are pretty nice themselves in this digital world. (FdW) Address: http://www.quecksilber-music.com ROBERT MILLIS - RECORDINGS FROM LAOS, CAMBODIA, THAILAND AND MYANMAR (CD by Anomalous Records) Holidays are in general not my thing. I rather be at home. A trip that Robert Millis (part of the Climax Golden Twins) did, going to South-East Asia and doing field recordings, now that's the sort of thing I would not say 'no to. His trip went to Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar and on this CD one finds all sorts of sounds connected to the place, not just animal also those of people. They sign in cabs, streets and even a rendition of 'More Than I Can Say', maybe famous by Leo Sawyer, by the drunken and possessed Burmese Pwe Orchestra is to be found here. That makes this release into a map of these countries. Like in the pages of an atlas where you can find maps about population, about religious aspects, about wildlife, etc, this CD is like an atlas too. Twenty-one pages, each page deals with a certain aspect. However it's an artistic atlas: you are told to which country you are listening per track. However it doesn't matter, it's a fascinating journey, even when you never visited these countries. (FdW) Address: http://www.anomalousrecords.com HILARY JEFFERY - SOLO TROMBONE & ELECTRONICS (CD by FMR Records) I don't think I know that many pieces for trombone. After a hard long think I only know Phill Niblock's pieces which were played by James Fulkerson - the exact same one as he who write the liner notes for this CD by Hilary Jeffery. As the title implies, this CD is a work for solo trombone and electronics. I think this music works best when it's kept minimal, in both trombone and electronic part, such as in 'Oil Hell' or 'Strangel', which carries a lot of tension. When Jeffery goes into a more free improvised mood, I must admit I am lesser interested. It sounds too regular to be really captivating and his use of samples not very interesting. Roughly these two interests keep themselves in a 50-50 balance here, which makes I have mixed feelings about the CD. The half that I really, I really and the other half... well, I won't skip while playing... (FdW) Address: http://www.fmr-records.com EL CAMINO/ZOPPO (split 7" by Muze Records/Drowning Man) Partly a follow up to their second LP 'Laika' (see Vital Weekly 400), this is for sure a big step into a new direction for El Camino. So far their releases were post rock music, totally instrumental, but here there they use vocals. For the occassion they have a guestsinger, Sebastian Cupido (from the band Min), who will also sing on a few lines on the forthcoming El Camino CD. It starts with a repeating Steve Reich-like opening but unfolds into a melodic and melancholic popsong once the vocals kick in. A nice song indeed and the vocals certainly add a nice extra elements to El Camino. Zoppo is also a dutch band, and they are on the other side. I know they have been around for quite some time too, but I don't think I ever heard their music. About half the song is used for introduction but they too use vocals, and overall, due to the same atmosphere and melancholy of the vibrato guitars, they share a lot with El Camino and that makes this into a nice split 7". (FdW) Address: http://www.muze-records.nl HENRIK RYLANDER - FORMATION (CD by Firework Edition) The work of Henrik Rylander has been reviewed before, via a 10" (see Vital Weekly 318) on the same label that now releases his solo release. Rylander was a drummer in a rock band called Union Carbide Productions, but since 1996 he works inside electronic music. On his solo release he works with 'controlled feedback from different fx-units'. In each of the nine pieces (01, 02 etc they are called), he plays around with them in a rhythmical way. Each of these pieces is minimal and in each of the piece I thought: god, this sounds very much like Pan Sonic area 'Vakio' or other works from that period, for instance the first Noto or the first Goem CD. It seemed to me that Rylander didn't have many original ideas of his own and that he's years too late with his sound. I must say that it's an excellent copy though - in that respect he did a very nice job. (FdW) Address: http://www.fireworkeditionrecords.com EMULSION - DEATH OF THE AUTHOR (CDEP by Emulsionmusic) Now here's a band of which I never heard before, and who claim to be influenced by Coil, Boards Of Canada and Godspeed You Black Emperor! Their EP has five tracks of which the first is an eyecatcher: a cover of The Cure's 'Pornography' title track, here made into a dark audiopoem. 'Is Lust' the hardest hitting track here, rhythmical noise music. 'Undone' and 'Sonido Negro' are sombre, atmospherical pieces, while 'Every Machine Makes A Mistake' is also atmospherical but with gothesque drums. It's nice stuff, but really a bit too far out my place to really enjoy for a long time. The textural pieces are alright, but overall a bit too much gothic sounding for me. (FdW) Address: http://www.emulsionmusic.com RLW - VIEWS (CD by Anomalous Records) There was a time when RLW, which stands for Ralf Wehowsky, was a buzz name. From his previous band P16.D4, he developes since the mid nineties a strong solo career aswell as many collaborations with people like Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Drumm, Bernard Gunter, Duimelinks/Meelkop. But in more recent years his release schedule was less hectic and now we have 'Views'. Everything on this CD is made by RLW with no input from anybody else. His source material includes tone-generators, music boxes, toys, electric guitar and toothbrush. Each of the four pieces here consist of RLW improvising three or four times his sounds on to the computer, and creating a mix afterwards. In the opening piece, '#1' he only uses tone generators, by which he creates quite densely layered patterns, that come in quite a chaotic way at one point - unlike much other RLW material. In '#2' he uses the Orff instrumentarium (percussive instruments for children), which he jams around and this is much more his territory: carefully hoovering on the edge of silence. Something similar goes in '#3', but here it deals with the hallucinating simplicity of music boxes. These two quieter pieces are the total contrast of '#4', which uses various feedback recordings of the two previous tracks and some added guitar sounds - a fiery noise piece, which is again an unlike RLW piece. Quite a strong CD, with some surprises for the RLW devotee. Moving inside aswell as outside of his usual music, this is quite a step forward. (FdW) Address: http://www.anomalousrecords.com MENU:EXIT - VOOL EP (10" by Underscan Records) The two boys behind Menu:Exit are also the founders of Underscan Records (with previous releases by Scanner and Frank Bretschneider). Menu:Exit's 10" is the follow up to their 2001 'Profiles EP'. 'Vool' opens up in a harmonic techno style, in which half way through a flamenco guitar sounds. This by far the best track of the four, even when the three other ones are also quite nice. The two tracks on the b-side, 'iyf' and 'linger' are moodier, and more heldback, but for all four tracks goes that they are excellent melancholic, richly textured pieces, but 'Vool' remains the hit track. (FdW) Address: http://www.underscan.de ANDREW DEUTSCH - LUNG CLEANER (CD by Anomalous Records) The name Andrew Deutsch I saw before, but I don't think I ever heard his work before. This CD was made for Eric Lanzillotta (Anomalous Records boss) when he was sick, suffering from a serious lung infection. Deutsch is a computer musician, who feeds his source material (in this case: wine glasses, baby toys, pure tones, bells, music boxes, water etc.) into the computer to create his music. Among his influences he cites John Cage, Gyorgy Ligeti but also Merzbow. The latters influence is not very present, I think. Although it's not stated on the cover, I think Deutsch uses a lot of Max/MSP processing on his music. So far so good, but I couldn't say that the music did much for me. The four long pieces on this disc, seemed to me rather haphazard put together sounds, seemingely put together without too much notion of any compositional structure. Things didn't seem to come from nowhere, nor did they go anywhere. Except for the final piece, 'Sleep Fields (Go To Sleep)', which lulls the listener into sleep via an ever continueing crescendo. Otherwise I wasn't too pleased with this. (FdW) Address: http://www.anomalousrecords.com YITUEY - ESPACIO = VIDA (3"CDR by Paralelo 18) The work of Yituey was discussed before in Vital Weekly 390 and here he returns. Yituey is one Claudi Chea. Whereas the previous release was recorded in the Dominican Republic, this new work contains everyday sounds from Puerto Rico, again processed using computer techniques, but Yituey maintains to keep a balance between the original input and the processed output. We hear insect calls and street sounds, set against a warm and glitchy soundtrack. Slow and peaceful processings they are, probably capturing the mood of the day on a hot, tropical island (I am guessing here, since I was never to Puerto Rico). Just like the previous release, a very nice work of soundscaping. (FdW) Address: http://www.paralelo18.org BIOTA/MNEMONISTS - MUSIQUE ACTUELLE 1990 (CD by Anomalous Records) With the emerge of home computers and the easyness of using them for music production it is hard to imagine that there was a point when the studio was a seperate instrument, a place where you could shape your music and expand beyond the limitations of any instrument or sound. Now it seems so common and you can do it at home. Biota is a group that has been around for at least twenty years as part of the Mnemonists (who were a music group too, but now only concern with visuals) and on the small output (at least when seen from a larger time frame), Biota uses the studio as their instrument. Their members play guitar, saxophone, piano, clarinet, accordion but also crumhorn, curtal, rackett and shawm but it's when it all comes together in the studio where the real work is done. Needless to say it's a band that hardly performs live. But Anomalous unearthed this recording from 1990 when Biota (along with Mnemonists for the visual side) where invited to Canada to bring the sound live in a specially commissioned work in four movements. The CD is made out of the live performance and the run through prior to the concert. Biota doesn't use any such thing as samples, tapes, synths etc and upon hearing this hearing this recording, that is hard to believe - but I believe it's true. Especially in the lenghty opening and closing piece, things sound distinctely electronic with highly processed instruments. In the second and third piece, Biota plays much more free improvised music, quite chaotic but a slight touch of folk music in the second piece. The entire concert is a fascinating thing with many surprises all over the place and an excellent display of their unique working methods. And what struck me most: for a band that hardly plays live it's a great concert! A much underrated band, sadly. (FdW) Address: http://www.anomalousrecords.com EARZUMBA - HERMOSO MOVIMIENTO/FLORECE ESCONDIDO (CD by Dialsinfin) EARZUMBA - PLAYBACK EMOTIVO (3"CDR by The Locus Of Assemblage) You could make a CD with say ten tracks and say it's ten different albums on one CD? Silly? Maybe, but Christian Dergarabedian (a one time member of Reynols, now living in Barcelona) offers two CDs pressed on one disc - the first ten tracks make up 'Hermoso Movimiento' and track twelve to nineteen make up 'Florece Escondido'. However, I think it's hard to see it as two albums, since one puts this one, and leaves it on until the end... Unlike his previous 7" on Drone Records (and the only work I heard), under his new monniker Earzumba, Christian loves to sample other people's work. On 'Hermoso Movimiento' these samples are lifted from both popular media sources, but also electro-acoustic sources, although the balance is in favor of the media sources. However, it's quite a nice version of plunderphonica, as Christian takes the sound apart and puts it back together in a rather abstract way, ie without recognizing too much of the original. Although the blurb says that the differences between the two albums are quite big, I don't think that it's case. However with such a lenghty album (or two for that matter) it is just a bit too long. I think I preferred two seperate albums and not to be released at the same time... And if things are not enough, The Locus Of Assemblage also releases a mini CDR by Earzumba and it continues along similar lines. However here it works well, maybe it's the limitation of time that makes this into a nice introduction to his work. So my best guess is: start with the 3" and if you continue to play that over and over again, it's time to move to the full length... (FdW) Address: http://yovibro.tripod.com.ar Address: http://www.assemblage.freeuk.com THOMAS MOORE - THE PACE/THE PERIPHERY (3"CDR by Mark Of Pins) A name that is new to me, with a short work, only just under eleven minutes. Thomas Moore composed this piece of 'tiny collapsed bell tones' at IEA Alfred NY and is to be remixed by Tetsu Inoue and Andrew Deutsch. It's a fragile piece of computer processings of small rumblings and carefully constructed sine waves or modulations arising from the treatments of the bell tones. A nice but too short piece. Would have loved to hear more of this. (FdW) Address: http://www.hansonrecords.com WECHSEL GARLAND & WORLD STANDARD - THE ISLE (CD by Staubgold) The name Wechsel Garland is of course not the real name, it's the name chosen by Jorg Follert and under that guise he presented such nice albums on Morr Music and Karaoke Kalk. Here he works together with Sohichiro Suzuki aka World Standard. This Japanese musician may not be very well-known, but he has released some album through Haruomi Hosono's Daisyworld label. This collaboration was made during two meetings in Japan and otherwise through the mail. The two pluck their guitars, have string arrangements, glockenspiel and occassional drumming. Together they play some very pleasent minimal music. Minimal, but pleasent might be more correct. Intimate and atmospherical, but atmospherical in the sense of light hearted. It's the sort of music you can play when your parents come round on a sunday afternoon for a cup of tea. Very pleasent and definetly appealling to those who like Wechsel from his earlier works, but also the Sack/Blumm collaborations or some of the Obscure Records, most notably Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Cosy and warm music. (FdW) Address: http://www.staubgold.com IMBECIL (CDrom by Alku/Imbecil) This is not an audio CD but a CD Rom of some of the most weird computer programms. You can play Tock, Paper, Scissors with your computer, you can use 'Suicide Letter Wizard For Microsoft Word' to write your suicide note or a resource file to replace the most common Unix commands with gangsta-rap jargon. And much more such weirdness. This CD-rom runs all sorts of platforms (linux, PC, Mac), so I couldn't access them all, but I'm sure it's fun. And oh yes, it is quite useless too, as you don't need any of this software really for anything. A nice thing to impress your friends with... (FdW) Address: http://www.imbecil.net PURE/DEKAM - REQUOIL DISPLACED PEACEOFF (DVD by dOc) This DVD holds three films by Johnny Dekam with music by Pure. Pure you may know from his various releases on his own dOc label, but also from Mego, Staalplaat and Praxis. Johnny Dekam has videoinstallations and develops software under the name Vidvox. The title of this DVD has all three films mentioned. In 'Requoil' we get first abstract imaginary of an oilwell, which gradually moves into an imaginary that is less abstract before going abstract again. Pure's music is best described as industrial music - heavy and dense layers of synths. 'Peaceoff' uses also less abstract images of a water purification plant, layered but still recognizable. The music here is based on a breakcore loop provided by Peaceoff and is, I think, the least interesting soundtrack. My facourite film is the very abstract 'Displaced': here both abstract music (drones gradually fading into minimalist rhythms) fit the abstract forms and surfaces of the film nicely. Entertaining enough I'd say... (FdW) Address: http://pure.test.at 1. From: Calgary New Music The first nach Hause concert of 2004 will feature Calgary's newest improvisers on the scene: The Bent Spoon Ensemble and Faster Disco Saturday February 28th at 9:00pm At the EMMEDIA Gallery and Production Society 351-11th Avenue SW, Suite #203 (upstairs) $8.00 Admission Faster Disco Mark Fleischhaker-vocals Trevor Seghers-drums The Bent Spoon Ensemble Chris Dadge-drums David Laing-alto saxophone Kevin Lee-guitar, accordian, spoken word(s) Scott Munro-contrabass, trombone 2. From: John Duncan PHANTOM BROADCAST John Duncan Solo concert Main Hall 6 March, 22:00 Soundwaves Saverio Evangelista Solo concert Entry Hall 6 March, 23:00 Galleria Nicola Fornello via Paolini 27 Prato, Italy info@nicolafornello.com www.nicolafornello.com 3. From: Saturday 03.13.04 FREE103POINT9 7th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT #1 JAPANTHER | PARTS + LABOR | Aa | RADIO 4x4 | WATERSPORTS | PEOPLE | ZAFTIG | DJ MATT MIKAS | DJ TOM ROE | POLYGRAPH | ZEKE HEALEY | JESSICA PAVONE | LA OTRACINE @ OfficeOps, 57 Thames St., Bushwick/East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 8 p.m.- 3 a.m., $7. Located between Morgan Ave. + Knickerbocker Ave., East Williamsburg/Bushwick, Brooklyn. Near Morgan Ave. L stop. 718.418.2509. www.officeops.org FREE ADMISSION WITH DONATION OF WORKING RADIO TO FREE103POINT9. LIVE STREAMING Tune in to live audio and video stream of main room at: http://www.officeops.org/programs/?D=radioo Tune in live audio stream of second room on free103point9 Online Radio at www.free103point9.org. Tune in to live stream of this show at 8 p.m. EST. ****** free103point9 Seventh Anniversary benefit #2 Saturday, March 20, 2004 with Accelera Deck | Satellite Grooves | Evol | Scott Allison psi + Alessandro Bosetti + Nate Wooley | Chuck Bettis Radio 4x4: Ben Owen + Radio Ruido + Michelle Nagai + Andy Graydon Seth Nehil, Nice Disc, Kenneth Kirschner, Tony Eaton, and mpld @ OfficeOps, 57 Thames St., Bushwick/East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 8 p.m.- 3 a.m., $7. Located between Morgan Ave. + Knickerbocker Ave., East Williamsburg/Bushwick, Brooklyn. Near Morgan Ave. L stop. 718.418.2509. www.officeops.org On free103point9 Online Radio at www.free103point9.org. Tune in to live stream of this show at 8 p.m. EST. ***** Wednesday 03.10.04. LAURA HARRISON | DJ MATT MIKAS | DEVIL MUSIC | TIGHTEY WHITEY @ free103point9 Gallery, Second Floor, 97 S. 6th St., btw Bedford + Berry, Southside, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 8 p.m., $5. mm@free103point9.org. More information on all these shows is available at: www.free103point9.org 4. From: suddeninfant@gmx.net LIVE NOISE FOR LONELY HEARTS 01/March/2004 22h SUDDEN INFANT feat: Joke Lanz: voice & noise Simone Vollenweider : voice & toys @ boschbar, geroldstr. 5c, zurich, switzerland 08/March/2004 12h-13h lunch concert: Madonna vs. Schubert Joke Lanz: turntables Andreas Furrer: piano Tonio Krüger: visuals @ konservatorium bern, kramgasse 36, bern, switzerland 12/March/2004 21h rough & ready electronics 2004: Joke Lanz (sudden infant): turntables Sandra Nickl: voice Sandra Künzi (akku): electronics Staubsauger (Spezialmaterial): electronics Mike Machine: electronics Oblivion (digitalis): electronics Michael Egger: video Andrea Reissner: video Tomas Kudrna: video Simon Grab: intervention @ reitschule, bern, switzerland http://gmp.fm/ 18/March/2004 21h SUDDEN INFANT PEELED HEARTS PASTE @ kulturbunker mühlheim, berliner str. 20, köln, germany http://www.kulturbunker-muelheim.de 19/March/2004 21h SUDDEN INFANT PEELED HEARTS PASTE @ c.u.b.a., achtermannstr. 12, münster, germany http://www.cuba-cultur.de 23/March/2004 20h london calling byebye zurich: Joke Lanz: turntables & noise toys Christian Weber: bass & substructural noises @ wim, magnusstrasse 5, zurich, switzerland http://www.wimmusic.ch/ www.suddeninfant.com 5. From: geert-jan Announcement!!! only 6 days!!! Announcement!!! only 6 days!!! STAALPLAAT SOUNDSYSTEM & ERWIN STACHE "FLOATING ISLANDS" sound-light-installation on the water for 50 vacuum cleaners, plastic bottles and illuminant 2nd march 2004 at 7 pm - 8th march 2004 at 9 am continuously active day : sound night : light place: on the river spree, rolandufer, near klosterstrasse in front of mühlendamm-schleuse, berlin-mitte presented by singuhr - hörgalerie in parochial - berlin and netherlands media art institute montevideo - amsterdam on the occassion of the opening of the royal netherlands embassy in berlin. technical assistence: sebastian noth curator/production: carsten seiffarth with friendly support by : botschaft des königreichs der niederlande, mondriaan stichting amsterdam, siemens electrogeräte gmbh, stichting intro maastricht, ev. kirchengemeinde marien, wasser- und schifffahrtsamt berlin, pfefferberg entwicklungs u. verwaltungs gmbh, grafisches büro cyan. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "floating islands" sound-light-installation staalplaat soundsystem = geert-jan hobijn (nl) + carsten stabenow (d) & erwin stache (d) floating islands is a mechanical floating orchestra - a sound and light installation located on the river spree in front of the new dutch embassy berlin. the orchestra will consist of fifty small 'islands' that will float, sound, and dream. a 60 by 15 metre formation will be fixed in the free water space in front of the mühlendamm-schleuse opposite the embassy building. the base bodies of the 'islands' will be constructed from self-swiming red hard plastic buoys. self-build flutes made from transparent plastic bottles are fixed on top of the buoys. a battery of 50 vacuum cleaners is connected with the 'floating islands' via a hose system. hanging in a big framework on the sluice island in the middle of the water the battery of vacuum cleaners breathes life into the flutes like a huge lung. since the vacuum cleaners will hang in the framework they will swing when triggered, thus making the installation more transparent and pulsating. each island will have an additional light element build into the bottles that will, at night, instead of playing the flute only visually interpret the composition. a specific composition is created for a permanent all week sound programme. the orchestra will be controlled from the sluice island. the steering unit consists of a controller running a composition and a midi-to-volt-translator triggering a solid-state relays system. http://www.staalplaat.org http://www.erwinstache.de http://www.singuhr.de 6. From: denzler tuesday march 9 . 08.30 pm bertrand denzler . saxophone jean-luc guionnet . saxophone taku unami . computer sputnik 347 . 61 rue claude érignac (anciennement rue de saint-mandé) . montreuil . france tuesday march 16 . 08.30 pm bertrand denzler . saxophone michel doneda . saxophone bertrand gauguet . saxophone jack wright . saxophone les voûtes . 91 quai panhard & levassor . paris 13 . france http://www.lesvoutes.org/ friday march 26 . 08.45 pm cédric carré . voice mathieu lilin . saxophone loraine vilain . piano pierre cretel . piano frédéric blondy . piano bertrand denzler . saxophone la malterie . 42 rue kuhlmann . lille . france http://crimeasso.free.fr/ sunday april 4 . 06.00 pm marc baron . saxophone bertrand denzler . saxophone jean-luc guionnet . saxophone stéphane rives . saxophone la guillotine . 24 rue robespierre . montreuil . france 7. From: extrapool fri 05-03 concert Tape (Zwe) open 20.45 hours 4 euro thu 18-03 (live)movie/performance/concert with De Vierde Stad reSort off LIVE CINEMA Pieter Verhees (mediaperformer): software, text Marcus Peters (fotographer/drawer): fotography, drawings,text Ingrid van den Boogaard (atrist/musician): videomaterial, sound, music, text. together with Rikkert Brok (projections) and Maarten Halmans (sound) firts a concert : Ad Peijnenburg en William Parker (USA) (free-jazz-improv.) open 20.30 hours entree 5 euro mo 22-03 concert the Hawnay Troof (USA) and Räuberhöhle (D) open 20.30 hours entree 5 euro thu 25-03 concert Gerard Van Dongen - computer, joystick / Jaime Fenelly - No Input Mixer, elektronics / Bruno Xavier da Silva - bass, effects / Esther Venrooy - sax, elektronics reSort off INSTANT MUSIC open 20.45 hours 4 euro su 28-03 sundayafternoonconcert with soup Paul de Jong (cello and sampling) & Andrés Franz Krause (D) (digital drones) Video: "play goethe" by MARTA GALVÃO LUCAS Theme (Usa) plus Stephan Meixner (srmeixner, ex-contrastate) open 15.00 hours 5 euro sa 17-04 Extrapool in cooperation with Merleyn location: Merleyn concert Quintron en Miss Pussycat cafe opens 20.00 hours hall opens 22.00 hours showtime 22.00 hours 5 euro 8. From: "Zipo@AA" so. 07.03.2004, 20.00h MANUEL MOTA (Headlights, Portugal) Gitarrenexperimente "O'Rourke meets Bailey in a thunderstorm..." in: kulturbunker muelheim berliner str. 20, 51063 koeln http://www.kulturbunker-muelheim.de 18.03.2004, 20.00h noise!noise!noise! SUDDEN INFANT (Schimpfluch Gruppe, Zürich) LUCAS ABELA (Dual Plover, Australien) live @ kulturbunker mülheim 19.03.2004, 20,00h SUDDEN INFANT (Schimpfluch Gruppe, Zürich) LUCAS ABELA (Dual Plover, Australien) MPD/DAS LOLITAKOLLEKTIV (Old school harsh noise) live cuba, achtermannstr. 12, 48143 muenster www.geraeuschwelten.de ----------------- a u f a b w e g en magazine - label - mailorder p.o.box 100152 50441 cologne germany fax.: 0221-2720056 http://www.aufabwegen.com 9. From: "info@paralelo18" °THIS SATURDAY, MARCH 6 @ THE 16th Annual: Surreal SUBTROPICS MARATHON, Miami, FL Live collaborative performance. Jorge Castro and Claudio Chea [Cornucopia] + Sony Mao and Needle (Beta Bodega Coalition). 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