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My Cat is an Alien / Enore Zaffiri Release

From Atavistic Worldwide:

Clandestine auteurs the Opalio Brothers (AKA My Cat Is An Alien) have deftly
sprinkled our solar system with their beautifully fragile,arcane soundscape/tracks via their own OPAX label.

Atavistic is most definitely thrilled to have the pleasure of releasing
Through the magnifying glass of tomorrow, a freshly-minted collaboration
with one of the pioneers of radical Italian electronic music, ENORE ZAFFIRI.

Mr. Zaffiri, composer and founder of the legendary SMET (Studio di Musica
Elettronica di Torino) in 1964, is 80 years old and has been a “reclused”
artist for decades. After meeting Maurizio and Roberto, he decided to set
up a collaborative project with them. Their recordings from the Western
Alps of Bella Italia, Through the magnifying glass, a CD DVD release running over two hours, is the haunting result from the gathering of these fellow musical cosmonauts.

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Record company defies conventional labels

Cuneiform Records gets a much deserved profile.

When Steve Feigenbaum started Cuneiform Records out of his parents’ Wheaton home in 1984, he wasn’t discouraged when it lost money its first year. Or the year after that. Or the next 11 years.

“I had miserable experiences of people taking advantage of me and ripping me off,” Feigenbaum said last week from Cuneiform’s small office in downtown Silver Spring. “It was difficult and slow, but because I was young I just kept doing it.”

Twenty-five years later, despite massive change in the record industry and massive changes in Silver Spring, Feigenbaum doesn’t seemed surprised his small label of experimental music now makes him an honest living.

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Making avant-garde jazz in a mostly killing climate

Moppa Elliott of Mostly Other People Do the Killing is interviewed.

The record business is a sinkhole no matter which way you turn.

But in this troubled economy, Moppa Elliott chose an especially tough path: playing in an avant-garde bop band named Mostly Other People Do the Killing, and starting his own tiny jazz label, Hot Cup.

Elliott, 30, a bassist/composer born in Factoryville, says, “Look, we’re just a couple of over-schooled jazz guys who want to play. The problem is that most jazz is not only boring and bad, but irrelevant.”

The mission of MOPDtK: Make valid 21st-century jazz that his label will release. That’s a big load with a long haul.

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Dusted Reviews

From Dusted:

Artist: Pauline Oliveros
Album: Four Electronic Pieces 1959-1966
Label: Sub Rosa
Review date: Feb. 10, 2009

Artist: David S. Ware
Album: Shakti
Label: AUM Fidelity
Review date: Feb. 9, 2009

Artist: Henri Pousseur
Album: Electronic Experimental and Microtonal 1953-1999
Label: Sub Rosa
Review date: Feb. 9, 2009

Artist: Giuseppe Ielasi
Album: Aix
Label: 12k
Review date: Feb. 6, 2009

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Dusted Reviews

jazz slashing
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From Dusted:

Artist: Daniel Levin
Album: Fuhuffah
Label: Clean Feed
Review date: Feb. 3, 2009

Artist: Henry Grimes
Album: Solo
Label: Ilk
Review date: Feb. 2, 2009

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Musique Machine Reviews

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Cover of I Knew Her

From Musique Machine:

Hoor Paar Kraat – A Whisper In The Sow’s Ear
This 3 inch cd finds surreal sound smiths Hoor Paar Kraat in a more horror filled droney, ritual, hypnotic and mainly field recording stripped mind set. With the 3 pieces on offer here concentrating on sinister manipulated gong, feed back and singing bowl tones.

Alex Tiuniaev – I Knew Her
I knew her is one long gracefully, majestic and building 40 minute track that mixers together soundtrack string soar, electronics, synthetic choir elements, ect

Various Artists – Zelphabet Vol E
This is the 5th letter volume compilation from the Zelphabet label this time as the title suggests taking in artists beginning with the letter E. We have five tracks on offer here one from each of Ed Osborn, Elliott Sharpe, Emil Beaulieau & Evil Moisture.

Nahvalr – Self Titled
Nahvalr is the grim and dense black metal meets noise project by the two minds behind the superbly lo-fi retro goth 80’s pop meets doom project Have a Nice Life.

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Musique Machine Reviews

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From Musique Machine:

Kyle Bobby Dunn – Fragments & Compositions Of Kyle Bobby Dunn
Fragments & Compositions brings together six breathtaking, exquisite and often melancholy tinged tracks of drone craft and minimalism that utilize classical strings, piano,subtle electroincs & field recordings.

Rehab – Man Under Train Situation
Rehab is the new project from John Hegre(Jazzkammer & Noxagt) & Bjørnar Habbestad(PHO, Lemu & N- Collective). Man under train Situation is the duo’s first full length and it’s a manic ride into guitar improv, noise matter, quirky electronics, Cut up expansive sound scaping/ ambience and general controlled chaos.

Peste Noire – Folkfuck Folie
The wonderfully entitled Folkfuck Folie is the second album from distinctive sounding French Black project Peste Noire who line their blacked craft with touches of NWOBM, punk, prog and all manner of bizarre & surprising edger’s.

Xela – In Bocca Al Lupo
In Bocca Al Lupo(in the wolfs Mouth) is the third full length album from Uk electroinca/ experimental one man project Xela. It finds J.P Twells (Xela creator and type label boss) slowing, blacking and making more cinematic his sound. Following on from the horror tinged tone of his last album The dead Sea, but dragging things down mostly into a darker and dense black ambient tone.

Striborg – Black Desolate Winter / Depressive Hibernation
Black Desolate Winter / Depressive Hibernation is the next chapter in Displeased records reissuing of old albums by Striborg -the prolific and often avant garde touched one man Black Metal project from Tasmania. These two albums come from 2005 and were originally released Asgard Musik and make up near on an hour & twenty minutes of suffocating grimness.

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