KEITH ROWE & OREN AMBARCHI - 'Flypaper' CD (Staubgold)
These recordings depart wildly from anything that either Rowe or Ambarchi have produced before. This speaks volumes when you consider the combined weight of their explorations to this point. Amazingly, neither player falls back on past gestures or comfortable proven techniques. The result is four startling electro-acoustic environments. Only David Tudor's "Rainforest" has gone so far to create a world that is at once highly electronic, yet totally organic, without resorting to base mimicry of natural sounds. It evokes the sea, an immovable mass of fluidity, in a way that Roland Kayn would admire. But having said that, there is little to compare this to. The four pieces on this disc could be field recordings from lost civilizations. Comes in digipak with artwork by Keith Rowe.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
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THE SOUND PROJECTOR - '12th Issue' magazine
12th edition of this outstanding UK mag. Interviews with Peter Stempfel, Philip Jeck, Greg Kelley, Lasse Marhaug, Paul Winstanley and Guilty Connector. Articles on The New Blockaders, Keith Rowe, Reynols, Free 103.9 Radio, V/VM, Sparks, Eden Gully, William Basinski, Philip Brophy. Reviews of 'Music From Japan', 'Sound Art From Sweden', Noise, Field Recordings, Electronics / Electronica, Modern Composition, Improv, Experimental, US experimental / noise, experimental guitar music, Art / Modernist, Esoteric music, Drone, Freak / Weird, Electro-Acoustic, Exotica and Krautrock / Post Rock. A4, perfect-bound B&W with full colour cover, 158 pp.
