Julio Gutiérrez ● (𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚜): October 2024


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Tuesday 15 October 2024

Oren Ambarchi classic 'Quixotism'

Oren Ambarchi classic 'Quixotism', 2014, underpinned by Thomas Brinkmann's computable drums plus Jim O'Rourke (synth), crys cole (contact mics, brushes), Eyvind Kang (bowed gender & violas), John Tilbury (piano) and more. Newly remastered by Joe Talia

Monday 14 October 2024

Giovanni Alibrandi enters

Giovanni Alibrandi is a violinist, teacher at state schools and sound artist of ambient and acousmatic music. Author of songs also with the addition of acoustic and electric violins, he has published for numerous labels all over the world. He has also recorded for Warner, Universal, Carosello, CNI Compagnia Nuove Indie, Mellow Records, Diaphonia and for RAI, Canale 5 and Sky Classica.


He is a live electronics technician at the Filarmonica Laudamo Creative Orchestra and regularly collaborates in the activities of the improvised music collective FraCarGio. He is also violinist and keyboardist of The Windfall Project created by Gianluca Gugliotta. He has collaborated on multimedia works with photographers Jurgen Heckel and Enzo Alessandra and with the Phós Graphé exhibition space in Palermo. He also provided soundtracks for important events held at the “V. Emanuele” of Messina, the Palaculture “Antonello” and the Saletta ARB of Messina.


Friday 11 October 2024

First electronic music in history

Silver Apples were an American electronic rock group from New York, active between 1967 and 1970, before reforming in the mid-1990s. It was composed of Simeon (born Simeon Oliver Coxe III, June 4, 1938 – September 8, 2020), who performed on a primitive synthesizer of his own devising; and, until his death in 2005, drummer Danny Taylor. The duo were among the first to employ electronic music techniques outside of academia, applying them to 1960s rock and pop styles.

As part of New York's underground music scene, the band released two albums—Silver Apples (1968) and Contact (1969)—to poor sales. They began recording a third album before a lawsuit by Pan Am, owing to the use of their logo in the artwork of Contact, forced the end of the group and its label Kapp in 1970. In the 1990s, German bootleg recordings of the band's albums raised their profile, and Simeon reformed the group with other musicians and released new music. In 1998, he reconnected with Taylor, and the two completed their original third LP The Garden (1998). After Taylor's death, Simeon continued releasing Silver Apples projects using samples of Taylor's drumming.

Tuesday 8 October 2024

Darius Ciuta; it's going to be appeared as new recording

Darius Ciuta; it's going to be appeared as new recording for 2025, in No Records.

basic sound objects - stones

Recorded, composed and mastered in A.Šančiai , Kaunas , Lithuania.

Darius Ciuta, Lithuanian architect, sound artist, born 1966, is an artist that definitely can not be pigeonholed for the marketing purposes of narrative and aesthetic unidrectional coherence, although if you stand between and shuffle through his work you will find a labyrinth of communicating vessels. His works  explore continuously new alphabets spectrums, building an intricate vocabulary of frequencies and densities as translations and transformations (exchange between sound and spaces). Structured architectural approaches with a clear perspective not only invites to what is beyond stritctly personal music but rather etwines a evershifting method of researching a singular plunge into sound itself.


Thursday 3 October 2024

Vinyl records is not a best format

"Vinyl records is not a best format than all digitalism material we are having these days. Today the digital format has a volume and body never achieved before, in the mix transitions the deejay nowadays has more hard to not be discovered in mistaken because the volume of the body on beats has more force and relevance in sound and it's more easy to be catched in an error of wrong tempo transition. Technology gives more quality to the sound that 20 or 30 years ago, and it is something many people knows and nobody speaks about it. We are trapped in a nostalgic romanticism that do not let us see the reality. In the 80s the wave of a track had more low volumen in the body than these days, not in a high scale, in the width and in 20 or 30 years more it will achieve more volume on the body and giving quality to the sound and things will become more hard still, be sure."

Tuesday 1 October 2024

Joy Division

Gatefold 2lp, inner sleeves of demos 1978/79 beautiful release and quality.

Joy Division were an English post-punk band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist, guitarist and lyricist Ian Curtis, guitarist and keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.

Sumner and Hook formed the band after attending a June 1976 Sex Pistols concert. While Joy Division's first recordings were heavily influenced by early punk rock, they soon developed a sparse sound and style that made them one of the pioneering groups of the post-punk genre and movement. Their self-released 1978 debut EP An Ideal for Living drew the attention of the Manchester television personality Tony Wilson, who signed them to his independent label Factory Records. Their debut album Unknown Pleasures, recorded with producer Martin Hannett, was released in 1979.

Curtis struggled with personal problems, including a failing marriage, depression, and epilepsy. As the band's popularity grew, Curtis's health condition made it increasingly difficult for him to perform; he occasionally experienced seizures on stage. He died by suicide on the eve of what would have been the band's first North American tour in May 1980, aged 23. Joy Division's second and final album, Closer, was released two months later; it and the single "Love Will Tear Us Apart" became their highest-charting releases.

Between July and October 1980, the remaining members, with the addition of keyboardist and guitarist Gillian Gilbert, regrouped under the name New Order. They were successful throughout the next decade, blending post-punk with electronic and dance music influences. In 2023, both Joy Division and New Order were nominated as one act for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.