&Team - First Howling: NOW - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

'Howl' is the new album by Rival Consoles, London-based electronic producer Ryan Lee West, set for through Erased Tapes on 16th October 2015. Foremost a guitarist, growing up listening to rock rather than club music, West continues to strive towards finding a more personal balance between music for home listening and larger spaces. The title track was inspired by the howl-like tones he developed by running synths through guitar pedals. InchBy slowly drifting the pitch through distortion and delays, the result sounded like vocal cries – something which was perfect for the song and this inspired me to take on a darker set of tones across the whole album. It was made over the past few years, inspired by capturing small performances on synths, touring with some of my musical heroes, playing with feedback when I should have been catching a train, sampling my voice in unexpected conditions and recording textures in different countries.” The album explores a wide range of emotions; from the dissonance eruptions and primal rhythms in 'Howl', to the mournful improvisations of '3 Laments', which features a sample of his own voice. Alongside his performances on Moog, Prophet, tape delay and guitar, West enlisted the help of drummer Fabian Prynn for ‘Low’ and cellist Peter Gregson for ‘Walls’, both long-time collaborators of Erased Tapes peers Douglas Dare and Michael Price.InchThis album features a lot of my own recordings, rather than simply using samples that I have sitting on my computer. This gives the album a more personal feeling, which is very important to me because I think we live in a time where there is just so much recorded material out there, and accessible at a click of a button, that the joy of recording your own drum sounds, your own percussion, your own claps, seems redundant – but it’s not! That should be a priority because its often more interesting and make

2020 . RY X, solo alternative artist and member of The Acid, and Frank, one half of me, bring fans a bigger, sharper follow-up to their debut, 'Sacred Ground.' On 'Colure', the Berlin-based Wiedemann and Los Angeles-based RY X conjure transcendent creations out of their contrasting musical backgrounds and environments. The album is assuredly dualistic electronic and acoustic sounds sit comfortably side-by-side, and big melodic hooks are laced into hypnotic club productions. Album Tracks 1. Ellipses I 2. Pieces 3. Bind 4. Healing 5. Dew 6. Need You Now 7. The Water 8. Light on 9. Phases 10. Mother Mother 11. Body Inside 12. Lover 13. Ellipses II

After the big success of the album FLOW we have here new recordings that are completely different from the previous ones in one respect. Here, the duo of Axel Wolf and Hugo Siegmeth plays exclusively their own pieces. They do not resort to classical material from jazz or 'standards' of Early Music, but only to ones that are unfamiliar. For they are pieces that emerged spontaneously nothing but duo improvisations, most of which were recorded on one and the same day in a Bavarian Radio studio in Munich. The lutenist Axel Wolf and the saxophonist Hugo Siegmeth who join forces here are two musicians with roots in completely different musical disciplines. A virtuoso on the lute and theorbo, Axel Wolf specializes in the Renaissance and Baroque periods, whereas Hugo Siegmeth, saxophonist and composer, is an expert on modern jazz and contemporary music. Although several centuries lie between the heydays of both musical styles, these two musicians both place special focus on improvisation involvement in the surprising moment and spontaneous interaction. Album Tracks 1. A Quiver of Superb Arrows 2. 4 X 3, Prestissimo 3. Quarten, Die Nicht Warten 4. Like Soft Dark Birds 5. Improvisso Elisabeth 6. Totaly Watching TV 7. Schreddermaschine 8. For One Another 9. Stehender Klang An Einer Klippe 10. Ammersee Nach Traxler 11. Ich Bin Din 12. Ein Lächeln Irrt Verflogen 13. Von Fall Zu Fall 14. Aridnes Blues-Faden