Various Artists - SC100 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Shutting Down Here is a special work. Symbolically, it covers a period of thirty years, between two visits by Jim O'Rourke to the GRM, the first, as a young man fascinated by the institution and his repertoire, the second, as an accomplished musician, influential and imbued with an aura of mystery. Shutting Down Here is a piece shaped like an universe, a heterogeneous world in which collides the multiple musical facets of Jim O'Rourke instrumental writing, field recordings, electronic textures and cybernetic becomings, dynamic spaces, harmonic spaces, silent spans. This variety of approach, strangely, does not in any way weaken the coherence of the whole and this is the talent of Jim O'Rourke, a talent, properly speaking, of composition, where all the sound elements compete and participate to stakes that exceed them and of a common destiny, that is to say of an apparition.

Various Artists - Conjunto Champs [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/27/2004

Sylwia Klara Zasempa writes of her new InchFor as long as I can remember, I have been very much into nature, perhaps because of where I was born and grew up. For me, among the most interesting aspects of nature are it's dynamics and volatility. I've explored this much more deeply in the numerous journeys I've made around the world. The album Vauna is a fusion of my inspirations from nature and free jazz music, which I feel in a very special way. When we were making this album we tried to blend traditional folk melodies and motives with jazz, although we weren't certain what the final outcome would be. For this project, I invited musicians whose originality, creativity and experience inspire me. I'm deeply grateful for the pleasure of playing with them.Inch