The Smeraldina-Rima

LABEL NOT LABEL #3: Gunn-Truscinski Duo (VS) / Cian Nugent (IR) / Cam Deas & Sheldon Siegel (VK/BE)

2011-10-19T08:54:00.000-07:00

Met LABEL NOT LABEL inviteert LADDA op onregelmatige basis collectieven, labels, organisaties, en andere zootjes ongeregeld die zichzelf binnen de grenzen van DOK etaleren. Op zoek naar teams, formaties, grensoverschrijdend denken en handelen, multifunctionaliteit,… naar labels die geen labels zijn of juist wel!
Voor de derde editie van LABEL NOT LABEL gaat Ladda in zee met Smeraldina-Rima. Dit collectief heeft ondertussen 18 muziekuitgaven op z'n naam staan, maar runt ook een zeefdrukatelier en grafisch bureau.

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SMERALDINA-RIMA PRESENTEERT

Gunn-Truscinski Duo (VS)
Cian Nugent (IR)
Cam Deas & Sheldon Siegel (VK/BE)

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Gunn-Truscinski Duo (VS)

Een van de interessantste Amerikaanse gitaristen van dit moment is zonder twijfel Steve Gunn, een gitarist die bewust vermijdt om zichzelf te herhalen en constant naar nieuwe expressiemogelijkheden zoekt. Met zijn titelloze solo debuut (Onomato 2007) zette hij een koers in van 'american primitivisme' met marokkaanse- en raga-invloeden, om vervolgens via country blues op zijn tweede CD ‘Sundowner’, uit te komen bij de psych blues van zijn derde album ‘Boerum Palace’ (CD, Three Lobed Recordings 2009) en waarop hij met zang ook zijn songwriter kwaliteiten toonde. De volgende logische stap voor Steve Gunn was het om meer te gaan samenwerken met andere muzikanten. Nieuw is zijn samenwerking met John Truscinski, een drummer die hij al goed kende uit het drone folk trio GHQ waar hij ook deel van uit maakte. Van het Gunn-Truscinski Duo verscheen bij Three Lobed Recordings de LP ‘Sand City. Weliswaar ligt op dit album de leidende rol duidelijk bij het gitaarspel van Steve Gunn, maar bij deze vier direct in de studio opgenomen stukken is het zeldzaam om te horen hoe beiden op elkaar ingespeeld zijn. Compositie, improvisatie en intuïtie zijn hier geheel vervlochten.
(bron: http://dwars.radio6.nl/tag/steve-gunn/)

http://steve-gunn.com/

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Cian Nugent (IR)

Met zijn debuut CD ‘Childhood, Christian Lies And Slaughter’ (Incunabulum/audioMER. 2009) liet de jonge Ierse gitarist Cian Nugent al horen dat zijn instrumentale muziek weliswaar duidelijk beïnvloed was door oude countryblues en gitaar grootheden als John Fahey en Robbie Basho, maar dat hij ook wat ideeën en techniek betreft alles in huis had om verder te groeien. Deze belofte maakt hij meer dan waar op zijn tweede CD ‘Doubles’ die bij VHF Records uitkwam. Duidelijk is dat Cian Nugent zijn oor te luisteren heeft gelegd bij klassieke hedendaagse componisten. In de twee lange composities die op ‘Doubles’ te vinden zijn, onderzoekt hij de mogelijkheden om met spanningsbogen te werken en hoe hij ook andere instrumenten in zijn composities kan betrekken. Net als James Blackshaw en Alexander Turnquist vermijdt Cian Nugent overtuigend het gevaar om als gitarist in herhaling en eenduidigheid verstrikt te raken.
(bron: http://dwars.radio6.nl/2011/06/30/cian-nugent-doubles/)

http://www.myspace.com/ciannugent

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Cam Deas & Sheldon Siegel (VK/BE)

Toen de jonge Engelse gitarist Cam Deas vorig jaar zijn studie muziek aan de Universiteit van Sheffield afrondde, werd hij geïnspireerd door de vrije improvisaties van saxofonist en componist Anthony Braxton om de klankmogelijkheden van zijn gitaarspel en zijn 12-snarige akoestische gitaar onder de loep te nemen. Dit onderzoek leidde al snel tot de compositie ‘Quadtych’. In dit tamelijk abstracte vierdelige stuk past hij diverse toe speeltechnieken en zoekt tevens de grenzen op van de dynamische mogelijkheden van zijn akoestische gitaar. Daarnaast komt in de afzonderlijke delen van ‘Quadtych’ direct en indirect de invloed naar voren van de gitaarlegende John Fahey en de componisten Olivier Messiaen, Iannis Xenakis en Charlemagne Palestine. De lp ‘Qudtych Volume One’ met daarop de eerste twee delen, is een uitgave van Cam Deas’ eigen label Present Time Exercises.
(bron: http://dwars.radio6.nl/tag/cam-deas)

Voor deze gelegenheid speelt Cam Deas samen met Belgische jazz-improv-legendes Sheldon Siegel! Pas maar op!

http://www.myspace.com/camdeasmusic
http://www.myspace.com/sheldonsiegel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Deas

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INKOM: 7 €
DEUREN: 19:00
AANVANG OPTREDENS: 19:30
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LOCATIE
DOKkantine
Splitsing Koopvaardijlaan – Afrikalaan
9000 Gent

www.smeraldina-rima.com
www.ladda.be
www.dokgent.be

OUT NOW: HYENA "OUTSIDE, THE GREAT DROUGHT" LP and more…

2011-02-06T07:10:00.000-08:00

OUT NOW: HYENA "OUTSIDE, THE GREAT DROUGHT" LP and more…

'Realms of the Unstable' opening in Tokyo

2010-11-07T01:22:00.001-07:00

'Realms of the Unstable' is an exhibition wich opens in Tokyo, Japan and is curated by Wouter Vanhaelemeesch and Ryo Kuramoto. It features a selection of Belgian and Japanese contemporary artists whose work is based on drawing or collage.

Artists included are Dennis Tyfus, Fia Cielen, Wouter Vanhaelemeesch, Tessa De Ceuninck, Manor Grunwald, Eva De Leener, Karel Wouters, Gerard Herman, Bert Huyghe, Jan Op de Beeck, Gen Hiraki, Ryo Kuramoto and Phillip Metten.

A series of silkscreened zines by all the artists involved, made especially for the exhibition will be presented October 12th and available through www.warszawa.jp or through the artists themselves.

The exhibition is being shown in different locations all over Tokyo.

October 12th- 20th at Super-Deluxe, B1F 3. 1. 25 Nishi Azabu, Minato-ku Tokyo, Japan.
November 8th - 14th at Vacant, 3 - 20 - 13 Jinumae Shibuya Tokyo, Japan
December (date will be anounced) at Forest Limit, Tokyo, Japan.

Monday November 8th the opening will include shows by

Ducktails (us)
Woods (us)
Non Horse (us)
Topping Bottoms (jp)

Shows start at 18h30.

Review: EDWARD ARTEMIEV 'Mood -Pictures' cd on Electroshock Records

2010-10-14T07:24:00.000-07:00

EDWARD ARTEMIEV 'Mood -Pictures' cd on Electroshock Records

A must for all those people like me, who are huge fans of the cinema of Tarkovski, Edward Artemiev is the man responsible for the soundtracks of classics like Solaris and Stalker. A pioneer of electronic music who influenced many lesser synthwielding composers. This collection combines snippets of his work from many different movies and features some fantastic pulsating synths and an eerie sense of space that feels like a breath of fresh air in these kraut-influenced times. Anyone who's into Klaus Schulze or more recent updates of that sound (like Emeralds or that latest Jurgen Deblonde record) should check this out.

www.electroshock.ru

BURIAL HEX (us), MAURO ANTONIO PAWLOWSKI (be), THE URPF LANZE (be) LIVE!

2010-09-30T07:09:00.000-07:00

BURIAL HEX (us)
this ain't your granny's horror electronics

MAURO ANTONIO PAWLOWSKI (be)
the wicker dude himself

THE URPF LANZE (be)
10 minutes worth of material by now

LIVE at Smeraldina-Rima HQ in Ghent.

WHEN: Sunday October 10th

WHERE: Smeraldina-Rima HQ
Komijnstraat 1
Gent, Belgium

DOORS: 20:00 - First show at 20:30
ENTRANCE: 7 €

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Review: ILIOS 'Kenrimono' LP (PAN) and NICHOLAS SZCZEPANIK 'Sundries' CDr

2010-09-16T02:30:00.000-07:00

As promised, we're planning to post reviews here of stuff we think is worth checking out.

ILIOS 'Kenrimono' LP

At the end of Alfred Hitchcocks 'Strangers on a Train' comes a disturbing and compellingly beautiful scene where in the two leading characters wrestle aboard a carousel, wich due to a technical malfunction, goes berserk and starts spinning faster and faster out of control. Meanwhile the typical merry-go-round music is accelerated and becomes a rather frightening piece, especially since now the shrieks and cries of bystanders and riders are piercing right through it.
When I started spinning the A side of ILIOS 'Kenrimono' LP, this image almost instantly sprung to mind. But instead of this being a climactic end of a spun out story, here the carousel seems to be stuck in time, turning away in a loop that doesn't seem to have neither beginning nor end, depriving us of an ending to tie up all loose ends thus becoming something more eternal.
While in that whirlpool of noise, the organ keeps being scooped up to the surface.
Definitely one of the better releases of last year, this one comes in a great looking silkscreened pvc sleeve, like all of PAN's releases. Check it out!

www.pan-act.com

NICHOLAS SZCZEPANIK 'Sundries'

I think it's been two years since I got this CDr, but over the course of 2010 I have gotten back to it regularly and it finally started to click with me. All of the tracks on 'Sundries' apparantly were made on a very old, barely operable turntable. What comes out of this isn't as much a mad scientist trying out different things, but more like a shrink dissecting a patient.
Needle scratches surface, layers are being scraped and peeled off. The turntable is being flayed and turned inside out, the sounds that come from this are like tiny fragments that are being cut off and examined.
What's so great about this recording is that the turntable doesn't come across as much as the instrument, but more as a living thing who's being interrogated and coerced into some sort of confession. Thus the whole thing feels like a weird form of punishment or more like a retrieval of information. The element 'playing with' as opposed to 'playing' the turntable feels like something a kid would do on a rainy sunday afternoon, not knowing how to actually work this thing, but fucking with it (while mom and dad aren't paying attention). Somehow 'Sundries' seems to hint at distant memories that are being partially retrieved by this technical device, like it was a silent witness to something. But given the rather ominous atmosphere of the work here, it might not be an all too pleasant memory either. Highly recommended.

www.myspace.com/naszczepanik

Rounding up some Nate Wooley reviews!

2010-09-16T02:27:00.000-07:00

Here are some really nice reviews for the Trumpet/Amplifier LP:

http://jazztimes.com/articles/26196-trumpet-amplifier-nate-wooley

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=36168

http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=5620

VANDAAG: Chris Forsyth, Steve Gunn & Hellvete / MORGEN: Steven H 'Ik, ...

2010-06-03T05:30:00.000-07:00

Hallo iedereen, nieuws nieuws nieuws!

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VANAVOND in het Smeraldina-Rima Hoofdkwartier, mochten jullie het nog niet weten :D

CHRIS FORSYTH // STEVE GUNN // HELLVETE

De Facebook event link!

INKOM: 5 € of gratis bij de aanschaf van een Peeesseye + Talibam! dubbel-elpee!
DEUREN: 20:00
START: 21:00

HIER:
Smeraldina-Rima HK
Komijnstraat 1
9000 Gent

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MORGEN ziet eindelijk het Steven H-debuut 'Ik, Steven H' het licht! Hoera, dat moet gevierd worden!

Steven H maakte voor de gelegenheid alvast een Steven H Facebook fanpage aan, liken die handel!

Binnenkort organiseren we zelfs een ganse avond vol muziek, dans en plezier ter ere van Steven H's schitterende release, dus hou je mailbox in het oog!

www.stevenh.be
www.myspace.com/stevenhderapper

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Groetjes!

www.smeraldina-rima.com
www.studiomuscle.com

NORMAN RECORDS reviews!

2010-04-04T06:53:00.000-07:00

The awesome folks at Norman Records graced us with some fantastic feedback! Check it out!

Panicsville
A Dragonfly For Each Corpse LP+7"

This record left our Brian feeling ecstatic.

Chicago noise polluters Panicsville have been on the fringes of the confrontational theatre circuit for years now, dressing up in latex and throwing shit at their audiences, kind of a bit like Gwar or something but with better sounds. This lovingly packaged LP & 7" set is not what I was expecting. Unsettling indeed but not a barrage of squealing frequencies or the aural equivalent of clay spiked with shards of glass. It's more the sound of someone trying to fix a witches bike in a leaky haunted shed at midnight. And what I do know is the sheer quality of this pressing allows the eerie sounds & frequencies on here to strike fear into your soul, to climb into your mind, to swim around your brain fluid lakes, to pollute your very being. They sound so (dead) ALIVE! Side two has a different vibe though, a slightly medieval or pagan quality to it. The bike is still getting fixed but this time it's just dawn, there's 3ft of mist on the lawn and now SUDDENLY there's half a dozen Aphex-style nymphs running round you, playing fierce power electronics at ear shredding levels out of big black rubber cased ghetto blasters. This is fantastic.

Nate Wooley
Trumpet/Amplifier LP

This record left our Brett feeling happy.

Everyone's well into big circles at the moment. Check the new Autechre album, Sunn's Monoliths and Dimensions, that No Age 12" and now this. Circles are pretty cool I guess, but personally I'm more diggin' the net form of the dodecahedron at the moment. What this guy's doing reminds me a wee bit of Florian Hecker, albeit with a completely different tool set. Here he spends half the LP exploring the pure sound capabilities of the trumpet in a series of crazy toots which'll have you baffled with disbelief and wide-eyed with wonder at what he's managing to generate. The other half has him fiddling with an amp as it begs for sweet mercy. As a listening experience this comes off more as an exploratory noise record than anything else as the beauty of it is in the discovery of, and envelopment in, surprising and original sounds. No bad thing as far as I'm concerned but don't go jumping in expecting to be whistling along..

Peeesseye + Talibam! 2xLP

This record left our Business Lady feeling happy.

Ok, here we got ourselves a collaborative effort from then insane improvers Talibam! and the Gothic Junk folk experimentalism of Peeesseye, both emperors of the NYC improv scene playing in all sorts of outfits including the outstanding Storm and Stress. Anyway, after years of mutual friendship and touring activity they decided to get together and rock some purist improv fun and the results are mint. Matt Mottel's skronking keyboard drives these sessions into unlikely territories with his funk influenced, distorted organ tones and Kevin Shea is on fine form here playing blistering drums dictating the ambiance and flow of each development in the tracks. A rare vocal contribution brings things to ahead on the opener and makes for a lively intro to a consistently interesting, if slightly perplexing improv wigout. Should also note the significant contribution from the Peeeseye boys who provide an ambient framework of synth tones and guitars from which new ideas evolve. Definitely one of my favourite Talibam! albums i've heard so far and an excellent introduction to the power of Peeesseye. Please observe.

OUT NOW! Panicsville LP+7", Nate Wooley LP, Peeesseye+Talibam! 2xLP

2010-03-12T02:18:00.000-08:00

Hello there!

Smeraldina-Rima is psyched to present three new releases!

Panicsville "A Dragonfly For Each Corpse" LP+7"

Nate Wooley "Trumpet/Amplifier" LP

Peeesseye + Talibam! 2xLP

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Panicsville "A Dragonfly For Each Corpse" LP+7"
Smeraldina-Rima 10
20 € (S&H excl.)

"A Dragonfly For Each Corpse is a record that stands no daylight. A feverish nightmare of an album, dragging us into a brown paper bag —ferocious cannibal jungle ambience seeping through— till we're cast down some stairs into a cellar made out of spit. A twirling folkballad sung by a ghost made out of chewing gum turns into a symphony of typing fingers, ticking clocks and slamming car doors, like a noirish soundtrack to the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, accompanied by squeaking stuffed animals as eyewitnesses. A record that feels like a horror franchise turning into understated drama, where mourners and killers change places in unexpected and drastic fashion. With the collaboration of John Wiese, Josephine Foster, MV Carbon, Thymme Jones." —w

Edition of 400, heavy-weight vinyl with screenprinted open sleeve

panicsville.nihilistrecords.net
www.myspace.com/panicsville

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Nate Wooley "Trumpet/Amplifier" LP
Smeraldina-Rima 11
17 € (S&H excl.)

"Trumpet/Amplifier: three pieces of unrelenting pressure, from choking bursts of muteness to firestorms of sound. Trumpeter becoming trumpet. Brass ventriloquism." —ttt

Edition of 496, heavy-weight vinyl with screenprinted open sleeve. Liner notes by Ben Hall.

www.natewooley.com
www.myspace.com/woundedstoryteller

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Peeesseye + Talibam! 2xLP
Smeraldina-Rima 13
20 € (S&H excl.)

"Talibam! (Kevin Shea on drums, Matt Mottel on keyboards) and Peeesseye (Jaime Fennelly on electronics, Chris Forsyth on guitars and Fritz Welch on drums) have been pals and Evolving Ear labelmates for a while now, so it was only a matter of time before they all got together and let it rip. And rip this certainly does, driven on by the double-barrelled percussion attack, underpinned by Fennelly's drones and scribbled all over by Mottel and Forsyth, whose wild gonzo soloing is a happy and healthy reminder that one-chord jamming was part and parcel of American alt.rock before the word alt.rock even existed, back when Fugs roamed the Earth and Angus MacLise still turned up for rehearsals, back when these laddies were still twinkles in their daddies' eyes. Of course, it's not all one-chord rock —sometimes they dispense with chords altogether and dive headlong into the primeval murky soundpool, with scant regard for whatever sharp rocks and nasty beasties might be lurking under the surface. Loud, messy, dangerous and glorious." —Dan Warburton

Only 600 copies available, artwork by Rachel Lowther.

CD available at Invada Records!
invadarecords.bigcartel.com

www.peeesseye.com
www.myspace.com/talibam

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If you want to order, please drop us a line at orders[at]smeraldina-rima[dot]com

Store & distros, get in touch for wholesale prices.

Some other stuff that's coming out in a week or so:

Ryan Garbes "Unbreakable Flower" CS
Colby Nathan as Hyena "Commyn Straet" CS
Jonas Ruchenhever "Maze/Haze" CS

Stuff that's coming out real soon:

Steven H "Ik, Steven H" 12"
Relay I: Jack Allett / Kalbakken 7"
Spirit Of The Positive Wind LP
Extra Sexes "Spiral Mirror" LP
Alex Monk "The Safety Machine" 2xLP

Still available on Smeraldina-Rima

Alex Monk "Exchanging Chairs" CD-R
Boy+Girl "Cavity Orbit Sword" CD-R
Blue Shift "Pressure Corner" CD-R
Don't Move, Play Dead! "Live at the George 2nd Pub" CD-R
Alex Monk "Kit Mikaya" CD-R

Also, out now on audioMER.

Frederik Croene "Le Piano Démécanisé" LP

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Alright people, thanks for listening! Till next time!
—Levi

Peeesseye+Talibam! review in Paris Transatlantic Magazine

2010-02-17T12:32:00.000-08:00

Great review of the Peeesseye+Talibam! album in Paris Transatlantic Magazine!

Talibam! (Kevin Shea on drums, Matt Mottel on keyboards) and Peeesseye (Jaime Fennelly on electronics, Chris Forsyth on guitars and Fritz Welch on drums) have been pals and Evolving Ear labelmates for a while now, so it was only a matter of time before they all got together and let it rip. And rip this certainly does, driven on by the double-barrelled percussion attack, underpinned by Fennelly's drones and scribbled all over by Mottel and Forsyth, whose wild gonzo soloing is a happy and healthy reminder that one-chord jamming was part and parcel of American alt.rock before the word alt.rock even existed, back when Fugs roamed the Earth and Angus MacLise still turned up for rehearsals, back when these laddies were still twinkles in their daddies' eyes. Of course, it's not all one-chord rock – sometimes they dispense with chords altogether and dive headlong into the primeval murky soundpool, with scant regard for whatever sharp rocks and nasty beasties might be lurking under the surface. Loud, messy, dangerous and glorious. Watch out for a vinyl release shortly too on Smeraldina-Rima.–DW

Releases set for 6th of March

2010-02-14T03:19:00.000-08:00

If you need yet another reason to go to the KRAAK festival in Aalst on the 6th of March, next to seeing Yoshi Wada, we'll be having a stand holding 2 new releases there.

Nate Wooley Trumpet/Amplifier LP

A firestorm of grinding sound that emerges one into a highly personal sonic hellhole; Trumpet/Amplifier is a definitive statement by Wooley and is probably his most drastic and complete album to date. A marriage of noise and freejazz plagued by shadows and fog. Comes with extensive liner notes by Ben Hall (Graveyards).

Limited to 496 copies, with screenprinted art, designed by Levi Seeldraeyers.

Peeesseye+Talibam! 2xLP

A collaboration made in fudge, this brings together 2 tribes of cannibals that cook up a gumbo stew of Kraut infused jams and over the top arm wrestling organ-freakouts to conjure up bleeding walls of feedback. Result? A serious contender for the scariest psych fest this town has ever seen. The CD version of this is coming out on the lovely Invada Records.

Limited to 600 copies, artwork by Rachel Lowther.

Be like the smart kids and pre-order your copy, since these are expected to move fairly fast. Write to: orders[at]smeraldina-rima[dot]com

See you at the festival.

Ryan Garbes 'Unbreakable Flower'

2010-02-14T02:58:00.000-08:00

Here's a peek at the cover for a tape release that should be out this March, "Unbreakable Flower" by Ryan Garbes. A collection of chaotic and battered freak-outs submerged in hot fatt and nameless liquid. Recommended! This guy used to drum with psych-kiddos Raccoo-oo-oon, who aren't around anymore unfortunately, but this stuff is definitely a cure for pain.

http://www.myspace.com/rgarbes

First Utterance

2010-02-14T02:36:00.000-08:00

So, this is gonna be the place where we're planning to keep you up to date on Smeraldina-Rima releases and upcoming shows. We'll also be doing some reviews every now and then, plus the occasional rant.

A quick shout out for those who live in Ghent, this saturday we're doing a show at Smeraldina-Rima Headquarters, namely avant-garde lutenist Jozef van Wissem is doing an improv set with snare-rumbler Eric Thielemans. Also we have mister Awesome-O himself, Lieven Martens, playing as Dolphins Into The Future.

Place to go is Komijnstraat 1, 9000 Gent, Saturday 20th of February 2010. Doors at 20h, things start at 21h.

http://www.myspace.com/vanwissem
http://www.myspace.com/ericthielemans
Dolphins Into The Future @ Scheld'apen

See ya there.