Some days while packing orders I get really sentimental and tonight felt the need to share after 4ish hours of packing orders…. how much all this means to me… and how much every order, every supporter, every mention, every blogger, every reviewer, means to me.  I cant even express the amount of satisfaction I get while packing these orders after getting home from a long day at the 9to5… thinking to myself… how this music I love, with all that I am is passing from my hands to like minded individuals all over the world who will enjoy and treasure this music as I do.  While I dont find much time to tell each of you personally… and to many of you I am probably just a website… I truly do feel connected to you through this beautiful music we all love.  I know I know… I am being a sentimental sap… but I just had to get that out because it has been hitting me pretty heavy quite often while packing orders lately.  Thanks you to everyone involved with this music, fans, artists, writers, labels, etc, for bringing meaning to my life.  You are what keeps me going everyday. -Jeremy

//fluid-radio.co.uk
The cello is arguably the most diverse of stringed instruments, offering depth and moody basses to convey doom and foreboding sounds, while still maintaining the ability to transmit music of hope and immense beauty wrapped in a rich melancholy. Over the last year the experimental, modern classical scene has been treated with a healthy body of cellists with David Darling lending his talents to Dakota Suite’s “The End of Trying,” Hildur Gudnadottir releasing “Without Sinking” on Touch and Danny Norbury’s “Light In August” all some of the highlights. Returning in 2010 for his fourth solo album, Aaron Martin, the Australian born, Kansas based multi-instrumentalist, releases “Worried About The Fire,” an album certain to be noted in this year’s collective of cello recordings. Originally conceived as the soundtrack to a short film, the album is actually a deconstruction of previous solo and collaborative recordings, meshed together with electronic sounds and post production processing. It is an album that slowly lures you in. Starting with downright dark, hypnotic drones, “Albee” is an unnerving opening laced with subtle string sounds over a looping humming of noise. It’s a track that offers no clues as to what will follow, and indeed the set-up of harmonica, banjo, organ and bell sounds that feature on this album throughout bring an ambiguity to the overall sound. If Aaron Martin does have a trademark amongst his ongoing expansion of sound, it is with his layered, loop-based compositions. The first hint of this is on “Open Knife” a beautifully detailed cello composition showcasing the full range of delivery of the instrument. “Water Tongue” allures the listener, highlighting the depth of sound Martin evokes from his cello playing, with the warmth of his slow low notes juxtaposed with fast rhythms as his bow scatters over the higher ones. While these tracks perhaps define the Aaron Martin sound, and are indeed the most accessible to listen to, the album is rich with very dark, often unsettling music that never detract from the album’s overall composition. A standout track perhaps is “Beaver Falls” which builds slowly from a layering of strings and wind sounds to launch seamlessly into a cinematic scoping of cello. It conveys images of chases through forests (at least with me!), and exemplifies what this album is all about. Mastered by 12k label head Taylor Dupree, there is an intimate sound here, and often one can picture themselves being in the same room with Aaron Martin as he joins all his music together. Overall the crafting of each track is reflective of the album as a whole and just as Martin has been able to successfully layer a multitude of different instruments, “Worried About The Fire” stands as a meshing between darkness and light; proving chaos can exist in the most graceful surroundings. -By Josh Atkin

//bleep.com
Machinefabriek/ Sunn O))) collaborator Aaron Martin is back on disc agin with this stunning solo effort packaged in a scintillating DVD style card slipcase and naturally limited quantities available. Worried About The Fire was originally conceived as a soundtrack piece composed of cello, guitar, banjo and piano, now through the wall of heavily processed electronics do these instruments bleed, leaving us enchanted by a thick haze of sound. Tip for fans of Richard Skelton, Hildur Gudnadottir.

//tokafi.com
The cover of Aaron Martin’s fourth full-length album, Worried About the Fire, depicts a row of bare trees under an icy snowfall. The picture is a perfect indicator of the music within—chilly and eerie drones of bowed cello, harmonica, humming sounds, and samples altered beyond recognition quietly encircle one another in dark and beautiful miniatures that together create a dark and evocative work. Most of the pieces are built around a single droning note, from which other timbres slowly stretch to create beats of dissonance. As additional alien sounds enter the sonic palette—a note bowed over the bridge or fingerboard to create a natural sense of distortion with overtones, glissing harmonics chopped up and manipulated, canons of sawing strings—the listener becomes engulfed in a dark and textural world. All but one of the pieces clock in at less than 4 minutes, but each manages to suspend one’s perception of time so that every composition constitutes its own miniature journey. “Blue Light” floats electronics and breathing sounds moving between the speakers while strings sift weightlessly through a sea of reverb. In “Albee,” a sound reminiscent of a tiny helicopter circles dreamily around delay-heavy hits of a vibraphone-like instrument. “Water Tongue,” easily the least droning of the compositions, layers emotional folk-like cello melodies over a descending bassline, As high-string tremolos fade in and out with the quiet scratch of bows scraping against bridges, the piece delicately snowballs to a sustained moment of icy ecstasy. It’s no surprise that Worried About the Fire was originally conceived as a soundtrack to a short film. The music seems a perfect accompaniment to a ghostly snowfall or a sedate but disturbing dream sequence. These are experiences as much as they are pieces. While the album as a whole delicately builds to a number of climaxes—the relentlessly looped strings ¾ into “Marked In Dust,” the intensely building 8th note cello figures that close “Beaver Falls”—much of the music has a floating, aimless quality that makes for psychologically sonic textures more than narrative pieces. As abstract as much of Worried About the Fire is, the album makes for an engaging and beautiful listen that consumes you in its textural world. The fact that the pieces are similarly constructed results in a uniform listen where each composition floats into the next while at the same time standing uniquely alone. A score for a film that may or may not exist, Worried About the Fire makes for a deeply and evocative experience that conjures plenty of images of its own. -By Hannis Brown

New this week.
http://new.experimedia.net

TYPE
sylvain chauveau – singular forms (sometimes repeated) (12inch vinyl lp)

THE LAND OF
gutta percha – overtures (cdr in handmade wooden case)
gutta percha – overtures (cdr)

SCHEDIOS (UK)
anna rose carter – silver lines (3inch cd)

INFRACTION (US)
concert silence – 9.22.07 (2x 12inch vinyl lp)
concert silence – 9.22.07 (cd)
concert silence – rain furniture ep (12inch vinyl ep)
concert silence – rain furniture ep (cd)

INFREQUENCY EDITIONS (CA)
lance austin olsen – road to esperance (cd + hand crafted artist book)

HIBERNATE
haruki – the land that lies behind us (3inch cdr)
m.ostermeier – lakefront (cd)

EDITIONS MEGO
fenn o’berg – in stereo (2x 12inch vinyl lp)

3LEAVES (HU)
lasse-marc riek – habitats (cdr)

PURPLE SOIL
francisco lopez – el día anterior a la emergencia de los adultos de magicicad (3inch cd)

A SILENT PLACE
fabio orsi – find electronics (cd)
fabio orsi & mamuthones – the first born (cd)
fabio orsi & valerio cosi – we could for hours (cd)

BASKARU (FRANCE)
ent – fuck work (cd)
lugano fell – slice repair (cd)
rothkamm – alt (cd)
symbiosis orchestra – live journeys (cd)
yoshio machida – hypernatural #3 (cd)

IMPORTANT
nhk – special (12inch vinyl lp)

HIDDEN SHOAL
stray ghost – nothing, but death (cd)

ZELPHABET
charlemagne palestine, chop shop, contagious orgasm, c spencer yeh. – zelphabet – volume c (cd)

AHORNFELDER (GERMANY)
ember – aurona arona (cd)
semuin – circles and elephants (cd)

AMS (ITALY)
goblin – profondo rosso (12inch lp)
goblin – suspiria (12inch lp)

ATTACK 9
casino versus japan – night on tape (cd)

BETA LACTAM RING
daniel menche – waldteufel (cd)

BLAST FIRST PETITE (UK)
suicide – live 1977-1978 (6cd)

COLUMBIA
thelonious monk – it’s monk’s time (12inch vinyl lp)
thelonious monk – monk’s blues (12inch vinyl lp)

DARLA
harold budd & clive wright – a song for lost blossoms (cd)
i am robot and proud – uphill city remixes & collaborations (cd)
robin guthrie – angel falls (cd ep)
robin guthrie – carousel (cd)
robin guthrie – songs to help my children sleep (cd ep)
robin guthrie – sunflower stories (cd ep)
robin guthrie & harold budd – after the night falls (cd)
robin guthrie & harold budd – before the day breaks (cd)
stafraenn hakon – sanitas (cd)

DRAG CITY
joanna newsom – have one on me (3x cd box)
joanna newsom – have one on me (3x vinyl lp box)

EDITION KROTHENHAYN (GERMANY)
die todliche doris – gehörlose musik (dvd)
hermann nitsch – the action art of hermann nitsch from past to present (dvd/cd)

HANSON RECORDS
darksmith – total vacuum (12inch vinyl lp)

KRAAK
afternoon saints – the shirley jangle (2x 12inch vinyl lp)
hellvette – de gek (12inch vinyl lp)

KRANKY
ken camden – lethargy & repercussion (12inch vinyl lp)
spartak – verona (cd)

MAAS MEDIA VERLAG (GERMANY)
ursula bogner – pluto hat einen mond (7inch vinyl)

MICROCINEMA
david tudor – bandoneon! (a combine) (dvd)
marina abramovic – seven easy pieces (dvd)

N5MD
another electronic musician – states of space (cd)
ent – welcome stranger (cd)
port royal – dying in time (cd)
subtractivelad – life at the end of the world (cd)

NEOS (GERMANY)
nikolaus brass – songlines (cd)
oliver messiaen – complete works for piano solo vol. 1 (2cd/sacd )
peter ruzicka – complete works for string quartet (2cd/sacd )
va – music for double bass (cd)

NEXTERA
alio die – music infinity meets virtues (live in prague 23th may 2009) (cd)

NO FUN PRODUCTIONS
emeralds – what happened (cd)
no fun acid – this is no fun acid (12inch vinyl lp)
russell haswell – value + bonus (2xcd)

PHOENIX RECORDS (UK)
brast burn – debon (cd)
far east family band parallel world (cd)
speed, glue & shinki speed, glue & shinki (cd)
toshi ichiyanagi/michael ranta/takehisa kosugi improvisation sep. 1975 (cd)

ROCKET GIRL (UK)
ulrich schnauss – missing deadlines: selected remixes (cd)

SILBER
aarktica / various artists – in sea remixes (cd)
carta – an index of birds (cd)
sarah june – in black robes (cd)

TIZONA
miracle condition – miracle condition (12inch vinyl lp)
miracle condition – miracle condition (cd)
wrekmeister harmonies – pittsburgh (12inch vinyl lp)

UNSEEN WORLDS
elodie lauten – piano works revisited (2cd)

Aaron Martin – Worried About The Fire
“By now it’s probably safe to stop introducing Aaron Martin with references to his prior collaborations with Machinefabriek and the like (oh darn, I’ve just done it anyway); he’s become a major player on the improvised electroacoustic scene in his own right, and Worried About The Fire is his fourth album. The cellist and all-round one-man soundscape devised this new collection of works as a score to a short film, and finds him shirking his usual live approach in favour of processed, electronically edited material. This doesn’t interfere with the language of Martin’s music (the cello, banjo, organ and harmonica constituent parts remain key) but it does give Martin the opportunity to work in a more composerly fashion than his usual style would dictate, stripping the music of its emphasis on realtime layering and the structural limitations that implies. The album begins in a tentative fashion, spinning a percussive drone through a phaser on ‘Albee’, before ‘Ice Melts Onto Fingers’ deconstructs the atmospherics with bells, cymbals and a kind of minimal harmonica fanfare. It’s only by ‘Open Knife’ that Martin’s recognisable musical idiom reveals itself, and from here on the string arrangements really start to flow, from the quiveringly melodic majesty of ‘Water Tongue’ to the suspenseful discord of ‘Reed Tunnel’, complete with bowed saw. The album’s twists and turns make for an always-compelling sequence, and Worried About The Fire is almost certainly Martin’s most in-depth and varied long-player to date; ‘Wires Of Glass’ finds him spinning through loops of vinyl crackle and choirs of meandering, wordless vocals, while elsewhere you encounter the likes of ‘Blue Light’, whose mysterious, dissolved plucks sound like a piano being played somewhere in the blurry distance. ‘Beaver Falls’ (presumably a place name rather than a prompter for aquatic mammal schadenfreude) proves to be exceptionally beautiful too, filling its three-minutes with slippery, multilayered high frequency glissandos that eventually cement into rhythmically urgent bowing figures. The recording is such that it sounds as if Martin started out the piece at the back of the room, before eventually making his way towards the mic for a dramatic finale. There’s much to absorb here, and Worried About The Fire makes a strong case for being Martin’s most assured and mature statement to date. The polish on the finished product is commendable too – Taylor Deupree handles the audio mastering while the opulent, oversized digipak ensures this is a finely dressed release to boot.” – Boomkat

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A rather huge update this week.  Quite an exciting week of new titles.
http://new.experimedia.net

//EAT,SLEEP,REPEAT
eric chenaux – warm weather/le vieux favori 4 (7inch) (now shipping)

//SLOW.FLOW
fabio orsi – winterreise (cd)

//RASTER.NOTON
mika vainio – time examined (2cd+book)

//FLAU
colophon (jefe cantu-ledesma) – love loops (cd)
el fog – rebuilding vibes (cd)
geskia – eclipse 323 (cd)
orla wren – the one two bird and the half horse (cd)
novisad – funkel (cd)
aus – after all (cd)

//PRESERVATION
various – motion movement in australian sound (2cd)
tara jane oneil – bones (cd)
evan miller – beeswax ephemera (cd)
nicola ratti – ode (cd)
grand salvo – soil creatures (cd)
caethua – the long afternoon of earth (2cd)
oliver mann – the possum wakes at night (cd)
tom carter & christian kiefer – from the great american songbook (cd)
tan or boil – seamstress in a suitcase (cd)
aaron martin – river water (cd)
tom carter & robert horton duo – monsters of felt (cd)
saddleback – night maps (cd)
post – post (cd)
aaron martin – almond (cd)
eddie marcon – shining on graveposts (cd)
steffen basho-juinghans – unknown music II – transwarp mediation (cd)

//IMPORTANT
kouhei matsunaga – self va (cd)
mika vainio / kouhei matsunaga / sean boothj – 3. telephatics meh in-sect er connection (cd)
mika vainio / kouhei matsunaga – split (12inch lp)
mouthus bulbs – split (12inch lp)

//HISTORY.ALWAYS.FAVOURS.THE.WINNERS
leyland kirby – sadly the future is no longer what it was (6x 12inch lp)

//STAUBGOLB
kammerflimmer kollektief – wildling (cd)

//12K.LINE
alva noto – for 2 (cd)
lovesliescrushing – crwth (chorus redux) (cd + 17 track download)
pjusk – sval (cd)

//DEAD.PILOT
cylon – resonanz (black cdr)
ekca liena – sleep paralysis (cdr)
stray ghost – an avalanche of swollen tongues (cd)
various – drone poets (2x-cdr)
seabuckthorn – distant summer storm (cdr)

//UNDER.THE.SPIRE
ithaca trio – tesla versus the night (cdr)
jannick schou – night (cdr)

//GLACIAL.MOVEMENTS
francisco lópez – amarok (cd)
aqua dorsa – cloudlands (cd)
skare – solstice city (cd)
lull – like a slow river (cd)
oophi – an aerial view (cd)

//I.ABSENTEE
maps and diagrams – tööpuudus (3inch cdr)

//TYPE
yellow swans – going places (cd)

//TOUCH
eleh – location momentum (cd)

//EDITIONS.MEGO
fenn o’berg – in stereo (cassette)

//DIE.SCHACHTEL
luigi archetti – null (cd)

//BEDROOM.COMMUNITY
valgeir sigurdsson – draumalandið (cd)

//ERASED.TAPES
nils frahm – the bells (cd)

//NOTHINGS66
various artists – duckscape not seen (cd)

//EMI
iannis xenakis – chamber music (cd)

//ADORNFELDER
f.s. blumm & david grubbs – back to the plants (Magazine+7inch)

//DYNAMOPHONE
fjordne – the last 3 days of time (cd)

//KRANKY
loscil – engless falls (cd)
loscil – engless falls (12inch lp)

//BASKARU
michael santos – the happy error (cd)
@c – music for empty spaces (cd)
francisco lopez & lawrence english – hb (cd)
lawrence english – for varying degrees of winter (cd)

//KOYUKI.SOUND
kinetix – absolute grey (3inch cdr)
ryota kanasaki – phonetilosophy (3inch cdr)
tomas phillips – six notes (3inch cdr)
pierre gerard – plateaux (cdr)

//1000FUSSLER
gregory büttner – walze 1 – 8 (cd)
simon whetham – d/r (cdr)
rui costa – sightseeing for the blind (cd)
eavpori – rehearsals for objects (cd)
nicolai stephan, asmus tietchens, stefan funck, gregory büttner – heizung raum 318 (cd)
gunter adler – douches dames (3inch cdr)
christopher mcfall – all for the terror that sings sweetly to you in the night (3inch cdr)
evapori – na katarynce (3inch cdr)
gregory büttner – 3″/1 (3inch cdr)

//AURAL.TERRAINS
thanos chrysakis, wade matthews, dario bernal-villegas – enantio_dromia (cd)
thanos chrysakis – a scar in the air (cd)
dan warburton – profession reporter (cd)
kim cascone – music for dagger and guitar (cd)

//TOMPKINS.SQUARE
a broken consort (richard skelton) – box of birch (cd)

//THANK.YOU

An interesting audio interview with Aaron Martin from Radio6 NL.

http://radio6.nl/index.php?tag=special

aaron-martin-special audio interview

Toen Aaron Martin op zijn zeventiende naar Topeka, in Kansas, verhuisde was dat ook het moment dat hij besloot om muziek te gaan studeren met als hoofdvak cello. Dat hij vervolgens zelf ging componeren was een logische stap. Hiervoor gebruikt hij naast de cello verder als klankbronnen o.a. ukelele, geluid makend speelgoed, melodica, banjo, glöckenspiel, piano en zijn stem. Met behulp van een loop pedaal legt hij vervolgens diverse melodielijnen laag op laag. Aaron Martin maakt op deze manier sferische muziek die je als ideale soundtracks zou kunnen zien. Het zijn composities die tussen soundscapes en folky ambient te plaatsen zijn. Een overeenkomst die hij deelt met muzikanten als Greg Haines en Ethan Rose.

Naast een samenwerking met Machinefabriek maakte hij drie volwaardige cd’s voor Preservation: in 2006 kwam ‘Almond’ uit, in 2008 volgde ‘River Water’, en eind 2009 ‘Chautauqua’. Albums vol stijlvolle melodieuze instrumentale stukken waarin zijn persoonlijke ervaringen en herinneringen een belangrijke rol spelen. Aaron Martin’s vierde cd ‘Worried about the Fire’ die bij Experimedia uitkomt, is de filmmuziek die hij maakte voor de film ‘Marked In Dust’.

Luister hier naar een portret van Aaron Martin met exclusieve sessie-opnamen en interview opgenomen op 22 mei 2009 in Studio Desmet.

aaron-martin-special

Slow week for interesting music…

http://new.experimedia.net

//OWN
trouble books – gathered tones (cd) (Preorder for March 1st)

//MAGNANIMOUS
michael winter – recursive stall (cd)

//TAPEWORM
leif elggren – all animals are saints (cassette)
autodigest – a compressed history of every bootleg ever recorded (cassette) (limited to 100)

//EDITIONS.MEGO
bj nilsen & stilluppsteypa – space finale (cassette)

//THE.WIRE
the wire #313 – march 2010 (caledonia dreaming)

//THANK.YOU

Experimedia artist Nigel Samways recently launched the Ephreimprint label.
Take a look : http://www.ephreimprint.eu

I am pleased to present the latest edition to Experimedia’s free catalog.
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exp053 – clem leek – snow tales

exp053
clem leek
snow tales
released february 15, 2010
“Recorded and written in two days whilst the snow was falling outside my house. Each track, even though bundled in an E P is its own seperate entity and relates to different times of the day, different snowy weather conditions and consequently different emotion. I hope you enjoy it.” – Clem

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More formats available at bandcamp

About Clem Leek : Clem Leek is a musician and composer from the South East. He has just completed his MA in Music Composition an is now releasing his first EP, Through the Annular on Schedios Records. Clem draws his influence from a number of sources, from the minimalist composers Steve Riech & Philip Glass and also such musicians as Keith Kennif, Max Richter, Matt Hales and many more, creating a beautiful mix of piano melodies and subtle instrumentation, all set to the crackle of a 78 record. Clem operates the label Schedios.
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This morning Tokafi posted a fantastic interview with Experimedia artist Offthesky… enjoy!
http://www.tokafi.com/15questions/interview-offthesky-jason-corder/

Ian Hawgood and Jeremy Bible will be in Paris for the Qwartz Awards and have an opening in our schedule on April 1st.  If you are in or around Paris and can host us at your event on April 1st or point us in the right direction please be in touch.  Thank you.