Welcome to the first newsletter in 2013. All the best for the new year.
NEW RELEASES
We're very pleased to present you two new releases of our friend N - this time collaborations with the sound artist Jim Campbell. The LPs feature live recorded material from the studio while the included CDs present live-on-stage cuts. Both LPs are coming with thick special printed sleeves like all N releases and they're both limited to only 100 copies. A more detailed sound description is mentioned further below in the newsletter.
Only half a year after his impressive debut, SAFFRONKEIRA returns with another concept album, entitled "Tourette". While "A New Life" dealt with transition, maturation, the white and black parts of life, the common theme of "Tourette" seem to be neurological diseases. And indeed, it is not difficult to imagine the vast neural network of the human brain while listening to "Tourette", to visualize how electric impulses switch from neuron to neuron, follow various paths in the cerebral cortex, spread and recombine and eventually are lead astray or possible meet a damaged nerve cell. "Tourette" leaves the listener in a puzzled situation, as he soon realises that it poses more questions than answers. Recommened if you enjoy artists like Fennesz, Murcof or maybe Arvo Part. The album is available as a 2xlp (limited color edition: 150 pieces on white with black splatters), on cd and digitally via www.denovali.com/saffronkeira
SWINGFEST UPDATE
For those who missed it last week: We've just started the ticket preorder for the Denovali Swingfest 2013 Berlin edition. Latest addition for day two is TIM HECKER (can) - we'll announce the last missing artist in the course of January. Tickets and all further information: www.denovali.com/swingfest
MAILORDER UPDATE
In the first week of January we've received the Cinematic Orchestra - Man With A Movie Camera 2xLP repress, Fink represses, new Interlude + new Tesa LP, the Taxi Driver soundtrack on vinyl, the Boris + Joe Volk LP, the new Amen Ra on Cd and a lot of more items. www.denovali.com/mailorder
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SAFFRONKEIRA - TOURETTE CD | 2xLP | DIGITAL
SaffronKeira is a project established in 2008 by Eugenio Caria from the island of Sardinia, Italy. With SaffronKeira, Eugenio Caria lives out his passion of being a researcher of the possibility of expression offered by currently available technology. Indeed, in his tracks he experiments a lot with electronics and unconventional elements, which sometimes seem meaningless at first sight, but uncover their significance only on a closer examination. Combining subtle and sometimes even almost invisible rhythms with textures of sound he confidently moves between minimalistic pieces and classic ambient tracks which should please both the analytic ears and the listeners who just want to dive into the music.
After a couple of remixes, live releases and EPs, SaffronKeira's debut album "A New Life" saw the light of the day in July 2012 and the press responded with reviews such as "The evolving tracks take on a hypnotic atmosphere, swirling just below the line of consciousness, where the received and the perceived datum collide, creating a brand new universe, space and dimension. A New Life is an album that will surely grab your attention if you are a fan of digital darkness and analog void by artists such as Murcof, Jasper TX, Hecq, Cindytalk, The Caretaker, Andy Stott, Raime" (Headphone Commute) or "As SaffronKeira, Caria's music could easily fall into the realms of experimental electronica and dark ambient, frequencies of electronic IDM and minimalistic beats that edge close to techno, but it goes much deeper, and darker, than that." (A Closer Listen).
Only half a year after his impressive debut, SaffronKeira returns with another concept album, entitled "Tourette". While "A New Life" dealt with transition, maturation, the white and black parts of life, the common theme of "Tourette" seem to be neurological diseases. And indeed, it is not difficult to imagine the vast neural network of the human brain while listening to "Tourette", to visualize how electric impulses switch from neuron to neuron, follow various paths in the cerebral cortex, spread and recombine and eventually are lead astray or possible meet a damaged nerve cell. Eugenio Caria manages to capture the complexity, fragility and inscrutability of these processes in his usual mixture of very abstract electronic parts on the one hand and extremly warm layers of sound on the other hand. Finishing with the epic "The Hope", "Tourette" leaves the listener in a puzzled situation, as he soon realises that it poses more questions than answers. For fans of FENNESZ, MURCOF, MAX RICHTER, ARVO PART, etc.
Stream: www.denovali.com/saffronkeira
Download: www.denovali.com/mp3shop
Facebook: www.facebook.com/saffronkeira
Vinyl:
::: thick gatefold sleeves; 180g vinyl
::: download code
::: limited edition: 150x white + black splatter
::: price: 19.50 euro
Cd:
::: nice 4 panel digipak covers
::: price: 13.00 euro
N(25) + Jim Campbell - Tapemeasurekid - Ours Is A Stubborn Monster LP+CD | MP3
N(26) + Jim Campbell - Tapemeasurekid - Zero Is An Even Number LP+CD | MP3
TAPE MEASURE KID is the new live-playing duo of N, amps + guitar, and Jim Campbell (aka the preterite), lofi samplers, modified analog 4-track recorder and effects. On their double debut releases “Ours Is A Stubborn Monster” and “Zero Is An Even Number” they expand N's drone / ambient style to something that is at the same time drone and beyond drone, including a sort of dark and sometimes weird improv tendency. very unique and for some of you maybe as if N's sustained guitar had been mangled through a computer by some strange wizard. but in fact all you can hear happened in real time, with a cable feeding the guitar signal to jim's cassette scratch orchestra, with the possibility of real-time manipulation while playing, cutting loose from boundaries.
Both records show this special live-appeal of TAPE MEASURE KID, with the live-in-studio material on the vinyl part and the live-on-stage cuts on the CD part of both releases.
Stream: www.denovali.com/n
Download: www.denovali.com/mp3shop
Facebook: www.facebook.com/n1511
LP+Cd
::: thick special print sleeves; 180g vinyl
::: on the lp: live recorded material from the studio
::: on the cd: live-on-stage cuts
::: both LPs limited to 100 copies | no repress
::: price LP+Cd: 24.00 euro
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STILL ACTUAL
den139 | Saffronkeira - A New Life 2xCd | A New Life Part I 2x12''
den140 | Saffronkeira - A New Life Part II 2x12''
den141 | Talvihorros - Some Ambulance 12''
den142 | Talvihorros - Music In Four Movements 12''
den143 | The Contemporary Noise Sextet - Vinyl Collection 4x12''
den144 | Oneirogen - Hypnos 2x12''
den145 | Oneirogen - Veni Nox Anima 12''
den146 | Switchblade - s/t Cd | 2x12''
den147 | Thisquietarmy - Exorcisms 12''
den148 | Thomas Köner - Novaya Zemlya 2x12''
den149 | Blueneck - Epilogue Cd | 12''
den150 | Hidden Orchestra - Archipelago 2x12''
den151 | Lento - Anxiety Despair Languish Cd | 12''
den153 | Iroha - Shepherds & Angels Cd | 12''
den154 | Poppy Ackroyd - Escapement Cd | 12''
den155 | Talvihorros - And It Was So Cd | 12''
den156 | Talvihorros - Let Us Be Thankful We Have Commerce 10''
den157 | The Alvaret Ensemble - s/t Cd | 2x12''
MAILORDER NEWS / BACK IN STOCK
35007 - Phase V 12'' [18€]
Agnes Obel - Philharmonics Cd [16.5€]
Aki Onda - Cassette Memories Volume 3: South Of The Border Cd [15€]
Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra - Towards Other Worlds 2x10'' [17€]
Baton Rouge - Amer / Contrepied 7'' [6.5€]
Berxen (members of Kom) - S/t Vinyl Box [28€]
Birds in Row - You, Me & The Violence 12'' [15€]
Boduf Songs - Internal Memo 10'' [15€]
Efterklang - Magic Chairs Cd [16.5€]
Engine Down - S/t 12'' [14€]
Etta James - The Second Time Around 12''+Cd [19.5€]
Félicia Atkinson - Summer eyes 12'' [15€]
Fink - Biscuits For Breakfast 12'' [17€]
Interlude - A La Deriva 12'' [12€]
Isis - Temporal 2xCd [17.5€]
Le Reveil Des Tropiques - S/t 2x12'' [16€]
Lichens - Lítiõ fólk 12'' [16€]
Mika Vainio - Magnetite Cd [16€]
Nils Frahm - Screws Cd [14€]
Rolo Tomassi - Astraea 12'' [18€]
Sylvain Chauveau - Simple Cd [16.5€]
Tesa - IV 12'' [12€]
The Cinematic Orchestra - Man With A Movie Camera 2x12'' [19.5€]
The National - Virigina 12'' [18€]
The VSS - Nervous Circuits + 25:37 2x12'' [25€]
Why? - Mumps, etc. 12'' [17€]
Woven Hand - The Laughing Stalk 12'' [18€]
ON THE ROAD IN JANUARY 2013
The Alvaret Ensemble (uk/nl)
14.01.13 Prag (cz) - Palac Akropolis
15.01.13 Budapest (hu) - Akvarium
16.01.13 Munich (ger) - secret gig
18.01.13 Essen (ger) - Weststadthalle Cafe (+ Greg Haines solo set)
20.01.13 Köln (ger) - Ambient Festival
Floex (cz)
11.01.13 Groningen (nl) - Eurosonic Festival
Thomas Köner (ger)
17.01.13 Köln (ger) - Ambient Festival
Bersarin Quartett (ger)
22.01.13 Hasselt (bel) - Cultuurcentrum
Floex (cz) + Hidden Orchestra (uk) + Poppy Ackroyd (uk)
29.01.13 Prague (cz) - Palac Akropolis
Oneirogen (usa)
31.01.13 Berlin (ger) - CTM Festival