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Carol Robinson
Billows, latest plush release
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Carol Robinson | Billows   Extraordinary composer clarinetist with live electronics performs pieces from the new plush release Billows. A close collaborator previously of Scelsi having recorded monographs of his works as well as Nono, Feldman and Berio.
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live electronics & clarinet (basset horn or Birbyne)
Carol Robinson | Billows   Carol Robinson navigue entre musiques nouvelles, danse, théâtre, installations sonores. Elle présente ici son dernier disque, Billows, il met en avant une quête sur l’oscillation et la résonance, le réel et le virtuel. Carol Robinson nous entraîne avec elle dans cette houle sonore au moyen d’une musique sensible et vivante et d’une kyrielle de machines : ordinateur, interface, programme Max/MSP, pédalier midi et système de sonorisation…. info
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Live performances
20h ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn New York
Saturday 25 September 2010
18h30 Le Souffle Continu, Paris
Thursday 14 October 2010
Markus Kirke, Oslo
Sunday 24 October 2010
20h Eglise Saint Merri, Paris
Friday 29 October 2010
Château de Blérancourt ( Musée de la Coopération Franco-Américaine)
Monday & Tuesday 18-19 October 2010

Lena in concert
Mathias Delplanque   Mathias Delplanque (born in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) is a musician, artist and music critic. As a composer he takes on several main lines, creates sound installations and concrete or ambient pieces and develops through different identities among them Lena: Lost-Wax contemporary dub forms at the fringes of jazz with his Floating Roots Orchestra. more info
19h Le Lieu Unique, Nantes
Thursday 7 October 2010
20h La Bascule, Rennes
Saturday 23 October 2010
17h Le Vauban, Festival InvisibleBrest
Sunday 21 November 2010
20h Les Anciens Abattoirs, Festival Acces(s) Billière, Aquitaine
Wednesday 24 November 2010

Manasonics
Manasonics   Benoît Delbecq & Steve Argüelles piano, drums and electronics, Nicolas Becker, foley sounds, a new round of rythm & sound from the extraordinarily inventive trio.
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Le Petit Fauchaux, Tours
Saturday 22 Janvier 2011

off-road tracks

CHRISTOPHE
plush news   Gold record from Christophe produced by Christophe Van Huffel (Tanger / Peplum) featuring Deodato, Murcof, Isabelle Adjiani, Jac Berrocal, Patrick Muller, Carmine Appice, Steve Argüelles, Moraito Chico, Pamelia Kursten et al...
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Christophe `Aimer ce que nous sommes' - AZ, Univeral music
Live in concert
Le Palais des Festivals, Cannes
Thursday 23 Septembre 2010
Amiens
Friday 1 October 2010
Pully, Switzerland
Thursday 7 October 2010
Conflans
Saturday 9 October 2010
Avignon
Saturday 16 October 2010
Nantes
Monday 20 December 2010

out there!
Poolplayers - Way Below The Surface
Poolplayers | Way the Below The Surface   Another maverick trumpeter, Jon Hassell, made music something like this almost a decade ago with his brilliant Water Lily Acoustics SACD release, Fascinoma, featuring the piano of Jacky Terrasson, the bamboo flute of Ronu Majumdar, and the guitar of Ry Cooder.  An additional release, headlined by Majumdar and called Hollow Bamboo, recorded at the same time and featuring Hassell and Cooder, evokes a similar sensibility.
Arve Henriksen, trumpet, vocals, electronics. Benoît Delbecq, piano, bass station. Lars Juul, drums and electronics. Steve Argüelles, usine, delays, sherman filters.
Ten years down the road, the music on Way Below The Surface incorporates a lot more influences  (electronica, post-rock, New Music, and avant jazz) and sounds (midi-instruments such as the Usine and Sherman Filter), but the essential vibe remains identifiable: breathy, shakuhachi flute-inspired trumpet from Arve Henriksen, spacey piano by Benoît Delbecq, sprung percussion from Lars Juul, and live sonic manipulation from aural mastermind Steve Argüelles, the genius behind Omar Sosa’s magical sound.  Those who were and continue to be fascinated by Fascinoma and Hollow Bamboo should flock to this session.
But they don’t seem to be. Why not?  Probably they don’t know it exists.  Unless they’re super-tuned into the obscure European avant-jazz scene or very familiar with the Canadian new jazz SACD label Songlines, they’ve probably never heard of these people or this disc.  And that’s a shame, because this music—though edgy, atmospheric, slowly developing, and totally unswinging—nevertheless is entirely approachable, enchanting, and even mesmerizing.  It’s as if a 21st-century Brian Eno met ECM—but with much more spine and bursting with ideas: Eno for ambience; ECM for stunning sound, lots of space (especially in the hi-res surround sound option), and their famous down-tempo jazz approach.

Certainly not for everyone, but anyone at all inclined to world/ambient/electronic/post-rock jazz should not miss this wonderful music.  (It’s a hybrid SACD/CD if you lack the hi-res playback capability.) Jan P. Dennis /Audiophile Audition
Quatre boules blanches, électrons libres, pourtant très soudés, créent une musique singulière, d’une infinie douceur, lunaire. La pochette d’une remarquable sobriété plonge, non dans l’outre-mer, mais dans une couleur proche de l’I.K.B, ce pigment inventé par Yves Klein l’alchimiste. La musique bruisse, souffle, soupire, vibre, plus aérienne qu’océanique, redisons-le, exquise. Sans harmonie ni thème réel, elle introduit des bruits fantomatiques, proches de la pulsation vitale, sans violence aucune. Il faudra seulement l’écouter assez fort pour ne pas sombrer dans un songe éveillé… Pourtant chaque instrument, parfaitement individualisé, joue une partie décisive dans l’alliage des timbres, la juxtaposition des couleurs de ces paysages oniriques. >songlines
Songlines catalogue no. SGL SA1569-2 / Abeille Musique >buy
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PC pieces remixes
plush news   Laurent de Wilde & Otisto 23 offer up remixes of their piano pieces to be released in September on DTC Records including versions from Lena aka Mathias Delplanque - FIVE (Five is Company Remix), Stensil: « Shoot the tourists first (Eternal Tourist Remix)» & PianoBump (pianobook mix) by Steve Argüelles >info
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