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Knyaz Mishkin Releases "Usialiakaje"

Source: Ladzes
August 26, 2012

A lengthier tradition of this folkish psychedelia, however, comes from outfits like Knyaz Mishkin, named after the hero of Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot and based in Minsk. That ensemble, fronted by Leonid Narushevich has, in fact, been in existence for two decades. Over that lengthy period, and thanks nowadays to the distribution possibilities of the web, the band has also managed to publish over thirty albums. Electrate proposed a form of self-expression that was devoid of punctuation and thus “freer": ...

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Jerod Sommerfeldt and David McDonnell Diving Bell's Eponymous Debut Release

Source: Ladzes
August 6, 2012

Diving Bell is the collective of Jerod Sommerfeldt (laptop) and David McDonnell (saxophone, electronics). Diving Bell Tracklist: Mangonel Christi’s Favorite Kalimba Caligula’s Sunken Galleys Haast’s Eagle Focusing on the creation of algorithmic and stochastic processes, utilizing the results for both fixed and real-time composition and improvisation, Jerod Sommerfeldt’s music explores digital audio artifacts and the destruction of technology, resulting in work that questions the dichotomy between the intended and unintentional. He is ...

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