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Zoviet France – Popular Soviet Songs And Youth Music

Posted on September 10, 2011 by cranio

Popular Soviet Songs And Youth Music

Another excellent Zoviet France release. Zoviet France have developed a radical relationship with the cheap technologies of old fashioned tape recorders, homemade acoustic instruments, primitive looping and sampling devices, and basic dub trickery. From these machines, the collective has crafted a distinctly unique vocabulary of postindustrial sonic hypnosis. Popular Soviet Songs And Youth Music was released as a 3x CD set by Staalplaat (STCD 024) in 2004. Originally released in 1985 on Singing Ringing/Red Rhino as a double cassette in a ceramic container with special packaging.  Re-leased in 1994 with a round felt piece on front and back of the set with a Soviet miltary pin holding the whole set together. The front round felt piece has the title of the release and the artist printed on it. The set contains 3 CDs with felt glued to the print side & the music on the other side, and 3 CDs with track information on the printed side & a side long high pitched tone on the other side. Re-released in 1995 without felt glued onto the CDs, and without the extra “blank” CDs – there are two versions of this release: one with two brown round stiff felt pieces and Soviet military pin as per the original Staalplaat release color scheme, and one with two grey round soft felt pieces with a different Soviet military pin. Re-released again in 2004 (This version) (once again without felt glued onto the CDs, and without the extra “blank” CDs) with two brown round stiff felt pieces and Soviet military pin once again in the same color scheme as the first Staalplaat issue. The discs have different artwork than the previous CD releases, and CDs 1 & 2 are switched. I have corrected the tracks and put them in the right folder.

Tracks:

CD 1

  1. Tier Of Veils
  2. Ram
  3. Duir
  4. Zonë
  5. Straif (La Mère Du Bois) Z Estrif
  6. White Track (Fire Frost)
  7. Veil
  8. Pesach
  9. Decoy
  10. Yezidi

CD 2

  1. добрый день
  2. Signal
  3. Sidi
  4. Birch Brake
  5. Sein
  6. Spin (Hellisein)
  7. Tan-Tal
  8. Ma-Ja
  9. Whip
  10. Veil
  11. Fearn
  12. Burning Bush
  13. Sidhe (Riuben)
  14. Marsh
  15. Swine
  16. Marsh
  17. Signal (Circe)
  18. Migration

CD 3

  1. Burning Bush
  2. Sheol
  3. Veil (Sloe Semen)
  4. Signal
  5. Chirm Ela
  6. Chirm Geis
  7. Charm Aliso
  8. Shewel
  9. Yezidi Say

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Various – A Bead To A Small Mouth

Posted on November 30, 2009 by cranio

A Bead To A Small Mouth

Nice electronic/experimental album with well-known artists. The written work of the Australian art-maker Anthony Mannix (1953-) is predominantly contained in the singular artists’ books he has created over the last 25 years. Mannix has developed over 70 such works and they contain writings in numerous forms, including diary, prose-poetry, short story, social commentary, philosophical observation and pictorial contextualisation. Diagnosed with schizophrenia in the 1980’s, Mannix’s work is primarily an exploration of his experience of psychosis, through which he feels he gains access to the unconscious, erotic landscapes into which he then travels. Thus Mannix writes: “my desire has always been paramount and fanatical to reach the ‘core’ of the unconscious via psychosis and chaos”. At times Mannix conceives of such a psychotic ‘core’ as a machine – the ‘engine room’. Indeed, machines feature prominently throughout the Mannix oeuvre. This article will investigate the manner in which the notion of the ‘machine’ features in the creative and psychotic cosmology of Anthony Mannix. The Machines, or a Concise History of the Machine (as far as i know them) is perhaps the first exploration of the machine by Mannix. This series of works will be discussed with reference to the other machines that have come, over time, to inhabit his reality. These two pieces with Graeme Revell (Of S.P.K.) where made specially for this compilation. Mother Tongue: is Andrew McKenzie (Hafler Trio),Stefan Weisser aka Z’EV and Dorothea Franck.  A Bead To A Small Mouth was released on vinyl and cd by Barooni (BAR 001 and BAR 001 CD) in 1989. This is the vinyl version.

Tracks:

  1. Nurse With Wound - A New Dress
  2. Graeme Revell & Anthony Mannix - A Concise History Of The Machine
  3. Graeme Revell & Anthony Mannix - The Skull (Excerpt)
  4. Mother Tongue - Chapter And Verse
  5. (i) Words
  6. (ii) Shut Their Mouths
  7. (iii) Inside And Outside
  8. :zoviet-france: - White Dusk

(Track 4 is divided in to three parts, 6 & 7 are recorded together)

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