SPEKK
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Ken Ikeda Kosame  SPEKK  KK024  CD 
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NY based sound artist Ken Ikeda's 4th album focuses on vibrations and fluctuations around the things in daily life. An extraordinary experience of deep listening to the microscopic level found art.
 02. 白昼 Hakuchu (daylight)03. 帰路 Kiro (return) |
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Federico Durand La siesta del cipre's SPEKK KK023 CD
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"Music for a nap" produced by Federico Durand from Argentina. His debut album sounds like if watching a dreamy fairytale processing various instruments into sine wave-like tones. Simply beautiful.
02. Mi pequeno mundo de papel08. Pudu, tu nombre es Tobias? |
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Peter Wright An Angel Fell Where the Kestrel Hover SPEKK KK022 CD
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Peter Wright is a highly acclaimed artist based in New Zealand known for his marvelous guitar works. He has been experimenting with the guitar for 20 years having released 7 full albums from labels around the world. Again marvelous guitar-drone pieces.
02. Sunstroke05. London is Drowning ... |
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Dirac Emphasis SPEKK KK021 CD
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Dirac consists of Peter Kutin, Daniel Lercher and Florian Kindlinger based in Vienna, Austria. Their music is minimal yet containing variety of imaginative sounds from guitar to field recordings. Silent emotional music.
01. This is Your 4am Wake-Up Call 02. Augarten |
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Tetuzi Akiyama + Toshimaru Nakamura Semi-Impressionism SPEKK KK020 CD
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Probably the most well-known figures in the international impro-scene hailing from Tokyo, Japan. They have toured extensively through the world
leaving countless publications from labels worldwide. This is officially their 1st album as a duo based on 3 live recordings taken at Sweden and Austria.
01. (track1) 03. (track3) |
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Stephan Mathieu + Taylor Deupree Transcriptions SPEKK KK019 CD
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'Transcriptions', a collaborative work by Stephan Mathieu and Taylor Deupree, contains 8 tracks of music that is both historic, decayed, angelic and revolving, while also existing in warmth, purity, and transcendence through acoustic instruments, and vintage synthesizer.
02. Largo 08. Solitude Of Spheres |
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Felicia Atkinson La La La SPEKK KK018 CD
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"La La La" was recorded at home in Paris and Brussels.
As a multimedia artist more than a full time musician, I decided to use rough materials of recording and mixing such as Garageband free software, in a democratic and playfull way, with the instruments that were at home, such as piano, acoustic guitar, glockenspiel and field recording from the room...
01. Lila 07. To This Island |
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Andrey Kiritchenko Misterrious SPEKK KK017 CD
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When I started to think about new album, I wanted to keep up with what I have started to explore in “True Delusion” release and continued in “Stuffed With/Out”. I wanted to introduce something new to the sound - make it more acoustic than electronic. Believe me or not, I wanted to make a jazz record (my way of course) - cinematic, naive and visionary album...
02. sparkling early mornings09. unexpected raylets |
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Level Opale NATURE BLISS KK016 CD
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OPALE was recorded during a period of personal turmoil, and creative turbulence. I wanted to follow the Level | Cycla release with a fresh perspective, and a new formula. Having created Cycla from piano and keyboard sounds generated using software which I then subjected to various treatments and deformations, I wanted to create something less fractured, less manipulated...
01. Opale 1 [jeux] 03. Opale 3 [ braide] |
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Joe Grimm Brain Cloud SPEKK KK015 CD
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The seed for this music was planted when I participated in one of Glenn Branca's 100-guitar symphonies. The sound was incredible: a deafening, electric choir incorporating so many voices that the each element was subsumed within the group sound.
But I was struck even more by the unrealized potential in Branca's approach; the sound was separated into several identifiable voices, so that the impression given was of a conventional counterpoint-driven music...
01. Brain Cloud IV 05. Brain Cloud III |
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Mathieu Ruhlmann + Celer Mesoscaphe SPEKK KK014 CD
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The album 'Mesoscaphe' is a sound work dedicated to the 1969 voyage of the Ben Franklin, the naturally-propelled submarine created to explore the currents of the Gulf Stream, and the nature of the sea. Half of the sound is composed of original pieces of music, meant to symbolize a deepening human element culled from memory, from strings, pianos, and electronics...
01. The Pulling Pools of Piccard's Scientific Motions... 03. Passing Emptiness... |
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Yair Etziony Flawed SPEKK KK013 CD
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When i started working on this project i wanted to create two separate albums, one with smoked jazzy feeling with emphasis on beats and second one with only textures,a piano and pads. At that time i was performing a lot with this sort of music in galleries, art events and museums. In my live show performance i used to combine elements from both albums, i liked the way it sounded and slowly i got the notion that i can fuse all the sounds and ideas into one album.
02. Broken 03. Flawed |
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Minoru Sato (m/s, SASW) + ASUNA Texture in glass tubes and reed organ SPEKK KK012 CD
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We have been performing “music” focusing on the materialistic nature (physical phenomena) of sounds by utilizing the reed organ and glass tubes. Our music is composed and constructed in such a way that however the phenomena we use reacts with the circumstances of the space - the situation of the site including the audience - our live performance involves and uses these conditions...
01. Superposing five harmonic states 02. Weaving seven resonances: with raw stereo material |
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Opitope Hau SPEKK KK011 CD
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This an imaginary album traveling from the north to south, overlapping the images of transition of the four seasons. In reality, indeed one things always leads to an end and I feel sad every time I think about that. In this album, we tried to express this sorrow feeling changing gradually into hope as we travel south. Seasons have no end. It always moves from spring, summer, autumn, winter back to spring...
02. trees reflecting on the surface of the lake 04. a far room |
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Ken Ikeda The Mist on the Window SPEKK KK010 CD
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There are moments in your life when something changes as you hear and become aware of the sounds around you. Why do the sounds that cups and chairs make feel so distant? It seems that ‘I’ as an existence won’t be forgiven for being my ordinary self. The meaningless noise that reverberates in the living room opens up the possibility of connecting beyond the horizon... Then, I become alone and say goodbye to the ‘Me that was pretending to be like me’.
02. A Part of Shunkin 03. Mist on the Window |
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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma The Garden of Forking Paths SPEKK KK009 CD
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The Garden Of Forking Paths is the first full length solo CD by San Francisco based musician Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. Eschewing the laptop processing of his earlier work as Colophon, the album was created with an assortment of tape recording mediums (Cassette, Micro-Cassette, Reel to Reel tape machine) and a small arsenal of guitar stop boxes used on wide variety of instruments from electric guitar to bowed gong...
02. Aberration of Starlight 12. Farewell Transmission from the Holy Ghost |
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The Alps Jewelt Galaxies / Spirit Shambles SPEKK KK008 CD
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JEWELT GALAXIES/SPIRIT SHAMBLES is their 1st full album collecting the first two CDR releases from The ALPS.
Following a specially tuned internal compass that leads them from open meadowsand rushing rivers to urban chaos and decay, The Alps use a variety of soundsources, This was recorded with one microphone in ScottHewickers's living room mostly in one session on November 14 2005 and a bit inAugust earlier in the year.
02. The River Lies with the The Lilies 05. Bird with the Crystal Plumage |
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Level Cycla SPEKK KK007 CD
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An exercise in compositional restraint, LEVEL create fractured melodies, and disjointed atmospheres. Fragments of piano chords and shattered rhythms spontaneously cohere for brief moments, and then disappear into the ether to re-form elsewhere within the sound field. Here is a work which defiantly short circuits the listener's expectations. Much of what we perceive to be musical composition is based upon specifically laid down rules of structure, melody and rhythm...
02. Colimn 05. Aler Besc |
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Andrey Kiritchenko True Delusion SPEKK KK006 CD
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Ten months passed between conceiving the idea and the beginning of experiments with minimalist harmonic overtones made with acoustic guitar in the beginning of 2004 and the end of work on True Delusion album in late 2004. The first six of them were the months of thinking and contemplation, traveling and trial recording of instruments in habitable rooms and kitchens, recording and auditing of rural nature sounds by night and by day...
02. Both my sides 05. Illusion of safety |
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V.A Small Melodies SPEKK KK005 CD
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This is the first compilation album from Spekk compiled by the label owner mondii. Each of the artists were asked to compose a track with their interpretations of "small melodies" with Keywords like Warm, tender and calm. It was meant to present diversity of minimal-style music in a peaceful "harmonic" way. And it was a coincidence that both Taylor Deupree & Stephan Mathieu created a track dedicated to their child.
02. for a pulse or two - Sogar 04. for nicholas - Taylor Deupree |
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Boca Raton Enzo/Further SPEKK KK004 CD
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Enzo / Further is a split piece. Further, being the overlapping result of the basic elements provided through Enzo, being a number of shorter tracks, displaying several compositional ideas. Further brings these experiments together and melts them into one entity. It streams through several musical stages and spherical impression, creating an intriguing sonic blend.
04. Enzo 11. Further |
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John Hudak Room with sky SPEKK KK003 CD
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Room with sky began as a recording of my speaking voice in my bedroom, which is very sunny on sunny days. My bedroom has Bauhaus style casement windows with views in the Southern direction, and the Western direction. The words that I spoke came directly out of my mouth in a stream-of-consciousness style, with the actual text having been lost through destructive editing within my computer.
01. Room with sky |
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William Basinski + Richard Chartier (non titled) SPEKK KK002 CD
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Richard and I became friends after meeting at Tonic in NY when he and Taylor Deupree did a show with Carsten Nicolai. He contacted me about a possible collaboration and sent me a track which I thought was very rich and harmonically similar to something I had recently been working on, a very swampy, dark piece I was calling "The Garden of Brokenness" after a very beautiful new installation by James Elaine...
02. (36:08) |
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Taylor Deupree January SPEKK KK001 CD
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January was composed between January and May 2003. The inspiration for the cd came from my visit to Japan on a tour with 12k artists Richard Chartier and Sogar. We made many, many friends and it was one of the most enjoyable and inspirational travels i have taken in recent memory.
02. Skimming 05. Quiet_C |
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