Spectropol Records
Biografi:Spectropol Records is a friendly netlabel devoted to excellent music unbound by venue and commerce; it’s
a destination for adventurous music beyond journalistic and commercial style/genre classifications.
Polystyle, hybrids, modern composition, improvisation, electroacoustic, spectral jazz, lounge noise, ambient math, experimental pop, alt-alt, post-post-modern, post-whatever.
Diskografi:
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1. | Marco Oppedisano - Fractured Sky 05:02 | |
2. | Mark Hamilton & Bruce Hamilton - fig dog 2 03:07 | |
3. | Jordan Watson - Fungus 02:19 | |
4. | Neil Haverstick - Beautiful Springtime 06:45 | |
5. | Kavin Allenson - Plastic Nightmare Beetle 04:40 | |
6. | Tigress and the U-Fraidees - Hard WATER 02:30 | |
7. | Jukka-Pekka Kervinen - flood zone 02:40 | |
8. | Roger Sundström - The Sightless Light 06:15 | |
9. | The Michael Vick Trip - Mileage, Another Wasteland 02:53 | |
10. | Bill Horist - Auscultation Hall 11:37 | |
11. | Chris Vaisvil & Bruce Hamilton - feedfill 04:26 | |
12. | Steve Moyes - Clutching 02:29 | |
13. | James Ross - Quasicrystals 09:36 |
This compilation celebrates the electric guitar and its creative use with a collection of varied tracks that provide a small snapshot of what some artists and composers have been doing in 2010-2012.
Despite only eighty odd years of use (and even less as a widespread instrument), the electric guitar has been a major force of musical invention, forging new genres of music and new sonic territories to explore. Musicians today have a rich history to draw upon: Les Paul and other early masters, the various and celebrated icons of blues, rock, jazz and fusion; and several decades of guitarists extending their instruments through preparation and modification, processing, new playing techniques, and different tuning systems.
The music on this album is informed by the aesthetic, timbral, compositional and conceptual innovations of Derek Bailey, Adrian Belew, Glenn Branca, Robert Fripp, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Rowe, and Elliott Sharp, to name but a few. Yet there are always more things to say, more avenues to explore, and more artists popping up to advance down these paths.
"An excellent collection... What is striking is that most contributions are very accessible and experimental at the same time. At the same time it is a very diverse collection of contributions: ambient textures, looped sounds, free improvisation, noise, rock, world music, etc. This fine collection illustrates that the instrument Les Paul invented some 70 years ago, is still inspiring musicians to renew and extend possibilities in order to create interesting music. " - Vital Weekly www.vitalweekly.net/851.html
"The central theme on this set is guitar, but this is no noodling kind of guitar hero sort of compilation. It’s more weird, atmospheric music..." - Music Street Journal read the track by track review: www.musicstreetjournal.com/index_cdreviews_display.cfm?id=103715
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This compilation is the result of collaborations between late 2009 and late 2010 via the ImprovFriday and the Society for Shorty New Music online musical communities. Most of these tracks are in some sense remixes I made of pre-existing tracks, ranging from enhanced versions to entirely new compositions using the tracks as source material. Often improvisation was involved for one or both artists; some pieces employ alternate tuning systems. Most of these collaborations took place within a day and often spanned continents.
Banko is a bit less of a remix/recomposition in that I alternate Jeff Fairbanks' 4-bar miniature with a short phrase of my own, both phrases highly manipulated and dueling at the end. Propinquitwo is essentially an improvised duet, though I tweaked portions of it after I added my part. Sovva Duo is indeed a straight duo improvisation (single-take), with Lee Noyes adding drums to my keyboard improvisation a few hours after I posted it online.
There's something very personal about duos that sets them apart from group collaborations (such as the multiple-artist mash-ups I create). My hope for this collection is that many of these tracks will clearly present aspects of my collaborators' musical personalities refracted through the prism of my own recent musical proclivities.
I wish to thank all of my musical partners on this project as well as everyone in the IF and Shorty communities that helped make this last year of music-making so fun and fruitful. ‑BH
Released 21 December 2010
1 dam feat. Damaged Goods by Roger "ErocNet" Sundström
2 gated figures feat. Figures in the Mist by Peter Thörn
3 charm feat. second time by J.C. Combs
4 rand-col feat. Random Colors 2 by Norbert Oldani
5 linear two feat. linear (12_18_09) by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
6 trom feat. Trumpet Warm Up #1 by Paul H. Muller
7 sovva duo feat. Lee Noyes, drums
8 shard hopping ritual feat. Shards by Kavin Allenson
9 waspermix feat. wasp god by Michael Vincent Waller
10 wandermix feat. Wandering by Mike Crain
11 fantasy feat. improv.02.26.10 by Benjamin Smith
12 propinquitwo feat. Propinquity by Jérôme Poirier
13 cake ascending feat. Ascension by Steve Layton
14 SoLaris reMix feat. SoLaris by dan stearns
15 piano-panini feat. Piano signal by Adam Kondor
16 sky is rising feat. wire behind my home by Glenn Weyant
17 banko feat. bank by Jeff Fairbanks
18 losoforemix feat. A Love Song for Erin by Eric Schwartz
19 noi flo feat. Noise Floor by Jim Goodin
20 hertz so good feat. Melody alpha by Paul Hertz
21 legs and branches feat. Last Legs by Steve Moshier
artwork by Miles Hamilton-Sommer
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01. raar (featuring Jeff Fairbanks, Kavin Allenson, Norbert Oldani)
02. glibs (featuring Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Paul Muller, Adam Kondor, Bruce Hamilton)
03. rome (featuring Paul Hertz, Benjamin Smith, Glenn Weyant, Steve Moyes, Peter Thörn)
04. convermash (featuring Paul Muller, Jérôme Poirier, Jude Cowan, Chris Vaisvil, Roger Sundström)
05. doorbler (featuring Steve Layton, Peter Thörn)
06. loose ends (featuring Steve Moshier, J.C. Combs, Greg Hooper)
07. chunka (featuring Norbert Oldani, Kavin Allenson, Roger Sundström)
08. lightness of bleeping (featuring Jeff Duke, Steve Moshier, Benjamin Smith)
09. bonfire machines (featuring Chris Becker, Paul Muller, Lee Noyes, Bruce Hamilton)
10. emu lunaire (featuring Jan Civil, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen)
11. fria (featuring Jérôme Poirier, Lee Noyes, Shane Cadman)
12. qua (featuring Don Bplaektree, Jérôme Poirier, Gerald DeGroote, Roger Sundström)
13. curtains (electric sheep) (featuring Roger Sundström, Adam Kondor, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Bruce Hamilton)
14. trio procession (featuring Steve Layton, Shane Cadman, Greg Hooper)
15. mettle/meddle (featuring Roger Sundström, J-P Kervinen, Jim Goodin)
16. cousins (featuring Jeff Fairbanks, Steve Moshier)
17. line pumpercar (featuring Steve Layton, Peter Thörn)
18. glassloops (featuring Jeff Duke, David Perreko, Bruce Hamilton)
19. dronedrift (featuring Steve Moshier, Peter Thörn, Anonymouse, Don Bplaektree)
An album of experimental mashups culled from 'ImprovFriday' events, 'society For ShortY new music' collaborations, and Facebook sharing.
Remolding preexisting material has become one of my favorite musical habits of the past three years. Most of these works were created during ImprovFriday, a weekly online event where folks typically post brand new works or improvisations and can expect to have them mashed into new pieces by others within hours. The process of creating works on the fly is very challenging but also immensely fun. In my own case, not every mashup will succeed to the same degree but there are always some I end up loving as compositions (featuring my talented friends).
As with my duo collaboration album “duopoly” there are multiple approaches involved when making these. Some mashes are fairly hands-off, letting the component pieces speak for themselves, revealing accidental (and coerced) musical connections between often disparate sources. In other mashes I may edit and process the tracks almost beyond recognition. Sometimes I add my own instrumental contributions; and sometimes my mashups contain other mashups or online jam sessions.
This album is dedicated to my collaborators, whose audio contributions served as both the inspiration and raw materials for these tracks.
All tracks - Bruce Hamilton: editing, arranging, processing, mixing, mastering.
Artwork by Miles Hamilton-Sommer.
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