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New Jeffrey Butzer Album / Video "Collapsible" (Preview on Creative Loafing (USA)

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Local multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jeffrey Butzer continues staying active, as he recently unveiled yet another video and details for his forthcoming French language album, Collapsible, slated for a June 29 release on Lona Records.

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One of Butzer's many collaborators, acclaimed independent filmmaker gea*, unveiled a video last week that is set to the forthcoming album's instrumental title track. The video, like Butzer's music, leans toward a timeless, and classy pop feel. How well-received is the filmmaker's work? The late Roger Ebert was a vocal supporter of gea* and Butzer's previous video collaboration, "Case of Unspiraled Stairs."

The album can already be heard and preordered via Bandcamp. For locals and die-hards looking for a summer road trip, the pre-order can come with both a CD and a ticket to the release show atthe Goat Farm on June 29.

According to a press release from Butzer, Collapsible was originally intended to be a solo mini-album of original music played on toy instruments. Over time, that project evolved into a full album filled with guest stars, including Mastodon's Brent Hinds playing banjo, and vocals, sung in French. Vocals are provided by Frenchman Lionel Fondeville, who provided all the lyrics, and Butzer's Bicycle Eaters bandmate, multi-lingual local Cassi Costoulas.

http://clatl.com/cribnotes/archives/2013/05/28/jeffrey-btzer-unveils-new-video-album-details#more

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New Album: Jeffrey Butzer - Collapsible (Released 29 June, at the Goat Farm, USA)

http://jeffreybutzer.bandcamp.com/

http://www.lona-records.com/discography/locd80.html

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Event: An Art Bar Installation by Adrian Wong in collaboration with Absolut Art Bureau

May 22¡V25, 2013 open daily 5pm-2am
Featuring nightly live performances with Animatronics and DJ sets including Christiaan Virant (FM3) and Alok and serving bespoke ABSOLUT cocktails designed by Adrian Wong
5-6pm Animatronics
6-11pm Live Performances with Animatronics
11pm-2am DJ Sets

http://whitewallmag.com/all/art/adrian-wongs-wun-dun-at-art-basel-hong-kong

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An Interview: 10 Years Anniversary of Lona Records (South China Morning Post (Sunday Morning Post) 2013/04/14

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NEW RELEASES: Dao De Noize - Wings Of Akira

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Description:

Real Name: Artem Pismenetskii
Profile: Noise / Ambient project from Kharkiv (Ukraine).

Wings of Akira - Recorded in June 2011

Design by Alok Leung

TRACKLISTING:

1. Wings of Akira

http://www.lona-records.com/discography/locd76r.html

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NEW Digital EP: Jeffrey Bˆ¢tzer - Little Dark Eyed Love

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For immediate release (2.14.13)

The Great Big record label is releasing Little Dark Eyed Love by Jeffrey Bˆ¢tzer: a digital EP.

This is a collection of collaborations with Molly Harvey (The Residents), Brent Hinds (Mastodon, West End Motel), Bill Taft (Smoke, Hubcap City), Don Chambers, Monica Arrington (Nredkween), Cassi Costoulas (Jeffrey Bˆ¢tzer and the Bicycle Eaters) and French Composer Klimperei.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Little Dark Eyed Love (with Molly Harvey & Brent Hinds)
2. Hoodwinked (with Don Chambers, Bill Taft & Brent Hinds)
3. The Vanishing Act (with Klimperei)
4. Miserlou
5. Little Dark Eyed Love 2 (with Monica Arrington)
6. Hoodwinked 2 (with Cassi Costoulas)

Jeffrey Bˆ¢tzer: accordions, toy pianos, piano, melodica, resonator bells, glockenspiel, guitar, tongue drum, percussion

Molly Harvey: vocals
Cassi Costoulas: vocals
Don Chambers: vocals
Monica Arrington: vocals
Brent Hinds: banjo, guitar
Bill Taft: cornet
Klimperei (Christophe Petchanatz): guitar, charango, percussion, vocals

Music by: Jeffrey Bˆ¢tzer except: Hoodwinked by Jeffrey and Melissa Bˆ¢tzer / Miserlou (traditional)
Lyrics for Little Dark Eyed Love by Monica Arrington
Lyrics for Hoodwinked by Don Chambers

Artist bio:
Old televisions screening work from auteurs, scissors, bubbles and an otherwise intricate set make up Jeffrey Bˆ¢tzer¡¦s stage. Without even hearing his music, it is clear the musician is indebted to the cinema. After listening to a few minutes of his compositions, then, the ties become even more apparent.

When played by the solo musician, Bˆ¢tzer¡¦s music often comes across as minimal, melodic French musette. Typically instrumental, accordion, toy piano, bass drum, piano, and glockenspiel lead the songs into succinct, poignant narratives. With this style and instrumentation, Butzer has released two solo records, She Traded Her Leg (Lona, 2006) and The Garden of Scissors (Lona, 2009).

With his band, the Bicycle Eaters, Bˆ¢tzer maintains an entirely different M.O. Comprised of Bˆ¢tzer on piano, accordion, melodica and glockenspiel, Cassi Costoulas on lead, mostly French vocals, as well as players on guitar, cello, bass and percussion, the sound is closer to Ennio Morricone's spaghetti western scores. The original songs are left intact, but rendered in a wholly unique light, becoming more direct, intricate, and layered than the original counterparts. This, of course, is by design. Jeffrey Bˆ¢tzer & the Bicycle Eaters released their debut 7¡¨ EP entitled Hiding Plastic Spiders in early 2012 and have completed Collapsible, an LP to be released in 2013.

Bˆ¢tzer alternates between performing solo, as a trio and with his full band. Every outing fits the occasion and occupies a specific place in a personal show history. In other words, it is the unexpected which defines Bˆ¢tzer¡¦s shows. With his personal collection of songs regularly connected, altered, or reworked, it¡¦s as if the shows become more like movements.

Bˆ¢tzer¡¦s recent work includes an album and US tour with West End Motel featuring Brent Hinds (Mastodon) and Tom Cheshire (All Night Drug Prowling Wolves, The Rent Boys), a soundtrack to Raymond Carr¡¦s film Wild is the Wind¡Xwhich has been re-released as a solo record entitled Sleepwalking Winnipeg¡Xand a score for the play Peter Pan, that was performed by the Center for Puppetry Arts in 2012. He has ventured lately into the world of live scoring, where he performs to Buster Keaton¡¦s The Balloonatic.

Other notable achievements include touring China and France, a annual sold-out performance of Vince Gauraldi¡¦s A Charlie Brown Christmas with T.T. Mahony, a collaboration with Claire Lodge on a guitar album entitled Past Wansted Flats, live collaborations with Molly Harvey (The Residents), and a score for Chris Hefner¡¦s Birdcatcher, which earned him accolades from filmmaker Guy Maddin.

To listen:
www.jeffreybutzer.bandcamp.com

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NEW RELEASES: Jeffrey Bˆ¢tzer - Sleepwalking Winnipeg / Maurizio Bianchi - The Last 23 Minutes

Jeffrey Butzer - Sleepwalking Winnipeg

Description:

JB: piano, organ, melodica, glockenspiel, guitar, drums
Matt Jarrard: cello
Claire Lodge: guitar, autoharp

Produced by: Jeffrey Bˆ¢tzer and Matt Steadman
Music written by Jeffrey Bˆ¢tzer for Raymond Carr's film Wild is the Wind
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TRACKLISTING:

1. Sleepwalking Winnipeg 1
2. Stolen Light Bulbs
3. A Dimly Lit Balcony
4. Sleepwalking Winnipeg 2
5. Portrait of A Scuba Diver
6. There's No Such Thing As A Secret
7. A White, White Day

http://www.lona-records.com/discography/locd75r.html

Maurizio Bianchi - The Last 23 Minutes

Description:

There are no explanatory notes for this composition, but only the feeling that comes from listening to conclusive and terminal sounds.

Countless thanks to Siegmar F. for his terminal assistance.
Final paintings by Hayat Saidi (http://www.hayatsaidi.com/)

TRACKLISTING:

1. IT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED! (JOHN 19:30)
2. FATHER, INTO YOUR HANDS I ENTRUST MY SPIRIT (LUKE 23:46)
3. THE LAST MINUTES

http://www.lona-records.com/discography/locd74r.html

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Jeffrey Bˆ¢tzer offers soundtrack EP + vocal track from forthcoming album, 'Collapsible¡¦

Jeffrey Bˆ¢tzer and Matt Jarrard (Oryx and Crake) recently released a new EP, titled Sleepwalking Winnipeg, and if you¡¦re familiar with either of their respective endeavors you¡¦ll notice that they¡¦ve delved into a darker terrain with these songs. Recorded for the soundtrack to Raymond Carr¡¦s film, Wild Is the Wind, there¡¦s a spaghetti Western element flourishing here, but these songs have more in common with Godspeed You Black Emperor than they do with Ennio Morricone¡¦s epic scores, and the real star here is the mean and meandering guitar that snakes along in ¡§There¡¦s No Such Thing As A Secret.¡¨
There's also a synthesis of sometimes bold, sometimes gracious string and piano arrangements going on here culminating in a miniature collection of songs that are both dreary and bewitching as they embark on a nocturnal stroll through the city. And although the EP isn't really among Bˆ¢tzer or Jarrard¡¦s most accomplished works, the flowing nature of it all makes for a charming and ultimately cinematic listen.. Keep an eye out for 3-inch CD version due out via Lona Records.

In the meantime, Bˆ¢tzer has a new record in the works, titled Collapsible. "Pick Pocket" offers a sneak peak at what he's got in store, and it features vocals by French singer and composer Lionel Fondeville.The two met when they ere were asked to collaborate for a song on the Music For Toys # 5 comp. on Paris' Monster K7. Since then Fondeville has written lyrics for a handful of Bˆ¢tzer's newer numbers, and Collapsible will actually feature several guest vocal appearances. Stay tuned for more.

http://clatl.com/cribnotes/archives/2012/07/18/jeffrey-btzer-offers-soundtrack-ep-vocal-track-from-forthcoming-album-collapsible--

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Review on Alok & Zen Lu - RedShift on Igloomag.com

Recorded live at the Liangcha Shop in Shenzhen, whose ¡§herbal tea¡¨ doesn¡¦t come in leaf form but rather audio/visual happenings, art exhibits, and limited edition book publishing. Alok Leung, a veteran experimental soundmaker and founder of Lona Records, is one of Hong Kong¡¦s most energetic promoters of innovative noises, while Zen Lu has been curating events and pursuing his interest in increasingly experimental directions alone and in collaboration with international artists including Poland¡¦s Grzegorz Bojanek, whose latest solo album was recently reviewed in these pages.

A redshift is a lowering in the wavelength of light, such as when it is loosed from the bonds of gravity. RedShift is twenty-two minutes and twenty-two seconds of reaching for the stars, only to be interfered with and buffeted by microwave static. While certainly bleak, it doesn¡¦t qualify as dark ambient, but rather unromantically cosmic. The galaxy is a cold and empty ocean, which is what makes the brief, unexplained siren song midway through so welcome and reassuring. Like encountering a space mermaid.

http://igloomag.com/reviews/alok-zen-lu-redshift-lona

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The Sound Of Confusion: Band To Check Out: The Yours

Being a UK-based site it's unsurprising that much of the music we feature is from the UK, North America and Europe as scenes and styles translate well and, certainly with North America, there's no language barrier preventing the music from seeping into UK press, radio, TV, websites etc. In the past five years we've been lucky enough to be pointed in the direction of some great bands from a little further afield. I think I can be fairly confident in saying that The Yours are the first group from Hong Kong to have graced our ears, and we'd like to tell you a bit about the music scene there, but frankly we haven't got a clue. If we take The Yours as a barometer then there could be some undiscovered treasure to be hunted down (and feel free to drop us an email if so...), if not then there's certainly an appetite. The Yours have supported Yuck, The Drums and even The Jesus & Mary Chain at gigs back home.

That trio of bands also form a tidy little descriptive package of how The Yours' own music sounds. They've been around for a while, releasing an EP in 2005, but it's taken them until now to produce follow-up 'The Way We Were'. Tracks from both are available to stream or download on bandcamp and you should find that they're inspired by punk rock and distortion heroes such as Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine. This is punk in structure and ideals, but fed through an array of pedals and with an ear for a big pop hook. The Yours have got this template nailed down and it sounds like second nature to them. With a natural style that fits, all you need then is the tunes and they're not short on those. We've selected 'Slip Out' and 'Straighthead' as examples but there's a goldmine just waiting for anyone who likes their guitars scuzzy, their melodies sweet and their production gracefully ragged.

Review by KevW

http://www.indierockcafe.com/2012/09/overseas-band-to-watch-hong-kong-shoegaze-post-punk-band-the-yours/

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Review on The Yours - The Way We Were on Indie Rock Cafe

You probably won¡¦t hear the latest singles from the band, The Yours, on any other major indie blog or website, but the Lona Records recording artist from Hong Kong got our attention with two tracks they sent us from The Way We Were, which officially dropped last Saturday, September 15th. In fact, a search of The Hype Machine found no recent entries for The Yours.

The Yours have been touted as one of the most promising bands in Hong Kong for quite some time, but it took seven years to deliver their debut LP. The band¡¦s sound is an interesting mix of shoegaze, psychedelic rock, and post punk pop layered with melodic, fuzzy guitar licks, hard-hitting percussion and disaffected lyrics delivered with reverb-heavy vocals modeled after their favorite bands - Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins and My Bloody Valentine.

Hot and humid, bitter and sweet. The Yours translates the subtropical summer of Hong Kong into a rich wall of noise featuring raw, sprawling punk rock sensibilities. Having supported the likes of The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Drums, Yuck and British Sea Power following the 2005 release of their well-received debut EP, Abraham, the band¡¦s lineup evolved alongside its composing structure where they derive inspiration from shared admiration of their favorite 80¡¬s and 90¡¬s alternative rock bands. Their debut is a 13-song album that ¡§resonates the deviation and devotion of adolescent angst.¡¨

The first track, ¡§Honey Treats,¡¨ is undoubtably one of the stand-out tracks released in the past week (a week of incredible singles from new album drops). In an interview with Time Out, band members Jack Leung, Nic Wong, Tim Ng, Gwyneth Tang and Nelson Ko provided a brief introduction to each song on their long-awaited debut album. Regarding ¡§Honey Treats,¡¨ it ¡¨could be the most radio-friendly song we have. We feel like we¡¦re sucked into a spiral of nostalgia every time we play this guitar ¡¥solo¡¦ part. Though we must have played this a hundred times, we still feel just as overwhelmed.¡¨

The band about ¡§Straight Head,¡¨ the second single: ¡§This is probably the catchiest song on the album yet it was created from the frustration we felt from people who just don¡¦t ¡¥get it¡¦. Music-wise, it¡¦s our version of The Smiths trying to be like Dinosaur Jr.¡¨

Review by Maxwell Silver

http://www.indierockcafe.com/2012/09/overseas-band-to-watch-hong-kong-shoegaze-post-punk-band-the-yours/

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Review on Alok & jrg_one - 628 Interface on Avant Music News

Hong Kong multimedia artist Alok Leung has been issuing streams of thought-provoking, mostly electronic music since 2002 on his Lona Records label. Often small gems of the 3″ CDR variety, its roster includes international luminaries like Maurizio Bianchi, Yan Jun and Roel Meelkop and pleasant surprises like Edwin Lo and Nisei23.

On the first, solo track of his new album, Alok irradiates the space with a huge evergrowing pulsating brainwave that instead of coming to a conclusion is overcome by the second track, a collaboration with ex-pat American Jackson Garland. Recording as jrg_one, Garland recently moved to Hanoi after six or seven years living and working in China. ¡§Interface¡¨ was recorded live by the duo at a cool, disreputable bar in Beijing in 2009. Supplemented by his looped natural and synthesized ingredients, they let loose a wilder sound than Alok´s ¡§628 am¡¨ and a lion tamer´s whip cracks regularly to keep it in line.

Far noisier than the first track, but not raucous and intrusive ¡V rather, the half-hour long ¡§Interface¡¨ agreeably disorients the senses, like being slightly drunk in a subway station crowded with rush hour passengers whom you, in no hurry to get home, are at leisure to sit back and enjoy observing. Twenty minutes into the piece and some rather noble tones are struck. You see how sometimes it is worth just staying put in one place for a while?

http://www.lona-records.com/discography/locd72r.html

Review by Stephen Fruitman

http://avantmusicnews.com/2012/09/06/amn-reviews-alok-jrg_one-628-interface-lona-records/

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The Yours - Slip Out (their 4th Single from their album The Way We Were

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Alok - Fashion Rockmance Party + Free USB Souvenir:


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Trends'On August Issue Cover Story: The Yours - Teenage Riot:

Read it online for free!

http://issuu.com/trendsontrendson/docs/aug2012_online
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The Yours - The Way We Were (New Album Preview and Interview) on Time Out Magazine:

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The Yours have long been hailed as one of Hong Kong¡¦s most promising bands. But, for more than seven years, we¡¦ve waited for their debut album. Finally, at Hidden Agenda this fortnight, it launches. Especially for Time Out, Hong Kong¡¦s post-punk mainstays of Jack Leung, Nic Wong, Tim Ng, Gwyneth Tang and Nelson Ko talk us through the inspirations behind the 13-track beast of psychedelic guitar pop that is The Way We Were.

Track by track:

Plastic Power
We wanted to write an album about teen spirit and summer. This was the first song written and represents the album: noise, love and teenage angst. The main guitar riff is simple yet warm and melodic enough to replace a ¡¥proper chorus¡¦.

THE YOURS - Honey Treats

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Honey Treats 
This could be the most radio-friendly song we have. We feel like we¡¦re sucked into a spiral of nostalgia every time we play this guitar ¡¥solo¡¦ part. Though we must have played this a hundred times, we still feel just as overwhelmed.

The Way We Were 
When writing this, we knew this was going to be special, something that signifies the rebirth of our band. We were going through old demos and found a recording of this done in our shabby bandroom. It sounded like magic!

Slip Out 
This is one of our favourite tracks on the album. We love the drone of guitar noise in this ¡¥love song¡¦. Even though it doesn¡¦t sound like one, indeed it is.

Sleazy Sleep 
A noise-filled, melodic riff plays throughout this song. It has a The Pains of Being Pure at Heart-playing Dinosaur Jr/Smashing Pumpkins-tinged punk. This is the very last song we wrote for the album and brings the album back to its summery feel.

On The Road 
This song is about tragedy, helplessness and isolation. It was written when we were very into the movie My Own Private Idaho and the movie Boys Don¡¦t Cry was another inspiration of this song.

City Film Club 
This started out as a lengthy dream pop tune but it felt right to rearrange it as an interlude. The final noisy waves are actually Jack fiddling with multiple guitar delay effect pedals while Tim was strumming chords.

THE YOURS - Straight Head

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Straight head 
This is probably the catchiest song on the album yet it was created from the frustration we felt from people who just don¡¦t ¡¥get it¡¦. Music-wise, it¡¦s our version of The Smiths trying to be like Dinosaur Jr.

Essence 
The song was written with an acoustic guitar by Jack. We turned it into an atmospheric, dreamy one, blended with shoegazey ambient sounds done by tremolo strumming and the duet by Jack and Nic.

Everything¡¦s Behind Me 
This was the toughest drum track for Nelson to record. The outro features Tim showcasing his guitar wizardry. We still don¡¦t know how he did that ¡V even Tim!

THE YOURS - Over (Super 8 Film Version)

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Over 
The intensity, the anger... it¡¦s all in there. We particularly love playing this live so we can all watch Nic scream his guts out. We did a music video for this and it was a fun experience.

Lee Lee 
This was written when we were trying to write a fast/energetic garage punk song, but it came out to be this slow ballad now. One of our members is a fan of the band Lovesliescrushing, so this is our way to pay homage.

Bitter Melon Juice 
What makes this song special is that it was actually written while we were fighting. It grew so tense we could barely talk to each other. The intro was already jammed out, so we had to go on. The rest was just pure emotion and it fitted really well. It quickly became one of our favourites.

With Mark Tjhung

http://www.timeout.com.hk/music/features/52471/the-yours-exclusive-album-preview.html
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The Yours - Honey Treats (2012 New Single) MV at NME Magazine:

http://www.nme.com/nme-video/youtube/id/mMi-cdpJGS8
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Album Review and Interview with Jeffrey Butzer ¡V for his ¡§Hiding Plastic Spiders 7″ + a video & free music from BeAtlanta,com

 

We find ourselves walking in a quaint European town when we turn the corner and suddenly a gypsy carnival has captivated our attention. The new 7″ from Jeffery Butzer and the Bicycle Eaters is an album that builds a visual story with the personality of varied instruments. It is as if each instrument is a character in a film that leaves it up to you to develop a plot. This one is a genius of collaboration and mixing.

Locusts     

We get the feeling of anticipation that something great is happening. The song holds your attention and is like walking into a story of your own design. A bit Irish jig and a bit carnival you think this can only get better.

Hiding Plastic Spiders

This one is a bit playful and childish with a great flow of strings and piano duet. It¡¦s calm, relaxing, and dreamy. The use of instruments in the progression of a story builds and starts to define definite images.

Scribner

A high pitch Fur Elise thrusts you quickly into a carnival atmosphere. Something almost gypsy makes use want to scream yay! or oi! This is a dancy tune you can move your feet to.

She Traded Her Leg

A bit more emotional and melancholy than the rest with the cello taking a definite driving force makes us bit sad. Or, is that hope that we hear?

Stairs

With the last song on the album the fiddle and accordion hold no bars back with a guitar whine that takes makes the personality of each instrument clear to the listener. A great end to something pleasing and leaves you with lasting self made images.

The Interview

B: Who is playing the varied instruments throughout the album?

I play accordion, piano and a couple other things on the album. Chad Shivers on guitar, Kristin Haverty on cello, Bill Brisby on bass and Eric Balint on marimba, glockenspiel, resonator bells, and percussion. And we got the amazing Mark Carbone to drum on two of the tracks.

B: I see a lot of final mixes. How many times will you remix the song up before deciding on a final version. What is that process like?

This is the first time I haven¡¦t mixed my own music. Luci the producer on it has been mixing. Normally it doesn¡¦t take me too long to mix. This was a little harder.?This was the first time I recorded with a band. Normally I multi-track parts and sometimes I¡¦ve brought in people afterwards. For this, we recorded several of us live in the room, then over dubbed the cello and a couple small things.?

B: What is your favorite song on the album?

I think Hiding Plastic Spiders. Chad wrote the second melody and Mark came up with the drum idea and it completely flipped the song around. That is sort of how the Bicycle Eaters work. I come in with flour and eggs and they turn it into cake somehow.

B: Do you have a video from the album or a favorite song we can post on the website?

Yes, my friend Gea made one and is working on ideas for a second. It turned out really nice. And Roger Ebert re-posted it on his FB page¡K.

Get a free track from Jeffrey Butzer¡¦s ¡§Hiding Plastic   Spiders 7″

http://beatlanta.com/album-review-and-interview-with-jeffrey-butzer-for-his-hiding-plastic-spiders-7-a-video-free-music/

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NEW RELEASES: Yan Jun¡CWong Chung-fai - M

M is a special improvisation project initiated by Yan Jun and Wong Chung-fai. The first performance of M was presented in Shenzhen (Neo Sound, 2009). In the same year, another performance was presented in Beijing (Waterland Kwanyin, 2009), with Yan Jun and Wong Chung-fai improvising on Harmonic Field. It is a unique instrument designed and handmade by American sound art device artists, Arius Blaze and Ben Houston of Folktek. No keyboard. No strings. Only forty-eight metal contact points. The performer is required to use his/her body as part of the circuitry to generate sounds.

M is a documentation of the mentioned two performances.

Biography:

Yan Jun
Yan Jun, working with sound and language.

Born in Lanzhou in 1973. Based in Beijing. B.A. of Chinese Literature.

As an improviser he uses feedback noise in recent concerts. sound influenced by PA, space and audience¡¦s movement. observe rather than express. a portable project ¡§micro feedback¡¨: for hypnotize audience by earphone.

Occasionally use sunflower seeds as instrument. also field recording, site-specific sound, writing, publishing, curating.

Founder of Sub Jam/Kwanyin Records. Member of FEN (Fareast Network). Has toured around China and internationally.

2011: Asian Culture Council residency in New York; Rotterdam International Poetry Festival; Honorary Mention of Prix Ars Electronica; Living Room Tour project Beijing¡K

Wong Chung-fai
Also known as Sin:Ned, an idiosyncratic improviser, experimentalist, live-visualist, mirco-curator and free-lance writer from Hong Kong. Also co-founder of the experimental imprint Re-Records, member of the electro-acoustic duo No One Pulse, and Advisor of soundpocket.

Being a veteran writer of the legendary Hong Kong alternative music magazine MCB (Music Colony B-Weekly), his writings had influenced a wide spectrum of experimental musicians and listeners. While not writing as a pseudo-music critic elaborating his esoteric worldview, in the same idiosyncratic fashion, he spends much of his time hacking and sculpting sonic materials with his laptop and various non-standard electronic gears. With his on-going experimentation embracing improvisation, noise, errors, chaos and randomness, he has been re-visioning an unorthodox sound-making process expressed in extreme dichotomies, and driven by intuition and direct experience.

He has offered performance and creative work for concert, sound installation, workshop, audio-visual and theatrical performance. He had taken part and performed in various art events such as HK Sound and Vision Festival (2003), Get It Louder (2007), Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (2007, 2009), Architecture is Art Festival (2009), Notch Festival 2009 Guangzhou Station (2009).

File under: Circuit Bending, Noise, Improvisation

TRACKLISTING:
01. ~^
Recorded live at Liangcha Shop, Shenzhen, China, May 2009

02. ¡ï¡î
Recorded live at 2 Kolegas Bar, Beijing, China, August 2009

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NEW RELEASES: Alok / jrg_one - 628 Interface & Alok / Zen Lu - RedShift

   

Locd72r - Alok / jrg_one - 628 Interface (Ltd100)

Description:

1. Composed by Alok, recorded at bitMap Studio, 11, 2010 - 6, 2011
2. Composed by Alok and jrg_one, recorded live at Live at 2 Kolegas Bar, Beijing, 25,08,2009

Bio:

Alok, a sound artist, guitarist and bassist. In 2002, he set up his own record label Lona Records, and started working as a producer. From the end of 2002 to 2011, he released 7 albums and 6 cd singles. He has played and participated in more than 150 shows and experimental events / projects in Hong Kong and China. Phon¢Xnoir was also invited to take part in the remix album of Phon¢Xnoir, an electronica German artist.

jrg_one (aka. Jackson Garland) has been producing and performing since 2005 in Beijing, China, and moved to Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2011. His music melds strains of dark ambient sounds and driving, subterranean rhythmic force. It reaches out from the hidden spaces between spaces to assault listeners' ears with extended dronescapes that unfold like haunted, creaking journeys through the dream world. Rising out of organic and electronic textures, fuzzed-out thick synth tones, looped vocals and layered rhythmic beats are punctuated by bursts of shimmering noise and ethereal haze. jrg_one's music makes use of prepared samples, field recordings, programming and live vocal and instrument looping...

Photo and design by Alok Leung

TRACKLISTING:

1. 6:28am (15:57)
2. Interface (Live at 2 Kolegas Bar, Beijing) (32:25)

www.lona-records.com/discography/locd72r.html

Locd73r - Alok / Zen Lu - RedShift (Ltd50)

Description:

Recorded live at Liangcha Shop, Shenzhen, 16th May, 2009. Mastered and edited by Alok.

Bio:

Zen Lu, an experimental musician and sound artist, hosted and founded We Play!Records,and he is the founder of Neo Sound group,is now working and living in Shenzhen,China. In the past few years, while insisting on independent solo composing, Zenlu founded and joined in several local musical outfits. In 2002, he founded a post-rock group ¡§Consciousness¡¨. In 2004, he joined YOUNG CRAZY, and it was there he developed a huge interest in the genres of experimental electronica and industrial noise. In April 2006, he formed ZenBOBO and by that time he has become totally engrossed in composing minimalist/ambient music. In September 2006, he collaborated with Polish experimental musician Grzegorz Bojanek and formed ChoP, from which an album is to come out. In the future series of release of ChoP, two musicians of different nationalities will be invited to join in composing for each release. In May 2007,he founded Skybox duo with Dickson Dee. Zenlu has performed in New Vision Arts Festival(Hong Kong),SAND Festival(Hong Kong), Asia Europe Music Camp and Clandestino Festival(Gothenburg,Sweden), Moving Closer International New Media Festival(Warsaw,Poland),Chinese Sound Art in Poland project(5 cities in Poland),Get It Louder Exhibition(Guangzhou ,China),etc. Actively taking part both in solo and group composing, Zenlu has gradually established his another musical personality with his distinctively abstract and visual style of electronic music. Zenlu also organized experimental music/sound art performance in Shenzhen.

Photo and design by Alok Leung

TRACKLISTING:

1. RedShift (22:22))

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New Silentes CD in LONA STORE:

UNDER THE SNOW - Delta
ENRICO CONIGLIO & UNDER THE SNOW - Dialogue One
FARYUS & VADIM BONDARENKO - Quiet Songs From Misty Places
DEISON - Night Sessions
YANNICK FRANCK & PIETRO RIPARBELLI - Whinny Muir
CLAUDIO ROCCHETTI - Every Live Is Problem Solving
SCHER PELZ | AMUN CELL - Hibakusha
GIANLUCA BECUZZI - [In]visible Fields (2CD)
MAURIZIO BIANCHI / M.B. & JAN-M IVERSEN - Rekviem MB-JMI
NIMH - Krungthep Archives
OPIUM | SOSTRAH TINNITUS - Stain
LASIK SURGERY - Cyclo (CD+DVD)
ANTIKATECHON - Privilegium Martyrii

http://www.lona-records.com/silentes.htm

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Review on Maurizio Bianchi - Kathameja (Review Rockerilla Nov 2011)

http://www.rockerilla.com/

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Show: Medium 2: Intercepting Sound & Object

  

Date: 5th Nov 2011 (7PM)

Location: Osage Atelier, 4/F Union Hing Yip Factory Building, 20 Hing Yip Street

Featuring German sound artist Gregory Bˆ¢ttner, ¡§Medium 2¡¨ is an electro-acoustic sound performance using different external speakers and resonating objects as the core instruments. Non-musical resonance bodies are being placed on the speakers to modulate the sounds. A performance that re-vision our understanding of sound as object and object as sound.

Artists:
Gregory Bˆ¢ttner (Electronics / Germany)
Alok (Electronics / Hong Kong)
Wong Chung-fai (Electronics / Hong Kong)

Co-organized by: Re-Records

http://www.re-records.com/

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NEW RELEASES: Maurizio Bianchi / M.B. - Kathamenja / Roel Meelkop - Live at LMC (COMING SOON 05/09/2011)

  

Locd70r - Maurizio Bianchi - Kathamenja (Ltd150)

Description: Depurative decomposition for electro-metabolic apparatus, originally secreted during the second half of 6030 Annus Mundi, then definitively flowed on 6034 Annus Mundi

Preface: 'In the informal medicalese, "kathamenja" is the synonymous for sanguiferous menstruations, gory menses, bleeding period, but the self-regulation of veritable sparingness infringes the obscurantist prototype for melanotic legalization. The halogen inspiration dispraises every particle of this conveyer opus, until the cankerous anaesthetization. Is it purely impressionable or merely indifferent?'

TRACKLISTING:

1. FSH-LH (8:27)
2. THE SCARLET FLUX (11:51)
3. MECTPYO EVACUATION (14:49)
4. PHYSIOLOGIC CATHARSIS (9:50)
5. KATHAMENJA (24:32)

http://www.lona-records.com/discography/locd70r.html

Locd71r - Roel Meelkop - Live at LMC (Ltd100)

Description: Recorded live during LMC's 15th Annual Festival of Experimental Music at the ICA in London onDecember 15th 2006.
Many thanks to the LMC for their good care and especially to Benedict Drew for inviting me.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Live at LMC (44:27)

www.r0m.nl/

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ANOTHER NEW VIDEO from Jeffrey Butzer and the Bicyle Eaters Live at the Earl

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NEW ALBUM Jeffrey Bˆ¢tzer & Claire Lodge - Past Wanstead Flats on cdbaby.com

   

Buy It Now: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/butzerlodge

Claire Lodge and Jeffrey Bˆ¢tzer are releasing their first album together, Past Wanstead Flats. After playing together in various projects for what seems like a small eternity, Lodge and Bˆ¢tzer have created the record to showcase their shared interest in loosely-structured, quickly-composed music. Close in sound to one of their current projects, The Compartmentalizationalists, the album combines elements of surf, Itallian film music and experimental, angular guitar sounds. Unlike that former project, however, Lodge and Bˆ¢tzer are the only musicians present.

Written and recorded in one eleven day stretch last year, Past Wanstead Flats uses influences such as Sonny Sharrock, Marc Ribot, Sonic Youth and PJ Harvey, as a foundation for the music and a way to create common ground between the two musicians. Bˆ¢tzer has released two solo albums She Traded Her Leg (2006) and The Garden of Scissors (2009) through Lona Records (Hong Kong). Lodge divides her time between the UK and the States, she has participated in a myriad of bands and projects. Only recently did the guitarist/producer begin to showcase her own material, starting with the Compartmentalizationalists and following with this project. Wholly instrumental, the album features Lodge on guitars and Bˆ¢tzer on guitar and drums, and was created by recording loosely structured songs live to tape. In turn, after recording, each musician did one guitar overdub.

TRACKLISTING:
1. Suture 3:24
2. Under My Left Eyelid 2:45
3. Espionage, Sometimes 3:26
4. Hotel Explosion 3:08
5. Undiscovered Room 3:07
6. Violent Polka-dots 2:14
7. Born Without A Neck 2:21
8. Past Wanstead Flats 2:27


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New Video from Jeffrey Butzer and the Bicyle Eaters Live at the Earl

http://www.myspace.com/butzermusic

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Jeffrey Bützer tour dates plus special show with Yann Tiersen!

   

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West End Motel with Fiend Without A Face and Jeffrey Butzer US Tour:

Jan 5 One Eyed Jacks New Orleans, LA
Jan 6 Fitzgerald's Houston, TX
Jan 7 Rubber Gloves Denton, TX
Jan 8 Red 7 Austin, TX
Jan 10 Low Spirits Albuquerque, NM
Jan 13 The Casbah San Diego, CA
Jan 16 Alex's Bar Long Beach, CA
Jan 18 ...The Satellite Los Angeles, CA
Jan 21 Juanita's Little Rock, AR
Jan 22 The Nick Birmingham, AL

Yann Tiersen / Shannon Wright / Jeffrey Butzer
Feb 11 Masquerade Atlanta Ga

Hello!
I am heading out west!
I will open up playing my music.
then i will playing organ, piano, bells, melodica and things with West End Motel and Fiend Without a Face
(Feat. Brent Hinds of Mastodon and Tom Cheshire)

Please come out! email me and let me know, I will try and get you the guest list.
If you know press people or have links to local blogs and papers, please send them along

Thanks, Jeffrey

http://www.myspace.com/westendmotel

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A Brand New Free Download Soundtrack From Jeffrey Bützer: Wild Is The Wind

   

For a limited time, we are giving away the prolific Jeffrey Bützer¡¦s soundtrack to Wild Is The Wind, a film by Raymond Carr. The film will be screened at The Plaza Theater this Monday, November 15th.

WILD IS THE WIND
by Jeffrey Bützer
Music from and inspired by the Raymond Carr film:

1. ¡§Sleepwalking Winnipeg¡¨
2. ¡§Stolen Light Bulbs¡¨
3. ¡§A Dimly Lit Balcony¡¨
4. ¡§There Is No Such Thing As A Secret¡¨
5. ¡§Portrait Of A Scuba Diver¡¨
6. ¡§Sleepwalking Winnipeg 2″
7. ¡§Wild Is The Wind¡¨

Jeffrey Bützer: piano, melodica, glockenspiel, organ, guitar, drums, autoharp
Claire Lodge: guitar (1,5,6)
Matt Jarrard (Oryx And Crake): cello (1,2,3,5)
Chad Shivers (Sorry No Ferrari): guitar (7)
Nerdkween: vocals (7)
William j. Brisby: bass (7)

All music by Jeffrey Bützer except ¡§Wild Is The Wind¡¨ ¡V written by Dimitri Tiomkin/Ned Washington

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A Merry Christmas and A Beautiful New Year 2011

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