organized music from thessaloniki
is involved in promoting improvised and experimental music, through events in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece, and lately through the release of audio documents.
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january '10:
would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who helped make 2009 a landmark year for the label. thank you the support and trust you showed. also, a good year to all
now, while you're waiting for the new crops to drop (soon) and for the online shop to re-open (in february hopefully), you might take some time to read the reviews of SLW's Fifteen point nine grams cd that have been piling up here.
see you on the other side
november '09:
temporary leave
beginning this month, i am forced to spend some time away from most music related activities. During this time the shop will be closed (though you can always contact me for getting discs, as long as you're not in a hurry), but some activities will still be bubbling underneath
forthcoming (early '10):
CRANC - 2nd album
(Angharad Davies, Nikos Veliotis, Rhodri Davies)
on absurd/organized music from thessaloniki
interview:
a Lucio Capece interview is up at tokafi; questions focus on the nature and the collaboration inside the SLW project
just out:
t07. cd edition, 500 copies
september '09
the new SLW album is now available for purchase. 'Fifteen point nine grams' is the second release from the quartet of Burkhard Beins, Lucio Capece, Rhodri Davies and Toshimaru Nakamura. The recording was made at a 2007 concert in Parthenay, France and was mixed for the purposes of this release by Toshimaru Nakamura.
The artwork for this disc was created by QQ in Argentina. QQ was also responsible for the artwork for Lucio Capece and Sergio Merce's disc 'Casa' that we released exactly one year ago
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fifteen point nine grams is now available from our shop. it will also be available from our distributors shortly
do note that, for a limited time, you can purchase 'Fifteen point nine grams', along with the aformentioned Capece/Merce cd 'Casa', directly from us at a specially reduced price.
august '09
in preparation:
SLW
(Burkhard Beins, Lucio Capece, Rhodri Davies, Toshimaru Nakamura)
15.9 grams
second album from the modern-day supergroup. after the breath of fresh air that was their debut release on formed records in 2008, we are very pleased to announce the release of their second recording -a document of a live appearance at the NPAI festival in Parthenay, France in the summer of that very year.
available in september 2009.
brief instructions: louden up now
june '09
we now have a myspace page, it happens to the best of us i suppose.
also, thanks to everyone who spent time with our most recent discs. they seem to have been well received, which makes our work here all the more pleasant.
march '09
out now are three new cd-r editions:
-patrick farmer - Apis mellifera, moved to and fro
enviromental recordings & treatments from this very active musician, recordist & co-curator of the compost & height blog and label
-stasis duo 3
latest release from this seminal australian 'sinecore' outfit. comes in a plain sleeve made of handmade paper. don't miss out on this one
-syndromes / kostis kilymis -
just another daily bummer
overloaded waves of mixing-board hiss & subtle feedback. very limited bare-bones edition that we should ideally be releasing on tape. if we had access to a tape deck or duplicator that is...
just the right sounds to keep your mind excited through the idle afternoons of the impending summer or, in the case of the syndromes disc, to blast through your car speakers as you're moving through nerve-shattering traffic in any city you like to call home (it's been road-tested and proven effective).
all are available from our shop, along with a couple of new distributed items. our three new releases are also available bundled together in a slightly reduced price. ...sorry, the syndromes disc is now sold out on our side; you can still find it at some of our distributors...
oh, and pascal battus' and alfredo costa monteiro's ductile is now running short...
new releases in the box
february '09 update
a busy month in our offices, this one. even if it doesn't show here yet. stay tuned for a new batch of cd-rs, and another cd release at some point later on..
august '08 update, part2:
the story so far: the two first official releases of our label (Ductile by Pascal Battus & Alfredo Costa Monteiro and .accumulated by kostis kilymis) were released in early '08. Ductile is an amazing disc of intensely focused improvised music in which all sounds used are sourced from the manipulation of paper (& don't assume the recording is anywhere near quiet for that reason). .accumulated gathers some audio constructions by yours truly, material ranges from pure field recordings to assembled sound in an effort to develop one's musical language as it were. both releases still available.
available now is our next release, on CD this time, by argentinian musicians Lucio Capece & Sergio Merce. Titled "Casa", it finds Capece and Merce performing two pieces of impressive construction as well as astonishing clarity. both players are very active in the international scene of electro-acoustic improvisation (& beyond), Merce in argentina & Capece in myriad projects in europe and elsewhere. this recording marks a homecoming of shorts for Capece (or a re-union without a real break-up) and sees the two musicians taking the skills they've built within their various collaborative projects and using them for the purposes of an unusually focused statement.
if you are curious about the content, you can hear .mp3 samples of this & of our other records in their respective pages.
in some other Lucio Capece news, there is a great video of a performance with Rhodri Davies that took place in Berlin this spring available online. it can be found here: http://blip.tv/file/1267915/. Lucio's setup on it is the same used in the first track of Casa, so it is interesting to see in a different musical situation.
poster by QQ
