{NEW RELEASE} Doron Sadja ✡ RESIDUALS !
Shinkoyo is thrilled to announce the release of Doron Sadja’s RESIDUALS – out April 2012!
“Residuals” is a four movement, hyper-emotive, ultra-synthetic landscape. Doron’s first solo electronics release since 2003′s “a piece of string, a sunset” on 12k – and it’s in that same realm that his endlessly imaginative sound design shines brightest. Slowly lifting off from near silence into an ethereal vacuum of swirling cacophonies and multi-tonal noise, “Residuals” never lets go. Romantic synthesizer harmonies, extreme frequencies, spectral chord blasts, and ultra-high synthesized feedback combine to form structures so innately organic that it’s easy to forget that a human (or a computer, for that matter) had anything to do with it.
In the years since his last release, Doron has not been idle, in fact he’s been active across mediums: co-founding the West Nile (now “285 Kent”) performance space in Brooklyn, collaborating in the groups Symbol and Ganjatronics, exploring video and performance art in his gallery and installation work (see “The Slowest Kiss” and “Crybaby”, or his duo with Alfredo Marin “Alfi & Waldi” and their “Original S(t)IN(k)”). But what’s striking about Residuals is how singular, focused and exciting these sounds are – evocative of early Autechre mixed with Alva Noto plus a little Badalamenti new-age bliss… Each sound given space, each movement given the time it needs, blooming naturally and with purpose.
We haven’t been this inspired since those early ’00s milestones – “Endless Summer”, “Sheer Hellish Miasma”, “Confield”, “Ovalprocess” – when the coolest instrument on stage was a laptop… Perhaps with “Residuals”, we will have a renaissance?
Housed in a deluxe, oversized sleeve, the CD is accompanied by digital prints.
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SHINKOYO TAKES THE STONE: NYC
JANUARY 17–31
SHINKOYO @ the Stone
CURATED BY MARIO DIAZ DE LEON
At the Corner of Avenue C & 2nd street, NYC
1/17 Tuesday
8 pm Ganjatronics – Doron Sadja (synth, electronics) Justin Craun (synth, drum machines)
10 pm Aki Onda (cassettes, electronics)
1/18 Wednesday
8 pm Brown Wing Overdrive w/ Yeh & Pride - Chuck Bettis (electronics, throat), Derek Morton (electronics) Special guests C. Spencer Yeh (violin, electronics, voice) Mike Pride (drums, percussion)
10 pm Alfredo Marin (laptop)
1/19 Thursday
8 pm Peter B – A presentation by instrument builder Peter B of Ciat-Lonbarde. Featuring : organalogs – touch sensitive electronic winds – nabra – woven and bent analog brains – cocolace – 8 bit samples. www.ciat-lonbarde.net
10 pm MV Carbon (cello, tape machines, electronics, voice)
1/20 Friday
8 pm Twig Harper (electronics)
10 pm Salamander Wool - Carson Garhart (bamboo flutes, vocals, electronics)
1/22 Sunday
8 pm Future Shuttle - Jessa Farkas (vocals, synth) Camilla Padgitt-Coles (bass, synth) Lizzie Harper (flute) Linnea Vedder (percussion)
10 pm Lost Monarch – Michael Beharie (guitar, electronics) P. Corwin Lamm (electronics) Ted Rankin-Parker (cello) Jeffrey Cristiani (drums)
1/24 Tuesday
8 pm Chaos Majik – Todd Pendu (electronics) Jesse Gelaznik (electronics) – Light/Sound Ritual Electronic Music
10 pm Jeremiah Cymerman / Mario Diaz de Leon – Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet, bass clarinet, electronics) Mario Diaz de Leon (electric guitar)
1/25 Wednesday
8 pm Kevin Hufnagel (baritone ukelele, acoustic guitar)
10 pm Bryan Jacobs (guitar, electronics)
1/26 Thursday
8 pm Zeljko McMullen (electronics, voice)
10 pm Ablehearts – Thomas Arsenault (electronics, voice, video)
1/27 Friday
8 pm Doron Sadja (electronics)
10 pm Mario Diaz de Leon (guitar, synth, electronics) – CD Release event for “Hypnos” (Shinkoyo 2012)
1/28 Saturday
8 and 10pm Skeletons – Matt Mehlan (guitar, vocals) Jason McMahon (guitar) Jon Leland (drums)
1/29 Sunday
8 pm Dan Peck (tuba) – Bowel-loosening noise from a pre-civilization zombie death mass.
10 pm Joshua Rubin (clarinets, electronics)
1/31 Tuesday
8 pm Organ Trio – Amy Mills (trumpet) Andrew Hock (guitar) Peter Negroponte (percussion)
10 pm Symbol – Zeljko McMullen (guitar, voice, electronics) Mario Diaz de Leon (guitar) Doron Sadja (woodwinds, percussion, electronics) Justin Craun (synth, drum machine) plus special guests
The first show in over two years from the “house band” of the West Nile space (2006–2009).
{NEW RELEASE} Mario Diaz de Leon – “Hypnos” out January 24th!
HAPPY 2012!
Shinkoyo is psyched to announce the release of Mario Diaz de Leon’s new album “Hypnos” – out January 24th, 2012!
Mario Diaz de Leon is a composer and multi-instrumentalist residing in NYC. “Hypnotic walls of shimmering sound” perhaps describe his aesthetic most broadly, whether his medium is electric guitar, electronics, or acoustic instruments. His influences include modern composers such as Scelsi and Ligeti, underground metal, and noise electronics. He currently plays guitar in the band Mirrorgate.
“Hypnos” finds Diaz de Leon focused on his style of hallucinatory electronic music. Far from being a follow up to 2009′s “Enter Houses Of” (a genre defying album of new classical works), “Hypnos” is a new direction, merging ethereal synths, brutal distortion, noise, and dark ambient. The album takes its title from the Greek god of sleep (also closely associated with night, death, and dreams), and the music itself is an eerie descent into the otherwordly, recasting familiar elements in a revelatory new light.
On the opening and closing tracks, hyper fast synth tones create a rushing, cathedral –like atmosphere. Tracks such as “Consumed”, “Hypnocaust”, and “Kukulkan” feature psychedelic, crushing distortion as their primary focus, taking influence from doom metal, black metal, power electronics, new age, and horror soundtracks. “Cinerum” and “Faithless” are highly structured takes on dark ambient, bringing the listener into haunting, strikingly beautiful realms of isolation, bleakness, and saturated noise textures.
Diaz de Leon’s previous solo release on Shinkoyo, 2008′s “Mira”, focused on monolithic walls of distorted guitar and voice. A debut album of his works for acoustic instruments and electronics, “Enter Houses Of” was released on John Zorn’s Tzadik label in 2009. The disc received international acclaim from publications including Impose Magazine, The Chicago Reader, New Music Box, Pepper Zone (France), Touching Extremes (Italy), and The Bangkok Post. Time Out New York included included it in their “Best of 2009″ list; “A startling new compositional voice exploded out of this disc, with wistful melodies haunting an abrasive mix of modernist integrity and anarchic noise.” The New York Times praised the disc for its “hallucinatory intensity.”
{SHINGLES CLUB} New singles from GANJATRONICS and Salamander Wool!
The SHINGLES CLUB returns with the brand new “MAXXI SHINGLE” by Salamander Wool called “Snakes and Flutes” and a slick summer Shingle by GANJATRONICS called “The Forgetting Stage”.
Salamander Wool’s “MAXXXI SHINGLE” contains 3 sides (we can do that now) and is a celebration of the end of Winter, Nowruz (the Ancient new year and start of Spring), and the end of the Piscean Age (11/11/11).
Salamander Wool is Carson Garhart’s journal of experience with music and spirit – which he offers up with humility and grace. Carson is a member of Sejayno and lives on the West Side of Baltimore.
Please listen, share and enjoy via the Shinkoyo Shingles Club.
GANJATRONICS presents their newest work “The Forgetting Stage” – 2 dreamy summer sun-bathers – the perfect soundtrack to your next neon sunset cruise through the Hollywood Hills! Broken down hi-fi, brooding, lurching – The Forgetting Stage represents their most minimal work yet.
Brooklyn based electronics duo GANJATRONICS have been making a splash in the blogosphere with their many free digi-releases – described as “straight up lone-BP-station-at-night cold wave”, “Fern Gully on entheogens”, and “worth sharing a dark room with by any appreciator of contemplative electronics and expressive synthscapes, filled with somber, pensive mood that at the same time feels vibrantly erratic and emotionally combustible.”
WFMU’s “Beware of the Blog” just posted a fantastic write up on their music, with some bonus downloads HERE!
Listen, share and enjoy via the Shinkoyo Shingles Club.
{VIDEO} Skeletons – “More Than the One Thing” / “People” now available on vinyl!
Skeletons in “More Than the One Thing” from Shinkoyo on Vimeo.
New video for “More Than the One Thing” by Skeletons, out now via Shinkoyo / Crammed Discs / Sockets.
Directed by Matthew Mehlan.
With one person per lyric, the video (directed by the band’s Matt Mehlan) is a fantastic snapshot of a moment in time, Brooklyn, USA – featuring members of Skeletons, Zs, Dirty Projectors, Janka Nabay, Nine 11 Thesaurus, Blondes, Highlife, Little Women, Effi Briest, Sisters, Fuck Ton, PC Worship, NOMO, Light Asylum, Ablehearts, Up Died Sound, Child Abuse, Knyfe Hyts, Starring, Bow Ribbons, Grooms, People Get Ready and many many more friends, family, and “scene” makers – including Todd P, Death By Audio’s Edan Wilber, Jef and Joce Soubiran from Zebulon and the late Ariel Panero…
The hyper-limited vinyl version of “PEOPLE” is now available for order via Sockets’ website! Pick up your copy before they’re gone – or grab one from the band directly as they continue their trek across Europe!
