{SHINGLES CLUB} NEW SINGLES FROM TEZEO AND WISH
The SHINGLES CLUB is in full effect with two new additions:
TEZEO – “Royale / Old Light”
WISH – “Take My Hand / We Can Disappear”.
The SHINGLES CLUB is Shinkoyo’s new series tackling the ”single”. We’re taking it on A-side / B-side style without cutting down any vinyl-tree rainforests. If your listening habits have changed through the “digital music revolution”, our SHINGLES should slip perfectly into your party shuffle.
Tezeo is the song project of guitarist and composer Michael Behare. “Royale / Old Light”, Tezeo’s debut release, is a celebration of hope and chaos condensed into lovely pop gems. Backed by an eclectic range of electronic and acoustic sources, Tezeo is a troubadour designed for the virtual age. Both JAMS have visual accompaniment, watch them HERE.
Wish is the latest project from artist Zeljko McMullen – his sounds and images deconstruct the present space, replacing it with a perpetually shifting immersive architecture to curl up in – a counter-din to the information saturation of the present day. In other words, Wish creates a womb-like shelter with room enough for your own personal catharsis… Watch the video for “We Can Disappear”, a series of love stories played by characters enacting the 7 sins and 7 virtues - shot on 16mm black and white film!
{EVENTS} New Chamber Music by Mario Diaz De Leon & Matthew Mehlan!
We’re officially deeming March “SHINKOYO Classical Music Month”!
Shinkoyo’s Mario Diaz De Leon and Matthew Mehlan (Skeletons) are BOTH premiering new chamber works at the end of the month in NYC!
March 27th is the premiere of “Where is My New Face?” written by Matthew Mehlan for the Brooklyn Philharmonic String Quartet, along with performances of “Hands” by Matt and the fantastic “Workers Union” by Louis Andriessen. The concert starts at 2pm at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
On March 30th, ICE (the International Contemporary Ensemble) will be performing an entire evening of music composed by Mario Diaz De Leon at Le Poisson Rouge. On the concert are two NY premieres (“The Soul is the Arena” and “Prism Path”) and the World premiere of Mario’s brand new piece “Portals Before Dawn”. This is a rare oppotunity to catch some of the country’s finest players tackle Mario’s intense and beautiful music! The doors open at 6:30 and the concert is FREE (reservations are strongly recommended!).
All info is below.
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“Where is My New Face?”
Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 2 PM
Brooklyn Museum | Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium
In conjunction with the long-term installation: Hank Willis Thomas,”Unbranded”
A Brooklyn Philharmonic string quartet and guest artists will perform an exciting program co-curated by renowned composer Randall Woolf and BPO Composer Fellow Matthew Mehlan.
The concert will feature Matthew Mehlan’s world premiere work, “Where is My New Face?” inspired by the Brooklyn Museum’s special exhibit, Hank Willis Thomas, “Unbranded.”
Also on the program is Mehlan’s “Hands” and “Workers Union” by Louis Andriessen.
Tickets
$15 Adults
$10 for students, seniors and Museum members
By Phone: BP Patron Services | 718.488.5913
In Person: Museum lobby day of concert starting at 12 PM
Tickets include admission into the Brooklyn Museum and a guided gallery tour at 1 PM.
Brooklyn Museum
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium
200 Eastern Parkway
3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Directions
By Subway:
2 or 3 train to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum
By Bus:
B71 in front the Museum
B41 or B69 to Grand Army Plaza
B48 to Franklin Avenue at Eastern Parkway
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PRISM PATH: ICE performs music of Mario Diaz de Leon
Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 7:30
Mario Diaz de Leon blends acoustic instruments and electronic sound into otherworldly hybrids. Prism Path, a sixty minute instrumental cycle, builds from a duo of two flutes (featuring Claire Chase and Eric Lamb), to a blistering bass clarinet solo with electronics (featuring Joshua Rubin), to a new large ensemble piece, Portals Before Dawn, using influences from industrial, noise rock, spectral harmonies and electronic music from past and present.
Program:
Portals Before Dawn for two flutes, clarinet, percussion, piano, and synth (2011) WORLD PREMIERE
The Soul is the Arena for bass clarinet and electronics (2010) NEW YORK PREMIERE
Prism Path for two alto flutes and percussion (2010) NEW YORK PREMIERE
Altar of Two Serpents for two flutes (2010)
Mansion for two alto flutes, percussion, and electronics (2009)
The Flesh Needs Fire for flute, clarinet, and electronics (2007)
Le Poisson Rouge
http://lepoissonrouge.com/
158 Bleecker Street
New York, NY
Free admission; reservations strongly encouraged
RSVP: ice@lprnyc.com
http://shinkoyo.com/artists/mario-diaz-de-leon/
Related show
Skeletons’ New Album “PEOPLE”
Stream “Grandma” on Bandcamp:
Shinkoyo is pleased to announce the release of Skeletons’ new album “People” on April 26. Co-mixed by Rusty Santos (also known for his work with Owen Pallett and Animal Collective/Panda Bear) is the first released in an exciting union between Shinkoyo and Crammed Discs (home to the amazing Congotronics series among many others!) with a special vinyl edition on DC’s Sockets Records.
One of the most fascinating bands from the hugely creative Brooklyn/NYC scene of recent times, Skeletons create intense, original and revelatory music, working a globe-spanning realm of inspirations into a singular and colourful vision of guitar-based songcraft. Led by Matt Mehlan and his long-term collaborators Jason McMahon and Jonathan Leland, Skeletons have spent the last few years touring their potent live show all around, releasing a string of bold, beautifully recorded albums in the process.
People brilliantly boils down all the band’s thrilling sonic excursions into a collection of concise, fluid and emotive songs: rich, subtly dramatic musical atmospheres envelope Matt Mehlan’s compelling lyrical tales, inhabited by unlikely real-life characters (Jimmy Damour, Tania Head, Lil’ Rich and others) whose stories are told from a viewpoint which is both human and social/political.
Shinkoyo will be releasing PEOPLE on CD, Digital and Cassette formats in the US and Canada, with Crammed releasing the CD and Digital in the rest of the world. Stay tuned for more details and pre-order info! Tracklist is below:
1. L’il Rich
2. Grandma
3. More Than the One Thing
4. Walmart and the Ghost of Jimmy Damour
5. No
6. Tania Head
7. Barack Obama Blues
8. People
Skeletons Artist Page and Bio here:
Skeletons Artist Page
Skeletons elsewhere on the Web:
Skeletons.tv
Skeletons Facebook
Skeletons Bandcamp
Skeletons Myspace
Shinkoyo
Crammed Discs
Sockets Records
Press on previous Skeletons releases:
A hugely ambitious and inventive record, both dazzlingly complex and curiously child-like in its patchwork compositions. Its vast, sonic panoramas are packed full of detail, with jazzy jams, blissed-out psychedelia, avant folk and electronic noise, underpinned by funky, Can-like mantras. That the result is magical, rather than messy, says much about Mehlan’s vision (Uncut, UK)
While the lyrics offer up fragments of magical realism, the music is resolutely fantastical. (The Wire, UK)
An undeniably fashionable band, capable of helplessly popular tunes, but marked by a particular brand of excellence beyond the pale of true acceptance. (Papermag, US)
If you find yourself looking for something slightly leftfield but still traditionally cohesive (and even fun), Skeletons are there for you in a way that few others are (Tiny Mix Tapes, US)
Matt Mehlan [is] welding together an impressive musical contraption of his own, bound by anecdotal tales of an awkward life apart… An outsize global-a-go-go mélange of unceasing polyrhythms, Afrobeat guitars, free jazz, and Timbaland’s approach to kitchen-sink percussion. (Pitchfork, US)
Skeletons pull off so many different artistic currents at once it’s unbelievable. Their music is both funky and evil at the same time. This is a rare combination indeed, with 70’s Miles Davis being the only precursor that springs immediately to mind. (Charlie Looker, Extra Life, US)
Skeletons are one of the few contemporary bands that can legitimately be called “original.” The New York quartet has wrangled a distinctive mélange of leftfield influences into un-purist jolts of sonic dazzlement. A mere list of Skeletons’ stylistic tropes–No Wave, free jazz, Afrobeat, post-punk, high life, the artiest art rock–doesn’t do justice to the wallop of exciting newness that each track delivers. (XLR8R)
{VIDEO} ABLEHEARTS – “GET IT”
Hope your transition to 2011 was a joyous one!
SHINKOYO is kicking it off with a new video by ABLEHEARTS: “GET IT”.
Ablehearts is the work of sound and video artist Thomas Arsenault, who fashions his wares on the picturesque coast of the East River.
“Get It”, a sultry warning for ambitious lovers, comes on the (digital) b-side of Ablehearts “A Name / Get It” single released in October. The video affectionately borrows footage from “The Swimmer” and reminds us that this bitter winter cold won’t last forever.
Grab the DELUXE download via Shinkoyo, which includes videos for both jams and those high quality 320kbps MP3s to treat your eyes and ears right…
Happy Christmas from SHINKOYO
Seasons Greetings from Northern Cali. Photograph by Warner Jepson.
Happy Holidaze!
SHINKOYO is very proud to release for the first time ever, a most auspicious recording, Warner Jepson’s Buchla Christmas.
I’ll let Warner explain it in his own words…
San Francisco Bay Area: 1969
“I’d been playing Buchla music in various galleries for openings, as well as MOMA openings. They liked them enough, since the music gave a good time, was infectious and totally new to people. So MOMA asked me to provide music for their annual Christmas party for Children on a Saturday morning.
So I took off one evening for Mills College where the Buchla now was kept to take up my usual time time slot of 8pm. At the time use of the Tape/Buchla room was very loose; I could stay as long as I liked after the building closed at 10; sometimes I would be there almost till dawn. There were times, however, when I’d go back home at midnight dejected at having found nothing exciting.
This night I was already across the Bay Bridge when I realized I hadn’t brought any Christmas music, no carols! I was going to have to remember what I could. Turned out I knew enough of them to play with.
The Buchla doesn’t’ have a keyboard like a piano (with twelve notes to the octave), just slits in a metal plate with two tuning knobs to give each slit a pitch or a pair of pitches. I didn’t have to reconstruct all twelve notes of a scale, just the notes needed in the song. Tuning what few notes I needed for each tone was fairly easy. But one carol sounded like church bells because it one of the notes sounded out of tune as some church bells because their tuning doesn’t fit with a tempered tuning so goes out of tune with the other notes. At first I thought this a problem, but since it did resemble church bells it decided it added to the charm. Other sounds reminded me of lighter caroling bells as I imagined in old Germany or the Alps, at least, as I remembered hearing them.
The most pleasure came when I incorporated the sequencing module that gave a tune rhythm that it never had nor would have, since it came from a synthesizer with a different kind of creativity that a human wouldn’t have. The unusual rhythm added a kick to the carol.
I didn’t have enough carols to make a long enough session so I added here and there, especially at the end, some synthesizer music that I’d previously made on the Buchla that sounded shimmering and might evoke a starry sleigh filled night.”
Buchla Christmas is available exclusively from SHINKOYO via buchlaxmas.bandcamp.com for the remainder of 2010, as a pay as you wish (including free!) download.
