Re: [microsound] zeena parkeens and bjork???

[nicola catalano <catsed@xxxxxxxxx>]

>> sorry for the OT post but thats the connection here? I just picked up the
>> new bjork record becasue I was courious about the work she was doing with
>> matmos and while reading the liner notes I noticed that zeena parkins does
>> all the string type arrangments on the whole record and play harp on it
>> for the most of it. What is the connection where did bjork make the
>> connection with the queen of NYC new music composition???
>> It is very wierd to see her name all over the liner notes for a pop
>> record...
>> Its encouraging to say the least that there is hope for experimental
>> artist to make a living from thier music just the same.
>>
>> oh and bjork also smaples for oval on this record to...
>> hummm....
>> bjork does a mircosound record...
>> Neil...
>>
>
>it doesn't sound microsound so I wouldn't say that, but it is notorious that
>Bjork is listening to some good music.
>good to read that she helps talented musicians to get some more recognition,
>and at the same time they help her to create a very nice album. philippe
>
>


agree. and don't forget that the two albums bjork made with her band
k.u.k.l. ("the eye" and "holidays in europe" on corpus christi, crass
records side-label) around mid-eighties were very good as well.
idiosyncrathic anarcho-free- experimental punk (well, sort of...). should
have been repressed on cd too, check them out.
bye :: nicCat

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z.e.l.l.e is a duo of glitch/minimal electronica founded early 2000 by
Maurizio Martusciello and Nicola Catalano.

Maurizio Martusciello is an electroacoustic composer and a drummer who has
been involved in numerous projects of experimental and improvised music.
Among his many releases: "Meta-Harmonies" CD as Martusciello on Korm
Plastics/Staalplaat, "Dentro" CD with the group Ossatura and Tim Hodgkinson
on ReR/Megacorp, a solo 3" titled "Unsettled Line" on Metamkine and
"metaXu" CD as metaXu duo on Plate Lunch.. He won the second prize in the
third edition of the International Electroacoustic Music Contest CIMESP
(Sao Paulo do Brazil, 1999) and has played in many festivals worldwide
(Archipel 2001 in Geneve, Dissonanze 2 in Rome, Off ICMC 2000 in Berlin,
LMC Festival in London, Musique Action in Nancy, Musiques Actuelles in
Victoriaville,  Instant Chavires in Paris, Pez Ner in Lyon, Musique
Innovatrices in Saint-Etienne,  Centre Regional de Musiques  Experimentales
in Lille, Synthèse  98 in Bourges, Biennale di Roma  1999, Biennale di
Venezia 1999, GMEA Festival in Albi, GMVL Musiques Vivantes in Lyon etc.).
He's currently having an artist-in-residence of one month (June 2001) at
GMEA (Groupe de Musique Electroacoustique d'Albi) in Albi (France).


Nicola Catalano is a journalist (he writes for the Italian monthlies Blow
Up and Rumore and for Alias, weekly cultural supplement of the daily
newspaper Il Manifesto), a radio programmer for the national broadcasting
company RAI and a passionate listener of strange and unusual musics. He
also worked for years in the distribution field as PR man, import and sales
manager.

Their first album <<nth>> is out on American label Line (Aug 2001,
catalogue number: LINE_006). Another full length album is due for release
soon.


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"Z.e.l.l.e is the project, founded early 2000, of Italian duo of Maurizio
Martusciello and Nicola Catalano, both of whom reside in Rome. Their debut
CD Nth is a collection of points strewn across an implied graph of a sound
field; delicate crackles, clean sine waves and sibilant washes create a
mechanical room tone of deliberate precision. Z.e.l.l.e's use of a
transparent and airy sound palette make Nth a highly contemplative and
listenable study of sound and space." (official press release)


"Lots of crackles, stretched out sine waves and sudden interruptions or
changes. The CD cleverly builts up from a track with just one crackle
towards, in track nine (no titles of course), a more complicated pattern of
waves." (vital 286, nl)


"Ultra-minimal, almost whispered beauty. Check." (pelicanneck, uk)




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