Praemedia New Releases

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Two new releases from Praemedia-

1.Tim Perkis- Motive (praecd002)

Originally completed in 2000 and released as an
exclusive MP3 album in 2002 on  Artifact Recordings. A
meditation on modern electronica by a veteran computer
musician, Motive is a pulse-driven array of
electronics informed by a long history of
improvisation in the electronic music field.

Perkis has been working in the medium of live
electronic and sound for many years, performing and
recording in North America, Europe and Japan. His
sounds have appeared on the labels 482 Music, Tzadik
and Artifact in the U.S. as well as Sonore and
Meniscus. Perkis?s projects and passions have ranged
from creating spatial sonic environments to building
electronic instruments based on the behavior of genes
in biological systems. His work has been largely
concerned with exploring the emergence of life-like
properties in complex systems of interactions. 

2. Stars Like Fleas - Sun Lights Down on the Fence
(praeecd003)

This is organic sounding music with a sound and
coherent logic, yet cleanly avoids sounding like
either an exercise in conceptual interrogation, or
merely stylistic fusion; these are "damaged blues for
the post-everything castaways, torch songs for a newly
scorched city. The songs are lyrical & romantically
confused, confrontationally beautiful, syntactically
fucked; they demand attention and encourage drift".
Sad bassoons, happy robots, clouds of pink noise,
stuttering auctioneers promoting body-modification
while playing Webern etudes on the pedal steel, hoarse
little rock stars with five string banjos on the dance
floor, dancing electro-nasty with Werner Herzog and a
brass band, a chorus of bleeding, coked-up cicadas,
humming in tune with the primordial drone. 

Includes members of Other Dimensions in Music, TEST,
No Neck Blues Band, Papa M, Out Hud, Gold Sparkle
Band, At The Drive-In, and Mercury Rev, among others

Still Available-

Various Artist, Praeface (praecd001)

Tracing various intersections of genres from
improvisational jazz to plunderphonic electronics to
field recordings, diverse splinters and fragmented
roots sprout off into calm matrixes of sound. From
Japan (Haco) through New York (The Gold Sparkle Band)
to Italy (Mou, Lips!), the sounds merge in San
Francisco. Pioneers of networked computer music (Tim
Perkis) mix with modern masters (Wobbly), alongside
unheard musicians and odd collaborations. Avant-jazz
damaged blues sparks drum and bass roots to forage in
an electrostatic world. 

Also includes Stars Like Fleas, HSoA, Nanaqui, Lisle
Ellis, Tom Djll, Lance Grabmiller, Quiet American and
more.....

Preview MP3s and purchase can be found at
www.praemedia.com/consumerproducts.html

Praeface is also available from
www.mimaroglumusicsales.com and Amoeba Records in
Berkeley, CA USA.

Thank you.

Lance Grabmiller
www.praemedia.com

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