Audioscoop 2.1

Het experimentele Audioscoop gaat versie 2.1 in met een “boyband”, amerikaanse orkesten en experimental music.

Big City Orchestra
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Big City Orchestra is based in the California Bay area (USA). Along with its core group of four members, BCO has an ever-rotating cast of musician and non-musician members. Working from specific themes, current projects include: Salty Sea Shanties For Young Pirates (an upcoming UBUIBI release), El Amor Brujo (”Love, The Magician”) by Manuel de Falla, which is the followup to In A Persian Market (recently released on Suggestion Records) and Replayer, a collection of prog-rock favorites with many special guest musicians (upcoming UBUIBI release). While in Europe, BCO will be performing as a four-piece ensemble, creating textural noise-scapes using traditional, acoustic/organic elements combined with laptop/digital, electrified and circuit-bent/modified instruments. The live presentation will blend sonic drones and harsh noise with adaptations of classical and modern compositions.

Band Review
One of the most idiosyncratic and original groups of the past two decades, BCO is not your standard Orchestra. Situated in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, the band has released an enormous catalog of recorded material over the past two decades. Formed in the late 1970’s the ensemble continues to maintain a free-flowing roster of artists from around the world that collaborate on specific projects. Categorizing the Orchestra into any given genre can be a task, as releases continue to surprise even the most devout listener. There is never any way to precisely classify the next BCO release. An album of authentic sea-shanties? A wall of noise? A shimmering downpour of lullabies whispered to the wind? A humorous or thought-provoking album of Sound Collages? Vocal excursions set to make Rod McKuen blush? We press play, leaning forward with slight apprehension. We await the first wave of blissful deception. We are perpetually rewarded.
http://ubuibi.org/

Sudden Infant
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Joke Lanz and his companions have spread their incredible sounds and actions in many tours across Europe, USA, Japan, Taiwan.
Working in the area of Experimental and Free Music, Sudden Infant is building up complex Noise compositions, using unconventional sound sources, lo-fi electronics and turntables. Sudden Infant’s music has a humorous and highly improvised character. The result is abrupt Musique Concrète juxtapositions of spasmodic gibbering and a battery of disorienting electronics. It’s a fragmented field of sound that comes to its own autonomy!
http://www.suddeninfant.com
www.myspace.com/suddeninfantnoise

4DALADIEZ
is a newly styled boyband that combines the aesthetics of the Backstreet Boys with the sound of free improv acts like My Cat Is An Alien or Ashtray Navigations. Their sound varies and defies description, but often incorporates extended droning and atonal extrapolations. The looks of the boys are simply beautiful. They primarily play electric guitar, percussions, analogue synthesizers, various toy-instruments and (contact)microphones. Since the formation of the band, earlier this year, the boys have shared the stage with the likes of The Skaters (USA), Usurper (SCO) and Nackt Insecten (SCO). A first album is due for release on the excellent Goldsoundz label from Norway.
http://www.vatican-analog.com/

Enkele muziekfragmenten van de band Big City Orchestra van de website van Pendu Sound Recordings.