Nurse With Wound - Live @ Auditório Serralves - Porto (05.05.2007)

Steven Stapleton
Andrew Liles
Colin Potter
Matt Waldron

Nurse With Wound Web Site, MySpace

Stefano Scodanibbio - Voyage That Never Ends (New Albion, 1998)

Stefano Scodanibbio, contrabass soloist and composer, was born in Macerata, Italy, June 18th 1956. In the 1980s and 1990s his name has been prominently linked to the renaissance of the double bass, playing in the major festivals throughout the world dozens of works written especially for him by such composers as Bussotti, Donatoni, Estrada, Ferneyhough, Frith, Globokar, Grisey, Sciarrino, Xenakis. In 1987, in Rome, he performed a four hours non-stop marathon playing 28 pieces by 25 composers. He has created new techniques extending the colours and range of the double bass heretofore thought impossible on this instrument. He collaborated for long time with Luigi Nono ("arco mobile à la Stefano Scodanibbio" is written on Prometeo's score) and with Giacinto Scelsi. John Cage, in one of his last interviews, exposed the following: "Stefano Scodanibbio is amazing, I haven't heard better double bass playing than Scodanibbio's. I was just amazed. And I think everyone who heard him was amazed. He is really extraordinary. His performance was absolutely magic". In 1996 he has been teaching contrabass at Darmstadt Ferienkurse. He regularly plays in Duo with Rohan de Saram and, furthermore, with Markus Stockhausen. Active as a composer his catalogue consists of more than 30 works principally written for strings (Sei Studi for solo contrabass, Six Duos for all combinations of the four strings, Concerto for contrabass, strings and percussions, etc). His string quartet "Visas" has been recorded by Arditti Quartet for Montaigne Auvidis. Of particular importance is his collaboration with Terry Riley, currently documented on the CD "Lazy afternoon among the crocodiles". In 1983 he founded the "Rassegna di Nuova Musica", New Music Festival held every year in Macerata, Italy.

This recording was made direct to two track on November 18-19, 1997 in Modena, Italy.

01 Voyage That Never Ends (1979-1997)

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Stefano Scodanibbio Web Site
New Albion Web Site

Sugarconnection - Plays Alien Cakes (No Man's Land, 1994)

The music of Sugarconnection is best described as the attempt to separate bits of noise out of a context of often beautiful melodies. The concentration on the aesthetics of these bits and pieces as well as the humorous, ironic treatment of sound material preserves the music from drifting away into some „Kitsch" or sentimental mood. Insteat, the close listener will discover some of the finest musical stuff, located maybe in the area between more pop music and free improvising.

"... is a guarentee for a mixture which makes rare listening. Frank Schulte provides a furious foundation of beats, samples, rhythms and sounds which Otto congenially decorates- he fills the joints and thus provides the putty which holds the whole thing together. Anna Homler’s voice indicates the direction in which the journey is moving - this trio, a hybred of improvised music and moments of pop experiments from the realm of ambient music is a stylistic success." (Jochen Kleinhenz, Testcard 1)

Recorded November 1993 and May 1994 directly to two track DAT at Readymade Studio, Cologne.
Track 7 & 8 recorded live 15th April 1994 at Theropoden concerts, Zürich.
Track 20 recorded live 20th May 1994 at Goethe University, Frankfurt.
No overdubs.
Digital mastering by Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg.

Axel Otto: Toys, zither, wildlockrufe, plastic, metal & wood, tapes, vocal.
Frank Schulte: Synthesizer, sampler, tapes & records, electronic effects, vocal.
Anna Homler: Vocal, toyinstruments, found objects.

Tracks have signs instead of titles.

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NML 9420 CD
No Man's Land Web Site

Mekong Zoo - Minimal Dance (Wolf Records, 1995)

"Listening to Mekong Zoo is like entering an imaginary jungle full of strange beats and haunting chants. Minimal Dance is a modern fusion of the best in Ambient Jazz, Ethnic music and New Age. It is a unique mixture of the melodic and the rhythmic, of Japan and the Occident, raw tribal energy and delicate tunes, with the pure elegance of Aska's violin weaving its web over the top"
All tracks by Mieko Shimizu & Aska Kaneko.
Produced and engineered by Dominique Brethes at Wolf Studios, London 1994/95.

01 Yaaba
02 Kasta
03 Nustarian
04 DNA
05 The Last Whale
06 Yamo Island
07 Old House
08 Minimal Dance
09 Quadruped
10 Confessions
11 Amadare

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