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Thursday, 9 August 2007

Stilb - "Optical Soundtracks"


Stilb - "Optical Soundtracks"
5" cdr
rist09

Stilb - optical seven
05:04
Music video for "Optical Seven" taken from "Optical Soundtracks".

Stilb - optical two / optical three (video remix versions)
07:11
Music video for "Optical Two / Optical Three (video remix versions from the tracks included in "Optical Soundtracks").

Takahiro Kawaguchi "Soundscape With 2 Objects"



Takahiro Kawaguchi - "Soundscape with 2 objects"


format: digital download
cat no.: ristdig3
release date: May 2008
buy: 6,99 Euros


:: The digital download contains a zip file w/2 mp3 tracks at 320kbps, 1 quicktime video, 1 pdf booklet::


Takahiro Kawaguchi is a japanese field recordist and sound artist and "Soundscape with 2 objects" came out on Ristretto two years ago, packaged in a transparent clamshell containing a 5" cdr. This digital download edition is a reissue of the original "Soundscape with 2 objects" now expanded with a quicktime video by Tetsuro Honma for one additional raw and pure field recording by Takahiro Kawaguchi. This edition comes also packed with the original pdf booklet.




"Quand je veux écouter de la musique, j'ouvre ma fenêtre" disait John Cage. Takahiro Kawaguchi choisit lui aussi d'ouvrir sa fenêtre, d'écouter et d'enregister les bruits de l'environnement. Le tic tac d'un réveil martèle un rythme métronomique, tandis que les aboiements d'une meute de chien, des bruits de basse cour et autres caquètements s'entremèlent dans une régularité et une authenticité parfaite : le disque débute ainsi ! L'artiste décide de ne pas intervenir, mais de laisser les bruits composés par eux-mêmes une forme de symphonie de la vérité. Au travers de ces deux expériences sonores notre Japonais d'Osaka capte les Field recording comme il prendrait une photographie du quotidien. Conceptuel et minimal, "Soundscape with 2 Objects" fait immanquablement référence à la notion de "chance music" de John Cage, tout comme à celle de phonographie : l'activité de captation et de fixation des phénomènes sonores. Une poésie de la musique du dehors, une écoute profonde du monde qui n'est pas non plus sans rappeler l'univers sonore du biologiste et écologiste de formation de Francisco Lopez.
Le disque a été réalisé en octobre 2006 et tiré à seulement 100 exemplaires sur le mico label CD-R portugais Ristretto, une ramification de Grain of sound.
Le technicien du bruit découvre plus qu'il n'invente !
in, Sonhors


Batch Totem - "Trunkeret & Ikonisk"



Batch Totem - "trunkeret & ikonisk"
floppydisk
rist07
* SOLD OUT *

“(…)Domande futili e per ora senza risposta, come chiedersi come sia venuto in mente a tal Jonas Olesen di realizzare brani di questo tipo. Fatto sta che, qualunque fosse il suo intento (pura sperimentazione, scherzo, provocazione, alte finalità espressive), il risultato è tutt’altro che malvagio. A differenza di altre opere estreme nell’attitudine ed anche nella pazienza richiesta all’ascoltatore (dalla “Metal Machine Music” di Lou Reed alla “Aestethic of the Machine” del nostro Martusciello), questo dischetto risulta certo difficile ma inspiegabilmente rilassante – ovviamente se ascoltato a volumi non estremi o con un impianto senza il pericoloso subwoofer (allucinante in tal senso 11 ~_¤ GROW CBS OAK ON CLAP, da far tremare i muri del paese vicino).”

Matteo Uggeri
Press Release:


Gigantiq - "Test Loops"


Gigantiq "test loops"
5" cdr
rist06


António Contador - "Crazy in Love"




António Contador "crazy in love"

format: 5" cdr
cat. no.: rist05


PDF booklet:
http://www.grainofsound.com/ristretto/crazy%20in%20love_booklet.pdf


Streaming of some tracks taken from "Crazy in Love":
http://www.myspace.com/antoniocontador

@c - "48EDE"




@c - "48EDE"

format: digital download
cat no.: ristdig2
release date: May 2008
buy: 6,99 Euros


:: The digital download contains a zip file w/60+ minutes of music in 3 mp3 tracks at 320kbps and a 22 page pdf booklet ::


In 2005 we've released "48" by the portuguese brilliant duo of "grainy abstract electronica", @c (Miguel Carvalhais + Pedro Tudela).
Now "48" turns "48EDE". In what is a truly expanded digital edition of more than 60 minutes of music and including also a beautifull 22 page pdf booklet with artwork by long-time @c visual partner, Lia



free mp3 track :: 48rmx (exclusive online remix):


"(...) 48 inizia con suoni brevi, rarefatti, percussivi, graffiati, soffiati… suoni che vanno poi a organizzarsi in una struttura ripetitiva, ipnotica, improntata da una circolarità mutante, e ad essa si sovrappongono poi una melodia vellutata (...)"
Etero Genio
in, Sands-Zine

My Fun - "Sunday Best"


My Fun "sunday best "
3" cdr
rist03
PDF booklet:
MP3 taken from "Sunday Best":


(...) In Burlesque un pianoforte de-tonato gioca in contrasto con l’andatura ritmica spezzata e sincopata per creare un brano molto ballabile che ricorda Tobin e lo arricchisce di nuove sfumature.(...)"
Rafael Natale
in, Kathodik

Draftank - "Orange Book"





Draftank "orange book"
5" cdr
rist02

PDF booklet:
http://www.grainofsound.com/ristretto/draftank_orange%20book.pdf


MP3 taken from "Orange Book": http://www.grainofsound.com/ristretto/draftank_interlaken.mp3







"(...) Orange Book è un saggio di taglia e cuci, impressionante per l'impronta diversificata che l’autore riesce ad imprimere su ognuna delle undici piste. Il CD contiene anche una dodicesima traccia video per computer.(...)"

Etero Genio
in, Sands-Zine
http://www.sands-zine.com/

Asamo - "Niju"



Asamo "niju"


format: digital download
cat no.: ristdig1
release date: May 2008
buy: 6,99 Euros



:: The digital download contains a zip file w/6 mp3 tracks at 320kbps, 1 quicktime video, 1 pdf booklet::



Shinjiro Yamaguchi is the sound artist behind the name Asamo and this is the record that started it all here at Ristretto. Back in May of 2004 we've released "Niju" in a tiny 3" cdr. This is an expanded digital edition of "Niju" in a multimedia download containing: the original recording plus 3 bonus tracks; an exclusive quicktime video by Kudo and Yamada a.k.a copenhagen; one pdf booklet.



"(...) the first release is by a young musician called Shinjiro Yamaguchi from Tokyo under his Asamo guise. For the three tracks on this release he took the best of microsound influences, say John Hudak, Stephan Mathieu, Taylor Deupree and Richard Chartier and sauced them up with tiny, fragmented melodies, of which the last makes the best impression.(...)"
Frans de Waard
in, Vital Weekly