Pedro Elías Mamou - Deriva nº 3: Amsterdam (Radio Nacional de España, cass, ?)

Pedro Elías define sus particulares paisajes sonoros con el nombre deriva. Las derivadas son trabajos que nacen con los sonidos de la cuidad y que después le son devueltos de nuevo, presentandose a la propia ciudad en una calle o en una plaza. El termino deriva esta directamente relacionado con el concpeto situacionista de deriva. En palabras de Pedro Elías "ninguna musica existe en la ciudad, ninguna, solvo la musica decidida por la deriva. La escucha de la ciudad no consiste en la repeticion de sus ruidos fijados invariablemente, al contratio se proyecta en sonidos posibles. La deriva suena con los sonidos de la ciudad, no los escucha solamente con el (con) texto, sino que inventa otras posibilidades de escucha tridimensional, abierta indefinidamente  a la pluralidad de los sentidos.

-fragmento de un libro "Las imágenes del sonido: una lectura plurisensorial en el arte del siglo XX"

por Javier Ariza Pomareta

Pedro Elías defines his particular soundscapes with the term "drift" . These "drifts" are works that are born together with the sounds of the city and are returned him back, appearing in the city itself, in a street or a square. The term "drift" is directly related to the situationist "drift" concept. In the words of Pedro Elías "no music exists by itself in the city , none but the music defined by the "drift" . Listening to the city does not consist in the repetition of the sounds invariably fixed, on the contrary, this listening projects into possible sounds . The drift sounds with the city sounds, it doesn't only listen them together with the (con-) text, but creates other possibilities of tridimensional listening, being such open indefinitely to the plurality of the senses.

-excerpt from the book "Sound Images: A multisensory reading on 20th-century art

by Javier Ariza Pomareta

Situationists: Michèle Bernstein, Asger Jorn, Colette Caillard, and Guy Debord

The material on this cassette is from Spanish radio program on RNE. 
Courtesy of Gran Viernes and Francisco López.

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Enrico Piva - Late November Dream (EGK - EGK 022, C60, 1987)

Italian artist specifically from Brescia who left us amazing sound works. It's a real pleasure for me to have opportunity to share this cassette, thanks to Francisco Lopez, which was released 1987 on EGK, Spanish Esplendor Geometrico's label.

Enrico Piva (1956-2002) was one of the original investigators in the panorama of Italian independent music of the eighties dressed in the full figure of the outsider and, creating musique concrète, conceptual, field recording, minimalism electronic, post-industrial noise and has published twenty audiocasettes for various Italian and international labels between 1981 and 1990. 

For example as Unit 06 contributing on TRAXTRA compilation by mail-art TRAX platform for exchange and collaboration across great geographical distances, held by Vittore Baroni,  Piermario Ciani (1951-2006) and  Massimo Giacon from project Spirocheta Pergoli from 1981-1987. All interested in closer look of  TRAX's concept - CLICK HERE or HERE.

On the basis of artistic studies, Piva produced drawings, lithographs, research photography (scotography) and video, as well as literary texts, including unpublished experimental text "Piscine sommerse ed altre immersioni" which is among other works related to Enrico Piva presented HERE (sadly only in Italian!).

Enrico Piva (left) and Vittore Baroni, Ponte Nossa 1985

DISCOGRAPHY:

AMOK

Amok (C60 cassette) C.M.O.T. / Onlytapes Records 1981 Italy 

Apostasy (C60 cassette) C.M.O.T. / Onlytapes Records Italy 1981 [distributed in small numbers also titled as Knuckle Duster] 

Iteratio (C60 cassette) Mea Kulpa Rec. 1983 Italy 

Travel Nybro (C60 cassette)-Kant, Hegel Asylum 1984 Italy 

Return to Hamelin (C60 cassette) RAT Multimedia Productions 1984 Italy 

Warm Leeches Dance (C60 cassette) ADN Tapes 1985 Italy 

Mouches Volantes (C60 cassette) recorded 1986 and later offered to the American tape label Cause And Effect but probably never really pressed but just one demo copy] 

Modules (different sound supports: 4 x C60 cassette to listen in synchronicity 1/4’ 4 tracks 19cm/s work from 1989 offered to the dutch label V2 Organiasatie but never pressed distribuited in at least 2 cases as one personal piece] 

ENRICO PIVA

Four Months Later (C60 cassette) Cthulhu Records 1987 Germany 61 

Late November Dream (C60 cassette) EGK 1987 Spain 

Poplars Clattering (C60 cassette) Ladd-Frith 1988 USA [distributed in few copiess, with possible variants, also with the title Submerging Menhirs Hegel-Kant Asylum 1987 Italy] 

Double Bind (C60 cassette) Staaltape 1989 Netherlands 

                                            Forma Mentis (C60 cassette) 1990 SPH Portugal 

FEHLER A

                                Fortsetzung a (box object) C.M.O.T. / Onlytapes Records 1981 Italy [limited edition 

10 copies tape in black painted clay + booklet] 

LOCUS SOLUS

                                          Luoghi di culto (C60 cassette) C.M.O.T. / Onlytapes Records 1981 Italy 

L'OEIL À POLIS

Aqua (C60 cassette) C.M.O.T. / Onlytapes Records 1981 Italy 

M.ANTIPYRINE

Antipyrine as Himself (C60 cassette) C.M.O.T. / Onlytapes Records 1981 Italy 

READY-MADE 

Videovoicereadymade (C60 cassette) C.M.O.T. / Onlytapes Records 1981 Italy 

SOKOL MOVEMENT 

Nachtmusik (C60 cassette) C.M.O.T. / Onlytapes Records 1981 Italy 

Scotoprova per Edo by Enrico Piva

~COMPILATION TRACKS~

*TRAX 1081 Vietato ai Minori (C52 cassette and magazine) TRAX 1981 Italy [untitled track Amok mixed in the suite by various authors] 

*TRAX 1281 Technodeath (C50 cassette more booklets in box) TRAX 1981 Italy 

[untitled track Amok mixed in the suite by various authors] 

*TRAX 0282 Horrorbox (C60 cassette in box with postcards and inserts) TRAX 

Italy 1982 [untitled track Amok] 

*TRAX 0682 Notterossa (C60 cassette and booklet) TRAX 1982 Italy [untitled track Amok mixed in the suite by various authors] 

*TRAX 0982 Xtra (LP album) TRAX 1982 Italy [as TRAX Unit 06 Enrico Piva participate in the songs "Nastro rosso" (with Massimo Giacon and Spirocheta Pergoli), "Combination" (with Giancarlo and Martina B/Sides) and "I Love 62 Cancer" (with Ado ... 001 Scaife and Cancer)] 

*Area Condizionata 1 - Italian Industrial (C60 cassette and magazine) Area Condizionata Italy 1983 [a piece by Amok, "In exitu Isräel de Aegypto"] 

*Born Out Of Dreams (LP album) Frux 1984 UK [a song by Enrico Piva, "Flogging hour in the HKA"] 

*Manifest Mailart 1 (2 x C60 cassette) Idiot Press 1987 Norway [a piece by Amok, "Return to Hamelin"] 

*Journey Into Pain (4 x cassette C60) Beast 666 Tapes 1989 Japan [a piece by Enrico Piva, "35 Kgs"] 

///various other unreleased tapes with partially unrealesead material are inside the archives of Vittore Baroni, Giancarlo Toniutti, Massimo Toniutti, Walter Rovere and probably other mailers of Piva

Saluti da HKA by Enrico Piva (scotography)

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El Coleccionista De Poliedros - Cacofonías Egipánicas (Laboratorios del sueño, C60, 1986)

El Collecionista De Poliedros (Juan Escolano) is creating sounds by electronic and non-electronic

 intruments, the final product are harsh industrial sounds and contemporary environments.

 His music is essentially random and improvised with the help of

 electronics that is #1 and the most important factor as well as utilization of

 noise and different objects of daily use that may cause noise mainly

 based on the experiments carried out by the Italian and Russian Futurists and later by Dada movement. 

Juan has been in fields such as collage, painting, mail art, sculpture, graphics,

music fanzines, books of expression, etc...

Cacofonías Egipánicas is recorded live by mic stand with very basic and simple systems.

~ MINI MANIFESTO ~

The sound is beautiful and is part of our life, it surrounds and envelops us. Don't hate, learn to listen, to love and create positively!

Sound elements:

Keyboards, distortion and ambient tape, radio waves, bottled water, voice, laboratory atmosphere, "metal to metal" (metal percussion).

The tracks that make up this cassette are drawn from 3 different cassettes: 

1) "Mare Vaporum": Tracks 2 and 8.

2) "Event fluidos": Tracks 3, 4, 5 and 6.

3) "Gracias a las máquinas": Tracks 1 and 9.

 

SIDE A

A1 Transformaciones

A2 Poema Nibelungo

A3 Torsion Agitacion (El trabajo de las maquinas)

A4 Suturas de materia

A5 Golpea tu cerebro

SIDE B

B1 Canto de agua. Rasgaduras de viento

B2 Moria (Khazad-Dum)

B3 Baader Meinhoff

B4 Transformaciones 2 Emocion-intencion

Finally, I apologize for not having time to split the tracks.

Saludos!

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Sociedades En Tetra Brik & Graphices Artis - INTITULADO (T.B.R. inédit,198?)

A pearl I received few days ago, a collaboration tape, though never issued, between Biel Oliver (SETB) and Miguel Angel Julian (GA). Unfortunately, Biel can not remember accurate year of the cassette, but is confident that it's the end of the eighties.

Artwork by: me

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Polidrico - Fundidor 0.10 (Obreros del sonido, 198?)

Polidrico is José Manuel Vázquez from Taboada (Lugo) and is owner of  Obreros del sonido label that released some great Spanish cassettes in the 80s. Known also under Fisodo 13.4, the project with which he released Katervha and been on Rythmetic - Compilacion Internacional (Fusion D.E. Producciones, 1986) - click, Necronomicon 4 (Necronomicon, 1987) - click, Luna Y Panorama De Los Insectos (Actéon, 1986) - click, ¿Es Esto Música? ‎(Grabaciones Sin Futuro, 198?) compilations and he performed on Therapie 2 (Therapie Organisatie, 1986) - click, Harsh Ears Now !! 4 ‎(Midas Tapes/Midas Music, 1984), Veterinarios del K´os Miedo (Tetra Brik Records, 1987 or 1988), Extremities Vol. 1 (Vandal Cassettes, 1987) and others as Tecdor Mental.

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Javier Maderuelo - Madrid Vivo (Colectivo Cyan, 1982)

Javier Maderuelo, professor of art, belonged to "ZACH" experimental art group, together with José Luis Castillejo. Both were linked to the movement "FLUXUS" .

I guess Maderuelo worked with Francisco Felipe and Jose Iges and other names of conteporary art.

'Madrid Vivo es una obra musical creada expresamente para ambientar una exposición: "Sólo Madrid Arte Joven", que el colectivo CYAN realizó sobre el tema de Madrid.

Se trata de una música de amueblamiento que cumple una función determinada, y no de una mera ilustración sonora.'

Madrid Vivo is the musical work created to host an exhibition "Sólo Madrid Arte Joven" by collective CYAN on the theme of Madrid. The music has distinguished role in a performance, it's not  merely a sound base.

Limited edition of 100 copies.

Thank you, Francisco Lopez.

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Felix Menkar - Primer Ejercicio (Las Cintas Del Fin - LCDF 04, C50, 1986)

Dreaming, visual by Felix Menkar, 2013 

Felix Menkar was born in Barcelona and lives in Valencia since 1990. 

Field researcher, diver between words and images, resistant recalcitrant critical companion, creator of links between art and poetry, between generations, ideologies and aesthetic. 

Total non-art art as objective, respect as praxis, curiosity as impulse, heterodoxy as limit, the imperfection as model, life as stage combat.

'Felix Menkar nació en Barcelona y reside en Valencia desde 1990. Investigador de la esfera, buceador entre palabras en imágenes, recalcitrante resistente y compañero crítico, creador de nexos entre arte y poesía, entre generaciones, ideologías y estetícas. El no-arte total como objectivo, el respeto como praxis, la curiosidad como impulso, la heterodoxia como limite, la imperfeccion como modelo, la vida como escenario del combate.'

Thanks to Francisco Lopez's archive.

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Biel Oliver - Catequesis Nuclear (CD-R, Tetra Brik Records, 1987)

Biel Oliver creates music under his name for sadder and more melodic music, taken as funeral marches on his way that did not coincide with previously created concept of Sociedades En Tetra Brik music. 

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Ambulatorio Segreto - Myxom Radiation (Bestattungsinstitut, 1991)

Another great cassette from collaboration project by Siegmar Fricke, Miguel A. Ruiz and Stefano Barban, Ambulatorio Segreto titled Myxom Radiation recorded in August in 1991 at homestudio in Wilhelmshaven, Germany and in September at SKIZO-studio in Italy. Released on Fricke's Bestattungsinstitut. C60 tape, single track on A and 6 tracks on B side.

A) Patronato de enfermos

B) Soupe au lait

    My daughter's concussion (Pt.1)

    33 Diton

    My daughter's concussion (Pt.2)

    Slaccia le calze

    Spermicide-spiders

    

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La Otra Cara De Un Jardín - Noche gruesa (not on label, 1985)

La Otra Cara De Un Jardín is Francisco Felipe, an multidisciplinary artist born in 1961 in Palencia, Spain. He studied at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, where he lives since 1987. 

Francisco has been extremely active since the beginning of the 80`s in the artistic fields of sound art, mail art, performance and installation. Co-founder with Jose Iges of Ars Sonora in 1985, a radio program that airs on Radio Clásica (RNE). He released his first cassette simply titled La Otra Cara De Un Jardin originally in 1981 at Tic Tac, the same was reissued at Ortega Y Cassette and Zero Cabal; he contributated (split)releases on SOP and EGK, 7" at already mentioned Tic Tac and some compilation tracks on different labels.

Noche gruesa is addressed in Madrid and it's excerpt can be listenable on CODEX compilation released on Luis Mesa's IEP label.

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Zell Republik - Existe un hermoso país en su cabeza (Weimar Tapes/Toracic Tapes, Limited Edition, 1989/1989)

Zell Republik is Juan Pablo Monreal, also known as Proletkult and owner of Weimer Tapes, being  addressed in Madrid, Spain. 'Existe un hermoso país en su cabeza' was mixed and recorded in Plastic Studios in 1989 and besides being on WT, it was also released on Toracic Tapes by Miguel A. Ruiz in the same year.

Abstract music of 60s, musique concrete, dark ambient (but not in classical way) like and very dark in particular for the Spanish release.

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Ambulatorio Segreto - Cardiotrak / Neuroconnector (Toracic Tapes, 1990)

A collaboration named Ambulatorio Segreto is a project which constitute three marvellous musicians Siegmar Fricke from Wilhelmshaven (North West Germany), Miguel A. Ruiz from Madrid (Spain) and Stefano Barban from Cavazzale (North Italy), the trio whom we are thankful for an impressive music on k7 back in the end of 80's / early 90's as well as they all left us a great casket of tracks under different pseudos (either as solo projects and collaborations). Their nine?+ cassettes were released on Toracic Tapes and Bestattungsinstitut and two of them I've heard so far differ from each other a lot.

In short, Cardiotrack / Neuroconnector is a smooth electronic release permeated with emphasized funky beats, vocal samples and a sufficient dose of gloom that was mixed in Toracic Studio (Madrid) in September. For an unknown reason I felt enormous pleasure listening to it in a car at night as an intro to another release I like to call it's younger fraternal twin - Alaska Show by Doc Wor Mirran and De Fabriek. 

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Sociedades En Tetra Brik - Lolita (TBR, 1987)

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.Antoni Tapies.Roba Interior.1972.

Noche En Bombay - Primer Catálogo De Rumores (El Consumo Del Miedo, 1980)

"In Memoriam" Louis Bromfield, en el centenario de su nacimiento.

Noche En Bombay is a side project devoted to manipulated field recordings by Spanish sound and video artist Rafael Flores, also known as Comando Bruno, ECDM and collaborator with Diseno Corbusier (accurately, he participate in their three tracks and when he left the group, Javier appears), an avant-garde electronic project along with his companions Ani Zinc and Javier G. Marin. His inexhaustible activity is noted in a lot of solo releases, collaborations with cult artists of experimental music and cult cassette labels.
It's unknown on how many compilations Flores contributated his work as Noche En Bombay. The only one I'm familiar with is International Sound Communication Compilation Volume 12 (26 July 1986) compiled and distributed as a mail art project by Andi Xport from Peterborough, England in the mid 1980s.
Primer Catalogo De Rumores is a neat musical experimentation that in a way made me think of earliest Maurizio Bianchi.

SIDE A

1. El Ahorcamiento de Mrs. Trollope 

- Preludio

- Crisis (Vierg 113)

- Cita en el Taj (Retrospectiva)

- Crisis (Vierg 114) y Final

2. Red Jellapore 

3. Re-Vision A

SIDE B                                                                                                                                                                                                    

1. Good Time Halma 

2. Cita en el Taj 

- (Partes 1 a 10)

3. Yellow End

4. Re-Vision B 

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