[Microsound-announce] DEKORDER///NEWS///10.2005

[marc]

...now available:

TU M' - Just One Night
CD  Dekorder 012

Tu m' is a duo from Città Sant' Angelo, a small 
village in central Italy. Emiliano Romanelli and 
Rossano Polidoro have started Tu m' in 1998 
(named after Marcel Duchamp's last painting) and 
since then released several critically acclaimed 
records on labels such as Phtalo, ERS/Staalplaat, 
Fällt, Aesova and BOXmedia. They have recently 
started Steno with Frank Metzger of Oval (debut 
LP coming soon on the En/Of label). They have 
collaborated with Steve Roden for an album 
release on Rossbin and are currently working with 
Simon Fisher Turner on some new tracks to be 
included on his forthcoming album on Mute Records.

Additionally they run the CD-label Mr. Mutt 
(another Duchamp reference) and curate the 
MP3-label Tu M'p3 releasing Soundtracks to webcam 
pictures by a diverse range of artists such as 
Donna Summer, Dälek, Chris Cutler, Noel Akchote, 
Farmers Manual, Voice Crack, Alan Licht, David 
Grubbs and Dekorder artists such as Voks, Un 
Caddie Renversé dans l'Herbe and Black to Comm.

Their new album titled "Just One Night" still 
contains their trademark improvisations on 
guitars, alto sax, flutes, toy keyboards, alto 
flugelhorn, percussion, harmonica, etc. looped, 
processed and edited into compositions, combined 
with field recordings and the odd vinyl sample 
used occassionally. These raw materials are 
sculpted into beautifully melancholic songs all 
dealing with the "night" theme, making this their 
most coherent album yet.

The album has been mastered by Marcus Schmickler (Pluramon, MIMEO, etc.).

http://www.tu-m.com


...It's not just that Tu M' (...) use sound 
sources out of the ordinary - plenty of others 
incorporate acoustic guitar, saxophone, toy 
keyboards and flute into their music - it's the 
way that they edit these sources together in a 
fashion which combines the precisely surgical and 
the winningly quixotic. It's all about cunningly 
presented detail: the evanescent melodica 
flitting from channel to channel in "Strange 
Sleep"; the rattling rimshots lurking in the 
depths as "Blue Blur" sways through cubist jazz 
bar scapes; the tiny, throaty female gasp that 
punctuates the off-kilter whirl of "An Afternoon 
In The Country". "The First Rays Of The Sun" is a 
pristine example of the painterly mastery of Tu 
M' - an elliptical, wistful, immmaculate 
collection of sonic fragments held in beautiful, 
unresolved suspension.

Chris Sharp / The Wire

Ach, was für eine bezaubernde Platte. Die beiden 
Italiener, die auch diese sehr feine Webseite mit 
MP3s machen, haben ihre elegantesten, 
stimmungsvollsten Tracks hier für ein Album 
versammelt, das ihre Improvisationen klingen 
lässt wie Elegien und selbst bei den kleinsten 
digitalen Sounds noch eine Harmoniesucht an den 
Tag legen, die einfach unschlagbar ist. Magische 
CD mit den schönsten und zugänglichsten Stücken 
von Tu M' die ich kenne.

Bleed / De:Bug *****


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...new distributors:

We're happy to announce that we have finally 
found a reliable exclusive distributor in the US 
of A:

DARLA
http://www.darla.com

You'll (very) soon be able to order all available 
Dekorder releases directly from their mailorder 
or you can tell your local record store to 
contact them if interested in our releases.

Additionally, the Guido Möbius LP/CD will be 
distributed by the fine folks at Broken Silence 
in Germany:
http://www.brokensilence.biz


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...there's a new Dekorder interview (in Italian) online at:
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=203

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...still available:

[011] UN CADDIE RENVERSÉ DANS L'HERBE - Atlas 
saltA (Map Lies, Border Lies...) 3"CD
[010] VOKS - Darkvaks 3"CD
[009] PXP - Nada CD
[008] THE HAFLER TRIO - The Water Has No Hair To Hold On To 10" (few copies)
[007] UN CADDIE RENVERSÉ DANS L'HERBE - Like A 
Packed Cupboard But Quite... LP/CD
[006] BLACK TO COMM - s/t 10"
[005] MATT WAND - Public.Exe 10"

...very soon:

[013] GUIDO MÖBIUS - Dishoek LP/CD

...later:

[014] BLACK TO COMM - Rückwärts Backwards CD
[015] MAJA RATKJE/JOHN HEGRE - Ballads CD


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http://www.dekorder.com

Distribution:
A-Musik (Germany & World), Darla (USA), Target 
(World), Lowlands (Benelux), Plop (Japan), 
Metamkine (France), Staalplaat (Germany), 
Risonanza Magnetica (Italy)