[Microsound-announce] [Baskaru] - URKUMA, SYMBIOSIS ORCHESTRA, ENT, (ETRE), PYO

[yoko.karu at baskaru.com]

Hello, this is the last issue of the Baskaru newsletter.

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[01] Urkuma - New CD out now + Live event
[02] Symbiosis Orchestra live in Florence
[03] ENT - "Fuck Work" cover-art featured in Sonic Scope Quarterly
[04] (etre) - Forthcoming release out soon on Baskaru
[05] pyo. - New full-length album due for September release

[ http://www.baskaru.com/newsletter.htm ]
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[01] Urkuma - New CD out now + Live event

We are very pleased to announce the official release of "Rebuilding 
Pantaleone's Tree", the new full-length album from Italian artist Urkuma.

Strikingly unique, Urkuma's music offers namedroppers little to cling to. 
Proceeding from free improvisation and noise, the music pairs together 
harshness and delicateness to piece together carefully spatialized sonic 
mosaics. Murmured drones, liquid growls, electrical discharges and acoustic 
touches: dissembling pieces are assembled into a stunningly unified whole.

Urkuma is Stefano De Santis, born in the Southeast part of Italy. He began 
his artistic career as a playwright, and later developed his unique musical 
approach to translate his theatre concepts into sound. Live, he is prone to 
make use of anything within his reach, including laptop, small electronic 
devices, clarinet, home-built instruments and tapes. "Rebuilding Pantaleone's 
Tree" consists of nine pieces of various lengths, including a collaboration 
with Strinqulu's David Della Rossa on "Olifante". The word urkuma is 
specific to De Santis' home region of Salento and expresses the opposite to 
the Buddhist concept of nirvana.

"Rebuilding Pantaleone's Tree" is a concept album based on the monk 
Pantaleone's marvellous mosaic floor in the Cathedral of Otranto. The mosaic 
depicts several unusual elements, including a number of animals playing 
musical instruments, such as the donkey with a harp seen on the album's 
cover. "Rebuilding Pantaleone's Tree" draws inspiration from the techniques 
of mosaic art and Pantaleone's symbolism.

More info and audio excerpts at:
 - http://www.baskaru.com/karu4.htm
 - http://www.sanfocahotel.com

The 4th of May 2006, Urkuma will play live at "Scatole Sonore" in Rome, 
alongside Strinqulu and Okapi.

More details at http://www.scatolesonore.org !

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[02] Symbiosis Orchestra live in Florence

The 13th of May 2006, our friends from "Symbiosis Orchestra" will perform 
live at Fabbrica Europa ( http://www.fabbricaeuropa.com ), Florence (Italy).

For this very special show, the line-up will consist of:

 - Scanner (electronics)
 - Claudio Sinatti (video)
 - Stefano Tedesco (vibraphone, percussions)
 - Andrea Gabriele (computer, guitar)

Initiated in 2005 during the 3rd edition of the PEAM festival (Pescara, 
Italy), the Symbiosis Orchestra is a mix-media ensemble currently playing as 
a quartet.
Their performances offer a symbiotic combination of music and images in a 
complex projection system, while their sound takes its origin in the fusion 
of classical and electronic instruments.
Always driven by improvisation, their musical inspiration comes from a lot 
of different styles, including ambient, electronica, jazz and ethnographic 
music.

The ever evolving line-up already featured the contributions from the 
following artists:

 - Iris Garrelfs (Germany)
 - Scanner (UK)
 - Claudio Sinatti (Italy)
 - Stefano Tedesco (Italy)
 - Andrea Gabriele (Italy)
 - Marco Messina (Italy)
 - Geoff Warren (UK)
 - Diego Conti (Italy)
 - Roberto Di Egidio (Italy)

A DVD release of their work is planned later this year.

More info and video excerpts at:
 - http://www.baskaru.com/symbiosis.htm
 - http://www.pirandelo.org/symbiosis/

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[3] ENT - "Fuck Work" cover-art featured in Sonic Scope Quarterly

Our friends from Grain of Sound kindly featured the cover-art of "Fuck Work" 
in their last edition of Sonic Scope Quarterly.
Sonic Scope Quarterly is the digital magazine for contemporary visual art 
and is downloadable for free at http://www.grainofsound.com !

ENT's first full-length album entitled "Fuck Work", already received a large 
number of good international reviews and we want to thank all the reviewers 
and radio stations who played the record.

An up-to-date list of reviews is available at 
http://www.baskaru.com/reviews_karu5.htm

More info and audio samples at:
 - http://www.baskaru.com/karu5.htm
 - http://www.ent-sound.tk
 - http://www.myspace.com/entsound

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[04] (etre) - Forthcoming release out soon on Baskaru

Currently being under press, (etre)'s first full-length debut entitled "A 
Post-Fordist Parade in the Strike of Events" will be released on Baskaru in 
May 2006.

Under a glitch guise, (etre)'s music hides a resolutely personal approach 
combining melodicism, collage, lyricism, and a sharp sense of digital 
textures.
(etre) is the project of Italian sound artist Salvatore Borrelli, who was 
first active in the fields of sound art installation and experimental 
performance art. A member of the collective iXem, he has worked with 
interior decorator Lin-Kuhn Liao and ceramist Fabrizio Quintelmo.

While already working on a continuation to his forthcoming full-length, 
(etre) is currently writing the tablatures of another project for acoustic 
guitar, violin and voice.
He has also started to work on a CD with Fabio Orsi and Kinetix.
In August, he will play live at the "Interferenze" festival with Elio 
Martusciello, and at the "Piombino" festival with Fabio Orsi.

More info and audio excerpts at:
 - http://www.baskaru.com/karu6.htm
 - http://www.freeglitch.com

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[05] pyo. - New full-length album due for September release

pyo. is the electro-acoustic/electronic project of Marseille' based composer 
Pierre Pulisciano.
His new full-length CD will be released on Baskaru next September 2006 and 
will include a collaboration with Erik Minkkinen (half of French duet 
Discom).

 - http://www.baskaru.com/pyo.htm
 - http://www.pyo.free.fr

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[P.S.] Thanks for reading !

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