[Microsound-announce] Baskaru Newsletter: GoGooo, Lawrence English, + more...

[Yoko Karu]

Dear friends,

We are glad to bring you the latest Baskaru newsletter which includes the following content:

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 1. New CD release from French artist Gabriel Hernandez aka GoGooo
 2. Lawrence English on tour throughout Europe
 3. Upcoming releases
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 1. New CD release from French artist Gabriel Hernandez aka GoGooo
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GoGooo
Long, Lointain
CD, karu:9, November 2007

Delicately-played instruments whose sounds, once sampled and digitally treated, seem to permeate our ears from a distant world both strange and strangely familiar. And yet, the resulting music is intimate as can be, full of untold and evocative imagery.

GoGooo is Gabriel Hernandez, born in 1979 in Grenoble, France. Gabriel started making music because he wanted to accompany his guitar-playing cousin. Untrained, he turned to the computer, and thus came to life their duo Simagrée. Other collaborations ensued with Alain Basso (Sol III) and Daisuke Miyatani (Miyagooo).

"Long, lointain" [Long, far] is GoGooo's first professional full-length release, following a number of net releases, CDR EPs and compilation appearances. 2007 is a coming-out year for GoGooo, with additional releases on labels such as (1.8)sec Records (Canada), Magic Book (Japan), EKO (France) and his own netlabel Rain Music.

"Long, lointain" features 10 short pieces exerting a fleeting charm, populated with field recordings, found sounds and skeletons of melodies, all delicately arranged to titillate and soothe your ears. This music can be compared to electroacoustic folk for its instrumentation, but is actually unique in style.

Gabriel Hernandez is also a drawing artist, photographer and video artist, and most of these other facets of his art are represented in "Long, lointain"s packaging, including drawings decorating the digipack cover and four short videos.

What they say:

L'un des artistes les plus prometteurs de la nouvelle scène électronique hexagonale.
D-Side, November 2007

It's damn good.
Chain D.L.K., November 2007

Really pleasant to hear.
Vital Weekly, October 2007

More info and audio samples at this url: http://www.baskaru.com/karu9.htm

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 2. Lawrence English on tour throughout Europe
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Lawrence English is currently touring throughout Europe and the UK until December 2007.

Here is the schedule:

20/11/07 - METZ - Théatre Du Saulcy, Fragment
22/11/07 - POLAND - Unsound Festival Krakow
23/11/07 - POLAND - Unsound Festival Krakow
24/11/07 - POLAND - Unsound Festival Krakow
25/11/07 - AMSTERDAM - MC Stubnitz
27/11/07 - POLAND - Aarhus University
29/11/07 - COPENHAGEN - Plex
30/11/07 - BRISTOL - Cube
02/12/07 - LONDON - Advent Sprawl @ The Fleapit
04/12/07 - LONDON - E:vent Gallery, 96 Teesdale Street

Lawrence English
For Varying Degrees of Winter
CD, karu:7, 2007, http://www.baskaru.com/karu7.htm

And here is a link to an interview given by Lawrence to Radio Dreyeckland:
http://www.anti-matter-plant.org/beats/telefoninterview_'lawrence_english'.m3u

(thanks to our friends at www.anti-matter-plant.org)

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 3. Upcoming releases
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Announcing two upcoming releases from Maurizio Bianchi + Emanuela De Angelis and Yoshio Machida.

M.B + E.D.A
Regolelettroniche
CD, karu:8, Late 2007

Yoshio Machida
Hypernatural #3
CD, karu:10, Early 2008

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Thanks for reading.

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Baskaru

E-mail: hello at baskaru.com
Web site: http://www.baskaru.com
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MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/baskaru

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Out now on Baskaru:
* GoGooo - Long, Lointain, CD, 2007, NEW CD OUT NOW
* Lawrence English - For Varying Degrees of Winter, CD, 2007

Upcoming releases:
* Maurizio Bianchi + Emanuela De Angelis - Regolelettroniche, CD, Late 2007
* Yoshio Machida - Hypernatural #3, CD, Early 2008

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