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| January 22nd 2012 |
| Minority Records happily announce the exclusive vinyl reissue of Stephan Mathieu's A Static Place CD, released on 12K in 2011. On A Static Place Stephan plays ancient 78rpm recordings of music from the late Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque era through two mechanical acoustic HMV Model 102 gramophones and records their output with a pair of customized mics. These sounds are then transformed into the blissed aural catharsis you hear through spectral analysis and convolution processes. This limited vinyl reissue with exclusive 20 minute bonus track Coda (for WK) comes as double 12 inch album on clear vinyl, housed in massive triple gatefold cover with printed inner sleeves and contains A1 size full color poster, all designed by Caro Mikalef in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As always, each copy features a coupon with a code to download MP3/FLAC versions of the album. A Static Place 2xLP is limited to 100 copies [+55 artist copies] where each copy is hand-numbered and inscribed by Stephan Mathieu. Album press reviews excerpts: "Mathieu is a singular artist that really sounds like no one else" Brainwashed "Excellent" Vital Weekly #776 "An exceptionally refined work, 'A Static Place' is a treat for any fan of microsounds" Futuresequence "Highly recommended!" Fluid Radio "Truly sublime" Remote Thoughts Stephan Mathieu A Static Place 2xLP A1 Schwarzschild Radius (10:00) A2 A Static Place I (10:00) B1 Minuet (10:00) B2 Dawn (10:00) C1 A Static Place II (20:00) D1 Coda (for WK) (20:00) Album can be preordered now in the store whilst ships out on its release date on February 21st.   Stephan Mathieu [born 1967] is a self taught composer and performer of his own music, working in the fields of electroacoustics and abstract digitala. His sound is largely based on early instruments, environmental sound and obsolete media, which are recorded and transformed by means of experimental microphony, re-editing techniques and software processes involving spectral analysis and convolution; it has been compared to the landscape paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, the work of Colorfield artists Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly. During the last decade Stephan's music has been released on 30 CDs and vinyl records. Apart from refining his solo work he currently collaborates with Sylvain Chauveau, Taylor Deupree, Jozef van Wissem, Caro Mikalef and David Sylvian in live and studio projects. Since 1992 he performed his music live in solo shows and on festivals all over Europe, Scandinavia, North and South America and created various audio installations for galleries and museums, a glass-blowing factory, a 17th century garden, Berlin Mitte, a 19th century steel plant, parks, an arrangement of 30 Peugeots, a late antique throne hall and many other unique sites. |
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| October 8th 2011 |
| Hello, as you may have already heard from different sources, FLOEX (Tomas Dvorak's moniker) new album entitled Zorya came out on September 26th on both CD and digital formats like MP3, FLAC. Zorya has been released by Minority Records in friendly cooperation with Amanita Design. The albums has been receiving rave fan reactions and reviews lately. For instance, Groovemine wrote: "If I had to single out one composer who managed to fuse the oftentimes at-odds worlds of the organic and electronic into one tremendous, gorgeous sum it would be Tomas Dvorak, the man behind Floex and the exceptional soundtracks to Amanita Design's flash games..." You can listen to the whole album on Floex's Soundcloud page. While CD version ordered via Minority Records comes with 1"button, LP version contains 2 large inserts with illustrations of Veronika Vlkova and a coupon with a code to download the album in MP3 and FLAC formats. CD [12.50 Euro + postage] can be purchased at: store LP [15 Euro + postage] [ltd. to 300, clear vinyl, out November 4th] can be pre-ordered at: store MP3/FLAC [5.55 Euro both] can be purchased at: digital store  |