From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ephre Imprint Team</b><br><div class="gmail_quote">Subject: Ephre Imprint Releases March 2011<br><br>Hello everyone, just a short note to announce the two new Ephre Imprint releases for March 2011.<br>
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+ [EPH08] NIGEL SAMWAYS - NINE BARROW DOWN [EP]<br>
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Plundering sampled material from two eminent and quintessentially English composers of differing creed and reworking with his own performances, this EP relates to a teenage experience of potentially baffling and unexplained origins whilst alone at night in the Dorset countryside.<br>
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This follows on from Samways' 2010 releases on Ephre of 'Silver Rain, Green Trees' and 'Poor Henrietta Marie'.<br> <br>
+ [EPH07] COEVAL / MIGUEL A.GARCIA / MIGUEL PRADO - TIRASSE [EP]<br>
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Ephre presents a challenging new work by a Spanish improvising ensemble of Miguel A Garcia, Miguel Prado and Juan Carlos Blancas (Coeval). Fizzing drones merge with field recordings and live instrumentation to create a luminous sonic landscape that moves through some intriguing passages, still turning up some twists and surprises.<br>
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Together they have previous releases across labels such as Co-V, Matricum, Alg-A, Homophoni, Zeromoon etc.<br>
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Thanks for listening!<br><br><h3>Vital weekly 772 reviews eph07 and eph08</h3>
<p>COEVAL, MIGUEL A. GARCIA AND MIGUEL PRADO - TIRASSE (CDR by Ephre Imprint)<br> NIGEL SAMWAYS - NINE BARROW DOWN (CDR by Ephre Imprint)</p>
<p><br> Music of the members of the Spanish improvising ensemble
consisting of Coeval (Juan Carlos Blancas), Miguel A. Garcia and Miguel
Prado have been reviewed several times at Vital. ” Tirasse” is a 21
minutes long piece which is released at the English label Ephre Imprint.
The mix between fieldrecordings, electronics and guitar is a great
combination and the music develops really slow. In slow-motion sounds of
nature and soft electronic sounds melt together and carefully played
guitarstrings complete the sound. In one moment a harsh bleep disturbs
the quiet atmosphere and the trio started to play louder and with more
harsh sounds. But still they do not get wild and the quietness and
control is tangible. The tracks ends as it started, just some ongoing
sounds, calm and with tension. A great electro-acoustic piece of music.</p>
<p>Same length, but with a totally different approximation of sound is
the piece of Nigel Samways. This English sound artist takes the listener
to a dreamy world on his third release at Ephre Imprint. “Nine Barrow
Down” starts with a beautiful voice saying/singing something surrounded
by mysterious wide dark sounds. This piece of music is coming back
several times at the E.P. Music has been played on acoustic and
electronic instruments with a lot of echo and reverb. It seemed that two
pieces of music vary each other and in this variations the music
becomes more and more sinister. This sinister mood fits really well by
the cover which shows us a green field with a white form like a
human-being which is moving on the grass, but also is integrated with
the blades of grass. The music have connections with reality, but the
combination, editing and setting of the tones, rhythm and sounds makes
as if the music is created somewhere down in the earth with some holes
to the sky. Highly recommended piece of experimental work. (JKH)</p>
<p>original webpage here: <a href="http://www.vitalweekly.net/772.html" target="_blank">http://www.vitalweekly.net/772.html</a></p><br>
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