mbehrens 'selected minimalist concerns' (absurd cdr#17)

i was and still am fond of marc's work. since the first time i chanced upon it. his first trente oiseaux cds and the design he used to do for the first cds of the label but also his unique soundscapes. if not all of his entire discography at least his first ones belong to some of the most formidable listenings i had. it won't be a lie to say that. being fond of his work as in some cases had broadened my horizons too, wanted to make a cdr. came up the 'selected minimalist concerns' a compilation of tracks spanning somehow a period of a decade's work. must admit that it was probably one of the few times that will never forget as long as marc not only did the artwork for the cdr but is probably the first time that an absurd artist checks the slightest details of the release regarding sleeve or cover artwork problems!

cdr came in those heavy japanese plastic cases provided by touch

cdr promos in the typical plastic sleeves that absurds come.

bilingual cover (enligsh / greek) too.

play ultra loud!!!

www.divshare.com/download/7672825-f23

sam dellaria/adam sonderberg : fold your arms and the world will stop (absurd #29)

i was a lot into adam's work at that time (still am!) we had traded some cdrs/cds when he proposed this one and i fall in love with it upon listening it!
still hold the same feelings as the ones described in the press info which i paste below.

"fold your arms and the world will stop" sounds, as its title suggest, like a bizarre game scored by sam dellaria and adam sonderberg and is their third encounter (personally in consider it as their most intense) since their "signal hill" debut back in 1998 and 2000's "64 squares" (both were issued on sonderberg's longbox recordings - www.longboxrecordings.com). scored & assembled out of various recordings the duo extensively did within late 2002
the stunning result is giving you the feeling that slowly folding arms move like the soundscapes presented on this cdr, intense ambiances that slowly vary in mood & lower while listening in density & intensity to stop while arms have folded. a really phrenetic trip through dellaria's & sonderberg's visionary world.”

play loud!!!!!!!

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nm23i0afmqt

fibo trespo (absurd cdr #16)

a cdr am nuts with.. fibo trespo the brainchild of sindre bjerga & kjetil brandsdal still stands as one of my favest lo-fi groups. their eponymous cdr being my favest as is closer to the more improvised lo-fi sounds i love. of course nearly all of their releases are nuts, from lo-fi rock to more noisy and improv stuff including parodieds like the 'fibo trespo' (another self titled cdr) which was a parody of the 1st iron maiden lp including the same cover, track listing changing only the name 'iron maiden' with 'fibo trespo' and so on.. guess their smalltown supersound lp is probably their weakest moment at least in my humble opinion... but back to this one...
intially was out on gold soundz and was if am not mistaken one of the reasons i had written long ago to sindre to obtain it. got it listened it liked it and as as limited to 50 dropped a line and asked for a reissue... includes bonus the myke droner 7" too.

play loud!


http://www.divshare.com/download/7334669-dbb

matt davis mark wastell : derby / liverpool (absurd cdr #21)

pretty funny but is exactly 7 years since the mini uk tour of 2002 and the release of this baby... matt & mark were (at least matt still is) for playing the trumpet & cello. however during the 'reductionism' heyday they searched other genres too. this is one of their first (if am not mistaken) live sets where the use of amplified textures was used.

enjoy

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tyzyttlgz2z

black to comm (eclipsis 4 / absurd # 68)

another cdr to celebrate a child's birth... little nefeli's time now... like the machida cdr we talked with mihalis 'bout it... i was nuts with black to comm then (and still like this works) him too so we dropped a line to mark and asked for a recording which turned to be our favest black to comm!!!! no kiding because is an absurd... get it here, play loud & you'll see why...

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?g5attj1mtjo


plus here's some more extra info on the cdr

A sound collage of nine tracks mixed to one lovely dreamy song.

Limited to 70 handnumbered copies.

A5 size transparent colored plastic envelope with 2 pencils and 2 colored drawing paper.

Co-production with absurd (#68).

Artwork: Maria Amaryllis

Released: 24/07/2007

(ad)vance(d) cdr (absurd # red dot)

vance orchestra have been one of my favest 'ambient' projects (together with maeror tri and a couple more). for long i wanted to make a cdr or cd release of their work and when finally i discussed it with mars the project has split. mars was workin under the (ad)vance(d) name in a style not so different the the actual vance orchestra stuff.

at the same time i was and still am fond of red dot comics and zenia's work. no matter that sadly i don't have (actually never had that much) time to focus also on comics from time to time i check whatever i can. absurd did 1 collaboration with red dot actually contributed a short story in an issue of the zine together with other people too and the idea was born for another collaborative issue. don't recall why was delayed, etc however absurd's contribution this time was to be a vance orchestra (that turned to (ad)vance(d) cdr. issue was delayed so the cdr came under red dot's credit in a separate edition.

enjoy then a lovely moment!

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yn2yzhjg5yh

Yoshio Machida - Read A Book With Steel Pan CDR

is almost a kind of 'tradition' that for almost every kid that is born regarding close pals, relatives to do a release to celebrate the event or almost something like that... don't wanna cut the long story short... however for the birth of little maximos, son of our friends yiannis & theodora the idea was droped by mihalis who suggested a release of yoshio machida whose work i hadn't listened earlier and this one was my first encounter.
limited to 70 copies housed (as the black to comm cdr too) in a transparent a4 envelope w/ a design of little amaryllis...

here's the cdr info

composed by Yoshio Machida
recorded at Aoyama Book Center, Roppongi in Tokyo in june 9, 2007
Yoshio Machida: Tenor Steel Pan

This is an improvisation for a book store. I sometimes play there. "Read A book With Steel Pan" is the event title. Like a piano performance at lounge in hotel, it's a live BGM. People sometimes stop in front of me, and pass away, choose a book, etc..., just share time and space together through the sound.

Limited to 70 handnumbered copies.
A5 size transparent colored plastic envelope with fairytale booklet inside.
Artwork: Maria Amaryllis
Released: 20/08/2007
Tracklisting:
1. Improvisation
total time: 31:28

and here's the joy!

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?kvjtyvy5mjy