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| May 20th 2010 |
| Minority Records proudly presents the latest album of Milanese electro-acoustic improviser, Giuseppe Ielasi, his very first full-length album appearance on lovely vinyl. "Aix" is the latest work of unconventional minimal structures and the follow-up to 2007's "August" on 12K. Ielasi relies heavily on numerous short samples and combining them in ways that fell into his groove; some found from others' recordings and many more recorded during the past year. We hear fragments of percussive (acoustic) objects, drums, piano, trumpet, guitar, and, of course, synthetic textures. The album is pressed on high quality vinyl at Pallas Group GmbH, Diepholz, Germany, each copy features a coupon with a code to download both MP3 and FLAC version of the album. This edition is limited to 400 copies, thereof 150 on clear and 250 on black vinyl.   Giuseppe Ielasi, born in 1974, lives and works in Milan, Italy. He started playing guitar in 1988, and worked for many years in the area of "improvised music" [long term collaborations with Alessandro Bosetti, Michel Doneda, Ingar Zach, Dean Roberts, Thomas Ankersmit]. He has performed live with Taku Sugimoto, Jerome Noetinger, Mark Wastell, Martin Siewert, Brandon Labelle, Nikos Veliotis, Gert-Jan Prins, Phill Niblock, Oren Ambarchi and many others. He has released music on various labels such as Erstwhile, Bowindo, Kning Disk, Sedimental [his first solo "Plans"], Hapna ["Gesine" and "s/t"] and 12k ["Aix" and the critically acclaimed "August", nominated for a Qwartz Electronic Music Awards in the Experimental/ Research category and featured in the "Best of 2007" list for The Wire magazine]. In 1998 Giuseppe founded the Fringes Recordings label [closed in 2005] and co-founded Schoolmap Records in 2006 and Senufo Editions imprint in 2010 for small-run vinyl only releases. On the spin: Seth Nehil - Knives 12"LP (Senufo Editions) Peter Cusack - After being in Holland for two years LP (Bead) No.Pavarotti - s/t CD-R (KLaNGundKRaCH) |
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| February 27th 2010 |
| After long eight months in the making, the new full-length album by Tomas Dvorak, more known using Floex moniker, and follow-up to "Samorost 2" soundtrack is out now as limited 12"LP on Minority Records. The original idea behind Machinarium Soundtrack came into the life when Amanita Design head honcho Jakub Dvorsky asked Tomas to prepare compositions for his newly prepared and eagerly awaited point-and-click adventure flash game Machinarium in the same manner as he did for "Samorost 2", e.g. ambient and electro-acoustic compositions overlapping into classical music. The compositions on LP are not entirely the same as in the flash game, they were carefully remixed and mastered for the purposes of the standalone soundtrack which turned out as gorgeous set of compositions which is wonderful beyond compare. Machinarium is a point-and-click adventure game by Amanita Design, the makers of "Samorost " and "Samorost 2" flash games concentrating on art design. In 2009 Machinarium won the category "Excellence in Visual Art" at IGF Festival in San Francisco, USA, it has been nominated for Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) Awards and picked up over 22 awards across the world to date. Tomas Dvorak [Floex], born in 1978, graduated in new media department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 2006. His work has been always significant for its seek between visual medias and music, exploring interactive works and installations almost always based on the musical themes. Floex's debut CD "Pocustone" has been awarded in electronic music category in Czech Music Academy Awards (2002), nominated to European awards (Qwardz) in the discovery category (2004). The main live performances includes Stubnitz (Rotterdam NL), Big Chill (Easton Castle Deer Park, UK), Global Beats (Krotoszyn, Poland), and Zoobizarre (Bordeaux, France).   |
