01/06/2024
Psychofon update...1.6.24
Now the time has finally come and we are pleased to announce the next two releases on Psychofon.
The PRE-SALE starts on Saturday June 8th, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. Central European Time!
The official STREET DAY is July 7th, 2024.
There is the new CD PR062, nine tales of the winds by Laurent Pernice, Jacques Barberi, Dominique Beven. €16,99
At the very beginning, in 2018, there was Le Corps Utopique, commissioned music for a choreographic piece by the company Anima Motrix. Two atypical musicians explored the infinite facets of wind instruments from (almost) every country: launeddas, hulusi, granna, launeddas, cromorne, khen... These rare-sounding instruments played by Dominique Beven were mixed, amalgamated and metamorphosed by the electronics of Laurent Pernice, a composer from the French industrial scene of the 90s (Nox). A CD was released the following year by the Italian label ADN. The idea then emerged of bringing this project to the stage. The two invited Laurent Pernice's long-time partner, the writer and musician Jacques Barbéri, who, as part of the group Palo Alto, plays a Tibetan rhadong, a hunting horn, a genetically modified sax and an alto clarinet. Nothing but wind instruments... also electronically
manipulated. The symbiosis was there for all to see.
Invited by AMI (Support for innovative music) to play at the Jest festival in Marseille in September 2022, rehearsals got underway. Everything was recorded on multitrack, including the concert. Hours and hours of improvisation, research and sonic experimentation that would require several weeks of editing and mixing. Laurent Pernice will produce the present CD. The German label Psychofon Records, which released the split vinyl Palo Alto/Ptôse Phantom Cosmonauts in 2017, is responsible for its publication.
The whole of this album was recorded in virtually live conditions, rather than using rerecording, with the help of musician and sound engineer Nicolas Dick (Kill The Thrill). The loops, created live by Laurent Pernice, as well as the echo and reverberation effects, often very present, helped to create a very
special sound, both lively and hypnotic, sometimes bordering on saturation. Perhaps the best way to describe this unidentified sound object is to consult the attached diagram. It is also advisable to listen to it at a fairly high
volume to fully grasp its infinite ramifications...
Video...https://youtu.be/ZN_pO5N0rkU
And the other new release is Charles Bobuck 12" Clank,Clank,Clank, PR063. € 49,99
Our label friend Walter had already released this work with Bobuck in 2017 as a CD on Klanggalerie and now we are very happy to be able to release this mini album for the first time on vinyl for our audiophile lovers among you. This single-sided 180g vinyl will be available in two different versions. In black and clear vinyl. Both versions are limited to just 95 pieces and hand-numbered.
The black vinyl edition is a so-called single-sided pseudo picture disc and the clear vinyl version has hand lino prints on the blank side. Both versions come with a double-sided printed insert.
Story...
"In the midst of writing music for The Ghost Of Hope back in 2014, Charles Bobuck had what he thought was a musical ephiphany, The Residents were very focused on their 40th Anniversary and he felt that a Special 40th anniversary Album should be released. The Train wreck album seemed fine but very removed from the anniversary celebration.
So he proposed an album about the Meet the Residents Album from 1974. It would be new material but include versions of the Songs from Meet The Residents cobbled out of samples taken directly from the original recordings. It would be autographical. It would include stories and memories from making the recording forty years earlier.
The idea was received with Little interest. In response, he decided to record some demos to show what the new arrangements could sound like.
Still, the idea did not catch on, and neither did The Ghost of Hope which was shelved due to the touring schedule, so Bobuck started working on What Was Left Of Grandpa and the Demos were filed away.
Three years later, 2017, Hardy Fox and Walter Robotka were figuring out the Hacienda Bridge newsletter schedule and subjects. They wanted to do an issue on robots, AI, computer music - that kind of thing. Walter asked Charles Bobuck if he had any music that would fit into that theme for a CD to go with the issue.
He remembered that he had the demo redo's of Meet the Residents that used a lot of hi-tech Computer driven splicing.
Hardy and Walter agreed the demos should be released. After a bit of reworking, they were fashioned into an EP CD called Clank, Clank, Clank.
IT IS THE SOUND THAT ROBOTS MAKE WHEN THEY DANCE
Charles Bobuck
We also have a few of the Commercial Album Radio Ads CDs left from the PR064 Andrew Hook Commercial Book, which we are now selling separately and at the same time as the two new products. € 12,99
A special Psychofon archive and leftover SUMMER SALE is planned for July.
There will be some interesting bundle offers and other cool stuff. We need space...!
More on this soon here and of course, as always, on Meta and other social networks.
