Chris Corsano

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CHRIS CORSANO (US - Ultra Eczema | Family Vineyard | Ecstatic Yod)
Corsano is a multi-faceted drummer; a list of his collaborations attests to that fact. He's recorded and gigged with, among others, Paul Flaherty, Michael Flower, Björk, Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore, Evan Parker, Nels Cline, Jessica Rylan, Jandek, Six Organs of Admittance, Sunburned Hand Of Man, Okkyung Lee, MV&EE, Keiji Haino, Vampire Belt, Joe McPhee, Christina Carter and Heather Leigh Murray. First spellbound by free improvised music in the mid '90s through witnessing performances by TEST, William Parker, Cecil Taylor and others, Corsano began a long-standing high-energy partnership with Paul Flaherty in 1998. Moving from western Massachusetts, USA to Manchester, England in 2005 and then Edinburgh, Scotland a year later, Corsano focused on developing an expanded solo percussion music of his own, incorporating sax reeds, violin strings and bows, pot lids, adhesive tape and other household devices into his drumkit. In February 2006 he released his first solo recording, The Young Cricketer, and toured the UK opening for Jack Rose. In 2007 and '08 he was the drummer on Björk's Volta world tour. With a move back to Massachusetts, 2009 heralds a return to his own projects, most notably his duo with Michael Flower and solo work, now revamped to include synthesizers and contact mics in addition to his drum kit and home-made acoustic instruments.
http://www.myspace.com/chriscorsano
http://www.cor-sano.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppnn9OVshnM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBUqhGjmcq4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goOWKN24erw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGiSJB5gg98

CHRISTINE SEHNAOUI (FR - Al Maslakh | Olof Bright)
Born in 1978 and living in France, Christine is from lebanese origins. It is with the discovering of improvised music in 1997 that Christine Sehnaoui decided to start her own autodidact study of sound experimentation on the alto saxophone. She creates a personal language on how to make electronic music on an acoustic instrument. Far away from narrative or dramatic music, her music tries to deal with the relation between listening and the concept of perception, time and space. With deep sensitivity, she develops extended techniques and complex patterns, exploring the microtonal aspects of the saxophone or the high-pitched tone. She produces nifty tonguing tricks, unpitched breaths, spittle-flecked growls, biting, slicing notes or breathy echoey sounds from the bell of her horn.
Her main musical partners include Sharif Sehnaoui, Michel Waisvisz, Stéphane Rives, Mazen Kerbaj, Michael Zerang, Mathias Forge, Olivier Toulemonde, Pascal Battus, Basile Ferriot and many others. For the past few years, she has been working with dancers ( Buto and contemporary dance) and she also undertakes an ungoing research on musical pedagogy (concerts for children, intervention in schools). Besides, since 2001, she contibutes to develop impovisation in her country of origins, Lebanon, where she co-organizes the annual festival of improvised music in Lebanon, called « Irtijal ».
http://www.myspace.com/christinesehnaoui
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-bZNeJ2iMA

ALEXANDRE BELLENGER (FR - ARR | Beta-lactam Ring Records)
Alexandre Bellenger est un musicien et compositeur né à Paris en 1975. Il a donné de nombreux concerts en Europe depuis 2000 avec entre autres Otomo Yoshihide, Jac Berrocal, Jean-François Pauvros, Oliver Augst, Rüdiger Carl ou encore Aki Onda et Dan Warburton. Guitariste, il joue aussi des tourne-disques ou du synthétiseur analogique. Il écrit actuellement une série de 100 morceaux pour le trio S.M.H.O.T. En 2009 il a joué dans la pièce musico-théâtrale de Thomas Deszy intitulée « Gunny Fames » et présentée au DonauFestival en Autriche. « Perlaboration », composé en 2008 et publié par le label Appel est sans doute à ce jour son travail le plus élaboré. Il s’agit d’une pièce de musique électronique de 30 minutes mélangeant trois sources d’inspiration : le roman chez Philippe Sollers, le geste chez Éliane Radigue et le concept Freudien de « Perlaboration ».
http://www.dt-bs.com/engr.php?id_rubrique=9&id_article=20&recherche=(tous%20labels)

AMEN DUNES (US - Locust | Astralwerks)
Born in Philadelphia on Spruce Street. Went to school. Left school. Moved to New York 2002. Played in bands. Worked in a deli. Worked as a gardener. Worked selling shirts. Worked selling tea. Left work. Left New York 2007. Rented a cabin, Three weeks. Catskill mountains. Recorded DIA. Moved to Beijing, China. Worked for a Chinese newspaper. Spent money to travel in the western countryside. Working on a second record.
A lot of crazy shit can happen to a man when he goes solitary in a ramshackle Catskill Mountain home for an extended stretch of time-especially for a city kind of guy. But if Amen Dunes’s 12 tracker 'DIA' is one possible outcome of the guy alone-in-a-cabin- story, then a little tape saturated brain frying is something we should all live comfortably with because this is a batch of seriously raw & inspired loner psych grit that owes a debt to the diy soundz of the George Brigman s of the world. That was 2006. These days the lone wolf behind Amen Dunes -Damon McMahon calls a small two room apartment overlooking the Temple of Earth in North-Central Beijing home, where he watches old men fly kites and sing opera every morning. Who knows what’ll come out of that.
http://www.myspace.com/amendunes
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Amen_Dunes/Live_at_WFMU_on_Scott_Ws_Show_8132009/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzOVXQv_k4U

PRINCE RAMA OF AYODHYA (US - Cosmos Records)
**The Advent of Sonic Utopia**
Spawned from the vernal heat of the Florida swamps amidst swirling patterns of pine orchards and pre-Columbian artifacts, Prince Rama of Ayodhya was whispered into the ears of Taraka Larson, Nimai Larson, and Michael Collins in the summer of 2007 by the clanging of prayer bells and goat-skin drums. They left the Hare Krishna farm where they were staying and formed a creative nucleus in Boston, MA where they gained a cult following in the underground art and psychedelic folk and noise circles who were mesmerized by their captivating blend of campfire surrealism and transcendental anthems of every cosmic order. Taraka studied experimental film in art school, and her songwriting reflects an almost cinematic quality, taking listeners on labyrinthine sonic safaris with sparkling lyrical imagery intensified by Nimai's tribal drumming and elevated to the astral plane by Michael's sci-fi synth lines; the result is a sonic experience that takes the listener through celestial residue and archaeological constellations of a timeless civilization pining for self realization, while conjuring lingering anthemic melodies that haunt the fringes of the collective psyche. At times, one can hear echoes of eclectic influences stretching from weird folk and hallucinatory operas set to thunder drums to a plethora of ethnographic recordings of Native American and Southeast Asian rituals; yet, the culminating holistic sound is one that is strikingly unique. In a short time, the trio was picked up by the British-based psychedelic label, Cosmos Recordings, through a mutual love of the Skygreen Leopards. After sending them a handmade CD-R with a few dozen tracks recorded in forests and candle-lit bedrooms, Cosmos released a collection of these lo-fi recordings as "Threshold Dances" in August 2008 and flew them out to England to tour, play a radio session for the BBC, participate in the Stockton International Fringe Festival and Greenman Festival and record a second album to be released late Fall 2009.
In their young lifespan, Prince Rama has toured the US and UK, traveling with Teeth Mountain and sharing stages with Caribou, Wooden Shjips, Magik Markers, Psychic Ills, Indian Jewelry, Pocahaunted, Kurt Vile, Night Jewel, and playing festivals with Pentangle, Spiritualized, Iron and Wine, Clinic, Black Mountain and many others. Their engaging and often unpredictable live shows reflect their eclectic pool of mysticism; amidst collective chants, werewolf summonings, and Sanskrit invocations, they have been known to distribute hand drums, conch shells, bells, gongs, and other various percussion to members of the audience to create the ultimate communal ritual experience.
http://www.myspace.com/princeramaofayodhya
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Prince_Rama_of_Ayodhya/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzdzRlO5pDc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7wy_8ot0kE

MIM (BE)
North American Blues Faith, North African Grooves, South European Atitude, South American Taste, Jazz Love of Music, Grunge Way to Express It, 60's warmth & XXI century Freshness.
Born In France, live for 6 years in belgium. Country of pure deliverance. For many years Mim has recorded many cd-r's, all self-released, that he used to distribute directly, from hand to hand, to people in every corners where the vibe souded cool. Totally feed by guitar legends as Bukka White, John Fahey, Charlie Tweddle , Loren Connors and Harry Partch he created his own guitar language, mix of fast lightning scratching style and multicolored melodic moods. His love for Pop music as Van Dyke Parks, The Beatles, The Fugs, Joe Meek and Kahimi Karie pushed him to record and produce through crazy architectural forms his own music and many belgium bands. He use to collaborate with él-g on many records as producer and guitar man and he shared stage with people like Mv & Ee, Duncan Pinhas and of course his last band project, X-Factors ( No link with Iron Maiden ). He plans now to tour solo in northern Europe for the end of the year, dates are coming soon! A new fresh melted pop album should be released on a label around november.
http://www.myspace.com/mimouch