La deuxième sortie du label japonais Schole est l‘album commun de AKIRA KOSEMURA et HARUKA NAKAMURA. Les deux compères venant et vivant à Tokyo, commencent à faire parler d’eux via leurs contributions à plusieurs complitaions au Japon mais aussi en dehors de leurs frontières. AKIRA KOSEMURA vient d’ailleurs également de sortir un autre album sur la label australien Someone Good dirigé par Lawrence English.
L’album “Afterglow” est basé sur des sonorités électroniques tout en légèreté. Sorte d’ode zen à l’été qui se termine...

The second release from the japonese label Schole is a collaboration between AKIRA KOSEMURA and HARUKA NAKAMURA. Both are from Tokyo and starting to attract people’s attention by taking part in many compilation inside and outside Japan. AKIRA KOSEMURA has for example just released an other album on the australian label Someone Good (lead by Lawrence English). The album “Afterglow” is created with light sounds. It resembles the end of summer and surely puts the words of remembrance and memoir together.

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When Canadian electronic musician Stephen Hummel‘s debut as SubtractiveLAD “Giving Up The Ghost” materialized in 2005 n5MD touted it as an amalgam of the label’s emotional experiments in music credo. With his second album “Suture” (2006) subtractiveLAD toughened things up a bit by getting darker and somewhat emotionally weighted. With his new 3rd full-length for n5MD entitled “No Man's Land” subtractiveLAD has out shined his previous albums by creating an introspective and focused actualization of his emotions. In past outings subtractiveLAD has only hinted at such introspection and has let us see just a hint of such depth of psyche. This new more open aesthetic has seemingly given Hummel a newer confidence in his sound that has led him to push further its boundaries by adding elements such as guitar, field recordings, and even hints of vocal texture to his signature style of self-made synth melodies and compressed beats. Songs of defiance, love, exasperation, hope, loss and even pleasure are all compiled in such a way to lead you through a journey of great musical rewards. SubtractiveLAD has yet again captured a resounding annotation of n5MD as a label and as a stylistic categorization, proof that there can be a beating heart behind all the silicon and wires.

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www.myspace.com/sublad
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Mathias Delplanque est connu pour son dub electronique sous le speudo de Lena (chez Quatermass et Sounds Around). IL est également impliqué dans plusieurs projets d’installations et d’improvisations. “Le Pavillon Témoin” marque ici un virage pour le français qui explore l’esthétisme de l’electronica, du jazz, du folk et de la musique concrète. Les instruments acoustiques (guitare, piano, violoncelle, percussions, accordéon, melodica, cloches) forment la colonne vertébrale de ces compositions et sont parfois dissouts en particules sonores abstraites, parfois utilisés de manière plus classique.  Ce fragile équilibre entre collages noisy et mélodies plaisantes est la clef de cet album.      

Mathias Delplanque is an artist based in France, known mainly for his dub albums released under the name Lena on the labels Quatermass and Sounds Around. He's also involved in numerous projects ranging from sound installations, to improvisation and live performance. "Le Pavillon Temoin" (« The Show House »), marks the beginning of a new phase in the music of Mathias Delplanque. This is a very subtle and personal piece of work exploring the aesthetics of modern electronica, jazz, folk and musique concrete. Acoustic instruments (guitar, piano, cello, drums, accordion, melodica, bells) form the backbone of the compositions, sometimes dissolving into particles of abstract sound, and at other times conspiring to create familiar textures. This fragile balance between noisy collages and pleasing melodies is the key to the album's atmosphere, it’s a listening treat for the mind, the ear and the imagination. With each layer of shimmering guitar, "Le Pavillon Témoin" reveals itself in all its mysterious glory.

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www.myspace.com/portradium