From pimmon Sent Sun, Sep 19th 1999, 11:04
From pimmon Sent Sun, Sep 19th 1999, 11:04
>tonite i picked up a cd on the sigma editions label out of (i think) >australia. the cd is by a group called minit. Minit are Jasmine Guffond from Sydney who has appeared in many various guises over the years, Alternahunk being one, she's a great live dj too.... ..and Torben Tilley who played percussion with a NZ 'pop' outfit Garbage and the Flowers...Torben is an accomplished artist who creates wonderful sound installations..he was residing in Sydney, Minit are currently in the UK, believe they did a Peel session and hopefully they'll come home soon.. >it's very minimal abstract electronics cf. rastermusic, 12k, etc. -- >very much in the vein of the non-music music i was talking about >earlier this week. i don't know much about this label (i found a web site: >http://laudanum.net/sigma/) but the minit cd is excellent. minit is >listed as having a couple of other releases. anybody heard them? they have a track on a 2CD of Australian electronic music from a couple of years back, that track appears on the Sigma release.. they also had an 8" lathe cut that was a part of an exhibition in Brisbane and Melbourne called 50 Turntables, where 25 artists contributed 2 tracks, 20 lathe records were pressed and set up in an interactive fashion in a warehouse setting..the record players where a random collection of 60's/70's kitsch hi[lo]-fis.. only one track on their lathe pressing was exclusive... they are wonderful live, there sound is warm and organic, they do have minimal, repetitive phrases they blossom and draw you in, not realising time has elapsed..some 15 minutes or so... this cd is highly recommended...[as are all Sigma Edition releases] Sigma Editions are planning a series of limited 12"s in the not too distant future... >also, there is a release by a group called parmentier in the sigma catalog. >according to the information on the site, parmentier is former members of >thela, a popular (in the underground sense) experimental outrock trio >probably known by most for having a release or two on thurston moore's >ecstatic peace label. when thela split, one of the guys formed a solo >project called white winged moth, and the others went on to form >parmentier. does anybody have this cd? comments? Sigma Editions was started by 2 ex-members of Thela. Dion Workman [who is currently residing/running the label in Amsterdam] and Rosy Parlane. The label is a collective of like-souls who are committed to releasing rich abstract electronic works..other releases include a solo CD of Rosy Parlane, great interlocking loops which drift and meander through your subconcious...Parmentier is Dion and Rosy and they create deep, glitchy bass and blip soundscapes using an old device called a 'luxsound'..from memory is a fairly cheap delay-type device...Parmentier also had a double 8" lathe cut which is impossible to come by, I think a couple of tracks ended up on a Drunken Fish comp CD... d.haines has an fantastic release [another Sydneysider] who creates piano loops which are, for the sake of 'riyl', along the lines of Reich.. his works carrying along the sense of drifting and being carried away by the shifting harmonics of his work... vladislav delay is the only non-australian connection in the S.E. catalog, his 12" on Huume was greatly loved by Torben, who suggested he send a DAT to Dion..the V.Delay CD is another ambient glitch workout that has you reaching for the repeat button...I' yet to hear his 12" on the Max & Ernst label... the label left Aussie shores in June for Europe and travelled around playing Finland, Germany, Austria...etc...for a couple of months.. Rosy P came back to Melbourne, Minit stayed in UK..so the next Sigma E series will be the aforementioned 12" releases... while I am friends with most of the artists/collective, I would only recommend these releases if I had the utmost faith in the product.. I rarely take the time to write to the list...Forced Exposure def. carry these releases, check em out ! paul