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Friday, April 10, 2009
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Current mood:  accomplished
Category: Music
Producer, Kramer, of Second Shimmy, is done adding his final touches to COMITATUS' international collaboration between Bardacid (Florence), Krautiopharm (Germany), and myself.
Album is entitled "Portable Casanova"
Special Guests Include: Simon House, violin (Hawkwind, Bowie, High Tide, Astralasia, Psychestra, Dark Chemistry) Bruno Green, guitar and bass, (Silent Masters, 16 Horsepower, The Blue Void Trilogy) Bridget Wishart, vocals, (Spirits Burning, Hawkwind, Hippy Slags, Omenopus) Stefan Scott Nelson, (howardAmb) Fawn
Next matter at hand is cover art and inner sleeve lyric sheets. Meanwhile the search for label and distribution begins.
Interested record companies may send an email, then a demo with bio will be forwarded to A&R contact.
Friends may also write in for advance demo preview... We'll be keeping the final mix out of circulation until album is released, but you may be able to hear mixed tunes down the road from Killradio.org's Chillroom podcasts in the near future. Stay tuned.
Louise
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Monday, November 20, 2006
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for Richie
strumming down Colorado Boulevard, passing Jons and Forest Lawn I took my bike out for a ride wasn't gonna hurt no one myself or anybody just ride my bike on a sunny day in pretty little Glendale Californ and I wasn't intending on hurting no one myself or anybody myself or anybody
but some days are worse than the rest some days you can't control your nest the cats just puke and your neighbors wretch the sun so bright was hard on my eyes so I was thinking of going west I wanted some sleep for a day, a really long day a day I wasn't counting on for a day, a really long day a day I wasn't counting on myself or anybody just ride my bike myself or anybody sorry, Mom
do not pity me I got my angel wings and i'm free do not wait for me I'm sleeping contently under tree
for a day, for a day for a day a pretty long day for a day for a day a day I wasn't counting on myself or anybody just ride my bike myself or anybody ride on, son
Louise Bialik, Comitatus, 2006
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Saturday, November 04, 2006
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green finger of God whose heaven you planted glistens in Heaven like pillar of Light, Who levels the Mountains shall not be brought so low Exalted one-- You who stand afar like an Exile though armed for which no other has strength to seize You, preparing for Glory
Glorify the Father, Son and Spirit In preparing for God your Glory
so you come to me in dreams you're laughing at me in beams
O happy soul your earth-born bod is the crown mind of God which makes you, Mirror
so you come to me in dreams your haunting me in dreams what sweet release to offer may never help me wonder how long is forever how long love, how long shall I behold you in mind and behold you in thought and not behold you in mine arms?
Angels that Guard the Nations Angels that welcome of cherubim and seraphim Seal upon the secret things of God
Praise be you who beholds such fountain that which creates from Soul, the place of everlasting heart
For your eyes are fixed on the father's pulse
O God the everlasting heart and my lamentation for your crime is for being beholden by the image of God, which, which makes you Mirror,
my Mirror
So you come to me in dreams, and undo me, it seems, O Happy soul, and I am not quite myself these days, not quite myself, but come, and tell me of your dreams speak to me of Spirit I marvel at thy heart I hold out my hands and arms to kiss of your wisdom possessed by your love and treasure such trust
the air is thick with wanting filled with seed the fruits refuse to fall but drops upon tongues we cannot touch but only in mind
out of you clouds O fire spirit your breath my comfort your air, our kiss stream the Heavens with your comforts
glorify the father and the spirit glistens in heaven like pillar of light
O happy soul
the air is thick with wanting I am not quite myself the spirit, the fruits refuse to fall in wanting, and in mind
so you come to me, you come, in dreams and I'm holding you, in dreams, you are more dear and near to me
it seems in dreams
Louise Bialik, Comitatus, 2006
~ and ~
Adaptations of Hildegarde..s "Harmony of Celestial Revelations"
"30 ~ Responsory for the Angels" "42 ~ Responsory for Saint Disibod" "43 ~ Responsory for Saint Disibod
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Sunday, October 15, 2006
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Believe me it wasn't easy to take down a song that has been played 3,000 times, but in the spirit of offering friends the window into our studio, we're putting up the newly revised WALLS. Happily this version has Simone's (Bardacid's) electronica. Yay! I also tacked on a bebop vocal at the half mark.
Please download and keep in your files to follow the song's progression.
If you would care for a crisper quality MP3, email us and we'll yousendit to you a 320 bps version. This one here is wimpy 112 which drops out a lot of the high end. It's way more shiney.
Louise
PS: Stay tuned for TICK TOCK and COOL DADDY
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Monday, September 11, 2006
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Bennet of Chillroom on Killradio.org has been heavily playing Comitatus and Hermione Gart on Saturday nights from Midnight until 2am Sunday morning. To download the podcast -- which might habe an interview with me??? not sure, haven't heard it yet... yipes... but I did call the station and was routed to a live interview, not knowing I was on air until mid way, then got the stagefright jitters... kinda funny! Awesome shows, that Chillroom! Here's the podcast link: KILLRADIO PODCAST OF COMITATUS & GARTAnd here's Bennet's description of what's on the podcast: Subtitle: extra chill urban night music Summary: A living collage of experimental dance and pop musics with your mind in mind. Featuring: Bennett Theissen, Jackson Pollack Recorded: 09/03/2006 noTHING & noWHEREhot busy holiday weekend night very tired and distracted but every time you hear a siren it's a real siren passing in the street below and the crickets come from an Illinois backyard at 3am in August 2005 the collage prefaces with Jackson Pollack in 1953 describing his work and Morton Feldman's score for the Jackson Pollack film over which Seht is heard Valles Marineris the track until the Stooges startle us with Loose (Funhouse) which quickly recedes to Tower Recordings (?) and I Saw the World from a Tom Rapp tribute and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and co. swirl into Must Must reorienting our touchdown until Tim Buckley's Hallucinations (Goodbye & Hello the 1968 lp) disintegrate the texture which is relaid by Public Image Ltd's Albatross which lives in memory (from a 1980 Chicago concert) but this is from Mertal Box though which Melted Man pushes in with Itch Offer (thanks Scott Williams) until Sun Ra and Dancing Shadows (From Nothing Is... on ESP) reconfigures the aural space, sharing then dominating, then wiped out by Daniel Menche from Jugularis (track 3) and a drilling into your skull but all is cleared out by Comitatus (with Hermione Gart) You Can't Win based on the book and a true lesson in life and it plays itself out until Moondog's gentle chorus of All Is Loneliness settles in and is chased by Big Brother and the Holding Company and their own version of Moondog's All Is Loneliness break the soundtrack of the film The Trip starts us up again with Peter's Trip which is redirected to Sam the Sham (but he's no sham) he's just backwards Wooly Bully yloop yloop and the Ig is back with the Stooges and I been dirt but I don't care overwhelmed by Six Organs of Admittance and a splash of Assyrian Blood which reveals the Subcode by Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell and leaves us with a build to the end first Blind Faith and Can't Find My Way Home and Vicki Bennett and People Like Us and Israeli conman Uri Gellar explaining Nothing and the light of You Get Brighter Every Day by the Incredible String Band and nowhere to run No Escape by the Seeds and the collage has dropped you off where?
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Friday, July 14, 2006
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Regarding NOVARADIO shows... friends might have trouble getting the continuous stream working on iTunes. For those with Macs, try this recipe:
If your computer is like mine, it won't play Novaradio on iTunes because it has an .ogg ending, so you need a special "browser" for that. The one I use is VLC Media Player and you can download it at this link:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14738
Once installed... you have to juggle... be sure the VLC Media Player is in your side menu
1. Go to Novaradio.info (NOTE: THE site ends with INFO not COM) 2. In the second box on the left side there is an area called STREAMING 3. Take your mouse and click to DRAG the link that says IN DIRETTA>> 4. drag the link to the VLC icon of An orange Construction Traffic Cone in your side menu 5. the VLC Controller pops up and has a link called http://www.novaradio.info:8000/ click to highlight and then click on the arrow above to PLAY the continuous stream
Novaradio is very cool like the independents in Los Angeles, KPCC, KPFK, KXLU.
Louise
PS: DJ BARDUS SETS ARE SWELL! The show I listen to is on Fridays from 10:00-13:00h Italian Time (Close to GMT. GMT might be 11h-14h)
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Saturday, July 08, 2006
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HERMIONE GART - Indie Category - France 16 ~ Psychedelic 59 ~ Experimental 77 ~ Indie
BARDACID - Unsigned - Italy 1st place ~ IDM 1st place ~ Trip Hop 1st place ~ Lounge
KRAUTIOPHARM - Unsigned - Germany 26 ~ Dub 80 ~ Psychedelic
DISCODELIC - Unsigned - Germany 85 ~ Psychedelic
NICO VOLVOX - Unsigned - Italy 25 ~ Lounge
WALKING THE COW - Unsigned - Italy 96 ~ Folk
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Friday, July 07, 2006
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http://www.random-magazine.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1053Un festival di tre giorni in cui vorremo avere la pretesa di poter analizzare o misurare attraverso un confronto diretto lo stato delle arti elettroniche/digitali, con un occhio di riguardo nei confronti delle pratiche dell'opensource e dello sharing delle conoscenze. Esistono molti progetti che esprimono in vari modi la loro intersezione in entrambi i campi... Se andiamo ad esaminare nello specifico i movimenti legati all'opensource, senza entrare per il momento nei movimenti artistici, sono molti i progetti nati negli ultimi anni: tutto il movimento per il software libero, wikipedia (enciclopedia aperta), tutte le forme di file sharing, la grande diffusione dei forum dove la condivisione è più di varia natura (tecnologica, manualistica, ecc.), Creative Commons. Stiamo comunque parlando di avanguardie. Per fare un'analisi affrettata, tutti i movimenti suddetti ed i molti altri non citati, nascono per opporsi alla proprietà intellettuale. Il problema centrale è che non è pensabile di lasciare così com'è adesso la privatizzazione di conoscenza, cultura e scienza, che sono prodotti collettivi della civiltà, nelle mani di pochi soggetti. Il punto focale è questo, ed è da qua che vogliamo partire, in un'analisi tesa a capire di come questo movimento, che oramai possiamo definire sociale, influenzi il modo di fare arte. La necessità di raggiungere una consapevolezza dove l'interesse di tutti risiede nella libera circolazione dell'informazione e delle conoscenze. Quali sono le pratiche singole e collettive che si prefiggono, facendo più o meno inconsapevolmente politica, di alimentare la cultura della conoscenza? La pratica, o meglio, l'arte del campionamento (assai utilizzato dagli artisti digitali) può essere incentrata su questioni di plagio o di riutilizzo illegale? L'interesse deve essere volto ad i movimenti che creano nuove possibilità. Ed è quello che cercheremo di fare, nel nostro piccolo, in questo festival, senza innalzare muri di parole, ma semplicemente ospitando e mostrando il lavoro degli artisti invitati. vdg25.org Dal 29 giugno al 1 luglio 2006 Parco Pertini, Agliana (Pistoia) ORA INIZIO CONCERTI 21:30 - TUTTI I CONCERTI SONO AD INGRESSO LIBERO. Lista dei Partecipanti: BARDACID : liveset BONAROSA : liveset MONOTONO : audio/video OPENROLL BAND : live OTO : audio/video sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! : audio/video INFLUX : visual SELFISH : visual ZAVA : visual
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Friday, July 07, 2006
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http://cp05.ionhosting.com/~joelh/krautiopharmreviews.htm Discography:
Tablettland - 2006Krautipharm - Tablettland M.E.K.K.A. Records - 2006 1. Diazepam 2. Ritalin 3. Valoron 4. Viagra 5. Musaril 6. Fluoxetin 7. Librium 8. Amphetamin - Discodelic Orchestra Mix 9. Methamphetamin 10. Tilidin This project is one of my Myspace treasures. Found by following a link and a link and a link and somehow ended up at Krautiopharm. I really liked what I heard on the Myspace player, got in touch with Michael (who is Krautiopharm,) sent him the money, and a little later this GREAT disc arrived from Germany. If you're a fan of projects like Boards of Canada, A Small Good Thing, Plaid, Plone and Spring Heel Jack, I think you'll really like Krautiopharm. It's very laid back; trancey, bits of Doors coolness and darkness added in for good measure. A bit of kinky reggae here, a dash of disco glitz there. Infectious grooves, bendy booms and slippy beats throughout. This is definitely one for the headphones. Dim the lights, close your eyes, put your feet up, and drift away. The perfect pharmaceutical blend for any given day on planet Earth. MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/krautiopharmJune 29, 2006 By Ginnie Moon
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Monday, June 26, 2006
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http://indie-eye.blogosfere.it/2006/06/the_comitatus_s.htmlThe Comitatus: storie di xtra-ordinaria connettivitàNon diciamo niente di particolarmente nuovo e scomodo parlando di accessibilità web 2.0 come una nuova fonte di promozione disponibile, veloce, e nella maggior parte dei casi, gratuita. Attualmente costa molto di più affidarsi alle vie dalla promozione tradizionale o a sedicenti agenzie di management, considerando che le stesse spesso dispongono di personale che avrebbe bisogno di un corso radicale di riqualificazione informatica. Dio ci liberi da myspace, o forse semplicemente la chiesa episcopale; myspace scatola del consenso piena di oscenità e con gli artigli globali di Murdoch ad un movimento di mouse; questo il grido del buon cristiano e della musica che "resiste". Eppure ci sono tutti, persino i Battles, e potete star certi che con un po' di fortuna non è un bot o un webmaster a rispondere. Su Myspace trovano casa unica e connettiva anche The Comitatus, unica perchè il progetto ha avuto origine tra le grinze del social network più frequentato del pianeta, connettiva perchè The Comitatus è creatura di tre artisti che si sono affidati all'autopromozione e alla diffusione attraverso il player integrato del loro spazio personale; due padri una madre e un padrino d'eccezione per un progetto promiscuo che non li ha fatti ancora incontrare fisicamente. Tutti e tre si sono scambiati patterns, loop, textures, groove, frammenti vocali, e attraverso myspace, un client ftp e i servizi di condivisione remota come dropload hanno dato vita ad un progetto collettivo, modificando l'uno il materiale dell'altro. Ecco The Comitatus: Michael Mayr aka Krauthiopharm, attivo sin dagli anni '80 in una serie di band che si muovevano in area New Wave (Wahnvorstellung) e poi verso i territori di Elettronica, IDM, neo-psychedelia. Il progetto krautiopharm in particolare elabora interessanti patterns mutuati dalle sonorità del Krautrock (come fedelmente da nome) e una tendenza a costruire soundscapes di derivazione etnica che ricordano alcuni esperimenti di Bill Laswell insieme a Nicky Skopelitis per lo meno nel risultato ambientale. Louise Bialik aka Hermione Garth, radicale libera (in accezione giocosa e politica) come si definisce, poetessa stanziata a Los Angeles, ama raccontare del suo debutto in giovane età insieme a Perry farrell in un art nerdrock ensamble chiamato The Phlemgh Phatales e delle sue collaborazioni con Anti-Club, Theoretical Society, Haircuts that kill, savage republic, sandbox e 17 pygmies. Simone B. aka Dathys B. aka Bardacid impegnato nel suo progetto tra micromusic ed IDM colta, del quale abbiamo parlato più di una volta in occasione di un profilo a lui dedicato e dell'imminente What's Next? festival dove si esibirà il 29 di giungo; è Chitarrista, compositore, synth wizard, loop player incide il suo primo album nel 1992 con i Dum Dum Power per la Burp Andergroond Enterprise e prosegue la sua attività con i fiorentini Mirabilia, realizzando con loro 3 album, fra cui uno prodotto da Pete Bassman degli Spaceman 3/Darkside. Dallo scioglimento della band collabora a diversi progetti, tra i quali Yonder Garden di Simon Lewis e l'ultima release di Nihil Project di imminente uscita. tra i progetti in via di sviluppo, The Walking The Cow insieme a Nico Volvox sempre dal progetto Mirabilia, Paolo Moretti e Martino Lega. The Comitatus non sarebbe al completo senza menzionare il contributo di Kramer,probabilmente uno dei più grandi e strabordanti produttori degli anni '80 (ma è una delimitazione sicuramente riduttiva) pronto per una nuova uscita con il progetto Secondshimmy, un all stars reunited dedicato ad una manciata di canzoni di Daniel Johnston. Kramer, come è successo per i notevoli i am stereo di cui indie-eye ha parlato da questa parte, ha ascoltato le tracce messe a disposizione sui profili di tutti gli artisti afferenti al progetto The Comitatus e soprattutto quelli disponibili nel profilo collettivo, si è interessato alla musica e ha deciso di produrre la prima uscita della network band (spero mi passeranno la definizione). Un inizio niente male che conviene tener d'occhio per valutarne gli sviluppi; al momento, le tracce disponibili attraverso questo link, sono molto interessanti, soprattutto considerando la genesi assolutamente autonoma sul piano della produzione dei suoni. Indie-eye propone l'ascolto in streaming di un brano che gioca con il pop di John Cale attraverso i "secoli", le manipolazioni di Dathys B., l'arte combinatoria di Michael Mayr e il morbido erotismo di Hermione, buon ascolto. Ascolta: For a day
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