We’re All Ears
Recent music releases the EM editors recommend
By associate editor Gino Robair
eX-Girl: Back to the Mono Kero! (ipecac; http://0505.net/ex-girl). Avocal-driven Japanese trio that combines the best of '80s new wave,progressive rock (ala Henry Cow), and post-punk sensibilities.
Morton Subotnick: Volume 1: Electronic Works (Mode 97 DVD;www.mode.com). Beautiful multichannel works. Especially appealing forfans of Buchla instruments.
Palette Sonore: Structures Sonores Baschet (SSP 01; www.cdemusic.org).These are pieces played on the marvelous Baschet soundsculptures.
Ivan Tcherepnin: Flores Musicales, etc (CRI 684; www.cdemusic.org).Lovely works for acoustic instruments and electronic processing usingSerge modular synths.
C-Side & Petit Mal: Swarm Warnings: Gatmo Sessions, vol. 2 (Gatmo;www.jackaloperecords.com/gatmo.html). A disc of improvisations by thefinest instrument inventors in California, with Tom Waits as a guestvocalist.
M. Griffin/D. Fulton: The Most Distant Point Known (Hypnos;www.hypnos.com). Slowly evolving soundscapes created with SynthesisTechnology MOTM and Doepfer analog modular synthesizers.