"On top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese..." At a Polish church basement sale in the EV a few months ago, I bought this Tom Glazer cassette for something like 50 cents. I also bought a lot of Polskie Nagrania vinyl in the hopes that it would be jazz but it all turned out to be light instrumental/vocal music of one kind or another. Of course, the real charm was the coffee and cupcakes being sold and the Polish kids intended to market them. I'd never heard of Tom Glazer before--but, incidentally, I came across [...]
room40.org: "Rosenfeld is equally known as a composer for large-scale performances and groundbreaking turntablist. Her sonic palette - entirely drawn from hand-crafted dub plates she imprints with blips of vinyl static, bursts of instrumental noise, conversation, and other audio detritus - evokes both the ecstatic electronic artifice of early electronic composers like Morton Subotnik and the post-punk ferocity of Kim Gordon." Read on Marina Rosenfeld - I Treated Myself (Plastic Materials) - www.marinarosenfeld.com - Marina Rosenfeld on soundcloud.com - MP3: [...]
Room 40 was the name given to the old Navy cryptological unit in World War 1, charged with turning the fragments of sound picked up from German warships into something that made sense. The artists on the Room 40 label do, er, likewise, taking some noises that many would consider unpromising at best, and turning [...]
Marina Rosenfeld Plastic Materials (2009, Room 40) RIYL = Kallikak Family, Alan Licht & Aki Onda, Mark Templeton I received Marina Rosenfeld's Plastic Materials without any real knowledge about Rosenfeld's four previous albums and at least ten years experience as a musician/composer. The truth is, even now I still don't have much of an clue about her previous work, except I know that it exists. After listening to Plastic Materials I am wondering how this is possible. Rosenfeld's work is mind bogglingly good. Like, really really great and good and [...]
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