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2001-04-19 19:11Diana Pottsvia Mike Taylor: >Thursday, May 3rd, at the Detroit Contemporary Gallery: > >Current Prese

From:: Diana Potts <diapot@allmusic.com>
To:: Idm@Hyperreal. Org <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:11:45 -0400
Subject:: [idm] Involve Records etc

via Mike Taylor:

quoted 150 lines Thursday, May 3rd, at the Detroit Contemporary Gallery:

>Thursday, May 3rd, at the Detroit Contemporary Gallery: > >Current Presents The Involve Records North American Tour: Detroit > >Aspen(Involve Records, New Zealand) Live PA >Signer(Involve Records, New Zealand) Live PA >Isol(Involve Records, New Zealand) Live PA >Bill Vanloo(Chromedecay, Detroit) Live PA > >Doors are at 8pm, and admission is $7, this is an all ages show. > >The Detroit Contemporary Gallery is located at: >5141 Rosa Parks Boulevard, Detroit USA > >For directions and gallery information call, write or visit: >(313)898-4ART >http://detroitcontemporary.com/ >info@detroitcontemporary.com > >The Press Release for this tour is presented below. > >Thanks, >Michael Taylor > > >Involve Records (NZ) North American Tour May 2001 > >Who are Involve? > >Involve records bring the brightest stars of New Zealand electronica, >offering a fresh perspective of non-glitch pop beauty and electro-melodics. > Involve was set-up in 1998 in harbour capital Wellington by Bevan Smith, >who pulled together a bunch of friends and self confused geeks. Involve has >quickly established a reputation as a label to watch along side the likes >of City Central Offices (Berlin, Manchester), Morr Music and Carpark >Records (NYC) Artists on Involve share a love of warmth and intensity in >music whether that be a major 7 chord on a 1972 Gibson les Paul or minor >stab on a 1999 Waldorf Microwave XT. > >Label boss Bevan Smith (Aspen and Signer) and mastering technologist >Clinton Mitchell Francis (Isol, All the Pretty Things) are interested in >the subtleties of the modern sound of electronica and it's fusion with >current popular styles, Pop, Indie, Dub and Techno. That's not to say >you'll hear explicit copying, but the process or treatments used in these >genres. > >Their live show consists of synced Laptop Hijinx combined with lush vocal >treatments and simultaneous feedback mutation of samples and rhythms. >Elements of groove, improvisation, soundscapes and manipulation tweaked in >real-time. > >Current Releases > >The latest Aspen release 'Music from Passing Cars" has been welcomed with >loving arms by the electronic music communities both in his resident UK, >Europe and the US. > >Following a successful tour of Europe late last year, with dates in Berlin, >Hamburg, Netherlands, Antwerp, and France with Jake Mandell and Maurmari, >Aspen is now working in the UK and has appeared at one of London's leading >showcases for electronic music (Smallfish.co.uk) and is preparing to play >at the UK's most credible festival the Big Chill's Enchanted Garden. > > >What the Press Say???? > >ASPEN: Music From Passing Cars CD (INVOLVE) >New Zealand's Involve label (on temporary exile in the UK at the moment) >return with yet another eye-opener from label boss Bevan Smith. This is the >second LP from Aspen and comes not long after the fantastic 'Sugar and >Spice' EP for Emanate. This is downtempo territory - lush multi-layered >harmonies with a signature electroid sound. While Involve's blinding >'Mandrake' LP went into slightly housey territory, Aspen returns to more >electronic listening atmospherics. Surely it must have occured to some of >you by now that with a catalogue as varied as the works of Signer, Isol, >Mandrake, Aspen and Jet Jaguar, that there is a serious talent on display >here...one that requires your attention. RECOMMENDED. > >Pelicanneck.com, Manchester UK > >LOVELY SUBTLE AND MINIMAL SOUNDS FROM ASPEN (AKA BEVAN SMITH). LUSH >MELODIES, WARM BEATS, AND AN OVERAL DEPTH - SHINE THROUGH. THIS IS QUITE >BEAUTIFUL. (IT'S A CRYING SHAME THAT THE PASSING CARS ON OLD STREET DON'T >HAVE SOUNDS LIKE THESE EMINATING FROM THEM!) > >Smallfish.co.uk, London > > > >Aspen 'Music from passing cars' 2001 > >Both regular and uncertain, the rhythms that caught aspen's ears during >those long drives from Wellington to Titahi Bay (Porirua) and beyond (New >Plymouth, Taranaki). During this time aspen composed himself a soundtrack >to drive by. 'Music from passing cars' isn't an exact representation of >this, but it evokes the same feelings of escapism/release. Phrases and >melodies are overrun and >cycled endlessly as trees, pastures, and curves pass by. Rhythms and space >don't quite match up. Sometimes a phrase lasts for too long, other times >things pass before they might be noticed. There's a live feel throughout >and evidence that aspen can't really play, but then you who can when you're >stuck in that place between home and destination and home. > >NZ Pavement Magazine > >"Harmonies that make your heartflaps flap in a jolly rythm, a guitar here >and there, aspen's electronic drumkit, lots of funny turned backwards >sounds, and great piano bits. Music from passing cars is a fantastically >layered and laid-back piece of music. Everybody needs it." > >Thaddi Hermman. De:Bug Magazine (translated from German) > >"Music from passing cars' continues an ongoing fascination of the >relationships between landscape, memory, maps and journeys. A musical >expression that goes way back to earliest compositions. Proof, as if any >were needed, that while the tools may have changed we still look to music >to make sense of the world around us." > >Andy Greenman. Skinny, Xlr8R, On Magazine > >All the pretty Things Involve05 > >All the pretty things 2000 > >What has emerged is a truly deep, intricate and moving body of music which >rewards with patience. Comparisons can be made from the ambience of Thomas >Heckmann, Jocham Papp to the modal stirrings of Seefeel and shoegaze bands >such as Slowdive. This is another monumental release on NZs most important >electronic label. > >Grant Smithies. NZ Sunday Star Times. > >Never judge a book, or CD, by its cover, unless it looks like this. The >Pretty Things cover hints at that liminal zone somewhere between >techno-graphics and organic structures. Its an apt representation of the >sounds which New Zealand's Clinton Francis crafts. Pretty things is part >informed by processed silicon overkill and perfect production values >(Francis is studying for an MA in production) and partly comprised of deep, >textural forms one can only find in nature. Francis creates a unique >beauty built using the tools that generate the promise of a technological >future, but ultimately conjures up sometimes only too human feelings and >thoughts. Are we evolving or involving? > >Andy Greenman. Skinny, Xlr8R, On Magazine. > > > > > >

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2001-04-20 15:35Ryan SchillingIs this show going elsewhere? Not much of a "North American Tour" if it only stops in Detr

From:: Ryan Schilling <ryanschilling@subdimension.com>
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Date:: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:35:00 -0600
Subject:: Re: [idm] Involve Records etc
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Is this show going elsewhere? Not much of a "North American Tour" if it only stops in Detroit. ;) -Ryan At 03:11 PM 4/19/2001 -0400, you wrote:

quoted 158 lines via Mike Taylor:

>via Mike Taylor: > > > >Thursday, May 3rd, at the Detroit Contemporary Gallery: > > > >Current Presents The Involve Records North American Tour: Detroit > > > >Aspen(Involve Records, New Zealand) Live PA > >Signer(Involve Records, New Zealand) Live PA > >Isol(Involve Records, New Zealand) Live PA > >Bill Vanloo(Chromedecay, Detroit) Live PA > > > >Doors are at 8pm, and admission is $7, this is an all ages show. > > > >The Detroit Contemporary Gallery is located at: > >5141 Rosa Parks Boulevard, Detroit USA > > > >For directions and gallery information call, write or visit: > >(313)898-4ART > >http://detroitcontemporary.com/ > >info@detroitcontemporary.com > > > >The Press Release for this tour is presented below. > > > >Thanks, > >Michael Taylor > > > > > >Involve Records (NZ) North American Tour May 2001 > > > >Who are Involve? > > > >Involve records bring the brightest stars of New Zealand electronica, > >offering a fresh perspective of non-glitch pop beauty and electro-melodics. > > Involve was set-up in 1998 in harbour capital Wellington by Bevan Smith, > >who pulled together a bunch of friends and self confused geeks. Involve has > >quickly established a reputation as a label to watch along side the likes > >of City Central Offices (Berlin, Manchester), Morr Music and Carpark > >Records (NYC) Artists on Involve share a love of warmth and intensity in > >music whether that be a major 7 chord on a 1972 Gibson les Paul or minor > >stab on a 1999 Waldorf Microwave XT. > > > >Label boss Bevan Smith (Aspen and Signer) and mastering technologist > >Clinton Mitchell Francis (Isol, All the Pretty Things) are interested in > >the subtleties of the modern sound of electronica and it's fusion with > >current popular styles, Pop, Indie, Dub and Techno. That's not to say > >you'll hear explicit copying, but the process or treatments used in these > >genres. > > > >Their live show consists of synced Laptop Hijinx combined with lush vocal > >treatments and simultaneous feedback mutation of samples and rhythms. > >Elements of groove, improvisation, soundscapes and manipulation tweaked in > >real-time. > > > >Current Releases > > > >The latest Aspen release 'Music from Passing Cars" has been welcomed with > >loving arms by the electronic music communities both in his resident UK, > >Europe and the US. > > > >Following a successful tour of Europe late last year, with dates in Berlin, > >Hamburg, Netherlands, Antwerp, and France with Jake Mandell and Maurmari, > >Aspen is now working in the UK and has appeared at one of London's leading > >showcases for electronic music (Smallfish.co.uk) and is preparing to play > >at the UK's most credible festival the Big Chill's Enchanted Garden. > > > > > >What the Press Say???? > > > >ASPEN: Music From Passing Cars CD (INVOLVE) > >New Zealand's Involve label (on temporary exile in the UK at the moment) > >return with yet another eye-opener from label boss Bevan Smith. This is the > >second LP from Aspen and comes not long after the fantastic 'Sugar and > >Spice' EP for Emanate. This is downtempo territory - lush multi-layered > >harmonies with a signature electroid sound. While Involve's blinding > >'Mandrake' LP went into slightly housey territory, Aspen returns to more > >electronic listening atmospherics. Surely it must have occured to some of > >you by now that with a catalogue as varied as the works of Signer, Isol, > >Mandrake, Aspen and Jet Jaguar, that there is a serious talent on display > >here...one that requires your attention. RECOMMENDED. > > > >Pelicanneck.com, Manchester UK > > > >LOVELY SUBTLE AND MINIMAL SOUNDS FROM ASPEN (AKA BEVAN SMITH). LUSH > >MELODIES, WARM BEATS, AND AN OVERAL DEPTH - SHINE THROUGH. THIS IS QUITE > >BEAUTIFUL. (IT'S A CRYING SHAME THAT THE PASSING CARS ON OLD STREET DON'T > >HAVE SOUNDS LIKE THESE EMINATING FROM THEM!) > > > >Smallfish.co.uk, London > > > > > > > >Aspen 'Music from passing cars' 2001 > > > >Both regular and uncertain, the rhythms that caught aspen's ears during > >those long drives from Wellington to Titahi Bay (Porirua) and beyond (New > >Plymouth, Taranaki). During this time aspen composed himself a soundtrack > >to drive by. 'Music from passing cars' isn't an exact representation of > >this, but it evokes the same feelings of escapism/release. Phrases and > >melodies are overrun and > >cycled endlessly as trees, pastures, and curves pass by. Rhythms and space > >don't quite match up. Sometimes a phrase lasts for too long, other times > >things pass before they might be noticed. There's a live feel throughout > >and evidence that aspen can't really play, but then you who can when you're > >stuck in that place between home and destination and home. > > > >NZ Pavement Magazine > > > >"Harmonies that make your heartflaps flap in a jolly rythm, a guitar here > >and there, aspen's electronic drumkit, lots of funny turned backwards > >sounds, and great piano bits. Music from passing cars is a fantastically > >layered and laid-back piece of music. Everybody needs it." > > > >Thaddi Hermman. De:Bug Magazine (translated from German) > > > >"Music from passing cars' continues an ongoing fascination of the > >relationships between landscape, memory, maps and journeys. A musical > >expression that goes way back to earliest compositions. Proof, as if any > >were needed, that while the tools may have changed we still look to music > >to make sense of the world around us." > > > >Andy Greenman. Skinny, Xlr8R, On Magazine > > > >All the pretty Things Involve05 > > > >All the pretty things 2000 > > > >"What has emerged is a truly deep, intricate and moving body of music which > >rewards with patience. Comparisons can be made from the ambience of Thomas > >Heckmann, Jocham Papp to the modal stirrings of Seefeel and shoegaze bands > >such as Slowdive. This is another monumental release on NZ's most important > >electronic label." > > > >Grant Smithies. NZ Sunday Star Times. > > > >"Never judge a book, or CD, by its cover, unless it looks like this. The > >Pretty Things cover hints at that liminal zone somewhere between > >techno-graphics and organic structures. Its an apt representation of the > >sounds which New Zealand's Clinton Francis crafts. Pretty things is part > >informed by processed silicon overkill and perfect production values > >(Francis is studying for an MA in production) and partly comprised of deep, > >textural forms one can only find in nature. Francis creates a unique > >beauty built using the tools that generate the promise of a technological > >future, but ultimately conjures up sometimes only too human feelings and > >thoughts. Are we evolving or involving?" > > > >Andy Greenman. Skinny, Xlr8R, On Magazine. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org >For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

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2001-04-19 20:32synctankAny other dates on the tour? ----- Original Message ----- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:11:45

From:: synctank <synctank@email.com>
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Date:: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:32:34 -0500
Subject:: [idm] Re: Involve Records etc

Any other dates on the tour? ----- Original Message ----- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:11:45 -0400 To: "Idm@Hyperreal. Org" <idm@hyperreal.org> From: "Diana Potts" <diapot@allmusic.com> Subject: Involve Records etc Message-ID: <NEBBKAKJGLJOJCCODBFGAEECCNAA.diapot@allmusic.com> via Mike Taylor:

quoted 26 lines Thursday, May 3rd, at the Detroit Contemporary Gallery:

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