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Randy Greif Жанр: Experimental Страна: USA Аудио кодек: mp3 Тип рипа: tracks Битрейт аудио: 192-320 kbps Продолжительность: 17:52:15
Биография
Since the mid 1970's, RANDY GREIF has been pushing the boundaries of auditory arts, often incorporating electronic, computer and concrete music with spoken word, "sound theater", and field recordings. Location recordings in places such as Amazonia, New Guinea, and Thailand have found their way, often manipulated, into some of Greif's music, branding it as "tribal" electronics. Trademark styles are dense layers of atmospherics, cut-up vocals, and shifting minimal rhythms. "Dark" and "hallucinatory" are often used to describe the overall tone of his work. In 1983 Greif started SWINGING AXE PRODUCTIONS (SAP) to release his own work and those of like-minded artists. During the first few years a handful of cassette-only releases were available, including Controlled Bleeding, Merzbow, Illusion Of Safety, and various alias names Greif was recording under. CLEM reviewed "It's In A Box" his first cassette release as "one of the top 3 tapes to come out stateside... it rivals anything put out by Sterile or United Dairies." As for Screaming Dukduks (an early alias) which was released simultaneously with "It's In A Box" CLEM said "...a purely shocking tape...sucks you in then mesmerizes you." The cassettes to follow were received with similar positive reviews. Besides releasing more cassettes of strictly music, Greif released more conceptual and crossover work. A collaboration with writer Alva Svoboda titled "East Green Proof" used Svoboda's disturbing poems in which his readings were manipulated and set against electronic atmospheres. The Magnetic Spine Review / Wireless Spine Review invited sound artists from around the world to call a telephone answering machine and do a 30-second performance which was amplified for a live audience.
Also released was location recordings from Papua New Guinea which featured not only indigenous music but folk stories, theater and a church meeting in Pidgin English. This was the first of several such releases, the other two being from Amazonia and Thailand. The first album done for another label was his "Bacteria and Gravity" for the RRR label in 1987 on which the second side is one long piece filled with tribal rhythms, other-worldly voices and odd sounds such a bullfrog and car horn. Shortly after this release, Greif teamed up with Mikail Bohonus of WarWorld to form STATIC EFFECT who performed improvisationally around loosely defined musical structures. They toured North America and Canada and released a number of cassettes and vinyl before disbanding in 1990. By this time Greif had begun work on his most ambitious project to date--a 6 hour musical and textural setting for Lewis Carroll's "Alice In Wonderland". The spoken text is often deconstructed into phonemes of pure sound and then returned to recognizable words. This project took 5 years and the CDs were released serially on the Staalplaat label in special packaging. Reviewers had the following to say about the series - "...as close to the dream experience as music ever gets."
"Disturbing and nightmarish..."
"has to be heard to be believed...I've never heard such an entertaining album..."
"Randy Greif has taken the Lewis Carroll classic and brought it to levels never before imaginable."
"All five CDs deserve to go down in history as a classic..." The next CD, " The Barnacles Inside", also on the Staalplaat label, was released in 1994. Again this release had special oversized packaging. Although most tracks on this CD incorporate manipulated voices, there is no discernible text. About this same time Greif began a project with Dan Burke of Illusion Of Safety, which after a year of collaborating by exchanging sequences, sounds, and tapes through the mail resulted in "Fragment 56". The intention of this project was to use environ- mental sounds, voices, and atmospheres to create the feeling of a memory or a dream not wholly remembered. Shortly after this release, a split CD with Greif and Illusion Of Safety came out titled "In Our Little Bodies". Greif's material here was closer to "song structure" but that definitely does not mean you will find such luxuries as melody, choruses, and harmonies. They are highly claustrophobic and obsessive shorter pieces, some of which again feature the voice of Alva Svoboda, sampled and manipulated. This CD was also released in special oversized packaging. Randy Greif's "Verdi's Requiem" was released on the Soleilmoon label in Nov. 1997. This is an attempt to abstract the events of Verdi's life in terms of music. The events, however, are all imagined by Greif, and actually did not happen. This CD is released in a standard jewel case but is printed on custom translucent paper. Along the way, Greif has participated with a group called His Masters Voice (or alternately Stylus) and they have released a CD on Manifold and are featured on a CD from Freedom In A Vacuum / Swinging Axe called "Globus and Decibel". Greif's work also appears on numerous compilations, notably "To Step Outside And Keep Walking" which has approximately 20 minutes of exclusive material. In 1999, Soleilmoon released a 3-CD set wherein Randy collaborated with Robin Storey (of Rapoon / Zoviet France) and Nigel Ayers (of Nocturnal Emissions). This CD explores a very ambient side of their work, but retains a disturbing edge. (see interview ) For one of the 3 CDs, Randy used Nigel’s source material, a second was created by Robin using Randy’s, and the third had Nigel using Robin’s material. Ambientrance has this to say..."those who are inclined toward amorphous, evolving sound entities with a freakish life of their own will find a strange new world within this box of twisted dreamscapes." (see complete review) Randy Greif also released a CD on Soleilmoon in 1999 under the name of Shadowbug 4, titled "Tiny Voices Of Love And Fear". These lean more towards song structure, although the instrumental tracks push the limits of that definition. The only vocals used are extremely chopped up and manipulated electronically. An Ambientrance review begins with "Under the monicker of Shadowbug 4, Randy Greif speaks in a dark, unknown tongue, understandable only by the most primal senses." and ends with "... keeps the decidedly warped overtones of Tiny Voices Of Love And Fear fresh for future contemplations of isolation and insanity, or whatever morbid conditions you choose to read into these bleak waves of sound." (see complete review) The long out-of-print 5 CD set of Alice In Wonderland has been re-issued on Soleilmoon in 2000. All five cds are presented together as a boxed set and have been re-mastered for this release. Randy Greif created completely new artwork for his CDs, as well as a set of "Alice in Wonderland" trading cards that are published in conjunction with the release. Five cards are included with each box set, and individual packs of cards (to complete the set of sixty) are available through Soleilmoon. 2001 saw the release of Randy Greif’s "War Of The World" on Soleilmoon. As a follow-up to his 6 hour electro-psycho adaptation of "Alice In Wonderland", Greif returns to putting classic literature through the sonic meat-grinder. This time around, though, the work is far more abstracted, and uses the novel as more of a springboard for contemporary ideas relating to war--on a global level, a psychological level, and our own resistance to evolving from organic to digital beings. Even more than the novel itself, Greif incorporates the Orson Welles radio-drama hoax to explore the realm of dis-information and scrambled information, as well as the audience reaction of fear, even to the point of suicide, when faced with the unknown. "War Of The World" is subtitled "an emergency broadcast" as its overall effect was to approximate the feeling of listening to radio transmissions in an emergency situation (inspired during the Northridge earthquake). The feeling is sometimes a jumbled confusion of reports, snippets of speech with interference, electronic noises, and other mysterious bits and pieces. Then, later, to actually meld into the emergency drama itself complete with (non-musical) soundtrack. But don’t expect a book-on-tape sort of thing--not even close. "War of the World is a dense, demanding deconstruction that's part audio collage, part political treatise, part industrial symphony and altogether ahead of its time."--Sci Fi Channel review Also in 2001, Randy Greif released the second Shadowbug 4 CD, titled "We Are Beginning Our Descent", and continues his themes of depression and anxt by way of dark ambience, slow beats, glitchy electronics and cut-up voices. There are even a few moments here of odd orchestral arrangements amid the pulses and unrecognizable sounds. The Guide has this to say--This CD enters the territory of folks like Bill Laswell, Mick Harris / Scorn, Eraldo Bernocchi, DJ Spooky... jazzy hip-hop drums, weird noises, dubbed out guitars, bleeps 'n' bloops, string riffs, and the bass...Randy had moved into the territory of some master beathandlers, which could be a losing effort for him, but it's not. He handles the material with aplomb...This is a top-notch release. I've listened to it several times and (no higher praise, really) included tracks from it on mix CDs I've made for others." review
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1983 - It's In A Box, CBR 192 kbps
01. The Third Village (14:21) 02. 3 Arms of Passion (13:29) 03. Hunters of the House (7:32) 04. Coyote! (21:37)
1984 - Lost Contact, CBR 192 kbps
01. Untitled (30:38) 02. Untitled (29:18)
1986 - Golden Joy Club, CBR 192 kbps
01. Devils of Loudon (3:40) 02. The Hole to Heaven (3:31) 03. The Rift In The Earth (7:52) 04. Long Empty Afternoon (5:20) 05. Golden Joy Club (3:35) 06. Landscape With Stranger (4:04) 07. Procession (2:37) 08. The Potion (4:04) 09. This Is Not the End (10:23) 10. 8 Days of Bouncing a Ball (3:10) 11. V Is For Victory (4:41) 12. Black Bird (4:55)
1987 - Bacteria And Gravity, CBR 256 kbps
01. The Age Of Epilepsy (7:33) 02. Their Way Of Dreaming (4:23) 03. Closet Of Dark Clouds (5:03) 04. Goodbye, My Friends (5:07) 05. Gravity (22:05)
1987 - Live In Los Angeles 3.13.87, CBR 192 kbps
01. Untitled (28:58) 02. Untitled (30:20)
1988 - The Shadow Traders, VBR V2
01. The True Arch (5:48) 02. A Lot Like You (5:44) 03. Various Business Opportunities (3:22) 04. Example 25 (5:46) 05. Shell Mantra of the Dayak (6:50) 06. "Tunnel" Language (9:40) 07. Abeam Jidda, Socotra (4:46) 08. A Man Described by Others (10:59) 09. Her Secret Life (5:20)
1991 - Alice In Wonderland No. 1, CBR 320 kbps
01. The Rabbit Hole (3:37) 02. Down (4:39) 03. Curiouser And Curiouser (3:51) 04. She Looked Down At Her Feet (6:10) 05. Who Am I, Then? (9:08) 06. How Doth The Little Crocodile (6:04) 07. Every Golden Scale (3:06) 08. Gently Smiling Jaws (6:01) 09. Growing Small (4:48) 10. A Pool Of Tears (8:18) 11. A Queer Looking Party (11:14) 12. Silence All Round (8:17)
1991 - Alice In Wonderland No. 2, CBR 320 kbps
01. A Caucus Race (4:37) 02. Prizes! Prizes! (2:07) 03. Only A Thimble (6:35) 04. Hand It Over Here (6:27) 05. In The Distance (1:34) 06. Ferrets Are Ferrets (3:43) 07. A Shower Of Pebbles (4:03) 08. A Shower Of Pebbles (Revisited) (3:23) 09. Who Are You? (3:42) 10. You Are Old Father Williams (8:31) 11. 3 Inches High (4:31) 12. Serpent (8:07) 13. The Fish Footman (7:11) 14. Ballad Of The Frog Footman (2:06)
1991 - Alice In Wonderland No. 3, CBR 320 kbps
01. Sneezing And Howling (8:03) 02. Speak Roughly To Your Little Boy (1:33) 03. A Handsome Pig (6:04) 04. I'm Mad You're Mad (5:23) 05. Dog (3:02) 06. A Grin Without A Cat (10:07) 07. I Sleep When I Breathe (12:07) 08. Tea Tray In The Sky (10:10) 09. Treacle (8:23) 10. The Cool Fountains (8:36)
1992 - Alice in Wonderland No. 4, CBR 320 kbps
01. This Grand Procession (12:58) 02. You Shan't Be Beheaded (2:52) 03. What A Pity (4:16) 04. A Very Difficult Game, Indeed (3:43) 05. A Furious Passion (5:07) 06. The King's Argument (7:38) 07. Shall I Try The Experiment? (10:47) 08. The More There Is Of Mine, The Less There Is Of Yours (6:33) 09. What Fun! (7:11) 10. Mock Turtle (9:09) 11. Laughing And Grief (6:02)
1993 - Alice In Wonderland No. 5, CBR 320 kbps
01. Sobs Choked His Voice / Will You, Won't You (10:00) 02. The Whiting (7:13) 03. The Voice Of The Slugger (4:04) 04. Beautiful Soup (0:40) 05. Twelve Creatures (8:27) 06. Nervous Or Not (2:30) 07. Witness (10:33) 08. The Accident Of The Goldfish (6:08) 09. A Mile High (3:35) 10. An Atom Of Meaning (4:16) 11. Off With Her Head! (5:54) 12. 160 Invisible Horses (4:52) 13. The Dream Of Wonderland (8:41)
1994 - Fragment 56, CBR 256 kbps
01. My Forgetten Arm (10:50) 02. Just Drift Away (8:13) 03. Dismantling The Known (5:47) 04. Utter Back Fields (8:03) 05. Forensic Solutions To Beauty (7:08) 06. The Man Who Wandered Away (4:46) 07. Question Is (7:47) 08. Voring Plateaux (8:42)
1994 - In Our Little Bodies, CBR 320 kbps
01. The Conversation (Bleeding Through) (5:02) 02. Becoming Animals, Part 1 "I'm A Bat" (Bat) (3:32) 03. Prague Overture (4:21) 04. Beaten To Sleep (3:17) 05. Becoming Animals, Part 2 "Every Town Has An Annual Event" (Chicken) (4:02) 06. Nightcrawler (3:35) 07. Shimmer (5:19) 08. Pee Wee's Big Tragedy (2:54) 09. Becoming Animals, Part 3 "Your Own Dark Island" (Dog) (4:28) 10. Horror Vacui (22:17)
1994 - The Barnacles Inside, CBR 224 kbps
01. Face of Faces (0:04) 02. Reviva (I Feel Cold) (21:58) 03. The Story of Amber and Tom A (0:04) 04. I Know What Beuys Likes (12:33) 05. The Numbers Cage (9:27) 06. The Stain That Darkens (6:43) 07. The Insect-Like Actions of Children (4:50) 08. My First Prison Riot (7:49) 09. A Dangerous Level (5:31) 10. Moodswings (4:17) 11. End (0:04)
1999 - Nail of Pious Bride, CBR 320 kbps
01. Indefinite Eye (11:27) 02. Seven Day Galaxy (12:50) 03. Delta Dome (10:28) 04. Dark Blue Automatic (6:31) 05. This Impossible Room (21:16)
