test-tone.com
experiments in music
Test Tone vol. 85
Sound Experiments
Test Tone 85: Urban Encounters
September 11th, 2012 (Tuesday) 20:00 to 23:00 at Super Deluxe, Nishi Azabu, Tokyo.
Naoya Murata
Following in the footsteps of a number of improvising turntablists in recent years, Naoya Murata cranks up the ante with his signature mixture of crunch, scratch and thrum, as well as some metal percussion and imaginative amplification thrown into the works.
With a full plate on the live circuit, he's been a recent favorite for players putting together sessions of free jazz, noise and everything in between. Test Tone will be treated to an enterprising solo set, opening the doors for the full gamut of his imagination. We look forward to gusto both beautiful and terrifying.
Nick Hoffman+Cal Lyall (guitar duo)
Playing together as a guitar duo for the first time, Chicago-based sound artist Nick Hoffman and Test Tone kingfish Cal Lyall might just pack up their instruments and take them walkabout. As much as both axemen are well-suited to playing nice with others, prepare your ears for their guitars to embark on a travelogue through glacial palaces, wormholes and a billowing sandstorm or two.
Ruptured timelines are sometimes the best rhythm of all.
Reizen
The leader behind the droney, chimirical works of ambient unit NERAE, Reizen concocts music with a mystic hum and a wonderfully deliberate sense of space. After recently disbanding and going solo, he has been prolific in his recorded output, releasing albums on NUEREC, PSF Records and Yukinori Kikuchi's Testtonemusic label.
Listening to his work, you find yourself floating in a shimmering pool filled with layers of half-melodies, all coalescing into an awesome timelessness. Wonderful stuff indeed.
Evil Penguin
Master of disguises, Mexican top-hats, ambient rockabilly to minimal Hawaiian Kumulipo chants, the Evil Penguin poses the primordial question of evanescence against a backdrop of New Wave folk. Celebratory, subliminal, moment-to-moment. A Tasmanian treasure with a penchant for open spaces.
Like us on facebook:
Latest Articles:
Artist Links
- 2UP · Almglocken · Ametsub · Analogic · Astro · balancE · Bas van Huizen · Ben Sheppee · Cal Lyall · Carre · Chie Mukai · Chimidoro · Christophe Charles · Cod Head · Comainu · Coppe · Damo Suzuki · Daniel Rosen · Dave McMahon · DJ ∞∞∞0∞∞∞ · Dowding Club · d.v.d = itoken + jimanica + ymg · (e)Bombers · E.D.O Echo Soundsystem · Eje · EJQ (Electroacoustic Jazz Quartet) · Evol · Ezra Woolnough · Fallopian Disco Force · Flugtag · Geltz! · Goma+Night Jungle · Goverment Alpha · Groopies · Hiraku Suzuki · Hununhum · Ilios · Itoken · Jebiotto! · Jet Jaguar · Jimanica · Kaneko Yuki · Keigo Iwami · Keiichiro Shibuya · Kelly Churko · Kenji 'Noise' Nakamura · L?K?O · Laptop Orchestra · Legofriendly · Lethal Firetrap · Liberation Jumpsuit · Lightrhythmvisuals · Ludo Xasdera · Marx · Masato Tsutui · Miori Naritomi · Mique · Missing Man Foundation · Mitsuru Nasuno · Mitsuru Tabata · Moe Kamura · MOJU aka Michel Pennec · Montage / Bergbahn · Mori-shige · Motallica · Musicfromspeakers · Myth Delusion Empire · 9th Porter · OHPIA · Oncenth Trio · Oninko! · onnacodomo · OreWaKonnaMonJanai · Orga · Organ-o-rounge · Pfeuti · phenomena/f · The Rinpa Eishidan · Ryusaku Ikezawa · Ryusenkei Body · Ryuta Kawabata · S20-Hiroaki Umeda · Samm Bennett · Scriptones · Shantell Martin · Sheherherhers · skab/t · Sorane · soundworm · Takashi Ueno · Tatsuhisa Yamamoto · Tone Blues · The Same Girl · Shantell Martin · Skist · Terayuki Oshima · Tetragrammaton · Tetsuo Furudate · Tim Olive · Tsuki no Umi (月ã®æµ·) · Tucker · Ultra Living · Umibachi · U-Zhaan · VORTEX (ft. KUKNACKE) · Wagnin Bunmei · Washbear · Xyramat · Yan-shu · YMG · Yoshio Kuge · Yoshio Machida · Yumikofu · Yuriko Mukoujima · Zariganicurry · Zbigniew Karkowski · Zen La Rock · zycOs