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Their is a review in the new issue of The Wire magazine. It's funny, at first it comes along as quite slating, even slightly insulting, but on the second reading it's somehow positive. Anyway it left my thinking ... Well if an album title is crap or not is probably a matter of taste. I'm glad at lea...

Hello, you wanna do something good? Australian, but Berlin-based harpist Clare Cooper needs help / money for a new harp. Clare played and performed for many years on a borrowed instrument, which she had to give back last year. Harps are fuckin' expensive, but now she got the chance to get one for th...

Out now! http://www.ftarri.com/ftarrilabel/219/219.jpg The International Nothing Less Action, Less Excitement, Less Everything Ftarri 219 (Release Date: May 31st, 2010) personnel: Kai Fagaschinski - clarinet, composition Michael Thieke - clarinet, composition The International Nothing is the priorit...

well, actually this is a company secret, but ... http://www.webstaurantstore.com/fmp-102-1044-rubber-sink-stopper-1-5/fmp-102-1044-rubber-sink-stopper-1-5.jpg i bought a very fancy white version (similar to the one on the picture) at an old tool store in jersey city right in the neighbourhood of my ...

or let's even get a step further:
http://www.charhizma.com/mira/

It sounds remarkably - almost disappointingly - cohesive and coherent considering the musicians had been starving in solitary confinement for four days. Well worth a listen IMO. Out of curiosity I tried the hunger aspect of it before. I played a concert after 14 days of not eating. Actually one has...

I'd be curious to hear how you prepared for that performance - did you follow the instructions to the letter? Not totally, but quite a bit. During our four days retreat we met twice a day for having a little broth together and had a minimum bit of survival talk (about mood, hunger, stomach, shittin...

Goldstaub (from "Aus den sieben Tagen") has been performed at the audio poverty festival/conference ( http://audiopoverty.de/ ) in Berlin on February 7th, 2009. As a preparation the piece requires from the musicians basically not to eat and talk for four days before the performance and so the perfo...