Chefkirk & Ironing "Notorious" hymn 29

Track List
1. Notorious
2. American Scene
3. Skin Trade
4. A matter of feeling
5. Hold me
6. Vertigo (Do the demolition)
7. So Misled
8. Meet El Presidente
9. Winter Marches on
10. Proposition

Chefkirk - no-input mixer + sampler
Ironing - microcassette transcriber, handheld microcassette player, record player
Recorded June 2008, New Orleans, LA
No Duran Duran records were injured in the making of this recording

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Roger Smith a.k.a. Roger H. Smith and Ironing a.k.a. Andrew Chadwick have put a delightful, minimal feast to my ears owing to the fact that thye mastered the use of limitations to the full. What might be a deceiful means which is overused within the conceptual genre here is a conscious choice of weapon which proves to be a nuclear blast.
Chefkirk gives a radiating and resonating ambience of no-input whizz in a way that it isn't overloaded with distortion, just gives what it should.
Ironing delivers a set of micro-tonal outburst which has a multi dimensional feel to it.
Overall view has a very positive output - rich, nicely flavoured dish with surprises. Yummy!!!! My notorious kindda stuff...

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1.		Zita Bružaitė. Hacker's Dance 8'16
2.		Antanas Kučinskas. Looped & Unlooped 5'25
3.		Antanas Jasenka. bb machine 4
4.		Gintaras Sodeika. Safety Curtain 3'11
5.		Arturas Bumšteinas. Esperantosound 5'24
6.		Ignas Krunglevičius. Elections 4'54
7.		Ramūnas Motiekaitis. Seen and Unseen 5'57
8.		Loreta Narvilaitė. A Night when Petals are Washed out by Rain 4'07
9.		Linas Rimša. Enjoying Christmas'99 5'09

Record company: New Music Communication Centre
Year of publication: 2009
Media: CD
Duration: 46'23

I recently acquired this cd from a friend of mine Arturas Bumsteinas.
The list of musicians

Bružaitė, Kučinskas, Jasenka, Sodeika, Bumšteinas, Krunglevičius, Motiekaitis, Narvilaitė, Rimša

seemed interesting.

From the start I had a notion that it is a side track of them especially that the reason for this compilation is a big band music.

This reference is a nice idea of doing something with lithuanian academical musicians. When it comes to the compositions it seems that the traditional arrangements here are just are foreground to subtle experimentation with the structure and palette of tones.

The most interesting track to me was one of Antanas Jasenka and Arturas.Their experience proved to be useful when it comes to arrangements and making the tracks both interesting and having a clearer sense of musical pursuit.

It is a really nice one example of how the musical scene in Lithuania evolves and develops its roots. It is not a landmark of musical genius but a very good guide to what is going on there...good stuff.