Sounds from underground/File N°63

straight to your heart pured these wonderful sounds of «überaffe». it's some kind outsider, some kind marvelous genuine record. absolutely dig it.


0. name of the band
Restroom music
1. where are you from?
I'm from Rennes, France and Chris is from Minnesota, USA
2. what kind of instruments/equipment you use? do you use
some particular record technique? which is your method of
composition?
Restroom music is a side project of mine with my friend Chris Ucis.
I use an accoustic guitar or a Fender Jaguar, Chris uses various Fender Jazzmaster. I also like circuit bent keyboards and their nasty sound.
We record on our computers mostly, I also use my phone and its headset quite a lot to record first drafts or ideas and most of the time i keep this first take as the final version, cos i like the feel of a first take, even if it's not perfect, I like accidents.

Sounds from underground/File N°62

  there's something French. something old, something new and something blue. «Toypurina» is a Mexican artist that share with us bedroom experiences. it's so beautiful that I just can't stop to listen to the record.

decisively dig it  

0. name of the band
Toypurina
1. where are you from?
I'm from Tijuana, Mexico.
2. what kind of instruments/equipment you use? do you use some particular record technique? which is your method of composition?
I mostly use my guitar to write my songs and will often add effects to them with Ableton or Audacity. I've also used random objects like some rice in a box, coffee pots or boiling eggs. Sometimes I'll use my SP404 for effects on the samples I use.

Sounds from underground/File N°61

all we need is sound. this was understood very well by artist who we have pleasure to present you today - Micleusanu. his experimental, electronic compositions are deeply permeated by the research of different areas of music. you can also admire his wonderful photos here and painting here
0. name of the band
My first electronic project was ”Diafragma” I start making electronic music in 2000, of course it was primitive ”sampling” stuff
 / the next project after ”Diafragma” was ”Pneumaton”. I started (in 2005) make my own sounds, using field & voice recording & the variety of programs. (in primary school I sang in children choir & learn to play piano) after ”Pneumaton” I decided use only my name for all sound projects. so, right now my project is ”Micleusanu”
1. where are you from?
I was born in Bachcisaray / Crimea (I have Ukrainian, Polish & Romanian roots) I lived and studied art (painting/graphics) in Chisinau (Moldova) & from 1990 I studied painting in Cluj-Napoca (Romania). right now I live & work in Bucharest /Romania. (I am a radio producer, writer & sound designer)
 
2. what kind of instruments/equipment you use? do you use some particular record technique? which is your method of composition?
I use a variety of instruments, virtual syntesizers, granular & modular synthesizers, and also (the real) string instruments like prepared electric guitar. Most of the time I record my own voice & industrial noises (I spend a lot of time in the industrial & periferic areas of Bucharest) also I have a collection of my recorded sounds like ”accidental bowl&pan fall” or percussive experiments & I am ”twisting” this sounds until obtain some good sound landshafts. Anyway, I use multiple steps to processing the sounds & my purpose is optaining a new kind of sounds/music.
3. what do you think about the music context nowadays and how you place yourself in? do you feel a part of any scene?
I love the new directions in music and I am a big fan of ”musique concrete” & spectralism. First time I listened Xenakis, in 1996then, Ligeti and also Romanian authors like Iancu Dumitrescu and Horatiu Radulescu. After that I start listen more and more experimental music, for example a lot of artist from the ”famous list of  Nurse with wound” also I love artrock, krautrock & Japan scene. I think my composition it is getting closer to contemporary electronic music, something between post-spectral & modular synthesis.
 
4. do you think that nowadays has still sense talking about "underground"?
Of course, underground is like an ”artwomb”. Even we believe that it is difficult to make something new in music/art/film, innovations never dies:)
5. do you play live? how does the public react to your music?
Yes, I play sometimes live acoustic experimentation with guitar with effects like delay & reverb plus voice & percussion (tambourine/djembe etc etc). Public reactions is very good, we have a good period in Romania for experiments in music & arts.
6. Genesis P-Orridge said "Our records were documents of attitudes and experiences and observations by us and other determinedly individual outsiders. Fashion was an enemy, style irrelevant.". What do your records represent to you?
My records is my research of life, love, sadness and joy:)

Sounds from underground/File N°60

sometimes all that you need is good melody that will remind you Summer when outside is snowing. group «Wild Books» do it very well, enough to fall in love as we did with some 90s. bands. so don't pretend you don't love it

0. name of the band
Wild Books
1. where are you from?
We are from Warsaw, Poland
2. what kind of instruments/equipment you use? do you use some particular record technique? which is your method of composition?
We use Fender Jaguar/Vintage 12 string guitar, Witkowski Bass, and the drums. Sometimes we use Korg Monotron to add some extra spice. We have recorded both our records in a small house near the woods. We are working on the songs in our rehearsal room.

Images from underground/File N°016

you can dive into art of ABBA an amazing outsider world full of weird images. entire gallery is available here.
 

artist words:

The Art of ABBA will appeal today to friek, characters circus of potential monsters, wounded inside but with something to show to

Images from underground/File N°015

 

works of Miquael Res will take us into the darklands. it's full of scary monsters and just beside the abyss. more fear you can find here

 

1. where are you from?
I was born in Germany, but now live in the Netherlands....to be exact, a suburb of the town of Venlo, called Blerick.

2. do you use any particular tools/materials/methods during the working process?
The tools and methods.....any acrylic paint will do. For the backgrounds I like to freak around with spray cans.....gives a cool effect, it only smells a bit funny. I paint on canvas board and canvases......never used an easel though to put the paintings on.