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From their 2010 s\/t debut album (\"hauntingly beautiful\" - Resident Advisor) and 2011 follow up 'Parquet' (\"hypnotic, near kosmische reverberations\" - Clash) Elektro Guzzi have taken their man-machine live show of bass, guitar, drums around the world, from landmark clubs like Fabric and Berghain to major festivals Roskilde, Sónar and Mutek. With 'Observatory', Bernhard Hammer, Jakob Schneidewind and Bernhard Breuer shift everything anyone could expect from a live band. Tellingly, instrument credits have been wiped off the record sleeve. Still a string and a drum skin at the source, the sound emanating from the speakers seems to have travelled light years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macro","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50436164387147,"sku":"375947","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/903ba3bd-1ce9-498c-aed2-b61ac24567a5_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726913141"},{"product_id":"alluvium-4","title":"Alluvium","description":"\u003cp\u003eLayered asymmetry: With Alluvium, Stefan Goldmann explores new structural paths for machine rhythm in irregular metres. Throughout the album, different non-binary patterns run simultaneously, interlocking into twelve offerings of jagged polyrhythmic magic. Such a framework may juxtapose 11 on one axis, against 7 on another and 5 on a third – building stunningly iridescent edifices of multidimensional time. This is the third album in a series of \"first principles\" research of metric asymmetry. Veiki (2019) laid the foundation for \"real broken beat\". Then, Vector Rituals (2022) explored the bending of grids in order to yield idiosyncratic forms of organising time. 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It is also centered with a once-in-ageneration bass line performed by Billy Rich. Larry Young's otherworldly Hammond textures predate a lot of what synthesizers were about to do much later, and the blowtorch energy emanating from John McLaughlin's cranked amp went beyond what most would had dared during the defining era of heavy rock guitar. An apex achievement at the intersection of jazz rock, guitar rock and dance music without parallel, before or since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBackground: John McLaughlin arrived in New York in 1969 to join Tony Williams' new group Lifetime which also featured Larry Young and eventually Jack Bruce (of Cream). On the second day in town he found himself in the studio with Miles Davis, recording 'In a Silent Way.' His playing would also take center stage in Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, On The Corner and several other Davis key works of his much beloved first electric era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn between a busy schedule with Lifetime and Davis, McLaughlin also recorded two solo albums in 1970, \u003cem\u003eDeνotion\u003c\/em\u003e with an all-electric group and ‚\u003cem\u003eMy Goa|’s Bеyоnd \u003c\/em\u003eas its acoustic counterpart. 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The Borusan Music House is located in the densely built-up Pera district, the old Christian quarter of Istanbul. It is a 19th century brownstone that has been carefully converted into a minimalist, multistorey exhibition and concert venue. While Goldmann was a fellow at the Tarabya Cultural Academy for an extended summer in 2023, the idea for this concert was born and scheduled to be part of the Noise Istanbul festival organized by Borusan in November 2024. The palimpsest-like character of the city with its multiple cultural layers is reflected in the structure of this concert and expressed in the language of electroacoustic composition. 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