Apart from the sampler and the events, we also recorded plenty of audio material on our journeys across the east. After spending some afternoons and evenings with our editing software, we have the first result - Romania. The show is aired tonight, 2 March 2011, on Resonance FM at 8pm GMT (9 pm CET).

The show includes interviews with Mihaela from the Rokolectiv festival, Makunouchi Bento who also played at one of our concerts, Anamaria Pravicencu and her Sambata Sonora listening sessions, the only Romanian noisenik Dyslex, Mastino Surfers, sound afficionado Rochite (another from our lineups), his mate Minus and sounds from Bucharest flea market and an old lady in Timisoara.

Easterndaze - Romania by easterndaze

Playlist:

Bucharest Flea Market (field rec.)

Strada Biserica Amzei (field rec.)

Bulevardul General Gheorghe Magheru (field rec.)

Bogdan - Phase Transition (from Human Thermodynamics, Local Records, 2010)

Minus feat. Clinic & Klem - Do You Like The Germans (unreleased)

Iancu Dumitrescu - Movemur et Sumus III (from Untitled, Edition Modern, 1993)

Bucharest Taxi Frequencies (field rec.)

Rochite - Live excerpts (2010)

The Sound Of The Real Underground (field rec.)

Mastino Surfers - Pavlov’s Dog vs. Schoedinger’s Cat (unreleased)

Dyslex - Pareidolia (2010)

Selfmademusic - The Misfortunate Mr. Terp (Easterndaze VA, Audiotong, 2011)

Makunouchi Bento - 27 Seconds on the Plank (Swimé, Inpuj, 2010)

Appearing:

Felix Petrescu (Makunouchi Bento)

Mihaela Vasile (Rokolectiv)

Bogdan Anghel (Bogdan, Local Records)

Daniel Stanciu (Minus, Local Records)

Anamaria Pravicencu (Sambata Sonora)

Vlad-Catalin Matei (Rochite)

Ian Serbau (Mastino Surfers)

Dyslex

Unknown Lady

Salaian Mihai (Selfmademusic)

Felix Petrescu (Makunouchi Bento)

Recorded in July 2010 in Bucharest, Cluj, Arad, Timisoara, Interwebz

Mixed in November 2010 in Prague

Few Quiet People is a label from Poland. Despite it’s unassuming name, it has a grande plan: “To drive the repetitive sounds into the direction of pop.” Mainly chartering the neo-classical and ambient landscapes, Few Quiet People releases stuff by not only Polish, but also Japanese and other artists. As a taster for the 2011 release plan, they have a free promo sampler out that you can download here.

1. Krzysztof Zimmermann - Waiting for the Answer (part 1)
2. Tomasz Bednarczyk feat. Adrian Klumpes - The Sketch Pt. 2
3. Yu Miyashita - An Arc 5
4. Stefan Wesołowski - Shipyard
5. iN. - Alone with Everyone
6. Wong King - Lost
7. Szymon Kaliski - As Miniature
8. con_cetta - Bacterio Captium
9. Nejmano - u I n
10. Krzysztof Zimmermann - Waiting for the Answer (part 2)

Romanian project Makunouchi Bento creates music for non-existing movies. They played a great set at one of our gigs and here they are again, delivering an epic remix of another Romanian sound afficionado Sillyconductor.

Sillyconductor - Woolfia ( Makunouchi Bento’s washectomy remix ) by wakax

You can download the remix in high quality here.

Hungary is going through a bit of a bedlam what with the controversial new media law and government that behaves as it suffered from amnesia. Recently, there have been clampdowns on clubs and music events as the “promoters of evil drug culture”. Sounds like 1984? Somehow, as is often the case, the music thrives in the dark times, as we’ve seen in the case of Hungary. Another band redefining how far can lo-fi go is Gyurcsány Sára (perhaps a dig at the Socialist politician Ferenc Gyurcsány?). Check out their ultra short and ultra distorted tracks on the Csókolózni fiúkkal EP.

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Gyurcsány Sára - Csókolózni fiúkkal EP

01 Csókolózni fiúkkal
02 Mizu mizu nincs isten
03 Uszoda
04 Egyiptomi varjú
05 Igen-igen

Wojciech Morawski is a culture scientist and musician interested in subtle drone/ glitch/ minimal music. Polyrythms unroll matter-of-factly, crackling enveloping the minimalistic yet somehow intricate sonic sculptures. What interests him the most is sound as metadata of a sorts – information about information (ambience, surrounding, sound reflections).  Wojciech is a fan of acoustic research and alternative history. He’s also vegetarian, in case you’ve been wondering.