Icarus News
Icarus Night: 12/02/2012, Dok, Gent.
Icarus is very proud to announce a new Icarus Night, Sunday 12/02/2012: The Catamites= a drone/noise duo. Chris Brokaw (Codeine, Come) & Stephen O' Malley (Sunn O))), Khanate) will play at the first Icarus Night at our new location: DOK, Gent. Check our facebook page for more info.
Support: Icarus & Resonance dj's
Tickets €7 presale (excl. reservation), €9 at the door. You can buy tickets at Democrazy or Fnac
Info: 09 223 22 27. Doors: 20H.
FREE tickets! Look carefully at our facebook page between 21-22h, 5/02/2012 and win tickets!
Free stuff.
Icarus wishes you a happy 2012. Celebrate it with some free downloads!
Birds of Passage: HIGHWAYMEN IN MIDNIGHT MASKS, with it's foreboding atmosphere, minimalist composition, and fairytale lyrics, is a 'Bittersweet Swan Song' that bares the characteristics of a true classic, albeit with a sense of post-modern descent.
Clams Casino: previously unavailable high quality 320kbps digitally remastered version of "Instrumentals," from the Type records reissue.
The Kilimanjaro Dark Jazz Ensemble:I Forsee the Dark Ahead, If I Stay' is the first TKDE live album. A compilation of 9 live tracks recorded during the period of 2006 to 2011, from shows in The Netherlands, Slovenia, Hungary, Spain and Poland.
Icarus now also on mixcloud.Follow us!
Icarus Live Sessions.
Live Session #11: 22/01/12: Esther Venrooy
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(°1974, Rosmalen, The Netherlands) is a composer working in the field of audio art. After completing studies in classical saxophone, Venrooy attended the European Dance Development Center (Arnhem) as a composer in residence, where she began employing electronic and digital techniques in pieces aimed at choreography and stage performance. Gradually her music evolved into an independent means of expression and she continued her work with electronica at the IPEM (Institute for Psycho-acoustics and Electronic Music) in Ghent, Belgium where she still resides. At this time she started utilizing film editing paradigms as a foundation for her personal composition methods. Her works range from purely electronic composed music to improvised combinations of electronica with traditional instrumentation such as piano, guqin, pipa and satsuma-biwa. She has created site-specific works as well as multimedia performances and installations. Much of her music has been released on CD or vinyl at Entr'acte Label (UK) and has received good critical acclaim. Esther Venrooy has performed her music extensively for audiences in cities such as Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Berlin, Madrid, Hamburg, Cologne, Frankfurt, Washington DC, New York, Hangzhou, Xi'an, Shanghai and Beijing. She collaborated with visual artists Hans Demeulenaere and Lieve D'hondt, architects Ema Bonifacic and Olivier Goethals, performer / choreographer Femke Gyselinck and with musicans Min Xiao-Fen (pipa), Wu Na (guqin), Kato Hideki (electronics/ bass), Lander Gyselinck (drums) and Heleen Van Haegenborgh (piano). |
Best Of 2011.
Lists, lists, lists...yes, it's the end of the year again!
Jeroen, Icarus' music editor
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Marie, Icarus' interviewer
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Deaf Center-Owl Splinters-
Demdike Stare-Tryptych-
Kreidler-Tank-
Colin Stetson-New History Warfare Vol 2:Judges-
Roll The Dice-In Dust-
BILL-Spielwiese Zwei-
Hype Williams-One Nation-
Roly Porter-Aftertime-
Talk Talk-Laughing Stock-
Villalobos/Loderbauer-Re:ECM-
Clams Casino-Instrumentals-
Sun Araw-Ancient Romans-
Byetone-Symeta-
Moritz Von Oswald-Horizontal Structures
Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intégrales-Echohaus-
Ensemble Economique-Crossing The Pass, by Torchlight-
Kreng-Grimoire-
Olafur Arnalds-Living Room Songs-
A Winged Victory For The Sullen-A Winged Victory For The Sullen-
Nils Frahm-Felt-
Yann Tiersen-Skyline-
Köhn-Random Patterns-
This Week's Edition.
This week you could listen to tracks by Kate Bush, Keith Jarrett,....
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Icarus Album Of The Month.
This month's album is the album 'Counting Triggers' by Yves De Mey.
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Enter Yves De Mey, a sound designer whose only real previous connection to techno was through the Sendai project with Peter Van Hoesen. His Counting Triggers album, the label’s third long-player, continues Sandwell District’s trajectory into the abstract but brings the quality right back up the level of Feed-Forward. I don’t think you’ll find many DJs reaching for Counting Triggers in the club, which is just as well because the music etched into its groove is most certainly dance music, just not necessarily club music. At the heart of the album lies an incredible array of sounds wrestled out of Doepfer systems, which is a big reason why Counting Triggers is such an engrossing listen. New, unexpected sounds peak their heads out from every corner, filling out the frequency spectrum while making sure to avoid a cramped density. All this makes Counting Triggers sound like a very academic listen, and while that’s certainly one way to approach it, it masks the rhythmic and emotive qualities that listeners coming back. This is Autechre had they grabbed a bunch of patch cables rather than gone down the Max route: rhythms intermingle in steadily shifting waves, and melodies briefly come into focus almost by accident. The dynamic range present is something sadly missing from most club music, as it’s from the gradual changing of the myriad elements in time, rather than simply their loudness, that gives rise to emotions from anxiety and dread to relief and contentment. Every now and then an almost organic sound (sometimes there are traces of what sound like guitars) cuts through the electronics and static, grounding us in much the way the rare 4/4 kick does — that grounding can be necessary.Read more... |
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