Nature : Forget The Theory [AT031]

Forget The Theory features two arrangements and five original pieces written by Kevin Higgins for his group Nature – a quartet with voice, electric guitar, electric bass and drums. The material was honed in a dozen live performances, then recorded over two days in spring 2012. The result is an album of dark grooves, mixing techno, funk and dubstep with contemporary jazz.

In the foreground, ethereal vocals and frenzied guitar carry on an improvised dialogue. Forget The Theory captures the energy of their alternating conflict and cooperation. Behind them there’s tension of another kind, as club-inspired drum beats threaten to melt into jazz cross-rhythms.

This album was built off basslines: some abstract and symmetrically structured, some just funky. Either way, every tune was designed to make you nod your head. Enjoy the bouncy pulse and powerful perfomances of a young band playing with passion.”

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Format: 7 x File, Album, MP3, 320 kbps; FLAC; WAV
Released: 29 Oct 2012
Style: Funk, Jazz

Sergi Boal : Nylon and Turtle [AT027]

Nylon and Turtle was recorded after that, while he was watching jazz pianist Brad Mehldau , Sergi Boal, guitarrist and composer, had a revelation: the necessity to create his own music. This necessity led him few months later to record this CD. There are 9 songs, most of them recorded in one or two takes, so it’s almost a live recording. It is an organic and intimate album, in which the guitarist tries to make a little travel. As in Ice Voice, where it can be appreciated the Nordic influences of Jose Gonzalez, or Yorke, where we can hear echoes of Radiohead. Fukushima is a tribute to the victims of the tsunami in Japan, in where it mixes anger and calm; The incident of the Bell features great tecnique and sounds with a mixture of pop and grunge music, all with the same nylon guitar. In Frontera, the flamenco sounds in his fingers, and take us to Orecchio di Dioniso, and then we get carried away through the last song of the album, “Is anybody out there?”, a composition that borrows the title from Pink Floyd, ending with a question. This album is the starting point of this guitarrist of Barcelona, who decided one day to make his own music with the guitar. Sit back and listen … is anybody out there?”

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Format: 9 x File, Album, MP3, 320 kbps; FLAC
Released: June 2012
Style: Acoustic, Guitar, Jazz

Nunun : Seven Mirrors [AT024]

Seven mirrors is the first ambient album by Nunun. With Massimo Discepoli playing synths and keyboards instead of drums, and Cesare Discepoli more electronically treated than usual guitar, in these seven improvisations the duo explores many different sonic textures and moods. Haunting melodies and weird dissonances, celestial soundscapes and earthy distortions, countless melodic fragments and free improvisations, this is music for both the intellect and the soul.
The album cover is an original work of italian painter Nascar; the album will be soon available in a special printed edition”

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Format: 7 x File, MP3, 256 kbps; 7 x File, Flac
Released: 6 Feb 2012
Style: Ambient, Experimental

GOUTHY :: 3rd [AT018]

“Born in Barcelona in 1977, Gouthy starts his musical project in 1996, following his love for the Blade Runner soundtrack and for the music of Orbital, Chemical Brothers, Future Sounds of London etc… He starts composing using his Playstation’s software “Music”, making a CD which is only sent to Barcelona labels, in order to gather opinions. Then he starts working with mini workstations, and making some more personal demos, mixing Rachmaninov and Kettel and using more piano and synphonic sounds. After buying his first external soundcard for PC, in 2007 he compose Neon and the classic , distributed in limited edition by the Drome music shop in Barcelona.”

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Format: 10 x File, Album, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: May 2011
Style: Experimental, IDM