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KOG

by the.clinamen (Zafer Aracagök & Anthony Donovan), available from White-Label Music

High concept and intertextual in intent - drawing ideas and themes from Kafka and Deleuze - KOG is over 40 minutes of continuous hard, fragmented electronica, interspersed with sonorous ambient passages and swirling voices. (More information about the.clinamen here.)

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by Vultures (Dan Beattie, Matt Chilton, Will Connor & Anthony Donovan), available from Born in Mind

The first album by this London, UK-based improvising quartet; recorded in one day, with minimal post-production. The album's dark ambience and progressive, musical drone features agit prop percussion, cracked electronics, and an array of extended techniques. (More information about Vultureshere.)

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by Colin John Conass and Murmurists, available from LEEP/Colinjohnco Records

This first collaboration between myself and mainstay of French bands such as Dr(Dr)One and Prison Food Sucks is a work of fragile ambient beauty; at one and the same time forthrightly and confidently tonal, whilst being broken and delicately hesitant.

KOG (Zafer Aracagök & Anthony Donovan)

Dear interested parties

At long last, the.clinamen's inaugural work

KOG

has been released by the good people of White Label Music

KOG is the very latest in, what has been described as, Progtronica, in taking its leave from the very best of hard-edged industrial and electronic music, and shaping those attitudes into an expansive, ambitious and original work of over 45 minutes continuous play; whose narrative accesses and references ideas and concepts drawn from high modernist literature.

KOG is as brutal as it is beautiful, as danceable as it is fragmented.

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the.clinamen are:

Zafer Aracagök & Anthony Donovan

NEW RELEASE FROM THE.CLINAMEN (SIFIR - Zafer Aracagök and Murmurists - Anthony Donovan) ON WLM - THE ALBUM - KOG AS PART OF OUR NEW SEASON OF METAL BOX RELEASES, EXCLUSIVELY RELEASED THROUGH OUR WEB SHOPS AND SELECTED RETAIL SPECIALISTS. RATHER THAN LET US BLUNDER IN THE DARK BY DESCRIBING THIS WONDERFUL PIECE OF MUSICAL PHILOSOPHY, HERE ARE A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE AUTHORS....

Zafer Aracagök (aka, SIFIR) is an academic/musician who teaches art theory and continental philosophy at Bilgi University, Istanbul TR. He is the author of three books (in Turkish) and a number of articles addressing the issues of image, resonance and noise in continental philosophy and in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari in journals such as Pli-The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Parallax, Third Text, Rhizomes and Symploke. His musical work is well received, released and performed both in Turkey and abroad such as, UK, France, Germany and Italy.

Anthony Donovan is an artist, musician, writer and academic - playing with the London, UK-based improvising quartet, Vultures; who have just completed a tour of Europe, supporting and collaborating with the likes of Faust, Steve Beresford, Philippe Petit, John Butcher, Z'Ev, PAS and Fullborn Taversham. Donovan operates the label, classwar karaoke, with Adrian Beentjes; which has released material by numerous musicians, including Colin John Conass, Bryan Lewis Saunders, Zoologic,
undRess Beton, Inferno Speedgown, Fonik and his own, Murmurists. As Murmurists, Donovan has been an ardent collaborator - work which partly finds a home in his Beneath is Translation project. A major work from this series, I Cannot Tell You Where I Am Until I Love You, is forthcoming from Guilded Throne Recordings. Donovan's long-running series of writings, dubbed 'items', can be found via http://murmurists.blogspot.com Donovan is a recognised authority on aspects of Conceptual Art; and completed his Ph.D. at the Manchester Metropolitan University, in 2002.