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Preorder: ORIGAMIBIRO – Collection 4xLP Boxset/ 3xCd + CARLOS CIPA & SOPHIA JANI collaboration

denovali [Edit] [Delete] 20:51, 8 January '14

Hey.

No time to catch a breath - we're starting 2014 with a lavish new project. We're offering the complete back catalogue of the british audio-visual collective Origamibiro as a 4xLP Boxset and 3xCd collection. We're beyond that very pleased to present you the second output of the pianist/ composer Carlos Cipa – a collaboration record with Sophia Jani. We're also offering a vinyl repress of Carlos' debut album ''The Monarch and the Viceroy''.

PREORDER
The Origamibiro Boxset includes the three albums ''Cracked Mirrors and Stopped Clocks'', ''Shakkei'' and ''Shakkei Remixed''. The vinyl version is limited to 200 boxes. ''Origamibiro like to create work with an array of unorthodox processes and contraptions, found objects, video feeds and multi instrumentalism. Their aim is to create works of texture, lyricism and intensity.'' The people who are into the albums of Poppy Ackroyd or Piano Interrupted definitely should lend Origamibiro an ear.

After touring Europe extensively during the past two years Carlos Cipa is back with his first studio recordings since early 2012. The collaboration record ''Relive'' with Sophia Jani is the follow up record of his highly acclaimed debut ''The Monarch and The Viceroy''. The two pieces ''Anouk's Dream” and ''Whatever a Sun Will Always Sing'' were written for Carlos' and Sophia's performance at the Denovali Swingfest 2013 in Essen. The idea was to jointly compose two piano pieces for four hands, which do not only include playing the ordinary way, but also utilising rather unusual sounds from inside the piano.

The debut album ''The Monarch and the Viceroy'' of Carlos sees a vinyl repress – the limited edition color (150 copies) will be silver.

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DENOVALI SWINGFEST BERLIN + LONDON
The ticket preorder for the London edition already started – the Berlin tickets will be available from next week on. You can find all further details via the following pages:

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MAILORDER NEWS
This week's mailorder news are including the last Quantic album, Bonobo vinyl reissues, the Ejecta debut album, the new Noveller, new Harold Budd vinyl etc.

Thanks a lot for your constant support.
Denovali

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ORIGAMIBIRO – COLLECTION 3xCD | 4xLP Boxset | DIGITAL

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Origamibiro is a collaborative project consisting of three core members: musician, soundtrack composer and producer Tom Hill, visual artist and filmmaker The Joy Of Box, and multi-instrumentalist Andy Tytherleigh. Originally started as a solo project for Tom, Origamibiro has since evolved into an audio-visual collective, producing studio music, art objects, interactive installations and hauntingly original live audio-visual performances. Origamibiro like to create work with an array of unorthodox processes and contraptions, found objects, video feeds and multi instrumentalism. Their aim is to create works of texture, lyricism and intensity.

Previous to Origamibiro, Tom Hill had been working with electronica and found-sound sampling through projects such as Wauvenfold and Penfold Plum. Origamibiro's first release, 'Cracked Mirrors and Stopped Clocks' saw a radical return to Tom's classical and electric guitar roots. Performed and produced entirely by Tom, 'Cracked Mirrors' also involved sampling additional atmospheric elements: the creak of his chair, the sound of his breath, the squeak of the wood in his guitar. The result is both intimate and melodic, tangible and atmospheric.

Tom was then looking to translate this music from studio to live environment and enlisted the help of The Joy Of Box (Jim Boxall). Jim had a background in fine art as well as live visuals. Both Tom and Jim were looking for ways to expand how they could approach live performances and utilise technologies but also retain a sense of fragility, texture, emotion and above all risk. Not long after, Andy Tytherleigh brought his multi-instrumentalist skills (double bass, ukulele, banjo, guitar) to what was now becoming a collective and the trio began to develop ways to bring all of these elements together with live looping techniques. Jim began to use objects and props to film and record live, Tom experimented with sampling found materials to add texture and rhythm to his guitar melodies and Andy layered multiple instruments to add depth and weight to the whole process.

The release of the second album 'Shakkei' saw an expansion in Origamibiro's sound - from an intimate personal space to an expansive terrain ('Shakkei' in fact translates to 'borrowed landscape'). The second album utilised field recordings and even a shared audio journey between Tom's Autumnal footsteps in English woodlands and Jim's muted boot crunch of snowy Eastern European forests. The third album 'Shakkei Remixed' came soon after featuring remixes by a host of artists, reinterpreting Origamibiro's material in further directions still. Origamibiro's live performances also expanded, now involving treated books, typewriters, found celluloid, paper, eerie wildlife recordings, home movies, sellotape and bespoke visual contraptions. All of these things had been added, adapted, even destroyed as a way to generate images and audio that could evoke a feeling, a response, an understanding or perhaps a question from audiences.

Stream: [ www.denovali.com/origamibiro ]
Download: [ www.denovali.com/mp3shop ]
Facebook: [ www.facebook.com/origamibiro ]

Vinyl – 4xLP Boxset:
::: thick cardboard slipcase; printed thick single sleeves; 180g vinyl
::: download code
::: limited edition: 200x black vinyl
::: price: 65.00 Euro

Cd:
::: nice slipcase design
::: price: 18.00 Euro

CARLOS CIPA & SOPHIA JANI – RELIVE CD | LP | DIGITAL

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CARLOS CIPA, musician and composer residing in Munich (Germany), has been teaming up with pianist and composer SOPHIA JANI to follow up his highly acclaimed full length debut ''The Monarch and the Viceroy'' with a two-piece collaboration record named RELIVE.

Carlos discovered his passion for music very early in his life. At the age of 6 he began taking classical piano lessons with various renowned teachers. Ten years later after he started playing drums in different bands he became more and more interested in composition and improvisation. In the following years he made experiences in different music styles like jazz, hardcore/punk, indie rock and orchestral music. For his debut record on Denovali Records he focused on his main instrument, the piano. Currently, he is studying classical composition at the ''University of Music and Performing Arts Munich”. Since the release of his debut record, Carlos so far shared the stage with marvelous acts like A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Nils Frahm and Ólafur Arnalds.

Sophia Jani, being in the beginning of her twenties like Carlos, has discovered her fascination for piano in a similar age. She is classically trained on piano and violin and has deepened her skills at the conservatory of music in Munich before she began studying piano at the conservatory in Bordeaux, France. Sophia left Bordeaux after one year turning away from just interpreting classical pieces to concentrate on writing her own music. Taking this crucial step, a concert of Ludovico Einaudi she attended played an important role. Recently Sophia developed an interest in filmscoring as well as experimenting with vocals. Besides classical composers like Chopin and Ravel, filmmusic especially from Bernard Hermann and Thomas Newman influenced her compositions.

The two pieces ''Anouk's Dream” and ''Whatever a Sun Will Always Sing” were written for Carlo's and Sophia's performance at the Denovali Swingfest 2013 in Essen. The idea was to jointly compose two piano pieces for four hands, which do not only include playing the ordinary way, but also utilising rather unusual sounds from inside the piano. Carlos and Sophia used all kinds of contemporary techniques to create these sounds, like plucking and beating the strings with their fingers or different kinds of beaters, bowing them with nylon guitar strings, creating harmonics while pressing fingers down on the strings during playing, using the ''aeolian harp''-technique (used for the first time by Henry Cowell in 1923) or creating beats on the cast iron frame. Throughout the two tracks nothing other than their combined fingers, the two nylon strings and three different kinds of beaters were used to create the music, the pieces can be played live without using any electronics. During the recording process of the album RELIVE, neither of the compositions has been changed in any way. They were played exactly as in the live situation, which was a very important theme throughout this collaboration.

Stream: [ www.denovali.com/carloscipa ]
Download: [ www.denovali.com/mp3shop ]
Facebook: [ www.facebook.com/carloscipa ]

Vinyl – LP:
::: thick sleeves + thick printed inner sleeves; 180g vinyl
::: download code
::: limited edition: 150x silver
::: regular edition: 350x black
::: price: 16.00 euro

Cd
::: nice digipak
::: price: 13.00 Euro

CARLOS CIPA – THE MONARCH AND THE VICEROY Cd | LP repress | Sheet Music Book | DIGITAL

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Stream: [ www.denovali.com/carloscipa ]
Download: [ www.denovali.com/mp3shop ]
Facebook: [ www.facebook.com/carloscipa ]

Vinyl – LP:
::: thick sleeves + thick printed inner sleeves; 180g vinyl
::: download code
::: limited edition: 150x silver
::: regular edition: 350x black
::: price: 16.00 Euro

Cd
::: nice digipak
::: price: 13.00 Euro

Sheet Music Book
::: contains music sheets for all songs of the album on 76 pages
::: price: 25.00 Euro

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MAILORDER NEWS

Bonobo - Late Night Tales 2x12'' [28€]
Bonobo - One Offs Remixes & B-Sides 2x12'' [19.5€]
Breach - Kollapse 2x12'' [31€]
Bruno Sanfilippo - Piano Textures 1 Cd [15€]
Bruno Sanfilippo - Piano Textures 2 Cd [15€]
Bruno Sanfilippo - Piano Textures 3 Cd [15€]
Burial - Rival Dealer 12'' [12.5€]
Carlos Cipa & Sophia Jani - Relive (Black Vinyl) 12'' [16€]
Ejecta - Dominae (Limited Edition) 12''+Cd [18.5€]
Ejecta - Dominae Cd [14.5€]
Goat - Live Ballroom Ritual 2x12'' [24€]
Harold Budd & Andy Partridge - Through The Hill 2x12'' [22€]
Henk Badings - Evolutions 10'' [21€]
Jim McNeely / M. Johnson / J. Scofield / A. Nussbaum + WDR Big Band - East Cost Blow Out 12'' [17€]
Lee Bannon - Alternate / Endings 2x12'' [19.5€]
Marco Beltrami - Carrie OST 12'' [21€]
Nils Frahm - Spaces Cd [16€]
Noveller - No Dreams Cd [15€]
Quantic - The 5th Exotic 12'' [17.5€]
Quantic - The 5th Exotic Cd [16.5€]
Rosie Lowe - Right Thing 12'' [11.5€]
Sun Worship + Unru - Split 12'' [14€]
Suuns - Bambi 12'' [12.5€]
Suuns - Images Du Futur 12'' [17.5€]
The Soft Moon - Total Decay 12'' [15€]
Thisquietarmy + Labirinto - Split 12'' [16€]
Thisquietarmy + Labirinto - Split Cd [15.5€]
Thisquietarmy - Live in Sao Paulo, Brazil DvD [17.5€]
Zolle - S/t 12'' [19€]

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