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CONTENTS:

NEWS

GYULA CSAPO. Gyula Csapo is an interesting composer, capable of
attracting the attention of the listener at once.

REVIEWS:
CHRIS ZIPPEL: "GENUINE NU AMBIENT GROOVES 2" Ninetysix Sounds
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE: "UCROSS JOURNAL" Itz'at Musica (BMI) / Pax
Recordings
EARNEST G. WOODALL: "UNUSUAL CHARACTERISTICS" Zephyrwood Music /
T.W.C. Music
EARNEST G. WOODALL: "STRIKE, LIGHT, PUFF" Zephyrwood Music /
T.W.C. Music
ELEMENTAL: "THEE DIVINE IMAGINATION"
CARLOS VASO: "SIMBIOSIS" - Vaso Music
ALAYA: "LIGHT OF THE SOUL" Magic Music Corporation
KELVIN SMITH: "GALAXY GATE" Once In A Blue Moon Productions / EMMA

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NEWS

NEW RELEASES / RE-RELEASES / DISTRIBUTIONS
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Orbital: "The Middle Of Nowhere"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000J8LA/thesciencebookbo

Jonn Seriie: "Century Seasons"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004T8ZH/thesciencebookbo

Enya: "Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya"
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Toto, Brian Eno: "Dune" (Original Soundtrack Recording) (this is
the soundtrack to David Lynch's 1984 sci-fi epic on Polydor. The
17 track collectionfeatures Brian Eno's 'Prophecy Theme' and 16
tracks written,composed & performed by Toto.)
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Solitaire: "Ritual Ground"
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Deuter: "Nada Himalaya"
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GYULA CSAPO

This composer of a Hungarian origin was brought up within an
environment of a great cultural wealth and artistic sensibility,
his mother being a music teacher and his father a professor of
Classics and Literature. Gyula Csapo started his musical studies
at age six, specializing in the cello and piano as he completed
his elemetary education. Majoring in Composition at the Music
Conservatory of Gyor, Gyula continues with his musical education
at the Bela Bartok Conservatory in Budapest, where he wins the R.
Chitz Klara Award in Composition, with his piece for two pianos
"Globe". This means his immediate access to the prestigious Liszt
Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest in 1974, as well as an
invitation to join the New Music Studio, the most remarkable
institution in Hungary devoted to the avantgarde musics with an
anti-establishment attitude that united such prestigious composers
as Zoltan Jeney, Laszlo Vidovszky, Laszlo Sary, Barnabas Dukay,
Zsolt Serei, musicologist Andras Wilheim, worldwide famous Gyorgy
Kurtag, Peter Eotovos (the conductor of Pierre Boulez's Ensemble
InterContemporain) and famous pianist Zoltan Kocsis. Also, the
artist is awarded the Albert Szirmai Prize in Composition at the
end of his studies in the Academy, which actually becomes the
heart of the musical life in Budapest, in 1979. The National
Philharmony is forced then to program the concerts of the New
Music Studio for several seasons, given the prestige they achieve
in the Hungarian society, which means six concerts per season
during an entire decade, at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, and
up to six hundred avantgarde works are performed between 1975 and
1983, many of these having been composed by the members of the
NMS. Zoltan Kocsis arranged the premier of Burns's work "Handshake
After Shot" (published by Editio Musica), which has become a
repertoire piece worldwide, having been performed in several
countries, among them Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, The
Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Canada, New Zealand, the
United States and Japan.

The composer is granted the DAAD Full Stipends in the years 1978,
1980, and 1982, which allows his to participate in the
International Vacation Courses for New Music in Darmstadt,
Germany. In these same dates, Csapo participates in the Warsaw
Autumn Festivals, thus establishing a number of contacts which
allow his to make his music known at an international level,
mostly in several European countries, among them Poland, Italy,
Austria, The Netherlands, Great Britain and Germany. At this time
in his career, the composer is mostly interested in live
electronics, even though he also works on stage, as seen in his
work Krapp's Last Tape after Samuel Beckett (published by Editio
Musica Budapest) produced in Darmstadt in 1982, at the suggestion
of Clarence Barlow. This same work is performed in Koln, arranged
by Walter Zimmerman, at the Samuel Beckett Festival in Frankfurt-
am Main, at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York
City, and at the June-in-Buffalo Festival. Another work by this
author of this time is "Tao Song" for viola, harpsichord, gongs,
two pairs of speakers and a feedback system.

In 1979 Csapo is given a post as professor of music at the Bartok
Conservatory, where he is in charge of ear training,
orchestration, musical theory and chamber music, and he stays
there until 1983. Then he travels to the United States, while
continuing as a lecturer at the Liszt Academy. Three years before
he had paid a short visit to this country, where he became
interested in the American musical panorama, since the NMS had
been in close professional contact with the American avantgarde,
having premiered several works by John Cage, Morton Feldman,
Christian Wolff, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, La Monte Young,
Frederick Rzewski, Charlemagne Palestine and others, in spite of
the dislike that the Hungarian government had for them, hardly
"tolerating" them, given the Communist Party policies with regard
to American cultural interference. The NMS members were not
prosecuted as political instigators, however, thanks to the fact
that the works they performed had no explicit texts whatsoever.

In 1981 Gyula receives a French-Hungarian Cultural Exchange
Fellowship, which allows his to attend two courses of Computer
Music for Composers at I.R.C.A.M., tutored by David Wessel and
Stephen McAdams. Although computer generated music is not one of
his main interests, the composer certainly wishes to incorporate
its possibilities to the repertoire of tools he uses to compose
his works, as well as to develop his intellect. The knowledge he
acquires there on the synthesis of digital, acoustic and
psychoacoustic sounds fit perfectly well into the kind of
"analytical minimalism" he chooses to incorporate in his works, as
seen in his instrumental and live electronic work, which enters
areas affecting the synthesis of digital sound. Back in Hungary,
Csapo is commissioned to write the soundtrack for the movie
"Alagút" (Tunnel), an experimental film of the Balázs Béla
Filmstudio. Next he is commissioned another two works of this
kind, "Romance", for television, and "Majd a tisztáson" (There, at
the Clearing...), an animation masterpiece by Péter Molnár, at the
Pannónia Filmstudio. In 1983 Csapo gets the Woodburn Fellowship,
which allows his to doctorate with Morton Feldman and Lejaren
Hiller at the New York State University in Buffalo (1983-87).
Later, thanks to a grant by the Research Foundation, sponsored by
the Soros Foundation, he is able to complete his studies (1987-
89). In 1988, Phil Niblock, of the Experimental Intermedia
Foundation, produces a monographic concert with his music in the
City of New York. In 1990 his work "Handshake After a Shot"
premieres at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, performed by the
Continuum Ensemble, conducted by Joël Sachs. This same year Csapo
becomes a Permanent Resident of Canada, and is invited to teach
orchestration and contemporary music at McGill University (1990-
91). Once again invited to the United States to teach Composition
at Princeton University (1991-94), Csapo continues to compose, and
several of his works are premiered at Princeton, among them
"Labyrinth", "Chorale in Perfect Time", "A Desert March", "Hommage
a Jalal-ud-din Rumi", etc. In this time he collaborates with
Miklós Perényi at the premiere of "Labyrinth", (International
Bartók Seminar, 1992), which also is recorded by Frances-Marie
Uitti in a CD under the label Etcetera. It is the Department of
Music and the Research Foundation of the University of Princeton
the ones to sponsor this and other projects of his. His
marathonian piece for piano "A Desert March" is also released on a
CD under the label Open Space. His music is presented at an
evening at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on April,
1993. A year later, the Hungarian television produces a forty
minute program featuring his music. Other performances of his
music have taken place in 1995 at the Hartt School of Music in
Canada, as well as at the Alte Feuerwache in Koln (Germany),
sponsored by the City of Koln. His work "Twenty-One Preludes to
the Death of Art(aud)" has premiered at the Trieste Prima Incontri
Internazionali con la Musica Contamporanea. The Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation has commissioned his the composition of a
work for soloist cello and percussion (1996).

(By Montse Andreu)

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CDs by IURY LECH AVAILABLE IN AMAZING SOUNDS MAILORDER SERVICE

Iury Lech is a composer, movie maker and writer. He usually joins
all these aspects in his artistic works. Born in 1958 in an
immigrant family from Ukraine, he began his artistic career by the
mid 1970s. By the late '80s he began to release his albums.

You can find more information in Amazing Sounds online version
(article-interview), at:

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"A BITE IN THE COMMON SENSE"
This album of thirteen pieces of varied styles, some of them very
innovative, independent from the most usual frameworks in
electronic music. Rhythm has a pervasive presence, be it in itself
as such or supporting the melody on its own. Quite passages turn
out to be cosmic. A certain symphonic classicism can be perceived
throughout most of the work.

"SERIAL CASTRATI"
The music contained in this album has a very personal, innovative
style. Some of the pieces possess a certain cosmic character,
others approach minimalism, but no known label could be applied to
it. Perhaps a new definition should be coined: "Computer ethnic
music". The most avantgarde pieces are like urban folk music of
the future.

"ASPERSIONS BY INSTINCT"
This album is a provocative shaped double CD where the
synthesizers and percussion have a basic role. The music goes
beyond the conventional, surpassing even the frontiers of many
styles (Ambient, Trance, Dark, Psychedelic, Space) that already
are avantgarde by themselves. On the whole, the work is like a
collection of dreams or nightmares turned into music.

PRICES:
A BITE IN THE COMMON SENSE $15.55 or 13.13 euros or 2100 pesetas.
SERIAL CASTRATI $15.55 or 13.13 euros or 2100 pesetas.
ASPERSIONS BY INSTINCT (2CD) $19.25 or 16.25 euros or 2600
pesetas.

OTHER AVAILABLE RELEASES:

PROGRAM@:
ASHES $15.55 or 13.13 euros or 2100 pesetas.
The legendary band Programa@ return with a wonderful production,
after a long period of silence. The music, eminently electronic,
makes deep incursions into Techno, Synth-Pop, Space Sequencer, and
New Instrumental Music. "Ashes" shows that electronic music has
not abandoned the strength that characterized it in the beginning.

AT-MOOSS:
MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS 1 $15.55 or 13.13 euros or 2100 pesetas.
MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS 2 $15.55 or 13.13 euros or 2100 pesetas.
MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS 3 $15.55 or 13.13 euros or 2100 pesetas.
The band At-Mooss is formed by Joseph Loibant, Anthony Seagarr,
John Lakveet and Dom F. Scab. Loibant is the most veteran musician
in the band. He began to research the sonic possibilities of
synthesizers in the 1970s. He was a member of the band Programa
together with Carlos Guirao (ex-member of Neuronium) and José M.
Ciria.

JOSEPH LOIBANT:
SINE $16.30 or 13.75 euros or 2200 pesetas.
In this solo album by Joseph Loibant, the founder of the band At-
Mooss, a variety of synthesizers is mixed in a very personal
manner. The style is agile, rhythmic, based on sequencers and
percussion, but with a modern approach. He succeeds in generating
the magic of the mythical cosmic trend of the seventies and at the
same time flow within the most avantgarde sectors of current
electronic Pop.

DOM F. SCAB:
INNERSEED $15.55 or 13.13 euros or 2100 pesetas.
Synthesist Dom F. Scab is a member of the band At-Mooss. He began
a solo career as a composer in 1998. His music has gotten airplay
on such famous radio programs like Echoes (in the USA).Scab has
composed some soundtracks. He has collaborated with several
musicians, among them Albert Giménez (ex-member of Neuronium).

PLASTHA´S MOUNTAGE:
PROTOPLASTHA´S $15.55 or 13.13 euros or 2100 pesetas.
Joss & Loop , Ben Howard Jr. , and Panik have created in this CD
the beginnings of a series that explores with great imagination
and power the border areas among Trance, Techno and electronic
Dance. Unusual strength and dynamics, a dense rhythm, latest
generation synthesizers used in a creative, innovative way, they
all contribute to each theme in this compact disk new
expectations that hold the interest from the beginning to the end.

MC2:
ENERGY $15.55 or 13.13 euros or 2100 pesetas.
A magnificient release by the band MC2 of a Space Sequencer style,
with powerful rhythms and dense atmospheres. Very elaborated.

ALBERT GIMENEZ & DOM F. SCAB:
COSMIC NI $15.55 or 13.13 euros or 2100 pesetas.
Amazing Psychedelic Music.

SERGIO KOVAL:
CLON $15.55 or 13.13 euros or 2100 pesetas.
A skilled composer of television soundtracks, Sergio Koval, is
able to use the synthesizers in an unusually intense, vital, epic,
majestic way, like Vangelis, and a few other stars of electronic
music do. Koval's music will enthusiasm the lovers of Symphonic
Space Music.

LUIS ALBERTO NARANJO:
HUMAN FEELINGS (CDR) $12.96 or 10.93 euros or 1750 pesetas.
BLUE LIFE (CDR) $12.96 or 10.93 euros or 1750 pesetas.
The music by Luis Alberto Naranjo, near to the New Instrumental
Music, Space and Synth-Pop, have a pleasant freshness, thanks to
the melodies and atmospheres. The music is very emotional, with
romantic and also solemn traits, yet without falling into an
excessive sweetness. The artist relies mostly in the melody so as
to transmit the emotions of his music .

ALBERT GIMENEZ:
MOSDUM $15.55 or 13.13 euros or 2100 pesetas.
ZIV $15.55 or 13.13 euros or 2100 pesetas.
The composer and guitarist Albert Giménez began his musical career
in the '70s. He was a member of the bands Suck Electronic,
Macromassa and Neuronium. In 1979 he turned from electric to
classical guitar, releasing during the following years different
records with his own compositions for soloist acoustic guitar, and
playing in numerous concert tours. In 1995 he returned to electric
guitar so as to continue his research in the new electronic
frontiers that this instrument has to offer.

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REVIEWS:

CHRIS ZIPPEL:
"GENUINE NU AMBIENT GROOVES 2"
Ninetysix Sounds
A powerful album. Heavy, yet consistent percussion is linked to
careful effects and varied samplers so as to submerge in the
deepest of grooves. The environment is dense; only in few
occasions a slight melody appears, or some piano notes, or a
watery sound, to add some oxygen... yet always in the most
adequate moment. Mention must be made of the remarkable role of
the sequences, memorable as they are in the ninth theme,"Upon the
face of the deep": grave, intense, impressive...
LAURA S. GARCIA

ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE:
"UCROSS JOURNAL"
Itz'at Musica (BMI) / Pax Recordings
During the month that he spent as a resident artist of the Ucross
Foundation, Diaz-Infante created a daily composition, in an
improvised way. Each one of these pieces reflected his impressions
of the moment and his feelings on that particular day. In the
shape of a musical diary, this collection of pieces is thus
gathered in this album. The music, solely performed with the
piano, is very slow and relaxed, with each sound vanishing into
silence before the next one comes. The work presents connections
with Classical Music, certain Jazz touches, and a melancholy hue.
VALERIANO GUIOL

EARNEST G. WOODALL:
"UNUSUAL CHARACTERISTICS"
Zephyrwood Music / T.W.C. Music
Here we have an example of experimentation based on the structure
of the music instead of that of sound, besides maintaining a
result that will no doubt be pleasant to listen to for the lovers
of Classical Music in its most intellectual of trends as well as
those of the musical avantgarde in general. Through an only piece
with varied parts, Woodall follows this stylistic feature, to
which he masterfully adds certain touches of Minimalism.
VALERIANO GUIOL

EARNEST G. WOODALL:
"STRIKE, LIGHT, PUFF"
Zephyrwood Music / T.W.C. Music
Earnest G. Woodall uses a wide variety of musical elements to
create a collection of twenty compositions that include numerous
avantgarde styles. Taking experimentation as his main starting
point with musical structures rather than sounds, his exploratory
journeys take us into the most intellectual regions of Classical
Music, as well as Minimalism, and Concrete Music in its sound
collage trends. All this accompanied by brief incursions into
structures that remind us of other genres, such as sequencer Space
Music to name some of the latter.
VALERIANO GUIOL

ELEMENTAL:
"THEE DIVINE IMAGINATION"
Steven D. Stockes, a.k.a Elemental, seems to want to express in
his work the constant opposition statism/dynamics. The statism, by
means of dense pads, wondrous chords and choir samplers. A perhaps
epic peace, maybe melancholy... On the other hand, movement, maybe
equable to optimism, comes through the vigor of his sequences, the
true queens of full themes and in a perfect interaction with all
kinds of watery effects, which could in some cases remind us of
Ray Lynch.
LAURA S. GARCIA

CARLOS VASO:
"SIMBIOSIS"
Vaso Music
An impressive album this work by Carlos Vaso, best known for his
success in the famous duo Azul y Negro, a pioneer of Techno in
Spain. The artist, a builder of a unique style that surpasses and
goes beyond any labels, has taken in this album a further step in
his quest for exploration. With a solid electronic basis, this
collection of 16 themes is a nice journey through melodies of a
great emotional intensity, rhythms that range from classical
Techno to the Synth-Pop, and an undefiniable, disquieting,
apocalyptic atmosphere, at times manifesting itself in bleak, dark
passages.
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

ALAYA:
"LIGHT OF THE SOUL"
Magic Music Corporation
Alaya offers us with this work an authentic walk over the clouds
The softness of the pads spreads throughout every minute,
harmoniously interrelated with the velvety percussions, in an
obvious effect of magic and mysticism. The journey includes the
most crystalline of effects and melodies, aimed at emotion, at
times in a melancholy manner, at times more optimistic in its
rendition.
LAURA S. GARCIA

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KELVIN L. SMITH:
"GALAXY GATE"
Once In A Blue Moon Productions / EMMA
As its name suggests, "Galaxy Gate" takes us to a musical voyage
towards the galaxies. A journey full of impressive atmospheres,
extraterrestrial melodies and strong emotions.The music makes it
obvious that the author reflected his feelings in it, as well as
the fact that this album responds to a specific rapture of
inspiration rather than to a compilation of pieces composed under
different circumstances. The artist himself points out that the
reading of the works by R. Bauval & G. Hancock was the main
stimulus to fire his creativity when it came to the making of this
CD.
PASCUAL JURADO

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