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CONTENTS:

NEWS

REVIEWS:
ELOY FRITSCH: "ATMOSPHERE" Dreaming / Rock Symphony /Gens
ELOY FRITSCH: "MYTHOLOGY" Dreaming / Rock Symphony
INEY: "ANTARKTINA" Electroshock Records
VERPLANKEN: "PSYCHEDELIC FRENCH FRIES" (CD single)
SHAYNE WHITE: "THE OPPOSITE WAY" Northern Wind Recordings
Sampler ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC VOLUME IX" Electroshock Records

LYDIA KAVINA. The great niece of Lev Termen (Leon Theremin) is an
interesting electronic composer, specialized in the legendary instruments
developed by the electronic pioneer.

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NEWS

The new CD by Dom F. Scab, "Twelve stories", will be released by the label
Margen Records. The release is scheduled for May 2004.

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REVIEWS:

ELOY FRITSCH:
"ATMOSPHERE"
Dreaming / Rock Symphony /Gens
Eloy Fritsch shows once again his great talent to build electronic music
brimming with feelings. To create this album, the artist was inspired by
the beauty of the air paths of our world. From the romanticism of a spring
sky to the violence of storms, the listener is immersed into an exciting
journey among the clouds. The album has a marked symphonic air, with
classical elements and some touches of Progressive Rock, all this under an
epic focus, powerful, and undoubtedly impressive.
JORGE MUNNSHE

http://www.eloyfritsch.cjb.net

ELOY FRITSCH:
"MYTHOLOGY"
Dreaming / Rock Symphony
Inspired by some of the myths that have culturally influenced human beings
the most, Eloy Fritsch shapes an impressive collection of electronic
themes. He approaches the composition of this work with an artistic
temperament typical of a Renaissance sculptor. He builds melodies that take
us towards epic adventures of a faraway past and which evoke in our soul
the feelings that reflect the best of human condition. Powerful rhythms,
among the sequences of Synth-Pop, classical percussion and the dynamics of
Progressive Rock, complete this layout.
JORGE MUNNSHE

http://www.eloyfritsch.cjb.net

INEY:
"ANTARKTINA"
Electroshock Records
Iney (a band formed by Yuri Orlov, Andrey Kireev and Igor Shaposhnikov) in
this album give us a fresh, spontaneous music, ranging from Trance to
electronic experimentation. Free from pre-conceived ideas that may limit
their creativity, the three musicians develop rhythms of an industrial air,
as well as melodies that flow through Space Muisc, Techno and Jazz.
Psychedelic touches and shades of obscure Ambient complete the stylistic
basis of this album.
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

http://www.electroshock.ru/

VERPLANKEN:
"PSYCHEDELIC FRENCH FRIES" (CD single)
An interesting sample of the peculiar style of Verplanken, an underground
artist, alien to the conventionalisms of the music world, who shapes an
intense music, imaginative, difficult to label, which drinks from the
fountains of Psychedelic Rock and of Minimalism.
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

SHAYNE WHITE:
"THE OPPOSITE WAY"
Northern Wind Recordings
In this double CD, Shayne White makes crystaline music, emotional, with a
vital, happy air. The pieces basically range around Synth-Pop. The
melodies also present symphonic traits and Celtic reminiscences. The
rhythms are developed by means of percussion and sequencer. In some themes,
the pervasive rhythmic role is led by percussion, whereas in others it is
the sequencer the one leading trait, which in such instances, besides,
contributes a space music dimension to the music.
DEREK DOARN

Sampler ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC VOLUME IX"
Electroshock Records
Continuing with its well-done task of promoting peculiar pieces by artists
from all over the world who break with established paths in
Electro-Acoustic Music and avantgarde genres, the label Electroshock
Records releases its ninth album of "Electroacoustic Music", which includes
the following compositions: Gottfried Michael Koenig: "Polychrome". Carl
Stone: "Agung". Rodrigo Sigal: "Friction of Things in Other Places". Mark
Cooley: "Recomposition#4". Vivian Adelberg Rudow: "Cuban Lawyer, Juan
Blanco" (excerpt from "Velvet Hammers"). Simon Wickham-Smith:
"justKidding". Eternal Wanderers: "Sufferer's Dreams". Victor Cerullo:
"Rusalki".
DOMINIQUE CHEVANT

http://www.electroshock.ru/

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LYDIA KAVINA

The great niece of Lev Termen (Leon Theremin) is an interesting electronic
composer, specialized in the legendary instruments developed by the
electronic pioneer.

Russian composer Lydia Kavina, born in Moscow in 1967, is the great niece
of Lev Theremin, besides having become one of the few professional
performers of the theremin in the world.

At age nine, Lydia Kavina begins to study the theremin, having her renowned
relative, professor Theremin himself, as her personal instructor, and
continues to study this instrument for five years.

After studying music theory at the Moscow Music Academy "October
Revolution", and already at age 14, she begins her career as a performer of
the thereminvox, and since then, this artist has given over 400 concerts in
Russia, Europe and the USA. As a composer, she prefers to devote her
musical creativity to her favourite instrument, the thereminvox.

Kavina completes her musical education at the Tschaikovsky State
Conservatory in Moscow, graduating "summa cum laude" in 1992.

Between 1991 and 1992, she is a staff lecturer at the Moscow Glinka Museum
(Central State Museum for Music Culture), a job she had already had in 1986
and in 1987.

Among the works that Lydia Kavina has composed for the theremin, mention
must be made of the following: "The statue of a soldier" for Theremin and
piano (1984); "Romance" for voice, Theremin and piano (1985); "Two Preludes
for Thereminvox and piano" (1986); "Antique Russia", Fantasy for Theremin,
piano, viola, bassoon and chimes, (1987); "Landscape", for four Theremins,
(1989); "Suite", for Theremin and piano, (1989); "Chacone", for Thereminvox
and Synthesizer, (1990); "Requiem", for Theremin and Synthesizer, (1990);
"Swamp Music", for Theremin and Digital Sampler, (1992); "In Whims of the
Wind", for Theremin, voice and piano, (1994); "The Monologue", for
Theremin, (1995).

She has worked on different albums, among them "Beyond the mirrors", by
Adrian Marcator, under the label Prudence; the original movie soundtrack
"Ed Wood", under the label Hollywood Records; "Music for films", by various
authors, of the label Opal Records; "The Radio Science Orchestra - Memories
of the Future" (1996); SERVIsound - Meditatio in Variatione" (1995); and
the CD-ROM "Theremin-Demonstration with explanations", of the German
magazine devoted to music and computers "KEYS".

Also, Lydia Kavina has appeared in a number of videos and films, as for
instance te educational video by Big Briar, Inc. "Mastering the Theremin",
where the artist teaches the viewers how to use this instrument, together
with Robert Moog; and "Martin, Steven M. Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey,
USA 1993". Furthermore, her music has been programmed on several radio
stations, among them the BBC, the WNYC (USA), the national German radio, etc.

Lydia has given several live performances in a variety of international
events, such as the "International Festival for Electronic Music" in
Bourges, France, (1994); The "Festival of Arts" of Bad Gleichenberg,
Austria (1994); the Charles Ives Festival, of the Barbican Centre in
London, UK., etc., as well as other festivals and installations in
Denmark, Russia, Brazil, and a great deal of other countries where she has
toured with her art.

Among her current projects she has planned on more live performances at an
international level.

(By ARIADNA MARTIN)

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