Guest antic Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 The Arabesque page just came up and at this time is empty, but you can read about the story of the album - and listen to a sample of the music - on Cosmosis' page: http://cosmosis.co.uk/blog/cosmosis-and-ajja-live-giger-museum Last weekend saw a one-off, improvised live electronic performance by Cosmosis and Ajja at the Giger Museum, Switzerland. The artist HR Giger is probably best known for designing the creatures in the Alien Movies as well as the entire sets for the movies. We were there to improvise a sonic backdrop to the Art-Fusion event: (four visual artists. Paul Booth, Sabine Gaffron,Titine Leu, and Filip Leu painting a large canvas simultaneously in realtime in front of a live audience ) on the opening night of Paul Booth's exhibition in the museum. Ajja and I kicked off the music just after the international press conference had finished and the painting had begun... Given that the audience came primarily to see the live painting, most people were watching the live painting not us, which meant that Ajja and I could just concentrate fully on playing instruments, creating sounds and making the music without having to worry too much about what we looked like or putting on a show... Both of us took turns playing whatever instrument the other wasn't playing - either bass guitar, classical guitar, electric guitar, swapping over instruments sometimes several times during one track . Additionally we were recording live loops of those instruments on the fly - as well as tweaking cutoff on acid sequences, playing the dub fx sends and the kaoss pad. Occasionally both Ajja and I ended up playing electric guitar. Actually "taking turns" sounds a lot more organised than it was, it was more chaotic than that - we really just went with playing whatever instrument the music required at that moment - attempting to improvise the music we were creating in realtime to catch the vibe present in the room during the "PJ" set. We recorded a multitrack of the instruments seperately and are currently working in the studio, mixing down some of the material for a live album - tentatively titled, yes, you've guessed it: "Live at The Giger Museum" The music runs from trippy-ambient to rock-edged, trancy electronic funk (With tempos maxing out at 112bpm) I'm happy it will finally get released! Now, it's time for a new Cosmosis album ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technosomy Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abasio Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Cool! Would have liked to have seen that live but a live album is a good second place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest antic Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Samples are up! Looks like they've taken the live material they recorded there and then tweaked it in the studio. Sounds a lot like Cosmosis' guitar tracks on "Contact" or "Trancendance" albums, which is great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franki Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Look forward to getting my hands on this one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Templar Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Info http://peakrec.com/releases/all/release_id/25.html Previews http://tinyurl.com/thealienjams Peak Records is proud to present THE ALIEN JAMS, the eagerly anticipated live guitar chill album by AJJA & COSMOSIS. Recorded in 2011, during an Art Fusion Experiment in the HR Giger Museum in Switzerland, "THE ALIEN JAMS" is the live recording of a free-style improvised concert by AJJA & COSMOSIS.While renowned artists Paul Booth, Filip Leu, Titine K-Leu and Sabine Gaffron painted simultaneously on a canvas for several hours before a live audience, AJJA & COSMOSIS played music inspired by this unique artistic event unfolding before their eyes.Using acoustic, electric and electronic instruments, combined with laptops and live looping techniques, AJJA & COSMOSIS allowed their imaginations to guide them on this epic, funky, chill voyage. Packed full of psychedelic electronica, hypnotic beats, deep ambient sections, irresistible grooves and superb guitars. "THE ALIEN JAMS" is an impromptu trip to another world, captained by two of todays finest talents. Featuring nine selected tracks from the original concert recording, "THE ALIEN JAMS" is a collection of beautifully produced chill, funk and dance beats intuitively interwoven with the unique guitars and psychedelic sounds of AJJA & COSMOSIS.Get into the groove, relax and float downstream to where "THE ALIEN JAMS"! Track List : 01 Into The Deep - 100bpm - 7:26 02 Aquamarine - 81bpm - 8:35 03 Rhodes To Nowhere - 100bpm - 10:41 04 Desert Dawn - 112bpm - 7:46 05 Around The Bend - 84bpm - 8:04 06 Open Horizon - 100bpm - 10:08 07 Marimbad - 88bpm - 9:36 08 Cactus Shack - 69bpm - 5:16 09 Alien Jam - 71bpm - 10:20 Recorded live in November 2011 at the The HR Giger Museum in Switzerland All original backing tracks (except #8) composed by Ajja S.F. Leu Live performance, overdubs, post-production, mixing and mastering by Ajja S.F. Leu & William Halsey Original guitar artwork by Filip Leu - www.leufamilyiron.com Digital artwork and graphics by Ajja & Tanina Munchkina - www.peakrec.com Photos by Bobby C. Alkabes - www.bobbyalkabes.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imba Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Lovely. This will be great for sunny spring days that comes soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Templar Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Antic in this topics in 3... 2... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technosomy Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Antic in this topics in 3... 2... 1................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest antic Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 Guys, I created the topic and linked to arabesque's samples (empty at the time), so you can be sure I diligently track progress there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest antic Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 The album's out and available digitally through Peak Records' bandcamp page, with physical CDs on sale at usual places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technosomy Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 omg this album is amazing and a must listen/purchase! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest antic Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 omg this album is amazing and a must listen/purchase! I'm quite disappointed myself True it is different from 90% of psy-chill / down tempo stuff, but I can't get rid of the feeling that they've put minimal effort in it, except for maybe 2-3 tunes. In short it's guitar "noodling" over a repetitive drum / bass loop with some FX added later on. There's little variation, very rarely you can find an "idea" in any of those songs, a main theme that drives it and that you could memorize as a lead motif. Don't get me wrong - I'm a die hard fan of guitar music and Bill has all the skills and musical expertise to play catchy riffs, various styles and sounds and there are some genuinely awesome hooks here and there; but compared to any of the chill-out tunes on his full-length trance albums (e.g. "Tim's Trip" from Trancendance) this sounds a lot less involved, much simpler and raw. Apparently, with this being a "live" album this was to be expected, but in retrospect I'd prefer a live versions of old tunes instead, like Ott or Shpongle are doing. Improvisation in itself is great, if ALL parts of the music - leads, bass, drums, chord progressions - evolve and react live to what's happening, creating something unique. Otherwise it becomes very boring, very quickly 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technosomy Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 i try not to compare anything to anything simple for me i like it creates a great atmosphere in my world i would recommend others have a listen, but samples don't do it justice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest antic Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Good for you, Pat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Eye Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Sounds quite a lot like The Peaking Goddess Collective. Which isn't really a surprise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.F.Orb Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 at first listen i got realy bored with it,but played this on a friday afternoon at friends house and it was so good,not complicated or interesting but realy set's good mood while playing at the background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franki Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 It's a bit less involving than I expected, but pretty damn good all the same, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest antic Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 at first listen i got realy bored with it,but played this on a friday afternoon at friends house and it was so good,not complicated or interesting but realy set's good mood while playing at the background. It's a bit less involving than I expected, but pretty damn good all the same, IMO. My thoughts exactly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StratosOZ Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 omg this album is amazing and a must listen/purchase! You said it, brother! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 at first listen i got realy bored with it,but played this on a friday afternoon at friends house and it was so good,not complicated or interesting but realy set's good mood while playing at the background. In short, it's really good museum music, probably perfect for watching the four artists draw up their live painting, probably quite good while looking at other displays in the Geiger. It is not a bad release but on its own it is not a great one, either. Incidentally, Plastikman released a similar, but techno-based, recording that he did at the Guggenheim in 2013. Same result, nice background music but not meant to be the main exhibit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StratosOZ Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Great study music Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starkraver Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Much awaited release!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antic604 Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Yeah, I came back to listening this last weekend and - after some time off - this sounds really awesome! Perhaps I had too high expectations for this in the beginning, but it really holds its own now as a great background music. I'd still appreciate some more variety within the tunes themselves, like some more sophisticated transitions, key-note changes, etc. but what's there is already pretty great. I know the tunes by heart now and love almost all of them, maybe except "Around the bend" which has this dark, menacing atmosphere that somehow doesn't click with me. I hope Cosmosis comes back with some new music soon - he's been silent since this release in late 2013 and since 2009 for a up-tempo trancey stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starkraver Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 I listen to it regularly. It's best when you are chilling with friends (who don't prefer psy or even electronic music in general) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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