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If you like improvised music, we like you. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////// For upcoming gigs, happenings and radio events, check out the 'we like you' section It's true. ///////////////////////// join our email list! please email now-join@thenownow.net with the word subscribe in the subject line be in the super loop!!!   the NOW now, recordings /////////////////////////////////// NNCD001 VARIOUS The NOW now, excerpts & orchestra 2CD $30 A snapshot of the 2nd annual NOW now festival in Sydney, 2003 - excerpts comprises 13 pieces featuring Australia's most committed improvisers and electronic musicians. Music by local uber stars, Martin Ng, Anthony Pateras, Oren Ambarchi, Jon Rose, Jim Denley, Peter Blamey, Scott Horscroft, Phil Slater and international travellers - the Ortez Funeral Directors (NZ), Cor Fuhler and Mike Cooper included. Disk two features the Splinter Orchestra - over 30 musicians - comprising nearly every performer in the festival, playing an intensely subtle 30 minute composition by Adam Sussmann.   NNCD002 ARTERY JON ROSE . CHRIS ABRAHAMS . CLAYTON THOMAS Artery CD "Violin, double bass, forte piano and harpsichord shouldn't sound quite so evil. An hour of powerful string action from 3 of Australia's most intense acoustic musicians - exploring the harmonic world that existed before equal temperament - Artery is a deep textural barrage of detail and quick fire communication. "   NNcd003 GUT clare cooper, solo harp & guzheng 2003 CLARE COOPER Gut CD "the perfect soundtrack to the satanic verses" john safran go to http://www.gutstring.net // review "Amazing, subtly brain-dazzling set of improvisation across the harp and guzheng from this Australian lightbulb that references a bunch of previously articulated improvisatory tangents without nailing its colours to any particular tree. Moves from weird revenant ghost shapes through to huge fields of subtly-discharged vibration. Not often you hear a voice as startlingly new as this: check out Spencer Yeh of Burning Star Core�s VT column for more details: Click here for C.Spencer Yeh yack on Volcanic Tounge Click here for jazzweekly.com review ORDER GUT ONLINE through METAMKINE "A remarkable debut by sydney harpist Clare Cooper. Finding her influences in music as far afield as that of oren ambarchi, the necks and marilyn crispell, Clare has created an inpsired work. Gut is a patient, textural composition spread over 7 pieces using both the horizontal chinese harp - the Guzheng and the classical concert harp - she manages to avoid the cliche's of both."   HOW TO GET YOUR HANDS ON THEM... All CD's can be purchased in Sydney at So Music, King Street Newtown and Gleebooks, Glebe. order online through METAMKINE in Europe metamkine.com Or SYNAESTHESIA in Australia http://www.synrecords.com mail order :: synaesthesia gpo box 1117 melbourne vic 3001 australia or buy them in person :: MELBOURNE, australia synaesthesia level one 28 block place, melb phone: (61 3) 9663 3551 fax: (61 3) 9663 3541 LONDON, uk Sound 323 323 Archway Road Highgate London N6 5AA ++44 (0)8348 9595 http://www.web-malls.net/sound323/