Big: live recordings April 07The bass and drums duo from Paris came and play a 30 minutes intimate gig last Saturday in a nice back room of a bar in Hasparren organised by the local Eihartzea Cultural association. Idoia recorded 23 minutes of this noisy improvising mix of free core jazz. Xnoybis: album "Solace" Feb 2007The band has decided to come all the way down from north of France into an isolated house in the middle of the basque country for a week of recordings with idoia. With this first album (almost cut out of the mics: one take per song), Xnoybis remarkably leads up a new generation of downtempo/metalcore Frenchy breed with no shyness. Journées Désinvoltes Feb 2006The bands Flaming Stars(UK) + Country Teasers(UK) + Crash Normal(FR) have been recorded live by Idoia during the (sincerely) excellent performance of the 21st January in Pau. While you can listen to an extract of the Country Teasers, the rest of it is being mixed and should show up in a few weeks. Posthumorites Knormalties V.3 Sept 2005A new 7'' records in the series called Knormalties from the fine californian label Dephine Knormal Music. This excellent records put together The Ex from Amsterdam, Cheer-Accident from Chicago, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum from San Francisco and Voodoo Muzak from France. A must to listen. DephineKnormalMusic idoia.org webserver Nov 2004The server is already hosting a bunch of music organisers, labels and artists and is designed to doing so exclusivily. If you are an artist or in charge of any kind of artistic organisation, if you would like to be part a virtual artistic community with people, programmers and artists willing to help you in the development of your website, please get in touch. We speak French, English, Spanish, Italian and Basque. Falcon Series #1 Aug 2004First release of a series of recordings of improvised or semi prepared music played by musicians invited at idoia home. This release puts together: Gary Jeff, Vincent Mérienne and Alex Garacotche. more info: http://www.idoia.com/falconseries/ Voodoo Muzak 'Networks' Project 06-09 July 2003 LondonVoodoo Muzak Networks Project is a project of gig online. Using a 'patch' done with Pure-Data (similar to Max-MSP), the main idea is here to give the computer a role of player rather than a mere tool. more info: http://www.idoia.com/voodoomuzak/voodoomuzaknetworks.html "Basque Electronic Diaspora" Website of the Basque Musician Collective, 09 AprilBasque Musician Collective released 3 electronics compilations and counts more than 30 artists in its "Diaspora". The last compilation BED#3 contains also the Idoia interactive gallery "Larungo Belatza". Artists info, links, contacts and MP3, Check it out: http://www.beddiskak.com/ "Larungo Belatza" Experimental Interactive Gallery, 27 JanuaryLarungo Belatza in not a simple gallery on line. Uses of masks and effects reacting to the mouse movements take the visitor into an slow and intense trip inside those depicted places full of ancestral stories. Enter here "Brouillarta" Voodoo Muzak CD, 25 December:Sixth album of double basses double drums and double power books for the French band Voodoo Muzak. "Brouillarta" is available for 10 euros (incl ship) via the amanitarecords' webstore (you will need the flash 6 plug in to get in). More info + bio here and a short audio extract here. Eardrum Website, 12 December 2002:Eardrum' s website has been lauched. Designed by idoia, the website offers info on the band and its musicians + many audio extracts as MP3 files. The band is planning a UK tour for April. Idoia is to record the live gigs like the one @ Cargo in December 2001 featuring Manitoba+Eardrum+Murcof. visit the website here. extract from the cargo gig here. Larungo Belatza CDRom, 05 November:Larungo Belatza is a CDRom presenting photographes of Jorge Llorella and Asier Gogortza through a serie of mask and fx.. Asier & Jorden' s work have already been released in a book-mini cd package as well as a video PAL-SECAM. The work of Alex Garacotche will be soon on line and will be presented in coming exhibitions in London. More to come. See also http://www.ertza.net Voodoo Muzak Tour, 21 October 2002:VoodooMuzak short tour in France and Spain. Azkoitia 21.11 @ Akauzazte home in the Basque Country. Pau in France 22.10 for the ACCES electronic festival. Bera 23.11 @ Ertz home. Ertz is an association organising gigs and special event in the Basque Country. Find here some photos taken of a gig in June 2002@Zoobizarre venue in Bordeaux France with the band ZU. Sofa Surfer's Gig, 28 septembre 2002:The Sofa Surfer' s gig in London Cargo venue has been recorded by idoia. The band presented its new album licensed in UK by the Leaf Label. |