Here They Are - The Visual Arts/Videos by AltRev

ThanX a lot György!!!
O'

Visualization Continues

The visualization of Joxfield ProjeX' music continues. Farkas György, alias AltRev, is doing a real fine job with his videos/moving art inspired by our music.
Uploaded on YouTube on our request so you all can watch it..

A lot of people have said they see pictures when they hear JoxProX' music. Now all of you can see the pictures.

Visualized so far:

Finally The Beginning And The End Of The End
Have I Been Here Before
The First Day
Electric Apple

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN5Wsyj3hJ4

Enjoy!

O'

Joxfield ProjeX on YouTube

No, we're not running naked through the fields shouting obsenities to squirrels or small mice, so cool down...

AltRev has just made a second Joxfield video, this time 'Have I Been Here Before'.

Both JoxProX videos can bee seen on YouTube, go for it!

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joxfield&search_type=&aq=f

O'

First Joxfield ProjeX Video

On Alternative Revelation's blog
http://axeofthegod.blogspot.com/2009/06/mea-culpa.html
it's possible to find a video of Finally The Beginning And The End Of The End, the last part of Joxfield ProjeX' Picnic suite.
The video artist is Farkas György alias AltRev or A.R. from Hungary and we like how the slowly moving picture follows the ambient music.
O'

Back In Business Again....

Well, sooner or later, as always, vacations comes to an end.
Back in business again...
Checking the net to see if everyone is as sleepy as I.
Do find some nice words/reviews of the three Joxfield Clinical Archives releases:

"Joxfield ProjeX - three albums
Genre: Ambient, Avant-Garde, Electronica

Joxfield ProjeX’s sound constructions may be avant-garde yet they have an accessible appeal for those who are not necessarily familiar with the more “out-there” performances of experimental music. Sound artists Oax and Xan have an involving style of music-making. These are complex compositions that ropes in the listeners. Clinical Archives currently have three very good albums by these interesting musicians.

Bits and Pieces #1-13 are short vignettes. While existing independently from each other, their sum make up a coherent suite of sounds. Aside from the various electronic manipulation, the duo uses samplings of spoken word by Guillaume Apollinaire, Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, James Joyce, Allen Ginsberg, William S Burroughs & Ezra Pound.

Picnic is based on a single drone work created in 2007. However the artists added samples, rhythms, and various effect to develop this set of seven “variations”. Again, we have an experimental work that is interesting, a bit challenging yet entertaining.

The newest album, Virtual Dreams and Realities, consists of two extended compositions. The title work is a sampler’s paradise mixing everything from bird sounds to sneezes. “New August Sense Of Ease And Pain” is off-the-mainstream electronic dance. These two tracks amuses and entertain. This is the Joxfield ProjeX album I would recommend the novice listener to this style of music to start with."

http://freealbums.blogsome.com/2009/07/18/joxfield-projex-three-albums/

Btw:
Free Album Galore is a most interesting, quality-thinking site with direct links to free and legal downloads of mostly very, very interesting music of all kinds. Been familiar to them for a couple of years and it doesn't hurt at all finding Joxfield being recommended there.
Appreciated!

O'

On Vacation.......

TaDaaaaaaaaaaa..........
This

Or That

But Definitely This

The Joxfield ProjeX Office closes down for a month.
Urgent need of our wise words?
Try oax.joxfield@gmail.com and see if anything happens....
CheriO'

RIP Hugh

Hugh Hopper 29 April 1945 - 7 June 2009
Memories.... Facelift... Virtually.... Kings & Queens....
The fuzz bass is no more. RIP.
O'

Virtual Dreams & Realities (ca269)

VIRTUAL DREAMS & REALITIES (ca269)

Uploaded now at Clinical Archives netlabel for free and legal download.

http://www.archive.org/details/ca269_jp

or

http://www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com/

Here's the info:

‘Virtual Dreams & Realities’ is a one-track suite in various parts. It consists of various elements of played and improvised music as well as parts constructed from patterns from the Joxfield ProjeX vault. The suite has also loads of samples, both from own sources as well as foreign. Some re-worked, very old parts has its origins from recordings made in the late 1890s.

‘New August Sense Of Ease And Peace’ is Joxfield ProjeX-goes-dancing. All of it consists of samples from own and foreign sorces. It’s possible to dance to it.

01 - Virtual Dreams & Realities - 42:44
Shelude:
00.00 - Starter
04.00 - Y 1 Pattern
12.50 - The Inbetweener
15.05 - Hell Jazz Industry
20.22 - The Bridge Egdirb Eht
22.18 - Y 2 Pattern
24.23 - Close To The Temple
29.26 - Sigm Und Freud
36.20 - Climbing Fuji
41.23 - Do It All Over Again
42.44 - Conclusion

02 - New August Sense Of Ease And Peace - 9:38

Sounds, visions, proceedings & production by Oax & Yan of Joxfield ProjeX
Powered by Tin Can Music 2007 - 2009

Joxfield ProjeX is a duo of Oax and Yan.
They are mostly playing guitars, keyboards as well as basses and programmings of various rhythmic patterns suitable for whatever necessary. They also love to add peculiar sounds to their music, beautiful and annoying. The last two years have been very creative with recordings of music for about ten albums, of which this is one.

Contact:
http://www.myspace.com/joxfieldprojex
http://www.myspace.com/joxfieldprojexambient
http://www.myspace.com/joxfieldprojexancient
http://www.myspace.com/joxfieldprojexvoice

The Book I Read : Japrocksampler by Julian Cope

Soon finished with Julian Cope's 'Japrocksampler', just the Author's Top 50 section left to go through.
The book is true inspiring. The reason for me to read it was not only deep respect for Cope as both a very interesting musician, always pointing forward, but also a personal and good author. The previous 'Krautrocksampler' is just an example. Through my discovery of the psychedelic etc world of Acid Mothers Temple, Boris, Boredomw, Merzbow + various related for about five years ago my interest of what's happening in Japan these days increases. And with that increasing I also gets more and more interested in What Was Before.
After some introduction chapters about Japanese post-war experimental and avant-garde music development the book focuses mostly of the psycedelic/space/improvised/free-form/etc scene of late 60s 'til mid-70s by chapter-wise short biographies of bands like Flower Travelling Band, Les Ralliezes Denudés, Speed,Glue & Shinki, Taj Mahal Travellers, JA Caesar, Far East Family Band and others.
With his knowledge, good research (= ruin himself by getting the VERY HARD TO GET albums by these artists most people didn't want to know of at the time) and personal approach to both language and content this book is a really good reading and also very inspiring. But, as I just said, the music of most of these groups a rare and very hard to get, no matter what price you're ready to pay. But maybe something will hopefully will happen in the future.

This one, a two-hour long free improvised drone/etc recording from the Modern Museum in Stockholm 1971 is not only one of very few existing releases available from the band (it wasn't released until lately), it's also acclaimed as one of their best performances during their career. In my mailbox next week. Something for the dark nights at Camp Brana.
O'

Vultures Invading...

A couple of days ago when I was about to eat my breakfast I realised I must have cooked an egg of a vulture, not a hen-egg, as usual.
Strange things are happening....
O'

Season Opening Of Camp Brana

Camp Brana - the infamous little cottage place where the first Joxfield ProjeX' recordings were made in the very early of may 2005.
It really seems like a long time ago, it has surely been a long journey.
Four short, long years - a huge amount of music made and more is to come.
I was sitting close to the open fire with my guitar, a little amp and some efx pedal. Yan was sitting in the other end of the room, a bit away from the fire, freezing, with his keyboard in the knees playing some weird stuff. There were some disturbing sounds we didn't want to record, but couldn't find them untill we realised it was Yan's teath clicking.
Suffer, suffer, suffer - all for the art.

This last weekend I went to the place again, opened it up for the summer season, took my first outdoor lunch.

Yan wanted to do our following recordings in a warmer and more comfortable place (with indoor toilette, indoor shower....) so half a year later we ended up at the famous Camp Kolpebo to which we've returned every time we have recorded together... But, that's another story.
O'

Just An Important Album Pt 9

Well, what to say about these groundbreaking albums?
Avant freeform pop with punk attitude long before punk was invented.
Otherwise it's very well played, very well composed and arranged and very well sung.
Pure joy.
Trout Mask Replica was released in 1969. Produced by Zappa.
Lick My decals Off, Baby was released the year after, 1970.
TMR is considered being a true classic - and I can't nothing but agrtee, but like many others I think maybe that LMDOB are superior to it.
TMR are always re-issued as CD whenever needed and very easy to find. LMDOB was released on CD in 1989 and have been out of print for almost 20 years - unbelievable. But, there's a new re-issue on vinyl, so go find the old grammophone again!
O'

The Past Is Present...

In 1975 the Swedish free improvisation group ISKRA released their self-titles debut-album, a 2 LP set which never have been re-issued on CD.
I bought it in those days, heard it a couple of times, thought it was a bit difficult even though I liked some of it. It disappeard. Probably because I sold it to a 2nd hand record store, I guess.
Recently I laid my hands on an mp3 version of it and when listening to it yesterday I realised something have changed, it was really good, so, now it's safe in the computer...
O'

Not Only Springtime

Abstract Numbers & Concrete Letters A-Z

Have anyone missed it's springtime?
Of course not. For more than a week the sun has been kind and gentle with its shining on our pale bodies. It's gives energy and creativity (well...)

A week ago at the (in)famous Camp Batang we made the final adjustments to our huge Abstract Numbers & Concrete Letters A-Z ProjeX, an ambitious tour de force we've been involved in for more than two years, spending hundreds and hundreds of hours to get things in the way we want, to be satisfied (which actually never will happen as we're never 100% satisfied with what we do, but anyway...)
23 - 25 tracks, depending how you count (two of them are two-parted), about 2 ½ hours of music.

Oax & Yan of Joxfield ProjeX
+ Guests:

Geoff Leigh - Soprano sax, Flute, Efx, Vocals, Composer, Author (Geoff Leigh, Henry Cow, Mirage... name it)
Pat Mastelotto - Drums, Percussions, Samples (King Crimson, Stickmen, XTC... name it)
Nike Ström - Bass (Everywhere and all over for decades)
Håkan Almkvist - Sitar, Tampura, Bass, Indian Percussion (Oriental Squeezer, Ganapati)
José João - Elephant Noiseguitar, Samples (Orquestra Populare de Paio Pires)
Regina P - Vocals (Copernic #)
Kenji Siratori - Spoken Word, Author (Kenji Siratori)
Churner - Harsh Noise (Churner)
Sakamoto Hiromichi - Cello (Haco, Sakamoto Hiromichi)

So, now when it's ready it's up to YOU to get it.
Stay alert!

O'

Just An Important Album Pt 8

Another triplet of must-have albums of undescribeable aural experiences:

In Search Of Space


Doremi Fasol Latodo


Space Ritual


In spring 1973 Yan and I for the first time did act as DJs on a big school disco at our own school. Some people knowing our musical taste were suspicious, but the arrangers of the disco only knew us as kind and easygoing guys and had no idea to what we use to listen to at home. They probably thought it was the chirpy-chirpy-cheep-cheep stuff that was going around at the radio of the time.
After some heavy openers with tracks from Iggy & The Stooges Raw Power we turned on 'You Shouldn't Do That' from In Search Of Space on the highest volume and left the DJ stand, went dancing with some inncoent girls. Soon we were the only ones dancing....

This was the beginning and the end of our very short career as DJs.
On the other hand it our love affair with the early Hawkwind stuff recently had begun...

O'

Mushroom Gods

Sometimes coincidentally your footsteps crosses an unknown path.
A while ago I became aware of the cultish British psych/spece/whatever band Mushroom Gods.

From their own information:
"We are one of the best British underground neo psychedelic progressive rock groups of the late 90's to come out of Leeds, perhaps too underground for our own good as we where never signed to a major record deal but had a large following of spores around the country. Extensive touring gave us an energy and a freakout in our live sound quite unlike our peers always unfashionable and always unapologetic for it. We are Influenced by a real mix of bands; Hawkwind, Amon Duule 2, Can, Tangerine Dream, Jimi Hendrix, Big Black, Stooges, Velvet Underground, Pere Ubu, Soft Machine, Captain Beefheart and of course early Pink Floyd we where born in the wrong era but are still die hard hippies . The Mushroom Gods are: Lost Johnny keyboard, vocals Dick Freek drums Mathew Corbett sitar, flute, effects Fast Elbert Kram guitar CJD Bass, vocals if you wish to contact or more info; mushroom@hotmail.co.uk if you want the music for fwee go to....................... http://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=mushroom+gods&audio=on ...................and download now its not illegal i own the fkin music!"

I couldn't have said it better myself. Just go for it! It's great!
They should at least have been as big as Hawkwind (especially as H-wind of the 90s wasn't too intersting, impo).




O'

Just An Important Album Pt 7

Silver Apples - Silver Apples (1968)

Silver Apples - Contact (1969)

Two guys from New York City, Simeon Coxe III (Simeon), on oscillators and primitive synthesizer of own homemade origns and/or constructions, and Danny Taylor on drums and percussions. Stanley Warren was a guy who wrote the words to most of the songs
Modern, original, almost a decade before Alan Vega & Suicide's attempts. Melodic mantras and pulsating beats we recognised on the dancefloors in the late 90s.
And on and on...
These two records are magnificent and good, pointing forward in a most unusual way. And we're still talking about the 60s...
An important album? Well, actually it wasn't for me. I've recently heard them, but them almost chocked me and made me think how come this little combo became cult and not on top of the bills of cred?
I don't have any answers... Sometimes things just happens.
Anyway.. lend them a few ears or so...
In 1970 a third album was recorded, Garden, but as their label Kapp Records, was bought by MCA and the album was lost and forgotten until 1996 when it was released.
O'

DonnoJanne & Maec's (? & !)

Who are these guys?

Anyway,

we wish you a nice and cosy Easter.

Be careful with martyrs, nails and wooden blocks.

O'

Proud Parent

http://www.indoorpercussioneurope.org/

And you figure out yourself...

O'

Joxfield on Clinical Archives

Good news folks.

When first reading the policy of the great free download Clinical Archives' site we realized this is where we belong.

Quote:

Clinical Archives is independent netlabel for eclectic and illogical music. The basic directions : abstract, avant-garde, alternative, free improv, intuition improvisation, jazz fusion, electronic jazz, free jazz, funk rocktronica, jam band, live electronic, experimental, manipulation, neoclassicism, illbient, ambient, musique concrète, noise, tape music, minimalism, acousmatic music, sound sculpture, sound collage, electroacoustic, acoustic; drone, new wave, field recordings, microsound, montage, psychedelic, folk; quasi-folk; prog-rock; post-punk; trip-hop, soundscapes, sound art, spoken word, strange and other forms ...
"Clinical Archives is about expanding the definition of music"

End of quote.

Anyone being listening to Joxfield ProjeX' music disagree?

Anyway, today the two albums
PICNIC

and
BITS AND PIECES # 1 - 13

has been uploaded.
All for free. Just a clic, some waiting and then it's all yours.
Just go for it! Enjoy!


http://www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com/

O'