20 Years Of Denovali Special - with Mansur, Dictaphone & Matti BYe

In the organizer's words:

Denovali is an independent music label that was founded in 2005. Denovali's program is not limited to a specific genre, but ranges from electronica, ambient and experimental to jazz, experimental pop, modern composition, sound art and much more.

https://denovali.com

https://www.youtube.com/@denovalirecords/

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MANSUR is the new project of Jason Kohnen (Ex-The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Ex-The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation), together with Dimitry El-Demerdashi (Ex-Phurpa) and Martina Horváth (Vocals). The sound of MANSUR meanders in the waters of musical fantasy and reality, deforming and mixing traditional instruments and contemporary electronica.

After the debut EP "Temple", the debut LP "Karma" and the live improv recording "Minotaurus", MANSUR return with their fourth album "Oscuras Flores". The title "Oscuras Flores" (Dark Flowers) is derived from a poem by Federico Garcia Lorca and is conceptually inspired by the works of Vandana Shiva. "Oscuras Flores" is a musical introduction to a return to the organic and a healthier symbiosis with our planet. A tribute to the natural seeds of life, Mother Nature and the planet Earth...

Jason Köhnen: Bass / Electronics
Dimitry El Demerdashi: Oud
Martina Horváth: Vocals

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The Belgian-German band Dictaphone around mastermind Oliver Doerell returns with their fifth album called "goats & distortions 5".

After their highly acclaimed album "APR70", Oliver Doerell is once again surrounded by his longtime band members Roger Döring (clarinet & saxophone) & Alex Stolze (violins). Over the last three years, Dictaphone have delved even deeper into their concept of "morbid instruments". An old tape machine that Döring found in a hidden room in his house in Berlin served as the sound source. Ghostly sounds could be heard and the machine died soon after being sampled. Roger Döring played a bass clarinet for the first time on this album, which he lost on the subway on his way home after recording...

Dictaphone improved their ability to use rustling as an instrument. On the track "your reign is over", the band is also supported by Helga Raimondi's voice. The result is an incredible, ghostly, haunting album consisting of ten different journeys into the experimental soundscape of these unique compositions.

The history of Dictaphone: In 2000, Oliver Doerell found a partner and kindred spirit in Roger Döring, who shared Doerell's love for the Brussels music scene of the eighties. In the years that followed, the duo and various guest musicians (Stephan Wöhrmann (SWOD), Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact) and many others) released the highly acclaimed "m.= addiction" (2002) as well as the "Nacht" EP (2004) and "Vertigo II" (2006) on City Centre Oces, the label of Thaddeus Herrmann and Shlom Sviri (Boomkat, Modern Love). Violinist Alex Stolze joined the band in 2009. In their 20-year band history, Dictaphone have played shows in over twenty countries, with festival appearances at Mutek, Transmediale, Unsound, Benicassim and many others. Their last albums were the highly acclaimed "Poems from a rooftop" (Sonic Pieces) from 2012 and "APR 70" (Denovali, 2017) the predecessor of "goats & distortions 5". Denovali also reissued the trio's previous repertoire in 2017. Oliver Doerell has composed more than 30 pieces for Modern Ballet and BBC documentaries.

Press reviews of Dictaphone:
"minimalist, understated elegance" (ARTE)
"Timeless, unusual and beautiful" (Colin Newman)
"Dictaphone succeeds in giving warmth to the conceptual, a body to the thoughts and an atmosphere to the music"
(SPEX)

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Denovali is delighted to present the new album by renowned Swedish pianist and composer Matti Bye. Matti is known for his regular appearances at various international silent film festivals, where he performs solo or together with artists such as Lau Nau. Bye has also been involved in various collaborations - including Hydras Dream, a collaboration with Anna von Hausswolff. Matti Bye is known for his soundtracks for the films and series "Young Royals," "Tove," "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared," "A Traves de tu Mirada" and many more.

Matti Bye's third album, "Capri Clouds", moves through the element of air into the vastness of space. A lonely piano resounds, echoes - sometimes like a waltz. As we fly, we have the sound of the wind around us and the sound of the sea below us, and above us we hear the stars and planets circling. A piano from the past, as if Satie were meeting the vastness of space - as if Spiritualized and Satie were communicating across time and space... These songs go straight to the heart and senses and create magical images in the mind. Stories from your own memory, but also new visions - music that you can lean into meditatively and hopefully and longingly. At the same time, however, there is also a dark and desolate undertone. Musically, Matti Bye moves in the realm of neoclassicism, but also approaches romanticism. References to composers such as Schubert and Beethoven can be found as well as references to post-romantic bands (Kraftwerk and The Cure). With "Capri Clouds" as part of a trilogy - the first was "Bethanien", the second "The Forgotten Land" - Bye continues his musical journey. A comparatively bright and light production. Anders af Klintberg has taken "Capri Clouds" out of the underworld and the dream world and led it towards the sky and clouds.