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<DIV><BR>Baskaru is pleased to announce its new cd release from Australian sound
artist and writer Lawrence English.</DIV>
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<DIV>Lawrence English<BR>For Varying Degrees of Winter<BR>CD, karu:7, February
2007</DIV>
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<DIV>Winter is a season for introspection, contemplation, and listening. It is
the season when Nature reasserts its rights and imposes its law on humankind,
forcing those creatures to shack up, wrap up…and dream of higher
temperatures.</DIV>
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<DIV>The Australian composer and electronic artist Lawrence English delivers a
record for varying degrees of winter. Sounds twinkle and scintillate like snow
under the sun, they shine like icicles, they hiss like a polar wind and seep
into you through your insufficiently isolated ear holes. Each one of the six
pieces is a monochrome composition ranging from the blinding whites of the snow
to the blue-grays of cloudy days. Although English’s music can be quite abstract
at times, here it turns out to be surprisingly evocative and inhabited by an
understated sense of musicality.</DIV>
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<DIV>Recorded in 2005-2006 in Japan, Hong Kong, Europe, and at home in
Australia, For Varying Degrees of Winter features contributions by Mike Cooper,
Janek Schaefer, and Aki Onda on one track each.</DIV>
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<DIV>A key figure of the Australian sound art scene, Lawrence English has
released several solo albums, including Ghost Towns, Transit, and Happiness Will
Befall. He has also presented sound art installations in Australia, Europe, and
the USA. He has worked with, among others, David Toop, Terry Riley, Damo Suzuki,
DJ Olive, Scanner, Janek Schaefer, and Japanese electro-pop singer Tujiko
Noriko, for whom he produced and co-wrote the album Blurred in My Mirror in
2005. He is at the helm of the label and multi-arts organization
::ROOM40::.</DIV>
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<DIV>Baskaru</DIV>
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<DIV>E-mail: <A href="mailto:hello@baskaru.com">hello@baskaru.com</A><BR>Web
site: <A href="http://www.baskaru.com">http://www.baskaru.com</A><BR>Last.FM: <A
href="http://www.last.fm/label/baskaru">http://www.last.fm/label/baskaru</A><BR>MySpace:
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href="http://www.myspace.com/baskaru">http://www.myspace.com/baskaru</A></DIV>
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