FMC12 usr/sbin – Twelfth month moon

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There is a small regret to say this series now has come to an end with this final release.
Thank you dearly mr. Dennis Moser, aka usr/sbin, aka AldoManutio Abruzzo.
I never experienced the live concerts themselves as they were performed on Second Life, but judging by the content its indepth quality grew as the collection widened. 12 Full moon concert series are now captured in time. 2010 a document forever available.
And you the listener have one last album to complete your collection.
I certainly hope you’ve enjoyed this and will for many years to come.

A year with Luna: 12 monthly meditations on the Full moon
Volume twelve: Twelfth month moon

Music performed by Dennis Moser (aka AldoManutio Abruzzo or ‘usr/sbin’)
Live in Second Life on December 21st 2010
for the Full Moon Lunacy Concert series, 2010

Mirror:

01 – Red, the eclipse rising over the snows
02 – Dance of the drifts
03 – Twelfth month moon
04 – Dreams and remembrances like snowflakes falling

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FMC08 usr/sbin – Chandras’ekhara

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The last full moon of summer and we are two thirds of the way into a year of full moon concert series. Another single track that comes close to the hour mark. Dennis Moser certainly treats us with the splendor of his musical talent. Besides the usual guitar and bassguitar improvs on this occasion Dennis introduces the wonderful sounds of the sitar (or dulcimer).
It will certainly be a happy and sad day simultaneously when the goal set is reached and a full year will be catalogued and preserved forever as a fine fine document of fine musicianship. But that day is not near yet; untill then let us take the time to enjoy these gems.

A year with Luna: 12 monthly meditations on the Full moon
Volume eight: Chandras’ekhara: “Having the moon as his crest

Music performed by Dennis Moser (aka AldoManutio Abruzzo or ‘usr/sbin’)
Live in Second Life on August 24th 2010
for the Full Moon Lunacy Concert series, 2010

Next Live show: September 23rd

Mirror:

1 – Siva sits, contemplating the last full moon of Summer, considering the Raga Takka
Runtime: 54.50

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JNN102 Litmus0001 – Hikikomori

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Another first timer on Just not Normal we are proud to present is Jonathan Ewald from Madison Wisconsin US better known under his artistname Litmus0001. There may not be as many releases to his name but those that are are sublime. Tending more towards the ambient rather then the experimental these three tracks have specifically been chosen to feature on Just not Normal. During 2009 Jonathan presented a podcast/mix show on the Notheen radiostation called ‘Psychosonic aether’ which ran for 21 episodes. All his releases are free releases and he is a fervent appreciator and supporter of the creative commons world.

Improvised and recorded in a single take on March 7th, 2010 at Worthless Research Laboratories in Madison, WI.
6 string bass; electric guitar; percussion; AM radio; effects; loops and delays

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01 – hikikomori 1st movement
02 – hikikomori 2nd movement
03 – hikikomori 3rd movement
Runtime: 1’09.50

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FMC07 usr/sbin – Vergessen. Verloren. Verwandelt. Verlassen.

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And once again Dennis Moser brings us another deep hour long episode of the monthly Full Moon Concert series.
Another hour of experimental improv’ that seems to have taken a diversion from the soft and sweet ambient that we have gotten to know in this series. This episode will certainly whet your apetite and make you yearn for its successor.

A year with Luna: 12 monthly meditations on the Full moon
Volume seven: Vergessen. Verloren. Verwandelt. Verlassen.

Music performed by Dennis Moser (aka AldoManutio Abruzzo or ‘usr/sbin’)
Live in Second Life on July 25th 2010
for the Full Moon Lunacy Concert series, 2010

Next Live show: August 24th

Mirror:

01 – Vergessen. Verloren. Verwandelt. Verlassen.

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JNN099 Alexander Kibanov – Silent Trilogy (2008)

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The re-release of Alexander’s first ambient & experimental album which has been very limitedly released in 2008 on Alexander’s own label is now available for the world for free.
If you’ve heard some of the previous releases by this very prolific artist before you know your ears will be in for a treat. This re-release certainly will grab your attention with its outworldish sounds and great atmospheres. Whether it’s ambient or experimental is up to you really, from subtle to in your face for certain it is just not normal!

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Chapter 1 – Birth of Life
01 – Cycle of night
02 – They came from cave
Chapter 2 – Silent town
03 – Goodbye forever
04 – Danger
05 – Darkness falls
06 – Birth is death
Chapter III – Password reset
07 – Sea waves abstractions in the deepest night

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FMC06 – usr/sbin – All on a night in June

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Reaching the halfway point of this full moon concert series one may wonder; can it go deeper, can it go better.
The answer is given by the artist himself in this sixth edition. A near full hour of a single track improv that rocks the boat.
Droney ambient culled with the fingerprint guitar sounds and solos of the master himself. Let not these words keep you from downloading this album on the spot. You will not regret it.

A year with Luna: 12 monthly meditations on the Full moon
Volume six: All on a night in June

Music performed by Dennis Moser (aka AldoManutio Abruzzo or ‘usr/sbin’)
Live in Second Life on June 26th 2010
for the Full Moon Lunacy Concert series, 2010

Next Live show: July 25th

Mirror:

01 – All on a night in June

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Runtime: 53.37

JNN098 Apocalyptic Frequency Experience – Musings on human metamorphoses

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And in the darkness lives the mysterious. Or in other words what happens when an experimental artist from Mexico (Roberto Telles Garcia) gets head to head with a French mistress of the experimental soundage (Murielle Gallon) and complete the quartet of brotherhoods with Kalavazombie on synth and programers and Simio Autodidacta for pics and art.
Their assignment: Express in sound the musings on human metamorphoses.
For certain they have reached their degree in deep dark experimentations and surprising sounds dithered with hidden messages.
It is dark, it is brooding, it is Apocalyptic!

Image by Kristina Gentvainytė

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01 – The pentagram
02 – Musings on human metamorphoses
03 – Un coup de Ds jamais nabolira le hasard
04 – Musings on human metamorphoses Part 2
05 – A horror of empty spaces
06 – Musings on human metamorphoses Part 3
07 – Preludio a la siesta de un fauno
08 – Musings on human metamorphoses Part 4
09 – A horror of empty spaces Part 2
10 – A horror of empty spaces Part 3

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Runtime: 20.23

FMC05 usr/sbin – Full flower

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Already the fifth in this year series of live improv’ed ambient experimental sound exploration. On this edition the guitar takes a prominent role, rather less the electronic experimentalism; except for the first track. That in itself don’t make this any less interesting. Climb aboard on this special series that takes place in the Second Life reality.

A year with Luna: 12 monthly meditations on the Full moon
Volume five: Full flower

Music performed by Dennis Moser (aka AldoManutio Abruzzo or ‘usr/sbin’)
Live in Second Life on May 27th 2010
for the Full Moon Lunacy Concert series, 2010

Next Live show: June 26th

Mirror:

01 – Ghostly green
02 – Thawing away the snow mass
03 – Lust for light
04 – Dry on the high plains

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Runtime: 52.47 minutes

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JNN094 Planetaldol – Ballad for knacker (Live in Berlin)

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Recorded live at the Canibal Canniche festival, held in Berlin May 2nd 2010
Mastered by Final Cut

Are you prepared to take on a journey of live and improv’ed experimentalism. Are you willing to open your ears and mind for the unusual that took place live on stage. This French artist has before released a few albums on the Belgium Entity netlabel of which my first encounter was with the ‘2 humans in a cage with their everything box’. An intriguing title don’t you think?
Well that was exactly what lured me into a peak listen and an immediate play choice for NTNS radio. Now two years later they are back as Planetaldol and of one thing you can be certain. Your mind will be taken on quite the fantastic voyage.

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Ballad for knacker

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Runtime: 38.11 minutes

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JNN093 Voder – Fields

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The third second releaser comes from Brighton, UK. Paul Nadin, or better known as Voder has previously released his most beautiful album ‘Island’ on the fantastic Distance Recordings netlabel.
Where before he used the recordings of a visit to Iceland to create an aural description of the various locations which he visited and made field recordings of, this time he takes us to the fields. Which fields as of yet are unknown, but I think in all of us slumbers that hidden field of our youth that this music so well captures. Take a trip down memorylane and join in on this 6-track album of pure joy.

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01 – Calm of the storm
02 – Sea fog makes landfall
03 – Fields 1
04 – Fields 2
05 – Luna
06 – Saccades

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Runtime: 33.35 minutes

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