Count Portmon experimental-Lo-Fi / Praha

Recording dedicated to a single cassette recorder was a starting point of the project Count Portmon in 2011. Now his creator Jan Faix again has a reason to repeat the same concept. At the moment it is a requiem for a dead cassette recorder Sony TCM-359V, which significantly contributed to the sound effects palette not only in the solo work of Count Portmon, but also in bands Skrytý půvab byrokracie, Stratocluster, Let´s Bomb the Hell, Polk and Pražský syndrom, in the studio or live on stage.
Album thus contains raw recordings of playing with the recorder, long noises, field recordings, random bits of dialogue, music and other exceptional sonic situations. Sometimes sounds without any editing, sometimes they have been processed through Audacity program or through an arsenal of tape repeaters. In the resulting surreal collage, everyone can easily project his own experiences. Many people who have occurred in the range of the microphone of this unit, may even recognize bits of the recorded situations.

Sony-TCM-359V by Count Portmon  (METEORISMO RECORDS)

volný poslech a "name your price download"

koupě CD v e-shopu Polí5

První Portmonovo lisované CD s novým materiálem vychází u Polí5 (2014) v limitovaném nákladu 200 kusů. Výtvarník Jan Polanský osobně nastříkal pomoci měnících se šablon rozkládací digipack, každý obal je tak originálem opatřený svým pořadovým číslem.

Vydání desky podpoří během podzimu také série koncertů (bude průběžně doplňováno):

26.9. Praha, (A)void gallery

3.10. Ostrava (Plan B Hardcore Café)

29.10. Brno (Expozice nové hudby) + Michael Jackson Pollock

1.11. Zajíčkov u Pelhřimova

13.11. Praha (Café Exil)

4.12. Praha (Sběrné suroviny)

5.12. Praha (Klinika)

Dosavadní recenze:

A2:

HIS Voice:

"Epizody a příběh jsou neobyčejně dobře vyváženy." Ian Mikyska

http://www.hisvoice.cz/clanek_2126_count-portmon.html

Magazín UNI:

"Nic z toho ale nesnižuje Faixovu snahu hledat." Alex Švamberk

http://magazinuni.cz/hudba/count-portmon/

Musicweb:

"Ve využití hluku je tentokrát Count Portmon opatrnější a tak ve srovnání s jeho předchozími počiny působí nové album poměrně umírněně. Estetiku dekadence a jakousi sympatickou zvrácenost si ovšem stále udržuje." Martin Lauer

http://www.musicweb.cz/recenze/count-portmon-dava-kazetam-novy-zivot

Vital Weekly:

"COUNT PORTMON (CDR by Poli5)
Count Portman is a solo project of the Prague based musician, journalist and teacher Jan Faix. He works with tape players and analogue electronics. He has released his solo music at the Russian net label Clinical Archives. He is also playing in bands Tembryo and Levi-Faix. In his solo music he experiments with electronics and tapes and use them in a non-standard way.This untitled release is at Poli5, a musical platform which released the hand-made covered CDR. The album starts with a track based on synths and samples. The atmosphere is psychedelic, created by a lot of echo. The second track is based on a looped voice, which changes slowly in intensity, and the track gets more and more complex. The third track is full of field-recordings and again some non-definable glitches. Some ongoing electronic layers take care of depth into the composition. The music is subtle created, completely different than the following tracks, which is created with a lot of feedback, distortion and destructing noises. Number five is a beautiful synth track, with a nice melody. The sixth track is a nice experiment with tapes, different tapespeed, tape scratching and more. A happy break between the serious tracks. The seventy track is like a psychotrip with lots of different sounds created by voices, upcoming musical parts of popular music and some white noise as base. The last track is a beautiful ambient track with a looped tape I guess with sounds which refer to frogs, sounds like glitches and some non-definable rhythmical sounds. The atmosphere is easy-going and beautiful to lay-back and to repeat the track again and again. (JKH)
Address: http://www.poli5.cz"

http://www.vitalweekly.net/958.html

Nový release volně ke stažení - Portmon ve spolupráci s Kenem Ganfieldem a s Mikulášem Mrvou:

http://signalsfromarkaim.blogspot.cz/2014/07/sfa029-jan-faix-ken-ganfield-mikulas.html