tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15003718161475558962024-03-13T03:25:00.166-07:00New Means of OrganizationO' Modilious Didushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02876156052260247270noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500371816147555896.post-43152388987355646612020-09-20T16:03:00.001-07:002020-09-20T16:03:37.164-07:00ALBATROSS - (Cosmiche Version)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PlPv9EluRqs" width="480"></iframe>O' Modilious Didushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02876156052260247270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500371816147555896.post-45362388493218448072020-08-31T08:23:00.003-07:002020-08-31T08:23:39.606-07:00MEMORY OF THE WORLD on VINYL<p style="text-align: center;"> Our 2018 album MEMORY OF THE WORLD is available on VINYL</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://zachtautomaat.bandcamp.com/album/memory-of-the-world" target="_blank">BUY IT from the band TODAY</a></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhptNXbNLye51rn3Kln9bacH4VOfaHmJw-H4UwOWYHNdOH5pvPfT5PaK69S0nVHmEl-r2mI3O41caRIknVEuvUjBySb7QeuEKTwUU0GmAswFs7TUXGNfKyE2g6YLXw9LeAv5N7J9Y9jT8E/s1200/a1716349498_10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhptNXbNLye51rn3Kln9bacH4VOfaHmJw-H4UwOWYHNdOH5pvPfT5PaK69S0nVHmEl-r2mI3O41caRIknVEuvUjBySb7QeuEKTwUU0GmAswFs7TUXGNfKyE2g6YLXw9LeAv5N7J9Y9jT8E/s640/a1716349498_10.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>
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Another album is done and being mastered for a vinyl pressing as we speak. That album is called MEMORY OF THE WORLD and will be out this summer, co-released by <a href="http://alicianauta.com/">ALICIA'S KLASSIC COOL SHOPPE</a> and E.C.H. !<br /><br />Also keep your eyes open for the FAKE HUMANS album EXIGESIS, also out on vinyl this year. The FAKE HUMANS album is being released by Portuguese label <a href="http://shhpuma.com/">Shhpuma</a>.</div>
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O' Modilious Didushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02876156052260247270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500371816147555896.post-20193537098913365232016-07-12T09:36:00.002-07:002020-09-20T15:59:54.946-07:00FAKE HUMANS album nearly done<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In AUTOMAAT related news, I have been spending some time this year gigging and recording with esteemed collaborator Colin Fisher in our duo improv band FAKE HUMANS. Free spirited demo recordings led quickly (somehow) to a LP offer from Portuguese label SHHPUMA. Further recordings were made and much work and discussion done and now we are nearly finished out first album.<br />
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Side one is an extended three part suite of (often) beautiful diatonic improvisation with overdubs. Colin plays guzheng, drums, sax and flutes. I play taishogoto bass, and keyboards. Side two is more of a collage of disparate elements including multi-tracked percussion, tape-speed manipulated strings, gongs and shredding. The music was recorded at Colin's by me, using a combination of Colin's and my technology tape and computer, tube and transistor.<br />
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The budget was $0 and we came in on the mark. The only thing we needed was time and opportunity.<br />
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We have been performing together in this formation for a few years now but have been keeping an unusually low profile for a free-jazz improvisational duo.<br />
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The album will come out some time in the fall/winter, depending on when we send them the tunes and pressing delays etc.. The cover art is being designed by SHHPUMA and we hope it looks good. We'll tell you all when it is finished.</div>
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"Hello friends and enemies. ZACHT AUTOMAAT will not be playing this summer because M____ M_____ will not be visiting from Oxford, England.<br />
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The unrelenting grind of existence will not be ameliorated this summer by a delightful set of tunes played by your local fiercely stubborn psychedelic pop jazz band.<br />
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You must all try your best to get through the season without the musical respite that ZACHT AUTOMAAT usually provides.<br />
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We are deeply saddened by this missed opportunity but excited about the possibilities for our show in December/January.<br />
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Thank you to anyone who contacted us and offered us a show/food/sympathy/advice/spam and again, please accept our apologies."<br />
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HERE IT IS - our new album is called MORE DOWN THAN OUT and was recorded principally in 2015 but contains pieces from 2004, 2007, 2011 and elsewhen.<br />
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We just played our annual winter show at Double Double Land here in Toronto. M___ M___ is back on a plane to England again and we are at peace. This year was a tremendous success and we are proud of ourselves. We also premiered our new album (digital only at this time) at the show and just made it public a few moments ago.<br />
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O' Modilious Didushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02876156052260247270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500371816147555896.post-76201397191137139222015-09-16T17:03:00.002-07:002015-09-16T17:03:32.375-07:00POSTING on my BLOG<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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O' Modilious Didushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02876156052260247270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500371816147555896.post-89379627186519935712015-01-20T13:34:00.001-08:002015-01-20T13:34:29.546-08:00NORMALITY BIAS is out now<iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3383031521/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; height: 470px; width: 350px;"><a href="http://zachtautomaat.bandcamp.com/album/normality-bias">NORMALITY BIAS by ZACHT AUTOMAAT</a></iframe>O' Modilious Didushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02876156052260247270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500371816147555896.post-58950322575389660772014-07-04T13:56:00.001-07:002014-07-04T13:56:43.065-07:00ZACHT AUTOMAAT July 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We have two more shows booked before McLean returns to Oxford. Our Double Double Land 'showcase' on July 11th and a show at Homegrown in Hamilton on the 12th. </div>
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Esteemed guest PRINCE NIFTY is on the DDL bill and we are very excited. I made this poster, forgive me.</div>
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ZACHT AUTOMAAT is back in performance mode for the summer! We just played a NXNE daytime show and UNAFFILIATED 1 on Toronto Island at Gibraltar Point Artscape (both on the same day). It was great! Michael McLean arrived in Toronto Friday evening and we played Sunday at 1:00 and again at 10:30! Our good friend and forgiving drummer Louis Percival practiced with us only once, and did a heroic job learning new material and reviewing older tunes. We don't really give him a chance to rehearse but he always does an amazing job (and tolerates our squabbling). Grasshopper shot some video but it is stuck on his phone at the moment, I will try to get some of that later (if we sound good).</div>
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Well, last year I spent all my time in an intensive Electrical Engineering Technician program and I think I forgot to post anything on this blog. Blogging is a bit of a trial at the best of times. My apologies. I still managed to gig a bit and record new music while also learning that the Rds ON value of a MOSFET is a critical parameter when designing power switching systems, etc...</div>
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The year was not without interest and adventure, but I am having trouble recalling the important bits. I broke my ankle in the winter time and sang back-up vocals in my bed a lot (unfortunately still no lead vox). I played shows in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and the U.S.A. as a member of U.S. GIRLS live band. I played a solo set in N.Y.C. in October, representing ZACHT AUTOMAAT as well. </div>
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The title of this post indicates that we might have finally settled on a selection of tunes for our next LP (after generating another imposing pile of recordings in the brief windows when M____ was in Canada and able to play circa 2012-2013). There is more of the same ilk as this in our bank and other more stilted prog but we really want to make a sublime record of great poise and beauty... That record, tentatively titled <i>Don't Sleep... We're Coming to Kill You </i>will hopefully be made of fresh recordings this December. Until then, please enjoy the forthcoming<br />
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Here is a good chunk of our set from last weekend, filmed by Ayal Senior (fully investigate his 300+ live footages if you can). This is the blurry and explosive portion with added dynamics generated by Colin on percussion and sax. The part where I appear to angrily say NO as though to a child reaching toward ANOTHER cookie when the appropriate amount of cookies has been consumed already should not be misinterpreted as I was merely mouthing the word 'SLOW' as emphatically as possible to a McLean apparently indecisive about the next movement of the composition (the slow bit, not the next bit). What appear to be tears is actually sweat (it was very hot) and the expression on my face is not anger but the odd look you get when holding an imaginary cigarette out of the corner of your mouth so the smoke doesn't get in your eyes. I have spent so much time hunched over keyboards smoking that my face does that now even if I don't smoke. That's the reality of documentation for you. Also, I would have edited out the slippery bits to make us look awesome and turned up the bass as well. Maybe I could have made us look less ragged and dazed, shabby and confused... but this is how it all happened I guess - and by my measure A STUNNING SUCCESS (as could be described many things, such as tasering a rabid dog for example). Next show in December!!</div>
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