slicnaton basendrums

Nicholas Slaton- Basses & Electronics

Ian Davis- Drums & Electronics

“abstract instrumental thickets that vacillate between toxic clouds of avant noise and the outer reaches of free jazz...occasionally a pretty tonality hovers to the surface, but before long it becomes enveloped in the dense and richly varying cacophony” WZRD

“it’s rhythmic in an off-kilter all over the place way.  and it fizzes and buzzes and klangs and thumps it’s way rather nicely through my big headphones.  give it time and it comes together like some thousand piece jigsaw puzzle. cowsarejustfood

“micro-sound barriers create invisible hypnagogic raptures, like a symptomatic disturbance giving daze and ecstasy together, night walking through the flashing lights of the city and trying to find a safer place to collapse.” inkoma

“slum tone tends to smudge the instrumental sound how one smudges fingerprints, and to submerge as an individual in ambience soundmassen.”  BadAlchemy

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Mietek Glinkowski - Black-Scholes

Mietek Glinkowski - vitar and violin

Nicholas Slaton- Basses & Electronics

Ian Davis- Drums & Electronics

The electro-free music of Mietek Glinkowski (Vitar and Violin) features explorative improvisation in an open free format; with or without meter. Recorded in 3-4 sessions spaced over a year, the trio has created a dynamic album built on textures, layers and spaces. Mietek, born in Czestochowa, Poland, is a classically trained violinist who plays with the depth and passion of the Polish pedagogy. Later, while living in Italy, he absorbed the Italian experimental music scene expanding on his sound. For each piece the trio starts from scratch and builds motives into compositions through group interplay and interaction.

Recommended if you like: Micro East Collective, Super-Silent, Tony Conrad,

Genre: Electro free, improvised

Mahlon Hoard - Return

Mahlon Hoard - solo soprano saxophone

Brooklyn based composer and improvisor plays solo soprano saxophone. With refined style and technique he transcends idiomatic practices and improvises new and interesting performances which push boundaries raising questions about sound, noise and music. His horn can fill the room with sound or border on minimalism with judicious use of silence. Melodies develop using an array of extended techniques including but not limited to; circular breathing, manipulation of the harmonic series, micro-tonal pitches, multi-phonics, alternate fingerings.

Recommended If You Like:

Evan Parker, Joe Maneri, Pauline Oliveros, Henry Cowell, Harry Partch

Genre:

Free, Acoustic. Contemporary, Improvisation

slicnaton state

Nicholas Slaton - no-input mixing

slicnaton  (slick- nay- tun)  is the music moniker of composer and bassist Nicholas Slaton. slicnaton has been well received by audiences and critics as a forward looking musical voice. slicnatons' setup of no-input mixing allows for a very broad range of sounds. Pure tones, feedback and harmonics create soft sound beds as well as dirty pluses and angry glitch beats. "State" is a collection of live performances from various venues and studios. Recorded between november 09 - february 10 this collection features live electronics and no-input mixing with various equipment. The pieces suspend time yet have constant motion using dissonance in a striking, beautiful way.

Recommended If You Like:

Toshimaru Nakamura, Otomo Yoshihide, Marco Ciciliani, Pauline Oliveros, Eran Sachs

Genre:  

Dark-Ambient, No-Input, Onkyo, Free.

slicnaton noisefloor

Nicholas Slaton - no-input mixing

“The kind of brutal and mechanical rhythm instantly wake up the listener. Heavy sounds and shocks are creating a kind of deviant symphony, with other indefinable noises.“ Perceptron

“glitch samples and looped sound effects battle hypnotic repetitions from pedals and samplers to create ambient atmospheres that are equally at home in a horror movie soundtrack or in Dr. Frankenstein's lab.“ Jeff Penczak 

“purely improvisational electronic pieces composed from looped sounds augmented with musical composition sourced from the glitches and defects of abused and misused electronic equipment. Sitting somewhere between experimental noise and drone, various forms of wave and sound manipulation that range from submersive drones to noisy electronic flutters.” side-line

“solo electronics here, along with a no-input mixer and glitches. Lots of feedback like sounds, being the harsher version of many other no input mixing artists. The sounds he generates on the spot are looped around and from there on he creates his own fine mass of sound.” VitalWeekly

Mahlon Hoard slicnaton

Mahlon Hoard - saxophones

Nicholas Slaton - mixing and electronics

“the simplicity of the drone and allows this skeletal structure to be opened up by the free-floating nature of the saxophone. In the process, the listener feels as if they are being transported to interzone” ReGen

“This is music from the gut, a good player lays out his very essence before you in the often-twisted fashion that unrehearsed expression takes. Ornette Coleman meets John Cage and Brian Eno in a dark alley .” Chain D.L. K.

“a combination of ambient and free jazz musings set out to dissolve the boundary between music and environmental noise” The Muse’s Muse

Free jazz improv that distances itself from the manipulative hacks that attempt to create such controlled chaos. Saxophone improvisations with an ethereal backdrop of loops, samples, and a dizzying array of subtle percussion. Very interesting and a worthy listen at both the low times and high points of one’s day.”  Smother

Trio slicnaton

Nicholas Slaton - basses and electronics

Mietek Glinkowski - violin and vitar

Julian Sparacino - bass clarinet and flute

“improvisation used to create drone like music, with lots of attention for the smaller details, clarinets and violin take the leading part. Things are cleverly mixed together, this is not a static form of drone music, sounds swirl around; around each other and around the room making things organic and atmospheric.” Tokafi

“composed melodies played by the violin and woodwind are sampled and looped in real-time, with the outcome a dense multi-layered mass of percolating detail”  Textura

“Hundreds of colorful butterflies flying around you fluttering their wings and smiling as the beautiful day brings peace to all.”  KUCI Irvine

“slow-turning, droney pieces are pervaded by both dread and wonder...melodic fragments flit around but never become songs...grotty harmonics and scuzzy, brain-melting overtones are the rich broth of this soup...” WZRD Chicago